The unexpected loss of Guiyang made Liu Wenxiu dilemma.

According to the general reason, Chu Jun has just conquered Guiyang, it is the time of high morale, and its head-to-head confrontation is not the best policy, since the Western army has lost the opportunity to wiping the enemy under the city, it should withdraw for a while, stabilize the defense, and wait until more reinforcements from Huguang and other places, and then launch an attack on Guiyang.

But Liu Wenxiu could not wait.

Once Hunan Sun is expected to have not much mobile troops there, from Hubei Li Dingguo to the transfer of troops is too far, the troops travel back to Guiyang, will become a tired soldier, the combat effectiveness seriously decreased, such as Liu Wenxiu and Feng Shuangli with tens of thousands of troops to attack Sizhou, Zhenyuan and Kaili County spent so much effort, and this has nothing to do.

Second, there is too much time spent in the middle, if you allow Chu Jun to rest in Guiyang, wait for them to maintain their strength, probably will flow where, Liu Wenxiu's main force is east of Guiyang, the direction of Yunnan west of Guiyang is weak, Chu Jun captured Guiyang, after the occupation of Guiyang, the strategy became very active, at any time can go to the western province of Pu'an Province, into Yunnan, Liu Wenxiu even if you are the king.

After weighing again, Liu Wenxiu decided to immediately enter Guiyang and launch an attack on the Chu army.

"Tan Thieves and Zhou Thieves have tens of thousands of people, but there are very few, I attacked Guiyang with a force of 150,000, it is the momentum of Taishan's egg pressure, this battle is to win, do not let the thief walk away from one!"

Huguang War lasted for more than half a year, the Western army continued to put troops into the front line, only in Hunan there are more than 70,000 soldiers, Liu Wenxiu this time to help Guizhou brought half of the force, including more than 20,000 armor, 15,000 people without armor and light armor, there are a small number of cavalry, plus heavy troops and carrying armor weapons of auxiliary soldiers, a total of 100,000 troops, from Yunnan, Sichuan and Guangxi and tens of thousands of reinforcements, even in Yunnan, Sichuan and Guangxi.Not much, not half a bit of water.

In any unit, the proportion of soldiers and auxiliary soldiers is not fixed, but according to the actual needs to be configured, in general, the farther the march, the more heavy equipment is carried, the more auxiliary troops are needed, in addition, there are not enough supply points on the way to the march, the road conditions for the march are different, and the number of cavalry in the troops will affect the number of auxiliary soldiers.

As an example of exaggeration, if a force only marched ten miles, then an auxiliary soldier does not need, the soldiers carried armor weapons on their own to go, the same force, if thousands of miles from Hengyang to Guiyang, then a large number of auxiliary soldiers to help them transport grain and grass, carry armor equipment.

Liu Wenxiu of this 150,000 army, the proportion of soldiers nearly one-third, the total number of about 47,000 people, to the southwest of the traffic conditions, this ratio has been very high, in addition to Liu Wenxiu and Sun is expected to organize, but also because along the way the state and county can provide supplies for the army, the collection of people's young, for the Western army to save a lot of manpower and material resources.

Chu army's Western army has been entering Guizhou for a long time, reprimanding and detailing has long been to find out their strength, in addition to Yuan Zongdi's 10,000 horses, Tan Xiao, Zhou Guodong and Liu Junjun have about 50,000 horses, which also includes the eight thousand strong in the two are evenly collected, considering that they are from Guangxi over 90,000 mountains into Guizhou, this road trek, certainly need a large number of auxiliary troops to carry grain and grass, so the Western army must be very high, so the Western army.The soldiers should be about 10,000, and there are many light and no armored soldiers.

Considering that after the Chu army captured Guiyang, you can arm a group of auxiliary soldiers with armor in the arsenal, Liu Wenxiu speculated that the Western Conscripts of the army will not exceed 20,000 soldiers, with 47,000 soldiers against 20,000 soldiers, the Western Army has recently been fully recuperating, and there is a great deal of certainty to win this battle.

Liu Wenxiu stepped into the camp, commanding several large army to Guiyang, all the way through Huangping, Longli, Xin'an to the east road, all the way through the Long Shuguan to cross the South Ming River to the south, Sichuan's reinforcements to the north of the road approaching the jay, Yunnan and Guangxi's reinforcements to the west of the road to the Tuyunguan, and Liu Wenxiu's main force converging, in front of Liu Wenxiu's powerful offensive, Chu Jun was forced to give up the Long Shuiguan and other outbound..

"Tan Thieves and Zhou Thieves are young, Liu Erhu (Liu Junjun's nickname, the second tiger) is a camping general, want to come and not to die to the city, sitting to die, but the north according to the jay, and then set up in Tuyunguan, our army here to be careful to be careful, two to guard against the thieves fire attack."

After Liu Wenxiu crossed the Nanming River, he specially reminded the generals that the terrain around Guiyang is dangerous, Chu Jun is likely to use this out of the city and the Western Army field battle, the jayguan north of Guiyang is easy to defend, the terrain of the Tuyunguan south of Guiyang is dangerous, the mountains are dense, and the mountains are dense, which is two obvious battlefields, the Chu army is likely to hold the jay gate with a small number of troops, blocking the reinforcements from Sichuan, and then the main force of the Western Army.

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In Guiyang City, the people will be together, Tan Xiao, Zhou Guodong and Liu Jun pure sitting in the middle, a staff officer holding the book in his hand, while looking at them, to report to them military situation.

"According to reconnaissance and estimates, Liu Wenxiu's main force is between 70,000 and 80,000, Sichuan reinforcements of about 15,000 people, Yunnan aid 30,000, Guangxi aid 20,000 people, the total number of Western troops attacking Guiyang is about 150,000, and Liu Wenxiu claims the same."

Tan Xiao laughed, “Oh, how did Liu Wenxiu become so honest?”He has a force of 150,000, which can be called 300,000, half a million."

"Maybe it's afraid to scare us away."Liu Junjun also smiled: "I think I was in Hechuan Shaanxi, Yang Xichang's hundreds of thousands of troops can't stop... Count, the man does not mention the brave."

Mobile combat is the ability to break into the camp of the home, Liu Junjun mentioned the past, eyebrows are flying, and then realized that this topic is not suitable, hasten to stop the conversation.

Zhou Guodong frowned and thought, "I just don't know how many soldiers he has, how many armor."

150,000 troops listened to very scary, but the real combat effectiveness, only the armored soldiers, carrying the heavy grass and young strong in the field can be ignored.

"Insufficient information, can not be accurately estimated, can only give a general range, the Western army soldiers should be between 30,000 and 60,000 people, of which Liu Wenxiu's soldiers accounted for about two-thirds."The officer reported the conclusion of the staff, because the scope is too large, Tan Xiao, Zhou Guodong have shown a look of dissatisfaction, 30,000 soldiers and 60,000 soldiers are twice as bad, how to fight this battle?

"For the sake of security, it should be high or low, and it is better to count his sixty thousand soldiers."Tan thought about it.

"I think it should be low or high, Guizhou's road is so difficult to go, Liu Wenxiu can send 30,000 soldiers at once."The tidbits habitually lift him up.

"Simply not high or low, take a middle number, all he has forty-five thousand soldiers."Liu Junjun himself did not think, he casually said, almost said Liu Wenxiu's accurate strength.

"455 is 455, and my army is just in line with each other, and this battle has to be fought."Zhou Guodong and Tan Xiao's Western army, almost all can be killed in the battle, in addition to the eight thousand young and strong in the general collection, there is no superfluous auxiliary soldiers, Chu Jun originally over the 90,000 mountains, deliberately lightly loaded, only with thousands of auxiliary soldiers, the war soldiers enough more than 40,000 people.

"Sixty thousand also hit, Liu Wen Xiubing part of the way, I only hit him all the way."Tan Zhi pointed to the map and said, "The picture cloud is good, one side is a mountain, one side is water, just hit him in an ambush."

In order to prevent the Chu army from escaping, from the east and west of the north and south at the same time, he led the main force to go to the south of the city of Tuyunguan, as long as in the Tuyunguan defeat Liu Wenxiu, the other few ways of the western army will not lose.

The staff officer turned the book over a page and said: "According to the statistics of the staff department, our army has set up a total of 19 times in the battle of Liu Wenxiu, only two successes, and these two battles are not commanded by Liu Wenxiu himself, he is a very cautious general, every time he encounters a dangerous place in the terrain, he will let the main force stop moving forward, and then send a large number of respite reconnaissance, Tuyunguan is known to be more cautious.

"This old fox is not good to deal with."

Tan Xiao pondered a little, and put forward a plan: "Since this is the case, we are in Tuyunguan and he is fighting a battle, I will first set up a soldier on the gate, and then he will burn the Bowang Slope, and then send a soldier and horse to the shore from the Nanming River, rushing his army, these a series of tricks out, will certainly be able to lay Liu Wenxiu down."

Liu Junjun shook his head and smiled: "Liu Wenxiu is a veteran of the West Camp, whether it is ambush or a fire attack, it must be prepared, as for sending troops to attack by boat, his Chinese army is not so good, only sent two or three thousand people to the shore, maybe it is to send him a plate of vegetables."

Nanming River and Qingshui River belong to different water systems, after the Western army occupied Guiyang, found some civilian boats, but the number is not large, a delivery of three thousand people ashore is the limit.

“As you say, this battle has not been fought yet?No, no, we must solve the battle at Tuyunguan, otherwise it will be detrimental to our army."

Tuyunguan terrain is very beneficial to Chu Jun, here and Liu Wenxiu duel, you can avoid the other roads of the western army, to achieve the break, if easily give up Tuyunguan, by the Western army to Guiyang City, a few road army division, set up a battalion to surround the city, Chu army can only be trapped in the city, passively beaten.

"It's definitely going to be a fight, but the key is how to fight."Liu Jun thought and said: "Liu Wenxiu is cautious, but also because of caution, it is inevitable to move slowly, hesitant, just now Tan Jung said ambush, fire attack, boat raid can be used for him, but only these are not enough, I think you can do this, and then so, this way..."

“Oh, brother Tiger!Your trick is really insidious and venomous, enough for Liu Wenxiu to drink a pot."Tan Xiao patted Liu Junjun's hand on the back, his face full of admiration.