Chapter 46: Retreating Pursuers (1)
Gongsun continued to rub his eyes ten times with his hands, and rubbed his stomach dozens of times before slowly getting up and changing his clothes, which was a habit he developed in later generations.
In his later life, he always paid great attention to maintenance, and when he woke up in the morning, he would rub his eyes, rub his stomach, and do some health care that he thought he had to do.
Once you have a certain level and identity, most people will think about health and wellness.
Gongsun Xu didn't get a good rest for a while before, and the pressure in his heart was extremely high, but this time he won a big victory and promoted the cavalry, without any worries, Gongsun Xu was finally able to relax, and he finally began to think about his physical problems.
At the celebration banquet last night, Gongsun Xu did not let the civil and military officials of Xingcheng toast, in order to maintain a relatively good relationship, Gongsun Xu was almost not afraid of coming.
Although the alcohol content in this era was very low, the quantity also caused a change in quality, and Gongsun Xu still felt a slight discomfort in his head and his body was weak until he got up.
In order to maintain his current strong body shape, in order not to affect his body, Gongsun Xu felt that he had to start taking care of his body at this time.
The body is the capital of the revolution, although he is still young at this age, he must not harm his body, he must be responsible for his body, after drinking too much, he must do health.
Gongsun Xu got up and changed his clothes under the strange gaze of the servant girl sent by Jia Hui, and then cleaned his face in the copper basin brought by the servant girl.
At this time, Gongsun Xu found a sense of enjoying life.
After traveling to the end of the Han Dynasty, Gongsun Xu has been in the military camp, food, clothing, housing and transportation are quite monotonous, and even everything needs to be done by himself, and now he has finally survived.
What made Gongsun Xu feel slightly depressed was that the maidservants in this era simply made him speechless, and they were all those little girls who were stunted at the age of thirteen or fourteen.
At the end of the Han Dynasty, similar to later generations, the status of women was low, especially the little girls who were too young to work, and most of them were sold to large families as slaves and maids.
After waving his hand to signal the shriveled little girl to retreat, Gongsun continued to tidy up his clothes and slowly walked out of the room in all directions.
Looking at the sky and calculating the time again, he knew that Zhao Yun should have set off for more than two hours with Han Yu, Gongsun Da and a thousand mixed soldiers, if nothing else, around noon today, Zhao Yun and they would be able to meet cheap Lao Tzu's troops.
This situation is definitely the best news for cheap Lao Tzu, the rear is not lost, and a beautiful victory will reduce the haze of this defeat a lot.
After Zhao Yun and their new forces passed, they would be able to safely withdraw to Xingcheng and reduce Gongsun Zhan's further losses.
Zhao Yun's 1,000 mixed soldiers all belong to the new force with high morale, and they absolutely dare to fight.
Gongsun continued to instruct Zhao Yun to let Han Yu lead the infantry soldiers, and Zhao Yun and Gongsun Da only needed to command the cavalry under them.
The pursuers who followed behind him were the left-behind troops of Qiu Liju and Zhang Chun in Xiangping City, if Gongsun Xu's expectations were good, they should know that Nanlou sent Wuhuan cavalry to cut off Gongsun Zhan's back road.
At this time, they would never have thought that the cavalry team that promoted more than 2,000 people would be defeated by Gongsun Xu.
He decided to take advantage of the asymmetry of information to deal a huge blow to these troops.
There is an extremely flat place on the side of Xingcheng leading to Jinxi, as long as Zhao Yun does what he says, it will definitely be a fatal blow to Qiu Liju and Zhang Chun's left-behind troops who chased and killed Gongsun Zhan.
As for whether Zhao Yun and Han Yu can fight an excellent ambush battle according to his ideas, it all depends on the will of heaven.
Zhao Yun is a peerless general known to later generations, and Gongsun Xu has absolutely reason to believe that Zhao Yun will fight a beautiful ambush battle this time.
Gongsun Xu assured Zhao Yun and Han Yu, because Gongsun Xu knew that these two people would inevitably become his earliest team in the future, fighting a good fight, having money, and a good place to live, no matter how they looked at it, they were much stronger to follow him than to follow Gongsun Zhan's subordinates.
At this moment, Zhao Yun and Han Yu, who Gongsun Xu was talking about, were leading a mixed army of infantry and cavalry to follow behind Fang Yu, constantly discussing the plan proposed by Gongsun Xu.
This time it was Zhao Yun and Han Yu, they had to communicate well before the battle, otherwise they would not know how they died when they died.
Among these soldiers under their command, some of them surrendered, and Zhao Yun and Han Yu had to tell their subordinates to be optimistic about these surrendered troops, so that these surrendered soldiers would not have the possibility of rebellion again.
It is precisely because of this that the two of them have to come up with effective ways to avoid this kind of thing from happening.
The ambush plan proposed by Gongsun Xu, the two of them have to make a deduction according to what Gongsun Xu said, and they also have to take into account unexpected situations or several possible situations, especially Gongsun Zhan's reaction when he saw them ambushing the pursuers, this is the most worthy of scrutiny by the two of them.
Don't look at Zhao Yun and Han Yu, both of whom have followed Gongsun Chan for a long time, but they don't know much about Gongsun Chan.
According to Gongsun Xu, as long as their ambush is successful and they succeed in dividing the reinforcements left behind by Qiu Liju and Zhang Chun, General Gongsun will definitely be able to make the fastest choice, and they will respond to all changes with no change.
Thinking that Gongsun Xu had been like a god in the recent past, as if he had the help of a god, Zhao Yun chose to believe Gongsun Xu's judgment.
After discussing with Han Yu and the others, Zhao Yun sent three hundred cavalry led by Gongsun Da and Qi Ming.
Zhao Yun instructed Gongsun Da, who led the 300 cavalry, to follow Gongsun Xu's instructions to march as fast as possible to a place that deviated from the main road for more than ten miles, and to build a simple dam in the upper reaches of the Xingcheng River as quickly as possible.
As soon as half of the rebel soldiers were seen crossing the river, the improvised dam was immediately dug up and the soldiers crossing the river were dealt the most brutal blow.
Fang Yu walked at the front of the line, he looked at the reinforcements sent by Gongsun Xu behind him, and often felt distracted.
Fang Yu couldn't have imagined that General Gongsun Xu had left only a thousand infantry troops and some wounded soldiers for Gongsun Xu, but there were already five hundred cavalry in the troops sent by Gongsun Xu, and these cavalrymen were all in good spirits, without the slightest hint of that kind of recruit.
Fang Yu asked these cavalrymen, and also learned from these cavalrymen that most of these cavalry sent by Gongsun Xu were surrendered cavalrymen in the ambush battle that lured Qiu Liju Zhang Chun, and they had now changed their past mistakes and decided to rejoin the arms of the Great Han.
If it weren't for Fang Yu hearing countless people tell him that the promotion had been crippled by Gongsun Xu, and Gongsun Xu had only paid less than one-tenth of the price, Fang Yu really couldn't believe that the promotion of that kind of big man would capsize in the perineum gutter and die in the hands of Gongsun Xu.
Fang Yu was also extremely puzzled about most of the cavalry sent out by Zhao Yun on the way, but Fang Yu knew that in such a situation, he was absolutely not suitable to ask the question of where those soldiers went, he could only bury the doubts in his heart.