Chapter 32 The decisive battle in Liaodong
Where righteousness goes, life and death go hand in hand! The sky can be learned, and the white horse is the proof!
The white horse general Gongsun Chan is by no means in vain. In two months, Zhang Chun's troops were compressed in Shimen, Liaodong, and had to fight a decisive battle.
During this period, Zhou Yi fought a few battles with the Wuhuan people. However, Zhou Yi's task was to prevent the Wuhuan people from converging with Zhang Chun and create time for Gongsun Zan to annihilate Zhang Chun.
Originally, the officers and men of the Youzhou Army did not get the opportunity to annihilate Zhang Chun, and they were full of anger. As soon as they saw that the Wuhuan people were coming, they asked to fight one by one. As the army of the Han Dynasty, who was afraid of it in this era, Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty drove the Xiongnu away to bring incomparable glory and pride to the Han Dynasty.
As a general, sometimes he has to take care of the emotions of his subordinates, especially if he is not his own descendant. Zhou Yi felt that he would suffer a loss if he fought, but look at the arrogant soldiers under his command, he was convinced.
Hearing that the vanguard of the Wuhuan assault was only 3,000 people, Zhou Yi divided 10,000 troops to meet the battle. In the eyes of the Youzhou soldiers, 10,000 people fighting 3,000 people is not yet a matter of capture.
However, after the battle, I realized that the gap between cavalry and infantry, especially in the vast plain of western Liaoning, was not dangerous to defend. It's a hard hit, 10,000 people, not enough for the cavalry to charge a few times.
If it weren't for Zhou Yi asking Dian Wei and Zhou Yicang to each lead a force to reinforce them, these 10,000 people would not know how many people they could come back.
After paying for the lives of 2,000 people, all the Youzhou army knew that the Wuhuan people were invincible, and they honestly listened to Zhou Yi's dispatch.
Sometimes Zhou Yi asked himself, in order to get the leadership of this army, is there a more gentle way, if time permits, Zhou Yi can also use gentle means to deal with it, but when he is in danger, time is pressing, he can only deal with it in this way.
Zhou Yi felt that he was getting closer and closer to the hero, and he was less and less concerned about human life on the battlefield.
Zhou Yi asked the Youzhou army to let go of the plain terrain, and in the jungle, the pass was guarded with danger, and only returned fire with crossbow arrows, forcing the Wuhuan people to make a detour. And Zhou Yi calculated the route of the Wuhuan people's march clearly, and he could always appear on the pass of the Wuhuan people's road after the Wuhuan people made a detour. The Wuhuan leader Qiu Li is angry and only called, but there is no way, the Wuhuan cavalry is just this person, and the siege of the city is filled with human lives. Before, Qiu Liju wanted to break through the pass, and was shot by the Han army with a rain of arrows, and then Qiu Liju chose to make a detour as long as he saw the Han army garrison again.
For Zhou Yi's calculation power, the Youzhou army will admire it. In the past few days, the Youzhou army can be said to have shot and killed nearly a thousand Wuhuan cavalry without a single casualty.
Guerrilla warfare and fatigue warfare were used to the extreme by Zhou Yi.
When the enemy retreats, I advance, and when the enemy advances, I retreat; The enemy is stationed and disturbs us, and the enemy is tired and I fight.
This 16-character policy shines brightly in this resistance war. Truth is truth, and it is the most rational saying in all ages.
Zhou Yi is delaying time in this virtual and real way, but Liaodong is a real worker.
The battlefield is a huge meat grinder, and the Han army, under the leadership of Gongsun Zhan, could not take the stone gate for many days, but suffered heavy casualties. The angry Gongsun Chan was thunderous all day long. However, the Han army had huge logistical support, and damaged weapons and armor and siege equipment were constantly being sent over.
And the rebels are defending with a bloody and brave spirit, and at the same time holding on to hope, waiting for reinforcements from the Wuhuan people. As long as the cavalry of the Wuhuan people arrived, the Han army besieging the city was a lamb to the slaughter.
Hope is good, but reality is skinny. Zhang Chun looked forward to Wuhuan's cavalry every day, but he didn't come to the left or right, and the soldiers guarding the city were decreasing day by day. Zhang Chun couldn't help complaining about the Wuhuan people, saying that they would help each other, I burned my eyebrows, where are you? When I asked for money, I didn't see you soft. Just take money and don't do anything.
If it weren't for Qiu Liju's second son fighting with Zhang Chun here, Zhang Chun would have lost confidence in the Wuhuan people.
Gongsun Chan couldn't attack it for a long time, and he was also anxious. Zhou Yi was also very annoyed when he looked at the daily battle report, I can't see that it will drag on for a few days, why hasn't Shimen been taken yet. Does Gongsun Chan only use brute force to fight?
So he sent a messenger to tell Gongsun Zhan, and asked Gongsun Zhan to shoot arrows into the city to tell the people in Shimen, saying that the Wuhuan people were recruited by Liu Yu and would not come, so as to defeat the luck of the rebels. At the same time, don't besiege the city from all sides, surround three without one, and let the rebels escape.
Gongsun Chan was even more ruthless, in addition to the above two items, and added one, telling the soldiers that if they knew that they wanted to break the city, they could do whatever they wanted and snatch wealth at will.
After the Shimen rebels finally held out for two days, some people began to flee, and the first to run was Qiu Liju's second son. Give Zhang Chun a knife in the back. It seems that Wu Huan's own people don't believe that Wu Huan's cavalry can still come. It's a few days away, and it's definitely not coming after a month.
In order to prevent the soldiers from escaping, Zhang Chun wanted to punish the law harshly to stabilize the morale of the army. But in this way, more soldiers fled.
Taking advantage of the wavering hearts of the rebels, the Han army took Shimen in one go.
Zhang Chun led the remnants of the defeated army and fled to the territory of Xianbei.
This time, Gongsun Chan raised his eyebrows, and Zhou Yi breathed a sigh of relief. Fortunately, the Wuhuan people took Shimen before they arrived, and if it was two days late, the battlefield would not know what it would become.
Fortunately, God bless the big man, everything is expected.
When Zhou Yi arrived at Shimen, he didn't see Gongsun Zhan, who had just won the battle, only Liu Ziping of the Qingzhou Army. When I asked, I learned that Gongsun Zhan left Liu Ziping to deal with the military affairs behind, and he led people to chase Zhang Chun's deserters.
General Gongsun really brought the style of "it is advisable to chase the poor and brave" to the extreme. But Zhou Yi, who knows history, knows that Gongsun Chan may be going to return in vain this time.
Even if Zhou Yi wants to go to reinforcements now, Gongsun Zhan's subordinates are all cavalry, how can the two legs of the Youzhou army outrun the four legs of the war horse. Fortunately, Zhou Yi knew that Gongsun Zhan's life was not in danger.
While rectifying the soldiers and horses, Zhou Yi waited for Youzhou Mu Liu Yu to send someone to deal with the follow-up matters.
Zhang Chun's rebellion made the form of Youzhou even worse, Youzhou was originally a poor state, and taxes had to rely on Jizhou and Qingzhou. Zhang Chun's rebellion and robbery everywhere made the common people unable to afford taxes at all.
Liu Yu had no choice but to ask the imperial court to exempt Youzhou from paying taxes for two years, so that Youzhou could recuperate. Emperor Liu Hong of the Han Dynasty saw that the tax collection in Youzhou was a money-losing business, and the taxes collected in a year had not been spent much. Let Liu Yu solve the financial problems by himself, the imperial court will not collect taxes from Youzhou, but it will not allocate funds to Youzhou.
Emperor Han Ling's small abacus only clanged, which made it difficult for Liu Yu. Only by reopening the market in Shanggu to trade with foreigners, and subsidizing the income from salt and iron ore in Yuyang.
Liu Yu is also a master of internal affairs, and several sets of combination punches have been beaten, which made Zhou Yi stunned. Let Zhou Yi realize that although he has the knowledge of later generations, he still needs to find experts in practice.
Zhou Yi is ashamed of the control of existing resources.
Gongsun Chan pursued the rebels, and there was good news at the beginning, but there was no news for almost half a month.
Because the trading market in Shanggu was open, I heard the news from the Hu people. Gongsun Zhan went deep into the territory of Xianbei and was besieged by Qiu Liju in Guanzi City. In history, it seems that Gongsun Chan seems to have been surrounded by Hu people once, is this time?
Liu Yu urgently recruited Zhou Yi to see if he could be rescued. In history, Liu Yu did not rescue because the Youzhou army defeated the rebels at Shimen and suffered heavy casualties, and there were no soldiers available. And this time, the main force of the Youzhou soldiers is still there, so it is impossible not to rescue.
If he didn't rescue him, Gongsun Chan would have been trapped for more than 200 days, and his troops would be lost.
Rescue is definitely to be rescued, the key is to see how to rescue.
However, from this incident, it can be seen that Gongsun Chan is flawed in thinking.
The courage of the horseman, the war does not use the brain.
Gongsun Zhan has another thing, which makes Zhou Yi feel that this person is short-sighted and not handsome, and it is still something recorded in history.