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Chapter 981 Battle in Central Shu (6000)

Chapter 98: Battle in Central Shu
Strictly speaking, the Emei faction is actually facing strategic siege from four countries at the same time. In addition to the forces of the Mongolian Kingdom, the Western Regions, and the Xixia Dali Kingdom, there is also a Southern Barbarian Kingdom in the south. , the Medicine King Valley, which belongs to the Nanman Kingdom camp, has a very close relationship with the Wangqing Pavilion, and the Emei faction has a very close relationship with the Wangqing Pavilion. Therefore, under the mediation of the Medicine King Valley, it is basically guaranteed that the Nanman Kingdom NPC forces will not go north and invade Sichuan. territory.

Of course, the fundamental reason why Yaowanggu and its Nanman Kingdom treated the Emei Sect more relaxed was that the Nanman Kingdom had already captured Guilin and could directly enter the Huguang area of ​​the Central Plains without going to Sichuan to wade through the muddy waters. Due to the defeat of Wuzhou City, the north-south line of communication between Fenghua City and Guilin City, the stronghold of the Nanman Kingdom's troops, has been cut off by the Western Powers. As a result, the Nanman Kingdom is currently unable to look after each other. , to be able to plan for the next step.

Leaving aside the forces of the Southern Barbarians for the time being, let’s just talk about the Mongolian forces in the north and the Xingxiu faction to which they belong. There are actually several strategic routes for this force to choose from.

One is to take down Lanzhou City, and then head southeast to Chang'an City, straight into the hinterland of the Central Plains, but this route is too difficult, because Lanzhou City is an important town on the border of the Western Regions of the Central Dynasty, and 200 soldiers were raised in the city at the beginning of the game This is one of the main reasons why the Mongolian army has been fighting as far as Yongdeng Town, not far to the west of Lanzhou City, but has not taken Lanzhou City.

Secondly, even if the Mongol army and its Xingxiu faction take down Lanzhou City, the days ahead will not be too easy, because the main force of the Mongol army is the rangers. Once they leave the open grassland and enter the hinterland of the Central Plains, they will come and go without a trace. The advantages can no longer be brought into play. At that time, as long as the Mingjiao in the Kunlun Mountains blocks the back road, and then send troops from the Central Plains to block the front, the Mongolian army can only become the one that catches the turtle in the urn.

The second strategic route is to detour through Lanzhou City, head northeast, and compete with the Khitan camp going south for Yinchuan, Taiyuan and other cities. This route can be said to be the best route for the Mongolian forces. Once Taiyuan is captured, It has a very wide horizontal strategic area. At that time, it can not only go south to dominate the Central Plains, but also attack east to take BJ City. It can also retreat north when the situation is unfavorable. invincible position.

However, this strategic route is not without problems. Although the mobility of its units is extremely strong, enough to attack thousands of miles in a few days, if you attack Yinchuan and then further attack Taiyuan, the battle line will be too long. If you can't win the first battle If you take Yinchuan City, or if you are driven out by the opponent before you have time to replenish the supply of troops or have not been stationed for more than half a month after taking Yinchuan City, then the strategic intentions mentioned above will not be realized. On the contrary, there will be no achievements. Strategically, in the first year of the national war, it will also be completely limited to passive.

Moreover, even if it takes ten thousand steps back, even if Yinchuan and Taiyuan are occupied by Mongolia, so what?Not to mention the huge cost of casualties during this period, let’s just say that occupying these two towns with an underdeveloped economy and few players passing by usually will not receive much tax at all during the African Year of War. It's tasteless, so unless you continue to go east and occupy BJ City, you can get oil and water, but obviously, this depends on whether the Khitan Kingdom and the Jurchen Kingdom agree. At least during the first national war year, this march Routes are only strategic, not practical.

On the whole, the above two marching routes are suspected of being a bit aggressive, and they are long-drive straight-in routes that don't care much about the safety of the rear. If the Mongolian camp does not have the participation of the Xingxiu faction, the Mongolian NPC leader may choose one of the routes to gamble. One, but it is a pity that Long Xiaotian, who has great influence on the formulation of Mongolia's strategic plan, is not the kind of person who likes to take risks. After spending all his money to encircle and suppress Fang Jie and failed, he carefully summed up the experience and lessons learned.

Since the failure to encircle and suppress Fang Jie, Long Xiaotian's daily work style has become much more rigorous, insisting on the basic principle of not not expressing his position on any uncertain things, and not doing anything that is not completely sure, so for a period of time, Long Xiaotian Xiaotian and his Xingxiu faction had stopped for a long time, and never made trouble with Fang Jie and Wangqing Pavilion, but during the battle of Xiangyang City, Long Xiaotian thought that the opportunity had come, and that he was sure of winning the Vulture Palace. Only then did Wang Qingge take advantage of the fact that Wangqing Pavilion could not take care of both, and he succeeded in defeating the Vulture Palace, which he had always regarded as a thorn in his side. This achievement was a good result of Long Xiaotian's adherence to pragmatic principles.

Therefore, Long Xiaotian adopted a safe strategy in the choice of the marching route. He suggested that the Mongolian army should avoid the Mingjiao and the main forces of the Central Plains, divide the troops into three groups, pretend to attack Lanzhou City all the way, go south with two outside and two routes, and cross the Mingjiao forces along the small road all the way The Qinling Mountains, which had a very weak line of defense, entered Sichuan, and the other route went eastward along the outer line of the Qinling Mountains. Two armies occupied Guangyuan Town to the south of the Qinling Mountains and Hanzhong Town to the north, forming a corner.

Long Xiaotian's plan is, before occupying these two cities, send the easily-changed Xingxiu to send experts to go to the outposts, secretly control the two towns, and wait for the arrival of the Mongol army to cooperate with the inside and outside, and after occupying the two towns , for the time being stationed in the two cities and stand still, after obtaining the authority to mobilize troops in the place, then decide the direction of its invasion according to the situation at that time.

If possible, of course, send troops from Hanzhong Town to the north and directly capture Chang'an City. In short, Long Xiaotian didn't insist on reaching the hinterland of the Central Plains in a short period of time. As long as he could occupy Sichuan and get the three-year tax revenue of the non-national war year, he would be satisfied.

What I have to say is that the strategic plan set by Long Xiaotian is quite conservative. Not only did the Mongolian army with strong maneuverability and combat effectiveness play a supporting role, but it also did not reflect the strength of the Xingxiu faction, which ranks among the various factions in the Jianghu. The style of the big faction at the top, but it is undeniable that this is a very pragmatic strategic plan. Even if the city of Chang'an is not won by then, at least it will be able to gain a firm foothold in Sichuan. With the strength of the country and the assistance of the Mongolian forces, it will be no problem to account for half of it, right?
As long as certain victories were achieved in the first national war year and roots were established in the outskirts of the Central Plains, then the next national war year would be the time for the XingXiu faction to show their grand ambitions.

In this plan, the most critical thing is whether the Xingxiu faction can gain a firm foothold in Guangyuan Town and Hanzhong Town. Obviously, the various factions in the Central Plains will definitely not just watch the Xingxiu faction take root in the two places, but the words It has to be said again that some things are not based on human will. For the various factions in the Central Plains, thinking and doing are two different things.

The sect that could bring instability to Long Xiaotian's plan, if you analyze it carefully, there are actually only two and a half sects. The factions Pai and Tomb Sect will definitely not sit idly by, and will definitely send troops to intercept them. The other half of the sect is Mingjiao. While its forces control the Lanzhou-Changan line, they may divide some troops to harass Hanzhong.

However, if the Xingxiu faction can cooperate with the Mongol army who pretended to attack Lanzhou City to play a show, the Mingjiao may not dare to divide Hanzhong on a large scale, and to the Mingjiao, the strategic and economic status of Hanzhong Town is not important. If there is no benefit to be gained, Long Xiaotian once considered it from the perspective of the Mingjiao. If he were the head of the Mingjiao, he would not pay too much attention to Hanzhong Town, because its strategic role is only after the Central Shu area is occupied by other countries. It can only be truly reflected when it marches into the Central Plains. At that time, the forces that control Hanzhong may stage the scene of Zhuge Liang leaving Qishan six times.

Since the Ming Cult is unlikely to send troops to intercept or capture Hanzhong, then what the XingXiu Sect is facing is only the Ancient Tomb Sect and the Quanzhen Sect.

Judging from the strength rankings of the various factions in the Jianghu, the Ancient Tomb Sect is at the middle level, the Quanzhen Sect is a little weaker, and is at the middle and lower level, and the Xingxiu Sect has its management system and development system under the background of its powerful gang organization structure. It is very healthy, and its development momentum is extremely rapid. Its comprehensive strength is second only to Wangqing Pavilion and the Beggars' Gang, and is comparable to Wudang, Shaolin, and Mingjiao. Facing Wangqing Pavilion, Long Xiaotian has extremely conceited and strong confidence!
Therefore, in Long Xiaotian's eyes, even if the mere Ancient Tomb Sect and Quanzhen Sect unite, it is not a cause for concern. I believe that if the leaders of these two sects have a little self-knowledge, they should not fight desperately with the Xingxiu Sect.

As for the other factions in the nearby area, Long Xiaotian thinks there is no need to worry. For example, the Emei faction faces strategic threats from three directions at the same time. Relatively speaking, the threat posed by the Mongolian forces in the north is not too great. After all, if Mongolia wants to enter the territory of Sichuan, it has to cross the mountains and cross the Qinling Mountains. There are also three sects of Mingjiao, Gumupai and Quanzhenjiao in the middle. It is estimated that Feng Lin may not be able to predict the dragon Xiaotian would take this route, and even if he had expected it, due to threats from the west and south, the not-so-strong Emei faction was also weak, so it was impossible to take care of the war in the north.

Moreover, although the Emei faction is not completely isolated, and there are Qingcheng faction and Wangqingge sent to the territory of the original Tangmen army to help, but the combined strength of these three parties may barely guarantee that the city of Chengdu will not be lost. After all, the forces of the Western Regions to the west are supported by Xuedaomen and Dalun Temple, not to mention the Dali Kingdom to the southwest. The Duan family of Dali is not weaker than the Emei faction. The Qingcheng faction, which has just improved a bit, and the Tangmen's allies, are still at a slight disadvantage in strength, let alone have the energy to pay attention to the situation in the north.

In fact, Feng Lin of the Emei faction was already in a state of desperation at this time. The army of the Western Regions continued to pass through the Hengduan Mountains along the eastward official road, and aggressively attacked in the direction of Chengdu. He Xuedaomen has joined forces and launched an attack on Chengdu City.

Xuedaomen and Dalun Temple originally wanted to learn nonsense and launch a blitzkrieg to quickly capture Chengdu City in the hinterland of Sichuan. Fortunately, Feng Lin and the head of the Qingcheng School, Hua Yushuhen, were prepared and took timely countermeasures, but they did not succeed. But despite this, Xuedaomen and Dalun Temple still seized Ya'an Town, a major transportation hub west of Chengdu City.

Ya'an Town, located at the intersection of Sichuan and Tibet, less than [-] miles away from Chengdu City, is the transition zone between the Sichuan Basin and the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau. Han is the gateway and only way of the ancient southern Silk Road. Known as "XZ Portal" and "National Corridor", the Blood Knife Gate and Dalun Temple seized this city, which is equivalent to opening up an important passage to the Central Plains for the army of the power country to which it belongs, and it is also the only passage.

It is obvious that the strategic importance of Ya'an Town is no less than that of Chengdu City. If the Emei faction and Qingcheng faction can occupy this town in advance, the army of the Western Regions will not be able to advance an inch, and can only sigh in the Central Plains. Whether it is an ordinary player or the head of each faction, they are not very professional military strategists, especially for the factions of the Central Dynasty who are sticking to their aid. It is a strategic point, and it is even more impossible to take the initiative to send troops to garrison the area.

Compared with the factions of the Central Dynasty, the sects affiliated to the other eight directions of the power state obviously have a sense of crisis. This is obvious. The power of the Central Dynasty will definitely win the final victory of the national war, which already represents the goal of the national war of the sects of other foreign forces-not to unify the whole country, but to become the overlord of one party, and to gain enough benefits in the early and middle stages of the national war. Get out of here again!

In order to achieve this goal, the leaders of the Jianghu sects of the foreign forces they belong to are naturally studying the maps of the Jianghu with great care every day, trying their best to open up the situation of the national war for their own forces. Became half a military expert, at least in terms of future strategic decision-making, he was able to know what to do, plan in advance, seize strategic points, nonsense, throwing an army of 500 million Hu Miao to seize BJ City, Long Xiaotian rearranged the strategic route, blood knife gate and big Lunsi's preemptive occupation of Ya'an Town was a strategic arrangement made with this sense of crisis. At present, the effect may not be too obvious, but it also makes the factions in the Central Plains gradually fall into a passive strategic situation.

Because of this, although the passive Emei Sect realized the strategic intentions of the Western Regions, they were unable to drive them back to the west of the Hengduan Mountains.

Moreover, the combined strength of the Xuedao Sect and Dalun Temple sects is no less than that of the Emei Sect, Qingcheng Sect, and hundreds of thousands of reinforcements from the Tang Sect. Martial strength is good. In fact, during the fight, the Qingcheng faction and Tangmen disciples were at the forefront, and the combined number of players of the latter two was less than half of the total number of Emei faction disciples. Therefore, the Emei faction united with the other two allies. They can barely defend Chengdu City, but if they take the initiative to attack, their relatively low combat effectiveness will not be able to compete with the Xuedaomen and Dalun Temple players who are good at fighting tough battles.

In this way, the Emei faction and the Qingcheng faction are tantamount to giving up the defense of Chengdu City, Mount Qingcheng, and Mount Emei in Sichuan. In other words, if Xuedaomen and Dalun Temple are willing, they can completely surround this area , or bypass Chengdu City, and use Sichuan as a springboard to directly enter the hinterland of the Central Plains.

Of course, Xuedao Sect and Dalun Temple hold a more cautious attitude like Xingxiu Sect. After all, once they cross Sichuan and enter the Central Plains, they will have to enter the Lianghu area, and the sect forces currently controlling the Lianghu area are Wangqing Pavilion and Wudang Of the two big factions, the Wudang faction is easier to say, the key is the Wangqing Pavilion and its leader Fang Jie, who will never tolerate being beaten to the door.

As for Long Xiaotian of Xingxiu Sect and Xuedao Sect's decadent and bloodless people, the person they least want to provoke is Fang Jie, and the sect they least want to provoke is Wangqing Pavilion. Therefore, even if the rich Central Plains region is in front of them, they dare not be greedy for credit Rush forward, at least until the entire territory of Sichuan has been completely controlled and the rear has been stabilized, they will never dare to enter the Lianghu area.

Therefore, at present, the ideas of Xuedaomen, Dalun Temple and Xingxiu School are relatively consistent, that is, to take down all the cities in Sichuan first, and the most important thing is Chengdu City. The forces radiate to other parts of Sichuan to establish a solid rear. Of course, Chengdu can also be ignored, but the strategy of encircling the city from the countryside, first occupying the surrounding towns, and then going back to clean up Chengdu.

The Mongolian army and its affiliated sect Xingxiu sect who went south in two ways chose to adopt the strategy of encircling the city from the countryside, occupying Hanzhong and Guangyuan in advance, while Xuedaomen and Dalun Temple, in the early days of the national war, originally wanted to directly take They went down to Chengdu, but later lost the opportunity due to too many casualties in the siege, so they also adopted the strategy of encircling the city from the countryside, using Ya'an Town as a base, and infiltrating the surrounding areas of Chengdu.

During this process, the Emei Sect and its forces from the same camp also fought several small-scale battles outside the city with the disciples of Xuedaomen and Dalun Temple. However, the Emei faction did not get any advantage, and the casualties were [-] to [-]% more than the opponent's. As a last resort, Feng Lin had to ask Fang Jie for help again, hoping that the Wangqing Pavilion could spare more troops to help the Emei faction resist the foreign forces invasion.

It's a pity that everyone in the world knows the current deployment of Wangqing Pavilion's troops. Among the 300 million regular regiments, 200 million went to Taizhou City to fight against Dongyi soldiers. Of the remaining 50, 50 from the original Tangmen faction had been reinforced by the Emei faction, and the last 30 were divided into four half-full teams on average, guarding the Simen Bazaar in Xiangyang City all day long. to prevent other factions from launching a surprise attack on Xiangyang City.

So in theory, Wangqing Pavilion has no soldiers to send. Of course, if we want to be strict, among the tens of millions of Wangqing Pavilion players, there are at least 500 million martial arts players. If you fail, you will not be able to enter the regular regiment of Wangqing Pavilion for the time being, and without a formal formation, you will not be able to enjoy a series of benefits such as death insurance, housing subsidies, etc. If the senior management of Wangqing Pavilion wants to send out these martial arts players who are not too weak , first of all, you have to solve the issue of their welfare, otherwise, why should they work hard for you?
However, if we don't continue to send troops to reinforce the Emei faction, once the central Sichuan area is occupied by foreign powers, Wangqing Pavilion will have to have a direct conflict with the opponent. Even if Wangqing Pavilion can suppress the opponent, it will not be able to develop in all aspects It will definitely be seriously affected. At least, at least half of the more than 200 million Wangqing Pavilion disciples who are frantically killing Dongyi NPCs in the eastern region will return to aid more than half, and the logistics economy of Xiangyang City will also be severely affected.

Therefore, if we want to continue to increase the Emei faction, unless Wangqingge mobilizes some troops from the 250 million soldiers that are currently recruiting troops, the problem is that the dispatched troops will not be of much help to the Emei faction. If there are too many, it will affect the layout of troops around Taizhou City. Moreover, which teams to send back is another problem. After all, there is a competition mechanism between the teams of Wangqingge. I feel at ease to spawn monsters, and I don't want to go to the west to fight the enemy.

While the high-level officials of Wangqing Pavilion were arguing endlessly about whether to send troops to aid and which teams should be sent to reinforce the Emei faction, the situation in central Sichuan deteriorated further. They reached the territory of Sichuan, which made the situation in central Sichuan even more dangerous. The Emei and Qingcheng factions had been completely compressed in the surrounding area of ​​Chengdu. A pincer attack from two powers in the South!

Seeing that the situation in the Southwest has deteriorated to such a state, the elders of the Wangqing Pavilion, who were arguing endlessly, knew that they could no longer hesitate at this time, so they quickly sent a text message to Fang Jie, who was killing monsters in the BJ Palace, asking Fang Jie to personally Decide on this matter.

Prior to this, Fang Jie had clearly put down his words, saying that during the period of monster spawning and leveling, other people are prohibited from disturbing. There were divergent opinions at the elder meeting, and it was difficult to unify opinions, and time was extremely tight, so Fang Jie had no choice but to turn to Fang Jie for help.

After Fang Jie received the text messages from the elders, he did not make a decision immediately. Instead, he carefully browsed and analyzed the intelligence information about the situation in the central Shu area and the dynamics of the relevant power countries, and then issued a series of orders. Everyone's bewildered troop orders...

(End of this chapter)