Chapter 166: Sending troops to Qingzhou
"Commander, are we just going to watch them go back?" Huang Kan looked at Liu Ke in disbelief, Yuan Shao's tens of thousands of troops under Qingyun Pass had left, leaving only countless ruins and extinguished fires to tell the Jizhou army that someone had been here.
At this time, the sky was still cloudy, and there was a lot of smoke shrouded, Liu Ke stood on the Qingyun Pass and looked at the white fog that was rising in the distance. "Our task now is just to guard Qingyun Pass, and we don't need to take care of the rest." Liu Ke's words were still so stiff, the 20,000 foot soldiers of the first army were still behind and did not follow, if they followed, Liu Ke would definitely personally take three thousand iron horsemen to chase Yuan Shao.
After Yuan Shao was attacked by Liu Ke last night, he came to discuss with Fu Zhu and the judge, and the result was to withdraw the army. No matter how mixed Yuan Shao is, at least he still knows that it is impossible to enter Jizhou with the tens of thousands of Qingzhou troops under his command, and instead of waiting for Fan Xiwen to mobilize heavy troops from all over the country, it is better to withdraw to Qingzhou now to recuperate and wait for the opportunity to send troops again.
When the catastrophe came, the trial also put aside personal grievances and no longer raised the bar with frustration, plus Yuan Shao already had the intention of returning to the army, at this time, if the trial match was against it, it would definitely not have any effect, rather than let his image in Yuan Shao's mind deteriorate, it was better to agree with the idea of frustration, so that Yuan Shao's good impression of himself would go to a higher level.
"Don't think about it so much, Yuan Shao dares to bring people to us for trouble, then he should have the consciousness to accept the lesson." No matter how much you stare at the ruins, you can't see any flowers, so it's better to go back and continue to sleep, so Liu Ke flicked his cloak and walked towards the gate, and at the same time made a voice in his mouth to comfort the generals.
That's right, according to Fan Xiwen's character, Yuan Shao wants to pat his ass like this and leave, this is simply impossible, maybe at this time, the staff is already discussing how to rectify Yuan Shao! When the generals heard Liu Ke's words, their minds immediately flew away, and they immediately swept away the previous sluggish atmosphere, thinking about how many meritorious deeds they would make this time. As the earliest unit established in Jizhou, the combat effectiveness of the First Army has always been the strongest in Jizhou Army, and it happened to be in Bohai County at this time, if the troops were really dispatched to retaliate against Yuan Shao, then the First Army must be the best candidate, this is the thought of all the soldiers in the First Army. As soon as I thought of this, I felt so exhausted that I forgot that they hadn't eaten breakfast yet.
On June 14, the fifth year of Zhongping, Fan Xiwen suddenly issued a military order to march to Qingzhou, which completely stunned the first army of Jizhou, and it was actually the whole territory to attack.
Yuan Shao, the assassin of Qingzhou, raised troops to invade Jizhou for no reason, and it was verified that Yuan Shao raised troops without any order from the imperial court, which was a bold act that ignored the laws and disciplines of the imperial court. In order to maintain the discipline of the imperial court, the crown prince Taifu, the Marquis of Chu, the later general, and Fan Xiwen, the assassin of Jizhou, were ordered by the prince Liu Xie to lead all the soldiers of Jizhou to launch a purge against Yuan Shao, and the 90,000 troops of the Jizhou Army marched from Bohai County, Anping State, and Wei County to Qingzhou in three ways.
The dispatch of the Jizhou Legion is only a superficial phenomenon, but secretly, the Jizhou Legion directly under the Independent Regiment, the Cavalry Division, Long Xiangwei, and the Jizhou Guards Brigade, the four strongest troops in Jizhou at present, are mixed to form a powerful assault force.
After various preparations, Fan Xiwen swore an oath in Wei County, bid farewell to the crown prince Liu Xie, and personally set off from Wei County with the Second Army of Jizhou.
For Qingzhou Fan Xiwen, it is determined to win, so Fan Xiwen will not hesitate to come out of the nest, and there is only one purpose in doing so, that is, to take Qingzhou at the lowest cost in the shortest possible time.
The First Army of the Jizhou Army went out of Bohai County and entered the territory of Qi State in Qingzhou, which was the First Route Army, led by Liu Ke, the commander of the First Army, and transferred Chen Gong of the General Staff Department to the General Staff of the First Route Army; The Second Army of the Jizhou Army left Wei County and entered the border of Jinan in Qingzhou, as the Second Route Army, with Li Andong, the commander of the Second Army, as the commander, and Guo Jia of the General Staff as the general staff; The Third Army of the Jizhou Army went out of Anping State and entered the boundary of Licheng as the Third Route Army, which was commanded by Lin Feng, the commander of the Third Army, and transferred Xu Shu of the General Staff Department as the general staff.
The whole army brings its own half-moon dry rations and does not have logistics troops, which means that the Jizhou army must achieve results within half a month, and even take the entire territory of Qingzhou. The Jizhou Army's favorite thing is to feed the war with war, and it is familiar with this kind of thing, and Fan Xiwen has relied on this accumulation of fighting to slowly accumulate such a well-equipped unit as the Jizhou Army.
The news that he only brought half a month's worth of food only spread among the Jizhou army, and it was not publicized to the outside world, otherwise if Yuan Shao knew about it, he would have had the fun of the Jizhou army with a strong wall and a clear field. Therefore, the route of the Jizhou army is extremely secret, and the Jizhou army will also impose military control on all the places it has arrived and block all news.
Of course, this is only part of the plan, and how the various armies will act is not something that Fan Xiwen and the General Staff need to plan. Fan Xiwen just planned some relatively simple things, and other specific things had to be played by the commanders of various armies on the spot. If everything is planned, it will lead to mistakes due to changes in the situation, which will inevitably lead to self-defeating and extremely unfavorable situations in which the generals are tied up. The most important thing is that Fan Xiwen and the General Staff do not have so much energy to help the armies of all walks of life plan the marching route or specific strategy.
There are only a few people in the General Staff, Jia Xu, Guo Jia, Xi Zhicai, Chen Gong and Xu Shu, and it is not a trivial matter for Jizhou to dispatch the nest, and it is a conclusion that the General Staff and Fan Xiwen dare to issue after careful speculation and detailed planning.
In addition to the arrangement of the Third Route Army, although Fan Xiwen, the boss of the Jizhou Big Boss and the General Staff, nominally went out with the army, they joined the special team composed of four elites on the way. This is a secret move by Fan Xiwen to deal with Yuan Shao, how can Fan Xiwen rest assured if he does not personally command?
The words were divided into two ends, Yuan Shao accepted the idea of frustration and trial, and when he returned to Qingzhou with an army of 60,000, he actually ambushed many troops on the road, just waiting for the Jizhou army to come and pursue, but they encountered the same situation as Huang Kan before, and Yuan Shao, who returned to Qingzhou without danger along the way, immediately strengthened Qingzhou's defense.
Although he was ready to accept Fan Xiwen's revenge, Yuan Shao couldn't help but be taken aback when Fan Xiwen poured all the troops of Jizhou to come, is Fan Xiwen crazy? Isn't Fan Xiwen afraid that the surrounding people will take the opportunity to seize Jizhou?