Valley Emperor

Zeng Ziwen continued to point to the simple and abstract on the wall, which fully demonstrated the art of abstract painting on a map of the surrounding state capitals:

"Liping House is located in the east of my Xingquan. If you start from Zhengtai County, you can enter the territory of Liping House, but the road is not easy to walk, and the mountain road is rugged. If you enter the west on a large scale, the pressure of logistics supply will be very large.

In the case of Liuzhou Prefecture, there are mountains between Xingquan Prefecture and Liuzhou Prefecture, and the mountain road is rugged and difficult for the army to pass. If you want to enter Liuzhou Prefecture, you can only go west to Liping Prefecture, and then go south to Liuzhou by way of Liping Prefecture, so you can go south to Liuzhou in a short time. Unrealistic, can only go south to Liuzhou Mansion after capturing Liping Mansion.

And if you go east, it will be Jingzhou in Huguang. If you enter Jingzhou, you will also face difficult situations in the mountains! "

Listening to Zeng Ziwen's words, everyone including Li Xuan frowned.

Their Xingquan Mansion was just sandwiched between the three prefectures of the three provinces, and the three sides were mountainous terrain, making it difficult for the army to pass.

In fact, if they had a satellite map in front of them, they would find that, let alone Xingquan Mansion, the entire southwestern region was actually a big mountain, and the road was very difficult to walk.

If the troops operate in a small area, it is nothing, but if they want to fight across hundreds of miles, the logistics line alone can drag the entire Datang New Army to death.

Because the new army of the Tang Dynasty now relies heavily on firearms in operations, and firearms are not like food that can be eaten by the enemy, weapons and ammunition have to be transported from Xingquan Mansion. If the logistics line is long, it will be impossible to maintain.

In terms of terrain, whether it is westward or eastward, or southward or even northward, it is actually the same. They are all mountainous, and it is very troublesome to walk.

Now, what restricts the direction of the new army of the Tang Dynasty can only depend on the deployment of the Ming army in the surrounding prefectures.

"Through the information we have obtained from the previous business trips and spies, since we acquired Fuxingquan Mansion, Liping Mansion has been in great panic and is recruiting a large number of young men to consolidate the city's defense, but the regular army will not have many troops, because before we Among the annihilated Ming army, two thousand households were transferred from Liping House, and now the regular army in Liping House is relatively empty!

However, Guiyang, the provincial capital, must have already raised a large number of troops. If the next step is to enter Liping House, it is very likely to encounter a large number of Ming army interceptions!

In contrast, although there are a lot of regular troops in Liuzhou Prefecture and Jingzhou in the south, Guangxi and Huguang provinces should not have begun to mass-up their troops on a large scale. The Ming army took these areas before they reacted.

But in this way, all the officers and soldiers of Huguang and Guangxi provinces will be attracted. At that time, what we need to face is not only Guizhou province, but the encirclement and suppression of the surrounding three provinces, and even the puppet Ming Dynasty. It is possible to gather soldiers from the three provinces to attack our army together. "

Speaking of this, Zeng Ziwen said in a cautious tone: "Our new army of the Tang Dynasty has not completed all the expansion, and at the same time facing the attack of the soldiers of the three provinces, I am afraid that we will not be able to do it!"

Zeng Ziwen’s words and Li Xuan also thought the same. Although his Datang Dynasty has already captured Xingquan Mansion, which caused a shock in Guizhou’s official circles, but in a big way, this is only a local prefecture for the Ming Dynasty. It's just a small-scale rebellion in China, and such a small-scale rebellion in the Ming Dynasty has to be suppressed several times a year.

According to statistics, during the Ming Dynasty, there would be a rebellion in one of every twelve state capitals on average. Note that this data refers to every year!

For these small-scale rebellions, whether it is the Ming Dynasty or other traditional feudal dynasties, it is actually not surprising.

The rebellion of the Tang Dynasty did not cause the Ming Dynasty to panic, and even dispatched some high-ranking ministers to command the troops of several provinces to attack together.

However, if the new army of the Tang Dynasty invaded Guangxi and Huguang, then the resulting political impact would be different. The rebellion in one province and one prefecture is completely different from that in multiple prefectures in several provinces at the same time. different concepts.

Now attacking Liuzhou Mansion or Jingzhou, not to mention whether these places can be taken down quickly, but doing so is definitely tantamount to stabbed two super hornets.

Therefore, Li Xuan was unwilling to provoke the Ming army in the two provinces before he had enough strength, or if he had to.

It's better to lay a solid foundation first and then talk about the subsequent expansion to the three provinces.

Zeng Ziwen naturally got Li Xuan's advice long ago, and naturally he wouldn't say anything about attacking Huguang or Guangxi today, so he continued to analyze the situation in Liping House.

It was two quarters of an hour after Zeng Ziwen had finished talking about the situation of his troops and the surrounding situation, especially the situation in Liping House.

After introducing the details, it is natural to formally discuss where to enter and how to fight.

At times like this, the Imperial Strategy Meeting would turn into a wet market, filled with all kinds of debates.

When the people were arguing, they were gradually divided into three rows. One row was eastward to Huguang. These people were mainly Wang Danxu and a few others. They believed that although eastward entering Huguang would have a political impact and attract a lot of Ming troops, they would not be able to. He also believed that as long as their actions were fast enough, they would be able to quickly capture Jingzhou and even Baoqing Mansion. Then, while advancing, they would expand their troops by means of fighting to support the war. The final strategic goal was to capture Changsha. As for the capture of Changsha, naturally, they will go east along the river to Wuchang, go to Jiujiang, and finally go east to the prosperous place in the south of the Yangtze River~www.wuxiaspot.com~ Just listening to their strategy, you can know that they have already given up Xingquan Mansion. He even gave up the Huguang captured along the way, and went to the prosperous places in the south of the Yangtze River with all his heart.

However, Hao Bainian and Fang Xitong are seriously opposed to this plan, saying that their new army of the Tang Dynasty relies heavily on firearms. Without a stable site to serve as a logistics base, the army cannot support long-term operations at all, which has abandoned Xingquan Mansion. After that, it is estimated that Changsha has not yet been reached, and the eastward troops of the Datang New Army will run out of ammunition and food!

What Hao Bainian wants to do is to take Xingquan Prefecture as a base, capture Liping Prefecture, and then continue westward to capture Guiyang, bringing most of Guizhou under his control.

Based on the whole of Guizhou, and then westward to Sichuan, seize the rich and easy to defend and difficult to attack area of ​​Sichuan.

But it is also steady and steady. Li Chunjing and Hao Bainian are different. Li Chunjing's plan is to take the Liping House. After winning Liping House, go directly south to Liuzhou House and Guilin in Guangxi, and then follow the Xijiang River system of the Pearl River to capture Wuzhou, killing all the way. To Guangdong to capture Zhaoqing and Guangzhou.

Eastward, westward, and southward, these three plans have their own advantages and disadvantages, and even though they are only attacking the surrounding prefectures and counties, they are actually involved in the overall strategy for the next six months or even a year, even Li Xuan. Decisions cannot be made lightly.

If this is a wrong decision, then for the Tang Dynasty to come, it is not just a matter of suffering losses, but it may fall into a disaster, so no matter how cautious it is.

Everyone was arguing, and this day's strategy meeting naturally ended without a hitch. After everyone retreated, Li Xuan stared at the map for a long time!

In the end, he set his sights on the south side of the map and made a secret decision to go south!

The reason is very simple, because there is a sea there!