Chapter 764: Hunting for the White Water River
This chase battle is destined to be full of twists and turns, originally with Hu Zun's caution, after rescuing Wang Jing, this matter was stopped, and the state army marched away, and Sima Jun also continued to move forward step by step.
But Wang Jing is unwilling, he chased Yanghu to fight, no achievements, when Yanghu was chased in turn, but it was a loss of soldiers, and now Hu Zun's reinforcements helped, the situation on the battlefield reversed again, Wang Jing knew that Hu Zun was timid and cautious, so he persuaded him that the intention of the ambush of the state army has been exposed, and this is the best opportunity to pursue them, if this opportunity is wrong, I am afraid that the next battle will be more difficult to fight.
But Hu Zun couldn't resist Wang Jing's instigation this time, and decided to pursue and state the army.
Hu Zun's caution is true, but he also has to consider success or failure when leading his troops to fight, if there is really a chance to defeat or even annihilate the enemy, he will not let go, Yanghu set up an ambush in Baishuichuan to ambush Wang Jing, it should have been his combat intentions exposed, if it wasn't for his timely rescue, it is likely that Wang Jing's army would have been wiped out.
Yanghu saw that Sima's army was strong and incapacitated, so he would take the initiative to withdraw the army, if Hu Zun could seize the opportunity at this time and defeat Yanghu in one fell swoop, wouldn't it be a war achievement?
So Hu Zun ordered all the Sima army to speed up and pursue the Bingzhou army with all their might.
Yanghu looked at the dust and smoke billowing behind him, and finally laughed, these three times and twice, finally pulled Hu Zun's bull nose out, when he withdrew the army, Yanghu was also worried that Hu Zun would not lie in the sand pit and continue to move the nest, so he tried so hard to lure the enemy deep but failed.
At this moment, the position they are in is still a hilly area, and the terrain is undulating, which is not conducive to cavalry combat, and only leading them to the flat river of Baishui River is the best chance to encircle and annihilate them.
It seems that Hu Zun is still hooked, Yanghu still controls the retreat speed of the infantry battalion, and is always agitated away from a stone's throw away, this distance is the most itchy for Sima Jun, in order to shorten the distance with the Bingzhou army, they can only desperately accelerate and accelerate, hoping to catch up with the Bingzhou army as soon as possible.
This road was trampled back and forth by the two armies, and the dust on the ground was stirred into the air, and from a distance, it looked like a long dragon, spreading from the mountains in the west of Shangdang to the basin in the middle.
At this time, Cao Liang had already led the three major cavalry battalions from Wanzi City all the way west and arrived near Baishuichuan, which was the battle location agreed by Cao Liang and Yanghu.
Cao Liang smiled slightly, it seems that Yanghu is still relatively reliable in doing things, I heard that Hu Zun, the commander of the West Route Army, is notoriously cautious, he will stop two steps after taking three steps, and he will continue to move forward after confirming that there is no danger, it is indeed not easy to lure such a timid guy to Baishuichuan.
In the last battle of Wanzicheng, although the state army won a complete victory, but in the end the enemy generals Chen Tai and Hu Fen fled, this time the battle of Baishuichuan, Cao Liang must not let Hu Zun and Wang Jing run easily, this battle he has enough time to prepare, and must strive to leave all of Hu Zun's 30,000 people in Baishuichuan.
In fact, the armies of Hu Zun and Wang Jing were tossed back and forth by Yanghu, and they had already lost a lot of men and horses, and it was obvious that there were less than 30,000 now.
It only took one day to transfer from Wanzicheng to Baishuichuan, and the state army only took one day, and Wanzicheng still needed to collect prisoners of war, clean up the battlefield, and cross from the eastern front to the western front, which was also a distance of nearly two or three hundred miles, and these distances were still mainly mountainous.
But all these difficulties are nothing to Cao Liang, and this battle with Sima Yi for the party is unusually important for both sides, and they must go all out.
If Sima Yi wins, he will completely consolidate the power he has just gained from the coup, and at the same time, he will also be able to deter dissident forces who are dissatisfied with Sima Yi's rise to power, so that they will not dare to act rashly.
This is also the real reason why Sima Yi launched this battle of the party only two months after coming to power, so many pairs of eyes are staring at the world, how dare Sima Yi not do his best to win this battle.
Also for Cao Liang, this battle is also of great significance, if he wants to build a capital to compete with the Sima family, then he can't lose this battle, once the party is lost, and the state can't be saved.
However, for Cao Liang, this war is undoubtedly a huge difficulty, the first is that the strength of the two sides is quite disparity, the number of Sima army has reached three times that of the state army, not to mention that there are many examples in history of winning more with less, defeating the strong with the weak, after all, those examples have their particularity and rarity, most of the time the victory or defeat of the war still relies on strength to speak, who has a hard fist, who has a greater possibility of winning the war.
In fact, Cao Liang's opponent is none other than Sima Yi, who has become an old man and an old monster, although Cao Liang has participated in several battles and has also achieved good results, but compared with Sima Yi, this record is really not enough.
If you want to win this battle, Cao Liang must go all out, every battle can not be relaxed, for the powerful Sima family, they have a chance to tolerate mistakes, even if they lose the battle of the party this time, it is not necessarily the end of the world.
But for Cao Liang, he must be very careful, the failure of any battle may lead to the final victory or defeat of the battle of Shangdang, with the current situation of the state army, it is indeed impossible to afford to lose, and the failure of a battle is likely to be the consequence of a catastrophe.
So to win the victory in the battle of Bowl City, Cao Liang's face did not show any excitement, on the contrary, his expression was more solemn, now he is completely racing against time, within three days, he must win two battles, and after three days, there will be a more difficult battle, the battle of the party, who will die, it is still unknown.
However, Cao Liang obviously regarded every battle as the final decisive battle, and every battle was carefully planned and strategized, so that everything was too big and small, and 100% effort would naturally be rewarded accordingly, and the battle of Baishuichuan would definitely become Cao Liang's second victory in this battle of the party.
Only by constantly accumulating small victories into big victories, constantly annihilating the vital forces of Sima Yi's army, and weakening Sima Yi's strength step by step, can Cao Liang have a chance to achieve the final victory.