Three Kingdoms

  Chapter 917 Fighting Chang'an (3)

After the former army cavalry led by Fei Qian, slowly moving forward along the mountain road and Luoshui River, there are heavy carts guarded by infantry. There are also various equipment and accessories for chewing grains, and they even need to take on the heavy responsibility of protection when necessary. On some trucks, you can still see the traces of various knives, slashes and arrows left by the previous war...

  Because of Youfei's latent development ahead, Ma Yan and Xu Shu are relatively more relaxed in walking behind.

  With a large army, not to mention combat, the supply alone is unimaginably cumbersome.

But fortunately, Fei Qian, a cavalry soldier, recruited Hu cavalry on the one hand, and on the other hand, like the Hu people, he brought more livestock, so as to reduce the consumption of some food and grass. The transportation from Diaoyin to the front line, and with the elongation of the front line, the supply line will become longer and longer. The consumption of this kind of transshipment is simply astonishing!

  The area of ​​Beishang County has long been dilapidated. Even if you want to loot from the surrounding area, there is nowhere to go. All supplies must be transported from the rear. The food supplies hoarded in Pingyang a few days ago were immediately transferred to Diaoyin like water. Fortunately, Yang Biao came here, whether it was selling license plates or selling books, he raised some food and supplies, otherwise, even if Fei Qian wanted to go south this time, he might not be able to do anything...

  Xu Shu re-rolled the bamboo slips of accounts, tied them tightly with hemp rope, and put them back into the cloth bag beside him. Although Pingyang has already started to supply paper, Xu Shu still felt that bamboo slips and wooden slips were more convenient during the march. It is difficult to repair it, and the supplies in the army are reduced and changed almost every day. Bamboo slips and wooden slips can be remeasured by scraping with a knife.

   Along the way, besides sorting out these back-up supplies, Xu Shu has also been thinking about the problems ahead.

  In Xu Shu's view, this battle...

   If you can not fight, you should not fight.

  Because it is too confusing!

  If you add the characters in the Chang’an court, it means that people from five aspects are mingling in this area. This is not the biggest problem. The biggest problem is that these five aspects are all scattered, and each has its own authority!

  The relationship involved and the impact of each other's every action will cause even Xu Shu to feel a little headache thinking about it, so if Xu Shu makes up his mind, he would rather take a safe route and wait and see the situation changes for a while.

   But the problem is that since Fei Qian has decided to enter Chang'an, as a counselor, he must share his worries, think more about these things around him, improve them, and help Fei Qian to achieve his desired goal as much as possible...

So Xu Shu hasn't had a good rest these two days. Even at night, he often deliberates alone in the dark, and he has to be busy with various affairs during the day, so now Xu Shu's eyes are like a rabbit, and they are all red. It's bloodshot.

The current situation in this area of ​​Chang'an is like a pool of water that is calm on the surface but actually hides waves. What we need to do now is to break the balance on the surface of this layer and let all the things hidden below move. It is beneficial for oneself to take advantage of it and obtain benefits.

   But the question is, how can we better poke this pole?

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   Such issues have also been considered by Xun Chen.

In the face of the information collected at present, how to use the least cost to open up this situation and move the deployment of Xiliang soldiers, neither can they be too sharp, resulting in the focus of encountering Xiliang soldiers being besieged by groups, and they can't completely wander At the edge of the battlefield, the initiative to operate is lost.

   This is an extremely contradictory question.

   It's like Sucheng facing us now.

   Sucheng is a city relatively north of Zuo Fengyi. It was built on the side of Luoshui. If you continue to go south, this city must be unavoidable, otherwise it is tantamount to selling your back to your opponent.

   And to carry out siege or siege operations, it is the next strategy.

In a siege war, one must first approach the enemy city, and then dig a system of trenches and fortifications around the entire city to cut off the connection between the enemy city and the outside world. It is not too big, but it is quite difficult to complete such a geotechnical system.

  The siege is more like a grinder of flesh and blood. It is best not to use it if it can be used. The key is that if a lot of manpower is lost during the siege, how can the next battle be carried out?

   "Your Majesty, it's better to go to Sucheng to check it out..." After thinking about it, Xun Chen still felt that he had to go to see the terrain of Sucheng himself before making a decision...

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   Li Meng and Wang Fang were appointed by Li Jue to be stationed in Sucheng for several days. Hearing that the Huxiong Zhonglang general in the north led Bingqin Wang, he couldn't help scolding him for meddling in his own business, but at the same time he felt a little uneasy.

   You must know that this general who protects Xiong Zhonglang is the one who regained Yinshan!

  If this is placed in the Western Regions, he can be regarded as the number one figure, and he may not be the same as Grand Master Dong...

   Now we need to prevent it, can it be prevented?

  The scouts going north in the past two days have been damaged, and a big battle seems imminent.

   "Tell me, this Zhonglang..." Li Meng stood at the top of Sucheng, turned his head to look at Wang Fang beside him, and said, "...how many soldiers and horses did he bring?"

   "...Didn't the scout say that there were more than a thousand cavalry?" Wang Fang said.

  Li Meng curled his lips: "...that's the front army! There must be infantry behind! Who would attack the city with cavalry? How many cavalry is none of our business, what we have to face is the infantry behind!"

  Wang Fang nodded, then shook his head again, and said, "Who knows, our scouts can't grow wings and fly behind to see..."

  Li Meng shook his head and sighed: "Under 5,000 soldiers, we should have no problem defending this city... If there are 8,000 infantry, we will be considered a winner. I guess... If it exceeds 10,000 soldiers, we will..."

  Wang Fang is silent.

There is no way, Sucheng is just a small county town, and it is located in the pass. There are city walls, and there are trenches, suspension bridges and other fortifications outside the city, but they are a little crude. Simply put, they are not strong enough. Siege is not easy...

  Wang Fang said: "Then...then we just have to wait. You can't just ask the general for help before you see the soldiers, right?"

   Li Meng sighed, and suddenly gritted his teeth and said: "While there is still some time, send more people to the surrounding areas to cut wood and make more wood! In addition...demolish the houses near the city, and replenish the rolling stones!"

  Wang Fang turned his head to look, and said: "Logging is good, but these houses... are all made of **** yellow mud, there is an egg..."

  Li Meng said viciously: "I've seen it. It's true that the upper part is yellow mud, but the bottom part is full of stones! Remove it, otherwise where will we go to find the stones?"

   "Then... also good..."

  (end of this chapter)