Chapter 41 The Western Route Army Fought Several Battles in a Row, Li Congjing, Dading, Jianghuai (2)

(2nd Update)

Li Yanchao attacked Shouchun for more than a month, and failed to capture the city, which made him feel a bad breath in his heart, since following Li Congjing to fight, he has not had such a dismal record, so when Li Congjing asked him to lead five thousand guards to the south of the Tang Dynasty, Li Yanchao secretly geared up, ready to do a big job. Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info

When he arrived in the Tang Dynasty, Li Yanchao sent his henchmen to the area of Shucheng to investigate the movements of the Wu army, and after learning that Wang Hui had arrived in Shucheng from Lujiang, Li Yanchao was pondering about taking the lead, rather than letting the Wu army attack with a big attack, it was better to take the initiative to frustrate their spirit.

Li Yanchao has a resolute temperament, and he has a heroic aura cultivated from the border of Youzhou, since he has made up his mind, he no longer hesitates and begins to formulate a battle plan.

"Hit Shucheng and show solidarity with Luzhou!" Li Yanchao explained his plan during the military discussion, "Our army wants to defeat the soldiers and horses of the Huainan Army on the west road, and the capture of Luzhou is the primary key." Now that Luzhou is fighting fiercely, the king will arrive in Shucheng, and he will divide his troops to support Luzhou to ensure that the flanks of the other side are thorough, and we will not be able to make him get his wish. In a word, if Luzhou is not, then the king will enter Shouzhou without worries, and if he gets Luzhou, he can make the king lose his mind left and right, even if he is bored, he can suffocate him! ”

Wang's club, backed by the Yangtze River, Shuzhou on the left flank, Luzhou on the right, Datang has not yet used troops against Shuzhou, so the left flank of Wang Hui is safe; The Tang army of the Tang Dynasty, backed by Shouchun, Shuzhou on the right flank, Luzhou on the left flank, and Shuzhou had no intention of seizing it for the time being, so it was necessary to ensure that Luzhou was in hand.

All the generals agreed with Li Yanchao's opinion, so Li Yanchao made up his mind.

Soon, he only left two commanders to sit in the Tang Dynasty and lead the main force south to find Wang Hui's bad luck.

From the Tang Dynasty to Luzhou, the terrain is roughly a flat river, there is no danger around, between Zipeng Mountain and Dabie Mountain, there is nearly a hundred miles of vast land, enough for Li Yanchao to arbitrarily vertical and horizontal.

On this day, that is, the day when Li Yanqing set up an ambush in Yingshan, Li Yanchao went to the vicinity of Shucheng, and his henchmen who disguised themselves and went to the vicinity of Shucheng to inquire about the enemy's situation came back one after another to return to him.

"The thief army has a group of soldiers and horses, stationed in Shiqiao Town, forty miles northwest of Shucheng, and should be the vanguard of Wang Hui." The henchmen dressed up by the people pointed to the map and reported to Shi Yanchao, "This place is a three-way street, which is considered an important place." ”

It is impossible for 40,000 soldiers and horses to be nested together, from the art of war, this is not conducive to scheduling, nor is it conducive to contingency, once there is any accident, such as the enemy's night attack, a chaos will be completely chaotic, the soldiers and horses are camped separately, there is a distance from each other but not too far away, not only to avoid the chaos of a battalion and the whole army, but also to support each other when a battalion has a change.

"How many soldiers and horses are there?" Shi Yanchao asked.

"About three thousand." The henchman replied.

After thinking about it, the henchman added: "The main camp of the thief army is in Shucheng, the closest camp from here, but it is only twenty or thirty miles, if you send the horse army to support, it will not take too long." ”

Li Yanchao groaned for a while, and suddenly said: "Just hit Shiqiao!" ”

That night, Li Yanchao led his troops to sneak to the camp of the Wu army in Shiqiao.

As the scouts probed, the number of soldiers and horses of the Wu army in this battalion is indeed around 3,000, and the main general is a man in the prime of life who has quite a lot of military achievements in Chu and is known for his bravery, and today he heard that Wang Hui sent 5,000 reinforcements to Luzhou to help Luzhou defend the city, and he complained in private, because it meant that they had to delay here for a little longer, and they wanted to go straight to Shouchun to defeat the Tang army, so as to make meritorious contributions.

After eating some food at night, I wanted to drink, but considering that the big war was imminent, I still endured it, and after working a small jasper that I had robbed for a while, I put on a big character and fell asleep.

In the middle of the night, the main general who was dreaming of the Spring and Autumn Period, galloped and killed in all directions in the illusion, the Tang army in front of him was defeated and retreated like locusts, and the Wu army behind him attacked like a tiger and wolf.

It wasn't until the soldiers shouted outside the tent that the main general woke up from his dream, and he sat up and said angrily: "What's the noise, disturbing a certain dream?!" ”

As soon as the words fell, the main general sensed that something was wrong, and sure enough, the soldiers shouted outside the tent: "The thief army is attacking at night!" General, the thieves have entered the camp! ”

The noise was like the tide of the sea, pouring mountains and seas, and exploding back and forth outside the tent, and the lord general did not care about dressing, let alone armor, and ran barefoot outside the tent, and when he saw the situation in the camp, he was immediately stunned. The crowd in the camp in front of him was surging, the soldiers of the Wu army shouted in panic, scattered and ran, as if they saw the king of Hades, I don't know how many Tang troops killed the camp in all directions, unstoppable, chopping melons and cutting vegetables to kill the soldiers of the Wu army in front of them, countless camp tents lit up fires, which made the Wu army panic even more, and the Tang army was brave and invincible.

The scene of such a rout made the main general feel cold all over his body, and his heart said: "It's over, it's over......."

He can still fight back if the Tang army doesn't enter the camp, and he can still resist when the Tang army just enters the camp, but now the Tang army is almost about to overturn the entire camp, and he has no power to return to the sky.

"How many Tang troops?"

"Such a huge momentum, I'm afraid there are no less than 10,000 people!"

"Quick, ask General Wang for help!"

"General, let's go quickly, the Tang army is coming!"

"Let's go...... Walk ......"

The main general didn't care about getting dressed anymore, stepped on the war horse brought by his own soldiers, and ran in a panic.

He had experienced the Battle of Langzhou, and had seen the army in front of the palace kill Zhou Ben so that the whole army fled, and the vision undoubtedly made him feel like a nightmare.

Li Yanchao didn't expect the war to go so smoothly, he originally thought that the Wu army was well guarded, and it would take some effort for them to succeed in the night attack, so he even considered that the Wu army's reinforcements would come, and sent generals to set up an ambush around the rear to deal with it, but now it seems that he is too worried.

The Tang army successfully entered the camp, and the momentum was like a bamboo to kill through the camp of the Wu army, and the resistance encountered was minimal, although there was a reason for his fanfare, and it was also related to the vicious spirit that the guards and pro-army of the headquarters had been holding back for several days.

Li Yanchao immediately ordered that no prisoners should be taken, and all Wu troops should be hacked and killed on the spot, and then the camp should be burned and withdrawn in time before dawn. Accept it when you see it, Li Yanchao has no insatiable meaning.

However, he said that the commander of the Wu army would pull out his horse and flee, and on the way he met his comrades who had come to support him, and the other party was surprised and disdainful when he saw him in such a disheveled appearance, and immediately inquired about the battle situation.

"The Tang army is over 10,000, taking advantage of my unpreparedness, killing on a large scale, like a wolf and a tiger, if it is not a general, it is really impossible to fight!" The commander-in-chief of the Wu army almost wept bitterly.

Knowing that the camp was completely lost, and seeing that the soldiers of the Wu army lost their armor and fled, those generals of the Wu army who wanted to take advantage of the unstable foothold of the Tang army to attack the other side for a while stopped and sent people to report the situation to Wang Hui.

They are not fools, the Shiqiao camp is broken, the whole army is defeated, they go up at this time, it is not to support, but to fight with the Tang army completely with their own troops, I heard that the Tang army is more than 10,000, they have no intention of competing, the other party wins in a battle is the time to kill the red eye, at this time it is self-inflicted on it, and the credit is not in vain to damage their own troops, which lord will do this?

After a delay of half a sound, Wang Hui's military order came, which also asked them to collect their troops and return to the camp, optimistic about their own camp, and prevent the Tang army from expanding its results.

After dawn, the scouts found out that the Tang army had withdrawn.

In the military tent, Wang Hui kicked over the desk in annoyance and was furious.

"When the general conquered the land of Chu, he was invincible, he attacked everything, he had conquered twelve cities in half a decade, and the Chu army saw that the general would surrender, and he did not dare to hesitate for a moment, why not? If you hesitate, your life will be lost! Now, this will bring the elite soldiers of a hundred battles, subject to the high hopes of His Majesty and the Prime Minister, and enter Luzhou in the east, with the intention of taking Shouchun directly, driving the Tang thieves back to the north of Huaishui, and protecting my Great Wu Jiangshan Sheji, I will have a hard heart, but what is the actual situation? ! ”

Wang Hui came to the tent and paced back and forth, furious, "First Luzhou begged for help, and the other sat on a strong city, with 4,000 soldiers, but he couldn't resist 5,000 Tang thieves!" Then Ben will send troops to rescue, but there is no armor to answer, so that my 5,000 elites will be lost in a battle! Shameful, no one has won this, this will be a horse in his life, there has never been such a shame! ”

The staff gently persuaded him, "The general is angry, Yingshan is defeated, the blame is not in the general, but in the history of the assassination in Luzhou, the news of the other party is wrong, so that the five thousand elites were ambushed ......"

"This one is the most hateful!" Wang Hui gritted his teeth, "The history of the assassination of a state, during the war, I didn't even know the reality of the enemy army, and even misled the general to behave inappropriately, causing the soldiers to be damaged, and my reputation was tarnished, which is really useless!" ”

Wang Hui scolded the history of Luzhou and greeted the eighteenth generation of the other party's ancestors.

"Today, tonight! Another fiasco! The king would rush out a few steps and kick the master who knelt down in the tent to plead guilty, "Three thousand people can't hold a barracks, and in less than an hour, they actually let the thief army be defeated with one blow, which is really something inferior to pigs and dogs!" ”

"General...... The Tang army was overwhelming...... It's not the last general! "Then the Lord will cry.

"Shut up! Bastard thing! Wang Hui stepped forward and punched him with an old fist, beating the other party's face with blood and flesh blurred and screaming again and again, "Where are the Tang soldiers?" You give Ben will find out and take a look! Where did they come from 10,000 people! If he really has 10,000 people and destroys the camp in a moment, how can he not take advantage of the victory to pursue and expand the results of the battle, how can he succeed with one blow and escape immediately? ! Shit-like thing, so ignorant at this point! ”

"Someone!" The king was tired, and said, "Drag it out, thirty staffs!" ”

Wang Hui hated this group of incompetent rice buckets, yesterday a battle during the day and a battle at night, all suffered a crushing defeat without warning, and most of the 8,000 soldiers were lost, which made the ambitious Wang Hui eager to open the heads of these people that night.

"General, the matter has come to this point, it is useless to think too much, for now, it is better to plan for the next war...... "A staff member advised.

Wang Hui returned to the desk, his teeth clenched.

With two defeats in a row, the situation has been turned upside down, and the war is no longer as optimistic as before, and he is no longer at ease.