Chapter Ninety-Three: The Confrontation Between the Three Armies
It took a whole hour, and finally before the big camp, Chen Qi gathered the rout. In the ten stops, I have gone to a stop, and I don't know whether he was killed in battle or lost, or trampled to death when he escaped, and the rest of the Qi soldiers were not like soldiers, one by one, they were not neatly dressed, most of them had no weapons in their hands, and the little half of them were still injured, thinking about it, even Chen Qi, the commander of the three armies, was almost abandoned, and his body was still blue and purple and it was not easy to walk.
It's okay that the army has been rectified just now, but now it's almost the same, Chen Qi's sadness can't help but come up, look at what these soldiers look like, think about the army that was still good before setting off in the morning, how did he become a refugee after only half a day's effort? Chen Qi was depressed, but he couldn't help but think that fortunately, the Wei army did not chase and kill, otherwise it would be even more miserable, and then think about it, most of the Wei army followed the Zhao soldiers to attack Handan, if the Zhao soldiers were also defeated like this, it was not impossible for the Wei army to fight in the streets of Handan City at this time.
"Come on, pull the colonel who is guarding the camp and cut it down." Chen Qi gave an order, but he didn't forget the culprit.
Thinking about it, the Wei army actually divided thousands of people to attack the camp, and the Qi soldiers guarding the camp didn't care, they abandoned the camp and fled, so that the Wei army burned the Qi army camp tent to the ground, and when the army came back, the Qi soldiers guarding the camp had the courage to come together, but they had to cut off their heads.
Dozens of bloody heads rolled to the ground, and more than 100,000 Qi soldiers had a little spirit, afraid that they would be frightened.
Chen Qi really wanted to cut off dozens of heads, but unfortunately the Qi soldiers who were the first to flee couldn't be found, the scene was so chaotic at that time, who knew if he was the first, even if he knew that he was the leader, he didn't dare to admit it. However, some people identified each other, but they didn't admit it, and the angry Chen Qi had no choice but to beat the stick.
killed and beat people, and the coach's anger disappeared a little. Deputy General Tian Ji and military advisor Duan Ganpeng stepped forward and persuaded again, Tian Ji was in the rout of the army, and he went to the camp before Chen Qi, and after the command extinguished the fire, he began to collect the rout, and Chen Qi arrived halfway through. Duan Ganpeng was also limping, and he also fell out of the carriage, but fortunately, Duan Ganpeng's personal soldiers followed, but he suffered less.
In fact, Duan Ganpeng had long been persuading Chen Qi to order the army to continue to retreat, but Chen Qi was angry, so he had to let him kill people first, and then persuaded him again, just to make arrangements as soon as possible, whether the army would rest on the old ground of the camp, or retreat further to avoid being chased and killed by the Wei army. As for Handan and Wei Ying, Duan Ganpeng had already arranged for someone to inquire about the news.
Finally, Chen Qi had to give the order for the army to retreat ten miles to the east, and then set up camp.
I have to say that Wei Hou played this hand beautifully, and he actually won the battle with one enemy and two enemies, and in hindsight, it was not a great plan to sneak attack the Qi camp, but if he could use twice the strength to resist twice the number of troops, and then go to a detour to sneak attack, it would take courage.
So Zhou Bian is also praising Wei Jun now, at least people can stop it, right? It's just that I don't know if Luoyang soldiers can do it, thinking about it, maybe it won't work now, but as long as you give yourself a few more years to train, you will surpass Wei Wushu.
A great battle passed like this, and the two countries of Qi and Zhao failed to drive out the Wei army, and the Wei army failed to take advantage of the situation to take Handan.
However, he was defeated in the first battle, and Chen Qi also had the idea of returning to his division, but under the persuasion of Tian Ji and Duan Ganpeng, especially Zhao Guo's promise to provide camp tents, grain, grass and ordnance, etc., more than 100,000 Qi troops stayed. So the three parties fell into a stalemate again.
The Qi army no longer fights, and only harasses the small team of the Wei army carrying stones every day, but it relieves Handan a lot of the pressure of flying stones. The Wei army also found another way out, and actually instructed Zhao Min of Wu'an in the west to send the demolished bricks of Wu'an City to the south of Handan City.
The three parties were in a stalemate for months, and finally it was winter.
The Chinese New Year is still outside, obviously this is not Wei Hou's plan, Wei Hou does not understand very well, he has smashed the city wall south of Handan City into a dirt slope, why he has not broken through Handan.
Before the snow, Zhou Bian returned to Daliang with thousands of Wei Hou, and the rest of the army stopped attacking and rested in the camp, and the Qi army also began to rest, everyone wants to celebrate the New Year, not to mention that there will be so much snow.
It was not until after the first month and February that the Marquis of Wei went north again and came to the city of Handan.
It's another brutal war, hundreds of thousands of people just for a city, do nothing else, just kill and injure back and forth for months or even years, this is really unimaginable, isn't it? But in the Warring States, this was a very common thing. Just like Zhao Guo was still besieging Lingshou like this a few years ago, but now it is his turn to besiege his country by others. And think that at the beginning, Wei Hou came in the name of saving Zhongshan, and now Zhao has already withdrawn his army, and the siege of Zhongshan has been resolved, but Wei Hou did not mention the withdrawal of troops at all, this is the Warring States.
Yes, this is the Warring States, anyone can fight whom, Wei Hou is ready to fight Zhao, so he is naturally prepared to be beaten by others, but can Wei really be unharmed?
In the siege of Handan, in March, Wei Hou received a bad news, that is, Qin Hou couldn't help but come out to brush up his sense of existence again, and this time he attacked the land west of the river.
Wei Hou had been prepared for a long time, and Wei had never lost a battle against Qin for decades, so Wei Hou did not take it to heart.
In the blink of an eye, it was April, the three parties were stuck, and Zhou Bian was too lazy to inquire about the battle situation.
However, one day at the end of April, the situation suddenly began to become tense, and even the royal family and ministers, who had not inquired about the news for a long time, could feel nervous.
Nervousness is definitely contagious, but it is indescribable, Fan Yu felt that the atmosphere was not right when he wandered around early in the morning, and there was a kind of tension in the air, but he couldn't tell what was wrong, so Fan Yu didn't say it after returning to the camp, but after Ning Yue walked around, he came back and said affirmatively, "The atmosphere in Wei Ying is tense today, and Wei Hou must have made a big move." ”
The rest should be said by Ning Yue, and he can't tell the reason, I feel that this kind of thing is very strange, as if I saw that every Wei soldier only became stiff a little, so if you put everyone together, it seems obvious.
In the afternoon, the royal family began to inquire about the news again, and it is not difficult to ask, today the Marquis of Wei issued an order to attack Handan to the death, and the Wei army immediately began to sell its life fiercely, and broke through the southern wall of Handan on the same day, but at night Zhao soldiers were called to drive out.
On the second day, he fought even more desperately, and entered into street fighting, and once attacked under the inner city wall, but still failed to hold it at night. The Zhao people didn't know why, the Qi people didn't know why, and even most of the Wei soldiers didn't know why the orders from above had become stricter, so Zhou Bian couldn't find out.
The same was true on the third day, with such a strong intensity of desperate efforts, even the Wei soldiers couldn't stand it, so this time they just entered the street battle at night, and they couldn't hold it.
On the fourth day, the Wei army did not move and rested.
On the fifth day, he was still resting, and Zhou Bian really couldn't figure out which play Wei Hou was singing.
On the sixth day, suddenly an order came from above, the whole army retreated, most of them went west through Taihang back to Anyi, and a small part of them, including the wounded soldiers, went straight south to Daliang, and when they left, they did not forget to pack the catapults and bring them back to Daliang, and the broken catapults were burned on the spot.
This time it's really dumbfounded, and the transition is too fast. Zhou Bian and the others were helpless, and they couldn't ask the reason in a short time, so they had to follow the Wei army on the way back to Anyi under the urging of the Wei soldiers.
However, after the team walked for a day, Zhou Bian found that there were many fewer Wei soldiers, and he couldn't inquire about it for a while, and it was not until he entered the foothills of Taihang Mountain that a large wave of Wei soldiers caught up. At this time, it was easy to find out that the Wei soldiers who disappeared a few days ago had set up an ambush, but unfortunately Zhao Bing and Qi Bing did not come to chase them, so they gave up after lying in ambush on the side of the road for a few days.
Let's not mention that Zhou Bian followed the Wei army over the Taihang Mountain back to Anyi with a puzzled face, and here in Handan, whether it was the Zhao people or the Qi soldiers, they were all puzzled, and they didn't know why the Wei army suddenly retreated.
At the beginning, the two armies of Qi and Zhao didn't dare to believe it, and they didn't dare to chase and kill, but after the scouts reported back to Taihang Mountain, Qi and Zhao were convinced. But it was a good thing that the Wei army retreated, so Zhao Hou sent people to Wu'an and other fallen cities, and the Qi army also began to discuss the issue of tariffs with the Zhao people.
I don't know how much benefit Zhao Hou gave the Qi army, and ten days after the Wei army retreated, the Qi army also embarked on the return journey.
At this time, the Wei army brigade was walking among the rugged mountain roads.
A month later, when the Wei army had been on the expedition for a year, Wei Hou finally returned to Anyi. At this time, Zhou Bian and others knew the reason for the rapid retreat of the Wei army, it turned out that the Qin army actually defeated the Wei army in Hexi, captured Shaoliang Wangcheng and other places, and completely drove the Wei people in the northern half of the Hexi land back to their hometowns, and the Wei State only left a few dangerous places such as Hangu Pass in the west of the river.
When he first heard the news, Zhou Bian couldn't help but be stunned for a moment, it seemed that because of his arrival, the famous Battle of Shaoliang had been advanced by several years, but the Gongsun Acne of Wei was not captured by Qin Hou, but I don't know if this Qin Hou would also die soon after the Battle of Shaoliang.
On the one hand, Wei Hou's contempt for Qin was siphoned off, and a lot of Hexi soldiers were siphoned off for the attack on Handan, and on the other hand, it was naturally a good opportunity for Qin. However, the Wei State, Handan was not breached, but it lost Hexi, and I don't know what Wei Hou thought, whether the Wei State was about to send troops to the west.
However, when he returned to Anyi, Zhou Bian communicated with his own intelligence network again, and naturally knew the relationship between the Wuluo and the Qi army's attack, but what he didn't expect was that it was not the Qi army that prompted the Wei army to retreat, but the Qin army, which had not pinned much hope in advance.
Zhou Bian's mind became active again, Wei Hou must recapture the land of Hexi, in order to ensure that Hexi will not fight on two fronts again, then at this time, he will encourage other countries to attack Wei in the name of the Son of Heaven's return to China, will he have hope to return to Luoyang?
No matter how you think about it, you think that this possibility is very high, so the monarch and the minister began to calculate again, and one order after another was quickly issued.
Besides, this Qi country, at the beginning of learning that the Wei army had retreated, Qi Hou was quite happy, and specially went out of the Linzi City Gate to welcome Chen Qi's army back to the division, and then rewarded him heavily. However, at the beginning of June, the news that the land west of the Wei River had fallen to the Qin State came, and Qi Hou threw off a few utensils, but fortunately they were all bronze and could not be broken.
Chen Qi and Duan Ganpeng had no choice but to go and confess their guilt again, in order to appease Jun Hou's anger. When Qi Hou felt that he had lost face, he forced his courtiers to think of countermeasures, how to regain the face that Qi Hou thought he had lost.
At this time, Zhou Bian's order also arrived in Linzi, but fortunately, he didn't leave Linzi, and after receiving the king's approval and new orders, he didn't feel excited, so he started to walk again.
In the summer of the fifth year of Zhou Bian's ascension to the throne, Wei was brewing to recapture Hexi, and Qi was planning to regain face, and before he knew it, a new storm was about to hang.