Great Wei Overlord

Chapter 124 Strategic Deception
Chapter 128 Strategic Deception

"Taolin Hangu Pass?" Ma Gu was taken aback, and Jing Zhan read his thoughts again.

Jing Zhan nodded.

Hangu Pass is not a pass city. In fact, there are three Hangu Passes in history, one built in the Qin Dynasty, one built by Cao Wei in the Three Kingdoms period, and the other Hangu Pass built in the Han Dynasty.

The distances between the three pass cities are different, but their nature is the same. They are all dangerous, and if one man guards the pass, ten thousand cannot open it!For example, Hangu Pass, located [-] miles east of Xin'an where Fuluo stationed troops, is the Hangu Pass built in the Han Dynasty.

However, Luoyang, the capital of the Jin Dynasty, was renovated and strengthened on the basis of Xin'an Hanhangu Pass in order to strengthen the defense of the capital Luoyang.The coexistence of two Hangu Pass can be regarded as double insurance for Luoyang!
However, the two insurances are not insurance.During the Yongjia period, the Xiongnu attacked Luoyang three times, and finally broke through Luoyang City for the third time.

The Taolin Hangu Pass proposed by Jing Zhan is actually the Hangu Pass built by Wei State during the Three Kingdoms period.

Cao Wei built a new pass five miles away from Qinguan.However, with Wuhu Luanhua and Liu Cong's three expeditions to Luoyang from Pingyang, Qinguan was completely destroyed by the flames of war, and thus submerged in the long river of history!

Weihangu Pass is also the only way from Guanzhong to the Central Plains, and the pass city is relatively well preserved!As long as there is enough food and enough weapons, Jing Zhan can defend for at least a year with the [-] rebellious troops!
As for whether you can win Hangu Pass, it depends on luck.Moreover, Jing Zhan can be sure that Fu Luo will definitely not go to Guanzhong regardless of his own army.He will definitely send reinforcements into Guanzhong.Support the empty Guanzhong!

Jing Zhan said again: "There is one more thing to ask for General Ma's assistance!"

Jing Zhan's attitude was very low, and Ma Gu felt very comfortable.Advisor Ma asked, "What's the matter?"

Jing Zhan said: "General Ma, please lead the fleet to continue to march upstream along the Yellow River. When it reaches Tongguan County, the fleet will enter Guanzhong along the Weishui River!"

"What?" Ma Gu jumped up like a rabbit whose tail had been trampled on and said, "I still have to march towards Guanzhong. My navy is only two thousand soldiers and four thousand auxiliary soldiers. This amount of force is not enough to put people between their teeth. , are you asking this general to take the navy to Chang'an to die?"

Jing Zhan made a gesture to reassure Ma Gu, but Ma Gu didn't understand sign language at all, and instead said angrily: "Although His Royal Highness Chu ordered me to cooperate with General Jing, General Jing deliberately let me die, please redeem me." Ma cannot follow orders! Even if His Royal Highness Chu blames him, I would rather meet His Highness Chu's wrath than lead my brothers to death!"

"General Ma misunderstood, I didn't ask General Ma to die!" Jing Zhan had no choice but to explain: "This is just a strategic deception, and the Western Qin Kingdom does not have an established navy, so even if General Ma enters the Weishui River, he only needs to go to the Weishui River." Go ashore, there is no danger!"

"General Jing's words are wrong!" Ma Gu said with a smile: "Who told you that the navy is not in danger if it does not go ashore? You must know that the Wei River is no bigger than the Yellow River, and the Wei River is only more than [-] steps wide. The center is only less than [-] steps away from the shore. As long as the Qin army sets up enough catapults on the river bank and throws stone bombs into the river, it is enough to easily destroy my fleet!

Even if the Qin army didn't bring in enough catapults in time, they still have many ways to deal with the navy. As long as they use iron locks to intercept the Weishui River like Wu Yan, the navy general of Soochow, our navy will not be able to move forward or retreat!Also, as long as the Qin army puts down countless fireboats in the Weishui, it will be easy enough to burn down our Great Wei Changshui Navy!and also……"

Although what Ma Gu said was true, Jing Zhan also understood that this was just his excuse.

Jing Zhan knew that when the Changshui Division was in Qingzhou, Ran Ming asked Ma Ying to install the newly invented eight-ox crossbow on the warship in order to strengthen the navy's strike force. The giant wood weighing 25 kg was used as a lever to string the eight-ox crossbow. Now each warship is equipped with four eight-ox crossbows!Each eight-ox crossbow can shoot a giant crossbow arrow weighing [-] catties, one foot eight feet long, and six inches thick, [-] steps away!

With this kind of ultra-long-range strike weapon, let alone arranging catapults on the banks of the Wei River, even arranging catapults on the banks of the Yellow River will not take advantage.

Of course, there are catapults on the warships, and they can rely on the advantage of maneuvering to hit fixed targets.If the Qin army wants to carry out a strike from the shore to the water, it will suffer more than three times the losses of the navy!

As for the iron lock Henghe, it is even more nonsense. The navy of the Jin Dynasty could destroy the iron lock by burning it, so couldn't Ma Gu?As for the fire boat, it was even simpler. He also knew that it was actually very difficult for a small fire boat to break through the siege and enter the Changshui Navy under the interception of the eight-ox crossbow and the catapult!And the water ghost troops of the long water army did not allow the fire boat to approach!

Jing Zhan looked at the smug Ma Gu, and asked lightly, "It seems that General Ma doesn't want to cooperate with this general anymore?"

At this time, Jing Zhan's tone was clearly murderous!
"It's not that I dare not, it's that I can't!" Ma Gu was suddenly taken aback by the murderous aura emanating from Jing Zhan's body, but then he thought, the two of them are not subordinate to each other, Ma Gu is the general of Lou Chuan who is directly under Ran Min, and Jing Zhan Zhan is nothing but Captain Fenwei.

Thinking of this, Ma Gu was no longer afraid of Jing Zhan, he was a general of the third rank, how could he be afraid of a small captain of the sixth rank?So Ma Gu said with a look of resentment, the expression of dissatisfaction with you biting me, "Even if His Royal Highness King Chu is here, it's the same!"

Jing Zhan immediately smiled and took out a piece of paper from his bosom.Then he handed it over to Ma Gu's deputy, Wang Ji, and said, "This is an order from His Royal Highness the King of Chu to Vice General Wang! Vice General Wang should take a look!"

When Wang Yan received the paper in Jing Zhan's hand, his uneasy expression disappeared, replaced by an expression of excitement and surprise!

Wang Ji suddenly read aloud: "Here is a sailor Ma Gu who was cowardly before a battle and refused to obey the general. I alone suspect that he is suspected of defecting to the enemy secretly. In order to ensure the absolute loyalty of the Changshui Army to the Great Wei, in order to ensure the Changshui Army Therefore, Ma Guzhi, Captain Changshui, is temporarily dismissed from his military post, and sent back to Yecheng for quarantine inspection, and his military post, Captain Changshui, will be represented by Deputy General Wang Kai!"

And Ran Ming is best at grasping people's hearts, but Wang Ke has been with Ma Gu for five or six years. He was Ma Gu's deputy when Ma Gu was Cao Shi, the lieutenant of Zhao Changshui.Later, Ma Gu was promoted to Captain of Changshui because of his meritorious service in supporting Ran Min.Later, when the Wei State rebuilt the navy, Ma Gu did not become the general of Wei State's Louchuan, but Wang Qi was still Ma Gu's deputy!
Youdao is not a good soldier if he does not want to be a general's soldier, so Wang Ji also has the desire to make progress, but his way to make progress is blocked by Ma Gu.

Now that Ma Gu offended Ran Ming, Ran Ming took the opportunity to clean him up. The so-called temporary dismissal will also become permanent dismissal, or it may become a real dismissal!

Wang Ke suppressed the excitement in his heart and said, "General Ma, I've offended you!"

Naturally, Wang Yan has Wang Yan's confidantes, and if Wang Yan has a chance to rise to the top, they will follow suit, so several of Wang Yan's confidants rushed forward and pinned Ma Gu to the ground!Then Wang Ji rushed to the surrounding navy generals and said: "According to the military regulations, fear the enemy and fight cowardly, you should be executed. If anyone dares to disobey the military order in the future, they will all be beheaded and killed without mercy!"

Then Wang Ke pointed out several of Ma Gu's confidants, accusing them of corruption, bribery, disorderly behavior, enriching their own pockets, or killing good men and pretending to be meritorious.

This is the unspoken rule of the officialdom, only those inside their system can grasp the core secrets!As Ma Gu's deputy, Wang Xi naturally knew about the gangsters and prostitutes behind their backs!Therefore, Wang Qi cut down five or six people according to the military regulations.Five or six bloody heads were hung on the mast, which was Wang Qi's first time to show his prestige after taking office.If you have enough power, you need to show kindness. Wang Ke has some tricks, and he moved most of the soldiers in the navy with just a few words!
After completing the smooth transfer of power, Wang Yu said to Jing Zhan, "Wang Ji is willing to obey General Jing's order!"

Jing Zhan then told Wang Ke of his strategic purpose, and Wang Ke expressed that he would absolutely cooperate with Jing Zhan and His Royal Highness the King of Chu!
Jing Zhan asked the lieutenant of the water army to drive to the shore in the dark.At this moment, Jing Zhan seemed to remember something.

Take a knife and carve a mark on the ship's side?
Wang Ke had read books for several years and knew the story of carving a boat and seeking a sword, so he asked Jing Zhan, "General Jing, did your sword fall into the water too? Don't worry about it. The boys under my command are very good at water. They must Will find the sword for the general!"

Upon hearing this, Jing Zhan smiled and said, "I didn't throw the sword. The purpose of doing this is to remember the draft depth of our entire army's warships. Later, I will lead [-] rebellious soldiers to go ashore. Six thousand After the soldiers disembark, the sinking of the ship will be significantly different. Experienced scouts will find that our army has landed. Therefore, in order to prevent the news of our landing from leaking out, we must engrave marks on all the ships. After the soldiers disembark, Add another stone or something of equal weight!"

Only then did Wang Qi realize that he had made a big oolong.But Wang Ke was not embarrassed, he gave an order to the messenger, and the messenger used torches instead of flags, and issued a semaphore with engraved marks to all warships.

After the warship was marked, Jing Zhan gave the order to land.

Jing Zhan took away 60 rebellious soldiers, and then unloaded [-] shi of grain and more than [-] crossbow arrows from the warship.

When the soldiers of the rebellious army erased the traces of the landing site, Jing Zhan said to Wang again: "General Wang threw the sand and stones from the boat into the river at night after he sailed against the Wei River for a day!"

"The last general understands!" Wang Ke said with a smile: "After entering Guanzhong, it will be implemented according to the plan, let those Western Qin people have a headache!" Jing Zhan and Wang Ke smiled at each other!

Jing Zhan waved his hand, and without taking away a cloud, he took more than [-] sturdy soldiers and slowly disappeared into the darkness!

(End of this chapter)