Chapter 218: Cornered
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"In today's battle, if I have the advantage, can I kill Wei Yunqi?" Li Fengyun asked suddenly.
Opinion was disagreed. Huo Xiaohan, the head of the hussars, shook his head again and again, and vetoed it in public, "Ming Gong, don't be lucky." Wei Yunqi saw that our army was on the front line of Chenliu and immediately turned around and headed north, which is enough to show that he had predicted that our army might take advantage of its unstable foothold to attack. Now that he is ready and has taken advantage of the danger, even if our army has an advantage in some respects, and even defeats him in a head-on battle, it is absolutely impossible to kill him on the spot. ”
"Ming Gong, where Wei Yunqi camped is too close to the Tianqian Pass, he can get the support of the Guan Defense Army at any time." Zhen Baoche, the head of the Tiger Army, also spoke, "Wei Yunqi's deployment ensures that he has no worries about advancing and retreating on the Jishui frontline, in fact, he currently occupies a greater advantage, and it will be very difficult for us to defeat him in a head-on decisive battle." "Since Wei Yunqi can't help Wei Yunqi in a head-to-head duel, don't talk about anything extravagant.
Li Mi's face was a little ugly. Huo Xiaohan and Zhen Baoche's questioning was actually aimed at him. He could do anything for his ends, sacrificing the lives of the rebels at will, but the alliance would never want to use them.
"If we go north, force our way across Jishui, and fight with Wei Yunqi on the north bank of Jishui, will we have a chance of winning?" Li Fengyun remained silent and continued to ask.
"There is no chance of winning." Huo Xiaohan spoke quickly and did not shy away from it, "The reason why Ming Gong dared to attack was nothing more than because Wei Yunqi had just come out of the customs and his foothold was not stable, so he could attack him unprepared and kill him by surprise, but judging from Wei Yunqi's current movements, Wei Yunqi was obviously fully prepared, and used the natural danger of Jishui and relying on the natural barrier behind it to set a trap for us, so there was no chance of winning the northward attack." ”
Zhen Baoche continued to tacitly cooperate with Huo Xiaohan, "Wei Yunqi's purpose is to let us go north and drag us in the area of Jishui and Tianqian Pass, so that he will have an absolute advantage and attack the enemy's shortcomings with his own strengths, while we are very passive, and the slightest carelessness will lead to the annihilation of the whole army." In a certain opinion, in order to respond to the Wagang Army's raising of the flag, it is necessary to go north, but it is limited to confronting Wei Yunqi across the water, rather than blindly attacking. ”
Li Mi sneered, "If we miss the warplane, it will be equivalent to helping Wei Yunqi build a rebel army. Wei Yunqi has an army and has gained a firm foothold on the front line of Tongji Canal, and it will be difficult for us to defeat him again. ”
It is inconvenient for him to reveal his "deal" with Li Fengyun, let alone reveal that the Henan nobles will secretly respond on the battlefield, after all, these things are not visible, and he can't give guarantees, so he can only try to persuade the Righteous Alliance to attack Wei Yunqi, although it seems that this move is very impulsive and risky, and there is no chance of victory, but from the analysis of the Eastern Capital Administration, he has absolute confidence to defeat Wei Yunqi in a battle. However, at the critical moment, Li Fengyun seemed to be shaken.
Wang Ruxin was originally nervous, but when he saw that the generals of the alliance were arguing, he calmed down.
He was sure that this mission could be completed smoothly, and Li Fengyun would definitely contain Wei Yunqi on the front line of Jishui, but did the Wagang army have the strength to conquer Weicheng? Can you hold Wagang under the encirclement and suppression of the officials and troops of Dongjun? If the Wagang Army encountered setbacks and defeats at the beginning of raising the banner and could not gain a foothold, then it would have to go south to join Li Fengyun. If the final result of the Wagang Army is to defect to Li Fengyun to survive, then why is it necessary to fight bloodily with the Dongjun officers and soldiers after raising the flag, and they will be scarred and suffer heavy losses? If you maintain your current strength and defect to Li Fengyun, you will have a place in the alliance and can grow under the protection of the alliance. As long as there is strength, the Wagang army can decide its own fate, and there is also the possibility of separating and hegemony in the future, on the contrary, if the decision is wrong now, it will be swallowed by the official army or the alliance when the strength is weak, and that qiē dream will turn into a cloud of smoke.
Wang Ruxin saw very clearly that Li Fengyun and the military officer named Liu Zhiyuan attached great importance to Wei Yunqi, thinking that Wei Yunqi's existence would bring a serious crisis to the alliance, so he wanted to take advantage of his unstable foothold to give him a fatal blow, while the generals of the alliance considered their own interests, feared war, and were unwilling to gamble their lives. Obviously, if the opinions of the alliance generals prevailed, then although Li Fengyun would contain Wei Yunqi to respond to the Wagang army's raising of the flag, he would not attack Wei Yunqi, so that once Wei Yunqi pulled up the army, he would first flank the Wagang army with the Dongjun official army, and the Wagang army would suffer from the enemy and would not escape defeat.
The Wagang army was defeated, Wei Yunqi's rear was stabilized, and then he was going south to attack Li Fengyun, but at this moment it may have entered autumn, and the battle situation must have undergone new changes, such as the interruption of the Tongji Canal, the Gyeonggi garrison has been dispatched to suppress the thieves, and the alliance has plundered enough money and food to withdraw to Qilu. From this new situation, it is not difficult to see that the alliance has escaped without danger, and it is precisely by skillfully using the Wagang Army, with the convenience of the Wagang Army to raise the flag, that Wei Yunqi's pace of moving south has been delayed, and the alliance has won enough time to calmly deal with the changes in the battle situation.
The Wagang Army is actually a victim, although the timing of the Wagang Army raising the flag is very good, but because of the lack of the participation of the most powerful Xu Shiyan, the lack of Li Fengyun's full support, or because it was calculated by Li Fengyun, the Wagang Army's raising of the flag actually became a stupid move to dig its own grave.
Wang Ruxin's calmness made him see more and think more deeply, and the result was that he returned to the "starting point". He sadly realized that he had to follow Li Fengyun's strategy and let the Wagang army attack Wei Yunqi as a "public statement" to raise the banner, and the idea of the Wagang people trying to use the alliance to contain Wei Yunqi on the Jishui front line was simply wishful thinking, and they did not see the trend of the entire battle situation clearly.
Li Fengyun saw it clearly, he only asked two questions, whether Xu Dalang participated in the flag raising, whether the alliance could defeat Wei Yunqi, one was the question of the Wagang people, and the other was the question of the alliance itself, and it was the answer to these two questions, which clearly outlined the direction of the future war. Without Xu Shixi, the Wagang army would fail, and the alliance did not fight Wei Yunqi, which not only gave Wei Yunqi enough time to kill the Wagang army, but also gave the alliance time to continue to plunder the Tongji Canal and calmly withdraw from the Central Plains battlefield.
Li Mi and Huo Xiaohan, Zhen Baoche were still arguing fiercely, and soon Yuan An, Xiao Yi and Xu Shisan also joined the "war group", the civil and military officials had their own opinions, and they were distinct, but the three commanders of the military were unwilling to cross the river to attack Wei Yunqi, which made the decision-making direction gradually deviate from Li Fengyun's wishes, so Li Fengyun decisively suspended the military discussion, and ordered the army to advance to the Jishui line as quickly as possible, and confront Wei Yunqi across the Jishui River, in order to respond to the Wagang army to raise the flag, as for whether to cross the river to attack Wei Yunqi, it depends on the changes in the battle situation.
Before leaving the alliance, Wang Ruxin asked to see Li Fengyun again.
Wang Ruxin did not have the confidence to convince Zhai Rang, Zhai Hong and the other Wagang brothers, so he had to have an open and honest conversation with Li Fengyun. Li Fengyun must force the Wagang army to attack Wei Yunqi from the north and south, it can be seen that Li Fengyun has a strong control over the battle situation, he wants to win the maximum benefit from the Tongji Canal, in this case, he always has to come up with a few decent reasons.
"General, even if the Wagang Army fails, there is still a way to retreat." Wang Ruxin was very helpless and had to say some Wagang secrets, "Xu Dalang did not participate in this flag raising, which is one of the retreats, and in a desperate situation, we can take refuge in the river." ”
Li Fengyun shook his head with a smile, and was very speechless about the "naivety" of the Wagang people, "You raised the flag before, but you looked ahead and hesitated, and the reasons behind it can be estimated and understood." The current shape is actually not good, but you suddenly want to raise the flag, what is the reason? Is it related to the Zheng family in Xingyang? ”
Wang Ruxin's face changed slightly, and his eyes showed surprise. How did he know that Wagang's raising of the flag was related to the Xingyang Zheng family? After pondering for a moment, Wang Ruxin resolutely made a decision, since Li Fengyun had already guessed the real reason behind Wagang's raising of the flag, there was no need to continue to conceal it, it was better to say it openly, but it would win his trust. Wang Ruxin immediately told Zhai Hong about rushing to Xingyang to inquire about the news, and the Zheng family of Xingyang abandoned the Wagang people, and the Wagang people had no choice but to raise the flag and fight to the death.
Li Fengyun bowed slightly and asked, "Do you know that Wei Yun rose out of the Jinghu Rebellion and received the support of the Zheng clan in Xingyang?" ”
Wang Ruxin nodded again and again. It is no secret that Wei Yunqi set up camp on the old road of the Yellow River, recruited people and horses, and the local township regiments and sects in Henan flocked away.
"Do you know why the Xingyang Zheng clan formed an alliance with the Guanzhong Wei clan?" Li Fengyun asked again.
Wang Ruxin shook his head. The contradiction between the Shandong people and the Guanlong people is deep-rooted, and although the Xingyang Zheng family and the Guanzhong Wei family have an in-law relationship, it does not mean that the two sides are political allies. This time, the Guanlong people maliciously attacked the Xingyang Zheng clan with the help of Henan's natural disaster, and the resentment between the two sides was deeper, so there must be an intricate entanglement of interests behind the alliance between the two families, on the surface, this alliance is the compromise of the Xingyang Zheng clan and bowed their heads, but who dares to say that this is not the beginning of the Xingyang Zheng clan's counterattack?
Li Fengyun started with the Zheng clan in Xingyang, analyzed the political situation in the eastern capital in detail, and deduced the reform and conservative controversy hidden behind the battle for imperial unification, and then he revealed an astonishing secret to Wang Ruxin, in order to completely defeat Yang Lan, the king of Qi, and deal a heavy blow to the local aristocratic group in Guanlong, the Heluo aristocratic group with Yang Xuangan, the secretary of the Ministry of Rites, reached a "tacit understanding" with the Zheng clan in Xingyang, and the evidence is that the victims of the disaster in Henan crossed the obstruction of the five waterways to enter Yuzhou to survive, and the Yingru aristocratic bureaucracy actually opened its arms, Spare no effort to provide relief and relief.
Who opened up the survival channel for the victims of the disaster in Henan to enter Yuzhou? Li Fengyun and his alliance of rebels.
Therefore, without Li Fengyun coming up with evidence, Wang Ruxin can deduce that the huge shadow force behind Li Fengyun is either the Heluo aristocratic group or the political alliance of the Heluo aristocratic group, and it can also be inferred that Li Fengyun's attack on the Central Plains must have originated from the support of many forces, and the support of these forces was enough to ⊥ him to advance and retreat without worry.
"Do you have confidence now?" Li Fengyun asked.
Wang Ruxin was full of confidence, and with these sufficient reasons, he would definitely be able to convince Zhai Rang and the Wagang brothers to follow Li Fengyun's decision and flank Wei Yunqi with the alliance army.