The reason why Xiang Kang was able to conceal the main force of the Henan Army, and even Li Zuoche, who was famous in the history of the late Qin and early Han dynasties, and highlight the tactical initiative of the strange soldiers to win the Luoyang battlefield in Henan, was not because Xiang Kang's strategy was clever and how ingenious his methods were, but because the main force of the Henan Army and Li Zuoche all underestimated Xiang Kang's courage and courage, and dared to really divide troops to attack Luoyang City under their noses.

As mentioned earlier, Luoyang is the capital of the Eastern Zhou Dynasty, the city is quite tall and strong, and the four city gates are protected by urns, and Xiang Yu suffered heavy losses when attacking Luoyang, so that the defenders retaliated after the city was slaughtered. At the same time, the main force of the Henan army of 60,000 was still stationed 30 miles away, and could suddenly return to the division to rescue Luoyang at any time, and the main force of the Han army divided the army into two to attack Luoyang and confront the main force of the Henan army at the same time under the condition that the advantage of troops was not very large, not only did not guarantee that Luoyang City would be taken, but also the danger of being broken by the Henan army by taking the opportunity.

Ordinary generals will not be so risky, Xiang Kang has always been known for his prudence in the use of troops, no matter how much he likes to use fraud, it is first based on his own undefeated, and it stands to reason that he will not risk taking the army into two, and the main force of the Henan Army led by Sima Wei and Li Zuoche also fell into this psychological blind spot, so Xiang Kang took advantage of the loophole, and suddenly increased his troops on the battlefield in Luoyang and grasped the tactical initiative.

But Xiang Kang's tricks only ended here, and when he found out that he was in the middle of the plan, Sima Wei immediately planned to divide his troops as soon as possible to strengthen the Luoyang defenders, but after Li Zuoche gradually calmed down, he quickly saw through Xiang Kang's true purpose, and decisively stopped Sima Wei's plan to divide his troops, and pointed out: "Don't worry, although Xiang Kang Xiao'er has increased his troops on the battlefield in Luoyang, his primary purpose is not to storm Luoyang City, but still wants to trick us into dividing our troops to return to Luoyang to reinforce Luoyang. ”

"How can Guangwujun see it?"

The repeated setbacks have made Sima Wei gradually lose confidence in Li Zuoche, and his tone and expression were obviously questioning when he asked this, but Li Zuoche didn't find it, but replied according to his own analysis: "There is only one reason, the Han thief's partial division is still not sure that he can definitely take Luoyang City, Luoyang City is high and deep, and the materials for defending the city are sufficient, relying on the two thief armies of Long Ji and Zhu Jishi alone cannot guarantee that they will be able to take Luoyang, Xiang Kang Xiao'er will not understand this truth." ”

"Therefore, what Xiang Kang Xiao'er hopes most is still to let us divide our troops back to Luoyang, give him the opportunity to win the siege and send reinforcements, or gradually eat our army, or take the opportunity to create a decisive battle, unless we continue to respond to all changes with the same and insist on refusing to adjust the army garrison, he will consider really launching a strong attack. Take Luoyang at any cost. ”

After pointing out Xiang Kang's sinister intentions, Li Zuoche said: "Since this is the case, then we must not fall for Xiang Kang'er's evil again, it is best to respond to all changes with the same, do not make any adjustments, and force Xiang Kang'er to take a strategy of attacking the city, let his partial division use the main force to attack the fortified city, and then we will consider how to return to Luoyang." ”

If it was before, Sima Wei might have adopted Li Zuoche's suggestion without hesitation, but it was still that sentence, Sima Wei had gradually lost confidence in Li Zuoche, since the undeclared war from the Han army, the Henan army has been eaten to death by the Han army in terms of tactics, this is of course because Xiang Kang and Uncle Zhou are both tactical geniuses, too difficult, but it also has something to do with Li Zuoche's inability to predict the tactics of the Han army in advance, and Sima Wei, who has suffered enough losses, is no longer so obedient to Li Zuoche. began to doubt Li Zuoche's true ability.

There is a more important point, that is, Luoyang City is too important to Sima Wei, not only Sima Wei's whole family is in Luoyang City, but also the families of the important civil and military forces of the Henan Army, as well as all kinds of necessary military baggage, are also in Luoyang City. So after thinking about it for a while, Sima Wei said directly: "It's too risky to do this, Luoyang is our national capital, there can't be any mistakes, for the sake of safety, we'd better send an army back as soon as possible to help defend Luoyang, so as to ensure that nothing goes wrong." ”

"Then how does the king plan to divide his troops back to help defend Luoyang?" Li Zuoche asked helplessly: "The dragon and thief army has already advanced eastward first, we divide our troops back at this time, how can he not go all out to intercept and block the attack?" ”

Sima Wei didn't speak, just rolled his eyes and calculated, but Du Wanda next to him couldn't wait, and immediately said: "King, we can divide our troops to go back to reinforce Luoyang at night, Henan County is only thirty miles away from Luoyang, we will divide our troops and set off at night, and we can easily reach Luoyang City in a few hours." ”

"Divide the troops at night? With Xiang Kang's treachery, how could he not have expected this? Li Zuoche almost didn't laugh out loud, and said: "At that time, as long as his thief army sends troops to stop him, and our division of troops can't break through his interception, won't the situation be even more dangerous in the dark night?" ”

"Guangwujun, the lower official didn't say that he would return to Luoyang tonight." Du Wanda retorted unconvinced: "It is possible that Xiang Kang Xiao'er expected that we would return to the army to rescue Luoyang tonight, but he can prevent tonight, and can he be prepared every night?" As long as we seize an opportunity, can't the rescuers go into the city for reinforcements? ”

Du Wanda's idea was not bad, Li Zuoche couldn't find anything to refute for a while, Sima Wei nodded slowly, and said thoughtfully: "Let's take a look at the situation first, fortunately, Luoyang City is strong, and it will definitely not be a big problem to withstand it for a few days, after tonight, as long as there is a chance, we will immediately divide our troops to go back to rescue Luoyang." ”

Li Zuoche's main purpose was just to stop Sima Wei from immediately taking the risk of dividing his troops, and seeing that Sima Wei still listened to his own persuasion, Li Zuoche didn't say anything more, but continued to be the same as Sima Wei, through scouting to grasp the specific situation of the Han army's partial division, and judge the next move of the Han army. Fortunately, the Han army did not play any other tricks, and after Long Ji's army arrived at the outskirts of Luoyang that afternoon, he immediately boarded the Lingtai to join Zhu Jishi, seized the time to expand the camp, and put on a posture of preparing to confront the defenders of Luoyang for a long time.

The day passed quickly, and in the evening, Sima Wei, who had eaten dinner, personally led the team to inspect the night defense of the self-army camp, but after returning to the sleeping tent to rest, Sima Wei said that he couldn't sleep steadily, and he had been worrying about his old nest Luoyang, and he always felt that Xiang Kang had other tricks to take risks and divide the troops.

"Bell bell!"

"Kill!"

Sima Wei's worry was right, he had just fallen asleep not long after, just arrived at the second watch, the Henan army camp was full of gongs, countless sentinels sounded the gong alarm, at the same time outside the camp there was a shouting of killing, Sima Wei who was awakened did not dare to be careless, jumped up from the couch, immediately rushed out of the tent barefoot to look outside, saw the torches outside the northwest two camps of the army camp like hemp, everywhere you can hear the sound of shouting and killing and the sound of war drums, Sima Wei hurriedly shouted: "Order the whole battalion, immediately assemble and wait for orders!" But if a thief attacks the camp, shoot it with a bow and a crossbow! ”

shouted the order, Sima Wei hurriedly dressed and hung up, rushed to the Chinese army's tent to prepare to command the battle, the generals of the Henan army also rushed to wait for his life, Li Zuoche also quickly came to meet Sima Wei, and said loudly as soon as he entered the tent: "King, the thieves seem to be just making noise outside the camp, and they have not really launched an attack, there is a possibility of luring the enemy, the king must be careful." ”

In fact, there is no need for Li Zuoche to point out, Sima Wei, who has been on the battlefield for a long time, has already found that although the Han army's shouting and killing is fierce, it has not really launched a strong attack on the Henan army camp, so he also nodded, but before Sima Wei could speak, another soldier outside the tent came in and reported urgently, saying: "King, there is a fire in the direction of Luoyang, it seems that the Han thief army is attacking Luoyang overnight." ”

"What?!"

Sima Wei's surprise was not trivial, and he hurriedly went out of the tent with the Henan army generals to look east, and saw that there was indeed a fire in the direction of Luoyang in the distance illuminating the night sky, and it was reflected by the clouds, even outside the city of Henan. Sima Wei was even more surprised when he saw it, and blurted out: "Oh no! Unexpectedly, the Han thief army only increased its troops on the battlefield in Luoyang during the day today, and sent troops to attack Luoyang at night. ”

"Great King, the tactical intent of the Han thief army is already obvious." Du Wanda next to him hurriedly said: "Their main force and the partial division have agreed on a time, while letting their main force send troops to pretend to rob the camp, so that our main force does not dare to act rashly, and on the other hand, let their partial division suddenly send troops to attack Luoyang, if we don't hurry up to rescue Luoyang, I'm afraid that Luoyang will be in danger!" ”

Sima Wei nodded quickly, and then did not hesitate, and immediately ordered Ma Jue, the general of the Henan Army, to lead an army of 10,000 to save Luoyang, Li Zuoche hurriedly stopped and said: "King, don't risk sending troops, Xiang Kang is treacherous, we must prevent him from only feints on our main camp and Luoyang, in fact, arrange ambushes on the road, ambush the rescuers we sent!" ”

"Guangwujun, things have come to this point, do you still suspect that Xiang Kang Xiao'er is just a feint attack on Luoyang?" Du Wanda said a little angrily: "Xiang Kang's partial division, the strength is already more than three times that of our Luoyang defenders, and he has filled the moat at the north gate of Luoyang, and has prepared enough siege weapons. ”

"There are two reasons!" Li Zuoche immediately replied: "First, Xiang Kang Xiao'er has calculated our king's thoughts, and it is expected that our king is worried about the safety of the national capital and does not dare to be careless, and will definitely send troops to rescue Luoyang overnight!" Second, Luoyang City is strong, and General Zhang Xian has always acted cautiously, even if the thief army suddenly starts a sneak attack, he is still not sure to take Luoyang, so the thief army is most likely to choose to besiege the city and send reinforcements, rather than really fighting Luoyang! ”

Sima Wei was extremely embarrassed by Li Zuoche's analysis, and he couldn't make up his mind whether to send troops to save Luoyang, but fortunately, there were many capable people around Sima Wei, and his other henchman Cheng Lian immediately stood up and said: "Your Majesty, Your Majesty thinks that we must immediately send troops to rescue Luoyang!" We sent reinforcements, and if the Han thief army really attacked Luoyang, our rescuers could immediately share the pressure on General Zhang Xian and ensure that Luoyang was foolproof. ”

"If the thief army is feinting to attack Luoyang and really arranges ambushes on the road, it doesn't matter!" Cheng Lian said quickly: "At least we can confirm that the thief army is feintting to attack Luoyang, don't worry about the safety of Luoyang, and free up our hands to deal with the main force of the Han thieves!" In addition, our army is familiar with the road, and even if there is an ambush in the dark night, it can immediately retreat back to the camp, and it will not suffer any decent losses! ”

After careful calculation, it was found that Cheng Lian's analysis was very reasonable, not only to ensure the safety of Luoyang, but also to suffer a little loss would not be too big, for his own nest, Sima Wei no longer hesitated, regardless of Li Zuoche's opposition, insisted on sending the general Ma Ju to lead an army of 10,000 from the east gate out of the camp, and rushed back to Luoyang overnight to rescue, at the same time, in order to prevent the main force of the Han army from sending troops to intercept, Sima Wei also sent 2,000 troops to the camp first, to assemble in the northeast corner of the camp of the army, to cover Ma Duan's camp eastward.

As Sima Wei expected, his decoy army had just sent out a large battalion, and a Han army suddenly came out in the dark night and rushed directly to his decoy army, and Ma Jue, the general of the Henan army, took advantage of the opportunity of the decoy army to temporarily entangle the Han army, and quickly went out of the camp to complete the assembly, and rushed back to Luoyang to rescue with a torch starry night. Seeing this scene, Sima Wei was even more convinced in his heart that the Han army was really attacking Luoyang, rather than besieging the city to send reinforcements - otherwise, Xiang Kang took the wrong medicine and sent the army to intercept his rescuers?

Henan Army General Ma Jue is also the same conclusion as Sima Wei, seeing that the main force of the Han army tried to prevent the army from sending troops to rescue Luoyang, the family in Luoyang City Ma Jue did not dare to have any hesitation, with reinforcements just all the way to the hurry, even in the middle of the night, it only took more than an hour to march nearly 20 miles, arrived at the current White Horse Temple overpass, but also more clearly saw the north gate of Luoyang around the sky, but also faintly can hear the Han army soldiers and Luoyang defenders shouting and killing.

"Fortunately, the king is wise and asked me to lead troops to save Luoyang, it seems that the thief army is really fighting Luoyang City."

Having come to this conclusion, Ma decided to not only rejoice, but of course immediately ordered his army to speed up, but at this time, there were sudden sounds of killing in front of and on both sides of the gallop, and at the same time, there were Han troops with torches shouting to kill, Ma Jue was shocked and blurted out: "How is it possible? The thief army is really besieging the city to help?! ”

The Han army not only really besieged the city to help, mobilized the ambush of the Henan army rescuers, there was even the current number one elite heavy armor of the Han army, the Han army heavy armor soldiers who were ambushed in a very close distance to the south of the gallop road also first killed into the waist of the Henan army, fiercely brandished steel knives and guns to slash and stab the Henan soldiers, the Henan soldiers could not kill the steel armor on the Han soldiers whether they were shooting arrows or spears, and they were soon killed by the Han army's heavy armor soldiers, and it was difficult to echo before and after. In addition, Long He led the army to attack from the front, and the Han army ambush soldiers who came from the north also showed great bravery, and the reinforcements of the Henan army led by Ma Jue were quickly defeated and forced to turn around and flee to the way they came.

"Chase! Chase me to the end, and I must not let the Henan thief army slip away! ”

According to Long Ji's roaring order, except for the Han army's heavy armor soldiers who were moving slowly, all the Han soldiers under the leadership of Long He launched an all-out pursuit, killing the defeated soldiers of the Henan Army even more chaotically, discarding countless flags and torches, and then meeting with the Han army convoy that came later, the Han army heavy armor soldiers also all got into the carriage and followed Long Ji's brigade to pursue together.

The defeated soldiers of the Henan army who fled lightly fled faster than when they came, and in less than an hour, they fled back to the gate of the Henan army's camp, shouting and fleeing into the east gate of the Henan army's camp. Fortunately, the Henan army had already been on guard, and while desperately releasing arrows to block the Han army's pursuers, they carefully guarded the camp gate and did not give the Han army's pursuers a chance to take advantage of the situation to enter the Henan military camp.

At the same time, Sima Wei and other decision-makers of the Henan Army also saw the situation of Ma Duan's defeat and fled back to the camp, and as a result, seeing that their own rescuers fled back in defeat, Sima Wei and Du Wanda and others not only did not feel the slightest frustration and worry, but on the contrary, they all breathed a sigh of relief, and they were extremely happy and said: "Fortunately, the thief army is besieging the city to send reinforcements, although we have suffered some losses, at least we don't have to worry about Luoyang anymore." ”

Only Li Zuoche was not glad to relax, looking at the scene of his defeated soldiers rushing back to the camp, Li Zuoche was extremely strange in his heart, and said secretly: "Strange? Xiang Kang'er spent so much effort to oppose the guest, and at any cost to feint Luoyang to lure us to send troops back to Luoyang overnight, what is the purpose? Just to ambush our partial division on the road and fish for one or two thousand heads? Is this simply killing chickens? ”

"Knock knock knock!"

At this time, a new accident suddenly appeared, and in the distance to the north, which was still pitch black, countless war drums suddenly sounded, more torches suddenly appeared, and countless Han soldiers shouted and charged, carrying trench bridge vehicles to the north gate of the Henan army's camp, and there were soldiers with long shields rushing forward, covering the crossbowmen to open bows and arrows in the Henan military camp, and directly released all the rockets wrapped in linen at the front! The Henan army was caught off guard, and many tents were immediately ignited by the rockets of the Han army!

"The thief has made a force! It's time to storm our camp! ”

Seeing this scene, Sima Wei, Li Zuoche and others were all in their hearts, and they all understood that the main force of the Han army had really started and went all out to fight the camp of the army. However, after coming to his senses, Sima Wei quickly laughed and said: "Xiang Kang Xiao'er has a good idea, and he actually wants to take advantage of the opportunity of our reinforcements to return to the camp and the morale of the army will be affected, and attack and take the main camp of this king, which is a good calculation." It's a pity that the camp built by this king is so easy to break? ”

"Ah————!h

Li Zuoche's sudden screaming interrupted Sima Wei's ridicule of Xiang Kang's shallow tactics, Sima Wei looked at Li Zuoche in confusion, and saw that his face was as pale as paper in the firelight, and his forehead was still sweating, Sima Wei couldn't help but be even more strange, and hurriedly asked: "Guangwujun, what's wrong?" Uncomfortable there? ”

Li Zuoche didn't answer, but grabbed Sima Wei's wrist tightly, trembling and pointing to the east gate of the Henan Army's camp with his hand, and was so nervous that he couldn't make any decent sound in his mouth, Sima Wei was even more strange, and asked again: "Guangwujun, what's going on?" Why did you panic like this? ”

"Defeated!"

"Our defeated army!"

Li Zuoche finally roared out and shouted in despair: "If the thief army arranges for soldiers, pretend to be our soldiers, take advantage of the chaos to blend into our defeated crowd, and enter the camp with our defeated soldiers!" We're done! Our main battalion is over!! ”

Sima Wei's face turned completely white with a brush, and he couldn't see any more human color, and then it was a coincidence that at this time, on the side of the Dongying gate of the Henan Army, there was a sudden explosion sound, and dozens of grenades smashed into the Dongying gate of the Henan Army one after another, making an earth-shattering explosion sound one after another. At the same time, the defenders of the Dongying Gate of the Henan Army were also suddenly in chaos, and the camp gate that was about to be closed was opened again......

"Quick! Save the East Gate——! ”

When Sima Wei roared in despair, Li Zuoche also sat on the ground, hanging his head weakly and moaning, "Xiang Kang Xiao'er, I really obeyed you, using a feint to attack our main camp, covering your partial division to feint Luoyang, and tricking us into sending troops to rescue, the real purpose is to cover your deceitful soldiers to infiltrate our camp, and the real main target is actually our main camp." I didn't expect that you would have such great courage and ambition, all the illusions are to allow you to take our main camp in one fell swoop. ”