The last three kingdoms

Chapter 1021 New Defense System
Yang Hu did not execute He Jun, not to say that Yang Hu did not have such authority, on the contrary, the imperial court granted Yang Hu the power to be envoys, whether in peacetime or wartime, he was qualified to kill officials under two thousand shi. They are both partial generals of the fifth rank, compared to officials of six hundred stones. Yang Hu does not need to report to the court at all, and can be executed directly according to the crimes he has committed.

It is easy to kill He Jun, but this is not Yang Hu's original intention. If it is just to vent his anger or revenge for Zhou Zhi, Yang Hu can kill him at once, but the first thing Yang Hu has to consider is to ask for Zhou Zhi. Returning to justice, it was for Zhou Zhi's injustice to Shen Xue, so Yang Hu directly sent He Jun and all the witnesses and material evidence to the Tingwei Mansion of the Luoyang court, and the court handled the matter.

The chief culprit who killed Zhou Zhi was Sima Jun, but now that Sima Jun has become a prisoner of the Shu people, even if he wanted to hold him accountable, it would be beyond his reach. It might bring Zhou Zhi back to life, but all he can do now is to restore Zhou Zhi's reputation, and he believes that the court officials can give Zhou Zhi justice in the face of solid evidence.

For Yang Hu, this incident was just a small episode of his return to Jizhou. This time he took up the post of rebelling against the governor and took charge of Jizhou's military administration. What Yang Hu faced was a mountain of documents.

The situation in Jizhou is far worse and harsher than Yang Hu imagined. The continuous defeats have caused the Jin army to suffer heavy losses. Although some troops have been added, it is far behind the number of troops consumed. The Battle of Anguo and the Battle of Pingyang , the Battle of Shangdang, and the Battle of Yangchangban. In these four battles, the Jin army suffered heavy losses, with a total loss of 15 troops. You must know that when the Jin army launched a full-scale attack on the Shu army, Claiming to have 30 troops, in less than a year, more than half of the Jin army suffered casualties, and the loss was shocking.

The loss of the generals was even more severe than that of the troops. The governor Sima Jun became a prisoner of the Shu Kingdom, the deputy governor Wenyang was killed, and the generals Chen Yuan, Qi Hong, Xie Xi, Wu Mao, Duan Guang, etc. all died in battle. Now in the Jin army, the generals are withered, almost to the point where there are no generals available.

What's worse is the morale of the Jin army. The repeated defeats have left the Jin army completely devastated, and their morale is low. reason.

After Yang Hu took office, he spent several days running between the counties of Anping, Zhao, and Julu. These counties are the northernmost counties currently controlled by the Jin army, and they are in contact with the Shu army. In the forward position, Yang Hu certainly needs to have first-hand information about the frontline troops, and inspecting the combat readiness of the frontline troops is naturally his first choice.

Through inspections, Yang Hu was extremely worried about the current deployment of the Jin army on the front line. Now the Jin army is weak and has lost the ability to strategically attack. Reckless and militaristic like Sima Jun, it is completely fishing for money. The wrong strategic thinking has led to The successive defeats of the Jin army completely ruined the excellent situation that was originally in an advantageous position.

Now the Jin army is no longer able to build a new offensive system. Even the defense system is now riddled with holes and unsustainable. At present, the Jin army's 2 to [-] troops are evenly distributed among the nine counties in Jizhou. , four counties in the north: Anping, Julu, Zhao, and Leling, and five counties in the south: Weijun, Guangping, Qinghe, Pingyuan, and Yang'an. The average garrison strength of each county is less than [-].

This large and comprehensive defense pattern has a fatal flaw, that is, it is easy to be defeated by the enemy one by one, and Liu Yin is good at fighting such battles with concentrated superior forces. If Jizhou maintains this defensive pattern, it will not be difficult After half a year, all the land of Jizhou will surely fall into the hands of Liu Yin.

Yang Hu keenly discovered these problems, so what he needed to do was to immediately change the defense system of the entire Jizhou. If it really waited until the Shu army came to attack, it would be too late.

Yang Hu decided to build a new defense system with Ye City as the center. In Yang Hu's plan, all the four counties in the north that were in contact with the Kingdom of Shu were abandoned, and all troops retreated to the south and deployed in Ye City. around the city.

In view of the fact that the Shu army had firearms and strong cavalry combat capabilities, Yang Hu decided to use the method of deep trenches and high fortifications to deal with it. In short, it was necessary to dig deep trenches within a hundred miles around Yecheng, The soil is used as a fortress to build a criss-cross trench network.

The role of the deep trenches is to restrain the cavalry of the Shu army. The criss-cross trenches can make the cavalry useless, and can also block the infantry's attack. Even if the Shu army can break through one or two trenches, but Facing the hundreds of miles of trenches, they wanted to attack the city of Yecheng, and it was simply a test.

Yang Hu has seen the power of the Shu army's firearms. Any city is as fragile as a piece of paper in front of them. Therefore, the key to defending Yecheng is to never let the Shu army attack Yecheng easily. under the city.

Trench is undoubtedly the most effective method. It is useless to use firearms to deal with trenches. No matter how powerful firearms are, can they blow up trenches?At the same time, trenches are also the best weapon against cavalry. It is an indisputable fact that the cavalry of Shu State surpassed that of Jin State.

The history of the Jin army cavalry fighting the world is gone forever. As the Jin army cavalry was suppressed by the Shu army cavalry as a whole, the greatest advantage of the Jin army was completely lost. It is no longer difficult for the cavalry of the Jin army to bear this kind of honor.

The decline of the Jin army's strength has caused subtle changes in the world's situation. From an aggressive strategic offensive to a low-key and restrained strategic defense, the Jin army must cross this psychological hurdle.

Yang Hu's initiative to retreat this time is to let all the soldiers of the Jin army understand a truth. The current situation in the world is no longer the era of Jin's giving and taking. The role they have always played as a strong man is now Yi Lord, the first thing the Jin army must do is to do a good job in the entire strategic defense, to hold all the places that can be defended at present, and when the situation in the world changes again in the future, it will be the time for them to switch to the strategic offensive again. Before that, Whether you accept it or not, Jin is already on the weak side.

(End of this chapter)