Su Ling woke up with a worried look on his face, and saw Xiao Yuanche and Guo Baiyi both smiling lightly and looking at him expectantly. Su Ling suddenly felt confused, scratched his head and said awkwardly: "I'm really too tired.
I fell asleep, so I accidentally fell asleep, and I was completely helpless."
Xiao Yuanche waved his hand and said: "No problem, I want you to sleep a little longer, so Bai Yi wanted to call you, but I stopped him. Now that you're awake, just come up with a way to break the situation...
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Su Ling was a little helpless, knowing that Guo Baiyi had kicked the ball to him, so he glanced at Guo Baiyi sideways, and Guo Baiyi looked back at him with a teasing expression.
Su Ling scratched his head and stared at the map forty-nine times. Xiao Yuanche became a little impatient with the waiting and snorted.
After a long while, Su Ling finally managed to choke out a sentence: "It's easy to break the situation...it's easy to just retreat!..."
Xiao Yuanche rolled his eyes and glanced at Su Ling, and said with an angry look on his face: "You kid, you are probably not awake yet, are you talking in your sleep? The plan to retreat back to Bacheng has been rejected by me and Bai Yi, and it is still useful.
Come on..."
Su Ling then lowered his head and muttered: "Oh, no..." Suddenly he raised his head and asked urgently: "No, who said we would evacuate to Bacheng?...
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Xiao Yuanche and Guo Baiyi looked at him with burning eyes and asked in unison: "If we don't retreat to Bacheng, where can we retreat to?"
Su Ling then calmly pointed to a city on the south bank of the Bahe River, within Xiao Yuanche's sphere of influence, and said word by word: "Just retreat here!"
Xiao Yuanche and Guo Baiyi followed his gestures and saw Su Ling's finger pointed directly at a city on the map.
The two blurted out at the same time: "Jiuzhang?..."
Su Ling said with a look of sudden realization: "Oh, this place is called Jiuzhang! I heard what you said, but now I know..."
He carefully looked at the name of the city marked under the city, and it turned out that it was indeed Jiuzhang.
Su Ling then said firmly: "Yes, we are going to evacuate to Jiuzhang!"
Xiao Yuanche shook his head repeatedly and said: "Jiuzhang...how can we evacuate to Jiuzhang? It's absolutely impossible!"
Su Ling was a little confused and said: "Oh? Why is Jiuzhang absolutely not allowed?"
Guo Baiyi intercepted the conversation and said: "Su Ling, you don't know something. There is a river north of Jiu Zhang, which is a tributary of Ba River. It is called Zhang River by the local people. Although it is a tributary, the place where it flows is a flat river.
The plain areas here are not like our Bahebei camp, which is blocked by mountains. Therefore, although the Zhang River is a tributary, it has been flooded year after year, hitting Zhang City. The people around the city suffered, and they abandoned this place with their families.
More than eighty miles south of the city, there was a small town, and the people from around the area settled in this small town. Over time, the small town developed, the city expanded again and again, and the economy began to prosper, and it became the territory close to Shen Jizhou under the jurisdiction of the lord.
The first big city in the world, in order to distinguish it from the original Zhang City, and because the new city was in the south, the people called this emerging city Nanzhang, and the original Zhang City was renamed Old Zhang! Today, although Old Zhang is not
As for being completely deserted, it can only be regarded as a small town in the lower county..."
When Su Ling heard this, he was startled and said: "What...what? What do you call this big city in the south of Old Zhangzhou?..."
Guo Baiyi said again: "Nanzhang City? What's wrong? Why are you so surprised?"
Su Ling opened his eyes wide and looked south of Old Zhang City. As expected, he saw on the map that there was a big city in the south of Old Zhang. The name was clearly marked on it, and there were two big characters: Nan Zhang!
Su Ling suddenly lost his voice and said: "Wucao! It can't be such a coincidence. I dare to ask Jiejiu how many cities in our territory have the name of Nanzhang..."
Guo Baiyi said dumbly: "How many more are there? This place is called Nanzhang..."
This...what is this? Returning home with honor?
It was still God's will. He said he wanted to withdraw his troops to Jiuzhang, but he never thought that he was only eighty miles away from Nanzhang!
For a moment, Su Ling's heart was full of mixed feelings and she didn't know what to say.
Finally, Su Ling shook his head vigorously and said: "Ignore Nanzhang for now, what we are talking about now is to withdraw our troops to this old Zhang city."
Xiao Yuanche still shook his head, feeling that it was not appropriate to retreat here.
But Guo Baiyi looked at the location of Jiuzhang on the map, his expression seemed thoughtful.
Seeing this, Su Ling said word by word: "The reason why the Prime Minister is unwilling to withdraw his troops to Old Zhang is because the old Zhang city is in decline and the city defenses have probably been abandoned for a long time!"
Xiao Yuanche nodded and said: "That's true!"
Su Ling smiled lightly and said, "May I ask, Prime Minister, which city in Jiuzhang has stronger defenses than Bajindu?"
Guo Baiyi said at this time: "Compared with Bajin Ferry, although the old Zhangcheng is a bit deserted, it is only in recent years and it is not completely deserted. There are still hundreds of households today, plus
Originally, Old Zhang was a big city, and it was difficult for Shen Jizhou's troops to penetrate deep here. Therefore, the old Zhang city defenses may have been damaged and collapsed, but it was originally a big city defense, and no matter what, it was stronger than the defenses of a ferry!"
Su Ling laughed and said, "That's it. Since the defense of the old Zhang city is stronger than that of the Ba Jindu city, and it is the size of a big city, why can't we withdraw our troops to garrison in the old Zhang city, but insist on defending the city surrounded by enemies and the city defense
Isn’t it as good as Bajin Ferry in old Zhangcheng?”
After hearing Su Ling's words, Xiao Yuanche lowered his head and pondered, and remained silent for a long time.
After a while, Xiao Yuanche raised his head and asked: "But, since we have already withdrawn to Jiuzhang, why not simply withdraw to Bacheng? That is our military powerhouse, and the city defense there is even more impregnable!"
Su Ling smiled faintly and said eloquently: "Prime Minister, please think about the reason why we gave up Bajin Ferry. From a kid's perspective, there are only five reasons: First, Bajin Ferry went deep into Shen Jizhou's Bohai Sea sphere of influence.
It is surrounded by Shen Jizhou's power cities, and it is much closer to Bohai City. The closest to Bajin Ferry is our new small town of Linting. The distance to Linting is much farther than Shen Jizhou's power city around Bajin Ferry.
Moreover, the troops and horses in Linting were also separated from our camp. Linting itself has no troops to garrison. Once the war breaks out, our army will not only be besieged by multiple forces sinking Jizhou, but also in order to defend Linting, the troops and horses separated from Linting will also be separated.
Don’t move lightly!”
Xiao Yuanche and Guo Baiyi couldn't help but nod their heads after listening to Su Ling's words.
"Not only that, the current Bahebei camp's military line is already a bit long, and the army's food and grass have to be transported from Bacheng. If we leave the Beida camp and all of them are stationed in Bajin Ferry, the battle line will be further stretched, and the supply from the rear will be even greater.
It's difficult, not to mention that Baicheng is also facing the crisis of a large army pressing down on the border, so the supply of food and grass will make things even worse." Su Ling said calmly.
"Can these problems be solved by retreating to Jiuzhang?" Xiao Yuanche suddenly asked.
"Of course!" Su Ling said loudly: "Prime Minister, please see, big brother in white, the old Zhangcheng City is on the south bank of Bashui. The south bank of Bashui is our territory. We are waiting for Shen Jizhou to invade our territory. The situation will be reversed." , Shen Jizhou went deep alone, and we waited for work. Once Shen Jizhou came to attack, with Jiuzhang as the core, several cities in the surrounding area could respond, and then Shen Jizhou would fall into our siege. We don't have to worry We have a problem with insufficient troops."
Hearing this, Guo Baiyi nodded slightly.
Su Ling added: "Secondly, although the old Zhang city defenses have been damaged, the big brother in white just said that Old Zhang was originally a big city. Even if the city defenses are now damaged, it is still stronger than Bajindu in general. In terms of city defenses, it is better." , Jiuzhang is also a good choice.”
"Third, Prime Minister, please look at this map carefully, brother in white. Old Zhangcheng is eighty miles away from Nanzhang City, and just a few dozen miles to the south is Banan City. After passing Banan City, a few dozen miles further is Bacheng. A little further southwest of the city is Longtai, Kyoto. Therefore, it is only a few hundred miles from Jiuzhang to Longtai. If we march in a hurry, we can return to Bacheng in one day at most. Once we return to Jiuzhang, our front will be extremely stretched. It’s a big shortening, and our supplies can not only come from the direction of Bacheng, but also be deployed directly from Nanzhang City. Since we allocate grain and grass from Nanzhang City, it’s eighty miles away, so it’s not very close. There are no enemy soldiers in Nanzhang. It’s a violation of the territory, and Nanzhang is rich and prosperous. With all the strength of the city, we can supply the army with food and grass for two or three months, which is about the same! From then on, the food and grass problem of our army has been solved!"
After Su Ling finished speaking, Guo Baiyi nodded repeatedly, with a look of appreciation in his eyes.
Xiao Yuanche nodded and said in a deep voice: "Go on!"
Su Ling cupped his hands and said: "Fourth, Jiuzhang is not far from Baicheng. If Baicheng can block Liu and Chen's coalition forces, we can concentrate our efforts on a decisive battle with the invading Shen Jizhou army. If Baicheng is in danger, We can send troops directly from Jiuzhang to rescue Bacheng and arrive in a day's march. If Liu and Chen's coalition forces withdraw in time, it will be an advantage for them. But if they do not withdraw in time, the reinforcements and the Bacheng defenders will attack each other, which will be enough for them to drink. Hu! In addition, the troops assigned to support by Jiu Zhang can be immediately replaced by troops transferred from Nanzhang County and several nearby counties. Our troops will not be lost due to the rescue of Ba City!"
Guo Baiyi nodded, took a deep breath and said, "It is indeed as Su Ling said."
Xiao Yuanche frowned slightly and said: "It's still the same question I just asked, then why can't we just withdraw to Bacheng?"
Su Ling smiled and said: "This is the fifth reason. First, there are Liu and Chen's coalition forces under the city of Ba City. If we rashly withdraw to Ba City, Liu and Chen's coalition forces will definitely come to stop us. Then we will camp outside the city. Against Liu and Chen's coalition forces, the army will become a lone army with no city to defend. If we cannot defeat Liu and Chen's coalition forces as soon as possible, Shen Jizhou will react and raise the army to pursue us. By then, we will have Liu and Chen's coalition forces in front of us and Shen Ji in the back. Zhou's army is chasing us, and we are trapped and surrounded. I'm afraid that if we can't solve the crisis in Ba City, our own army will be swallowed up by Shen Jizhou!"
"Both, Ba City is an important military base for our army. It was the Prime Minister's hard work for many years that led to its current scale. Once the war is drawn to Ba City, no matter we win or are defeated, Ba City will lose its prosperity and be destroyed. Once. However, there are not many households in Old Zhang, and it is an abandoned old city. The battlefield is there, even if we are damaged, our losses will be minimal!"
Su Ling finished these five points in one breath, then bowed to Xiao Yuanche with a smile and said: "So it is up to the Prime Minister himself to decide whether the army should march to Jiuzhang to garrison!"
"Hiss—!" Xiao Yuanche took a breath, his eyes kept moving, and finally couldn't make up his mind. He raised his head and looked at Guo Baiyi with questioning eyes.
However, Guo Baiyi smiled heartily, cupped his hands towards Xiao Yuanche and said: "My lord, Baiyi thinks that the strategy of returning the army to Jiuzhang to garrison and wait for Shen Jizhou to come for the decisive battle is feasible!"
Xiao Yuanche nodded, but then he still hesitated and said: "Since Bai Yi thinks so too, then let's withdraw our troops back to Jiuzhang? But do we really want to give up Bajin Ferry, Beidaying and Linting, which we finally defeated? ?”
Guo Baiyi smiled and said: "My lord, the war is about the final victory, why worry about the gains and losses of a city? Whether it is Linting, Beidaying, or Bajindu, in the final analysis, they are all surrounded by Shen Jizhou's forces. If We are occupying it by force under their noses. We need to divide our troops and defend them. If Shen Jizhou raises a large army and defeats them one by one, it is still unclear whether we can defend or not. Why not buy them a bargain and we will use all the available troops? Take them with you and withdraw them all to Jiuzhang! We can also accumulate our military strength!"
Xiao Yuanche still hesitated and said: "But if we really pull out all these places, there will no longer be a city for me, Xiao Yuanche, on the north bank of the Bahe River!"
Su Ling smiled and said loudly: "Prime Minister, don't worry, the cities that Shen Jizhou ate will definitely be spit out by him when the time comes, and he will have to pay more than this!"
Xiao Yuanche nodded solemnly and sighed: "Well, since you two agree, I have nothing to say. However, after all, we have just won the battle. If we retreat before we are defeated, I'm afraid The morale of the soldiers has been damaged!"
"Prime Minister! What does retreat mean? It's just a word. We might as well change it. No matter this action is called retreat, let's issue an order and call this action... strategic transfer! How can the soldiers still do it? What about low morale?" Su Ling laughed.
"Strategic shift!...Haha, this word is a clever idea! Lord, just give the order like this!" Guo Baiyi secretly sighed at Su Ling's quick wit. He was the only one who could describe the retreat as a strategic shift!
Xiao Yuanche pondered for a long time before he made up his mind and said: "Forget it! Just as you two said, pass the order down, pull out the stronghold tomorrow, and move the army strategically to the old Zhang City by the Zhang River, a tributary of the Ba River on the south bank! Linting, The troops and horses of Bajindu moved there at the same time and met at the old Zhangcheng city!"
"The Prime Minister is wise!" Su Ling and Guo Baiyi looked at each other and smiled, and held their hands towards Xiao Yuanche.
The two of them thought that the matter was over and wanted to leave.
Xiao Yuanche stopped Su Ling with a teasing look on his face and said: "Don't forget, you promised Guan Yunchong to find him... Su Ling, you must keep Guan Yunchong for me. ah!"
Su Ling had only been focusing on the mobilization of the army on the battlefield, and had forgotten about it for a while.
It wasn't until Xiao Yuanche reminded him that he finally remembered.
Su Ling suddenly felt that his head had grown three times bigger.
Regarding this matter, even if my tongue is as bright as a lotus flower, I probably won't be able to keep Guan Yunchong...
He could only smile bitterly and said: "Prime Minister, I will do my best...but I dare to ask...if Guan Yunchong insists on leaving and looking for his brother, what are the Prime Minister's plans?"
As he spoke, he looked at Xiao Yuanche calmly.
But seeing the uncertain look on Xiao Yuanche's face, he was speechless for a long time.
Suddenly, a burst of helplessness and emotion appeared on his face, he stroked his beard and said: "Yun Chong is loyal, the agreement I made with him back then was a gentleman's agreement, but now he really wants to abandon me...
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"That's all...the world is big and the earth is big, let him go!" This chapter has been completed!