Chapter 185: Illusion
Dusong Pass is located on the Dusong Ridge of Anji County, the east and west sides are high mountains, the pass is covered with the pass, there is only one road in the middle, stretching out to the pass in a zigzag, there is a big tree next to the pass, as high as dozens of zhang. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 info
There is a sentry post on the top of the big tree, people stand on it, a radius of ten miles in full view, it is a natural lookout, although Lu Xing'er's military literacy is not high, but the most basic things are still known.
Dusong Pass is located in the throat of north-south traffic, is the last barrier of Hangzhou City, if Dusong Pass is lost, Hangzhou City will face the combined attack of two soldiers and horses, therefore, Lu Xing'er retreated to Dusong Pass, and saved the determination to fight to the death with Qin Hao.
On this day, Lu Xing'er gathered the generals stationed together, and said with a solemn expression: "Brothers, behind us is Hangzhou City, this Dusong Pass is the last barrier of Hangzhou City, once Dusong Pass is lost, the consequences will be unimaginable." ”
The original guard of Dusong Pass was Zheng Demon King, and he said with some disapproval of Lu Xing'er's words: "Brother Lu, don't do your best to increase the morale of others and destroy your own prestige, Dusong Pass is so dangerous, I don't believe that Qin Hao can turn into a mosquito and fly over." ”
"There are tens of thousands of soldiers and horses in Dusongguan, but they are so frightened by Qin Hao's thousands of men and horses that they can't shrink, and they are not afraid of other people's jokes when they say it." Chen Hoop Bucket's personality is relatively straightforward, he has never dealt with Qin Hao and them, and seeing that Lu Xing is so cautious, he is a little dissatisfied.
"Lots of people? If the war is based on the number of people, there is no need to fight this battle, let's just sit down and count the heads, whoever has the most heads, who wins, isn't it simple and simple? Faced with Chen Hoop's questioning, Lu Xing'er was also a little angry.
"What Brother Lu said is that the people who revolted with us added up to no less than one million people in various places, and Tong Guan, Qin Hao, Tan Zhen, and the combined army of the three roads was only 1780,000, so it stands to reason that they didn't dare to touch our stone, but the result was ......"
But what is the result? Everyone knows in their hearts that Tong Guan's 100,000 army, starting from Jiangning Mansion, has been like a bamboo, and now it has reached the city of Xiuzhou, and is fighting a bloody battle with Fang Qifo's Northern Expedition army.
Qin Hao took 5,000 soldiers and horses to attack from the middle road, Lianke Xuanzhou and Huzhou, and now the soldiers came down from the city and came to Dusong Pass, looking at their frame, they didn't put the tens of thousands of soldiers and horses in Dusong Pass in their eyes at all.
The three-way army of the imperial court adopts the tactics of closing the door and beating the dog, wanting to compress themselves and others in Muzhou, and then eliminate them in a unified manner, this strategy is too obvious, not to mention their upper-level generals, even ordinary soldiers have already seen it.
Qiu Rixin thought of this, and continued what he said just now: "The three-way army of the imperial court, Tong Guan's momentum is like a bamboo, Qin Hao is light and fast-forward, only Tan Zhi on the right side did not bargain for a decisive battle with Brother Lu in Shezhou.
Although there are not many people in the imperial court, they are all veterans of the battlefield, although our number is large, but they are some farmers who have not fought a war.
If we can't take advantage of the natural danger of Dusong Pass to eat Qin Hao's army, when he and Tong Guan gather in Hangzhou, it will be the day when we are defeated and killed. ”
Qiu Rixin's words neither deliberately belittled himself, nor did he deliberately elevate the imperial court, because what he said was the truth, the forbidden army that Tong Guan brought this time was not an ordinary forbidden army in the Great Song Dynasty, let alone a box soldier who had never fought in the local area.
The 150,000 of them are all the Western army that has been fighting against the Western Xia for many years, the elite of the Great Song Dynasty Forbidden Army, and the only elite soldiers who can fight in the Great Song Dynasty.
Their gathering was originally to join forces to attack Liao, but they didn't expect the outbreak of the Fangla Uprising, so they pulled them from the northwest to the south of the Yangtze River, advancing all the way, and the momentum was like a bamboo.
Fang Yanshan continued: "The two elder brothers are not alarmist, the three-way army of the imperial court is advancing hand in hand, and is gradually compressing our living space, with the existing territory, we can't support millions of soldiers and horses, let alone fighting, even survival will be a problem." ”
Silence, short silence, Fang Yanshan's words are like a mountain, overwhelming everyone, the current rebel army is at a critical moment of internal and external troubles, external troubles naturally refer to the suppression of the imperial court, and internal worries are exactly what Fang Yanshan said.
At the beginning of the uprising, the rebels attacked the state and occupied the county, and wherever the rebels went, they not only occupied the official grain of the imperial court, but also robbed the local wealthy households, and the food problem was really not a problem for them to consider.
Now, what should be robbed has been robbed, what should be occupied, and now after several months of fighting, whether it is robbed or occupied, it is almost consumed, so after Fang La captured Hangzhou, he sent several soldiers and horses to go out to expand the territory.
One way, led by Fang Qifo, attacked Changzhou from the direction of Xiuzhou, and finally occupied Jiangning Mansion, and the other two roads set out from Hangzhou, attacking Guangde and Ningde, occupying Xuanzhou, and then going north to capture Jiangning.
And he himself led his troops south to sweep away the enemy in the rear, but he didn't expect that the imperial court's movements were too fast, so fast that they were pressed back by the imperial court before they could react.
Seeing that everyone's will was a little depressed, Demon King Zheng suddenly waved his hand, "Let's discuss here and go, but we can't get any results, and in the end it's still a typing, in my opinion, it's better to lead 10,000 soldiers and horses to defeat their vanguard troops." ”
The vanguard in the mouth of Zheng Mowang is Ma Kuo's 2,000 soldiers and horses, and as the front army of the army, they are now stationed less than ten miles away from Dusong Pass, waiting for an opportunity to move.
The rebel army was defeated and retreated, and it was too much in need of a victory to boost morale, so everyone supported the battle of Zheng Demon King, and immediately transferred 10,000 elite soldiers from each leader, led by Zheng Demon King, and came down.
Ma Kuo's army was stationed under the Dusong Pass, ten miles away from the pass, Zheng Demon King led his troops to the pass, and Ma Kuo had already reported that Ma Kuo, perhaps the first two battles were fought too lightly, and Ma Kuo did not put the 10,000 soldiers and horses of Zheng Demon King in his eyes.
He immediately ordered his left general Wang Zhi to lead 500 soldiers and horses to ambush on the left side of the camp tent, and his right general Geng Qing to ambush on the right side of the camp tent, while he himself led 1,000 soldiers and horses to quietly detour behind Zheng Demon King and cut off their retreat.
When the 10,000 soldiers and horses of the Zheng Demon King came to the camp tent, they saw that the entire camp was quiet, and they did not dare to attack without authorization, so they immediately ordered two spies to enter the camp to check.
After a while, the two spies went out of the camp to report, the whole camp tent was empty, there was no one inside, but they seemed to be in a hurry when they evacuated, and the food in the camp tent was not moved, by the way, there were still several large pots of rice in the open space.
"Grain? Rice? That's right! Demon King Zheng lowered his head and thought about it, feeling that the development of things was within his expectations, Ma Kuo's soldiers and horses were only 2,000, and in the face of 10,000 soldiers and horses, he dared to stay in place, wouldn't that be looking for death?
The food and food were left here, and their evacuation was really not in an ordinary hurry, and they immediately led the team into the camp tent, and sure enough, truckloads of food were placed in the camp in a disorderly manner.
Sure enough, there were a few large iron pots in the open space, on which were steamers, but the rice in the steamers was not cooked, and some of them were sandwiched, so he immediately ordered his soldiers to collect the grain, and ordered the leaders of the gang to cook the uncooked rice.
The failure to catch Ma Kuo and get a large amount of grain is a big victory for them.