Chapter 190: The Eve of the Great War
However, since He Hou is going to come to the door, it is not Fan Xiwen if he doesn't show his sword, even if the Jizhou Army has no obvious advantage in terms of generals, but Fan Xiwen doesn't think that the Jizhou Army will lose in this battle, and it is not his style to be cowardly before fighting.
Just when Fan Xiwen was actively deploying troops and preparing to confront the princes of the world, news came from Yanzhou, Yanzhou Assassin Liu Dai transferred to Yangzhou Assassin History, and drove to Yangzhou with tens of thousands of troops in front, Yangzhou Assassin Liu Yao was caught off guard and lost most of Yangzhou, but before Liu Dai was happy, Chen Liu's Cao family suddenly attacked Jiyin County and Pengchengguo near Chenliu.
At this time, the princes of the world understood that the current Yanzhou was not Liu Dai's house, but Cao Cao's house, and he was the assassin appointed by the imperial court, but because Lao Cao had not moved before, he was forgotten at this time. Lao Cao is also shrewd enough, and this patience really made Fan Xiwen see the demeanor of the hero again.
Cao Boss, who seized Jiyin County and Pengcheng State, did not wave his hand, and it must have been a thunderbolt to move after lying dormant for so long, and sure enough, when Liu Dai was about to lead his troops back to exterminate Cao Boss, Cao Boss once again cut off Liu Dai's army's back road, and met Liu Yao's army, who was ready to pick up some cheap ones behind, Liu Yao decisively challenged Liu Dai, and tens of thousands of Yanzhou troops were simply blocked in the middle of Yanzhou and Yangzhou The boundary could not leave.
After besieging Liu Dai's army for more than half a month, Liu Dai's army was disheartened due to lack of food, and Liu Yao led people to break through Liu Dai's camp and was captured countless people, one of which was Liu Dai. Liu Dai was captured, and Yanzhou has completely become the world of Boss Cao, and it is no longer a suspense for Boss Cao to win Yanzhou all the way in the past few months.
Originally, it was a good thing that Boss Cao's strength increased, because Fan Xiwen used to be Boss Cao's ally, but Fan Xiwen thought that Boss Cao was not comparable to Liu Dai and Liu Yao after all, he was the founder of Wei in the Three Kingdoms era, and he was a hero. What is a hero? can bend and stretch, call you brothers and sisters one moment ago, and beckoning to you the next moment, the knife is just a trivial meaning. None of these heroes are simple masters, Fan Xiwen will soon become a thief in the world, and a shrewd person like Boss Cao will definitely not keep up with Fan Xiwen's footsteps.
This is what Fan Xiwen thought in his heart, but in fact, Fan Xiwen was wrong, because Boss Cao followed, and he sent his eldest son Cao Zhang as a messenger to express his willingness to advance and retreat together with Jizhou to crusade against Empress He, and Yanzhou's generals and ministers and 30,000 troops were ready to leave, and it was Boss Cao who led the team.
Although Fan Xiwen was surprised that Boss Cao would choose to advance and retreat with him, Fan Xiwen, who was already the king of Chu at this time, was not a dumpling who had never seen the world at the beginning, and verbally expressed his gratitude to Boss Cao for his assistance.
The first and second legions of the Jizhou Army have been assembled, and they will set off after the time, which is set for October 20 in the fifth year of Zhongping, that is, the second day of Emperor Ling's burial. In order to ensure the victory of the war, Fan Xiwen has done all the preparations, and the non-commissioned officers and soldiers of the two corps have all taken on a new look, and at the same time, the General Staff Department is constantly improving the combat plan to strive for no mistakes, and the war mobilization has been done a long time ago, and the delay until October 20 is also to give the armies sufficient time to prepare.
Jizhou, Qingzhou, and Xuzhou began to carry out military control throughout the three prefectures, but they were all carried out by Jinyiwei and the local defenders, and Jinyiwei was secretly supervised, so the people were not very clear about this kind of thing.
"Report, Liu Yang was ordered to report for duty." A neutral voice came from outside the door, and Fan Xiwen's hand that was reviewing the documents couldn't help but pause for half a beat, and then he said slowly: "Come in,"
Pushing the door into the door was a young man in his twenties, but it was strange that this young man was not wearing the uniform of the Jizhou Army, but the young man's style of action came from the army. "Liu Yang, do it." Fan Xiwen pointed to a red chair not far away and said, Fan Xiwen is now the king of Chu and has a noble status, Fan Xiwen is so polite Liu Yang quickly sat down flattered.
"King Chu, is it possible for our flight squadron to find a subordinate this time?" Liu Yang asked very carefully, but his tone was full of longing. The flight squadron has been training hard for more than a year, but it has never appeared in front of the public, which is really a bit unreasonable, and the mood of many pilots is getting lower and lower, and Liu Yang, the leader of the flight squadron, is also very sad.
"The flying squadron has always been the sharp edge of our army, and it will never be used until the critical moment, but once it is used, it must not disgrace the flying squadron." Fan Xiwen said very seriously, Liu Yang quickly stood up and saluted Fan Xiwen, and then said to Fan Xiwen: "Please rest assured, King Chu, the flying squadron will definitely not disgrace you." ”
The flight squadron is directly subordinate to Fan Xiwen, so Liu Yang's sentence is very right, Fan Xiwen's face must not be lost, you must know that the flight squadron was formed by Fan Xiwen in the first place, and it is time to see the results.
"Don't worry, someone will come later." Fan Xiwen beckoned to Liu Yang and signaled Liu Yang not to be anxious, and it happened that there was a knock outside the door.
"Come in." Fan Xiwen's voice fell, and someone came in, Xu Chu, the commander of the Independent Brigade.
"Report, Xu Chu of the Independent Brigade was ordered to come and report." Xu Chu saluted Fan Xiwen and landed soundly.
"This is Liu Yang, the captain of the flying squadron, and this is Xu Chu, the commander of the independent brigade, you two are familiar with each other." For soldiers, it is unnecessary to be verbose, this group of people likes to be straightforward the most, and there is no need for Fan Xiwen to waste saliva on such things.
One is one of the most mysterious special forces forces to date, who has never shown his face in front of the public, and certainly has not been dispatched to carry out missions; One is a famous general, and the two quickly got together as soon as they met, and they became brothers and sisters in less than half a while.
"I must have guessed a lot about calling you two this time, yes, this time the independent brigade and the flying squadron will conduct the first joint operation." Fan Xiwen saw that the two of them were almost acquainted, so he said, and the two of them hurriedly said to Fan Xiwen with a tight face: "I promise to complete the task." ”
"I wonder what the mission is?" Xu Chu asked a question, Fan Xiwen didn't speak, just beckoned them to the military map behind him, which was already full of circles, but all in the Luoyang area. This map is strange, mostly on the circles that have been marked.
"This map is a little wrong, why is it all mountainous?" Xu Chu was the first to ask his own question, wondering if the guys from the staff department had made a mistake, if they really wanted to use force against Luoyang, then the surrounding passes and the like were the focus of the Jizhou army, but there was no mark on it except for mentioning their names, which could only mean that the focus was not on it.
Liu Yang didn't say anything when he saw this military map, because this was not something that their flying squadron needed to pay attention to at all, the flying squadron only needed to find a time to fly through the air, even if Fan Xiwen wanted to sneak attack Luoyang, there was no problem, because the enemy had any air defense forces there. With no one to suppress them, the Flying Squadron can use the sky as their playground.
"Isn't it weird to be all in the mountains?" Fan Xiwen asked with some amusement, Xu Chu stopped talking, he knew that Fan Xiwen must have an arrangement. "Tell me what you know about the pass." Fan Xiwen continued.
"Passes are generally easy to defend and difficult to attack, and guarding the important passages of a place is the guarantee of a region." Xu Chu said simply, he is the brigade commander of the Independent Brigade, and the Independent Brigade is subordinate to Fan Xiwen and does not need to defend the pass, so he doesn't know much about this issue.
"Yes, they are only holding important passages in one place, and these places are easy to defend and difficult to attack, so you can't attack the pass and take these expensive roads." Fan Xiwen said inexplicably.
"King Chu, what do you want us to do?" Xu Chu was anxious, Fan Xiwen said for a long time, but he sold it for a long time.
"What kind of officer is Liu Laohei in the Independent Brigade now?" Fan Xiwen did not directly answer Xu Chu's question.
"The head of a regiment."
"Are those veterans from before the Independence Regiment still there?"
"Yes." Xu Chu is not a fool, Fan Xiwen's questions are all on this, and Xu Chu also knows Fan Xiwen's idea. The veterans of the independent regiment have only one specialty, that is, they are good at mountain warfare, and those circles and dots on the map take care of the mountains, which means that this operation actually only needs to mobilize those veterans who are good at mountain warfare.
"After you go back, immediately reassign the former veterans to a regiment, and at the same time unite with the flying squadron, all under your command." Fan Xiwen waved his hand, and Xu Chu had a new task.
"Yes." Both of them saluted Fan Xiwen and replied.
"Well, let's find out what you're here for! Take these documents back and study them carefully. Fan Xiwen grabbed two pieces of paper and handed them to Xu Chu and Liu Yang, and then issued an eviction order, and Xu Chu and Liu Yang retreated.
On 20 October, the General Staff and Operations Department of the Jizhou Army issued an order at the same time, the First Army Corps of Jizhou moved to the area of Dong County and Hanoi County to wait for orders, and the Second Army Corps of Jizhou moved to the area of Shangdang County and deployed defenses, and at the same time, the entire Jizhou Army officially entered a state of readiness for war, and the war was about to begin.
The game between Fan Xiwen and He Hou is about to begin, in this era when the sky is unkind and uses all things as dogs.
At this time, on a big mountain behind Yanjia Village, Guole'an County, Anping, Jizhou, a Kong Ming lantern was rising into the sky, and below the Kong Ming lantern was the gliding delta wing of the flight brigade of the Jizhou Army. And the regiment of the Independent Brigade far away in Wei County was taken into the mountains by the brigade commander to carry out the order because of the military order.