Qinglong Three Kingdoms

Chapter 829 Yuan Shang's Strategy

What kind of small thoughts Yuan Tan had in mind is another story. Anyway, after Zhu Weijun launched the Northern Expedition, Yuan Tan's thoughts were naturally all fantasy.

Now it is only said that Yuan Shang temporarily replaced Yuan Shao as Yuan Jun's nominal controller with the support of Fengji and Jupei. This Yuan Shang is now thirty years old, and he is not completely incapable. In fact, he is more decisive than Yuan Shao.

Therefore, after he took over the power of Yuan Jun, on the one hand, he continued to step up defenses in Yecheng, and on the other hand, he also put forward his strategic intentions.

Yuan Shang felt that defending Yecheng and placing the battlefield in Yecheng would damage his own foundation after all, so he meant that Yuan Jun should take the initiative to attack while the main force of Zhu Weijun was still on Puyang City.

In the end, Yuan Jun should face the possible attack of Zhu Weijun on Liyang's side, so that the battle can be placed on the border of Yizhou.

Resisting the enemy from the outside comes from Mencius's "Wan Zhang Xia", which roughly refers to resisting the enemy before entering the jurisdiction area and preventing the enemy from entering, so as to minimize the damage of the war to one's own side.

Now the interior of Yizhou has suffered a lot of damage from Zhu Weijun, and only the surrounding area of ​​Yecheng remains stable. Of course, Yecheng, as Yuan Shao's headquarters, is naturally the best-developed area in Yizhou.

So even if Zhu Weijun entered Yizhou to harass and destroy them, as long as Yecheng was safe and sound, Yuan Shao could at least maintain a rear base sufficient to support the army.

If Zhu Weijun launched a conquest against Yuan Shao, if the two sides put the battlefield in Yecheng, it would naturally destroy the farming and autumn planting around Yecheng, and completely destroy the foundation of Yuan Shao's rear food and grass. One or two years is impossible.

The best way is not to place the battlefield in Yecheng.

In this way, after Yuan Shang took over the power, he planned to place the future battle with Zhu Weijun in Liyang, the border between Yizhou and Yanzhou.

As long as the base camp in Yecheng in the rear remains stable, farming can be maintained, and Yuan Jun’s food and grass needs can be met through farming. With the help of Yecheng's rear base camp, support Yuan Shang's battle in Liyang ahead.

In fact, before Zhu Wei captured Luoyang, and placed the battlefield facing Cao Cao and Yuan Shao in Luoyang, it also had this meaning, all in order to maintain the stability of the rear base camp, so as not to affect the farming and food production, thus destroying his own long-term development .

Therefore, it is reasonable for Yuan Shang to put forward such a strategic concept at this stage of time.

It’s just that the Xiongba camp under Zhu Weijun’s Pang Yan now occupies the lands of Chaoge, Dangyin, and Liyang, so according to Yuan Shang’s meaning, the army should be called to attack Zhu Weijun’s Pang Yan’s department first, and then build a defense line here in Liyang County Start a head-to-head confrontation with Zhu Weijun.

Now that Yuan Shang is in charge of the overall situation instead of Yuan Shao, his will is naturally the core strategic thinking of Yuan Shaojun.

In the end, Yuan Shang decided on the next strategic plan. He left [-] Xu You's army to continue to garrison in Yecheng to ensure the safety of Yuan Shao, who was staying in Yecheng to recuperate. Then Yuan Shang personally took charge of discipline and review, and led nearly [-] troops. They first sent troops to Dangyin and then launched an offensive against Zhu Weijun's Pang Yan's headquarters.

Speaking of Yuan Shaojun's sudden counterattack, it really surprised Pang Yan and Zhuge Liang who were stationed on the front lines of Chaoge, Dangyin, and Liyang.

After all, they were ordered here to defend against Yuan Shao's army going south, but they adopted an offensive defense strategy of sending troops to harass Yecheng. Before that, Yuan Shao's army basically adopted a passive defense strategy, and had no intention of counterattacking at all.

But now after Yuan Shang made a decision, with the support of Feng Ji and Shen Pei, Yuan Shaojun quickly made an attack.

Therefore, Yuan Jun's first goal was Dangyin County, which is the closest to Yecheng. This Dangyin County is located in the North China Plain. County, easy to attack but difficult to defend.

Pang Yan only sent Ling Cao and Lei Bo to garrison with nearly [-] troops in Dangyin County. As a result, Yuan Shao's army's forward numbered nearly [-] and rushed directly to Dangyin County.

Ling Cao and Lei Bo were worried that the army would be trapped in the small Danyin County, so they did not hold on to Danyin County and took the initiative to lead the army out of the city to fight.

As a result, due to the disparity in the number of troops, Zhu Weijun rushed to the battle again, so after Ling Cao and Lei Bo lost no less than [-] troops, they took the initiative to withdraw from Dangyin County.

Then Yuan Shang arrived with the main force of the rear army. On the one hand, he divided his troops to attack Liyang County, and on the other hand, he also brought the main force to approach Chaoge.

Facing Yuan Shao's strong attack, after discussing with Zhuge Liang, Pang Yan and Zhuge Liang had no choice but to withdraw the troops of Zhou Tai and Jiang Qin who were stationed in Liyang County, and then the whole army gathered in Chaoge to prepare for the battle. The incoming Yuan Jun.

Compared with the more than [-] troops of Yuan Jun's attack this time, Pang Yan's troops are still somewhat insufficient after all, so if he disperses his troops and garrisons in various places, Yuan Shaojun will only be able to easily destroy the garrisons everywhere.

Only by gathering the scattered forces in this way can we clench our fists and fight Yuan Shaojun.

At the same time, Pang Yan and Zhuge Liang had thought of the possibility of Yuan Shao's army going south in a large scale, so they had already built camps and dug ditches on Chaoge's side, forming a relatively strict defense line.

If Yuan Shaojun really forcibly attacked Chaoge, Pang Yan, who had gathered all the troops of the Xiongba Battalion, could also use the fortifications to fight a head-to-head battle with hundreds of thousands of Yuan Shaojun in Chaoge.

At this time, Pang Yan and Zhuge Liang didn't know Yuan Shang's real intentions. They only thought that Yuan Jun might have received the news from Puyang and wanted to take advantage of the situation to attack Luoyang, so they naturally continued their strategic mission of blocking Yuan Jun's southward movement.

Only after Yuan Jun easily took over Li Yang from Zhu Weijun, he first sent an army to garrison Li Yang, and then recruited many civilians to build defenses in Li Yang, which showed Yuan Jun's attitude of preparing to face Zhu Wei's army in Liyang.

Liyang is located at the junction between Yizhou Weijun and Yanzhou Dongjun. It is adjacent to the Yellow River to the south and has the advantage of controlling the natural dangers of the Yellow River.

In this way, after Yuan Shang garrisoned in Liyang, he could use the natural danger of the Yellow River to defend against Zhu Weijun's Northern Expedition, and he could also cross the Yellow River at any time to threaten Puyang City and even the counties and counties of Yanzhou.

This forced Zhu Weijun to deal with the enemies of Liyang first when he attacked Yuan Shao in the north. Otherwise, if Yuan Jun of Liyang was allowed to cross the river and enter Yanzhou, Yanzhou, which had just been captured before, would be lost and regained.

It has to be said that Yuan Shang chose Li Yang as the place for the decisive battle with Zhu Weijun, and it can be regarded as finding an acupuncture point that Zhu Weijun had to fight...

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