Chapter 166: Deploying troops and dispatching generals
While thousands of horses were galloping on the official road of Guannai Road, in the forest at the foot of Nanshan Mountain, Gongxiangcheng of Chu State, surrounded by a thousand black wolf guards, was negotiating with the nobles of Anbei. It was said to be a negotiation, but it was full of blood. .
Guan Longxungui is an important part of the Great Qianxungui. The century-old war has added many new nobles. Just like Su Ce, who was originally from the south but settled in Chang'an, he is also Guanlong Xungui.
It’s just that Guanlong Xungui is Guanlong Xungui, and Anbei Xungui is Anbei Xungui. Among Guanlong Xungui, there are many northern generals, and the generals are attached to Xungui. Among Guanlong Xungui, Anbei Xungui has the right to speak.
As a distinguished noble, the family's strength has reached the top level of Daqian, but this top level also includes the royal family, Shandong literary clans, Jiangnan gentry and descendants of Daqi.
During the turmoil in Anbei, other forces used the tactics of bribery to help the northern generals. Now that the leader of the Northern Army is heading north, the war in the north is about to enter a period of relaxation. There is a saying that it is easier to conquer the world than to defend it. In this way The same principle applies to Anbei Xungui.
Lord Anbei is of the same mind, but the northern generals who have won the title are not of the same mind as Lord Anbei. Therefore, what Chu State Gongxiangcheng needs to do today is to eliminate dissidents. Lord Guanlong can only have one voice - the Northern Army. the sound of.
"Do it!" Gong Xiangcheng of the Chu State didn't say anything. He just asked people to carry out three wooden boxes, which were full of letters. The Anbei nobles seemed to have guessed something. They led their horses and looked at the northern general indifferently. .
"The Chang Family of Huazhou, the Liu Family of Qizhou, the Wang Family of Qingzhou, the Feng Family of Qinzhou..." There are thirteen families in total, one marquis and twelve uncles. The Black Wolf Guard will attack those who are named without any mercy. The family head and personal guards were divided and strangled one after another by the armored black dragon guards.
Beg for mercy, explain, cry, curse...
All troubles in this world seem to happen in the forest. When a group needs to kill itself, it is either a precursor to collapse or the first cry of new life.
"No harm will come to the family. You and other future generations will only know that today we encountered a tide of beasts. Others are silent, and the detective cavalry and swordsmen are watching everyone! Once Jiuhu is eliminated, our Northern Army has a strong voice in the court. Decline is inevitable. How to protect the Northern Army requires our concerted efforts. These wall-riding people are not worthy of our sympathy. Let's go!" Gong Xiangcheng of Chu State warned the remaining nobles with an indifferent expression.
The Anbei nobles mounted their horses one after another and agreed in unison. As the Black Wolf Guards escorted Chu Gongxiang City away, the remaining northern generals dug a pit in the forest in silence with the horizontal knife on their waist. From now on, the northern generals dug a pit in the forest. The General Sect will cease to exist after today, and Anbei Xungui's name will also disappear. They will have a new name in the future - Guan Long Xungui.
The scouts and swordsmen who were watching in the forest watched the pit being filled in. When everyone left, they used farm tools to throw away the pit, took out the corpses inside, put them in sacks, put them behind the horses, and headed deep into the south mountain. After they left, a large group of wild beasts were driven here. The people driving the wild beasts shot half of them and then hid in the forest.
Gongxiang City of Chu State has established its authority today. A government palace always needs some corpses to build a solid foundation. When there are no corpses of enemies in Gongxiang City of Chu State, the corpses of disloyal people under his command are not a bad idea.
Ten days later, the team led by Su Ce bypassed Dingbei City, crossed the Wuding River, and arrived at Anbei City.
Except for the King of Shu, everyone else was arranged to rest in the inner city military camp in Anbei City. Speaking of the military camp, the military camp is divided into four buildings, namely the inner city military camp. The inner city military camp is said to be a military camp, but in fact it should be called a supply camp.
There are not only grain and grass baggage warehouses, but also workshops for military lieutenant generals, and a small military camp that can only accommodate ten thousand people. On weekdays, auxiliary soldiers live there, while the real garrison lives in the outer city. There are three buildings in the outer city that can accommodate five people.
The military camps with tens of thousands of people are divided into North Camp, West Camp, and East Camp. To the south is the entire Anbei City defense fortress.
Su Ce was not in a hurry to rest. Although he had traveled for such a long time, Su Ce was mentally exhausted but not physically tired at all. He just happened to take the subordinates of the Protectorate who greeted him to inspect Anbei City.
As an important city for the entire Northern Army to guard northern Xinjiang in the future, compared to the original Anbei City built a hundred years ago and the current Dingbei City, the current Anbei City can be said to have achieved the ultimate in defense. The three passes, six fortresses and six defenses built in recent years
They also pushed the city defense to the extreme. These city defense fortresses built in the past three years were all built by the Northern Army without hesitation in manpower and material resources.
The entire Anbei City is shaped like a copper coin. The central mansion and the inner city are square. The inner city is more than ten meters higher than the outer city. At first, it was just a low hill. Earth and bricks were used to build the city. Then the dome was dug into a round hill by manpower.
Square, the city gate is built along the north-south axis. It is divided into three areas by three city walls and outside the city wall. There are moats outside the outer and inner city walls. From the inside to the outside, there is the Duhufu Palace in the middle.
, inner city and outer city.
The water of the moat comes from the river flowing out of the Beidingguan Valley. The water volume is not large. Although the water of the moat flows, it does not flow very fast. It can be said that the entire city is built on the bank of the river named Beiding River. This river will merge into the
In the Wuding River.
The innermost one is the governor's palace, which is hundreds of meters long and wide. It is different from the government agencies in Chang'an City. The outside is not a high wall, but a city wall three feet high and five meters wide. There is a single-hole city gate.
It is a double-story archery tower 30 meters wide, with four three-story turrets protruding from the four corners with circular bases.
The government office is 100 meters long from east to west and fifty meters wide from north to south. To the north of the government office is a small artificially dug lake of the same area, which is used to store water on weekdays. The government office is divided into an east courtyard, a west courtyard and a middle courtyard, both of which have two entrances.
The courtyard and city gate are the courtyard gates of the middle courtyard, and the doors opening on the east and west sides of the front yard of the middle courtyard are the gates of the east and west courtyards. They are all designed for working in the front yard and living in the backyard.
At the intersection of the three gates is the Zhige Hall of the Governor's Mansion, which is also where the Governor's office is located. The west courtyard is allocated to military officials, and the east courtyard is where Chief Shi Sima and other military officers work and live. There is an artificial small lake behind the government office.
The water source is formed by the three-hole springs discovered before. The undercurrent of the spring water should come from the Langyan Mountain. The spring water is sweet and refreshing. The spring water is led to the inner and outer cities through culverts all over Anbei City, and finally merges into the moat. The culvert water is
It is used for drinking, and there are two open channels on the roadside for discharging sewage.
The inner city is surrounded by an inner city wall that is two feet high and ten meters wide. However, due to the terrain, it is three or four feet higher than the outer city. The three gates in the east, west, north and west all have double holes, and the south gate has three holes.
On the city gate is a double-story arrow tower that is fifty meters wide. At the four corners are four three-story turrets. Each city wall is one mile long. Each city wall also has two horse faces protruding from the city wall between the city gate and the turrets.
The two-story watchtower is standard on the horse side.
Fifty meters to the left and right of the south gate of the inner city wall, two 300-meter-long and four-meter-wide city walls were built to the south to connect with the south gate of the outer city wall, forming a rectangular Neon City. There are no walls on these two walls.
In front of the horse, three square battlements, two feet high and fifteen meters wide, were built every 100 meters to defend the enemy from coming over the outer city wall after the outer city was breached. Of course, the thousand-jin iron gates were also standard.
When the enemy attacks from here, the iron gate will be lowered. There are no buildings in Wengcheng and there are no stairs to climb the city wall. On the one hand, these two city walls serve as Wengcheng walls, and on the other hand, they can quickly transport the baggage of the inner city to the city.
In the south, the greatest consumption of baggage is at the Nanwaiqiang and Waiwengcheng.
The outer city wall is three feet high and seven meters wide. The entire outer city wall is circular. There is only a three-hole city gate in the south. The wall where the gate is located is the straight wall. Above the city gate is a three-story archery tower 50 meters wide. Outside the city gate
It is a circular Waiweng City with a diameter of 100 meters. There is a single-hole city gate in the east of Waiweng City. The outer city wall is also equipped with thirty-six double-horse faces symmetrically inside and outside. On the double-horse faces are two symmetrical double-story buildings.
Arrow tower.
After inspecting Dingbei City, Su Ce realized what it means to be impregnable. This Dingbei City is a city, rather it is an enlarged version of Zuowuguan, or Zuowuguan is a smaller version of Dingbeicheng.
As for Beidingguan and Youweiguan, the city construction is different from that of Zuowuguan. They were built according to the terrain. How can they be exactly the same? However, they still stand out as easy to defend and difficult to attack.
After the inspection, Su Ce checked into the government office. After a night's rest, Su Ce never went to the backyard to rest, and he had no time to rest. In the next few days, Su Ce, as the governor, sent out an appointment document, but the transfer
However, many orders were issued for the deployment of troops.
Zhao Zaixiao, King of Shu, was appointed as the Deputy Protector-General, and the other Deputy Protector-General was Zhou Jizhen. The two Deputy Protectors, Yuan Jingyuan, Jia Lihua, and the three senior generals in purple, Su Ce, did not touch them.
General Zuowuguan, Huyan Tuotuo!
The guard of Youwei Pass, Lu Xiu Ming!
Beidingguan general, Xu Mingshan!
Sun Shaoxiang, Wang Wuping, Bai Weimeng, Gao Keshan, Zheng Donghua, and Li Suifeng, six generals in purple commanded the 150,000 Anbei Army at the northern foot of Langyan Mountain. Su Ce also did not mobilize, and the 150,000 army was divided into six groups at the entrance of the three valleys.
Each military formation contains 20,000 regular troops and 5,000 auxiliary troops.
These twelve generals in purple were all appointed by Gong Xiangcheng of Chu State. They were also the first people to support Su Ce as the new military leader. They were all in their prime years, and Su Ce did not transfer them without authorization.
For five days, Su Ce ignored the defense change document from the prince Zhao Zaicheng in the north. The temperature was getting warmer, and the army of nine Huros faced the prince across the river. Both armies were in a situation where they could neither retreat nor advance.
With them at the front, Su Ce could calmly mobilize his troops and make the final adjustment of the troops in the Anbei Protectorate.
The 150,000-strong army, the 120,000 regular army, and the 30,000 auxiliary troops occupy the valley entrance at the northern foot of Langyan Mountain. They block three valleys in the shape of horns on the left and right. In the valleys, the 30,000 auxiliary troops belonging to the three passes and six fortresses transport ordnance, food and grass.
, ensuring the logistics of the 150,000 troops at the northern foot and the Prince's army.
Everyone aspires to become a regular army, but as a general, you must understand the importance of auxiliary troops to a large army. Now the Anbei Army generally has a configuration of one main and one auxiliary. Of course, if a decisive battle is planned, the main army and auxiliary troops
The ratio will become two to one. After all, the main army has to rely on the main army to kill the enemy on the battlefield. However, in the entire battlefield, the ratio of the main army and auxiliary troops still follows the one to one ratio. This is still due to the Anbei Army's large number of horses.
, because it is close to Guannai Road.
The ratio of the Anxi Army is two auxiliaries and one main. If they are too far away from the hinterland of the Central Plains, transporting baggage requires a lot of manpower and animal power. No matter how powerful the main army is, if it lacks the baggage transported by the auxiliary troops, its combat strength will be reduced by 30%.
Quite a few.
Of course, this does not mean that the auxiliary soldiers cannot fight, but that they play different roles on the battlefield. The auxiliary soldiers of the regular army receive the same training on weekdays. When the number of the main army is insufficient, there are numerous examples of the auxiliary soldiers wearing armor and becoming the main army.
enumerate.
However, in the military, age is generally used as a basis. When you reach an age, you can be transferred to the regular army. However, this is not absolute. The number of regular soldiers is adjusted by the commander at any time. In other words, the status of regular army auxiliary soldiers is often
Changes are taking place following the commander's orders. After all, ordnance is limited, and baggage also needs people to transport it.
How to divide the proportion of regular troops and auxiliary troops will test the coach's control and balance of the battlefield situation and logistical pressure.
At present, the Anbei Protectorate has a total of 430,000 regular and auxiliary troops. In the past five days, not only the Anbei frontier army has been mobilized, but also the 50,000 Xiangxiang troops in Guannai Road, because there are two new states in Guannai Road, and these two states are based on Anbei.
The 40,000 Xiang troops were newly built based on the Dingbei City and Beiyuan Eight Guards of the Northern Protectorate. They were handing over to the frontier troops of a heavy city and eight guarding cities.
The Anbei Protectorate gave up a total of nine cities, one large, eight small, and small, so that more troops could be released to destroy Hu. This was what the three provinces, six ministries, nine temples, and five eunuchs had long discussed in the court. The land was taken down by the army and was of no use.
They came to garrison troops, but to allocate fields to the people.
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The Ministry of War has dispatched 70,000 soldiers from Zhechong Prefecture on Guanbei Road, which belongs to the Anbei Protectorate Prefecture, and is also on the way. It only takes ten days to reach Anbei City.
Su Ce is waiting now, waiting for the 500,000 troops to arrive. This battle is not that the Anbei Protectorate has gathered 500,000 troops and then attacked in a wave. This is not how the battle is fought.
Giving up the nine cities in Beiyuan not only freed up troops, but also the Anbei Protectorate made concessions to the court. The 100,000 garrison troops attached to these nine cities also gave up.
Langyan Mountain is bitterly cold, and the Anbei Protectorate does not have the conditions for a military garrison. Therefore, these 100,000 garrison troops are also registered, and the Ministry of Household Affairs has issued household registrations. From now on, these 100,000 garrison troops will become the 100,000 civilian households in Beiyuan. This also means that
The Northern Army, which once had millions of military households, has reduced its number of military households to 900,000. After this war, the Ministry of War and the Ministry of Household Affairs will have to decide whether to return these 100,000 military households, but Su Ce probably won't.
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Su Ce looked at the map and pondered. It would be easy to destroy Jiuhu in this battle. The question was how Ross should fight and to what extent. Su Ce had not yet decided.
The map produced by the Scout Cavalry Shield Department is very clear, and the mountains and rivers on it are very clear. The map is not just a map, but also has a manual, which records the climate and terrain changes in various places on the map. Why is the Anbei Protectorate
Being able to defeat many enemies with a small number relies not only on the bravery of the soldiers and the sophisticated armor and weapons, but also on the maps and documents produced by the scouts, which allows the generals to have an overview of the entire battlefield without paying any bills.
A clear understanding.
The map in front of Su Ce at this time is the latest map. On the territory belonging to the Anbei Protectorate, there is Anbei City where the Anbei Protectorate is located, as well as six shouchu cities at the southern foot of Langyan, and three of the three valleys of Langyan.
Xiongguan, six fortresses.
The troops and horses have not moved, but the food and grass have gone first. Su Ce has no shortage of troops at this time, with half a million troops. This is the largest number of troops in the history of the Anbei Governor.
This is also the first time Su Ce has directed a battle involving more than 100,000 people in the name of coach.
The Anbei Protectorate needs fifteen years of prestige, and Su Ce also needs glory.
One night later, Su Ce stood in front of the map but did not move all night. Suddenly Su Ce's voice rang out: "How long until the soldiers recruited by the Ministry of War arrive? When will the 120,000 troops in the temporary camp outside the city be in place?"
"Counting the days, the soldiers recruited by the Ministry of War will arrive in nine days, but the intelligence report from the reconnaissance cavalry said that they can arrive two days in advance! All the troops in the camp outside the city will arrive tomorrow!" Prince Zhao Zaixiao, the king of Shu, poured strong tea and drank it. One cup, I promised to watch Su Ce, he would not break his promise and get fat. Last night, Su Ce stared at the map and read through the documents all night, and he, the Prince of Daqian, also stayed up all night with him.
"Luoyang! Remember, the two generals Zhou Jizhen and Jia Lihua, with Zhou as the commander-in-chief and Jia as the deputy-general, are stationed in Anbei City, leaving 50,000 troops for Anbei City, um.
The generals who were originally captured by Lang Yan's six guards did not move. There were still two generals and one leader per city, and ten thousand troops were stationed in the captured city.
There are three passes and six fortresses. General Huyan Tuotuo, the guard of Zuowu Pass, General Lu Xiuming, the guard of Youwei Pass, and General Xu Mingshan, the guard of Beiding Pass, each lead 40,000 troops to guard the three passes. The remaining troops of Beisei Pass are 10,000. 20,000 troops were left behind, and 10,000 troops were left behind in Nansai.
This 230,000-strong army serves as the rear army. The rear army and the generals of various departments are under the control of General Zhou Jizhen, who must ensure the smooth flow of baggage and be ready for orders at any time.
Sun Shaoxiang from Wugu on the left, Wang Wuping from Wang Wuping are the left army, Bai Weimeng from Beidinggu, Gao Keshan are from the front army, Zheng Donghua from Weigu from the right, and Li Suifeng from the right are the right army. The strength of the left and right front armies remains at 50,000, and each army retains two military formations. Change, ten thousand auxiliary soldiers maintain the most basic baggage consumption.
The 120,000-strong army outside the city is the Central Army, which I will command. Let the military officials order the baggage. The day after tomorrow, forget it, we will swear an oath in three days. The Chinese army will carry the baggage, set up two military formations, and walk through the valley of Dingguan in the north. Go north to Luoyang and ask Chief Shi Zhou Kang to issue the seals to all ministries. By the way, I want to ask Sima Xie Zifang, have those generals in scarlet clothes finished drawing lots? Inform the gang leader army to kill some sheep and let the soldiers put some meat on their bodies, so that we can fight together. , but I can only survive on this little fat on my body!"
"Here!" Luo Yang bowed and walked out of Zhige Hall with the ink on the documents that had not yet dried.
Su Ce rubbed his brows. This battle is not about expanding the territory, and Daqian does not need the land at the northern foot of Langyan Mountain. We will definitely lose this battle, but we are afraid that the Jiuhu people will escape, and this battle It can be said that the Jiuhu people are to be completely driven out. Of course, the old, weak, women and children cannot be killed at once, otherwise the Northern Army will not be an army, but a group of butchers.
How to force the Russian people to stand by and watch, how to destroy the last 100,000 Jiuhu army, how to capture the old, weak, women and children of the Jiuhu people in the territory of Rus, there can be no mistakes in the realization of each of these goals.
The saint's follow-up arrangements for the Northern Army, the prince's true intention of choosing the Western Army, the last glory of the Northern Army's century-old campaign, how to provide compensation to the military households who have been living in poverty every year, and the household department that has been plundered by the Northern Army for a century to support the Northern Army's offensive. The businessmen of Jiuhu... there are too many doubts that need to be clarified, and there are too many problems that need to be solved.
When Jiuhu becomes a thing of the past, the problems hidden behind the victory of the Northern Army will most likely explode. I don’t know which one will come first after a big victory, the icing on the cake or the adding insult to injury. But what Su Ce has to face now is How to achieve the strategy of destroying Jiuhu and deterring Ross with minimal casualties.
What Daqian needs now is balance. The Northern Army cannot continue to develop and expand. This balance will be unbalanced after losing Jiuhu, a mortal enemy. How to handle this balance without letting the Northern Army decline as a premise is to turn Ross into a mortal enemy. a good choice.
But the saints, the Ministry of War, the Ministry of Households, the royal family, the Shandong literary clan, the Jiangnan gentry, the descendants of Daqi, the local big families... none of these forces hope that after the Northern Army has destroyed Jiuhu, they will turn Ross into a mortal enemy.
Because the Northern Army, which has been expanding continuously at the expense of other forces, has been developing for a hundred years. The Northern Army has threatened the imperial power and continues to squeeze the development space of other forces. After another hundred years of war, the Northern Army will become the bane of destabilizing the Great Qin Dynasty.
The Northern Army does not want this to happen, and neither do other forces. Conflicts between the parties always require someone to mediate. The Northern Army undoubtedly plays this role, but if the adjustment becomes coercion because the Northern Army is too powerful, I am afraid it will be A result no one wants to see.
In the past few years, the changes in the court, the battles between civil and military forces, and the competition between the armies, as the Northern Army continues to grow stronger, have begun to lose control. I don’t know when, the Northern Army has become so strong in handling affairs. Even if the table is turned over, all parties dare to be angry but dare not speak.
Throughout history, once such a force appears, it is often a prelude to dynasty changes and troubled times. The Northern Army is the foundation of Daqian. If the Northern Army becomes the reason for overthrowing Daqian, that is an outcome that no one wants to see. , the Northern Army is a force, but also an army. An out-of-control force can calm its restlessness by suppressing and exchanging interests, but an out-of-control army will only bring destruction.
"King Shu, I'm a little tired. You need to take a rest these two days. There won't be any time to rest in the following days! King Shu hasn't tried the art of stewing mutton. Let's try it today, haha. By the way, I'll put it on my body. Eat some fat!" Su Ce said hello to the King of Shu, Zhao Zaixiao, and asked him to have something to eat together.
"A gentleman is far away from the cook. Forget it, you and I are not gentlemen. It's okay to give it a try." The two of them walked out of Zhige Hall together and walked to the backyard of the middle courtyard. The battle was about to begin. Whether it was Su Ce or the King of Shu, Zhao Zaixiao, they both needed someone. Be fully prepared to face the upcoming battle.