Chapter 100: Strategic planning

For these officers of the Pojun camp who are used to fighting with large armies and only follow the army every time, they don’t have to do the planning and analysis before the war, and it’s not their turn to do it. They just need to train their own troops and horses, and once the war comes, they will be able to fight wherever they point.

In the blink of an eye, only the group of officers left in Liaodong City, who were the highest of only a lieutenant half a year ago. Not only did they have to reconnaissance and analyze the information, but they also had to think about their own strategies. In the short while, everyone was a little unprepared.

Chen Kefu also knew that they would face a great crisis at the moment, but the Sui army in the entire Liaodong regarded him as the most respected. If he was panicked and lacked confidence, then the upward and downward effect would probably not be necessary to fight at that time, and the morale of the Sui army in the entire Liaodong would drop to freezing point. Taking advantage of the great victory in capturing Liaodong City, Chen Kefu was also determined to maintain this joy and sharpness.

During the conversation, Chen Kefu tried his best to be very relaxed and confident. It was the way Zhizhu was holding it, which made most officers feel a lot more relaxed, especially for the generals in the new army. Seeing the commander so calm, they all never thought about their current situation.

Chen Kefu smiled mysteriously, "Everyone, have you forgotten the gift we received from General Li Benlei during the day?"

All the generals in the tent looked at Chen Kefu with some confusion. Didn’t General Li Benlei from Xincheng send a few prisoners here during the day? He didn’t see any gifts to send.

Hu Hai hurriedly asked, "General, I don't remember General Baitian, you told us about gifts. Did you forget it during the day? Did General Li find something good in the new city?"

"The gift I am talking about is the captives. Although some officials from the Sui army rebelled against Liaodong, I don't know why. The Liao people actually didn't know that Xincheng had fallen into the hands of my Great Sui Dynasty. They even sent messengers to give orders to Gao Qi, who was in the Xincheng. Everyone, don't you think this is a huge gift?"

Although Chen Kefu has not figured out why the Goguryeo people didn't know that the new city had been lost. But he had already felt an opportunity. After thinking for half a night, he was driven by the words of the butcher captain. Chen Kefu suddenly had a general plan in his mind.

For Chen Kefu and the Sui army who stayed in Liaodong, the defenders in the Liaodong and Xincheng cities had already disappeared, and even the 80,000 troops heading north from Yizhi were gone. It can be said that when Yang Guang's army returned to the dynasty, the enemy they directly faced was the power they had ignored in the past.

When the Sui army besieged Liaodong City by hundreds of thousands of troops, the Goguryeo people who dared not try their edge came directly to clear the fields and could not defend them. The Sui army did not attack the hundreds of mountain cities one by one, but directly identified the target and attacked one by one.

When the new city and five cities including Liaodong were lost one after another, and when the defenders were gone, those cities were not the largest mountain cities in Liaodong, and those mountain cities with few military forces were not considered to be damaged at all.

Now that the Sui army has retreated, Chen Kefu and the Goguryeo people's offensive and defensive stances changed suddenly. For Chen Kefu, he dared not fight hard or wild wars with the Liao people now. However, the Liao people were willing to fight against the Sui army. As long as Gao Jianwu's handwriting was passed to Zhucheng, in a short time, the large thousands of soldiers and horses scattered in various mountain cities would gather again. Although it seemed that there were not many soldiers and horses in each place, if the soldiers and horses in the mountain cities near Liaodong City were gathered to the north of Yalu River, it would be very impressive.

According to his general budget, as long as the Liao people are given half a month, they can gather more than 50,000 troops in Liaodong. Although these troops are no longer the elite troops of the Goguryeo people, there will be only a few cavalry troops, and most of them will be private soldiers of the nobles. However, the 50,000 figure still makes Chen Kefu feel a little uneasy. With the current combat power of the military camp, the chance of winning against the Liao people from one to two, the chance of winning can reach more than 70%, but if one to three, then there will be only 40,500% of winning early, and if one to four, there will be only 1 to 20% of winning at most. For 50,000 people, it is basically estimated that the entire army will be destroyed.

Even if he has a city in Liaodong, he will be useless without a skilled warrior. He can fight without seeing him.

If he could not disintegrate the military strength of the Goguryeo people in Liaodong in a short period of time, then he would definitely suffer a loss if he persisted. From now until May next year, there will be nearly ten months. With such a long time, the Liao people could have re-summoned soldiers and trained a considerable army.

But now, Chen Kefu saw the flaws of the Liao people's big net.

"General, what do you mean? Are you trying to attack those prisoners?"

"Yes, today's night attack, we did a very successful job, suddenly and quickly. Besides Gao Jianwu, who ran away alone, we completely wiped out the defenders of Liaodong City. And before the war, I had already sent hundreds of cavalry to spread out of Liaodong City for dozens of miles to patrol. So it would probably take a long time to do something tonight, so the Goguryeo people from various cities in Liaodong would know the real information about the matter here."

Hu Hai said excitedly, "General, do you want to come to the trick you used when you bought the new city last time? Use Gao Jianwu's military order seal to defraud the city?"

"General Hu is not completely wrong, but there are too many mountain cities nearby. Even if it is effective, it is too troublesome. So the best way is to decide on a plan and solve it at one time!"

All the old and rough officers were all interested. No one had the heart to drink tea anymore. They all came forward and looked at Chen Kefu, wanting to know what the general was selling. They thought to themselves that if he hadn't been the general, he would have pulled his collar and raised him up and asked.

"Everyone, we now have Gao Jianwu's military order, his token of contact with the cities, and we even have many Goguryeo soldiers who surrendered to us. What do you think should we do to achieve the greatest victory?"

Although the generals in the hall were all big and rough, especially those new army generals, who were even more rough men at the beginning. However, even the veterans on the battlefield in Pojun Camp, even if they asked them to give advice, they would have their lives, each battlefield had a lot of experience. At this time, under Chen Kefu's deliberate guidance, they could use their brains one by one, and they could almost guess some more or less.

Li Jie smiled slightly, "Does the general want to lure the tiger out of the mountain, lead the snake out, and then lead into an ambush circle to surround and annihilate it?"

Nodding, Chen Kefu said, "General Li Jie is right, I do have this idea. Now we have Gao Jianwu's military order to fly astronomy. Now we just need to send several teams to escort a group of Goguryeo surrendered soldiers, take Gao Jianwu's military talisman token, and then find a person who is good at copying, imitating Gao Jianwu's handwriting and revise the general's order."

"General, what did you change Gao Jianwu's military order to?"

"It's very simple. As General Li Jie said, we said in the letter that our Sui Dynasty army withdrew its troops, let them gather all the troops in their respective cities, and then let them take the troops to our designated place. For example, a valley we had already ambushed? At that time, I believe that when we fight an ambush, we are unprepared, and we will fight a surprise ambush. You can't say that we are not good enough, right?"

"For this step, we can even make our appetite bigger. We can lure them out of the city and ambush them. In addition, we can also make a vote in the mountain city in the south. Now the Liao people don't know the intelligence that the Liao people have broken into Liaodong City. We can take this opportunity to say that the Sui army has withdrawn. Our Liao city gathered the troops from the mountains in the north to pursue the Sui army. We specially dispatched troops from various mountain cities in the south of Liaodong City to enter Liaodong City to strengthen defense, just in case. At that time, as long as the Liao people are deceived into the city, wouldn't it be a closing door to beat the dog? This is the second strategy!"

"General, does it have a third strategy?"

"Of course, as long as the previous plan is successful, we can continue to implement the third plan. We have discussed before that even if Gao Jianwu is awesome, he wants to bring his troops back to counterattack. Then if he wants to mobilize troops from Pyongyang, Seoul, domestic, Wugu and other cities, it will probably take at least a long time to prepare. And if he seeks stability, recruits a certain number of new recruits and then goes north to attack, it will take at least several months. With so much time, we can do our jobs. As long as our previous plan is successful, we can sweep away the troops in the nearby mountain city. At that time, we can immediately take advantage of the situation to lead our troops and attack with the strategy of deceiving the city to take over those mountain cities without troops. Even if the deceiving the city fails, will those mountain cities without defenders still let us fight down at that time?"
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