Chapter 6: Where to hit first?

As mentioned last time, Liu Hou was thinking about the direction of the next step in sending troops. Guiyang is now surrounded by enemies on three sides, and if someone accidentally copied the back road and cut off the route of logistics and supply, there is no need to fight this battle.

In particular, the Shu army was extremely dependent on logistical supplies, stronger than any army in this era.

If you want to go to Jingzhou, the shortest route is to hit Changsha County in the north, pass Changsha County, and then cross the river to the north to reach Nanjun, where Guan Gong is located.

But it is precisely Changsha County that is so important, it is conceivable that Soochow will inevitably have heavy troops here, so Changsha County must not be so easy to fight. Attacking Changsha County will also face the problem of the Eastern Wu soldiers in Lingling, Luling and Yuzhang counties copying the back road.

In addition, even if Changsha County is defeated, it is not easy to cross the river, the Dongwu naval army is the first in the world, and the Yangtze River is their world, how can they defeat their naval army to cross the river? That's a problem.

What about Lingling in the west? It is estimated that Lingling is the best place to fight in the surrounding counties, and it was originally also the sphere of influence of Shu Han, which had just been occupied by Eastern Wu, and they still had an unstable foothold. However, the laying of Lingling did not help the situation in Jingzhou.

Lingling and Nanjun do not border, starting from Lingling, if you want to get to Nanjun at the earliest, you still have to go through Changsha, or go west around the long road through Wuling and then to Yidu, and then go down the river to reach Nanjun, the road is long and the distance is quite complicated.

And Luling and Yuzhang in the east don't need to be considered at all, both places are the traditional sphere of influence of Eastern Wu, and, if you want to go to Nanjun, going to these two places is undoubtedly a retreat from the south to the north.

Liu Hou thought hard to no avail, so he had to invite Guo Youzhi to discuss the next route of sending troops. Because it was to discuss the matter of attacking Dongwu, Buqi was temporarily useless, and he had an agreement that he would not help the other party's Dongwu, so he could only let him continue to deal with some civil affairs matters.

After Guo Youzhi listened to Liu Hou's explanation of the situation, he thought for a moment and said: "If you want to rescue Jingzhou in a hurry, you will naturally attack Changsha County, but you must leave a sufficient number of troops to guard Guiyang to ensure the smooth flow of logistics roads."

If the situation in Jingzhou is not urgent and there is enough time to plan, then it is better to fight Lingling for the sake of safety. There shouldn't be many defenders in Lingling, as long as you send a partial division, it will be easy to eat.

Laying Lingling, it borders Wuling, which is equivalent to bordering Shu, so that the connection with Chengdu no longer needs to detour Nanzhong and Lingnan, and walk thousands of miles to transport materials. Moreover, when necessary, it is indeed possible to take a detour to the west to Guò Wuling, then north to Yidu, and then to Jingzhou City in Nanjun.

If you go this way, although the road is much farther, the advantage is that you don't need to bite the main force of Changsha Dongwu, and you don't need to worry about the powerful naval army of Dongwu, unless Yidu has fallen, otherwise this road is feasible.

Guo Youzhi pointed to the map and told Liu Hou. However, after he said these words, he still did not solve the problems encountered in the current march. The direction of the march was still undecided.

"In fact, the key to which direction to choose lies in whether Jingzhou City needs rescue in the short term, and the value of rescue." Finally, Guo Youzhi added.

At this time, Liu Hou understood what he meant, if Jingzhou City had fallen, naturally everything would be over, and then he would face an all-out blow from the entire Eastern Wu. At this time, what needs to be considered is how to hold the territory, not to expand the territory.

If the siege of Jingzhou City has been lifted, he will not need to take the dangerous road of Changsha County in a hurry, and it will naturally be best to snatch Lingling County back.

If the battle in Jingzhou City is in full swing and rescue is urgently needed, then he will have to risk entering Changsha County, even if he can't break through Changsha County in the short term, at least he can contain a large number of Eastern Wu troops, and even play a role in encircling Wei and saving Zhao, so as to solve the siege of Jingzhou in one fell swoop.

One qiē depends on the situation in Jingzhou City. "Can you contact the CIA?" Liu Hou asked.

Before the Shu army left Lingnan, the news of Jingzhou needed to pass through Guò Chengdu and then turn to Nanzhong, and then to Lingnan, during which there were tens of thousands of miles away, even if the method of 800 miles of urgent communication was adopted, and when it came to the rugged mountain road, it was only a hundred miles a day.

Therefore, the situation of the battle in Jingzhou that Liu Hou received was often outdated information two or three months ago, which made him very uneasy. Since the start of the war in Jingzhou, half a year has passed, and in the past six months, he has been repeatedly delayed by various things in Lingnan, what is the current situation in Jingzhou City? Does it still make sense for him to go to the rescue now?

He knew nothing about these situations. However, now that he has left Lingnan, the situation will improve. I still remember that the last time he went to Jingzhou, he established an intelligence agency called the "CIA" and sent a large number of meticulous workers to infiltrate the territory of Soochow, and now it is time for the "CIA" to play a role.

As soon as the army left Lingnan, Guo Youzhi had already sent people to contact the "CIA," but because Guiyang County was located in the south and was a remote barbarian settlement, the "CIA" had not yet infiltrated here in a short period of time.

The liaison personnel have to go to Changsha County to contact, so it will take some time to contact the "CIA" hidden in Soochow. There was no way, Liu Hou had no choice but to order the army to rest for a few days in Chenxian, the county capital, and by the way, he sent a partial division to subdue the counties, so as to control the entire Guiyang County as much as possible.

At this time, we can't rush north before most areas are liberated, as we did with Lingnan. Now that he is in the land of four wars, if he wants to continue to advance, he must first consolidate his existing territory before he can continue to attack in the next step. This is the truth that the outside must first be secured.

Five days later, the counties of Guiyang County were subdued by the Shu army, and Liu Hou quickly promoted some middle-level officials to serve as county orders to guard the county seats for himself. Fortunately, many students who graduated from colleges and institutes of the "Ministry of Industry" went to the army with them.

After this period of experience in the army, many people are not bad, and this time comes in handy. These people have received Liu Hou's new education, know a lot of scientific and cultural knowledge, and their loyalty to the Liu family is also obvious, so it is suitable for them to serve as county officials.

In addition, Liu Hou also assigned some soldiers and horses for them to garrison the county seat. Zhu Bao's Fourth Division originally had 20,000 horses, but Liu Hou transferred 10,000 people, and each county town was divided into one or two thousand, and it was all divided at once. Half of the people were missing all of a sudden, and Zhu Bao was very depressed.

Liu Hou also had no choice, the Fifth Division was the Eastern Wu soldiers who had just been captured not long ago, and Liu Hou did not dare to use them to defend the county seat on the front line immediately, because he was afraid that they would defect at any time.

In order to alleviate Zhu Bao's depression, Liu Hou still used the old method to let him choose people from the baggage team, the Shu army now has nearly 100,000 people, and it has little impact on him to choose 10,000 people.

Now that grain can be raised from the nearby Lingnan area, the transportation pressure is much less, and the baggage team does not need so much, but firearms and gunpowder still have to be transported from Chengdu thousands of miles, and the main transportation capacity is consumed here.

The battle in Chenxian County was over within two days, and Bu Qi came over to report the situation to Liu Hou. This time, the Shu army killed more than 600 people and wounded more than 1,000. The vast majority were men of the Vine Armor Army, and the musketeers also lost a dozen people and wounded dozens of others.

With so many dead and wounded, Liu Hou is still very sad, thinking that there are so many dead and injured in one county, and so many counties in the country, when will it be a head?

But in fact, in a melee of tens of thousands of people, it was still a siege battle, or a frontal assault, and it was already a great thing to have so few dead and wounded. If such a result is spread, it will be enough to shock China and even the world.