Chapter 268: The Method of Water Attack
"Uncle, don't come unharmed!"
In front of the two armies, Hao Ren rode a snow-treading horse chasing the wind, dressed in silver-white fish scale armor, wearing a white cloak, straddled the slaughtering knife at his waist, and hung a full welcome smile on the horse, hugging his fists against Yang Tongdao on the opposite side. Pen | fun | pavilion www. biquge。 info
Behind Hao Ren, there were only two servants, Chang Yuchun had a horse lance in his hand, and the guards were behind Hao Ren, holding the guards in the middle of the thousands of households, Chen Da, holding the military flag of the Qingfeng army.
"Hao Thirteen, don't be close to me!" Yang Tongguan had a dark face, and accompanied by two servants, he asked Hao Ren in front of the military formation, and he said angrily: "I heard that my cousin also married a bloody man, but I didn't expect that I couldn't hold on for days, but I only acted like a woman, aren't you afraid that the world will laugh?" ”
Qingfeng army garrison Deqing City, heavy rain for several days, Qingfeng army gunpowder damp, can not be launched, Hao Ren lost the advantage of firearms, can only hold out, Yang Tongguan knew that Hao Ren was waiting for reinforcements, but he did not dare to divide troops to rescue Songjiang, Jiaxing.
The Qingfeng army has come to the city of Hangzhou, and the two places have lost the ability to rescue, Yang Tongguan only wants to take advantage of the rainy weather and the arrival of Qingfeng army reinforcements, and Hao Ren's Qingfeng army will fight a decisive battle.
Hao Ren just couldn't hold on, and Yang Tongguan had no choice but to launch several attacks on Hao Ren's well-defended military camp, which was nothing more than a loss of soldiers in vain.
Yang Tongguan was helpless, so he asked Hao Ren to answer in front of the military formation.
"Haha!" Hao Ren saw that Yang Tongguan was angry, and couldn't help laughing: "Now your nephew, my eldest son is two years old (Mao age), if I am a woman, where did your nephew come from-Uncle Su Wen is brave and good at fighting, and now I am cowardly and scared, so what?" Hehe! ”
"Humph!" Yang Tongguan snorted coldly, Hao Ren said he was afraid, but he didn't see him a trace of timidity, he said angrily: "Cowardly? Scared? At this time, it is begging for mercy, and there is no need, I want to avenge the blood of tens of thousands of soldiers and horses! ”
"If my uncle wants to take revenge, I will fulfill you, I will wait for you in the barracks, you have to break through my barracks quickly, my life is yours!" Hao Ren is younger than Yang Tongguan in age and seniority, but now he is putting on a scoundrel face.
"Since ancient times, 'Lai Han married a wife', pity my sister, marry you scoundrel!" Yang Tongguan scolded angrily: "You and I are both men, the commanders of the two armies, it is better for the two of us to face off against the generals, even a life-and-death duel, if you win, my Feishan barbarian army will all belong to you, if I win, the Qingfeng army will return to Jiangbei, how about it?" ”。
Hao Ren's conceited force is acceptable, and he thinks that his force is not under Yang Tongguan, but it is impossible for Hao Ren to agree to Yang Tongguan, and it is impossible for Hao Ren to gamble with his own territory and the people.
Hao Ren and Yang Tongguan went back and forth for a long time, and Yang Tongguan proposed that the two sides send wrestlers out to challenge in front of the battle, but Hao Ren also refused.
The Qingfeng army has transitioned from the era of cold weapons to the era of semi-firearms, and let the generals under him go out to fight with the locality, which is not cost-effective, as long as the weather is fine, the Qingfeng army has a full chance of winning.
Yang Tongguan also proposed that each army send 3,000 soldiers and horses to fight a battle in front of the battle to see whose soldiers and horses are powerful!
Hao Ren thinks that his cavalry with crossbows, in the same number of soldiers and horses, can definitely crush the enemy, anyway, the Yuan army will not reach it for a while and a half, then first consume Yang Tongguan's soldiers and horses little by little, the enemy does not consume a single point, and the Qingfeng army has a greater chance of victory.
Hao Ren actually naively decided Yang Tongguan's request and agreed to tomorrow. Each side sent 3,000 soldiers and horses to fight in front of the battle.
"Lord, Xiao Ke thinks that this matter must not be done!" Liu Bowen heard that Hao Ren had returned to the camp to tell the story, and hurriedly dissuaded him.
"I use elite cavalry to consume the enemy's troops, why can't I do this?" Hao Ren asked puzzled.
"I have heard that Yang Tongguan is cunning, and the art of war is based on deception, this Yang Tongguan must be completely sure to make such a request, if it is lost, the morale of the Qingfeng army will be greatly frustrated, how can you joke with the lives of soldiers?" Liu Bowen advised.
After Liu Bowen's reminder, Hao Ren suddenly realized that the heavy rain also softened the bowstring, and the mud all over the ground was not conducive to cavalry combat.
Although Yang Tongguan is also facing such a predicament, and I don't know what tricks Yang Tongguan will use, but since Yang Tongguan likes it, he can't follow his wishes, so there is nothing biased about it.
Since Yang Tongguan is afraid that I can't hold on, then I can't hold on, so he can't succeed.
"The lord is the commander, since he has promised him, how can he break his trust? And send out 3,000 soldiers and horses to explore the reality of the place, so there is nothing wrong with this! Yu Tongyuan advised.
"Go and send someone to send a letter to Yang Tongguan, just say that Ben Shuai suddenly has abdominal pain, and he agreed to fight again in three days!" Hao Ren ordered, and Su Wei took the order to shoot the truce letter into Yang Tongguan's military camp.
The rain for days made Hao Ren restless, he lay on the bed, couldn't sleep for a long time, thinking about what tricks Yang Tongguan was hiding?
"Isn't it strange that the water level of the Tiaoxi River has not risen due to the heavy rain, but has a downward trend? Could it be that the bottom of the Tiaoxi River is leaking? All the water is gone? Wang Mengchen, who was sleeping next to Hao Ren, did not fall asleep at this time, but raised the problem of the organ he found.
When Hao Ren heard this, suddenly a spirit got up from the bed and hurriedly walked to the cabin to check the water level, and it was indeed the case.
"Liu joins the army, what do you think is going on?" Hao Ren asked Liu Bowen, who was also checking the water level.
Liu Bowen pulled out a bamboo pole from the water to test the water level, and said thoughtfully: "There is only one possibility, someone is upstream, blocking the flow of the river!" ”
Hao Ren patted his head and suddenly realized!
When he set up camp, in order to take advantage of the water army, he built a pontoon bridge on the Tiaoxi River, which was a camp with both offense and defense.
Camping like this is a taboo for soldiers!
If the enemy intercepts and stores water upstream, and then suddenly opens the sluice gate to release the water, I am afraid that Hao Ren's military camp will be washed away overnight!
This is what Sun Tzu called the method of water attack in the Art of War.
In order to facilitate the mobility of the cavalry, Hao Ren stationed the cavalry on the east bank of the Tiaoxi River, and could only continue to stay on the east bank, and the terrain on the east bank of Tiaoxi was obviously higher than that on the west bank.
"Abandon Deqing City, all the infantry crossed the Tiaoxi River, found a high ground to station, and all the warships of the navy army took off to the shore and high ground in the east, and none of them could stay in the water!" Hao Ren hurriedly gave the order.
The Qingfeng Army's various armies received the order, and the operation was transferred overnight, and the infantry all crossed the Tiaoxi River, and the warships of the Qingfeng Army's Jiangfang Army, the hull was not large, and they were all flat-bottomed river boats, which were dragged on the slippery muddy water, and it was not difficult to drag them up.
At dawn, all the soldiers and horses of the Qingfeng army left the highland, and the Tiaoxi River suddenly broke off, less than a quarter of an hour, only a roar was heard, like ten thousand horses galloping, the turbulent river, the momentum was magnificent, and it flowed down from the upstream silently.
Hao Ren looked at the river and sighed secretly: "It's so dangerous, it almost wiped out the whole army that Yang Tongguan did!" ”
(To be continued.) )