Chapter 1 - The Sacred Flame of Wakajo
But in the hilly area outside the city, you can see the faint light of the fire and the army patrolling back and forth in the night, this hill is located on the road between Ruocheng and Huicheng, Sun Hao and Luo Yinying led the army to pass through this place after Luo Yinying led the three thousand older and weaker troops to escort the people south back to the defense of the city, and Sun Hao led seven thousand elites to stay in this hill temporarily, waiting for news in the city.
This is the plan that Luo Yinying said in Sun Hao's ears before, and on the basis of knowing that the feudal state sent 35,000 troops to attack them, they can judge the route of the feudal country's march and respond to it. The 7,000 elites led by Sun Hao were used here as surprise soldiers. If the main force of the feudal state attacked Huicheng, Sun Hao immediately led the army to attack Donglinguan and threatened Zhongcheng, so as to strategically force the main force of the feudal war to withdraw. But if the main force of the Feng Zhan Hui made a detour to attack Ruocheng, he would fall into the trap that Sun Hao and Luo Yinying had already deployed and would not be able to get out, and Sun Hao would take this opportunity to rush and kill this army and easily annihilate this army in the city.
It can be said that no matter what kind of offensive method the army of the Sealing War Society takes, its strategic plan has been calculated by Luo Yinying and Sun Hao, and the decisions they make on this basis can naturally make them invincible.
At that time, the army under Sun Hao's command had rested to a very good state, and Sun Hao's eyes were always locked on the sky above Ruocheng, waiting for the invasion of the army of the Sealing War Society.
Sun Hao can be sure that if the Fengzhan army wants to attack Huicheng, there will not be news so quickly, and if there is news today, it must be news from Ruocheng.
In the endless dark night, a flaming rocket suddenly rose, Sun Hao immediately stood up and commanded loudly: "Order the whole army to kill back to Ruocheng!"
"Yes!"
The seven thousand elites were already ready to go, and they began to quickly assemble the whole team at the first order, and a quarter of an hour later, this army, under the leadership of Sun Hao, rushed towards Ruocheng.
Chen Xian's plan to divide the troops was implemented quite smoothly, after he received the news that Sun Hao and Luo Yinying each led 5,000 troops to evacuate Ruocheng and return to Huicheng, and that there were only less than 2,000 troops in Ruocheng. He immediately led an army of 10,000 to attack the almost undefended city of Ruocheng at night.
Everything seems to be going quite smoothly, after the 5,000 cavalry quickly raided the city and smoothly climbed the tower with hooks and chains to open the city gate and enter the city, the 2,000 troops in the city woke up from their sleep, and they had already been rushed in front of the cavalry at the moment when they were ready to attack. The 2,000 troops had no choice but to surrender to Chen Xian.
Without spending a single soldier to conquer Ruocheng, Chen Xian couldn't help but be complacent, his plan was implemented almost perfectly, and the combination of virtual and real forces on both sides made the Qi army overwhelmed, and had no choice but to abandon Ruocheng and withdraw back to defend Huicheng. At this time, Ruocheng has fallen into his hands, which means that his plan has completed a crucial step, and he only needs to join forces in one place to successfully surround the city and destroy the Qi state.
Accompanied by the soldiers, Chen Xian inspected the granaries and armories in the city, and most of the food in the city was too late to be taken away due to the hasty withdrawal of the army, but all the military equipment, equipment and armor were taken away, and there was nothing left.
Chen Xian turned his head and coldly asked the leader of the surrendering army behind him, "Why did the withdrawal of the army actually leave all the food?
This military captain is named Deng Cheng, his identity is Sun Hao and Luo Yinying after the promotion of the young local general in Huicheng, he has been smart and studious since he was a child, and his family is profound, although he is young, he knows how to read words and feelings, he saw the subtle distrust and doubt in Chen Xian's face, he had already understood the responsibility he had to bear when he accepted this task before. At present, if you want to cooperate with Sun Hao to implement the ultimate goal of trapping this army of the Sealing War Society in the city, it is necessary to stabilize this commander of the Sealing War Society in this way.
Deng Cheng began to deploy the plan made by Sun Hao and them after the Fengzhan Hui army entered Ruocheng, and after the Fengzhan Hui entered here, he still gradually counted the number of this Fengzhan Hui army, about 5,000 cavalry went first, and there were 5,000 infantry in the rear, adding up to more than 10,000 soldiers of the Fengzhan Society. Overall, at present, the combined strength of Sun Hao and the army led by him is still inferior to the army of the Feng War Society.
However, Deng Cheng had already made all the preparations, he had already secretly buried hay and other fire-prone things in the city's houses and military camps, which were themselves stored in the warehouses in Ruocheng City, and after Sun Hao and Luo Yinying each led the army to leave Ruocheng, Deng Cheng began to lead the army to deploy and prepare for these. At this time, everything was ready, and Chen Xian could be surrounded and annihilated after he fell into the trap.
After thinking of this, Deng Cheng pretended to have a frightened expression, and said in a low voice to Chen in front of him: "General, our southern Qi country is now cultivating fields on a large scale, and the land around Huicheng is said to be suitable for cultivating crops, and it is said that the current grain has basically reached the harvest season, and at this time it can make up for the crisis of food shortage." ”
Deng Cheng cringed, some doubts, worries, and cautious attitudes, all of which were seen in the eyes of the Chen Xian in front of him, he did not have any courage and experience in this young Qi State captain, and in just a few words, it could be seen that this Deng Cheng should be a person who is timid and afraid of things and does not have any ability to do big things. Chen Xian was a little complacent in his heart, he easily captured Ruocheng without a single soldier and began to continue the strategic plan to besiege Huicheng, once Huicheng was captured, he made immortal achievements.
It was precisely because of this complacent momentum that Chen Xian became more complacent, he sneered and said to Deng Cheng in front of him: "You follow my deputy general to rectify the surrender army and wait for me to review, once I find out that there is anything wrong with the surrendering army, you don't want to have a good life." ”
Deng Cheng nodded tremblingly, and then was taken down by Chen Xian's lieutenant general, according to Chen Xian's instructions, Deng Cheng and his lieutenant were responsible for rectifying the two thousand Qi troops waiting for Chen Xian's review, and Chen Xian also needed to rectify the army to temporarily rest in Ruocheng for a day, and sufficient food was provided with a very stable logistics supply for this army. The 5,000 cavalry who raided and came to Ruocheng first began to station and patrol in order. Although Chen Xianzhi was complacent, he did not ignore the possible crisis, he asked these cavalry soldiers to rest their horses for a while, and the soldiers went into the city to patrol first, and then made other decisions after ensuring that there was no crisis in the city.
So, the five thousand cavalry soldiers were ready to rest, but this order they could only start to continue patrolling, if the city, the people in the city had already withdrawn most of the people, Sun Hao and Luo Yinying withdrew when they left, and took away all the remaining people, and even most of the valuable things in the people's homes were carried with them, and those who remained at home were only tables, stools, and beds that could not be taken away. These cavalry soldiers were not interested in this, not only did they not have time to rest, but they could not even find any oil and water worth wrapping in, and these soldiers were naturally unwilling to do it dutifully.
However, even if they didn't search carefully, these naturally keenly sealed cavalrymen also found that there were still some unusual things left in the homes of these people, all the valuable things in these people's homes had been emptied, but all that was left was relatively igniting hay and dry firewood, as well as low tables and beds that could not be moved. If you sniff carefully, you will find that the low table and bed seem to be poured with a layer of tung oil. Most of the cavalry of these feudal war associations were still experienced veterans, and the smell of tung oil and the hay everywhere could basically be predicted that the Qi State had set up an ambush here, and its withdrawal was just a trick to deliberately attract the feudal war society army into Ruocheng and then encircle and annihilate it.
"It's not a good deal, go and tell the general that this is the conspiracy of the Qi State! We have been tricked, and we must leave immediately!" The feudal soldiers who searched the houses and barracks around them rushed towards the location of the governor's palace, and the soldiers of the feudal war society who witnessed and discovered the conspiracy of the Qi country along the way kept shouting hoarsely. The other soldiers patrolling the city didn't know what was happening, but they saw more than 100 of their comrades rushing towards the location of the Governor's Mansion as if they were crazy. The city became quite chaotic for a while, and the other follow-up 5,000 infantry troops had also arrived here, and for a while, the streets of Ruocheng were quite crowded and noisy, and the later 5,000 infantry troops did not know what was going on, and they subconsciously ran together to the south of the city and the edge of the governor's palace.
In the governor's mansion, Chen Xian is deploying tasks to his own soldiers and lieutenant generals, although he occupies Ruocheng at the moment, after all, there is no population in the city and the existence of other armies of Qi State, and now Ruocheng, which has lost its population, is actually not of great strategic significance. He ordered the adjutant general to count the grain and grass, rectify the surrendered army, and settle the resting place of the 5,000 infantry army that came later, and at the same time he also issued an order, ordering the whole army to set out early in the morning of the second day to join the southern route army to attack Huicheng.
Just as Chen Xian had made a plan and waved his hand to signal the lieutenants to go separately, the sudden noise in the city sounded one after another, and Chen Xian asked the soldiers around him with some curiosity: "What's the matter, didn't I order to go down and check the civilian houses and barracks in the city? Why has it become so chaotic now?"
The soldiers inside and outside the governor's palace didn't know what was going on in the city, and at the moment when Chen Xian was a little at a loss, a bright rocket suddenly rose into the air from the place where the Qi army was originally concentrated in the north of the city, and then all sides around the city wall began to shoot rockets in turn at the governor's mansion and residential locations, and a round of sun-like arrows and rain was imprinted in Chen Xian's eyes, and Chen Xian's heart surged with a little ominous premonition.
"General..... It's a big deal....." At this time, the feudal soldiers who had discovered the clues in the city rushed to the governor's palace to urgently report the situation in the city to Chen Xian, "General, we have found a lot of dry grass and firewood in the city, and even the smell of tung oil exists in the people's homes, we must withdraw our troops immediately, otherwise it will be too late!"
Chen Xian stared at the rockets speeding in the air, he had fully understood what was happening at the moment, he was too anxious to lead the army directly into Ruocheng, and fell into an ambush that Qi had already arranged. A faint despair welled up at the corner of his mouth, and he said a little hollowly: "Maybe, it's too late..... I have failed the expectations of Your Majesty and my mother, and I deserve to die for my crimes....."
Before Chen Xian's hand was fully raised, he was stopped by the guards beside him, "General, you have a heavy responsibility, even if you are ambushed, you must not give up easily! We still have an army, and we may not have a chance to fight back!
Chen Xian took a deep breath, he slowly raised the sword in his hand, "Pass my order, the whole army will immediately assemble and attack with me!"