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- Chapter 2185 Empty City Strategy
Li Qiang is a hands-on person, so Li Qiang secretly scouted along the river with more than 20 personal guards.
Soon Li Qiang arrived opposite Wankou City and looked across the river. At this time, the flags on Wankou City had been completely replaced by the Sui army's flags. However, it was dawn now, so we couldn't see how many Sui troops there were, but the figures on the top of the city were vague, so we knew there must be quite a few Sui troops.
Li Qiang was silent for a moment, but he was a little worried.
He originally thought that the Sui army coming from far away for a surprise attack should be light troops, not many in number. Therefore, he also launched a surprise attack on the other side, and treated the other side in his own way, and he would surely take the opportunity to recapture Wankou City.
But with such a large number of Sui troops, if he tries to make a sneak attack again, his chances of success are slim.
At this time, several scouts who were conducting scattered reconnaissance also rushed back to report that there was an iron lock on the Wankou Pier, blocking the river. Downstream of the dock, there were a large number of Sui army ships, including forty or fifty large ships, and even more small ships.
These ships are connected front to back, almost blocking the entire Anhui River.
Li Qiang was even more surprised after hearing this.
At this moment, another scout came to report that the Sui army had established a stronghold at Taling, north of Wankou. There are three to four hundred connected tents in the stronghold, as well as numerous horses and hay piles. It seems that the army has at least three to four thousand men and horses.
Taling is only three miles away from Wankou, and it is the northern barrier of Wankou.
To the north of Wanshui is a mountainous area, and Taling is even more commanding. Once Wankou City is attacked, Taling reinforcements will be able to support Wankou as quickly as possible.
With thousands of troops behind him, Li Qiang could not attack Wankou City with all his strength.
Not long after, the southern scouts also came back and reported that the Sui army had set up a new stronghold on Jiangzhou south of the Wan River to serve as the southern guard of Wankou City. There were also many soldiers in the stronghold.
Li Qiang secretly calculated that the total strength of Wankou City, Taling, Pier, and the south of Wanshui River, plus the Sui army's navy, totaled at least 20,000 troops.
Did the Sui army from Jiangdu come in full force?
He used tens of thousands of troops to attack over long distances. As for the defenders at Wankou, they were sitting back and waiting for work. If they wanted to win, it would be too difficult.
Li Qiang hesitated for a moment, then returned to the camp, and then ordered the entire army to retreat, march westward along the Wan River, and stationed in Shipai Town south of Huaining City (today's Huaining City, Anhui Province). He also ordered his cousin Li Meng to lead an army of three thousand After breaking.
It was also very difficult for Li Qiang to make such a decision.
This time z. com Zhang Si. But Li Qiang knew very well that Wankou was a big mud pit, and as long as he fell into this place, he would definitely not be able to get out.
And the Sui army¡¯s reinforcements would even come in a steady stream to surround and eat him.
As for breaking through Wankou with one blow, Li Qiang never thought about it. A person like him who seeks stability would never bet on a trivial matter that has a one-in-a-ten thousand chance.
Besides, Li Qiang didn¡¯t think that someone who could arrange Wankou so securely would be careless.
As for leaving Li Meng behind, Li Qiang was worried that the Sui army would move up the river and cut off the Wanshui River, and the Chu army still in Huaining would be doomed.
Li Qiang¡¯s idea was very good, but he didn¡¯t care about Li Meng¡¯s opinion.
Li Meng was frightened when he saw the situation in Wankou. At this time, he felt that the Chu army would definitely be defeated, and his brother was pedantic. If he wanted to survive, he had to surrender to the Sui army.
So after Li Qiang left, Li Meng immediately sent people to Wankou to surrender to the Sui army.
And Li Qiang thought that his cousin would fight to the death.
Li Qiang led his army all the way west and soon arrived at Shipai Town.
There is no way to go from Wankou, we can only go south. Therefore, Li Qiang chose to occupy Shipai Town to ensure the security of the main army on the eastern front.
Shipai Town is at the corner of Wanshui River. Wanshui River flows northwest from here through Huaining City. The north side of Shipai Town is surrounded by mountains to the north, and the south side is also filled with hills and lakes, making the roads difficult to navigate. If the main waterway wants to go upstream along the Wanshui River, it must pass through Shipai Town.
Thousands of Chu troops came and went, huffing and puffing towards the west, as if they had never been to Wankou.
Only the Sui army scouts watched them leave.
After learning that the Chu army had left, Su Lie, who had been waiting for news in Wankou City, breathed a sigh of relief. He only has 5,000 troops and no navy. Of course, if these troops are used to defend the city, there will be no problem. However, if he is to defend the docks and the city separately to build a blocking defense line, he does not have enough troops, which will inevitably lead to a situation where defenses are everywhere and loopholes are everywhere. .
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If the Chu army dared to survive with their arms broken, they would encircle the city in one part and compete with the Sui army, while the main force would enter the Yangtze River by boat, and Su Lie's troops, a group of landlubbers, would not be able to stop them.
As for the reinforcements, who knows when they will arrive. Anyway, Huang Weiyang does not have any reinforcements.
Therefore, from the beginning, Su Lie never thought about having a decisive battle with the Chu army in Wankou, which was eager to break out. The risk was too great.
Of course, Su Lie cannot decide whether to fight or not.
If you don¡¯t want to fight, you have to force the Chu army not to fight. Su Lie then planned an "empty city strategy" to try his best to bluff in front of the Chu army and scare them away.
So Su Lie only deployed more than a thousand people in Wankou City and prepared extra flags to think of suspicious troops. Moreover, he also had thousands of straw men erected and placed them all on the city wall. They were so densely packed that at a glance, people thought the city was filled with troops.
Su Lie also ordered to set up strongholds on Xiaozhou in the south and Taling in the north, and stationed hundreds of people to garrison each. There are as many tents and pots and stoves as possible in the village to make it look like there are thousands of people there.
Su Lie also detached a group to ambush in the reed swamps in the southwest. If the Chu army really attacked the city, this group of people would suddenly attack and create the illusion of tens of millions of ambushes to confuse the Chu army.
It is easy to arrange on land, but it is difficult to fool the navy.
??Especially the iron rope blocking the river. Although the Anhui River is not wide, it is not an easy task to really set up an iron rope, which weighs several thousand kilograms.
¡°Besides, where can I get such a long iron rope at this time?
Su Lie asked people to get dozens of short iron ropes, connect them with thick iron wires, and place them in the river. These crudely connected iron cables cannot bear their own weight and break easily.
So Su Lie asked people to place dozens of buoys in the water, with wooden stakes sticking out of the water, and iron ropes were tied to the wooden stakes, and with the help of the buoyancy of the buoys, they were placed across the river.
Looking from a distance, if you can't see the wooden pile, you really think it is an iron cable crossing the river.
But the iron rope cannot withstand the impact of a large ship and will sink.
As for the navy, in the end Su Lie borrowed dozens of grain ships from the Chen family to pretend to be the navy. These ships are very large, but they are all useless, unarmed and without soldiers.
After arranging these, Su Lie was betting that the Chu army would not dare to attack rashly. He even gathered an assault force, intending to attack first and stun the opponent.
But fortunately, the Chu army did not move in the end.
Such a poor defensive line at Anhui became an insurmountable chasm for the Chu army without even a single battle.
Zhida z.com Zhixiao. Note: Huaining and Qianshan were originally one county, called Huaining, but the administrative seat was in the current Qianshan urban area. Later, the Huaining administrative seat moved south several times until after the founding of the People's Republic of China, it was finally established in Shipai. During the Yingzong period of the Ming Dynasty, Huaining was divided into Qianshan County. Therefore, the city of Huaining in the article is in the current Qianshan urban area, and the current Huaining was called Shipai at that time
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