Chapter 253: The Demon is one foot tall and one foot high

According to Yu Xian's order, tens of thousands of Chu soldiers were ambushed in a wide area where the Dafu soldiers had to pass. There are large areas of crops planted here, and these Chu soldiers are ambushed here.

According to the report from the spies, Yang Ming divided his soldiers into two routes, each with 200,000 people, and the part he was preparing to ambush was led by Yang Ming himself.

This news made Yu Xian ecstatic, and he told his generals that when the Dafu army arrived later, everyone must attack as quickly as possible after hearing the order, but the number is disadvantaged, and they must not fall in love. Strive to achieve the best results when attacking, if you can catch or kill Yang Ming in one fell swoop, then your own side will definitely win this battle.

Yang Ming has led the army in Dafu for many years, fought many victories, and once captured alive the former generalissimo of the Chu State and the generalissimo Longge, which was regarded as a great shame in the Chu military.

This time, if his own troops can hit Yang Ming's team hard through a sneak attack, or even capture Yang Mingsheng alive, it will be a matter of raising eyebrows.

Yu Xian personally took tens of thousands of soldiers and hid in this large crop field, quietly waiting for the arrival of Yang Ming and his soldiers. But an hour has passed, why hasn't Yang Ming's people arrived yet.

The spies had come to report before, saying that Yang Ming was not far from here with the army, and it stands to reason that at this time, Yang Ming's army should have arrived.

Although Yu Xian's heart was very anxious, in order to avoid being discovered by Yang Ming's people, he didn't dare to send too many spies. had no choice but to lead his army and continue to hide in this crop field.

Another hour passed, Yu Xian felt that the situation was not right, it stands to reason that at this time, even if Yang Ming's army did not come, the spies he sent should have sent back the news, right?

There was no news at this time, it must have been Yang Ming who discovered his attempt, thinking of this, Yu Xian let out a cold sweat.

Now that Yang Ming had already discovered himself and the others, why didn't he attack immediately? In that case, you can lead your soldiers to evacuate as quickly as possible, so that the losses will be minimized.

However, Yang Ming and the others did not attack, so there are only two possibilities now.

The first possibility is that Yang Ming is organizing his soldiers to scatter and separate, and he wants to surround all the tens of thousands of soldiers he leads, in that case, the tens of thousands of soldiers under his command will be completely annihilated.

There is also a possibility that Yang Ming's soldiers changed their marching route, gave up encountering their tens of thousands of soldiers, and directly raided the Chinese army camp in their rear.

Of these two possibilities, which one is unbearable for Yu Xian, after figuring out this joint, Yu Xian can no longer calm down. He had to evacuate immediately, lead his tens of thousands of ambush soldiers, return to the Chinese army camp, and join the large troops in the rear, so that he could have the strength to fight against Yang Ming.

Yu Xian is a resolute, he knows that he must not drag mud and water on the battlefield, if he is too slow to act at this time. When Yang Ming's army achieves encirclement, the consequences will be very serious.

So Yu Xian immediately ordered, and the team immediately changed from the rear team to the front team, and returned to the Chinese army camp as quickly as possible.

It stands to reason that Yu Xian's decision is very reasonable, since the other party has discovered his ambush attempt, of course, he must retreat with his soldiers as soon as possible.

But what Yu Xian never expected was that Yang Ming didn't find out about his tens of thousands of ambush soldiers at all.

Yang Ming is also a general who has led the troops for many years, and when he leads the troops to fight, he has a good habit of often organizing his subordinates' think tanks to conduct transposition discussions.

Suppose you are the commander of the other party, how will you command the battle in such a situation?

From the analysis of the wisdom of his subordinates, find out the strategy that the enemy may take, and then choose the best response plan.

Yu Xian may set up an ambush in this crop field, which was proposed by a think tank under Yang Ming, and after hearing the words of this think tank, Yang Ming felt that it was very possible.

But it was only very possible, and it was impossible to determine whether there were ambushes in these crop fields, so Yang Yun did not let the soldiers scatter in all directions and form an encirclement of this place as Yu Xian imagined.

The "God of War", known as Dafu, is a thing that Yang Ming is very proud of, if he rashly let the soldiers surround this large crop field, and after forming a siege, he found that there were no ambushes in this crop, it would be a very humiliating thing.

Since he doesn't know the situation ahead, and he can't let the enemy know his situation, he just makes a light go dark, so that everyone can't see it.

Therefore, Yang Yun sent his soldiers to arrest all the ordinary people and passers-by who watched all the way, and once there was resistance and escape, they would all be killed.

In this case, the spies sent by Yu Xian were either killed or caught, and there was no one who could run back to report to him.

When the soldiers standing on the high ground saw Yu Xian's withdrawal from the troops, Yang Ming was sure that Yu Xian's people were indeed ambushed in this crop field.

This time, Yang Ming secretly rejoiced, fortunately he did not continue to move forward with the team, otherwise, he would have been attacked by Yu Xian's army this time.

However, Yang Ming also had some regrets, and he had already surrounded this area if he knew it, in that case, even if these ambushes were not wiped out by the whole army, they would suffer heavy losses.

At this time, Yang Ming didn't even know that it was Yu Xian himself who led the troops to ambush him this time, and if he knew, he would definitely be even more annoyed.

Seeing that the ambush soldiers of the Chu State were preparing to evacuate, Yang Ming of course did not want them to leave calmly, so he immediately led his army and closely pursued them in the direction of the evacuation of these ambush soldiers.

Because it was a surprise attack, the number of people must not be too large, so Yu Xian only brought out 30,000 Chu soldiers in this operation, and of course he could not compete head-on with Yang Ming's Dafu army, which was several times his own.

So their only choice now is to withdraw from the battlefield as quickly as possible and join up with the large forces of the Chinese army.

Seeing that the speed of the other party's withdrawal was very fast, Yang Ming immediately made a very reasonable response, letting the infantry follow behind the team, and the cavalry pursued the Chu soldiers at the fastest speed.

Yu rarely saw Yang Ming's team, and he actually chased after him, and suddenly felt a headache.

After thinking about it, Yu Xian decisively left 5,000 people behind and asked them to choose a suitable position to block the pursuing enemy cavalry.

In this case, Yu Xian's choice was not a problem, under the cover of these 5,000 soldiers, Yu Xian took the remaining 25,000 soldiers and successfully withdrew to the Chinese army's big tent.

But what made Yu Xian sad was that the 5,000 soldiers who were left behind to block the Dafu army only ran back more than 1,000 people. Moreover, many of these soldiers who ran back were still wounded and had lost the ability to continue fighting.

This time, Yu Xian brought out hundreds of thousands of Chu soldiers, and before he encountered the opponent's large army, he lost more than 3,000 people, although these more than 3,000 people did not have much impact on the overall situation.

But this still has a great impact on the morale of the soldiers, and thinking of this makes Yu Xian annoyed.

The 400,000 troops led by Yang Ming were stationed in the area between Yunzhou City and Xunyang Pass, and cooperated with Yunzhou City and Xunyang Pass to form a defensive front.

This long defensive front stopped the invading Chu army and prevented them from moving forward.

During this period, both Yu Xian and Yang Ming launched several attacks, but both of them were masters of commanding operations, and although there were some casualties in several battles, they did not cause too much damage to the other party, so the war was in a stalemate.

On the battlefield in Quanzhou, the number of Kuban troops was relatively large, and Tuoba Du organized his soldiers to start several major battles with the Kuban people, suffered some small losses, and lost some soldiers and horses.

Kuban led his soldiers to cross the Ur River strongly, led a steppe in the upper reaches of the Ur River, set up camp here, and defeated the people of Tuoba Du one after another.

But fortunately, Liu Cheng of Quanzhou sent soldiers and horses to assist Tuoba Du in time, and finally helped Tuoba Du stabilize the situation.

At this time, Kuban also seemed to feel that he should accept it as soon as he saw it, and stationed his soldiers in the newly occupied steppe, and did not take the initiative to attack again. Tuobadu's soldiers, after joining up with Liu Cheng's troops in Quanzhou, immediately launched several attacks to recapture the occupied grassland.

However, Kuban was unusual, relying on the defensive facilities of the station, so that the troops under Tuoba Du could not move forward. After many attacks, there was no cheapness, and there was a lot of loss of manpower, Tuoba had to take his soldiers and withdraw to his hinterland, and the two sides temporarily ceased fighting.

In the war between Yunzhou and Quanzhou, Dafu did not suffer much loss, but on the Suizhou side, the situation was a little worrying.

Huaihua General Li Yue is the elder brother of Empress Li Wan, and the whole family has some strength. And Li Yue himself, who didn't have much ability to command troops, relied on some rich resources and connections of the family, mixed some military exploits, and the role of Queen Li Wan's pillow wind, so that Li Wan mixed up with the position of General Huaihua.

This time, his father asked Li Yue to command the troops, originally thinking that Li Yue's foundation was in Suizhou, and he was very familiar with the situation here, which could provide him with great help in using troops.

But what Emperor Fu didn't expect was that his eldest brother always nodded in front of him. But when he turned to face the others, it was a different face.

Li Yue bullied men and women in Suizhou, plundered the land and real estate of many ordinary people, and made the people here complain. Therefore, when the common people of Suizhou heard that Li Yue's troops were here, they all adopted an attitude of ignoring them and did not cooperate with any action of his army at all.

Li Yue didn't care at all about the indifference of the people of Suizhou, in his opinion, as long as the emperor trusted him and had heavy troops under him, without the help of these people, he would definitely be able to defeat the invading Korean army.

Ordinary generals, when leading the army to go out, will send scouts in advance to reconnoiter the situation in front of them, and then move forward.

But this Li Yue is not like this, he thinks that he is very familiar with this generation, and no one in Suizhou can ambush soldiers to attack him.

And Yang Xian, the prime minister of the prison army, still has a set of tricks to win people's hearts and use conspiracies and tricks to harm people. But if he really wants to lead troops to the battlefield, he doesn't have the ability. The two leaders in the team were both people who didn't read much military books and didn't have much actual combat experience, which laid the groundwork for their failure in this battle.