Chapter 45: The First Chu-Han War
The king of Chu Baili Wuji ordered the first army Yun Yang to lead the five-compartment black flag army south to Yanzhou, and the fourth army Baili Yisuo Department of the three-compartment black flag army as a supplement, a total of 43,200 people in six compartments, from Yanzhou to the south of Penzhou, Guizhou, Yulinzhou, Dangzhou, Gaozhou, Shunzhou to Luozhou. Divide the territory of the Southern Han Dynasty into two, and take the opportunity to fight a decisive battle with the Southern Han Jianwu Jiedu envoy and the Ningyuan Jiedu envoy, with only one strategic purpose, to drag and cut off Jianwu, and Ningyuan Erjiedu to return to aid Xingwangfu.
The second army, Yu Cunzhong, led 16,200 people from the Sanxiang Black Flag Army, marched eastward from Wuzhou, Fengzhou, Kangzhou, and Duanzhou, and entered Xingwangfu. The strategic purpose is to cut off the westward escape of Xingwangfu and the convergence of Jianwu and Ningyuan.
Xiong Jiben of the Third Army led a total of 16,200 people of the Black Flag Army of the Three Compartments as the main attack, and moved south from Dunzhou, Shaozhou, and Yingzhou, directly attacking Xingwangfu.
The three heads go hand in hand, and it is bound to win, and it is known as the first Chu-Han War.
The news spread, and the countries were in an uproar, this Baili Wuji is really a mad dog, this is the conclusion reached by the countries.
Liu Yan of the Southern Han Dynasty suffered from it, and successively sent envoys to the Southern Tang, Fujian, and Jin Kingdoms to ask for help, and at the same time sent envoys to Shu to ask the Shu Emperor to mediate.
It takes time for the messenger to leave and arrive at the destination.
At this time, the three-way army of Chu had already set off.
November 29.
In the middle lane, Yu Cunzhong took the lead in the first battle.
On the second day of departure, he encountered Wang Dingbao, the envoy of Ningyuan Jiedu, with an army of 20,000, and an encounter broke out fifty miles south of Fengzhou. In the battle, Yu Cunzhong's troops defeated the forward 3,000 people of Ningyuan's army. The rest of Ning Yuan's army retreated to Yizhou.
November 30.
On the left road, the Yunyang Department encountered an army of 30,000 led by Pan Chongche, the envoy of the Southern Han Jianwu Jiedu, and conducted the first encounter at the intersection of Yan, Bin, and Guizhou Prefectures, defeating the 5,000 advance of the Jianwu Army, and the rest of the Jianwu Army retreated eastward to Guizhou, and the Yunyang Department immediately followed the eastward advance.
The first day of December.
On the right side, Xiong Ji's headquarters and the Southern Han Dynasty were both commanded by Li Yusuo to lead 10,000 forbidden troops and 1,000 elephant soldiers to fight in the field outside Shaoguan. After defeating the charge of 1,000 elephant soldiers, Li Yu led 10,000 forbidden troops back to Shaoguan, and the two sides faced off.
The first battle of the three-way army was victorious.
But the situation of the battle began to change, the middle road Ning Yuan army retreated to the west, and the left road Jianwu army retreated to the east, so it is very likely that the two armies of the Southern Han Dynasty will meet in Jiaozhou, if Yu Cunzhong's army plans to advance eastward, the left road Yunyang army is likely to directly confront Ning Yuan and Jianwu armies.
If an accident occurs in the Yunyang Division, Yu Cunzhong's Department may be caught between the army of Xingwangfu fleeing west and the Ningyuan army.
In fact, at this time, as long as Yu Cunzhong changed his strategic purpose and pursued Ning Yuan's army in the west, even if the two armies of Ning Yuan and Jianwu converged, there would be 42,000 people. The Yunyang Department on the left road and the Yu Cunzhong Department on the middle road combined with nearly 50,000 people, and they took advantage of the victory to attack from both sides, and defeated the Ningyuan and Jianwu armies with the combat strength of the Black Flag Army, and even defeated and annihilated.
It had been five days since the battle reached Tanzhou.
Obedience is the iron law of the Black Flag Army, the commander allows to change tactics, but does not dare to change the strategy, Baili Wuji is worried that Yu Cunzhong will not respond to the situation.
He could not command the battle on the spot, so he could only hope for the adaptability of the commanders of the various armies. Baili Wuji felt a sense of powerlessness at this time, and began to feel a trace of bad feeling in his heart.
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The third day of December.
The former Chu State Jingbian Commander who had just calmed down was the commander of the Xizhou Assassin Shi Peng Shichou who once again led more than 20,000 barbarians from Jin, Prize, and Xi to oppose Chu and attack Chen and Li. The momentum is bigger than last time.
When the news came, Baili Wuji immediately sent Liu Qing and Wang Kui to lead the forbidden army to quell the chaos. Baili Wuji ordered, Liu Qing and Wang Kui led the army from Langzhou, Chenzhou to Xizhou, and after annihilating Peng Shichou's troops, they immediately Jinzhou, Xuzhou, Yizhou, and Xiangzhou, striving to complete their achievements in one battle, and lay a solid foundation for the future stability of Chu State.
The seventh day of December.
Rongzhou Thorn Shi Ma Xicao, Ma Xifan's younger brother, contacted Yizhou Thorn Shi Ma Xisheng, Ma Xifan's brother, and coerced more than 10,000 people to rebel. Liuzhou was quickly captured and the transportation routes of Tanzhou, Guizhou and Yanzhou were cut off.
The supply line of the Yunyang Department on the left was interrupted.
Baili Wuji ordered the Black Flag Army left behind in Guizhou to quell the chaos, and on the other hand, he sent Liu Yan to lead the Banban Army to help quell the chaos.
December 10.
Yongzhou Thorn Shi Ma Xichong, Daozhou Thorn Shi Ma Xineng, Lianzhou Thorn Shi Ma Xiyin, Guiyang Supervisor Assassin Shi Wu Hong, the four states jointly rebelled, encompassing nearly 20,000 people, and quickly attacked Dunzhou.
Historically known as the Five Horse Mess Groove.
Baili Wuji immediately ordered Zhou Xingfeng to go to quell the chaos with the most forbidden army.
The army of Chu State and Tanzhou is empty, if Baili Wuji awakens at this time, or Xu Shiming can awaken, things may still be remedied, but history always has no ifs.
December 11.
On the left road, the Yunyang Department overcame all obstacles, and the soldiers had arrived in Jiaozhou to confront the Jianwu Army. Ning Yuanjun has retreated to Rongzhou and has already contacted the Jianwu Army.
In the middle of the road, Yu Cunzhong's department still passed through Kangzhou according to the original route and marched to Duanzhou.
On the right side, Xiong Ji's headquarters used firearms to conquer Shaoguan, continued to move south, and forced Yingzhou, and Li Yu led the rest of the forbidden army of more than 7,000 to garrison Yingzhou. Xingwangfu sent 5,000 forbidden troops to reinforce Li Yu. There were only 5,000 forbidden troops left in King Xing's mansion.
The battle seems to be beginning to become clear.
Regardless of whether the Jianwu and Ning Yuan armies could win or not, the Xingwang Mansion was already under the encirclement of the middle and right armies of the Chu State.
But Heaven always likes to be surprised.
Maybe Baili Wuji has been too smooth in the past few years.
Perhaps the giant wheel of history began to correct itself.
Or maybe not, maybe .......
December 15.
The new Wuxin Jiedu, who had only been in office for more than half a year, made Zhang Ye lead an army of 30,000 from Quzhou to Wanxian through Liangping.
Ma Jiyun of Zhongxian County reacted quickly and personally led 5,000 Black Flag troops to Wanxian County to defend.
But it happened suddenly, and when he arrived outside Wanxian County, Zhang Ye had already captured Wanxian County.
While stationed outside the city to confront each other, Ma Jiyun informed the remaining 8,000 Black Flag troops in Zhongxian County to be cautious in holding Zhongxian, once Zhongxian was lost, it was really nowhere to go and there was no way to retreat.
Ma Jiyun was blindfolded for a while, does this Shu State really want to start a war with the Chu State? No, isn't it about to marry a princess?
Anyway, since the Shu Kingdom is attacking, there are two words that Ma Jiyun can do - counterattack.
The offensive and defensive battle of Wanxian County began.
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The situation began to enter a state of fog.
December 18, this should have been the day of the wedding of King Chu.
But the two armies of Shu and Chu fought fiercely in Wanxian.
When the war report arrived in Tanzhou, the palace of the king of Chu, Baili Wuji was thinking hard with Xu Shiming to solve the current dilemma. The civil and military officials stood by, waiting for orders.
"Sir, Wuji doesn't feel right in his heart, Chu State is currently full of wolf smoke, and it doesn't seem to be related, but I always feel that something is wrong."
"My lord, I also feel this way, the three riots in Xizhou, Liuzhou, and Dunzhou have occurred one after another, which can be explained as taking advantage of the opportunity, but the invasion of Shu is incomprehensible. Moreover, although the state of Chu is currently in turmoil, any force adjacent to Chu that wants to attack Chu has to enter the places where the forbidden armies quell the chaos, that is, they cannot attack Chu. Lord, please see. ”