"depression?"
Cao Zhang murmured and repeated.
He understood a little vaguely, and quickly looked at the map again, unable to speak for a while.
In the process of fighting on the battlefield, the real battle between swords and guns and necks is just the last step. In the absence of war, the final success or failure can often be determined.
What is temple calculation? Choosing generals, measuring the enemy, measuring the land, and making soldiers, distance and near, and making them dangerous and easy to plan in the temple. If there are many temple calculations, you can seize the enemy without taking over, and use the advantages of the general trend to expose the overwhelming situation on the battlefield.
However, soldiers are also tricks. The decisive battle on the battlefield is unpredictable. The direction, purpose, and advantages and disadvantages of the two sides often seem to be deeply trapped in fog. In most cases, the generals cannot see through the opponent and can only calculate based on existing conditions. Therefore, the side not only has to try their best to calculate the opponent, but also find ways to mislead the opponent and make the temple's calculations go wrong.
In the early years, when a battle of thousands of people was not difficult to mislead the opponent, the King of Wei himself was able to predict that the enemy was in his heart and the sight of the situation, and often used tricks to defeat the enemy.
However, to this day, both Cao and Liu families can mobilize hundreds of thousands of troops. Hundreds of thousands of people gather in the area. No matter how strict the control is, they will inevitably be searched for flaws and investigated the inside story. Therefore, if you want to mislead your opponent, you must first mislead your own troops.
For the generals of the Cao army, at first, they only knew that Liu Ye was responsible for gathering people in Nanyang and building high platforms for use in the abdication ceremony. It was not until a few days ago that the King of Wei announced to them that the materials and manpower that were gathered were not used for abdication, but would set up river basins when the Jingzhou navy went back to Xiangyang, and set up huge stone-fired chariots to attack Jingzhou military ships with flying stones and turbulent bombs.
After that, Cao Cao ordered Cao Zhang to lead the elite tiger and leopard cavalry to attack south, claiming to anger Guan Yu and prompt him to attack north. In fact, he hoped that through a fierce land battle, the Jingzhou army would witness the power of the cavalry with their own eyes, so that they would increasingly place the center of their troops on boats and along the Han River.
Cao Zhang's battle ended in failure, but Cao Cao discovered that since the Jingzhou army relied on bows and crossbows and logistics support, they had to rely on boats and ships. If Jingzhou re-occupied and reviewed the gains and losses of this battle, they would definitely pay more attention to the safety of the Han River channel.
Therefore, although Cao Zhang was defeated, Cao Cao was not particularly angry. It was all because of the final result that Cao Cao was very satisfied.
After this battle, the Jingzhou Army would definitely find ways to remove obstacles along the Han River Channel, and would never allow the Cao army to set up camps and arrange stone chariots on the Lumen Mountain line, which would pose a threat to the logistics supply of the Jingzhou Army.
Under such circumstances, the battle on the Xiangfan front line will not break out directly under the city of Xiangyang, but will first originate from the vast area around Lumen Mountain east of Fancheng, south of the Qingshuikou.
Lumen Mountain is close to the Yangtze River, and the branches traveling north and south are called Paomaling. The ridge of Paomaling is about a few miles long, about a few feet wide, and there are many open flat fields for the army. When the Jingzhou army comes, Cao Xiu led his headquarters to seize the mountain and guard it.
The forests and valleys around Lumen Mountain are deep, and there are many streams leading to the Han River, which are very suitable for elite infantry to fight. Therefore, the Jingzhou army must have surrounded the mountain and advanced to the Qingshuikou to cut off Cao Xiu's retreat and force him to retreat from Lumen Mountain.
By this time...
Cao Zhang moved his eyes to the map to identify the place where the water was clear.
The map was drawn very carefully, and all cities, roads, rivers and bridges were prepared. So in Cao Zhang's sight, many tributaries to the north of the Qingshui River, such as turbulent water, Bishui, Oshui, Oshui, Jishui, and Jishui, were gathered in one place like a huge waist fan.
In the middle of the fan base, there are starry marks. These are the water storage dams built by Nanyang County. Nanyang is an imperial township, and local officials and local tyrants have been operating greatly in the past dynasties. Some of the pictures are Zhaoyan, Maduyan, Shangshiyan, Yuchiyan and Shayan, etc., which form larger artificial lakes, as well as a series of smaller scales, which are also water conservancy facilities built one after another in the Han Dynasty.
The water of the purified water gathers many tributaries and has a very large amount of water. Relying on these water conservancy facilities to block water, the military camps from Nanyang to Xiangyang can be irrigated. If these barriers are dug out in one fell swoop in summer and autumn, Caiyang, south of Zhangling, and to the area of ​​Zhengxian, the water will be vast. Even if the Jingzhou army has three heads and six arms, everyone will be fish and turtles.
At first glance, the large number of civilians in Liu Ye were building high platforms and buildings needed for abdication, and then they were transporting soil and stones and building camps at the foot of Lumen Mountain. In fact, tens of thousands of people were running around, and only a few of them played a key role in the end.
These few people are responsible for breaking the dike and dam, and flooding the Jingzhou army east of the Han River!
Then think about it again, the flood suddenly rushes, and the tens of thousands of Jingzhou troops east of the Han River will certainly be drowned. How can the Jingzhou troops and Jingzhou troops west of the Han River stop?
A huge amount of water rushed down, not only Caiyang, but also the south of Zhangling, and the Han River must also surge, and the water was extremely surging. The Xiangyang defenders were originally guarding various highlands, while the Jingzhou army camped near the water was in great trouble.
Even if they have boats, they cannot carry all their troops during the rush; even if some soldiers board the ship in time and are not drowned, they will definitely be washed downstream by the water. At this time, the depressions around Xiangyang will become large swamps. They cannot sail or leave. How long can the remaining troops of the Jingzhou Army last?
Three days? Five days? Ten days?
As long as the water retreats patiently, the soldiers can go south empty-handed, collect the bodies of the Jingzhou army along the way, pack up their armor and weapons. After tens of thousands of people lost, how can the Jingzhou army attack? It is also impossible to go south with its elite troops and directly seize Jiangling.
And in Guanzhong... when Jingzhou was destroyed, the army of Jiaozhou was completely destroyed. Will the King of Hanzhong dare to fight in Guanzhong?
Thinking of this, Cao Zhang's face turned red with excitement.
Cao Cao smiled and said, "How is it? What's my plan?"
Cao Zhang was about to praise him, but suddenly thought again, no wonder he asked Cao Xiu to find more than a thousand heads, but his expression was a bit strange.
Such floods will flood the Jingzhou army, not to mention that the Jingzhou army will drown 10,000, or 30,000 people; only the tens of thousands of people who pretend to build camps at the foot of Lumen Mountain will inevitably be in vain. Even Cao Xiu's headquarters is the elite army stationed in Yecheng, but except for some of them stationed on the mountain, most of the others must be drowned with them.
There are so many people who don’t care about their lives. What’s more than a thousand heads? Where can’t they be taken out?
The King of Wei went south this time and acted without any scruples. He just wanted to win!
In the final analysis, this so-called trick is just that King Wei can make the determination that ordinary people dare not make, dare to pay the price that ordinary people dare not imagine, and dare to bear the infamy that ordinary people dare not bear!
Cao Zhang was a little stunned.
Cao Cao frowned and urged: "Ziwen!"
Cao Zhang suddenly woke up, and did not care about the armor on his body and had not removed it. He bowed to him: "This plan is extremely wonderful and he will definitely be able to defeat the thief!"
Cao Cao laughed and stood up, slapped Cao Zhang's arm hard.
"I have said a long time ago that the Jingzhou army went north to attack and relied on water, their naval army. But what I used to defeat the enemy this time was also water! In the past few years, I have been building water conservancy in Yecheng, Jianghuai and other places, and have trained a group of experts who are proficient in hydrology... I will use it at this time! How about it, is this plan quite unexpected? Haha, hahaha!"
Cao Zhang laughed dryly with him.
Just as Cao Cao, Cao Zhang and his son were talking, south of Yidu, there were more and more Jingzhou soldiers around Chishan, and Jiaozhou soldiers moved in.
Chapter completed!