Chapter 484: The Best and the Worst
After receiving the brocade box sent by Su Qin's messenger, Qu Xin heard Su Qin's order and immediately launched a combat deployment. In his letter, Su Qin particularly emphasized the "strangeness" of the battle of the Right Route Army led by Qu Xin.
Not only did it run long distances to White Rock City, but the direction of the attack was surprising; Moreover, when attacking Baishi City, he first sent people to disguise themselves as Qin troops, opened the city gate, and then fought after blending in, and the combat method was very wonderful.
Since this castle is built between two mountains, it is divided into two castles, south and north, and is connected by a road in the middle. After Su Qin asked Qu Xin to occupy Baishi City, he divided the Chu army and the Han army into two routes, attacked separately, and acted at the same time.
Qu Xin read Su Qin's letter many times, and the more he thought about it, the more excited he became, because this combat operation had him, a young general, in charge of the actions of the entire Right Route Army, which was undoubtedly Su Qin's affirmation of his ability.
In addition, the young Qu Xin hopes to establish miraculous feats on the battlefield, so as to prove his talent and level, and deter those old ministers and veterans of the Chu State, so that they can see that they will stop being so arrogant and arrogant in the future.
This is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity, once the combat operation is carried out smoothly as scheduled, where can the Qin army have imagined that the combined column coalition army will penetrate deep into their rear, it must be caught off guard, and the possibility of success in the operation is extremely high. That's why Qu Xin is excited about the prospect of victory.
When Su Qin sent Ning Jun off to the depths of Luming Valley, the combined forces of Chu and Han led by Qu Xin, who were nearly sixty or seventy miles away, had also launched an operation.
Su Qin still had to go back and wait for the news of the coalition forces on the right, but he couldn't rest assured that the elite of Zhao State who attacked Jiaoyang by surprise. Ning Jun felt the unsteadiness in Su Qin's heart, he looked at Su Qin resolutely, and comforted him: "Ji Zi can go back and wait for the news, we have been so well prepared in advance, and this operation is very sudden, there is no reason for it to fail." ”
"It's already a long way to send each other, and you won't follow us to Jiaoyang City. Hurry up and turn back to the Chinese army, where you still need to sit in the unified coordination? ”
Su Qin clasped his fists on the horse and replied: "Then I will go back and wait for General Ning's good news, the battle of Jiaoyang has been a lot of hard work for General Ning." ”
War is like a boat, the water is often turbulent, and the crisis is lurking, and there are too many uncertain factors in the war, how can Su Qin rest assured? However, he also knew that he needed to show more patience, and he needed to be stable in the Chinese army in Xipi, overseeing the combat situation on the left and right, and he, the commander, needed to show stability, otherwise, how could the officers and men of the three armies be stable and steady.
Ning Jun also arched his hand on the horse, he saw that Su Qin turned the horse's head, and he also urged the war horse and rushed towards the team that was marching at the front.
The 30,000 Zhao army led by Ning Jun came to a place about five miles in front of Jiaoyang City after an hour and a half of emergency travel. Ning Jun chose a gentle slope area about 100 zhang wide and stopped his troops.
He divided the troops into three groups, and selected three thousand elite sergeants from the elite of the Zhao State, led by the young lieutenant Du Qing, and Ning Jun personally handed them ten handsome flags of the allied army, which was the kind of banner with the words "Su Qin, Prime Minister of the Six Kingdoms" greatly embroidered on plain satin.
He also ordered to follow his personal colonel to find dozens of banners of the Zhao army, and handed them over to the raiding troops led by Du Qing.
Ning Jun ordered: "The three thousand soldiers led by Du Qing will immediately climb to the top of the mountain, go around the rear of Jiaoyang City along the top of the mountain, and try to act as covertly as possible along the way, without revealing any traces. ”
"After rushing to the rear hill of Jiaoyang City, condescendingly, quietly watching the movement in the city, once you find that the defenders in the city are pouring out, you will immediately climb down from the mountain to the city to control the remaining defenders, especially to replace the Qin flag at the head of Jiaoyang City with the banner of the coalition army at the first time."
Du Qing shook his hands and replied to Ning Jun: "The last general will take the order, and he must live up to his mission." As he spoke, he turned to the raiding force, ordered his men and horses, and acted according to Ning Jun's orders.
Ning Jun selected 3,000 older and thin-looking sergeants in the Zhao army, and then asked them to deliberately loosen the robes on their bodies to make them look looser.
These sergeants looked at each other's attire, and they all felt that they belonged to those ridiculous weak soldiers in the army, but when they looked at the other soldiers around them, they felt that they were even worse than themselves. They couldn't help but have doubts in their hearts, and thought, "What kind of medicine does the Lord sell in the gourd, how can there be such a war, and he still picks the thin and weak to call?" ”
Ning Jun called Xu Lu, another lieutenant of Zhao Jun, who was a tall and thin man, and his body was so thin that he always looked loose when he put on his armor. Ning Jun had long set his sights on Xu Lu and felt that he was the perfect person to carry out a special task.
Ning Jun gave Xu Lu a battle order: "General Xu Lu led this specially selected 3,000 soldiers to go to Jiaoyang City to call for battle, you all think about the most embarrassing and embarrassing curses in advance, enter the place less than a hundred feet away from Jiaoyang City and stand down, shout at Jiaoyang City, and let them come out to fight." ”
"If the people of the Qin State can't shrink in the city, you will shout and scold hard, how ugly and ugly it is, and shout with an open voice, so that the Qin people in the city will be annoyed and angry. As soon as the Qin people in the city come out, you shoot at them, and when the arrows run out, you run back. I didn't want you to stay in formation when you were running, so you spread out and ran like a child. ”
Xu Lu was lean, but his brain was very good, he understood Ning Jun's intentions, and asked: "If my guess is right, General Ning Jun wants us to use a plan to lure the enemy, let the enemy chase us, and fall into the ambush position we have set up, right?" ”
Ning Jun nodded, smiled at Xu Lu, and replied: "General Xu is a smart person, he can understand a little, the next thing depends on your skills, I don't know how you provoke others?" ”
Xu Lu arched his hand to Ning Jun and said, "This matter is a piece of cake, I am very good at this." In the Zhao army, I was a well-known sharp mouth, and all the generals obeyed me. ”
He changed his words and asked uneasily: "It's just that after we go to call the formation, can General Ning arrange the ambush position in such a short time?" You must know that this place is rocky and rugged, and it is difficult to set up a formation. ”
Ning Jun saw that Xu Lu was a shrewd general who was good at thinking with his brain, and he thought to himself: "No wonder Xu Lu is weak, but he can become the captain of the Zhao army, it seems that this person has his own specialty." ”
Ning Jun replied: "It is true that as General Xu said, it is not an easy task to set up a formation here, but I have my own opinion, you just have to lure the Qin army out of the city and you will achieve a great success." ”