Shangcai and Wufang are only more than a hundred miles away from Xianghe Pass.

Xianghe Pass is an important passage between the north and the south. If Xianghe Pass is captured, Fangcheng will be unable to defend, and the Chu army gathered in Fangcheng will be in a dangerous situation.

More importantly, Fangcheng is only more than a hundred miles away from the Korean capital Yangdi.

Moreover, Xianghe Pass is an important support point for the Great Wall of Chu. Once the sneak attack on Xianghe is successful, the capital of South Korea, Yangdi, will be exposed to the frontline of the Mo family's offensive.

After the Battle of Yinyang, due to the confusion of the Mo family, the Chu State's troops, the defensive war in Xinzheng and the agitation of public opinion, South Korea did not move the capital to Xinzheng, but continued to leave the capital in Yangdi.

The people of Xinzheng were quite disappointed with Wei Han's attitude. Although the Mo family withdrew openly, after the Xinzheng defense battle, the people of Xinzheng believed that the Duke of Zheng and Wei Han betrayed the people of Zheng, so they were extremely dissatisfied with the rule of South Korea, which made the conditions for South Korea's capital very immature.

This makes Xianghe Pass equated with South Korea's southern gate. When the Chu royal family was captured and unable to support it, South Korea must face the risk that the capital was within a hundred miles of the Mo family's military.

Xianghe connects Fangcheng and is a fortress group, which is Xianghe Pass, one of the nine barriers in the world, but this fortress group is guarding the north.

The defense is organized around this fortress group, and the Six Fingers cannot be captured when they are restrained by Qin, so they need to do this.

Facing a group of officers, Shi explained his strategic intentions clearly, and said, "Split a brigade and feinted Shang Cai. Shang Cai has not many soldiers, but the system is complete and can still be defended for a period of time."

"For Wu Fang, it is easier to attack, and at most there will be more than a thousand soldiers. Once captured, our path to attack Xianghe will be opened."

"Shangcai's feint attack was to disturb the Chu people on the one hand, and on the other hand, it was to make the Chu Grand Marshal have no way to escape."

"I am attacking him in the south of Yangcheng. If he retreats without fighting, I want to make sure that he cannot run up to Cai, but flee north."

The officers understood the meaning of Shi, and it was obvious that they were preparing to make some adjustments in Wufang, and then send surprise troops to Xianghe.

The Wu house is not big, but it is enough to collect and buy enough grain. In addition, the Mo family itself is active there frequently, and Mo people with merchants are active there, so short-term grain supply is not a problem.

If the 40,000 soldiers in the hands of the Grand Sima of Chu could be wiped out, it would be a matter of time before the nearby cities and towns changed hands. There was no field force, and the field force was mainly peasant soldiers. As long as Xianghe Pass captured it and slowly planned it, these cities would fall soon.

After this defeat, the Chu State's fence king could no longer dare to be south of the Hidden Water, but would all curl up near the Han-Chu border to resist stubbornly.

The city without reinforcements cannot be defended. The city south of Zhaoling fell at Xianghe Pass and the army of the Grand Sima of Chu was annihilated as a matter that had already belonged to the Mo family and was ordered by an edict.

While sneaking into Wu Fang, the elite soldiers who sneaked into Xianghe Pass would not stop, but would go directly west.

If the sneak attack fails, the remaining infantry will need to follow up after capturing Wu Fang to launch a strong attack.

After the assignment of the mission, everyone did not stop. So they led one division's infantry and nearly two divisions of cavalry toward the south; the remaining people ran west.

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One and a half days later, Shangcai.

After a forced marching of eighty miles a day and a half, soldiers from a brigade entered a village near Shangcai in the afternoon.

At this time, Shangcai was still in a peaceful scene. He didn't know that Shi was already attacking the Grand Sima of Chu, nor did he know that the 1,500 vanguards of the Jie Xuan Army who had attacked had arrived near Shangcai.

After occupying the village community, the soldiers of this brigade strictly blocked the news and rested near the village community. It was only more than ten miles away from Shangcai.

After the soldiers stationed here, they were harmonious in their business and did not disturb the people. They just did not allow people to leave the village. The villagers in the village rarely moved, and at most they just entered the city to buy some goods.

In the early years, when the Mo family was openly active here, people from the village community were not unfamiliar with the Mo family. When they entered the city to buy goods, they often encountered some goods from Si. This familiarity from goods to people made them not afraid.

There have been rumors that Jie Xuan Army was lingering in order to Jie Min, and did not beat people, kill people, or scold people. After entering the village, no one paniced.

Even in the evening, some villagers began to sell their own firewood or try to exchange grain for banknotes in the hands of soldiers.

The banknotes on Si are actually usable here because the villagers know that these banknotes can be purchased in Shangcai, whether they are salt, iron, cotton, wood, etc.

In this sneak attack, the army not only carried necessary food, but also brought some hard currency.

For example, gold, salt, etc. I thought I needed to use gold to buy things in such places, but I didn’t expect that I could actually spend paper money in such places, and the deep penetration of industrial and commercial in the establishment of Si Shang, as well as the reality that copper prices have risen several days in a day under arms races in various countries in recent years, resulting in the fact that copper coins can be circulated without copper coins.

On his arm, the pickets patrolled the village community to prevent forced buying and selling. The people from Xuanyi’s ministry were reasoning to the villagers. The scouts hid outside the village community and captured the almost non-existent people close to the village community and brought them back.

Under a big tree in the village, the brigade commander and the officers in the brigade were discussing the feint attack on Shangcai.

The brigade coach said: "The giant ordered our brigade to attack Shangcai. In my opinion, this is an opportunity to make contributions."

"It is extremely difficult to make contributions now. Once a war begins, it is often a battle of tens of thousands of people. You must obey the orders and not move lightly..."

After he said this, the officers nodded.

This time it was a feint attack on Shang Cai. It would be better to be able to conquer. If you can't conquer, you can also complete the feint attack mission.

As soon as the war began, the happiest thing was actually these brigade-level officers, because they were the most embarrassing group of officers.

The officers at the level of the division commander have already attended high-level command schools, and there are only a few regular divisions in Si Shang, and they can enter the senior military leadership in time.

The company commanders below the brigade are generally young people who graduated from military academy. If they move forward, they will have a chance as long as they work hard.

Only officers at the level of brigade commander have reached this position, and it is extremely difficult to go up.

You need to make meritorious contributions to have the opportunity to enter a high-level officer school to train and become a division commander-level officer. There have been many old brigade commanders for more than ten years. Although the Mohist school is virtuous, if the capital is virtuous, then you have to be senior.

Because officers at the brigade level are the most difficult to achieve meritorious results.

There are some rumors circulating among the officers at the level of the Si Shang Army that the brigade of the best luck goes to the South China Sea, the one with a slightly less luck goes to Gaoliu, and the one with the worst luck is in Si Shang, probably that's the case.

The South China Sea mainly suppressed the resistance of the old local tribes. There was a situation where 800 people destroyed a country, and it was easy to make meritorious contributions.

Gao Liu also fought against Lin Hu Loufan from the north from time to time. Those battles were small-scale. The brigade commander could personally command and exert his subjective initiative. Some military newspapers often saw stories of a brigade commander who led 500 cavalrymen to raid a plundering tribe and subdued ten thousand people.

On Si Shang, I haven’t fought many wars in recent years, so it’s really difficult to make contributions.

In the Battle of Yinyang seven or eight years ago, the cavalry sent were not mentioned; when the six fingers attacked Linqiu, there was basically no battle, but it was so boring that it was digging holes, firing artillery, and entering the city.

In the previous few battles, we either followed the orders and advanced and retreated together in the battles. Even subjective initiative is only qualified at the level of the division commander. At this time, the war depends on formation, and it is really difficult to have the opportunity to express ourselves.

If the company commanders work hard on the battlefield, or if they are very hard-working and strict in their training, they can enter the military academy to study, and then they will be a deputy brigade commander, staff officer, etc. Once they are recruited and mobilized on a large scale, they can be promoted to brigade commander.

However, the brigade coaches have to survive a long time, compete with the older generation of brigade coaches and the new generation of young people, and there are only a few regular teachers. When they were first started twenty years ago, there were many people with outstanding military achievements, and it is really difficult to squeeze into the threshold of the division commander.

Just like many officers at the first-class brigade commander often lamented that they had been born twenty years late, during the Battle of Qi and Yue, the six fingers of the brigade representative could use their subjective initiative to marching and unfold across the columns. That was because the scale of the war was very small at that time, and there were only a few people in the Si Shang Yishi.

Up to now, brigade-level officers can only obey orders in battles: if the division commander asks you to stay in place as a reserve team, they must stay; if the division commander asks you to travel through the formation, you must cross with lead and feather arrows... Once you act rashly, it will often bring about a chain reaction, which is not allowed.

To put it appropriately, the beginning of the charity master twenty years ago was based on subjective initiative, because the charity master was very fragile at that time and had to perform beyond his level.

Twenty years later, no prince was able to defeat the Jiexuan Army in one-on-one situation. At this time, what was needed was to obey orders and not make mistakes was to win. What was not to fight for the wisdom of inspiration, but to fight for logistics, supplies, people's hearts, food, and industrial and commercial foundations...

At this time, the words of the brigade commander were exactly the voice of the officers in the brigade. They all felt that this time the giant made their brigade feint attack Shangcai was a great achievement.

Because there are few such brigade-level actions alone, the scale of war is growing, and the situation of a field battle to win a country's victory has become the norm.

As infantrymen nicknamed "lowest men in the army", they are worse than climbing the camp first than climbing the camp, and they are worse than cavalry on the raids, superiority and comfort than artillery, and they are less important than combat engineers... often their task is to listen to the commands and drum beats of the commanders, and marching on the battlefield with the most mechanical steps, firing, loading, and charging.

Several brigades with honorary titles are either in special circumstances or obtained in the South China Sea or in the clouds. It is really difficult.

Nowadays, there are very few operations at the level of the infantry brigade, at most, those special fortress city garrison brigades, but those people are not field corps.

Seeing that everyone did not refute, the brigade coach said, "Now, Shangcai doesn't know that the giant's personal commander's army is heading south, and we don't know that we are already hiding near Shangcai. There are our comrades in Shangcai, and the main forces in the city are all in the Grand Sima of Chu. We have a great chance of seizing Shangcai."

"Tonight, some war-going soldiers were sent to the city. We should rest first, and we would march quietly when the night came. Those soldiers climbed up the city wall in the second half of the night and broke up the people guarding the city gate. When the day dawns, we would break into the city."

"If you succeed, it will be a great achievement."

"If it doesn't work, the enemy doesn't know how many of us are. They will only choose to hold on to the ground and wait for confirmation of the situation, and will not leave the city without knowing what is happening outside the city, unless the guard is a fool. We can still complete the task of feinting."
Chapter completed!