Chapter 882: Plan

There are no simple counselors in this era. Although they are not as proficient in the Five Elements, Bagua, astronomy and geography as Zhuge Liang, they can all understand the situation clearly. Even if not everyone is good at strategy, they certainly have wisdom.

Cheng Gongying's analysis was correct. Indeed, as he said, it was impossible for Wang Yan to raise a large army to attack Liangzhou. The supply line was too long, and every stone of rice sent consumed one stone of rice. This investment was extremely unmatched by the harvest. If such a long supply line is really stretched, it will be useless to capture Liangzhou, because the opportunity to cross the river to attack Henan will be lost.

Relatively speaking, Henan is much more important than Liangzhou. There are more people, better land and abundant water conservancy. This is a choice that any mature person would make. What's more, General Wang can also be called a military strategist and strategist. He is even more incapable of twitching his brain and raising an army to attack the enemy.

In fact, Han Sui did not understand the key to the problem. Why did Wang Yan attack Liangzhou? It is because of the thalassemia here that the land is not suitable for farming. Cotton can be grown in a large area. It is also connected to the Western Region and can do business. The Hexi Corridor also has considerable strategic importance. It is the throat of east and west and must be controlled.

So if Han Sui and others are smart enough, what they should do now is write a letter asking for peace. They promised to sell all the cotton they grew to Wang Yan at a low price, and promised to pay the commercial taxes to Wang Yan. In other words, Han Sui did not rely on or take refuge, but he wanted to work for Wang Yan.

So as long as he expresses this intention, Wang Yan will immediately stop his troops, and will also open grain trade with Han Sui, start larger-scale trade, and prosper Liangzhou. In this way, Han Sui can definitely live safely until General Wang unifies the north and the south, and he will definitely be the last to die.

But unfortunately, Han Sui and others did not understand Wang Yan's meaning, or even if they did, they were not willing to do it, because it was a real survival.

Resisting now at least guarantees independence. But once it was opened and Wang Yan was allowed to enter Liangzhou, Han Sui and others had no doubt that they would be able to defeat Liangzhou without any loss. Liangzhou would be gone, and he, Old Han, would be reduced to a skeleton and unable to escape even if he wanted to.

After pondering for a moment, he understood what Cheng Gongying meant, and Han Sui nodded: "Meng Hui's words are very good. If we are in a stalemate with Lu Bu, Wang Yan will not raise a large number of troops to attack. However, if we can win quickly, the king's thieves may not attack. In fact, the gains outweigh the losses. Lu Bu and Zhang Liao now have fifty thousand soldiers, and most of them are Xiongnu, Xianbei, Qiang and other barbarians, so their fighting power is bound to be insufficient.

In this way, I should seek quick victory. If the battle is successful and Lu Bu and Zhang Liao are defeated in Beidi and Anding, Wang Yan will know that our army is strong and will not disturb them again. What does Meng Hui think? "

Cheng Gongying paced and thought, of course he knew that if they could win quickly, it would be right to let Wang Yan know that they were a tough nut to crack and would not dare to go on an expedition easily. But he felt that Wang Yan was too powerful and was too kind to his soldiers and civilians. If Lu Bu and Zhang Liao suffered losses in Liangzhou and many soldiers died, then there was no guarantee that Wang Yan would not ignore Yuan Shao in Henan and raise an army in anger.

This kind of thing is very likely to happen, because Wang Yan is not a reasonable leader. Throughout the ages, there has never been such a person who has such hatred for the wealthy family. So now that there is such a person, it is not difficult to understand that he will do anything unexpected. Therefore, in a hostile state, we have to consider this unexpected situation.

He paused and said, "My lord, I think it is better to maintain a stalemate. Wang Yan's army is extremely powerful. In the previous battle with Yuan Shao in Hebei, one hundred thousand defeated Yuan Shao's army of half a million. Now Lu Bu and Zhang Liao With two guards and fifteen thousand soldiers, and tens of thousands of barbarian troops, we must not underestimate him. If we want a quick victory, even if the barbarians help us, it will be difficult to achieve.

King Kuang Yan treated the army and the people kindly, and highly praised the words of the ancient Han Dynasty Chen Tang, who said, "Anyone who attacks a strong Han will be killed no matter how far away." The soldiers and people under his command are strong and brave. If the victory is really quick, Wang Yan may not launch a large army to attack me. My lord, please don't forget that Wang Yan is only thirty, which is the age of great courage. Even if he attacks Henan a few years later, it won't be a big problem. My lord, you should think twice. "

"The king said that the strong will be strong, but Lü Bu is a common man. He and Zhang Liao led the army. Their troops and horses were only 15,000, and the rest were barbarians. We all understand the nature of barbarians. Lü Bu and Zhang Liao led tens of thousands of barbarians into an army. Ten points of fighting strength is reduced, but the strength is greater than the number of people. Now the location is favorable and the people are with us. We have twice as many troops as Lu Bu and Zhang Liao. If we cannot win quickly, it is not too late to seek a stalemate. "

This was a decision that Han Sui made after thinking twice, three times, and it could be summed up in four words: fuck him. It's not like there are hundreds of thousands of troops here, there are only more than 10,000 real elites, so there is nothing to be afraid of. Lu Bu is indeed brave, so what?

... Cheng Gongying was silent, cupped his hands and said: "Ying obeys the order!"

"Order Liang Xing, Hou Xuan, Cheng Yin, Li Kan, Zhang Heng, Cheng Yi, Ma Wan, and Yang Qiu to lead an army of fifty thousand. Contact the Xiongnu, Xianbei, and Qianghu tribes. You will personally lobby, state your interests, and raise ten troops. Ten thousand. Such an army of 150,000 will attack Lu Bu."

"yes!"

Cheng Gongying responded and hurried out to make arrangements. It's not the time for war yet. It will take two months to reorganize the army. It's already early winter, and a thin layer of snow just fell the day before yesterday. Even though they have cotton-padded clothes, they don't have that many cotton-padded clothes.

Furthermore, even if you have cotton-padded clothes, fighting in winter will cost more, which is extremely uneconomical. Therefore, this winter is the time for army reorganization, and the real war will not come until spring.

So this winter, Han Sui was preparing for war and conducting winter training. At the same time, they were also connecting everywhere, actively lobbying the Huns and other barbarian tribes to form a coalition.

In fact, they don't need to lobby. After all, Liangzhou has a population of one million, and 500,000 or 600,000 of them were driven here by Wang Yan. They certainly understand how hateful and damnable Wang Yan is. It's just a pity that they have no way to resist. They can't fight in winter, and when they want to fight again in spring, they have already consumed their vitality. The tribes have different ideas and can't unite together. There is no one to take the lead when sending a large army to attack Wang Yan.

Or there were originally leaders, but they were killed in the past many years. Wang Yan has suffered for a long time.

Now Han Sui is taking the lead and sending out 50,000 troops himself. The tribes of the barbarians are very enthusiastic to participate. They send people out and shout to attack Wang Yan, return to their previous land, and rescue their compatriots.

Han Sui can be said to have raised his arm and called for a crowd to gather and join in the grand event of attacking Wang Yan.

They all have beautiful ideas. The barbarians think that they can fight back at once and plunder under Wang Yan's rule. Han Sui thinks that even if they can't defeat the army, they can still maintain the situation. They have one thing in common, that is, they have never thought about what it would be like if they were defeated.

Indeed, this is not something that can be imagined, and there are examples. It's just that they don't think they will fail, at least they can stabilize and not be defeated.

They admit that Wang Yan is powerful, but they don't think that he is still powerful when the main force is not here and there are only 15,000 soldiers.

Wang Yan's 100,000 troops fought against Yuan Shao's 500,000 troops, and he also beat Yuan Shao to flee south in embarrassment and lost Hebei. This is a well-known fact in the world, and no one will doubt the fierceness of Wang Yan's army.

But in the final analysis, the only one in the world who has really fought against Wang Yan's large army is Yuan Shao. Yuan Shao and his men have the clearest understanding of how strong Wang Yan is.

Only they know that in the previous battle of Hebei, excluding the battle in Taiyuan, Wang Yan's front-line troops directly involved in the war in the entire area east of Taihang Mountain were less than 50,000. The remaining 100,000 troops are all logistics and miscellaneous, and have almost no war experience.

It was these 50,000 troops that defeated Yuan Shao's 400,000 troops here, and there was no annihilation war. It was a battle of going back and forth from beginning to end. Even so, Yuan Shao's 400,000 troops were defeated.

The main reason must be that Yuan Shao withdrew his troops and ran away, lost his fighting spirit, and messed up the army. Otherwise, if there were no major mistakes on Yuan Shao's side, it would have taken another year or two. This is because Wang Yan did not fight a city battle and did not seek a quick victory.

But even so, 50,000 people beat Yuan Shao's 400,000 troops and made them dare not leave the city, which is enough to show the strong combat effectiveness of General Wang's troops.

More importantly and more advanced is the thought. Soldiers fight not to eat enough, but to make more people eat and wear warm clothes. The soldiers under Lu Bu and Zhang Liao knew that their purpose of attacking Liangzhou this time was cotton, so that more people could leave the house in winter. And they were also teaching the barbarian soldiers who rolled up the mats, so that they had good expectations.

This is the guarantee of combat effectiveness.

All these were incomprehensible to Han Sui and the heads and leaders of the barbarian tribes...

"General, Guo Jia sent a letter saying that Han Sui had mobilized all his troops and united with the barbarian tribes to defeat our army in one battle. They will definitely fight next spring. Please give instructions, General."

Jia Xu took Guo Jia's letter and found General Wang to report.

It was not that he read the letter privately, but Guo Jia's letter was sent to the general's mansion, not to the general. These were two different things. Jia Xu was a secretary of the general, leading the work of the general's mansion, so he was the first to know about the letter.

Wang Yan took it and glanced at it, then casually threw the letter on the table and asked with a smile: "What do you think of Wenhe?"

"Han Sui's move depends on the strength of the people and me. Because my place is thousands of miles away from Liangzhou, it is not worth the loss to exhaust the army for a long expedition. He thinks that if Lu Bu and Zhang Liao are driven back in one battle, I will not raise troops to attack again. However, the good land for growing cotton is what I must take. Therefore, Xu thinks that this battle must be fought, but I cannot wait for the enemy to attack me, I should attack first.

Han Sui wants to drive me out of Liangzhou in one battle, and I want to cripple Han Sui, so that I can quickly inherit the land of Liangzhou. This winter, Liao Hua can attack Han Sui instead of the grassland. Next spring, his vitality will be lost, how can he attack me?

Lu Bu is unwise, and although Zhang Liao is steady, he is unable to command a large army. These two generals have tens of thousands of troops, and I am afraid they will not be able to fight. Arrest. And I have no intention of going south within three years. The military Sima can be competent for leading the army to train, defend, and prepare for war, and my generals will have nothing to do. Therefore, we may select a few generals and cavalry from various armies to reinforce Liangzhou to lead the barbarian army.

With Guo Jia in charge, we can defeat the enemy's plan and implement our plan. In this way, we will be sure to win and will definitely take Liangzhou. "

"Just do as Wenhe said."

Wang Yan smiled and nodded, "Except for the grassland and the northeast, each unit will select 500 light cavalry, and Zhao Yun, Taishi Ci, Gao Shun, Zhang He, and Gao Lan will go to Liangzhou for reinforcement. Allocate military equipment and food, set off today, and must deliver them to the north before the beginning of spring."

"Yes!"

Jia Xu stood up and saluted, turned around and walked away quickly.

Without caring about other things, Wang Yan continued to read the book in his hand.

If you don't get hurt once, you will never remember. People's growth comes from suffering losses and being deceived. After all, from childhood to adulthood, parents, teachers or other people have told them countless truths, but they did not listen. Only when they experience it themselves can they remember it deeply.

Some people who have suffered losses and been deceived will learn lessons and sum up their experiences. Such people will make progress. Some people will not, remember the food but not the beating, and such people are probably mediocre. There are also people who have learned lessons and summed up their experiences, and will not retreat when they encounter the same situation in the future. Such people may be mediocre or successful.

Yuan Shao will make progress. He is rare to have domineering and decisiveness. He is single-minded in dealing with Wang Yan. As a result, Wang Yan broke his family and fled south in embarrassment. Naturally, he will learn a lesson. And this lesson made him afraid when facing Wang Yan, and he was timid before the battle.

So even if he knew that Wang Yan was attacking Han Sui, even if he knew that he had drawn capable generals and elite cavalry to expedition to Liangzhou, he still did not dare to provoke Wang Yan at this time, and did not dare to take the opportunity to cross the river and launch another northern expedition.

He did not dare to gamble, and his men did not dare to do the same. They had not mentioned Wang Yan for a long time and were subconsciously ignoring him. If the northern expedition really failed, Yuan Shao would be completely finished. He no longer has a base to buffer and retain some vitality, Cao Cao will not let him go.

That's why Wang Yan mobilized so much. Even if Yuan Shao had eight courages, he would not dare to take the initiative to cause trouble. In fact, even if Yuan Shao really sent troops to attack, it would not be a big deal. It's just that there are no generals who can fight, not that there are no generals. If it really doesn't work, General Wang can lead the expedition.

In a blink of an eye, it has been many years since I fought in person under the arrows and stones. Sometimes I think I still want to move around.

General Wang smiled and turned the page of the book. It can be said that he has read most of the books in the Eastern Han Dynasty. After all, he emptied the royal collection of the Han Dynasty, as well as the collection of Cai Yong, and the collection of so many families he killed. The wealthy families who fled with Yuan Shao before had a lot of collections of books. Some were burned, and some were taken away. He basically read them all.

The books I read now are all written by the current literati, and many of them are of quite high level. In fact, he reads all the published books. It is through these books that he can grasp the current context.

Today is truly a prosperous era of literature and art. It has not been affected too much by the war. Thanks to the various policies of General Wang, the literary style of the entire Han Dynasty is now very prosperous, and the Hundred Schools of Thought have ushered in a revival. Wenchang Newspaper, which used to have only a few pages, is now like a book. There is really too much content to discard, so it has to be thicker.

For this reason, five new newspapers had to be opened, namely the Medical Special Issue, the Agricultural Special Issue, the Engineering Special Issue, the General's Newspaper, and the People's Livelihood Special Issue. The relevant content in Wenchang Newspaper is divided into thin sheets.

The General's Newspaper is naturally the newspaper of the General's Mansion. The basic content is similar to the internal publication for officials, but it pays more attention to ideological construction, all kinds of advanced deeds, various commendations, and some major events.

As the name suggests, the People's Livelihood Special Issue is dedicated to people's livelihood, and there are additional entertainment content. In addition to spreading ideas and updating the actual situation under the rule, it specifically finds scholars to make up stories to enrich the spiritual life of the people, which is naturally very important.

The work of literacy has been ongoing. Schoolchildren have teachers to teach, and the older ones have night schools. Even though Wang Yan did not simplify the characters and did not do any Pinyin, the latest statistics on literacy over the years have reached 30%.

This base is already quite large. In another ten or eight years, based on the current population, if a group of people who cannot read die and another group learn to read, the basic rate can reach 80%. In another 20 years, this number will be infinitely close to 100%.

The reason why it is not 100% is that we have to take into account the disabled people. This is unavoidable. Congenital deficiencies and acquired injuries are all possible.

For this reason, Wang Yan added a special issue of newspapers. His newspapers are for the people under his rule, not printed and sold outside the territory to make money. Now there are more people who can read and read newspapers independently. This is the key.

These things are complementary. The future style of writing will only become more and more prosperous, and the thoughts will be one after another, washing the people on this land...

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