The Rise of the Song People of the Three Kingdoms

Chapter 473 Blocking the Yellow River
That's right, the plan that Lu Heng has always thought about is to block the Yellow River!
This seems like a dream, but it becomes very feasible under various conditions!
First of all, the blockade of the Yellow River that Lu Heng said is not the entire Yellow River. Our great mother river runs from Qinghai-Tibet (which did not belong to China during the Three Kingdoms period) to the Bohai Sea and crosses the entire China. It is a dream to block the entire Yellow River!

The blockade mentioned by Lu Heng is only the section of the Yellow River from Huai County, Hanoi (later Jiaozuo City, Henan) to Puyang!
To the west of Huai County is Cao Cao's territory at Hulaoguan. Unless Cao Cao, an old boy, lets Yuan Shao go there, it is impossible for Yuan Shao to return to Hebei from this time.

The section of the Yellow River Basin from Huai County to Puyang was actually the place where the tug-of-war in the early stage of the Guandu War, including Yanjin Ferry and Baima, was on this line, while Puyang was garrisoned by generals Zhang Jie and Li Yan in the hands of Lu Heng.

It is Lu Heng's current strategic idea to control this section of the Yellow River with the water army, completely cut off Yuan Shao's supply line and return route, and trap Yuan Shao to death in Yuzhou.

Lu Heng had this idea thanks to Cao Cao. Thanks to Cao Cao's relocation of the population of Yingchuan County, Chen Guo, Chen Liu and the west of Yuzhou, Yuan Shao basically took a vacant land.

Not having a population means that Yuan Shao's army has to be continuously transferred from Hebei for supplies, and it is impossible to be self-sufficient at all!
Therefore, as long as Lu Heng can block the supply line of the Yellow River, then Lu Heng will stand in an invincible position. With Yuan Shao's current food and grass, it is impossible to last for two years. Without food, no matter how elite the army is, it will be finished.

At the same time, Yuan Shao's route back to Hebei was blocked. The south boat and the north horse were not just a joke, not to mention that the Lu Heng navy has the reputation of "the best navy in the world", so that those landlubbers in the north will fight water battles with the elite navy in the south?This is a fool's dream!
There are several prerequisites for completing this strategy!
The first is that Lu Heng wants to take over the two places of Dongjun and Pingyuan. As mentioned above, the Yellow River runs through Dongjun and Pingyuan. After taking these two places, he can control these two sections of the Yellow River from land, and even call Some merchant ships and small warships can be stationed at the port, which greatly reduces the pressure on the navy.

Therefore, Lu Heng did not choose to rescue Yuzhou's defense line this year, but continued to take Qingzhou in the north, and even attacked Pingyuan to complete this strategic goal.

The second is the water army. Without the water army of Yuzhou Mountain, Lu Heng would not propose this strategy, but his own plan B, because it is impossible to do this only by relying on the Haijiao Battalion. So Lu Heng always wanted to form a third navy, but it was very difficult under various conditions.

Zhou Tai's Shenshui Camp must stay in the Yangtze River Basin to guard against Sun Ce's attack and defend Jiangdong!Without enough naval forces, it was impossible to block even the Yellow River from Huai County to Puyang.

After Gan Ning commanded the water army in Yuzhou Mountain, all this became feasible again!
The strategic layout and trend of Lu Heng's Plan B are actually exactly the same as they are now. The only difference is that after taking the plains, Lu Heng will attack Yuan Shao's hometown Jizhou from land, so that Yuan Shao's main force can be attracted to the decisive battle north of the Yellow River.

The two powers competed, and Lu Heng won the whole Hebei directly, and Cao Cao could only stare blankly. If Lu Heng was defeated, he could retreat to the defense line of the Yellow River in Qingzhou.

Of course, Plan B is too risky, and the moment Lu Heng saw Gan Ning take down the Yuzhou Shanshui Army, he was thrown out of Lu Heng's mind. There is a chance of trapping Yuan Shao to death, why should he fight head-to-head?

After completing Lu Heng's strategic goal of blocking the Yellow River, Yuan Shao has only four ways to go!
The first is to desperately break through Lu Heng's Yuzhou defense line to snatch the necessary population and food.

Second, let the Hebei defenders break through Dongwuyang and break through the Yellow River to obtain supplies.

The third is to break through the blockade of the Yellow River to the north desperately, and use soldiers who are not good at water warfare to play water warfare with Lu Heng's elite navy.

The fourth is to continue to fight Cao Cao to the west, use human lives to hit Hulaoguan to grab Cao Cao's territory, or go south to fight Jiancheng Wancheng to obtain food, grass and supplies.

Some people have to ask, since Yuan Shao still has tens of thousands of troops, wouldn't it be good to implement self-sufficiency in the local military settlements?

This is only theoretically possible. It has been repeatedly mentioned that there is no danger to defend the line from Yuzhou to Xuzhou. This corresponds to Lu Heng and also corresponds to Yuan Shao.

As long as Yuan Shao dared to set up an army, then Lu Heng would dare to mobilize three cavalry to attack the opponent's field back and forth. In this way, Yuan Shao would end up in a dead end sooner or later. Don't think that all the farmland in ancient times was in the city, this is a big mistake!

Second, even if Yuan Shao set up farms and blocked the main force with a load of elites, Lu Heng led the main force to continue northward to educate Yuan Shao's three sons, and Yuan Shao would have no choice but to slowly erode the power.

When Lu Heng revealed the plan in his mind, the eyes of Ding Wei, Zhuge Liang, Wen Huanzhang, Zhao Pu, Chen Gong and others became brighter and brighter!
It's not that Lu Heng's plan is not feasible, but it is very feasible!
"But my lord! Even if the river from Huai County to Puyang is more than a hundred miles away, it will be difficult to block it all!"

It was Chen Gong who raised the question. This is indeed a problem, because Lu Heng has no control over this section of the Yellow River. How can it be completely blocked for thousands of miles?
"Gongtai, it's not an absolute blockade of Dahe, as long as Yuan Shao's large-scale supply and retreat are cut off!
However, the river is thousands of miles away, so the navy can build wooden stakes on the river to balance the iron locks, hide iron cones in Hanoi, so that enemy ships cannot pass through, and finally let Jin Yiwei monitor Yuan Shaojun's movements from time to time! "

"My lord is a great talent, I admire you!"

That's right, for this plan, Lu Heng resorted to the iron lock Hengjiang tactics, no, it should be called the iron lock Henghe tactics now.

As early as Lu Heng took Yuzhou Mountain, he urgently asked the blacksmith to make a huge iron chain. Even Lu Heng himself had done most of the planning. Now, as long as he takes Dongjun and the plains north of the Yellow River, it can be realized. Lu Heng's strategic goal.

So the first thing Lu Heng asked was who was stationed in Dongwuyang!Taking this place is as important as the plains!
"Kong Ming, Zhifu (Zhifu, Zhifu), and Zeping (Zeping, Zhaopu), Dongwuyang is entrusted to you to win, and the ability to attract recruits is good, and good generals should not be underestimated. A certain Yue Sheng, Wang Mo, Yang Qin and others will hand it over to the three of you, and half of the existing catapult and eight-ox crossbow will be divided among you, and the rest will be called by Kou Chen, are you confident that you can take it?"

"Subordinates take orders!", "Subordinates will definitely live up to expectations!" "Subordinates will definitely take down Tobuyang!"

"Taking Dongwuyang is just the beginning. The Hebei garrison is likely to counterattack and defend the city."

"No, rest assured, my lord!"

"When Gan Ning and Jiang Qin's navy takes the Pingyuan Ferry, we will go north, and the rest will take the Pingyuan with Lu!"

"promise!"

Lu Heng watched everyone leave. If there is no accident, the situation will be cleared up this year!
(End of this chapter)