Chapter 341: Danger in Danger
Unlike Shao Ping, after Ye Xin withdrew this time, the city was naturally ceded to Zhang Jun, the Marquis of Dingyang, to guard it, which made Zhang Jun anxious.
Since entering the city four days ago, the Marquis of Ding Yang has not been merciless in replacing the Taishou and the city government Sima, and the generals of each army and battalion have all been replaced by the cronies brought by the Marquis Ding Yang himself, urgently recruiting more than 7,000 strong men, barely gathering more than 18,000 miscellaneous soldiers.
Originally counting on Ye Xin's 30,000 horses to be able to guard Dingyang, but now suddenly withdrawing his troops, Zhang Jun, the captain, even though the military power was returned to King Xian, it was naturally impossible to buy it, and he immediately found Ye Xin to ask for an explanation:
"Governor Ye, when you go out of the city at this time, wouldn't you give up Ding Yang to the black turban thief."
"Taiwei, the rebel army of 150,000 people is only more than 60 miles away, and within a radius of 600 miles from Dingyang City, it is impossible to gather 100,000 horses to help in three days, and it is impossible for Zhao Shuai to draw troops from the Yongxing River. The purpose of the rebellion is to hold back the rebels and strive for time to return.
Besides, Dingyang City is high and deep, and there are still 20,000 soldiers and 300,000 people, which is far worse than Yin Yangcheng back then, and the Taiwei will not be able to hold it for even half a month. β
"If there is no solid city, you and 30,000 others will be able to stop 150,000 black turban thieves!" Ding Yanghou was dismissive.
"Ye has his own countermeasures, and I also ask Dingyang Hou to take care, Ye has resigned."
"You!" Zhang Junqi said, "Ye Xin, can't this Taiwei be able to transfer you, the governor of the capital!" β
Ye Xin said disdainfully:
"Hou Ye won't forget, the military power of the Taiwei has been returned to the king, Ye obeys the king's orders, obeys Zhao Shuai's orders, and now that the situation is urgent, Ye has the right to make a decision on the spot, and it is understandable to withdraw from Dingyang."
"Okay, okay, you wait, Benhou is going to join you in front of the king!"
"Hmph, I don't want to accompany you!"
Ye Xin rushed to Jiangdong County with the Marquis of Dingyang, and almost killed the Marquis of Dingyang. Now it is finally Ye Xin's turn to vent his evil anger and avenge the revenge of the year, and he can't let the rebels smash Dingyang City to pieces.
When Ye Xin led the army on the road, the 30,000 horses were divided into two, and the 2,000 men waited for dawn to drive 30,000 war horses to continue south to the Yongxing River, and the remaining 28,000 people went north to join Bailiyan.
At the same time, the two scouts of the Chinese army camp of the Black Turban Army, which was sixty-five miles north and west of Dingyang City, hurried and hurried, and it took nearly two hours to walk and run more than 20 miles in a row, and returned to the Chinese army camp.
The King of Thunder was sitting high in the middle of the country at this time, hugging two women left and right, and sleeping soundly, when a maid outside the tent pushed open the curtain of the tent, and came to the bed in the dim light and whispered:
"Heavenly King, there is an emergency military situation."
Thunder lay on the chest of a beautiful woman, stared at the woman's voice in a daze, and subconsciously reached out to scratch it, and the maid subconsciously took two steps back and said:
"Heavenly King, there is an emergency military situation."
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"Hmm...... Let them wait, and the king will go at once. β
"No......"
The maid withdrew for a moment, Lei Tingru ate three catties of old wine, put on his armor and came to the tent, Qin Han was waiting outside:
"Heavenly King, the Xian army has been discovered to the east of our army."
Thunder was staring at him in a daze at this time, and when he heard the news, Xianjun was not at ease:
"Is it to disturb this king for such?"
"Heavenly King, the number of this Xian army is unknown, but it came from Guangxin to Dingyang, Qin judged that it must be Wei Xian who led the army."
Hearing the word "Wei Xian", Lei Ting was startled, and finally sobered up:
"What, Wei Xian, how do you know?"
"More than two hours ago, the scouts who were ambushed near the official road were captured by the Xian army, and then they were released, according to the two reports, one of them was lame and riding on a four-wheeled vehicle, this person must be Wei Xian."
Hearing the news, the Xianjun was caught and released, and the face behind the mask of the Thunder Heavenly King immediately sank, and he asked sharply:
"It's been put back, what about the people?"
"Waiting to be disposed of." Qin Han said.
"Bring them both for questioning."
Qin Han brought the two of them to Thunder for questioning, and after careful questioning, Thunder found that these two people flatly denied revealing the slightest news to the Xian army, and they didn't see the number of the Xian army, and they didn't know why the Xian army wanted to let them back.
"Waste, rice bucket, pull down and cut it down for this heavenly king."
When the two heard the news that they wanted to be killed, they also wanted to cry without tears, and they begged each other:
"The king of heaven spares his life, the king of heaven spares his life......"
The two of them spoke with a Sun Guo accent, and Lei Ting immediately softened his heart and said:
"Pull it down, hit it with ten sticks."
"No!"
The soldiers on the left and right stepped forward and dragged the two men down for execution.
At this time, Qin Han said:
"Heavenly King, there is no doubt that the Xian army must be led by Wei Xian, except for him, no one in the Xian army can have such means."
"Then Qin Caidong has ever thought about why Wei Xian wants to put these two people back, isn't he afraid that our army will attack them overnight? Since he knew that our army was rushing in the middle of the night and forcibly marching for more than 20 miles, that is, for an hour, was he not afraid? β
"This ...... Is there another ambush in the Xian army? It is said that there are not many horses in Guangxin City, and the Xian army has six or seven thousand people at best, galloping one hundred and twenty or thirty miles a day, and the people are sleepy and the horses are lacking, if I have 150,000 horses to attack him at this time, how can he escape. β
"Hmph, what if he draws troops from Dingyang?"
"Shhh...... Ding Yang? Does the king of heaven mean that Ye Xin's 30,000 cavalry? β
"Is it possible? The two scouts returned to the Chinese army, two hours have passed, Wei Xian must be after them, send people to Dingyang to move for help, if they draw troops from Dingyang, our army rushed to encircle and annihilate Wei Xian at this time, the army made food, pulled out the camp, went on the road, and then rushed to 20 miles, not to mention that it would take two hours, at that time Ye Xin's department had already arrived and been repaired, and when our army arrived, wouldn't they be waiting for work, and they could not be entangled with our army at all, chasing and killing our army behind them. β
"But in this way, Dingyang City is not empty, if our army goes on the road to besiege the city at this time, its 30,000 cavalry will be difficult to continue fighting tonight, how can it threaten my 150,000 horses."
"Could it be that Wei Xian can easily let me and others go to attack the city? Don't forget, this place is still more than sixty miles away from Dingyang, and Wei Xian's headquarters is only forty miles, and if our army sets off in an hour, it will arrive tomorrow afternoon at the earliest. Even if they trimmed for three hours, they could attack our troops at any time and at any time after dawn. β
"Then form a formation, go in formation, and be afraid that he will not succeed."
"Then Qin Caidong can know how many miles a day our army will travel after the formation?"
"Hiss......" Qin Han quickly realized that the rapid march of 150,000 people was not fast, if he held a united formation, where could he be faster than walking: "How is it good, why don't you take advantage of Wei Xian's understanding of our army's strategy and fight back to attack Guangxin?" β
"Guangxin is farther than Dingyang, how can we attack Guangxin, and Guangxin has 700,000 people, twice as many as Dingyang, there is no internal response, how can we attack. Hmph, Wei Xian was a big fire yesterday, and he reacted so quickly today, it's really difficult......"
Thunder paced back and forth, was silent for a moment, and said:
"Someone!"
"The subordinates are here."
"Spread the order of the Heavenly King, and after half an hour, the whole army will march westward."
"No!"
Qin Han was taken aback when he heard the news:
"To the west? The King of Heaven is going to withdraw! β
"Who said that!"
Thunder asked in a deep voice, Qin Han consciously lost his words, and hurriedly said:
"That's ......"
Lei Ting ordered someone to bring a topographic map of the mountains and rivers of Xianguo, pointed to the location between Pucheng, Guangxin, and Dingyang and said:
"Pucheng, Guangxin, Dingyang are each other's horns, our army camped here, very close to Ikeda, Gubai, after the first battle of Shaoping, Ikeda, Gubai and the first line of men and horses all returned to the station, our army can go west to transfer people and horses here, together 200,000 people."
"What, 200,000, won't Ikeda and Gu Bai become empty cities, in case the Jin army kills from behind, we will be attacked from behind."
"Then will the Jin army kill from behind?" Lei Ting pointed to Pucheng and said: "Pucheng is empty, we will first transfer, Ikeda, Gu Bai soldiers and horses to attack Pucheng, although Guangxin is close to Pucheng, but our army is not far from Guangxin, and the rapid march will arrive in Guangxin in one day." If Pucheng is lost, it will cut off the land communication channel between Beihai County and the Jin army, and if the Jin army wants to go to Guangxin, it must either take Pucheng or take a warship to Guangxin to land. β
"What does the Heavenly King mean that if our army attacks Pucheng, the Jin army will still not attack Ikeda and Gubai?"
"It is not of practical benefit to our army that these two cities can be evacuated to the south, leaving only the empty city to garrison, but only to guard against the sudden southward movement of the Jin army, and for the Jin army, it is farther to go from Leicheng to Gubai and Ikeda than to Pucheng.
Now all the people of Gubai and Ikeda are evacuated, and the Jin army occupies these two empty cities, but instead of being driven by manpower, the supply of grain, grass and military materials from Leicheng is bound to lengthen, and the people of Leicheng are scarce, and the Jin army can only transport grain with soldiers.
If our army captures Pucheng at this time, and then give up Pucheng, the Jin army will inevitably come to take Pucheng, if the Jin army occupies Pucheng again, the Jin army of 150,000 troops, at least 50,000 people need to be divided to transport grain in the four places, how can the Jin army not know this reason.
Therefore, the most favorable situation for the Jin army is to take Leicheng as the foundation and go along the coast. If our army attacked Pucheng and then deliberately ceded it, the Jin army would definitely not go to the two empty cities of Gubai and Ikeda, which had no people. β
"But what is the point of our army defeating Pucheng and then ceding it to the Jin army?"
"Humph!" Lei Ting smiled coldly at this time: "Qin Caidong, why did the Jin army occupy Pucheng?" β
"Of course, in order to occupy Guangxin in the future, if Pucheng is occupied by the Xian army, wouldn't it be like a fish in the throat? But if the Jin army sees that the main force of our army is guarding near Pucheng, I am afraid that it will not be easily fooled to attack Pucheng. β
"Is that what if Guangxin is lost?"
"Guangxin is lost? Is the king of heaven saying that if our army fights Guangxin, the Jin army will attack Pucheng? β
Pucheng is the gateway of Guangxin to the west, separated from Leicheng by a river. If our army breaks Guangxin, the Jin army will think that our army's vitality will be greatly damaged, so they will come to seek battle to capture Guangxin. β
"That being the case, this situation is not good for our army."
"Therefore, after our army captured Pucheng, it put on a posture of besieging Guangxin, but did not attack it, in order to confuse the Jin army and create the illusion that our army suffered heavy casualties and was about to conquer Guangxin, so as to lure the Jin army to capture Pucheng."
"Shhh...... But what if the Jin army makes a fake come true, what if it attacks from behind? β
"Wouldn't it be better in this way, this Heavenly King can make the Jin army comfortable and really take Pucheng in one breath? When the Jin army attacked Pucheng, it must have divided its troops. After it defeated Pucheng, our army then drew troops and horses to counterattack and besiege Pucheng. Qin Caidong, do you know what the situation will be? β
"This is a dangerous plan, in case Ji Guang leads the army to come to the aid from Thunder City, the consequences are unimaginable!"
"What's the risk, Pucheng and Leicheng are separated by the Guanling Ferry, our army only needs to divide a group of men and horses to guard the Guanling Ferry, can the Jin army still fly from the sky. If they crossed the sea by boat, they would have to go ashore, and it would not be so easy to go ashore from the shore of Pucheng.
When our army surrounded Pucheng and trapped the Jin army in the city, the Jin army could only ask for help from the Xian army, and at that time, the Xian army took the initiative to seek war, and our army waited for the labor to gather and annihilate it, and wiped out the main force of Beihai County of the Xian army in one fell swoop. β