Qinglong Three Kingdoms

Chapter 385 The plan to attack Xiangyang (2)

After watching the sand table of Fenglin Pass and Xiangyang City, Zhu Wei inevitably put forward a new military suggestion for the tactics of attacking Xiangyang.

Perhaps it is possible to set up a feint attack on Fenglin Pass in Xiangyang City to attract the attention of Liu Biao in Xiangyang City, but in fact Zhu Wei can send people to attack Fancheng first and take Fancheng.

In this way, Zhu Wei can use Fancheng as the forefront position to attack Xiangyang City, and then use gunpowder to blow open the water gate to the north of Xiangyang City, waiting for an opportunity to enter Xiangyang City. Perhaps this is a more suitable tactic for attacking Xiangyang City this time.

Although it has been said that Xiangyang was beaten with iron since ancient times, Zhu Wei also heard that Fancheng was made of paper.

Compared with Xiangyang City, which has a hard shell with high walls and wide rivers, and the surrounding landforms are easy to defend and difficult to attack, the landform environment of Fancheng is much simpler. Fancheng is surrounded by hills between Tongbai Mountain, Wudang Mountain, and Jingshan Mountains. plain.

Therefore, although Fancheng was built in the period of King Xuan of the Western Zhou Dynasty, except for the Han River in the south, Fancheng is surrounded by plain landforms in the east, west, and north, and there is almost no danger to defend, just like an ordinary local county. No matter how hard you try, you can directly attack the city of Fancheng.

In fact, since Fancheng was built, it has been a commercial city with a commercial market as its main business, and it was not originally used for military purposes.

The purpose of building Xiangyang City is to serve as an important military town in the north of the Yangtze River to defend against the invasion of the south by foreign forces in the north, so the difficulty of attacking Fancheng is definitely much smaller than that of attacking Xiangyang City.

In this way, if Fancheng is attacked first, even if Liu Biao in Xiangyang City sends reinforcements to support Fancheng, it will still allow Zhu Wei to pass through Fancheng, which is easy to attack, to consume Liu Biao's troops in Xiangyang City, and reduce the loss of some troops on Zhu Wei's side. .

Of course, if one can find a way to take advantage of the situation and capture Fancheng, then he can directly face the water gate in the north of Xiangyang City, and then use the special method of Zhu Wei's army, black powder, to blow open the water gate, just like popping a chrysanthemum. Break through the solid shell of Xiangyang City.

This is like finding a loophole in the gate of Xiangyang City, allowing Zhu Wei to invade the interior of Xiangyang City in one fell swoop and eat the relatively weak and tender flesh of Liu Biao's army in Xiangyang City.

According to Zhu Wei's knowledge, when Guan Yu attacked Xiangfan in history, he also sent troops to surround Xiangyang, and then attacked Fancheng first. It seemed that he was preparing to capture Fancheng to cut off Xiangyang's source of reinforcements, and then slowly attack Xiangyang.

If Lu Xun hadn't crossed the river in a light boat and captured Guan Yu's Jiangling base camp, Guan Yu's strategy of attacking Xiangfan would have had a great chance of winning. After all, Guan Yu had already flooded the Seventh Army and wiped out part of Cao Cao's troops. Pang De, the Northwest Titan under Cao Cao.

Anyway, for Zhu Wei, if he can capture Fancheng, he won't have to worry about the two-sided attack from Liu Biao's garrison in Xiangyang and Fancheng. Zhu Wei can use the black powder blasting tubes on Zhu Wei's side to exert their power, and use the water gate of Xiangyang City as the main attack direction.

This is definitely easier than forcibly attacking the strong and thick high-walled city of Xiangyang City as it is now, and it can also greatly reduce the losses of Zhu Wei's army.

After listening to Zhu Wei's suggestion, Wang Yuyan thought about it and felt that this tactic was indeed feasible.

This is equivalent to placing the main battlefield for attacking Xiangyang City on Fancheng's side. If Liu Biao really supports Fancheng with his troops, the difficulty of attacking the city for Zhu Wei's army can indeed be reduced a lot.

Of course, others may think that after capturing Fan City, they still have to face the Water Gate of Xiangyang City. Normally, attacking Water Gate is not as easy as attacking the Lu Gate. It is better to directly attack the Lu Gate of Xiangyang City.

However, among the Zhu Wei army, there is a secret weapon of black powder that can blow open the water gate. If soldiers on boats are used to rush the door, even if there are other obstacles in the water gate, the water urn city will be more powerful than the urn city in the land gate. Better to fight.

If you attack Fancheng first, you don't have to worry about Liu Biao from Xiangyang sending troops to support you. One thing you still have to be careful about is to prevent Xinye, Wancheng Wenpin, and Zhang Xiu from Nanyang County to the north of Fancheng from coming to help.

Otherwise, Zhu Wei's army would be trapped in a pincer attack, so Wang Yuyan couldn't help but ask Zhu Wei about the situation of Mulan and Teng Yuyan in Nanyang County.

After Zhu Wei heard this, he checked the situation of the ten thousand Qingqi commanded by Mulan and Teng Yuyan in Nanyang County through the Three Kingdoms game map. From the map, it looked like Mulan and Teng Yuyan commanded ten thousand Qingqi who had moved to the vicinity of Xinye.

Zhu Wei looked carefully and saw that they had actually set up camp near Xinye County. They had obtained thousands of young men from nowhere and were building siege equipment such as city ladders. It seemed that they were going to attack Xinye County. Posture.

As for the soldiers and horses of Wenpin in Xinye, it seems that they are staying in Xinye City, and they don't appear to go out of the city to fight against the cavalry commanded by Mu Lan and Teng Yuyan.

In addition, with the help of the war interface map of the Three Kingdoms game system, Zhu Wei discovered that Zhang Xiu had also sent reinforcements from Wancheng, and they were now stationed in a military camp outside Xinye City, which seemed to be at odds with Xinye City. It should be the appearance of cooperating with Wenpin in Xinye City to defend against Mulan and Teng Yuyan's attack on the city.

Then Zhu Wei carefully inspected the number of cavalry commanded by Mulan and Teng Yuyan, and found that the number of cavalry had increased from more than 1 to more than 9000, and it seemed that more than 1000 cavalry had been lost.

In this case, they should have fought several battles with Xinye Wenpin and Wancheng Zhangxiu.

Judging from the current situation in Xinye, Mulan and the others should have the upper hand, otherwise Wenpin and Zhang Xiu would never be in such a defensive position.

The soldiers commanded by Wenpin in Xinye should be mainly Jingzhou infantry. Facing the light cavalry commanded by Mulan and the others, they really have no advantage. Mulan and the others fought.

However, Zhu Wei estimated that there should be some cavalry on Zhangxiu's side in Wancheng.

After all, Zhang Xiu's uncle, Zhang Ji, was originally a member of Dong Zhuo's Xiliang army. After Zhang Xiu inherited Zhang Ji's trilogy, there should still be some Xiliang cavalry in the army.

It seems that the light cavalry under Mulan and the others may have already confronted Zhang Xiu's cavalry, and they don't know how the cavalry of the two sides are fighting. The specific battle situation can only wait for Mulan and Teng Yuyan in the future. Only when people report it can it be clear.

However, Zhu Wei can be sure that Mulan and Teng Yuyan should still have the upper hand, so they can block Wenpin and Zhang Xiu's army in Xinye City, and they can also put on a posture to take the initiative to attack the city.

After Zhu Wei told Wang Yuyan about their affairs, Wang Yuyan smiled sweetly, apparently feeling relieved about the possibility that Xinye Wenpin and Wancheng Zhangxiu would come to Xiangyang's aid...

(End of this chapter)