Warrior in Turbulent Han Dynasty

Soon after, Fu Jinzhan awarded Guo Shao the commander-in-chief of the world's soldiers and horses, and Guo Shao then asked him to build a temporary military mansion on the south side of the temple, named "Jiangnan Qianying Shogunate", which was specially responsible for managing the war in the Southern Tang Dynasty. On behalf of Guo Shao, Privy Envoy Wang Pu was in charge of military seals and presided over all affairs. Under him were Prime Minister Li Gu, Qing Zuo You of Taichang Temple, Huang Binglian, Tuiguan of the Left Office of Kaifeng Mansion, Zan Jurun, envoy of Hakka Province, two members of the Privy Council, and dozens of officials.

All the people collected and sorted out the news, formulated strategies, and started to prepare for the war against the Southern Tang Kingdom step by step.

Unexpectedly, at this moment, Guo Shao suddenly got the news: Li Chuyun captured Chizhou!

Guo Shao was sitting in the lobby of the shogunate. He was stunned for a moment when he heard Wang Pu's words. He quickly turned around to confirm on the picture behind him, and then turned to look at Wang Pu: "Chizhou? Did I hear correctly?"

Wang Pu is not a person who is used to joking, and his expression is also very serious: "The report just received by the Privy Council is Chizhou, Chizhou just south of Shouzhou! The report is in my hand, and Guo Du will check it and see."

Wang Pu came forward and handed the memorial to Guo Shao. After Guo Shao got the things, he didn't forget to turn around and check the location again.

This... as the saying goes, if the plan cannot keep up with the changes, seeing the location of Chizhou will indeed make people feel incredible!

After Li Chuyun destroyed Zhou Xingfeng, the main force was originally in the Dongting Lake area of ​​Hunan; what Guo Shao originally hoped was: Li Chuyun's troops went east along the river and occupied Wuchang Jiezhen, a relatively weak force (the suggestion of the Southern Tang general Lin Renzhao was not adopted, and he himself was transferred back to Jinling);

Wuchang Festival Town is located in Hubei. Along the Yangtze River, there are Jiujiang and Poyang Lake in Jiangxi. Chizhou is in Anhui, and it is close to Jiangsu to the east... There are many important towns from Wuchang to Chizhou.

Guo Shao wondered why Li Chuyun moved so fast, so he opened the memorial and read it.

Li Chuyun reported that after the Battle of Wuping, he sent a fleet of ships to cruise eastward along the river. Originally, he only wanted to inquire about the situation of the Southern Tang Kingdom; Li Chuyun guessed that Jinling was afraid of getting angry and was unwilling to easily conflict with the Zhou army.

At this time, the imperial court's commendation order came, and Li Chuyun was ordered to make a decision on the fly. At that time, Li Chuyun thought that if he attacked Wuchang, he would declare a state of war, and would scare the snakes. However, the target of the Great Zhou army was Jinling.

So Li Chuyun temporarily adopted a bold strategy and ordered hundreds of navy fleets to go ahead and try to cross the lake mouth (the entrance of Poyang Lake); it was not blocked by the Southern Tang army. The horse infantry who were preparing to go north of the river rushed to follow up and caught up with the navy from the north bank of the river. Soon after, the navy burned down the loosely guarded Southern Tang army camp in the west of Chizhou, and raided Chizhou after landing. Li Chuyun then built a pontoon bridge at the mouth of the Jiajiang River by relying on the sandbar in the middle of the river, and mobilized the main force to cross the river to manage the defense of Chizhou.

Insufficient troops did not dare to divide and advance, and only occupied Chizhou Kuaima to send a report to wait for reinforcements.

Guo Shao watched and paced back and forth quickly. Wang Pudao: "Li Chuyun's approach seems to be radical, but in fact he has the overall situation in mind.

The Southern Tang Kingdom was based on the great river and the natural moat; the battle in the south of the Yangtze River focused on the navy. If the army of the Central Plains wants to cross the great river, they must first fight in the water on the river. The water battle is not good, even if there are millions of cavalry, there is nothing they can do. There are two ways for the Central Plains navy to enter the lower reaches of the river: one is to go down the river from the upper reaches;

In addition, the navy cannot enter the downstream. It is also possible to temporarily build ships on the riverside, but the large amount of oak and nanmu needed to build warships needs to be transported by land, which is very expensive; if the wood is not suitable, it will be defeated by the Jiangnan navy.

Water and land follow the river from the upper reaches, and it is difficult to rush. As Li Chuyun said in the report, there are so many important towns along the road, and it is difficult to break through Hukou alone. Guazhou Ferry and Jingkou in the lower reaches, that is, Runzhou (Zhenjiang) of the Southern Tang Dynasty, have always been places of great contention for military strategists;

Today Li Chuyun occupies Chizhou, facing the most important ferry quarry in the lower reaches to the east. As long as he establishes a foothold here, there will be a gap to enter the south of the Yangtze River. The old man advises that Li Chuyun should be fully supported immediately and the overall strategy should be readjusted. "

After thinking for a while, Guo Shao said: "The main force of Li Chuyun's land division is 20,000 soldiers from the left wing of the Hujie Army, and there are also more than 300 warships captured by the Xiangzhou Zhou Army, Jingnan, and Shu Kingdom. There is no way to provide strong reinforcements on the water for a while. After Chizhou was captured, the Southern Tang Kingdom must block the mouth of the lake... Before Chizhou's pontoon bridge was lost, we first mobilized horses to help Chizhou, and stockpiled food and grass in case the river was unfavorable and Li Chuyun was isolated on the south bank. "

"This method is very good." Wang Pu pondered for a moment, "At present, Huainan is empty, and elite soldiers are gathered in Tokyo. Where can we send reinforcements?"

Guo Shaodao: "Gao Yanchou's Jiannan Army is in Shouzhou..."

"Shu surrendered troops?" Wang Pu's expression was cloudy.

Guo Shao hesitated for a while, and said seriously: "I think Gao Yanchou is reliable, besides, there are no elite troops nearby to reinforce."

Wang Pu was noncommittal.

At this moment, Zuo You, Zan Jurun and others also came to the lobby, and they exchanged news.

Guo Shao took a picture and looked at it without saying a word, only relying on Li Chuyun's words to describe and imagine the scene on the front line in his mind. After a while, he picked up a pen and made a mark on the place between Chizhou and Jiujiang, writing the word "Wankou". Now I was looking through the classified files again, and sure enough, I found the records in it. The Privy Council had ordered the Shuzhou Jiedu Envoy to build ships in Wanshui a few months ago... It belonged to the kind of warships that Wang Pu said were "defeat" due to insufficient materials.

"Ahem..." Guo Shao made a sound. Everyone stopped talking and turned around.

Guo Shaodao: "I don't think the early reinforcements should be delayed. You can immediately order Gao Yanchou, the commander of the Jiannan Army's left and right sides, to rush south to follow the orders of Li Chuyun, the leader of the West Route Army; and order the Jiedu envoys of the Huainan towns to send troops to Chizhou.

Li Chuyun seized the opportunity to advance the war. Although it was a bit hasty, we should adapt to the situation and immediately formulate a strategy centered on Li Chuyun's department.

In the second step, the Jiedu envoy of Shuzhou was ordered to lead the Wanshui navy to enter the Yangtze River from Wankou to prevent the Nantang army from going eastward at Hukou in the west, as a blocking and early warning. It is suggested that Li Chuyun move the Jiannan Army to the west, and make a situation of attacking Hukou from land, so as to intimidate the defenders of Hukou.

Order the Jiedu envoy of Xiangzhou to deploy to the west, and then send troops to Jianglingfu to cross the river, and order Fang, Jun, Deng, Tang, Shen, Sui, An, and Ying to dispatch troops and food reinforcements to attack Wuchang Jiezhen;

This deployment is to reduce the pressure on Li Chuyun in the west.

In the third step, after Han Tong's navy crossed the Huaihe River, he immediately went south from Caoqu to Yangzhou, threatening the Southern Tang navy in the east, and looked for a decisive battle; This time, in order to reduce the threat of Li Chuyun on the water to the east.

The fourth step is to mobilize the elite soldiers of the Guards Division to go south to follow-up reinforcements in Chizhou; Jinyan Empress Dowager deploys troops and horses to guard against the Northern Han Dynasty. Then I and the princes of the former shogunate led the main force of the front department to go south, and coordinated the various operations... Target: Quarrying Ferry! "

The hall became silent, because Guo Shao said a lot, and everyone was thinking back. But Wang Pu and Li Gu looked at Guo Shao differently from before... After all, Guo Shao is a martial artist, it is very rare to be able to sort out the situation in a short time.

Mobilize the whole body, once a war starts, the fronts along the river will be in turmoil, and wars may occur everywhere and affect the overall situation. It really takes brains to be able to grasp the center, key, and clues from a chaotic situation.

Although Guo Shao is a martial artist, his articles and handwriting are poor, but his thinking is not rigid. After all, he has received many years of education and thinking training in modern times, and he still has a lot of ideas.

The powerful master who was able to grasp the overall situation, Wenzhiwugong, and rich experience is gone. Guo Shao is the first time to preside over such a big battle. Attacking Shu is a completely different experience, because the road to the entry of Shu is narrow and single. The difficulty lies in attacking danger rather than deploying. The Southern Tang Kingdom is different, with two-dimensional warfare on land and water, with a vast front, and the situation is more complicated, which will test the deployment of decision makers even more.

Guo Shao couldn't tell whether his idea was useful or not, because he had no similar experience. But he has adjusted his mentality during this period of time... There is no way in the world, there is only a way after walking, how can you get the result without trying?

Seeing that everyone didn't speak, he said again: "Let's get started now, Wang Shijun can issue an order to Gao Yanchou. For the rest, prepare paper and ink, let's make a draft first."

For a while, everyone had something to do, and they couldn't help but obey Guo Shao's arrangement, and each got busy. On the one hand, Wang Pu sent someone to arrange for the envoy to hurry up, and on the other hand, he went to the government office to get the seal and write the transfer order.

Guo Shao's tone is calm, but his eyes are bright, and he speaks fluently and quickly, showing an image of energy and clarity. The officials have unconsciously trusted him at this time.

"There is roughly one key goal, the quarrying ferry; around a central breakthrough, Li Chuyun's department. Then divide it into four steps. The first step is that our shogunate has been granted military power by the empress dowager and has already decided to implement it." Guo Shao said to Zuo You, "Zuo Shaoqing will write the overall combat plan... The others will write the steps from front to back.

Wang Pu's palm print, he returned to the lobby after completing the business, and then checked the files that had been sorted out some time ago, while thinking about the strategy proposed by Guo Shao.

The whole draft is not too lengthy, everyone deduces repeatedly, and checks carefully after the dissolution. They ate lunch and dinner at the Dianqiansi, and several people including Guo Shao and Wang Pu lived in the suite of the government office at night to save time for going back and forth.

Li Chuyun's actions undoubtedly pushed the war into a tense atmosphere at once; major events are often decisive at the beginning, because as the situation develops, the road will become narrower and the result will become clearer, and the controllability will be very small.

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