July 18, 14th year of Liyang

Heavy rains for several days turned the vicinity of Yanlin and Tuxian into half a swamp.

Yan Kui has already withdrawn from the dirt mountain, there is no way, the rain is too heavy, the newly built camp has become a muddy puddle, there is no ground at all, coupled with the impact of rain for a few days, the soil of the soil and mountain is sparse, Yan Kui is afraid of another mudslide.

So he discussed with Niu Zhan, temporarily withdrew the troops to the bottom of the mountain, and after the rain stopped, he returned to Tushan and stationed.

Now, Yan Kui no longer thinks about the Zhou army's rainy night raid, if a few days ago, when it was still raining lightly, the other party could still take advantage of the rain, the Jin army's vision was blocked, and the intelligence was unknown, suddenly attacking the Jin army, and the Yanlin Jin army was caught off guard.

But now it has been raining heavily in the two counties for several days, and the roads are drenched in rain and muddy, and it is impossible to march at all.

It's not Yan Kui's carelessness, fighting in this era, but it depends very much on the weather attributes, the sky is raining heavily, the roads are surging, and it is difficult for ordinary people to even walk, so how can they march and fight?

Rushing to send troops, it is very easy to lose the connection between the front and back, and the Zhou army attacked Yanlin in this bad weather situation, and the soldiers were gone before they reached the halfway point.

Therefore, Yan Kui did not think that the Zhou army would move troops in this situation.

It stands to reason that Yan Kui's thinking is not wrong, but what he didn't expect was that he ran into someone who didn't play cards according to the routine.

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Suo Ya, the word Tianxiao, the Western Zhou Suzhou people, only more than 30 years old, served as the general of the Western Zhou Dynasty from Sanpin Anbei, and was a major general of the Northern Jin Dynasty.

Today, the official systems of the Western Zhou Dynasty, the Northern Jin Dynasty, and the Southern Chu Dynasty all follow the previous dynasties and are inherited in the same line.

Civilian officials aside, the military general system is roughly the same, the general under the four generals, the commander of the forbidden army, the commander of the nine gates, and then the four expeditions and four towns, four peace and four security, and then the four or five miscellaneous generals, the six rank of the captain, the seventh grade of the general, the eighth grade of the thousand households, the nine grades of the hundred households.

Suo Ya can be promoted to a third-grade military general at his age, although it is the last word in the four characters of Zhengzhen Ping'an, but it can also be called a small miracle.

Among them, Suo Ya's ability and achievements are on the one hand, and more are inseparable from the promotion of Ji Linbing, the general of the Western Zhou Dynasty, according to the grapevine, Suo Ya seems to be the nephew of Ji Linbing's wife, and he himself once worshipped Ji Linbing as his father-in-law.

Of course, this rumor is just a rumor and has not been officially confirmed, but in any case, Suo Ya is deeply trusted by Ji Linbing and is the confidant of the general of the Western Zhou Dynasty.

This time, Suoya was assigned to Tuxian by Ji Linbing, on the surface, he was responsible for containing the Yanlin Jin army and covering several surrounding Zhou troops, but in fact, Suoya's real task was not to cover, but to cover and cover.

Ji Linbing asked him to lead 50,000 troops, take Yanlin County, and then make a detour to harass the general pass or go east, and go straight to Quliangfu City, in short, Suoya's part was entrusted with a heavy task by Ji Linbing, and it was one of the several offensive spearheads of the Western Zhou army.

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As a confidant of Ji Linbing's henchmen, Suo Ya naturally wanted to make meritorious contributions, take Yanlin, and open up the situation for the Western Zhou army.

Therefore, Suo Anbei, who has always been known for his bravery and bravery, marched into Yanlin this time, specifically consulted his boss Ji Linbing, and then adopted the strategy of hiding troops to paralyze the Yanlin Jin army, and divided his 50,000 troops into Tuxian.

During this period, he engaged in some tricks and successfully confused the scouts of the Jin army, which was also the reason why the Yanlin Jin army did not know the reality of the county's troops.

After hiding his own troops, Suo Ya changed the policy of directly forging ahead with troops in the past, but fought steadily, widely scouting to find out the terrain of Yanlin and the reality of the Jin army, and led the army to hide on the border of Tuxian County, quietly waiting for the fighters.

A few days ago, it had just rained in the two counties, and Suoya was preparing to take advantage of the rain to attack, but then, he was stopped by the information from the scouts.

The scouts found that the Tushan defense line on the right front of the Jin army suddenly began to be vigilant after the rain, and then sent most of the scouts to operate on the border between the two counties, probably deliberately guarding against the surprise attack of the Zhou army.

It was Yan Kui's cautious move that dispelled Suo Ya's mind of raiding at that time

The raid was a sudden, a surprise, and the other party was already vigilant, so it was a fart.

However, although Suo Ya did not move troops that day, he did not give up this raid plan.

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On the contrary, Suoya began to repeatedly mobilize troops and horses, quietly and slowly moving towards the Yanlin border, and it rained heavily for a few days, Yan Kui also gathered the scouts and returned to the camp.

Because of Tushan's performance before, Suo Ya felt that Tushan might still be on guard now, so he targeted the attack in the valley of the Jin army on the right side of Yanlin.

Two days ago, when the heavy rain was the most intense, Suoya was a row of people who discussed it, and resolutely led an army of 30,000 to march into Yanlin.

To tell the truth, there is heavy rain on the top, walking on the dirt road, there are rain curtains before and after to block the view, if you are not careful, you will take the wrong road, and the soldiers will be separated.

At noon on the 18th, Suoya overcame many difficulties and led the remaining more than 23,000 Zhou troops to the valley guarded by the Jin army.

At that time, the Jin army in the valley did not find the Suoya army only a few hundred steps away from the valley mouth because the rain curtain blocked the sight, and the sound of the rain covered the sound.

In order to prevent the rain from stopping and causing the Jin army to find out that they were prepared, although the Zhou army was exhausted, Suo Ya did not let his corporal recuperate, but slowed down the time of two incense injections on the spot, and brazenly led his tired division to attack the valley.

Where is the Jin army in the valley prepared, it was raining at that time, and it was impossible to train the soldiers, so many people were lying in the camp and sleeping, playing money and chatting.

So, under the leadership of Suo Ya, the Zhou army quickly took the valley, and after that, there was a horrific massacre.

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The soldiers of Zhou, who were dressed in rain and holding steel knives, saw the Jin army sleeping comfortably in the camp and playing with money, his eyes turned red all of a sudden, and he bit the root of his teeth, venting all his anger and depression on the Jin army after two days of traveling in the rain.

The Zhou army arrived at the Jin camp at noon and captured the valley two quarters of an hour later, while the massacre continued until the early hours of the next day.

The two main generals were all killed, and the last remaining of the 10,000 Jin army was less than 3,000, and the entire valley was dyed red.

Of course, after this victory, the loss of the Zhou army was not small, and the seven thousand soldiers who disappeared when they were on the way, I don't know how many they got back, and in the later stage of the massacre of the Jin army, the Zhou army also encountered strong resistance, so it lost some men and horses.

When the number of people was counted in the early morning, Suo Ya found that the 30,000 horses he led when he came were now only in his early 20,000s.

However, fortunately, he took a camp in Yanlin, met with a lot of living forces of the other party, and more importantly, his zigzag defensive formation was broken, and the situation where the three sides were each other's horns no longer existed, and the attack range of the Zhou army attacking Yanlin was expanded and the difficulty was reduced.

From this point of view, although the Zhou army spent a certain price, in general, the battle was worth it.........

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The Jin army's valley camp was taken, and the remaining two parts of the Jin army did not know the battle situation, Suo Ya wanted to strike while the iron was hot and have another rain battle, but he didn't want his generals to take the Jin army camp After taking the camp of the Jin army, many people suddenly fell ill and were unable to fight again.

It turned out that the soldiers of the Zhou army were drenched in heavy rain for two days and two nights, and then fought hard to kill the enemy for most of the night, and their bodies were already sleepy, tired and tired, and after the battle, many people fell down from exhaustion.

In fact, after two days of rain and cold immersion, many people in the Zhou army were on the verge of getting sick and unwell.

Even Suo Ya himself has some uncomfortable symptoms, but his physique is stronger, his condition is mild, and he can barely hold on.

But if he can hold on, it doesn't mean that he can continue to fight, even if he can, his soldiers can't, in desperation, Suo Ya can only suspend the troops, let the soldiers who are not sick rush to Tuxian County, and invite Lang Zhong to come to the doctor.

Then, Suo Ya ordered his subordinates to clean up the corpses of the Jin army and bury them outside the valley to prevent the breeding of plague.

This series of affairs was busy, Suo Ya's originally mild illness was slowly aggravated because of exertion, and on the night of the twentieth, Suo Ya fainted, although he was quickly rescued by Lang Zhong, but he could no longer lead the troops to fight in a short time, so he could only lie in bed to recuperate.

The main general was sick in bed and could not command the battle, which was an important military secret, Suo Ya ordered, the Zhou army was kept strictly secret, and if it was leaked, the whole clan would be connected.

Suo Ya's military order was indeed effective in preventing the news of his illness from being revealed, but as the rain gradually stopped, the situation that the valley was taken by the Zhou army was finally learned by Qin Qi and Yan Kui.

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"I'm in trouble."

Handing the information in his hand to Niu Zhan, Yan Kui couldn't help but sigh.

As mentioned above, the valley on the right side of the Jin army's defense line was occupied by the Zhou army, and the previously agreed Pinzi defense line was declared invalid, and they were stationed in Tushan with 10,000 people, and it is estimated that they will soon withdraw to the camp.

There is no way, the Zhou army occupies the valley on the right, and it is completely possible to march from the right side to attack the camp of the Jin army in the rear, and the Tushan where Yan Kui is located is far away from the valley, so it cannot be effectively intercepted, so it can only be returned to the camp.

In this way, it is better to give up Tushan, which has now become a chicken rib, and let Yan Kui's men and horses return to the main camp and merge with the main force to defend the Zhou army head-on.

Yan Kui can figure it out, Niu Zhan next to him, as a veteran soldier for many years, naturally won't fail to see this.

Lao Niu couldn't help but beat his fist and scolded: "What are the surnamed Liu and surnamed Li doing, the five thousand men and horses just explained it, and the terrain advantage of our defense is also handed over, it is really two wastes, they should be killed." ”

The two Liu and Li in Niu Zhan's mouth are the main generals of the Jin army in the valley, and like Yan Kui, they are also the captains of the six grades, one was Niu Zhan's Pingyang General Military Office colleague, and the other was a subordinate general under Qin Qi.

The two of them are not mediocre talents, especially the Qin Qi general, I heard that they were still from the border army back then, and the two wanted to add, who would have expected that it would be so easy to be taken down.

However, from another point of view, the Jin army was defeated so badly before, hundreds of thousands of elite border troops and Cai Hua, the first general of the Northern Jin Dynasty, were all folded in, and the two unknown Liupin Lieutenants suffered defeats, which is nothing new............