Great Wei Overlord

Chapter 397 Takes a sudden turn (three more)
Chapter 400
Dong Run said: "Scout Battalion, hurry up and find out the guard situation of Xiangshan City!"

Chen Yong, Lieutenant Fenwei of the Red Army Staff Department, said: "General, there is no need to investigate. The General Staff Department has just received the news that Xiangshan is empty, and the blue army has long since disappeared. There are only less than [-] soldiers left in Xiangshan City. They Strictly guard the city gates, and the blue army camp inside and outside the city is full of dummies pricked with straw. If the three hundred soldiers did not obey Zhang Cheqi's order and surrender to our army voluntarily three days after the blue army left Xiangshan, We didn't even know that Xiangshan had become an empty city!"

Chen Yong is Ran Ming's big apprentice, and he is the person who knows the staff system best in this world.Ran Ming suggested to Ran Min to set up a staff system in the army. Ran Min was very happy when he saw this staff system.

In Ran Min's view, the best advantage of this staff system is that it can prevent generals from supporting their troops, because the staff has divided the general's troop command power to a certain extent.

From the perspective of the ruler, Ran Min is also afraid that the generals below will have self-respect and their tails will not lose their tails. However, Wei Guo does not currently support the self-respect of soldiers. In terms of military prestige, no general can compare to Ran Min, the founder of the Wei Army.

But Ran Min doesn't know what will happen in the future, he can only plan ahead.

Under such circumstances, most of Ran Ming's apprentices left their jobs and became staff officers.

"So, it's possible that old boy Zhang Wen went to Yanshi?"

Chen Yong said: "This is not sure, it is possible. But the specific situation depends on the more detailed information later."

Dong Rundao: "What is Zhang Wen's purpose? Does the staff have any conclusions now?"

Chen Yongdao: "From a strategic point of view, the current behavior of the blue army should be based on movement tactics, non-stop movement, and creating opportunities in the movement. This is the most beneficial strategy and tactic for the blue army. If they occupy the city Keeping it is the worst policy!"

Dong Run said: "Is this just a hypothesis?"

"Theoretically speaking, this is possible!" Chen Yong thought for a while and said, "It has entered the rainy season and the roads are muddy, which has brought great trouble to our army's transfer. In fact, to restrain this tactic of the blue army, the master once told Yong a way, that is, regardless of the loss of a city or a place, he hits his, we hit ours, take the same step by step, advance layer by layer, Use strategic cavalry troops to support each other, and take killing and injuring the enemy alive as the main combat goal."

"This style of play is too passive." Dong Run vetoed: "Is there a better way!"

Chen Yong hesitated for a while and said: "That is to focus on the Yellow River. In the rainy season, there are limited ferries that can be used as troops to cross the river. We can use strategic cavalry troops to patrol the Yellow River crossings to prevent them from crossing the river. When they cross the river, take Encirclement tactics!"

Dong Run was eager to win and lost his old wisdom. "Your staff department predicts from all angles, is it possible that Zhang Wen is in Yanshi?"

"Yes" Chen Yong said: "However, the possibility of this is very low!"

Dong Run lost his last chance to turn defeat into victory. "With my intuition as a soldier, I would have thought that Zhang Wen, that old boy, was Yanshi waiting to fight me. His idea must be that he or I will win the battle first." , if the general did not capture Hei but he captured Luoyang, the general would have lost!"

Between Yundui Mountain and Mangling, there is a Luoshui Ferry called Heishi Ferry.The main peak of Yundui Mountain circles down and overlaps to form a narrow path, passing through the group of peaks, forming a cliff confrontation, with a pass inside, and the terrain is dangerous.One man guards the pass, and ten thousand husbands cannot open it. This is the Black Stone Pass.

The terrain of Heishi Pass is dangerous, it was the throat of ancient traffic, it controlled Gongluo, and it was a dangerous pass in the past dynasties.To say that Heishiguan became famous, it was more than 300 years later when Wang Shichong and Li Mi at the end of the Sui Dynasty fought against each other. Shichong crossed Luoshui at night to camp in Heishi, making it difficult for the Wagang army to move forward.Because of Wei Guo's military exercise, it was destined to make Heishiguan famous all over the world.

In the blue army camp at Heishiguan, a battlefield judge from the director's department, wearing a black military uniform and a red armband on his arm, yelled coldly: "Hey, it's you, why do you use your right hand to hold a knife? According to the regulations of the exercise, you Now the right arm must be amputated. If you want to go into battle with an injury, I have no reason to object, but you can no longer use your right hand. You will be given a yellow card once. If you do it again, sorry, you will be sentenced to death in battle!"

At this moment, a general dressed as a school lieutenant quietly came to the judge and gently pulled the judge.The judge understood, and followed the captain to an unnoticed corner.The captain said: "I said, Brother Wu, we are all fellow villagers, so we can't be more forgiving!"

"Brother Du, don't blame Lao Wu for not giving you face!" Wu judged and said in a dilemma: "Aren't you letting brother make mistakes? If you dereliction of duty at this time, brother will be dismissed from the army! Brother, there are old and inferior How can you live without the army!"

Captain Du's name is Du Yaozong, he is forty-five this year, and he is the captain of Yingchuan County.

As a county guard with no background, no military achievements, and mediocre abilities, if he doesn't perform well, his life as a county captain will be over.The order he received was to lead more than 600 troops from the headquarters to defend Heishi Pass for at least seven days.But only a day and a half later, more than [-] people were killed in his part and more than [-] people were injured.

No one knew better than Du Yaozong that the blue army did not have many troops in Yanshi and Gong counties. Including Zhang Wen, all of them had less than 5000 troops. The so-called attack on Luoyang was actually a cover!
"Do your best and obey the destiny!" Judge Wu comforted: "How many pairs of eyes are staring at this military exercise? , both of us are finished!"

Du Yaozong thought for a while and said: "It seems that this is the only way!"

When Dong Run learned that Zhang Wen's handsome flag appeared in Yanshi, he sent a large number of scouts to investigate Yanshi. There are at least [-] blue troops stationed there.

Along with these news, there was another news that caught Dong Run's attention, that is, Zhang Wen sent [-] troops to recruit more than [-] carpenters near Luoyang.

"Carpenter?" Dong Run showed an old fox-like smile, "It seems that this old boy Zhang Wen is determined to go to Luoyang City? Staff Officer Chen, do the math, three thousand skilled carpenters, in the fastest time How many Xiangyang cannons can be built?"

Chen Yong said: "If there are sufficient materials, Xiangyang Pao adopts the method of assembly line operation. Thirty people can build one large, two medium, and three small ones in one day. Within three and a half days, more than one hundred large-scale Xiangyang cannons can be built, and a thousand large-scale Xiangyang cannons can be built! According to the rules of the exercise, one thousand can smash the city walls of Luoyang within one day without counting losses! "

Dong Run's face changed, "So, with the strength in Zhang Wen's hands, is it possible to storm Luoyang?"

"Theoretically, with the help of the Xiangyang Artillery in attacking the territory, the loss ratio of the attacking and defending sides is one to one. That is to say, the blue army only needs to use [-] casualties in four and a half days to successfully win the battle." Go down to Luoyang City!" Chen Yong said: "There are too few defenders in Luoyang City. Although Luoyang City is large, it is not a good thing for the defenders. They have neither the strength to go out of the city to fight back, nor the chance to successfully defend the city!
"No, Zhang Wen must not be allowed to successfully capture Luoyang!" Dong Run said angrily: "The general ordered that the Red Army be close to Luoyang, and rush to help Luoyang at all costs!"

One by one, the red team's exercise troops were divided into two parts. Half of the troops carried all the heavy equipment and food, and some of them advanced lightly.

However, their rush to rescue is not destined to be smooth sailing, but after the light-packed troops distanced themselves from the rear, they were attacked inexplicably, or during the march, there were horse traps on the official road, or someone set them off for a while. Leng Jian, turned around and ran.

The emergence of these unexpected phenomena made Dong Run more sure that Zhang Wen was buying time to attack Luoyang. He ordered the rescue troops to ignore the harassment and go straight to Luoyang!
It was this order that made Dong Run suffer a bitter pill that was hard to swallow.

No matter how small a mosquito is, it is still meat.Little things add up, and Zhang Wen used sparrow warfare, an unrecognizable fighting method, to launch more than 300 battles, large and small, to the Red Army reinforcements in just three days. These battles were all without exception. Not big, the largest scale is just an attack carried out by a unit. Although the scale is not large, it cannot withstand many battles. After more than [-] battles, the Blue Army managed to get more than [-] Red Army troops from the Red Army for exercises with negligible losses. disappears in the sequence.

Dong Run's Chinese troops had just arrived at Sishui Pass. The originally cloudless weather suddenly changed, and dark clouds covered the sun.The light rain gradually poured down, and the vision was extremely poor in the heavy rain, and the water on the feet was not covered, so it was very difficult to march.What is even more difficult is that the Red Army's heavy troops and the alluvial plains in the yellow flood area are all that kind of silt.

On the usually hard road, at this time, one or two catties of mud would be carried under one foot.

Three days later, the nearest unit of the Red Army to Luoyang was still a hundred miles away. Normally, the distance of a hundred miles would be nothing, but this heavy rain effectively slowed down the advance speed of the Red Army.Unknowingly, the north has entered the rainy season, and the continuous rain has caused the water potential of the Yishui, Luoshui, and the Yellow River to soar.

Not to mention these famous and big rivers, even ditches that are usually very inconspicuous have become the road rovers of the Red Army troops.The more he couldn't get to Luoyang, the more anxious Dong Run became, and he repeatedly forced the Red Army soldiers to suffer unspeakably. As time passed, this high morale disappeared.

(End of this chapter)