Chapter 760: Two birds with one stone are out of the cage
Although the message transmission channel established by Zhao Xing is very fast. But after all, it still depends on manual relays, so his instructions on Yangzhou will not be delivered to Zhang Liao in a few days.
And in the past few days, Zhao Xing has received important information from other regions, and according to this momentum, it seems that when the spring flowers bloom, all parts of Dahan will be chaotic again.
What Zhao Xing received this time was information delivered from the northeast, and the message drafted by Zhang Xiu himself shows the importance and urgency of the matter.
Zhang Xiu said in the secret report that Gongsun Du seemed to be gradually losing patience with this kind of tug-of-war two-sided battle, so he secretly sent an envoy to visit the lord of Fuyu some time ago, hoping that the two families would secretly form an alliance and first deal with the Karasuma people and the remnants of Xianbei together, and then conspire with Goguryeo.
Gongsun Du proposed that after the war, the two sides would divide up the territory of the Karasuma and Goguryeo people according to the number of troops to be sent, of which Gongsun Du would mainly take the area near Liaodong County, and the Fuyu people would have to be close to the territory around Fuyu Kingdom.
In Gongsun Du's opinion, after all, he represented the central government of the Han Dynasty to guard Liaodong, so the rest of the people should be more interested in forming an alliance with him. Although the two sides had some minor conflicts because they had not reached a consensus on the joint dispatch of troops, and even the rest of the people suddenly appeared outside Gaoxian City and robbed some of Gongsun Du's transport ships, after all, the two sides had never seen each other, and there was still a basis for the interests and feelings of cooperation.
Zhang Xiu asked Zhao Xing if he could let the Blue Wolf Army pretend to be the Fuyu army and join forces with Gongsun Du to kill the Karasuma people and the remnants of Xianbei together, and then turn around and go east to find trouble with Goguryeo. The reason why Zhang Xiu wanted to ask Zhao Xing was because of this, the entire battle plan would deviate from the strategy of "driving the tiger and devouring the wolf" set by the Crouching Tiger Command, and it would become "seeking skin with the tiger".
However, from the perspective of ending the war in the northeast as soon as possible, Zhang Xiu's proposal is undoubtedly desirable. As long as you can quickly deal with the Karasuma people and the remnants of the Xianbei tribe, you can watch Gongsun Du and Goguryeo fight hard, and when the time is ripe, the "Fuyu people" show their true colors and directly dig out Gongsun Du's lair, so that the northeast will be unhindered.
What made Zhao Xing even more moved was that the intelligence recently fed back from Zhao Hu showed that Gongsun Du's two sons were fighting openly and secretly over the issue of inheritance. If you add fuel to the fire, when Gongsun Du takes Goguryeo, and then divide Liaodong into several pieces at once, either side will be unable to resist the attack of the Blue Wolf Army and the Black Mountain Army. In the face of a huge shock, whether it is Gongsun Du or his two sons, it is possible to honestly disarm and claim to be a vassal, so that Zhao Xing has the opportunity to easily take over the entire Northeast region.
Of course, such a good thing is just an idea, and if you really want to achieve it, you need to do a lot of work in the dark. For example, first of all, the "Fuyu" wanted to establish an alliance with Gongsun Du with a certain foundation of trust, and the two sides agreed on the time and course of action to launch an attack on the Karasuma people, and then took advantage of the Goguryeo people to react before they could react, and completely eliminated this side with a thunderous force.
In the process, the two sides involved in the alliance will have to be wary of each other and calculate. Because the main force of the Fuyu people was in the northeast, Gongsun Du's troops against the Karasuma people were stationed in the southwest, and the nest of the Karasuma people and Xianbei people was due west. If Fuyu and Gongsun Dujun combined to attack the Karasuma and Xianbei people, the most likely outcome would be to push the Karasuma and Xianbei people further west into Youzhou's control area, which was not the result Zhao Xing wanted.
Strategist Li Ru suggested that the only remaining mobile force in Youzhou, Xiong Zhen's army, should be transferred to the direction of Qingzhou by sea, and then replace the Flying Tiger Army, which has the strongest attack power, to land from Quanzhou and go straight to the Lightning River and the Yumai area of the Great Xing'an Mountains, and then let the Flying Tiger Army go down the Raoleshui and drive the Karasuma and Xianbei people to the east with thunderous means.
And once the Flying Tiger Army was ready to make a move, Zhang Xiu could instruct the lord of the country, Yu, and ask him to send troops with Gongsun Du to stop the Karasuma and Xianbei people who fled east after the Flying Tiger Army started.
There are two key points in this series of movement warfare, one is that the Flying Tiger Army and the Fuyu Cavalry must show absolute force, so that the Karasuma and Xianbei people will turn around and flee for their lives when they see them, and they will not dare to have a head-on decisive battle with their own army. After all, the rabbit is in a hurry and bites, not to mention the Karasuma Xianbei people who are on a desperate road in order to survive, rather than letting the Flying Tiger Army and the Blue Wolf Army endure the desperate fight of the Karasuma and Xianbei people, it is better to leave this great and glorious task to the army of Gongsun Du.
The second key point is to keep the troops sent by Gongsun Du in the dark, so that they think that as long as Liaodong and Fuyu send troops, they can drive the Karasuma and Xianbei people into Zhao Xing's sphere of influence, and then use Zhao Xing's troops to exterminate the Karasuma and Xianbei people. If it can't be extinguished, it would be better, anyway, it will be Zhao Xing who will be the scourge in the future.
Of course, it is not excluded that Gongsun Du actually fights that even if the Karasuma people and the Xianbei people do not go west, as long as they do not come to the south, but go towards the Fuyu country in the northeast, then the final loss is the strength of the Fuyu country, and he can sit on the mountain and watch the tiger fight.
Zhao Xing recognized Li Ru's suggestion very much, and felt that his thinking on using troops was very broad, and he actually thought of an excellent way to transfer the Xiong Zhen army with the Flying Tiger Army, and then give full play to the mobility ability and huge deterrence of the Flying Tiger Army, so as to achieve the goal of surrendering the army without a fight.
Another "intern staff officer" Lu Meng, who had recently come to Zhao Xing's side, also put forward supplementary opinions on the basis of Li Ru's strategy. He suggested that the Blue Wolf Army might as well show its true colors when driving away the Karasuma and Xianbei people, as long as it was not known to Gongsun Dujun for a short time. In this way, the Karasuma and Xianbei people will definitely turn around and fight fiercely with the Gongsun Du army under the coercion of the two terrified troops of the Flying Tiger Army and the Blue Wolf Army. And no matter who wins or loses this battle, the best combat effect will be achieved.
Zhao Xing was also very satisfied with Lu Meng's supplementary opinions, in fact, he had already thought of Lu Meng's suggestion, and it was estimated that Chen Qi on the side would also think of it. But what Zhao Xing appreciated was Lu Meng's agility, because he grasped the most critical part of the battle, that is, to find ways to preserve his own strength, and even more to consume Gongsun Du's troops.
With the combat power of the Flying Tiger Army and the Blue Wolf Army, it is not a problem to wipe out the Karasuma and Xianbei people who fled for their lives, but as long as it is a head-on battle, and it is in the case that the other party has no way to escape, no matter how strong the Flying Tiger Army and the Blue Wolf Army are, I am afraid that they will have to pay more than 30% of the casualties, and this can be completely avoided by using strategy.
What's more, if you can let the Karasuma people, Xianbei people and Gongsun Dujun come to your death, it is equivalent to killing two birds with one stone, which is of great significance for the next subjugation of the Northeast.
PS: The third watch came a little later, just because it was too much trouble. Seeing that the big drama is about to be staged, all aspects of the situation must be taken into account, which is difficult......