Chapter 356: Sin Will Fail the King
Let's talk about the noon road, the reason why this road is famous is because when Liu Bang, the ancestor of the Han Dynasty, was forced to go up to Nanzheng to take the throne of the Han Dynasty after the "Hongmen Banquet", he took the meridian road. Later, Liu Bang adopted Han Xin's strategy of "repairing the plank road in the bright and Chencang in the dark", and made the appearance of building the meridian plank road.
The second is because Wei Yan proposed to Zhuge Liang before the war during the Three Kingdoms period, that is, the military plan to march from the Meridian Valley in order to attack Chang'an within ten days.
The operational purpose of the Meridian Valley strategy was to imitate the Han Gaozu Liu Bang and Han Xin to attack in separate ways, to fight in concert, and to make use of the mutual cooperation of the various participating units to form a multi-channel offensive posture such as the main attack and the feint attack, and to launch a strategic assault in a way that took the enemy by surprise, and had the characteristics of strong concealment and rapid action.
Taking advantage of the Wei army's lack of vigilance, the Shu army crossed the Meridian Valley Road in a rapid march and adopted the tactics of surprise attack to destroy the Wei army's commander-in-chief Xiahou Nan's will to resist and force him to flee by boat, so as to achieve the strategic goal of surrendering the army without a fight.
The key to the success of the Meridian Valley plan was that Xiahou Nan, the governor of Cao Wei who was guarding Chang'an, abandoned the city and fled, which was the core of the entire tactical plan and the ultimate goal of Wei Yan's strategic quick decisive battle.
The basic conditions for carrying out a strategic quick decisive battle are: absolute superiority in one's own military strength, advance preparations after careful planning, favorable combat timing and engagement situation, and the fatal weakness of the enemy's commander.
Wei Yan believed that the fatal weakness of Cao's army was the lack of war experience of Xiahou Nan, the commander in charge of defending the Chang'an region, and under the threat of deterrence formed by the Shu army's arrival in Chang'an, Xiahou Nan became anxious, and then produced negative emotions of cowardice and fear of war, and finally lost confidence in defending the city.
However, Zhuge Liang did not adopt Wei Yan's strategy, because the latter had obvious taboos of marchers in many aspects such as enemy situation estimation, route selection, military food supply, time planning, siege preparations, etc., and it was absolutely impossible for Zhuge Liang, who had been cautious all his life, to abandon his strategy and take the risk of danger.
Finally, there is Yinping Road, which is not the road from Guanzhong to Hanzhong, but the road from Longxi to Bashu. Yinping Road starts from Yinping County, crosses the mountains and mountains for nearly 600 miles and then reaches Jiangyou.
Yinping Dao is most famous in the Three Kingdoms is Deng Ai smuggling into Yinping, Wei Yuan Emperor Jingyuan in October of the fourth year, Deng Ai took advantage of Jiang Wei being contained by Zhong Hui in the Sword Pavilion, led the army from Yinping along the Jinggu Road East to the south, south out of the Sword Pavilion more than 200 miles, Zhong Hui also sent the general Tian Zhang and others to follow up. Deng Ai led the army to climb the trail, dig mountains and open roads, build trestle bridges, and march through the uninhabited dangerous area of more than 700 miles. The mountains are high and the valleys are deep, and it is extremely difficult. On the way, the grain transportation did not continue, and he was in trouble many times. When the troops walked to Mage Mountain, the road was cut off, and they could not advance or retreat for a while, so Deng Ai took the lead and rolled down the hillside wrapped in felt. Deng Ai led the army to Jiangyou by surprise, broke Mianzhu in one battle, captured Yuxian in another battle, and surrendered Shu Han in three battles.
This is the only remaining highlight moment of Yinping Road, but Yinping Road in this era has not been developed at all, the road is narrow and blocked in many places, and even Li Song does not pay attention to this road.
Wang Rong looked at the information from the Detective Affairs Department, and habitually knocked on the table with his left hand, making a muffled sound of "da-da-da".
After reading the information, Wang Rong raised his head, and the muffled sound disappeared. Many generals in the hall have come to the spirit, and the king has made a decision.
Wang Rong first looked at An Hao and Yang Maoming, and said, "The elite of the Third Army was not damaged, and the combat strength was strong, so General An was the main body, and General Yang was the auxiliary, and the Third Army and the Nineteenth Army set out from Chencang and entered the old road through Sanguan, attacking Hechi, Xiabian, Wudu, Jialing, Xiucheng, Shanglu, Pingle and Fuxian. As long as the Bashu army in these places is annihilated, the city can not be occupied first."
An Hao and Yang Maoming came out of the ranks, bowed and saluted, "The last general takes orders!"
Wang Rong then looked at Pei Zongyan and said, "General Pei, the Fourteenth Army follows behind the Third Army and the Nineteenth Army, and after Hechi is captured, march to Jialing, and after the capture, conduct repair training, and wait until the Third Army and the Nineteenth Army are combined, and then attack together at Fuxian and Yangping Pass."
Pei Zongyan stepped out of the column and saluted, "The last general will receive the order."
Wang Rong then looked at the generals of the Wuwei Army and said, "The key to the Wuwei Army's attack on the Baochuan Road lies in Sanjiao City, where Xue Ting led 50,000 troops to garrison, and the city is still located on the mountainside, which is easy to defend and difficult to attack."
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Yang Yang had the information in his hand and said, "This Xue Ting is not easy to match, his army of 50,000 has only 5,000 people left in Sanjiao City. The remaining 45,000 people were divided into nine shares, and nine camps were set up between Sanjiao City and Shimen."
Li Sujie asked with a puzzled expression, "Your Majesty, this Sanjiao City is set up in Shimen, this Xue Ting is mistaken. Shouldn't we set up a village from Sanjiaocheng to Xiegukou?"
Wang Rong smiled and said, "That's why I said that Xue Ting is not easy to match. In normal thinking, we will all think about setting up a village from Sanjiao City to Xiegukou in order to achieve the goal of depleting the enemy's army. By the time the Tang army attacked Sanjiaocheng, it was already powerless.
But thinking about it on the other hand, there are not many places where a camp can be set up on the road from Sanjiaocheng to Xiegukou, and the terrain is narrow, and a camp can accommodate 7,000 people. Seven thousand people were crammed into a small camp, unable to escape the attacks of bows, arrows, crossbows, stones, and wooden blocks.
The camp is set up between Sanjiao City and Shimen, there are three places where the terrain of this road is flat, and three camps can be established respectively, forming a corner trend, nearly 10,000 people defend.
Coupled with the consumption of Sanjiao City, it is not easy for our army to pass through the defense line of the Bashu army."
Yuan Tiangang said fearlessly: "Your Majesty, no matter what difficulties and obstacles he has, I will climb out first, and I will attack the city and pull out the fortress, and the king will wait to see my Tengxiang warriors show their skills."
Wang Rong looked at Yuan Tiangang with a look of war, nodded with satisfaction, and said, "The sledgehammer is brave, I am very happy. In this battle, Teng Xiang is the vanguard, the personal guards and Wu Xiang are the support, and the Xiao cavalry and hussars are the rearguard, and the whole army will be drawn tomorrow!"
"Whoa!"
After the generals in the hall dispersed, Wang Rong looked at Wang Xu and the fifth candidate and said, "Are people coming?"
Wang Xu nodded, Wang Rong stood up, and said, "Let's go, go to the backyard."
In ancient times, the county government was modeled after the model of sleeping in front of the palace, and the backyard of the county government was the place where the county order and his family lived. But when Wang Rong came, this backyard became his residence. In addition to the first team guarding the door of the master bedroom, there is also a squad leading the elite of the guards to accompany them.
Entering the backyard of the county government, Lang Zeqing stood in the courtyard wearing a plain robe, and when he saw Wang Rong who entered the backyard, he hurriedly bowed down and saluted: "Lang Zeqing, the sinner, meets the king!"
Wang Rong looked at Lang Zeqing and said, "Old wolf, you have lost weight......
Lang Zeqing raised his head and said in a choked tone: "The sin will fail the king, and the teacher will humiliate the country, please punish the king!"
After speaking, Lang Zeqing was about to kneel on both knees. Wang Rong took two steps forward and held him up, not letting him continue to kneel.
Wang Rong used his arms hard, and he helped Lang Zeqing up, and said in a stern tone, "Get up! I am a Tang boy, kneel to the sky and kneel to my parents, I don't kneel when I see officials, I don't kneel when I see the king, and I don't have to kneel when I see the emperor. You give me a spine up, like this, that's still the commander of my first army of the Tang Dynasty!"
Lang Zeqing said bitterly: "How can the criminal general still have the face to continue to be the commander of the First Army, so many soldiers have died because of me, I don't have the face to be this commander anymore."
Wang Rong looked at him coldly and said, "Old wolf, are you going to be a deserter? You should know what happens when you become a deserter. You haven't avenged the revenge of more than 40,000 soldiers of the First Army, so you want to run away first, if you are such a person, I am afraid that this First Army will really not be able to be handed over to you again."
Lang Zeqing listened to Wang Rong's words, and immediately retorted: "How could I be a deserter! I, Lang Zeqing, have been in the army all my life, when have I ever been afraid. I just want the king to demote me to a pawn and die on the battlefield!"
When Wang Rong heard this, he couldn't accept it, and he slapped Lang Zeqing in the face.
"Smack! ——」
The crisp slap sounded, making Wang Xu, Fifth Candidate and Lang Zeqing stunned.
Wang Rong shouted loudly: "Is your Lang Zeqing so good? All the things learned in the martial arts hall were fed to the dogs? Still a pawn? The Tang army trained you, so that you could lead thousands of troops to conquer cities and conquer the territory for the Tang State, not for you to be sent to death. Since you don't want to be this military commander, you can! Let me feed the horses in the baggage camp! A general like you, my Tang Army can't let go!"
Lang Zeqing was trained so that his face turned pale and his body swayed.
Wang Rong continued: "The First Army has experienced a fiasco, and its morale is already low, so I have incorporated all the recruits who are being trained in the Lantian Recruit Camp into the First Army.
Lang Zeqing reacted and said loudly, "Your Majesty, sin will be able to train soldiers well, and you will be able to be ashamed!"
Wang Rong looked at him and said sharply, "Good! Old wolf, I will believe you again, you, the military marshal, for the time being, will be the military marshal of the inspection school, take back your treatment as a general of Wude Zhonglang, and remove you from the post of governor of the palace. When you are disgraced and win again, I will restore it to you. Remember, you only have this one chance."
"Whoa!"
When the words fell, Lang Zeqing gave a military salute to Wang Rong, and then was driven out by Wang Rong.