Chapter 382: Retreat on all fronts
"Oh, General Xu, you can count it back!" Just now, General Chu came angrily, saying that General Xu had seriously injured Pan He, the general of the You army, and wanted the general to punish you!" the guard said in a low voice.
When Xu Li heard this, his nose was almost crooked, he hadn't gone to settle accounts with Chu Chen, but he was the wicked person who sued first, how could it be reasonable?!
Xu Li strode into the Chinese military tent, and when he arrived inside, he didn't even look at Chu Chen and other generals, he walked directly in front of Ren Tianxing, intervened in the salute, and said, "General, I have escorted General Lin back to the inner city of Jiangyang." ”
Seeing Xu Li, the reactions of the Yan General and You Jiang in the tent were completely different.
The Yan generals breathed a sigh of relief, one by one, while the generals were full of indignation, looking at Xu Li as if they were about to pounce on him and bite him a few times at any time.
Ren Tianxing was very calm, sitting behind the handsome case, waving his hand to Xu Li slowly, and said indifferently: "General Xu has worked hard. After a pause, he looked at Chu Chen, who was standing aside with an angry face, and then said: "General Xu, General Chu complained to Ben Shuai, saying that you injured Brother You Jun, I don't know if there is such a thing?"
Xu Li took a deep breath and said in a deep voice: "This is indeed the case!"
As soon as his words fell, Chu Chen couldn't wait to say: "What's the matter, Ren Shuai, this is General Xu's own admission, it's not that the general has wronged him, right?"
"Hmph!" Xu Li snorted coldly and said: "General Chu, if you don't come to the door, I will still go to you, and ask you what your intentions are! General Ren has reached a peace agreement with General Lin, but you have set up an ambush on the way to assassinate General Lin, you are not only destroying the peace agreement between the two sides, but also putting our Yan country in an unkind and unjust situation, how can you explain this?"
Ren Tianxing had already guessed that this was the case. Now listening to Xu Li's words, he pretended to suddenly realize, turned his head and looked at Chu Chen again, as if asking him what was going on.
Chu Chen's face turned red, and then he said toughly: "Jin Country is an enemy country, and Jin Shuai is a great enemy. What's wrong with our army assassinating forest thieves?"
Ren Tianxing still didn't interject or express his position, and turned his head to Xu Li again.
Xu Li said coldly: "When the two armies are fighting, no matter what means are used to kill the commander of the enemy country, it is understandable, and now that the two sides have negotiated peace, the general is still bent on putting General Lin to death, is General Nie too reckless?"
Unexpectedly, Xu Li, who had always been taciturn, became so eloquent at this time, and Chu Chen was also speechless by his questioning for a while.
Just when he didn't know what to say. Ren Tianxing finally spoke, and he said: "Yes, what General Xu said makes sense! General Chu, Ben Shuai has already negotiated peace with General Lin, but you went to assassinate General Lin, didn't this make Ben Shuai a villain who rebelled? It also made you and me lose face!"
Chu Chen was annoyed and angry, and took the case. Zhen Sheng said: "It doesn't matter if what Ben will do is right or wrong, but it is a fact that General Xu seriously injured General Pan. How are you going to deal with this?"
At this time, Ren Tianxing stopped talking again, and looked at Xu Li with a confused face.
Xu Li said: "My duty is to protect General Lin, but General Pan is here to assassinate General Lin, and my duty is to fight General Pan." It is inevitable that you will be injured in the competition, let alone on the battlefield. If I hadn't done my best, I would be lying down now. ”
Chu Chen shouted angrily and asked, "What does General Xu mean ......?"
Xu Li replied: "I mean, Pan He took the blame for himself, and did not take his life, I have already thought of the righteousness of the alliance. Mercy!"
"You ......" Chu Chen's angry eyes went straight to Venus, stretched out his hand and pointed at Xu Li's nose, and he was speechless for a long time.
Xu Li was too lazy to argue with him anymore, turned around and walked to Ren Fang's subordinates, flirted with his skirt, threw off his robe, and sat cross-legged.
Xu Li is a general, in terms of military rank, he is on the same level as Ren Tianxing, he is low-key and silent, but it does not mean that he has no temper, if he really initiates Weilai, even Ren Tianxing has to be afraid of three points.
Looking at his attitude, how could Chu Chen's face be hanged, his facial features were distorted, his expression was hideous, he looked back at Ren Tianxing, and asked, "Ren Shuai, how do you deal with Xu Li's injury to my General Pan?"
Ren Tianxing smiled and said: "General Chu, don't be angry, don't worry, General Xu is a little heavier, but it is also the duty, if there is any offense, this marshal will compensate General Nie on his behalf." As he spoke, Ren Tianxing stood up and bowed respectfully to Chu Chen.
As the commander of the coalition forces, Ren Tianxing was able to put down his body and apologize to Chu Chen in public, which was already enough to give him face, but Chu Chen was obviously not satisfied.
The two generals under his command, Pan He and Wu Jin, were injured and killed, Wu Jin died at the hands of Lin Haotian, there is nothing to say, but Pan He was injured in Xu Li's hands, if this matter is only because of Ren Tianxing's apology and a salute, then You Jun will not lose face in front of the Yan Army, and what majesty does his army commander have in the army?
Chu Chen's eyes shot out an eerie cold light, stared at Ren Fang coldly, and asked word by word, "Is this how Ren Shuai dealt with it?"
Ren Tianxing always smiled on the surface, looking like a peaceful old man, but in fact, he was tougher than anyone else, and in his bones, he had the arrogance unique to the nobles of the Yan Kingdom.
He looked at Shang Chuchen, slowly sat back on the bedding, and then said with a calm smile: "That's right, this is how I deal with it." General Chu, you and I are allies, and you and our armies are brothers' armies, so why bother in case of trouble? What's more, this time it is indeed You Jun's brother who is at fault first!"
"Now that you are seriously injured and lying on the bed dying, it is not the general of your Yan Army, of course you don't have a backache when you stand and talk!"
"No matter who is injured, Ben Shuai is reasonable. I negotiated peace with General Lin, this is something that you and I both agree on, and General Chu just wanted to assassinate General Lin, resulting in General Pan He being injured, to put it mildly, the main responsibility is still on your side. ”
"Both sides agree to negotiate peace?" Chu Chen laughed angrily, and said sharply: "The Lord has always been you, Ren Tianxing, I, Chu Chen, have never agreed! If you want to reconcile with the gold thief and withdraw the army, then your Yan army will retreat by yourself, my You army would rather die than retreat, and would rather die than be a dog that runs away with his tail between his legs!"
At this time, Chu Chen was really dizzy, and he completely tore his face with Ren Tianxing regardless of it. After roaring, Nie Ze angrily pointed at Ren Tianxing at Guanli, turned around and strode out.
As soon as Chu Chen left, many of the generals also got up, and many of them snorted heavily at Ren Tianxing and walked away.
"Chu Chen is hateful, there is no one in his eyes!" After the generals walked out of the big tent for a while, the Yan generals who were in shock came back to their senses one after another, their faces were flushed with anger, they blew their beards and stared, and even the injured Yang Jie even slapped the table, if it weren't for the arrow wound on his foot, he would have to chase him out and reason with You Jun.
Ren Tianxing was not annoyed, at least not on his face. He smiled indifferently and said, "The Tao is different, don't conspire with each other! Since people want to stay, let them stay, Chu Chen wants to kill himself, and we can't care so much." ”
The You army fought bravely, but without the support of the Yan army and the large weapons provided by the Yan army, they wanted to defeat the Jin army and destroy the Jin country by their own strength, which would be beyond their strength. In Ren Tianxing's view, if You Jun does not retreat and stays alone, there is only a dead end.
Chu Chen said that he would rather die than retreat, that was just a momentary angry talk, and he was not impulsive enough to really stay and fight the Jin Army alone.
Returning to the camp of the You army, sitting in the tent of the Chinese army and discussing with the generals and strategists under his command, Chu Chen also felt that he could not afford to stay in the territory of the Jin country alone and fight the Jin army alone, and in the end, he could only accept the fate of retreating.
This protracted and months-long battle between the two kingdoms of You Yan and the alliance of the two countries to fight for gold finally ended with the initiative of the You Yan coalition army to sue for peace.
In this battle, the two sides did not distinguish a clear victory.
The You Yan coalition army dispatched a total of one million people, and in the battle, the casualties were close to 400,000, and there were as many as 150,000 people in the mysterious disappearance of Nie Lin in the Jin Kingdom alone. However, the casualties of the Jin Kingdom were not few, in the battle of Twin Peaks, the Fifth Army was almost completely annihilated, and the 100,000-strong army was finally left with only 30,000 or 40,000 people, plus the casualties of the 1st Army, the 2nd Army, and the 6th Army, and Jin Li's attrition was also close to 300,000.
If you only look at the data of casualties on both sides, it can be determined that it is a battle of both sides, but there are many things that cannot be seen in the data, the most important of which is that in the battle of Vajin, the weak alliance between the two countries has cracked, and the relationship between the two armies is even worse, even to the extent that water and fire are incompatible.
It stands to reason that the two armies are allies and should help each other in the retreat, but the Yan army and the You army retreated separately, the Yan army withdrew first, and the You army retreated.
This kind of retreat is not that You Jun is so noble and wants to break off for the Yan army, but they don't bother to walk with the Yan army at all. (To be continued......)