Chapter 137: Countdown to Shu
"Order, the third heavy armored brigade is ready to pull out the camp, and the sixth place in the order of starting the camp early tomorrow morning will enter Longshan Road, the fifteenth day of the first month of the first year of Zhengshuo!" The light horse riding on a snow leopard rushed into the war mastiff barracks like a gust of wind, and loudly announced the order to Wei Gongming, the commander of the third heavy armored brigade who walked out of the camp tent.
"Ha, I didn't expect the first batch of brigades to enter Shu fell on Lao Tzu's head, look at the guys on the side this time they still have something to say!"
"General Wei, please also ask you to check the military order, investigate the impeachment, and go back to your life!"
Wei Gongming took the order, glanced at it quickly, it was indeed correct, and said, "There is no problem!"
"I'll quit my post then!" Saying that, the leopard cavalry turned the leopard's head and swooped out, but Wei Gongming turned around, looked at the commanders of several battalions under the command of his brigade, and said with a smile: "I heard it, don't you go back and prepare to pull out the camp, tomorrow we are going to enter Shu, tonight we will slaughter cattle and sheep, no drinking, so let's celebrate!"
The herald leopard rode in all directions, and with the delivery of military orders, the countdown to Shu officially entered the final stage.
Longshou City, Sun Wu, Minister of Military Aircraft, Sun Bin, Chief of Staff of the Forbidden Army, Wu Zixu, Chief of Staff of the White Tiger Legion, among the top ten generals of the Forbidden Army, in addition to Li Yuanba, Dian Wei led the two armies stationed in Zhuque City to protect the imperial capital of Great Chu, the remaining eight army generals were all present, in addition, the commanders of the divisions of the White Tiger Legion also had three present, it can be said that Longshou Mountain gathered most of the high-level troops of the garrison in Xiangxi Province.
In the huge combat conference room, there is a large sand table in the middle, and this sand table is also a map of Shuzhong that Da Chu has invested countless financial resources in the past few years, you must know that all along, although Shuchuan has sixteen prefectures and a vast territory, but in fact, the sixteen prefectures of Shuchuan do not have a complete territory map.
In the Kyushu Chronicles of the Empire, the frontier of Shuchuan is bounded by the 100,000 mountains in the southeast and south, and the Kunlun Plateau is the boundary in the west, and the boundary is really demarcated, only the line of the Sword Pavilion in the north, and the junction of Sichuan and Chu in the east, and from the many maps of Shuchuan found, it is mostly based on the eight provinces in Shuchuan, and most of the outer eight provinces are vague.
The outer eight provinces are mostly barbarian tribes, but the division of the outer eight provinces of the empire is not based on tribal regions, but out of thin air, countless large and small counties have been set up, and large and small official positions have been given to the patriarchs of various barbarian tribes.
And this setting, but it is in conflict with the local tribe area, and even the official knights given by the imperial court, sometimes a small tribe can govern a county, and the tribe that is stronger in one place is only divided into a town, or even a different place, obviously this tribe is the boss in this county, but appointed as the county guard of another county, in short, relying on this means, to provoke the interests of the barbarian tribes, cannibalism.
I have to say that the empire has superb means in balancing the country, and it has indeed allowed the barbarians to attack and annihilate each other, shedding blood, and ensuring the long-term peace and stability of the inner eight provinces, but with hundreds of years of fighting and annexation, some powerful tribes have also been born, and the strength of these powerful tribes no longer needs to look at the eyes of the empire, so there has been frequent friction between the inner and outer eight provinces.
"General Tan, you are most familiar with the situation in Shuzhong, and you will explain to you the route of our march into Shu this time!"
Sun Wu directly handed over the baton to Tan Daoji, who had only returned in the morning.
Tan Daoji married the daughter of the Wolf Hao Tusi, and after the Battle of Xiangyang, Tan Daoji returned to Shuzhong and took root in Shu for the Great Chu.
If you want to pick up the Chu general who knows Shuchuan best, it must be Tan Daoji.
"I think everyone already knows the general plan for entering Shu this time, so let me talk about the specific march route!" Tan Daoji did not shirk, after taking the baton, he pointed to the sand table a little, and said: "This is Longshan Road, and the exit of Longshan Road in Shuchuan is located here!"
"Lizard Jungle, that is, Xilin County carved out by the empire, Xilin County has seven large and small tribes, the strongest tribe is the Lizard Horn Department of 20,000 tents, this tribe has 5,000 warriors and more than 10,000 combat power, and the remaining six, most of them depend on the Lizard Horn Tribe, the largest is the Lizard Tooth Tribe of 5,000 tents, and the smallest is the Bailin Department of 1,500 Tents!"
"Here will be our journey, Shuzhong and other eight provinces, the north and west occupy three, and the south has five, these five provinces from east to west, are Maolin Mansion, Guanglin Mansion, Beilin Mansion, Xiaolin Mansion and Longshan Mansion, these five prefectures are very broad, almost including the south of the eight provinces, stretching to the depths of the 100,000 mountains!"
"And this is also the weakest place of imperial rule, although here, the Tianlong Empire has set up counties, but with the mutual annexation and attack between tribes, the county system has long existed in name only, and at the local level, the patriarch of the big tribe, Tusi, actually controls the authority, this is a place where the strong are respected. ”
"At present, there are not many tribes that are inclined to my Great Chu, except for my Yue family's Wolf Hao Tusi Division, only some dependent tribes have joined our camp, in addition, although the very powerful sect of Nanyumen has also won over a person who is inclined to us, but before the matter is clear, Nanyumen will hardly make a decision prematurely!"
"It can be said that in the past few years, we have hardly won over many tribes to us by means of co-optation, so we can only use the bright sword to force these Tusi tribes to submit with strong strength!" Tan Daoji raised his voice a little.
"There are twelve large and small counties in Maolin Mansion, more than 100 tribes, in addition to the three major Tusi Ministries, there are three independent Ministries, as for most of the other ministries to rely on the three Tusi Ministries, or jointly with the three major Ministries for self-protection, what we have to do is to capture the thief and capture the king first, as long as the two Tusi Ministries, as well as the Tusi account of the independent majority, and kill the Tusi of the Ministry, then according to the rules of this land, the tribe must submit to the knees of the strong!"
"Therefore, the soldiers and horses we dispatched on this trip will be mainly light cavalry, and the troops will be divided into three routes, directly taking the bear department, the porcupine department and the snake scale tribe of the independent department!
"The Bear Department, counting the affiliated tribes, can gather at least more than 100,000 soldiers in wartime, and the porcupine department is about the same, as for most of the snake scales, it can also gather more than 30,000 warriors, but these Tusi departments are not gathered together, but scattered all over the territory in the situation of scattered tribes, that is to say, as long as the speed is fast enough, before the other party reacts, the enemy we face is not such a huge number!"
"However, in the Tyrant Bear City, where the bear department is located, there are more than 10,000 permanent barbarian soldiers, and the tribes scattered around the Tyrant Bear City can gather 5,000 troops in one day, and with the passage of time, this number will continue to increase, that is to say, this operation, must be killed with one blow!"
"All in all, in a word, that is, fast, for this reason, I have chosen three optimal routes to facilitate the attack, but in order to save time, before that, the armies will also face some scattered tribes blocking the way, and it is impossible to infiltrate without being detected, so this requires extreme assault ability!"
"And this task, it must be the forbidden army, General Xu of the Blade Army and General Lin of the Clouded Leopard Army will combine an army to make up three thousand beast horses, light cavalry to lead the way, General Le of the Snow Leopard Army to lead the way, and then General Yelu of the Wolf Cavalry Army to lead the way!"
"Your three troops and horses are the first, and the deer cavalry drawn by the White Tiger Legion is mobile, mainly to disrupt the sight of each department and prevent the other party from gathering troops to help, and after that, it is the light armor of the forbidden army that cooperates with the heavy armor to form the last wave to suppress and deter the various departments!"
"This is the general plan of this operation, lightning raid, three waves of overlapping, with the momentum of 10,000 to take the Maolin Mansion, after taking the Maolin Mansion, it will enter the second stage!"
"Finally, there is another very important point, that is, after entering Shuchuan, you can't beat my Great Chu Dragon Banner, but first fly the wolf flag of the Wolf Hair Tribe, and after completing the intention, you must also receive the other tribe in the name of the Wolf Hair Tusi Department!
Tan Daoji finally added, and although the generals had questions, Sun Wu on the side nodded and said, " His Majesty has already issued an edict on this matter, after all, the eight prefectures outside Shuchuan have always excluded outsiders, if we beat my Dachu banner, even if the beheading is successful, the other party's departments will not surrender according to the rules of the barbarians, after all, we are outsiders, and the banner of fighting the wolf hao big toast is an internal strife, the other party will not fight to the death, and in a short period of time, we can't let people know that we have entered Shuchuan, so this operation will be carried out in the name of the wolf hao toast department!"
"If there is no problem, let's go back and prepare!"
In Longshou City, Ziyang County, the mobilization of entering Shu began, and the countdown to Shu began, and in Qingzhou, a large-scale counteroffensive has been staged.
On the first day of the first month of the first year of Zhengshuo, on the first day of the official stage of the Great Chu Empire, the Qingzhou Forbidden Army Corps was officially renamed the Kuiba Legion, and the Qinglong, White Tiger, Xuanwu, and Vermilion Bird four major legions were placed side by side, and the establishment was ten strengthened divisions, with a total of 300,000 troops, Hebei Province and Huainan Province were temporarily listed as war zones, all with military first, Bai Qi Governor of the two provinces, posthumously recognized the Kui Shuai, and was in charge of the Qingzhou War, so that Zhang Liang was the deputy marshal, Zhao Yun, Zhang Liao and the two commanders of the North Road and the West Road, since then, the Qingzhou War kicked off.
On the fifteenth day of the first month, at the end of the year, after accepting Leng Zhuo's appointment, a counteroffensive order was issued at Baiqi in Gaoyou Mansion, and the two divisions and regiments of Zhang Liao under the command of Zhang Liao on the northern front took the lead in launching a counterattack against the counties of Huaibei.
Nearly 50,000 troops, from the four ferries, by boat to land on the north bank of the counties, and at this moment the Jiyang Prefecture under the jurisdiction of the Huaishui north of the more than ten counties in the soldiers and horses are gathered in Tongshan County, the rear is empty, it can be said that by this thunder blow caught off guard, three days, most of the counties lost, and Zhang Liao led the main force like the north bank coalition army to attack Tongshan, from both sides of the coalition army in Tongshan County.
In the west of Tongshan County, in the small city of Guyun, 20,000 soldiers and horses under Zhang Liao's department encountered 23,000 soldiers and horses of the coalition army westward, and a battle of tens of thousands of people was about to break out.
Outside Guyun City, Zhang Liao's 20,000 troops were sprinkled like a net, and a brigade was stationed at one gate, directly surrounding this small Guyun city, while the more than 20,000 allied troops in the city were looking at Zhang Liao's troops who were camped on all sides.
On the gate tower of Guyun City, there were still 2580,000 before, but the commanders of the county armies who were not angry with anyone were arguing.
"What should we do now, the other party has made it clear that they will treat us as turtles in the urn, and directly seized the four gates, blocking our way! Now we don't have much food in the army, and it won't help if we are arguing, whether to fight, or whatever, there must always be a charter!"
"Fight, they are deploying troops at the four gates, each city gate is only a few thousand, he directly divided the soldiers and horses, let's directly concentrate on one gate, and run over with the number of people, I don't believe that we can't kill a bloody way!"
"Fight, have you fought, thousands of people will let our tens of thousands of troops lose their troops, this can be no less than us in front of us, you fight one, the other three will do it!"