One hundred and forty-seven chapters

Half a year has passed in the blink of an eye.

Sun Jie had already gone out of the south with his whole army and confronted Zhang Hu, who was entrenched in Baoning Mansion. However, except for the "Great Victory of the Liubian Station" when the war had not officially started, except for the single-digit scout contact battle in the past six months, there has been no actual large-scale battle between the two sides.

It's not that Sun Jie doesn't want to fight, he really can't afford to fight. Sun Jie estimated that if it was a strong attack, it would have to pay about 3,500 casualties: 1,000 auxiliaries died, 2,000 were seriously injured and disabled, and a battalion of soldiers was killed. This is just a breakthrough, and you have to cross the Jialing River with the firepower of the city head to touch the south wall of Boryeong Mansion! According to this style of play, even if Zhang Hu is defeated and driven out of Baoning, Sun Jiajun will be greatly injured, and he will not be able to recover in five or six years - in these years, there is wolf smoke everywhere, how can he have five or six years to recuperate? Therefore, if it is attacked, the Sun family's two-hundred-year foundation may be destroyed in their own hands!

The so-called Ci is not in charge of the army, and Sun Jie, who is a hereditary general, is by no means reluctant to die. If it comes to the last moment, he can die without hesitation like the ancestors of the Sun family. Even he can be shrouded in horse leather, and there is nothing reluctant to say about the dead. But he was not willing to sacrifice his men in vain - especially since he had no capital to attack.

The original plan was to get enough food, grass and manpower to support the actions of the army, and then get the military power to control the soldiers and horses in Shaanxi, Sun Jie would make a dignified formation, with the local Ding Zhuang as the main body, supplemented by his own auxiliary army, and attack Baoning - let the local people bear most of the casualties, and their own troops can always maintain a high combat power, and then according to the situation of the Shaanxi soldiers, if they can fight, they will be blocked, and if they can't fight, they will be avoided, and their own headquarters will defeat Zhang Hu through long-distance pursuit battles. At the heart of this attack is the exchange of human lives for food: a frontal toughness, a few days and a few thousand lives at the cost of a quick future victory.

According to the second revised plan, if there was similar support from the grain and grass people, Sun Jie would leave one or two battalions in the southern county to block Zhang Hunan's escape to Yanting, and risk maneuvering the main force to Cangxi and even farther away to Jianzhou, snatching Zhang Thief's grain and grass reserves, and then attacking from north to south. When fighting, get out of the main channel of the Jialing River and leave a way for Zhang Hu to run, so that Zhang Hu will not do a bloody battle to break the net, and the casualties of his own troops can always be kept within a bearable range - and then it will be simple: the battalions roll in turn, and the tail of the tail will be pursued all the way, and the rout of the Zhang Army, which is full of grass and trees, is bound to be flawed everywhere, and every flaw is torn off a piece of flesh. The essence of this style of play is to offset the loss of human lives with the consumption of grain and grass: large depth and long-distance maneuvering will undoubtedly consume a large amount of grain and grass materials, but a surprise attack will obtain good tactical results.

However, it backfired, and except for the half of the grain and grass that began to be transported, there was no large-scale supply delivery later. As for the people, don't think about it: there is not enough food and grass to support military operations, and the people who carry the grain have no other use except to help them eat. Sun Jie calculated, according to the standard that 3 people carrying supplies can support a soldier's action for half a month*, the food in his hand can only support the maneuver to the city of Jianzhou, if he is invincible, it will be his turn to risk being attacked by Zhang Thief in the north and south and cornered. Therefore, after going out to the south to join up with Shangouji, they could only be stationed, and the soldiers had two meals a day, the auxiliary soldiers worked one day, and the people of Sichuan Province had one meal a day, waiting for Zhang Hu to show his flaws.

On the other hand, on Zhang Hu's side, there are people who want food and food, there are dangers ahead, and there is no need to worry about retreating, neither will he be stupid enough to run out of the city to fight a field battle with Sun Jie, and there is no need to attack the south where there is nothing to do except for a group of soldiers, plus he has no experience in the first rebellion and doesn't know what to do next, so he is also consumed by Sun Jie.

The officials in Sichuan Province also gradually understood this situation: as long as Sun Jie was there, they did not need to worry about the attack of the thief. After the flood, he was not rich, and the king of Shu added chaos every once in a while, so the supply of grain and grass for Sun Bu slacked off without a match, and counted the days, and when he was urged, he collected a few hundred stones and sent them to Sun Jie......

The court became more lively, and the accusations against Sun Jiedun for not fighting gradually increased. However, everyone also knows: the saint's trust in the Sun family is incomparable, and every ten days, Sun Jie's military intelligence is reported to the Beijing division with a fast horse of 400 miles (the fastest standard is 600 miles, and the 800 miles rush is just a legend, in that case, the people and horses at each station will run to death), referring to the reports of the officials in Sichuan Province, Sun Jie is short of food, and it is an objective fact that it is difficult to carry out military operations, so at the beginning, most of the officials did not go too far except shouting a few words. However, after a long period of change, finally some people can't bear it anymore.

Hu Ke gave Qiao Nanxing (the word Shangbai) an excerpt of "Ten Worries" to the Son of Heaven, ostensibly expressing his worries about the war in Sichuan Province, but anyone with a discerning eye can see that this Lord Qiao is pointing at Sun Jie to preserve his strength: "...... Eight can be worried, the husband will also, brave and brave, break the cauldron and sink the boat, the hundred and two Qin Pass can be broken, and the troops have not entered for more than half a year, is there a shortage of food? What is the half-load grain consumption? Nine can be worried, the soldier is the general, only know the fate of the general and do not know that there is a country, ten can be worried, the country is cowardly, private war brave, it has been blessed by two hundred years of heavenly grace is not ashamed of the shame of the land...... "The right way to be born, professional looking for a child, Lord Qiao's pen is like a knife, every word is heart-wrenching, and he said Sun Jie's previous victory as a "private war" in a light sentence, if it were not for the fact that Sun Jiagen is deep and Ye Mao has a lot of Austrian aid in the court, maybe he will scold something ugly.

In fact, Qiao Nanxing's move is not entirely grandstanding. Master Qiao had a friend of the same year, Jiang Yuanbiao (word Shizhan), who succeeded Yu Chaozhi a few months ago, and was the governor of Shaanxi Province at that time. In order to please Lord Jiang, Lintao Mansion once organized a performance for him: a strong man holding a big knife cut off three bull heads one after another - this majestic general is Lu Guangyu, the commander of the Lanzhou Central Guard. General Lu is too much in line with Master Jiang's perception of military generals: illiterate characters, infinite strength, full of face, and respectful to himself! Talking about Zhang Hu, General Lu pursed his lips contemptuously: "If you meet a certain person, you can walk through Sanhe under a certain knife, and such and such is raised by a dog!" The simple words left a deep impression on Mr. Jiang: It was so good! Commanders, going into battle to kill the enemy is the only right way, strategizing is the business of our civil officials who read poetry and books, and it is your turn to get so much? Just rush to this official! Soldiers, how many dead adults will pat their chests and make up for you......

In line with the good wish of seeking talents for the country, Master Jiang intended to cultivate Lu Guangyu, so he told a few friends of Jingshi his thoughts. After a careful division of labor, Qiao Nanxing was responsible for taking the lead in firing.

Sure enough, as everyone expected, the saint still exonerated Sun Jie, so Gao Shiyang appeared in the military department: "Chen Su heard that Lu Lu, the commander of the Ningxia Central Guard, is loyal and brave, and his courage is not inferior to Guan Zhang, and he has the reputation of '100 enemies' in Shaanxi." The minister is willing to ensure that the envoy is rebellious, and Sun Shuai will reap the effect of the north and south! ”

Hearing that someone could help Sun Jie attack Zhang Hu, the Son of Heaven had no reason to be inaccurate. Considering the feelings of Sun Jie, who had been entangled with Zhang Hu for half a year, the saint left the words and officials asking Lu Guangyu to engrave a "general seal of rebellion". A month later, the army of rebellion, with Xiuwei (Hongfan), the squire of the Ministry of Works, An Yugui, the internal supervisor of the palace (who sweeps the floor and cleans the palace), as the supervising army, and Lu Guangyu, the commander of the Ningxia Central Guard, marched majestically from Shaanxi to the south.

The Ming Dynasty is a patch empire: in order to prevent the political envoys from colluding with the inspectors, they will make a patch to patrol the imperial history, in order to prevent them from pulling the skin and then make a patch for the governor, in order to prevent several governors from tearing each other apart, and because the guards can't fight, they will make a patch for the people as soldiers, in order to prevent the generals from disturbing the people and fearing the enemy, they will temporarily assign the civil ministers to lead the troops, and in order to prevent the civilian overbearing generals from messing around or the two guys from joining forces to embezzle military funds, they will make a patch for the eunuch to supervise the army......

This road army is majestic, especially Lu Guangyu, in order to show his bravery, every time he goes to a prosperous place, he always takes off his shirt and plays a trick on the adults on the horse, and the civil officials of many states and counties are fascinated, and they have waved poems for their heroic deeds - well, in fact, everyone knows who recommended General Lu, the so-called don't look at the face of the monk and look at the face of the Buddha, show more support, and there will be fewer bones picked out by Lord Jiang in the egg basket in the future...... However, the fly in the ointment is that if there is no local civilian official present to organize, the people who see the army often flee away, and even Nanba Village, Zhuni Village (now Zhuoni County, Gannan Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture, Gansu Province), Yangtang Village and other villages closed the gate of the village as if they were facing a great enemy, and the villagers put their weapons on the wall, guarding their own officials and soldiers like thieves, making General Lu angry and screaming, if it wasn't for the Xiu people who stopped him, he would have fought in Shaanxi a long time ago! I can't complain about General Lu's anger, such people are too ignorant: the army always has to eat and drink, right? Isn't it right to take some of your pigs, sheep, chickens, and dogs? The materials of the army must always be transported, so what if you catch a few people and carry a section?

As the saying goes, a soldier is fast. With an average speed of more than ten miles a day, the rebel army finally approached Guangyuan after more than three months, and by this time, Sun Jie had already driven Zhang Hu out of Baoning Mansion. How can Sun Jie be alone in such a great achievement? Without saying a word, General Lu launched an attack on Guangyuan, thus leaving a well-known "good story".

*This is a common algorithm used by ancient generals to calculate logistics support. When the ratio of auxiliaries to soldiers is 1:1, the one-way limit of carrying materials is 18 days, 25 days at 2:1, and one month at 3:1. Because the people themselves also have to eat, the longer the time, the more the people who carry the food will eat, and the total amount that can be carried is fixed, and the less additional supplies they can carry for the soldiers. If you take into account the return journey, it should be halved, when there are no ready-made official roads to walk, and at least again when you need to pass through difficult terrain such as mountains and forests—the speed of the march in the dense forest may be only two or three miles a day without getting lost. Sun Jie: This is still the result of the calculation of his own auxiliary soldiers as half of the negative food people.

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