Chapter 364: The South China Sea is destroyed
On the Jiangxia River, the Chu State Naval Division could not defeat the Ning State Naval Division, but it was not only because of the weak troops.
During the water war last year, the Chu State captured more than 100 Ning warships and more than 8,000 sailors.
Relying on this group of warship prisoners, after absorbing and digesting it for a winter, the soldiers and horses of the Chu State Navy Division had already recovered to the scale of 50,000.
With this strength, followed by last year's big victory, the spirit is sharp, and the decisive battle with the Ning army, even if there is no command of Chu Wei, the chances of Chu winning are not small.
But on the front line, the State of Chu still only retains 40,000 sailors, allowing the sailors of the Ning State to show off their might, and there is naturally a reason for this.
The reason is that Lu Yuan has secretly withdrawn tens of thousands of sailors, as well as a large number of ships, and transferred them to Xichuan in advance for this troop transport.
Because of the secrecy of the work, there are also Hanzhong Xichuan thousands of miles away, blocked by mountains and mountains, and extremely far away from the front-line battlefield.
This led to the fact that Ning Guo didn't notice the Chu army's secret actions at all.
For the 50,000 forbidden troops transferred by Lu Yuan, as well as Huang Xuan, the clone of the Innate Second Realm, there was no defense at all, which could be described as a miracle soldier.
At this time, this strange army was transported by the sailors, and as long as they arrived at Changsha Mansion through Dongting Lake, they could directly go to the front line, and cooperate with Sun Siwen in Changsha City to catch the 100,000 soldiers and horses in the area by surprise.
As long as this enemy army can be defeated, the Ning army will lose 100,000 soldiers, and may even die an innate grandmaster.
Then next, Huang Xuan led his troops south and continued to raid the Ning army in Luyang and Hengyang.
Or wave his troops to the east, directly attack Yuzhang County, and cut off the retreat of the Shenqiu army on the Jiangxia front.
can break the current stalemate of the Dongting battlefield.
Shen Qiu wants to attack the hinterland of Dongting, and has achieved the goal of recovering the disadvantage.
Lu Yuan also wanted to cut off the retreat of the Ning army by attacking Yuzhang County, and at the same time threaten the other party's capital.
Therefore, after being reminded by the senior executives of the family who wanted to prepare a way back for themselves, after learning about Shenqiu's strategic plan, he followed the example and formulated a plan that was specific to the same, but aimed at the opposite.
Now it seems.
With the changes in the situation of all parties, Ning Guo's plan has gone bankrupt, and it has been transformed from a sneak attack into a clear plan.
On the side of the Chu State, a sneak attack had been prepared and was being launched without a sound.
At present, the final result depends on whether Shenqiu can complete his goal, quickly break the 100,000 Ning army in Changsha, and achieve victory.
However, with Huang Xuan's strength, as well as the suddenness of the attack, and the internal response in the city, it was basically impossible to stop the Ning army if it was unprepared.
The destruction of Xiang Duan's army is basically a foregone conclusion.
Of course, Lu Yuan dispatched a large army from thousands of miles away to complete this surprise attack, and the risk was not small.
The biggest risk is that after Huang Xuan is transferred, the three western counties of Chu State, such as Hanzhong, Xichuan, and Hegu, will no longer have a congenital seat.
In terms of top-level combat power, it can be said that it has become a vacuum, and it is extremely weak.
At the same time, after transferring 50,000 forbidden troops, the soldiers and horses of Chu in the three western counties will only be 70,000 forbidden troops, as well as local county capitals and county soldiers.
All of these soldiers and horses added up to only about 150,000, which can be described as empty in dealing with the complicated situation in the western region.
If there is really an enemy at this time who sends a large army and suddenly enters the three western counties, then the situation in the western part of Chu at this time is afraid that it will completely collapse.
Fortunately, the Zhou State in the north was too busy to take care of itself and could not afford to go south. In the snow field to the west, only the mountain road leads to Hegu County, and it is an ally of the Chu State, and it is impossible to send a large army to kill it.
The only threat is left in the south.
At this time, the prestige of the Chu State, as well as the containment of vassal states such as Jianchuan and Chili, as well as the recent defeat of the deterrence of the Soviet State, the two countries of Nanzhao and Dali in the southwest should not dare to make any changes.
At the same time, Huang Xuan led the army to leave, but he also acted in secret, and did not make any noise.
Outsiders don't know that the western part of Chu is empty, which is another layer of cover-up.
With these many conditions, the safety of the west of Chu State does not have to worry about it for the time being.
But even so, with Lu Yuan's safety, he didn't pin everything on the fact that the enemy would not invade.
When Huang Xuan's army was dispatched to reinforce Dongting, Lu Yuan also arranged for Han Shun and Zhang You's two disciples, and ordered them to rush to Xichuan and Hanzhong to guard the local area.
These two disciples, like Chu Wei, have been cultivated by Lu Yuan and are impacting the innate nature.
However, they lacked the daily teaching of Lu Yuan, the teacher, and at the same time, the accumulation of knowledge was also a little worse, and the progress of breaking through the innate was slower than Chu Wei.
But this one is slow, not much slower.
According to estimates, by the time it is early summer, in a month or two, the two will almost break through the innate nature.
Therefore, it only takes one or two months to drag through the weakest month or two in the west at this time, and wait for Han Shun and Zhang You to break through the innate and have two people to guard it, which is enough to stabilize the overall situation in the west.
At that time, even if the Nanzhao Kingdom came to attack, it would be enough to repel it.
Lu Yuan believed that with the layers of fog he had arranged, as well as the current prestige of the Chu State, it would be enough to win it in just one or two months.
Just get through this toughest time.
In the end, even if the world saw through his plan, everything was settled, and there was no way to return to heaven.
Taking a small risk, you can exchange it for a chance to quickly break through Ning Guo.
In this wave, the state of Chu is making steady profits again.
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The clouds and mist are misty, the sky is high and the water is wide.
The morning light shone down, and a golden patch reflected the entire lake, and in the golden expanse, black dots came from a distance and slowly appeared on the huge lake.
In Changsha, Fuyundu.
Huang Xuan stood at the bow of the ship, looking at the ferry in the distance, at this time the ferry had already received an order, and the thousands of government soldiers gathered to empty the surroundings and control the entire ferry, which was enough to ensure that no news could be leaked from here.
"Changsha, it's finally here."
The fleet sailed into the ferry, and soon countless small boats came, and more powerful men and women carried all kinds of supplies, and watched the ships that came from afar.
50,000 forbidden troops and 10,000 sailors, the daily consumption of materials is innumerable, which can be called an astronomical amount.
In order to seek concealment, Lu Yuan sent a sailor to pick up the strange army led by Huang Xuan, which was impossible to mobilize too many boats and ships, so as not to be discovered by Ning Guo.
Therefore, the boats sent to Xichuan are actually limited, just enough to accommodate 50,000 forbidden troops.
There were some gaps left in the ship, and the supplies that could be stockpiled were limited.
Therefore, every day of the boat's journey, it was necessary to find a ferry along the way to replenish the consumption of the army in bed.
Fortunately, for this matter, Lu Yuan had already expected that he had arranged for manpower to select suitable locations along the way and mobilize suitable soldiers and horses to prepare for this matter.
Everywhere Huang Xuanqi's soldiers went, there were supply sites, and the local soldiers gathered from the prefecture and county controlled the ferry and tightly sealed the place.
When the fleet is resupplied and the blockade is not lifted after leaving, it will continue to maintain for ten days to cut off any possibility of news leakage.
Any ships encountered on the way were also seized by the large army fleet along the way, and at each supply point, the seized ships were guarded at the supply junction and guarded by the prefectural soldiers of that place to prevent them from escaping.
In this way, the convoy came all the way from Xichuan Yuzhongfu, and seven days have passed, and the initial supply point is still under blockade.
At this time, even if someone released the news, by the time the ship arrived in Ningguo, Huang Xuan, who had now arrived in Changsha Mansion, was afraid that he had already begun to raid the Xiangduan army, and the battle would have already ended.
Relying on this meticulous plan, the fleet led by Huang Xuan came all the way, and the news was top secret.
Not to mention the Ning people, even in the territory of Chu State, except for the participants, no one knew about it.
To receive the materials, the officials in the army are responsible, and Huang Xuan doesn't have to pay much attention to it.
And above the ferry, a captain of the Imperial City Division also took a small boat and rushed to the ship where he was.
"I've seen real people."
When the captain got on board, he hurriedly saluted.
"Hmm." Huang Xuan just nodded, and then asked, "What is the situation in Changsha Mansion now?" I see that this Fuyundu place is peaceful, and there is no trace of Ning thief, is it still blocked by Changsha City? ”
Changsha City is the capital of Changsha Prefecture, the location is in the province, and rely on Luo Mountain, there is a Luo water outside the city surrounding, barely by the mountains and rivers, the situation is good.
The city wall of Changsha City is also extremely strong, and it was once the capital of Changsha State, which can be seen to be majestic.
Taking advantage of this favorable landscape and geographical location, and relying on the strong city, Changsha can be described as solid, and it is not inferior to Jiangxia City at all.
With this heroic city, Sun Siwen can be said to be extremely easy to defend the city.
Even if he was only a literati, he was not good at fighting, and there were only 20,000 elite soldiers and horses in the city, which was far inferior to the 100,000 Ningren army led by Xiang Duan outside the city.
But after half a load, Changsha City is still strong, and even the loss of soldiers and horses in the city is not much, just over 10,000 people, most of whom are ordinary people who have been recruited.
Relying on the 50,000 households in Changsha City, Sun Siwen just kept giving orders, and even made up for the loss of people, so that the soldiers and horses in the city were still maintained at 100,000.
Such losses are negligible.
On the contrary, the Ning army outside the city besieged the city for half a year, but it couldn't even completely besiege Changsha City.
Relying on the Luoshui waterway, all kinds of materials outside the city were continuously sent into the city, so that the city has always had abundant food and grass, complete armaments, and combat power at its peak.
However, the Ning army attacked the city several times, but lost troops one after another, the original army of 100,000, at this time only 80,000 remained, and the loss of combat power exceeded 20%, which can be described as a broken nerve.
Today, in the face of Changsha City in front, Xiang Duan has almost nothing to do, and he has long since lost the idea of breaking through.
And because there was no order from Shenqiu, he did not dare to lead the army to retreat, and finally had to stalemate under the city, nailed here, and the Chu army in Changsha City contained each other.
It is also because there are 100,000 soldiers and horses in Changsha City, and there is a congenital, and at this time, the Ning army has no absolute advantage, and it is in the hinterland of Chu State.
Therefore, Xiang Duan didn't even dare to send a partial army to attack the hinterland of Dongting behind Changsha City.
I am afraid that if I go too deep and be deliberately surrounded by the Chu army, I will definitely lose the defeated army and die without a place to bury under the front and back attacks.
The battle that was complacent at the beginning was finally dragged into this embarrassing appearance, and Xiang Duan also showed his face greatly.
Fortunately, he is not the only one who shows his face now.
Yang Jing in Jiangbei, Shangguan Ming, Su Xuange and others in Lingnan, and even the Son of Heaven on the Jiangxia side, all showed their faces in this decisive battle of Chu Ning, and they were even more famous than him.
So in contrast, he seems more mediocre, in the territory of Ningguo, he has a faint reputation for stability, and he is called a veteran and a famous general, which is also a strange story.
The captain of the Imperial City Division told Huang Xuan all the information about the Changsha battlefield.
"I see. That end was frustrated under the city of Changsha, and was afraid that the back road would be attacked, so it could not advance or retreat, so it could only occupy a few small cities in the rear, thinking that it was the back road. Therefore, after Changsha, there is now this peaceful scene. ”
After listening to the narration, Huang Xuan already had a general impression in his heart, and couldn't help but smile, turned his head and said: "It's just that I already know that you and others continue to stare at the information outside Changsha City, and at the same time block the news of the arrival of the army in Fuyundu, and don't leak it."
Also, if there is any change in the Ning army, I will report it to me quickly without delay. ”
The lieutenant hurriedly said, "Obey." ”
Then, this person left in a hurry, and after returning to the shore, he gathered a few colleagues and subordinates, and gave a few orders, and the more than 100 imperial city divisions and envoys gathered here immediately scattered in all directions and began to act.
Huang Xuan, who was on the boat, waited outside the ferry for a while, and saw that all the supplies had been replenished, so he didn't continue to stay, and directly ordered the fleet to leave the ferry and continue to move forward.
Fuyundu is only a ferry port in Changsha, where the Dongting Lake area is located, although it is also counted in Changsha, but it is only in the west of Changsha, and there is a distance of more than 200 miles from Changsha City.
If he landed from here, then Huang Xuan led 50,000 soldiers and horses to rush all the way, and it would take two or three days to say the least while maintaining a certain combat strength.
Moreover, tens of thousands of troops marched on land, the momentum was huge, and the smoke and dust covered the sky, and the traces would be difficult to hide, and they would definitely be detected by the Ning people.
Although Xiang Duan did not dare to send a partial army into the Dongting Mansion, he had the courage to send hundreds or thousands of scouts to investigate the area of hundreds or even hundreds of miles near Changsha City.
Even if the Chu army in Changsha City will send scouts and cavalry to intercept and blockade along the way, it is impossible for all of them to go south, and there will always be news leaks.
Huang Xuan came here in order to surprise and attack the Ning army.
It was not the one who led the reinforcements and fought with the Ning army.
If Xiang Duan knew that there were reinforcements from the Chu army, Qi and Shu would be vigilant, and if they couldn't say it, they would directly lead the soldiers and horses to retreat and retreat back to Yuzhang County.
Even if they don't withdraw, the rise and fall is to stick to the camp, divide the troops and retreat to several county towns in Changsha Prefecture under their control, and stick to them.
Huang Xuan wants to attack the past one by one, and it will be difficult for him.
In the end, it can only become a situation of stalemate and attrition like the Jiangxia battlefield.
In this way, the meaning of Huang Xuan's surprise soldiers coming is useless.
It can only be used as a reinforcement to strengthen the defense in Dongting, and its effectiveness is greatly reduced.
Therefore, in order to avoid this situation, Huang Xuan's soldiers and horses were not allowed to take the land route, and could only use the waterway to conceal it.
Fortunately, in the territory of Changsha, there is a Luo water to Dongting Lake and rise, all the way to the east, passing through Changsha City, flowing into the territory of Yuzhang.
In addition, there is a Minshui, which also starts from Dongting Lake, but the water first goes north and enters the territory of Yueyang Mansion, where Baling is located.
Then Minshui passed through several counties in the south of Yueyang Prefecture, turned a corner, and went south, and finally arrived at Fengling County, the easternmost part of Changsha, where it met with Luoshui, and the two rivers would be one river.
Here Fuyundu, it is located at the upper mouth of Minshui, and then go a few miles to the north, you can go down from the upstream of Minshui, all the way to 500 miles of waterway, you can reach Fengling County, enter Luoshui.
According to the plan made by Lu Yuan.
After arriving in Fengling County, General Huang Xuan led his army to capture this county, and then left a group of men and horses to block the water and land passage of Dongting Yuzhang, so as to block Xiangduan's retreat, and at the same time guard against the follow-up reinforcements transferred by the Ning army from Yuzhang County.
Huang Xuan will continue to sail up the water, cross Anjiang County along the way, and take advantage of the speed of the boat on the water, and penetrate directly into the rear of Changsha in half a day to attack the rear road of the Ning army.
If you are so fast, you will be able to reach Fengling County in about a day.
With Huang Xuan here, it doesn't take half an hour to break through this county.
From this county, go up along the Luoshui River and arrive at the rear of the Ning army outside Changsha City, the waterway is only more than 140 miles, and it does not take half a day to take a boat.
Probably at noon the day after tomorrow, you can kill the rear of the Ning army.
Relying on the convenience of water and the advantage of the swiftness of the transfer army, it may be that when the Haixuan army arrives behind the Ning army, the other party may not be aware of it.
At that time, the raid will be broken, and it will naturally be made overnight, and it will be easy.
As long as Huang Xuan's side is smooth, Sun Siwen in Changsha City will see the chaos in the rear of the Ning army in the city, and he will also command the army that has been prepared in the past few days to kill.
In this way, the remaining 80,000 troops at Xiang Duan were broken by attacking back and forth, and they might be in the middle of the first battle.
Even if you can't defeat the other party for a while, it won't be difficult to kill 350,000 Ning troops.
Under the loss of the Ning army, Huang Xuan cut off the back road, and the food and grass were not enough, even if there were some soldiers and horses left to stick to the camp, they would not be able to last for ten days and a half months.
It was only a matter of time before it was destroyed in one fell swoop.
The morning sun is rising, and the ground is full of gold.
Facing the vibrant sunshine, Huang Xuan's body seemed to be covered with a layer of golden armor, and he, who had some Lu Yuan thinking, showed a slight smile on his face: "Destroy the Ning Army, it's been these two days." ”
After the fleet has entered Minshui, the flying boat gallops down, a thousand miles a day.
The time to break the game is fast coming.
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Just as Huang Xuan led the boat to run in Minshui and hurried to Fengling County, Jiangxia City, which was only a few hundred miles away from him, Lu Yuan also watched the Yangtze River from the top of the mountain, looking south, and a smile appeared on his face at the same time.
"After besieging the city for ten days, the casualties of the two armies of Ning and Nanhai were too great to support it, so they abandoned the city and left.
The remnants of the Ning army and the remnants of the South China Sea fled by boat at night, during which they were discovered by Qingyunzi and led the elite soldiers and the army to take the opportunity to rob and kill.
In the end, the small part was stopped, and the rest of them all fled? ”
Lu Yuan thought back to the news he had just received, that there was a clone Qingyunzi thousands of miles away in Lingnan, and he couldn't help but feel good about it.
When he activated Huang Xuan's strange army, he did not follow the wishes of the people of Ning, transferred reinforcements from Lingnan, and returned to the Chu army in Dongting.
After getting the order that Lu Yuan did not need to divide his troops, the army stayed in the South China Sea, and continued to attack the city.
After Lan Cai'er discussed with Qingyunzi, she decided to adopt the previous strategy of attacking Yulin.
With the help of three more innate beings than the Ning army on their side, and one of them has a high-end combat power advantage comparable to the second innate advanced grandmaster, with strong troops, they attacked Nanhai City again.
In this way, under the blows of the five congenitals, and nearly 300,000 soldiers and horses attacked day and night, the combined forces of the Ning State and the Nanhai State only supported it for ten days, and they could no longer support it because of the heavy losses.
Especially on the South China Sea side.
Because the soldiers and horses are unbearable, a large number of civilians in the army are full, and the combat strength is really worrying.
Under the attack of the innate grandmaster and the elite of the Chu army, in just ten days, the Chu army attacked the city seven times, and almost lost a city wall three times.
In the end, with the help of Ning Jun, he reluctantly took it back.
However, in the ten-day battle, there was another slaughter by the innate grandmaster, and the 100,000 Southern Navy in the city had more than 30,000 dead and wounded.
The remaining soldiers, also because of this heavy casualties, morale was low, and there were even several mutinies, and some people tried to open the city gates to surrender to the enemy, and the battle was over.
Although it was suppressed later, the Ning army also lost more than 10,000 soldiers again in this war, leaving only more than 20,000 soldiers and horses, and the morale was also very low.
In this case, the high-level leaders of the South China Sea Kingdom and the Ning Kingdom, no matter how stupid they are, can see that the South China Sea City is no longer defensible.
In the end, in order to preserve their strength and reduce their losses, the two countries finally chose to flee at night last night and left here by boat.
However, some people want to go, and naturally some people don't want to go.
Some of the high-level officials of the Nanhai Kingdom, who were born in local wealthy families, secretly reported the news to the Chu army outside the city, and finally cooperated inside and outside the city to come to a night catastrophe.
Qingyunzi personally ordered 30,000 elite soldiers, and cooperated with more than 10,000 troops in the South China Navy, as well as some of the South China Sea sailors who were unwilling to leave their homeland, to pursue the soldiers and horses of the two countries who fled.
After some pursuit, the remnants of the two countries fled partly and intercepted part.
Then on the night when Qingyunzi led the army back to the army, the unguarded Nanhai City finally fell, and the Chu army successfully entered the city and took over the defense.
At this point, the Su State and the South China Sea State were all destroyed, and the Chu State was all based on this place, and Lingnan could be called unified.
The trip to the south was a complete victory, and it can be called a success.