Ganquan Palace is only a hundred miles away from Chang'an, and when the hour is good, he helped the old man to get on the royal chariot, but after a day and night, the holy car has returned to Chang'an.

Along the way, Liu Bang and Xiao He also did not meet for many years, 'being together for a day, but did not mention any court matters'.

After returning to Chang'an and summoning the ministers of the DPRK and the Central People's Republic of China to give a brief explanation, Liu Bang took his son of heaven and embarked on a long journey to the east of the Han Valley.

For his father Liu Bang to go out of Ganquan again, and want to go east to Hangu and return to abundance, Liu Ying in Yongcheng doesn't know anything about it.

At this moment, Liu Ying's attention was almost all attracted by the Huainan rebels outside the city, as well as a news that should have come but had not been able to come for a long time.

"This Baby ······"

"What are you grinding?"

Standing on top of the corner tower, looking at the camp that had been re-erected in the distance, Liu Ying's face couldn't help but have a touch of anxiety.

Seeing Liu Ying's appearance, the generals such as Li Shang, Wang Ling, and Cao Shen on the side couldn't help but show a slightly complicated expression.

It has been two days since he led the army into Yongcheng, and even if Cao Shen is stupid, he has already understood how his act of leading the army into the city has affected the development of the war.

- At the beginning, the Huainan army had tens of thousands of soldiers, but they were planning to attack the city outside the city; Although the Guanzhong army led by Liu Ying only had more than 60,000 people, it was able to rely on the Yongcheng barrier.

The enemy is outnumbered in strength, and the terrain is inferior to me, and the two sides at that time can be said to be evenly matched.

And when tens of thousands of soldiers from Cao Shen's department appeared around the battlefield, the balance of victory had slowly tilted in favor of the central side of Chang'an.

——In terms of troops, there are more than 100,000 under Yingbu's command, and the Yongcheng garrison under Liu Ying's department plus the Qi soldiers led by Cao Shen also have nearly 100,000, and the two sides are almost equal!

In terms of topography, the rebel camp is located twenty miles south of Yongcheng, backed by Huaishui, and the south and north are not connected;

On the other hand, on the side of the Han family, Liu Ying's troops stuck to Yongcheng and did not come out, while Cao Shen waited for an opportunity around the battlefield, and the two sides became horns for each other.

In other words: the appearance of the Qi army under Cao Shensuo's army on the battlefield had already made the Huainan rebels under the command of Yingbu lose their superiority in strength and be at a strategic disadvantage due to the terrain problem.

But now?

Cao Shen led the army into the city, and the number of defenders of Yongcheng skyrocketed to nearly 100,000, but the position of 'mutual horns' that originally made Yingbu in a dilemma has been completely lost.

Compared with the beginning, when Yingbu led the army to attack the city outside and Liu Ying's troops held Yongcheng, the only change brought by Cao Shen's arrival on the battlefield was that the defenders of Yongcheng increased from 60,000 to more than 90,000 and nearly 100,000.

In this way, the trend of the battle situation, which had tended to be clear, returned to the previous stalemate.

If Cao Shen hadn't chosen Fang Qi to camp the night before yesterday, sneak attack the rebel camp, and then lead his troops into Yongcheng, then now, Yingbu would inevitably be struggling.

- Attacking Yongcheng will be attacked by Cao Shen on the side of the battlefield; If you attack Cao Shen, you will be backstabbed by the defenders in Yongcheng.

Even if he wanted to run, the Cao Shen Department outside the city could pursue it as soon as possible, and at the same time, Yongcheng could continue to close the city gate so as not to change the situation.

Now, however, there is no such encouragement.

If you want to attack the city, Yingbu can send an army to attack the city, and there is no need to worry about the flanks and the enemy behind it;

If you want to run, you can also retreat to the south at any time, so that Liu Ying in Yongcheng is worried and does not dare to attack the city easily.

If there is time, Yingbu can even feign withdrawing his army, trick the defenders in Yong City into marching out of the city, and then fight against them on the plains, or even set up an ambush!

In any case, compared to 'Cao Shen's department is displaced around the battlefield', the current Yingbu undoubtedly has more choices.

And for such a depressing change, Liu Yingzong has a confidant to slander Cao Shen, and he has no way to say it.

Because of the reason why Cao Shen led the army into the city, it was so solid that Liu Ying couldn't open his mouth at all.

——On the order of the queen, rush to the aid of Yongcheng to protect the place of the prince!

In this way, let alone in front of the old lady Lu Pheasant, even if this matter is talked about in front of his father Liu Bang, and even in the Chang'an court, or even in front of the world, Liu Ying can't find out if it's not.

It can't be said that Cao Shen protected the prince and the prince, but he also protected it wrong?

"Hey!"

"After this incident, the hope of the Marquis of Pingyang is afraid that it will be close to the Marquis of Yu, ······"

"Well, after this battle, the Marquis of Pingyang should also return to the center of Chang'an."

"I don't know what to do, when ······ office"

After muttering a little in his heart, Li Shang smiled meaningfully at Cao Shen and nodded, and then stepped forward slightly and came to Liu Ying's side.

"Your Highness doesn't need to be too anxious."

"The Marquis of Yingyin and the Marquis of Boyang, although the Lord and the Lord are not as good as the Marquis of Wuyang, the Marquis of Xinwu and other people, but they are also veterans who have been in battle for a long time and are familiar with war."

"——By the Marquis of Yingyin, although his merits are not obvious, his ability to lead the army and the imperial pawn can be said to be no less than that of the Marquis of Wuyang!"

The tone was full of determination, and Li Shang did not forget to smile easily.

"That is, His Royal Highness has an order earlier, and there is no obstacle along the way, and the Marquis of Yingyin and the Marquis of Boyang are in the department, so there is no risk of delaying it for too long."

"Or at this moment, the Marquis of Yingyin and the Marquis of Boyang have arrived south of Huaishui, and they look at the rebel camp across the water, and they don't know?"

Hearing Li Shang's gentle words and persuasion, Liu Yingzong was still frowning, but he also nodded with approval.

Guan Ying and Chen Bi led the soldiers and horses of Guanzhong stationed in Huaiyang to cross the Huaishui River in the south first, and then marched east to the south bank of the Huaishui in the south direction of the Yingbu rebel camp, which was an arrangement made by Liu Ying a long time ago.

Before the war, although Liu Ying ordered all the troops and horses to separate and surrounded the Huainan Kingdom, the memories of his previous life also made Liu Ying know for a long time: from which direction Yingbu would step out of Huainan and in which direction he would attack.

It's just that Liu Ying really can't explain why he, a young prince who 'doesn't know about military affairs', can guess Yingbu's movements 100%, so he can only make those arrangements that seem reasonable, but in fact are useless.

But when Yingbu was in control of Jingdi and went north to seek Chu, even if Liu Ying still couldn't explain what it meant to be 'born to know', he couldn't control it so much.

Therefore, as early as when it was decided to move the Shuai tent from Fengpei to Qixi, so that Yingbu could come, and then lead it to Yongcheng to confront him, Liu Ying had already ordered Guan Ying and Chen Bi to lead the soldiers of the department to cross the Huaishui south, and then march east to the south of Yongcheng, camp on the south bank of the Huaishui, and retreat to the enemy's rear road!

Earlier, the battle situation was not clear enough, so Liu Ying did not mention this matter much.

The day before yesterday, Cao Shen attacked the rebel camp at night, and led the army to enter Yongcheng, and the battle situation changed again, Liu Ying did not hide it anymore, and told all about it.

You can't blame Liu Ying for not being tight-lipped, it was really Cao Shen's move of 'leading the army into the city' that made a very bad start······

Not to mention Liu Ying, anyone who understands the war should know: as long as the gap between the enemy and our forces is not too big, after the reinforcements arrive on the battlefield, they should not join the troops waiting for reinforcements unless they have to!

The ideal plan is to carry out counter-encirclement of the enemy with multiple reinforcements and backup troops;

A little worse, it is one or two reinforcements, and the troops waiting for reinforcements are in a corner or triangle to contain the enemy's strategic choice space.

For the troops waiting for reinforcements, that is, the defenders of Yongcheng at this moment, the role of the arrival of reinforcements is by no means 'tens of thousands of people to defend the city together', but to suddenly appear from a certain direction outside the city and give the rebels outside the city a hard blow, so as to relieve the pressure on Yongcheng!

And now, the Qi army under the command of Cao Shen has entered the city and joined forces with the soldiers and horses of Guanzhong who were originally stationed in Yongcheng to defend the city, which undoubtedly makes the expectations of the defenders in the city for 'reinforcements' mixed with some impurities.

- What if the later reinforcements are all the same as Cao Shen?

A reinforcement army came and provoked the rebels to drive away, and Yongcheng opened the city to threaten the rebels, so that the rebels turned back, and then stormed Yongcheng overnight;

The battle on the city wall here is getting more and more intense, and the reinforcements over there don't want to set up camp, so they burn down the rebel camp, and when the rebels return to save the camp, they lead their troops into Yongcheng······

This has been repeated several times, and the defenders of Yongcheng have tens of thousands or even hundreds of thousands of people, which is naturally more and more impregnable.

But the crux of the matter is: Liu Ying is here to quell the rebellion, not to defend the city!

It is absolutely impossible to annihilate the traitors and end the rebellion by defending the city alone!

Liu Ying's self-trapping in Yongcheng was not to prove that he could 'defend a city', but to use himself as bait to make Yingbu unable to get out of Yongcheng, so that reinforcements from all walks of life could trap Yingbu from the periphery, so as to end this rebellion in Chudi!

If every reinforcement army that came refused to camp outside the city, like Cao Shen, and led his troops into the city, how could they defeat Yingbu?

Even if in the end, the rebels under Yingbu attacked Yongcheng for a long time without defeating, and their morale was weakened and Liu Ying succeeded in quelling the rebellion, it would not be acceptable to Liu Ying.

——As the so-called cannon sounds, there are ten thousand taels of gold!

Whether it is the present, Liu Ying's pacification of the rebellion of Wang Yingbu of Huainan, or the modern war of later generations, as long as the war continues, every day is a huge expense and loss!

Don't say anything else: At this moment, the Guanzhong troops under Liu Ying's command, plus the Guanzhong troops led by Guan Ying and Chen Bi, have more than 100,000 people!

These 100,000 people alone have to eat tens of thousands of stone of military rations and use up hundreds of vinegar cloths every day!

According to the grain price in Guanzhong at the moment, tens of thousands of stone of grain are more than 20 million yuan!

If you add the more than 100,000 Guanzhong army that came with Zhang Ao, the Qi army of Cao Staff, the prince of Chai Wu, and the soldiers and horses of Liang under the command of Quzhou Hou Shizi Liji, there are hundreds of thousands of people.

Counting the loss of weapons and equipment in addition to rations, the post-war reconstruction of the theater, as well as the pensions of the fallen soldiers, the rewards of meritorious soldiers, etc., calculated that such a 'civil war' can cost tens of thousands of dollars a day!

Tens of thousands of dollars a day, what is the concept?

——The income of the Han family last year was only 200,000!

In other words, Shaofu's income for a whole year was only enough to support the food and grass needed by the Chang'an army for twenty days in this counterinsurgency war······

Therefore, even if it is just to save some money, in order to become the emperor in the future, he can have more capital in his hands, so as to rebuild this world that is in ruins, Liu Ying has to shorten the time of the war as much as possible.

Because such a war that 'costs tens of thousands of dollars a day', even if it is a day or even half a day, it is so precious for the future Han family.

It is precisely for this reason that in order to let the defenders of Yongcheng not feel frustrated by the fact that 'reinforcements are coming to defend the city together' and mistakenly believe that the end of the war is far away, Liu Ying revealed the movements of the infant irrigation department, so as to reassure the military morale of the army.

It was not what Liu Ying expected: after learning that behind the rebels, there was a Han army that was secretly cutting off the back road, the appearance of the soldiers of the Yongcheng defenders had obviously undergone some positive changes.

Liu Ying even heard that there was already talk in the army, saying that before winter, the war would end and the soldiers would be able to return home.

For such a change, Liu Yingzi is full of gratification.

It's just that in this way, Liu Ying is more and more looking forward to and anxious about the 'difficulty' of the baby irrigation department.

"Alas~"

"If I knew it was so slow, it would be better to let the baby go to Liuyi directly."

After scolding her mouth, Liu Ying looked out of the city, and faintly complained.

The greatest strategic significance of letting the baby go around to the south of Huaishui and cut off the enemy's rear road is actually to disturb the morale of the rebels.

- The rebel soldiers who were already muttering about the 'rebellion' will inevitably be in turmoil when they learn that the back road has been cut off.

And sending a partial army to attack Liuyi, the capital of Huainan Province, to 'steal the house' can obviously achieve similar results.

But the matter has come to this point, Liu Ying can only force herself to hold her throbbing heart, and wait closely for the news of the baby irrigation department to come······

"Your Highness!"

Just as Liu Ying shook his head a little discouraged and turned around to walk down the city wall, Li Shang suddenly exclaimed, causing Liu Ying to hurriedly stop.

Turning around, looking at the Huainan rebels who had not appeared for two consecutive days, almost pouring out of the camp and slowly walking towards the city wall, Liu Ying's face finally appeared with a heartfelt smile.

"The thief is coming······

"It must be that the Marquis of Yingyin has reached the south of Huaishui, and the thief knows that the retreat is exhausted, so he is desperate and wants to fight against the water!"

Without waiting for Liu Ying to finish speaking, he heard Li Shang smash his fist against the wall with excitement, and his expression was suddenly full of excitement!

Compared with Li Shang's excitement, Liu Ying, who was finally waiting for the news, slowly calmed down at this moment.

"What the right Xiangguo said is very true."

Smiled lightly at Li Shang and nodded, turned around again, and looked deeply at the rebels outside the city, Liu Ying completely turned his back and walked towards the city wall.

"As the saying goes, don't hide when you return to the teacher, don't chase after the poor."

"Now that the thief has no way to retreat, he must try his best to escape from the city."

"The matter of defending the city is all under the control of the right minister, and the generals and commanders should work together to resist the enemy outside the city······"

While walking down the stairs to the city wall, Liu Ying did not forget to give his final order to the ears of the generals in a flat tone.

- The final battle is about to begin.

But Liu Ying's task has been successfully completed.

The rest needs to be handed over to professional people to get a professional result by professional means······

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