Chapter 273: The Battle of Liantai
Li You sat on a small hillside, the wild grass around him began to gradually turn green, the grass was dotted with unknown wildflowers, and there was no trace of snow on the top of the mountain in the distance, and there was no trace of ice floes on the river below the mountain, it seemed that it should be the turn of spring and summer. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ļ½ļ½ļ½Uļ½Eć ļ½ļ½ļ½ļ½
Judging from the types of trees in the forest, my current location should be north of the Yangtze River, and the reported time is the eighth year of Yonghe in the Eastern Jin Dynasty but I was thrown to the north of the Yangtze River. Li You looked at the branches in his hand and frowned, thinking about what important battles were there in the eighth year of Yonghe in the Eastern Jin Dynasty?
"The mountain in front is Changshan, and the river below is water." The voice of the tiger talisman suddenly sounded, but this still did not relieve the doubts in Li You's heart, Chang Shan, I only remember that it was Zhao Yun and Zhao Zilong's hometown, but at this time, Zhao Yun had already been dead for more than a hundred years, and it had nothing to do with him at all? As for the water, I haven't heard of it.
"The place on the shore of the water is called Liantai." While frowning and thinking hard, Hu Fu added another sentence, this familiar name finally evoked Li You's memory, "What? Cheap platform? Could it be that this mission is the battle of Liantai? Li You jumped up suddenly, if this is the case, this mission is not easy to complete.
"That's right, the host's mission this time is to help Ran Min defeat Murong Ke, the general of the Great Yan Auxiliary State, and win the victory in the Battle of Liantai. Follow the path down the mountain for fifteen miles to reach the military camp of Great Wei. After saying that, the voice of the tiger talisman was cut off, and no matter how Li You shouted, there was no response.
"I knew I wouldn't always encounter an easy task like the Battle of Taizhou, but this mission was too difficult and challenging, right?" Li You secretly cried out bitterly in his heart, although he had also experienced Jiangnan missions such as Zhang Qian's battle of the Western Regions and Suiyang before, he could still get a glimpse of the opportunity to win at that time, but this time it was very different.
When Zhang Qian passed through the Western Regions, although there were only more than 100 people around him, at that time the Xiongnu could not control the whole territory, and Li You's team had considerable freedom of action, and could avoid the main force of the Xiongnu under the leadership of Chen Qingzhi and attack their weaknesses; The Battle of Suiyang had a city wall to defend against the enemy, and it was completely possible to use the advantage of the city wall to kill and injure the enemy; In addition, Chen Qingzhi and Zhang Xun's command ability far exceeds that of enemy generals such as Bank of China and Yin Ziqi, so it is reasonable to be able to win in danger.
And the battle of Liantai is very different, Murong Ke, the general of the Great Yan Auxiliary State, has an army of 100,000, and he himself is also a generation of famous generals, and he is known as one of the top ten generals of the Sixteen Kingdoms by later generations, so naturally he will not be as easy to deal with as Bank of China and Yin Ziqi; And Ran Min of Great Wei only had 10,000 soldiers and horses under his command, and he was trapped in the dilemma of Great Wei and had to fight a decisive battle with Murong Ke in Liantai.
Moreover, almost all of the 10,000 troops led by Ran Min were infantry, but there were a large number of cavalry under Murong Ke; Murong Ke was not afraid that this battle would become a protracted battle, but Ran Min had to fight quickly, how easy was it to quickly defeat the cavalry with infantry? It can be said that the time and place are not on Ran Min's side, and it is so difficult to win.
Staying where you are and meditating is not the way to do it after all, so let's walk around and observe for a while. Li You took out the Tang Knife and the Heaven Shaking Bow on his body, and did not follow the instructions of the Tiger Fu to go directly down the path to find Ran Min, but took advantage of the cover of the jungle to look around.
Sun Tzu's Art of War has a cloud: knowing oneself and knowing that the other is invincible, Li You now only has a vague understanding of Murong Ke and Ran Min's army, how can he come up with a good solution? Therefore, it is necessary to conduct a reconnaissance of the military forces of both sides.
In the future, if he wants to defect to Ran Min to serve under him, he will have time to observe the situation of the Great Wei army, so he still has to look at Murong Ke's army first, and decided on the goal, and Li You pondered where to find Murong Ke's army. He looked left and right, found a large tree, climbed up and looked around for a moment, and finally saw smoke rising in the north.
Judging from the amount of cooking smoke, there are quite a few people here, and it is not where Ran Min's army is located as indicated by Fang Cai Hu Fu, so it seems that it is very likely to be Murong Ke's station.
Now that the goal had been decided, Li You immediately walked in the direction where the smoke rose; He did not dare to march on the road below the mountain, so he could only follow the cover of the jungle and make it difficult to move forward; The smoke looked very close, but it was extremely far away, and until nightfall, Li You still didn't see the other party's camp. He had no choice but to find a big tree, climb it, trap himself on a branch with a rope, close his eyes and rest.
Endured the sound of wolves howling and insects, and finally survived the night, Li You opened his eyes when the sky was just dawning, lightly untied the rope and looked around, and only then climbed under the tree and began to solve the problem of eating and drinking after not discovering the whereabouts of the Great Yan Army; Fortunately, the wilderness survival skills he learned from his father in Tangyi when he led the Han delegation across the Western Regions had not been forgotten by him, and it didn't take much time to find a mountain stream, fill the water bag and drink it bitterly, and then found some fish and shrimp from the water to temporarily fill his stomach, Li You once again embarked on a journey to find the Great Yan Army.
From time to time, climb a big tree to determine their position, and constantly wave the precious Tang knife to split the thorns that block the way, and soon the Tang knife is dyed with a layer of grass-green juice, if the owner of this treasure knife sees the current scene, I am afraid that he will scold Li You for tyrannizing the heavens, right?
It wasn't until noon that day that Li You finally saw the traces of the Great Yan Army; Murong Ke is worthy of being a famous general of a generation, the camp layout is extremely strict, Li You peeped for a long time and did not find a flaw, even if he used the Eagle Eye skill, it did not work; And there were countless sentries patrolling around the camp, so he didn't have a chance to get close and observe.
After carefully counting the number of tents and fortresses that came into his eyes, Li You knew that the 100,000 army recorded in the history books was not much exaggerated, and perhaps Murong Ke's deployment was more than that.
I can't see anything clearly from a distance, and it's really dangerous to get closer, so I just go back with nothing? Li You was a little unwilling after all, so he retracted his head and leaned against the big tree to ponder carefully.
Hey, if only General Chen were by his side now, he would definitely be able to see more things with his eyes, Li You couldn't help but feel a little nostalgic for the time when Chen Qingzhi was with him.
Hey? It seems that I now have a commander who is even more powerful than Chen Qingzhi? And he also has experience in fighting large corps, so it seems that I can summon him here to help me observe, huh? (To be continued.) )