Chapter 725: Five Battles and Five Defeats
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Chen Kefu's military order was quickly sent to the Jianghuai Army's camp, and in the face of Chen Kefu's handwritten military order sent by the herald, Wang Xuanying only felt like a lightning strike in his chest. A burst of dullness pressed against him, making him almost vomit blood.
It is clearly written in the military order that because the Jianghuai army has repeatedly defeated Li Mi's Wei army and has rich experience, from tomorrow, the Jianghuai army will be responsible for continuing to attack the Wei army that is besieged in Luokou. The Hebei Army set up a formation along Luoshui, spread a net and waited for the Nanchen army to go north, responsible for sending reinforcements. Moreover, it is very clear in the military order that in order to win the final victory in this battle, the Jianghuai army must attack the Wei army with all its strength and weaken the strength of the Wei army as much as possible, so as not to affect the subsequent battle after the arrival of the Nanchen army.
Wang Xuanying's original smiling face like a son's brother instantly became extremely gloomy, and his eyes were even more gloomy. Originally, after Li Mi was blocked in Luokou, he already had a sense of sadness about the death of a rabbit and a fox. I wanted to take advantage of Li Mi's incomplete annihilation to take the Jianghuai army south. Although Chen Kefu did not agree to his request at yesterday's military meeting, he did not expect that Chen Kefu would immediately force him to fight with Li Mi today.
Wang Xuanshu angrily kicked over the weapon rack on one side, and shouted angrily, "Chen Kefu is going to turn his face with us, big brother, strike first to be strong, and then to suffer, let's do it." Our Jianghuai army still has more than 60,000 elites, and there are 100,000 soldiers and horses in the eastern capital, who can rush to reinforcements at any time. ”
"What's the situation in Luoyang, and have Duan Da and them made any recent moves?" Wang Xuanying suppressed the uneasiness in his heart and asked in a deep voice. As soon as he received this military order, Wang Xuanying already understood Chen Kefu's decision. Chen Kefu was forcing them to surrender, and if they obeyed him, then the Jianghuai army would go to battle with Li Mi. In the end, it is inevitable that the strength of the Jianghuai Army will be hit hard, and it will be difficult to compete with Chen Kefu. And if you resist him. That's next. will inevitably face a big battle with Chen Kefu.
Wang Xuanying is not his younger brother Wang Xuanshu, in the face of such an important matter, he must suppress the anger in his heart, but must consider it carefully. Although the Jianghuai army had won many battles with Li Mijun before. But the Jianghuai army had never fought with the Hebei army. But the reputation of the Hebei Army was too loud, and it pressed on his chest like a boulder. To fight against such an army. He had to have more chips.
The Hebei Army had 90,000 horses and horses in Luokou, and there were 50,000 elites on the front line of the Tiger Prison dozens of miles to the east, and more than 200,000 prisoners of war. Ready to arm. And he now only has more than 60,000 Jianghuai troops in his hands. This point of centaur can't tear up Chen Kefu's face at all. His only reliance was on the more than 100,000 defenders of the Eastern Capital, but these people were not the Jianghuai Army, these people were the Sui Army in the former Eastern Capital and the nearby ones, and they were originally the most Yang Dong. But now that Yang Tong has become Chen Kefu's guest, Wang Xuanying doesn't know if this army is still reliable.
If Duan Da, Yuan Wendu, Lu Chu and others in Luoyang have already fallen to Chen Kefu, then they will use the more than 60,000 men in their hands to fight against Chen Kefu. There is no chance of winning.
Wang Shiyun sighed and said, "I heard from a cronie in Beijing that Duan Da had received a letter from Chen Kefu and the king before. Personally escorted Yang Tong to Jindi Pass. It is said that Chen Kefu appreciated Duan Da very much, and after Duan Da returned to Luoyang, he went around and told people that Chen Kefu was close to him. Now Chen Kefu wants to deal with us, but I'm afraid that this section will not be on our side. ”
Wang Xuanying sighed with hatred when he heard this, "At the beginning, my father was in charge of the government of the Eastern Capital, and he had already crowned Duan Da as Nayan, General Youyiwei, and Shangshu of the Regent Department. ”
"The internal history Ling Lu Chu, the military department Shangshu, the right military guard general Huangfu Wuyi, the internal history squire Guo Wenyi, the Huangmen squire Zhao Changwen and others are all the people who King Zheng originally proposed, maybe we can contact them." Wang Shiyun frowned and proposed. …,
Wang Xuanying, who was full of defeat, glanced at several uncles and nephews next to him, and said in a low voice, "Although there are 100,000 soldiers in the Eastern Capital, there are no generals who can fight, it is just a rabble with beautiful armor." These people are not enough to accomplish things, but they are more than to fail. What's more, since Yang Tong surrendered to Chen Pojun, the people of Dongdu have long been panicked, and they want to use these people to achieve things, but they are afraid that it will be difficult to do it. Alas. Let's go! Uncle, you immediately quietly go back to Luoyang to meet Lu Chu, Yuan Wendu, Huangfu Wuyi and others, probe their tone, and see what their plans are. How the hearts of the people are available, we will plan then. ”
"And what about tomorrow morning? Damn Chen Kefu, let's go out to fight Li Mi's army early tomorrow morning, Li Mi is now a trapped beast, let's fight him, it won't take a few battles, and our Jianghuai army's old bottom will have to fight in this Luokou. Wang Xuanshu said anxiously.
Wang Xuanying clenched his fists, his eyes blood-red, "Tomorrow, the whole army will go out to fight according to the military order, if the Eastern Capital is really unreliable, then we will fight all these belongings that our father has saved for many years, maybe our Wang family will have a way to live." Until everything is clear, we cannot block the only way out. ”
Wang Xuanying still had the last fantasy, fantasizing that Li Mi would refuse to go to war and wait for reinforcements to arrive.
But the truth is, it's all fantasy.
At dawn the next day, Wang Xuanying led more than 60,000 Jianghuai troops to fight in Luokou, while fighting, Wang Xuanying and other Wang family members secretly prayed that Li Mi would not fight. But as a result, Li Mi didn't know which tendon was wrong, and as soon as the Jianghuai army invited the battle, Li Mi immediately led the army out of the village to meet the battle.
From noon, the two armies met on the Black Rock Beach Plain, and at the same time the left and right flanks and the middle zone were plunged into a disorderly melee. The scuffle lasted until the sun went down, and finally ended with the victory of the Wei army, and the Jianghuai army was pushed back from the original front for a full five miles.
On the third day, the battle began, and there was a scuffle, and the Wei army won a complete victory as usual. The Jianghuai army retreated three miles.
On the fourth day, the battle began, and the Wei army won.
On the fifth day, the battle began, again in close combat, the Wei army won, and they once again made a successful central breakthrough against the Jianghuai army.
On the sixth day of the battle, the Wei army won again, and they beat the Jianghuai soldiers to lose their armor and retreat more than ten miles on the whole line, until they retreated a few miles outside the west gate of Luokou Cangcheng.
But until this moment, it was still the Jianghuai army that had been fighting with the Wei army. The Hebei Army faced the defeat and retreat of the Jianghuai Army for several days, but did not send a single soldier to rescue. In the same way, although the Wei army won many battles and won five consecutive days, it was still unable to defeat the Jianghuai army head-on. It is not so much that they defeated the Jianghuai army five times in six days, but that the Jianghuai army took the initiative to retreat five times.
After five days, there was no longer the same momentum in the Wei army as on the first day. Everyone is wondering: it is clear that the Wei army has the upper hand and is winning battles every day, but it has never been able to completely defeat the Jianghuai army, not to mention completely defeating it, that is, there are no more than a thousand people wiped out like on the first day. As soon as the Wei army went up, the frontal enemy resisted a little, and immediately retreated, just when the Wei army was going to kill the Housa troops with all its might, new Jianghuai army troops immediately appeared on the flanks and two wings, and the Wei army had to turn around, and when the Wei army knocked them back, the frontal enemy that had just broken down gathered again and turned back to attack, so the Wei army had to turn around again.
After such a few U-turns and running around, the Wei soldiers began to get tired, their spirit had been lost, the ranks became chaotic, and the columns of the two armies often changed from the initial barriers to a mess, and the two armies fought in the chaos with smoke and dust, chickens and dogs jumping, until the sun went down. Although the Wei army was often able to rely on the fierce spirit of their soldiers to achieve victory in the melee, at this time their physical strength had been consumed too much, and they were unable to chase the Jianghuai army that fled in the wilderness. …,
This was the case for five days in a row, and the Wei army had realized that this glue-like melee situation was not accidental, but was entirely deliberately caused by the generals of the Jianghuai army. The Jianghuai army did not seem to have any intention of fighting to the death with the Wei army, and every time they really wanted to get into a fierce battle, they could always quickly find the weak point and let the troops quickly get out of the battle.
Li Mi was very annoyed, in this kind of disorderly melee, the Wei army's desperate and daring spirit to fight could not be brought into play at all? You can only "run" the enemy, but you can't completely destroy the enemy, so after a few times, dusk has arrived, and the soldiers' physical strength is almost exhausted, so they can only quickly withdraw their troops.
He scolded, "I've never seen such a scoundrel's tactic!" Shameless! "It's like two generals going head-to-head on the battlefield, one of them just runs around and doesn't stop, letting the opponent chase everywhere, and he can't use his skills until he runs out of strength. Although the Jianghuai army was defeated every time, its strength did not suffer much damage. When they met again the next morning, they again displayed their escape, harassment, and grappling tactics in high spirits, causing the Wei army to shout and scold: "Bastard! "Coward! ”
The Wei army did not have much food, only enough for ten days. In the face of the challenge of the Jianghuai army, Li Mi originally succeeded in arousing the determination and courage of the Wei army soldiers to fight to the death, so that the Wei army broke out into a strong battle**. He had planned to take advantage of this rare morale to defeat the Jianghuai army in one fell swoop and reverse the difficult situation in front of him, so as to survive until the arrival of reinforcements. But the results of the five-day battle made Li Mi angrily discover that Wang Xuanying's little cub was simply playing with him.
The Wei army continued to fight for five days, but the Hebei army was watching from the side, recuperating, as if a fierce tiger had been watching his prey. After five days of fighting, the Wei army was tired and tired, and the daily chasing and fighting made the Wei soldiers consume more food, and now there are only three days of food left in the army!