Jul 2, 2024
Bi Qing immediately said, "The courtiers are detrimental to the country’s interests and personal ability."
Shallow water thought about it a little, and finally sighed, "If that’s the case, I think I’d better get closer to the courtiers and think less about everything I’m doing now."
Bi Qing smiled, "It’s a good thing that the general loss is the national interest of his opponent rather than his own."
At that time, the shallow water was clear, but it occurred to him that if he really wanted to make a choice in his own country and personal interests one day, which one would he choose?
It was a second before he knew the answer.
Then he laughed. He said to Bi Qing seriously, "It’s not bad for a person like me to say that it’s a sin to say this."
Chapter XIV War Situation
When Hong Tianqi and Dongguang arrived, Shallow Water Qing was drinking tea leisurely.
Look at the two of them, with their faces livid and shallow water laughing happily. "What makes you look like you just lost a battle?"
Dongguang’s natural disposition is straightforward. When he listens to Shallow Water, he directly stares at his eyes. "What old battles haven’t hit you? Let you be a pioneer. When you get to the mountain road and meet the water, you can directly take Dingzhou yourself. What do you want us to do!"
Shallow water is clear. Look at Hong Tianqi. Hong Tianqi sighs. "There are many dead people along the way."
Shallow water took a sip of tea. "It looks like a lot. Most people have run away."
Hong apocalypse some angry "that’s even worse! The fleeing people will spread the news of our massacre everywhere. Do you know that before the departure of Nandu, he repeatedly stressed that this is to stop water, to take care of people’s livelihood, to appease their people and to win people’s hearts? "
Shallow water Qing asked with a smile, "Why don’t you come to me and criticize me?"
Dongguang immediately replied, "I’m coming, but I’m halfway back. He said that you have a purple heart shield, and he couldn’t kill you. It’s better to ignore you so as not to see your angry face, but he has already reported this to the emperor, and I believe that the blame will come soon."
"That won’t count until we live to that time." Shallow water Qing replied lazily. "If we act according to the plan of Nandu, I believe all of us will have to die and listen to the eulogy at that time. I’d rather be punished first."
Hongtian Qidong light changes color at the same time.
The ladder of war has always been that the military is subordinate to political needs and the tactics are subordinate to strategic arrangements.
The political needs of Cangyewang determine that Tiexue Town needs 20,000 troops to force the water stop, and it is best to beat them to give up voluntarily, so as to avoid a series of bad consequences after the water stop burst its banks.
Only by understanding this political need can we formulate strategic goals according to its needs.
Here, according to the optimization method, the first priority of this political need should be to stop water and then to avoid breaking the bank. The former is the foundation and the latter is the focus.
When Nan Shang set all his goals on satisfying the emperor’s desire and decided to send Tiefengqi to attack the Yueya River dam, it was a major mistake in strategic arrangement.
That is, the inferior forces attacked the correct target and lost their strategic maneuver.
In this basic theory, how to play tactics is doomed to be a failed war.
Shang Youlong is not stupid. His shrinking tactics do not mean that he gave up a large defensive area and waited for the enemy to occupy it. His habit and personality of holding flying snow for so many years have already deeply influenced him.
In fact, his retreat defense plan also carries deep counterattack energy, and once launched, it is bound to make the enemy perish.
First of all, due to Gu Zhengfan’s invasion, Tianfeng people missed the opportunity to stop water during the autumn harvest. A large amount of grain has been harvested and transported away at Shang Youlong’s command department, leaving a small amount of surplus grain for the local people. Tianfeng people can transport grain from the rear and get it locally if they don’t want to irritate the local people too much.
Secondly, Shang Youlong almost removed the defensive forces at the periphery of the water stop, and transferred a considerable number of its soldiers to the people, allowing them to keep their own weapons and forbidding soldiers. All the water stop people can legally own all kinds of weapons, hide soldiers and civilian militia, and fight to the death all over the country. Faced with this situation, people who are not careful may fall into the quagmire of national war.
It is impossible for the third merchant to have a dragon, but it is not difficult to guess the meaning of being alone in Tiexue Town, and it is not difficult to guess the goal of Tianfeng Army, so that he can make targeted arrangements according to this.
Therefore, once the windy people face this pattern and choose to go straight, they will face two situations.
One is that the posterior route is cut off and the army is isolated and stranded.
Second, the newly occupied cities around the country were heavily guarded and forced to divide their forces, and eventually they were divided by all the forces of Shang Youlong.
The ultimate possibility of any choice is extinction.
It is a big question whether Shang Youlong will ignore Nan Shang or not, although he is personally led by the blood wind flag and the ghost wind flag to contain him on the right and is responsible for protecting his rear road.
Now that Shang Youlong knows what Tianfengjun wants to do, the Crescent River Dam is a bait, a bait to be hooked. No matter what Tianfengjun does outside, he needs to stay by the bait and wait for the hook. Once Tianfengjun enters the water stop department, Shang Youlong can fight at his own door to get familiar with the terrain and mobilize the masses. Once Tianfengjun’s back road is cut off, even if they can fight again, there will be a dead end.
He needs to send an army of about 50,000 men, or he will be able to wipe out the iron wind flag that goes deep into the enemy’s territory and almost win.
Strategic passivity doomed the war situation to be one-sided. The two fatal keys, namely, how subtle the tactics are, how to lack sufficient troops and how to be familiar with the strategic objectives of the opponents, have been dying all day.
However, it is impossible for the army to jump out of the opponent’s hands no matter how it jumps.
Nan Shang pinned his hopes for victory on his opponent’s ability to be shallow but not daring.
One is that the aristocratic brothers, who are backed by the powerful family, can afford to lose, but they are not afraid to lose. The other one relies on the meritorious military service to climb to the small camp. The owner can’t afford to lose or lose.
So he must find a way to change this situation.
In this regard, he and Bi Qing talked many times, and after deeply understanding the situation of the water stop people, they re-formulated a complete battle plan according to their characteristics.
First, it is a very important link to arrange grain strategically.
Shang Youlong’s practice of forcing him to divide his troops is to see the mind that Tianfeng Army is unwilling to seize grain on the spot and make an enemy.
The shallow water knows that in this case, if the Tianfeng army does not want to be divided and annihilated by the enemy, it must give up the grain route and get the grain on the spot. This will inevitably lead to a huge contradiction with the local people who stop the water because of the grain problem. Once the grain route is cut off after they enter the water stop, they are doomed to a dead end.
The route of providing foodstuff is not equal to getting food on the spot when returning to the road, so it is bound to be difficult for Shang Youlong to trap Tianfeng Army in this vast plain.
In this case, we should simply give up the idea of being close to the people and take risks to kill the city, so as to make the enemy fear and solve the problem of getting food at the same time, which is why Shallow Water Clear decided to kill the city.