Chapter 852: Navy enters the river to block things
"Please agree to this third thing first!"
Thinking of Di Renjie's request, Wang Yu approved it after some thought.
Although it felt like they shot themselves in the foot, didn't Xiao Ruolin and the others want to denounce Li Shikai? Then Wang Yu, who was an enemy, wanted to set Li Shikai as a benchmark for Da Cang's loyal ministers!
It's also like shooting a stone in the foot, but we want to see who is hurting more by it?
In the minds of the wise people in the world, this newly established so-called imperial court helped them portray the image of a cunning rabbit who would die and be cooked by a lackey.
From a personal point of view, he never has to vilify his enemies or anything like that!
In fact, most of the people who can truly achieve great things don't bother to vilify their enemies.
If you don't even have that kind of magnanimity and pride, how much can you accomplish?
There are always people who think that history books are written by the victors, and the victors will deliberately distort the losers.
But in fact, it’s just some people’s self-righteousness!
For example, in the "History of the Ming Dynasty" written in the Qing Dynasty, you will be surprised to find that the Qing Dynasty praised the capable Ming Dynasty emperors and tried their best to praise their virtues; but they deplored the Ming Dynasty's weak emperors and tried their best to protect their shortcomings.
To evaluate Zhu Yuanzhang, "Wu settled the troubles and brought peace to the people". He was smart and powerful, and had great ambitions to help the world and bring peace to the people. Heroes rushed to join him, eliminate violence and bring peace to the people, and diaosi counterattacks to pacify the world. The Qing Dynasty almost gave historians the highest evaluation of Zhu Yuanzhang.
, but briefly mentioned Zhu Yuanzhang’s massacre of heroes and several serious injustice cases.
It is evaluated that Zhu Di "ruled the Tang and Song Dynasties" and "reached far away from the Han and Tang Dynasties". He was thrifty, knew people well and was as good as his father. He went to Mobei and beat the remnants of the Mongolian Yuan Dynasty to the ground, and put the Ming Dynasty and the Han and Tang Dynasties together.
In comparison, the praise was quite harsh. He only said one sentence objectively about Zhu Di's pursuit of Emperor Jianwen's loyal ministers, which was quite a face-saving statement.
Even if he did not go to court, had lewdness in the leopard room, and was close to treacherous ministers and villains, the Ming Wuzong Zhu Houzhao was scandalized as early as the Ming Dynasty, but the people of the Qing Dynasty still tried their best to say good things.
Even the evaluation of the subjugated emperor Chongzhen was that he "suffered hardships without humiliating himself, and was a righteous martyr for the subjugated country" and "his destiny was determined by his destiny." Such comments are much higher than the evaluation of Chongzhen by later generations.
Another example is the evaluation of Xiang Yu in the Han Dynasty. How did Sima Qian describe Liu Bang, and how did he describe Xiang Yu?
In fact, from the Han Dynasty to the Qing Dynasty, those in the Han Dynasty, led by Sima Qian, had a better evaluation of Xiang Yu, while the rest had mainly negative impacts.
That is to say, later generations regard Xiang Yu as a god, but regard Liu Bang, the unified emperor, as some kind of ruffian?
A person is regarded as a hero in life and a hero in death. However, when Li Qingzhao wrote this poem, was it for Xiang Yu? It clearly refers to the small imperial court of the Southern Song Dynasty at that time! It has nothing to do with Xiang Yu, but it does.
It’s really not that big! On the contrary, later generations will take this sentence seriously!
Therefore, for Li Shikai, Wang Yu did not bother to distort his image! How can someone who is not broad-minded enough to accommodate the world?
It is said that a general can run a horse with his forehead, and a prime minister can punt a boat with his belly. But how can a person who wants to be an emperor not be better than a general or a prime minister?
Even Wang Yu had to admit that Li Shikai, the general who marched east of Da Cang River, was worthy of this string of words.
If such a person is willing to risk his own life and reputation, if he cannot bear the title of loyalty, who else can? The title given to this man by the late emperor is Uncle Loyalty and Faithfulness, and this title was indeed given correctly.
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"Send an order to Gan Ning to lead 20,000 naval troops into the river along the coast, blockade the river, and prepare to cut off the connection between the east and west of the river!"
In the land of four rivers, the navy still plays a very important role.
It's a pity that because this place is located in the hinterland of Da Cang, there is no emergency navy.
In this way, Yanbei Navy may be able to play a significant role in this battle.
Moreover, although many of Gan Ning's newly recruited 20,000 navy men came from the original gang of Li Cunxiao's father-in-law, so there is no need to worry about their abilities on the water, but gangs and the army are two different things!
These two newly formed navy divisions will still be trained by them after all.
It is better to train troops here first than to directly confront the Dongyi Navy later.
Moreover, although Wang Yu wanted to promote Gan Ning and later Shi Lang to balance the veteran faction headed by Mo Peng.
However, if there is no military merit, Wang Yu can't just mention it forcefully, right?
Balance the veterans and return to the veterans, but what you have to do is so that others can’t say anything!
"Then four generals, Xue Rengui, Ye Jiyang, Zhang Liao, and Guan Yu, each with three thousand black cavalry, will raid all parts of Hedong without occupying the city, and lure soldiers and horses from Hexi to attack!" Thinking of this sudden change, Wang Yu changed his mind.
previous combat methods.
Originally, in their plan, their 20,000 black cavalry were supposed to directly attack Ping County, Hedong Province.
Hedong Road only has about 120,000 troops, and Li Shikai brought 100,000 to Hebei Road. The remaining 20,000, at best, Ping County can only have 10,000, or even only 5,000.
maybe.
As long as his 20,000 black cavalry can enter the city under a sudden attack and win the battle, there will be no difficulty at all.
However, the soldiers and horses of Hexi Road entered Hedong Road, and the previous strategy could not be continued.
Along the way, we went deep into Hedong Road. If we didn't enter the city, we would be cut off from the food route, which would be very embarrassing.
Although they broke into Jiexian County in Hedong to get food, they were taking the government's food reserves, not the people's food and grass. Not every county has a large amount of food and grass, and if the other party really cuts off their two routes, they will definitely
We will strengthen the walls and clear the fields, and strictly guard each city.
No matter how elite the black cavalry are, can Wang Yu still let them fight sieges? And this is without large siege equipment!
When they were in Dongyi, they could attack the ordinary people of Dongyi, without destroying the city, but they could loot the villages along the way. If one was not enough, there would be two, and if two were not enough, then ten, and they would loot all the grain and all kinds of livestock.
, there’s always something to eat!
However, this method is used in Dongyi, but it is absolutely impossible to be used in Hedong!
Now, Wang Yu divided four groups of black cavalry, with him as the center, to sweep around. They would fight if they could, and if they couldn't, they would wander among the counties. Even if they didn't attack the city, they still had to prevent the people from Hedong from attacking.
Dare to come out.
After Xiao Ruolin and Li Shikai had done this, they naturally regarded Hedong and Hexi as their basic base and refused to give up, fearing that they would not be allowed to use Hedong as a racecourse unscrupulously.
Therefore, they always have to force the other party to come to them proactively.