Chapter 80: Ambush and Anti-Ambush
"Uh-huh~~~~~"
Zhao Weiji, who got up in the morning, rose up and finally had a good night's sleep. In the past few years, it has been a bit comfortable, and he is nearly thirty years old, and the sequelae of staying up late are too painful for Zhao Weiji. I was finally able to get a good night's sleep.
Not only him, but also for the entire Great Song Dynasty official army, it is also a very happy thing to be able to sleep peacefully. The atmosphere in the whole barracks is much better now than it was yesterday.
Of course, after the army has slept enough, what to do next is the top priority in front of the main generals.
"What do you think of the next move, I don't think the rebels will let us take Langzhong County so easily, there must be follow-up conspiracies waiting for us." After seeing everyone get up, Zhao Weiji decisively called everyone over to discuss the next move.
"The rebels are doing so much just to exhaust our army so that they can rest on their feet, and I don't think they can have any more plots."
"You can't say that, General Sima. Be careful to make the 10,000-year-old ship, the rebels may not be as simple as we think. From the process of marching along the way, it can be seen that it can be so concealed that our army can still not detect the traces of the rebels when they enter Cangxi, and from this point of view, the rebels are not simple. ”
"I agree with Yuan Jing's statement, it's better to be careful. Now we definitely can't turn around and go to Mianzhou, but how to enter Langzhong must be cautious. ”
"Actually, I have a way, now it seems that our number should be more than the number of rebels, why don't we divide our troops and advance, just in case."
"I don't know what Yuan Jing wants to do? This is the same road, how can we divide the troops forward? ”
"Although there is only one road, there is still a river, and we can go across it on the water."
Before Li Jiguang's words were finished, Sima Rang on the side retorted: "Jiang? General Li is really joking, Jiang does have it, but where is the boat, you can't let the soldiers swim to Langzhong, right? Or where to get bamboo to make a bamboo raft? Bamboo rafts are a good idea, and there are many bamboos in Shu anyway. It's just that your bamboo raft can withstand the fierce water of the Jialing River. ”
In fact, Sima Rang has always been a little unaccustomed to Li Jiguang, because Li Jiguang's background is really bad, Zhao Weiji's domestic servant. So even after leaving Zhao Weiji, he also made meritorious contributions under Li Jilong's account, but these well-born veterans still looked down on him.
Li Jiguang didn't pay much attention to Sima Rang's words, and he went on to explain his reasons: "I don't know if the enemy did it on purpose, or if I didn't pay attention, there are still many fishing boats that are usually used by fishermen on the wharf in Cangxi County, and I roughly estimated that there should be more than a dozen, so many." ”
"A dozen of them are for a fart." Sima Rang interrupted Li Jiguang's speech again.
"General Sima, this king orders you to shut up for the time being." Sima Rang interrupted Li Jiguang's words continuously, which made Zhao Weiji really annoyed, and he had no choice but to take out the authority of the prince and the chief general to shut up Sima Rang.
After Sima Rang shut up because of Zhao Weiji's order, Li Jiguang could finally explain his method without disturbing: "A dozen ships are useless, but we can transport part of the army to the west bank in batches, and then sneak quietly from the west bank to Langzhong for ambush." ”
"And then? If we are ambushed in Langzhong City on the east bank, how will the troops on the west bank volunteer? At this time, it was not Sima Rang who interrupted Li Jiguang's words, but Zhao Weiji. If the troops from the West Bank are unable to support the East Bank at the first opportunity, this plan can be said to be a complete failure.
"My plan is that after the troops reach the west bank, they will take all the fishing boats with them and send people to row the same to Langzhong, where the Jialing River passes directly west of Langzhong is the narrowest place in the entire section of the river, and then the existing ships can easily build two or more pontoon bridges for the army to pass quickly, so that they can well support the main force."
"Yuan Jing, your method has to be said to be very good, but the key to the problem is how can you hide from the rebels and smoothly march from the West Bank?"
"In fact, there is no need to deliberately hide from the rebels, because the rebels cannot detect the movements of the West Bank."
"What do you mean by that?"
"Because, the west bank of the road from Cangxi to Langzhong is much more out than the east bank, and the main attention of the rebels is now focused on the east bank, as long as we are close to the cliff when we march, it is unlikely that the rebels will find out about our army's actions without much attention on the west bank."
Indeed, if it is really as Li Jiguang said, the road on the west bank is higher than that on the east bank, as long as the army marches away, it is not easy to perceive the line of sight, after all, there is a problem of height difference and obstruction. Coupled with the sound of the river, as long as the troops on the west bank did not make too much noise, it was possible to sneak to the west of Langzhong County.
However, in the final analysis, this operation is still a gamble, and the gamble is that all the attention of the rebels is on the east coast, and whether they can make up their minds will be a great test for Zhao Weiji.
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At the same time, Langzhong County was also blinded, because of the sudden "disappearance" of the official army, the entire rebel army became a little weird. A rumor that the officers and soldiers could fly began to spread among the rebels.
"What do you think is going on, sir? Is it true that the official army can fly? The rumors became more and more ferocious, and Zhang Yu had no choice but to consult the old man again.
"It's going to fly, it's just a little bit back north, what's there to fuss about." Although the old man said so, he still admired Zhao Weiji's decisiveness in his heart, this kind of deceit has always been the most difficult to act, especially this kind of action of retreating first before fighting with the enemy, if it is not handled well, it will inevitably bring great damage to morale.
"Oh, so what's next, are we still going to act according to the original plan?"
"That's natural, or send someone to Cangxi to keep an eye on it, and once the officers and soldiers show up in Cangxi, they will act according to the original plan."
So the rebels still sent people to Cangxi to keep an eye as usual, and the official army also arrived as scheduled, and Cangxi arrived, but the problem came again, the official army did not move after arriving in Cangxi.
After the rebel scouts returned to Langzhong to report first, the rebels began to ambush in Langzhong County again. Because Cangxi is more than 40 miles from Langzhong, according to the general marching speed, it should be rushed in a day's time.
But the problem is that when the rebels in Langzhong entered the ambush position, the official army did not come.
"Why didn't I come again, twice." Zhang Yu was already going crazy, every time after the rebels took their places, the officers and soldiers did not appear.
"Go get the scout from before and let him see it again."
So the scout could only run Cangxi again, and when he ran to Cangxi, he saw that the officers and soldiers were actually stationed in Cangxi again. This time, the rebels didn't have the ability to set fire again, and the reason why they were successful last time was because the rebels had prepared a lot of flammable materials before they evacuated Cangxi.
Besides, there are only a few scouts now, and when they return to Langzhong to gather people and feel Cangxi, the sky should be bright. So they had no choice but to stay near Cangxi, and then send one person back to report, and the others waited until the next day to confirm that the official army had really begun to march towards Langzhong and then go back to report.
And just like that, another day of the rebels was delayed.
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Although the rebels were delayed for another day, a part of the official army successfully crossed the Jialing River and began to march towards Langzhong from the west bank, right under the noses of this group of scouts who came out of Langzhong.
This group of scouts never dreamed that there were officers and soldiers who had quietly rushed to Langzhong from the west bank. And in order to ensure concealment, Li Jiguang deliberately chose to start his journey when the sun was in the west, so that the shadows under the cliffs also provided a lot of help for the concealment of the army.
In this way, Li Jiguang's troops, who were advancing in the dark, successfully arrived at the predetermined position and laid an ambush after the pontoon bridge was built.
And a rebel army ambushed the official army in the city, and the official army countered the residents of the rebel army outside the city.
Early the next morning, the main force of the real official army officially began to advance towards Langzhong County.
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"They're finally here, and our chance for revenge is coming, so get all our brothers ready."
All the rebels began to follow the old man's instructions, and for the third and last time they entered an ambush, waiting for the arrival of the officers.
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"Is the pontoon ready?"
"General Hui, it's ready."
"That's good, let all the brothers get ready, the prince has come out of Cangxi with a large army. Our task is to go to the east bank to support the east bank as soon as there is a change in the attack on Langzhong. ”
"Yes, General."
After instructing the soldiers to get ready, Li Jiguang took out his binoculars and forgot about Langzhong County in the east. I saw that there were not too many soldiers guarding the city. Such an abnormal situation is that Li Jiguang's heart is full of worries, and all the worries of the prince are not groundless.
On the other hand, Zhao Weiji led the army to advance to Langzhong County step by step on the road, but there was no trace of rebels along the way.
"Young master, it's really weird." How could Zhao Xin, who had many years of experience in marching, not see such an abnormal state.
"Yes, Uncle Xin, it's too quiet, even if the number of rebels is small, it can't be so quiet. I guess my prediction was not wrong, there must have been fraud. Now I can only point to Yuan Jing's plan to work. ”
Whether to invite you into the urn or Li Daitao, the battle is about to start.