Prince of Song Dynasty

Chapter 975 Cao Wei's Strategy

For this reason, not many people even knew that Gwang Dorje had lost that battle. What people remember is his final victory.But Gwang Dorje himself always remembered that battle.

He has to clean this saber every day, just to remind himself that he should rely more on his own wisdom rather than bravery.In the past, this saber could make him calm down, calmly assess the situation, and suppress the complacency in his heart. Over the past ten years, Gwang Dorje has done many great things that Ying Chenglin Buchi admired, even in Tubo. Never lost a battle.It wasn't until this battle with Xiangfu that he realized that he may be brave, but his wisdom is still far behind. For example, compared with Cao Wei, he found that he was far behind by many chips.

Perhaps because of this reason, this time, when the silk cloth in his hand touched the blade, Gwangdorje did not feel the vigilance in his heart before, he only felt that the blood all over his body seemed to be burning at this moment .This unprecedented predicament seems to have inspired the fighting spirit in Gwang Dorje's heart that had been silent for a long time.However, Gewang Dorje is very clear that he is not afraid of anyone when it comes to charging into battle, but he still has to rely on Cao Wei when it comes to fighting resourcefully.

After Cao Wei thought it over, he didn't want Gewang Dorje to lead more than 2 Tubo troops to withdraw to Lanzhou immediately. He is the commander of Song Guotang, the eldest son of Cao Wei, the Privy Council envoy, and the No. 1. Under the orders of his father and Prime Minister Zhao Pu, he took great risks to join the Tubo army in order to allow the Tubo people to firmly occupy Lanzhou, a city with very important strategic and economic positions, and then secretly in the Song Dynasty With the support, he restrained Xiangfu Kingdom's massive military and financial resources, as well as the energy of Ye Chen and his courtiers.

However, so far he is getting farther and farther away from this goal, which makes it difficult for Cao Wei, who has always been proud, to accept the reality, and is also full of deep unwillingness.In fact, if there was no Cao Wei in the Gwangdorje army, it would have been defeated or even wiped out by the Suzaku army in eight to nine out of ten.But this is obviously far from reaching Cao Wei's goal.

"Whether it is withdrawing troops during the day or at night, as soon as we start withdrawing our troops, the morale of our troops will first drop, and secondly, with the power of Xiangfu country's gunpowder packs, we are all cavalry, and it is easy to retreat from retreat to defeat. By that time, the entire army will be wiped out. It’s not far away. If you don’t believe me, think about the battle between Xiangfu Kingdom and Daliao Nanyuan King Xiao Dage last year in Yinzhou with an army of 2. It was also Daxia Pass that was captured by Xiangfu Kingdom, and the way back was cut off. The food and grass were cut off, and the Liao army had to withdraw. As a result, only a few hundred of the [-] troops fled back to Daliao. Do you think our [-]-strong army is stronger than the [-] Daliao army?" Cao Wei asked Gewang Dorje to general All the generals under his command were summoned, and then said solemnly.

However, when it came to this point, everyone present, including Gwang Dorje, all looked miserable and became extremely ugly.Naturally, they have heard about the disastrous defeat of the Liao Kingdom last year that Cao Wei said, and they also know the process. Cao Wei did not deceive them.

"So what, we have less than ten days of food and grass, Lanzhou Yingcheng Lin Buchi will definitely not bring us any more food and grass, if we don't retreat, will we just sit and wait to die, the whole army will starve to death under Gaizhu city." A tribal general said in a deep voice with an ugly face.

Cao Wei did not answer this person's question, but said to himself: "The current plan, if you want to lead the army to retreat to Lanzhou alive or escape directly to Hehuang through Qilian Mountains, you must first lure the Suzaku Army away."

Gewang Dorje has been in contact with Cao Wei these days, and he has already known about the latter, knowing that the latter must have made a plan in his heart, so he couldn't help but his eyes lit up, and asked: "Could it be that Mr. Cao has already made up his mind?"

Cao Wei nodded and said: "We have been cut off from food and grass, and we will not be able to hide this matter from the soldiers below for a long time, so at this time we must not shrink back, otherwise it will not be a good thing for morale, so it is not good for Suzaku. Legion, we won't fight them big now, but small fights will continue every day. Come and see!"

Everyone gathered around, Cao Wei pointed to a thick black line on the map he brought from the Song Dynasty on the table in front of him, and said: "This is the road from the camp of the Suzaku Legion to Jingyuan County on the other side of the Yellow River in Xiangfu Kingdom. Chidao, all the food, grass, ordnance supplies needed by the Suzaku Legion are transported through this Chidao, our target of attack is this Chidao, and we will send a small group of troops to harass every day, to eliminate anyone who is on this Chidao anyone who acted?"

Gewang Dorje pondered for a moment and said: "Young Master Cao, the Suzaku Legion must have prepared for the defense of the grain road, one or two strikes may be effective, but if there are too many times, I am afraid it will be a waste of energy and the gain will not be worth the loss. "

Cao Wei smiled slightly and said: "The attack on Chi Dao cannot be sustained for a long time. Whether it is the army of the Xiangfu Kingdom that escorted the grain and grass, or the Suzaku Army, they will send troops to fight against the troops we sent, and it is impossible for our brigade to get in." Between the Suzaku Legion's camp and Jingyuan County, but I attacked their food roads, but I didn't care about drinking, think about it, where is my real goal?"

Gewang Dorje and other Tubo generals were all looking at the map, searching the map for the possible targets that Cao Wei said. After a while, Gewang Dorje's eyes lit up and he said, "Young Master Cao, so you want to... I want to attack Jingyuan County."

As he spoke, Gewang Dorje pointed heavily at a county town in Jingyuan.

Cao Wei laughed loudly, and said: "Xiangfu Kingdom's Qinglong Army and special brigade can sneak into Wu Shengjun and cut off our back and food roads. Why can't we retaliate against them in the same way. We Da Song and Song Dynasties The Wei Mansion has already had information that Xiangfu Kingdom's military strength is stretched, and many cities in the hinterland don't even have a single garrison except for officials, policemen, and militiamen. This is the reason why the deserters took over the county seat easily in the mutiny of Linbuchi County in Yingcheng. It was a pity that they were met by the Kou Zhun and used treacherous tricks to kill all the rebels. In addition, Xiangfu Kingdom first marched westward to the Hexi Corridor, Now we have been fighting with your Tubo army for more than a month. According to the intelligence of our spies from the Weifu of the Song Dynasty, the supply of grain and grass in Xiangfu Kingdom has become more and more tight. All the grain and grass in Xiangfu Kingdom transported to the front line in the direction of Lanzhou have been hoarded in Jingyuan County. If we burn their batch of food and grass, it will be difficult for them to hoard another batch of food and grass in a short period of time. In this way, the Suzaku Legion will also face the difficulty of lack of food and grass. And cities close to Lanzhou, such as Jingyuan County, are separated by A Yellow River, Deng Chongxuan thought that he controlled all the ships, and we would not be able to attack Jingyuan County, so Jingyuan County only has 500 people defending the city. If we can capture Jingyuan County, and then set fire to Jingyuan County The food and supplies inside are even better, even if it can't be burned, if Deng Chongxuan is led to Jingyuan County, it will be the time for us to take the opportunity to retreat."

"But how can we hide the truth from the spies of the Suzaku Legion and send an army to attack Jingyuan County, you must know that there is a Yellow River in between." Gwang Dorje expressed the doubts in his heart for everyone.

Cao Wei said: "Everyone takes turns to lead the attack, and each time you bring one to 2000 people, but when you come back, you don't need so many. There is a hidden creek beside the Yellow River, which has been secretly controlled by our spies from the Song Wei Mansion. And there are five boats hidden. When we gather a team of 3000 people, we will quietly cross the river and deliver a thunderous blow to Jingyuan County." Cao Wei punched heavily on the tiger case, shaking the things above it. all jumped up
"Mr. Cao is really clever!" All the Tubo generals gave a thumbs up.

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In the next few days, Gwang Dorje sent his generals to lead carefully selected elite detours to attack the Suzaku Army and the food road. The Suzaku Army naturally took precautions, and small-scale conflicts continued to break out. On the land within a radius of fifty miles between the battalion and the Zhuque army camp, and between the Zhuque army camp and the grain road in the direction of Jingyuan County, the scouts strangled each other to a fever pitch.The scale of the conflict was small, but the intensity was very strong. In a few days, the reconnaissance battalion of the Suzaku Legion lost two to three hundred elite soldiers, while Gwang Dorje's Tubo army lost more than this number.

"Legion Commander, such a large unnecessary loss is completely unnecessary." Sun Dawei, the commander of the reconnaissance battalion directly under the staff of the Suzaku Legion, found Deng Chongxuan. For several days in a row, very few of the scouts who went out came back intact, and most of them were broken. He suffered from the fight with the Tubo people, which made him feel distressed. These are the elite of his battalion.And in his view, since he already knew that the Tubo people would definitely retreat, and he had a spy weapon like a telescope, he could wait for the Tubo people to retreat before hunting them down.Then within the range of this mere fifty miles, there is absolutely no need for elite scouts to do this kind of desperate fight.

"Battalion Commander Sun!" Deng Chongxuan looked seriously at the impatient Sun Dawei, who had slapped his lips a few times, "You lost hundreds of soldiers, what about the Tubo people?"

"Reporting to the head of the army, the Tibetans will only suffer more losses than ours." Sun Dawei raised his head, and if he wanted to say comfort, this was the only place that could bring him a little comfort.

"Since their deaths are more than ours, why does Gwang Dorje continue to send out scouts? Isn't his death an elite?"

"This..." Sun Dawei was speechless.

"The Tubo people's retreat and food roads are cut off. At this time, it is most taboo to stay behind closed doors. If Gwangdorje does not find some stimulation for the soldiers, their soldiers will inevitably become war-weary in the long run, and we are the same. A strong enemy, blindly shrinking back, can only make the morale of our soldiers drop day by day, so, Battalion Commander Sun, your sacrifice is worth it, no matter how many people die in your reconnaissance battalion, I will make up for you here." Deng Chongxuan snapped.

(End of this chapter)