Chapter 010: Counterattack
It is advisable to chase the poor bravely, and there is a reason to chase the poor.
The poor don't chase, and there is also the truth that the poor don't chase.
The use of wonder, in one mind.
Yang Hao now has a reason to chase, if Li Guangrui escapes to Suizhou, even if Li Guangrui cannot be severely damaged this time, it will form a pattern that is extremely unfavorable to Li Guangrui, which will doom him to decline, but if he successfully transfers his troops to Youzhou west of the Great Wall and returns to his foundation, then the result will be difficult to predict.
The significance of the Dunkirk retreat was not to allow the 300,000 defeated troops to escape, but to give the 300,000 troops who would take a long time to train well a chance to pick up arms again and start the war again. If Li Guangrui successfully retreats to Youzhou, but what he is fighting for is the geographical advantage, the people, but the political pattern, he will have the opportunity to break the unfavorable situation of the encirclement of the three feudatories and regain control of the northwest, how can Yang Hao not chase?
However, although this move is far-reaching, it is also more risky, and the risk is always proportional to the return. When a huge army retreats, especially in that era, even if it is a wise general, it is difficult to turn the tide and effectively command the three armies, so as long as Yang Hao can catch up with Li Guangrui's main force, Li Guangrui's strategic adventure will be drawn from now on a symbol of the end.
Yang Hao marched all the way, rushed to the Wuding River, rebuilt three pontoon bridges with broken siege equipment, and drove the army across the river, but his army had just crossed the Wudu River, and Li Yide, who was in the rear, had not caught up, and a huge wave surged from the upper reaches of the Wuding River, carrying a giant tree to smash the three simple pontoon bridges, and the turbulent river overflowed the riverside on both banks, roaring downstream, and more than a dozen soldiers who had just stepped on the shore and had not had time to advance were swept away by the flood that rushed in an instant.
"Not good! Hit the trick! ”
Seeing such a situation, Yang Hao immediately changed color, the three armies stood quietly by the river, looking at the water level that fell again in an instant, everyone was stunned, Li Yide rushed to the shore in a hurry, looked at the opposite bank, and immediately shouted angrily: "Quick, collect all the available wood, quickly build a pontoon bridge, and bring the handsome back." ”
Yang Hao rode his horse and stood against the wind, listening to the sound of hooves like thunder in the distance, suddenly looked back, and shouted to the opposite bank: "Quickly ask General Zhe for help!" ”
Although the huge waves were discharged, but the Wuding River was already rolling and surging, a few spring rains fell, the river water swelled, and the waves shook the sky, and the other side could not hear clearly, Yang Hao waved his hand vigorously to Li Yide, and felt that Li Yide had understood what he meant, so he waved his hand and shouted: "Rush upstream!" ”
The sound of horses' hooves in front of him was fierce, and he did not know the number of enemy troops, and he could only walk up and down the river. If there is a dam upstream, there will be enemy troops. However, he rushed upstream, and the enemy was unexpected, so he had an opportunity, and the flood was not long in coming, indicating that the scale of the upstream dam was extremely small, which may be because the Wuding River is already turbulent and difficult to build a large dam, but it may also be that the number of enemy troops upstream is limited.
When the sound of horses' hooves in his ears became clearer and clearer, Yang Hao had led the army to go upstream, a harrier eagle spread its wings and soared in the sky, only to see a Milky Way rushing down, thousands of troops and horses going upstream, on the opposite bank, there were 6,000 officers and soldiers standing helplessly there, on this side, countless war horses were like wild wolves pounced on their prey, rowing an arc to Yang Hao's department.
How many people have fallen along the way?
Li Guangrui pretended to return to Youzhou, but in fact, all the people are here, and they want to kill me again? Or was this army just the rear army that had crossed the river in a hurry the day before? Is their morale still available?
Yang Hao didn't have time to think about it, the enemy army was like the monstrous wave rushing from the Wuding River, as if he wanted to use this force to push Yang Hao's entire army into the Wuding River. Yang Hao led nearly 10,000 horsemen to gallop quickly, rushing upstream at a frantic speed, looking for a favorable terrain to gain a foothold.
Sure enough, there was a force in charge of building and demolishing the dam upstream, and their number was really limited, and it seemed that they didn't expect Yang Hao's soldiers and horses to be attacked suddenly, and they actually rushed towards the side that knew that there were enemy troops, but the galloping of thousands of horses was a message that was difficult to hide, and they still reacted quickly, got on their horses, picked up their bows, and wound their arrows.
Yang Hao's blood pierced the pupils, and he personally charged forward, making a spear hit the carving feather, impacting the enemy formation, leading his personal soldiers and guards to rush forward like a tiger, and killing the enemy group without hesitation.
The enemy in front of him was only nearly a thousand people, and he couldn't resist Yang Hao's sworn charge at all, and the army rolled over like an iron wheel, rolling dead corpses all over the place, scattered into mud, but after all, the team of more than 1,000 people played a role in blocking it, and the army behind had already taken the opportunity to chase over.
The sound of the horn shouting and killing were mixed together, Yang Hao led the department, the only target was upstream, he knew that his judgment was right, as long as he fought out of the encirclement, and then went up, there must be no enemy ambush to intercept him, and his glimmer of life was in front.
The armies of the two sides collided on the river beach, the swords were sonorous, and the fighting was endless, Yang Hao was like a mad tiger, a spear in his hand had been soaked in blood, he always rushed to the front, and chiseled through the iron cavalry of the Xiazhou army that was congested up by layers, and moved forward! Forward!
The enemy army is overwhelming like locusts, and in the game, Yang Hao can't estimate how many soldiers and horses the enemy has at the bottom, he can only go all the way forward, like an arrow piercing through the silk, chiseling through the enemy's defense layer by layer, but at the end of the strong crossbow, it is not penetrating Lu Min, how far can he shoot this arrow?
※※※※※※※※※※※※※※※※※※※※※※※※※※※※ turbid waves, the wind rises, the dust rises, and the sky and the sun are obscured.
Zhen Ziyu led the horse and walked gently through Yang Hao's barracks.
The barracks were empty, and many miscellaneous things were scattered all over the ground, which showed the haste of the army's departure.
Zhang Shisan hurriedly lifted a tent, then rushed back to Zhe Ziyu's side, and said anxiously: "Miss, there is no one, all the people are empty." ”
Zhen Ziyu's eyes froze, and she saw a stove with an iron pot removed, she walked over, stretched out her hand to test the ashes at the bottom of the stove, slowly stood up, gently patted her palm as white as jade, and said: "It's probably time for Shen now, Yang Hao's army is probably in a hurry to set off early in the morning, and we can't catch up." ”
Zhang Shisan hurriedly said: "Didn't the eldest lady say that Li Guangrui must have a scheme? So what now? ”
Zhen Ziyu was really more anxious than him in his heart, but even if he cried loudly, could he make Yang Hao cry back? She turned around silently, a pair of clear eyes as clear as water looked at the southwest direction, a gust of wind and sand hit, she gently lowered her eyelids, her long eyelashes flashed slightly, and a trace of melancholy appeared on her smooth and white jade: "The more times like this, the more panicked I am, don't worry, go to Jialuchuan to see my eldest brother first." ”
After Yang Hao, Zhe Yuxun and Yang Chongxun agreed to build the plank road and secretly cross Chencang, due to the extremely confidential matter, the core information was only responsible for Yang Hao's 'Feiyu', and then Yang Hao chose the information he needed to inform Zhi Yuxun and Yang Chongxun of the information to inform them. In this way, the "Suifeng" of the Zhe family and the intelligence organization of Jihetang were separated from the core intelligence group of the plan, which is why Cui Dalang only vaguely got some clues after the wood was completed.
Due to the confidentiality and timeliness of the intelligence of the encirclement plan, Yang Hao will get first-hand information at any time and respond quickly, and it has become an afterthought for the "Suifeng" espionage agency of Excerpt Ziyu to pay attention to this incident itself, so Excerpt Ziyu put the intelligence investigation in a relatively clear place, if "Flying Rain" is now spying and transmitting core intelligence related to the secret war, then what "Flying Wind" is now doing is intelligence collection work on the surface, such as the transportation of grain and grass, the mobilization and deployment of troops, and the war reports from various places. casualty statistics, and so on.
Of course, all of this revolves around Yang Hao's transfer of the tiger from the mountain and Li Guangrui's siege of the city to send reinforcements, so the progress of the war will be known at any time, and it is impossible for Zhe Yuxun to hide from his sister and his own intelligence agency, so the latest trends are clear. She knew that Xiazhou had fallen into the hands of Yang Hao, knew that Yang Hao, Zhe Yuxun, and Yang Chongxun judged that Li Guangrui was about to withdraw and move closer to Suizhou, and knew that Yang Hao and her eldest brother had been stationed in Liangchuan.
At the same time, the intelligence officers she spread out also sent her a steady stream of information from all over the country:
Li Pilu, the assassin of Suizhou, did not move, and had no intention of responding to Li Guangrui's battle; The soldiers and horses of Shizhou, which held the Great Wall leading to the Central Plains in the Western Regions, had frequent exchanges with Youzhou to the west of the Great Wall, and Youzhou provided Shizhou with a large amount of grain and grass.
After receiving the news of the fall of Xiazhou, Li Guangrui's last grain team rushed to Yinzhou from Xiazhou and rushed to Yinzhou, but when he saw that the Wuding River was near, he suddenly gave up crossing the river, and instead moved to the nearest only mountain range, and stationed on the most dangerous Moyun Ridge.
Although Shizhou is a one-man fortress, but that is in the case of its rear is unbreakable, now the Xiazhou behind Shizhou is in the hands of Yang Hao, and the two states of Linfu in front of Shizhou, this so-called dangerous pass has lost the need to hold on, why do they still have to transport a large amount of grain and grass to make a defensive posture?
Why did Li Guangrui's grain team suddenly move to Moyunling, and what were his intentions?
All kinds of deeds, there seems to be an invisible big hand behind it, Zhe Ziyu instinctively felt that there was a conspiracy against Yang Hao and her eldest brother was forming, she wanted to tell them her worries immediately, but Jialuchuan and Turbidity Wheel River were two strategic places that were temporarily occupied, whether it was a carrier pigeon or a flying eagle, it was impossible to be smart enough to fly to a place where there was no communication point set in advance, so she had to rush here by herself, and she couldn't think of it being a step too late.
When Zhe Ziyu arrived at Jialuchuan, Zhe Yuxun had received the news sent by Yang Hao before the camp, the army had been assembled, ready to set off on the road, the brother and sister met, and immediately marched together, on the way to the march, Zhe Ziyu told the eldest brother the information he had and her analysis, and the two brothers and sisters deduced Li Guangrui's possible plan all the way, and hurried all the way to the bank of the Wuding River.
※※※※※※※※※※※※※※※※※※※※※※※※※※ pity the bones by the river, like a person in a spring boudoir dream.
On this ancient battlefield, how many bones of young men will be left behind now?
Yang Hao's foothold is a deserted ancient city, the city is gourd-shaped according to the mountain, the area is not large, the stone is built along the cliff as the wall, down more than ten zhang, it is the uncertain river water that gushes away, the loess houses in the city have long collapsed, only a ruined wall remains, the city wall of the loess is weathered extremely strictly, and a large piece of loess falls down in a slump when touched. The ruins are rich in pottery and cattle and sheep bones, and long ago this should have been a very prosperous place, perhaps simply because of a brutal war, the town has since been in ruins.
Yang Hao stood on the loess fence, looking at the enemy army in the distance, which was densely packed to form an encirclement, and was worried. He didn't expect that Li Guangrui would have to take a bite back when he was dying, and he would bite so viciously and so hard. Who would have thought that he would have such great courage and dare to launch such a perfect counterattack when the morale of the army was in turmoil? Who would have thought that in order to make the trick more serious, he would give up two battalions of soldiers and horses as bait, and even his son would be an outcast?
In this way, who can doubt his intention to move to Suizhou, and Zhuge Liang, who is close to the demon, may not be able to do it.
Now, his series of layouts have successfully severed the connection between the iron triangle of Zhe Yuxun, Yang Chongxun and Yang Hao. Yang Chongxun has been firmly pinned down on the Camel Ridge, Li Jiyun's troops are not weaker than Yang Chongxun, and the eastern slope of the Camel Ridge is gentle, and it is not difficult to defend the place, and the fortifications that Yang Chongxun spent a day and a night on the west slope are all on the west slope, becoming a pile of useless furnishings.
Zhi Yuxun was left on the north bank of the Wuding River, and when he found it, there would be a long time, and Yang Hao ...... When Yang Hao broke out of the encirclement, there were only 6,000 soldiers and horses left, and the 4,000 soldiers may not all have died, but whether they were killed in battle, captured or dispersed to break out, there was no difference to Yang Hao at the moment.
The enemy troops near and far are roughly estimated to be about 20,000, which is the last retreating man, for Yang Hao, this is a great luck and a misfortune. Fortunately, if all the 80,000 troops in Lee's hands were here, they would definitely be able to trample his men and horses into the mud, and his relatives would probably not be able to pick up his complete corpse among the countless bones when they arrived by the Wuding River in the future.
The unfortunate thing is that there are only 20,000 people here, and Li Guangrui's main force must rush back to Xiazhou in the starry night, if he dies here, can Xiazhou still be held? Perhaps Li Guangrui's 20,000-strong army can eat his remnants first, and then turn around and deal with the reinforcements of Zhe Yuxun, and it may not be impossible to retreat safely at that time.
Li Guangrui is really not an easy opponent, not an idiot-like opponent, the king of the Northwest who has been crisscrossing the Western Regions for 30 years will plan and fight back on the verge of death, this battle is fought beautifully, the young and vigorous Yang Hao finally made a mistake, and a mistake is bound to pay a high price. But how much does he have to give?
Li Guangrui fell for Yang Hao's plan, and the result was the loss of Xiazhou and the death of his second son Li Jisheng, and his Western Regions Empire was completely tilted towards Yang Hao. Yang Hao fell for Li Guangrui's plan, what did he have to pay?