Chapter 1127: Jiang Ji's Strategy
No matter how Sima Yi complained, in the direction of sour dates, Sima Yi still had to find a way to squeeze out some reinforcements.
In case Jiang Ji is useless and really can't hold Yanjin, Guo Huai doesn't have enough troops in his hands, so he can't go to the rescue, or even counterattack to recapture Yanjin.
At the very least, find a way to send 10,000 people to Guo Huai.
Sima Yi dragged back and forth on his hands for a while, and finally decided to transfer 10,000 people from Jia Kui in Dingtao to support the sour jujubes.
Jia Kui's original 20,000 troops need to be used to defend Jiyin County and Dingtao County. But now it seems that the main offensive force of the Shu thieves is in Yongqiu, and the biggest threat to Dingtao is only the 20,000 Shu thieves led by Hu Zun of the Liang State.
The pressure on Jia Kui's side is really not great, and the only troops that can be transferred are over there.
It's just that on the side of the leading generals . Sima Yi really couldn't find a suitable person, so he could only let Jia Kui figure out his own way.
On the one hand, Jia Kui was also a little dissatisfied with Sima Yi, and on the other hand, he had to act in accordance with military orders.
Jia Kui was dissatisfied because the enemy he actually had to face, in addition to the 20,000 Shu thieves led by Hu Zun on the surface, there was actually another potential enemy - Zhuge Dan of Eastern Wu who was stationed at the junction of Shanyang County and Xiapi County.
With Soochow's capricious style, can you guarantee that these things will always keep their covenant?!
It is rumored that Lu Xun has already led troops into Peiguo, can you guarantee that Zhuge Dan will not enter Shanyang County from Xiapi and then threaten Jiyin County?!
Therefore, in Jia Kui's opinion, it is necessary to keep 20,000 soldiers in his hands.
But so be it. Jia Kui is not a person who does not understand strategy, he knows that compared to the safety of Jiyin County, sour dates and Yanjin are more important places.
These two places are in the hands of their own people, so this battle of Yanzhou can continue to be fought.
As long as one of these two places falls into the hands of the enemy, then I am afraid that all the Wei troops fighting on the front line will be in chaos.
Therefore, in this regard, Jia Kui couldn't bargain with Sima Yi, so he could only divide 10,000 soldiers and hand them over to his son Jia Chong to lead them to the rescue of sour dates.
Jia Kui is really no one available, only an eighteen-year-old son is by his side, what is the ability of those partial generals and generals under his command, Jia Kui knows too well, it is better to let his son lead the troops to the battle.
Of course, Jia Kui did not forget to tell his son that it is okay to lead the troops all the way to the sour jujube, don't be smart on the battlefield, the more clever you are, the faster you will die.
Whose son understands, Jia Kui knows very well his son's ability, at least the ability to lead 10,000 soldiers to march is already available.
But this kid relies on himself to be a little clever, and often has some unrealistic ideas, and he has never really been on the battlefield and does not know the cruelty of the battlefield. Coupled with his age, he is the most prone to problems.
If there is a choice, Jia Kui still wants to keep his son by his side and train him for a few more years, but now he can only let his son go on the expedition.
Of course Jia Chong is very excited. The cub who has not experienced the battlefield is innocent, and thinks that this is his father finally recognizing his ability.
Therefore, Jia Chong is still looking forward to his first expedition, although he is only sending reinforcements to the sour date, but he can take charge of the military power of 10,000 soldiers and horses all of a sudden, which still makes this young man who is only eighteen years old a little fluttering.
As for his father's advice, Jia Chong was real, he didn't listen to it, so he led the army to the sour dates.
Anyway, Sima Yi's side is also interesting enough, in the end, he still squeezed out an army and sent it to Guo Huai. At this time, Guo Huai was also anxiously waiting for the arrival of this army.
During the period when Guo Huai wanted Sima Yi to ask for help, the battle situation on the front line of Yanjin in Sujube once again underwent some changes.
First of all, Jiang Ji's side was in some trouble.
One thing to say, Jiang Ji's strategic vision is extremely outstanding, and there is no shortage of strategy and courage, but, that's all.
Jiang Ji has always been a staff officer, and giving advice is his strength, but he has no experience in leading the army, and he is actually a little worse in terms of army command.
On the contrary, Jiang Ji has a good strategic vision, of course he can see the importance of sour dates and Yanjin, let him stick to Yanjin, Jiang Ji also knows that he has a great responsibility.
Therefore, in addition to strengthening the defense of Yanjin, Jiang Ji is also always on guard against the Shu thieves in the east, whether he will divide his troops to raid Yanjin.
As a result, Jiang Ji did not wait for the Shu thieves who came to attack, but waited for the Shu thieves who were upright and led the troops to attack.
And there were 20,000 soldiers and horses.
Jiang Ji is not ignorant of military strategy. Even if you really don't understand, you always know how to do arithmetic.
There are only 5,000 people in his hands, and 20,000 people are on the opposite side, and the comparison of military strength is one to four, and if you think about it a little, you know how difficult it is to defend this Yanjin.
Of course, no matter how difficult it is, you have to keep it. Besides, Jiang Ji has not encountered such an extreme comparison of forces.
Back then, in Hefei, Jiang Ji only had 3,000 people in his hands, and Sun Quan brought 50,000 soldiers to attack, how could the final result be that he was not frightened off by a letter from himself? !
Thinking of this, Jiang Ji decided to repeat the trick.
Although, Jiang Ji also felt that the success rate of this might not be as high as the first time. After all, as long as anyone with a head and face knows this matter, it is Jiang Ji's famous talking point, and it is also the black material of Emperor Sun of Eastern Wu.
Jiang Ji thinks that it is estimated that the Shu general named Jiang Wei should have heard of this, and the possibility of his old trick being successful is not very high.
But what. There are some things that you don't try, how do you know?!
The art of war is sometimes like this, it depends on who can calm down to the end and not be seen through.
Therefore, Jiang Ji still ordered someone to forge a letter sent by the Great Wei court to Yanjin Ferry, in which the reinforcements arrived in three days, and hoped that Jiang Ji would continue to hold on for three days and then "coincidentally" let the military envoy who gave the order be "caught" by the Shu thieves.
Jiang Wei did see the letter as well. Jiang Wei was happy at that time.
Without him, Jiang Wei thought of a certain emperor sitting in the Jianye Palace.
Sun Quan was scared away by Jiang Ji's letter, in this time and space, it was just a means to borrow a donkey from the slope, but in the eyes of outsiders who didn't know, it was a loss for adults.
Moreover, in this time and space, because Sun Quan only fought two battles of Hefei, and was not caught by Man Zhong and others, Sun Quan's two defeats in Hefei became Sun Quan's biggest black material.
Zhang Liao's 800 raids on the Chinese army, although it also showed Zhang Liao's martial bravery, but in the end Zhang Liao was forced to retreat by Zhou Yu's army, Sun Quan didn't look so miserable, and later withdrew, because of Zhou Yu's prediction, the Eastern Wu soldiers did not suffer heavy casualties So, in this time and space, although Sun Quan's second Battle of Hefei was also lost, but in the end, there was no first Battle of Hefei, and he was scared back by a letter and was embarrassed.
Therefore, when Jiang Wei saw this "urgent report" of the Wei army, he thought that the Yanjin guard would be Jiang Ji. I really couldn't hold back.
Jiang Ji is thinking of me as the Emperor of Eastern Wu?!
This was Jiang Wei's first thought, of course, this is definitely not a good word.
But Coke is Coke, Jiang Wei didn't let his guard down, just like Jiang Ji thought, the art of war is like this, it's real and false, it depends on who can calm down more in the end.
Of course, Jiang Wei will think of Sun Quan's fate, but in the same way, Jiang Wei will also guess whether Jiang Ji is deliberately guiding himself not to repeat Sun Quan's mistakes, hoping that he will advance lightly. In fact, at this time, Cao Wei's reinforcements had arrived in Yanjin, and they were preparing to open their pockets to ambush themselves?!
After pondering for a while, Jiang Wei felt that it was still unlikely.
If Cao Wei's reinforcements had arrived in Yanjin in advance, then the first priority at this time was to go to Sujube to help, rather than to set up an ambush for himself in Yanjin.
Again, Jiang Wei's combat purpose is to attack Yanjin, send reinforcements to the Yanjin encirclement point, and attract Guo Huai to leave the city and leave Sujuo, regardless of whether Yanjin already has Cao Wei's reinforcements, he will attack.
In the end, it is also the most important basis for Jiang Wei to make a decision - with 20,000 elite forbidden troops of the Han Dynasty in hand, who is Lao Tzu afraid of? !
If Jiang Ji retreats to defend in the Yanjin Ferry, then Jiang Wei will have to think of other ways to see if he can quickly break the enemy. If Jiang Jizhen led Cao Wei's reinforcements to set up an ambush near the Yanjin ferry and fight a field battle with Jiang Wei, it would be something Jiang Wei couldn't ask for.
After some thought, Jiang Wei decided to ignore the contents of this letter and continue to march to Yanjin.
Of course, the scouts along the way, Jiang Wei asked to reconnoiter ten miles more to search for whether there were Wei ambushes near Yanjin.
It was necessary to march, but Jiang Wei didn't want to be ambushed so easily, just in case it was always good.
And Jiang Wei's careful investigation and bold march along the way suddenly let Jiang Ji know. His plan failed.
Also, such a simple psychological warfare strategy can probably be fooled by the suspicious Emperor Sun.
However, although this strategy failed, it was actually no loss for Jiang Ji. At most, it was just the loss of a herald.
Since Jiang Wei didn't have a plan, the soldiers came to the city. Then I won't be able to shrink back.
The fact that reinforcements came in three days was indeed fake, but the fact that reinforcements arrived in seven days was true.
The old man is no longer incompetent, but he still has the heart to keep it for seven days!!
(End of chapter)