Chapter 669: Use Yourself as Bait!
In the route chosen by Li Cunxiao, when passing through the border between Shanxi County and Jiuquan County, he needs to pass through two peaks called Wangshan Mountain and Lishan Mountain, which are more than 300 meters high.
There is only one mountain road between the two mountains, which is to take advantage of the favorable conditions of the terrain to set up an ambush, and Bai Lin, the general of the Qin State, naturally chose to set up a pocket array here.
Unless Li Cunxiao's soldiers and horses go around, if they go straight with their heads, they will naturally fall into the pocket array and will be surrounded. This is also the reason why Bai Lin, the general of the Qin State, is proud, he has 200,000 soldiers and horses, if he can't stop the enemy, he will be ashamed to be the descendant of the Bai family.
So for Li Cunxiao, knowing that the Qin army had set up an ambush, why did he still take this road?
Naturally, because the calculation is calculated.
Li Cunxiao had 150,000 soldiers and horses, and in order to make a plan, he did not press all his troops to Wangshan and Lishan, but left 100,000 troops to hide in the rear, and 50,000 soldiers pulled a long front and stopped in front of the mountain.
Then Li Cunxiao led the soldiers and horses through the mountain road, because the mountain road was narrow, only three or four meters wide, Li Cunxiao's army could not pass in a short time, so it quickly fell into Bai Lin's pocket formation, and encountered the opponent's attack.
Bai Lin took advantage of the terrain to defeat Li Cunxiao and had to flee back, while Bai Lin took the opportunity to pursue.
The strategist beside him reminded Bai Lin: "General, be careful that it is the enemy's conspiracy!" ”
Bai Lin was excited, and he said: "The other party only has tens of thousands of soldiers and horses, what kind of conspiracy can there be!" Now is not to take advantage of the victory, but to wait! Great Qin needs a victory now, and now he has the opportunity to be the first general to defeat the enemy, how can he waste it! And this enemy army is weak in combat, look at their leader, although he is five big and three thick, he competed with me in a move, and the long lance in his hand almost got out of his hand! Martial arts can't be disguised! ”
The counselor thought about it, and then did not persuade him again. The current Great Qin needs to make a good start and make up for the shaken hearts with victory, if Bai Lin can annihilate this Xia army, then his great name will resound throughout the Qin State and become the new successor of the Bai family.
"The army obeys the order and pursues with me!" Bai Lin immediately ordered the herald to inform his subordinates, and then began to pursue the Xia army.
After Li Cunxiao retreated with his troops, he continued to retreat eastward, and soon arrived at the ambush he had set up.
God knows how difficult it is for him to disguise himself as a weak chicken, it's just too tiring. In fact, according to Li Cunxiao's character, why bother to attract the enemy to attack, even if the other party uses the terrain, he Li Cunxiao can lead the soldiers to rush over and win the victory.
This is the pride of Li Cunxiao.
However, who told Zhang Liang to give him tips and let him design like this.
Zhang Liang told Li Cunxiao in his bag that the Qin State needed victory, and his generals needed victory even more, so as long as they were simply lured, the enemy army would inevitably pursue. In fact, why doesn't Great Xia need a victory to get off to a good start?
Li Cunxiao was brave and fierce, and although he could win by breaking into the pocket formation of the enemy, his own side also had to lose his troops, after all, he took advantage of the terrain. But to lure the other party out, that is, Li Cunxiao occupies the terrain, so that the victory will not only lose less, but also destroy more enemies.
In the Eighth Route Army, Li Cunxiao won a big victory first!
So Li Cunxiao obediently obeyed Zhang Liang's plan, but he didn't expect the generals of the Qin army to really fall for it.
came to the ambush place, Li Cunxiao did not escape, and immediately reorganized his troops and horses and waited for the Qin army to chase him.
Soon, Bai Lin led his troops to catch up, and when he saw that Xia Jun did not escape, Bai Lin was a little surprised, and then sneered: "I can't do it!" Do you still want to resist? ”
At this moment, Bai Lin, who was intoxicated by the victory, had not yet discovered that although the Xia army had fled, their formation had not been chaotic, and it was simply forbidden. On the other hand, Bai Lin's soldiers and horses, because of the forced conscription of the people, have not undergone systematic training, so they participate in the team, and the whole team seems to be messy and disorderly.
The Qin army had already chased after him, and Li Cunxiao immediately ordered the herald to wave the battle flag, and the war drums sounded rapidly, and then the entire army turned into a cluster of arrows. Li Cunxiao was the arrow cluster at the front, behind him were archers, shield bearers, infantry, and cavalry on both wings, and the army charged and began to rush towards the Qin army.
At this moment, the soldiers of Great Xia did not need to disguise themselves as shrimp soldiers and crab generals, and their courage completely burst out, which made the soldiers of the Qin State stunned.
Damn, why did the other party's momentum suddenly become so fierce, from a little sheep to a big tiger! He even took the initiative to attack.
The face of the strategist beside Bai Lin changed, and he shouted to Bai Lin: "Not good general! This is a ploy by the enemy army, deliberately taking advantage of our competitive spirit and leading us in pursuit! ”
Bai Lin is not stupid, he has already understood, but now that the soldiers and horses of the two sides have only gathered for three or four miles, they will have to fight together immediately, and there is no chance to retreat.
"It's okay! Head to head, we can win! Bai Lin replied, and then rushed forward to the front, and also put on an arrow cluster formation, personally leading the Qin army to charge.
The two sides charged, and finally collided together, and the first of them was naturally Li Cunxiao and Bai Lin, who were the leaders.
Bai Lin was in his twenties, holding a spear, wielding a spear flower, and the tip of the spear pointed at Li Cunxiao's throat.
It was Li Cunxiao's horse lance that greeted him, and with a single blow, it pierced Bai Lin's chest, picked him off the horse, and then threw him out.
"Stupid lack of one!"
Li Cunxiao is a super-grade general, and it is easy to kill a third-grade small martial artist, and the second move shows that Li Cunxiao is a waste of fame.
As soon as the two sides fought, Bai Lin was killed, which made the Qin army, which was fighting with the Xia army, very heartbroken, but before they could react, the brave Xia army launched a fierce attack on them.
They are all elite soldiers trained by Li Cunxiao, and they are all good at soldiers, and the Qin army is so frightened that they lose their minds, so the result can be imagined, and they directly pressed the Qin army to fight.
At the same time, Li Cunxiao's hidden soldiers and horses had already rounded around to the rear of the Qin army, and now they had also begun to encircle and suppress.
In this way, the 150,000 troops encircled and suppressed the 200,000 troops of the Qin army, although there was a disparity of 50,000 troops, but the victory was one-sided to Great Xia. The final result does not need to be guessed, the Qin army has been defeated and has begun to flee. Li Cunxiao ordered the army to pursue and annihilate countless enemies.
Subsequently, Li Cunxiao packed up his troops and horses, cleaned up the battlefield, and sent a part of his soldiers and horses to pass through Wangshan and Lishan first to avoid being reused by the Qin army.
After counting the exploits, it was learned that more than 50,000 enemies were annihilated and nearly 40,000 were captured, and Li Cunxiao's soldiers and horses were killed or wounded about 10,000, which can be described as an overwhelming victory.
Most of the captives were forcibly conscripted civilians, and when they saw that the situation was wrong on the battlefield, they immediately abandoned their weapons and surrendered, so that the Xia army who raised their knives to kill them were stunned.
Xiao Rui ordered not to kill the captives, so many Qin people naturally couldn't keep them, so he sent people to escort them back to the Dongqi region, these are adult men, natural labor. The Huangtian Group has enclosed a large amount of land in the Dongqi area, and these people just use it for farming.
It's just that what Li Cunxiao didn't expect was that when he told these captives about the benevolence of Great Xia that they could be given land in the future and become the people of Great Xia, these captives were eager to go to the Dongqi region, and even wanted to bring their families over.
At the same time, the news of the battle of Wangshan was also spread all over the world in various eagle newspapers.
Han Xin got the Eagle Newspaper and immediately went to meet Xiao Rui.
Xiao Rui saw Li Cunxiao's good news, laughed, and said: "The ovary is like a god, and the generals of the Qin State against the enemy really fell into the plan!" The more they want to win, the harder it will be to win. The defeat in the first battle was a big blow to the Qin State, and I believe that the news has been received in Shanxi County. ”
After speaking, he handed over the good news to Zhang Liang.
After Zhang Liang saw it, he smiled and said: "Your Majesty, then don't be in a hurry to attack the county town of Shanxi, let it dry for two days first." The veteran of defending the city is named Liu Shuai, with a steady and cautious personality, he relies on the city to defend the county strongly, and it is not easy to trick him out. ”
Xiao Rui said with a smile: "Attacking is the next step, I have good generals and strategists around me, are you afraid that you won't be able to take a Shanxi county town?" Say, what is your plan? ”
Zhang Liang looked at Han Xin and motioned for him to speak.
Han Xin said: "Your Majesty, the soldiers and horses in Shanxi County have been roughly figured out, there are 300,000, including 200,000 Qin troops and 100,000 forcibly recruited Qin people, and Liu Shuai himself is in charge. Seventy miles away from the north and south of the county town, there is a palace city respectively, which is Licheng and Kangcheng, both garrisoned 50,000 soldiers, and the three cities become horns, the same is connected, and the soldiers and horses of the three cities cooperate with each other. Therefore, the subordinates wanted to send soldiers and horses to take Licheng and Kangcheng first. Once the two cities were attacked, the Chinese army dispersed its forces, and Liu Shuai would inevitably give up defending the city and attack out of the city. ”
Xiao Rui asked, "You are using me as bait!" ”
Han Xin said with a smile: "Your Majesty only led an army of 400,000 to drive the expedition in person, which is to risk your life and deliberately want to disrupt the layout of the Qin State and let the Qin State court plan it, so the Weichen is brave and asks Your Majesty to be the bait." ”
As the emperor, Xiao Rui's safety is a solemn priority, but there are only 400,000 soldiers and horses in the middle lane, which sounds like a lot, but in fact it is not much, once the Qin State gathers strong troops, such as gathering more than 700,000 troops to attack, then Xiao Rui will be in danger.
Knowing this hidden danger but still doing this, it is naturally the ploy of Xiao Rui, Zhang Liang, Han Xin and others.
Although the troops are divided into eight routes, the soldiers and horses of Li Cunxiao, Dian Wei, and Yang Youji are all on both wings, and if the Qin State really dares to gather large forces to kill, it will just fall into the trap of Great Xia. The Qin State did not have so many troops, and once the troops were gathered together, it would lead to no soldiers and horses in other regions, and then Chen Qingzhi, Yue Fei, and Qi Jiguang could really drive straight in.
This is the conspiracy of Great Xia, and the Qin court sees it in their eyes, so they don't want to be tricked, but pull up the defense line to resist the various armies of Great Xia.
But Xiao Rui is the emperor of Great Xia after all, the temptation is very great, when Xiao Rui has few troops around him, a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity, even if Liu Shuai is calm, can he hold back?
Moreover, the first battle of the Qin State has been defeated, and it is more urgent to need victory to boost morale, even if you can't kill the Emperor of Great Xia, it is a great joy to be able to win!