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Volume 9: What is missing in Jin Mau must be replenished Chapter 21: Start of the middle road

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    "As for the camp in Liaohai The imperial troops stationed in Goryeo moved quickly and fiercely, which is worthy of praise! They arrived at Liaoyang City on the tenth day of the fifth lunar month. The west-route army camped in Liaohai was mostly thanks to him, and the soldiers and horses of Liao's Tokyo-Road were probably  They were all so frightened by the imperial army stationed in Goryeo that they cowered in Liaoyang City and did not dare to assist all parties. Only then did the West Route Army make several easy landings to seize the city. The West Route Army in the Liaohai camp had to step up its pace and rush to Liaoyang City as soon as possible to join the East Route Army.  Together, the more than 10,000 troops stationed in the Goryeo Forbidden Army alone cannot capture Liaoyang City"

    After Guo Wei finished commenting on the results of the camp in the northeast of Hebei Province, he turned around and started to comment on the camp in Liaohai in the east. The initial strategy of this Northern Expedition was to advance east and west, with the middle road gaining momentum. Now the camp in the northeast of Hebei Province on the west road is in full bloom. He  There will naturally be requirements for the progress of the Liaohai camp on the East Road.  .

    Of course, the enemy situation and terrain on both sides are different. Although the Liao Dynasty's garrison strength in Tokyo Road and Xijing Road is not much different, the Left Behind Department and the Tongjun Department each have their own responsibilities. This he realized when he went to the Northern Expedition to Youji.  When it came to the Liao Kingdom's Nanjing Road system, and the Liaohai camp sent troops a day or two earlier than the troops northeast of Hebei, but the progress of the camp northeast of Hebei was limited to border counties, wasn't it?  After all, a large army from the Liaohai camp has arrived at Liaoyang City, but no troops from the Hebei camp have yet arrived at Yunzhou City.

    Speaking of which, the advance speed of the Korean Imperial Army was too fast. The narrow road in the mountains and forests of 500 to 600 miles from Yuanyuanzhai to Liaoyang City actually took only ten days to pass, even though the various barbarians along the way were very cooperative, and  Without the walled city garrisoned by the Liao army blocking the way, this advancement speed is also very good.

    on the contrary.  Although the west route of Liaohai's camp can use the ocean and jump across the sea, they need to obtain a forward stronghold on Juehua Island in advance, and the places they jump to will eventually need to be conquered slowly one by one.  Therefore, it is actually quite normal that the operation seems to be slower than that of the Imperial Guards stationed in Korea.

    This is quite different from the Xijing Road in the Liao Kingdom. The armies camped in the northeast of the Hebei Province all crossed the mountains and went northward by land. They faced roughly the same enemy situation. Therefore, whether they deceive the city, make a forced landing, or defeat the enemy, the final progress will be  But it's not the same.

    Like the west route of Liaohai's camp, although the attached Fubo Brigade troops have landed across the sea and attacked Jinzhou, several fortified cities between Yuguan and Jinzhou still need to be captured one by one, from the Lulong Army to the Liao Kingdom.  Only the land route of Tokyo Road can be opened smoothly.  After all, it is very difficult to ensure a protracted battle by relying entirely on sea routes in this era - of course, after learning that their escape route has been cut off, the fighting spirit of the defenders in the fortified cities is likely to collapse. This is something that is included in the battle plan.  considered.  Otherwise, the attacking troops from Yuguan would not be restrained from advancing slowly.

    However, these problems are not very big. The Liaohai camp captured Yaozhou near the mouth of the Liao River on May 12, which marked that the Liao River was under the control of the Zhou army. Although the two routes to Liaoyang from Jinzhou and Yaozhou were both  It is located in the densely populated area of ??Tokyo Road in Liao Dynasty.  If we take the land route, the difficulty of advancing is obviously higher than that of the barbarian-infested mountains and forests that the imperial troops stationed in Goryeo passed through, but taking the Liao River can easily avoid the heavy interceptions of the Liao army.

    There are almost no naval forces on the Tokyo Road of the Liao Kingdom!  The patrol ships at Suzhou Pass in the south are not even as good as most of the smuggling fleets. Once Yaozhou opens.  The Liao River is unobstructed for the Zhou army. The western army encamped in Liaohai will be able to meet up with the imperial army stationed in Goryeo at the foot of Liaoyang City within three to five days.

    Therefore, it is not harsh for Guo Wei to propose combat goals to the Liaohai camp.

    nature.  The reason why Guo Wei specially supervises the west route of the Liaohai camp is to coordinate the progress of the Liaohai camp and the northeastern Hebei camp.  Only when the eastern and western routes of the Northern Expedition advanced in tandem and threatened Liao's Tokyo and Xijing at the same time, while the central army was temporarily inactive, could the Liao central government be at a loss for what to do.

    Conquering Liaoyang and Yunzhou, while occupying the Liaodong Peninsula, the arable land in the Liao River Basin, and the agricultural and animal husbandry land in the upper reaches of the Sanggan River in Yunzhou, is certainly the minimum goal of the Northern Expedition. It will use the dangers on the east and west to create conditions for the Lord of Liao.  difficult problem, allowing it to oscillate between the unknown mid-road assault and the actual threats on the two wings, taking advantage of the Liao's center's hesitation in strategic judgment to weaken its advantage in battlefield mobility, so as to achieve a truly comprehensive attack after the official launch of the camp in the north of Youzhou.  Flowering is also the intention of this deployment.

    " Once the troops from the northeast of Hezhou arrive at Yunzhou City, and the troops from Liaohai gather in Liaoyang, before the Liao Lord's reinforcements are about to arrive, the troops from the north of Youzhou can leave from Gubeikou and Lulongsai, allowing them to  The Lord of Liao has difficulty making a choice in front of three fronts!"

    Guo Wei picked up the pointer on his desk and clicked on the sand table. His words were full of confidence. After so many years of fighting, the original time-travel engineer and entrepreneur already had considerable experience in war, although he had not yet reached the point of inflated ego.  He thought that the use of troops was like that of Han and Bai, but with the prime ministers of the Reconnaissance Department and the Operations Research Department, he believed that?The overall strategy that was brainstormed under his leadership cannot be easily resolved by the current Liao Kingdom. To put it bluntly, Brother Yelu Xiu's position is not high yet, and Yelu Xiezhen is not in charge of the overall situation. Even though the Liao Army is now controlled by these two people.  Guo Wei will not be afraid at all.

    "Wellif the Liao army sends aid to Liaoyang and Yunzhou, the camps in the northeast of Hebei and the Liaohai camps can be turned to defense on the spot and wait for the enemy to come for a decisive battle. Although these two armies are not very strong in strength, they are not as strong as several  It should not be a problem for the Liao army to launch a battle. As for logistics transfer, Yunzhou is only three hundred miles away from Yanmen Pass, and there are mountains and rivers to protect both sides. It is not difficult to camp and protect the northeast of the river, but it is not expected to be blocked by the Liao army's light cavalry;  The food routes for the Liaohai campare mainly along the sea route and the Liao River, and the Liao army has no way to attack it."

    When the emperor finally stopped talking, Wang Zan immediately responded. As a small official, he had served as Yuhou, the capital of the Ma Bu Army in Chanzhou in the early days, and now he had served as the Privy Councilor for many years. He was not that unfamiliar with military affairs. Although he was asked to plan some military affairs.  The action is not very realistic, but when there is a clear combat plan to refer to, simple situation judgment is still not difficult for him.

    Of course, as someone with many years of experience as deputy envoy to the Third Division and envoy to various states in Hebei, Wang Zan's focus was still on logistics. For specific battles, he could only choose to fully trust the emperor and the planners.  The deployment of the company and the combat effectiveness of the frontline soldiers.

    If the Liao army sends reinforcements to Tokyo Road and Xijing Road, and the battle between the two sides takes place in Yunzhou or Liaoyang, then Wang Zan will not worry much about logistics.

    As Wang Zan himself said, after marching to the northeast of Hebei Province to capture Shuozhou, Yingzhou and Yuzhou, the army's food road that would attack Yunzhou was basically at the rear of the army, including Sanggan River, Qingliang Mountain, Yunzhong  Nanshan and Longshou Mountain were shielding it. It was not easy for the Liao army to bypass the army south of Yunzhou and cut off the grain road.

    As for the Liao Kingdom's Tokyo Road, the Liaohai camp's food road mainly relied on shipping. The Liao army did not have any decent naval forces. It could not even block the Liao River, let alone go to sea to rob the road.  Even for the Liaoxi Corridor, which serves as an auxiliary transportation line, as long as the Zhou army firmly controls the Jinzhou area at the north entrance, the Liao army is unlikely to cross the vast Yanshan Mountains to cut it off. After all, no matter how the Liao army's light cavalry does not need logistics, they still have to fight.  In areas with grassy valleys, we have to go through flat grasslands instead of mountains.

    The only food route that the Liao army could really cut off was the five to six hundred miles of Changbai Mountain forest behind the Goryeo Forbidden Army. However, in a situation where the Zhou and Liao countries were so clearly strong and weak, it was obviously difficult for the local barbarians to choose to fight with them.  The cooperation of the Liao army can be seen from the fact that the imperial army stationed in Goryeo only took ten days to cross the mountains and forests.

    What Wang Zan is worried about is the future food route of the army in the middle. When the camp in the north of Youzhou is dispatched from Gubeikou and Lulongsai, and the troops pass through the Dading Prefecture of the Liao Kingdom, they will even advance to Linhuang Prefecture according to the battle plan, and camp in the northeast of Hezhou.  Camping with Liaohai will not go hand in hand with it. At that time, thousands of miles of food roads for the army in the middle will be exposed, and it is necessary to always beware of surprise attacks by the Liao army's light cavalry.

    However, many people had already raised such concerns when the Operations Research Department prepared the battle plan. Wang Zan only knew that the final battle plan did take these factors into consideration. It is believed that the follow-up military operations of the camp in the north of Youzhou will not  Restricted by the Liao army's simple tactics.

    "But the battle plan is only on paper after all. What the real battle situation will be like, of course, we can only wait and see."  However, Wang Zan has considerable trust in the combat effectiveness of the Forbidden Army and the emperor's ability to accept advice and adapt to changes. In his opinion, even if the protection of the army's food road in the middle is not satisfactory in the future, the emperor should still be able to respond in a timely manner.  The composition and strength of the troops camped in the northern part of the prefecture are relatively close to the camp in Beijing, so a timely change of tactics will probably not cause too much loss.

    "According to the latest Liao army intelligence fed back from the east and west routes" Although Han Wei has been promoted to Minister of the Military Advisory Department, his work focus is still on the subordinate spy department. "It can be said that the Liao army in Tokyo Road is basically unprepared.  , the Liao people did not expect that our army would choose where to attack. However, the prefectures and counties in Xijing Road changed hands so quickly, not because the Liao people were unprepared. The main forces of the Khitan army in Shuozhou and Yingzhou had already gathered in the direction of Yunzhou before the war.  Even the Wuding Army in Feng Sheng Prefecture did not resist resolutely, and it was obvious that Yelu Xiezhen had no intention of fighting our army on the border."

    Guo Wei smiled slightly: "If we don't fight at the border, it will be the same in Yunzhou! It's just an extra three hundred miles of transportation. I believe that the armies in Hedong have this ability."

    Although Han Wei was interrupted by Guo Wei, he still continued unhurriedly: "I just think that Yelu Xiezhen may not choose to fight our army in Yunzhou, and the enemy in Yunzhou may only wait for a while.  If something happens, they will abandon the city like Shuozhou and other places, and even the Lord of Liao will not send reinforcements to Xijing Road"

    "If that's the case then let the twoLet the army fight the final battle in Linhuang Mansion!  "

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