The general of Zhao state in Shijie, which the Han Army had encountered before, rarely had any twists and turns. It was basically a straight fighting method. How many troops came directly, and then the two armies set up an array. Even if there was a strategy, it was only at the tactical level of the battlefield, and the strategy at the campaign level was not seen at all.
Yao Yizhong was different this time. He came to the North Bank of the Yellow River section of Qingzhou and did some seemingly complex things at the beginning. He was also different from other Shijie Zhao Jun. That difference is directly reflected in the level of activities, such as collective consciousness.
The Qiang army in Qinghe County and Pingyuan county was estimated to be 400000 by the Han army. That is a number including old, weak, women and children, not all soldiers, which is in line with the custom of the whole family, young and old, when the Hu people fought together.
"There are about 120000 on the edge of the Yellow River. From a distance, they are basically young and strong. From the perspective of clothing, most of them are Qiang people."
Who let the Han Army have binoculars? Even if it is hundreds of miles across the Yellow River, you can actually see it more clearly with a telescope.
"Recently, Yao Yizhong ordered a thorough investigation and clean-up, and our scouts are more and more difficult to operate on the north bank."
Scouts on the North Bank of the Yellow River rely on carrier pigeons to transmit information to the south bank, and carrier pigeons were actually used in message transmission in the spring and autumn and Warring States periods.
In many wars, scouts are the first to enter the battlefield and even investigate the enemy's activity area. They are the most dangerous soldiers.
A qualified Scout is not easy to train. Every Scout is definitely a hundred war veteran. The death of a qualified or even excellent scout will have no less impact on the army than the death of hundreds of recruits.
In view of Yao Yizhong's scouting against the Han Army, the recent scouting losses of the Han Army are amazing. Originally, there was a fog in the investigation on the North Bank of the Yellow River. The large loss of scouts directly made the command center of the Han Army more unclear about the intelligence of the Qiang army.
Liu Yan must ask, "is it possible to cross the river before the flood season?"
How to put it? The Han Army has fewer troops along the Yellow River. No matter how you look at it, the troops under Yao Yizhong occupy an absolute quantitative advantage.
Because of the lack of intelligence, no one can tell Liu Yan exactly. The Han army can only strengthen the necessary war preparedness, and the investigation along the coast also needs to be strengthened.
As the situation on both sides of the Yellow River became more and more tense, some other news also kept coming to Liu Yan.
First, the Emperor Li Shou of the Chenghan Dynasty died, and his eldest son Li Shi succeeded to the throne as the new emperor. Li Shou finally came to a conclusion. His posthumous title was Emperor Zhaowen, his temple name was Zhongzong, and he was buried in Anchang mausoleum.
After Li Shi became the new emperor of Cheng Han, there were twists and turns in the trade originally negotiated between Cheng Han and the Han ministry, and Cheng Han and others in Xiami were recalled. And there is a rumor that Li Shi wants to re engage with Shi Hu. So, does it make sense for Li Shi to recall Cheng Han and others in Xiami?
In addition to Cheng Han, new news came from Tongguan. Ran's Qin army went out of the pass and fought an offensive war. First, they attacked from Xiaoguan and defeated Shijie Zhao army outside the pass. Waiting for Shijie Zhao army outside Tongguan to pay attention to the Xiaoguan war situation, someone under Li Nong rebelled, and ran's Qin army in Tongguan killed again. However, Ran's Qin army along the way out of Tongguan was ambushed by Fu Hong.
In the short 13 days, the Ran's Qin army and the Shijie Zhao army outside the pass were killed again. The 50000 Ran's Qin army who left the pass only escaped back to the pass with more than 3000. The Shijie Zhao army should have lost 70000, of which the qihuo army took 60% of the casualties. In this way, the ran Qin army really killed one thousand enemies and lost eight hundred.
Of course, the Han Dynasty, which has been paying attention to the east of Liao 1, has also received news from Murong Yanjun. Murong Yanjun, who has been cat for several months, takes Murong Han as the commander and leads 40000 troops as the pioneer to pull out of Youzhou. It is strange that Murong Han was seriously ill on the way. He made a good March and stopped at Lingzhi city near bashui.
Shi bin has talented people under his command. They don't know how they learned that Murong Han was seriously ill. They rode lightly and rushed to attack Murong Yan army. They defeated Murong Yan army who lost command in Zhicheng, forcing Murong Yan army to escape from bashui.
Murong Han crossed the river in his illness. It seems that he fell into bashui accidentally. Although he was rescued, his condition worsened and he died soon.
The fact is that Murong Han was wounded by an arrow when he fought with Yuwen Xianbei. If history does not change, he will be killed by Murong seal.
This time, Murong Han led the army, which was the idea of Feng Yi, the Taiwei of Murong Yan state. What he wanted was that Murong Han would go out with illness and die, which was always much better than Murong Zhuang's death.
To speak of, Feng Yi probably didn't expect Shi bin to take the initiative. Murong Han was dead, but Murong Yan's army also lost nearly 10000 yuan.
Because of such a thing, Feng Yi was blamed by Murong clan. If Murong Xin hadn't sealed him again, Feng Yi would have a miserable end. After all, Murong Xianbei had an internal struggle, but Murong Xianbei, who was in the rising stage, still paid more attention to the care of the army and wouldn't do the kind of thing that abandoned tens of thousands of troops in order to kill one person.
When the overall information was collected, Liu Yan was surprised to find that the seemingly stormy Shijie state of Zhao did not send out the Jie army, the counterattack of the ran state of Qin was leveled by his servants, and Murong state of Yan was easily defeated by Shi bin for the first time. It seems that his partners... Don't do much?
Yes, it is just a partner, not an ally.
It's not that Liu Yan doesn't look down on those countries, but he knows that they are all competitors. Murong Yan didn't talk about alliance at the last meeting of various parties. Some just agreed to attack Shijie Zhao state together, which shows that Murong Yan state also knows that there is no need for alliance. On the contrary, Ran's Qin State and Zhang's Liang state made similar proposals, but they were not confirmed in the Han Dynasty.
The non aligned policy is Liu Yan's decision. It is inappropriate for the Han ministry to form an alliance with anyone at present.
Murong Yanguo has once again made preparations to go south. Murong Zhuang personally enlisted Murong Jun as the former chief General and Murong Ba as the deputy general. The number of the whole army should be 220000?
Murong Yan's army was only 60000 when it swept around the east of Liao 1. It should be close to pouring out.
[it seems that Murong Xianbei really doesn't like the bitter and cold land in liao1 East. He really plans to go south even if he gives up liao1 East.] Liu Yan can't help laughing bitterly at the thought. They are still in a stalemate with Yao Yizhong across the Yellow River: [if Murong Yan's army had conquered Youzhou without winning or losing with Yao Yizhong, Murong Yan's army would have continued to march into Jizhou. It would be troublesome!]
There is no doubt about the strength of Murong Yan state, which can be seen from the fact that they will seize two-thirds of the territory of Shijie Zhao state after the collapse in the future.
The Shijie Zhao army in the Han army is not the main battle force, but the Jie people's own army has fought with Murong Yan army more than once. Each time, it seems that Murong Yan army won the victory? From this point of view, who can deny the strength of Murong Yan's army? No one!
In early June, wood and sundries were floating everywhere on the Yellow River section of Qingzhou, which was not all left by the Qiang army. In fact, most of the wood and sundries were floating out of the sea.
One funny thing is that the wood floating out of the sea was basically picked up by Han ships and stored in the warehouse as part of the system resources.
Liu Yan was shocked when he saw the data. They only collected the part of the sea. There are nearly 200 miles of wood floating everywhere in the Yellow River waterway. How many forests have the Qiang army cut down? What impact will this wanton destruction of forests have on the soil on the North Bank of the Yellow River?
On June 13, the Qiang army finally made a new move.
"Are they going to put wood on it?"
"No doubt, yes."
Look at the North Bank of the Yellow River. It is full of people. Some nailed boards are stacked into mountains.
Some soldiers are trying to spread the nailed wooden board on the river surface piled up by floating wood. The wooden board is about two feet long and four feet wide. When it is placed on the wood of the river, it shakes slightly and stabilizes immediately.
The first wooden board was placed and stabilized by an iron rope. Bursts of cheers were roared out on the North Bank of the Yellow River, which represents the effectiveness of the Qiang army's river crossing plan.
The Han Army standing on the South Bank of the Yellow River looked at each other. The Qiang army seemed to have the intention to cross the river, but... The garrison on the river bank did not receive any orders.
The troops of the Han Army on the South Bank of the Yellow River are not many, only about 8000. What they need to defend is at least 600 miles of the river. How many miles should there be a Han army?
Yao Yizhong is personally supervising the feasibility of the scheme. After the first wooden board is placed, it is the second and third... I don't know how many wooden boards are placed and stacked repeatedly. The wooden bridge with a width of more than ten feet along the river bank extends for about thirty feet. Cavalry have been sent to trample and gallop repeatedly. The wooden bridge looks only slightly shaking, but it doesn't fall apart.
"What happened to the Han Army on the other side?"
"Hui Junzhu, there is a lot of noise about the fast horse of the Han Army, but no new Han Army has been found for the time being."
Yao Yizhong should have been happy to get the answer, but there was only confusion in his heart.
There are Han troops on the South Bank of the Yellow River. On the other side of the bridge, there are about 1000, which is only so many. What's more, there are nearly 20000 Dongping mausoleums?
"It doesn't make sense." Yao Yizhong said in a confused tone, "why didn't Liu Yan stop us from crossing the river?"
"Our judgment is that Liu Yan has insufficient troops." Huyansheng is a Hun, but he is the Tiger wing General of the state of Zhao in Shijie. This time he works under the command of Yao Yizhong: "there should be no mistake. After all... There are really too many places for Liu Yan to use troops."
General Huyi, general Longxiang and so on are all column generals, that is, the so-called miscellaneous generals. Miscellaneous generals need to have another rank, that is, to add the rank of governor and so on, in order to have real military power. The appearance of miscellaneous generals was a feature of the late Three Kingdoms period. When the Hu people were in power, they generally attracted some people.
Yao Yizhong certainly knows that Liu Yan needs to use troops in many places. He also knows that there are 80000 Han troops in juyeze line alone, and even about 60000 Han troops in Yuzhou. At this time, there are 140000, and the rise of the Han ministry has only been nearly five years.
Intelligence shows that the total number of Han troops is 200000. There are already 140000 Han troops on the western line, and about 30000 Han troops on the other side of Qinghe County and Pingyuan county. Then Liu Yan spent 170000 at once, and the Han occupied areas also need to be stationed. It seems that Liu Yan is really right!
Although it is possible to calculate those, Yao Yizhong really feels that something is wrong. It is an incorrect conclusion that can be drawn without much thought.
"They......" Yao Yizhong said in a very strange tone, "want us to cross the river!"
The 30000 or so Han troops could not defend the nearly thousand mile long section of the Yellow River. Even 300000 troops could not defend such a long section of the Yellow River, just because it was too long. The defense of such a long reach first needs a strong and large number of inland water forces, and then is to spy on the position of the invading army. This is effective defense, not passive waiting.
Is there only one landing point for the Qiang army? That's obviously impossible. They are making a big fuss here, but they are just conducting experiments. Once the river crossing scheme is practical, there are many slow flow areas in the Yellow River section, and those sections can become river crossing points everywhere.
"It is because they know that they will choose to let us cross the river." Yao Yizhong of course knows that he will attack halfway across the river, but it depends on how many crossing points and how many troops cross the river. Only a few crossing points will be afraid of attacking halfway across the river, and only a few will lose if there are more crossing points. He asked, "I heard that the Han army was good at defending the city?"
Hu Yansheng nodded and said, "but... Liu Yan did it too obviously. What makes him have such confidence?"
It's obvious that Liu Yan came as a bait. There is no strong city over Dongping mausoleum, so that Liu Yan's behavior is very irrational.
"We need to cross the river." Yao Yizhong's inner helplessness is lack of external humanity: "any plan needs a strong military force to implement. In the end, the soldiers have to work hard to win or lose."
It's quite reasonable to say that any war is a contest between iron and blood between the armies of both sides. During this period, no matter what strategy or strategy, there is no army to carry out, it's just a mouth gun.
The Qiang army acted wantonly, and intelligence gathered intensively to the Dongping mausoleum where Liu Yan was located.
"So there are 23 river crossing points arranged by Yao Yizhong?" Ji Chang was looking at the map. It was the Yellow River section along Qingzhou. He looked at Liu Yan with no expression on his face and hesitated: "Sir, are we too risky?"
Liu Yan didn't speak. He was also looking at the map.
There are only 30000 Han troops in Jinan County, and there are no strong fortresses here. There are hundreds of thousands of Qiang troops who are about to cross the river... Well, those empty ones don't count. How can there be 150000 or 60000 who can participate in the war? Will it be too big to use 30000 Han troops to fight?
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Pit, it's good to have a look. Otherwise, automatic release will fail. The reason is... The honor is set at the wrong release time, embarrassing!