After hearing Li Su let Zhuge Liang come up with an idea, Zhao Yun, Gao Shun, Gan Ning and others thought Li Su was joking.

After all, Zhuge Liang's only military highlight before was only to help Liu Bei investigate, dispatch and understand the enemy situation in the siege of Chang'an. These achievements are still a little technical, which makes people look down on Zhuge Liang's tactical response and command capabilities.

As for Zhuge Liang's political achievements when he was the imperial court, it was even more of a pure civil servant's achievements. Those generals who were not good at math could not understand them at all, so naturally they could not say respect for Zhuge Liang's achievements.

However, Zhuge Liang's books over the years have not been read for nothing. From military tactics to history, especially war history, after systematic research, he has his own experience.

At this moment, he was not panicked at all. After thinking for a while, he suggested: "Liang Gang is in Rangcheng, which is not a necessary way to attack Wancheng. Since the enemy has divided the troops, it is to give us a chance to defeat each other. The Le to attack Jingyang is the only way. Liang Gang will save him if he is willing to come. If he doesn't want to come, he will be destroyed if he doesn't want to come, and then we will attack Jiyang and Wancheng."

When the other generals heard this, their expressions were a little disdainful. Gao Shun refused to cause trouble, so he didn't say that Gan Ningmo was not very good at using tricks in land battles, so in the end he had to give a guarantee.

Zhao Yun pointed out pertinently: "The idea of ​​surrounding the points and attacking the enemy is good, and it can avoid the hardships of attacks when fighting against the Rangcheng enemy. But if Liang Gang really doesn't save Le, even if we capture Qingyang, Le may not be completely wiped out by us. He can still retreat step by step and retreat the defeated soldiers to Jiyang and Wancheng in an orderly manner.

Xingba investigated yesterday. Jingyang City was close to the northwest bank of Jingshui. The east gate of the city was directly the river gate. The section outside Jingyang City was the narrower and the water was deep and the current was rapid. They set up crossbows at the top of the city and threw cars. Our ship was just unable to go north without breaking the city.

Therefore, it will be more difficult for us to encircle Qingyang City on all sides. It will be difficult for the enemy to encircle Qingyang City after being exhausted. Liang Gang must also know this, so he doesn't have to rush to save Lei. If he sits and watches us attack the county towns along the Qingshui coast, and the teacher and veterans are tired, and after entering the enemy's backbone, then cut off our Qingshui food route, how can we fight against the enemy?"

Zhao Yun is also fighting a war, and his basic operations are very solid. When talking about the strategy of advancing, he first ensures his food safety.

Zhuge Liang replied in response: "Our food route depends entirely on clean water. The clean water may be so shallow that it can be traversed by cavalry in the Wancheng section, but in Xinye, Jingyang is still wide and deep enough. Our warships are more sophisticated than those of Yuan Shu's army, and there are fighting ships sent by Yibing on behalf of Liu Jingzhou.

With Xingba's ability to fight water, it should be no problem to protect the grain fleet. Even if Liang Gang sent tens of thousands of people to rob the grain, as long as their ship was obviously worse than us, Xingba could repel it with two or three thousand escort navy troops."

Zhuge Liang made a frank statement that Yuan Shujun's warships were worse than those provided by Liu Biao, which was not nonsense, but had real evidence.

Because the Yuan Shu army's ships must be able to drive to Wancheng and not stranded until they reach the upper reaches of the Qingshui River, they cannot build too big. Before, the Yuan Shu army occupied the area, even the main stream of the Han River was not touched, so they could only move in the northern tributaries of the Han River, such as the Qingshui and Danshui River. Those rivers were small, so the ships built were naturally small.

Liu Biao's warship was designed in the main stream of the Han River and the Yangtze River. Of course, it is the size of the size you want. As long as your technology and engineering strength can keep up, there will be no cap on it. However, these large ships cannot drive Wancheng, and may have to return before they reach Jiyang even after passing Qingyang. In the last section, they can only take a small boat.

The navy is a very dependent on warship technology. Gan Ning led 3,000 people to drive large ships to crush the enemy's 10,000 or 20,000 small ships.

At this point, Gan Ning, who was specifically responsible for water war, couldn't help but say something: "It's true that our army's ships are big. If we have fair water wars, Liang Gang is three or five times more people, so I'm not afraid. But the tower ships are not used in small rivers like Jingshui.

Although the Xinye and Qingyang areas can still be driven without stranding, there are not many places to move. In the past few days, the big ships have to travel along the deepest water channel in the center. If Yuan Shujun uses the benefits of the upstream to set fire to the ships and attack fire, he will not be able to dodge at all. Zhuge Lingshi, stop talking about war on paper."

Zhuge Liang did not have enough practical experience. After Gan Ning refuted this, he hesitated for a few seconds.

There is no way, this is the real world, not the Romance world, and practical experience needs to be accumulated. Those who are not born to know it in official history, Zhuge Liang won the Battle of Bowangpo without a first-hand experience. Bowangpo was fought by Liu Bei himself. As for the Battle of Xinye in Romance, it was fought by Robben to help Zhuge Liang fight on his behalf.

Zhuge Liang thought carefully for a while and discussed the remedy in a sincere tone: "What Captain Gan said has benefited a lot from Liang. I wonder if the army can cut off thick and long bamboo poles and resist the fire ships rushing downstream when encountering enemy fire attacks?"

When Gan Ning heard this, he laughed almost like a conditioned reflex: "Holding the fire boat with a bamboo pole? Zhuge Lingshi is really fantastic. He has never heard of doing this since ancient times."

However, when Li Su, who was originally an arbiter next to him, felt that he seemed to be familiar with history. As long as he was given the opportunity to copy answers from history, he would have a way to learn from it.

The operation of "Bamboo Pole Tops Fire Boat" is not very well-known. People who don't need to understand history very well. As long as you read the popular reading book "Five Thousand Years of the Later Generation", you can be familiar with it.

During the Anshi Rebellion, in the battle of Luoyang between Li Guangbi and Shi Siming, wasn’t Li Guangbi using this trick to hold up the fire ship that Shi Siming tried to burn the Luoshui floating bridge? However, Li Guangbi was afraid that the bamboo pole itself would burn and spread fire, so he specially wrapped iron on the head of the bamboo pole. The iron could not burn, so he stopped spreading fire.

Li Su is now preventing the enemy's boat from burning into the tower, the boat and the fight ship, the principle is the same.

He immediately interrupted Gan Ning's ridicule and supported his proud disciple: "Don't laugh at Xingba. Although there is no precedent in Aliang's idea, we may not be able to seriously discuss and improve it.

It is definitely not possible to support a fireboat with a bamboo pole. Once it is burned, it will still rage. Let the army cut down hundreds or thousands of five-meter bamboo poles with iron on their heads, and make the head blunt, so as not to penetrate the fireboat too deep. After all, there is no place to move on the surface of the Qingshui River. When it comes to that time, just push the fireboat to both sides with a long pole during combat, and try to make the fireboat strand and burn it by itself."

Li Su immediately optimized Li Guangbi's tricks in history. After all, Li Guangbi wanted to prevent Shi Siming from burning the floating bridge, and the floating bridge connects the two sides of the shore. There is no place to move, so he could only hold on until the fireboat was completely burned and sank himself.

All Li Su had to beware of was the fire ship burning the big ship, so just use Tai Chi to move a thousand pounds to push it away from both sides and give up the main channel.

Gan Ning was stunned when he heard this, thinking that Li Su was so uncautious in tactical decision-making in order to support his favorite student. But when he calmed down, it seemed quite exciting and innovative. If he really tried it successfully, he might be able to write it into the history of the war.

Gan Ning has always liked to show off and become famous, otherwise he would not have used the Xichuan Shu brocade as a sail when he was young. When he thought of the temptation to leave a name in the war history, he was willing to take risks.

Gan Ning struggled repeatedly and thought to himself: "Damn it, although the right general is pulling a favorable disciple who favors him, anyway, the right general is responsible, so let's do it. If you succeed, we will leave a name for the battle history. If you fail, it will be that the right general is not making good decisions. What responsibilities should I bear?

Besides, my old brothers are all good at water fights. When the big ships sent by Liu Biao were burned, they were nothing more than the ships and the food they transported. The lives of the brothers will not be in danger. I will take everyone to jump into the river and roam ashore."

Gan Ning was not as afraid of fire attacks as Cao Cao's northern army. The reason why Cao Cao died so many times in the Red Cliff was that the northern soldiers were not familiar with the nature of water, and if the ship was gone, they would drown when they fell into the Yangtze River.

How could Gan Ning's soldiers drown to death? The boat caught fire and abandoned the boat to swim, but it was not in danger of life.

Did it!

Thinking of this, Gan Ning no longer questioned and said with a smirk that Zhuge Lingshi and the Right General were really clever plans and he was willing to try to execute them.

Seeing that Gan Ning agreed to this plan, Zhuge Liang had another plan and thought of a "short move after the plan is implemented smoothly". He whispered and suggested to Li Su. Li Su also nodded slightly and made a solution, saying, "There is no need to hurry this matter. It's not too late to wait until the first stage is implemented smoothly as planned."

It is easy to bring Zhuge Liang by his side and be a consultant plan.

...

Gan Ning didn't mention any opinions, so the military proposal was naturally passed smoothly.

Starting the next day, on the eighth day of the third month, Li Sujun divided 5,000 people to guard Xinye City, 3,000 people were responsible for transporting grain and patrolling the river. The remaining 32,000 were all put into the battle to attack Jingyang.

Jingyang is only fifty miles away from Xinye. After walking for a day, we arrived. On the evening of the eighth day of the lunar month, the army camped in the west of Jingyang on the south side, and surrounded it on both sides. It was considered to be two and one: because it was behind the enemy, it was not surrounded by the back of the enemy for the time being, and the east of the city was the Qingshui River, which could not be surrounded.

Starting from the ninth day of the lunar month, the Han army built siege equipment and sent cavalry to search and intercept the scouts. The scouts battle personally supervised by Zhao Yun fought very well, and once cut off all the contact between Jingyang and the outside world.

On March 12, after the first batch of heavy siege weapons were built, Li Su handed over the task of tentative siege to Gao Shun. This time, Gao Shun brought one of his own direct lineage camps, and another expanded siege camps, which were originally deployed in Jingzhou.

With Gao Shun's specialty, of course, he is best at fighting tough battles. There are two camps and other elite heavy infantry, and he has just finished his talents in performing siege battle missions. He did not rush forward, but knew very well how to share the enemy's defensive power, how to prepare for firepower, how to dismantle the city defense facilities first, and strive to slowly chew off the peripheral defense at the lowest cost.

In this way, although Qingyang City was not very dangerous in a short period of time, it also made other friendly troops on Yuan Shu’s side feel scared, and they were afraid that they would hold on for a few days and suddenly fell into the trap and were killed.

The more Zhao Yun killed the scout sent by Liang Gang from Rangcheng, the more worried Liang Gang was, the more he wanted to send scouts to deliver vegetables and heads to Zhao Yun, which made Zhao Yun unable to eat.

In this tentative siege, Li Sujun also captured some prisoners, mainly some of the enemy soldiers who defended the city and fell to the city, and were dragged away by cleaning the battlefield. Of course, this is a very rare one, and more of them were intercepted by Zhao Yun's cavalry troops when intercepting the enemy's messenger scouts. Those scouts were not stupid, and they knew that it was impossible to escape by Zhao Yun, so naturally some of them chose to surrender.

Because of some previous news channels (Yuan Huan revealed to Liu Bei), Li Su already knew that Liang Gang and Leju's troops had participated in the battle to break Yique Pass around the back, so he was also curious and tortured the prisoners when he caught them, wanting to know how the emperor died.

As a result, when interrogating the prisoners, they found information about the big fish: some captured middle-level cavalry officers of Yuan's army honestly confessed that Emperor Huai Liu Xie was killed by Le, and Le also killed senior officials such as Situ Zhao Wen, Taifu Zhang Yi.
Chapter completed!