Chapter Twenty-Eight: The Scarlet Deer 14

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Dong Fei and Sima Xin led the remnants of the knights to break through with great interest, and then merged with the troops under Zhang Jiashi, this situation finally retained the last "seed" for Dong Fei and the officers and soldiers under Sima Xin.

The other people who were abandoned on the small hill, not to mention Dong Fei and Sima Xin, even if Zhang Jiashi sent out all the knights who were still capable of fighting, I am afraid that they would not be able to rescue the others.

It's not that Zhang Jiashi can't save him when he sees death, but under the siege of nearly 200,000 troops, Zhang Jiashi doesn't think that his cavalry force of more than 20,000 people can do such a little.

The more important thing is that after Zhang Jiashi passed out in a coma, Wang Li temporarily took over the command of the troops. It is very clear that those abandoned officers and soldiers have only one way to die, and Wang Li will not let Li Cangbu, a reserve force with only 10,000 people with sufficient combat effectiveness, to do this kind of rescue behavior that is no different from sending them to death.

What they can do now is, in many ways, the limit.

On September 21, 208 BC, the battle in the nameless hilly area between Julu City and the Great Camp of Thorn Plains is not mentioned in the history books.

But in some of the records that should have been destroyed, but were kept for some unknown reason, there are more detailed casualty assessments:

Dong Fei and Sima Xin's department of about 23,000 people were almost wiped out, and only 1,300 cavalry officers and soldiers and a small number of senior officers, including Dong Fei and Sima Xin, broke through. The rest, with the exception of an unknown number of people who escaped the catastrophe, almost all died in this nameless hill.

Of the more than 40,000 cavalry troops under Zhang Jiashi's command, almost half of them were killed in the battle, of which only more than 2,000 were left under Ruan Weng Shao's department.

Wang Li's army had 11,000 people, 5,000 remainers, Zhang Jia's division division had 4,000 remaining, plus Li Cang's army, which did not participate in the battle and was intact, totaling more than 21,000 remnants.

This piece of information mainly records that among the remaining tens of thousands of cavalry main forces of the Qin army, almost half of them were lost here, and their vitality was greatly damaged.

And this information, as if it was considered to be revised, added the casualty records of Zhang Han and the Chu army below the casualty statistics of the Qin army.

Among them, Zhang Ping's army was defeated, and the troops of nearly 40,000 people, who were successfully collected by the Chu army and Zhang Han's army, were less than 8,000 people. The rest are either dead or scattered. Zhang Ping was beheaded by Ruan Weng Shao, and almost all of Zhang Binh's generals were wiped out or scattered.

There is a supplementary record to this record, that is: in the second month of the third year of the second emperor (November 208 BC), these 8,000 people were killed by Xiang Yu and 150,000 Qin troops in Zhang Han's army in a small basin about three miles south of the Thorn Plain.

At this point, the Zhang Han army, one of the most elite troops of the former Great Qin Empire, was completely annihilated.

The Chu army suffered more than 4,000 casualties, and more than 20 generals and colonels were lost, among them, Zhong Liwu, the general of the Chu state, was killed in battle.

It is said that Xiang Yu, who heard that Zhong Liwu died in battle, was very sorry for the death of his general, and even almost said: "Even if everyone else is killed by Qin Dog, it will be difficult to make up for Zhong Liwu's death." This kind of discourse.

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After this battle, after the Chu army of Qi and the coalition army of nearly 100,000 other princes were defeated in the northeast of the Julu region, they had to be vigilant against the Liaodong army and the Wang Li coalition army, which had defeated the 200,000 army.

It's just that even Fan Zeng, who is as wise as Fan Zeng, never thought that after Zhang Jiashi and Wang Li broke through Tian Rong and moved west to the coalition army of the small princes and became the commander of the Qinghe Gong Zang Tu, they did not win a big victory over Yu Wei and went south to seek a decisive battle of the Chu army, but the whole army retreated to the Guangyang County area.

Fan Zeng originally exhorted Xiang Yu to go north to attack the northern area of Guangyang County, but Peng Yue, as the general of the vanguard army, was repelled by Huan Wei by relying on a considerable number and a fairly dense fortress defense line. Faced with the increasingly consolidated defense of the northern part of Guangyang County, Xiang Yu abandoned his plan to go north to Liaodong.

There is another news that came to Xiang Yu's ears, this news is that Liu Bang led the army south, went to Yingchuan County to go south to Nanyang County, won three consecutive battles over Nanyang County Shou Zhao Mao, and beheaded him, and will soon arrive at Wuguan.

Xiang Yu and Fan Zeng are very clear about one thing, that is, the current Liaodong Army is not so easy to deal with, besides, Xiang Yu, who has the ambition of being the king in his heart, hinted that the leader of the defeated princes' army who was collected became the leader of the alliance under the recommendation of everyone.

The remnants of the Chu army and the princes' armies, totaling nearly 250,000 people, went south again to cross the river and take the eastern road west to Hangu Pass.

After Xiang Yu and Liu Bang were successively blocked under the Hangu Pass or Wuguan, the troops under Zhang Jiashi's command, after about a month's rest and reorganization, again waved 80,000 troops to Yuyang County in the north, and marched westward from the Beijiang Road south of the Great Wall.

After almost bloodlessly connecting many counties and counties west of Yuyang County to Shangjun along the way, Zhang Jiashi's troops faced the last mobile corps of the Great Qin Empire with a command of nearly 100,000 people and went north from the straight road to the Jiuyuan Yunzhong area.

Even Zhang Jiashi never thought that this commander, as the commander of the army who finally had the ability to block him from going south and taking the Guanzhong region, was actually someone he knew.

That's for later.

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While Zhang Jiashi's troops slowly retreated to the camp under the cover of Li Cangbu, Wang Chang (Wang Li's younger brother, Wang Ben's concubine), who stayed in the two large camps, and occasionally received the news that the Qi army and the princes' coalition led by Zang Di were heading north almost at the same time.

In such a situation, as the successor of Zhang Jiashi in charge of the two armies, he quickly sent personnel to inform Wang Chang, and they fought against the Qi army and the alliance of those small princes.

After receiving the notice less than half an hour later, Wang Chang knew what he should do.

Because when Wang Li led the cavalry troops to merge with Zhang Jiashi, he had an exchange with Wang Chang, the younger brother of his cronies, that is, after Wang Chang left, if there was anything unexpected, he accepted the command of the intermediary without violating common sense.

And Wang Chang didn't think about some questions, that is, some elders of the Wang family didn't send people to contact him. He also had the idea of agreeing with those elders who also hoped that the Wang family could join the competition.

However, after seeing that Wang Li, the elder brother who had always been friendly with him, had always been at odds with this kind of thought, Wang Chang also thought about such a thing in detail. In the end, he thought that his brother must have some concern, so he didn't do it.

In such a situation, Wang Chang was not instigated by those messengers, but asked the generals and colonels in the army to put the other party under house arrest and wait for his brother Wang Li to return, and then deal with such a problem.

Wang Chang's ability is not outstanding, not to mention compared with his father Wang Ben, even compared with Wang Li, there is a certain gap. But Wang Chang, who was deeply taught by Wang Ben and Wang Li, was not a mediocre talent. At the very least, if one person is selected from the Liaodong Army to compare with Wang Chang, it is that Wang Chang's strength is very close to Huan Suo.

As Zhang Jiashi's arrangement to guard Huan Su in the north of Guangyang County, although his ability is more average, Huan Su is indeed an arrangement that even Chen Ping and Sun Po have no objection to. If Zhang Jiashi knew that Wang Chang's ability was closer to Huan Suo, it is estimated that he would not worry about many things.

Therefore, when the Qi army and the princes' coalition army set off, they and Wang Chang respectively arranged the next possible big battle.

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In terms of the quality of personnel, Wang Lijun, whether it is a general or an officer and soldier, has a certain gap with the Liaodong Army under Zhang Jiashi. However, the number of officers and soldiers left in the camp by Wang Lijun was much larger than that of the Liaodong Army under his command.

If the person who commanded Wang Li's troops was not Wang Chang, who had relatively average talent, but Han Xin, who was quite capable in military affairs, it is estimated that Zang Di's fate would be even worse.

The remaining troops under Wang Li's command were nearly 80,000 people, almost twice as many as the more than 40,000 troops of the Liaodong Army under Zhang Jiashi.

However, if there is a conflict between the two sides, as long as the Liaodong Army does not take the initiative to attack, it will be very difficult for Wang Li's army to resist the defensive counterattack of the Liaodong Army.

But now is clearly not the time to compare this issue.

According to the order given to Wang Chang, if possible, Wang Li's army would defeat the alliance of princes as soon as possible, while he would defend the army.

Under such circumstances, it was impossible to leave some troops to defend the large camp, and it was impossible for him to send out about 30,000 troops to counterattack the Qi army. Even if it was possible for the Liaodong Army to do such a thing, it would be impossible for him to make such an arrangement. Although he is not very good at strategy, it doesn't mean that he is just a fool whose head is caught in the door panel.

Chen Ping and Sun Po didn't say anything about the arrangement between them, because Chen Ping and Sun Po didn't think anything was wrong with this way of fighting for stability.

Although at such a time, the news of Zhang Jiashi has not yet arrived, but it is obvious that they can't count on those cavalry troops, adopting a defensive formation and holding the large camp area is what they also hope to do.

After all, according to the scout's intelligence, the Qi army can almost be said to have poured out. According to the rough estimate of more than 90,000 horses, Chen Ping and Sun Po are very clear about one thing, that is, the Qi army is estimated to leave a certain number of troops, and outside the defensive barrier area, all of them are marching towards their place.

Chen Ping and Sun Po were both thinking about a problem, that is, if there were still a large number of cavalry troops, it would still be easy to make the Qi army unsafe on the march.

However, if you expect the crossbow chariot to be able to do this, then forget it.

The cavalry troops of the Qi army may not be too many, but no matter how bad they are, there will still be a knight army of 5,000 horses.

Once the opponent does not care about the losses and allows these cavalry to storm the crossbow chariot troops, the losses of these crossbow chariots are bound to be quite heavy. Therefore, Chen Ping and Sun Pocai did not say such a way.

In such a situation, Chen Ping and Sun Po did not have a very good way, because because the Liaodong Army was equipped with more unified arms or weapons because of some of Zhang Jiashi's ideas, and some tactical choices that could be made were correspondingly fewer.

Although such a thing is definitely not a bad thing, Chen Ping and Sun Po can know with their knees that even if they can effectively defend against the offensive of the Qi army, the price they pay will not be too low.

What's worse is that they can't know when Wang Lijun will be able to deal with the enemy, and then come to help.

Perhaps, the two armies can merge now, but in a sense in a situation that disguised the enemy is likely to be flanked in front and rear, it is even more disadvantageous to do so.

Moreover, if this method is chosen, it is necessary to let the king leave the army or their battalion to give up.

Therefore, in such a situation, it is obviously not advisable to merge from the beginning.

It's not that Chen Pingren feels sorry for the materials in the camp, but the current time, whether it is to relocate or burn the camp, it is too late.

Therefore, like this kind of combat arrangement, even Sun Po doesn't think there is anything wrong with doing so.

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In Tian Heng's heart, he was very unhappy with Xiang Yu's condescending attitude. Although Xiang Yu did a very beautiful job and was able to make Zhang Han surrender without a fight, his order to let him directly send troops to attack other troops of the Qin army made Tian Heng, a disciple of the Tian Qi clan, very unhappy.

Although Xiang Yu is also from a famous family, he is not a royal family after all, and Tian Heng was ordered in such a tone, which made Tian Heng more and more popular.

However, Tian Heng was definitely not a brave and unscrupulous person, and he quickly saw how feasible Xiang Yu's order was.

Once the Chu army and Zhang Han's rebels have solved the fleeing Dong Peng's army, then the Chu army and Zhang Han's rebels will go directly north and besiege Wang Li's army and the Liaodong army, which he feared deeply, in many places.

As long as it is as Xiang Yu envisioned, the possibility of completely annihilating the king's army and the Liaodong army, or severely inflicting heavy damage on the two Qin armies, is very high.

Tian Heng knew very well that as long as Wang Lijun and the Liaodong Army under Zhang Jiashi were severely damaged, then the possibility that the entire area north of the Yellow River would gradually be annexed by the Qi State would be very large.

Especially the foundation created by Qin Dog's General Zuo in the Liaodong region made Tian Heng even more dizzy.

He took a deep breath, endured the unhappiness in his heart, and said to his guard:

"Go and ask the generals to come and discuss it. ”

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After everyone came, Tian Heng smiled, and then handed over the things sent by Xiang Yu to his deputy general Yu Xing first.

After Yu Ziqi's expression was quite calm, a sneer appeared in his heart, because he knew very well that Tian Heng had obviously moved when he summoned them. With his understanding of Tian Heng, like the tone on this bamboo slip, Tian Heng would not accept it so easily. At the very least, if it weren't for the fact that Tian Heng wanted too many things, Tian Heng would not have endured such a breath.

The current Yuzi period understands very well that Tian Heng has lost a certain ability to think.

For Tian Heng still has the character of a businessman who has not changed, Yu Ziqi doesn't think this is a bad thing, if Tian Heng doesn't have such a greedy thought, it's a strange thing.

As for what Tian Heng was thinking, God knows.

Yu Ziqi silently read this bamboo slip, and then rolled it up, handed it to a general of the Qi army at the head of the next one, and fell into deep thought.

Tian Heng's dispatch of troops is imperative, and the other party also has some doubts about his "aftertaste", if Tian Heng does not let him lead the troops to go with the army for a while, it means that Tian Heng's suspicion of him is getting deeper and deeper.

Such a situation, for the Yuzi period, whether it is a good thing or a bad thing, it is difficult to say now. After all, there are too many factors to change.

Of course, if such a thing happens, it will be a good opportunity.

At the very least, Tian Heng asked him to stay in the barrier area, and he had to pay the corresponding price.

Yu Ziqi's heart sneered softly.

After I don't know how long it was, everyone in Tian Heng's tent directly said their arrangements after reading the contents of the bamboo slips.

And Yu Ziqi did not guess wrong, that is, Yu Ziqi led the soldiers and horses of Xu County, which was composed of the Qin army that broke through from Wu County, Jiangdong, as the backbone, and stayed behind the barrier.

Yu Ziqi, who received such an order, was not dissatisfied. Instead, he smiled and wished Tian Heng victory.

Of course, Yu Ziqi could think of what Tian Heng was thinking. Rather than let him suddenly attack on the front line, it is better to trap him in such a place.

Once Zhang Jiashi's Liaodong Army and Wang Li's army were completely wiped out or defeated, even if he controlled the barrier area, he could only be trapped and fighting.

This abacus is naturally very good, if he doesn't do anything, Tian Heng has to deal with him, it will be easier, and if he does something, then, Tian Heng doesn't have to waste any thoughts.

It's just that there is a big problem with this abacus, that is, if Zhang Jiashi's Liaodong Army can deal with it so easily, the Qiang people, Donghu people, and Wei Bao will not suffer big losses one after another.

And the Northern Frontier Army under Wang Li's command is not so easy to deal with. Although Zang Di now has mastered those small princes, with Zang Di's current strength, it is undoubtedly more difficult to defeat Wang Li than Tian Heng to defeat the Liaodong Army.

At the very least, whether Zang Di will launch an offensive or not is still between the two.

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On the wall north of the fortress area, Yu Ziqi looked at the Qi army formation that was gradually moving away, and only turned around after a while, and said to Yu Da and the others, "Let's start." ”

"!! young master!" Yu Da and the others quickly came down from the city wall after holding their fists and agreeing.

After a while, there were occasional screams from within the barrier......

Yu Ziqi slowly looked up at the sky and muttered, "This battle, perhaps, will make many places echo the wails of the dead souls." ”

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Zang Tu rode his horse to the side of a carriage, he gently opened the curtain and looked at his granddaughter who was already sleeping in the carriage, and his tired expression showed a smile.

He also didn't want his granddaughter to witness the bloodshed of the battlefield, but since what happened at the fortress, Zang Di didn't worry about letting Zang'er stay in the camp, but also let Zang'er accompany him on this expedition.

Looking at Zang Er, who showed a sweet smile on her sleeping face, Zang Di, who didn't know what kind of sweet dreams her granddaughter was having, gently lowered the car curtain......

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