Chapter Twenty-Three: Yangu Gorge (II)

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On February 13 of the 14th year of Wankang, the battle in Yangu Gorge had reached a strange point.

The two sides were not far apart, but neither of them moved, and the soldiers lived every day as if they were in the barracks. As long as the Zhao army is still in Yangu Gorge, there is little hope for the Yan army to go south. And even if they can go south, the meaning is not necessarily very good. Today's Yan is actually waiting for an opportunity, an opportunity for Liang Jing to fall.

Theoretically, with Nanzhou cutting off the reinforcements of Yunnan Wang to the east, the fall of Liang Jing was only a matter of time. Originally, the Yan army was alone in the depths and directly surrounded Liang Jing, and there was a danger of being counter-consumed, but now with Nanzhou as the rear, there is no need to worry about the materials at all. Therefore, the Yan army in Congzhou was not in a hurry, after all, as long as they contained the king of Yunnan, the victory was almost in the bag.

The reason for Zhaojun's immobility is very simple, the time has not yet come. Now the army of the king of Yunnan has not gone out of the gorge, and it can still guarantee the confidence of victory in the battle. And if Zhang Doucai's proposal is adopted, the south wind has not yet arrived, and the tools needed for the fire attack are not yet complete, and the time has not yet come.

However, Li Zongxing's side was not in a hurry, out of some confidence in General Gao, Li Zongxing did not reluctantly linger on the battle situation in Nanzhou.

Both sides are not in a hurry, and neither is moving, and as a stalemate on the battlefield, the atmosphere may be too harmonious.

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On February 29, the 14th year of Wankang, the south wind was very strong on this day. The Zhao army prepared dozens of horses in advance, both good and bad. They were all strapped to their bodies with more than a dozen jars the size of heads made of thin pottery, all of which contained fire oil.

When the sun was due south, I could only hear a whistle in the Zhao barracks, and dozens of horses rushed out. It is said that there are unscrupulous horses in the south, not to mention that they still have heavy burdens on their bodies, and their speed is not too fast, at least they can't be called galloping.

Despite this, they rushed into the Yan army's camp, and in the midst of the enemy's response, the fire oil tank was smashed by the Yan army. At this time the horse was frightened, and threw the oil wherever he ran. For a time, the Yan army camp was very chaotic.

This effect is really too much beyond the expectations of the king of Yunnan. After all, the king of Yunnan had never underestimated the strength of the Yan army, and he never thought that a few unexpected horses could penetrate into the enemy formation. But even so, there will be no other changes to the plan.

A platoon of shieldmen marched ahead, followed by several rows of archers with fiery arrows. There were also a lot of infantry pressed against the flanks of the guard, and it was a standard battlefield phalanx, very ordinary, but very effective. When the phalanx reached the point where the arrows could hit the Yan camp, the shield soldiers stopped, and the neat archers behind them all stepped back and began to fire at the Yan camp.

With the help of the oil oil, the dry old grass and trees quickly caught fire, and with the help of the south wind, the fire grew bigger and bigger. Eventually, the Yan army had to abandon the camp. However, when they just wanted to flee north, they were surprised to find that the fire in the north was not small at all.

This is the situation that the king of Yunnan has laid out a long time ago, and he has finally come up with a good plan, and he has finally waited for the opportunity, how could Li Zongxing allow the Yan army to simply mess up and then withdraw. Naturally, the soldiers were arranged in advance, and when the horses carrying the oil canisters caused chaos, they quietly went around to the north of the Yan camp, and prepared to set fire on the other side.

The King of Yunnan really didn't expect the horses to cause chaos so well, but he never gave up on using even more of the chaos they caused. In order to prevent the horses from being injured by Yan's arrows or preparing for battle before they arrived at Yan's camp, he deliberately chose to carry out his plan at noon. At this time, the sun is shining from the south, and Yan Jun's vision will be extremely limited. It is conducive to the implementation of the Yunnan King Plan.

However, outside of this, the king of Yunnan did not think too much. After all, the two walls of fire combined with the special terrain of Yangu Gorge made the range of activities of his army somewhat limited. He also wanted to follow the example of the ancients and lay a net in the path of the fire, so that the enemy could feel the despair called hope, but it was clear that the conditions were not enough.

With a wave of his hand, he called an officer and gave him the order to retreat to a safe place and rest. And so the king of Yunnan sat down on the ground. After staring at the flames for a while, he felt some pain in his eyes, and quickly closed his eyes and lowered his head.

At this time, Li Zongxing began to think about what he should do next. Although Li Zongxing is accustomed to discussing plans with his disciples, this does not mean that Li Zongxing is a stupid person, it is better to say that if Li Zongxing is a stupid person, how can he sit in the position of the current king of Yunnan, and how can he gain such a high trust from Li Zongxu. After all, Li Zongxu, who can become the Son of Heaven, is definitely not a stupid person, and it is the King of Yunnan himself who makes this "smart man" think that Li Zongxing is a wooden person.

Li Zongxing was present from the beginning to the end of this fire attack, and he could see from the reaction of the Yan army that the Yan army was not prepared for this attack at all. However, Li Zongxing did not think that the Yan army in front of Yangu Gorge would be destroyed, to some extent, this was just a narrowing of the gap between the two sides in terms of morale and numbers. What's more, this fire attack itself did not encompass the entire Yan camp.

The Yan army now entrenched in Congzhou is mainly divided into two parts, one part is the part that guards Congzhou, and the other part is the army stationed in the north of Yangu Gorge, which is divided into the front battalion and the rear battalion. This fire attack only hit the front battalion, if it represents the defeat of the Yan army in Congzhou, it is really bragging.

After the heavy losses of the front battalion, the rest should be relegated to the rear battalion, and at that time, the front of the rear battalion will be wide open, and the morale of the defeated troops will be a good time to give them a head-on attack. But Yan is not a fool in the end, and it is impossible to let the king of Yunnan take advantage of the original place. Therefore, Yan's rear camp will almost certainly retreat to avoid the Yunnan king's edge.

And when they retreat, they will definitely have a strategy to prevent the king of Yunnan from pursuing, and their retreat route is still the control area of Yan the day before, compared to the king of Yunnan is more of an away battle, if you blindly pursue, the possibility of the Yan army trap is too great, not to take risks.

In general, although this operation inflicted great heavy losses on the enemy, the strategic significance is actually not too great. Although it is said that with the number of soldiers closer, the king of Yunnan has a certain strategic initiative, but it has not fundamentally reversed the position of the Miao army in the initiative. Moreover, as soon as the rear camp of the Yan army retreated, the distance from the Zhao army became much farther away, and it may become very difficult to seize the initiative through some means.

"That being said, it's a pretty good feeling to have won a fight." Li Zongxing, whose eyes no longer hurt, muttered to himself.

The fire burned for a long time, about a day and night, and the next morning the fire was extinguished. As far as the eye can see, there is a blackened mountain soil that has been burned. Many of the bones were left in Yan's old camp, and most of them had been reduced to ashes.

Fire attacks are best at night, when people tend to panic when they wake up. But even if the fire burned at night, it was still the embarrassing result. This embarrassing result made the king of Yunnan and his disciples feel quite disgusted and helpless.

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The scene after that is the same as the continuation of the previous scene, the two sides are deadlocked, they don't fight, they look at each other from afar, and it's the same every day, and it's quite harmonious.

It wasn't until the eighth day of the second month of the leap month that Zang Pang received a special battle report.

The rear camp of the original Yan army drove eastward with great fanfare, and the battle was so grand that it was like a festival, as if it was deliberately shown to the king of Yunnan.

Of course, this move caused a discussion between the king of Yunnan and his disciples, and they all speculated about the intention of Houying's move.

"Your Highness, in your opinion, this rear camp is really exaggerated. It's not like you're really leaving, maybe it's a ploy to lure your Highness into sending troops. A young swordsman said.

"Nonsense! Your Highness, the Admiral thinks otherwise. If the Yan army really just wanted to lure us out of the Yangu Gorge, they would not have made this action so powerful, and they would have opened it more realistically. It seems that the last general must have really changed in the direction of Liang Jing, so that the Yan army in Congzhou needs to move. ”

Chapter Twenty-Three: Yangu Gorge (II)

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On February 13 of the 14th year of Wankang, the battle in Yangu Gorge had reached a strange point.

The two sides were not far apart, but neither of them moved, and the soldiers lived every day as if they were in the barracks. As long as the Zhao army is still in Yangu Gorge, there is little hope for the Yan army to go south. And even if they can go south, the meaning is not necessarily very good. Today's Yan is actually waiting for an opportunity, an opportunity for Liang Jing to fall.

Theoretically, with Nanzhou cutting off the reinforcements of Yunnan Wang to the east, the fall of Liang Jing was only a matter of time. Originally, the Yan army was alone in the depths and directly surrounded Liang Jing, and there was a danger of being counter-consumed, but now with Nanzhou as the rear, there is no need to worry about the materials at all. Therefore, the Yan army in Congzhou was not in a hurry, after all, as long as they contained the king of Yunnan, the victory was almost in the bag.

The reason for Zhaojun's immobility is very simple, the time has not yet come. Now the army of the king of Yunnan has not gone out of the gorge, and it can still guarantee the confidence of victory in the battle. And if Zhang Doucai's proposal is adopted, the south wind has not yet arrived, and the tools needed for the fire attack are not yet complete, and the time has not yet come.

However, Li Zongxing's side was not in a hurry, out of some confidence in General Gao, Li Zongxing did not reluctantly linger on the battle situation in Nanzhou.

Both sides are not in a hurry, and neither is moving, and as a stalemate on the battlefield, the atmosphere may be too harmonious.

……

On February 29, the 14th year of Wankang, the south wind was very strong on this day. The Zhao army prepared dozens of horses in advance, both good and bad. They were all strapped to their bodies with more than a dozen jars the size of heads made of thin pottery, all of which contained fire oil.

When the sun was due south, I could only hear a whistle in the Zhao barracks, and dozens of horses rushed out. It is said that there are unscrupulous horses in the south, not to mention that they still have heavy burdens on their bodies, and their speed is not too fast, at least they can't be called galloping.

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