Chapter 188: Sound East and West, Five Battles and Five Victories (1)(2/2)
In order to occupy Xijing, the imperial capital of the Mingyue Empire for the second time and achieve the goal of strategically mobilizing the Mingyue Empire Army, the Tiger Legion paid an extremely heavy price, with more than 8,000 people killed in battle and more than 2,000 seriously injured. The original 60,000 army has been reduced to less than 50,000!
Meng Hu, Qi Diaozi and Jia Wudao stepped onto the east gate city on the corpses all over the ground.
Standing on the top of the city, the noise in Xijing City had gradually subsided. The streets were covered with the bodies of soldiers of the two armies. The blood flowed almost dyed all the streets and alleys red. The air was filled with the strong smell of blood. Even though Qi Diaozi and Jia Wudao were used to seeing blood, they couldn't help but change their color slightly at this moment.
"well."
Qi Diaozi shook his head and sighed, "This is too expensive. The Mingyue Empire Army is really a respectable army."
"It is also a respectable opponent!" Meng Hu said sternly, "But the price we paid is completely worth it, because we finally captured Xijing again. In this way, it will not only cause a heavy blow to the morale of the Mingyue Empire's army, but also strategically mobilize various armies of the Mingyue Empire!"
Qi Diaozi nodded and said in a serious tone: "It doesn't matter whether the other Mingyue Empire troops are transferred or not, but the Zhuozhou Army in the southeast and the Navy Army in Fenglin Port must be transferred out, otherwise the general's strategic intention will not be realized, and our army's retreat to the western provinces will be unable to talk about."
The Zhuozhou Legion was originally entangled with the northern legion of Chongshan at the junction of Zhuozhou and Yingzhou. After Chongshan received the order of Mengyan to retreat to Qingzhou, the Zhuozhou Legion also received Qiu Yutang's military order, so it did not follow and chase the northern legion, but rushed north to rescue the imperial capital. However, the Zhuozhou Legion had not crossed the Tongtian River to the north, and the Shuozhou Legion had already recovered Xijing before the Tiger Legion went east and captured Huxia Pass. The battlefield in Zhongzhou suddenly changed, and the Zhuozhou Legion did not act rashly anymore. Instead, it stationed in Fengcheng, a hundred miles away from Fenglin Port, waiting for Qiu Yutang's next military order.
Meng Huzang's troops in Panlong Valley were deceived by Gongsun Xiang's Youzhou Army by concealing the world and just to break out of the encirclement. However, the next step to return to the army to attack Xijing had a deeper strategic intention, that is, to mobilize the Zhuozhou Army in Fengcheng and the Navy Army entrenched in Fenglin Port!
At this time, Meng Hu didn't know that Xiao Chengdong's naval army had been transferred to the water to advance westward and encircled the remnants of Meng Yan's troops, so he wanted to transfer the naval army from Fenglin Port's old nest and then transfer the Zhuozhou army from Fengcheng. In this way, the Tiger Legion could take advantage of the opportunity to capture the naval village in Fenglin Port, seize the naval ships from it, and then return to the western province by water.
In order to achieve the strategic intention of mobilizing the Zhuozhou Legion and the Navy Legion, Meng Hu and Qi Diaozi were carefully calculated, and the only chance of the Tiger Legion was the time difference!
What is time difference? It is the time difference in using the Mingyue Empire Army to convey messages!
How to use the time difference between the Mingyue Imperial Army in transmitting messages? This requires careful calculations!
First of all, the Feige Intelligence Station in Hu Xiao Pass has been destroyed. In this way, the Mingyue Empire army around Hu Xiao Pass cannot receive Feige's letters. Whether it is Qiu Yutang, Gongsun Xiang, or Yan Shisan, they must pass the fast horse to know the news that Xijing was captured again.
Secondly, Fenglin Port was not attacked, and the Feige Intelligence Station there was still there, so Qiu Yutang's military order could be delivered to Fenglin Port Navy Village quickly.
This leads to a time difference!
Qiu Yutang's military order can quickly convey the Fenglingang Navy Village, but the news of the fall of Xijing will be postponed to Qiu Yutang's army for at least two days. These two days are the only chance of the Tiger Legion! Meng Hu believes that on the day the Tiger Legion captured Xijing, Gongsun Xiang should have almost met with Qiu Yutang.
With Qiu Yutang's wisdom, it is not difficult to guess how the Tiger Legion avoided the suspicion of Shuozhou and Youzhou Army, and then inferred that the Tiger Legion would likely return to the west and then take Xijing. In this way, Qiu Yutang would urgently instruct all the Mingyue armies to rush to support Xijing, and Qiu Yutang would never tolerate the fall of Xijing again.
Due to the time difference between the time difference between the Feige's letter, the Navy Army of Fenglin Port and the Zhuozhou Army of Fenglin Port, which is less than 100 miles away from Fenglin Port will be the first to receive the military order and immediately set off north to support the imperial capital. Two days later, Qiu Yutang learned about the fall of Xijing again, and then judged Meng Hu's strategic intentions and made another adjustment of troops, it was too late!
Meng Hu did not doubt Qiu Yutang's wisdom, but he did not think Qiu Yutang would prepare for the future.
Chapter completed!