Chapter 437: Coincidental
Tong Guan can be said to be a scheming man, he expected that he sent 30,000 troops out to calculate the Tianci army, and the Yongle Dynasty rebels would definitely relax their vigilance, so he personally led 100,000 troops to sneak around secretly and went straight to the Jixi rebel camp where Fang La was.
It was impossible for a march of 100,000 people to go undetected, so Tong Guan used the method of killing all the people on the road, whether it was the common people or bandits, bandits, and rebels. The elite scout horses were released almost fifty miles around the army, and I don't know how many innocent people died tragically under the swords and guns of the officers and soldiers.
Coincidentally, Fang La also had the same idea as Tong Guan. In Fang La's opinion, the official army is now fighting with the Tianci army, and the attention is on Tian Shiyi, and the Yixian battalion will definitely relax its vigilance, which is a good opportunity for him to lead his troops to raid the official army. Therefore, Fang La personally led 150,000 rebels and went straight to Yixian.
The raid should not only be fast, but also stealthy, and Fang La also adopted the method of killing everyone in the path. What's even more sad is that Fang La and Tong Guan are not on the same path. As a result, there was no encounter between the two armies, but the people on both roads died in vain.
If you want to talk about escape, Yao Pingzhong, the general of the Great Song Dynasty, can only rank second, and the first is the first of the four generals of Zhongxing, who has only won one battle in his life, and is nicknamed Liu Guangshi, who is known as the long-legged general.
In this world where seniority and family ties are important, it is not surprising that Liu Guangshi was later ranked first among the four generals of ZTE. But it is true that Liu Guangshi has only won one battle in his life, and he was forced to send out his troops in desperation, defeating neither the Jin army nor the Yongle Dynasty rebels, but the weaker puppet Qi army that appeared after the Jin army's southern invasion.
Tong Guan didn't know that Liu Guangshi's best housekeeping skill was to escape, so Liu Guangshi was appointed as the vanguard officer of the army. Fortunately, Eunuch Tong arranged a reliable deputy vanguard, Wang Yuan, a general of the Western Army who rose to the position with military merits.
Liu Guangshi and Liu Yanei opened roads in the mountains and built bridges in the water along the way, and when they saw the people, robbers, and rebellious troops, they ordered all of them to be killed, but when they reached the vicinity of Jixi, they were immediately instigated.
It's no wonder that Liu Guangshi is like this, after all, his father, General Liu Yanqing, is a general of the Western Army who is known for his escape, and he can't learn to escape if he wants to learn to escape under his family history.
As for the long-legged general, his father, the long-legged General Liu Yanqing, was following the eunuch Tong who was sitting in the Chinese army at this time.
Wang Yuan was pushed to the front by Liu Guangshi and couldn't help but look confused, along the way, Liu Guangshi grabbed the military power to death, and didn't let Liu Yuan get involved at all, why was he suddenly so generous?
Although he was a little confused in his mind, he found that Liu Guangshi had really handed over the military power to himself, and Wang Yuan was no longer polite. Wang Yuan, who relied on the accumulation of military merits to rise to the top, has never been afraid of fighting, but he is afraid that there will be no war to fight.
Although the officers and soldiers did not know that Fang La had led his troops to the camp in Yixian, they knew a lot about the internal situation of the rebels of the Yongle Dynasty, so Wang Yuan planned to pretend to be a rebel from Hangzhou and deceive the rebel camp in Jixi.
Wang Yuan was very bold, and even led his troops to the rebel camp when it was dark, and he himself drove his horse to the front of the whole army.
At this time, the garrison of the Jixi camp was Baoguang Rulai Deng Yuanjue, as soon as he heard that the reinforcements from Hangzhou had arrived, he immediately ordered the gate of the village to be opened, but he himself did not go to greet him in the military account. In this way, Wang Yuan effortlessly deceived the camp gate of the Yongle rebel Jixi camp. Scale Literature
If you want to say that this thing is true, Deng Yuanjue is not entirely to blame, because it is true that Hangzhou is coming to reinforcements, and Wang Yuan just hit it by mistake. A few days ago, Fang La sent a holy decree to Hangzhou, ordering the Yongzi battalion to send 30,000 elite soldiers to Jixi to support, but Baoguang Rulai Deng Yuanjue and Wang Yin have never been at odds, and they are too lazy to look at Wang Yin's stinky face, so they did not show up to check, and the result gave Wang Yuan a chance to take advantage of.
As soon as Wang Yuan saw that the rebels had opened the camp gate, he immediately led the vanguard army to kill them, and the unprepared Yongle rebels were immediately defeated. Deng Yuanjue, who didn't want to see Wang Yin's stinky face, was also killed by Wang Yuan in the chaos, and finally didn't have to look at everyone's stinky face anymore, but he didn't know if the ghost's face stinked or not.
There are only 20,000 officers and soldiers, but fighting a war is never about who has the numbers. Wang Yuan dared to lead 20,000 forward troops into the rebel camp, and he didn't expect to completely defeat the rebels in a battle, but he didn't expect that only 50,000 people remained in the rebel camp, and the remaining 150,000 rebels didn't know where to go.
After occupying the camp of the Yongle rebels, Wang Yuan asked the captives to know that Fang La had personally led 150,000 rebels to raid the camp in Yixian, and he was suddenly frightened.
Hurriedly sent someone to report the battle report and Fang La's raid on the camp in Yixian County to Tong Guan Tong, and Tong Guan was also shocked when he heard the news.
100,000 officers and soldiers easily took the Yongle rebel camp, but only killed 50,000 rebels, and the results were not very brilliant, but if the Yixian camp was lost, it would be troublesome, and their own logistics materials were stored there.
Although the rebels have captured everything in the Jixi camp, the Yongle rebels are landlords, and the supplies can be replenished at any time, so there are not many supplies. On the other hand, the officers and soldiers are not good, and it will take half a year to transfer supplies, so the supply of the Yixian battalion is much more.
Tong Guan ordered Wang Yuan to dispose of the seized materials and lead the army to run to Yixian County in the starry night, hoping that Tan Zhi, who stayed in the camp in Yixian County, could support him for a few more days so that he could have time to rescue.
To say that Fang La's rebels and Tong Guan's official army really have a good idea, both of them chose to raid each other's camp, and at the same time, they also chose to pretend to be the other party to deceive the camp gate.
Fang La's forward army is the commander of the Shanzi Battalion, and the general of the protector of the country. Si Xingfang's luck was good, and more than 100 of Yao Pingzhong's army were captured on the way. He used these routs to deceive the official army camp.
At this time, the 5,000 cavalry who were frightened back by Yang Zaixing had all returned to the camp, and most of the routed troops of Yao Pingzhong's army had also returned to the camp, plus the defenders left by Tong Guan for Tan Zhi, the total number was nearly 30,000. These 30,000 people were killed and defeated by Si Xingkong's Shanzi battalion in one go, and the officers and soldiers suffered countless casualties.
Tan Zhi changed his groom's clothes and fled, Wu Lan fought his way out of a bloody way, escorted his injured brother Wu Jue and escaped, Yao Pingzhong naturally fled, but no one knew how he escaped, which almost became a mystery through the ages.
Fang La, who won a great victory, also knew about Tong Guan leading an army to raid his own Jixi camp, and hurriedly brought the army back to help.
This time, because there was no need to hide their tracks, the officers and rebels were the closest to go, and in the end, the two armies met under Lingshan.