Chapter 109: The Concept of the Battle of Lang Son

Without further ado, Wang Ying stayed here and maintained logistics. Wang Yue took more than 10,000 soldiers to set off without waiting for the army to gather, not to the northwest, but to the southeast.

There are two reasons why this is done.

From Guangning to Lang Son, although there are mountain roads connected, they are not open, and it is difficult for large troops to march. More importantly, hundreds of thousands of troops are set up in Lang Son.

What is the use of the Ming army adding more than 10,000 troops?

But if you turn to the southeast, you will walk out of the mountainous area and enter the northern part of the Red River Plain. At that time, the egg shells were broken and the egg whites were entered.

The shock to the Annan army was even greater.

Secondly, the Battle of Lang Son, which is like the Battle of Qin and Zhao Changping, has become a competition of national strength between the two countries. What supports the Battle of Lang Son is not only the hundreds of thousands of troops near Lang Son, but also thousands of miles of rivers and mountains behind Lang Son, Annan.

Wang Yue’s more than 10,000 troops may not be able to do anything big, but it is enough to cut off the logistics of the Lang Son defenders.

At that time, it depends on how Lang Son defenders support it.

In order to achieve this goal, Wang Yue knew that his strength was weak, he had to take the lead, just because he was worried that if the Annan people reacted and sent troops to block them in the mountains, it would be difficult to break the situation for a while.

Things were indeed as Wang Yue expected.

Supporting several aspects of combat has consumed all the military, civilian, manpower and material resources of Annan. Wang Yue easily captured two county towns.

As soon as you ask, you will know that there are almost not many men in these two counties. Most of them are over 16 years old and under 50 years old. They either go to the front line to fight against the northern invaders or transport food and grass as civilians.

This is why Wang Yue can fight so easily.

Annan's defeat is right in front of him.

Of course, to this point, it can be said that it is not a crime of war.

Under Lang Son City.

Guo Deng looked at the good news sent by Wang Yue, and slapped him hard on the table and said, "Okay, okay, okay."

After several consecutive months of troops being trapped under the city, even though Guo Deng slowed down his attack, in order to avoid too many casualties, at least more than 10,000 soldiers were killed every month.

So much so that Guo Deng kept asking for troops to replenish the troops from the rear.

You should know that Guangxi is not a place with a large population. When it first started recruiting soldiers, the people of Guangxi were willing to serve for a high price. Later, they gradually realized that the money was high, but it was fatal.

Therefore, the local people in Guangxi were active from the beginning, but later they had to find ways to assign quotas, so that Guo Deng also recruited a lot of people from Guangdong, Hunan and Guizhou.

However, Xiang Zhong has reported to Guo Deng many times that he cannot continue like this.

Some people in Guangxi are already in panic.

Of course, this does not mean that the administrative ability of the DPRK is not as good as that of Annan.

To be honest, both sides are probably half a dozen. Perhaps Annan has a little better administrative ability. After all, Annan is small and the management pressure is relatively small.

The Ming Dynasty is different.

Zhuqi Town in Beijing has always been beyond the reach of Huguang, Yunnan and Guizhou.

Of course, the main reason for this different pressure is that it has different mentalities.

For the Annan people, this is a battle to destroy the country and the race if they don’t win. Even the king of the country, or the emperor of the Great Yue, and the children of the royal family, were all in charge.

This sense of crisis makes Annan pay all the price to win this battle, and this priority is the most priority.

But this is not the case with the Ming army.

First of all, at the central level, there have always been arrogance of opposition, and there are also voices of opposition at the lower level, especially with the lessons of the Yongle period, which is a large number of gentry who do not want to fight.

Secondly, even if they take a step back, even if they fight, they are unwilling to pay much price for this matter.

Therefore, it creates the current situation.

Annan sent almost all the men to the battlefield. The south was a little better. The more they were getting, the more they were, they ignored agricultural production.

If you continue to fight, even the healthy woman will probably have to use it.

On this level, although Annan is a primary school student, he can be called united. The Ming army didn't want to.

A considerable part of this pressure against the Battle of Annan was borne by Zhu Qizhen, but Guo Deng could not be at ease.

After so many days, he thought he didn't know how many ways to lure the enemy and show weakness. In short, it was real and real. But Ruan Chi, a veteran, insisted on one word, that is, guard.

No matter what you do, I will remain unmoved.

It's like a ten thousand-year-old turtle.

This approach really makes Guo Deng unable to do anything.

Sometimes Guo Deng had to admit that with Ruan Chi's ability, the Duke of Ming Dynasty dared not say that he was appointed as a marquis, but it was a decisive idea to be appointed as a marquis. Although Annan's country is small, there are not many talents.

After a long confrontation, no matter how deep Guo Deng is, he is still a little impetuous at this moment, and he is just losing his composure.

Guo Deng immediately summoned all the generals and told them about this matter.

The generals cheered and asked for a fight.

Their attacks have made them angry in the past few months and I don’t know where to go. At this moment, seeing that the war has progressed, they are naturally not willing to be outdone and want to take revenge.

But Guo Deng stopped them with a smile and said, "Order the entire army to cease fighting and withdraw to repair it."

As soon as this statement came out, all the generals were shocked and said, "Duke, what do you mean?"

Guo Deng said: "Why do you need to attack Lang Son? We will wait for him to withdraw our troops."

Guo Deng has analyzed from various information that Annan has been at the end of his strength in the war for several consecutive months. In fact, the consumption of Annan's national strength cannot be calculated from this year, but should be calculated from the battle two years ago.

Two years ago, the Annan Army's standing army had been between tens of thousands and tens of thousands. However, since then, it has remained at 400,000 or even more for many years.

You should know that for the Ming Dynasty, raising 400,000 combat soldiers was a very difficult task. Moreover, in this year, everything started to fight in several directions. Annan no longer counted as many soldiers, almost everyone was in the army.

This level of consumption, even in just a few months, is enough to waste Annan's family.

Even for many Annan people, they do not want to continue this war of invisible hope.

Annan's military and civilian spirit have a real hatred for the Ming Dynasty, but the world is always material. When the people in the family leave forever and are hungry, can they still support some hatred?

At this time, living is their greatest desire.

Therefore, in order to deal with Wang Yue's rear threat, Annan must draw troops from Lang Son, and Guo Deng judged that it would be impossible to do it with 10,000 or 20,000 people.

You should know that in Wang Yue's hands, there are tens of thousands of people who can go to the battlefield with the navy and the army. In order to capture Wang Yue, it is estimated that Annan will draw at least 100,000 troops from the front line or even more.

With such a large number of troops being transferred, Lang Son can still fight.

Therefore, the most rational way to treat the Annan people is to withdraw troops.

Give up Lang Son.

In this case, why did Guo Deng spend his life in vain for a city that would inevitably fall into the hands of the Ming Dynasty?

Anyway, there are enough people who die under Lang Son.

In addition, Guo Deng did another thing. He called Liu Ju over and transferred all the cavalry of the entire army, as many as 50,000 or 60,000 to Liu Ju.

What Guo Deng had to do was to let Liu Ju run ahead of Annan's army when the Annan people retreated.

How could Guo Deng wait for the Annan people to retreat? He wanted to fight a big annihilation battle, just like the battle between Qin and Zhao Changping.

Now, Annan’s army is as many as 300,000 to 400,000 troops here in Lang Sang, which can be said to be the connection between elite soldiers and powerful generals. This army is the backbone of the Annan people.

Once Guo Deng annihilated this army, the Annan people would definitely not have the power to restore the world. The rest is to clean the battlefield.

But this idea is very grand, and whether it can be successful depends on God's will.

However, not only Guo Deng is watching this, but also the Annan people are watching it.
Chapter completed!