With Gao Qi's affirmation, in the end, Qi Guo also made a slight adjustment under the established strategic plan.
That is, the main goal was to pacify Lingnan and completely destroy the Taiping army in the rear.
After the goal is determined, the next step is naturally to choose the support.
Now Wang Xuance is the governor of Lingnan, and the standing army under his command has 30,000 troops, which is relatively weak compared to the Taiping army.
As for Xiangzhou, the Yue Fei Legion stationed in Changsha has now expanded to 100,000 soldiers and horses.
The standing armies of Bashu and Hanchuan were around 120,000, and Lu Xiangsheng's 40,000 were under the jurisdiction of Zhuge Liang.
As for Xiangzhou, which is located in the hinterland, there are only 20,000 county soldiers, who are responsible for daily management.
Nanyang's Xue Rengui Legion, its legion is also around 100,000.
The newly established Luzhou has just been established, and the expanded legion is also in 100,000.
In addition to the direct stationing of troops in Jiangling, the standing army under the direct command of Gao Qi is also about 100,000. plus 50,000 sailors trained by Zhou Yu, as well as 30,000 Imperial Forest Army and Praetorian Guard.
The number of troops directly under Gao Qi's command has reached 180,000.
Today, the standing army in the territory of Qi has reached almost 600,000 soldiers and horses.
Such a large legion is also thanks to a series of measures formulated by Gao Qi.
In agriculture, Gao Qi invented the Quyuan plow and supported the strategy of tuning fields for jujubes, which greatly increased the grain production of the people in the territory.
In addition, in recent years, the weather has been smooth and there has been no major famine, and the recovery of food crops has increased.
Not only that, Gao Qi also encouraged the caravans under his rule to actively trade, and also took the initiative to take the lead in business.
This made the caravans under his rule unite with the government.
In this move, Gao Qi made huge benefits from it.
In addition, Gao Qi implemented a professional military system, fighting in wartime, and disarming and returning to the field when the farm was busy, except for the troops that needed to be guarded in various places.
The rest returned to the countryside and were in charge of cultivating the land to relieve the pressure on the army.
It is precisely under the implementation of Gao Qi's various policies that the Qi State can have such a huge army, and with half of the south of the Yangtze River, it can support it.
It is only said that after deciding to go south to Lingnan, Gao Qi decided after consulting with his ministers that this southern expedition would mainly dispatch the garrison of Xiangzhou and the garrison of Jiangling.
Since Yue Fei wanted to stick to Xiangzhou and coordinate the overall situation of the local area, his energy was mainly to defend against the enemy army in the direction of Jiangdong.
Therefore, Gao Qi ordered that Zhong Hui lead 30,000 Xiangzhou troops south to join Wang Xuance's Lingnan army, and Wang Xuance unified to confront the Taiping army.
Next, on the Jiangling side, Xue Dingshan and Liu Renliang each led 20,000 foot soldiers south to assist Wang Xuance in quelling the rebellion.
As for Zhang Xian, Yu Wenshi and other generals, Gao Qi did not let them go south to quell the rebellion at this time.
The reason why Liu Renliang and Xue Dingshan were in charge was also the result of Gao Qi's careful consideration.
This is precisely to brush up the generals' achievements and qualifications, and to let the outstanding talents of this imperial examination be cultivated as soon as possible, so that they can take charge of themselves as soon as possible Moreover, when Xue Dingshan was born, in addition to carrying his wife Fan Lihua, he also carried the rest of the young generals.
Such as Luo Zhang, Qin Ying, Yu Chi Qingshan, Qin Han, etc.
At the time of the imperial examination, these talents were all outstanding talents who were under Xue Ding Mountain in the martial arts.
In this southern expedition, Gao Qi also put these young generals under the tent of Xue Ding Mountain, focusing on training.
A few days later, the Gangneung campus Suddenly, a gust of west wind blew quickly, blowing the battle flag planted on the school field whirring, and blowing the Qi King Gao Qi on the handsome stage as if he couldn't open his eyes.
A gust of west wind passed, Gao Qi slowly stepped off the platform, and under the escort of Dian Wei and Chen Zhiyi, he walked to Liu Renliang and Xue Dingshan.
"General Liu, Xue Shizi, this time the southern rebels are in turmoil and invading Gu Daqi, hereby, I hope that you can lead the army to drive straight in, smash the Yellow Dragon, destroy the Taiping army, and recover Lingnan."
"Therefore, Lone named you as the governor of Zhengnan and the governor of Zhengnan."
"I hope you will live up to your mission, successfully quell the rebellion, recover the land and return, and wait for your good news in the royal city."
Hearing this, Xue Dingshan and Liu Renliang clasped their fists one after another and said: "The last general will definitely live up to the expectations of the king and will return triumphantly."
"Okay, okay" Immediately, Gao Qi accompanied the kind Fengjing, picked up two swords from Dian Wei and Chen Zhi's palms, and then solemnly handed them over to the second general.
"I wish you a triumphant return" For a while, Xue Dingshan and Liu Renliang couldn't help but feel a great honor, knelt on the ground with single paint, and solemnly took the sword.
Then, Gao Qi slowly turned around and walked towards the high platform and looked at the three armies.
Immediately, Xue Dingshan and Liu Renliang slowly got up, walked to the assembled army, and each waved his sword and shouted.
Suddenly, on the school field, the war drums were heavy, and the two generals, accompanied by the sound of war drums, each waved his sword and gave the order for the whole army to open.
For a while, tens of thousands of troops, under the leadership of the generals, marched out and headed south As for the generals under Xue Dingshan's tent this time, Fan Lihua was the deputy and the young generals under his command were the main ones, and they went straight to Lingnan in the direction of Wuling.
Liu Ren's army was dominated by Huo Quzhi and Fan Zhongyan, who went south from Changsha and directly bypassed the territory of Cangwu.
Directly inserted into Nanhai and Longchuan County in the eastern part of Lingnan, cut off the connection between the Taiping Army and Yangzhou Hongxiuquan in all aspects, and implemented the trend of closing the door and beating dogs.
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For a time, the Qi army gathered in a large way, and about 100,000 troops of the Southern Expedition rushed straight to Lingnan, and its momentum was unstoppable There is quite a tendency not to break Loulan and never return it Cangwu County, Fengyang City Due to the streams and duanshui in Cangwu looking around, Yongxi County, the base camp of the Taiping Army in Lingnan, is separated from it and faces each other across the river.
Therefore, after Wang Xuance conceived and deduced, in order to be more advantageous to defend his own army, he also garrisoned here to monitor the Taiping army.
In the city hall, at this time, several lieutenant generals and colonels of the army gathered together to discuss the current battle situation.
With a sword hanging from his waist and wearing battle armor, the main general of the map on the screen is none other than the Governor Wang Xuance.
After observing for a long time, Wang Xuance first said: "Generals, this time the Taiping army is almost out of the nest, how should our army respond?"
The voice fell, but the house was silent, and no general proposed a plan.
In fact, this is mainly a problem of the army.
It must be known that the size of the Taiping army this time is nearly 70,000 troops, but the Qi army is only 30,000.
No matter how you count it, there is no chance of winning, and how can you defeat it?
For a long time, no one came up with a coping strategy, during which a young general stood up and said, "Brother" "According to the opinion of the last general, this attack by the Tianping Army on all fronts must have been desperate, wanting to destroy our army in one fell swoop and recapture the entire territory of Lingnan."
"Later, with a big victory, I took the opportunity to enter Xiangzhou and fight against me."
"Therefore, the last general guessed that Yang Xiuqing, the king of the East, must have the idea of becoming a benevolent if he does not succeed."
"Therefore, if it is not expected, this time the Taiping army will definitely give full play to the advantage of having many troops, and the troops will be divided into two routes, all the way to our army's Xishui defense line, and carry out a fierce attack."
"On the other hand, it should be an attack in the direction where our troops are taken by surprise."
This general is the randomly born Northern Song Dynasty general Wang Yu, and the implanted identity is Wang Xuance's own brother.
In fact, it is a great pity to talk about Wang Yu, Wang Yu was an unknown general in the Northern Song Dynasty.
However, just in time for the Jingjing period, the Jin army marched south and launched a large-scale attack on the Northern Song Dynasty.
While the other defensive lines of the Northern Song Dynasty were facing collapse one after another, only Wang Yu of the northern line firmly held on the Taiyuan line.
Although the Jin army fought hard to attack, Taiyuan City was as solid as a rock under the leadership of Wang Yu and could not be conquered for a long time.
It's just that in the end, due to being outnumbered and isolated, the city was broken, and he was killed.
A generation of famous generals will be the head of the award However, what is extremely interesting is that in the famous Water Margin in later generations, Wang Yu became a despicable villain who framed Liangshan's "heroes".
I have to say, what an irony this move is.
A famous general, but was portrayed by the writer like this, Wang Yu is dead With Wang Yu's analysis, Wang Xuance couldn't help but open his eyes, and couldn't help but ask slowly: "According to Brother Yu's words, the Taiping army is divided into two roads, and where will the other one attack?"
Hearing this, Wang Yu stared at the map for a long time, and said truthfully: "It's really hard to draw a conclusion. ” "After all, due to the strength of our army, there are several weak areas, and all of them are important places, and the rebels have chosen many directions."
"I don't dare to draw conclusions easily, but the general direction should be in Xin'an County."
Seeing this, one of the generals wondered: "General, why is it so determined?"
"It must be known that in the land of Lingnan, whether it is Xin'an County or Xiping County, its roads are all in the jungle."
"Not only are there many poisonous snakes and wild beasts, but the climate is also very harsh."
"This move, even if the will is as strong as our army, it may not be able to walk, just rely on the rebels to really do it?"
Hearing this, after thinking about it, Wang Yu affirmed: "The main direction of attack of the rebels must be to cross the stream and annihilate our army. ” "However, at this time, our army has already formed a strong defensive line on the banks of the stream and the end of the water."
"We have to guard against it, when the rebels can't attack for a long time, the rebels will turn their guns and take advantage of the large number of their own troops to advance into the weak areas of our army."
"Xin'an County is the closest to Guiyang and Lingling Counties, the border areas of Xiangzhou in my Great Qi, and the best official road to take is just across the Huanglian Mountain in the direction of Guiling in Xiping County."
"You can march into Lingling County and Guiyang County at any time, and you can imagine if the rebels' plan succeeds."
"Then the second county will definitely fall, so that our army will be divided and isolated by the rebels, so the situation of our army may be dangerous."
For a while, Wang Yu directly put forward the most dangerous plan, and then, Wang Xuance also immediately threw himself on the map and carefully checked the terrain of Xin'an County.
After a long time, Wang Xuance said slowly: "Brother Yu, in your opinion, if the rebels are taken by surprise, where will they start a surprise attack on Hechuan?"
Hearing this, Wang Yu was slightly uncertain and guessed: "The terrain of Hechuan is too complicated. ” "From the point of view of the last general, it is possible that these several places in Huaiji are important territories for rebel raids."
"It's just that our army can't defend against the rebels at these points, except for the strength of the Xishui defense line."
For a while, with Wang Yu's analysis, Wang Xuance and the generals analyzed it tightly for a while, and also concluded that Wang Yu was not alarmist.
After a long time, Wang Xuance rubbed his tired eyes and said, "Brother Yu, in this case, I will give you 5,000 elite soldiers." ” "You led the army to gallop to You'an City, Xiping County, and the terrain around You'an was narrow, complex and dense."
"Coupled with the fact that it is surrounded by leafy jungles for both weeks, this is a necessary place for Xiping to go north, and this place is not suitable for large-scale fighting."
"Even if the rebels occupy the three cities by surprise at that time, our army will not be passive, as long as you hold this place firmly, the rebels want to raid the second county, and the plan to isolate our army will be in vain."
"No" Immediately, due to the urgency of the military situation, Wang Yu withdrew after receiving the order and led the army forward.
After Wang Yu led the army, Wang Xuance also summoned the generals to go to the front line of the stream and inspect the defense line of the stream, so as to prevent a successful surprise attack by the arrival of the rebels.
The two tributaries of the stream and the end water crisscross and crisscross each other, cutting off the Fengchuan and Yongxi counties on the first line of Cangwu.
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It can be seen from this that if the Taiping army attacks on a large scale, its large-scale assembly of troops will definitely not be able to hide the Qi army, which is only separated by one shore.
"Ladies and gentlemen, this time our army will resist the onslaught of dozens of times the enemy, and if it wins, this time it will be a great feat."
"But if it is defeated, the rebels can take the opportunity to be stubborn and stubborn, and take the opportunity to go north lightly and invade the territory of Xiangzhou in Great Qi."
"As Da Qi Erlang, we will never let the rebels break through, and we will defend to the death to defend our family and country."
"Defend the country, defend the country" Suddenly, when Wang Xuance was inspecting the defense line, he was also quickly encouraging the morale of the army while patrolling.
I have to say that Gao Qi's benevolent government in the territory has also been greatly recognized.
At this time, the Qi army needs to know that there are few major generals on their side, but they do not have the slightest timidity, and they only have endless and full morale.
A day or two later, the Tianping Army finally attacked on all fronts, and under the leadership of Yang Xiuqing, the king of the East, tens of thousands of troops came together.
For a while, the raised battle flag that covered the sky and the sun, and the endless slight roar in the army, all inspiringly complained that the Tianping Army was not what it used to be.
I saw that after seeing that the Qi army on the opposite bank had already arranged the defense line, Yang Xiuqing did not immediately launch an attack, but passed down the military order, and the whole army was stationed on the shore in turn.
Wang Xuance stood on the high platform on the north bank, quietly looking at the Taiping army formation on the opposite bank, although the clouds covered the sun, but there was no panic in the chaos, and the camp was set up in a regular manner.
"Alas, the truth is as King Qi expected, this battle is not easy to fight" Because Gao Qi wanted to destroy the Tianping Army in the First World War, he also used the information from the shadow to inform Wang Xuance of the changes in the Tianping Army in recent years using the convenient flying pigeon message.
Moreover, because Cangwu and Yongxi are across the water, Wang Xuance still has a little knowledge of the general training of the Taiping Army.
Therefore, after really seeing this scene at this time, Wang Xuance couldn't help but sigh.
Immediately, the rest of the generals didn't know what Wang Xuance meant, and asked one after another.
Seeing this, Wang Xuance slowly explained: "Generals, pay attention to observation, compared with a few years ago, the Tianping Army today is very different."
"In addition to having a religious belief, the Tianping Army at that time had extremely low combat effectiveness, untidy military morale, and no discipline at all."
"However, judging from the form of the Taiping army's camping today, it is no longer what it used to be."
"This is completely consistent with the news that King Qi sent to Pontus."
With Wang Xuance's reminder, the generals couldn't help but look in the direction of the enemy's camp, and the facts were indeed as they said.
Not only that, but the generals admired Gao Qi even more, after all, they had been here for a long time, and they didn't know much about the movements of the Taiping Army.
The King of Qi they respected was thousands of miles away, and he was still familiar with every move of the Tianping Army.
How can such an act not be admired by the generals under his command?
After a night, the next day, the Taiping military camp was chaotic and noisy, and if you look closely, it is the boat used by the Tianping army to cross the river to arrive.
Not only that, but the Tianping Army also built a large number of catapults and transported them to the camp together.
In an instant, the battle situation here became tense, whether the Qi army could resist the arrival of reinforcements The battle of Lingnan is about to start, and the great chaos at the end of the Sui Dynasty is called :