060, Zheng Gu's thoughts (II)
If Ba Muroku takes the initiative to attack, Rui Chuan is confident that he will be able to defeat the invading enemy. However, Ruoba Muroku did not move his troops at the border pass, and let Rui Chuan lead the army to march at this time, but he did not grasp it, because such a war is always difficult to attack and easy to defend. There are not a lot of troops in the country of Bamuro, and even if many of them are temporarily expanded, they are enough to take turns to defend the pass.
In the past, Baiguo City was the best place to march, but now Baiguo City has been occupied by the Bamuro Kingdom, and the army of the Bamu Kingdom has established a defensive line in the area of Yuping Mountain. This battle is not easy to fight, even if it is forced to break through, it may have to pay a great price for casualties, and in vain to contain the southern army of the Bamuro country, in the end it only allows the poor to take the biggest advantage.
But Bing Zhengxingzhu and others fought the main battle, thinking that the opportunity should not be lost. No matter how the ministers discuss, in the end, the monarch Zheng Gu has to make a decision. Zheng Gu groaned: "Regardless of whether this battle is won or lost, the Ba Muruo Kingdom will be greatly damaged. Some time ago, they suddenly raised troops to capture Baiguo City, how could we not fight back? No matter how much the young man took advantage of, he would have to repay it several times in the future.
If the army on the southern border of the country has not moved, we can also hold our troops for the time being, and at the same time increase our troops to the front. If Wei Mang leads a large army back to the city of Badu, we will take advantage of the situation and march. If Xiang Poor breaks through the city of Badu, the army at the border of the country will be chaotic, and we will have to return reinforcements if we don't return reinforcements, and we can also take advantage of the situation to march.
Even if Xiangqi failed to attack Badu City, he was forced to withdraw his troops and fight back, and a decisive battle in the territory of Xiangmuro was also a good opportunity for us to advance. Although there are many new troops recruited by Shaowu, I am afraid that their combat strength is limited and cannot be sustained for a long time. In this kind of nationwide war, he can only hold out for a year at most, otherwise he will have to be disarmed if he does not withdraw his troops. If it is a decisive battle with Xiang Poor, it will hurt the national strength, and it will not be able to resist our Zheng Muguo army at that time. ”
Zheng Quan proposed three scenarios, in which he could take advantage of the situation to attack Bamuro: one was that the Weimang army retreated from the border pass, the second was that Xiang Poor had broken through Ba Du City, and the third was that Xiang Poor had returned to his division to find a decisive battle in Shaowu. These ideas are very thief, and they cannot be said to be unreasonable. But if he knew that Shaowu didn't plan to go back to the poor at all, and planned to attack Zheng Muguo in the spring of the next year, I don't know how he would feel?
In fact, from the perspective of the overall strategy, sending troops at this moment is indeed the best opportunity, and the blow to Ba Muru is also the greatest, but Zheng Muguo is just fighting with the border guards of Ba Muru, and the real advantage is almost taken advantage of by the poor, of course Zheng Gu refuses.
Zheng Quan is greedy, vicious, and very calculating, he is only willing to take advantage and refuse to suffer. He is not an incapable of making decisions, but the decisions he makes often have to be absolutely beneficial to him. For example, he assassinated Shaowu last year, and at the same time secretly supported Gu Liang to succeed to the throne, a series of plans are perfect, and he can secretly blackmail Gu Liang in the future.
In fact, only from Zheng Stock's point of view, it was the right choice to get rid of Shaowu at the beginning, just look at the situation after Shaowu returned to the country and succeeded to the throne. But at such a great cost, such a perfect plan was planned, and in the end not only failed, but was exposed, and it was also a great blow to the confidence of this monarch. Now when facing Shaowu again, he is also a little hesitant.
The character and temperament of Zheng Gu, the monarch, are actually very familiar with Jian Sha, Life Sha, Hou Di and others, and they have all analyzed Shaowu. What decisions he will make under what circumstances, Shao Wu probably knows in his heart. If it is something that makes Zheng Guo have to pay a lot of money and does not take too much advantage, this monarch will definitely not do it.
Zheng Gu had already made a decision, and Lord Cangzheng said again: "Lord, listen to your meaning, sooner or later I will have to march into the Bamuro country, and let Shaowu spit out a large piece of benefits, but I can't do it at this time." However, we have already negotiated peace with Bamuro, promising to cede Baiguo City, and to pay compensation for a batch of food, cloth, and ordnance, which will be delivered to Bamuro in three years.
Anyway, Baiguo City has now been occupied by the Bamuro Kingdom, so there is no need to say more, but the first batch of food and ordnance materials will be sent before the winter solstice this year according to the negotiated conditions. If we break the treaty and break the promise, it will not be nice to spread the word, and we must have an excuse. ”
Zheng Gu sneered: "I am already a mortal enemy with Shaowu, and sooner or later I will raise troops to attack the Bamuro Kingdom, otherwise even if I want to let him go, he will not let me go! But didn't you hear General Rui Chuan's words just now? At this time, the advance is not good for us, I just want to wait for the best opportunity."
As for those things, I had to agree to them when I was not ready for war and raised troops to suppress the border; now that the situation has changed, not giving him these things again is not the same as weakening oneself and supporting the enemy? As for what excuse to use to delay, Master Kuramasa should think about it. ”
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The soldier who stayed behind in the rear to guard the prison country, received a report from the envoy sent to Zheng Muro. Zheng Quan thanked Xiang Qian for his righteous act of raising troops to mediate, and wished him an early capture of Badu City. Zheng Gu also said that he was still increasing his troops to contain the army in the south of the Bamur Kingdom, cooperating with Xiang Poor's march, and after Xiang Poor broke through Badu City, he would go north in one fell swoop to join forces to defeat Shaowu and celebrate the great victory of the two countries.
Yu Xuan was so angry that he kicked over the table and scolded Zheng Gu. Because although Zheng Gu's words are good, if Xiang Qian does not capture Badu City, or if the border army of Bamuro State does not retreat, he will not take the initiative to send troops for the time being, but will only transfer troops to the border and be ready to take advantage at any time. After scolding Zheng Stock, Yu Xuan hurriedly sent someone to report the poverty on the front line.
As soon as the messenger from this side came out, Yu Xuan received another urgent battle report, and suddenly jumped up, shook his body and almost fell to the ground. News came from another front, Yuegeng's army did not hold the Lushui defense line, and almost all the army was annihilated, and Gaocheng and Jiuzhangcheng were captured by Shaowu successively. The vanguard of the Shaowu army is about to approach Taihe City!
This news was like a bolt from the blue, and Yu Xuan urgently convened the generals to discuss, and at the same time sent people to report the poverty on the front line.
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Yue Geng lightly advanced the enemy, wanting to take advantage of the instability of the rear of Shaowu to capture the Elephant Shatter Bridge, but as a result, he had an encounter with Pan Gu, and retreated after the rout to gather the remnants of the army to defend the defensive line. Pan Gu didn't give Yue Geng a chance to buffer, and took advantage of the fact that the reinforcements from the rear of the Xiangmuro country had not yet arrived, so he launched a fierce attack one after another, and finally broke through the pass defense in one fell swoop.
This was the most fierce battle after the Shaowu army entered the Xiangmuro country, and it was fought for a total of seven days, and it was the first time that a newly recruited army was put into the battlefield. After breaking through the defensive line from two points, the army outflanked and encircled, and annihilated the defenders of the Aimuro Kingdom as much as possible. The battle began with a large number of casualties, but after the defensive line was breached, most of the remnants of Yue Geng's men were captured.
The four reinforcements that Yu Xuan had transferred from the rear not long ago had not yet arrived at the designated place and were still on the march, and before they had time to put on their armor, they were taken by the Shaowu army that was advancing forward, and all of them became prisoners of war without much resistance. Shao Wu wasted some time in Feihong City and the Lushui Defense Line, but then marched into the gods and captured Gaocheng and Jiuzhang City in one fell swoop.
As for Shanshui City, which is in the depths of the wilderness, it doesn't matter if it is captured or not, and Shaowu has already made an agreement with Ruoshan. Ruoshan led two army formations at this time, Shi Shiran passed through the occupied area of the Shaowu army, and also received the military food supplies provided by the Shaowu, and calmly withdrew to Shanshui City, they had nothing to do with this war.
There were so many prisoners of war in this battle, but Lingbao was busy, so he followed behind the army to collect and lead these captured soldiers. But when attacking Gaocheng, Lingbao took the initiative to ask for his life, led the pro-guard army array brought from Baixi Village, and carried out a small-scale quick raid, and Shao Wu also nodded and agreed.
Yue Geng didn't expect the defense line to be lost in advance, so he didn't have time to withdraw the people and supplies in the territory to the city outline. When the Shaowu army entered the country, they did not plunder, and the people had nothing to worry about, but Lingbao was worried about Yue Geng, because his sister Xiaobao's family lived in a village in Gaocheng.
Once the Shaowu army broke through the defense line, Lingbao led the pro-guard army formation straight into the hinterland of Gaocheng, and rushed to the village where his sister lived as quickly as possible. His fears were right, and he arrived just in time. After Yue Geng retreated into Gaocheng, he learned the latest news that it was the soldier of Feihong City, Mura Bao, who tied up Hongyuan Kaicheng and surrendered, and his younger brother Lingbao also led his people to submit to Shaowu.
Lingbao also has a younger sister, Xiaobao, who lives in Gaocheng Township, and not too many people know about it. However, as Mr. Xiao's deeds spread all over the country, and the matter of Baixi Village was also related to Lingbao, Xiaobao said proudly that Lingbao was her brother, and the news also spread in the vicinity.
Hina Bao didn't expect it, and then the war between the two countries broke out, and after Yue Geng returned to the city, he got the latest battle report, so he sent a small team of guards to arrest Hina Bao's family, wanting to kill them to vent his anger. However, before these seven guards entered the village, they encountered the army led by Lingbao, and were killed by Lingbao instead.
Lingbao rescued his sister in time and sent his family to Feihong City to live temporarily. When Shaowu heard about this, while appeasing the people, he deliberately publicized the news, which also caused an uproar among the people.
Xiaobao was married a long time ago, and with the concept of people at that time, it had nothing to do with her mother's brother. She didn't do anything unfavorable to the Xiangmuro country and Yuegeng in her husband's house, why did the Xiangmuro country kill innocents indiscriminately? When the two countries were at war, the enemy army occupied the city, and the people in the enemy-occupied areas often had to surrender, so were all their relatives who remained in the Xiangmuro country guilty?
In the areas occupied by Shaowu, many people also have relatives in the hinterland of the Xiangmuro country. After Shaowu captured the city and did not commit any crimes with the people, should the Xiangmuro country still punish the relatives of the people in the occupied areas?
The matter of Lingbao was originally just a special case and had its own special reasons, but Shaowu took the opportunity to publicize it, which made this special case have a very common representative significance, causing many people to feel afraid. Next, Shaowu beheaded Yue Geng in public, not only to establish the authority of the army, but also to appease the hearts of the people. r1152
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