Chapter 575: The Yue King's Art of Controlling People
Chapter 575 The King of Yue’s Art of Controlling People
Cai Wenjing unexpectedly did not turn around and surrounded Yuguan with Shi Chaoyi. Instead, he chose to continue going north and attack Yingzhou City, the base camp of Pinglu Town. This war also went beyond the scope of the player's plan.
In the meeting hall inside Yuguan, Yu Chixin, his generals, and the staff at the staff office in Shazhou were holding a remote joint meeting.
The fiery-tempered Zhang Guangde first bombarded: "The combat plan was designated by your staff, right? You also proposed the eight-character policy of 'holding Yuguan and waiting for the enemy to break it'. What's going on now? The enemy went directly north!"
Zhang Guangde fired off his guns for a while, making the staff who participated in the formulation of the Great Roundabout strategic plan unable to raise their heads. The first half of the entire plan was indeed the same as the players' design, but why did it change in the second half?
Now Shi Chaoyi's 20,000-strong army is stationed south of Yuguan, and small groups of troops are sent out every day to test the defenders in Yuguan.
Cai Wenjing went directly to destroy Pinglu, and now the players are unable to advance or retreat.
If you go north to pursue Cai Wenjing, even if you catch up with Cai Wenjing and destroy Cai Wenjing's troops, you must use most of your troops. Yuguan will be recaptured by Shi Chaoyi, and the war will return to the state it was in at the beginning. Then rent a ship and convert it to transport troops.
All your work is in vain.
If Cai Wenjing does not go north to pursue Cai Wenjing and stay to confront Shi Chaoyi, then after Cai Wenjing captures Yingzhou and takes control of Pinglu Town, he can confront the players, and the grand detour strategy will also be hindered.
The more Zhang Guangde spoke, the more unpleasant it became. Xu Jun coughed and said, "The facts are already like this. This time the battle plan was my mistake. I apologize on behalf of the staff office!"
Hearing what Xu Jun said, Zhang Guangde closed his mouth.
Before the meeting, the Staff Office had already conducted a review. After all, few players were from formal military backgrounds, and even those who were soldiers rarely had full-time staff officers.
The battle plan was not thorough, and the strategic judgment of these indigenous generals was underestimated. Cai Wenjing, whose name was only left a few times in the history books, turned out to be such a difficult character.
It is difficult for the players in Yuguan to break the game, but for Cai Wenjing, it is just a matter of risking death.
If Yingzhou City cannot be captured for a long time, Cai Wenjing, a lone army, will be trapped to death.
If the Tang army gave up guarding Yuguan and tried its best to annihilate Cai Wenjing, then Cai Wenjing's troops would not be spared.
This Cai Wenjing is equivalent to using his own life to forcibly exchange the money with the player. Such a fierce style of play is also something the player did not expect.
Xu Jun said: "I asked over at Tongliao City. The players who stayed in Tongliao City plus the Khitans we recruited can form an army of two thousand people. Yuchi, do you think we can break the siege of Yingzhou?"
Yu Chixin shook his head and said: "No, in the rush, Tongliao simply cannot assemble so many troops, and it will take three days to march day and night from Yingzhou in Tongliao. With the lax defense of Yingzhou city, it will be good if we can hold it for two days.
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After hearing Yu Chixin's pessimistic analysis, all the soldiers participating in the meeting were a little depressed. They had finally implemented the great detour strategy here, but they were now in trouble.
Yu Chixin cleared his throat and said: "We still haven't won the hearts of the people in the north. If we can win the hearts of the people in the north, we don't have to worry about the thieves taking over Yingzhou City."
Xu Jun nodded. When the staff formulated the plan, they analyzed it based on the strategy of our army entering the Northeast. However, at that time, our army had already won the hearts and minds of the military and the people, and the people in the Northeast also hated the National Army and looked forward to our army, so we could
It has been marching straight into the Northeast region and developing slowly.
The current situation is that Pinglu was once the place where Anlushan made his fortune, and the Han Huzai residents were fierce and dissatisfied with the Central Plains regime. Shi Siming was Anlushan's deputy and had a high prestige in Pinglu Town.
Cai Wenjing's occupation of Yingzhou was bound to quickly turn the entire Pinglu army on its side. At that time, the defenders at Yuguan were really under attack from both sides.
Yu Chixin stood up and looked at the map and said: "We finally captured Yuguan, we must hold it! If we let it out, the enemy will be on guard against enemies coming from the sea next time, and then we will have to pay a greater effort."
You have to pay the price to get it!"
"It may be too late for Yingzhou City. We still need to send troops north. If we can deal with Cai Wenjing's department and prevent him from integrating the resources of Pinglu Town, we can just wait until the reinforcements from Tongliao City arrive and we can recapture Yingzhou City."
Yu Chixin's strategy seemed to have the best of both worlds, but after he said it, everyone was silenced.
Having the best of both worlds means not having the best of both worlds. Now there are only 3,000 player soldiers and 2,000 Bohai mercenaries in Yuguan. The quality of the Bohai navy is far inferior to that of the players. It is just right to hold Yuguan. Where are the extra troops from the north and Cai Wenjing's 8,000 troops?
Circling around.
Yu Chixin asked Zhang Guangde: "Old Zhang, can your gunboat reach Shi Chaoyi's military camp?"
Zhang Guangde said: "Shi Chaoyi must have received information about the Yuguan deserters, and the general camp was set up on the coast of Yuanjing. However, his camp is too big, and there are always a few places that can be shot."
Yu Chixin looked at the map and said: "Shi Chaoyi's army of 20,000 people and tens of thousands of civilians must need supply lines. Use gunboats as fire cover to escort the landing craft around Shi Chaoyi's camp to intercept his supply lines. You don't want to fight a protracted war with us.
How can you fight a protracted war if your army has no food to eat?"
Then Yu Chixin said: "I want to take away two thousand player troops and four cannons. I need everyone to hold on at Yuguan for fifteen days. Can you do it?"
After everyone hesitated, Yuchixin patted Zhang Guangde on the shoulder and said unexpectedly: "Old Zhang, I will hand over Yuguan to you."
[Player Zhang Guangde has obtained command authority on the Yuguan battlefield!]
[Player Zhang Guangde has obtained battlefield broadcast permission!]
The staff fell silent. As a frontline general, when the battlefield changes, it is the power of the frontline commander to adapt to changes.
The staff department had just been bombarded by Zhang Guangde because of a misjudgment, and no one dared to express an opinion at this time.
Yu Chixin was also very resolute, and he quickly recruited two thousand players. These were the elite players, a unit that was jokingly called mounted heavy armored infantry in the forum.
Facts have proved that riding skills are very dependent on talent. Today, the largest cavalry unit among the players is still the Tianshan Army inherited from Cao Lingzhong.
Fighting on horseback requires a series of skills such as [Riding], [Archery], and [Polar Weapons] to reach the "Mastery Level". A pure cavalry unit is really too extravagant.
So Yuchixin adopted a lazier approach, letting players wear heavy armor and train infantry tactics, but ride horses when marching or raiding.
In other words, these two thousand players' elite troops are heavy armored infantry on horseback.
The advantage is that infantry is easy to train. As long as the weapons and equipment are equipped and the team cooperates well, it can form combat effectiveness.
Riding a horse can reduce physical exertion and increase the marching speed and mobility of the troops. It can be said to make up for the shortcomings of the heavy armored infantry's mobility.
Yu Chixin led the troops to set off, and Xu Jun finally compiled the battle report and sent it to the King of Yue.
Li Mi, who was assisting Li Tan in handling government affairs, saw the battle report and quickly handed it to Li Tan.
Li Mi knew that Longyou had a technology that could send messages thousands of miles instantly, but he didn't know how this was achieved.
Even a flying pigeon can't pass the message so fast, right?
Li Mi was originally a Taoist, and he even believed that Li Tan received a treasure given by God, so that he could receive messages thousands of miles away in real time.
At the beginning, Li Mi was still amazed, but now he is no longer surprised.
Xu Jun was a little nervous. He thought that the general staff would be judged to have a lower evaluation. Then when the Great Detour Strategy was settled, the rewards allocated to the brothers would be discounted. When he thought of this, Xu Jun even wanted to plead.
Unexpectedly, Li Tan just said: "The Shi family father and son are not incompetent people, and they also have many talents. We can think of Pinglu as important, how could they not think of it? Fortunately, it has not caused serious consequences, it is just that the strategy is temporarily hindered."
"According to what Yu Chixin said, speed up the transportation of troops and supplies from Modong Grassland to Tongliao City."
"Yes! Your Highness!"
After Xu Jun stepped back with relief, Li Mi said with a smile: "With both grace and power, His Highness's ability to control people has improved again."
Li Tan smiled slightly, there was no way to control people, it was just a mission reward.