Yingchuan, a city surrounded by a dam, finally ushered in peace after soaking in the water for more than half a year. The Western Wei soldiers who had been guarding the city for a year surrendered to the Eastern Wei army that had been besieged for a year without any reinforcements.

Although the Eastern Wei army had opened the weir and released water, the land that had been soaked in water for more than half a year was still muddy. The high ground beside the besieged dam, and in the big tent, King Gao Cheng of Qi and his confidant discussed matters.

The young Gao Cheng has recovered Yingchuan and has made great contributions since becoming the prime minister, which is enough to prove his ability, so he is full of spring breeze at this moment.

However, because he met with Xin Shu, the new Huainan General, yesterday, he advocated to go south to guide Huainan, so Gao Cheng wanted to hear his confidant's opinions.

"Mr. Xin advised me to rush my troops to go south and said that it is all in Huainan. What do you think?"

Chen Yuankang, the general of the Sanqi, made a suggestion: "The king, the subordinates think that the harm is more harmful than good."

"How do you say this?"

"The king has not made great contributions since assisting the government. Now that he has recovered Yingchuan, his merits are enough to convince the public. If he takes Huainan again, it will be good to accomplish things. But if the war is not going well, I am afraid that the Dukes of Jinyang will say strange things again."

The "Jinyang Dukes" mentioned by Chen Yuankang refers to the martial honors of the Ba Mansion of Jinyang. The Ba Mansion of the Gao family is in Jinyang. The Jinyang Dukes are the martial honors of the six towns who fought with Gao Huan back then.

These people only obey Gao Huan, not Gao Cheng much. Hou Jing, the most extreme, immediately rebeled when he heard Gao Huan passed away.

Seeing that Gao Cheng was not up to the question, Chen Yuankang continued to analyze: "The army has been out for more than a year, and the soldiers are exhausted. If they go south again, they may be in a bad mood."

"Besides, it's summer and autumn now. It's rainy in Huainan. It's more than ten days after heavy rain. If a large army pauses under the city and is soaked in rain, it will not only waste food and grass, but also prone to plague."

"The land in Huainan is owned by the Xiao family. Since the Liang army has captured Shouyang and Zhongli, why bother with the king again... If there is any mistake, it would be bad."

"Now, the Hou rebelled against Liang, and the imperial court has obtained all the Liang prefectures and counties north of the Huai River. As for Huainan, it is not an urgent matter."

As Chen Yuankang spoke, his voice became lowered: "King, the most urgent task now is to do kings and dominate the kings. At that time, the title of kings and ministers will be certain. The military honors of Jinyang and the court officials in Yexia all bowed to the kings and surrendered to the kings. Isn't this much more important than Huainan?"

Next to him, another confidant Cui Jishu agreed with Chen Yuankang's opinion:

"King, although Huainan is good, it is not easy to obtain at this time. The Liang army has successively captured Shouyang and Zhongli two strong cities. It can be seen that it must be elite soldiers. It is not only difficult for the king to cross the Huainan to fight with him, but also time-consuming."

"Now the royal army has recovered Yingchuan, but the Western thieves are still occupying several surrounding areas. If the army goes south, the Western thieves will easily rekindle. The Xiao family is incompetent, and sooner or later, brothers will fight against each other. Huainan will have the opportunity to take it, so why bother to hurry up and for a while?"

What the two confidants said was exactly what Gao Cheng wanted to do now was to replace it, that is, to be called emperor by Zen.

The useless "dog-legged" in Yecheng (Gao Cheng's disdain for Emperor Wei) should have given way.

Those rebellious Jinyang Wuxun did give Gao Cheng a headache. These people rely on their seniority and have many old subordinates in the army, so they didn't take him seriously at all.

Only by setting the title of the monarch and minister can we slowly soften these old guys. As for Huainan...

Since Shouyang and Zhongli have been captured by the Liang army, the imperial court has no longer had a foothold on the southern bank of the Huai River. I am afraid that the army will fight south for a year and a half?

It’s okay to take Huainan, but I can’t take it, those old guys are going to be sarcastic again!

Gao Cheng had decided to return to Yecheng on a date and plan carefully, and then let the "dog-legged me" abdicate. Next year, that is the first year of the new dynasty.

As for Liang Guo...

Gao Cheng sneered, disagreed: Even Hou Crazy, who fled south in a hurry, could be besieged Taicheng for several months, which shows that the king and ministers of Liang were all useless.

What qualifications do you have to compete with me for the world if you are unable to protect yourself?

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Li Li was reviewing the war examples in the east of Zhongli, looking at the river flooding in front of him, and trying his best to imagine the situation of the battle of Zhongli that year.

Next to him, Zhang Ying, who was well-informed, explained the story of the Zhongli battle to Li Li, Liang Sen, Huang and others.

After skipping the previous reason, it was only said that more than 100,000 Wei soldiers besieged Zhongli City, which was defended by three thousand Liang soldiers. Liang State sent reinforcements to rescue the siege. In the end, both sides each invested more than 200,000 troops (known as) and remained stalemate for more than three months.

Zhongli is adjacent to the Huai River in the north, and the Wei army on the north bank is in the lower reaches of the river section. It sets up a floating bridge near Shaoyangzhou and sets up a village at the southern end of the floating bridge, making the floating bridge an important way for the Wei army to transport food and grass to the south bank.

At this time, Wei Rui (Rui), a general of the State Administration, led his army from Hefei to north to reinforce Zhongli, crossed the Yinling Daze, and soon arrived at the lower reaches of Zhongli, near Shaoyangzhou.

Cao Jingzong, who was stationed in the downstream Taoist continent, joined forces to cross the Huai River overnight, and built a camp within a hundred steps from the Wei army camp at the other end of Shaoyangzhou. This is the famous "Shaoyang One-night Camp".

This Liangjun camp that suddenly emerged affected the smoothness of the floating bridge and directly led to the almost interruption of the Wei army's food supply route on the south bank.

In order to regain the floating bridge (grain road), the Wei army launched an attack on the Liang army camp in Shaoyang, but was repelled by the Liang army.

At this time, the Huai River entered the flood season and the river water surged. The Liang army used fire boats to burn off the floating bridge and cut off the food route, causing the Wei army to collapse.

The Liang army followed the situation and the Wei army drowned. Nearly 100,000 people were killed. The bodies were scattered across the river downstream, so miserable that they could not be more miserable.

Now, under the guidance of local guides, Li Li and others came to the river section near Shaoyangzhou. Looking at the vast ocean in front of them, they could see the sandy river in the river - Shaoyangzhou.

There is a lot of rain this year, so the water level of Huai River soars, but it does not prevent Li Li from talking about his experience: "What is the key to the competition in Shaoyangzhou? Build a building quickly!"

"Shaoyang night camp, building a building under the enemy's nose, not only needs to be fast, but also strong. In this way, we can resist the enemy's counterattack."

"The so-called fast, accurate, and ruthless means directly cutting a nail into the enemy's food channel, cutting off its food channel, and resisting the counterattack. As a result, the Wei army was short of food, and the morale of the army was in chaos, and soon collapsed."

Seeing his companions nodding, Li Li said again: "This time, we are fast attacking Shouyang and Zhongli, relying on the word "fast". Before the reinforcements react, we will use the fast attack method to capture the two strong cities."

"This kind of thing is easy to say but difficult to do. You have all experienced how difficult it is."

Liang Sen and Huang nodded. Li Li was indeed right. It was not easy to be "fast".

When siegeing the city, various civil engineering projects are quickly constructed on the spot, which requires organization and mobilization of a large amount of manpower and material resources. This requires dispatch at all levels and coordination must be carried out according to emergencies.

At the same time, we have to defend against enemy soldiers who have left the city to attack, that is, we must consider the issue of defense.

During the two siege battles, Li Li's "team" participated in the whole process, Liang Sen and Huang were so sad that their throats were dull because they shouted too much.

Although there is no exciting hand-to-hand combat or exciting cavalry battle, the workload of organizing rapid siege alone has greatly trained everyone.

What is exercised is the organization and dispatching ability in wartime, and the army must have combat effectiveness. The organization and dispatching ability of generals is very important.

Li Li continued to express his opinion: "When fighting, the more troops there are, the more you need to organize properly and schedule in time, otherwise it will be easy to be confused, and it will easily collapse if it is messed up."

"Whether it is building a base in front of the enemy or siege quickly, a large amount of civil engineering is the basis for winning battles. The most obvious example is the Battle of Jiankang..."

At the end of October last year, Hou Jing invaded Jiankang and besieged Taicheng.

Later, the army of kings gathered together and in early January this year, they tried to cross the Qinhuai River and camped in the Qingtang area to prepare for the army to cross the river later.

As a result, the troops of Wei Can, who was responsible for the main attack, got lost due to heavy fog when crossing the river at night, delaying time. When they arrived at the preset position to build a base, they were discovered by Hou Jing's rebels on the north bank.

The opponent immediately launched a fierce attack, but the Liang army, the generals who were responsible for the subsequent support, fought timidly, resulting in the Wei Can army being trapped in a heavy siege and was isolated and helpless. All Wei Can and hundreds of relatives of the Wei family were killed.

Wei Can is Wei Rui's grandson. His grandfather was one-night camp in Shaoyang back then. His grandson wanted to reappear, but failed to realize it.

Due to emergencies (the heavy fog was lost at night), and the "selling teammates" of friendly forces, the building of the enemy failed, unable to withstand the enemy's fierce attack, and the entire army was wiped out.

Li Li summarized: "Learnings learned, we must remember that whether it is building a base in front of the enemy or siege quickly, we must adapt to the situation and deal with various emergencies."

He also gave an example of attacking Zhongli this time: "It is now the flood season, and we are going downstream by boat. The risk is very high, because the river water surges and the original river channel cannot be seen clearly, and the ship can easily hit the original river bank."

"When you arrive in Zhongli, you may also be unable to fight the water village due to accidents, or the north bank is too muddy, which will slow down the construction of the pier and work platform."

"Soldiers are very fast. Everyone can say this sentence, but it is not easy to eliminate all kinds of unexpected interference in a timely manner and realize your own combat intentions."

"To put it bluntly, fighting wars is like building houses and doing business. We must use the manpower and material resources at hand to complete a thing. In order to complete this thing, we must make plans in advance, and then mobilize manpower and material resources to implement it according to the plan."

"During the implementation process, emergencies must be resolved in a timely manner. Once the plan cannot keep up with changes, make a decision in a timely manner, decide whether to continue, respond, or stop work or stop loss."

"If you practice this ability, you can still come in handy even if you lead troops to fight in the future. So don't think you are really a supervisor or foreman, and you can handle it."

"So, our top priority is to improve the organizational capabilities of the team and individuals, and don't always think about cutting people with a knife. There are more opportunities to cut people."

Everyone nodded and said yes, Huang? After thinking about it, he asked, "Next, are we going to attack Guangling... the city around Guangling?"

Li Li replied: "Not at the moment, because the King of Poyang is only responsible for 'closing the door' and guarding against the north, and 'beating the dog' requires others to come. Otherwise, if there is any mistake, Huainan will be taken advantage of by the Eastern Wei."

"Hou Jing's strength is still there, and the field battle is not that easy to fight, so he has to wait for the imperial court to dispatch troops, but then dispatch troops to suppress the rebellion. Food and grass is a problem, and it will be autumn."

Huang? asked again: "Why do you have to be so troublesome? Why not take the water route, and the army set out from Jingkou and landed directly on the other side of Guangling. It was fast and close, so why wouldn't it be together?"

"Hou Jing still has many troops. If you cross the river and fight, you may be attacked halfway."

Li Li smiled, "Also, it is difficult to sail in Guangling in July and August, Guangling and Jingkou River."

"At that time, the rebels in Jiangbei want to attack Jingkou in the south, and it is not easy to cross the river. They only have troops but cannot use their strength."
Chapter completed!