Chapter Thirty-Nine: Victory in the First Battle
"How many centaurs? Who is the general?! ”
"There are thirty or forty thousand people, and the general is Meng Guan."
"Okay, let's go down and explore!"
"Hao Xianxian, who is Meng Guan, do you know?"
"The minister doesn't know, but no matter who it is, the emperor doesn't have to worry, can he be better than Zhou, do you want to be our subordinates everywhere, and we still need to pay attention to others?"
"That's true, but we'd better be careful."
"The emperor can rest assured, if he comes to attack us, the division of the first brigade of ministers will be able to capture him and return to the city."
"Well, I'm a little relieved when you say that."
"Your Majesty, Liu Cong is here to see you." Someone came to report.
"Please, please."
When Liu Yao saw the Jin army set off, he also sent Liu Cong and Himiko to Guanzhong to continue to deal with the Jin army secretly.
Liu Cong came into the hall and made a big salute, Qi Wannian let people take a seat, and then asked him: "Liu Cong, where have you been, why haven't I seen you for a long time?" ”
"Your Majesty, I'm going to Luoyang to do something, and I'm also going for Daqi."
"For the sake of Daqi? Let's hear it. ”
"Your Majesty, since the defeat of Zhou, the imperial court has sent Liang to Guanzhong several times, but it has not been done, this time I heard that the imperial court has decided to send generals, so I went to Luoyang to implement a counter-plot, let people spread rumors in Luoyang City that the Jin army general you are most afraid of is Meng Guan."
"Meng Guan? The main general of the Jin army who is coming now is Meng Guan. ”
"After listening to me, why should I say this, to put it simply, it is the same as during the Battle of Changping, and he used the anti-plot of the Qin State to send Meng Guan to Guanzhong."
"The Battle of Changping? Liu Cong, do you mean that Meng Guan is the Zhao Kuo of the year? Is Meng Guan really bad? ”
"Yes, he just came to Guanzhong by relying on the relationship under the skirt, don't look at him as a general, in fact, in addition to knowing some martial arts, the way of using soldiers is not at all, and the emperor can easily defeat him."
"Okay, Liu Cong, you have contributed to us, thank you."
"The tyranny of the Jin Dynasty, the whole world is resentful, as long as Daqi takes Guanzhong and takes the Central Plains, our five Huns will definitely follow!"
"Okay, I can rest assured with your words, Liu Cong, you can help me figure out how to defeat the Jin army as soon as possible."
"Don't worry, the emperor is coming from afar, he will definitely find us for a decisive battle, we will wait for work, as long as they dare to come, let the Jin army come and go!"
When Meng Guan returned to the barracks from the city, Zu Ti asked him how the military power was?
It turned out that Zu Ti instructed Meng Guan to let Sima Wei hand over the military power after entering the city, because Sima Wei was the general of the expedition to the west, instead of Sima Lun, the king of Zhao, to guard Guanzhong, and supervise the military of Liangyong Erzhou, and was the supreme commander of the military in Guanzhong.
Meng Guan said: "Sure enough, as you expected, King Liang was unwilling to hand over the military power, and after I moved out of the queen, King Liang had nothing to say, handed over all the military talismans to me, and said that he was idle." ”
"Zu Ti, how do you think this battle should be fought?"
"We have come from afar, Qi Wannian will definitely want to drag us down, so we should take the initiative to attack."
"I heard that Qi Wannian is in Xianyang City and has a lot of soldiers and horses in his hands, are we going to attack the city?"
"General Meng, attacking the city is not the best policy, we should besiege him, force him out of the city, and then destroy him."
"Okay, tomorrow we will head towards Xianyang!"
Early this morning, before Qi Wannian went to the court, Hao Duyuan came to call him: "Your Majesty, the Jin army has already arrived in the city!" ”
"What?!" Qi Wannian pushed away the two concubines, got up, got dressed and took people to the city to watch, and sure enough, the Jin army was camping more than ten miles away.
Meng Guan has more than 30,000 people and horses, plus a total of 80,000 troops of Sima Wei in Chang'an, came to camp more than ten miles outside Xianyang City, Meng Guan camped according to the original set of numbers, and was stopped by Zu Ti, Meng Guan did not understand: "Zu Ti, why not according to the camping method in Chang'an, I think it is in line with the art of war." ”
"At this time, at that time, it was just camped according to the system, and now we have to put on a posture that we don't know how to use soldiers, so that the camp looks messy and unorganized, and Qi Wannian will take it lightly, this is the way to show that he can't, but in fact it is false, and lure him out of the city."
"Okay, the method is good, let's see how Qi Wannian acts." Meng Guan said and ordered to change the method of camping, some generals came to question, and Meng Guan blocked back.
Qi Wannian rode a fast horse and took a hundred horsemen out of the city to watch from afar, at this time the camp of the Jin army had been set up, and many sergeants were playing and playing, lazy and lazy, after Qi Wannian saw it, he laughed on the horse: "Hahahaha, Liu Cong is right, Meng Guan is really a mediocre talent!" Not only is there no way to govern the army, but the camp under him is not normal at all, and it seems that it is easy to defeat the Jin army. ”
Qi Wannian returned to the city, he was very excited, Hao Duyuan also wanted to make meritorious contributions, he took the initiative to ask for war to go to the camp, Qi Wannian pulled out 100,000 horses and horses, and asked him to go outside the city to fight with the Jin army.
The dust outside Xianyang City was huge, Hao Duyuan was surging, Meng Guan immediately sent people out of the camp to meet the battle, and the action was fast, it turned out that the sergeant had already been prepared under the illusion, so the sergeant could quickly assemble out of the camp.
Hao Duyuan didn't expect the Jin army to leave the camp so quickly, he collected his troops five miles away from the camp and formed a formation.
The two armies formed a confrontation situation, but Hao Duyuan's men and horses were all cavalry, and he wanted to attack the Jin army with his advantage, Hao Duyuan waved his scimitar and shouted: "Kill!" ”
The cavalry rushed towards the Jin army like a tide, the front army of the Jin army cracked a big mouth, and a hundred "invincible thunderbolt flat vans" were divided into several rows and rushed forward, the car was an improved two-wheeled car, and the sergeant pushed the car in it, not only steady, but also faster, there were thirty sergeants in each car, there were arrow holes in each direction, and the front was equipped with a hard crossbow, which could fire spears, and the strength was fierce, and each sergeant was equipped with bows and arrows and spears.
I saw that the "invincible thunderbolt carriage" was less than a stone's throw away from the enemy's horse, and spears were shot out of the car, and the cavalry in front was hit, and the horse neighed and threw itself to the ground, and the cavalry fell to the ground, and his brain burst! The cavalry behind trampled on the ground, and the flat van broke into the enemy formation, and the soldiers inside shot indiscriminately, and some stabbed them with spears, and suddenly, Hao Duyuan's cavalry suffered a lot of losses.
The sergeant in the back followed closely, relying on the flat van as a support, using a bow and crossbow to deal with the cavalry with a spear, Hao Duyuan's cavalry advantage was lost, and he left a piece of corpse and hurried back to the city.
Meng Guan collected his troops and returned to the camp, and said to Zu Ti: "Brother Zu is really powerful in using soldiers, and it is difficult for Meng to win without your plan!" ”
Zu said: "It is a great honor for Zu to contribute to the imperial court. ”
Meng Guan immediately ordered someone to go back to Chang'an to buy wine and meat, to reward the three armies, but was stopped by Zu Ti, Meng Guan said puzzledly: "We won the first battle, is there anything wrong with rewarding the soldiers?" ”
"General Meng, it's okay to sacrifice the army, chicken, duck and fish are as you like, but you can't drink wine?"
"Because Qi Wannian will send someone to rob the camp tonight!"
"Camp robbery?!"