Chapter 57 Strategies
Niu Fu was in a very good mood. He didn't feel any problem with all the problems that happened before. The only thing he saw was Tanzhou and Changsha near Dongting Lake. At this time, all he thought about was Zhang Hongfan's main force.
"Jiang Cai, this time it depends on you. My request is still very simple. You can take Tanzhou for me within one day. After taking it, we can face Zhang Hongfan's main force. He can't sit still if he does it in Changsha." His tactics are so simple.
At this time, the people gathered around him were all a group of waste. If these people said that they were first-class talents in writing poetry and composition, but none of them were good at fighting. They were all confused about fighting and saw only immediate interests, so they were all full of hope for conquering Tanzhou.
Most of them think that Tanzhou is not a strong city compared to other state cities. They have successfully won those places one by one, let alone such a small city. So everyone has an indescribable excitement and excitement, as if they have seen the moment they are fighting against Zhang Hongfan's main force.
Jiang Cai has been fighting for many years and is still an old corpse, but his roles are the same as Niu Fu, so their ideas are surprisingly co-starring, which also leads to a natural sense of advantage in this battle. Fortunately, Jiang Da still maintains a clear mind.
During the previous cooperation with Xu Ning, Jiang Da admired the formation of troops with the young man. He often praised him when he mentioned it behind his back. This also made everyone else who belonged to the court. These people gradually began to exclude him deliberately, and in the end he did not even attend such an important military meeting.
After seeing his father come back, he started to arrange the siege, so he immediately guessed what they wanted next, so he immediately stopped Jiang Cai, "Father, do you want to attack Tanzhou now?"
"Of course, if we don't attack Tanzhou, when will we point our sword at Changsha? If we don't go to Changsha, when will we avenge the supervisor? This time I'm going to give him a full-line assault. During this period, the commander of most of the infantry has been handed over to his father, just to be able to support him with someone at this time. Don't you understand this?" Jiang Cai paused and continued, "I know you have a different view on Xu Ning's affairs, but these things are their own affairs and have nothing to do with us. We have no way to do anything else. We can only do our own things before talking about it."
"But this matter is indeed very strange. Zhang Hongfan does not fight like before. He seems to have changed someone else. If he is really poor, I wouldn't think so. But he actually has countless opportunities to fight us, but he just doesn't take action. He just waits for us to walk to Dongting Lake step by step. How many problems are there in the middle? I think this time there must be a huge trap waiting for us. As long as we take the wrong step, we will be doomed."
"What's the end of no return! You always like to say irrelevant words recently. How could there be any big traps here? However, Zhang Hongfan's deadline has arrived, and the people do not support him at all, and the soldiers are unwilling to listen to him. How could such a battle be won?"
"But we have no supplies anymore. Haven't you noticed that even if I conquer those cities, there wouldn't be much food left there? If it weren't for Zhang Hongfan's plan, what would be?"
Jiang Da naturally wanted to try his best to persuade his father, but Jiang Cai could not listen. After a while, the father and son quarreled together, and finally Jiang Cai turned against him and ordered, "Since you are so determined, I won't keep you here. You should take three thousand people to Baizhangguan right away. Anyway, you also like to listen to Xu Ning, so let's get moldy there with him."
Speaking of which, both father and son are both stubborn. After all, Jiang Da no longer cared about his father. He led his men out of the military camp and headed straight to Baizhang Pass.
Seeing his son leave, Jiang Cai did not say anything more, but turned to his generals, "I have nothing else to say. Tomorrow I will come to fight with a lion to fight the rabbit. If we don't do anything to win Tanzhou, all our arrangements will be in vain, so I ask you to take Tanzhou at all costs." He paused, his eyes swept around everyone's faces, and then continued to say, "I also know that our food and logistics have not been kept up so far. Everyone has been very tired these two days, but I believe you, great achievements are already in front of you. As long as you take Tanzhou, we can approach Changsha and fight to the death with Zhang Zhe. Tanzhou also has the food we want, and it will be delivered in time. At most, three days, we can have everything. So as long as we have only these three days, we should not be idle in these three days. The county will take Tanzhou."
Jiang Cai was full of confidence. In contrast, there was no movement in Tanzhou, as if the defenders here had already run away, so even before the entire line, Jiang Cai was still full of confidence.
"Attack!" The Song army started to move just after dawn. At least 20,000 of the 30,000 Song army were Zhang Shun's troops. Although most of them were from the former Song army surrendered, they were in high morale after Zhang Shun's training. How could they have any fear in the face of a small Tanzhou? They immediately started to attack forward as soon as they heard the order.
Behind him were the cover of Huihui cannons, the robbery cannons and the Eight-Nuo Crossbow. In just one moment, smoke and dust exploded everywhere outside the city of Tanzhou, and smoke rose from the sky. This was naturally the smoke bomb released to better cover the attackers. After these things appeared, the attack also kicked off. However, it is interesting that almost at the same time when the attack was kicked off under the city of Tanzhou, a fierce battle had begun outside the Baizhang Pass. However, in this era, there was no advanced communication means, so no one could know the battle between the two sides at the same time.
"Kill!" The troops of both sides shouted the same slogan and started a life-and-death battle. Everyone seemed to know that their position was the key to the entire plan. Only by not losing this position can the next plan be possible to continue to be implemented. Therefore, both sides erupted with the most fierce combat capabilities at the same time.
Chapter completed!