Chapter 132: The epitome of troubled times

A kite chirped in the sky, and the eagle swept over the mountains. The vast earth was covered with blood, and the aura of slaughter swept through the wilderness.

In the summer of the sixth year of Yonghe, Yang Xian, the prime minister of Shu, led an army of 50,000 into Nanyang. The vanguard of 10,000 Shu troops entered Dankou and repelled 30,000 Liang troops in the first battle.

At the same time, the Chu army, which had adopted a stubborn strategy in Nanyang, launched a major counteroffensive against the Liang army near Wancheng.

Wancheng is the county seat of Nanyang County, and it is also a large city in the world, even in today's wartime, it also has a population of hundreds of thousands. Ten years ago, Jin Xiu, a minor prince in Wancheng, surrendered to Liang, and after that, a large area of land in the northern part of Nanyang County was planned under the rule of the Liang army.

Cai Tong has always regretted this incident.

First, although Jin Xiu is only a small prince, the black army under his command is a strong army in the world. In the two, although the land in the north of Nanyang controlled by Jin Xiu is not large, the strategic location is very important and densely populated

Jin Xiu's surrender allowed Huan Wu to pick up a big bargain in vain and master the two important places of Wancheng and Suixian in the central and northern parts of Nanyang.

The Liang army garrisoned 130,000 troops in the north of Nanyang, but the threat to the Chu State was fatal.

If these two cities are in the hands of Jin Xiu, then there is a strategic buffer between Liang and Chu. But in the hands of Huan Wu, the Liang army can have a huge advantage in Nanyang. The Liang army was small in number, but the land combat power was strong, and it had been on the offensive against the Chu army.

In order to deal with the Liang army, Cai Tong could only deploy more than 100,000 troops of the Chu State near Xiangcheng in the south of Nanyang. Once Xiangcheng is lost, the Liang army will be able to drive straight into the hinterland of Chu, and Chu will not be far from the country.

Cai Tong was dressed in cloth, standing in the middle of the formation, in the wilderness, and the Liang army in front of him was waiting in formation. The Liang army looked down on the Chu army, and Cai Tong led the fifteenth army to attack Wancheng, but the Liang army, which was obviously inferior in strength, did not defend the city, but wanted to fight the Chu army in the wilderness.

The meaning of contempt jumped out.

The reason why Cai Tong has confidence is because Yang Xian's 50,000 army is on the side, and the total military strength in Nanyang has reached 200,000. The ratio of the strength of the two armies of Shu and Chu and the Liang army reached two to one. After the 30,000 Liang troops in Dankou were defeated and retreated, the main force retreated to Yuxian and defended the flanks of Wancheng.

Yang Xian's offensive was swift, and the warships went down the river, breaking through several blockades of the Liang army. Not to mention Huan Wu in Shendu, even Huan Zhong on the front line didn't expect Yang Xian's speed to be so fast. From Nanzhong to the occupation of Dankou, it took less than eight days.

By the time Huan Zhong in Wancheng reacted, Yang Xian had already occupied the passes on the periphery of Dankou, and the warship sailed into the Danhu Lake north of Dankou.

Danhu Lake is adjacent to the county of Qi, and is separated by layers of mountains. Huan Zhong is worthy of being a long-standing general, and immediately made a response, ordering the Liang army in Danhu to retreat on all fronts, collect the defeated troops, stick to the mountains on the periphery of Yuxian, and transfer 20,000 reinforcements from Wancheng to Yuxian, and 50,000 troops are deployed layer by layer, intending to stop the offensive of the Shu army.

Now there are only 80,000 Liang troops in Wancheng, and Cai Tong naturally can't give up this thousand-year-old opportunity and raise 15 troops to attack Wancheng directly.

As long as Wancheng is captured, the 50,000 Liang troops in Sui County will naturally become the turtle in the urn. If Cai Tong gets the northern part of Nanyang, then the situation in the world will change greatly.

After that, whether it was to cooperate with the princes of Yizhou and Liangzhou to attack Yongzhou, or to cooperate with Wu to attack Henan and Xu in the Central Plains, the initiative was in Cai Tong's hands.

And no matter which direction a breakthrough is made, it is a fatal danger for Huan Wu. And he, Cai Tong, can use the order of King Qin to call on the princes of the world to go to the divine capital together and cause Huan Wu to die.

At that time, he will be the leader of the princes and the loyal minister of the Great Zhou who saved the Son of Heaven from danger. This is a great temptation, and today no prince will let go.

Cai Tongbu was dressed in armor, looking at the Liang army with a compact array and solemn soldiers in the distance. Just by looking at the Liang army's formation techniques and strict military discipline, you can know that the Liang army in front is a rare elite.

Before the army was launched, the spies of the two armies shuttled back and forth to inquire for information. What made Cai Tong laugh was that Huan Zhong set a strategy to first break through the 150,000 Chu army with the elite of 80,000 Wancheng, and then encircle the Shu army with the 50,000 Liang army in Sui County.

Be sure to capture Yang Xian in Dankou!

In this plan, Huan Zhong's focus was on Yang Xian, obviously not on Chu Jun and his Cai Tong.

Huan Zhong led the main elite out of the city, and wanting to fight a quick battle with the Chu army is the best proof.

Cai Tong's eyes flashed, and he said secretly: "Huan Zhong, since you want this opportunity, I will give it to you!" ”

The drums sounded, and the Chu army began to march.

In the wilderness, the bloody aura soared into the sky, the clouds in the sky curled, and the wind howled.

When the most powerful creatures on the earth fight in hordes, the creatures of the surrounding area do not retreat. This is a battle that has entered the climax from the beginning, and neither Cai Tong nor Huan Zhong has left their hands.

On this side of the battlefield, the Chu army had a numerical advantage, but it was not good at land warfare. The Liang army is different, although they are small in number, they are skilled in formation and strong in battle.

There is no doubt that this is a big gamble. The commanders of the two armies abandoned the traditional method of using troops, conquering and fighting for each place and city, and instead used the most intense methods to conduct a decisive battle.

Huan Zhong was fighting for time, in order to defeat the Chu army, he could mobilize troops as soon as possible and besiege Yang Xian.

Cai Tong is also competing for time, in order to make a breakthrough before Yang Xian. In order to occupy the northern part of Nanyang before the arrival of Huanwu's reinforcements, it was held according to the danger.

The sound of collision, the sound of fighting, the howl, the sound of war drums........

All kinds of voices were mixed together, and Liang Chu and Liang Jun were fighting in the most tragic way, and they were fighting with that sharp breath.

The battle of life and death, the battle situation is scorching. The two armies were grinding, and the jumping figures shone in the battle array, and a large number of sergeants rose up, erected, matured, and then withered, completing the most cruel trajectory of life.

Cai Tong and Huan Zhong are both generals in the army who have been in battle for a long time and are well versed in the art of war. They were all looking for each other's flaws, looking for that trace of warplane. Even if this silk fighter needs a large number of soldiers' lives to accumulate and fill.

Huan Zhong found it, and there was a gap between the left flank and the center of the Chu army, and he immediately ordered all the elites around him to put it in. As long as Cai Tong's middle formation is broken, then Cai Tong will only have one way to lose.

Cai Tong also found that under the hills of Huan Zhong's main formation, the disadvantage of the most elite halberd soldiers of the Liang army has been revealed, as long as the siege is broken, then Huan Zhong will have no last support.

The commanders of both sides gave orders almost at the same time, and all that remained was to fight over whose speed was fast!

The sky is still singing, and the attack on the earth is endless. Such a tragic battle, to some extent, is only a small microcosm in this troubled world.