xymnovel Chapter 72 Qizhou Strategy
Chapter 72 Qizhou Strategy
"The western part of Qizhou is surrounded by towering mountains; by simply setting up a large stronghold in various strategic locations, one man can hold off ten thousand!"
"Each stronghold can defend against an enemy force ten times its own size."
"Therefore, my lord, our Cangzhou army will attack from the west of Qizhou, but this can only be the main attack, yet not the main attack!"
Li Jing looked at the various dangerous terrains among the mountains of Qizhou and analyzed them.
"Although my Cangzhou army is now strong and well-equipped, with many war gods among its soldiers."
"But if we launch a frontal assault on the Qizhou mountains, we will inevitably suffer heavy losses, which would be a losing proposition."
"However, the mountains of Qizhou are continuous and cover a vast area, making it difficult for them to look after each other."
After Li Jing finished explaining the difficulty of conquering the Qizhou Mountains, he immediately changed the subject.
The boss is here to hear how you solve problems, not to listen to your nonsense.
What's too difficult? Is that something our lord should be considering?
That's something for Li Jing, the commander-in-chief of the army, to consider.
"Therefore, my lord only needs to lead my Cangzhou army to deploy in the mountains, and the Qizhou army will inevitably need to increase its troops between the various camps."
"As the lord is the attacker, the Qizhou army has no idea which camp has fewer troops and which has more."
"Therefore, behind the mountains of Qizhou, the Qizhou army will inevitably need to leave a reserve force to support the various strongholds at any time in case of emergency."
Li Jing glanced at Su Ye at the head of the table and slowly explained the strategy for attacking the Qizhou mountains.
"Therefore, now my Cangzhou army is pressing on our borders, and our lord is leading his army to Qizhou."
"Even if our lord does nothing, he can still tie down most of the military forces in Qizhou while we are in the mountains."
"In that case, the pincer attack from the north and south that our lord and strategist discussed earlier can be implemented."
As they talked, Li Jing began to consider the next battlefront.
"Therefore, my lord only needs to send a detachment through Yunzhou to enter Qi and attack its southern part."
"In this way, this detachment can greatly weaken the fighting capacity of Qizhou, whether it takes advantage of the emptiness in the south of Qizhou to attack cities and seize territories, disrupt the logistics of Qizhou army, or attack Qizhou support troops on the way."
"However, this detachment penetrated deep behind enemy lines and wreaked havoc within Qizhou, making logistical support extremely difficult."
"Moreover, this detachment will be a major threat to Qizhou, and the King of Qi will surely regard it as a thorn in his side and mobilize elite troops to encircle and annihilate it."
"Therefore, only this detachment, composed of elite troops and highly capable generals, can be led!"
After recounting the story of this detachment, Li Jing clasped his hands in a fist salute to Su Ye and retreated back into the crowd.
Who will lead this detachment, and who will be the generals it will be accompanied by?
This is a matter between the lord and his colleagues, so Li Jing shouldn't interfere.
"This... let me think about it!"
Looking at the eager eyes of his generals, Su Ye rubbed his forehead; his head was a little sore.
The importance of this detachment is self-evident; if used well, it could even directly change the course of the battle in Qizhou.
The bigger the waves, the more expensive the fish.
With such high profits, the danger of this flanking force is self-evident.
Therefore, the commander of this detachment must be a general who is both brave and resourceful.
But do I have any extra people like this under my command now?
The original Azure Dragon definitely met the requirements, and even far exceeded them.
However, he is currently engaged in a love-hate relationship with the Great Qian Dynasty within the Yellow Turban Army.
Li Jing is also an option. Although he is a bit weak in bravery, Su Ye's Cangzhou army is now overflowing with war gods, which is enough to make up for it.
However, the hundreds of thousands of troops in Cangzhou still need Li Jing to oversee the overall situation, so he cannot go and lead a detachment.
In the end, Qin Qiong was indeed a suitable candidate, as his basic command stat of 98 was sufficient to lead this significant detachment. It was just a pity that Qin Qiong was sent to the vanguard army ahead of schedule.
They have already taken the lead in invading Qizhou territory.
So, suddenly now.
Where can I find a high-ranking commander who meets my requirements?
"System, how many summoning cards do I have left?"
After frowning and thinking for a long time, Su Ye slapped his forehead and realized that he could only start with the system.
Su Ye remembered that when he completed the main quest - "Conquer a Province", he was rewarded with a series of random summoning cards with no limit.
"Ding! The host has 1200 summoning points, one faction summoning card, five random summoning cards, one saint-level political summoning card, one supreme random summoning card, and one martial arts combination four-summoning card in his backpack."
Upon hearing Su Ye's question, the system's mechanical voice sounded in Su Ye's ear.
"System, use that unlimited random summoning card!"
Looking at the remaining items in his backpack, Su Ye's gaze was now solely drawn to the unlimited random summoning card.
I just hope the system will be more efficient this time and produce a top-tier commander who meets all the requirements of being both intelligent and brave.
"Ding! Unlimited random summoning card is in use. The system will provide a list of five characters. Please remove two of them. The system will then randomly summon one character from the remaining three."
"Summoning in progress, please wait..."
"Ding! Unlimited random summoning of the first person, Zhao Kuangyin, who dons the yellow robe, with a command 99, martial prowess 104, intelligence 96, and politics 99."
Wait, Zhao Da?
Su Ye's hand trembled as he looked at the first person who came out.
Zhao Kuangyin was a military strategist, politician, and tactician during the Five Dynasties and early Northern Song Dynasty.
Of course, none of these titles compare to one thing—the founding emperor of the Song Dynasty!
And his incredible achievement—being crowned emperor!
This led to every emperor in later generations being extremely wary of military generals.
This made every military general in later generations feel insecure!
During the Later Han Dynasty, Zhao Kuangyin joined the army under the command of Guo Wei, the Grand Councilor. He later served under Emperor Shizong of the Later Zhou Dynasty, Chai Rong, in campaigns against the Northern Han and Southern Tang, achieving remarkable military exploits.
He was immediately proclaimed emperor in the "Chenqiao Mutiny" and forced Emperor Gong of Later Zhou to abdicate.
In the same year, Zhao Kuangyin ascended the throne as emperor, changed the era name to Jianlong, and established the Song Dynasty, historically known as the Song Dynasty or the Northern Song Dynasty.
During his reign, Zhao Kuangyin, following the strategy of "conquering the south before the north and the easy before the difficult" employed by his prime minister Zhao Pu, successively destroyed the southern separatist regimes of Jingnan, Wuping, Later Shu, Southern Han, and Southern Tang, thus completing the unification of most of the country.
Of course, because Zhao Da himself, as a military officer, wasn't exactly clean.
Therefore, after he took power, he severely punished the original military officers!
In response to the problem of local military governors holding military power and acting arbitrarily since the mid-Tang Dynasty, the government twice used the "banquet to release military power" to remove the military power of the imperial guards and local warlords, adjust the relationship between civil and military officials, and reform the official system while carrying out the war of unification, thus strengthening the central government's authority.
Therefore, the gradually forming policy of emphasizing civil affairs over military affairs and focusing on internal defense, which began with it, had an impact on the formation of the Song Dynasty's later situation of poverty and weakness.
This led to the rise of literati in the Song Dynasty, who commanded the army, and the consequences were predictable.
An outsider directing an expert!
It's fair to say that there was a reason why the Song Dynasty was later called a coward!
It is a bitter fruit sown since the founding of the nation.