Chapter 519: Prairie Showdown
"If you don't expect it, both sides will run head-on in two days. At that time, the uncle will know how bad his so-called Yecheng army is than my army. This battle is different from the Bingzhou war. I no longer need the Tushima Army to prove anything. It is mainly to defeat the opponent. This is also to reduce the losses of our Youzhou army. Forcing the other party to fight to the death will cause unnecessary losses to us." After laughing, Sima Ji's disdainful expression did not disappear immediately, but it changed his previous ferocity.
"What the King of Yan said is that our army soldiers are not those recruited farmers. They have suffered too much loss and cannot explain to the people of Jicheng." All the generals nodded. Now there is no need to fight another death.
Since he went north, it means that Sima Yong felt that he had the upper hand. Sima Ji knew that this was an illusion than anyone else. In front of his army, the Yecheng army would not be much stronger than the peasants' rebellion. It seems that both sides belong to the army of the Great Jin Dynasty, but the color difference between them is very far.
Comparing Yecheng's army with his army is like comparing Samsung to Apple. In the eyes of some Han Chuan in later generations, the Samsung Group, which is a hodgepodge, is almost going to heaven. What kind of mobile phone business is only a part of Samsung Electronics, and Samsung Electronics is just a real Samsung Group department, etc. These are all right, but many Samsung Group's businesses are doing money-lossing.
There must be weak departments in the Hotpothecary Group. Samsung's predecessor Sumitomo, island country, and Mitsui have proved that this model has disadvantages. Doing everything will inevitably lead to poor things. Samsung Electronics' profits account for most of the entire Samsung Group. It can be said that once the business with mobile phones as the core collapses, Samsung Group's largest profit business will be completed.
People who don’t know how to compare Samsung with Apple. Samsung can compare Apple with nothing but sales. Apple is not as good as the world’s number one in sales. Before it was Nokia and later Samsung. But when Apple was the best, it accounted for 90% of the world’s mobile phone profit with sales of 15% and the remaining 15% of the profit was Samsung. Except for these two companies, all other mobile phone companies lost money, accounting for the other negative five%.
Apple only buys mobile phones to reserve more cash than all the companies in the entire Samsung Group combined. In front of Apple, Samsung Group is just a stronger Korean version of Lenovo.
Except for the number of people in Sima Yong's Yecheng army, any place left is far from his Youzhou army. So in Sima Ji's eyes, as long as the other party dares to go out to Yecheng to fight, he will be dead. The key is that Sima Yong really sent troops.
"I really couldn't imagine why Sima Yong wanted to fight the King of Yan, and he didn't look for death like this." Cao Qian touched the red battle robe on his body and said to himself in confusion.
"You will know then!" Sima Ji waved his hand to greet the generals, "Sleep well today. If you don't have enough sleep, the gutter capsizes. I don't want to collect your corpses after the war and take good care of my war horses. It's precious."
In the end, Sima Ji did not forget to express his concern for the war horses in the stables, and he did not have time to express his concern for the Jin Guard. It seems that a Jin Guard needs to be trained for many years, and should be valuable than the same-raised war horses. If you can't settle the accounts like this, people will save themselves, but they won't. Is the self-rescue knowledge he instilled in Youzhou Army for many years in vain?
Furthermore, humans are actually far more endurance than war horses. People need to march at high speed like war horses. War horses will definitely die in front of people. War horses can easily be exhausted when marching with full load and high speed. However, the ancients of this era have not discovered this, and people in later generations understand.
If as expected, the battle will inevitably break out in the wild, and there will be no siege war. In the war, the siege war itself is a minority. If Sima Yong had the idea of relying on the city, he would not leave Yecheng. Leaving Yecheng means he wanted to fight decisively in the wild. You should know that Sima Yong had the advantage of military strength, and it would be too unreasonable to defend the city without fighting.
If Sima Yong used an army of 160,000 to defend Yecheng, Sima Ji thought for a long time and had no good idea. He could only carry out a siege. Although the cavalry was very stupid to attack the city, it would be twice the result with half the effort to use it to siege the city. This is also one of the reasons why he concluded that Sima Yong would fight in the wild. Being firmly guarded the city itself was giving up the initiative. If he hid in Yecheng, he would wait for Sima Ji to surround him.
This is a disadvantage to Sima Yong. The advantageous thing is that he really shrank in Yecheng and did not move. Sima Ji had no good idea for a short period of time. Now it is a dry season. Sima Ji's idea of flooding Yecheng was at least needed water. The digging of the embankment now has little impact on Yecheng. It would be great if the war was fought a few months later.
After a comprehensive consideration, at this point in time, both wars broke out between the two vassal kings had both pros and cons. It was impossible that all favorable conditions were on Sima Ji's side. If the water volume was really large, his fleet would be easier to play, but it would be difficult for infantry to cross the canal.
The next morning, Sima Ji woke up very early, walked out of the military tent and looked at the drowsy sky for a long time. He reached out to test the wind direction, shook his head slightly and said to himself, "Why did it become so gloomy all night? Fortunately, most of the king's food and grass are on the boat."
"The order was sent to each army to set up camps, and the march was twenty miles away from the canal. The Jurchen cavalry was in front, the infantry was in the middle, and the Jin guards were in the back. The troops were divided into three routes and five miles apart, echoing each other from afar. "After looking at it, Sima Ji Bubing the original plan issued the order. He was indeed a person who liked to change the orders every day, but this time it was an exception.
He had already given orders what he should give. The cloudy day could not change anything, and the King of Yan was not superstitious. Besides, even if it rained, it would not only fall on his head. He hadn't seen it snowing once or twice in May, and it might just rain. No matter how bad the climate was, it would not be worse than Heilongjiang.
The rain came and went quickly. In less than half an hour, the clouds were closed and the rain stopped. The sky started to light up again, but it brought great trouble to the entire army. The soldiers and the villagers who were wet with their clothes were so cold that they shivered. Shi Chao also sneezed several times. This was not the biggest trouble. After the spring rain, the originally dry road was wet by the rain, and when one step was stepped on, it would bring a large piece of mud. When the vehicle pressed, it would be a deep trace. If you accidentally fell into the mud. Fortunately, the ground had not been completely poured through and the wheels were not deep, which greatly slowed down the speed of the convoy.
"I don't know what happened to King Yan now, sir, I'm a little worried." Shi Chao thought that Zhang Bin was a literati, so he found a carriage for Zhang Bin to be in it, and now he squeezed in to warm up.
"General Yingyang, we are facing Zhang Fang's troops!" Zhang Bin reminded calmly, "Zhang Fang was mentioned many times by the King of Yan, just don't just drag him back. As for the army led by the King of Yan, we can't care about it. As we all know, if the King of Yan doesn't listen to advice, the arrangement is not perfect, but he can always win in the end..."
At the end, Zhang Bin was a little discouraged, as if he was thinking about how Sima Ji could win in the end, and it had been many times.
Zhang Bin still didn't know much about King Yan. Sima Ji was not very good at fighting. He was completely good at finding opponents. He knew very well how big Sima Yong was. He saw Zhang Fang, who had less troops, and Liu Yuan felt that they were better than Sima Yong. He simply pushed out all the threats on both sides of the world and focused on his elders and beat them up.
He didn't need to prove how well he was, and he won thousands of miles away. He was not stupid or dragged his back. His soldiers and generals were better than the opponent. That's all. After winning, he could mobilize all the power he could use and blow himself to heaven. Look, King Yan won again.
"Our army still needs to be on guard. General Yingyang. In fact, our army is not under great pressure. Although Zhang Fang's troops are twice as fast as our army, Hejian Kingdom is still not advancing westward. The general has a lot of time to arrange it." Zhang Fang's lord, who was not thinking about, spoke to help Shi Chao analyze the situation facing him.
Shi Chao nodded solemnly. Hejian Kingdom is in the east of Jizhou, while Zhao Kingdom is in the west of Jizhou. Even if he marched at full speed, he would not be so fast. As Zhang Bin said, he had enough time to arrange it.
The place where the first battle broke out was neither Shi Chao's troops nor Sima Ji who went south, but a duel between the pure men of the grassland, a battle between the grassland upstarts and the grassland overlords.
Zhang Da did not receive the instructions of King Yan to do something micro-operation, but when he looked at the map, he knew that in the prominent part of Jizhou, the lord who was ignorant of his life and death was easily attacked from three sides. Once this happened, the King Yan's situation would be in danger. So he directly instigated the cavalry of the Tuoba clan to go south and attack Shangdang again.
It’s not that Sima Ji didn’t want to fuck him personally, it was entirely because Zhang Da was too far away and he couldn’t reach it. If there were telegrams in this era, he insisted on letting his generals try to treat him as a commander under Gong Chang.
Wuxiang is the gateway to Shangdang's north, and the place where the Tuoba army must pass south. Zhang Da drove the Tuoba army to come in a fierce manner. In the face of his own safety and Sima Yong's instructions, Liu Yuan decisively chose to protect himself and regarded Sima Yong's instructions as farts.
Liu Yuan's army was also stationed in Wuxiang. When he saw the Tuoba family had just arrived, he was very happy and commanded the army to fight against the Tuoba family. The two sides fought fiercely all day long. Although the Tuoba family had many troops, they did not get any advantage.
Chapter completed!