Chapter 51: The soldier escapes and leaks military information
Liu Bang was already angry, his face was red, this Sun Wu was so unreasonable, how could he swallow this breath, and immediately ordered the dismissal of General Sun Wu.
In the face of a strong enemy, 30,000 will be chaotic first!
Even if Feng Jin and others interceded for Sun Wu, they couldn't change Liu Bang's determination. Sun Wu was eventually deposed. Fortunately, Liu Bang was nostalgic for the old and did not embarrass Sun Wu too much, and only dismissed him from all his military positions.
The army was in turmoil, and the people panicked. Anyang County was in turmoil.
There are now no more than 10,000 soldiers in Anyang County, and all of them are new recruits. The soldiers who surrendered to Xinnai had a faint intention of escaping.
Yuwen Chengdu was not there, Feng Jin was appointed as a temporary general, and everything in the Anyang Army was handed over to him. Feng Jin was also helpless after taking office, the enemy army was coming, and the army was already in chaos.
It's just that Feng Jin is just a general. Even though he is superior in force, he has no achievements in governing the army, and he cannot achieve the slightest effect. The soldiers began to flee in twos and threes.
This undoubtedly gave Chu Dingde a great opportunity, and Chu Dingde's army had already come to Anyang City. After a new round of supplies, Chu Dingde's army has grown again, and the number of soldiers has not increased much. The terrible thing is that the escaped soldiers completely told General Chu Dingde the details of the Anyang army.
Chu Dingde and Li An camped fifty miles outside Anyang County. Now that you have arrived at the city, there is no need to attack the city so quickly, and the most important thing is to inquire about the news and cultivate at present.
The soldiers who escaped in the barracks were reporting to General Chu Dingde: "General, our two brothers are really helpless, we followed General Shi Pei to besiege Anyang County, but we were attacked by Anyang County at night, and the army was annihilated. We had no choice but to join the enemy. ”
Chu Dingde looked at these two deserters, and couldn't help but be angry, now that he is in the city, you know that he has escaped. If he loses, he may run faster than anyone. Chu Dingde despised such people from the bottom of his bones. The soldiers were ordered to execute the two deserters.
The deserters were horrified. They are just trying to survive, some of the deserters are mostly old citizens of the Shen Dynasty, and there are still many villagers in the army of Chu Dingde, which is one of the most important reasons for their escape. Seeing that Chu Dingde had judged their life and death in this way, he had to hurriedly plead.
Li An understands them, soldiers enlist, some are for food, and some are recruited by the imperial court. Defeat and surrender to the enemy have existed since ancient times. Not all people work for just one force, that's a myth. Not all of them have noble thoughts, they just want to live simply.
Li An opened his mouth and said, "You all get up, just come back." Where is General Shi Pei? ”
The deserter was grateful to Li An, but only asked General Shi Pei, and then lowered his head and said, "General Shi Pei, you have been captured." Now he is in prison in Anyang County."
Although Li Ang had long expected this to be the case, he was still a little sad when he really heard it. This Shi Pei is a talent, and it is a pity that he was captured like this.
It's just that this is not the time to be sad, the siege is imminent, if Anyang is captured, Shi Pei will naturally be saved. Li An then asked the deserters about the situation in Anyang County: "You tell me what the situation is like in Anyang County now, and tell me everything you know." When we capture Anyang County and sweep away the rebels, I will take you home."
Go home! What a word, in the era of war and chaos, who wants to fight and fight, they are just victims who rush to the forefront. For the selfish interests of a small number of people, they are fighting. The ** that went home became more and more intense. These deserters told them all the people who knew the way.
The deserter said: "General, Lord Supervisor, since our defeat and surrender, I have wanted to stay in Anyang and eat peacefully with the army. We don't have anywhere else but to be soldiers. It's just that we, as people in the imperial court, have always been a pawn, and our status in the army is inevitably low. But it's nothing, as long as we are given a bite to eat, we can bear it. It's just that we know that this Anyang army is bound to be defeated, and our brothers are combined, since we have no use in the army, it is better for us to escape from Lu. ”
There is no doubt about defeat, and the soldiers at the bottom can expect the victory of this battle. Li An asked, "How did you know that the Anyang army will be defeated?" ”
The deserter told what he had seen and heard during this time: "Lord Supervisor, at first, the Anyang Army still had some hope of victory, but now it is all mixed up by a person named Sun Wu."
Mixed up by someone? Who has such great ability that one person can lead to the annihilation of the whole situation?
It's just that what the soldier said next completely understood Li An. The deserter said: "Sun Wu was worshiped as a general in Dingyang County, and everyone thought that he had the ability and unprecedented stability of the army. It's just rhetoric. He first asked Yuwen Chengdu to lead 20,000 horses to garrison Dingyang County, but without his orders, Yuwen Chengdu would never be able to lead the army to leave Dingyang County for half a step. ”
Dingyang County really has 20,000 horses of the Anyang Army, and Li An expected that it would not be worse at all.
The deserter began to speak again, with a clear expression of disdain. The deserter said: "This Sun Wu, since returning to Anyang County, has been singing and drinking all day and night. There is still a little bit of a general, that is, he has not even been to the school field once. ”
"Haven't you been to the school site once?" Chu Dingde asked, he really didn't believe it, how could he be like this as a general. Although he himself has a bad temper and is not very skilled, he is not such a bastard.
The deserter nodded and said, "Yes, he really hasn't been to the school yard once." It is rumored in the army that this Sun Wu has a hangover all day and stays up all night. It was day as night, and night as day. And his temper is still very big, and he doesn't even pay attention to the ** adult. Now, he has been removed from all military positions by Lord **. ”
Chu Dingde became interested, and Sun Wu was removed from all military positions. This great general came and went quickly. He asked, "Is it because he ignores the military?" ”
The deserter told Chu Dingde what he heard in the army: "Sun Wu, this person, relying on himself to be a general, indiscriminately beat a strategist next to the ** adult. There is no reason, if you have to ask one reason, it is that Sun Wu is drunk. Even if the ** adult stopped him, Sun Wu still insisted on hitting him. ”
With such no one in their eyes, it seems that this Anyang army was really made by Sun Wu, if so, wouldn't it be easier for them to attack Anyang County.
Through the escaped soldiers, Chu Dingde got reliable news that the Anyang army was now no more than 10,000 people, and its morale was low. There is a big problem inside, and it seems that they don't need to take much effort to capture Anyang County.
Chu Dingde is in a particularly good mood, the enemy army is in chaos, and he will definitely take Anyang County in one go by taking this opportunity.