Chapter 164: The General's Conspiracy
Until all the Yan troops north of the river were evacuated, and the Zhao army successfully crossed the river without any interception, Zhao Kuo still didn't figure out how his side won?
The soldiers below know nothing, only the orders of the superiors are followed, but Zhao Kuo, who has his own news channels, can learn some news from the captain Xian Yu from time to time that has been delayed for several days: for example, the rumors that the general sent troops to attack Gaoyangyi and were defeated by the Yan army, such as the Zhao army's forward retreat all the way, and it seems that he is about to retreat to Raoyi......
But even in the most unfavorable situation, Zhao Kuo still believed that his father would never be so capable, but this reversal came too suddenly and quickly, and before they could react, the Yan army, which was in a good situation, suddenly chose to evacuate from the three Zhao cities occupied on the north bank of the river. Pen fun and pavilion www.biquge.info
It was not until the beginning of September that the Zhao army had recovered Xinchu County, and Zhao Kuo was ordered to report on military affairs to the Chinese army, which had not left Kucheng for half a step from beginning to end, that he was able to get close to the whole picture......
Kucheng is no longer the scene where the army gathered half a month ago, except for the remaining thousands of guards guarding the grain and grass, almost all the soldiers here have been sent out, sent to a direction that Zhao Kuo does not know at all, the former camp is now a little empty, and in the quiet morning, even the sparrows dare to fall blatantly.
However, on the other hand, there is a steady stream of heavy grain and grass from the rear to the north, which is piled up in the bitter mountains, and it is reassuring to look at from a distance.
Zhao Kuo did not get special care because he was the son of Ma Fujun, he had to hold a wooden stump in his hand, patiently stand outside the tent, watching one after another general messengers from various units enter in turn, and leave one after another with new orders, and in the curtain of the tent, it is the center of the Zhao army in this war.
When it was finally his turn, Zhao Kuo entered respectfully, and found that his father was sitting in the center of the tent, looking at the map in his hand, while writing orders with lamps and candles, and when he heard the sound of footsteps, he raised his eyes and saw that it was Zhao Kuo who came to report the military situation, and there was not much change in expression.
However, Zhao Kuo could see that his father was in a very good mood, and this war seemed to have really rejuvenated him, and his seemingly grim expression even revealed a bit of heroism.
But everything was business-like, and after handing over the Jian Mu that was not a lieutenant, even if Zhao Kuo's heart was full of curiosity, he still had to bow out to make room for the messenger who came in later.
It wasn't until the night was hazy that Zhao Kuo was summoned by his father and asked him to accompany him around the camp.
The father and son walked side by side, Zhao Kuo watched Zhao Hao greet the generals and soldiers he met on land cordially, he could almost call out the name of everyone in the guard, saw someone practicing spear fighting, and went up to point twice, saw the soldiers playing with throwing stones after eating a full meal, and watched with a smile, the soldiers coaxed Ma Fujun to show his hands, Zhao Hao smiled and shook his head, but let Zhao Kuo do the work.
When they reached the edge of the camp, it was close to the countryside, and it was dusk, and the sky was full of fireflies, as if they had life.
Zhao Hao saw that his son had a belly, so he said lightly: "If you don't understand, just ask." ”
"My son wants to know my father's battle strategy, why the Yan army won first and retreated, could it be that all these actions of our army are all suspicious tactics to defeat the army?"
Zhao Hao smiled slightly, at this moment, as if the situation of the father and son practicing the art of war at home had been restored, he no longer concealed it, and explained the original story......
It turned out that the bluff of the suspicious soldiers south of Huangshui was indeed Zhao Hao's strategy, in order to make Yan Jiang think that his real purpose was Gaoyangyi.
Zhao Hao made a feint to attack Gaoyang, leaving hundreds of corpses, and then deceived the Yan army, luring the Yan army to launch a pursuit, but the Yan army's forward was blocked by the Zhao army's ambush near Raocheng, and also lost more than 1,000 soldiers.
Forget it, at this time, something shocked the Yan army happened: just when they were focusing all their attention on the southern front, a strange army of Zhao army broke into the vicinity of Wuyang, the capital of Yanxia, in the north......
"Wuyang is surrounded by passes, and there is the Great Wall of Yishui as a stopper, and there are many guards, how did my father send troops over?" All this made Zhao Kuo a little dizzy, and one of them made him excited to listen to it, but he didn't know how this process happened.
"Yan Zhao Biansai, Zhao State has Hongshang Plug (Reverse Horse Pass), Yan State has Jing Ruan Pass (Zijing Pass), separated by 100 miles, between the two passes is a lofty mountain range, but even the locals know very little, the upstream of Yishui, there is a bird road called 'Le Xu', which can accommodate a small part of the ...... on foot."
As for why Zhao Hao knows?
The old general laughed: "Do you think that the old man and Le Yi were implicated in the change of the sand dunes and fled to Yan Kingdom, which was a swaggering road?" When the domestic general was elected, the old man said to the queen mother and the king that Yan Guo had taken me Zhao Hao as the upper valley guard, and the Tonggu fortress of Yan Country was known to luxury, which was true. ”
In this way, when the Zhao army, which only had a thousand people, suddenly appeared near Wuyang, it frightened the people of Yan State.
"I see." Zhao Kuo suddenly realized, but he felt that something was wrong, the national police would indeed be frightening, but it would not lead to the retreat of the entire army on the front line, right?
"The system of Yan is different from that of Zhao, it is divided into upper and lower capitals, Yanwang is in Jicheng in spring and summer, and Wuyang is in Wuyang, Wuyang is only 100 miles away from the border of Zhao Yan, relying on the mountains and rivers to block it, and there are Jingruan Pass and Yishui Great Wall as a stopper, so Yan has always thought that the lower capital is very safe. Now that King Yan is standing in Wuyang Palace, but he sees a fire outside the city, how can he not be afraid? Today's King Yan is the concubine of King Yan Zhao, and he has always been fierce and inward-looking, and he only needs an order from him to make the front-line soldiers turn back in a hurry and retreat King Qin. ”
"King Yan's guts are too small." Zhao Kuo sneered, he could see that his father could be regarded as a copy of "Wai Wei to save Zhao", but his father was so sure that King Yan would not send soldiers from other directions to chase down that strange army, but would let Rong Worm return to the division?
"The old man has lived in Yan Country for a long time, and he knows that Yan Country is not monolithic."
Then, Zhao Hao snapped his fingers and counted the three factions in the Yan army for Zhao Kuo: the Le clan was one faction, the local generals of the Yan State were one faction, and there was also the Rong Oyster faction.
"These three parties are constrained by each other, and one party is the general, and the other two are bound to be jealous, and they are more hostile to each other than to the enemy country. The old man has been in Yan for many years, and he has his own connections and mouthpiece, so he has asked people to go to Wuyang in advance to spread rumors, saying that Rong Yan heard that the Zhao army had captured the capital and Gaoyang, and he actually saved the fiefdom first but not Wuyang, and his heart can be punished...... In this way, there will definitely be people in the Yan Kingdom who will slander King Yan and let Rong Yan return to his teacher. ”
Zhao Kuo was still unwilling, and took out the lever raised in the past when the Zishan father and son were arguing with the army: "If Rong Xue Kuangzhang made the choice in the battle of Chuisha, will he be outside and the king's order will be affected?" ”
"Then whether he wins or loses this battle, his career in Yan Kingdom will be completely over."
Zhao Hao stroked his beard and told Zhao Kuo the story of Wei Wenhou and Le Yang.
"Back then, Wei Wenhou ordered Le Yang to attack Zhongshan and pull it out in three years. Le Yang returned to talk about merit, originally a little complacent, but Wen Hou showed a slander book. Le Yang was shocked, and then bowed to the chief and said: "This is not the work of the minister, but also the power of the lord." ’”
"The general is suspicious outside, and now Rong Yan's talent is not as good as Le Yang, and the wisdom of King Yan is not as good as Wei Wenhou, but his suspicion of generals is even worse. As an outsider from the Song Dynasty, Rong Yi had left the army without permission twenty years ago and plotted with the King of Wei to restore the Song Kingdom, although that incident was forgiven by King Yan Zhao, others have always remembered it. Rong Yan knows that his situation is not good, and now in Wuyang City, there are more than three baskets of slander against him, if he insists on not going back to save Wuyang, he will be completely finished in Yan Kingdom. ”
Zhao Kuo was dumbfounded, this is his father's plan relying on his familiarity with the monarchs and generals of Yan State, the more than 1,000 Zhao troops near Wuyang actually do not pose an actual threat to Yanxia, but they can force the Yan army to retreat from the front line, it is really a move to the whole body!
Is this the conspiracy of the famous generals?
At the same time, he also had a new impression of his father: it turned out that his father was not only an expert in warfare, but also so skilled in scheming?
Zhao Hao said lightly: "At this point, the old man also learned from Tian Dan. ”
Zhao Kuo Daqi: "Isn't my father not on good terms with An Pingjun?" ”
"If you don't get along, you don't get along, but do you think that Tian Dan and I are the kind of narrow-minded people who discard each other's things because of their different ways of using soldiers? To deal with Yan Guo, it was Tian Dan's discordant plan in Jimo that was the most useful. Yan is like this, there are many factions, and the infighting is serious, if the king is virtuous, he can dominate the north, if the king is not virtuous, he can only be trapped in a corner, and it will not be a big deal......"
Between the words, Zhao Hao actually had a trace of regret, and he didn't know whether it was for Yan Guo or for his opponent.
"Rong Yan must be in a dilemma, he should know that the Zhao army that appeared near Wuyang could not pose a threat to the lower capital, but he had to go back. If he went back, he saw that the main generals on the front line had run away, and he would inevitably collapse if he had no fighting spirit, so he simply shrank the line and evacuated to the rear, but in this case, it was inevitable that he lost his position as a general because of his lack of merit afterwards. This old general, the battle of this life is over...... Unless ......"
"Unless what?" Zhao Kuo asked.
Zhao Hao shook his head and didn't continue.
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This night Zhao Kuo stayed in the camp, and it was difficult to sleep because of this matter, that is, he was amazed by his father's general's ingenuity, and he was a little pitiful for the Rong Cockle, and in the middle of the night, he fell asleep in a daze......
This night, he did not dream of the Iron Horse Binghe again, but dreamed of what a real wise general should look like: in the midst of strategizing, he will win thousands of miles away!
Until he was woken up by the deafening sound of trumpets and drums in the darkness......
"What's going on!" Zhao Kuo rolled over and touched his sword for the first time.
By the time he lifted the blanket and clashed tent, the sound of the trumpet had resounded through the dark sky of the morning, wild and hurried, as if he was desperately urging.
The soldiers of the large battalion heard this urging, and Zhao Kuo hurried to his father's tent, but saw that the soldiers were like him, and hurriedly got up with a confused face, and the men and horses stumbled in the cold before dawn, and they were busy tying up the carriages, extinguishing the camp fire, taking up arms, and beginning to assemble.
This is the rallying cry of battle.
When Zhao Kuo found his father, he saw him sitting calmly outside the big tent, and his guards were putting on armor for him......
"Father, could it be that there is an enemy attacking?" Zhao Kuo asked hurriedly.
Zhao Hao's face is still as good as Gujing Wubo: "If I expected it to be true, now Rong Yan is in a dilemma, his only way to break the situation is to use Qi, pretend to retreat across the board, deceive me into marching, and the army will attack the city, my camp will be empty, if I can send a surprise army to break in, kill me, or burn grain and grass, then this battle is still the advantage of the Yan army." ”
The old general showed a smile of relief: "Twenty years, Rong Yi, you really aren't old yet!" ”
Tian Dan is good, Le Yi is good, Rong Yi is good, and Zhao Hao is good.
For their generation of veterans who grew up in the war, no one is willing to grow old and die in the trough like an old horse, who of them does not have their own pride and hides their own general's schemes?
"How's that to be?" This sentence Zhao Kuo has already reached his mouth, but he didn't ask it, from his father's calmness, he already understands that his father must have a way to deal with it!
He just pushed away the guard, who had been a little tightly bound by his armor, perhaps because of nervousness, and knelt down to fasten the buckle and strap for his father.
The armor was cold, the sword was slightly heavy, the horn outside was still piercing, and the drum beat was still urgent, but it no longer made Zhao Kuo panic, but made his blood gush.
He knew that the moment he had been waiting for for for twenty years had finally arrived.
He can go into battle with his father, standing in front of him with a sword, and father and son facing the enemy together!
PS: The second chapter is in the evening, it will be later