Chapter 990 Extra Tuoba Liwei: Strike into Zhangjiakou and capture Zhang Yide alive

Faced with the persuasion of high-ranking officials, the first reactions of Xianbei Tuoba Liwei and Wuhuan Lou Class were still relatively cautious.

They all understand the truth, but they can see the strength of the Han Dynasty today.

Can you get a chance if you attack?

In terms of strategy, these Hu people were obviously not as good as the Han people, so they had to listen to the analysis and explanation of the high-ranking officials.

High officials are not very smart people, they are just ordinary princes who have "at most of the intelligence of sixty or seventy in the Three Kingdoms game".

Fortunately, he brought 40,000 to 50,000 strong men and more than 100,000 people to the grassland, and there were more or less a few loyal staff members of the Yuan family.

Nowadays, the main thing that gives advice to senior officials is that a general in Bingzhou was led by him.

This guy has no reputation and his surname is very remote. He is an existence in the Romance of which he has no right to reveal his name. However, in history, he is known for his proficiency in negotiating affairs with the Wuhuan and Xianbei, just like Yan Rou and Tian Yu.

With the efforts of the high-ranking gang, they finally showed a way for Tuoba Liwei and Louban:

"Liu Bei built a canal to connect Luoyang and Yecheng, and even went north along the Zhaojun Jizhou Plain. The ditch was usually mountain, which was intended to connect the three waterways of the Yellow River, Zhangshui and Hutuo River, and to flow into Yishui in Zhongshan.

It is supplemented by land transportation to break through the narrow parts of Yanshan Mountain, communicate with Dai County and Shanggu County, which were originally difficult to transport food and grass in the south, and strengthen the weak points connecting Bingzhou and Youzhou.

So now that Liu Bei is well-behaved, our army must not attempt to enter from the bridge of Guangning County (Zhangjiakou) near Shanggu and Dai County, as it will inevitably be quickly rushed to support it by Liu Bei's heavy troops.

Moreover, Zhang Fei was named Shanggu County Duke for nine years, and his fief was in Guangning. I heard that he was strict in his army and had strict defense near Guangning. He rushed directly to Guangning and entered the pass, which was directly hitting Zhang Fei's spearhead.

My prairie heroes are coming and going like the wind, and they move quickly. If they fight with the Han army in a dignified formation, they will definitely not be able to gain a advantage. Therefore, the best strategy at the moment is to pretend to be unable to calm down and gather troops near Guangning to tear the gap. The best move is to start first.

After the Han army was attracted by the attention of the Han army, the main force of our army actually made a move to the east, and entered the other places where the Han army was relatively negligent in building border defense in recent years. At that time, no matter what the long-term results were achieved, they would burn and kill them first, and plunder enough winter supplies and military supplies.

Even if he cannot expand the results of the war in the end, he can still come and go freely with 100,000 cavalry. Because of the food from the enemy, he plundered most of the war-making materials that Liu Bei had hoarded at the forefront. Even if Liu Bei wanted to continue to advance north next year, he would have to embezzle a large amount of supplies to fill this hole first. That would be at least a few years of peace?"

When the senior officials made such suggestions, they did not have the psychological burden of being a Han person. They only thought it was the mentality of warlords fighting for hegemony.

On the other hand, in the eyes of these warlords entrenched in the grasslands in the north, Liu Bei was building a canal to the northern border so steadily and optimizing Hebei's material transfer network was to prepare for war, and it was nothing more than Liu Bei's first shot that had not yet fired the hot war.

Therefore, they could not sit still and wait for the Han people to be fully prepared.

Tuoba Liwei felt that it made sense, so he sincerely asked: "Where should we break the door and enter the pass?"

The senior official had obviously thought about it for a long time and pointed directly at the map: "It should be like the story of Qiu Liju, the father of Lou Ban Shanyu, who came to the pass from the Lingzhi between western Liaoning and Youbeiping.

Back then, twenty-four years ago, Qiu Liju Shanyu crossed Yanshan near Lingzhi and besieged Gongsun Zan in Guanzi City. If Liu Bei had not personally supported him later, he would have killed Gongsun Zan to destroy that time!

Our army has now entered the pass through this. The biggest advantage is that it can avoid the main forces of the Han people in the northern border: Lord Tuoba, you also know that the Han people's border defenses are sharp in Bingzhou and Hetao.

Shuofang County in Hetao is guarded by Lu Bu, Yinchuan County is guarded by Ma Dai, and Yanmen County in Bingzhou is guarded by Guanyu. To the east of Bingzhou, Dai County in the westernmost part of Youzhou is guarded by Zhang Fei. These places cannot be attacked, and have been analyzed before.

But further east, because Zhang Fei had already protected Yan State and Zhuo County was in the north, the Han people were neglecting to prevent the situation, and those places were not strategically important. The only one under Liu Bei's other rank-level officials who were worthy of being famous generals was Zhao Yun.

Zhao Yunyuan was in Liaodong and continued to develop to the northeast over the years, even eroding the territory of the Goguryeo people and expanding to the coast of the Whale Sea.

Zhao Yun's main attack directions were the east and north, and his self-defense defense forces were deployed at most in Liao Tunnel and Changli. Therefore, Changli went west and Shanggu went east, and there were gaps in permanent troops between the entire Yuyang, Youbeiping and western Liaoning.

Moreover, I have been in the northern border for a long time. When Mr. Yuan was alive, I knew a lot about the weak defense in this area. On the one hand, the Liaoxi Corridor is more than 400 miles away, which is an unmanned land for the Han people and has difficulty in supplying.

On the other hand, although Mi Zhu's old thief claimed to be surrendering to Mr. Yuan and paid taxes to military supplies every year, after reviewing the matter, he had been secretly paying money with Liu Bei! Mr. Yuan did not pay attention to sea ships at that time, and Mr. Mi Zhu had certain benefits in navigation, so he could only let the control of the local area.

At that time, whenever Yuan Gong's troops were missing in western Liaoning and along the Youbeiping coast, he would order Mi Zhu to transport them from Liaodong to the counties along the coast of Rushui, Lushui and Qiangshui. Over time, the border defense military needs of these three counties were equivalent to relying highly on the surplus grains from the Liaodong military farms. On the contrary, the communication with Jizhou in the south was weak and the transportation was relatively inconvenient.

Our army chose the opportunity to enter the pass from these three counties, and the Han people were unable to return to defend in a hurry, so they could definitely go down in one go! Even if they did not surrender, they could bypass them and continue to rob the wealthy Bohai County!

Liu Bei is now satisfied with his ambitions. He has been building a canal for so many years, and he is thinking about taking the initiative to invade us. He is so arrogant that he will teach him a lesson."

Tuoba Liwei and others felt that they were sure of it after hearing such detailed planning by the senior officials.

However, Tuoba Liwei was also a powerful leader of the generation. In history, the Xianbei people took advantage of the rebellion at the end of the Han Dynasty to rise to a great level, so even if they didn’t see much military tactics, their sense of military smell was still quite strong.

He has more or less known about the things in the south over the years. At the same time, he has learned from the description of the senior official just now and soon came up with a question.

"The invasion from Youbeiping did encounter the least resistance. However, General Gao, you also said that as early as when Yuan Gongmu defended the northern border, Mi Zhu built sea ship trade in Guangdong, Liaodong. There was a shortage of western Liaoning and Youbeiping, and it was also possible to replenish supplies by sea, which was more convenient than going north from Bohai County on land along the coast.

The Han people's benefits of shipping ships in seas are probably stronger than they were back then? Our grassland heroes relied on the benefits of bows and horses. If they arrived at the coast and the Han people communicated with ships, our army would not be able to exert their advantages.

Liu Bei is also a great master of his generation. He always dared to arrange defense in the northern border in this way. It is certainly reasonable that he should focus on what is important and what is less than what is less.

Maybe he just felt that the northern borders of Hetao, Bingzhou, Shanggu, Liaodong and other places were far away from the coast and the troops were slow to support, so he had to station heavy troops on the spot.

Western Liao and other places are bordering the Bohai Sea. What if he is confident in the speed of the Han army's aid, he will reduce the cost of garrison. What if he does?

Besides, Liu Bei's plan to build the canal focuses on the west and neglect the east, just to improve inland shipping from Zhao to Zhongshan, but he doesn't care whether he can easily contact Zhuojun and Yuyang. Doesn't this mean that the Han people do not need to rely on the canal to communicate with western Liaoning and the coast of Youbeiping in the future?"

Tuoba Li's cautious push and stopping made the high-ranking officials feel quite unhappy. This is not his family's business. Liu Bei is a big problem for all grassland warlords. Even if his plan is risky, can you come up with better ones?

If you don’t do anything, you’re just waiting for death! At this time, even if there are some small risks, you should take a fight. Waiting for death is definitely the worst road!

In addition, the senior officials and Tuoba Liwei lacked a real understanding of the development of navigation power in the Central Plains court in recent years.

They also had some intelligence infiltration in the Central Plains, especially in Youzhou, Bingzhou, and could also receive a few original official Yuan Shao's official reports in the court.

However, the intelligence sources of these departments and regions are narrow in themselves and have no intersection with the Han naval/navigilance force system. With the speed of information transmission at that time and the confidentiality system between the various departments of the court, coupled with the slow transmission of information in ancient times, the high-ranking officials' understanding of the strength of the Han naval power was still at the level of "at most a little stronger than the Mi Zhu period."

The reason why Tuoba Liwei almost made a mistake was not that his IQ was higher than that of a high-ranking career, but that he knew that he didn't understand and was afraid of the unknown.

Moreover, when the senior officials came to persuade him to start a fight and provided him with a strategy, Tuoba Liwei naturally stood in a guardian mentality of "how to be wary of being cheated by salesmen", and was suspicious.

The IQs of both sides are on the same level, and the gap is just a position.

The senior officials must not be clichéd, and finally clarified repeatedly, emphasizing that "the naval power of the Han Dynasty was probably not much stronger than that of the Mi Zhu period. It is impossible to quickly mobilize troops and supplies to support a large area of ​​thousands of miles.

If western Liaoning and Youbeiping want to be quickly rescued, the starting base can only be Zhao Yun from Liaodong, and Zhao Yun will be restrained by other directions, which will lead to a very small scale of rapid rescue of the Han people.

The main garrisons in other south and even the Central Plains and Yellow River Basin will be very difficult and slow, and it will be too late to come to the north coast of the Bohai Sea by sea.”

Tuoba Liwei naturally has a lot of considerations about the details here, so there is no need to elaborate on the process one by one. Anyway, the senior officials rely on this analysis and finally convinced everyone.

Finally, in order to add an insurance policy, the senior officials also proposed a feint to lure the enemy into a feint attack. Before the main attack officially began, the Han people's attention was misled to other directions, and further delayed the reaction speed of the Later Han people's response.

The plan is as follows: Let Wuhuanlou Ban Shanyu and his senior officials take part of the direct troops of the Yuan family, plus a small number of Xianbei people under the banner of "the Xianbei Servant Army led by the senior officials", show their flags together, and pretend to launch a feint attack on Zhang Fei from Guangning to show their military power.

We were lucky enough to break through the siege and report back to the city! Please report to Your Majesty quickly and send reinforcements to you! Those Hu dogs are anxious to jump over the wall!"

Zhang Fei has been enjoying peace for many years, and no one cares about his old habit of drinking because he doesn't have to fight.

As the Grand Marshal, he has not been stationed in the fiefdom for many years, but often in the capital.

However, Liu Bei planned to completely repair the canal before the famine next year, and the northern expedition of the grassland will be launched next summer. Therefore, Zhang Fei was sent back to rectify the local area in advance, and prepare for reception before the arrival of the Northern Expedition Army.

Zhang Fei's current situation is equivalent to a commander in front preparing for the "Great Thunderstorm Plan". Before his side was ready, he encountered the opponent's desperate situation and fought for about half a year. It was better to use the Barbarossa plan to attack first.

So, when he heard that the Hu people were attacking, Zhang Fei threw the wine bowl and roared: "Get my iron armor! Gather all the cavalry in the city and follow someone out of the pass to fight!"

"The Taiwei should not be rash! The enemy's forces are numerous, and our Han Dynasty is at risk of the Great Wall. We guard the pass to the death, forcing the enemy to detour. In addition, we are looking for an opportunity to break through, how can we go out to meet the enemy?" Pang Tong, as the chief of the Taiwei, was also at the scene at the time and immediately spoke out to dissuade him.

Zhang Fei wiped his mouth: "Don't worry, someone has his own sense of responsibility. The infantry guards all passes. A certain cavalry is free to come and go, just to explore the realities of the high-ranking officials. If there are indeed 300,000 people, these scouts can break through the siege alive, and tens of thousands of cavalry can't break through? Can the high-ranking officials stop it?"

Pang Tong sighed: "Since that's the case, you can't fight. It's okay to find out the truth of the enemy. To be honest, I don't believe that high-ranking officials can have such appeal. 300,000 people, Tuoba Liwei is relieved to let the high-ranking officials lead the way!"
Chapter completed!