Chapter 761: Old and Strong
When Heifu led the main force along the Huarong Trail towards Jiangling, Ji Ying and Gongwei were also ordered to take 5,000 people to the north from Zhouling County.
The composition of this army is complex, basically composed of people from Nanjun, but it comes from different counties: Jingling, Yundu, Xinshi, Dangyang, Bianxian, Yanxian, and Yanxian......
At the feet are the straw sandals that the people of Nanjun are accustomed to wearing when walking among the lakes, and the hats on their heads to shield them from the scorching sun of late spring, each carrying several days' food on their backs, and their faces are full of smiles, not like fighting, but more like going home.
Hefu's order to everyone is really going home......
In addition to recruiting the people who fled into the mountains, forests and swamps to avoid the Qin government, these 5,000 people will return to their respective hometowns and serve as propaganda teams and seeding machines to spread the news that the First Emperor had collapsed and that the Marquis of Wuzhong had gone north to Jingjing. At the same time, they took advantage of the friendship of the township party to raise a team and launch an attack on the local counties and townships......
To put it bluntly, the task of Ji Ying and Gongwei is to go to the place where the enemy's ruling force is weak, establish a base behind the enemy, and contain Feng Wuxuan's main force, so that Heifu can "attack the east and attack the west" and occupy Jiangling's strategic success.
"Even if Feng Wu chooses not to save Yicheng, once Nanjun is full of smoke, his generation will also fight fires on all sides, and he will be exhausted!"
Even, even the soldiers of Nanjun in Gangneung will be fished out by the counties in a hurry, so that Heifu can easily capture it.
Heifu also did not forget to teach the two of them the sixteen-character mantra: "The enemy advances and I retreat, the enemy is stationed and I disturb, the enemy is tired and I fight, and the enemy retreats and I chase!" ”
After Ji Ying and Gongwei set off, it was agreed that Ji Ying would launch several counties east of Hanshui, and the counties in western Hanxi would be infiltrated by Gongwei.
But when Gongwei and Ji Ying parted ways and arrived in Jingling County (Qianjiang County, Hubei Province) with 2,000 people, ready to do a big job here, they found that they were facing more than just local county officials......
At the end of March, from the reeds by the Hanshui ferry in Jingling County, the lieutenant followed the scouts who were investigating the virtual reality in front of him to the edge, and opened the reed leaves, only to find that the place was no longer peaceful, and the empty field had been occupied by boundless troops.
Spread your eyes and look far away, only to see the chariots and horses on both sides of the Han River are all over the place, the spears and halberds are like a forest, the marching team is several miles long, the front is a knight, the back is a foot pawn, under the distant view, the smoke and dust are filled, and the military appearance is very prosperous.
Under the neighing of people and horses, the gulls and herons were frightened and flew all over the sky, and the lieutenant also stared at the "Wuxin" banner that had just crossed the Han River, and was shocked to realize that something was wrong!
"It's the army of Wuxin Marquis Feng Wuxuan!"
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After leaving Jingling County for more than ten miles, Feng Wuxue was told that there was a rebel army of more than 2,000 people, and seeing the army going away, he suddenly killed from Yunmengze, attacked the ferry pavilion, and burned down the wharf, so that the baggage escorted by thousands of people in the follow-up could not be helped.
At this time, the two counties of Yundu and Xinshi, which they passed through two days ago, also sent people to catch up with the large army and reported an emergency:
"General, there are thousands of rebels divided into several teams, fighting out from Zezhong, attacking the towns, and inciting the people of the county to rebel."
"After the army helped the county lieutenant to attack him, he escaped into Daze again and disappeared without a trace."
"When the rear army is on the road again, those rebels will reappear, constantly harassing the two counties, if they are not rescued, I am afraid that Yundu and Xinshi will lose ......"
There were really fires everywhere, and his subordinates were worried and wanted to go back to the division to rescue, but Feng Wuxue was not worried but happy, but immediately turned his back and laughed nonstop.
The lieutenants looked at each other: "Why is the general laughing? ”
Feng Wuxue said: "I don't laugh at others, but I laugh at the black man, although he is good at using soldiers, he is extremely skillful in avoiding real attacks and attacking falsehoods." But this time, the hidden fox's tail still showed a corner, and its troops were heading, and it was really heading towards Jiangling! ”
The lieutenants were already a little suspicious of Feng Wuxue's move to lead the whole army to march to Jiangling instead of saving the city that was in danger, and they were even more surprised at this moment:
"How so?"
Feng Wuxue said: "If what I expected is not bad, Heifu will definitely order the rebels to attack the rebels in the three counties of Jingling, Yundu, and Xinshi, and follow the plan of Wu Sun Tzu's tired and misguided Chu, I will return when I go out, and I will return when I return, I want to let our army fight fires everywhere and be exhausted!" ”
Three hundred years ago, Sun Wu assisted King Wu in attacking Chu, and he believed that Chu was strong and Wu was weak, and could not fight a direct battle. So he divided the Wu army into three groups and attacked in turn to harass the Chu army.
In this way, every time the king of Chu received an urgent document, he would send troops to the rescue, and the divisions of Shen and Xi had just returned from repelling a Wu army, and before they had time to rest, there was an emergency on the border, so they could only be ordered to send troops to quell another harassment.
In a year, the Chu army traveled back and forth seven times, and was exhausted.
There are too many wolves, and they are paralyzed, so Sun Wucai took the Wu army to trace the Huai River, and directly arrived in the hinterland of Chu to launch a general attack.
"Now Heifu must have used this plan to put our army in chaos everywhere, and missed the opportunity to rush to the aid of Gangneung, he must have taken a trail along the river at this time, ready to attack Gangneung."
Feng Wuxue's gaze looked at the west and he breathed a long sigh of relief.
"You got it right!"
When he learned that Yicheng was asking for help, Feng knew that he had to make a choice.
"This is a plan to attack the west, Gu Dong will lose the west, Gu Xi will lose the east, and the east and west will lose the east, and the east and west will definitely lose ......"
The point is, where is Hef, where is his main force!
Feng Wuxue's gaze was finally fixed on the west.
"Fu Jiangling, the old capital of Chu, the north has the shelter of Yan Han, the west has the defense of Yiling, and the east has the Rao of Yunmeng, which is easy to defend and difficult to attack, but once it is captured, Heifu can obtain a large number of people and food, and can also take advantage of the situation to order Western Chu and Southern Chu."
"Therefore, the shape of Jianghan is better than Jiangling."
Further, advancing to the west can threaten Bashu, and the east will go beyond the underworld to force Chen and Cai, and going north to take Yan can threaten Nanyang, and even break the Wuguan and enter the pass.
"Yicheng is of course crucial, but Jiangling is even more important!"
Therefore, Feng Wu did not choose to predict that if he was a black man, he would definitely personally command the main force and give priority to capturing Jiangling.
Now that we know where Heifu's main force is, things will be easy.
"As long as we can wipe out the main force of the rebels and capture Heifu, this rebellion that swept the south will collapse!"
So Feng Wuxue ordered:
"Tell the rear army to enter Jingling with a baggage, close the city gates, and ignore the rebel nuisance, as well as Yundu and Xinshi. The army will only carry a few days' rations, and follow me straight to Gangneung! The rice grain there is enough for our army to feed for five years! “
The voice is loud, as if to tell everyone......
The general?
The general is not old!
After saying that, Feng Wuxue slapped the horsewhip hard, causing the army to speed up, and gritted his teeth and said secretly:
"Hef, hey."
"You rebel who has betrayed Your Majesty's trust."
"The thief of the heavenly curse, the demon star."
"The old man has finally caught you!"
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Feng Wuxue took the Kangzhuang Avenue, but he could travel fifty miles a day, while Heifu took the Huarong Trail, and it was the norm to travel twenty miles a day.
Huarong Road is extremely remote, the air is sticky, hot and humid, and the ground is narrow and the road is dangerous, it is difficult to walk, and even camping at night is a problem.
During the march, the dense bushes that had been soaked in the rotten swamp for many years pressed the soldiers from both sides of the road, and in the dense forest there were tigers and wolves staring at each other, and there were crocodiles half-floating and half-sinking in the water, which looked like black wood with eyes and teeth.
Often, men and horses would get stuck in the mud and could not get out, and the black man could only order the soldiers to cut reeds and artemisia grass to fill the road, so that he could barely get through.
The degree of hardship was no less than that of the Red Army crossing the meadow, and after almost being drowned in a quagmire, Deng Zong, a native of Ruyin, a native of Ruyin, five hundred masters, couldn't help complaining:
"Why don't you take the waterway, although the enemy army also has boats in Xiakou, but if you want to go against the current, it is still the light steamers of the Lingqu Boat Master, right?"
An Lu Ren Yuan Yong glared at Deng Zong:
"Don't you have a boat master in Gangneung? Don't question the prince's decision-making! ”
It was a matter of confidentiality, and neither of them knew the reason, but Wu Chen in the back understood.
"The Lingqu Boat Master has returned to Yunmeng several times, but it has long been damaged, and it can only carry thousands of people, so I am afraid that it will not be able to storm Jiangling. However, the prince kept them, but he wanted to let another group of people take the boat and go by water......"
In short, it took eight or nine days for them to set foot on dry land and enter Huarong County, and the three armies had become a group of mud men.
Heifu looked back at Yun Mengze, who was behind him, and suddenly asked Wu Chen: "Wu Chen, count it up, how many times have we been back and forth to Yunmeng since the beginning of the army?" ”
Wu Chen snapped his fingers and said: "In mid-February, the prince and the marquis took three thousand short soldiers out of the cloud and raided Wuchang for one time. ”
"In late February, the prince took 5,000 people to cross Yunmeng north, returned to Anlu, and rescued the villagers twice."
"At the beginning of March, I took the people to the south to Shaxian, which was three times."
"Right now, the Huarong Trail between the clouds and the dream is secretly attacking Gangneung, and it is for the fourth ......"
"What a coincidence, four times?"
Heifu was happy in his heart, and suddenly forgot the military order he issued "no laughing", and laughed: "If this battle is won, the four crosses the cloud dream, this may become a miracle of war history that future generations will talk about!" ”
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Although tired, but Huarong is a small county, easy to take, not long after, Huarong County order, Wei fled west, the county surrendered, the three armies entered the city, opened the warehouse to eat, rest and rectify for a day, and so on morale and energy recovered, then waved westward.
So far, Heifu and his entourage have six or seven hundred cars, more than 1,000 horses, and more than 20,000 soldiers.
But only thirty miles east of Yingxian, Heifu's scouts reported that a large army had just arrived in Yingxian, and was now camping east of Yingxian, waiting in formation.
"The number of people is comparable to our army, and the banner is Wuxin Hou, Feng Wuxuan!"
Heifu couldn't laugh, at this moment, there was a kind of embarrassment that he wanted to go to the house to find the little lady to cheat, and his pants were taken off, but he found that his husband was standing at the door with a dark face.
But after all, Heifu was thick-skinned, and seeing that the surprise attack could not be achieved, he shook his head and sighed:
"Marquis Wu Xin is really old and strong!"
"The old man is not only bright-minded, but also has good legs and feet, so he can rush here in advance to wait for me...... As a junior, it's really rude. ”
He became serious and looked back at his banner: "Wu Zhong".
"It seems that the Marquis of Wuzhong and the Marquis of Wuxin of Great Qin are destined to have a decisive battle!"
"Line up and march to Yingxian!"
Heifu boarded the chariot and looked back at the army that had accompanied him all the way, and his fighting spirit was high: "Since General Feng would rather move the heart of the white head, then Heifu should not fall into the ambition of the clouds!" ”