Battle of Changping Chapter 026 Calculate the Qin army according to the situation
The seemingly reasonable distribution of interests and balanced arrangement are more than just so simple in Qin Jun's eyes.
First of all, the factions must be the easiest situation to read, the three main generals, the three forces: the Shaozhuang faction and the qualification faction under Lian Po, plus Zhao Kuo's faction, formed a three-legged situation.
Such an obvious contradiction, even if Zhao Kuo wants to hide it, he will definitely not be able to hide it, it is better to show it to the Qin army generously, at least from a historical point of view, even in a desperate situation, the armies have not abandoned themselves. And the most critical positions are all in the hands of their own people, and it is difficult to think that even if the Qin army wants to gain something from the factional struggle.
More importantly, if you don't know that Sun Gu and Zhou Qi are already Zhao Kuo's people, from Zhao Kuo's arrangement of his henchman Xu Li, it is not difficult to see that Zhao Jun attaches great importance to the front line of Changping Pass, and combined with the location of Tiandan's hometown, it is not difficult for Qin Jun to find out what Zhao Kuo wants to express: If it can be taken by surprise and the attack is smooth, Zhao Jun will continue to advance; If there is a disagreement, immediately turn north to Changping Pass.
Can Wu Anjun of the Qin State make you happy?
Put yourself in Wu Anjun's shoes and think about it: The kid on the other side is going to run away after a fight, so can you run?
It took so much effort to make Zhao Guo change generals, how could it be possible to just fight a painless offensive and defensive battle and let you go back?
Although it can continue to be consumed on the Changping-Guguan line, the final victory will also belong to the Qin State.
But the Zhao State is about to collapse, can the Qin State feel better? No matter how strong the national strength is, it can't stand the restrictions on grain transportation channels!
Let's not talk about the grain of Bashu, firstly, the current Bashu is not so rich, and secondly, the grain transported from Bashu eats and consumes more than what is transported;
The grain in Guanzhong, even if it is taken by water, it will take more than ten days to arrive, and there is still a transfer in the middle, not to mention the trouble, and the road consumption is also a lot;
The only thing that is slightly better is the grain of Hanoi, which can be reached in a few days, which is also one of the important reasons why the Qin State can hold out for so long. But the problem is that Hanoi County is just a county, not that kind of big county, and the three-year confrontation has long exhausted the savings of Hanoi County.
Killing Zhao can indeed save a large number of soldiers and losses of Qin, but it needs to consume a large amount of grain from Qin, and in the end, it may be that Zhao has not surrendered, so Qin has to take real money and buy grain from Wei, Han and other countries at a high price.
The Qin people are an important component of national strength, but in the eyes of the upper echelons of the Qin state, how can grain and straw not be an important part of national strength?
Even, the idea of "if there is food, you are afraid of no one" is also quite a market saying in the upper echelons of the Qin State, after all, the Qin people have attracted people from various countries over the years with the lure of grain.
Therefore, between the loss of the Qin people and the loss of grain, the upper echelons of the Qin state slightly favored the latter. This is why there is an intermittent plan to force Zhao to change generals.
Of course, the ideas of the upper echelons of the Qin State cannot be said to be all wrong, and in history, the Qin State used human lives to pile up this victory in Changping - to send all men over the age of 15 in Hedong to serve in the army.
The final effect is not bad, at least from now on, no one can stop the footsteps of the Qin army going east.
And such a decisive victory must be built on one foundation, that is: the Qin army won the final victory.
After the victory, the population was not enough, and it was restored in three and five years, and the grain was not enough, so the autumn grain harvest was replenished; However, once a large number of soldiers and people are lost, it will be difficult to go east within a few years, and even Hedong, Hanoi and other places will be threatened by hostile forces from all directions.
Of course, failure was not within the consideration of the Qin people.
It was precisely out of the consideration of the least loss that Qin came up with a plan to tempt the Zhao army to fight a decisive battle.
In other words, from the moment the Qin people instigated the Zhao State to change generals, the Qin people fought with the idea of completely annihilating the main force of the Zhao army.
Now that the Zhao army actually has the idea of retreating in a battle, the Qin army is bound to not allow such a thought to exist. And to dispel Zhao Guo's thoughts, the best way is, of course, to make Zhao's attack smoother, so as to completely attract the main force of Zhao's army on the west bank of Danshui.
And the appearance of Tian Dan also strengthened the Qin army's plan from the fact.
If it is according to the original trajectory of history, it is obviously unrealistic to send troops to attack the front line of Changping Pass-Ancient Pass. After all, Tian Dan was guarding there, and he was a character who was even better at defending than Zhi Lian Po, even if Bai Qi was in person, he was not sure that he would break through Tian Dan's defense in a short period of time with a small number of troops.
Originally, the encirclement of the triangle with a radius of more than 50 kilometers was obviously missing a side and could not be used again because of the single-handle of the Guguan-Changping Pass.
If the Qin army wanted to continue to set up an ambush on the east bank, no matter what it did, it would be likely to be attacked and harassed by the Tiandan Department of the Former Pass, and it would be very easy to fall short.
Therefore, from this point of view, Zhao Kuo's arrangement of troops was almost forcing the Qin army to set up an encirclement on the west bank of Danshui.
In order to set up the encirclement on the west bank, the battle of the barrier had to be ruthlessly released, and once the water was released, it would be difficult for the Qin army to see the extreme decline in the overall combat strength of the Zhao army, so as to completely cover up their own conspiracy to "steal the sky and change the day".
Layer by layer layout, using the psychology of the Qin army to fight a war of annihilation, to cover up his own real killing moves, Zhao Kuo played the greatest role in the history he knew.
Now that the layout is complete, the rest is no longer under your control.
"Everything that can be done has been done, and the rest can only be put into practice." Zhao Kuo thought secretly in his heart.
After looking around, Zhao Kuo immediately ordered: "The generals will go back and prepare for a good life, and obey the order at any time." ”
"No!" The generals replied in unison.
Waving his hand, signaling to retreat, the generals immediately rushed out, because of the need for secrecy, the generals did not dare to discuss anything about it, and their eyes signaled to each other, the meaning was obvious:
"If my brother accidentally falls into a siege, you are not allowed to slack your belt."
"An-la! Dude, who of us brothers is with whom? Bow and arrow cover attack, it's a matter of my brother's words."
"Cover the attack, you want me to die! Lao Tzu didn't die in the hands of the Qin people, he died in the hands of your kid, you wait. ”
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Tacitly, everyone hurried towards their respective camps, some of whom were skeptical, some were excited, and some were full of ambition......
Only without that fear, the three-year battle not only deepened the hatred between Qin and Zhao, but also eliminated Zhao Jun's fear of Qin. Counteroffensive is the dream of almost every Zhao army.
And this dream, now, is coming true step by step under the leadership of Zhao Kuo.