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When Zhao Chen learned that Zhao Zheng had been guarding Shanping for almost 15 days and hadn't received a single soldier's reinforcements, he was almost dumbfounded.He really didn't expect that Shanping didn't have enough reinforcements.

For the past few days, he has been concerned about the attack on Fengjiang, and he has no time to deal with Shanping. You know, it is not a small project to advance more than 10 kilometers with 100 people, and it will cost the commander A lot of energy and time.

So his recent attention has been on the offense on the west side of Fengjiang, and he never expected that the situation in the direction of Shanping has deteriorated to such an extent.

Originally, he thought that he had won a big victory on Fengjiang's side. According to common sense, Zhao Yu and his men would definitely pay more attention to the battle situation in Fengjiang's direction.

Comparing his heart to his heart, if it was him, Zhao Chen, he would definitely consider withdrawing the troops who attacked Shanping, and first defend his old nest, Fengjiang.

But who knew, the opponent was so determined that they were already approaching the city, and they were not in a hurry to withdraw their troops back to defend.The opponent even strengthened the attack in the direction of Shanping, which made Zhao Zheng a little bit overwhelmed.

This is completely unreasonable!Zhao Chen knew what Zhao Yu was capable of. If he could really be so fearless in the face of danger, then he, Zhao Chen, would be the first to stand up and support Zhao Yu to become the prince!

So, after a little analysis, Zhao Chen roughly judged that it was the battle plan drawn up by the Tang Empire for Zhao Yu.

Soldiers enter the Jiange!This is almost the only chance for Fengjiang defenders to win in this civil war.On the surface, as long as the mountain screen is guarded, the Dahua Empire will win half of the war!

"Since I can see it, Shen Chuan must be able to see it too. Even if he doesn't say anything, a person as old as Chu Muzhou must be able to see it!" Zhao Chen thought in this way, putting his own Worry was sent back to the imperial capital in the form of a telegram.

In the imperial capital of the Great Hua Empire, Zhao Kai was having a meeting with Chu Muzhou, another prince Zhao Jie who had just rushed back to the imperial capital from the western front, and Shen Chuan, Minister of the Ministry of War.

In fact, they were also discussing the battle of Shanping: Zhao Kai's delay in the arrival of reinforcements to Shanping was not entirely caused by the delay of the people below.

This itself is part of the plan. These senior officials of the Great China Empire are planning a plan that looks very interesting.

"Leaving a mountain screen for the other party may be a better choice." Prince Zhao Jie, who had just arrived in the imperial capital a few hours ago, proposed his plan at the meeting.

In fact, Zhao Kai had known about this plan earlier, and it was precisely because of this plan that the southern troops of the Dahua Empire crowded in Guiguang and did not go to Shanping City to support Zhao Zheng for a long time.

"Just imagine, if we deploy heavy troops in Shanping now, then the enemy's main force will definitely retreat back to Fengjiang. At that time, they will defend the city, and we will suffer heavy losses no matter how we attack." Zhao Jie walked to the side of the map and gestured About what it means.

"Forcing the opponent back to the city is obviously a bad strategy. Annihilating the enemy in the wild is the most reasonable way to end the war." Zhao Jie moved his hand to the foot of Shanping City, and said in a circle: "So, I suggest that Your Majesty is not in Shanping Arrange heavy troops, but use a small number of troops to attract the enemy's onslaught!"

"If the mountain screen is lost... who will pay for this responsibility?" Although Shen Chuan didn't think the plan was feasible, he still asked.

As Minister of the Ministry of War, he is actually more willing to support Zhao Chen and end the war in the most clumsy, but most reasonable and safest way.

But in desperation, the emperor Zhao Kai trusted Zhao Chen and Zhao Jie more, so what he said and did as the minister of the Ministry of War had to be justified.

"It doesn't matter! Even if the mountain screen is lost, we don't actually lose anything! Guiguang has assembled a large number of troops. As long as we stop the Fengjiang rebels going south in Guiguang, we will still be invincible place." Zhao Jie said proudly.

He claims to be unparalleled in resourcefulness, so he is more willing to use such "strategies".Zhao Kai on the side smiled, obviously agreeing with Zhao Jie's statement.

Later, when Zhao Jie continued to talk, no matter whether it was Shen Chuan or Chu Muzhou, they all knew why Zhao Kai appreciated Zhao Jie's plan so much.

"Shanping is defended, and it doesn't matter if we can't. Our goal is to keep at least 15 Fengjiang defenders in the vicinity of Shanping. This is to support Prince Zhao Chen's attack on the west side of Fengjiang. On the other hand, to some extent, it consumes the enemy's supply capacity."

He didn't pause after he finished speaking, and immediately continued: "If Prince Zhao Chen captures Fengjiang, then we will cut off the escape route of these rebels, and they will be trapped in the Shanping area by then. Naturally, we can do whatever we want gone."

Hearing this, Chu Muzhou and Shen Chuan understood completely: Zhao Kai was already thinking about how to wipe out all the rebels under Zhao Yu's command.

If it is done properly, the rebels guarding the mountain screen can even waste some supplies of the Great Tang Empire and consume some of the national strength of the Great Tang Empire...

No wonder, no wonder the troops who went south to support Shanping dared to stop at Guiguang, no wonder that in more than a month, there was only one poor infantry division from Guiguang to support Shanping.

It turned out that Emperor Zhao Kai chose Zhao Jie's plan to use Fengjiang's troops to attack Shanping's "plan" in order to attack Shanping, and in turn used a trick to close the door and beat the dog.

Just imagine, if the Dahua Empire launched an attack on Fengjiang in Hezhe and Shanping at the same time, then the defenders of Fengjiang would definitely be trapped in Fengjiang in the end.

But it is impossible for Fengjiang to be completely surrounded. At that time, these rebels will happily flee from Fengjiang Bridge to the Datang Empire.In addition to sending tens of thousands of people to the Tang Empire, it is not beneficial to the Dahua Empire.

But if these troops were blocked near Shanping, then it would be impossible for them to escape to the Great Tang Empire.With Zhao Kai's temper, how could he let these people who betrayed him go?So it is not surprising that Zhao Kai accepted Zhao Jie's suggestion.

Thinking of this, whether it is Shen Chuan or Chu Muzhou, they all know that Zhao Kai has actually made up his mind and will not change it at all.

When looking at everything, you must refer to the historical background at that time, and analyze it in combination with the various ideas and personalities of the main characters. You must not just follow your own ideas and put a hat on the head of a certain historical decision-maker above, and then give an unfair definition of right and wrong to a historical decision.

For example, the Great Song Dynasty has always been regarded as a weak and incompetent dynasty. Everyone generally criticized the Song Dynasty for emphasizing literature over military affairs, and despised the Song Dynasty for being weak and incompetent.

In fact, if you look at the special historical period at that time, the conclusions drawn are actually more fair: after the military chaos in the late Tang Dynasty, the common people spontaneously looked down on soldiers, which directly led to the low status of soldiers in society .

At the same time, the superiors focused on guarding against the generals who led to the demise of the previous dynasty. They were unwilling to let the generals control the military power, and minimized the risk of the generals controlling the troops. This series of reforms was itself a correction of the mistakes of the previous dynasty.

In that era of poor means, the monarch controlled the generals, mainly relying on the loyalty of the generals themselves. This situation was too lacking in stability, so when the Song Dynasty reviewed the mistakes of the Tang Dynasty, it focused on the "Jiedu" On a series of issues such as "make" and "generals commit chaos".

In addition, the Song Dynasty itself was established by the rebellion of generals, how could it be possible not to prevent such things?
It must be noted that, in addition to the problems mentioned above, there are also the limitations of the army itself: the troops of the Song Dynasty were mainly infantry, so in the battle to unify the southern part of the Yangtze River in the south, it was a matter of course, and they fought well. When cavalry, they naturally fell into a disadvantage.

The Song Dynasty, which lost Mobei and Yanyun, was naturally short of horses, did not have excellent infantry, and did not trust the front-line commanding generals. There were problems with psychology, tactics, decision-making and determination. How could it be undefeated?

If we continue to refer to the actual case of the failure of the Northern Expedition of the Zhao Kuangyin brothers during the founding of the Song Dynasty, it will become an inevitable phenomenon that the later Song Dynasty emperors adopted more compromise policies.

This is not to make excuses for the weakness of the Song Dynasty, but to explain the situation objectively: why is it weak!Not even courage!
Also, a lot of people are laughing at the old Imperial Japanese Navy's obsession with large ships and cannons, thinking they are all brains.

But if you look at it in conjunction with that era, the commanders of the Japanese Navy just followed their own experience in the past and made the most reasonable decision based on their existing knowledge.

If, if you were an admiral of the Japanese Empire, in the past 40 to [-] years, your navy won the Sino-Japanese War of [-]-[-], which dominated Asia with warships and artillery, and then defeated Russia and wiped out the Russian fleet to become a world power, would you? Are you full of confidence in this equipment system?

In that era, there was no actual combat precedent to prove that the carrier-based aircraft on an aircraft carrier could cause fatal damage to a moving warship.

The British bombed the Italian naval port with a fixed target, and the battleship Bismarck was sunk by battleships. The attack on Pearl Harbor also hit a fixed target, and it was still a sneak attack.

Finding a fleet on the sea itself is very difficult, and it is still not easy to hit a moving battleship. The densely packed anti-aircraft artillery on the battleship may not be afraid of the plane...

Therefore, it is a question mark that an aircraft can sink a warship, but the cannon with a caliber of more than 400 mm on the battleship is real!

From the current point of view, the aircraft carrier is naturally the core of naval warfare, but at that time, there was really no such concept.The United States launched the aircraft carrier to catch ducks on the shelves, and Japan abandoned the aircraft carrier because of the helplessness of "Japan has its own national conditions."

Looking at Zhao Kai's choice this time, the same is true: he is a king, and what a king hates most is the betrayal of his subordinates.Even if the person who betrayed was his own son, he would absolutely not accept it.

Therefore, from the bottom of his heart, Zhao Kai was more inclined to the plan of gathering and annihilating all the rebels in Shanping. He didn't want to see most of the rebels flee. This would leave demons in his heart and destroy his dignity.

In addition, Zhao Kai is also a person who always takes revenge and saves face, so he has even more reason to make this decision.

Moreover, Zhao Jie's analysis is actually quite correct. Attracting 10,000+ troops of Fengjiang rebels under Shanping Castle is indeed beneficial to the battle of Fengjiang.

Losing Shanping is really not a big problem: the real important thing is Guiguang behind Shanping City, not Shanping City!

So, how could Zhao Kai not choose such a decision that has all benefits but no harm?He would definitely choose, so Shen Chuan and Chu Muzhou glanced at each other and closed their mouths knowingly.

As for the telegram from Zhao Chen urging Zhao Kai to quickly reinforce Shanping, almost all the insiders subconsciously chose to...forget it.