Chapter 561 Taking Advantage of the Emptiness to Capture Lingzhou Emperor Jiao Wen died in anger
"Back to Your Majesty, everyone in the world knows the principle of 'shooting a man first shooting a horse, and capturing a thief first capturing the king'. The minister thought that he should first take Changyang, the capital of the Han State, and after capturing the Han Emperor Liu Huai, he would then order someone to cast the Zen platform, so that his Majesty could take the Zen throne, and when His Majesty was ordered to Yongchang, he could not use the sword soldiers to make the city of the world smoothly return to obedience, even if there are those who do not surrender, they will be isolated and chaotic, and then His Majesty will lead the troops and horses to annex one by one, and the big thing will be successful!" Zhou Qian replied.
"The soldiers of the world without a fight, this plan is very good!" Liu Chong smiled and nodded, even if he established himself as the king, he also knew that no matter the subjects, they were not sincerely obedient, but now if Zhou Qian's strategy succeeded, then he would really be a righteous son of heaven!
With Zhou Qian lighting the fire, Liu Chong no longer hesitated, immediately laughed and nodded to allow the troops, and threatened to break 30,000 soldiers and horses after the army smashed Changyang and captured the Han Emperor Liu Huai alive!
To retreat down, Zhou Qian made an urgent horse to the Chuyang camp to send a letter, less than half a day the letter arrived, Chuyang Zhan Xinguan was extremely angry after reading it, because he couldn't hold back the anger in his heart, he immediately burst into a palm and smashed the book case in the camp tent!
The attendants on the side hurriedly stepped forward to pick up the book on the ground, and the generals who went out with the army at the next station asked with concern: "Why is the prince angry?"
Chu Yang threw the letter to the ground angrily and scolded: "Chongxin two thieves, the dog is daring! Bullying the king! Dare to hide the will of the heavens and the people, and establish himself as the king!"
"How dare these two people do this?!" the general in the tent said with wide eyes and surprise after picking up the letter and reading it.
"If the two thieves don't plan early, they will be laughed at by the world!"
"Prepare troops and horses with me, and attack Xingzhou with all the troops in the camp in the coming day!" Chu Yang said angrily.
The generals of the accompanying army were about to kneel on the ground to receive the order, and when the marching master heard this, he hurriedly stopped: "Prince, go slow first!"
Chu Yang looked at it with the eyes of the patrol, and the master book was not afraid but continued: "The prince is fighting outside, and he doesn't know the geography of Fuzhou, if he is reckless, he will be ambushed. ”
Chu Yang exhaled deeply, and secretly cursed in his heart that he should not be controlled by anger, so he asked the master bookkeeper, "What is Sir's plan?"
The chief bookkeeper thought for a moment and said: "The army has a total of 50,000 people on this trip, and 10,000 can be ambushed here, and then 10,000 people pretend to attack Yuzhou, and the other 30,000 are outside Lingzhou, but seeing that the soldiers and horses of Lingzhou went out of the city to steal our rear, taking advantage of the emptiness of Lingzhou, the army can enter in one fell swoop, and when the rebels know that they have lost Lingzhou, their formation will be chaotic." Then 20,000 out of the 30,000 people in the city will go out of the city, and the 20,000 horses and horses here will flank the rebels, and a great thing can be accomplished. ”
"10,000 to 30,000, the difference is so big, how can you deceive the enemy?"
"Now that the wheat is ripe in autumn, it is possible to tie the straw and branches of the trees behind the wagons, so that the chariots and horses will march behind the front army, and the dust will be lifted up as if the army was marching. ”
Chu Yang nodded and followed the plan of the master book, and stepped up the manpower to complete the construction of the equipment before the rebels left the city.
Chuyang urgently ordered Wang Tai, the pioneer officer in the tent, to take 10,000 soldiers and horses to attack Juzhou, and then called 10,000 people to ambush outside the city of Juzhou, and personally led 30,000 troops to set up an ambush thirty miles north of Lingzhou.
At three o'clock in the afternoon, Wang Tai took advantage of the smoke of making rice in the city as a number, and raised an army of 10,000 to attack the capital of Xingzhou, and Liu Conflict, who was in Lingzhou, heard that the city was in danger, and hurriedly made people hear about the enemy's soldiers and horses, and the spy replied: "I saw that the enemy was rolling up countless dust, and it is not expected to be under 20,000 or 30,000." ”
Liu Chong was frightened and hurriedly asked Duan Ying to take 15,000 men and horses in Lingzhou to the rescue.
When Duan Ying hurried to the outside of Xingzhou, Wang Tai, who was originally a feint, hurriedly led his troops and horses to retreat, and Liu Xin was overjoyed to swing out the 10,000 horses in the city, chasing Wang Tai all the way to defeat the people.
At this time, the early sun got the good news that the soldiers and horses of Lingzhou went out of the city, and suddenly raised an army of 30,000 to attack the cities of Lingzhou, and Lingzhou, which had only five or six thousand men and horses, was broken before dusk, and captured Liu Chong, the leader of the rebel army who had established himself as the king of Jiaowen for less than half a month.
It wasn't until the moment when Liu Chong and Lin Yi were put in prison together that he understood that Zhou Qian, who gave him advice and was regarded as the founding father of the country, was actually a spy sent by the early sun, and his face was purple and red on the spot.
Perhaps because of the anger that caused the blood to rush, or because he couldn't stand the blow of this sudden fall to the bottom, Liu Chong was imprisoned and bled to death in less than two hours.
And with more than 20,000 men and horses, the city of Fuzhou was still fighting at this time, Liu Xin was personally leading the army to chase Wang Tai, who pretended to be defeated, and was about to enter the preset ambush circle, Liu Xin suddenly chased after him, informing his brother Liu Chong that he was arrested and that Lingzhou changed hands.
After confirming that the news was correct, Liu Xinxin was afraid that the rear would be intercepted, so he hurriedly ordered the army to stop, and quickly retreated to the city of Xuzhou.
This sudden news made the Chuyang plan completely shattered, and then made the people and horses ambushed outside to no avail, so he called all 20,000 people outside to return to the city of Lingzhou, that night Chuyang summoned people and horses in the tent to discuss matters, to make 40,000 soldiers attack Fuzhou tomorrow, Zhou Qian on the spot is more familiar with the environment of Zhouzhou, and vetoed on the spot: "There are many swamps in the wetlands of Zhouzhou, and it is not easy to raise troops and horses to enter. ”
"Today, there are far more than 30,000 people from the enemy and me, why can't we enter?"
"Thirty miles outside of Juzhou is still land, but the more you go inside, the more muddy it becomes, if you don't live here for a long time and be familiar with the landform, it's simply difficult to move an inch!" Wang Tai thought about the scene of the horse's hooves stuck in the muddy water today, and now he has a chill down his spine, fortunately, today's siege is prepared to retreat in advance according to the plan, otherwise there is no need to pretend to be defeated, there will really be no return!
"Your Majesty's decree wants me to quell the rebellion and take back the two states, but now the soldiers and horses are not allowed to enter, what can I do?" Chu Yang sighed, anxious and helpless.
Everyone put their eyes on Zhou Qian's body, Zhou Qian thought for a while, and then ordered someone to take the map, pointed to the surroundings of Fuzhou and said: "There is a small road in the northwest of Zhou, which leads directly to Zhezhou, and the prince can lead his soldiers and horses to pass by." If you take a detour, you can reach the bottom of the city of Jeju in five days. ”
"It's a small road, but you can pass through the cars and horses?"
"The roads are rough enough to accommodate three to five thousand people. ”
"Three or five thousand?! There are nearly 30,000 rebels in the city, and with such a small number of troops, against more than 20,000 brutal troops, won't they drive dogs, sheep and tigers?" Wang Tai exclaimed and vetoed.
"That's all there is to it. Zhou Qian sighed, although the capital city of Lingzhou is very close to Xingzhou, there is only one forest road for horses only, and this road can only be used by a single person to ride a fast horse back and forth between the two places to deliver letters, and a large number of teams must not be able to enter and exit.
Seeing that he had been staring at the map for a long time, Chu Yang suddenly laughed, although the number of troops is small, but this is called going deep behind enemy lines!
Everyone looked puzzled, and saw Chu Yang and said, "Enter this way!"
Everyone was surprised and was about to be dissuaded, so Chu Yang ordered to interrupt, and asked Wang Tai to continue to lead troops and horses to attack Xingzhou five days later to lead its main force, and he would personally lead 5,000 men and horses to bypass Zhezhou and go deep into the hinterland of Zhenzhou to strangle its throat!