Chapter 17 Lucheng Confrontation, Tian Jing used a plan
The 20,000 cavalry soldiers of the city of Ludun are under the city of Lu, and now there are 10,000 defenders in this small county town, and a large village is set up on the north and south sides of the county, which is a horn with the county seat. Pen | fun | pavilion www. biquge。 info Badun still underestimated Gongsun Zhan's strength, and didn't expect him to be able to gather 30,000 soldiers and horses in such a short time. What I didn't expect was that Yan Rou had already begun to attack Yuyang five days before he started his army, and now it has been nearly a month, neither successfully captured Yuyang to the south, nor did he contain more soldiers and horses of Gongsun Zhan, he obviously wanted to pick up a bargain, but now he has become a bird, and he has taken the lead in catching up with the main decisive battle with Gongsun Zhan. All he brings are cavalry, if there are more soldiers and horses in the field, he is not afraid, but he is not good at attacking the city. However, now that the battlefield situation has reached this situation, it is a bit of a dilemma. The 20,000-strong army of Badun is twenty miles away from the city of Luxian and goes down to the village, and behind it is the muddy water, which is quite a bit of a backwater battle.
Gongsun Zhan didn't seem to be worried about Badun, he was worried about Yuan Shao, who was far away in Jizhou. Asking Yuan Shao for peace this time was an expedient measure, and he didn't expect Yuan Shao to agree at first. Yuan Shao agreed, on the one hand, it was the mediation of the imperial court, and on the other hand, it may be that there was a problem within Jizhou. However, it is a very dangerous thing to put the initiative in the hands of the enemy. Now Bohai County, Pingyuan County in Jizhou, and Jinan County in Qingzhou, although Qi is still in their own hands, whether it is Jizhou Thorn Shi Danjing, or Qingzhou Thorn Shi Tian Kai, there are no more than 5,000 soldiers available in the hands of Tian Kai, and then there are 2,000 county soldiers under Liu Bei in Pingyuan, which is almost negligible in front of Yuan Shao's 100,000 Jizhou army. If Yuan Shao breaks the contract, he can attack from any point at any time, and he won't even have time to rescue at that time. Therefore, Gongsun Chan must win the battle in Luxian, and he must fight quickly, only in this way can he quickly return to the division and maintain a stalemate with Yuan Shao.
In fact, Yuan Shao's situation is not much better than that of Sun Zhan, the golden remnants that have been exterminated have revived in Jizhou, and they have grown rapidly, and there are nearly ten groups of golden remnants in Jizhou one after another, including Zhang Yan of Montenegro, Zuo Zhangba, Liu Shi, Qingniujiao, Huanglong, Zuo Xiao, Guo Daxian, Li Damu, Yu Yigen and so on. Even Yecheng was taken away by the Yellow Turban thieves. Yuan Shao is now focusing all his energy on exterminating the Yellow Turbans, and his generals Yan Liang, Wen Chou, Zhang Jaw, and Gao Ran are all crusading against the Yellow Turbans, and only Ju Yi leads a few men and horses to confront Gongsun Zan on the border between Jizhou and Youzhou. Liu Yu's son, Liu He, came out of Chang'an and went to Yuan Shu first, and then to Yuan Shao, who had been secretly using Liu He to summon Liu Yu's old ministry to make trouble for Gongsun Zhan. This time, Yan Rou raised troops to attack Yuyang, which was Yuan Shao's strategy, but unfortunately there was a fire in his backyard, and he missed the great opportunity to attack Gongsun Zan on both sides. This raid on Jixian County just reassured Yuan Shao that he would go all out to exterminate the gold in the territory, and the defeat of Gongsun Chan and Bang Dun was Yuan Shao's most desired result, so he generously agreed to Gongsun Zhan's request for peace. However, there is no faith on the battlefield, and Yuan Shao also hopes to pacify the Yellow Turban in the territory as soon as possible and concentrate on dealing with Gongsun Zhan.
Don't talk about Yuan Shao, just talk about the war in Luxian County. Gongsun Zan dispatched 30,000 elite soldiers to quickly march eastward, and chose Luxian, which was suitable for both defense and attack, and was far away from Jixian County, which had little impact on production, as the main battlefield, which could be said to have taken advantage of the geographical advantage. As soon as he arrived in Lu County, 10,000 people were stationed in the city, led by Guan Jing and Wangmen; There are two large villages outside the city, which are led by Liu Weitai and Gongsun Zan respectively. Although Gongsun Chan was convened, he knew very well the truth of the art of war, pretending to be stubborn, and every day he was just a platoon of generals and thieves fighting with the thieves of Wuhuan in Liaoxi, regardless of victory or defeat, just posing to delay time, if the enemy wanted to use cavalry to assault, then the two big villages in the north and south immediately blocked with horse spears, attacked with strong bows and crossbows, and saw that ten days had passed, so that the Wuhuan people had no way.
On this day, Gongsun Chan and the main generals were discussing in the tent, and suddenly the soldiers outside came to report that Gongzi had returned, and Gongsun Chan quickly stood up, got up and walked outside the tent. Gongsun Xu and the other six went to Wuzhong County to report that they didn't come back, Gongsun Chan has always been very worried, but the war is urgent and he doesn't have time to take care of his son, and today he saw that there were old tears flowing down. It was Liu Yong who came back with Gongsun Xu, and he didn't see anyone else. Gongsun Chan was about to ask, but Gongsun Xu knelt down and bowed to Shangguan, "Daddy, the child has something important to report." ”
Gongsun Chan hurriedly helped his son up, "Get up, talk in the tent." ”
Gongsun continued to the big tent, briefly talked about the situation in the past few days, and then said that Tian Chou was ready to lead Minzhuang to help Gongsun Zhan resist the invasion of Wuhuan in Liaoxi. He came out of Xu Wushan with Liu Yong, and was led by the guide arranged by Tian Chou, walking all the way to hide, and then returned to Lu County to report: Now Tian Chou has gathered 500 people from Wuzhong County, ready to sneak attack on Badun behind his back and burn his grain and grass. At that time, the Youzhou army can take advantage of the enemy's low morale to attack in an all-out way, and the 500 people in Tianchou will sneak attack from behind, attack from both sides, and strive for the victory or defeat in a battle. ”
After hearing this, Gongsun Zhan muttered for a long time and didn't speak, "It's not that my father can't trust Tian Chou, it's just that I don't dare to say that I will be able to defeat Tian Chou with 30,000 elite soldiers for my father, and what can Tian Chou's 500 people do to help?" Although it is a good plan to go to the army to fight and cut off its grain route, it is only that the grain and grass must be heavily guarded, and I am afraid that it will be even more difficult to burn the enemy's grain and grass. ”
Gongsun Xu hurriedly told what he had seen Tian Chou perform with his own eyes, and when it came to how those people obeyed orders, how they practiced formations, and how brave the soldiers were, Gongsun Xu couldn't help but add a few points of oil and vinegar, and said that Liu Yong also echoed on the side.
Gongsun Chan gasped after hearing this, "If there are 10,000 elite soldiers like this, wouldn't it be invincible in the world?" If this person does not submit to me, he will be a great disaster in Youzhou in the future. Saying that, he suddenly thought that there were still many people in the tent watching, anyway, Tian Chou was helping himself, so it seemed inappropriate to be wary of this, so he hurriedly changed his words, "Tian Chou's soldiers are good, but after all, there are only five hundred people, how can it be broken?" When you come, Tian Chou will have a detailed plan to inform you. ”
Gongsun continued to think about it, "This is not true, but when the child came, Tian Jing once said to me that with 20,000 cavalry, the consumption of grain and grass is quite large, even if it is plundered and replenished everywhere, there will definitely be a large battalion of grain." Considering the convenience of transportation, the grain and grass should be at one ferry on the Lu River, and now there are three ferries closer to the river. If you see a fire at the ferry, it means that the enemy's grain and grass have been burned. At that time, within three days, the army was definitely withdrawn, and the time of withdrawal was the best time for the Youzhou army to completely annihilate Liaoxi Wuhuan and starvation. ”
Gongsun Chan actually has a lot of questions, especially when it comes to this plan, it is Tian Jing, a teenage doll, who doesn't have much hope in his heart. He was about to tell Gongsun to continue this plan, but he was afraid that Tian Chou's side would not be able to complete it, but he saw Liu Weitai interject, "Big brother, I can give this plan a try, such a stalemate with Bandon is not a long-term plan after all." If this plan is successful, we can win the battle; Even if it doesn't work, we have nothing to lose. What we have to do now is to send more scouts to inquire about the news, and report it at any time, if Tian Chou's plan is completed, we can respond as soon as possible. ”
As soon as Gongsun Zhan heard that Liu Weitai was reasonable, he also made a decision, and said to Gongsun Zhan, "This proposal is very good, the child can go to the tent to rest, once there is news, my father will definitely do his best to kill 30,000 elite soldiers." ”
Gongsun Xu was relieved at this time, and went down to rest with Liu Yong. Zhao Yun's reserve Bai Ma Yi took on the main task of finding out the news from the battalion. The entire Youzhou army is ready to meet the big battle at any time.
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Tian Chou led 400 people out of Xu Wushan and rushed all the way to Lu County. The hundred cavalry sent a long time ago pretended to be Wuhuan people, and now this team suddenly came back, saying that it was a commander who captured a Wuhuan man.
After careful questioning, I found out that although Wuyan, the lord of Wuhuan in Youbeiping, received a letter from Bunton, he had no intention of working for Bunton. After this period of observation, Wu Yan finally bet the treasure on his own side of the clan, because he found that the current Youzhou army's combat strength is not as good as before, and Gongsun Zhan has long lost the power that swept everything back then. This commander of a thousand was originally to come to Bandun as an envoy to talk about the two combined armies to attack Gongsun Zhan, but unfortunately, on the way back, he was discovered by Tian Chou's cavalry.
"Kill him", Tian Chou's men wanted to see blood sooner, so they demanded to kill this commander.
"Wait!" Tian Jing hurriedly stopped, "Father, this person is kept, the child is of great use." We haven't had a good way to get into the camp, but God sent this person. Then he fell into Tian Chou's ear and muttered for a long time.
Tian Chou slapped his thigh, this plan is very good. Then hurriedly find someone to arrange.
On the second day, the commander of the thousand commanders led a hundred Xu Wushan cavalry pretending to be Wuhuan people from Youbeiping, and came to the camp of Bangdun again. The commander thought about the chronic poison that Tian Jing fed to his mouth in the morning, so he had no choice but to say to Tian Jingjiao, "Our family Lord Wuyan said that although the three counties of Wuhuan respect Lord Badun are the main ones, after all, the regions are different, and they are not one. This time, it will cost a lot of soldiers, horses, money and food to help the Lord attack Gongsun Zhan, and I hope that Lord Bandun can allocate some grain and grass in advance, so that when the army arrives, it will not delay the war because of the grain and grass. ”
After listening to this, he laughed, thinking that this Wuyan is really a small-bellied chicken intestine, and calculated to such an extent, "It's okay, how many people and horses your Wuyan Lord brings and how much grain and grass you need, as long as you say it, everything is up to me, don't worry." ”
The commander of the thousand soldiers reported a number, and he arranged for someone to take the commander and a hundred fake Wuhuan soldiers to the grain to receive grain and grass.
The commander came out of the tent in a cold sweat. Tian Jing disguised himself as a retinue of a thousand commanders and was waiting for him at the door. The conversation in the tent had been heard clearly, Tian Jing knew that he was not making trouble, put a pill in his hand, and whispered, "Eat him, you can relieve your toxicity, and after the matter is completed, I will give you the antidote." The commander didn't look at it, but hurriedly took it and swallowed it, and then asked, "What now?" ”
Tian Jing said, "Don't worry, let's go to the place where the grain is stored to receive grain and grass, and do nothing during the day, just wait for tonight to act." ”
The commander of the thousand men responded, and took a hundred fake Wuhuan cavalry with the messenger of Bunton to run to the grain camp.
(To be continued)