The last three kingdoms

Chapter 799 Prison Warfare
Shangdang is surrounded by mountains and rivers, with continuous peaks and ridges.

Within one month, the Shu army connected the three cities of Kene County, Xiangyuan, and Guyuan, shaking the Shangdang.

The three cities of Nie County, Xiangyuan and Guyuan are all cities occupied by the Jie people. The Shu army conquered these three cities and dealt a devastating blow to the Jie people who defended the city. The Jie people used the policy of extermination. While hitting the arrogance of the Jie people, they also won the support and support of the Han people in Shangdang.

After the Hu people's rebellion, the Han people in Shangdang fell into a dire and miserable situation. The Jin court was unable to cope with the attacks of the Hu people, and it cared nothing about the life and death of the people in Shangdang. The relationship between Han and Hu has always been peaceful. Because the Hu people's rebellion changed in an instant, the Jie people who seemed harmless to humans and animals suddenly became human-eating demons.

You know, in the past, Jie people inhabited the Shangdang area and lived a life of half farming and half farming. Many Jie people were still engaged in the business of traveling merchants and hawkers, wandering between Han and Hu, buying and selling fairly, and being kind to others.

However, their cruel and tyrannical nature is undoubtedly revealed in the troubled times. Many Jie people no longer farm, no longer graze, and no longer do business as vendors, but they are not worried about being cold or hungry. The exhausted Han people have become their source of food, and the Jie people are more picky about their tastes. They call the old and thin men "Rao Ba Huo" (you need to add more firewood if they can't be cooked), and the young women are called "Bu Xian Yang" ( Delicious race mutton), babies are called "Hegusteam" (meat tender and bones rotten), they only eat young women and children.

Even Liu Yuan couldn't stand their behavior, and once despised the Jie people as barbaric inferiors to the people around them.But in order for the Jie people to continue to work for him, Liu Yuan naturally didn't have to care about the life and death of the Han people. As long as the Jie people didn't eat the Huns, Liu Yuan didn't bother to care.

The people of the Han people fell into hell on earth. Many people fled to the deep mountains and old forests just to avoid the bad luck of being eaten, but more people had no chance to escape and became the targets of arbitrary killing and slaughter by the Jie people. The grief and indignation of the Han people It is conceivable, but they were powerless to resist in front of the brutal barbarians, and could only endure silently.

Now that a Han army has entered Shangdang to attack the ferocious Jie people, it is naturally very satisfying, and it is also reasonable to get the support and support of the Han people.

There are happy people, and there are depressed people, and Liu Yuan is extremely depressed at the moment.

Liu Yin led the army into the Shangdang, and Liu Yuan led the pursuers to catch up. It stands to reason that there is a difference of one or two days at most between the two, but no matter how hard Liu Yuan catches up, he can't catch up with the Shu army.Hearing that the Shu army had attacked Nie County, Liu Yuan led his troops to chase it to Nie County, but apart from the corpses all over the city, Liu Yuan didn't even see a single living creature.

After that, the Xiongnu army followed the Shu army in circles. The Shu army captured Xiangyuan, and the Huns chased Xiangyuan. They thought that the Shu army could be surrounded by the east of Shangdang, but they never thought that the Shu army would be in vain. With a single shot, he rushed to the west of Shangdang and took away Guyuan County in one fell swoop.

Liu Yuan was at a loss to cope with the mysterious tricks of the Shu army, and he was led by the nose all the way. This battle was really depressing.

There are many mountains in Shangdang, and the mountain roads are relatively rough. The cavalry advantages of the Huns cannot be brought into play at all. However, the Shu army is like a fish in water, galloping freely on the mountain paths of Shangdang, interspersed with roundabouts, avoiding the real and the false. Under the relentless pursuit, he performed with ease, and even the three counties where the Jie people were separated, not only hit the arrogance of the Jie people, but also won the hearts of the people, laying a good foundation for the Shu army to gain a foothold in Shangdang in the next step.

Liu Yuan was shocked when he heard the news that the Shu army had captured Guyuan. You must know that there are several counties between Xiangyuan and Guyuan. Liu Yuan didn't understand how the Shu army passed through Xiangyuan without anyone noticing. As far as Guyuan, after a month of continuous pursuit, Liu Yuan's army was exhausted, but it still couldn't catch up with the pace of the Shu army.

Cui You, the scripture teacher, said to Liu Yuan: "The Shu people are very good at fighting in the mountains. The more complicated and rugged the mountains, the more they can show their strengths. Our army is mainly cavalry, which is not conducive to mountain warfare. Even if we continue to chase, I am afraid it will be difficult. I can catch up. I think that the king should divide his troops and advance, guard the passes at various places, block the marching route of the Shu people, control the area where the Shu people move within a certain range, and plan slowly, so as to defeat the enemy and win."

It is not that Liu Yuan has not considered the strategy Cui You proposed. The main difficulty is that once the Huns divide into four routes, the number of troops in each route will be greatly reduced, creating conditions for the Shu army to defeat each other. It is very difficult to coordinate between the two mountains. Sometimes the two mountains can be clearly seen, but it takes a lot of time to actually get to one place. Looking at the mountains is a dead horse.

Liu Yuan knows best about Liu Yin's use of troops, he is good at changing, and can break a thousand catties with ingenuity. If the Xiongnu soldiers divide their troops, it will give the Shu army the possibility to concentrate their superior forces to defeat them individually. Huddled together, such a lineup, if the Shu army wants to eat it, they have to show their fangs and claws, which is by no means an easy task.

However, the Shu army did not fight against the main force of the Huns at all. Liu Yuan's [-] troops formed a group and did not pose any threat to the Shu army. Liu Yin's army was slipperier than loaches. Liu Yuan I couldn't catch it at all, I could only watch the Shu army break through one city after another, but there was nothing I could do.

It seems that in order to defeat the Shu army, some changes must be made. The current strategy and tactics are somewhat outdated.

"Advancing in divisions is the easiest way for the enemy to defeat them individually. Liu Yin is experienced in using troops and is well versed in the art of war, so he has to deal with them carefully." Liu Yuan said helplessly. Dividing troops is a taboo for military strategists. Dividing the troops and advancing left a great loophole for the enemy, and Liu Yin used his troops like a god, and he was the best at catching such loopholes.

Cui You smiled slightly and said: "Your Majesty is worried that if you divide your troops to pursue them, you will definitely be attacked by the enemy. In fact, I have also thought about it carefully. Our army divides and advances. We should not be greedy for victory. We should set up camps at critical passes. Guarding against the dangers of the mountains, I call it the method of prison warfare, designate the land as a prison, as long as we can trap the Shu people, and when our army arrives, the Shu people will be doomed."

"Prison warfare?" Liu Yuan was very interested when he heard it, and immediately said: "I would like to hear the details."

Cui You was not in a hurry, he took a map and spread it out in front of Liu Yuan. The map was already densely filled with many lines and small circles. It can be seen that Cui You's contribution this time is not bad. It's just as simple as a whim, but carefully prepared.

(End of this chapter)