Chapter 440 The Eve of the War
Four days later.
Shuzhou, Guanghan County.
Guanghan County is located in the northernmost part of Shu, with Shiwanda Mountains to the east, Yangzhou to the west, and Anzhou to the north.
According to the battle plan submitted by Han Zhao to Ning Yongnian, the 300,000-strong army to suppress the rebellion would enter Shu from Anzhou.
This is the shortest route to Yuanzhou and also the fastest route to Shuzhou City.
Although Liang Zhen had already led his troops to Guanghan in advance, Ning Yongnian did not change his combat strategy.
On the one hand, based on the movements of the anti-rebellion army, anyone with a little military knowledge could tell that Han Zhao was preparing to launch an attack from Guanghan County, so it was far from causing suspicion of "whether he had leaked military intelligence."
On the other hand, if they chose to attack from other directions, the army would have to take a detour through Yangzhou, which would delay the attack by at least ten days.
Moreover, once the army changes its attack direction, Liang Zhen can also change its deployment position.
It is always easier and faster to dispatch 60,000 people than 300,000 people, so there is no need for Ning Yongnian to do anything unnecessary.
Anyway, no matter where the battle takes place, it will be 300,000 against 60,000. Once the war starts, no one believes how long the Shu army can hold out.
We will capture Shuzhou City within ten days and break the city within a month.
These are the two deadlines Ning Yongnian set for Han Zhao.
Han Zhao also signed a military order for this purpose, using his own life as a guarantee, and vowed to break into the Weiyang Palace within a month.
Both of them are very confident about this. At least that's what they show.
There is no need to explain why Han Zhao is so "confident".
But for Ning Yongnian, he didn't really think it was foolproof.
Because the intelligence recently transmitted back from Shuzhou has confirmed that a Shu army of 10,000 people suddenly disappeared.
He did not follow Liang Zhen to defend Guanghan, nor was he deployed to other places.
Although 10,000 people are not a large number, they may become an uncertain factor on future battlefields.
More importantly, Dali seems to be a little restless. As the king of a country, Ning Yongnian has lost the "eyes and ears" of Xuanjingsi, but he still has a certain intelligence network.
Therefore, many things that happened in Shuzhou and Dali did not escape his eyes.
Not only did he know that Dali would probably send troops to reinforce Shuzhou, he also knew that the reinforcements would be around 100,000 strong and would arrive at the battlefield in about half a month.
As a result, the number of Shu troops increased from 60,000 to 160,000. Although it was still nearly half the number of the army that suppressed the rebellion, it was still a trouble.
Under normal circumstances, Daning should have ordered the army to speed up its march, fight a quick battle at all costs, and try to end the war before the Dali army arrived in Shuzhou.
Or, we could mobilize more troops from the surrounding states and counties in advance and prepare for a protracted war.
However, strangely, Ning Yongnian did not make any unnecessary deployments for the time being.
He simply told Han Zhao that Dali might join the war, and then asked the latter to continue to execute according to the previous plan without adjusting the tactics.
Knowing that the enemy's strong reinforcements are about to arrive, no corresponding preparations are made.
One of the reasons is that Ning Yongnian's current attention is mostly focused on the Fengyuan war, and he has no time to pay too much attention to Shuzhou.
Otherwise, the Emperor Daning has a deeper plan.
Just like the previous "Wonju City Massacre", he was trying to get more.
Of course, Bai Youheng’s “city massacre” ability only works once every sixty years, so Shuzhou will not repeat the mistakes of Yuanzhou City.
But no one knows what Ning Yongnian wants to do except himself.
It can only be said that this first head-on confrontation between Wei Changtian and Ning Yongnian will not be as easy as both sides had planned.
This is true for both the former and the latter.
September 30th.
Guanghan County.
"Hurry up! Move quickly!"
"Transport all this rammed earth to the north of the city!"
"Captain Zhang, why did your scouts come back so late today?!"
"Count the weapons! Distribute them to each battalion tomorrow morning!"
"Report! The 500,000 arrows shipped from Shuzhou City have arrived outside the city!"
“.”
Chaotic horse hooves, hurried footsteps, raised dust, and soldiers in green armor running in lines. Compared with the still peaceful and tranquil Shuzhou City, this small Guanghan County is now filled with tension before the war.
Two days ago, Liang Zhen led the Shu army here and immediately took over all authority from the county government. The entire county has since entered a wartime state.
There were few ordinary people on the streets. Instead, groups of Shu soldiers and horse-drawn carriages loaded with large amounts of military supplies were walking around.
The city wall, which was not very tall to begin with, was raised and widened at a speed visible to the naked eye. Several city walls sprang up from the ground, tightly protecting the four city gates in the southeast, northwest, northeast and southwest.
Young and strong men in every household were conscripted to work as laborers. Although they did not have to fight on the front lines, they were assigned tasks to ensure the logistical supply of the war. Although there were 60,000 enemies against 300,000, the military and civilians in Guanghan City were very positive in their preparations for war, and there was no pessimism at all.
Everyone is doing their own thing according to the orders passed down from one level to another, just to give their side a better chance of winning when the war breaks out.
At the same time, the three people on the Shu side who bore the most direct responsibility for the outcome of the war were conducting the final tactical simulation before the war in the conference room.
Defense map of Guanghan County and combat map of surrounding areas.
The organization of the 300,000-strong army to suppress the rebellion and detailed information of each army general.
Ning Yongnian nodded in agreement to the court's battle plan. Various maps and ciphertexts were stacked beside the huge sand table, and in the sand table were small flags of different sizes and colors, roughly estimated to be nearly a hundred in number.
There are three types of red flags, representing the front, middle and rear parts of the imperial army.
The green flag represents the 60,000 Shu troops.
The black flag represents the ten thousand Tengu troops.
The yellow flag represents the 100,000 monsters hiding in the Ten Thousand Mountains, which Qingxian promised could be mobilized at any time.
The purple flag represents a "tactical team" consisting of one thousand masters of the Tianluo Sect and Freemasonry.
The green flag represents the 100,000 "green forest heroes" who are currently gathering at the border of Dali.
Apart from the last force that cannot be deployed to the battlefield for the time being, the actual combat power currently controlled by the Shu Kingdom is about 200,000 "people", and the combat power gap is far from as exaggerated as the "one to five" that the outside world believes.
If we add the huge advantage that the enemy's main general is one of his own, it is no wonder that Wei Changtian has always been very confident in winning this war.
“Swish, swish, swish”
Small flags of various colors were raised and lowered, Liang Zhen and Chu Xianping frowned as they conducted military exercises back and forth.
Wei Changtian was watching intently from the side.
Then, at some point he suddenly raised his hand and waved.
"etc!"
(End of this chapter)
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