Chapter six hundred and sixty-four learning is endless
Yunyang took the surrender letter from the scout and placed it on the sand table. He listened calmly to the words Wanyan Chizha asked the scout to bring back.
"Commander, that's all Jin Guo coach Wanyan Chizha said."
"You go back and rest first!"
"Thank you, Commander-in-Chief, I resign from my humble position."
After the scout left, Yunyang sat in a chair and became silent. The surrounding generals looked at each other and sat down to wait for Yunyang to speak.
Yunyang, who had been thinking for a long time while stroking his gray beard, sighed softly.
"I'm afraid the next battle will be difficult to fight, it will be many times more difficult than the battle south of Hezhou.
Even if we have a strong army and strong horses, we have to be careful to guard against the Jin Kingdom's dying counterattack.
You must be very alert when attacking the city, and don't let the Jin soldiers and horses take advantage of the opportunity."
"We have the order."
Zhang Kuang stood up and took out a piece of paper from his sleeve and handed it to Yunyang: "Commander, according to the intelligence content of our scout investigation, the number of troops stationed in Jianzhou City is only a few hundred thousand. If the budget is larger, there should be fifteen
Ten thousand troops were stationed in the city.
Among the several battles in the past three years or so, this can be regarded as the largest number of defenders we have attacked a fortified city.
Even though Wang Jianxing led the troops on the last expedition, the number of troops garrisoned in the twelve main cities in the southern frontier of the Jin Kingdom was less than one-half of Jianzhou City.
It seems that Queen Jin and Wanyan Chizha have decided to fight us to the death in Jianzhou.
Moreover, the scouts discovered horse hoof prints in the west and north of Jianzhou City. The general speculated that the remnants of the Turkic enemy captured by General Cheng Kai and others came to Jianzhou to join forces with the Jin army.
According to estimates based on horse hoof prints, the number of troops should be between 20,000 and 40,000. The specific number of troops is still unclear.
Whether these cavalry are the full strength of the Turkic and Jianzhou combined forces is still under investigation."
Yunyang took the information, looked through it, and passed it on to the surrounding generals. He stood up and walked to the sand table and stopped.
Leaning down and staring at the terrain around Jianzhou, Yunyang turned his eyes to look at the terrain of Jizhou and Kanzhou.
"Generals, it seems that the Jin army is trying to use the terrain to block our attack.
Jianzhou, Jizhou, and Kanzhou are at an angle to each other, and the terrain is dangerous. We are not familiar with the surrounding situation, and it is easy for them to wait for an opportunity to attack us."
Many generals who were looking for information also stood up and gathered around the sand table.
Looking at the undulating terrain on the sand table, I frowned.
The three cities in Jianzhou appear to be inner cities in the hinterland of the Jin Kingdom, but judging from the terrain, they are far easier to defend and harder to attack than the twelve main cities in southern Xinjiang.
Within the territory of Sanfu, there are many mountains, dangerous roads, many natural chasms, and dense forests and dangerous places emerge in endlessly.
The Jin Kingdom spent a lot of manpower and material resources to build the city here. The fundamental reason is because of the dangerous terrain.
What's more important is that they can't avoid it. These three cities are the only way from the capital of the Jin Kingdom to southern Xinjiang.
If we don't build cities, reclaim mountains and forests, increase arable land, make the people live and work in peace and contentment, and gradually open up the environment of this dangerous land, the northern part of the Jin Kingdom will be separated from the southern part of the country, and we can only take a detour.
But if we take a detour, it will take at least thirty days to travel over such a large area.
This is a huge problem for military deployment, trade, and people's travel.
Especially when going to war, if you have to travel an extra thirty days, the day lilies will be cold by the time you reach the destination.
With years of development, the people of the Jin Kingdom have worked hard.
The dangerous places in Sanfu have also become treasured places.
"Commander, on such a rugged terrain, even if the artillery can provide continuous cover, it will be very costly for our siege vehicles and other equipment to approach the city.
There’s no problem with cavalry attacking, but you can’t use cavalry to attack a city!”
"Cavalry attacking the city?"
Hearing Dongfang Ming's words, Yunyang murmured, narrowed his eyes slightly and began to think.
After a long time, Yunyang's eyes lit up: "Yes, use cavalry to attack the city."
"What?"
"What?"
"Commander, think twice. Attacking the city with cavalry is tantamount to sending your brothers to death."
Yunyang looked at the frightened expressions of the generals around him and gently tapped the edge of the sand table: "Don't make such a fuss. First, let me tell you the reason."
"I'm rude, please enlighten me, Commander."
Yunyang grabbed the bamboo pole and leaned over the sand table to make gestures.
"As you just said, even if there is artillery cover, transporting siege equipment to the city wall will cost a lot of money.
Although the artillery of the Jin Kingdom is not as good as ours, it is not a vegetarian either.
When transporting equipment to attack the city, if the soldiers made slow progress, they could easily be used as live targets by Jin's artillery.
This is what I thought, and I used the cavalry to launch a feint attack to cover the siege of the infantry brothers.
These terrains do not hinder the cavalry's attack. I plan to summon all the sharpshooters in the army, accompanied by an auxiliary with a shield in one hand, two of them and one horse to cover the infantry brothers.
Their main purpose was not to actually attack the city, but to shoot the Lei Zhenzi tied to the rain of arrows onto the city wall.
Then they retreated under the city wall in a roundabout way.
If this strategy works, it may be possible to destroy a large number of Jin's artillery and artillery shells in one fell swoop.
Let them play with fire and burn themselves.
Even if the effect is not good, with the cover of artillery, catapults, crossbows, and the strength of our cavalry, we can definitely buy enough time for the infantry soldiers to attack the city.
This is also a sudden thought of me, and there may be many loopholes that I have never thought of.
How about you guys?"
The generals thought for a long time and nodded silently: "It can be done."
"The general also agrees, but you should not act rashly. You also need to carefully consider the adverse situations that may occur."
"The general also seconded the suggestion and suggested careful deployment before attacking the city. After all, there are a lot of troops in the city, and the rain of arrows from their archers is still a big threat to the cavalry brothers."
Yunyang nodded slightly: "Three days, we use three days to come up with the most reliable strategy to attack the city, just in time for the infantry brothers to become familiar with the terrain outside the city.
By the way, let the auxiliary soldiers find ways to get soil to fill those particularly inaccessible terrains."
"We have the order!"
Yunyang exhaled softly and inserted the bamboo pole into the sand tray.
"If the plan doesn't work, we can't let the brothers attack the city by force and waste their lives in vain.
Take the Heihe River in the Kingdom of Jin to detour to Tingzhou, pass through Chunyang County, enter Beishan Prefecture, pass through Luoyue Valley, and go straight to the capital of the Kingdom of Jin.
Use this as bait to lure the Jin soldiers and horses out of the city to take the bait.
The imperial city was under siege and was in danger. Wanyan was so powerful that Yeluha and the others couldn't just sit back and watch.
Even if there is a rumor that the Queen of Jin abandons the city and goes south to station in Jianzhou, we can also first take the cities of the prefectures in the northern part of the Jin Kingdom besides the three prefectures in Jianzhou.
Cutting off all support from their retreat, they must either leave the city early, or wait for us to turn around and surround them. When they run out of food and fodder, they have to leave the city to fight.
Everything should be done according to the situation, there is no need to risk the lives of the soldiers to fight with them just because they are in the three prefectures."
"The handsome man is wise."
Zhang Kuang looked at Yunyang with bright eyes: "The commander-in-chief used the book Thirty-six Strategies of King of Side by Side, which is a false way to attack Guo and a plan to draw salary from the bottom of the cauldron?"
Yunyang stroked his beard and nodded with a smile.
"It's exactly what I learned from this.
Liu Xiaozi is very good at using troops. Although we have led troops for decades, we cannot rely on our seniority to put ourselves above the top and look down on the rising stars.
Jiang Lei's words when he attacked Songzhou made me feel deeply.