Humane Yongchang

Chapter 466 Two birds with one stone

On the eve of the Cold Dew Festival.

The two major news of Xiang Yu's surrender and Han Xin's defeat have not yet spread throughout Kyushu.

Meng Tian has led the first Red Army and arrived at the camp of the Second Red Army in Weihan as scheduled, joining forces with Chen Sheng.

30 red-clothed soldiers camped out, and the banners of the Han Dynasty with red patterns on a black background were unfurled into clouds and connected to the sky. The scene was spectacular!

……

It was night, Chen Sheng held a military meeting of commanders in the commander's tent.

"...At the end of the day, the report will be completed, please give instructions from the king!"

Ji Bu reported the latest situation in Yongzhou and Yizhou to Meng Tian in detail, and then saluted Chen Sheng who was at the head.

Chen Sheng stretched out his hands to help him, and stared at the war chess sand table in the middle. He didn't speak to Meng Tian for a long time, and asked softly, "What advice does General Meng have?"

It was not the first time for Meng Tian to participate in such a pre-war military meeting. He knew that Chen Sheng never cared about the politeness of the emperor and ministers at the military meeting. Don't let the Yizhou Army and the Yongzhou Army fight together. As we all know, both Yongzhou and Yizhou are dangerous places, easy to defend and difficult to attack, and both of them are lands of fish and rice, which are rare in Kyushu. The difficulty for Master Wang to unify Kyushu will increase exponentially..."

Chen Sheng slightly nodded approvingly, and said softly: "I hurriedly summoned General Meng to come west for exactly this purpose."

Hearing this, Meng Tian clasped his fists and challenged without hesitation: "The final general is willing to lead his troops to the south to prevent the Yizhou army from leaving Shu!"

Chen Sheng shook his head slowly: "This matter, I have to go personally to hope for a quick solution. If you go, I'm afraid we won't be able to tell the winner in a year or so!"

Meng Tian opened his mouth instinctively, but after glancing at Chen Sheng, he closed his mouth again speechlessly.

"I invite you here in such a hurry, but I want to hand over the command of the camp to you!"

With the obvious facts, Chen Sheng did not intend to explain too much: "There are a few other things that I must tell you."

Meng Tian clasped his fists and lowered his head: "Your Majesty, please give me an order!"

Chen Sheng shook his head: "I don't have any military orders to issue to you. After you take over the command of the camp, you will be the highest military commander here, and all actions and contingencies should be decided by you."

"What I want to tell you is Bai Qi...you understand Ji Bu's announcement just now, right?"

Meng Tian nodded solemnly: "It is indeed a strong enemy!"

Chen Sheng also nodded: "I don't need to repeat how difficult and ruthless the enemy is."

"What I want to say is that a person will have weaknesses and flaws. This person's weakness lies in the four words 'time does not give him'!"

He calmly analyzed: "From the perspective of the situation, the great victory achieved by our Wang Shi's Northern Expedition must have caused tremendous pressure on Yongzhou. Yongzhou must urgently need a big victory right now to stabilize the hearts of the people and stabilize the morale of the army!"

"Personally speaking, this person is unknown for a hundred years. He has neither great military exploits nor a subset of classics handed down from generation to generation, but he came out to command at an octogenarian age. He urgently needs a brilliant enough victory to prove to the world that he is nothing!"

"This point can be seen from the conspiracy of flooding my king's camp earlier."

"Maybe he looks stable on the surface."

"But in his heart, he must be more eager for a great victory than any general in the Yizhou Army!"

"And in his heart, there must be contradictions."

"He is eager to win, but he doesn't bother to use the clumsy method of fighting against each other to win the victory, because what stands out is the fighting power of the Yongzhou army, not his personal ability in vain."

"So, I'm sure this person will use another trick like Water Attack."

"Which one it is, I'm still not sure."

"But after much deliberation, there are nothing more than two water and fire attacks, luring the enemy into a siege, etc... Personally, I prefer water attacks, because Master Wang has already suffered a loss. No matter who thinks, my Master Wang will never attack again." Eat the second time, but the more you have this kind of mentality, the easier it is to be used by others!"

"Anyway, you should look through the military books these days, the records must be more complete than what I know."

"You have to know that when the enemy raises his sword and saber to start killing, it is often the time when he opens his door..."

"As for whether the enemy hacked you to death, or you seized the opportunity to stab him to death with a sword, it depends on whether it is your weakness or the weakness you deliberately sold to him."

His tone was very soothing, neither irritable nor heavy, just like a soft-spoken conversation between friends.

But the expressions of Meng Tian and Ji Bu kept changing with his words, it was as complicated as a big face turned into a fan-shaped statistical chart.

To be reasonable, both of them can be regarded as first-class fighters in Kyushu.

But at this moment, after listening to Chen Sheng's analysis, they are all filled with an eye-opening feeling!

War... how can you still fight like this?

Homework...how can I still do this?

No wonder the king is invincible and invincible!

Which opponent can stand up to his analysis?
If you really live to the old, learn the old ah!

Meng Tian's heart was shocked, he couldn't help clasping his fists and said: "The king wants to lead the army south to Yizhou, is it also to make Bai Qi relax his vigilance?"

Chen Sheng smiled lightly and said, "If I don't leave, Bai Qi doesn't dare to make a move, and Ying Zheng doesn't dare to urge Bai Qi to do it either!"

"I'm going to settle Liu Bang, just to add fire to the hearts of both of them..."

"If you can take this opportunity to defeat Bai Qi in one fell swoop and break through the Hangu Pass, then I will kill two birds with one stone!"

Meng Tian convinced!

Convinced orally!

At this moment, he sincerely felt that there might really be such a pervert in the world who could never see the end!
He stopped talking nonsense, and looked down at the war chess sand table: "Which way does the king want to enter Yizhou? Do you need the last general to command the army to cover?"

Chen Sheng picked up the pointer and pointed at the war chess sand table: "I will lead a large army to Nanyang, take the posture of going through Wuguan, pass Lantian and enter Meridian Road, and go south to Hanzhong. On the one hand, I will relieve your pressure and create opportunities, and on the other hand, confuse the enemy!"

"After the army leaves Weihan, I will hand over the army to Jibu's command and go directly south to Jiangling. The partial division of the [-] Bolang Army has been ordered to set up a card in Jiangling a few days ago. After I arrive in Jiangling, I will immediately lead the [-] Bolang The soldiers of the army went upstream along the Yangtze River and went straight to Jiangzhou!"

Meng Tian looked at the place where the pointer passed, his head turned back and forth, thinking about it.

The more I think about it, the more I feel that my king's "walking on land and secretly on water" is simply a stroke of magic!

Yizhou is a dangerous fortress, and there are only two ways to connect with the outside world!
All the way is to go to Hanzhong and enter Yongzhou.

Yongzhou and Yizhou are separated by the Qinling Mountains, and the ancestors opened up several mountain roads connecting the two states, such as the famous Chencang Road and Qishan Road.

The Meridian Road that Chen Sheng said is also one of them.

To be precise, among the several mountain roads in Yongzhou of Hanzhong Unicom, the closest one is to the eastern section of Yongzhou, which is the mountain road in the direction of Hangu Pass.

See clearly: it's close!
To intersperse from Hanguguan to Ziwu Road, you still need to detour to the small road from Wuguan and Lantian to Yongzhou. (The way Liu Bangjun entered Guanzhong during the Battle of Qin Dynasty.)
The other way is the waterway.

If the Yangtze River flows down the river, you can enter Jingzhou from Yizhou.

On the contrary, if you go upstream from Jingzhou, you can naturally enter Yizhou directly.

Going upstream against the current is not easy, but compared to the hardships of the Shu Road, going upstream into Yizhou by water is actually a kind of enjoyment...

Of course, the strategy of suspicious soldiers is not the highlight of Chen Sheng's "walking by land in the open, but in secret by water"!

The highlight of his move is that he not only confused the sight of the Yongzhou Army and Yizhou Army, interrupted their arrangements, but also completely blocked all the exits between Yizhou and Yongzhou and the outside world in one fell swoop!
Yizhou has two roads to the outside world.

One goes north to Yongzhou, and the other flows east to Jingzhou.

Yongzhou has two roads to the outside world.

One goes east out of Hangu Pass, and the other passes through Lantian and goes down to Wuguan!
In other words, as long as you are soldiers and horses from Yongzhou and Yizhou, as long as you want to take soldiers and horses to other places.

So no matter how you detour in this vast mountain, there are only three ways to get out anyway.

A Hangu pass.

A Wuguan.

a Yangtze River.

Outside the Hangu Pass, there are the First Red Army and the four divisions of the First Tiger Army that will arrive soon, with a total of 25 soldiers and horses stationed.

Chen Sheng took another 15 Red Second Army to the south to garrison Wuguan.

He himself went south by water and led an army of [-] soldiers into Yizhou...

This is simply locking up the dog and killing it!

Meng Tian just looked at the layout on the war chess sand table, and felt pity for that guy named Liu Bang in his heart... What do you think you did wrong?Do you have to vote for our big guy before rebelling?
He took orders knowingly and interestingly: "The final general will definitely stick to Hangu Pass and act according to circumstances. If there is no certainty of victory, he will never send troops easily!"

Chen Sheng helped him up, and said with a light smile: "There is no need to have too much psychological pressure, I have given you all the details of Bai Qi, I don't believe you will be able to do nothing to that old man."

But Meng Tian couldn't laugh at all: "The last general should try his best to win steadily!"

Chen Sheng patted him on the shoulder: "I told you to take it easy, you are also a famous general in Kyushu, you are not inferior to him for nothing!"

He is really not stressed.

Compared with Han Xin, Bai Qi's rank may be on par with Han Xin.

But even Han Xin, didn't he end up defeated under the pressure of the general trend?

No matter how high Bai Qi's rank is, it is also difficult to turn the tide...

After all, Chen Sheng is not Boss Cao.

He will not give his opponent a chance to burn Chibi.

Ying Zheng and Liu Bang are not Sun Quan or Liu Bei.

No matter how bad Shu Han and Sun Wu are, they can at least divide the world with Cao Wei.

And the Yongzhou Army and the Yizhou Army put together are not as thick as his Han Army's arm!

Meng Tian pondered for a while, and asked in a low voice: "My lord, if the last general has a chance to break through the Hangu Pass, why not... save his life?"

Chen Sheng thought for a while, then said softly: "If the situation permits, let's save his life for now, and deal with it when I come back. If the situation does not permit... Make sure it is clean and tidy, without leaving any traces!"

In fact, he quite appreciates Bai Qi's strategist's thinking of destroying the enemy's vital forces as a strategic goal.

But the premise is external...

As long as Bai Qi is willing to speak out.

No matter how many mass graves he wants, Chen Sheng promises to dig them all!

Even if he wants a geomantic treasure land with the snow-capped mountains at its back and the sea in front of its door, Chen Sheng will definitely satisfy him!
……

A square of iron-clad wooden boxes lined up in front of Bai Qi.

He glanced at these iron-clad wooden boxes suspiciously, and then turned his head to look at the visitor from the State Shepherd's Mansion with a flattering smile on his face.

The visitor from the State Shepherd's Mansion bowed respectfully and made a "please" gesture to him.

After Bai Qi was silent for a few breaths, he stepped forward and lifted the lid of a wooden box.

In an instant, the bright, golden light almost blinded Bai Qi's cloudy old eyes with some cataracts!

"Oh!"

He slammed the iron-wooden box shut, stepped over to the iron-wooden box beside him with a blank expression, and opened it.

I saw bundles of fine Shu brocades, either red or purple, lying in the wooden box exuding a restrained and soft luster like a girl's long hair.

"Oh!"

He closed it again, and continued to open it for the next mouthful. The lustrous luster of the beautiful jade almost blinded his old eyes again.

"Oh!"

He opened the next mouthful one by one. The moment the box lid was lifted, a gust of pleasant fragrance hit his face. Before he could see clearly what was going on in front of him, he felt a mass of warm and soft things imprinted on his face. On the numb cheeks that I haven't felt for many years.

His body froze, and he once again looked at the visitor from the State Shepherd's Mansion in disbelief.

I saw the visitor prostrate on the ground, with his head hanging low, he didn't dare to lift his eyes... Obviously, he knew what was in this box.

Bai Qi broke free from the pink arm that was around his neck, took a sudden step back, lowered his eyes, and his face was indescribably complicated.

"Does your majesty have any instructions?"

He asked in a low voice.

The visitor who was prostrate on the ground replied respectfully: "Go back to the general, the king ordered the servants to ask the general on his behalf, the food and grass in the army are still abundant, the weather is getting colder, the winter clothes in the army may be lacking, if there is any lack, General please go to Zuozhou Shepherd's Mansion, even if you scour Qinchuan for eight hundred miles, you will not let my soldiers in Guanzhong endure hunger and cold to defend against the enemy..."

Bai Qi felt helpless when he heard the words.

How could he fail to hear that Jun Shang is nominally concerned about the army's material reserves, but in fact he is urging him to defeat the enemy as soon as possible?

Is it because I flooded the Han army camp earlier that the king had blind confidence in him?
Or is it the internal pressure in Yongzhou, Junshang is about to be overwhelmed?

Bai Qi pondered for a moment, and felt that it was most likely the latter!
The money and food of the aristocratic family...

Where is it so easy to get!
He sighed softly in his heart, and said solemnly: "The old man immediately ordered the marching army Sima to take inventory of the army's granaries and arsenals. If there are any omissions, they will report to the king as soon as possible!"

"Also please ask the angel to play on behalf of the old man, the old man has already planned a strategy to defeat the enemy, it is better to destroy the enemy army, please wait patiently for a few more days!"

The visitor from the State Shepherd's Mansion was overjoyed when he heard the words, and hurriedly replied: "Here, the servants will definitely deliver the general's military orders to the Lord."

Bai Qi walked out slowly holding his saber: "As for these rewards, I am old and unable to enjoy them. Please send the angel back to Xianyang on behalf of the old man. Please replace them with grain, grass and winter clothes and distribute them to the soldiers..."

(End of this chapter)