On March 20, the 23rd year of Hongde, Zhao Yuantong, the king of Wei Guoyu, led an army of nearly 200,000 and hundreds of thousands of Chu troops led by Jun Jingshe of Shouling of Chu State in Yongqiu, the largest battle since the Chu-Wei War. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ｂｉｑUｇE。 ｉｎｆｏ

Due to factors such as mistakes in decision-making and the unevenness of the Chu army, although the Wei army did not defeat the Chu army in one fell swoop, it also caused a heavy blow to the morale of the Chu soldiers - as many as six or seven hundred thousand Chu troops could not defeat less than 200,000 Wei troops, so how could the soldiers of the Chu State have confidence in this war to destroy Wei?

After waiting for the sun to go down that day, Zhao Yuan, the king of Yu, accepted it when he saw it, and did not expect to defeat the Chu army in one go, but ordered the whole army to retreat and fight again in the coming day.

Faced with the retreat of the Wei army, although Shouling Jun Jingshe was unwilling, he could only watch the Wei army withdraw.

There was no way, because the battle had been a mess up to now: the grain recruits had been routed and scattered, and even the Inspectors could not stop the deserters from fleeing the battlefield; In the main army of Chu, the Juyang Army, the Yanyang Army, and the Liyang Army, including the Shouling Army led by Yang You, the deputy general of Jingshe, were all broken by the Northern First Army and the Youma Army of Wei, and the losses were almost seventy percent, which greatly reduced the morale of the core of the millions of Chu troops and the Chu State Army.

But having said that, the losses of the Wei army were also very large, especially the Northern First Army, which was one of the cores of this battle and played the role of a decoy, fought tenaciously when it was almost surrounded by the Chu army of three parties, and the strength of 60,000 troops was reduced to 30,000, which made King Huan feel heartbroken after learning about this.

In addition to the Northern First Army, the army led by generals such as Shaohu, Long Ji, Yigu, Zhao Bao, and Bailiba, even as a feint force, suffered casualties of 30%, which can be imagined the tragedy of this battle.

It is no exaggeration to say that in the Battle of Yongqiu, the Wei army and the Chu army can be said to have lost both - thanks to the strategy of Zhao Yuantong, the king of Yu, if he hadn't calculated Shouling Jun Jingshe and made the latter make a wrong judgment, the Wei army faced the Chu army three times its own, not only the losses were far greater than the current one, but it was also difficult to achieve a morale advantage.

That night, when the Chu army was cleaning up the mess, Shouling Jun Jingshe sat alone in the tent and pondered.

I don't know how long it took, the deputy general Yang You brought Guling Jun Xiong Wu and Liyang Jun Xiong Sheng to come back to his life, and after seeing Shouling Jun Jingshe, Yang You arched his hands and clenched his fists, and called softly: "Lord Jingshe? ”

Shouling Jun Jingshe came back to his senses when he heard this, nodded, and asked, "Yang You, in the army...... What is the morale of the soldiers? Don't hide it, tell it truthfully. ”

Yang You opened his mouth again and again, and only after half a ring did he cautiously replied: "The last general does not dare to conceal it, at this time, the soldiers in the barracks are generally in a low mood......

"That's right." Shouling Jun Jingshe sighed gloomily.

He also understood that the 6,700,000 Chu army was at a disadvantage in the face of the Wei State's offensive of nearly 200,000 troops, and this kind of blow would indeed make the sergeants and soldiers languid.

After a long time, Shouling Jun Jingshe asked again: "How many civilian soldiers have fled?" ”

The civilian soldiers in his mouth refer to the grain recruitment, which accounts for at least sixty percent of the million Chu army.

Yang You lowered his head and said in a heavy tone: "Eighty percent of them have been defeated, and so far, only about three thousand have returned to the camp...... Speaking of this, he paused, and asked Shouling Jun Jingshe tentatively: "Lord Jingshe, I don't know what to do with these deserters?" ”

Shouling Jun Jingshe frowned and did not speak.

According to the iron law of the Chu army, deserters will be punished, and even their families will be implicated, but in this war, there are too many food recruits who have fled, according to Shouling Jun Jingshe knows, when the Wei army launched a general offensive at the last moment, at least 100,000 grain recruits scattered and fled the battlefield, if you want to kill them all, I really don't know how many people should be killed.

Thinking of this, Shouling Jun Jingshe sighed and said: "This is not his sin, let me forgive it." …… There is no need to send people to chase them, if they want to flee back to their homeland, let them escape. ”

Hearing this, Yang You's eyes widened, and he said without saying anything: "Lord Jingshe, this ...... Not suitable, right? In this battle, because of the relationship between those deserters, the main army also wavered, and it will be taken advantage of by the Wei army, and the last general will think that it ......"

However, before he could finish his words, he was interrupted by Shouling Jun Jingshe raising his hand: "Today's battle, the fault lies with me, it was my decision-making mistake, you don't need to say more." ”

Yang Yu opened his mouth, speechless.

Yes, he deliberately wanted to blame the mistakes of this battle on those grain recruits and reduce the guilt of the Shouling Jun in front of him, but the Shouling Jun Jingshe, who has a down-to-earth personality, disdains to shirk his responsibility - as the commander-in-chief of the Chu army, how can he shift the blame for the defeat on the soldiers under his command?

After realizing this, Yang You, Guling Jun Xiong Wu, Liyang Jun Xiong Sheng and others sincerely admired the high righteousness of Shouling Jun Jingshe.

"That's right." As if thinking of something, Yang You spoke again: "Lord Jingshe, after the Wei army retreated, Nangong Yao led the Suiyang army under his command to be ten miles away from the camp. ”

Shouling Jun Jingshe pondered for a moment when he heard this, and said calmly: "Nangong Yao has turned against Wei State this time, how can Wei State still tolerate him?" At this time, if he turns his back on my Great Chu, this is the way to die. …… He must have seen the defeat of our army, and he was afraid that we would blame him for the defeat, so he kept his distance from our army in order to protect himself. Speaking of this, he frowned and continued: "In today's battle, our army failed to defeat the Wei army, and most of the conquest of Wei this time is difficult to complete. In this case, you might as well befriend Nangong Yao, allow him benefits, and win him over to my Da Chu's side. Yang You, go back and send someone to transport some food to the other army, with good words to appease, Nangong Yao has already opposed Wei, it is impossible to be tolerated by Wei again, as long as I show goodwill, he will definitely take refuge in our country. ”

Hearing this, Yang You's face showed a little embarrassment, and he hesitated and said: "Lord Jingshe, there is not much food and grass in the army, do you really want to give some to Nangong Yao?" Is it worth it? ”

Shouling Jun Jingshe said with a straight face when he heard this: "After all, Suiyang is still in the hands of Nangong Yao, if this person is in the Song Land and the Wei State, why not do it?" ”

"Understood." Yang You nodded, and then asked: "Lord Jingshe, in addition, there are two generals named Huan Hu and Chen Hunt under the command of Nangong Yao, and when they led an army to block the Wei army on the battlefield today, they deliberately let the Wei army cross the border, causing undue casualties to our Shouling army......

"If that's the case?" Shouling Jun Jingshe asked with a frown.

As soon as the words fell, I heard Guling Jun Xiong Wu indignantly help beside him: "Lord Jingshe, it's true, that dog thief Chen Hunt also killed Zuo Qiuji, the general under the command of this son, his crime is intolerable!" ”

Shouling Jun Jingshe pondered for a moment, and asked repeatedly, "Where are Huan Hu and Chen Hunt now?" In this regard, what is Nangong Yao's reaction? ”

Guling Jun Xiong Wu said indignantly: "Those two dog thieves led about seven or eight thousand people under their command and fled from the battlefield taking advantage of the chaos. When Ben Gongzi sent someone to question Nangong Yao, he pretended to shirk and said that he didn't know about it. If it weren't for the eyes of Lord Jingshe, this son would be eager to ......"

Listening to Guling Jun Xiong Wu's indignant complaints, Shouling Jun Jingshe only felt upset.

Although it is said that today's defeat was mainly due to his misjudgment in Jingshe, the disagreement and selfishness within the Chu army were not related to the defeat.

Just like Guling Jun Xiong Wu, when he saw his own superiority before, he urged his army to go forward to grab the merits, and when the Wei army's horse army defeated the Diyang army, so that the advantage of the Chu army was lost, this person hurriedly withdrew his army, and ordered other regular troops and grain recruits to come forward to meet the battle—a similar example is by no means the only one in today's war.

On the other hand, the Wei army on the opposite side was united and united, and went forward to fight on the battlefield one after another. In the face of such a Wei army, how can the Chu army, which has its own ghosts, be invincible?

"Stand down, let me be quiet." Shouling Jun Jingshe said with a tired expression.

Seeing this, Yang You, Guling Jun Xiong Wu, Liyang Jun Xiong Sheng and others left with interest, leaving Shouling Jun Jingshe alone in the handsome tent, comparing the map of the Yongqiu area drawn by him in front of him, painstakingly thinking about the strategy of defeating the Wei army.

I have to say that today's battle not only crushed the morale of the Chu army, but also dealt a heavy blow to the self-confidence of Shouling Jun Jingshe, making him realize that Zhao Yuantong, the commander-in-chief of the Wei army and the king of Yu, was not a simple figure at all.

I thought that the other party was just blindly retreating and shrinking the defensive line, but I didn't expect that the other party was retreating, while adopting sneak attack tactics such as ambush, decoy attack, flank attack, tail attack, and grain interception, and gradually consumed the strength and morale of the Chu army.

How could such a god-like figure be obscure in the past?

Shouling Jun Jingshe secretly wondered, he had fought with Gongzi Run of Wei State, and he felt that Zhao Yuantong, the king of Yu, was even more difficult than Gongzi Run. At least in terms of insight into opportunities, Yu Wang Zhao Yuantong is better than Wei Gongzi Run, after all, Yu King Zhao Yuantong has seen through his tactics this time, and he will plan when he comes, which makes him feel more jealous than Wei Gongzi's moves.

If my prediction is not bad, the Wei army has finally gained power, and he will never let our army regroup......

Shouling Jun Jingshe had a hunch that in the coming days, the Wei army would definitely attack again, further damaging the morale of their Chu army.

Sure enough, when the next day, the Wei army really had another action, so the trick was repeated, and the Wei generals Shaohu, Long Ji, Yigu, Zhao Bao, Bailibao and others attacked the Chu army camp that stretched for dozens of miles and the Chu camp on several nearby hills, as if they were fighting the idea of breaking each other.

In the face of this seemingly endless harassment and attack, the Chu army, which had just lost the battle, could only refuse to fight and take a defensive position as much as possible, so that there was an incredible scene on the Yongqiu battlefield: hundreds of thousands of Chu troops were suppressed by tens of thousands of Wei troops and did not dare to leave the camp easily.

This in disguised exacerbated the loss of morale of the Chu army.

At the end of March, Zhao Hongrun, the king of Su, led the Qin-Wei coalition army to Chenliu.

He was very surprised to find that at this time on the Yongqiu battlefield, the Wei army had initially established an advantage, and this advantage was like a snowball, rolling bigger and bigger.