Chapter 163: Reality is Fiction
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Standing at the head of Gaoyangyi City, looking at the hundreds of corpses left behind by the Zhao army after the hasty withdrawal of the city, General Yan Rong was proud.
He has been in Yan for 20 years, in the war of the Five Kingdoms to attack Qi, he participated in the Battle of Jixi as Le Yi's deputy, and invaded the Qi State.
But at that time, he made a fatal mistake, that is, he was obsessed with the restoration of the Song Kingdom, and went to meet with the King of Wei who occupied the Song Dynasty in private, and wanted to lobby him to build the Song Kingdom again. Unexpectedly, not only did this matter not work out, but also let Yan Guo's side know, and for a while, the suspicion of Rong Zhi spread all over the government and the opposition, but fortunately, King Yan Zhao was very tolerant, forgave Rong Yan, and let him continue to be a general.
But when it came to the narrow-minded King Yan Hui, Rong Worm was not so lucky, and he was rushed
Liaodong to be a county guard, like a distribution, the annual task is to collect those who are no different from savages in the eyes of Rong Zhi, and Su Shen, and also attacked the weak Jizi Joseon, but the military expenses obtained are not enough to operate.
He stayed in that bitter cold place for ten years, until King Yanhui was killed by Gongsun Cao, and Rong Yi waited for his long-lost opportunity to return to the capital and re-use.
Twenty years of wind and frost have made Rong Wei, who is not yet sixty years old, look like a seventy-year-old man, his beard and hair exposed under his head have become snow-white, the wrinkles on his face have deepened and encrypted, and the tear sacs have protruded significantly, so that his pair of big eyes that were originally spiritual have been squeezed a lot smaller, his figure looks a little puffy, his movements are more clumsy than before, and even the horse is a little unable to get up.
After learning that the Zhao army was stationed on the south bank of the river and was preparing to cross the river with great fanfare, his first reaction was to set his eyes on Gaoyangyi, which was completely exposed to the attack range of the Zhao army, which was equivalent to the command post of the Yan army......
Let Gaoyang-eup, which has no river, not attack, but gnaw on the hard bones surrounded by water, this intention is too obvious!
So in addition to strengthening the defense of the three cities north of Hushui, Rong Yi urgently dispatched troops to aid Gaoyangyi, and sure enough, when his reinforcements arrived, more than 10,000 people of the Zhao army gathered in a tsunami, felling wood, building ladders, and were about to launch an attack on the city......
Gaoyangyi is the newly obtained fief of Rong Worm, if it is lost here just after the war, the blow to morale is great, so Rong Worm immediately organized the Yan army to counterattack, after a scuffle at the head of the city, Zhao Jun saw that his intentions were exposed, so he hurriedly retreated.
The first battle was won, and the generals under his command congratulated Rong Oyster one after another.
"He who fights well causes others but not others. He who can make the enemy self-inflicted, will also benefit. That's the general! ā
"Zhao Hao is known as the world's best use of soldiers, but he was unexpectedly guessed by the general here, and he returned defeated, which shows that the general's understanding of the use of soldiers is better than Zhao Hao!"
The compliments were endless, and Rong Yan became more and more proud.
But there is still a dissonant voice in it.
"My father often said when he was alive that the best use of soldiers in Zhao was the horse suit, which was not only brave, but also more strategic, although the first battle was won, but the horse suit should not be underestimated, and I hope that the generals and officials should not be careless!"
It was a young man in his early twenties who spoke, and there were many people who echoed him.
This person is Le Yi's son Le Jian, more than ten years ago, King Yan Hui fell into Tian Dan's counter-plot, suspecting that Le Yi had different intentions, so Le Yi fled to Zhao State, but his family members stayed in Yan State.
After the Yan army was defeated by Tiandan and driven out of the Qi State, King Yan Hui regretted driving away Le Yi very much, and hated and feared him in the Zhao State......
Now more than ten years have passed, Lejian has grown up, this time as a deputy general, his father's shadow is still there, so everyone present is welcoming the glory of the oyster, only Lejian dares to tell the truth.
"Chang Guojun."
Rong Yan was confronted by others, and said with some dissatisfaction: "I have also been the same as your father, and I am a minister in the same palace as Zhao Hao, don't I know better than you about his schemes?" How can you increase the morale of others and destroy your own prestige? ā
He looked at the generals and said loudly: "It can be seen from the battle between Zhao Hao and the Qin people that this person is good at using false and real strategies, first deliberately letting the soldiers be stationed in place, showing that they can't, and showing that they can't, so that the enemy can be paralyzed, and then suddenly attacked, and stormed a key point, if it can be broken, it can defeat the enemy." ā
After that, Rong Yan said with some contempt: "But this trick is still caught off guard when used once, and it is not unusual to use it twice or three times, Ma Fujun is old and has poor skills!" ā
"What the general said is very true!" The generals are submissive.
The music wanted to speak again and again, and finally lowered his head and stopped talking.
Rong Yan laughed when he saw that he was down, and then ordered: "The first defeat of the Zhao army will lead to a great decline in morale, and it is when our army is pursuing the victory, let the Qing Qin troops in the west continue to hold back those Zhao troops, and we will slowly advance forward......"
He pointed to the two cities on the map, his eyes blazing.
"If you can break through Raocheng, then the front line of the Zhao army will be lost, with Raocheng, the east can cut off the contact between the two armies of Qi and Zhao, the south can threaten the granary of the Zhao army, and the west can sweep south of the water, and the Zhao army as a suspicious soldier will be broken by each of the various divisions! The victory in this battle is already biased in favor of Yan Kingdom! ā
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Just when the generals in Gaoyangyi were gearing up to follow Rong Yi to attack the Zhao army and make meritorious contributions, Le Jian, who was ordered to return to the defense, was full of resentment.
"Then the old man of the Song Kingdom divided me and the generals of the Le family, because he wanted his cronies to monopolize the war exploits......"
The army of Yan is not monolithic, except for some of the local generals of Yan who are trying their best to support Yan Guo's chestnut belly and Qing Qin, Le Shi and Rong Yi have the greatest influence in the army, Rong Yi relies on his seniority as an old minister of the three dynasties, and Le Jian relies on the prestige of his father Le Yi.
After all, the prestige of his father's generation is not as good as Rong Oyster's real military exploits and qualifications, so this time Lejian can only be used as a deputy general, and he has to be dispatched by Rong Oyster for big and small things.
In this regard, Lejian is naturally unwilling, but he is also helpless, when fighting against Zhao Guo, Rong Zhizheng is trusted, and Lejian and Ju Xin, who have an intertwined relationship with Zhao State, are quite suspicious.
Thinking like this, in the dead of night in the barracks, Le Jian couldn't help but take out the letter sent by his brother Le Cheng from Handan......
In the letter, in addition to the usual greetings, they also restated the plan of their Le clan's "three holes of cunning rabbits".
After Le Yang was the general of Wei State, after Le Yang destroyed Zhongshan Kingdom for Wei Wenhou, he stayed in Lingshou, spread his branches and leaves, and multiplied. After the restoration of Zhongshan, the Le family was a courtier of Zhongshan for generations, until after the king of Zhao Wuling Hu Fu rode and shot, his ancestor Lechi realized that Zhao Guoqiang and Zhongshan were small, and Zhongshan would die in Zhao, so he defected to King Zhao Wuling, and did the common phase of Zhao and Zhongshan, and his family became more and more prominent. After the fall of Zhongshan, the Le family entered Zhao, and it was in that context that Le Yi became an official in the Zhao State.
However, later, under the persecution of the Dune Palace, Le Yi ran to Yan, so Le's also left a line in Yan Kingdom.
Nowadays, Le's is the family of Yan Guo and Zhao Guodu's influential generals, Zhao Youle takes care of the ancestral tomb, Yan Youle is in front of the "Chang Guojun", looking at the world, although Zhang Yi, Gongsun Yan and others are known for being the prime ministers of many countries, but they can be like their Le's, long sleeves and good dancing between two or three countries, and the rise has not yet been ......
Thanks to Le's shrewdness, although they seem to be in different countries and hostile to each other, they have been secretly communicating and exchanging news.
Le Cheng didn't say much in the letter to his family this time, but hinted that if Rong Yan led the Yan army to defeat the Zhao army, this Yan King would inevitably rely on the old man of the Song Kingdom and the Yan Kingdom court, would their Le family have no right to speak?
On the contrary, if Yan is defeated and Zhao wins, will they be able to bring down Rong Yi on the basis of being respected by the two countries again?
"Brother Clan said lightly, King Yan seems to rely heavily on my Le clan, but in fact, he is very guarded, how many pairs of eyes are staring around me, and I have to be careful to communicate with him, how dare I do anything to indulge the enemy?"
Le Jian frowned and burned the letter, if according to Rong Yan's plan, the Yan army has already won the victory, and the next step is to destroy more Zhao troops and capture more cities before winter, in that case, the situation is indeed not good for their Le clan.
However, Le Jian always remembered that his father praised Zhao Hao for his use of troops in front of him and Le Cheng, and he didn't believe that Ma Fujun, who had defeated the invincible Qin army and was famous all over the world, was he so capable that he was not as good as Rong Lao'er?
"If Zhao defeats Yan and wins, I will inevitably take advantage of the situation to attack, take more cities, and get more military exploits, I just want Ma Fujun to come out as soon as possible if he has real skills......
This mood lasted until a few days later.
At that time, Rong Yi had already led the army to leave Gaoyang, and chased all the way south to defeat the retreating Zhao army.
However, just when Rong Hao's contempt for Zhao Hao reached the extreme, a bad news came from the rear:
Near Wuyang, the capital of Yanxia, the banner of Zhao Jun appeared!