Chapter 205: Undercurrent
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The day after camping.
The soldiers of the Song army barely rested all night in the sound of horses' hooves and the harassment of the attack, and when they went out of the camp to fight again, everyone was sleepy. However, Li Chongjiu's side could not maintain the high-intensity attack like yesterday and last night, and only sent 5,000 cavalry to fight. The two sides fought fiercely for a day, and Song Jingang was a hundred secrets, and Eto saw the loophole in the right flank of the Song army, broke through the defense line of the Song army, and beheaded a hundred levels, even if it was a turn.
On this day, the Song army only advanced five miles.
On the second day, Song Jingang adjusted his tactics and divided his military force into two parts. Shilling ordered 5,000 men and horses to be stationed in the camp in place to rest, and sent 3,000 soldiers and 2,000 auxiliaries to advance to the front three miles, and under the attack of Li Chongjiu's cavalry, a temporary fortification was repaired.
After the construction was completed, the remaining 5,000 men of the Song army stepped forward to meet the camp, and then advanced three miles to repair the fortifications. At noon, after the second fortification was completed, Song Jingang moved forward to build the third fortification with the 5,000 men and horses who had been resting.
Song Jingang's step-by-step tactics made Li Chongjiu and other generals suddenly refreshed. It is the magic height of one foot and the height of the road, but in two days, Song Jingang came up with a countermeasure, and it is really a famous general. And when Sun Erniang's cavalry attacked, he was ambushed by Song Jingang and lost more than 80 horsemen.
On this day, the Song army advanced ten miles. However, Song Jingang himself couldn't say that he was only sixty miles to Fanyang, and the army could reach it in less than two days, so the whole army brought no more than three days of grain and grass, but now the two armies fought for four days. Now that the Song army has run out of food, the bigger problem is that the water is cut off. The Song army is now shoveling snow from the ground. And the step-by-step tactics of the battalion consume the upper and lower bodies very much.
Now the Song army is less than twenty miles away from Fanyang, but at the moment, for Song Jingang, it is like a chasm, and it is extremely difficult to take a step forward, and the passage back to Yi County was cut off by Li Chongjiu's army.
"Marshal, please also ask the last general to return to Yi County to transfer troops and reinforcements. Yi County still has 7,000 troops, and 3,000 can be dispatched to transport grain and grass. ”
Hearing the request of his generals, Song Jingang shook his head when he heard it, and said: "All the elites of our army are here, Yixian is all old and weak, where can three thousand people help." ”
"What should the marshal do, at the moment, there is a shortage of water and food, and the morale of the army is already floating."
Song Jingang took a deep breath and said: "That's the only way, our army has advanced to Fanyang for less than twenty miles, you can send people into Fanyang, let Xunxiang abandon Fanyang, and lead the army to join our army." ”
"Abandon Fan Yang! Please think again. The generals were amazed.
Song Jingang sneered and said: "After the autumn harvest, Fan Yang's grain and grass have already been transported to Yi County, even if Fan Yang is lost, it is nothing. ”
"But Marshal, Fan Yang is a place where soldiers must fight, and our army has lost Fan Yang, with the strength of a county, it will be difficult to support alone."
Song Jingang laughed and said: "Stupid, Fanyang is more than 200 miles away from Feihu County, and only 60 miles away from Yi County. Hearing Song Jingang say this, all the generals were stunned.
On the fifth day, the Song army continued to advance towards Fanyang, and the two armies fought fiercely for half a day, and the two sides were evenly divided. Li Chongjiu relied on the sharpness and speed of the grassland cavalry, while Song Jingang completely relied on his own generals to retreat Li Chongjiu's advances and attacks again and again. If it had been someone else under the command of the Song army, the victory or defeat of this battle would have been decided long ago.
In the afternoon, the Song army had advanced six miles, only ten miles away from Fanyang County, and almost all the troops had already seen the walls of Fanyang City. At this time, Song Jingang suddenly ordered his subordinates to pile all the hay in a fire, and a cloud of black smoke filled the sky above the Song army, and the black smoke rolled straight into the sky like a dragon, making it clearly visible for more than ten miles around.
When Li Chongjiu saw this scene, he realized something, looked in the direction of Fanyang City, and immediately ordered Gao Chu to lead a thousand soldiers to go down the mountain immediately.
At this time, the city gate in the south of Fanyang City suddenly opened, and the general of the Song army in the city collected a number of usable mules, horses, donkeys and horses from the people, and led 3,000 defenders to bury their heads in the direction of the Song Jingang army, intending to join the division. Li Chongjiu sent 100 cavalry into the city to take over the city, and personally led all the reserve cavalry, as well as Gao Chu's 1,000 county soldiers, to intercept the 3,000 men and horses who were looking for the phase.
Li Chongjiu did not directly block the attack, and continued to attack from both sides, peeling off the skin from the opponent layer by layer. And Xun Xiang was in a hurry to meet the teacher, and he didn't pay too much attention to it. After a fierce battle between the two sides, the Xunxiang army was reinforced by Song Jingang's cavalry, and it was easy to break out of the encirclement and join Song Jingang's army. However, a third of the 3,000 men and horses he carried with him had been lost, and most of the mules and horses were lost.
And that night, Li Chongjiu led the army to take advantage of the situation and moved into Fanyang City, and the three armies did not commit any crimes. He was in a hurry, and he only hurriedly set fire to the arsenal and granary and left. After Li Chongjiu's subordinates entered the city, they immediately rescued and extinguished the fire, but they saved most of the grain and grass, and a little was also preserved in the arsenal. As for the household registration in the city, the decrees, and the books were not destroyed.
Seeing that Li Chongjiu's army did not commit any crimes, the next day he hid in the city in the county, Cao, who was hiding in the city, immediately took the county account books and surrendered to Li Chongjiu. But they were told that they were too guarded and were directing the battle outside the city, so they were asked to wait. Besides, after the Song army joined forces, Li Chongjiu decided to take advantage of the situation to pursue. Song Jingang commanded the Song army, endured hunger and thirst, and under the endless harassment of the grassland cavalry, he struggled to support for three days, and only then returned to the city with reinforcements from Yi County. After walking through hunger and cold in this battle, the number of people who died of cold, wounded and sick in the Song army was better than those who died directly under the sword of the steppe cavalry.
After returning to Yi County, Song Jingang closed his door at the moment, and at the same time sent people to Wang Xuba and Wei Dao'er to ask for reinforcements. On the other hand, although Li Chongjiu's plan to annihilate Song Jingang failed in one fell swoop, he finally won Fanyang City and partially annihilated Song Jingang's living forces, which can be regarded as a gain and a loss, and after his cavalry experienced this battle, it can be regarded as a valuable combat experience and played a role in training.
Jinyang City, Taiyuan County.
In the official residence of the county prince, Wang Wei of the county is writing on the desk. The candlelight on the desk was dim. Wang Wei thought about it from time to time, and then paused, and when the letter was written to the end, Wang Wei showed a resolute look. After putting the envelope into a piece of fire-painted stationery, Wang Wei raised his head and looked at the full moon outside the window for a long time, and finally let out a long sigh.
"Someone!" Wang Wei whispered.
A powerful servant entered the door and asked, "What does the master command?" ”
Wang Wei asked, "Gao Lang will go to the left-behind mansion for a banquet, but is he back?" ”
The servant said, "I heard that I haven't come back yet." ”
Wang Wei showed a somewhat solemn expression and said: "I didn't expect things to come to this point, Wang Chun, how does the old man treat you on weekdays?" ”
The servant said: "The villain is the slave of the Wang family, and he has been on an errand for the Wang family since his grandfather. ”
"Very good," Wang Wei nodded, "There is an important matter for you to do at the moment, tomorrow you will take my letter, secretly go to the Eastern Capital, and go to the Imperial Historical Observatory to be sure to hand it over to the Imperial Historical Lord." ”
"Remember to hide your identity, and don't go to the post station, this letter is related to a court official, as well as the lives of my Wang family, understand?"
"Yes, sir, the villain is in faith, and the villain is dead." The servant nodded.
Wang Wei shook his head and said, "If things are unfavorable, even if you die, you can't let this letter fall into their hands." ”
"The villain understands."
"Go ahead." Wang Wei let out a long sigh.
After the servant left, Wang Wei was always frightened and restless on the chair.
"Drink again! Drink again! A military general in armor was so drunk that he was dragged into a carriage in front of the Taiyuan Guard's Mansion.
As soon as he got into the carriage, this Wu Yalang sat up straight, slashed his throat with his fingers, and spit all the food and wine into the car. As soon as the smell of wine was gone, Gao Junya's eyes were like knives, looking at the Taiyuan Left-behind Mansion behind him, revealing a sneer. The car wheeled on the stone road, the night of Jinyang City was very quiet, although there were dozens of guards around to guard, but Gao Junya, who had just finished the banquet from the left-behind mansion, felt that he had just come out of the tiger's den, and every time he stepped into this left-behind mansion, it seemed to be a Hongmen banquet.
The knuckles tapped on the bottom of the carriage, Gao Junya ignored the stench of the cart, thinking about his own thoughts, since Hu Benlang killed Pan Changwen in the hands of Wang Suba, the military power of Taiyuan County fell all at once. As an important border county, Taiyuan County has eighteen Yingyang Mansions, which have always been in charge of Pan Changwen. At present, as soon as Pan Changwen died, the military power should have been held by Gao Junya, the general of Wuyalang as his deputy, but as far as he knew, two-thirds of the eighteen Yingyanglang generals had secretly defected to Li Yuan.
Not only that, at the beginning, Li Yuanping Chai Baochang, when his mother was a child, he lowered his crowd and inspected more than 10,000 of his elites as an army, and this time he ordered Li Shimin, Liu Wenjing, and Liu Hongji to guard against the Turks, crusade against Li Chongjiu, Liu Wuzhou in the name of recruiting tens of thousands of troops, plus more than a dozen Yingyang Lang generals who were secretly loyal to him, Li Yuan now directly controls an army of more than 30,000. And Gao Junya only has a few thousand people in his hands, if Li Yuan rebels overnight, the entire Taiyuan County will be a person surnamed Li.
Now Wang Wei of the county has repeatedly secretly sent letters to Jiangdu, saying that Li Yuan is quietly recruiting troops and buying horses, and Li Jing, the county governor of Mayi, has even locked himself up and changed himself, and used his official identity to sue Li Yuan for rebellion. However, Emperor Yang of Sui, who was far away in Jiangdu, was still unheard of, ignoring the affairs of Taiyuan County. Gao Junya and Wang Wei discussed this secretly many times, but they couldn't do anything about Li Yuan, and the two could only be relatively speechless every time, crying silently.
"Your Majesty, Your Majesty, Li Yuan lived up to the grace of the Holy Grace and intended to rebel, do you know? Did you know? ”