Chapter 49 Total War (II)

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At this time, Jin Xuan's troops were mainly deployed in Changsha, Wuling and Yong'an counties.Other counties bordering the coalition forces, including Jian'an, Lujiang, Jianye, Xiabian, Xiliang and other counties, all deploy less troops than the coalition forces.

In June, Jin Xuan ordered a total war.

The head generals and military advisors of each legion decide on their own and wait for an opportunity to attack without losing the city and stable defense.

Only the troops of Zhang Liao and Lu Meng were under the strict orders of Jin Xuan and the main defense. If necessary, they would support Jianye and Lujiang and not attack Xuzhou or Runan at will.

At this time, Shouchun's strategic position appeared. Its northwest is Runan and Xuzhou is northeast, its fifty miles south is Hefei, its hundred miles south is Jianye, and its southwest is Lujiang.

Shouchun has a solid defense, so the soldiers from Jianye and Lujiang can attack Xiapi and Jiangxia with peace of mind.

If there is any loss in Shouchun, Jianye and Lujiang will be in an unfavorable situation of being attacked from both sides.

The Zhang Liao and Lu Meng's corps were stationed in Shouchun with a total of 100,000 soldiers and horses, while the contradictory were the 200,000 soldiers and horses of Liu Bei and Mi Zhu in Xuzhou, and the 180,000 soldiers and horses of Xiahou Yuan and Cheng Yu in Runan.

Jianye's troops were garrisoned by Taishi Ci and Fa Zheng, a total of 100,000 troops, while the troops stationed in Xia Pi were garrisoned by Zhang He and Tian Feng.The troops were significantly stronger than those of Taishi Ci.

To the west of Shouchun and Jianye, there are a total of 100,000 troops under Sun Ce and Jia Xu, who were stationed in Lujiang.

Sun Ce's troops are highly mobile units, mainly cavalry. If the eastern front is tight, they can go to rescue soon.

When there is no war on the Eastern Front, you can cooperate with Changsha Guan Yu's troops to attack Jiangxia.

The three legions on the eastern front have a total of 300,000, forming an iron triangle. Jin Xuan put Zhang Liao, who is good at defending and fighting, at the forefront, indicating that Shouchun is a place that cannot be lost.

Compared with the eastern front, the western front was relatively relaxed. The 150,000 troops and horses of the Eighth Army of Xiliang and Zhou Yu were attacking Zhang Fei and Lu Xun's troops with 100,000 troops and 100,000 troops of the troops stationed in Tianshui against Xiahou Chun and Xu Zijiang.

But Zhang Fei's troops also had to monitor Zhang Lu in Hanzhong and did not dare to show off.

Only the first, second and third legions in the central region have relatively advantageous forces.

The 300,000 troops in Changsha have a numerical advantage over the 200,000 defenders in Chen Gong and Jiangxia in Chen Gong.

Pang Tong's troops were only facing the Jiangling troops of Wenpin's troops. In the strategic decisions of Jin Xuan, Zhuge Liang and others, the three central armies cooperated to fight, captured Jiangxia and Jiangling counties, and finally captured the strategically significant Xiangyang County.

The first target is Jiangxia, with the main attacks being Guan Yu and Jiang Wei's legions, Sun Ce and Jia Xu's legions assisting, while Lu Bu and Pang Tong's legions attacking Jiangling, and Huang Zhong and Xu Shu's legions attacking Shangyong.

The mission of Guan Yu and Jiang Wei's legions is to take down Jiangxia as soon as possible, and the mission of Lu Bu, Pang Tong legions, Huang Zhong and Xu Shu legions is to restrain the forces of Jiangling and Shangyong defenders.

The main task of the Eastern Front is defense. Waiting for the Guan Yu and Jiang Wei's army to capture Jiangxia, Sun Ce and Jia Xu's army rushed to Hefei to station.

The three legions on the eastern front formed a straight line, supporting each other, and closely united as one. Some troops continued to defend Shouchun, while other troops went out to Jianye to attack Xia Pi.

The mission on the Western Front was to lure the Tianshui defenders to attack Xiliang, disperse the troops of Xiahou Chun, and to separate the troops of Ma Teng, Zhou Yu's army, Zhang Fei and Lu Xun army and annihilate them.

One of the main problems in the West Road is Zhang Lu in Hanzhong. If Zhang Lu remained unmoved, the two armies would have been sure to attack Tianshui.

If Zhang Lu takes advantage of the battle between the two armies and his subordinates' defense is empty, he will take the opportunity to attack.

Then the two legions on the West Road were attacked from both sides and the situation was critical.

Therefore, the strategy of the Western Route Army is to wait for an opportunity to fight, and at least realize the strategic intention of swapping Xiliang and Tianshui, and closely linking the two legions of the Western Route Army.

All tactics are completed according to this major strategy, and strategy is the basis for victory in war.

Guan Yu's troops began to move.The 250,000 army suddenly came to Jiangxia City. If Chen Gong had not had strict defense measures, he might have succeeded in this surprise attack.

Sun Ce's troops secretly bypassed Jiangxia and set up camp in Chibi. Their mission was to feint attack Xiangyang and block reinforcements.

The Second and Third Legion each sent 180,000 troops to attack Jiangling and Shangyong.

The Eighth Legion also went out to Xiliang, with a large army of 150,000 in Hecheng attacking Tianshui, Zhang Fei and Lu Xun's army divided into 50,000 troops to assist, and Lu Xun led the remaining troops to garrison the lower army.

The coalition forces were in panic, but soon they reacted. Li Dian led generals such as Lu Qian, Zhu Ling, Wang Shuang, Niu Jin and others to lead 100,000 troops to Tianshui to join forces with Xiahou Chun's troops, hoping to defeat the Jinxuan Western Front Legion in one fell swoop.

Liu Bei's troops were out of Xuzhou, Xiahou Yuan's troops were out of Runan, and the two armies came out in full swing. Liu Bei led Mi Zhu, Mi Fang, Lei Bo, Guan Hai, Han Zhong, Liu Pi and Gong to lead 150,000 troops; Xiahou Yuan led Cheng Yu, Zhang Ji, Zhong Yao, Xue Zong, Jiang Yiqu, Jiang Gan, Le Jin, Liu Ye, Liu Dai, and Zang Ba to lead 150,000 troops.

Zhang He led Tian Feng, Zhang Yàn, Gao Gan, Chen Zhen and other generals to lead 160,000 troops out of Xia Pi to attack Jianye.

A large-scale war has begun.

Outside Jiangxia City, Jin Xuan Military Camp, Jin Xuan, Guan Yu, Jiang Wei, Zhao Yun, Ma Chao, Dian Wei, Wei Yan, Xing Daorong, Su Fei, Tan Xiong, Shen Dan, Yang Huai, etc., were gathered together.

Jin Xuan said to Jiang Wei: Boyue, what do you mean by this battle?

Jiang Wei said: Jingzhou civil and military officials, Chen Gong is a resourceful person, and the rest are not worthy of fear.The so-called capturing the king first to capture the thief. If Chen Gong is captured, half of Jingzhou will be equal to our army.

Jin Xuan's eyes lit up when he heard this.He said to the generals: Boyue's views were intimate with Mr. Kong Ming.But if Chen Gong doesn’t come out of the city, how can he capture him?

Jiang Wei said: Now that Sun Ce's troops have gone to Chibi and are pretending to attack Xiangyang, only Liu Biao led 20,000 troops to guard it in Xiangyang City, and most of the families of Liu Biao's generals are in Xiangyang. When this information is heard, Liu Biao and the generals will definitely be shocked.There are three troops in the middle, and Liu Biao is stationed in Jiangxia, so he will send an envoy to ask for help.Chen Gong's wise mind may guess that Sun Ce's troops were a feint attack, but all the generals in the city were Liu Biao's old subordinates.When Liu Biao heard that all the generals must divide their troops to rescue them, and they can lie in ambush to defeat the enemy.If Chen Gong was among the rescuers, it would be absolutely difficult for our army to capture this person.If Chen Gong is in the city and the troops outside the city are defeated, the defeated army will surely flee back to the city. Our army will pick elite troops into the army and order the cavalry to chase after them. The elite troops will seize the gate, and the cavalry will help them. The army will then break into the city. The city will be destroyed. The army will be sent to the army to capture Chen Gong. Even if Chen Gong has three heads and six arms, he will not be able to escape back to Xiangyang.

Guan Yu and others had previously seen Jin Xuan use Jiang Wei with extraordinary rules, but everyone was puzzled. However, today they saw that they analyzed the battle situation and were organized and feasible, so they could not help but secretly appreciate it.

It is said that Jiang Wei is both civil and military, resourceful, and is even more amazed at Jin Xuan's ability to understand people.

A few days later, Liu Biao heard that Sun Ce's army was attacking Xiangyang and urgently sent envoys to report to the defenders of Jiangling and Jiangxia.Cai Mao was very anxious and summoned all the generals to make plans.