Chapter 257: Preemptive Strike

The order was given, according to Ba Xiu's plan, all units of the Pakistani army brought enough dry food, set off overnight, like guerrilla mobilization, shuttled through the jungle, day and night, and arrived at Guzhangba, where Chu General Qu Rong was stationed, in the early morning of the third day.

Guzhang Dam is located in Guzhang County, Xiangxi Tujia and Miao Autonomous Prefecture, Hunan Province.

More than ten years ago, in 377 BC, the Pakistani army fought a great battle with the Chu army at Guzhangba, and the Pakistani army was completely defeated. The forces of the Chu State then gained a foothold in this area.

As early as 386 B.C., Wu Qi, a famous military strategist and reformer during the Warring States Period, entered Chu and implemented reforms, and Chu began to infiltrate and operate Xiangxi, thus forming an east-west attack posture against the Bashu region, especially against Ba. Although Wu Qi's reform failed in the end, his strategic thinking towards Bashu was not completely abandoned.

This is also seen by a small number of senior generals with certain strategic thinking in Pakistan, such as Lieutenant General Ba Xiu.

Chu General Qu Rong, a descendant of Gu Yong, is the same as Chu General Yangming, who has studied Pakistan quite a lot and is very interested in Baguo Salt Spring, but he has not been able to get the opportunity to go to the Bachu battlefield to show his skills for a long time.

More than three months ago, Qu Rong, with the support of his ministers, finally arrived at Guzhangba, replacing his predecessor who had not wanted to make progress, and found that the Chu army here was lax in discipline and lacked training, so he carried out rectification, planning to launch an attack on the border town of Ba and Chu when the time was ripe, and start the first battle against Ba Chu's merits.

At the same time, Qu Rong used this time to strengthen the guidance, persuasion and control of the local original tribes (such as the Pu people), so as to facilitate his own implementation of the local strategy of "internal stability and external expansion".

Qu Rong didn't expect that the Ba people would find out that they did not belong to the top secret intentions, but his spies were lazy and did not find a large number of Pakistani troops concentrated in the fatal information of Ba Dong; in addition, based on his past experience, he believed that it was unlikely that the Ba people would take the initiative to attack in the winter immediately, so they would just take advantage of this winter and next spring to make all preparations.

Qu Rong was not prepared for this time in front of the Ba people who he thought were "brave but not strategic", and also because he had not had time to train his army to the level of being able to compete with the Ba warriors who dared to fight and die.

Between the gossip, the elite of the Pakistani army, who are good at jungle warfare, are like beasts haunted in the night, quietly come to the prey, and the secret assembly is successful, but it is nearly an hour and a half later than expected, and the sky has been exposed.

Such a large-scale military build-up could only be concealed for a while, and it would soon be discovered by the Chu army, and the commander Ba Xiu ordered an immediate attack.

The Pakistani army was divided into four routes: two roads attacked the Guzhang military camp of the Chu army from the left and right directions at the same time, and the fire was ignited.

The third route was to block the reinforcements of a regular army of the Chu State stationed nearby, and to deplete as much of its vital force as possible.

This way, on the surface, is not the main direction of attack, but it is actually a hard bone, because the opponent is Fei Wuyong, the fierce general of the Chu army.

Fei Wuyong was stationed on the top of a hill fifteen or sixteen miles away from the Guzhangba military camp. He was stationed here for two purposes: first, there were several local tribes on the large area of land opposite the top of the hill, and the local tribes had rioted several times, and secondly, to support each other with the main military camp at the same time.

Fei Wuyong is a person, his arm strength is outstanding, but he is mean, his martial arts are super strong, and he has made many contributions, and his department has lived in Guzhang for a long time, and he is the strongest in this line of Chu army.

This blocking mission was led by Zheng Daxing, the deputy general of the Hu'an Mountain tribe and the Batong military camp.

The fourth route blocked the nearest reinforcement of local armed forces from a local tribe.

For the opponents along the way, Ba Dong, the defender of Ba Dong, thought that due to the large number of local races and the complicated situation, they would not finish their efforts to reinforce the Chu generals who had just arrived here, and they could block but not fight depending on the situation. This task is carried out by one of the Clan of the Clan, which is easier to "communicate" with the opponent.

In this way, in fact, the Pakistani army that directly attacked the Chu army's Gudanba military camp was less than 7,000, that is, one to three.

While speaking, the Pakistani army, which raided the main camp of the Chu general Qu Rong, had broken through the obstacle and quickly entered the Chu camp.

Chu Jun couldn't believe that the weird Ba people would really fall from the sky.

On the one hand, the Chu general Qu Rong made people light the beacon fire, which was to inform the fierce general Fei Wuyong's more than 5,000 people to come to reinforcements quickly, and on the other hand, he hurriedly met the battle.

As the saying goes: where you fall, where you crawl from. Everyone in the Pakistani army wants to defeat the Chu people once in this place where they were defeated by the Chu people, although the scale of this time really can't be compared with the last time.

The Chu army soon had the upper hand, and some of the Chu troops began to flee, and the generals couldn't stop drinking.

Qu Rong barely fought for an hour, and Fei Wuyong's subordinates did not have a single pawn, knowing that he could not support himself, he was forced to order to kill the barracks and evacuate to the rear.

The Pakistani army chased out more than ten miles, and the commander Ba Xiu ordered not to chase the poor Kou, turned around and seized the grain and grass of the Chu army, burned the Chu army camp, and quickly withdrew to Ba Tong.

Qu Rong retreated all the way, dozens of miles to gather the defeated soldiers, counted the number of people, more than 20,000 people, even the dead and wounded, three shares folded two shares, there is no ready-made place for the troops nearby, in order to stabilize the army's heart, he led the remnants of the army to retreat to Wuling (now Changde) with "the throat of Sichuan and Guizhou, the gateway of Yunnan and Guizhou".

In less than two hours, a beautiful sneak attack ended, which was the only time in recent years that the Pakistan people were in a defensive position and won a battle above the scale in a real sense.

Afterwards, Lieutenant General Ba Xiu believed that the victory of this battle was due to a considerable element of luck, and half of the credit should be attributed to the negligence of the Chu general Qu Rong, including his mistake in detecting the enemy's situation; if it were not for the fear of great pressure from both directions in the future, he would not have proposed this bold sneak attack. He believes that this adventure is difficult to repeat to the people of Chu, but it is worth it.

However, it was said that the Chu general Fei Wuyong was restrained by the main general Qu Rong, and when he saw the beacon fire ignited from the Guzhangba military camp, he did not come to the rescue, but was stubbornly blocked by the Hu'an Mountain Department and Zheng Daxing Department of the Pakistani Army halfway.

According to the previous plan, the Pakistani army should have laid an ambush on the road that Fei Wuyong had to pass in advance, cut down more trees, and create obstacles with horizontal and vertical trees. Because this is a section of uphill road with a small slope, the two sides are not high peaks, but the trees are dense, and large troops cannot pass quickly.

However, due to the late arrival at the designated place and the completion of the fortifications, the Chu general Fei Wuyong had already led the army to rush to the country, and the Pakistani army had to build the Great Wall with human flesh.

The Pakistani army first released a round of random arrows, but due to the long and narrow terrain, the effect was not very good.

Subsequently, he took advantage of the weak terrain advantage of his own high and low enemy to block the Chu army.

The passage was too narrow, and although Fei Wuyong had many soldiers, he was useless, his lungs were blown up, and he ordered to open a bloody path.

The representatives of the younger generation of samurai in the Hu'an Mountain Division, such as Tu Tianqi, Xiang Zhen, Zhu Ying, Chu Wei (Chi Wu Fearless) and others, led the first "column" to block the first line of defense and engage the Chu army.

The task of him and Xiangmei and others is that the samurai of the first line of defense are tired of fighting, or they are broken through, and then they are on top, which is considered the second line of defense.

Mu Cheng, Pu Yancang, Zheng Daxing, Zhu Menglong, Pan Furong and others were in the last line of defense, and at the same time prevented from being attacked by the Chu army behind them.

Seeing Tu Tianqi and the others, the more they fought, the more courageous they became, a little lost, and said to her cousin Xiangmei beside her: "The back waves of the big river push the front waves." I'm so old!"

Of course, Saami disagrees with him.

In the era of cold weapons, although young and strong should have an advantage, the kite is in the prime of life, and he is not old, but he has many war wounds on his body, and he has relapsed several times, and his physical fitness is not as good as before, and he often hates it. Before the expedition, Uncle Gu originally wanted him to stay in Hu'an Mountain, but he was resolutely unwilling, so he switched with Fan Xiaohu, the mountain master Wu Baichang.

Before this battle, the kite asked for the first round of engagement. Menglong disagreed. Mu Cheng knew that he was stubborn and agreed with him as the second line of defense.

Xiangmei was about to answer, but saw the samurai of the first line of defense retreating while fighting, obviously unable to resist the death of the Chu army twice as large as herself.

The kite said, "It's our turn!"

Xiang Mei stopped: "Brother is not busy. I've got a sharp weapon!"

Sanami orders the well-trained prodigal pawns to come forward to help in the battle, replacing the wounded and tired comrades.

The prodigal pawn rushed up, as if he didn't know what death was, the Chu soldiers had never heard that the Ba people were not afraid of death, but they had never seen such a Ba people who were not afraid of death, and the Chu soldiers at the front were suddenly a little stunned, and they were killed and retreated back more than 20 zhang.

Previously, although the warriors of the Hu'an Mountain tribe had heard of the death of the prodigal soldiers, most of them had not witnessed it with their own eyes.

The battle between the prodigal pawns and the battle side by side, even the boat master Wu Baichang, who thought that he regarded death as his home, was also surprised by the close cooperation between the prodigal pawns and the spirit of never retreating if they did not retreat.

Hu'an Palace's son, Hu Menglong, stood at a slightly higher place to watch the battle, and was both happy and surprised by the performance of the Lang pawn today.

There was another person who had the same mood as Gu Menglong, that is, Mu Cheng, the main general of the mountain master who was more than twenty steps away from him, and he whispered to his son Mu Zhong, who was standing beside him and ready to attack at any time: "Perhaps, you are right, Lang Pawn, it is an extremely sharp double-edged sword. ”

The Chu general Fei Wuyong was furious and personally killed the two centurions of the retreating Chu army, only to stop the momentum of continuing to retreat, and desperately attacked the Ba people.