Chapter 1595: One Hundred Secrets and One Neglect

By the Yellow River, Li Jing looked at the huge waves of the Yellow River surging eastward expressionlessly, he knew that if this big water went down, even if he could not completely annihilate the Qi army, at least he could kill more than half of the Qi army, but he couldn't lift a little joy in his heart.

Since ancient times, fire and water have been ruthless, and fire attacks have hurt Tianhe, and water attacks are even worse.

The flood is completely out of control, and I don't know how many innocent people will be affected.

Li Jing naturally knows this, but he is also forced to have no choice, after all, once the coalition forces of all parties are united, the Qin army will completely lose the initiative, and whether it can hold Beihai at that time is a problem, let alone go to support Jizhou and be the last straw that crushes Beihai.

Li Jing is not afraid of Wang Mang's 80,000 combined army, although Wang Mang's side has many troops, but after all, they are patchwork, and the quality is uneven, as long as he is given enough time, Li Jing is sure that he can win.

However, the elite of the 70,000 Qi army in Zhu Tianpeng's hands, but the strong army whose comprehensive quality is not weaker than that of the Qin army, is simply incomprehensible to the current Beihai Qin army.

Even if all the troops in Beihai were dispatched, even if Li Jing personally commanded them, he was not sure that he would defeat Zhu Tianpeng's 70,000 Qi army.

Since he can't defeat it openly, then Li Jing can only use strategy, and if he wants to defeat the elite of the 70,000 Qi army in one fell swoop, there is no more effective way than fire attack and water attack.

Li Jing and Zhu Tianpeng fought each other, and knew that he was a wise and brave general, and ordinary strategies could not calculate him at all, so he also put a lot of effort into how to plan.

Originally, Li Jing was more inclined to attack with fire, but when he mobilized all the files about Zhu Tianpeng, he accidentally discovered a secret report that Qingzhou's secret agents had only recently sent back, that is, Zhu Tianpeng was better at water warfare in addition to land warfare?

Although Li Jing was also puzzled by this, this information was definitely true, after all, the secret agent in Qingzhou had never delivered a single piece of false news.

So Li Jing decisively gave up the fire attack and chose the water attack instead, after all, in the field that he is best at, people are always more confident, and self-confidence and conceit are only in a thought.

Since Zhu Tianpeng is good at water warfare, he may not be able to hide from him in ordinary water attacks.

Therefore, Li Jing first confused the public with the plan of crossing the Yellow River four times, and deliberately delayed Zhu Tianpeng's attention, and the real goal of the Qin army was to induce Wang Mang.

But in fact, Li Jing's real purpose was to gather the main force of the 70,000 Qi army on both sides of the Yellow River, so as to facilitate the smooth implementation of the water attack plan.

Secondly, Li Jing took the initiative to let the 4,500 sailors go to death, and only in this way could he ensure that the water attack plan would not reveal clear flaws, and only then would Zhu Tianpeng not be suspicious.

In the end, as Li Jing expected, the sacrifice of the 4,500 water army was not in vain, Zhu Tianpeng did not suspect it, and the water attack was successfully implemented, and the Qi army must have suffered heavy losses, but Li Jing could not be happy.

During the battle of Hanshui, Qin Hao was forced by Xiang Yu all the way from Nanyang to Xiangyang, and had no choice but to dig up Hanshui to launch a water attack, and finally annihilated Xiang Yu's army, but also caused the displacement of millions of people in Yuzhou, and Qin Hao was also abused by countless people and his reputation plummeted.

is also a water attack, even the lord Qin Hao can't avoid it, Li Jing will definitely not be able to escape, he can even guess that soon, even the court and the central government will be full of officials who impeached him.

"One will make it work, and ten thousand bones will wither."

Li Jing sighed, and at this time he realized the meaning of this sentence more closely.

"Huh? Didn't I order the throttling? Why is the water getting bigger and bigger? ”

Li Jing couldn't help frowning, he was also afraid that the situation would get out of control, and the water would be too big and dangerous to the people downstream, so he made extremely strict arrangements for this water attack, and did not completely dig up the Yellow River embankment, why is the trend of water flow still out of control?

"Lord Taishou, it's not good, General Ran Min ignored the military order and dug up all the dams without authorization, and now the water is completely out of control."

"What?"

Li Jing's eyes widened immediately, he never thought that Ran Min would dare to disobey his orders.

Li Jing only brought Ran Min a general on this trip, after all, only Ran Min in the Qin army in Beihai had a talk of water warfare, but when Li Jing said the plan of water attack, he had a disagreement with Ran Min, that is, whether to completely dig the Yellow River embankment.

Li Jing believes that the people downstream will definitely suffer when the water attack is carried out, but as long as it is well controlled, it can also have the effect of flooding the Qi army, so there is no need to completely dig up the dam, so the casualties of the people downstream will be much smaller.

Ran Min believes that the trauma of completely digging the dam to the Qi army is greater, and he doesn't care about the deaths and injuries of the people downstream, after all, how can there be a war that is not human, not to mention that it is the people of Qi who die, not the people of Qin?

Li Jing and Ran Min insisted on their own words, no one could convince anyone, and in the end, Li Jing forced Ran Min to bow his head by relying on his identity as the main general, but he didn't expect that Ran Min was just a fake compromise, and as soon as he left Li Jing's side, the dam was completely dug up.

After a while, Ran Min returned with all his subordinates and came to hand over the order to Li Jing: "Qi Taishou, the last general has completed the task, and I am here to hand over the order to Taishou." ”

Li Jing trembled and pointed to the surging Yellow River and asked, "Ran Min, do you know what you did?" ”

Ran Min raised his head, looked directly into Li Jing's eyes, and said lightly: "The last general knows, but the last general doesn't regret it." ”

"You ......"

Looking at Ran Min, who still had a clear conscience, Li Jing was completely angry and wanted to reprimand Ran Min, but when he thought that the water attack was proposed by himself, he couldn't say anything.

"Hoo ......"

Li Jing let out a long breath of turbidity, then stepped forward and patted Ran Min's shoulder, and sighed: "Well done." ”

His gaze was returning to Zhu Tianpeng's side.

Under the water, people seem so small that they can't resist the power of nature.

Although Zhu Tianpeng found it in time, it was still a step too late.

Of the 20,000 Qi troops in the north sea of the Yellow River, only 3,000 cavalry escaped, while only 7,000 troops on the south bank survived.

That is, Zhu Tianpeng was calm enough, directly let the navy board the ship, and sailed all the way east away from the sea, which allowed the navy to remain intact.

After the flood, the Qi army hurriedly returned, and the surviving army also launched a rescue, although it had used the fastest speed to rescue, but only more than 5,000 soldiers were rescued.

According to statistics afterwards, the flood directly buried 45,000 elite Qi troops, while the Qin army only paid 4,500 casualties of the water army, which can be described as a complete victory.

Looking at the countless corpses everywhere, Zhu Tianpeng was full of grief and indignation in his heart, and looked up to the sky and roared angrily: "Li Jing, you can't die well." ”

He never imagined that he went north with confidence, but only fought one battle, and lost most of his soldiers and horses in the Yellow River, and the loss was too embarrassing.

"Lord, what now?" Wang Yanzhang asked with a bitter face.

After pondering for a long time, Zhu Tianpeng gritted his teeth and said: "The foot cavalry returns to Linzi for repair, and the naval army stays to continue the battle, and this king will definitely make Li Jing pay the price." ”