Turbulent Times Chapter 1107: Successful strategic containment

"You should prepare immediately. For the horses captured yesterday, you should bring a few more horses to transport beans, and walk more at ordinary times to maintain horsepower. After calculating the time, Yuan Gai Suwen should have sent reinforcements. You are likely to meet them on the road. I see, the scouts you sent out in advance are very important."

"I understand." Zhang Tiangang cupped his fists in salute, turned and left.

"An order was sent to let Guan Xiaotong and Lu Hanbu return to the camp to rest, and Luo Chunlai with five thousand sailors entered the city to control the entire Daluo City."

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"Wang Junlin is determined to be firmly nailed to Annan County..." In the Annan County mansion, Yuan Gai Suwen showed deep wrinkles. Facing the continuous stream of bad news from the south, make such a judgment.

At this time, he frowned and his face was extremely gloomy. When Wang Junlin sailed across their Goguryeo waters, and their Goguryeo navy couldn't control each other, Goguryeo had already fallen into a passive state.

Wang Junlin has more than 10,000 sailors on Dami Island and Bailing Island, and now he has mobilized another 10,000 troops. In addition, Zhao Chen and Huang Shaoqiu led another 30,000 sailors to harass the waters of Chengyang County. In the Sui Dynasty, as many as 50,000 people came from the sea. Goguryeo had to deploy nearly 60,000 water infantry troops in Annan and Chengyang counties to barely guarantee the stability of the defense line.

In order to gather 60,000 water infantry in the two southern counties, almost all the soldiers and auxiliary soldiers in the two southern counties of Goguryeo are obviously not enough.

In the current situation, for Wang Junlin, there is no need for any dangerous schemes or tricks at all. He only needs to firmly hold Daluo City, and then let Zhao Chen and Huang Shaoqiu's 30,000 people The navy continued to harass in Chengyang County and restrained a large number of Goguryeo troops. Both the officials and soldiers of Chengyang County, and the people in Annan County led by Yuan Gai Suwen felt great pressure.

"We in Goguryeo have a total of only 300,000 troops. To ensure that Wang Junlin's troops are suppressed in Daluo City, at least 30,000 to 40,000 people are required. The battle between the prime minister and the main army of the Sui Emperor is already very difficult. Right now, we can only forcibly summon the private soldiers and guards of the nobles of the two counties together." A veteran in scale armor stood beside Yuan Gai Suwen and said in a low voice.

"Let's not talk about how difficult it is to get the private soldiers and guards out of each family," Yuan Gai Suwen said, "even if we forcibly gather the private soldiers and guards of the nobles of the two counties

Come on, 20,000 more troops come out, which is only enough to block the 30,000 navy of Chengyang County. Relying on them to fight Wang Junlin's army is simply to die... and Chengyang County can't be lost right now. "

Chengyang County is the most important grain-producing area in Goguryeo, with more than 3 million mu of paddy and dry fields. In the past few years, it was severely harassed by pirates from the East China Sea. In recent years, farming has recovered rapidly. Although it cannot be compared with the land of fish and rice in the south of the Sui Dynasty, Goguryeo, which has "seven parts of mountains, one part of water, and two parts of fields", is extremely precious, especially during the current all-out war with the Great Sui Dynasty. The amount of food and grass is huge. For a country as small as Goguryeo, it is already the limit to raise 300,000 troops, not to mention that there are 50,000 troops defending in the direction of Baekje and Silla.

For Yuan Gai Suwen, if he wanted to regain the initiative in Annan County, he had to put his troops under Da Luo City, or even take Da Luo City back directly. To achieve this step, it is necessary to maintain an absolute advantage in military strength, but it is not easy, or it is impossible in a short period of time, and it is necessary to prevent Wang Junlin's army from continuing to attack the three counties in the north of Annan County.

Yuan Gai Suwen lamented in his heart: "Wang Junlin controls the sea route, and can gather and transfer troops and various supplies at a fast speed. They don't even know how many troops Wang Junlin has assembled in Daluo City."

For Yuan Gai Suwen, only by delaying the situation, waiting for his father in the east to lead the main force and win the main battlefield of the Great Sui Emperor, and then dispatching a large army to the east and south to support him, can he regain the initiative in Annan County.

The main force of Wang Junlin's navy is on the sea, and with the 30,000 navy led by Zhao Chen and Huang Shaoqiu, there is no possibility for Goguryeo to regain control of the sea from Wang Junlin.

Ten days after the start of the war, the 30,000 naval forces led by Zhao Chen and Huang Shaolai became more and more active. Goguryeo's garrison in Chengyang County has been fully reduced. It fell into the grasp of Zhao Chen and Huang Shaoqiu.

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After Wang Junlin occupied Da Luo City, he immediately arranged for people to build a transit army camp between Da Luo City and Nanyang Village.

The three thousand cavalry led by Yuchi Jingde returned to Daluo City after killing most of the Goguryeo army who escaped from Daluo City, only Zhang Tian

Gang's 500 special forces were divided into two groups and took turns to move between the north of Daluo City and Annan County City, always putting great pressure on the Goguryeo people.

After the situation in Daluo City was sorted out, Wang Junlin called Yuchi Jingde, Luo Chunlai, Lu Han, and Guan Xiaotong to hold a situation analysis meeting to further formulate a battle plan.

"According to the information sent by Shen Guoer, although Yuan Gai Suwen has made some moves, due to the lack of troops, in addition to recruiting more civilians from the local area, and forcing the nobles to hand over their private soldiers and guards Apart from gathering together, there is no sign of sending troops in from other places. In terms of military strength, we, together with Zhao Chen's 30,000 navy, are still in an advantageous position, and the enemy is defending many cities. We can concentrate our forces in Daluo City and Nanyang Village, the advantages will be even more obvious." Wang Junlin first briefed everyone on the overall situation.

"According to the plan, I will instruct Huang Shaoqiu to make the 30,000 navy to attack Chengyang County and attract Goguryeo's soldiers and horses from the two southern counties to Chengyang County..."

The so-called strategy is fundamentally to do everything possible to form a military advantage to suppress the enemy. This is true in strategy and tactics.

Even under unavoidable circumstances, the use of risky tactics is aimed at avoiding the enemy's superior force and forming a local force advantage at the enemy's weak point to strike.

Opening up the battlefields of Annan County and Chengyang County, even if they cannot successfully break through these two counties, they must force Goguryeo to invest more troops in these two counties.

Now in the east of Zhejiang, Goguryeo has been forced to mobilize all the troops that can be mobilized; With less than 30,000 soldiers and horses, as long as Goguryeo is forced to invest another 30,000 to 40,000 troops in Annan County, Goguryeo's overall strength in the west and the main force led by Yang Guang will be affected.

This is the advantage of commanding the sea. With less than 20,000 troops, Wang Junlin can at least contain three or four times as many troops as Goguryeo to the south.

In terms of general strategy, even though Wang Junlin knew that Yang Guang would be defeated by the Goguryeo people in most cases, he still wanted to change the outcome of history as much as possible, at least to reduce the death of the Sui people. Some in Goguryeo.

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