Chapter 1780: 150,000 troops return to the headquarters
Due to his own particularity, Lu Yue is a huge threat, but he is still a person after all!
After conquering Chengdu, the Jin army had a more important thing to do, which was to return to Sizhou to aid as soon as possible.
Don't think that it is easy to send reinforcements back to Sizhou after winning. Yizhou is limited by its geographical location, and it is particularly difficult to get in and out. Just marching along the way will take a long time.
However, sending reinforcements does not require troops from Wang Meng's side, but Li Jing's side is responsible.
As a result, Li Jing had more troops and horses.
Secondly, the distance between Li Jing's location and Sizhou is relatively shorter.
Thirdly, although Wang Meng has already captured the city of Chengdu, he has only captured one Chengdu city. The rest of the hinterland of Yizhou needs Wang Meng's soldiers and horses to slowly recover.
Of course, this is not a problem. After all, even Liu Che, the leader, has perished, and there are a few remaining people who will insist on resisting to the end.
The most critical point after that is that although the war in Yizhou is not over yet, it is obvious that there is no need for so many soldiers and horses in Yizhou.
To be honest, although Sizhou and Jingzhou won many battles during this period, they also suffered a lot of losses, and all of these losses were due to insufficient military strength.
Wang Meng is far away in Chengdu City, and among the remaining governor-level figures, apart from Li Jing, the commander-in-chief of the entire army, there is only one Wei Qing. Even the highest-ranking figure left is only the deputy governor-level figure.
"I will personally lead 150,000 soldiers and horses to return reinforcements. The commander of the defense, Zhou Yafu, will leave his troops to the general to deal with it!" Li Jing said.
As a result, apart from starving to death, Zhou Yafu had only one other option: surrender!
Therefore, at this time, it was obviously a waste for Li Jing to leave more than 200,000 and nearly 300,000 troops there. Sending more than 100,000 troops back to Sizhou was not a big problem at all. For the situation in Yizhou
It won't have any impact.
But he is already a great governor now. If he rises further, he will not be allowed to take over the governorship of several states! A normal person would not hand over the military power of several states to one person! Therefore,
There is a high probability that it is still a false position without actual military power!
Like Wang Meng and others, Li Jing also realized that it was no longer necessary to keep so many soldiers and horses in Yizhou, and it was time to transfer some of the soldiers and horses out of Yizhou.
But now, their troops can be mobilized, and it's time to teach those princes how to behave!
And when they heard that Li Jing was preparing to return to Sizhou to aid, the eyes of many generals had already lit up. There were so many fierce generals among the princes in the world that these generals had long wanted to have a meeting!
With these two governor-level figures present, of the two of them, one must be responsible for returning to aid Sizhou, while the other one is responsible for dealing with the final group of Zhou Yafu's troops.
As for Li Jing leaving this unearned credit to Wei Qing, it was purely as a favor!
Li Jing still has considerable political acumen. He knows very well that after this war is over, his position will inevitably rise again.
This battle has been going on for so long, and it even directly and indirectly triggered a war all over the world, but at this time, it is finally coming to an end.
For example, Li Mu lost Jiangxia and Zhuge lost Nanjun, all because the enemy's strength was several times that of ours. Under attack from all directions, we only care about one and lose the other. It is really difficult for us to fight with two fists.
Fortunately, Zhuge Liang came with a wave of extreme bursts, which brought the greatest turning point to this battle.
On the contrary, on the other side of the Sizhou battlefield, not only can you meet the talented people from all over the world, but you can also compete for more military exploits.
No matter how much food and grass is accumulated in the Jiange, how long can Zhou Yafu last with so many soldiers and horses eating the horses' chews?
At this time, Yizhou's geographical location became their most advantageous part. With the help of Yizhou's geographical location, they could use appropriate troops and horses to cut off any way for Zhou Yafu to break out.
Moreover, if his guess is correct, I am afraid that he will have to be silent for a long time! If there are one or two more big battles like this, Li Jing will inevitably be suspected of being a master of great achievements.
It is precisely because of this that many generals hope to return to Sizhou with the army instead of staying in Yizhou. The last great contribution of Zhou Yafu in Yizhou is obviously reserved for the chief general here, and his subordinates
Those people don't have much to do with each other. At most, they can just share some troubles.
After careful consideration, Li Jing finally handed over Zhou Yafu's huge contribution to Wei Qing.
This is almost a free achievement. All you need to do is block the opponent's way out, and then you only need to wait until the enemy's food and grass are exhausted, and then be forced to surrender. At most, you can only be cautious and pay attention to the enemy's approach.
Deadly counterattack.
In just five days, after Fushuifang tried every means to expedite the message, Li Jing had already received the news that the city of Chengdu had been destroyed and that Liu Che, one of the top princes in the world, was about to perish.
Moreover, although there is still a huge cake in Yizhou and a huge contribution, at this point, generals with a little bit of brains will know that this contribution has nothing to do with them.
After receiving this news, all the generals were in high spirits.
Precisely because of the critical situation in Sizhou, the first thing Wang Meng and the others did after conquering Chengdu City was not to announce the plan to pacify the people and restore order in the city. Instead, they immediately sent a letter to Li Jing to inform Li Jing that Chengdu City had been breached.
matter, so that Li Jing could send troops and horses back to the headquarters as soon as possible.
Although there are still a large number of Shu army soldiers and horses in the sword pavilion, as long as Li Jing and Yang Xuangan work together to seal the two holes, there is no need to fight again. They only need to wait for the enemy's food to run out, and they can defeat the enemy without fighting.
If there really is such a big battle, even if Li Xiang is willing to let Li Jing fight, Li Jing may not really dare to take it.
And Li Jing gave Zhou Yafu's free work to Wei Qing, just to give Wei Qing a greater chance of removing the code of acting governor from his head after this battle.
In this battle, both Wu Qi and Yang Xuangan, who were at the deputy governor level, performed quite well. If Wei Qing did not take the credit of Zhou Yafu, he really might not be able to secure the position of full governor.
After all, Wei Qing is also the queen's biological brother and the biological uncle of Li Xiang's eldest son. Li Jing always wants to do some favors.