Chapter 133: Contest
Earlier, news of the sneak attack on Wuyang City at night quickly spread to the camp outside the city.
As soon as Feng Xu heard about this, he immediately reorganized his soldiers and horses, and rushed out of the camp before dawn.
He didn't know the situation in Wuyang City, and if he didn't hurry up to support, he was afraid that Wuyang City would not be able to hold on.
rushed all the way over, but there was no ambush army on the way, which made Feng Xu feel that something was wrong, but at this time, he didn't think much about it, just stepped up and rushed to Wuyang City.
As soon as Feng Xu's army arrived, the sky had just turned white, and the defenders of Wuyang City were carrying the corpse of Chen Jun under the city, and they didn't look like they had been attacked at all.
Hong Jian had already heard that Feng Xu's army was coming, and he had been waiting outside the city for a long time, ready to give Feng Xu the wind.
However, when Feng Xu saw the scene in front of him, he suddenly had an ominous premonition, and his right eye kept jumping.
"General, will there be fraud. Feng Yu said suddenly.
Although he is Feng Xu's son, in the barracks, he can only be commensurate with his subordinates.
Feng Xu knew that he must have been scheming, all the way over, there was no enemy ambush, if the Chen army was determined to attack the city, there would definitely be an ambush army on the road to stop them.
Now that his army is dispatched, only part of the army is left to guard the grain and grass, if the Chen army attacks his granary, then things will not be good.
However, the more critical the situation, the more calm and composed Feng Xu became, and if the commander panicked, the army's heart would be shaken. This is the truth that Feng Sheng taught him.
After thinking for a while, Feng Xu ordered: "Feng Yu, you lead three thousand cavalry to rush to the camp." Cheng Rui, you lead the troops to take the road directly and cut off the enemy's rear route. The rest of the soldiers and horses followed me into the camp of the Chen army. ”
The plan was good, but when Feng Xu's army rushed to the Chen army station, half of the figure was gone, leaving only an empty camp.
Long before Feng Xu arrived in Wuyang, Chen Jun packed up and left here.
Feng Xu led the army into the air, knowing that what he was afraid of had happened, and immediately garrisoned outside Wuyang City, waiting for news.
Feng Xu stationed the army, but Feng Yu's side was in a bad situation.
When he led the soldiers and horses to the camp, the camp was already full of gunsmoke, and the Chen army and the defenders were fighting together, and the defenders were defeated and retreated, and they were divided by the Chen army.
Seeing that the situation was critical, Feng Yu roared angrily, jumped his horse and raised his gun, rushed into the enemy formation, and went straight to the leading commander, and the troops behind him also rushed into the camp and began to support the defenders.
When the defenders saw that someone was coming to support, their morale soared, and they were all fearless of death.
With Feng Yu's addition, the form of the battlefield was reversed in an instant, and the reinforcements and defenders attacked the Chen army inside and outside, plus Feng Yu was unstoppable, all the way into the hinterland of the Chen army.
When the general Chen Jun saw that the enemy army suddenly rushed out of such a fierce character, he rushed directly towards him, and without saying a word, he turned his horse's head and fled in a hurry.
As soon as the coach fled, the rest of the people fled in a panic without the slightest intention to fight.
"Whoever comes will be killed by me, and the rest will be left to fight the fire. Feng Yu shouted loudly.
At the sound of an order, the soldiers who followed Feng Yu did not spare their hands, chasing and killing at the same time, and corpses were everywhere along the way.
The Chen army lagged behind, they threw away their weapons, took off their armor, and fled desperately, all the way were discarded armor and weapons, as well as Chen Jun's soldiers who were trampled to death by everyone and hacked to death by random knives after they collapsed and were powerless.
An hour later, the Chen army that attacked the camp was almost completely hunted down, and Feng Yu also caught up with the general who commanded the Chen army and beheaded him.
This battle seemed to be a great victory for the Chu army, but in fact, through this surprise attack, the Chen army had burned most of the grain and grass of the Chu army, and the remaining grain and grass was only enough for the whole army to last for half a month.
Feng Xu, who received the news, frowned, this time, he won twice in the frontal battle, but Gu Liang Yangbo had already won half of it.
Before he arrived, Gu Liang Yangbo was already retreating, just to avoid a frontal battle with our army in the back. Although the vanguard of Chen's army was defeated, he used a fake night attack to lure our army to help, and took the opportunity to sneak attack our army's camp and cut off our food and grass.
He only won two small battles that did not matter, but he lost the important battles of strategy.
Gu Liang Yangbo is not easy to deal with.
After analyzing the situation on the battlefield, Feng Xu hurriedly found Hong Jian.
"Lord Hong, this time has been hard, I bother Lord Hong to go again, the enemy knows that my grain and grass have been burned, and then I will avoid fighting. Our army's grain and grass can only last for one month at most, so please report to Your Majesty and go to Nanyang County to collect grain. ”
The grain and grass were destroyed, and they had to transfer grain from other places, they were all rough people who led troops to fight, and Hong Jian, who was a county guard, was more experienced in adjusting grain.
Although Hong Jian held on for a few days and was physically and mentally exhausted, the situation on the battlefield was changing rapidly, and the slightest unfavorable factor could lead to defeat, not to mention a major event such as a lack of food.
"Please rest assured, the general, this officer will leave now. ”
Hong Jian also knew the seriousness of the matter, and without further ado, he immediately took action.
After Hong Jian left, Feng Xu looked at Chu Nan's map and thought for a while.
"During this time, we must find the main force of the enemy army, and fight to the death with the enemy army while our food and grass are not cut off. ”
"You put all the cavalry out and probe around, especially in the direction of Nanyang County, the enemy knows that our army has no food and will definitely transfer grain from Nanyang, maybe they will attack Nanyang County and cut off our food and grass supply. ”
"Ordered. The generals replied in unison.
"Feng Yu listens to the order, you lead a battalion of troops to attack Chu'an, Nan'an, and Zizhong; Feng Yuan listens to the order, you lead the vanguard army to attack Wuding, Fujie, and Zhangqiu, if you can't take the cities within ten days, come to see you. Feng Xu gave the two of them their lives.
"Yes. ”
The process of taking a few cities was very easy, to be precise, these cities were not guarded by Chen Jun, and they were completely empty cities.
When he learned that Chen Jun did not go back, Feng Xu's doubts became even greater.
He looked at the map of the entire southern Chu, the Chen army did not retreat to the captured county, then only Nanyang County in the northwest and Yue County in the east remained, Cheng Rui led the troops to guard the Yandao, if the Chen army wanted to attack Nanyang, there would definitely be movement on Cheng Rui's side.
According to the current situation, Chen's army should have attacked Yuejun and connected with the troops of the Eastern Chu vassal state.
Knowing Chen Jun's actions, but he couldn't follow Chen Jun closely, he didn't have much grain and grass, if he was marching, the consumption of grain and grass would be even greater, and their current grain and grass would not be able to sustain the entire army to make larger moves, only after Hong Jian came back from collecting grain, he would make a decision.
The defense of Yue County is weak, and it is mountainous and hilly, but fortunately, the county seat Qiongcheng is close to Shangjun and does not pose much threat.
However, if Gu Liang Yangbo's army passed through Yue County, the army stationed in Shang County would face a situation of being attacked from both sides, and the entire southern Chu would be in great danger at that time.
After analyzing the pros and cons, given the current limited ability to act, Feng Xu immediately repaired an urgent document and sent it directly to Beijing.
Since he can't save Shangjun now, he can only inform the court of the seriousness of the matter and send reinforcements to reinforce Shangjun.
As soon as Feng Xu's urgent item arrived in Shangjing, Kuang Yue made a decision and immediately decided to send troops to help Shangjun. And the one who led the troops to rescue Shangjun was Han Ming, who was receiving military counseling in Feng Mansion.