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Chapter 503 The Unspeakable Ogre King Haunts the Bank of Sui River

In the middle of the night, Gao Huan was sitting at the desk meditating, but saw Duan Shao led by his own soldiers to the commander's tent and came to him.

Gao Huan couldn't help but let out a long sigh. At this moment, he actually didn't want to see anyone, he just wanted to meet alone.But the generals under his command are different from each other, but Duan Shao is a commander-in-chief trained for his children, so he must not be neglected.

If the kindness bestowed by the parents is not enough, how can Duan Shao be expected to work for Gao Cheng and the others in the future?Gao Huan also thought a lot. It is only natural for parents to pave the way for children, so there is nothing to talk about.

"Xiaoxian (Duan Shaobiao) stays up late at night, is it important to come to Shuai Zhang?"

Gao Huan put down the file in his hand and asked with a smile.

"King Gao, it's really hard to win by storming Jinyang tomorrow. For the great city of Jinyang, it's best to plan slowly. There is Jinyang Lake in the north of the city, which flows into the moat through the condescending mountain road. If you want to break Jinyang, you have to build it first no matter what. It is better to keep the water in the dam.

Then arrange for the army to set up bed crossbows on Mengshan Mountain to the west of Jinyang City, condescending and threatening the defenders in the city.

If there is no accident this time, it will not be possible to conquer it in a year or so.Thinking that there is not much food in the city, as long as it is surrounded until the autumn harvest, it will not be too late to break the city. "

Duan Shao bowed his hands and tried to persuade him.

Gao Huan's idea is too rough, sending troops to attack Jinyang tomorrow is no less than pushing his subordinates to die.Gao Huan was unwilling to make up his mind to spend time besieging Jinyang for a long time, and wanted to "express" his reluctance to surrender in front of his subordinates. He really didn't know how to evaluate it.

"Chen Qingzhi's Northern Expedition lasted only a few months, and the land south of the Yellow River was completely lost to the enemy. It has not yet recovered. If Liang Guo sent troops to the Northern Expedition this time, how many people would surrender in anticipation? Have you considered it? I can't wait. Then long time."

Gao Huan asked in a deep voice, he had made up his mind and didn't want to listen to other people's noise anymore.

The current situation is worse than that of Chen Qingzhi's Northern Expedition.Because all the main forces loyal to Gao Huan were brought to besiege Jinyang, how strong is the will to resist those who are left, especially the army with Hebei family trilogy as the main force?

At that time, there may not be many people who surrender without a fight, but the number of people who leave without a fight cannot be counted, right?
Even Gao Huan didn't work hard, why should we work hard?This is probably the true thought deep in the hearts of many people.Gao Huan thought about this very clearly.Don't do to others what you don't want to do to yourself, Gao Huan is clear about these reasons.

"King Gao, Liang Guo is just bluffing now, they may not really want to make a northern expedition! Why don't we surround Jinyang and see how the situation changes first?"

Duan Shao is still unwilling to give up his judgment.

"You're right. It's just that... Liu Yishou is not a person who has a reputation for nothing."

Gao Huan nodded slightly, but did not deny Duan Shao's opinion.He continued quietly:

"However, even if Liu Yishou is a fake Northern Expedition, he will make a real Northern Expedition if we don't ask. Maybe that's what he has in mind, and you still don't know him too well."

The person who knows you best is not your lover, but your enemy!Ever since Liu Yishou was used to suffering and helplessness in the world under Er Zhurong's command, this man has made up his mind to do it alone, like a tiger!
Now Gao Huan is thinking about Liu Yishou's movements all the time, he actually knows what the other party is thinking.

This time Liu Yishou sent troops to the Northern Expedition, left and right was nothing more than a trick to encircle Wei and save Zhao.If you don't withdraw your troops, then he will really destroy the "Wei State"!Gao Huan believed that Liu Yishou also prepared with both hands.

Duan Shao can't answer this question. Duan Shao believes that with the basic base of Hebei, the enemy can be blocked to the south of the Yellow River, and Jinzhou, which has already been taken, and Jinyang, which is very likely to be taken, can be counted.

Not without the power to protect yourself!

What's more, with Henan and Qingxu, Liu Yishou will spend a lot of time managing and digesting the territory.When Gao Huan personally leads the main force to compete for Luoyang, is there no chance at all?

The disagreement between Duan Shao and Gao Huan was nothing more than multiple-choice questions, and there was no distinction between who was right and who was wrong.

Gao Huan focuses on strategy, and believes that losing Henan and Qingxu will cause a collapse effect.Duan Shao's focus is more on tactics, and he believes that Jinyang is easy to defend but difficult to attack. After winning, it is basically invincible, and the lost territory can be regained slowly.

If Liu Yishou were to comment on the strategy of the two, he could only say that this matter has nothing to do with right or wrong, but Gao Huan's control over people's hearts is far superior to Duan Shao's.

Playing like Gao Huan, the loss is tactical in nature and can be made up later.Er Zhurong is untenable in Jinyang, and it will be a matter of time before he is killed or leaves and returns to his old lair, Beixiurongchuan.

But if Duan Shao plays like this, Gao Huan's power will probably collapse within a few years.After Henan Qingxu is lost, it will also lose the legitimacy of the successors of the Yuan and Wei Dynasties, and the hearts of the people will also be lost.

The hearts of the people are scattered, how can the team lead?Duan Shao is not a chess player, and Gao Huan's rank in this aspect is much higher than him.

When the time comes, the Hebei family will turn their backs immediately and throw themselves into Liu Yishou's arms, and at worst they will not do anything to Gao Huan.

If one day, Gao Huan may quit the chess game early if he makes a careless operation!
"So, the general is thinking too much, it's getting late, King Gao, please rest early, the general will retire."

Duan Shao's mouth was full of bitterness, he bowed his hands and exited the tent.The so-called exhortation, if the lord and the courtiers have their own ideas, it is meaningless to talk to each other.This is also the difficulty of being a courtier.

But what happened the next day proved that what Duan Shao was thinking was definitely not superfluous.

Just when Gao Huan sent troops to attack Jinyang City, suddenly there was a loud drum in the city!

Er Zhurong and Er Zhu Tianguang led their own soldiers and elite cavalry respectively, and rushed out from the two east gates.And Murong Shaozong led the elite infantry and rushed out from a city gate in the south!Surrounded on three sides by Gao Huan's Chinese army entrenched in front of the south gate, the situation is unstoppable!

Sergeant Gao Huan never expected that Er Zhurong would dare to give it a go at this juncture, and the army was in chaos.Suddenly, Er Zhurong led cavalry to kill through the entire army formation.

Gao Huan had no choice but to flee in embarrassment. Thanks to Duan Shao who had been guarding by his side, he shot Er Zhurong's mount, which stopped the opponent's offensive.Afterwards, the two sides withdrew their troops and broke away from contact. Er Zhurong returned to Jinyang City with all the defenders. Needless to say, this was a great victory.

The time of the battle was indeed very short, but it was so. Gao Huan's soldiers and horses were also damaged a lot in this wave of hand-to-hand combat, and their morale plummeted even more. .

Duan Shao secretly slandered in his heart, complaining that Gao Huan had gone too far and was beaten by his opponent.

Duan Shao believes that such a "beast" like Er Zhurong has superb tactical command ability. With Ge Rong's hundreds of thousands of soldiers and horses defeated "Zhuyu" in the front, why do you bother to show your ability with him? Woolen cloth?
Gao Huan's current wave is really using his own weaknesses against the enemy's strengths.

To deal with people like Er Zhurong and trap him to death in Jinyang City, we must set up a large camp outside the city, and at the same time send troops to the north to cut off the water source of Jinyang Lake flowing into the city, and then to the west of the mound. Set up bed crossbows and set up positions to monitor every move in the city, and tightly control the exit passages of the defenders in the city.

In the end, it took another half a year to starve and trap Er Zhu Rongjun to death, leaving them with no way to go to heaven and nowhere to go to earth!It is not at ease to let these people go out of the city to fight hard, and it is not reconciled to keep the isolated city.

To put it simply, it is to make Er Zhurong incompetent and furious in Jinyang City!
After doing this, come to attack the city again, and you can fight wherever you want.Gao Huan's wave of battles completely exposed his shortcomings in commanding ability before the battle.

I don't know if this wave was deliberately "sent off" by Gao Huan.After the war, Gao Huan apologized to the generals at a meeting, saying that he hadn't thought it through carefully, and the army returned to Yecheng first and then made a fuss.No one mentioned the fiasco anymore, and the generals summoned the trilogy to arrange a retreat, so there was no need to mention it when they walked Fushuixing back to Yecheng.

Although Gao Huan didn't say whether he would organize another attack on Jinyang, he basically gave up on the matter.

This wave of expeditions to Hedong can be described as full of twists and turns, with climaxes one after another.It seems that he didn't win, and he didn't seem to lose, and it's hard to say what is right and wrong.On the way back to Yecheng, Duan Shao recalled all the big and small battles he had experienced, feeling extremely unwilling.

In fact, it could have been handled better, but God failed to fulfill people's wishes.

Ugh!
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Speaking of Henan, Liu Yishou has also stayed in many cities, but the one he has the most affection for is Suiyang.At the beginning, he set off from here to Jiankang, and finally returned home with a beautiful woman.

Since then, we have taken advantage of the momentum to achieve today's achievements.

Now Suiyang City is the first stop of his Northern Expedition. The nine small cities built by Qiu Daqian still stand around Suiyang, but they have been in disrepair and dilapidated for a long time.Now that Suiyang has few soldiers, it can only defend the city, unable to divide the troops into the auxiliary city.

"The strategy of digging hearts back then was to shock the defenders, but now this strategy is unfeasible."

Liu Yishou crossed his arms and said thoughtfully to Yang Zhong beside him.

"At the end of that year, the general will personally enter the city to persuade him to surrender. I wonder if the lord will let the general enter Suiyang again today."

Yang Zhong asked calmly.In his opinion, the will to resist of the defenders of Suiyang City is definitely very weak. There is no other reason. It is too close to Shouyang, Liu Yishou's lair!
Since it will fall sooner or later, why bother to resist desperately?
The defenders did not raise their hands and surrender immediately, so they were already worthy of Gao Huan.

"What do you think?"

Liu Yishou turned his head to the side and asked Ma Buddha, who joined the army, to recite.Although Chen Xin is the son of Chen Qingzhi, but now the old Baipao Department is under Liu Yishou, and Chen Xin is just a mascot.

No one would entrust his wealth and life to someone who could not lead soldiers to fight!This is the iron law of war!

Liu Yishou found out that Ma Fo-nian's original name was Ma Wen-cai, but he changed his name to Ma Fo-nian after joining the army.Then asked him if he knew a woman named "Zhu Yingtai".Ma Fonian said that he had no impression at all, and didn't know him at all.

Someone thought to himself, Liang Zhu is indeed a literary work, the original form is hard to find.

"His Royal Highness, if you want to destroy Suiyang, it is as easy as flipping your palm. Now that the river is soaring during the spring flood, we can build weirs on both sides of Suiyang to push up the water level. Then use a large ship to sail in between, and make it level with the head of Suiyang city. Use wooden planks to build the city wall." What's so difficult about breaking down the city?"

Ma Fonian said nonchalantly.

This method sounds slow, but it is not.Although the method of building a weir is a stupid way, the defenders have no way to break the situation, unless they go out of the city to fight.

This kind of siege method is like tightening the rope around the defender's neck a little bit. You can even build half of the weir and send people to Suiyang City to persuade them to surrender.

"Let people from the villages around Suiyang pile up the soil. After the work is done, arrange them to work in the salt-producing areas of Sheyang. It is much more comfortable to exchange salt for food than farming.

Those who did not cooperate were sent directly to the coal mines around Shouyang to dig coal. "

Liu Yishou ordered coldly.

He always remembers one sentence, that is, to be kind to the enemy is to be cruel to oneself.Most of the soldiers in the city of Suiyang were tenants or self-cultivated farmers from the surrounding areas. If the surrounding areas were disintegrated, the morale in the city would also be disintegrated.

"The end will be done."

Ma Fonian folded his hands and left.

Liu Yishou turned his head and said to Yang Zhong: "Take five hundred cavalry and patrol along the upper reaches of the Sui River, and find out the deployment of troops in the cities on both sides of the Sui River."

Yang Zhong also took orders to go.

Liu Yishou said to Wang Wei, who was surrounded by an old god: "Don't think about persuading surrender. It's about the Northern Expedition, you have to warm up first."

"My lord, this subordinate feels that Sui Yang doesn't need to fight at all."

Wang Wei smiled wryly, Liu Yishou was too abnormal this time, how could he not send someone to the city to ask first!
"You don't understand, tactics serve strategy."

Liu Yishou said with a mysterious smile.

If he fights too fast, he will really hit Hulao Pass. Will he attack Luoyang or not?

Going too fast can cause things to spin out of control.Once defeated, it will be defeated for thousands of miles.Liu Yishou was just trying to attract the main force of Gao Huan's army.

However, on the third day of building the weir, the city gate of Suiyang was opened wide.Cui Shuren, the prefect appointed by Gao Huan, opened the city and surrendered, without waiting for Liu Yishou to send envoys into the city to persuade him to surrender.

Liu Yishou suddenly realized that the "four-way army" that he had previously hyped to attack Wei seemed to be using too much force in this era without telephones and Internet, and used information asymmetry to scare the people on Gao Huan's side!

Liu Yishou questioned Cui Shuren why he surrendered without a fight. The son of a family who only knew what to eat and drink after he took office in Suiyang answered very simply.

Because now Liang Guo is attacking Wei with four armies, and Suiyang is the main force.It's just that I'm too greedy and unlucky to get away, and I didn't have time to run away. If you don't surrender, what do you think of me?
Liu Yishou realized in an instant that Gao Huan was Gao Huan, and the power under Gao Huan was another matter, which was further divided into core, lineage and periphery.

Those in the Hebei family who have not entered the decision-making circle are typical outsiders of Gao Huan's influence.

Or you can add the word "grass on the wall".

Knowing that Liang Guo is launching a large-scale Northern Expedition, he still desperately resists regardless of his life. Is there such a stupid person in the world?Maybe, but it will never appear in the circle of the Hebei family!

Sure enough, within a few days, Yang Zhong returned to Suiyang City with his cavalry to report to Liu Yishou.The few large cities on the Sui River were all empty and insignificant. It seemed that all the troops had shrunk back to Xingyang, which was near the south bank of the Yellow River.

It seems that Wei Jun intends to confront Liu Yishou in Xingyang and fight a defensive counterattack.Yang Zhong did not dare to lead troops too far away from Suiyang, so he was not sure that Gao Huan would use troops like this.The specific situation needs further observation.

"Order Yu Jin to send troops from Nanyang to attack Yingchuan, and order Duguxin to send troops from Xuanhu to attack Shangcai. In the land of Qingxu, the troops should not move."

Liu Yishou issued three military orders, asking Jing Xiang to cooperate with Nanyang's soldiers and horses to build momentum.This game has just begun, and he will have fun with Gao Huan later.

(End of this chapter)