Chapter 82: Bloody Battle of Du Yang (11)
The tent was still silent, and after a long time, Zhao Xun took a step forward:
"General Zhang, now the loss of 7,000 men and horses is irretrievable, since there is no hope of breaking the city, I would have thought that it would be the best policy to find out where the Jin army was as soon as possible and break it."
Ding Yang Hou was originally very reluctant to see the strategy of directly attacking the Jin army, but now he has lost 7,000 people in half a day, and he has been difficult to ride a tiger.
"General Zhao's meaning is still to insist that the Jin army is set within the two battalions outside the city."
"Yes, within the two camps outside the city. Our army only attacked the west of the city today, and suffered heavy casualties. General Ben thought that it was difficult for the Jin army to understand the intentions of our army, so the Jin army's vision was concentrated in the city, and it should not be difficult for our army to win a blow and equalize the losses during the siege. ”
Since this is the case, the matter will be handed over to General Zhao to supervise. Let you find out where the Jin army is within two days, and the army will stop attacking the city tomorrow, but the tunnel will not stop digging for the time being, and the accounts will be scattered. ”
With that, the crowd dispersed. Zhao Xun walked out of the tent, left the Chinese army with Zhong Heng and Yao Sheng, and came to a no-man's land, Yao Sheng said bitterly:
"It's a pity that the colonel, if Wei Xian was still here, how could our army fall into such a field today."
"Yes......" Zhong Heng groaned, lowered his head and continued: "If you take Feicheng and then occupy Hechi, I am afraid that now the Jin army has already fled in a panic, and Duyang City will be at your fingertips without a fight, how can you use such a bloody battle, what kind of heart does he Dingyang Marquis press!" ”
The second general was indignant, and Zhao Xun was silent for a long time and did not pick up the topic of the two.
Wei Xian's death, he has an unshirkable responsibility, if Feicheng had not mentioned the matter of Hechi to Lu Jing, even if he faced Duyang City today, Wei Xian would still be able to give advice, but now, I am afraid that it is really as Wei Xian expected, this battle is more than auspicious.
Thinking in his heart, Zhao Xun said differently:
"Zhong Heng, Yao Sheng, Marquis Dingyang ordered the general to find out where the Jin army is within two days, what can you two do?"
Zhong Heng says:
"Back to General Zhao, if the Jin army is outside the city, Han He will definitely set up suspicious soldiers to confuse our army, and without the main attack of large soldiers, our army is afraid that it will be difficult to know.
However, when he insisted on Yin Yangcheng at that time, the last general once heard Wei Xian's words, saying that this true and false false and false way are all in the hearts of the people, if it is considered false, it is false, if it is true, it is true, even if it is seen, it is not necessarily true, and often the false is hidden in the mystery.
The last general thought that if the Han He set up suspicious troops, I am afraid that the fake Chinese army would be more real than the real Chinese army, so our army might as well go against it and attack its weak army. ”
"You mean, the Han Hezhong army is very likely to hide the truth and show the falsehood!"
"Exactly, the wall of Duyang City is only a few hundred steps long, and there are many cavalry of the Jin army, if Han He knows that the Chinese army is likely to be attacked by our army, he will hide the strength of the Chinese army, and instead highlight the strength of the suspicious formation, so as to lure our army to attack its pseudo-camp. At that time, our army will attack the puppet camp, and Han He will kill the Zhenzhong army in the city, and our army will definitely be defeated.
However, if our army attacked the Zhenzhong army, but because of its hidden strength, our army did not send enough troops, and was killed by the ambush of the Han Hezhong army. Therefore, the Han Hezhong army must have ambush troops, and if it is not a thunderous blow, it must not be rashly attacked. ”
Zhong Heng judged that Han He might make the suspect more disguised, but in fact, the pseudo-camp where the suspect was located was false, and once the Xian army misjudged, he might be bitten back by Han He. But if he really touched the camp of the Jin army, Han He would definitely have an ambush, and unless he concentrated all his strength, it would be difficult to disintegrate the Jin army.
The difficulty here is that whether it is concentrating on attacking the real Chinese army or the pseudo-battalion, the Xian army only has the opportunity to launch an all-out attack, and it cannot drag the mud and water, and once it is empty, the whole army will be annihilated.
If it succeeds, Han He will also have an ambush, and he must take the Chinese army at all costs, and at the same time separate the Jin army in Duyang City from the Jin army in the puppet camp, and the Jin army that has already been defeated has no time to clean up the remnants of the defeated generals, and will definitely be scattered and retreat eastward.
This is why Bai Liyan proposed a fatal attack on the Jin army, once the Chinese army collapsed, Han He had no ability to organize the Jin army divided into three places, and it would be too late to save his life at that time, let alone gather men.
Zhao Xun thought about it and decided to send scouts to work carefully, and then make a decision after finding out the specific situation.
At the same time, the Jin army was attacked for a day, and Han He still did not understand the strategic intentions of the Xian army, and a large reason was the faint move of Ding Yang Hou.
In the tent, the Jin army had also just disbanded, and Han Hezhi left Wang Shuo and Wei Han to speak:
"General Wang Shuo, the Jin army is acting differently today, and the old man is still puzzled, I don't know what you think."
"This ......" Wang Shuo looked puzzled: "It seems to be very different from Wei Xian's previous level, and there is no discipline at all." Leaving the battalions and cities not to attack, but only attacking the west city, this kind of siege is unreasonable, and the lives of the soldiers are sacrificed in vain. ”
"Well, the old man agrees. Wei Xian has already been taught by us, this person is young, but he has a lot of city government methods, but the recent battle is really too substandard. Could it be that Marquis Ding Yang did not adopt Wei Xian's strategy? ”
Hearing this, Wang Shuo seemed to think:
"I will hear that the Marquis of Ding Yang is jealous of his ability, and this time he crossed the river to fight a decisive battle with our army, but the Marquis of Ding Yang himself asked for battle like the King of Xian, and Feicheng was conquered by Zhao Xun, and the prince of Chang was also ambushed by Zhao Xun, so it was not ......"
"Yes, why didn't the old man think of it!"
Under Wang Shuo's click, Han He suddenly realized.
He should have thought that his method of defending the city today was a lesson from the attack on Yin Yangcheng that day, if it was Wei Xian's plan behind his back, he would definitely not forcibly attack the city, because Wei Xian must know how powerful it is.
Then now there is only one explanation, Baili Yan was cold-treated. Attacking the city, and only attacking the west city is Ding Yanghou's own attention.
But even so, the old man still didn't understand, that Ding Yang Hou didn't know the art of war, how could there be a reason in the world to attack a city and only attack one place, even if it was only one attack, it needed to be a feint attack on three sides, and one side of the main attack. Today, he only attacked one place, but he couldn't do it. ”
Han He was puzzled in his heart, this was Wang Shuo twisting his long beard and saying:
"Well, I have to report before, the Xian army suffered no less than 6,000 casualties in the siege today, even if the Marquis of Ding Yang no longer knows the art of war, don't Zhao Xun and the others know? It must be to convince the others to attack the city. The last general suspected that despite the strange behavior of the Marquis of Dingyang, he must have ulterior motives. ”
"What could it be?"
When Han He and Wang Shuo were puzzled, Wei Han on the side said:
"Two generals, today's Xian army is attacking the city, and the last general looks at the Xian army camp on the city, only thinking that the Jin army is only more than 40,000 soldiers, even if you don't convert the rear camp and the 20,000 cavalry of the Xian army, the Xian army should have at least 50,000 people, where are these 50,000 people?"
"Could it be that the Xian army originally planned to attack the city overnight, and these 50,000 horses are still resting." Wang Shuo guessed that perhaps this would be the most reasonable time.
"But even so, the Xianjun army is five miles away from Duyang City, but it only moved two miles to camp this morning, so isn't it too much, you can go two more miles to the village the night before, why bother to pull out the camp this morning. The last general thought that the 50,000 people of the Xian army were afraid that the Marquis of Ding Yang had used them for other purposes. ”
If the city is attacked overnight, the army's schedule is usually divided into two, divided into early attack and night attack, when the early attack is attacked, the night attack rests, and the night attack sleeps early when the city is attacked, so as not to be too tired and the enemy army has a gap.
Now the Xian army only attacked the west of Duyang City, but set up a military formation of 40,000 people outside the city, this scale can completely attack the south city and the north city, and it will take 40,000 people to suppress the formation to attack the west city alone, logically unreasonable, unless the Xian army wants to hide something, this is what Wei Han is worried about.
He continued:
"In this way, it can explain why the Xian army only blindly attacked the western city, instead of wrestling with our army in an all-round way, the purpose is to divert the attention of our army, and at the same time reduce the losses of the Xian army and our army, but the Xian army never thought that our army's city defense adopted a new method, and Ding Yang Hou was not familiar with our army's tactics, so he would suffer such a loss."
Wei Han's voice fell, Han He slapped his right hand on his forehead, and blurted out:
"Oh, the Marquis of Dingyang must be attacking Duyang City!"
"Cave Attack?!"
Wang Shuo agreed, and Han He said:
"There must be no doubt that the Xian army will attack from the cave, if it is not for the attack of the cave, why did the Marquis of Ding Yang only attack Xicheng, and it should be a decisive battle with our army. Only the attack on the cave needs to shorten the distance to less than three miles, if it is five miles, it will take more effort and manpower, and it will not be discovered by our army as soon as possible.
As General Wei Han said, the siege must have been to divert the attention of our army, but unexpectedly it was created by the new law of our army to defend the city, and we had to stop the siege tonight. ”
"General Han, this cave attack is not a day's work, our army will definitely not sit still, with the current strength of the Xian army, there is no advantage over our army, at this time, the cave attack is not self-defeating."
Wang Shuo said suspiciously, but Han He laughed:
"Hehaha...... If it was Wei Xian, the old man might still have to worry about it, but if it was Ding Yang Hou, how could the method of acupoint attack be useful. ”
"What does Old General Han mean?"
"General Wang Shuo, the Marquis of Ding Yang does not use a think tank like Wei Xian, but acts arbitrarily, which shows that this person is not only jealous of his ability, but also stubborn and self-serving. The old man even suspected that the Marquis of Ding Yang was familiar with the art of war, but he was a pedantic person.
King Xian a few years ago, Qigong Sun Yue can be seen, and now Ding Yang Marquis has crossed the river, and the old man even doubts whether it is the same smell of the monarchs and ministers of the Xian Kingdom. ”
"The old general is saying that King Xian is not good at employing people!"
Wang Shuo seemed to have understood, and Han He was in his chest at this time, and he said:
"General Wang Shuo, do you think that after all these years, the reform of the Xianguo law can be effective?"
"What does this have to do with the Marquis of Dingyang?"
"As the saying goes, if there will be peace, the country will prosper, and if there will be discord, the country will perish. As everyone knows, this will be like-minded, and if it is the opposite, the smell will also be similar. In this way, that Gongsun Yue is a straw bag with empty words on paper, and this Dingyang Marquis is afraid that he is also an empty general with low eyes. ”