Chapter 111: Qiantang City is broken
Originally, after discussing the matter of sending troops, Li Mi was about to leave for Nanchu to resume his life. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 But the Khitan Emperor insisted that Li Mi attend his dinner and let him see the thaumaturgy of the Wuwei Taoist.
At the dinner, Wuwei Daoist ordered someone to light the fireworks he had prepared in advance, and in an instant, with a loud bang, beautiful fireworks bloomed in the sky, dazzling and beautiful. Li Mi sighed, it turned out that this Wuwei Taoist who could only be deceived and abducted still had two unique skills. He could see at a glance through the beautiful exterior of the fireworks that the power of the fireworks was huge, and if it could be used well and used in warfare, it would be a real artifact. Of course, he won't break it, if he reminds Yelu Hongye of the other uses of this firework, and let him point the finger at Nan Chu, it will be dangerous.
"Emperor, do you think this spell is still wonderful? This spell was specially invited to cast these thunderbolts in order to please the Emperor. Wuwei Daoist pointed to the fireworks that appeared in the sky and said with a pleasant face.
"Well, well, even the gods are willing to serve me, let alone these people in the world? The widow is so happy, Lord Li, come and have a drink with us. "The Khitan Emperor has been indulging in these little tricks of him all day long since he was bewitched by the Wuwei Taoist, and he didn't see anything else special about this firework. He only knew that this firework was specially cast by the gods for himself, and he could only enjoy it alone.
Li Mi took a sip of wine, looked at Yelu Hongye with a drunken appearance, and quietly breathed a sigh of relief, as long as time passed, giving Nanchu a chance to become rich and strong will definitely be able to counterattack the Khitan again. Demon Dao disaster country, this Khitan Emperor can be regarded as lifting a stone and shooting himself in the foot.
At this time, the Wu-Wei coalition army had continued to march eastward to the Liang State. The defender of the city was the son of Emperor Xuanhe, King Xiong Wu of Liang, this Xiong Wu was no better than his father, although he was not a Ming monarch who governed the country, but he had a body of force, and he resisted the wave of attacks of the Wu and Wei coalition forces. Wu and Wei combined forces to attack the city, only to barely capture the thorny wall south of the Liang State.
Xiong Wu, the king of Liang, complained to the imperial court and asked for reinforcements. "General Xiang, you see that Wu'er can't defend the city now, should you send troops to rescue him?" Emperor Xuanhe heard that his prince was besieged, and he was so anxious that he didn't have the heart to hide in the carpentry hall anymore and not come out.
Xiang Yu refused, he thought that the Wu and Wei coalition forces were strong, and it was difficult to win the frontal decisive battle, so he proposed to use the army of King Liang to drag the main forces of Wu and Wei, find an opportunity to cut off the other party's supplies, and then wait for the opportunity to defeat the rebels. So Xiang Yu made a detour to march, took Lantian and Wuguan, and quickly arrived at Luoyang.
The state of Liang was attacked by the rebels in turn, and the king of Liang asked Xiang Yu for help. Xiang Yu sent an army to the east and stationed troops in Changyi, north of the Liang State, but could not hold out. King Liang sent someone for help again, but Xiang Yu still did not send rescuers. In the end, King Liang wrote a letter to Emperor Xuanhe, and Emperor Xuanhe issued an edict asking Xiang Yu to send troops for reinforcements, but Xiang Yu was still unmoved, so King Liang appointed Han Anguo and Zhang Yu as generals, desperately resisted, and stalemate with the Wu and Wei coalition forces.
The city of Liang was heavily defended, and the Wu soldiers could not advance westward, so they turned to Xiang Yu's army. Xiang Yu held on to the barrier and refused to fight, but privately took the opportunity to move south, seized the mouth of Surabaya into Huai, and cut off the rebels' food route.
"Lord Wang, the grain and grass in our rear have been cut off by Xiang Yu, the general sent by Southern Chu!"
"What! Oh no, I've fallen for him. If only Xiaoyu was here at this time, he would definitely be able to figure out a room for salvation. King Wu Yue looked at the hungry soldiers, and only then did he miss Lu Xiaoyu, and regretted that he carelessly sent Lu Xiaoyu out with his own hands.
The Wu army ran out of food, the soldiers were hungry, and several challenges were unsuccessful, so the king of Wu Yue could only attack Xiang Yu's military camp at night, feint to attack the southeast, and Xiang Yu ordered to garrison in the northwest. The Wu soldiers really attacked from the northwest and failed to break through, the Wu soldiers were defeated, most of the soldiers starved to death or surrendered and scattered, Xiang Yu led the army to pursue, and broke the Wu and Wei coalition forces.
King Wuyue and thousands of strong men under his command fled by night, crossed the Huai River and fled to Dantu, retreated to Dongyue, and sent people to gather the remnants of the army in Guangling. Don't look at King Wu Yue who suffered defeat on the front line, he has long been prepared for both. And that's not all he has amassed over the years. In some mountainous areas of East Vietnam, he also hid a lot of hidden troops, and the Flying Tiger Army under the command of Lu Xiaoyu was one of them, but now the Flying Tiger Army does not have Lu Xiaoyu's order, and he will definitely not be able to lead it.
Xiang Yu led the Southern Chu army to the Huaishui and immediately sent 20,000 royal soldiers to cross the river and attack Dongyue. After the 20,000 kings crossed the river, they won a small victory in the first battle, and the charging generals who led the army continued to urge the troops. Then, Xiang Yu led the whole army to cross the Huai River, ordered the whole army to break the cauldron and sink the boat, burn the houses and tents, and bring only three days' rations, in order to show the determination to die if he is not victorious, and went straight to Guangling with lightning speed, defeated the Wu army stationed there, cut off the grain route of the king of Wu Yue, and surrounded his army.
Xiang Yu's determination and courage played a great role in encouraging the soldiers. The Southern Chu army surrounded Xiong Hui's army, and all of them were full of morale, and the more they fought, the more courageous they became. After nine fierce battles, he finally repelled King Wu Yue, almost captured him alive, and killed many of King Wu Yue's capable generals, many Wu Yue generals saw that the general trend had gone, and set themselves on fire, and other Wu soldiers were killed, and some fled, and the Wu army besieging Guangling collapsed in this way.
At this time, the majesty of the Southern Chu army shocked the belated Khitan army; The Khitan army supporting Southern Chu had more than a dozen camps, but they did not dare to send troops to attack. When the Southern Chu army attacked the Wu army, the generals of the Khitan army were all watching the battle from the camp. Seeing that the soldiers of the Southern Chu Army were all one as ten, and the shouting of killing was earth-shattering, and everyone in the Khitan soldiers was terrified, when did the Southern Chu soldiers become so powerful. After defeating the Wu army in this way, Xiang Yu summoned the Khitan generals. When these generals entered the Yuanmen, none of them dared to see Nanchu clearly, and no one dared to look up. Xiang Yu has since become a formidable opponent in the eyes of the Khitan army, and no one dares to say that he can defeat Xiang Yu of Southern Chu on the battlefield.
However, according to the agreement reached in advance, Xiang Yu could withdraw his troops when he marched here, and the remaining coastal areas such as Qiantang, the old nest of King Wuyue, would be handed over to the Khitan to solve. This time Xiang Yu didn't agree, he worked hard to attack, but he was going to be robbed of the fruits of victory by the Khitan soldiers. So he shouted, whoever can attack first counts whose ability.
Seeing Xiang Yu's fierce expression, Wuwei Daoist didn't dare to disobey him, so he had to agree. However, after all, the Khitan cavalry was superb and the marching speed was fast, rushing ahead of the Southern Chu army, facing Qiantang who only had the old and weak remnants left. Looking at the magnificently built Wuyue Palace, Wuwei Taoist's eyes were straight.
"Countless gold, silver and jewelry, endless beauties like clouds, poor roads!" Wuwei Daoist rode a horse and took the lead in breaking into Qiantang.