Silver Fox of the Three Kingdoms

Chapter 491 Pretend to take Bingzhou and hunt Luoyang

In late May, after more than a month of preparations, Cao Wei officially began to move the capital.

Although some plans were made to hold the Huns, the capital still had to be moved, because first, the Han army might not be fooled. If the Han army was not ambushed, Bingzhou would still be attacked.

The second is that even if the Han army loses, but they occupy Hedong County, they don't need to come from Bingzhou, just go directly to Hanoi County from Zhongtiao Mountain.

Now Cao Wei's troops are stretched, and the guards on Jiguan Road are less than 5000. Facing the Han army's pressure, Cao's army is powerless to stop it, so the capital was moved to prevent the Han army from not following the routine and directly approaching the city.

At the same time, in the county government hall of Anyi County, Hedong County, Shen Chen called several generals stationed in Anyi County, including Zhao Yun, Deng Ai, and Jiang Wei, over for a meeting to discuss the next move.

Everyone arrived soon, and Shen Chen looked down and said seriously: "Something happened, Cao Rui knew that the Huns were going to defect to us, and sent someone to detain Liu Bao to humiliate their relatives. Liu Xuan hoped that we You can send troops immediately."

"This is too hasty, we have only rested for less than two months."

Jiang Wei was surprised.

Shen Chen said: "There is news from the insiders in Luoyang that Cao Rui is already moving the capital. He sent people to Yecheng to repair the palace there last month. Cao Rui will leave Luoyang next month, which is probably when we send troops.”

"But we still lack a part of the luggage that has not been transported. Will it be difficult to attack the city of Bingzhou?"

Another general, Yang Qun, said.

Although the original plan was to support the Huns, they planned to wait until Huchuquan escaped from Luoyang before taking action. In addition, they also had to prepare some equipment and wait for the follow-up supplies to arrive one after another.

According to the deployment, it should be about the same in July. At this time, news came from Luoyang that Cao Wei had officially started moving the capital, which was about the time when Huchuquan fled and they sent troops.

But if we act a month in advance, the preparations are obviously not enough.

"Ah."

Shen Chen nodded slightly, this is indeed a problem.

Deng Ai rolled his eyes, and suddenly said: "Great Governor, why do we care about the life and death of the Huns?"

"Oh?"

Shen Chen asked: "Does the scholar have a plan?"

Deng Ai said: "The last general is willing to lead [-] troops, rush to Jiguan Road, and take Luoyang directly!"

"Ming repairs the plank road and secretly hides Chen Cang, right?"

Shen Chen smiled and said: "I have considered this matter, but even if you reach Hanoi County, it will be difficult to cross the river in a short time."

Deng Ai said: "Cao Wei is moving the capital. They will pass through Hanoi County and return to Yecheng. In the end, they will go straight to the team that moved the capital. They will kill Cao Rui in front of him and capture him!"

So rampant?

Shen Chen stroked his chin in thought.

But what I have to admit is that Deng Ai has crazy capital.

Now that they have obtained Hedong County, there are two roads that can lead directly to Luoyang.

What's more important is that Cao Wei is moving the capital, and the nearest road is to cross the river from Mengjin, and then go back to Yecheng through Hanoi County.

of course.

Shen Chen felt that it was unlikely that Cao Rui would be so stupid as to go to Mengjin, and probably going to Yanjin in Yanzhou or Baimaduhe was the right way.

So even if Deng Ai wanted to surprise Cao Rui's team to move the capital, the possibility would not be too high.

But doing so will disrupt Cao Wei's deployment.

Cao Rui is now focusing on Bingzhou. The strength of Hanoi and Luoyang is probably only 1 to [-], which is the more than [-] people who retreated from Tongguan before plus the original Luoyang garrison.

It may not be easy for Deng Ai to break Luoyang alone. Even if Shen Chen's main force attacks Luoyang, Cao Wei's troops in Bingzhou can return to defense in time.

As long as the main force of the Han army is blocked outside Jiguan Road or west of Luoyang, it will not be easy to capture Bingzhou or Luoyang.

That's why they felt that it was easier to win by cooperating with the Huns.

But now that the Huns have been discovered, Cao Wei may think that Shen Chen will still unite with the Huns according to the original plan, and even if they find out what the Huns are thinking, they will pretend not to know and plan to use their tricks.

If Cao Wei still focused on Bingzhou and felt that he could ambush the Han army, then perhaps it would be a good plan to attack Luoyang from Yuban ancient road and Jiguan road.

Thinking of this, Shen Chen said: "Cao Wei's soldiers and horses are too close from Gaodu to Hanoi County. Once we choose to march from Jiguan, they will be able to return to Jiguan immediately. Don't look at Dongyuan County to Hanoi County. It’s only two hundred miles, but the scouts came to report, the mountain roads along the way were twists and turns, and the road was close to the big river, so the road was difficult, even if we accelerated the march, it would take about ten days, which was enough for Cao Wei to come back for help.”

"Forehead"

When Deng Ai got the news, he was immediately disappointed and said, "It's the general who didn't think carefully."

"It's okay."

Shen Chen looked around the crowd and said with a smile: "This is probably a way of thinking, we can review the current situation again."

Jiang Wei thought for a while and said, "The current situation is that we originally planned to send troops to merge the state in July, but we were forced to change it because Cao Wei discovered the Huns' plan to defect to us?"

"Ah."

Shen Chen nodded, looked at the map on the table and said: "From the east to Bingzhou, to the north from Yong'an to Jiexiu, and to the east from Duanshi to Gaodu. The north road is too far while the east road is close. Cao Jun will probably intercept us west of Qinshui. If my predictions are correct, Cao Jun may just imprison Liu Xuan, Liu Bao and others, forcing them to continue to contact us and lure us to attack."

"When our soldiers enter Qinshui, they suddenly launch an ambush, and the Huns will turn against each other. Aren't we in danger?"

Zhao Yun was surprised and said: "Great Governor, you must not be fooled."

"Since we have analyzed this result, we will naturally not be fooled. What we need to consider is how to use this situation to counteract."

Shen Chen pointed in the direction of Jiguan on the map and said: "Cao Wei will definitely react and defend in time from Jiguan, but if they raid Luoyang from Yuban ancient road, they will definitely be too late. If we pretend to divide into three groups, What will Cao Wei think if the main force raids Bingzhou and surrounds Luoyang from two directions?"

"Cao Wei thinks that since we have united with the Huns, it must be based on Bingzhou and Luoyang." Deng Ai and Jiang Wei looked at each other and immediately understood what Shen Chen meant.

"good."

Shen Chen nodded and said: "It's the way to use troops. Since Cao Wei thinks our goal is Bingzhou, let's give them a little shock. I don't know how Cao Wei will respond if soldiers come to the city of Luoyang. ?”

Jiang Wei asked: "What does the governor mean, we pretend to attack Bingzhou, but the main force is actually going straight to Luoyang?"

Shen Chen waved his hand and said, "If the division goes to Bingzhou, it is impossible for Cao Wei not to notice, and the soldiers and horses of Bingzhou will immediately return to help. So the main force pretends to attack Bingzhou, and the division goes straight to Luoyang, crosses the big river, and goes straight to the capital of Wei."

"But."

Zhao Yun hesitated for a moment, then poked his head out and said to Shen Chen: "Commander, our troops may not be enough. The city of Luoyang is huge, and it is impossible for Cao Wei not to send people to guard it. If there are only 2 people, I am afraid that even if we kill the city of Luoyang , and can’t enter the city. When the Yingchuan Cao army sends people back to defend, Luoyang’s army will become a lone army.”

This is the crux of the problem. After the Battle of Hedong, although Shen Chen defeated Cao Jun and killed 2 soldiers and horses here, more than [-] people fled back, plus the original defenders of Tongguan and Luoyang, and Bingzhou As well as the Luoyang area, Cao Wei still has at least more than [-] troops.

Although more than [-]% of these troops are improvised soldiers and horses put together by aristocratic families in the hinterland of Cao Wei, they are no different from mobs. According to Guan Yu's words, I think Cao Jun is like a chicken and a dog.

But it is undeniable that because Shen Chen is the one actively attacking, and the direction of the attack is Luoyang, Hanoi, Shangdang and other counties and counties with high walls and thick walls. The effect of the divine soldier falling from the sky, without carrying a large number of siege equipment, I am afraid it will be difficult to remove it.

And Shen Chen also lost 3 to [-] people after taking down Hedong. Now he has just rested and the troops have not been replenished. Although Yu Jin is still training new troops, the Han army will not be like Cao Jun. Within a month, the soldiers were forced to go into battle.

If you want to train a group of elite soldiers, it will take at least a year.Therefore, Shen Chen has always emphasized that the elite of the army is the main priority, and the number is secondary.It will probably take until the second half of this year to replenish tens of thousands of people from Liangzhou and Hanzhong. Now there are only about [-] troops around.

This army is relatively strong, the quality of the soldiers is high, and it is also the first-class elite in the world, but after all, it is to attack the city. In the absence of large-scale siege equipment, it may be debatable whether it can be defeated.

However, Shen Chen said: "It's okay, Luoyang is the same as Chang'an. The city is huge. Although it is surrounded by water and has eight barriers for defense, as long as it hits outside the city, the huge city wall will not be able to defend against our surprise attack. Zhan I decided to come personally, where is Zhao Yun?"

"The end is here!"

Zhao Yun almost instinctively got up and bowed his hands in salute.

"You lead the main force of [-], the Guoduan family pretended to attack Gaodu from Qinshui, and took the seal of my Hussar General. During this time, use letters in my name to keep in touch with the Huns to confuse the Cao army. Don't fall down."

"only!"

"Where is Deng Ai and Jiang Wei?"

"The end is here."

"The two of you will follow me straight to Luoyang."

"only!"

"Then send a letter to Pang De, asking him to send a school of troops north to Yong'an to take Jiexiu, and then pretend to attack Nie County. He himself will immediately go south to Hanoi through Zhongtiao Mountain and take the Jiguan Road."

"what?"

Deng Ai was surprised and said, "Great Governor, aren't we going to pass through Jiguan?"

"Don't go."

Shen Chen shook his head: "Jiguan is close, so it must be a place where Cao Wei is strictly guarding. Only when Shan County is far away, Cao Wei may relax his vigilance. When Cao Jun's attention is on the north, we suddenly attack from the west. , can make it mess up, Luoyang may be able to do it!"

"only!"

Everyone should be.

Shen Chen stood up and said, "I will write to the prime minister and ask him to help, which will put pressure on Sima Yi and force Sima Yi to return to Luoyang immediately. When Luoyang is in hand, I will go north to Hanoi. You immediately retreat back to Hedong and go to Ji When Guannan comes down to Luoyang, we attack Sima Yi from the north and the south, Sima Yi is destroyed, and Cao Wei will surely perish!"

Now Cao Wei has fewer and fewer elites, including the 12 people in Sima Yi's hands, at least one-third of which are recruits recruited in recent years.On the other hand, the Han army is mostly the elite of the elite. Even young recruits have to train for a year or two before going to the battlefield.

Even though Cao Rui managed to get a lot of soldiers out of the hands of the aristocratic families, he was not an elite soldier after all, and it was obviously impossible to form a fighting force.

Therefore, the current overall strength of Cao Wei is actually very poor.

It seems that there are still 30 troops, plus the newly recruited family soldiers and horses, it looks like 34 to [-], but in fact more than half of them are mobs who make up the numbers. There may be one or two thousand fully armed elite Han troops in a frontal battle. An army of [-] can be defeated.

Because of this, Cao Rui has always wanted to gain time to recuperate, stabilize the domestic situation, and then train these mobs to become an elite Wei army.

But the big man also knew this, so he never gave Cao Rui time to recuperate. He continued to suppress the army and started the Northern Expedition. It kept coming like a tide, and he never gave Cao Wei time to breathe.

In this case, Cao Wei is already struggling to support, like a dilapidated big ship, it may collapse instantly with a light touch.

And the last straw that broke the camel's back was obviously Sima Yi's main force of Cao Wei.

If Shen Chen can complete the attack on Luoyang from the west front, and then form a double-sided situation with Sima Yi in Henan with Zhuge Liang, and wipe out Sima Yi's main force of Cao Wei, then even if Cao Rui fled to Hebei, without the main force, Cao Wei would be dead Completely on the verge of extinction.

Afterwards, the big man will inevitably be like the autumn wind sweeping away the fallen leaves. It may not even take a year or two. Within this year, they will be able to regain the entire north, let the big man rule the world again, and prosper the Yan Han.

So the key to this battle is whether Shen Chen can win Luoyang.

As for the Huns.

It's not important anymore, Luoyang is more important than Bingzhou.

At that moment, Shen Chen immediately issued an order, ordering Zhao Yun to lead 4 people to enter Bingzhou, Pang De led 1 people to pass through Jiguan, and another 5000 people went north to Jiejie. 5000 people took the Yuban Ancient Road to cross the Yellow River to Shan County, and then took the Weihan Ancient Road to Luoyang.

After the order was issued, the armies of various places immediately began to reorganize and prepare for the attack. Shen Chen also flew pigeons to pass letters and deliver letters urgently. What an accident.

Two days later, Zhuge Liang, who was on the front line in Henan, got Shen Chen's entire plan for dispatching troops. After knowing that Shen Chen planned to feign an attack on Bingzhou to actually attack Luoyang, he pondered for a while and made deployments to cooperate with Shen Chen's actions.

For a while, the entire Han army on the western front and the Han army on the central line quickly linked up and launched a big Han siege offensive against Luoyang!

(End of this chapter)