armyinform Chapter 291 The task given to Tai Shici
Chapter 291 The task given to Tai Shici
Chapter 291 The task given to Tai Shici
As Zhu Wei treated Tai Shici with a little bit of heart-to-heart, Tai Shici naturally had a heart for Zhu Wei.
Now Zhu Wei is so relieved to entrust the land of Jiangxia County to Tai Shici to take care of him. Tai Shici is really touched in his heart. Thinking about Liu Yao's side before, he could only be a personal guard and teacher. guest status.
But since he followed Zhu Wei, Taishi Ci has always had the real power to lead troops, and now he can become an expatriate official in charge of a county. This is definitely not something Liu Yao can easily give him.
Although due to his nominal status, Tai Shici could not immediately transfer to Zhu Wei's name, but in Tai Shici's heart, he really followed Zhu Wei's lead.
In fact, when Liu Yao sent Tai Shici to Zhu Wei as an assistant captain, he was a bit like Su Fei. In fact, he was already a direct subordinate of Zhu Wei, but both of them were affiliated with Liu Yao. That’s all.
However, when Su Fei came to Huang Zu's side, he was completely rejected, but Zhu Wei used Tai Shici as his own. These two different situations show two different attitudes towards others. Is Tai Shici the real one? Some were moved by Zhu Wei's gesture.
Since Tai Shici was sent by Liu Yao to Yuzhang to assist Zhu Wei, it was reasonable and compliant for him to obey Zhu Wei directly, but Liu Yao could have directly directed Tai Shici in secret.
But now even if Liu Yao gives Taishi Ci an order to do whatever he wants in Jiangxia, as long as it involves Zhu Wei's interests, Taishi Ci will definitely not agree.
So under the arrangement of Zhu Wei, Tai Shici soon took his deputy Ma Zhong, led more than 6000 crossbowmen and more than 2000 civilian assistants in the headquarters of the Shenshe Battalion, and went north first, preparing to conquer Xiyang, which is located on the northern edge of Jiangxia. County, Yuguo County, Yan County, Pingchun County.
The locations of these four counties are very close to Nanyang County and Yuzhou Runan County, so now that Jiang Xia was taken down by Zhu Wei, the county magistrates of these four counties are still loyal to Liu Biao and refuse to accept Jiang Xia's new master.
In fact, the most important thing is that the county magistrates of these four counties are also members of the Huang clan in Jiangxia. They are naturally unwilling to surrender under the name of Zhu Wei who has robbed their family's territory. Besides, Zhu Wei has to go to them to personally visit Xiling City See, they dare not come to see them as members of the Huang clan.
Therefore, relying on the fact that the county under their control is closer to Nanyang County, they would rather vote for Liu Biao in Nanyang County than Zhu Wei, the new lord of Jiangxia.
So Zhu Wei asked Tai Shici to attack these four counties in the first battle, but in reality, even if Tai Shici has conquered these four counties now, he may not be able to fully control them in the future. After all, these four counties are far away from Xiling The city is really far away.
However, Tai Shici had to go for a round to demonstrate the strength of Jiangxia's new master. At the same time, Tai Shici also had to follow Zhu Wei's orders and take advantage of the opportunity to conquer the four counties to forcibly mobilize the young and strong in the county, just like Zhu Wei before. Wei moved to the border counties of Yuzhang, which weakened the population background of these four counties.
In this way, even if the population of the four counties cannot be moved to the vicinity of Xiling City in Jiangxia County, [-]% to [-]% of the young and strong men in the four counties must be selected. Too much of a threat.
Of course, these four counties are indeed too close to Nanyang County. With their geographical location, Liu Biao can send troops from Nanyang County to occupy the four counties at any time. Even if Taishi Ci knew that the four counties were lost, it would be difficult to regain them.
If Tai Shici sent troops easily, he might fall into the trick of Liu Biao's advisers to divert the tiger away from the mountain. When Tai Shici sent his main force to the four counties, Liu Biao could go down the river from Jiangling City and take Xiling City directly, thus regaining the enemy's army. Control of Jiangxia County.
When Taishi Ci's main city is captured, the return route to Yuzhang may also be cut off. It will really be like Guan Yu who lost Jingzhou. I am afraid that his troops will be scattered and Maicheng will be defeated.
Therefore, Tai Shici is currently recruiting young and strong people from the four counties, and it will be useless to lose these four counties in the future. There is no need to rush to regain them, at worst, they will be handed over to Liu Biao.
As for these four counties and Runan County of Yuzhou, they seem to be very close geographically, but in fact, there are also mountains between Jiangxia County and Runan County that belong to Dabie Mountain and Wushan Mountain, so Jiangxia County and Runan County are also separated. Naturally cut off, it can only pass through Jingzhou or Jiangdong.
In this way, the four counties are at most being harassed by the bandits hidden in the mountains of the Dabie Mountain and Wushan Mountains, and these bandits in the mountains can be wiped out by the county soldiers equipped by the four counties, but it is not enough for the ownership of the four counties. What impact.
According to Zhu Wei's strategy for sweeping the entire Jiangxia territory, after Taishici conquered these four counties, he could go on a military tour around the northwestern border of Jiangxia to the south, and then conquer the next Nanxin County in the central and western part of Jiangxia County. Finally, they went to conquer Jingling County, which is close to Jiangling in Nanjun.
In such a circle around the northwest of Jiangxia, as long as Liu Biao in Xiangyang and Cai Mao in Jiangling did not send troops to support these counties, it would not be a problem for Tai Shici's troops to take down these small counties that were at most only as high as Tucheng.
It can be said that after conquering these six counties, Tai Shici can almost return to Xiling City and take over the control of Jiangxia from Zhu Wei, because the other counties in Jiangxia already have the intention of surrendering, so there is no need to go conquered.
And Tai Shici's military parade in such a circle can not only show force to deter the place, but also be familiar with Jiangxia's landform environment, which will help Taishi Ci sit in Jiangxia in the future, and have some geographical reference for Liu Biao's possible invasion of Nanjun and Nanyang counties. Mental preparation.
It can be said that this time Zhu Wei sent Tai Shici to sweep up Jiangxia and these small counties that refused to submit, more to satisfy the intention of military strategy, rather than to really control these territories.
For Zhu Wei, the newly conquered Jiangxia County can only be regarded as a military buffer zone, not a rear area that has been conquered and can bring money, food and taxes to Zhu Wei, so Zhu Wei doesn't care too much about Jiangxia County now How much food income can it bring him.
As long as Tai Shici can use Jiang Xia to contain Liu Biao's troops in Jingzhou and save Zhu Wei from trouble when he attacks the four counties in southern Jingzhou in the future, that's fine.
In this way, after Zhu Wei sent Tai Shici out, he met Cai He, who had been captured by Pang Yan and Tai Shici, the navy commander sent by Cai Mao from Jiangling to support Jiangxia in Xiling City.
Cai He is Cai Mao's younger brother, who is now 36 or seven years old. According to Cai Mao's military order, he brought more than 7000 sailors to Jiangxia to support Huang Zu on a warship and two dozen light ships.
As a result, Pang Yan and Tai Shici followed the tactics planned by Wang Yuyan and used a pocket array to wrap the Jiangling navy commanded by Cai He into dumplings at the mouth of the Yangtze River and Xiashui. In the end, the Jiangling navy brought by Cai He failed to escape. One, it can be regarded as annihilated...
(End of this chapter)