The Twenty-Ninth War: The Battle of Yan and Qi (I)
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Qi State, Yu Ling.
Yuling is located one hundred and fifty miles west of Linzi, which is the west gate of Linzi. With such an important place, the Qi State naturally has to divide heavy troops to guard it. Especially after the 100,000 army led by Tian Dan chose Yuling as the grain and grass supply base, the importance of Yuling became more prominent!
It's a pity that such an important place is now occupied by the Yan army. This is not a great defeat for the Qi army, which took the initiative to give up Yu Ling. Instead, the Yan army adopted a sneak attack, detoured to Changcheng at the northern foot of Mount Tai, pretended to be a Qi army, opened the city gate, and took Yu Ling with lightning speed.
After taking Yuling, the Yan army burned the 100,000 stones, grains and grass in the city, and then drove all the people out, putting on a posture of stubborn defense!
The three armies did not move, and the grain and grass went first. Tian Dan, who was fighting with the Yan army sixty miles west of Yuling, heard the news that Yuling was captured by the Yan army and all the grain and grass were burned, so he immediately made a decision to retreat. The whole army was unknown, but he didn't think much about Tian Dan's prestige, so as to avoid the turmoil in the army.
Tian Dan wanted to lead the army to leave, but Yan Jun naturally disagreed. It's just that Tian Dan launched a fierce attack before retreating, which greatly confused Rong Yan's judgment. For the attack on Yu Ling, Yan General Rong Yi was holding the idea that success would be joy or defeat without worry, but the fact was that the news of Yu Ling's change of ownership reached the Qi army one step earlier, and Tian Dan therefore took the lead.
For the sudden strengthening of the offensive of the Qi army, Rong Yi only saw the move and strengthened the defense for the sake of safety, but did not finish the battle and put in the main force.
Therefore, after paying more than 5,000 casualties, the Qi army got rid of the entanglement of the Yan army without danger. Successfully stationed in Changcheng and Gaowan. At this time, Rong Yi received the good news that Yu Ling had been captured by his subordinates, but it was too late. However, the line of Changcheng and Gaowan has also become the last barrier of the Qi army, and less than seventy miles behind it is Linzi, although the Qi country is large. But there is no way back!
If the war goes on to this point, without the intervention of external forces, the state of Qi can send an envoy to cede the land and ask for peace. The reason is very simple, the army of Yan is approaching Linzi from the west and north, and they are horns of each other, and the strength is equivalent to that of the Qi army, even if the Qi army is victorious, it is unable to deal with the third wave of the army of Yan. Instead of fighting and losing both, it is better to sit down and talk about peace.
Pity. Neither Yan nor Qi had such plans. As far as Qi is concerned, there is no land to cede; For the Yan State, occupying half of the land of the Qi State west of Weishui seems to be able to satisfy its own desires, and this is something that the Qi State will never agree.
The 50,000 Korean army led by Han Teng went north to the Great Wall and entered the battle when the life and death of the Qi State were at stake. The Great Wall is strong, but no matter how strong it is. Troops are also needed to defend.
Of course, Rong Yi will guard against the Korean army going north, and he will not hesitate to leave 30,000 troops behind for this. Defend the line of Jishui and the Great Wall. But the Great Wall of Qi occupied by the Yan army was only a small section after all, not even half of the entire Great Wall of Qi. When Han Teng chose Yingcheng, seventy miles south of Changcheng, as a breakthrough, with the strategy of the Qi army, the Han army entered the territory of Qi without much effort.
When Rong received an urgent report from the rear and learned that the Korean army had surrounded Zhangqiu, the road between Lingling and Lixia was blocked. Rong Yu decisively gave up the plan to march to Gaowan and take over the plan of the Juxin army to cross the river to the south. The Han army is already close at hand, and if he still barely goes north, he will be intercepted by the Qi and Yan coalition forces in the middle of the road, and the outcome will be disastrous.
Yuling, which had just been taken, became an important fulcrum of the Yan army on the south bank of Jishui. There are more than 55,000 soldiers and horses, and there are 15,000 Yan troops on the line of the Great Wall in the south of Lixia, and more than 10,000 Yan troops are stationed in Zhangqiu, which is heavily besieged.
The arrival of the Han army greatly shared the pressure of the Qi State, and Tian Dan no longer had to worry about the Yan army on the south bank of Jishui. With the Korean army surrounding Zhangqiu, the 25,000 Yan troops in Zhangqiu and Lixia were no longer able to control the situation of the war, and even the 55,000 people under the command of Rong Yi had to draw out a lot of troops to deal with the threat from the Korean army. Correspondingly, there are 85,000 people of the Qi army, and the Qi army also occupies the right time, place, and people.
Qi country, Linzi.
Everyone knows that because of the invasion of the Yan army, the queen is not in a good mood. Several temple people in the palace were killed with rods because they talked about the war ahead in private, which really reminded the people in the palace on errands.
However, when the eunuch Ling rushed into the palace in a hurry to see the queen, and everyone thought that even such a close minister would be blamed for his rude behavior, the eunuch Ling walked out with a smile and no sign of punishment. Not long after, news came out from the palace that South Korea sent troops to surround Zhangqiu City and split the Qi army into two.
This is undoubtedly a booster for the Qi country in danger. Of course, the queen did not let people say that the Han army was only 50,000, such a small number, which also shows that the Qi State wants to defeat the Yan State and drive the Yan army back to the north bank of Jishui, and in the end it has to rely on itself! But this is also better than the isolation of the Qi army, and the intervention of South Korea will at least make Yan Guo think carefully about whether to continue to expand the war!
However, Qi Guo's happiness did not last for two days. After paying the price of 30,000 people, the army led by Ju Xin, the eldest husband of the Yan Kingdom, broke through the Jishui defense line carefully set up by the Qi army and approached the city of Gaowan.
On the north bank of Jishui, 10,000 Yan troops were eyeing the enemy, ready to cross the river from other places at any time and outflank the rear road of the Qi army. The 60,000 Yan army, under the command of the eldest husband Ju Xin, surrounded Gao Wan, who had 10,000 troops. Although to the east of Gaowan, there are still 40,000 troops in the Qi State, and in the south of Gaowan, there are 85,000 troops in Tiandan, counting the army in Gaowan City, the Qi army still occupies an absolute advantage, but the Yan army does not cross the river, and the impact on the battle situation is completely different.
The 60,000 Yan army under Gaowan City and the 55,000 Yan army in Yuling City really formed a horn trend, and the Yan army, the Qi army, and the Han army were all surrounded by each other, and the whole battle situation could be said to be affected by the whole body.
Because the Yan army on the north bank of Jishui had successfully crossed the river, the Qi general Mink Bo, who was in charge of the front line of Jishui, in addition to leaving 10,000 people to contain the Yan army on the north bank of Jishui and protect the safety of northern Linzi, led the remaining 30,000 troops to join Tiandan's army.
As soon as Mink Bo saw Tian Dan, he knelt on one knee and took the initiative to plead guilty: "Humble and incompetent, let the Yan army successfully cross the river, and ask the general to punish him!" ”
When the army went out, Tian Dan was appointed as the main general, and was fully responsible for commanding and controlling all the troops and generals in the Qi country, and after Mink Bo led the army, his identity was only a partial general, not a hot doctor, so there is such a saying.
Although Tian Dan was annoyed that Mink Bo let the Yan army cross the river, he also knew that Mink Bo had done his best, otherwise, the Yan army would never lose 30,000 horses. After all, the Jishui defense line is too long, and there are many ferries suitable for crossing the river, no one expected that the Yan army would be willing to pay such a heavy price!
"The merits of the king and the queen mother are known! General Mink still thinks about how to atone for his sins! Tian Dan let out a long sigh.
Mink Bo naturally knew that Tian Dan wanted to make his own suggestions on the battle situation, so if Tian Dan adopted and defeated the Yan army, then he would be the first merit! If you can't do something, you don't have to bear any sin.
"General! Today, on the south bank of Jishui, there are 140,000 Yan troops, 140,000 Qi troops, and 50,000 Han troops. The South Korean side said that they would send boat divisions to blockade Jishui, and once it came true, then the Yan army's grain and grass would not be sustainable. In less than a few months, the Yan army will inevitably run out of food and grass, and if it pursues it again, it will be able to win a complete victory! "Mink Bo said a relatively conservative Jianyì.
"Although the grain and grass carried by the Yan army are not much, it is more than enough to hold on for two or three months! The country is overwhelmed, and if the war lasts for a long time, I am afraid that there will be variables on the Korean side! This is not a good plan! Tian Dan shook his head and vetoed Mink Bo's first Jianyì.
"The Yan army is now divided into three, and the 60,000 Yan army west of Gaowan is intercepted by our 130,000 army, and it is impossible to go south to join the main force of Rong Yi in Yuling, and the minister thinks this is our opportunity! Why didn't the general wave his troops north and attack the drama Xin's department? If Rong Worm sends troops to the north to rescue, we will surround the point and send reinforcements to attack Rong Worm; If Rong Yan ignores it, we will fake the drama and really do it, and win the drama Xin's department! This is a plan to draw salaries from the bottom of the kettle! No matter which one is won, the Yan army will inevitably retreat and retreat north in a hurry! Mink Bo said with a determined face.
The 140,000 Yan army is now divided by the Han and Qi armies in Lixia, Zhangqiu, Yuling, and Gaowan, but the Yan army in Lixia and Zhangqiu can only rely on the strong city to defend it, and it is Yuling and Gaowan who can really influence the battle situation. The two cities are closer to Linzi, one has been run into a fortress by the Yan army, and the other is regarded as a potential target by the Yan army. If you can take down the Yan army in one of the directions, it is good, but the premise is how much it costs!
According to Mink Bo's strategy, the 130,000 Qi army was divided into two parts of the city, one part of the feint attack on the Xin army, to see the reaction of Rong Gan, if Rong Lan was saved, the other part of the Qi army ambushed it; If you don't save it, you will go all out to deal with the army of drama Xin! But this is a situation, if Rong Yi ignores it, abandons Lingcheng, and leads the army north to join the Juxin army, then the Qi army's advantage in numbers will be minimal, considering that the Yan army has many cavalry, this advantage of the Qi army will be erased in an instant. The war will also enter into a life-and-death decisive battle without any preparation.
After all, the attitude of the Han army is difficult to say, but at least, the Han army will not let the 25,000-strong Yan army in Lixia and Zhangqiu advance eastward to converge with the main force of the Yan army. But more, no one can guarantee. Therefore, as soon as Mink Bo talked about this strategy, Tian Dan raised his own questions. (A good event for pie in the sky, cool mobile phones are waiting for you!) Follow from ~ Dian/Chinese network public account (WeChat add friends - add public account - enter ddxiaoshuo), participate now! Everyone has a prize, now pay attention to ddxiaoshuo WeChat public account! (To be continued......)
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