At the end of October, Shao Xun received the news. Tao Kan organized the army to go north along the water of the water.
At this time, he was receiving Xinzhuang Shunxian, Li Chong, in the old house of Yangle, Li Chong.
The two were old and one middle, and they heard the news.
"His Majesty does not seem to be in a hurry to siege?" Former Hengxuan said, asking.
"Save people lost the ground, and the land lost people. The principle of the truth, Qing understands?" Shao Xun asked with a smile.
"If you can annihilate Tao Kan tens of thousands of troops, the land in the north will be difficult to protect, and His Majesty is wise." Heng said.
"Field battle breaks the enemy, it has always been a good strategy." Shao Xun said: "" Single mountains and wading, one city and one pool compete, when will you fight? "
After speaking, Shao Xun slowly stepped, and said, "Why do Qingzhou counties, why do Qing?"
"When Jiangling is the first to be promoted." Hengyou also treated, saying: "When the former Jin inspection households, one -fourth household registration in the sixteenth counties of Jingzhou in Nanjun was slightly less than that of the five counties in Nanyang, Jingbei."
Shao Xun nodded, and he really wanted to get Jiangling.
If the focus of Jingzhou military is Xiangyang and Xiakou, then the economic center is Jiangling,
Since the end of the Jin Dynasty, the general peace.
After Zhang Chang and Du Zhi were settled, it was basically in a state of peaceful development. It has been more than ten years.
In addition to the local hukou, a large number of Bashu flowers are also placed, and the people of Yong and Qin are also placed.
This is still a hukou on the bright side, but I do n’t know.
So many population is enough to support Jiangling to become a relatively large city.
Regardless of the rural population, Jiangling City may have more than 50,000 cities, which is definitely a big city in the south.
Compared with Nan County, Xiangyang's residence has only half of it, and after many years of tugging, the loss has been migrated, and a large number of people have been migrated one by one. They basically went to Wuchang and Jiangling.
In the entire Jingxiang area, the population is not evenly distributed, but is based on regional central cities.
Points together, and the middle is a large number of people with scarcity or uns development area.
Simply put, before Jing Xiang was divided, the largest city in the entire Jingzhou area was Jiangling, the second largest city was Changsha, followed by Wancheng, Anlu, Lingling, Wuchang, Xiangyang and other places.
Shao Xun wants to take Jiangling, but it is normal.
"If your Majesty wants to take Jiangling, he really has to wipe out Tao Kan's army." Former Heng said: "If you can't do it,
There is only one way, from the south of the Yang south, that is, the road to the south of Liu Bei with the people. "
Shao Xun whispered and asked, "What about Huarong Road?
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After hearing it, his expression changed, and he said anxiously: "His Majesty must not go to Huarong Road, it is too dangerous.
The left is all rivers and rivers. If a flood is issued in one year, it will still be immersed. Once there is a change, it will not be able to withdraw it.
After hearing this, Shao Xun gave up the idea.
There are indeed only a few fixed routes in the terrain of Jianghan.
His most realistic goal now is Jiangling.
This city is still very wealthy and has a large population. Once captured, Tao Kan will really have to rely on the Yangtze River for defense.
As for Xiangyang, it was prepared for regimes interested in the Northern Expedition.
If you don't want to go to the north and can only settle in a corner, then Xiangyang, which is separated from Jiangling, Xiakou, and Wuchang by floodplains, will be a lonely and bleeding mouth.
"Hongdu, if we go south from Jiangxia, do you have any strategies?" Shao Xun looked at Li Chong and asked.
"Your Majesty, we can only go south along the Mian River, pass through the western border of Jingling, and go straight to the next level," Li Chong said.
"Where to go? You can say it bluntly, I'm not a narrow-minded person, but it doesn't matter." Shao Xun encouraged.
"Go straight down to Wulin and look at Red Cliff in the distance." Li Chong lowered his head and said.
Shao Xun opened his mouth, then closed it again.
In the Battle of Chibi, Cao Cao brought 80,000 to 90,000 troops, half of which were lost in the first battle. Most of them were lost during the retreat.
He is so old and still has a naval force, what do he have?
"Then take Jiangling." Shao Xun made up his mind.
In this place, there is no way to use any clever tricks. Cao Cao also divided his troops and rushed to Jiangling.
Shao Xun also wants to do this now, not because the heroes have the same ideas, but because there are really only a few routes for using troops.
Almost all are famous brands.
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"Let go!" On the Mianshui River south of Du County, after hearing the command, dozens of strong men who were good at water jumped into the water and swam to the shore.
A large number of arrows were fired from the bow of the Jin army in front.
Some of the water warriors were lucky and swam back to the shore shivering, while others were less lucky and never came back.
The boat, blazing with fire, sailed down the river and pounced on the enemy ships.
The Jin navy was generally calm. After a while, someone brought a fork and held it against the floating fire ship, causing it to burn slowly.
From time to time there would be large splashes of water on the river.
It was a Thunderbolt vehicle on the shore throwing stones into the water, but unfortunately, the range was too long and it did not pose any threat at all, so it stopped soon.
Huang Biao stood at the head of Duxian City and looked carefully at the enemy troops coming for reinforcements.
It seems that the majority of them are marines, but there should be a lot of landmen on the ship, but I don't know how many there are.
This time the enemy was relatively large in scale, and mainly consisted of warships that could be rowed. If it hadn't been for the northwest wind in this season, they might have used sails as power to move forward.
"If it doesn't work during the day, put out another batch at night." After looking at it for a while, Huang Biao found the person in charge of this matter.
Said: "Let it go in the middle of the night."
"As commanded."
Huang Biao waved his hand and asked people to leave.
The fire ship burned very quickly. After being held up by the Wu people with a long fork, it slowly burned, disintegrated, and sank.
There were some fire ships passing by on both sides of the wide channel.
The Wu people are also well prepared, and they will push away if they can. If they can't push away, it means they are far away, so let them go.
Slowly burn and sink.
There is a chance of succeeding with the fire attack, but the conditions are more stringent.
For example, the northwest wind suddenly changes to the southeast wind, and the party attacked by the fire is paralyzed and careless. Or even if it is discovered, it is difficult to move and there is no time to stop it.
In order to deter the Jin navy, Huang Biao thought of countless ways.
For example, they previously sent light cavalry to attack the opponent's trackers, and that time they succeeded. Then the Wu people also changed their tactics and no longer mobilized the kind of unpowered and cumbersome ships. The advantage of such ships is that they have a large transport capacity and can carry a large amount of goods.
The disadvantage of military equipment is that it is heavy and slow, and it requires trackers to pull the fiber when going against the wind or current.
The Mianshui River flows southward into the Yangtze River. From south to north, it must go against the current. It is winter again, and the northwest wind is dominant, and the south wind is less. There is no way not to stretch.
Now that the Jin army mainly relied on galleys, it lost a weak point, so Huang Biao thought of the fire attack technique again.
If it fails the first time, try it a second time in the evening. If it fails again, try it again after a few days. Anyway, it’s not wrong to give it a try. What if someone is careless?
Of course he knew that a fire attack was not safe, so he learned Yang Bao's tactics and put wooden stakes in the river to prevent enemy ships from going north.
Of course there is a way to crack this, but it just takes time.
If it weren't for the fact that he couldn't find the materials for a while, Huang Biao would have wanted to build a chain across the river.
There is also a way to break this trick, that is, send a ship forward, set up a stove on the ship, and fuse the iron rope.
In short, these tactics have been used by predecessors for thousands of years. They are nothing new and have no decisive effect.
The real winner lies in how both parties leverage their respective strengths and "help others without hurting others."
The combat effectiveness of the army is not constant, you can make it decrease.
For example, not having enough to eat, not feeling well, lacking physical strength, feeling anxious, etc., can cause their combat effectiveness to drop from its peak.
Even the most elite Silver Spear Army in the north, contaminated by these negative factors, may be gathered together and annihilated by people whose original combat power is far inferior to them.
For Huang Biao, he also needed to let the enemy fight in situations where they could not take advantage of them, and then use the advantages of his own soldiers' high quality, rich combat experience, and numerous cavalry to annihilate the enemy in one fell swoop.
There are not many troops with field capabilities in the south, and the Jingzhou Army is the strongest among them. If they cannot be eliminated, they may take advantage of the terrain and find an opportunity to bite you.
And once they are annihilated, even if our own troops are trapped in a place with poor supplies and crisscrossed rivers and lakes,
When the country is low, everyone wants to go back, and it will be much safer when retreating.
Huang Biao really grasped the essence of war.
"Wow!" In his reverie, a wooden pile had been pulled up by a Wu ship in the Mianshui River.
"Who did this?" Huang Biao was furious and asked immediately.
The general of the soldiers immediately came down from the tower and went to inquire.
After a while, someone was escorted.
The man knelt down with a plop and cried: "General, the river water is freezing cold in winter. Many people froze to death in the river. Even when they went ashore, they suffered serious illnesses."
"How come there are so many reasons?" Huang Biao flipped him over with one foot and said, "Behead him!"
Just as the man was about to scream, the handle of the knife hit him in the mouth, causing several of his teeth to fall out.
The soldiers dragged the man down like a dead dog.
"Send people and invite the bandits to fight." Huang Biao issued another order.
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The two sides in the east faced each other in the capital and county areas, while on another front in the west, Jiang Ke's troops advanced rapidly with light troops.
The two thousand cavalrymen of the Yi Congjun set out first, together with the three thousand miscellaneous light cavalry assigned to them, and more than a thousand Fu soldiers on horseback from the Zuo Jinwu Guards, carrying seven days of food and water, they headed south along the Zhang River and headed straight for Dangyang.
Along the way, we occasionally encountered fortresses and forts. The two sides only faced each other from a distance and did not fight.
Only a few times, country tycoons took advantage of their familiarity with the geography to block the bridges of the only way to fight with the cavalry going south.
When encountering these people, the only option is to fight.
The deputy governor of the Yi Cong Army, Ju Qu Chong, who was in charge of the command, mobilized Zuo Jinwu's guardsmen to come forward, and often defeated the enemy troops with a single charge.
Well, what should I do if I can’t open it once? Then do it a second time or a third time.
There is no enemy that cannot be defeated without three charges!
By the fifth day of November, they arrived not far north of Dangyang City.
At the critical moment when the county magistrate simply abandoned the city and fled, the county lieutenant raised his arms and shouted, gathering his men and determined to defend to the death.
However, before he could summon many men, the people in the city fled out one after another.
In fact, they were mainly wealthy people who fled back to the countryside under the protection of their child servants and gathered in clans to protect themselves.
Juquchong led his cavalry to charge and disperse these people. Then he rushed in along the city gate, killed the county captain under his horse, and captured the city without any bloodshed.
At this point, what Tao Kan had been worried about happened.
The more than 10,000 defenders in Xiangyang are completely hostages!
Chapter completed!