If the most famous wise general in the Wu army is Li Shenfu, then the most famous wise general in the Chu army should be Wang Huan. Pen, fun, and www.biquge.info

Perhaps among the many generals in the whole world, Wang Huan is not a famous general at all, compared to Li Shenfu, Zhou Ben, Wang Maozhang and other generals of Wu State, his reputation is much worse, but he is a resourceful general in the Chu army, and his achievements are also very dazzling.

This time, Ma Yin put him in charge of leading the troops, hoping that he could live up to expectations and take advantage of the chaos caused by the rotation of the Wu army this time to obtain a victory to avenge the defeat in the Battle of Gao'an last year.

It would be even better if we could take advantage of the opportunity to capture a few more cities.

Wang Huan was cautious by nature, and after he led his army to Pingxiang, he did not immediately launch an attack, but sent scouts from many sides to inquire about the news.

Not only were scouts arranged on the road to Yuanzhou, but other directions, even the direction behind the Chu army, did not let go of reconnaissance.

In addition, Wang Huan also quickly sent troops to guard the surrounding arteries, and stationed troops in many dangerous places to prevent the surprise attack of enemy reinforcements.

After these preparations were made, Wang Huan began to attack the city unhurriedly.

Pingxiang is only a small county town, although there are only 3,000 troops stationed in the city, but because the county seat is small, 3,000 people are enough to defend all the city walls.

The only drawback was that the height of the city wall was not high enough, and the Chu army could build large siege equipment and then launch an attack on the Wu army from a high position.

Of course, the construction of such a large equipment takes a certain amount of time, so Li Decheng's judgment is not a problem, and it is indeed difficult for the Chu army to break through the city in a short time.

However, Wang Huan is obviously not an ordinary person, he did not launch a siege battle step by step, but divided the army into multiple parts to take turns to attack the city, which has achieved the goal of exhausting the defenders and finally exhausting and unable to resist.

This kind of wheel warfare is nothing new, but Wang Huan's excellence lies in the fact that his wheel warfare is arranged very compactly, and he does a very accurate job in the connection of the two siege troops.

In this way, although the defending generals also rotated the troops to ensure that the soldiers were rested, the ability of the defending generals was obviously not as good as Wang Huan, and there were often loopholes in the rotation process, which almost allowed the Chu army to break through the city.

Although the defenders were encouraged by the imminent arrival of reinforcements, the defenders were exhausted by only three days.

After all, these defenders of the Wu army were just van troops who had not undergone much training, and they were basically soldiers selected from the troops of Peng Yanzhang, the assassin of Yuanzhou, rather than the brave and warlike soldiers of the forbidden army, so under Wang Huan's tactics, they soon couldn't hold on.

On this day, Wang Huan was commanding a large army to attack the city, and suddenly, a scout came to report.

"General Qiyu, our army has found signs of enemy scouting activities near Pingnan Village, ten miles to the southeast, but we have not fought with them, so we don't know the source of the enemy scouts and their purpose yet!"

"Southeast? Why Southeast? Wang Huan frowned immediately after hearing this.

If it is an ordinary person, even if he hears that there are traces of enemy scouts in the southeast, he will not usually attract enough attention.

This is because Pingxiang is located in the southwest of Yuanzhou, and it stands to reason that even if the enemy army will send reinforcements, it should be from Yuanzhou in the northeast, not from Jizhou in the southeast.

Therefore, even if the average person finds the enemy scout in the direction of Jizhou, he is afraid that he will think that the enemy scout got lost or there was another reason to go there, so they ignore the news.

However, Wang Huan obviously will not ignore this news.

After further analysis, he felt that there should be an enemy army lurking towards them from the direction of Jizhou, and the reason why the enemy army sent troops from Jizhou to rescue, instead of sending troops from Yuanzhou, should be to achieve the effect of a surprise attack, so he deliberately sought the near and far.

"Jizhou's army rushed here as quickly as possible, this is to raid the general, but it also depends on whether the general agrees!" Wang Huan couldn't help but sneer.

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Wang Huan judged that the enemy might launch a surprise attack on them based on the activities of Wu's scouts, which was obviously his cautious personality and excellent resourcefulness, but Liu Chongjing, as his opponent, suffered.

Liu Chongjing was bent on building credit, so after leading the army to successfully lurk in Pingxiang, he did not immediately break through the enemy siege and enter the city to join the defenders, but chose to continue to stay here and wait for the opportunity to raid the enemy army.

His ambition is huge, not only to lift the siege of Pingxiang in one fell swoop, but also to defeat the 20,000 Chu army in one fell swoop, and establish an immortal feat like Zhou Ben's victory in Ivory Pond.

If he starts to assault with all his strength as soon as he arrives in Pingxiang, with the courage of the Wu army's forbidden army, coupled with Wang Huan's lack of time to deploy under surprise, I am afraid that he can really only watch him break into the city to join the defenders.

But Liu Chongjing stopped and waited for the opportunity, and sent scouts to the Chu army to find out the news and look for opportunities, which finally gave the Chu army the possibility of discovering them and getting ready.

So Wang Huan immediately made arrangements, and he sent troops to continue the siege of the city in order to confuse the scouts of the Wu army; On the other hand, he secretly set up an ambush and waited for the Wu army to attack.

Since Liu Chongjing wanted to establish a great achievement on his own, he naturally couldn't wait too long, otherwise if he waited for Li Decheng's Yuanzhou defenders to arrive, the Chu army would see that the opportunity to break the city had been lost, and he was afraid that he would withdraw his troops, and then his efforts to send troops this time would be in vain.

Therefore, after waiting anxiously for more than two days, when the Chu army was in some confusion because of the adjustments, Liu Chongjing made a quick decision and decided to lead the army to assault, but unexpectedly crashed headlong into the encirclement of the enemy army, and the losses were very heavy.

Fortunately, Liu Chongjing is not completely incompetent, he saw a bad opportunity in a crisis, and immediately chose to break through.

Although Wang Huan successfully ambushed Liu Chongjing, his encirclement was not yet fully formed at this time, so the Wu army finally managed to escape from the encirclement.

However, the price paid by the Wu army was the loss of more than 1,300 people, and more than 500 people were captured by the Chu army, and many soldiers of the Wu army who escaped were separated from the main force.

In the end, when Liu Chongjing gathered up the remnants of the army, there were only more than 800 people with him, and many of them were injured.

Looking at the remnants of the soldiers around him, Liu Chongjing couldn't help but cry without tears, he originally thought that he would be able to win a big victory like the Battle of Ivory Pond, but the truth was so cruel!

What's more, he still sent troops without the permission of his superiors, and if he could win, it would be fine, and now that he has returned from a miserable defeat, he can't imagine how he will be treated when he returns.

Is it dismissal? Or was he escorted to Jinling to ask for a crime? Or did Yang Wu pardon his crimes in the face of his father Liu Wei?

Liu Chongjing, who was a little depressed, regretted why he didn't listen to the advice to send troops this time, and at the same time sighed that God was unfair and his luck was not good.

Under this sentimentality, Liu Chongjing began to return to his station, Yongxing, with 800 remnants of soldiers.

However, what he didn't expect was that after Wang Huan captured more than 500 Wu soldiers, he immediately ordered these prisoners to be escorted to Pingxiang City and paraded in front of the defenders; And send someone to tell the defenders that their reinforcements have been defeated, and Pingxiang has become an isolated city, so let them surrender quickly!

The defenders in the city were originally selected from the previous Yuanzhou army, and their loyalty to the state of Wu was naturally insufficient; Its leading general was also a general of Yuanzhou who voluntarily surrendered after the Battle of Ivory Pond, and he was also not an old general of Wu.

When they saw hundreds of forbidden prisoners being brought to the city, they immediately thought that their reinforcements had really been defeated, and Pingxiang was no longer able to send reinforcements.

As a result, in mid-July, when Li Decheng led reinforcements from Yuanzhou, the defenders on the Pingxiang side had already surrendered to the Chu army!

What's even more terrifying is that at this time, Li Decheng did not know the news that the Pingxiang defenders had surrendered, and he was still quickly marching towards Pingxiang according to the original rescue plan, but the Wu army, which was still on the march, was ambushed by the Chu army fifteen miles away from Pingxiang, and lost more than 3,000 people to escape!

Li Decheng immediately led the remnants of the army to retreat to Yuanzhou, and the morale-boosting Chu army was victorious and unforgiving, and took the opportunity to besiege Yuanzhou, and made a posture of preparing to attack the city.

Such a heavy loss can be said to be a blow to the state of Wu, which has just been founded!

At this time, Liu Chongjing had already fled back to Yongxing after the defeat.

After the news reached Hongzhou, Liu Xin did not dare to slack off.

Yuanzhou is not as good as Pingxiang, this is a state city.

If Pingxiang falls, it will be just a small county town, and it will be nothing, and it will be recaptured later.

But if Yuanzhou falls, then the matter will be big, it is a matter of Wu State and even the previous Huainan City that has not fallen for many years, and the shock that will be caused is not comparable to a Pingxiang county.

Therefore, Liu Xin immediately personally led troops from Hongzhou to rescue Yuanzhou.

As for Liu Chongjing, the news about his private dispatch of troops had been reported to Liu Xin by Tao Jingzhao many days ago.

Liu Chongjing is not an ordinary person, but the eldest son of Liu Wei, the Duke of Song, so Liu Xin was also very embarrassed when he learned the news that Liu Chongjing had sent troops privately, and finally decided to wait for the news and wait for the results of this battle to come out before dealing with it.

I didn't expect to wait for such a result in the end.

With Liu Chongjing's special status, coupled with his defense on the grounds of impromptu response, Liu Xin did not dare to deal with him at will, so he had to send someone to quickly send the news of Liu Chongjing's private dispatch of troops and the defeat of the army back to Jinling, preparing to make a decision on this matter by Yang Wu himself.