Chapter 530 Jia Xu's comeback
There is no need to elaborate on the specific experience of Jia Xu's 20-month hell experience.
Anyway, he is fifty years old now, and he looks as old as a person in his sixties. He has been hiding among the Hu people on the grassland and hiding in the sand for twenty months. He has been harder than more than ten years. His hair and beard are not only gray, but also sparse. Especially his beard, which looks longer than before, but is curled up sparsely and unformed.
However, all this old appearance also reflects the resentful eyes in Jia Xu's eyes, which are even more embarrassing than before. The so-called old spirit and old spirit are the easiest to see from the eyes, just like the energy of the whole face was sucked away by the pair of eyes.
This difficult experience also changed his temperament. Jia Xu's fear of death may be second only to Li Su. But his current mentality and positioning of himself are close to an old man in his sixties. Jia Xu also subconsciously felt that he had not been able to live long.
In this way, he is not as careful as he is 45 years ago, his physical age, his 45-year-old mental age, his 50-year-old physical age, and his 60-year-old psychological age.
I am not so jealous of my life, and I will take risks more boldly when using tricks, just seeking a better revenge effect. This is equivalent to the 2.0 version of Jia Xu who has been lifted after returning from hell, and his mental value has increased by one or two points (you can't add more, Jia Xu is already 97).
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At this moment, Zhang Liao passed Shujia Valley with an unbroken passage. Since Jia Xu asked why he decided that Guan Yu would focus on defending the south-south Zhujia Valley, and relatively neglecting the defense of Shujia Valley. Of course, Jia Xu also wanted to wait for Zhang Zifang later to establish a stronger wise image in Zhang Liao's heart and make it easier for Zhang Liao to obey his plans in the subsequent specific operations.
Jia Xu analyzed to Zhang Liao: "This matter is easy to know. Guan Yu entered the Yellow River from Qingshui and advanced downstream. Then, since he had his logistics food routes along the way, how could he not set up guard posts? Although I don't know the current situation, Guan Yu knew about the troops and expected that the enemy would be lenient. Most of them would set up patrol posts from the East Yuan to the mouth of Qingshui River, and even along the river yin, and set up beacon towers.
It was like our army taking the southern line, advancing from Hanoi along the Zhuguan-Jiguan and attacking Hedong Dongyuan. The logistics supply route was further away than starting from Shangdang Yanga and broke through Zhongtiaoshan Shujia Valley.
The only opportunity to save money on material transportation on the southern line is to transport water from the Yellow River, but wouldn’t it be immediately discovered by Guan Yu to warn him? Otherwise, the Guan Yu whistle ship patrolling along the Yellow River and beacon tower, our army’s southern line logistics can only go to the Wangwu Mountain mountain area and stay away from the bank of the Yellow River. However, it is also a mountain road. The mileage of the southern line entering the southern line is longer than the northern line, so it is better to take the northern line to attack."
To put it bluntly, Jia Xu's vision is just one sentence: I expected Guan Yu to set up alerts such as beacon towers or whistleboats around his own logistics route.
So we didn't show any attitude of intercepting Guan Yu's grain channel at all, and chose to take a long way to appear suddenly. The moment we appeared, it was a killer move, not just to rob a grain transport team and rashly alert the snake, but to directly remove some key strongholds in Hedong!
After hearing this, Zhang Liao nodded secretly, thinking that although Jia Xu's position was despicable and unfaithful, he was still reliable in strategy and tactics. Today's move has been so smooth, which is quite similar to last year's attack on Bu Dugen.
With this psychological construction, Zhang Liao is more willing to listen to Jia Xu's opinions on where to hit first and then hit later, and where to stab the first and most ruthless back stab at the point.
After all, when Lu Bu sent him to set off, he would not explain these details too carefully. After arriving in Hedong, he would adapt to the enemy's troops' distribution at the moment of war.
Zhang Liao asked this question. After hearing this, Jia Xu twisted his sparse and curled beard and smelly beard and said coldly:
"When we sent troops from Shangdang, we didn't know when Guan Yu arrived in Heyin and entered Henan Yin. However, based on the latest Henan military information received last night, since Guan Yu appeared on the sixth day of the fifth month, the time should be the fourth day of the day from Dongyuan. The flow rate of Qingshui, the Yellow River, and the staggering rhythm of the water and land advances, it is easy to calculate this information and is very valuable."
When Zhang Liao heard Jia Xu's words calmly, he couldn't help but be brought to the rhythm. He thought that Jia Xu was really a talented person who had actuarial calculations? How can this kind of information be used?
"Oh? Then understand this, how to apply it? I hope to hear it carefully." Zhang Liao was very good at leading troops in war and his courage was also very considerable. However, Zhang Liao was a general after all, a minor official from a bitter and cold place. He was not very good at math and was not good at precise quantitative analysis, so he listened more and more seriously.
Jia Xu said with empty eyes: "Since Guan Yu sent troops from Dongyuan on the fourth day of the fifth month, with Guan Yu's emphasis on the retreat, Xu Huang should have been in Dongyuan at that time. Moreover, Dongyuan County was not big, and the treasury could not store too much supplies. Guan Yu took away 30,000 people and food and equipment with the army, which would inevitably make the Dongyuan warehouse extremely empty.
After the separation, Xu Huang's knowledge of the army would also know that he would ensure the logistics for Guan Yu in the future. The most urgent task was to replenish the Dongyuan warehouse, which had been empty, and move the large amount of land transportation of supplies left in Anyi, Wenxi and other places in the Gongshui Basin to Dongyuan.
Because Xu Huang knew very well that on Guan Yu’s 300-mile logistics route, he would take the three sections of the Qingshui River and the Yellow River, as long as he used a boat and a raft to transport goods, it would be difficult for our army to rob the grain.
Because our army's rafts were deployed in advance on both sides of the Yellow River above Heyin County, as long as the war was not deployed in place, as soon as Guanyu blocked the narrow part of Xiaopingjin Ferry, no matter how many ships there were in the lower reaches of the Yellow River, they could not drive.
Since there will be no accident in the 220-mile waterway in the 300-mile journey, Guan Yu can control it himself, the most likely thing to happen is to cross the 80-mile landway of the Shujia Valley in Zhongtiao Mountain.
Shouldn’t Xu Huang move more materials to Dongyuan before our army reacted, and transport the things that should be transported by 80 miles by land first. After Liu Yuan officially declared war and our army also came from Shangdang, the Dongyuan warehouse was already full again. He could last for a long time by shipment, no longer have to go by land, no longer have to risk being robbed of food by us."
Jia Xu said so clearly, and Zhang Liao understood in seconds: "So, do you think Xu Huang is probably transporting grain himself now?"
Jia Xu: "It is not necessarily that he transported grain himself, but at least he must be transporting grain on a large scale. According to the fourth day of the fifth month, he was in Dongyuan, and the fifth day of the day he brought the light cavalry back to Wenxi, and the sixth day of the day he shipped the goods from Wenxi today. Today, his goods are likely to be on the eighty-mile mountain road in Zhongtiao Mountain, and perhaps it is already close to Dongyuan County."
The convoy carrying heavy cargo travels by land relatively slowly, and it is almost enough to walk fifty miles a day. Moreover, considering that the nearby area is Zhongtiao Mountain, it is not very flat and may walk more slowly, so it is completely possible that it has not yet entered Dongyuan County.
As for Xu Huang himself, Jia Xu felt that he might not be escorted in person, and his responsibility was very heavy. However, Xu Huang would definitely take a fast-mobile cavalry to sit in Dongyuan or Wenxi, and then quickly react and intercept the grain protection once the enemy situation was encountered.
Of course, even if Xu Huang did not personally protect the grain, the grain team would have at least one or two thousand or even three thousand escorts, and these basic guards would not be short of strength.
After thinking about it, Zhang Liao excitedly suggested: "Then I will send troops to Dongyuan immediately to see if I can rob the grain?"
Jia Xu raised his hand: "Don't worry, how many guards can the grain team have? The key is to make a plan and still lure Xu Huang out without personally protecting the grain."
Zhang Liao had completely convinced Jia Xu: "Then the gentleman said what to do."
Jia Xu: "Zhang Zhonglang, you have 20,000 soldiers and horses, and each of the infantry and cavalry. Anyway, the infantry can't move fast, and they can't reach any place in Wenxi or Dongyuan for a day. So, it's better to move in Wenxi temporarily. I think Xu Huang himself may be bigger in Wenxi. This is not certain. I can only bet a little bit, and it doesn't matter if I don't win it.
After the infantry moved to Wenxi, they would choose the opportunity to find the places where the two sides of Shujia Valley were easily set up, and turn to defense. You can just do it by yourself and ask the people below. Then, you divide the cavalry into two parts and send scouts to the post to investigate Wenxi and Dongyuan's situation, so you don't have to get too close to the city.
Take two or three thousand cavalry and head straight south to Dongyuan, and strive to intercept the grain team that should be still on the road. As long as you intercept, immediately report whether Xu Huang was discovered? If Xu Huang is discovered, there will be 7,000 cavalry left in the rear army to fight hard to deal with Xu Huang in the field, so that we can be sure to quickly capture Wen Xi and Dongyuan.
If Xu Huang was not discovered, the seven thousand cavalry of the rear army would never be exposed. They would even retreat to the north entrance of Shujia Valley to give the enemy a chance to warn the enemy for help. When Xu Huang hurriedly brought all the cavalry of the Hedong Army left to him by Guan Yu to rescue and block the entrance, the entire army would be out.
If he came from Dongyuan, our army would only use 10,000 cavalry to defeat the enemy. If we came from Wenxi, it would be even better. The infantry ambushed on the mountains on both sides of Shujia Valley that we just mentioned can also be useful, so Xu Huang will definitely be called for no return. Our army will wipe out Xu Huang's cavalry in the field, and even kill Xu Huang himself. Isn't this convenient than chewing these elite soldiers from the city wall in subsequent battles?"
When Zhang Liao heard this, he was completely convinced. He immediately followed Jia Xu's instructions, divided the infantry and cavalry into their troops and made strict arrangements. At the same time, he divided 3,000 people to rob the grain and seduce them.
Not to mention, Jia Xu calculated the days he calculated very accurately.
Before afternoon (1:00 p.m.), the three thousand brisk light cavalry sent by Zhang Liao, led by his general Song Xian, had already caught up with a grain transport team more than 30 miles southwest of Shujia Valley. At that time, the opponent was less than twenty miles away from Dongyuan County. If they were one or two hours later, they might have slipped into the city.
Because the caravans were taken away by Guan Yu, the grain transport team was made of ordinary large trucks, and they didn't have to go through water anyway, they just took on the transfer. The only one or two thousand grain-protecting soldiers was the only one or two thousand.
The three thousand cavalry led by Song Xian were also elite soldiers brought by Zhang Liao. They also added some of the captives of the elite cavalry of the Xianbei royal court captured last year. After being transformed and trained by Zhang Liao, they were all used to blood and life and death in Monan, and their combat effectiveness was naturally good.
When he encountered a grain transport army from a second- and third-tier troops, he easily defeated the other party. The Sima of Xu Huang's other troops was stabbed to death by Song Xian, and a large number of supplies were seized.
Fortunately, when the transport team first encountered the enemy, some fast horse scouts successfully left the team and fled to Dongyuan to ask for help. Of course, this kind of pegasus urgently reported quickly, and they were all willing to report the news even if they ran away to death.
So at the end of Shen Shi, Xu Huang received an urgent report at Wenxi. He also knew that he would have been so late that the grain team would not be able to rescue him, but after he asked about the scale of the enemy, he felt that it was at least necessary to block the mouth of Shujia Valley immediately to prevent the enemy from invasion from expanding.
Xu Huang thought to himself: "How could the enemy come from the mouth of Shujia Valley? Didn't that attack from Shangdang Yanga? Our army did not start a war with Yuan Shao. Could it be that General Guan had officially fought with Yuan Shao's army in Luoyang?
Even I didn't receive the letter. Even if the Lu Bu army of Shangdang received it, it would only take a day or a half at most. How could it be that far away? This should be the troops patrolling the Yanga border before the war. After suddenly receiving the report, they crossed the border and robbed food that day, right?"
Under normal circumstances, Xu Huang's judgment on the enemy situation is absolutely fine. He would not be so scared that he dared not fight in the field and refused to save him because of the robbery of food. So after thinking for a while, the rescuers were like putting out fire. He took all the five thousand cavalry left by Guan Yu to rescue Dongyuan and check the risk of being invaded by the enemy along the way.
In any case, even if the enemy robs the grain and withdraws it, Xu Huang still has to learn from his lessons to prevent him from committing another crime next time. If he blocks the entrance of Shujia Valley, he can set up a camp at Shujia Valley, repair some fortifications, and station some sentries.
It is impossible to station too many people. After all, he only has 10,000 mobile troops in total. There can only be a solid camp. The sentry can report the message in time and hold it on for a day and a half, and wait for the mobile reinforcements to arrive to assist in the defense.
Xu Huang took five thousand people, panting and riding on his horse, and entered Shujia Valley before evening. After arriving at the entrance of the valley, Xu Huang also knew about the troops, so he asked the troops to guard them and slowed down a little, and even dismounted and kept their horsepower to avoid losing their horsepower when they encountered the enemy in a while.
Unfortunately, it was less than ten miles before entering Shujia Valley and the horsepower was not restored. Xu Huang walked to a place and always felt that the mountains on both sides seemed to be unfavorable. He hesitated and ordered the soldiers to go up to the hillsides on both sides to check.
Then, it seemed that the ambush general realized that he might be discovered, so he really launched it in advance. The reason why the three ambushers arose three rather than four was naturally because Xu Huang walked slowly and was careful not to completely enter the encirclement.
But it was already very uncomfortable to have enemies in front and left and right directions. Xu Huang immediately commanded the troops to fight, and an army of 17,000 people appeared on the opposite side of Zhang Liao's ambushing 10,000 infantry and the remaining 7,000 cavalry.
Because the three thousand Song Xian's robbery cavalry were left in the direction of Dongyuan, and Xu Huang was in the direction of Wenxi, Song Xian must not be able to catch up with the battlefield.
"Stay! Don't panic!" Xu Huang shouted loudly to keep the troops in order, but he was actually quite frightened: this is not the enemy patrol cavalry happened to hear that war began on the border, so he passed...
Judging from this situation, there are obviously tens of thousands of troops! The enemy has long been preparing to attack in a sneak attack without declaring it!
PS: The above chapter has 4,000 words. There are actually 8,000 words today. I may not think there are many plots, mainly to describe the cause and effect of Jia Xu.
In the next few days, the number of words may be slower, so I apologize in advance. Fortunately, I also saw a book friend leaving a message saying that I would take care of it for a week before reading it. I felt a little more at ease.
Of course, I am definitely not slower because I have to raise my book friends. I just happened to write this, so I had to carefully design some strategies for Zhuge Liang to fight against Jia Xu in the first battle against wisdom. This kind of plot is really slower and more difficult than Luo Guanzhong wrote "Romance of the Three Kingdoms". After all, I am very considerate of myself and am planning to write a plan that is much more exquisite than Luo Guanzhong. How can this kind of high-minded plot be written faster?
However, if you apologize in advance, you will also give a vaccination. The main reason is that you cannot guarantee that the final plan is indeed so exquisite that it is unprecedentedly exquisite. Can you really not rely on the halo of mental retardation?
After all, I can't imagine how exquisite a strategy confrontation that I haven't thought of yet can be. It may be that it will cost me the brain power in the end, but it will indeed open high and end low. I think the subsequent plot is no longer the kind of "physical work of the R&D department", but the mental expenditure of really doing "invention and creation". Just like you can't guarantee the return rate for that kind of real cutting-edge scientific research investment, it is also possible that scientific research failure is possible.
Chapter completed!