Xiang Yu fights the Three Kingdoms

Chapter 96
A few days later, Xiang Yu had already led an army of 8000 men on the journey to the north. Among the 8000 men, there were [-] elite cavalry, [-] elite infantry, and [-] ordinary infantry. It can be said that the strength of this army is already very high. At least it is much stronger than the eight thousand soldiers from Jiangdong that Xiang Yu brought with him when he raised troops against Qin in the previous life.

Zhang Wen is willing to hand over so many elite soldiers to Xiang Yu, and it can be seen how much he trusts Xiang Yu. First, he trusts Xiang Yu's ability, and second, he trusts Xiang Yu's character. If it is Sun Jian or Dong Zhuo If so, Zhang Wen would definitely not be willing to give them so many soldiers, especially Dong Zhuo. Dong Zhuo must have abilities, but his personal attitude and loyalty will be a big question. What if Dong Zhuo surrenders with his troops or If Han Sui defected, wouldn't that add fuel to the already bad situation?

However, Xiang Yu's main problem now is not the combat effectiveness of these soldiers, but how to solve the logistics supply. Regardless of the strength of only 8000 troops, and the consumption of the horses and the logistics supply team, they are now far away from Guanzhong. Yes, since coming to the edge of the Yellow River, a large part of the logistics supplies have been transported from the Yellow River instead.

But although there is the Yellow River that can transport grain and grass, it is transported from the lower reaches of the Yellow River to the upper reaches of the Yellow River after all. The ones from Guanzhong were shipped directly from the middle and lower reaches of the Yellow River, which also resulted in very long supply lines and longer delivery cycles.

Xiang Yu will then lead his troops into an uninhabited desert that is hundreds of kilometers long. This area is very wide, and there are only a handful of residential areas in it. Most of the areas are free of human habitation, animals, and plants. In the Gobi wasteland, the natural climate is very harsh, and after passing through this deserted and uninhabited land, Xiang Yu will lead his troops to cross the Wushao Ridge, which is also a mountain range that stretches for hundreds of miles. Snowfall, which also increases the difficulty of climbing.

If you successfully cross the Wushao Ridge, you will then enter the Hexi Corridor. The terrain here is relatively flat, but the reason why it is called a corridor means that it is just a long and narrow area with a limited width. To the north is the Tengger Desert, a huge desert area. The strong wind blows the gravel and rolls in. When moving forward, you often need to cover your nose and mouth tightly.

After arriving here, Xiang Yu's logistics supply line will be very long. In this case, it is very easy to be attacked by Han Sui's Xiliang cavalry, and there is almost no good way to resist. Xiang Yu can only Choose to minimize the size of your supply lines and try to provide stronger guards of soldiers for their individual supply teams.

Even if the problem of logistics supply is solved, there is still a bigger challenge ahead, that is to attack Wuwei City. If Wuwei City is taken, the next things will be much easier, because Wuwei connects Guanzhong and Xiliang The most critical pass, although there are some small roads leading to Xiliang from other mountains in the southwest, the difficulty of walking those passages is beyond the imagination of ordinary people, and only a few people who are very familiar with the route and have rich experience can pass it. Traveling, and in the process, they often suffer a lot of casualties.

The large-scale army has no way to pass through there, so if Xiang Yu takes Wuwei City, it can basically be said that Han Sui's troops are sealed in Yunwu City, and he will almost completely lose the power from the army. Xiliang's rear support, even if it can get a small amount of assistance, its quantity and quality will be very limited.

But Xiang Yu will fully grasp the initiative. He can choose to continue to garrison Wuwei City, stand still and observe the changes in the situation, or he can further lead his troops into the hinterland of Xiliang, and lose Han Sui's command. The rebels in the hinterland seemed nothing to worry about, and Xiang Yu could completely wipe out Xiliang with his own strength.

But at that time, there will be a lot more roads ahead of Xiang Yu, but at the same time the challenges will be even greater. First of all, in the process of destroying the Xiliang rebels, Xiang Yu can absorb a large number of rebel forces and The original power, in this way, he can gradually grasp the actual control of Xiliang. As long as he firmly controls Wuwei, no matter whether someone wants to enter Xiliang from the outside, or wants to go out from Xiliang, they have to be controlled. Xiang Yu only counts when he says it.

Xiang Yu could have chosen to directly lead his troops to rebel against the central government of the Eastern Han Dynasty, and then replace Han Sui as the actual controller of Xiliang. As long as he had soldiers and food in his hands, other things would be much easier to handle.

Although it doesn't sound like a good reputation to betray the Eastern Han court, but in this era, the Eastern Han court is so fatuous and corrupt, and the whole world is falling apart, which is an unstoppable trend of the times. Just like at the end of Qin, and for Xiang Yu, Liu Bang snatched the world from him, and now he will snatch the world back from Liu Bang's descendants.

No one is righteous or evil, no one is orthodox or unorthodox, whoever has a hard fist is right, this is the law of survival in troubled times!
On Zhang Wen's side, he allocated nearly one-fourth to one-third of the troops to Xiang Yu, and the number of elite soldiers accounted for more than half of the total troops. We have to consider how to take down Yunwu City.

On the issue of how to attack Yunwu City, Sun Jian and Dong Zhuo still insisted on their own opinions, and no one would accept the other. The core point of their debate was whether they should attack mainly from the water or from the land.

Judging from the actual situation, both of these offensive methods have merits, but they also have very fatal flaws.

First of all, the north of Yunwu City is close to a tributary of the Yellow River. It is true that you can take a boat from this tributary to attack from the north slope, but the problem is that the water flow of this tributary of the Yellow River itself is very limited, and it cannot carry too many warships and warships. Therefore, the number of soldiers that can be accommodated at the same time when attacking from the water is very limited. At the same time, due to the lack of large ships, it is also difficult to transport large siege equipment to attack the city.

Attacking the city from land can of course deploy more soldiers, but they will be attacked from the flank by the Xiliang cavalry in the mountains south of Yunwu City. The Xiliang cavalry's mountain combat effectiveness is very strong. There will be the situation that Sun Jian encountered when he raided Yunwu City, being surrounded by troops coming out of the city and troops coming out of the mountain.

It is precisely because of the painful lesson that time that Sun Jian wanted to attack from the water, but Dong Zhuo still insisted that the only way to attack from the land is, and it is impossible to take Yunwu City by water.

(End of this chapter)