Chapter 887 The Three-Way Army Attacks Yizhou
No doubt. The efforts of the three generals Gan Ning, Wang Lu and Guan Ping were unanimously recognized by Tai Shici and Li Ru.
As a reward, after the end of the exercise, Tai Shici announced on the spot the decision to establish a new army called the Dragon Formation, and decided that the army would be drawn five days later, and the troops would be divided into three routes, and at the same time attack the Yongchang County Governor's Office Buwei, the Yizhou County Governor's Office Dianchi Kunze, and the Suqi County's Yelang Country's three places.
The newly established Dragon Formation Army has an establishment of 25,000 people, with Gan Ning temporarily acting as the commander, and its soldiers are composed of 10,000 Jiaozhi soldiers, 10,000 Qinghuai soldiers, and 5,000 marines. In this way, the 30,000 Qinghuai troops under Guan Ping still maintained the same number, but they lost 10,000 descendants, in exchange for the 10,000 Jiaozhi soldiers trained by themselves, which was emotionally acceptable. Similarly, Wang Lu exchanged 5,000 soldiers from the Marine Brigade for 10,000 Jiaozhi soldiers, and it seems that he has earned an extra 5,000 men.
The reason why Tai Shi Ci made this decision is a bit surprising is because it has always been prudent to divide the troops, and a little carelessness may cause irreparable losses, not to mention that this time Tai Shi Ci made the decision to divide the troops into three ways.
Based on the generals' understanding of Tai Shi Ci, their marshal is not a hot-headed and happy general, but a thoughtful and steady soldier expert, since Tai Shi Ci made such a surprising decision to divide the troops, it must be the best plan.
Indeed, Tai Shici had reasons and considerations for the necessity of dividing troops this time. According to the intelligence analysis fed back from the shadow team, in the south and west of Yizhou today, because Wu Yi and Jia Long's two troops all rushed to Yiling to participate in the battle against Jingzhou, the defensive forces of Yongchang, Qiqi, Yizhou, Jianwei and other counties were empty, and there were almost no decent troops stationed in important cities.
In order not to expose their true strength, the attacking troops divided into three routes will change into the clothes of the natives of Jiaozhou, and there are already 10,000 indigenous soldiers in the troops as cover.
Because the attacking Yinan Route Army was far away from the Crouching Tiger Command, and the transmission of information was not smooth, Tai Shici and Li Ru had a lot of autonomy, as long as they could realize the grand strategy set by Zhao Xing at the beginning, as for the specific actions, they would all rely on them to deal with them. Tai Shici made good use of this power given to him by Zhao Xing, and according to the current situation in the south of Yizhou, he formulated the tactic of "full flowering, adding oil and firewood".
According to the assumption of Tai Shi Ci and Li Ru, after the three-way army entered Yizhou, the troops were divided into three routes, Guan Ping led 30,000 troops with Tai Shi Ci to go straight to Dianchi Lake, the seat of Yizhou County, and after taking Dianchi Lake, he quickly went north to attack Kunze, the old nest of Wu Yibu, and controlled Yizhou County in his hands, and became the base camp and base of the Yinan Route Army.
Gan Ning led the dragon army to attack farther away, and at the same time defended the weakest Yongchang county, and tried his best to provoke internal strife between the Pu department, the Min Pu department, the Jiu bureaucratic department, and the Suyue department in Yongchang, so as to make the situation in Yongchang as chaotic as possible. Once these tribes were in circles and fighting and chopping to the death, Gan Ning could assume the posture of a mediator and quickly gain a foothold in Yongchang, and then eliminate the influence that the Sima family had established in these tribes invisibly.
Wang Lu led the Marine Brigade to attack the county of Qiqi to the east of Yizhou County until they reached the area of Yelang, which was close to the subject state of Qianwei, where they instigated a popular rebellion and drove the people to flee north, disturbing Sima Yi's sight.
Once the major news of tribal civil strife in Yongchang, Yizhou, and Qiqi counties at the same time reached Sima Yi's ears, he would either transfer troops from the northern front to extinguish them, or transfer Wu Yi from the eastern front back to Kunze, in short, he would be very passive. When the time comes, Wang Lu's first department quickly retreats to Dianchi Lake, and Gan Ning's first department also supports Dianchi Lake, so that Tai Shici's subordinates will not be Guan Ping's 30,000 Qinghuai army, but a complete 80,000 army, which can definitely cripple the Yizhou army that came in a hurry.
With the means of Tai Shi Ci and Li Ru, in order to attack the equipment and combat power of the South Route Army, in the case of waiting for work, Mo said that Sima Yi sent an army of 60,000 people under the command of Wu Yi or Jia Long to quell the rebellion, even if he personally led the 130,000 troops of Zhang Ren and Yan Yan on the Yizhou North Road to Dianchi, he would not necessarily be able to get Tai Shi Ci.
The question is, if Sima Yi transfers all the defensive forces on the northern front to the south of Yizhou, who will resist the 100,000 troops that the Liang State has assembled in Hanzhong and Wudu? Obviously, Sima Yi will not be able to withdraw at all now, so his greatest possibility is to give up the plan of attacking Jingzhou, let Zhang Renbu, who is attacking Jingzhou, turn from an offensive to a defensive position, and then send a group of troops and horses to the south of Yizhou to quell the rebellion. However, how could the battlefield situation fulfill Sima Yi's wishes everywhere, in case the troops defending Jingzhou took advantage of the weakening of the eastern front of Yizhou to make a counterattack under the leadership of Huang Zhong and Li Yan?
From this point of view, this time Sima Yi is not only facing the threat of Tai Shici, but in fact, Zhang He's army on the northern front, which has been holding back, and Liu Biaojun, who has not fought back with all his might, will show their true strength at the right time.
Five days later, 80,000 soldiers of the army on the South Road embarked on the journey as planned.
Although the road from Fengxi to the south of Yizhou is still a bit rugged and difficult to walk, it is not as dangerous and narrow as the Ancient Tea Horse Road, as long as the army is lined up and moves forward unhurriedly, although the speed of the march of the army is slower, it will not take long to reach it safely.
Along the way, the capture team took control of all the local natives found along the way, and when the army passed, they scared the local people to return to the tribe quickly, otherwise they would be killed. Although the tribes in the south of Yizhou have a limited degree of civilization, they also know how to write the word "death" when they see thousands of armies armed with swords passing by their cottages, and who would dare to fight the idea of this terrible army?
The army marched northwest along the bank of the Xisuishui River, and when it arrived at Xisui County, Wang Lujun first left the large group and marched northward, and after passing through Yangshan (near the old city in present-day Yunnan), Tai Shici and Guan Ping led the Chinese army to the north, while the Ganning army continued to march upstream, marching in the direction of Bonan Mountain.
According to Tai Shici's predetermined plan, the Chinese army would be the first to reach Dianchi in Yizhou County, the right army led by Wang Lu would be a few days late to reach Yelang, and Gan Ning would also arrive at Buwei in Yongchang at about the same time.
In order to realize this unbelievable long-distance surprise attack of the Southern Route Army, the military operations of the Crouching Tiger Command this year have all revolved around the Southern Route Army. Now that it is time to harvest, I don't know what Zhao Xing, who is far away in the north, is doing at this time?