Chapter 419: The Last Battle
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The two lines of soldiers and horses had already reached the hinterland of Fujian controlled by Sima Yi, and at the same time, Han Jian's soldiers and horses had also embarked on the journey. Pen fun Pavilion www.biquge.info?? One? Read 1·cc
Han Jian personally recruited a maximum of 80,000 soldiers and horses to the south, and Han Jian sent additional soldiers and horses to guard the defense around Jinling City, and Han Jian and Sima Yi seemed to have avoided the final battle as much as possible.
Han Jian didn't need to set foot on the battlefield in person to separate the victory and defeat with Sima Yi, because no matter how you look at this war, Sima Yi's only 50,000 soldiers and horses would not be able to hold Xu Ding and Fuzhou City. Whether it is Zhang Xing or Lin Zhan, they are extremely experienced generals on the battlefield, they will not rush forward, and they do not need to fight head-on with Sima Yi like Su Tingxia, in the case of the Northern Dynasty completely controlling the situation, even if Sima Yi can gain and lose in one place, he will not be able to occupy the advantage of the whole situation.
In the war situation, Sima Yi hoped that Han Jian could give him a good time, and the two armies would have a decisive battle. But Han Jian was not prepared to give Sima Yi such an opportunity, just like Sima Yu's tactics against Su Tingxia before, Han Jian only needed to hold on to the economic and supply lifelines of Sima Yi's department, and slowly consume Sima Yu's death. Because it is Sima Yi who needs to be anxious, not the Northern Dynasty, and now that the Northern Dynasty has fought the last battle, why take any more risks?
On March 24, Han Jian's soldiers and horses arrived in northern Fujian after 12 days of marching from Jinling City, and Han Jian's march was very slow. Han Jian did not go to the aid of Zhang Xing or Lin Zhan, he was a third-party soldier and horse to the south.
At this time, Sima Yi's soldiers and horses had withdrawn to Xuding City, and it seemed that Sima Yi was determined to start a fierce battle with Lin Zhan's troops around Xuding, and Fuzhou City was already abandoned. Even Zhang Xing's department also cut off the connection between the cities around Fuzhou City, no matter how you look at it, Fuzhou City belongs to the bag of the Northern Dynasty.
With Zhang Xingqin leading 60,000 soldiers and horses to complete the siege of Fuzhou City on three sides, this largest city in eastern Fujian was already within easy reach for the Northern Dynasty. And Zhang Xing went to guard against Sima's help. An ambush of more than 40,000 soldiers and horses was set up between Xuding and Fuzhou City, and Zhang Xing could mobilize his troops and horses to the west at any time to engage the main force of Sima Yi's Chinese army. But until late March. Sima Qi still did not rush to the aid of Fuzhou City, and Sima Qi's situation at this time was a little abnormal.
Of the two main cities, abandoning one and keeping the other, no matter how you look at it, it's quite normal, or this can only show that Sima has something to give. He chose Xu Dingcheng, which has more advantages in humanities and geography, after all, it is the place where his Qinwang army started, if he can't even keep Xu Dingcheng, how can he fight for Fuzhou City? But Han Jian felt that this seemed to be a conspiracy of Sima Yi, Sima Yi could not sit idly by and ignore Fuzhou City, thinking about it from another angle, in fact, the gains and losses of a city no longer mean anything to Sima Yi, his current banner. Xiao Zhan, the empress of the Southern Dynasty, was in the hands of the Northern Dynasty, and the entire Fujian land had been trapped by the army of the Northern Dynasty.
But Han Jian didn't believe that Sima Yi would sit still in Xu Dingcheng, and he kept thinking, what means could Sima Yu use to alleviate the current crisis? And what kind of surprise soldiers will come to the final battle with the Northern Dynasties?
During Han Jian's march, a military meeting would be held every day after the garrison to discuss the matter. But for half a month, Han Jian's advisers didn't realize that there was anything wrong with this southward march. Han Jian also thought that this battle was definitely nine out of ten. But when Han Jian made a comprehensive reference to the local geography of the Southern Dynasty and the military distribution of the Southern Dynasty, he made a very puzzling decision.
Withdraw troops to Jinling.
Han Jian personally led the army to the south for nearly a thousand miles, and suddenly wanted to withdraw his troops. For the officers and men in the army, they were still very stunned. But Han Jian could feel that if Sima had any chance to succeed in King Qin, it would definitely not be in this battle in Fujian, but in the "off-the-shelf move". first made Han Jian think that he had the chance to win, personally led the troops south, and then cut off the road of the soldiers and horses of the Northern Dynasty to the north. At that time, what Sima Yi had to do was not to fight head-on with the soldiers and horses of the Northern Dynasty, but to contain the retreat of the soldiers and horses of the Northern Dynasty, which would be difficult and dangerous, and at that time, even if the soldiers and horses of the Northern Dynasty could withdraw to Jinling City, they would fall into a quagmire and have to withdraw troops from Jinling City, and then Sima Yi would be able to successfully "recover" Jinling City.
This is the most perfect plan that Han Jian can conceive, Sima Yi will destroy Su Tingxia's department, he has completed the most critical step in this perfect plan, and there is another very important step, Sima Yi must have a strange soldier to cut off the back road of the 300,000 southern expeditionary army of the Northern Dynasty, this strange soldier is obvious, it is Li Shanye, or Han Qi, the Southern Dynasty forces that he has planned for 20 years.
When Han Jian decided to withdraw his troops, the army was full of criticism, because Han Jian's Chinese soldiers and horses also wanted to make contributions. Because of Han Jian's insistence, the generals in the army also had to do the same, less than two days after the withdrawal of the army, after the soldiers and horses returned to the southern Zhejiang region, there were unknown armed forces in the local area to intercept the northward road of the soldiers and horses of the Northern Dynasties, and these soldiers and horses were not local stragglers, but formed soldiers and horses, the number of 1,000 people was between 1,000 and 3,000 people, and they were not to compete with Han Jian's Chinese army, but to lead Han Jian's main force of the Chinese army to western Zhejiang and Jiangjiang. Want? See?? Book 1 Book K?a?
After Han Jian realized that Sima Yi might have a conspiracy behind his back, he was ready to retreat to Jinling City again. The armed forces of unknown origin encountered on the road will not become too much of an obstacle for the main force of Han Jian's Chinese army. After Han Jian divided a small part of his troops and horses to pursue and encircle, he sent a front army dominated by light cavalry to march in the direction of Jinling City.
On March 29, the main force of Han Jian's Chinese army was stationed in Hangzhou City, which was also a city that Han Jian had never entered on his way south. Just when others thought that Han Jian would only garrison troops in Hangzhou City for a short time and then withdraw his troops to Jinling City, Han Jian was not in a hurry, but collected and naturalized in Hangzhou City, preparing to take Hangzhou City as the central point to clean up the unstable factors in the rear of the Northern Korean army.
On the second day of the first month of April, Zhang Xing's troops launched a siege of Fuzhou City.
For three days in a row, the city of Fuzhou was under close artillery attack, this round of siege, with artillery with the siege army, from the north and west of the city of Fuzhou two gates to carry out a fierce attack. The city's less than 8,000 defenders were miserable.
Although Fuzhou City is an important city in the rear of Sima Qi, Sima Qi also arranged heavy troops to defend, but Sima Qi paid the most attention to annexing Su Tingxia's soldiers and horses at one time, Fuzhou City has become a city that Sima Yi strategically abandoned because it is too far away from the land of western Fujian.
By the sixth day of the fourth month, the fifth day after the siege of the city, the east of Fuzhou was unexpectedly captured. It turned out to be the defenders of the city who fled in a hurry, and after opening the city gate, the city gate was seized by the rebel army. The battle line held in the west and north of Fuzhou for five days has not been breached, but it seems to have been accidentally lost in the east of the city. At that time, more than 20,000 siege soldiers and horses entered the city of Fuzhou, and the street fighting in Fuzhou City continued until the eighth day of the fourth month.
When Han Jian first got this information, he was puzzled as to why a small Fuzhou city was so difficult to attack. It was only after the complete capture of Fuzhou City in early April that Han Jian got the news that Sima Yi was actually after the start of the war. The bizarre appearance in Fuzhou City inspired the morale of the army and made the soldiers in the city think that Sima Yi would fight to the end with the soldiers in the city, which brought trouble to the capture of Fuzhou City.
After Han Jian got the news, he felt a little absurd.
Sima Yi is obviously in Xuding City, how can he appear in Fuzhou City? Could it be that Sima is able to use the art of clone? In fact, if you think about it carefully, this is just a trick used by Sima Qi, and there are only a handful of people who know him in the Southern Dynasty, as long as the upper-level generals think that someone is Sima Qi, it is even more impossible for the middle- and lower-level soldiers to know the specific identity of Sima Qi.
Anyway, though. Fuzhou City has fallen into the hands of the Northern Dynasty, and Han Jian personally led the army to hold the grain route of the Northern Dynasty army, even if Li Shanye really jumped out of the crack in the stone, he did not want to take Jinling City from Han Jian's hands, or interfere with the supply of the Northern Dynasty army. The place that Han Jian chose to guard is also just right, Hangzhou City, which is not too close to the people of the Northern Dynasty in the south, and does not return to Jinling City, but can take care of several directions, and Han Jian's defense of Hangzhou is also very reasonable. Even if Li Shanye can divide and disintegrate the generals around Han Jian through some means and seize Hangzhou City, it will not have any effect. Because Hangzhou City was originally insignificant in the war. However, if Han Jian returns to Jinling City, once Han Jianjian has a military coup, it is likely that there will be a tragedy in which Jinling City is lost and Han Jianjian dies, and the two situations are born at the same time, and the rear supply lines of Lin Zhan and Zhang Xing's troops will be cut off. He could only withdraw his troops and fall into Sima Yi's trap.
After Han Jian marched to Hangzhou City, as Han Jian's guards around him continued to change guards, and even after he was ready to withdraw troops from Jinling City and Suzhou City at any time, Han Jian's side was also surprisingly safe, and no one could threaten Han Jian's throne. Even if Hangzhou City was attacked, Han Jian would choose to abandon it, a Hangzhou city could not be a hindrance to his conquest of the south.
On April 22, Lin Zhan's troops finally launched an attack on Xu Dingcheng. This was regarded by Han Jian as the last battle to conquer the world.
Sima borrowed in Xuding City, with 50,000 troops, and Lin Zhan's siege men and horses were about 100,000, at this time in the east, north, and west directions of Xuding City, there was no city still under the control of Sima Yi, and the support that Sima Yi could rely on came from the rear Shanghang and Chaozhou generation. At this time, Zhang Xing led his troops all the way south from the coastal areas, and on April 24, captured Chaozhou, which was not part of the Cantonese land controlled by Sima Yi, and surrendered one after another.
On April 26, Sima Yi had completely fallen into the siege, because of the rebellion in Shanghang, he arranged for the military general Xia He to defend Shanghang County to rebel, led more than 4,000 soldiers and horses to surrender directly to Zhang Xing, and then Zhang Xing led the troops to the northwest diagonally, and completed the siege of Xu Dingcheng on April 29.
Sima Yi has completely cut off all contact with the outside world, and the entire Xu Dingcheng has fallen into a heavy siege. There were as many as 1780,000 soldiers and horses besieging the city in the Northern Dynasties, and the defenders in the city had been sharply reduced, and the defenders were no more than 30,000 at this time.
At this time, Han Jian still stayed in Hangzhou. Han Jian wants to find Li Shanye's whereabouts and completely eradicate Li Shanye, which is more important to Han Jian than killing Sima Yi. Han Jian still cares a lot about his former friendship, he can't bear to do something to Sima, but for Li Shanye, Han Jian has no possibility of mercy.
After more than a month of investigation, Han Jian can almost determine that Li Shanye has scattered military forces around Jinling City, with more than 20,000 horses, and these horses are too scattered and lack of combat effectiveness, so they can take advantage of the chaos to start trouble, but it is impossible to really play the role of attacking the city. Li Shanye's people are all over the surrounding area of Jinling City, and there may even be people working hard for him in Han Jianjian.
On the second day of the fifth month, news came from Jinling City, saying that it was an important person who captured the thief army, and this figure was Gongsun Shu, one of Han Jue's right-hand men. Because Gongsun Shu was an official in the court, and Han Jian had an explicit order to treat Gongsun Shu well, so after Gongsun Shu was arrested, he was not tortured, and this person was directly escorted to Hangzhou City by the intelligence system, and was even regarded as an "envoy".
On the third day of the news to Hangzhou City, on the fourth day of the fifth month, Gongsun Shu arrived in Hangzhou City. In fact, Gongsun Shu also had a letter written by Han Jue to Han Jian in his hand, Han Jue originally wanted to use Gongsun Shu to announce the news that he was still alive in the world, but because the person in charge of the intelligence system, Da Xiliu, knew about it early on, so after getting the letter, all those who saw the letter were "killed", so that the news was compressed to a very small range.
When Daxi Liu reported the situation of Gongsun Shu, Han Jian was still staying in the Taishou Mansion of Hangzhou City, while accompanying Xiao Zhan, who was already four months pregnant, while waiting for the news from Xu Dingcheng. Han Jian very much hoped to get the news of the capture of Xu Dingcheng as soon as possible, whether Sima Yi lived or died, at least it proved the complete destruction of the Qin Wang's army in the Southern Dynasty.
“…… Could it be that person who still has something to say to me? After reading the letter given to him by Da Xiliu, Han Jian handed the letter directly to the candle and burned it, and Xiao Zhan next to him was also surprised, what kind of letter needs to be cautious to this extent, and it will be destroyed after reading it?
Da Xiliu didn't dare to talk nonsense in front of Xiao Zhan, because very few people knew the news of Han Jian's life, except for the relatives around Han Jian, only she knew the roots.
"Your Majesty, what will Gongsun Shu do?" Daxiliu didn't answer Han Jian's question, but asked for instructions directly.
Han Jian smiled and said, "You can do it yourself." (To be continued.) )
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