The Summoning of the Troubled Times at the End of the Sui Dynasty

Chapter 192 Divide the troops to defeat the enemy and defend the isolated city

"Brother Qi, although Jiangling City is located in the center of Jingxiang, it is a rare strategic location."

"But Jiangling also has Jiangling's flaws. As long as we grasp these fatal weaknesses, we may not be able to defeat the rebels."

For a while, Zhou Yu pointed to the map, and spoke vigorously, as if pointing the country.

Hearing this, Gao Qi also quickly moved to the side of the map and began to observe carefully.

After a while, Gao Qi also had no idea, and couldn't help asking: "Brother Gongjin, what do you mean by that?"

Immediately, Zhou Yu smiled confidently, and said slowly, "Brother Qi, observe carefully, Jiangling is the only fortified city on the north bank of the Yangtze River."

"Thus, it is more convenient for our army to surround and isolate Jiangling City."

"Let the city completely lose any contact with the outside world and turn it into a truly isolated city."

For a while, Zhou Yu became more and more excited as he talked, and his eyes were full of joy.

After a long pause, Zhou Yu said: "The specific operation can be that our army divides the troops to expel the rebel forces around Jiangling, and then seize them."

"Supplemented by a navy to block the Yangtze River and Qingjiang waterways, completely cut off the connection between the rebel forces in Jingnan area and Jiangling Xiaoxian."

"In this way, Jiangling will be completely reduced to a truly isolated city. Are you afraid that you will not be able to attack the isolated and helpless Jiangling?"

In the blink of an eye, Zhou Yu's firm eyes fixed on Gao Qi, and solemnly revealed his plan.

For a while, Gao Qi finally realized that the plan Zhou Yu mentioned was not the one he used when he defeated Cao Ren in Nanjun in history?
Historically, after the Battle of Chibi, Zhou Yu led his army across the river to encircle Jiangling, in order to cut off the forces of Cao's army in various places in Jiangling to isolate Jiangling.

At this time, Liu Bei led his army into the Jingnan area to achieve the strategic goal of completely isolating Jiangling.

However, Gao Qi thought about it carefully, and suddenly thought of a new problem.

Can't help asking: "Gongjin, your plan is very good, to isolate Jiangling."

"But the biggest problem is that our army is now equal to the rebel army in the city. I am afraid that once the troops are divided, the rebel Xiao Xian will go out of the city and attack aggressively."

"In addition, our army is all soldiers from the north. Although the warships of the rebels have been captured, the soldiers of the navy are still not familiar with it."

"In this way, once Xiao Xian's navy from Jingnan area comes to help, I'm afraid our navy will not be his opponent!"

For a while, Gao Qi raised many problems with this plan.

After all, Zhou Yu's plan is a good plan.

However, everything has to be done objectively.

In history, the reason why Zhou Yu Wei Nanjun dared to divide his troops to attack the armed forces in Cao Jun's various places.

One is that the Eastern Wu Allied Forces had just won the Great Victory in Chibi. Not only was the morale of the whole army high, Cao Jun also suffered heavy losses as a result, and had to retreat to the north.

At this time, only Cao Ren's army was defending Jiangling, and the strength of the Soochow Army already had a great advantage.

Second, in the Yangtze River Basin, the navy is the most important.

It just so happened that the most outstanding of the Soochow Army was the sturdy navy, so Zhou Yu's plan to isolate Jiangling was able to achieve a major victory.

In addition, Liu Beijun also led his army across the river to attack the Jingnan area at this time, making it surround Jiangling City from the entire river.

This completely turned Jiangling into a real lonely city.

But now, what Gao Qi encounters is just the opposite.

The Yanmen army came from a long way from the north at this time, and there was no navy at all.

On the contrary, most of Xiao Mian's troops are locals, although the land combat effectiveness is lower than that of the Yanmen Army.

But once the naval confrontation starts on the Yangtze River, I am afraid that even if the Yanmen army captures the warships of the rebels, they will not be their opponents.

After all, there is a huge gap in the combat effectiveness and familiarity with water between soldiers of the navy.

In addition, the Jingnan area is now the stable rear of the rebel Xiao Mian.

The difficulty of it is by no means the same!

It was precisely because of these reasons that Gao Qi hesitated about Zhou Yu's plan.

For a moment, Zhou Yu seemed to see through Gao Qi's thoughts, and laughed loudly: "Qi brother, in fact, whether it is the problem of insufficient soldiers or the combat effectiveness of the navy, it is actually very easy to solve."

"When Brother Qi received the order to go south to suppress the rebellion, didn't the imperial edict mention that General Hussars can control all the garrisons in Jingxiang counties."

"Therefore, as long as Qidi orders the prefects of the counties to recruit soldiers from the counties to support them, how can they not follow?"

"In this way, the problem of insufficient soldiers can be satisfactorily resolved."

"As for the problem of the navy, it's actually not a big problem."

"Although Lai Huer, who is stationed in Jiangxia, has led his troops to Yuhang to resist the Taiping Army's invasion."

"But just in case, Jiang Xia still stayed behind with [-] sailors, as long as Qidi wrote a letter to the emperor to explain the reason, so as to recruit this navy."

"Yu believes that with the emperor's eagerness to put down the rebellion, he will definitely agree."

After talking slowly, Zhou Yu basically solved the problem raised by Gao Qi in almost a few words.

After a long time, Zhou Yu continued: "Brother Qi, if you can trust Brother Yu."

"Brother Yu is willing to lead an army across the Yangtze River, sweep the Jingnan area, and completely isolate Jiangling City."

In an instant, Zhou Yu vowed to challenge Gao Qi.

Gao Qidang even agreed to this.

Because, fighting in the south, there is no one under Gao Qi's command who is more suitable than Zhou Yu.

Zhou Yu is not only a high-ranking commander and good at using troops, but also has outstanding resourcefulness and is good at making strange plans.

And the most important point is that Zhou Yu's ability to command the navy is almost the same as the existence of the Yanmen generals.

Although Zheng Chenggong's water combat skills are not bad, but after all, the commander is too low.

Leading an army alone to fight in the hinterland behind the rebels, without any logistical supplies and reinforcements, I am afraid that they will not be able to support the rebels' encirclement and suppression at all.

It must be known that Xiao Xian's army not only has [-] troops in Jiangling, but also has nearly [-] soldiers and horses in the Jingnan counties in the hinterland of the rear.

Therefore, among the Yanmen generals, only Zhou Yu was able to lead the army across the river and attack all parts of Jingnan.

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Of course, Gao Qi's habit is also to call all the generals and counselors to discuss first.

Immediately, Gao Qi revealed Zhou Yu's plan and discussed it.

In the end, after unanimous discussion and agreement, Gao Qi personally formulated a plan to cross the river and attack the Jingnan area with Zhou Yu as the main general.

Afterwards, Gao Qi wrote several handwritten letters and sent them to various places.

One is to write to the emperor Yang Guang, who needs the support of the Jiangxia navy.

The rest of the manuscripts were sent to the counties in Jingxiang, and the local officials were ordered to gather soldiers and go to the camp to listen to the order.

For a time, the battle of Jiangling rose to a higher level.

This battle, which is about the battle between the two armies, has now come to such a confrontation.

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In the past few days, apart from Gao Qi arranging generals to train sergeants in the camp every day, and Zheng Chenggong's large-scale training of the navy on the Yangtze River.

Don't attack Jiangling City by force at all!

This abnormal scene made Liang Wang Xiao Mian puzzled.

(End of this chapter)