Chapter 69: The Battle of the Spike (8)
At this time, the Jin general Wei Han had just returned from Xiying, and his men and horses had been lost, and when he saw Xichang, the main force had been defeated. At this time, he knew that he had fallen for the poisonous plan of the Xian army, but it was too late, and the general trend had gone.
"Your Royal Highness, the eastern and western battalions have been blocked by the Xian army, how is the battle in the direction of the southern camp." Wei Han asked anxiously.
"The thieves of the Xian army set up an ambush in the southern camp, causing heavy losses to our army, and now it is hopeless to kill the southern camp. General Wei Han, quickly give me a bloody way from the east and west battalions to cover the withdrawal of our army. ”
"No, the east and west battalions have been blocked by the Xian army, and there are a large number of Xian troops fortified. For today's plan, there is still a weak Beiying Xian army, and our army can also retreat from Beiying, so that His Royal Highness the Prince of the World can retreat with his whole body! ”
Hearing this, Ji Chang sighed angrily: "Alas......"
Ji Chang never thought that he would come in a big way, and in the end he would return with a feather, perhaps even more unexpectedly, his opponent was the famous doctor Bai Liyan, who was once harmless to humans and animals, and seemed to be honest and compassionate.
At this time, everyone had been killed by the Xian army, and under the leadership of Wei Han, they turned all the way back to Beiying.
At the same time, the Xianjun drums and trumpets sounded in unison, and the stumbling horse pit under the ambush of the Chinese army and the northern camp once again showed its might. The previous Jin army entered the Chinese army from the north camp, and these two stumbling horse pits did nothing, the purpose was to let the Jin army fall all the way on the way to retreat, and once again kill and injure a large number of Jin troops.
But then again, why not send a team of men and horses to block Beiying in a roundabout way, such a big bargaining chip in Changchang will not become something in the bag of the Xian army.
Let's not mention that Zhao Xun didn't know who the Jin army would be, and he didn't know how much the Jin army led the army to the bottom. As far as the Xian army now has 25,000 people, of which thirty percent are still crossbowmen, so it is divided into four large battalions to block all the gaps, and the strength is bound to be diluted and evenly shared, which is easy for the remnants of the Jin army to concentrate their forces to break through.
This is one of them, and the second is to send another group of men and horses from the south camp to the north camp, the time is too late, the infantry has no time to breathe, and as soon as they gain a foothold, the Jin army may kill them.
Finally, the art of war: the siege must be missing.
The implication is that the anxious enemy army will definitely want to be the betta of the trapped beast and break the net, so it must be the result of killing 1,000 enemies and losing 800 of themselves. Rather than this, it is better to let him see a way to live, and then block and consume layer by layer on the road of life, and in the end, even if he escapes some enemy troops, it is no longer a climate.
In this way, Ji Chang and Wei Han fled all the way north and fell all the way, fortunately, someone opened the way in front, and the unlucky ones were planted in front, which covered the panic of Ji Chang and Wei Han.
Seeing that the sky was about to brighten, Zhao Xun did not dare to carry it at all, he mobilized the army to gather the remnants, and set up a formation to surround the southern camp to prevent the Jin army from sneaking up again, so he insisted until dawn.
In the afternoon of the same day, Bai Liyan (also Wei Xian) was anxiously waiting for news from the front in Yin Yang City.
It stands to reason that the horseback riding should also arrive, but there is no news so far, could it be that his plan has failed? Or did the Jin army dispatch cavalry on a large scale and annihilate Zhao Xun?
At this time, a fast horse chased after more fast horses, galloping all the way, Bailiyan looked at it, and immediately blurted out with joy:
"General Yao Sheng, General Yao Sheng!"
"Colonel, our army has won a complete victory, a great victory!" Yao Sheng couldn't hide his excitement, shouting while running, the shouts resounded in the sky, almost everyone on the city tower heard it clearly, and the joy of victory spread throughout the city from top to bottom.
Bailiyan hurriedly went down to the city and opened the east gate to welcome Yao Sheng into the city:
"General Yao Sheng, how is the battle!"
"As expected, the Jin army really led the army to attack my tired army last night, and General Zhao made proper arrangements, annihilating more than 6,600 cavalry of the Jin army in one fell swoop, capturing more than 2,000 Jin troops and more than 4,000 war horses. Only a small force of more than 1,000 Jin troops escaped. Our army suffered very few casualties, less than three thousand. ”
"Great, in this way, the Jin army has only more than 40,000 cavalry members in the siege of Dingyanghou."
In addition, interrogating the Jin prisoners learned that it was the third son of the Jin king, Ji Chang, who robbed the camp last night, and General Zhao regretted it when he learned about it. If this son is caught, the Jin army will have to quit and return. ”
Hearing the news that it was Ji Chang who attacked last night, Bai Liyan was surprised:
"It's him! Knowing this, he should have ordered it to be held to the death. He fled this time, what a missed opportunity! ”
Bai Liyan knew very well that the political significance of capturing Ji Chang was far greater than the military significance, and once Ji Chang was captured alive, it was likely to force the King of Jin to surrender and stop fighting. Now that he has been run away by Ji Chang, it is equivalent to missing the huge bargaining chip to sit down and negotiate with Jin Jun. Sensei said that Zhao Xun regretted it, and Bailiyan also regretted it.
But who would have thought that the Jin army would dispatch 10,000 cavalry last night, if it was a stab in the back in the field, it would be said that 25,000 people would not be able to stop it, and doubling it might not be able to stop it.
When Bailiyan was thinking, Zhong Heng had already arrived, and when he heard the news of the victory of the Xian army, Zhong Heng was very excited. At this time, Bai Liyan came back to her senses and said to Zhong Heng:
"General Zhong Heng, quickly order the baggage battalion to prepare the carriage and horses, follow me to General Zhao, drag back the horse meat, and then pickle and air dry, so that the army will be hungry in the future."
"Well, I'll do it."
The words fell, and Bai Liyan rode on the war horse sent by Yao Sheng and rushed to Zhao Xun's camp.
Because the Jin army lost too much last night, more than three or seven horses died alone, so many horses are all meat, and the meat rate is more than that of pigs.
Now that there are more than 3,000 horses of meat at once, the Xianjun doesn't know how many years they haven't had such a prosperous life, and they have to eat it for a while.
Riding on the fast horse of the captured Jin army, Bailiyan followed Yao Sheng and rode straight to Zhao Xun's camp.
Zhao Xun said that he should be able to rush to Feicheng before dark that afternoon, but the soldiers were exhausted after a fierce battle last night. After camping, repair in situ, and then kill horses and cook meat to reward the three armies. First restore the morale and physical strength of the whole army, and then make a detour to Feicheng tonight.
When Bailiyan arrived at Zhao Xun's camp, it was already past the early hours of the morning, and Zhao Xun was preparing to pull out the camp:
"General Zhao, how is the situation of our army?"
"The morale is high, and the moment will make a detour to the west of Feicheng, and wait for the Jin army to take the initiative to go out of the city."
"The scouts of our army who deceived the Xian army were sent." Bailiyan asked urgently.
"It's been sent out a long time ago, and now it's in the camp outside Feicheng. The previous besieging army had also come to urge the troops, and now they are being held by General Ben, and when the besieging army goes south to reinforce Yin Yangcheng, it will not be too late for General Ben to release the people. ”
"That's great!"
Previously, the Xianjun army of Feicheng sent people to urge Zhao Xun to join forces, but he was detained by Zhao Xun. If it is not detained, it is obviously impossible for the besieging Xian army to follow Zhao Xun's advice to withdraw its troops, so it will be difficult to lie that Zhao Xun's army will be defeated and Yin Yangcheng will be captured.
Zhao Xun left 25,600 wounded soldiers, waiting for Yin Yangcheng's baggage battalion to come to transport horse meat, and the rest of the people immediately pulled out the camp and turned to the northwest, and went to the west of Feicheng to camp thirty miles away, waiting for the Xian army besieging Feicheng to take the initiative to evacuate Feicheng after receiving the news that Zhao Xun was defeated and Yin Yangcheng was lost. In this way, the defenders of Feicheng can be lured out of the city and the remnants of the besieging Xian army can be defeated.
The next day, the sky was overcast, and the Xian army camp besieging Feicheng flew in and rode a horse, which was a deceitful messenger sent by Zhao Xun.
Lu Jing, the governor of the Xian army besieging Feicheng, was really taken aback when he heard that Zhao Xun was defeated by the 20,000 cavalry of the Jin army.
On the afternoon of the day when Lu Jing convened the generals to discuss Zhao Xun's defeat, he came to the express again, saying that Yin Yangcheng was fraudulently opened by the Jin army in the name of Zhao Xun, and now it has been lost.
Hearing this, Lu Jing couldn't sit still any longer, and quickly ordered the besieging army to transfer 20,000 cavalry and 10,000 infantry troops to return to Yin Yangcheng and recapture the grain and grass.
At this time, the Xian army outside Feicheng was abnormally moved, and the news was quickly reported to Wang Shuo, who was anxiously waiting in the Taishou Mansion:
"Report to General Wang, the Xian army has moved in the Chinese army, and there is a sign of transferring troops to evacuate."
"Oh, how many people do you know!"
"There were about 30,000 men, and there were a lot of cavalry."
Hearing this, Wang Shuo immediately rushed to the head of the city, looked at the southwest, and saw that the Xian army was pressed by the black pressure of a large number of people and horses to evacuate quickly, and the Xian army camp outside the city was already empty. Seeing this, Wang Shuo was overjoyed:
"Okay, Old General Han really has a clever plan!" When the words fell, Wang Shuo immediately ordered: "Pass the general's order, all armies and battalions will eat and drink before dark, and as soon as it gets dark, gather in the city!" ”
"No!"
Behind him, most of the governors received orders, and immediately ordered all battalions to wait for battle.
At the same time, Zhao Xun's department has arrived at a nameless territory twelve miles west of Feicheng, and the whole army has eaten and drunk enough to prepare for the attack, ready to take advantage of the Jin army to go out of the city in the first half of the night, ambushed around Feicheng, as long as the Jin army dares to kill, the Xian army will kill all the way.
At this time, the army was ready to go, and Baili Yan was talking to Zhao Xun:
"General Zhao, after capturing Feicheng tonight, quickly transfer back to the south to Yin Yangcheng Xianjun, and then order the cavalry to take the 'Hechi' three hundred miles east of Duyang, and capture Hechi, the Jin army's back road will be cut off, and the siege of Dingyang Marquis will be lifted."
"Merge? Hechi is a land of flat rivers, why occupy Hechi? ”
"Just because there is Hechi Lake in Hechi, and Hechi Lake is in the north of Hechi, if the Jin army wants to take the whole body, it will either seize the land of Hechi, or make a detour to the north of Hechi Lake.
If you detour to the north of Hechi Lake, you have to walk for at least six or seven days, and the Jin army has lost Feicheng, and the grain and grass in Duyang are afraid that it will be difficult to maintain for two months.
If the troops are divided, I am afraid it will be difficult to resist the counterattack of Ding Yanghou. Therefore, the Jin army must have ordered the cavalry to break off, and then the army abandoned Duyang and went to fight for Hechi. In this way, the 20,000 cavalry sent by our army can quickly retreat and give way to Hechi, so that the Jin army will lose the opportunity to besiege Dingyanghou.
At that time, our army will be merged in one place, and it will be difficult for the Jin army to go against us, and it will be difficult to fight a decisive battle with our army within half a year. ”
"But in this way, if the Jin army retreats on its own, it will not miss the fighter in vain. A few months later, the Jin army made a comeback, and by that time the Jin army would definitely outnumber our army, have you ever thought about this? ”
"I can't hide it, I think that if Han He can't win or lose a battle with our army, and then make a comeback in a few months, I am afraid that the situation of the Jin Kingdom will have changed. Moreover, the main force of the Jin army and the Xian army have not yet decided on the Wangqin River, and most of the elite of the Xian army are above the warships.
At that time, if you can defeat the Jin army first, our army can advance and retreat freely, the Jin army comes by land, and there is no water army to suppress the formation, our army can then transfer the elite of the water army into the foot soldiers, and then the strength of our army can compete with the Jin army.
Take a step back, even if the Jin army comes, our army can migrate people across the river and give up the open space in Jiangdong. If Jiangdong was empty and there was no one to use, the Jin army would have to send people from the Jin State to transport heavy supplies, or migrate people to Jiangdong.
No matter what the result, the Jin State will work the people and lose money, and only increase the resentment of the people in Jiangdong and the northern Jin Kingdom. At that time, our army will take the opportunity to kill the great river, and then we will be able to take all the people of Jiangdong, and in this way, we can also reduce the losses of our army. ”
"Well, that makes sense. It's just that this plan is too far-reaching, and the top priority at the moment is to get out of Dingyanghou. As far as General Ben's original intention is concerned, he really does not want to fight a decisive battle with the Jin army. It's just that this Hechi is far away from Feicheng, even if it is a long-distance attack, it will take five days to say the least, and if there is a slight mistake, I am afraid that the whole army will be wiped out! ”
Therefore, the cavalry must not plunder Han He's grain and grass on this trip, and they need to march in secret. At that time, Han He learned that Hechi was occupied and Feicheng was lost, and he would have to retreat. ”