Chapter 634: Counting is Counting
His Royal Highness King Su ...... What a natural handsome talent. Pen ~ fun ~ pavilion www.biquge.info
Looking up at Mengshan in the distance, Xu Yin, the general of the Fencheng Army, said secretly with some emotion.
Thinking that he, Xu Yin, as one of the only few great generals in Wei State, has been sitting in the southwest border of Wei State for more than ten years, and should have played a pillar-like role, but he was eager to make meritorious contributions, but he almost put their Wei army in an embarrassing dilemma.
Thinking of this, Xu Yin couldn't help but blush and feel a little ashamed.
It is really embarrassing for a veteran who is over forty years old to pull back a junior who is only 16 years old.
But while being embarrassed and ashamed, Xu Yin also felt an inexplicable feeling of being trusted.
Why?
Because Zhao Hongrun did not directly tell him about the tricks of the Chu army, let alone forcefully ask him Xu Yin to immediately stop the attack on Mengshan, this His Royal Highness King Su's response was very gentle and moved Xu Yin: This His Royal Highness King Su, while sending 20,000 Yanling troops to support him, tactfully reminded him of the judgment that the Chu army might have tricks in an uncertain attitude.
Yes, Zhao Hongrun revealed such a message in the words that Yan Mo conveyed: he only suspected that the Chu army had a trick, but he did not confirm it, and hoped that Xu Yin would pay attention to it and take precautions as soon as possible.
And this is exactly what Xu Yin was moved by, because Zhao Hongrun did not point out his error in judgment and gave him the opportunity to correct it.
This is already a kind of protection in disguise.
And in the final analysis, Xu Yin was able to get this honor, most likely because he was once a Zongwei next to Wei Tianzi, and he was Zhao Hongrun's general who should call his uncle according to the rules, otherwise it would not be the case if he was someone else.
Another example is Sima An, the general of the Dangshan Army during the Battle of Sanchuan, if it weren't for the fact that Sima An was also from the Zongwei side of Wei Tianzi, it would be enough for Zhao Hongrun to use his special rights as the commander-in-chief during the war to remove the former.
Because it's your own person, you have to be partial.
At present, Xu Yin was moved by Zhao Hongrun's favoritism to his own people.
And this move also enabled Xu Yin to finally put aside the meritorious thoughts in his head for the time being, calm down, and analyze the battle in front of him.
After all, he was a general who had been in Fencheng for more than ten years, and after Xu Yin calmed down, he noticed a few unusualnesses.
First of all, it is Zhao Hongrun's judgment of Chu Jiang's Doulian.
Xu Yin also recognized this very much, because after thinking about it carefully, Xu Yin also did not believe that a Chu general who would reserve ambush troops would be the kind of reckless man who seemed to be arrogant enough to defeat their more than 50,000 Wei with more than 5,000 Chu troops.
And secondly, it is the battle of Monsan that is now presented in front of his Xu Yin's eyes.
The Chu general Dou Lian was very clever -- for the time being, I don't know if it was Dou Lian who set up this bureau, let's just think it was him -- he deliberately gave the Fen Cheng army hope and grasped the scale quite well, which gave the soldiers of the Fen Cheng army an illusion: as long as they worked harder, they would be able to conquer the Mengshan Chu camp in front of them and remove an obstacle for their Wei army to attack Xiangcheng.
But in fact?
The Fencheng army dispatched Cai Baohu's Xiwei Battalion and Deng Peng's Dongwei Battalion, these two battalions totaled 10,000 soldiers and stormed for most of the hour, but the battle situation remained at the level that as long as the Wei army made more efforts, it could conquer the Mengshan Chu battalion.
That's not right!
Because about an hour ago, when the Chu general Dou Lian fought in front of their Wei army, the strength of this Chu army, although it cannot be said to be very bad, was obviously inferior to the Fen army.
This is such a Chu army, which is "worse" than the Fencheng army, changed the place of battle, and immediately changed its appearance, and fought on an equal footing with the Fencheng army.
Yes, the Fencheng army is indeed a defense-focused army, not very aggressive, far inferior to the Dangshan army, but at this moment, Xu Yin can obviously still feel that in the tentative confrontation about an hour ago, this Chu army was mostly deliberately showing weakness.
Why show weakness?
Quite simply, because it was necessary to lure the Wei army to Mengshan, so that Wei would devote all its attention to the Mengshan Chu camp, which was very likely to be captured on the same day, and abandon the original steady strategy of camping in the original position.
When you have a chance to take the enemy's barracks, why bother building your own barracks?
I believe that most of the generals in the world will have such thoughts when they encounter such a situation.
And now it seems that the Chu general Doulian used this method to make the Wei army unintentionally build a military camp by itself, and came to seize this Mengshan Chu camp.
But the most fundamental problem is that since the Chu general Doulian came up with this trick, he is obviously sure that the Wei army will not be able to really conquer the Mengshan Chu camp, and in this way, the 55,000 Wei army will fall into an even more embarrassing situation: they fought hard for a day, but in the end their efforts were in vain. Once night fell, when the Chu army was resting and eating comfortably in the Mengshan Chu camp, the Wei army could only spend the first night after the outbreak of war in a nervous state in this strange land, in an environment with almost no defenses around it.
What exactly was the role of the barracks during the war between the two armies?
It was a kind of defense, and it was a guarantee that could give the sergeant peace of mind, so that the latter would not be nervously worried about whether he would be decapitated by the sudden arrival of the enemy in his sleep before resting.
It is no exaggeration to say that if the officers and men of the Wei army really spent the first night in this anxious mood, then tomorrow, the combat effectiveness and morale of the Wei army will inevitably be greatly reduced, which is equivalent to eating a defeat.
After losing the first battle, they had to build another barracks, and if nothing else, the Wei army would have to be in decline for at least ten days, until their Wei camp was built, and they could not restore their morale.
But the question is, will the Chu army, which has seized the opportunity, let the Wei army build a camp so easily?
It can be seen that Xu Yin and his general Cai Baohu are alone in this deep army, and this mistake in judgment is actually very fatal.
If he wanted to be more steady, Xu Yin should withdraw his troops at this time, return to the location of the Shang Shui Army, and build a military camp with the latter to rebuild morale.
But he didn't do it, because Zhao Hongrun sent 20,000 Yanling troops to his side, which was tantamount to giving him a message: Mengshan will be handed over to you, you are responsible for conquering it, and the rest will be solved by this king.
And these are the reasons why Xu Yin lamented that King Su was a rare handsome talent: he was strategic, far-sighted, and knew how to protect his subordinates.
How could such an excellent coach not be supported by his subordinates?
If it weren't for the fact that Xu Yin was the sect guard of Wei Tianzi, and it was already a clear-cut imperial party, it would be impossible for him to favor the forces of the princes, otherwise, I am afraid he would not be able to help but join the Suwang Party and become a member of it.
It's incredible...... The Eighth Highness's Tao Hui and scheming seem to have surpassed His Majesty back then...... What a blessing to the nation! However, why does such an excellent King Su have no intention of taking the throne?
Xu Yin didn't feel a pity in his heart.
However, this thought only turned in his mind for a moment, and then disappeared in an instant, after all, in his position, it was not suitable to involve such a sensitive topic.
Let's think about how to conquer this Monsanchu camp first......
Xu Yin settled down and looked intently at Mengshan in the distance.
When he put his mind on this matter, the corners of his mouth couldn't help but show a slight inexplicable smile.
Because he can be sure that on the top of Mengshan Mountain right now, the Chu general named Dou Lian must be in a very anxious mood.
Why?
Because of the clever plan of this Chu general, he did not succeed in seducing all the Wei troops in this area, and there were still 20,000 merchant troops staying twenty miles to the northeast.
And judging from the fact that he Xu Yin withdrew Cai Baohu's Xiwei Battalion, but Chu State still failed to recapture the Chu Camp Gate, that Chu General Dou Lian obviously decided to stand still, and did not want to show the killing move early.
And this gave Xu Yin the opportunity to play Mengshan Chujun.
No, it can't be said to be a joke, to be precise, it is to take advantage of the psychology of Chu General Dou Lian who still does not want to be exposed before luring all the Wei troops, first slowly offensive against Mengshan, so that the Fen army that has been fighting so far can take a breath, and then immediately storm Mengshan with the momentum of thunder and conquer this military camp.
"Pass my order and tell Deng Peng's Dongwei battalion to withdraw. …… General Qu Cheng's Yan Ling Army was asked to take over the attack. ”
"Yes!"
After a while, Deng Peng, the general of the Fencheng army, led his soldiers to retreat, and the two generals of the Yanling army, Gong Yesheng and Zuo Qiumu, took over the attack on Mengshan.
After about half an hour, Gong Yesheng and Zuo Qiumu led the troops to withdraw, and then Zuo Xunxi and Hua Yu led the troops to take over.
With this kind of wheel warfare tactics, the Wei army on Mengshan's side, under Xu Yin's reasonable allocation, retained enough physical strength, and also experienced a battle that could only be regarded as a warm-up at best.
On the other hand, the Chu army halfway up the mountain of Mengshan, because the Chu general's cloak did not want to expose his hole cards too much, did not adopt the rotation tactics of wheel warfare like Xu Yin, so that the Chu army over there had already fallen to a very bad point.
And in fact, Chu Jiang Doulian also saw this, but he had no choice.
Although he hid more soldiers in Mengshan in order to ensure that the bait of Mengshan Chuying would not be conquered by the Wei army, he did not dare to rotate, after all, once the truth about the heavy troops stationed in Mengshan was exposed, then the tactics of luring the enemy against the Wei army would definitely be in vain.
If Xu Yin, the Wei general at the foot of the mountain, saw the flaw and immediately withdrew his troops, then all the effort they had invested before and the soldiers who sacrificed for this would be meaningless.
"Drag!"
Interrupting the middle-aged lieutenant general's suggestion that he take turns as a warrior, General Chu Dou Lian glanced up at the sun that was already in the western sky, gritted his teeth and said, "No matter what, drag it out until ......dusk at any cost."
"...... in the Cave"
"Not a single soldier is allowed to move! …… The big picture counts! General Chu said with a sinking face.
He probably didn't expect that the tactics of his Chu army had already been seen through by Zhao Hongrun, and Xu Yin, the Wei general at the foot of the mountain, also used his fighting psychology to slowly eat away at the morale, physical strength, and lives of the Chu army halfway up the mountain.
And once the time is ripe, when Xu Yin gives the order to total, I am afraid that the victory or defeat of this battle of Monshan will no longer be controlled by those Chu troops that Dou Lian hid in advance. (To be continued.) )