Johime Three Kingdoms

Chapter 486 Mountain Road
Zhao Yun was not stubborn, and also speculated that the opponent's legion combat skills should only be effective when defending. He also used a lot of tricks in the past few days to lure Yan Yan to take the initiative to attack, but Yan Yan did not accept this trick at all...

With the effect of "rejecting war", the morale of the Linjiang defenders would not be affected even if they kept shrinking.

Of course, in essence, this is not something magical like mental interference, but Yan Yan can train special Ji Zao soldiers, which can have an additional soothing effect when mixed with ordinary Ji Zao soldiers.

Gan Mao returned to the Gan family, hoping to instigate rebellion against the entire clan, but was rejected by the family...

Linjiang is Gan's hometown.

Although the investment from the "Kuiji Gan Clan" made the Gan family very happy, the Linjiang Gan family had no intention of relocating the whole family and seeking refuge with the Chu State.

After all, migration is a big deal for aristocratic families - when the Hu people of later generations went south one after another, there were many aristocratic families, as well as ordinary families, who were rooted in the north and relied on Wubao to protect themselves, and were unwilling to cross south.

Even if the Chu army is already in front of them, the Gan family, as a typical local conservative noble family, is not willing to take this risk.

After all, with Gan Ning here, if Bajun or Yizhou is really annexed by the Chu State in the future, even if the Gan family has no merit during this period, as long as they surrender, they can be stable and happy...

Except for Gan Ning, there is no other outstanding figure in this generation of Gan family, and Gan Ning's character still has great flaws. Gan family had already decided that in the face of this troubled times, they could only stay dormant.

Now Gan Ning can be reused in Chu State, which is beyond expectation, and Gan has no more ideas.

Because if you bet once, you will have limited credit and limited income if you win. If you lose the bet, and Chu State will eventually return to Jingzhou this time, then regardless of whether it can be fought back in the future, the Gan family will be settled by Shuhou Hou Qiu!
Even if he joins forces with several other Linjiang nobles to directly rebel against the Chu army, Yan Yan is not unprepared. The military affairs of Linjiang City have long been taken over by him, and the local nobles have no say at all.

Even if the nobles from all over Linjiang County are really willing to fully rebel against the Chu army, Yan Yan's defenders can still build forts all the way along the Yangtze River, as long as the grain roads are kept open and they can continue to fight with the Chu army in Linjiang City. If the army faces a confrontation, the pressure on logistics and transportation will still exist, and the Chu army may not be able to hold on and withdraw at any time.

It is equivalent to the grain tax of only two counties, Quren and Yufu, which can be used to subsidize the military. As for Linjiang... As long as Linjiang City is under the control of Yan Yan, it will be difficult to counterattack the Chu army, but it will be difficult to destroy the county. Don’t be too simple with other fields in other places.

Now the other noble clans, including the Gan family, are still on the side of Yizhou Mansion, and they can still check Yan Yan and prevent him from standing firm and clearing the country. However, once he surrenders to Chu, Yan Yan no longer needs to worry about them.

As for taking risks...

Since he had chosen to surrender to Chu, Gan did not stop him and even supported him in taking away some tribesmen who were willing to follow him.

But apart from some close relatives, there wasn't really anyone there.

After all, if you really want to go to the Chu Kingdom, wouldn't it be better to rely on the surname "Gan" to follow the Navy Commander?
……

"It's reasonable for Mrs. Gan to have such concerns. Battalion Commander Gan doesn't have to blame himself." Zhao Yun comforted the depressed Gan.

Of course, Gan Mao did not come back empty-handed. Gan also gave him some hints, such as asking him to bring a message to the Chu army...

"General... Commander, the clan has also hinted to me that if there is anything that needs help with military rations, you can contact them privately. Not only the Gan family, but also many other noble clans are willing to help... even if it does not play a key role. , it’s okay to lend a little help." Gan Mao said specifically to Zhao Yun.

"Oh? If so, that would be the best, and it would not let Gan and other righteous people suffer. We can exchange it with the reserves of dried meat and Chu salt, or we can use gold, silver, and Chu salt according to the market price in Yizhou. Come and buy it with coins." Zhao Yun said gratefully after hearing this.

Of course, Zhao Yun could vaguely guess that Gan's intention was not only to tell him that the nobles in Linjiang were "willing to help", but also to tell him that they "cannot play a key role".

In other words, it is to prevent the Chu army from looting on the spot.

However, Zhao Yun did not have this intention in the first place. When he was in Youzhou, Zhao Yun was dissatisfied because Gongsun Zan started to plunder the people. The military regulations of the Chu army did not allow this...

What's more, there is still Gan Ning's relationship!

Counting from the time when Wenpin arrived with the vanguard, on the tenth day when the Chu army was blocked at Linjiang, the two rear regiments and Fazheng finally arrived - the road to Bajun was difficult to march, and it was impossible to march in a large-scale coordinated manner. , can only stretch the team apart.

In the past ten days, the expenses of the two divisions were enough to garrison troops in place for two or three months. Even Zhao Yun and Huang Zhong felt a little distressed.

It's just that Bajun is a mountainous place. Not only are the roads rugged, but it's easy to get lost. Zhao Yun didn't dare to bypass Linjiang easily, lest he be attacked from both sides later - the Chu army didn't have as many people as the other party!
"Confronting the Shu army here is not a long-term solution. Do you have any good strategies for defeating the enemy?" Zhao Yun asked the staff headed by Fazheng.

"Can you find the locals to see if there is any path to continue westward? Yan Yan has concentrated most of Bajun's troops in Linjiang. If we can attack Jiangzhou directly in one go, the enemy will definitely be defeated without a fight. Even if Ba County is defeated, it can be decided in one battle!" said a young scribe.

This scholar also got "A" in military science during the imperial examination.

It's a pity that after Zhao Yun heard this, he shook his head and said: "I have also thought about this plan. Unfortunately, even the locals only know a few mountain trails at most, so it is difficult to march on a large scale. Moreover, Bajun is full of mountains and rivers, and the local Shu The army is far better at mountain forest warfare and mountain marching than we are.

If you enter the mountains hastily, not only will you not be able to get rid of the Shu army who are good at marching in the mountains, but you will be more likely to be besieged from all sides on unfamiliar mountain roads. "

Fazheng frowned at this time and began to think of countermeasures...

I have been distracted just now, mainly because I was scolding Zhang Song in my heart - I don’t want you to give me the picture!If you post a picture but not a seed, you still get burned?

Fa Zheng was from Fufeng and was not from Yizhou, otherwise he wouldn't have done so poorly before.

What's more, in a mountainous place like Yizhou, the mountain roads are so complicated?Even locals may not know how to get there ten miles away!
Even maps are unreliable in Yizhou, especially in Bajun - after all, the roads here are three-dimensional!

It was Zhang Song's photographic memory that allowed him to integrate the topographic map of Xichuan that no one else could understand except himself...

Whether there is such a thing as a hidden path is not something "outsider" Fazheng would know about, not even Yan Yan...

kindness?
Fazheng suddenly thought of something, showed a confident but shy smile, and continued: "Mr. Zhao, according to Zheng's opinion, if you want to defeat Yan Yan quickly, you should... 'such and such', 'such and such'... …”

After listening to Fa Zheng's explanation of his strategy, Zhao Yun showed a look of surprise, but he still said with some worry: "Chief of Staff Fa Zheng's plan is very clever, but... is it too dangerous? It's better to wait for Master Huang to come to join us, and then Again……"

Hearing this, Fazheng interrupted directly: "No! If our Chu army's two divisions merge, then Yan Yanding will be even more cautious. This plan is based on suspicion, otherwise it will be more difficult to make the trip."

The Xinye [-]st Division is arranging defense, and the main force will arrive later.

After taking careful steps, Zhao Yun finally nodded and agreed to Fazheng's plan and began to make arrangements.

That night, Yan Yan found that the Chu army camp was too quiet, so he sent scouts to beat the gong and then retreated. Sure enough... there were no pursuers!
When we explored again, we found that there were traces of the army on the way in the forest on the north side.

"To the north is Horse Mountain, a mountain like a horse drinking water, and on the south slope is a low-hanging horse's neck. The mountain is densely forested and the slope is steep. Although there is a stream, the steepness is definitely not a suitable place for camping... What are they doing there? " Yan Yan was puzzled.

For this reason, Yan Yan specially consulted the local woodcutter Orion, but they all said that there was no military road in the mountains.

But when I think of Gan Ning of the Chu State, Gan Mao, who was previously confirmed to have surrendered to the Chu Army, and... the Gan family in Linjiang County!
Yan Yan felt uneasy - could it be that Gan knew some secret?
The Linjiang Gan family comes from the Cai Gan family in Huainan. Their ancestor is Gan Mao, the prime minister of Qin in the pre-Qin Dynasty - Gan Luo's grandfather. During the rebellion in Shu, Gan Mao took command to put down the rebellion. After the war, some members of the Gan family remained. After conquering Shu, the Linjiang Gan clan was established.

The Gan family has taken root in Bajun longer than the history of the Han Dynasty. It is not surprising that they really know some secret trails in the mountains and forests!
Thinking of this, Yan Yan couldn't calm down. After first confirming that there were only a few soldiers in the Chu army camp who were pretending, he immediately ordered 5000 people to suppress them. After the remaining Chu army soldiers were found out, they retreated to the northeast.

Yan Yan ordered the Chu army's camp to be burned down first - if it hadn't been for late spring and the vegetation was luxuriant, Yan Yan would have even set fire to the mountain!

After the camp was burned, the Chu army still had no intention of coming back, which made Yan Yan even more worried.

However... Yan Yan still did not forget to be wary of the Chu army's suspicious tactics. More importantly, he found signs of frightened birds in Junma Mountain - birds were flying around the forest during the day, as if there was someone in the mountain!
This made Yan Yan also feel that the other party was probably ambushing in the forest and there was no real way.

However, after this situation lasted for two days, Yan Yan felt that something was wrong - the Chu army should have only brought the food and grass with them, could they really last for so long?

So they sent people to investigate again, but this time...the scouts were in the forest and found several civilian horses, cattle and sheep, and even captured wolves tied up in the woods, neighing because of hunger and irritability, Or has become weak.

Yan Yan couldn't calm down when he learned that what frightened the birds was actually the livestock left behind by the Chu army...

Although he did not know the "secret path" of the Chu army's march, he could roughly surmise that the Chu army must have continued westward after passing through Junma Mountain. Yan Yan quickly ordered his troops and horses to take the main road to the west, and inquired about Chu along the way. Military traces!
(End of this chapter)