Obviously there is an opportunity to annihilate the mobile army of the Henan Army without seizing it, and there is also a certain opportunity to storm and take Luoyang City without fighting for it, covering the feint with a feint, and covering up the more shameless means with despicable means, and finally turning around, and actually choosing the most difficult main camp of the Henan Army to start, and Xiang Kang, who personally formulated this tactical plan, did this, in addition to Xiang Kang's courage and courage, there is also a very important reason.

This important reason is because Xiang Kang is afraid of one person, and this person is none other than Li Zuoche, the chief thinker of the Henan Army.

At the beginning of the tactical exercise, Xiang Kang, for the sake of safety, actually did not consider attacking the main camp of the Henan army, and the reason was very simple, the difficulty was too great, the certainty of success was too small, and it might lead to excessive casualties among the officers and soldiers of the Han army, so what Xiang Kang deduced at that time was only how to completely annihilate the mobile army of the Henan army that was lured out of the camp by himself, and whether he could directly take Luoyang City in one go.

However, when researching the specific target, Xiang Kang suddenly found that something was wrong - how could Li Zuoche, who was even very vigilant to Uncle Zhou and Chen Ping, not understand that there were only two targets for him, that is, the mobile army of the Henan Army or Luoyang City? If he only arranges tactics around these two goals, wouldn't it be very likely that Li Zuoche would be able to quickly see through them?

The dangerous consequences of being seen through by the enemy are self-evident, and the best way to achieve a surprise effect should be to break the shackles and choose a tactical target that the enemy absolutely does not expect!

Having come to this conclusion, the bold idea of taking the main camp in Henan in one fell swoop naturally jumped out of Xiang Kang's mind, and combined with the actual situation of the battlefield and the enemy and us, Xiang Kang quickly found that if he let the army ambushing the enemy's reinforcements take on the task of raiding, it would definitely be beyond the expectations of all the enemies, so after thinking twice, Xiang Kang made a bold decision to copy his tactics of attacking the enemy city when he was in Fuli, and take the risk of gambling with the enemy!

The bet was lost, the Han army's previous achievements were wasted, and all the previous tactical preparations were in vain! But if the bet wins, the Han army will have the opportunity to take the main camp of the Henan army in one fell swoop, and decide the victory or defeat of the Sanchuan battlefield many times in advance!

Fighting a war was originally a kind of gambling, and Xiang Kang had the courage and courage to bet his chips on it!

Then, as Xiang Kang expected, the Henan army, including the dangerous man Li Zuoche, really broke his head and did not expect that the Han army would be bold enough to try to swallow their main force in one bite, and the five hundred Han army warriors disguised as Henan soldiers also took advantage of the cover of night to successfully blend into the defeated crowd of the Henan army, and under the guidance of a five-hundred-hundred-strong main army flag of the Henan army that was deliberately torn off in half, they rushed into the east gate of the main camp of the Henan army in the crowd of defeated soldiers of the enemy, just like a sharp dagger coated with poison, Quietly inserted into the waist eye of the main force of the Henan Army.

Seeing that the dragon and the army team threw primordial grenades one after another to send out a signal, the Han warriors who disguised themselves as the defeated soldiers of the Henan army immediately started to attack, or threw hidden primitive grenades to disturb the enemy, or rushed forward to slash and kill the Henan soldiers who were closing the door, and some Han army warriors were even more shameless, simply shouting that I was my own person, while not hesitating to greet the enemy with their weapons, desperately creating chaos for the enemy.

The east gate position of the Henan army is full of chaos, and then it is disturbed by such a shameless sneak attack by the Han army warriors, of course, the east gate of the Henan army's camp is even more chaotic, the camp gate that was about to close was opened again, and the Han soldiers who had been prepared rushed into the enemy camp quickly under the response of their companions in the camp, protecting the Han army's entry road, and the Han soldiers behind were like a tide, constantly pouring into the Henan army camp, and cut the Henan soldiers who were hiding behind the camp to shoot arrows to cover the ghost crying wolf, holding their heads and running aroundThe counterattack hastily organized by the Henan sergeants was also quickly defeated by the Han army, missing the last opportunity to plug the gap.

By the time Sima Wei hurriedly sent reinforcements to the East Gate position, everything was over, and most of the more than 10,000 Longhe soldiers had rushed into the enemy camp, not only destroying the east gate of the Henan Army's camp and a large number of camp fortifications, but also setting fire to countless nearby Henan military camp tents, the camp was full of panicked Henan soldiers, and there were also Han soldiers and soldiers who killed people and set fire to people with red eyes, and there was no way to regain control of the camp gate, let alone expel the Han army who entered the camp.

The Henan army is still behind, not much time, the Han army heavy armor soldiers who rode the carriage forward also arrived at the scene, and when the Han army heavy armor wearing heavy steel armor joined the battlefield, the offensive of the Han army soldiers is even more invincible, the invulnerable Han army heavy armor soldiers only slash people, spear to kill the enemy, one after another Henan soldiers cut the head is broken, limbs are incomplete, stabbed is chest and abdomen holes, blood gushing, and the weapons of the Henan soldiers are almost impossible to form damage to the Han army heavy armor soldiers, In front of the heavy armor soldiers of the Han army, it was also like a lamb waiting to be slaughtered, and several armies were completely dispersed in a short time.

After the brigade basically entered the camp, under the command of the banner of Long Ji, the soldiers of the Han army resolutely went north, impacting the defenders of the north camp of the Henan Army who were resisting the attack of the main force of the Han army, and receiving the main force of the Han army from the north gate into the camp. Sima Wei saw that the situation was not good on the high ground in the camp, although he immediately sent troops to rescue, but he still couldn't resist the tide of the attack of the Long and the army, and the Long and the army were like a broken bamboo, and quickly killed the back of the defenders of the north camp of the Henan army, and in a blink of an eye, the Henan soldiers who were resisting the main attack of the Han army were scattered, and the main soldiers of the Han army took advantage of the situation to go to the base one after another, and joined forces with the Long and the army to attack the north camp gate of the Henan army.

When the soldiers of the Han army broke through the north gate of the Henan army's camp under the response of the Long and the army, the main battalion of the Henan army basically lost its value of sticking, even if it could be held in the end, it would definitely have to pay a heavy price, and at the same time, all kinds of military supplies in the camp must have suffered huge losses. However, Sima Wei refused to give up, in addition to organizing the army to resist desperately, he also adopted Du Wanda's suggestion, and sent Sun Yin, a general who had made meritorious contributions, to lead an army from the West Gate to launch a surprise attack on Xiang Kang's banner array, in a vain attempt to encircle Wei to save Zhao and reverse the defeat.

It's a pity that although the number of local troops is roughly equal, Xiang Kang has also been prepared for this, Sun Yin's army did not go far north from the camp, just saw where Xiang Kang's flag array was, Guan Ying and Yang Xi led the Han cavalry suddenly killed out of the darkness, brandishing a saber to impact Sun Yin's rear team, Xiang Kang ordered the drums to be beaten, launched a comprehensive general attack, gave up the command and let the Han army units fight on their own, while personally leading the Han army team to protect the flag array to launch a counterattack, and joined forces with the cavalry of the own army, and attacked the camp team of the Henan army before and after, Sun Yin's army was attacked before and after, and soon fell into disadvantage.

At the same time, the various units of the Han army that attacked the whole line also entered the enemy camp one after another, joined forces with the former army and the Long and the army, and set fire to almost all the outer camps of the Henan army camp, and also killed the Henan soldiers in the outer camp to the corpses, and fled countless times, when the sky was twilight, the Han army also took the heavy armor soldiers as the vanguard, forcibly broke through the Chinese army camp of the Henan army, and smashed Sima Wei's Chinese army commander's tent, Sima Wei led the Chinese army to launch a counterattack several times without success, and finally had to listen to Li Zuoche's persuasion, roared and led the army to abandon the camp and go east, and even did not dare to enter the county town of Henan, fled directly east to his Luoyang lair.

Seeing Sima Wei fleeing eastward, the main force of the Henan army also quickly collapsed, countless generals and soldiers scrambled to be the first, one only fled to Luoyang, trampled on each other in the chaos, and the dead were innumerable, the various departments of the Han army really launched a pursuit, desperately slashing and capturing the defeated soldiers of the Henan army, and Xiang Kang led his direct team and cavalry to join forces to kill the Henan army Sun Yin's department, and also decisively led the army to launch a pursuit, and also brandished the Dingqin sword on the horse and kept yelling, "Chase!" Hunt for it! Be sure to kill Sima Wei! Don't give Sima Wei a chance to escape back to Luoyang! ”

It's a pity that although the main force of the Han army pursued extremely decisively and resolutely, it also killed tens of thousands of defeated soldiers of the Henan army in the pursuit battle, and captured countless prisoners, Xiang Kang's direct army also killed Sun Yin, the general of the Henan army, in the pursuit, but Sima Wei put down his handsome flag early, and changed into the clothes of ordinary soldiers, mixed in the crowd and fled for his life, so even if the Han army pursued to the city of Luoyang, it still failed to find Sima Wei's traces.

Seeing the defeated brigade of the Henan army fleeing, although the Zhu Jishi Department of the Han Army stationed in the northwest corner of Luoyang did not spare any effort and immediately sent troops to intercept it, but the defeated soldiers of the Henan Army were too many, and tens of thousands of them were densely packed with black pressure, and they fled all over the mountains and fields, and they couldn't stop it at all, plus the Han army consumed a lot of physical strength under Luoyang City last night, so the soldiers of the Han Army still couldn't kill or catch Sima Wei, and they watched countless defeated soldiers of the Henan Army flee west to Luoyang City, Under the cover of the defenders' bows and arrows, Zhu Jishi was so angry that he screamed, but he was still helpless.

In the end, there were still nearly 10,000 defeated soldiers of the Henan army who escaped into Luoyang City to survive, so that the main force of the Henan Army escaped the doom of the annihilation of the whole army, and what made the Han army even more helpless was that it didn't take much time for Sima Wei's handsome flag to appear on Luoyang City again, officially announcing that the biggest target of the Han army soldiers Sima Wei also escaped from the sky, Xiang Kang saw it from a distance and was helpless, so he could only clean up the battlefield and kill the remnants of the enemy, while gathering the army, and withdrawing the main camp to rest and rest, Prepare to take Henan County first, and then come to clean up the remnants of the enemy in Luoyang City.

After seeing Xiang Kang lead the main force of the Han army to withdraw, Sima Wei, who was covered in dust and sweat, breathed a sigh of relief, knowing that he had escaped a catastrophe, but Li Zuoche next to him did not dare to relax in any way, and immediately said to Sima Wei: "King, Xiang Kang Xiao'er will make a comeback soon, and there is not much time left for us." The only way for us to do this is to send another envoy to Shenyang, the king of Han, for help, and only if he immediately leads his army north to rescue us, can we hope to hold out until the army of the king of Western Chu arrives. ”

Still had to be reminded by Li Zuoche, Sima Wei suddenly remembered his comrade-in-arms Shen Yang when he was in Zhao State, and hurriedly asked everyone: "Where are Shen Yang's reinforcements?" This king has already sent several envoys to ask him for help, why is there no news of his reinforcements? ”

No one was able to answer Sima Wei's question, only Li Zuoche analyzed for Sima Wei: "King, Shen Yang has not given an answer for a long time, he must be trying to take advantage of the fire to rob and extort a sum of money and food from us." Things have come to this point, we can't care so much, we should send another envoy to contact him, take the initiative to promise Shen Yang, as long as he can help us block the Han thief army, and hold on until the rescue of the king of Western Chu arrives, we will give him thirty percent of Aocang grain, and give him another 500,000 gold, as a thank you, Shen Yang covets the money and food we promised, and will definitely send troops immediately. ”

Ao Cang's grain storage is too much to count, in history, Xiang Yu led the eighteen princes into the customs, the Han army confronted the Chu army in Xingyang for five years, and all the food was Ao Cang's grain, there was still a surplus, and thirty percent of Ao Cang's grain storage was naturally an astronomical number, and it was also a number that made Sima Wei's flesh ache. However, considering that his current situation is critical, and it is useless to have more money and food if he can't save his life, Sima Wei gritted his teeth, nodded anyway, and said: "Just do it, and immediately send a messenger to Yingchuan to ask for help from that puppet in Shenyang." ”

"King, you can't send ordinary messengers this time." Li Zuoche hurriedly said: "For the sake of safety, the king, you had better send a messenger who is strong enough and good at tongue discrimination to meet Shen Yang, explain to him the truth of the cold lips and teeth, and persuade him to send troops to the north immediately, so that you can be more sure of asking for reinforcements from Shen Yang." ”

Sima Wei nodded again very helplessly, just after a little calculation, he immediately pointed to his servant Cheng Lian and ordered: "You will set off to see Shen Yang tonight, tell him the truth of cold lips and teeth, and also tell him clearly that as long as he sends troops to help me hold out until the rescue of the king of Western Chu arrives, I promise him money and food, and there will be no shortage of him at all!" ”

The matter was not over, and then Li Zuoche persuaded Sima Wei to send someone to contact Sima Xin and Dong Peng, and asked Sima Xin to send troops to attack Hedong, the place controlled by the Han army, and asked Dong Feng to take the opportunity to send troops to attack Shangjun of the Han army, besiege Wei and rescue Zhao to share the pressure for the Henan army. Li Zuoche still refused to give up, and said hesitantly: "King, on the side of Zhao State, we'd better send a messenger all the way." ”

"Zhao Guo?" Sima Wei was stunned for a moment, and then immediately shook his head and said: "Zhao Guo doesn't need to, how much Zhao Xie and Zhang Er hate this king, Guangwujun, you don't know, sending an envoy to ask them for help is not only definitely useless, but also will definitely bring humiliation on yourself." ”

"King, Zhao Guo may not save us." Li Zuoche said in a deep voice: "It is true that Zhao Guo hates us, but the current situation is that Xiang Yu is strong and weak, we ask Zhao Guo for help, if Zhao State refuses to send troops, the King of Western Chu will inevitably be furious, and Zhao State will not ignore this." If we make certain concessions to Zhao in terms of land and cities, Zhao may not be able to send troops to rescue us with all its might. ”

Sima Wei hesitated for a long time before he said: "Then give it a try, send a messenger to Zhao State, and clearly tell Zhao Xie that as long as he sends troops to help us survive this pass, I will give Zhao State all the land and cities north of Zhangshui in Handan County." ”

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Let's take a look at the situation on Xiang Kang's side, when he withdrew to the camp with the main force of the Han army, the time was already about to pass in the afternoon of the same day, including Xiang Kang himself, the Han army was already exhausted, tired and hungry, but fortunately, Chen Ping, Zhang Liang and Qi Gill and other young marshals who stayed in the camp expected this in advance, and had already prepared hot meals and syrup for the Han soldiers and soldiers, so that the Han soldiers could have a full meal and rest immediately after returning to the camp, and welcomed Xiang Kang, who was also covered with sweat and dust, into the handsome tent, so that Xiang Kang could rest while eating.

In front of Chen Ping, Ding Ji and Zhong Liwu and other major civil and military forces of the Han army, as well as in front of Tang Bing and Wu Shi, who went out with the army this time, Mr. Shusun's tongue was bright and lotus, gushing endlessly, and his face did not change in one breath and poured out thousands of words of good words without repeating, and he only complimented Xiang Kang's clever calculations, strategized, won a thousand miles, broke Sima Wei's main force, saved the soldiers and civilians of Sanchuan from the dire straits, and raised the prestige of the Han Dynasty in the Central PlainsIn the future, the princes outside the Guanwai will inevitably be frightened when they hear Xiang Kangying's name, and they will surrender to the banner of the Han army.

I really couldn't stand Mr. Uncle Sun's warm compliments, Xiang Kang could only quickly find an opportunity to change the topic and said to everyone: "Although we broke the main force of the Henan thief army in this battle, it is a pity that we failed to catch Sima Wei himself, so that he escaped back to Luoyang City. Today I also took a look at the situation of Luoyang City by the way, it is indeed a high and deep moat, easy to defend and difficult to attack, if Sima Wei is determined to stick to the help, then we are afraid that there will be a siege to fight. ”

The civil and military forces of the Han army nodded one after another, and Mr. Shusun immediately changed his tone, and began to arrogantly shout that with Xiang Kang's wise leadership, it was definitely just easy to break through Luoyang and capture Sima Wei, but unfortunately Zhang Liang didn't like to let Mr. Shusun be in the limelight alone, and soon rushed to say: "King Han, what we should be most worried about next is not that Luoyang's city is high and deep, and the garrison is strong, but that Sima Wei's Shenyang reinforcements from Yingchuan." ”

"Mr. Zifang is worried that Shen Yang will send troops to rescue Sima Wei?" Xiang Kang asked.

"Not bad." Zhang Liang nodded and said: "The puppet Han King Shenyang has not sent troops to rescue Sima Wei until now, there are no more than two reasons, one is that Sima Wei's situation is not critical until yesterday, and Shen Yang has no need to rush to rescue him; The second is that Shen Yang definitely wants to take advantage of the fire to rob and extort Sima Wei for a sum of money and food. ”

"But that's a different story now." Zhang Liang continued: "Sima Wei was defeated last night, the situation is as dangerous as an egg, and under the dying struggle, he will definitely promise heavy profits to lure Shen Yang to send troops to rescue him. For this, it is better for the Han King to try to prevent it from happening, lest Shenyang's reinforcements suddenly arrive and make us scramble. ”

Xiang Kang nodded and said, "After taking Henan County, I will immediately divide my troops to prevent Shenyang from going north to Luoyang." ”

Zhang Liang didn't answer, his expression was still a little hesitant, but Wu Shi, one of the four Hao of Shangshan, spoke directly and said: "Does the king plan to make enemies and blindly solve the problem by force only?" If Sima Wei also asked Zhao Xie and Sima Xin for help, promising them a lot of money and asking them to send troops to surround Wei to rescue Zhao or rescue Zhao directly, how did the king plan to divide his troops to resist the enemy? ”

"The king must not think that Zhao Guo and Sima Wei have a grudge, so he will definitely not send troops to help Sima Wei, that is just a wishful thinking." Tang Bing also said slowly: "During the Warring States Period, the seven countries competed with each other, and the countries fought to the death for the land and the city today, and fought side by side for the common interests tomorrow, are there fewer such examples?" ”

"Now that Western Chu is strong and the Han State is weak, Zhao Xie and Zhang Er are typical wall grass, the King of Western Chu has just agreed to reconcile with them, they will immediately break off the alliance with us, and turn against each other, Zhao State is likely to offend the King of Western Chu if he does not save Sima Wei, if Sima Wei agrees to cede some land and cities to Zhao State, I am afraid that Zhao State will soon send troops out of Handan and launch an attack on our partial division in Hanoi County."

Xiang Kang was silent, and nodded slightly, agreeing with Tang Bing and Wu Shi's analysis. Tang Bingye said at this time: "King, you were in Guanzhong before, and it was a little unrealistic to persuade the princes outside Guanzhong to rebel against Chu and return to Han. But now the situation is completely different, the Han army went out of the customs in two ways, invincible, and in less than a month before and after, it broke the main force of Sima Wei, and forced Sima Wei, who was sitting in the three counties, into a desperate situation. Therefore, the old man thinks that the king should also perform the art of vertical and horizontal shutting down, weaken the enemy and strengthen yourself, and hold high the banner of the Han Dynasty to fight against the king of Western Chu. ”

With a bang, the table that suddenly overturned in the tent attracted everyone's attention, Xiang Kang and everyone in the tent turned their heads in surprise, but saw that it was Mr. Shusun who suddenly jumped up and directly knocked over the table in front of him, Xiang Kang was strange, and hurriedly asked: "Mr. Shusun, what's wrong with you?" ”

"The king forgives the sins, the micro-ministers ......, and the micro-ministers ......." Mr. Shusun's face was obviously a little wrong, and he spit out a few sentences before he continued: "Weichen is in a hurry, it's convenient to go out after suing him." ”

After that, Mr. Shusun, who has always paid attention to etiquette, did not even do it for the first time, and he rushed out of the Chinese army tent of the Han army as soon as he slipped through the smoke, looking like a rabbit chased by a hungry wolf.