I'm the villain in the book

This is the shortest route from Yuanzhou, and it is also the fastest route to Shuzhou City.

Although Liang Zhen had led his troops to Guanghan ahead of schedule, Ning Yongnian did not change his battle strategy because of this.

On the one hand, according to the movement of the counter-insurgency army, anyone with a bit of military common sense can tell that Han Zhao is planning to launch an attack from Guanghan County, so it is far from causing suspicion of "whether the military situation is leaked".

On the other hand, if they choose to attack from other directions, the counter-insurgency army will need to detour to Yangzhou, which will delay another ten days at least.

Moreover, once the army changed its direction of attack, Liang Zhen could completely change its deployment position.

It is much easier and faster to dispatch 6 people than 30 people, so Ning Yongnian has no need to do anything extra.

Anyway, no matter where it is fought, it is 30 against [-]. Once the war starts, no one believes how long the Shu army can resist.

Hit the city of Shuzhou within ten days, and destroy the city within a month.

These are the two time limits that Ning Yongnian set for Han Zhao.

And Han Zhao also issued a military order for this, using his own head as a guarantee, vowing to enter Weiyang Palace within a month.

Both are confident about it...or at least they're acting that way.

It is needless to say why Han Zhao is so "confident".

But for Ning Yongnian, he didn't really think it was safe.

Because the information that has been sent back from Shuzhou recently confirmed that a Shu army of 1 people suddenly disappeared.

He did not follow Liang Zhen to defend Guanghan, nor was he deployed elsewhere.

Although there are not many 1 people, it may become an uncertain factor on the future battlefield.

More importantly, Da Li seems to be a little restless...

As the king of a country, even though Ning Yongnian has lost the "eyes and ears" of Xuan Jingsi, he still has a certain intelligence network.

So many things happened in Shuzhou and Dali and they couldn't escape his eyes.

Not only did he know that Dali might send troops to reinforce Shuzhou, but he also knew that the reinforcements were about 10 people, and they would arrive at the battlefield in about half a month.

As a result, the number of the Shu army has changed from 16 to [-]... Although it is still nearly half less than the counter-insurgency army, it is always a trouble.

Under normal circumstances, at this time, Daning should let the anti-insurgency army speed up the march, and make a quick decision at any cost, and strive to end the war before the Dali army arrives in Shuzhou.

Or mobilize more troops from surrounding states and counties in advance to prepare for a protracted war.

However, the strange thing is that Ning Yongnian has not made any redundant arrangements for the time being.

He just told Han Zhao the news that Da Li might join the battle, and then let the latter continue to follow the previous plan, without any need to adjust tactics.

Knowing that the enemy has strong reinforcements about to enter the field, but does not make corresponding preparations.

The reason for this is either that Ning Yongnian's current attention is mostly focused on the Fengyuan War, and he has no time to estimate too much in Shuzhou.

Or, the Emperor Daning had a deeper plan.

Just like the previous "Yuanzhou City Massacre", he was trying to get more.

Of course, Bai Youheng's ability to "slaughter the city" only once in 60 years, so Shuzhou will not repeat the mistakes of Yuanzhou City.

But what Ning Yongnian wants to do, no one knows except himself.

It can only be said that Wei Changtian and Ning Yongnian's first confrontation will not be as easy as the two sides planned.

This is true for both the former and the latter.

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September thirty.

Guanghan County.

"Hurry up! Move swiftly!"

"Transport all the rammed earth to the north of the city!"

"Lieutenant Zhang, why did your scout battalion come back so late today?!"

"Count the ordnance! Distribute it to the five battalions tomorrow morning!"

"Report! The 50 arrows transported from Shuzhou City have arrived outside the city!"

"..."

The chaotic horseshoes, the hurried footsteps, the dust raised, the green armored soldiers running in line...

Compared with the still calm and peaceful Shuzhou City, this small Guanghan County is full of tension before the war.

Liang Zhen led the Shu army to arrive here two days ago and immediately took over all authority from the county government, and the entire county has since entered a wartime state.

There are few common people on the streets, and all the people coming and going are groups of Shu soldiers and carriages loaded with a large amount of military supplies.

The city wall, which was not originally considered tall, was heightened and widened at a speed visible to the naked eye, and several urns rose from the ground, tightly protecting the four city gates in the south, east, north, and west.

The young and strong men in each household were recruited as laborers. Although they did not need to go to the front line to fight, they were assigned tasks to ensure the logistics supply of the war......

Although there are 30 enemies and [-], the military and civilians in Guanghan City are very active in preparing for the war, and there is no pessimism about breaking the pot.

Everyone is doing their own things in accordance with the orders handed down from level to level, just for their own side to have a better chance of winning after the war starts.

At the same time, the three people who bear the most direct responsibility for the outcome of the war in Shu are conducting the last tactical deduction before the war in the conference hall.

The deployment map of Guanghan County, the combat map of the surrounding area.

The establishment of 30 anti-insurgency troops, and detailed information on the generals of each army.

Ning Yongnian nodded and agreed to the imperial court's battle plan...

Various map ciphertexts are stacked next to the huge sand table, and in the sand table are small flags of different sizes and colors. It is roughly estimated that there are nearly a hundred of them.

There are three types of red flags, representing the front, middle and rear of the imperial army.

The green flag represents the [-] Shu army.

The black flag represents the ten thousand dog army.

The yellow flag represents the [-] monsters that are hidden in the [-] mountains, and Qing Xian promises that they can be mobilized at any time.

The purple flag represents a thousand "tactical squads" composed of Tianluo and Freemason masters.

The green flag represents the [-] "green forest heroes" who are still gathering at the border of Dali.

Leaving aside the last force that cannot be put into the battlefield for the time being, the real combat power that Shu currently possesses is about 20 "people", and the gap in combat power is far less exaggerated than the "one to five" that the outside world thinks .

If you add the huge advantage that the enemy's general is one of his own... no wonder Wei Changtian has always been very confident in winning this war.

"Shua, Shua, Shua..."

Small flags of various colors were raised and lowered, Liang Zhen and Chu Xianping frowned, and they went back and forth to carry out military exercises.

And Wei Changtian watched intently from the side.

Then, at a certain moment, he suddenly raised his hand with a wave.

"and many more!"

Chapter 439 War Plan

Wei Changtian arrived in Guanghan County with Chu Xianping just this morning.

They also came with Xu Suisui and Shen Ran.

Now Ning Yongnian has opened grain warehouses across the country in an attempt to lower the price of grain by storing a large amount of grain in the imperial court.

Wei Changtian definitely couldn't let him succeed easily, so Yingfengsheng ate the food again openly and secretly.

As a result, Xu Qingwan and Lu Jingyao naturally went around busy and stayed in Shuzhou City.

Of course, even if they were not busy, Wei Changtian would definitely not bring them to such a dangerous place.

In fact, he didn't want to take Xu Suisui with him.

But the former used "revolutionary friendship" as a threat, saying that "comrades" should advance and retreat together. In the end, Wei Changtian reluctantly agreed to her.

As for Shen Ran...

"Since the teacher is going to Guanghan, the students should follow."

These are his original words.

Wei Changtian didn't know why Shen Ran had convinced Xu Suisui in just a few days, but he didn't bother to care about it. As soon as he arrived in Guanghan, he went into the conference hall with Chu Xianping and Liang Zhen to start a military exercise. It has lasted for a full four hours.

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The so-called military exercise, the full name is called "war chess deduction", which is a simulation of the war process that needs to be combined with the military strength of both combatants and various objective conditions on the sand table.

Due to the development of science and technology in the previous life, most of the military exercises were basically completed by computers.

Although there are no computers now, there are also no strategic weapons such as aircraft, aircraft carriers, and cruise missiles that require complex calculations.

Therefore, it is still a necessary work before the war to continuously improve one's own combat strategy according to the results of military exercises.

What's more, Wei Changtian now holds the enemy's complete battle plan, and the results deduced based on this are very valuable for reference.

Of course, with his "military literacy", he is definitely not worthy of performing military exercises in person.

Fortunately, there are Liang Zhen and Chu Xianping.

The two had just conducted the first round of military exercises. Liang Zhen was in charge of the 30 counter-insurgency army, and Chu Xianping was in charge of the Shu army. As a result, the Shu army won a big victory.

Now the positions of the two sides are switched, Chu Xianping is playing the enemy game, and Liang Zhen is playing the Shu game.

Half of the second round of military exercises has been carried out, but the situation is not as clear as the first round, and even the balance of victory and defeat has been tilted towards the "Daning side" vaguely.

The reason is that Chu Xianping did not deploy troops according to the "established strategy" leaked by Han Zhao.

"..."

"Brother Chu, do you think Ning Yongnian might take over halfway?"

Frowning and calling to stop the military exercise, Wei Changtian decided to clarify this matter first.

Their previous battle plan was formulated entirely according to the battle plan of the imperial army.

And this means that as long as Han Zhao "acts" strictly according to the plan, he will definitely win.

But now Chu Xianping did not carry out the military exercise as planned, which meant that he felt that the development of the war situation might deviate from the track.

From Wei Changtian's point of view, if this really happens, then there is only one possibility——

That is, Ning Yongnian went off in person and took over the command of the army from Han Zhao.

That's why he asked.

But Chu Xianping obviously thought more about it.

"Young master, Ning Yongnian took over halfway is just one of them."

Shaking his head, Chu Xianping slowly put down a small red flag in his hand: "Although General Han should not betray your son, but the situation on the battlefield changes rapidly, and there are several lieutenants in the imperial army, sometimes General Han may Involuntary."

"So we can't rely too much on General Han, we need to be prepared in advance."

"Adaptation..."

Staring at the green flag already surrounded by red flags on the sand table, Wei Changtian was speechless for a long time.

According to the previous plan, this war could have been divided into nine major steps.

1. The imperial army that wants a quick battle will storm Guanghan County as soon as it arrives in Shuzhou, and the Shu army will "lose" five days later, and break through the weak link intentionally set aside by Han Zhao, and head to Shu Retrace in the direction of Zhoucheng.

2. The imperial army that captured Guanghan City will definitely not leave too many people to garrison. Most of the army will "pursue the victory" and follow the Shu army straight to the direction of Shuzhou City.

3. The Tiangou Army hidden in the Shiwanda Mountains appeared on the stage, recapturing the weakly defended Guanghan City in one fell swoop, but cutting off the logistics route of the imperial army.

4. The sudden appearance of a "mixed army of humans and demons" is bound to cause shock to the imperial army. Although they are in a situation where they are being attacked from front to back, they still have an absolute advantage in numbers, so Han Zhao will make a very "reasonable" decision to move forward Attack, directly attack Shuzhou City.

5. Then they will enter the only natural danger in Shu Prefecture, Niutou Mountain, where they will fall into the huge "trap" that Wei Changtian has already set up, and will be fiercely blocked by the Shu army who suddenly turned back.

6. After this battle, it is conservatively estimated that the imperial army will lose at least one-third of its personnel, and the supplies accompanying the army will basically run out.Although the number is still superior, morale will definitely be low, and they will be caught in a dilemma——

Either continue to move forward, catch up with the Shu army, which also suffered heavy losses, before the supplies are exhausted, and then capture Shuzhou City, which has few defenders.

Either retreat, take back Guanghan, which has a weaker defense, re-open the logistics supply route, and make long-term plans.

7. After some weighing, Han Zhao will choose the latter, but on the way back, a hundred thousand monsters will come out from the west in the form of a wave of beasts, and give them a fatal blow.