Chapter 51: The Second Crusade 5
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For him, the next thing is not how to escape this place, but whether the dragon will pursue them in the next operation.
The blizzard had a great impact on the knights and light riders under the command of the dragon. Because the speed of the march of these troops on the snow will be greatly delayed or even impossible to advance.
On the contrary, in this case, the infantry units will advance at a faster pace.
This is also an area that Han Shin has overlooked.
But things have come to this point, and he can't be allowed to stay in this dangerous place for too long, because the Chu officers and soldiers have completed the encirclement, and what awaits them will be the result of the total annihilation.
In this case, Han Xin naturally does not want to see it.
So what he could do was to join forces with Dong Fei and others, and turn back the way he came to the east.
On the way back, whether it was the army under Han Xin or the remnants under Dong Peng, a total of nearly 5,000 people fell in this combat operation.
In particular, the casualties of the army under Han Xin were not mainly from the casualties of the battle against the Chu army, but from the Qin officers and soldiers who fell in the snow one after another during the snow march and could never wake up again.
Dong Peng and the officers and soldiers under Sima Xin's command also followed in the footsteps of their robes......
But the survivors knew that they wanted more people to live, including themselves, so they had to follow Han Shin and return the way they came.
After knowing the casualties of this battle and the comparison of the number of officers and soldiers rescued, Zhang Jiashi was very heartbroken, because this was a completely loss-making business.
But Zhang Jiashi did not complain anything to Dong Peng and others, but comforted the other party when he heard the words.
Although the other party was successfully attacked by the Chu army because of carelessness, but when things got to that point, Dong Fei and Sima Xin could also be said to have tried their best.
If in this case, Zhang Jiashi still blames them more, but it is a chilling thing.
However, due to many considerations, Zhang Jiashi finally gave Dong Peng and Sima Xin the punishment of demotion of three levels. After all, in this case, Zhang Jiashi can't help but be partial to Dong Peng and Sima Xin.
And Dong Peng and Sima Xin are not dissatisfied with Zhang Jiashi's way of dealing with it, because this result is already the best for them.
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After Han Xin and the remnants of Dong Fei's command fought out of the Chu army camp again, Long He learned that his eastern camp was raided by the Qin army.
The dragon who knew about this could be said to be very angry, but he knew that this situation was not a good time to pursue.
After all, the officers and men under his command did not have the experience of pursuing in such weather.
He couldn't help but have another kind of jealousy towards Qin Jun. Because for him, these Qin officers and soldiers were able to carry out surprise attacks in the snow, and they should have received training in this area.
He had to admire the combat effectiveness of the Qin army, but he knew very well that if he let Dong Fei and Sima Xin be rescued by Qin Gou's reinforcements, Xiang Yu would not let him go easily. Because of this battle, Xiang Yu mainly hoped to take advantage of Qin Gou's defeat in Yingchuan County to take the opportunity to occupy Yingchuan County, and then wait for the opportunity to counterattack other areas of Qin Dog.
As far as the current situation is concerned, although Dong Fei's troops under the command of Qin Jun have suffered heavy losses, he has not eliminated Dong Fei's troops, and even escaped by the other party.
In this case, it was very difficult for him to complete Xiang Yu's order.
Therefore, after thinking about it for a long time, he decided to unite with Peng Yue's department first, defeat or even annihilate Qin Gou's Sanchuan County Guard, Su Teng's department, and then take advantage of Qin Gou's surprise to go north to Sanchuan County.
However, the current weather could not allow the army to easily move to the vicinity of Peng Yue's headquarters, and in this case, Long He decided to rest first and then fight Peng Yue.
Of course, he was afraid of this Qingou army that rescued Dong Fei and Sima Xin, he thought about it for a long time, and decided to personally command the officers and soldiers of the rear when the time came, so as to avoid the enemy from taking the opportunity to raid.
What Long Ji didn't expect was that he underestimated the combat effectiveness of Han Xin's army.
Of course, because of the weather, the Qin officers and soldiers suffered some non-combat losses, and even many people fell ill.
However, there were still 17,800 officers and soldiers under Han Xin's command, and in this case, Long You, who personally commanded the rear army, led the rear army to follow the front troops and set off for a round near Peng Yue's headquarters three days later, but was followed by Han Xin's army.
A fierce battle broke out between the two sides on the banks of the Yingshui River, and when Long Ji's Chinese army was about to turn back to rescue the rear army under Long Ji's command, Li Shang and Li Ji's knights of more than 9,000 people raided him.
The corpses of this battle drifted down the Yingshui River, even drifting hundreds of miles away......
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On January 23, 204 BC, this day was the day when the great battle between the Chu army and the Qin army in Yingchuan County continued.
Su Teng did not leave Li Shang and the knights under the command of Li Yan to fight in his direction, but sent two people to lead the army to find the fighters that broke the Chu army.
Su Teng didn't expect that his order would fundamentally change the battle situation in the entire Yingchuan County.
It was because Li Shang and the knight troops under the command of Li Ji blocked the Chinese army under Long Ji that Han Xin was able to defeat Long Ji's Chu army on the banks of the Yingshui River, and even kill Long Ji.
In this case, he did not take the initiative to attack Peng Yue's department, but carefully continued to defend his camp.
Su Teng was a period of time before the heavy snow arrived, but he clearly realized that Peng Yue was indeed a difficult guy to deal with.
Because the opponent's small-scale harassment operations are quite endless.
If it weren't for Su Teng's confidence in the layout of his camp, and the relatively sophisticated weapons and equipment of the officers and soldiers under his command, Su Teng wouldn't have known how many casualties he would pay.
But Su Teng is sure of one thing, that is, in the small-scale operations in the past few days, Peng Yue did not take any advantage, because Peng Yue is indeed proficient in small-scale harassment operations, but once his harassment tactics are pursued by a large number of Qin knights, then these Chu officers and soldiers who conduct harassment operations will end up worryingly.
What Su Teng didn't know was that Peng Yue almost didn't die in Su Teng's knightly pursuit offensive, if Peng Yue hadn't seen a bad opportunity and jumped directly into a small river, it is estimated that he would have become one of those hundreds of corpses.
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In Peng Yue's camp, the messenger sent by Long He had just left.
He didn't quite understand why Long Ji was run away by Dong Fei and Sima Xin in this situation, you must know that he was under a lot of pressure from Su Teng. After all, the gap between the two sides will not be directly reflected because of the superiority in the number of troops.
On the contrary, Peng Yue was very helpless about the officers and soldiers under his command, although the number of officers and soldiers was much larger than that of the Qin army opposite, but the combat effectiveness between the two sides was very different.
He asked himself that he was not a person who did not know how to train troops, otherwise he would not have relied on the land around the Huai River to train a force of 100,000 people in less than two years.
He didn't want to fight the Qin army in this situation, and he was asking for trouble for the other party.
Because he can be regarded as having seen the strength of the Liaodong Army with his own eyes.
After all, although he did not participate in the Battle of Julu, after the Battle of Julu, he led his army to Chenggao to join Xiang Yu's coalition army.
However, at the Battle of Hangu Pass, his losses were also quite heavy, and he was almost not killed by the plague that said that many people would die if they contracted the disease.
In this case, it was naturally impossible for Peng Yue to voluntarily find trouble with Qin Jun. Because the current Qin army is even more terrifying than the Qin army in the Zhang Han period.
It wasn't that he didn't think about finding another way out, because Xiang Yu didn't say that he had mobilized all his forces this time, and even divided half of his forces to Long Ji. This situation made Peng Yue very dissatisfied. Because of these troops, Peng Yue asked himself if he didn't owe Xiang Yu anything, all of them were the military strength he developed alone.
Why did Xiang Yu, Long Ji and the others leave half of the officers and soldiers under his command all of a sudden?
However, Peng Yue knows very well that the person who can let him defect at the moment will not give him too much glory and wealth, and even he will not be able to protect himself.
The former is naturally Zhang Jiashi, the real power faction that has now become the largest force in the world, but Zhang Jiashi does not have the habit of being crowned kings.
He was indeed the regent of the Great Qin Empire, and his son was the new monarch of the Great Qin Empire. However, it is said that the Great Qin Empire has developed to this situation, and Zhang Jiashi has taken out a lot of capital from his own small treasury to be able to have this kind of development.
Obviously, this kind of thing Peng Yue asked himself if he was not so generous, because in his heart, since Zhang Jiashi had a lot of things, why did he have to pay for it?
In the position of Zhang Jiashi, it is impossible to do this.
What Peng Yue didn't expect was that this was also the reason why he couldn't reach a high position in his life.
And the other princes who are difficult to protect themselves in Peng Yue's eyes are naturally Qi and Liu Bang, the king of Jiujiang.
The former is of course extremely rich, but under the personal command of Xiang Yu, even if the Qi army has the desperate command of Tian Heng, Tian Rong and others, it still evolves into a situation of defeat and retreat.
For Peng Yue, Qi Guo no longer has much expectation.
And Liu Bang's situation is even more unbearable.
It's not that Peng Yue looks down on Liu Bang, on the contrary, Peng Yue thinks that after Liu Bang can withdraw from Guanzhong, he will once again create a more powerful force, and Liu Bang really makes him have to admire.
However, with the southward expedition of the Qin army, Liu Bang, who was defeated in Changsha County and Hengshan County, retreated north of the river in a hurry, which also made Peng Yue see clearly that Liu Bang was only eliminated sooner or later.
After all, Peng Yue didn't think that the combat effectiveness of the Qin army under the southern expedition was stronger than the Qin army under Zhang Jiashi, and Liu Bang was defeated and lost in this situation, if Liu Bang was allowed to face the main force of the Qin army under Zhang Jiashi, then many things would be known without much thought.
Therefore, Peng Yue is not optimistic about Liu Bang's situation.
It's just that, no matter what, since Long Ji made this request, the current Peng Yue can't directly refuse.
Because he didn't want to be dragon in this situation and saw that he had different ambitions.
So in this case, Peng Yue easily accepted Long Ji's request.
And he didn't expect that it was the dragon and never had the chance to see him again.
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At noon the next day, the army under the command of Long Ji slowly advanced towards the southwest of Yangzhai City.
And in order to avoid accidents, the dragon even separated the distance between the three armies by less than two kilometers.
But Long Ji didn't expect that in a tactical cooperation between Han Xin and Li Shang and the Li Shang brothers who did not communicate in advance, his tactical arrangement, which was considered a very stable one, did not have any effect.
Although Han Xin understood that his ambush battle plan failed directly because Long He did not take the bait.
But Han Shin didn't give up on his mission so easily.
He sent some scouts to observe the movements of the Chu army from a distance.
And the transfer of the Chu army did not hide anything, and these scouts quickly fed back the news they knew to Han Xin's ears.
Han Xin knew very well that this was an opportunity he could not afford to miss.
Because once Long Ji and Peng Yue converge, this gathered Chu army is not so easy to deal with.
Naturally, Han Xin couldn't let this happen.
He immediately mobilized his troops, with 300 crossbow chariots and knight troops under his command as the vanguard, and directly followed the pursuing Chu army.
However, Han Xin did not let his officers and soldiers consume too much physical strength, but let his infantry retain their physical strength as much as possible and slightly speed up the march.
Although the distance between the two sides was about ten miles, the speed of the movement of the army under Long He was quite slow, and it took a while for the army under Han Xin to reach the east of the Chu army camp.
At this time, the rear army of the Chu army had only left the camp for less than three miles.
In this case, Han Xin naturally would not let these Chu troops continue to the vicinity of Peng Yue's department southwest of Yangzhai.
He knew one thing very well, that is, even if he couldn't keep the dragon and the army under his command, then let the other party pay a heavy price, he asked himself if he could still do it.
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About five miles southwest of Yangzhai City, it happened to be the upper reaches of Yingshui where Han Xin originally planned to dig the river embankment.
On a river beach in this place, the rear army under the command of Long Ji was preparing to swim across Yingshui, which was not too fast.
However, at this time, the crossbow chariot troops under Han Xin's command and a large number of knights had already caught up.
The dragon had to be in this situation, with his back to the water.
However, although Long Ji is also a famous general, it is obviously impossible for the other party to be responsible for one of the battles of Han Shin's fame.
Because the current Yingshui is not a dead place.
The rear army under the command of Long Ji is in fact the unit with the worst combat effectiveness.
This incident could not be avoided even by Peng Yue, who originally commanded these officers and soldiers. Because these troops are not so much regular armies as recruits or convoys that have more combat effectiveness than the people.
The will to fight of such a unit cannot be too high in this case.
Moreover, this rear army of the Chu army is transporting a large number of materials and equipment obtained from Yangzhai City to join the Peng Yue army.
It can be said that most of the materials that Dong Peng and Sima Xin did not destroy when they evacuated appeared in this place.
After Han Xin learned about this situation, he helplessly glanced at Dong Fei and Sima Xin who were following him, because if it weren't for these two people, I'm afraid many things would have changed.
However, since things have developed to this point, and Dong Fei and Sima Xin are not officers under his command, Han Xin can't say anything.
After looking at the two people who involuntarily lowered their heads for a while, he quickly made a fairly correct judgment:
"You don't need to worry about those supplies, give me rockets!!"
Han Xin's order will certainly cause those materials and equipment to suffer a lot of losses.
However, this order will also bring about the results that Han Shin can predict.
That is, once these materials are directly caught on fire and burned, then for these Chu troops, it will naturally bring considerable chaos.
However, this time, the crossbow chariot troops under the command of Zhang Jiashi, which had nothing to do with disadvantages, encountered a great counterattack and suffered great casualties.
That is because many of these Chu officers and soldiers are new weapons and equipment of the Qin army captured on the battlefield and in Yangzhai City or obtained by cleaning up the battlefield.
The crossbowmen of the crossbow chariot use all the same strong crossbows.
However, among the Chu officers and soldiers on the opposite side, many crossbowmen used equipment of uniform specifications, and in this case, the crossbowmen of the crossbow chariot did not have the slightest advantage at all.
Because of this, the crossbowmen of these crossbow chariots had the largest casualty rate in the history of the army under Zhang Jiashi.
Many crossbowmen on the crossbow chariot were killed and injured by the strong crossbows in the hands of the Chu army, and some of the Qin crossbowmen had to roll out of the car in pain, and then dodge the arrows as much as possible.
But this mutual attrition shooting of the two sides had a greater impact on the Chu army. Because the casualties of the crossbowmen of the crossbow chariot were very heavy, not to mention that the defensive ability was generally inferior to that of the crossbowmen of the Chu army of the Qin officers and soldiers.
The number of arrows or rockets falling from time to time in the sky shows that the casualties of these crossbowmen are obviously higher than those of the Chu army. Because the crossbows shot by the officers and soldiers of Chu became more and more sparse.
And many Chu officers and soldiers who did not have time to swim across Yingshui, as well as a large number of captured materials, were shot by arrows.
Many of those supplies were even ignited directly by the fire.
Under these circumstances, the officers and soldiers of Chu soon fell into chaos.
More and more Chu officers and soldiers planned to leave from the icy Yingshui ice, but Long He had long been worried about this situation, and arranged a lot of overseers......