Chapter 689: Puzzle
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It is already the third day of conquering Nanping, and it is another 'glamorous' sunny day, and the government is busy early in the morning, opening a warehouse for food!
Just by looking at the city warehouse, you can know how greedy the previous prefect was, the grain in the entire city warehouse has been piled up, and the old rice that can't be eaten is almost moldy!
Half of the Xuanjun remained, and the rest was sent to the people, and the people who got the news early in the morning hesitated and did not dare to come, and when someone really received the food and took it home, they hugged it one after another, and now there is a long queue at the 'gate' of the city warehouse!
Xiaobao now lives in the backyard of the mansion, which is also the command post of the Xuan army. Pen Fun Pavilion www.biquge.info [To see the latest chapter of this book, please go to hua.]. Visit:.. The earth kite has returned, bringing back a handwritten letter from the military advisor.
Sitting under the tree in the backyard, Xiaobao finished reading the letter, and his face was a little 'cloudy' and sunny. Long Jiao and Ao Yi sat on the stone bench next to them, quietly waiting for Xiaobao's order.
"The 300,000 Yin army has withdrawn to Jiangbei, what does Yinhu want to do?" Xiaobao stood up and looked at the osmanthus 'flower' tree in front of him, but he was guessing Yinhu's intentions in his mind.
Since the beginning of the war, the Xuan army has been moving forward bravely and like a bamboo. The Yin army was defeated and retreated, and never organized a very large-scale resistance, and in this battlefield south of the Panlong River, the Yin army fought very absent-mindedly, as if it had never formed an effective resistance force!
This time the Xuan army occupied Qingzhou, and the Yin army urgently transferred 500,000 troops from all walks into the four cities of Tongcheng, and thought that the Xuan army had fallen into a bitter battle this time, and it would definitely have to pay a lot of price to capture the four cities, but I didn't expect that it had only been a few days, and the 300,000 Yin army actually withdrew!
No matter how arrogant Emperor Yin is, he will not despise the Xuan Army again and again, he has not only made such a mistake once, even a fool should be taught a lesson, and he will use heavy troops to block the Xuan Army, but why did he withdraw his troops?
Now that there is a vacancy in the four cities of Panda, the military division has changed its tactics and let the Xuanjun army of Longjiao and Ao Yi attack the four cities, which is also being cleaned up.
In fact, Xianyang's tactics are the same, but it will take a few days at night to calm down the Nanping side first, and then form a flank attack, and the Xuanjun army left in Panda can rely on the advantage of the city to confront the Yin army and drag them for a month.
But now it seems that the military advisor can't wait. If the fighter plane is fleeting, if we don't seize the opportunity, the Xuan army will have to pay a greater price than now to occupy the four cities! This is the psychology of the military advisor, taking advantage of his illness, to kill him!
Now the question is in front of Xiaobao, should he first attack the two cities of Denghua and Tuwan, or should he turn around and attack the three cities of Liuzi?
If you want to fight Denghua and Tuwan, you will inevitably be dragged here, there are no small towns in the hinterland of the Central Plains, and the defenders of these two towns all exceed 50,000!
It is impossible for the Yin army to send heavy troops to guard every city, but the grain towns in the Central Plains are still very valued by the Yin Dynasty, so if these three towns are taken down, the supply of grain and grass for the Xuan army will not be a problem, but there is some danger on the Liuzi side!
The longer the delay, the harder the battle becomes! With the arrival of the hot summer, siege warfare will be a purgatory-like torture for both the attacking and defending sides! In addition, people will die in battle, and if there are dead people and they cannot be buried in time because of the battle, it will cause the plague to rage!
However, if you want to give up attacking Denghua and Tuwan, and let the Xuan army attack the three cities of Liuzi, the Nanping that has just been occupied may be recaptured by the Yin army again, so that the food and grass of the Xuan army cannot be guaranteed, and if you want to recapture it, you will pay a great price, and it is possible to make the Xuan army fall into the quagmire of war, and it will be trapped here, unable to get out!
Xianyang is indeed the marshal of this expedition, and his words have absolute rights, and the whole army obeys them unconditionally. But he couldn't ignore the advice of the military advisor, so this was a problem that even he couldn't solve, so he simply made a handshake and pushed the problem to Xiaobao!
This guy also has times when he is not kind! Xiaobao wants to be angry but can't get angry, he did 'hand' over the power to Xianyang, but he can't ignore the 'life' of these hundreds of thousands of Xuanjun brothers, every wrong step may bring tens of thousands or hundreds of thousands of lives to the end of this, Xianyang doesn't dare to take this risk, he Xuanbao doesn't dare!
A Xuan soldier ran from the front yard and said to Xiaobao: "Tell the emperor, the ghost hand asks to see!"
Xiao Bao shook his head with a smile and said to the Xuan Bing, "Let him in!"
Xuan Bing ran out, and after a while, the ghost hand came over, and wanted to kneel, Xiaobao grabbed him and said, "Don't be polite between our brothers, come, sit down!"
Ghost Hand shook his head and said, "Brother, I'm not sitting anymore, I'm leaving soon, and I'm here to bid you farewell!"
"Where are you going?" Xiaobao was a little strange, looking at the ghost hand, he saw that he was full of 'spirit', not like a decadent 'wave'.
The ghost hand said to Xiaobao, "Go to Tuwan." My brother doesn't know that in the past few years, Emperor Yin has no way, and the people have no way to make a living, resulting in a large number of people becoming refugees and displaced people, and they have all gone to the area of Nanping Tuwan and Denghua to become beggars! Our beggar gang has branches in Tuwan and Denghua, and now the total number has exceeded 10,000 people.
So that's the case! Xiaobao nodded and said, "Then you can go! I will give you as many coils as you need!"
"Thank you, brother, we don't need to be entangled!" Ghost Hand smiled and said to Xiaobao: "We are beggars, what are we called beggars when we have coils!" Brother, this time is a turf battle between our beggar gang and another gang of beggars, if we can win, the beggar gangs of these three cities can be unified, and our power will become greater!"
Unexpectedly, even being a beggar has to fight for territory, Xiaobao and Long Jiao and Ao Yi looked at each other, it seems that where there are people, there are rivers and lakes, which is not wrong at all!
Ao Yi suddenly said to the ghost hand: "Brother ghost hand, can you beggar gang do something for us?
The ghost hand smiled and said: "Brother Ao Yi doesn't say it, I will do it with my little brother! The city 'gate' can't trap the beggars, I will send someone to send information to the Xuan army every day, and ask the brothers to send someone to contact us!"
At this time, the most important thing in fighting a war is the timeliness and accuracy of information, and the beggar gang is undoubtedly the most suitable person to collect information! As soon as Long Jiao heard this, he immediately said to the Xuan soldiers who were standing guard not far away: "Go and call General Wencheng Dusk to come over!"
Soon, Wen Chengdui hurried over, saw Xiaobao and Ao Yi, and then said to Long Jiao: "What is the general's order to summon the last general?"
Long Jiao pointed to the ghost hand and said, "This is the ghost hand brother, and he is also a good friend of our Xuanjun, how close you will be in the future." This time, your fifth school battalion will serve as the charge, and send someone to receive information from the Ghost Hand brothers, and the two of you will discuss the specific matters!"
"Yes!" Wen Cheng Twilight bowed his hand to the dragon horn, and then said to Ghost Hand: "Brother Ghost Hand, we have to work hard, let's go to the front hall to discuss?" Ghost Hand agreed, and then said goodbye to Xiaobao and the others, and followed Wen Cheng Twilight.
Ao Yi turned around, looked at Xiaobao and said, "Emperor Zun, in this way, you have decided to attack Tuwan?"
Xiao Bao nodded, and said to Ao Yi and Long Jiao: "The idea of Yuan sending the military division is not wrong, so I have to take it into consideration! Ao Yi, immediately fly pigeons and pass the book to them, give this Xuanjun ten days, if we can't capture Tuwan and Denghua within ten days, we will give up here and attack the three cities of Liuzi!"
Ten days to attack two cities? Long Jiao and Ao Yi looked at each other, and they were both a little stunned! Emperor Zun's idea was too big, right? The situation in Nanping City was unavoidable, and it was a surprise attack, so basically nothing was needed.
However, Tuwan and Denghua are different! Especially in Denghua, since the day the Xuan army took Nanping, the whole city has been under martial law, the city 'gate' is blocked, and the fortifications are reinforced day and night, which is clearly an attitude of resisting to the end, not to mention that there are only 200,000 Xuan troops, even if all the forces of the Xuan army are concentrated, with the number of 500,000, it can be regarded as fast to capture it within a month!
However, Emperor Zun has now promised ten days! If he just fights a battle and leaves, will this cause a 'waste' of troops? Will it increase the fatigue of the Xuan soldiers?
Seeing Long Jiao and Ao Yi's questioning eyes, Xiaobao smiled slightly, picked up the teacup and poured the tea inside on the stone table in front of the three of them, dipped his fingers in the water and said, "Look, this is Baitou Mountain." The three cities of Nanping, Tuwan and Denghua form a triangle around this Baitou Mountain!"
Watching Xiao Bao draw the terrain of the three cities on the stone table, Long Jiao and Ao Yi both nodded, on the second day of occupying Nanping, they had already gone up to Baitou Mountain, so they naturally checked the surrounding terrain.
Long Jiao said with a bitter face: "Emperor Zun, don't you want our Xuanjun to climb over Baitou Mountain?
"Hahaha! You didn't go over at night! At night, the wind and snow were 'combined', and it was almost like freezing people to death!" Xiaobao looked at Long Jiao and said, then smiled, sighed and said: "In order to find my aunt, the beggar disciples also lost a lot of brothers on it!"
Everyone has heard about the 'friendship' between Xiaobao and the ghost hand, so Xuanjun takes good care of the beggar gang, and every time he has a meal, he deliberately pulls the nearby beggar brothers over to eat together, but they refuse!
According to the words of the ghost hand, the beggars eat a hundred family meals, but they do not eat the supply of the army, which is military food, which is saved by the common people for the warriors who defend them, and they will never beg for military food, this is the rule!
Xiaobao smiled and said to Long Jiao and Ao Yi: "I really have the idea of passing troops from here, because only here is the emptiest place for the defense of the two cities! But what I want now is to take Tuwan first, and the closest to Nanping and Panda is also Tuwan, and then use Tuwan and Nanping to form a bull calf momentum, clamp Denghua, so that it does not dare to move, so that we can 'withdraw' and attack Liuzi!"
Long Jiao and Ao Yi carefully looked at the water stains on the stone table, if according to what Emperor Zun said, once Tuwan was taken, Denghua, which was the farthest away, would be isolated to the back of Baitou Mountain, so that he really wanted to send troops to recover Nanping, then Tuwan could directly end his nest from behind!
It turned out that the purpose of the emperor's ten days was not to capture the twin cities, but to stabilize Nanping! The defense of Tuwan had long been heard, and the city had become a "chaos" in a mess, and the fall of Nanping was simply a shock to them like a "chicken" and an example to monkeys, and the general who defended the city of Tuwan was called a hundred victories in a hundred battles and had never tasted defeat! Because he had never fought a battle!
However, Xue Taoliang, the prefect of Tuwan, is a good official, and he is also a rare Qing official in the Yin Dynasty! Unfortunately, the more Qing officials are, the more difficult it is to subdue, and it is estimated that the biggest resistance to attacking Tuwan is not the general defending the city, but him!