Chapter 507: Charcoal in the Snow
For the Red Army's raid on the New Red Army, the generals of the Jin Army were all secretly happy, thinking that the New Red Army had evil retribution and suffered from themselves, if they were willing to come to their aid, now they were already in Guping County, not to mention being blocked by the You Army in Canglin, so they should never retreat to rescue them.
Lin Haotian's opinion was exactly at odds with that of the generals, believing that he should immediately rescue the New Red Army.
Although the new Red Army did not go to the front line, it was not dispensable for the Four-Nation Alliance, if they were really defeated by the You Army, not only would their own logistics supply lines be cut off, but Canglin County would also be recaptured by the You Army, and then the Jin Army and the Yan-Chi Alliance Army would become a lone army deep into the hinterland of the You State, and the situation would also become precarious.
At Lin Haotian's insistence, although the generals of the Jin army were reluctant, they could only reluctantly choose to compromise, and the Jin army slowly retreated from Guping County to Canglin County.
The reason why it is a slow retracement is also what Lin Haotian meant. He is waiting, waiting for the new Red Army and the You Army to fight first, to see how the battle goes, if the New Red Army wins, the Jin Army will rush back to beat the water dogs, if the New Red Army loses, the Jin Army will appear again, undoubtedly like a charcoal in the snow, and its effect is much better than when the two sides did not start the war.
Let's say that the You Army, led by Chen Bo, launched a fierce attack on the camp of the New Red Army almost with a thunderous momentum.
The two sides are 400,000 to 200,000, the disparity in strength is huge, the new Red Army is on the defensive, the soldiers have camps to rely on, and they have a huge advantage in geographical advantages, and the You Army is coming from afar, exhausted, it stands to reason that the New Red Army should take the initiative, but the battle situation is just the opposite. The attacking You army completely occupied the battlefield and launched a large-scale siege on the huge camp of the New Red Army.
After only one night of fighting, the New Red Army had already suffered heavy losses.
Seeing that the regiments were defeated one after another, the combat strength of the New Red Army was also sharply reduced, and after a fierce battle in the afternoon, the large camp of the New Red Army was broken by the You Army no less than four times, but fortunately, the two armies fought desperately to get it back, otherwise, the New Red Army would have been defeated faster.
At noon, the You army temporarily retreated. All the officers and men of the army camped on the spot outside the main camp of the New Red Army to rest. Recuperate and prepare to give the new Red Army the deadliest blow.
On the other side, the large battalion of the New Red Army was lifeless and demoralized. The wails of the wounded soldiers in the camp were heard loudly. This made the soldiers of the New Red Army, who were already afraid of Youjun, even more panicked. Many of the young soldiers who had not been on the battlefield were so frightened that they could not even grasp their weapons.
In the Chinese military tent, Song Hao was furious. He repeatedly asked his subordinates, why hadn't the Jin army arrived yet? Didn't they say that they had already retreated, why hadn't they rushed over yet?
The generals drooped their heads one by one, and they didn't dare to breathe, they didn't know much more about the situation than Song Hao, as for why the Jin army who had withdrawn aid hadn't arrived yet, how could they know the reason.
Just when Song Hao was angry with his subordinates, the casualties of the two armies were counted, and after a small half-day battle, the casualties of the New Red Army were more than 20,000.
After hearing about his own battle losses, a strategist Ji Lingling gave a cold battle and said to Song Hao: "King, I see ...... If we continue to fight like this, before the Jin army arrives, the soldiers of our army will be wiped out first. ”
Song Hao was also out of luck at this time, he asked, "What do you mean......"
"Break through!" The strategist said with a pale face and a trembling voice: "Only by breaking through can we have a way to live......! I'm afraid no one will survive!"
Hearing this, Song Hao's body was also shocked, thinking of what the New Red Army had done in You Country in recent days, if he fell into the hands of You Jun, he might have to suffer a lot of torture.
He swallowed with difficulty, nodded again and again, and replied, "What you say is reasonable......! In your opinion, let's break out!"
Hearing Song Hao's decision to break out, the generals grinned in unison.
General Shang Yuan hurriedly said: "Your Majesty, you must not break through the siege! We are guarding the camp, and there is still a camp to rely on, once we break through the siege, there will be no danger to defend." Besides, our side has a lot of baggage, and the You army can't outrun the lightly armed formation, and I hope that the king will take back his order and defend the camp!"
The baggage in the camp of the New Red Army is not only a lot, it can be described as a huge number, and all the supplies of the Four-Nation Alliance are here, including grain and grass, military salaries, armaments, materials, etc., to break through with these many things, it is no different from suicide.
The other generals also persuaded each other, asking Song Hao to wait a little longer, maybe the Jin army would arrive immediately.
But Song Hao is used to being pampered, and he didn't put his net worth and life on the mind and courage of others, and the Jin army arrived immediately, but what if it didn't arrive? When he and You Jun fought hard and suffered heavy casualties, they couldn't break through if they wanted to.
This greedy king who is afraid of death has already made up his mind, no matter how the generals below persuade him, he has made up his mind, he must break through immediately, as for the burden that drags people down, he will give up all of them, and the whole army will break through lightly, and the direction of the breakthrough is in the territory of Yan Kingdom in the east.
Song Hao planned to break through to the east and flee to the Yan country for refuge, which is also a coincidence, when the You army launched the second siege, the attacks in all directions were fierce, but the offensive on the east side was weaker, and the number of You troops engaged in the battle was also the smallest.
How could Song Hao miss such a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity? He hurriedly gave the order to open the Dongying Gate and the whole army broke through to the east.
Obviously, the You army did not expect the new Red Army to suddenly come out of the camp, and the You army fighting in the east was caught off guard by the sudden new Red Army, and under the lack of preparation, the You army in the east quickly collapsed to the north and south.
Seeing that the opportunity could not be missed, the new Red Army rushed out of the camp with all its might and fled eastward.
Song Hao thought that his timing was skillful and he finally succeeded in breaking through, but who would have thought that the reason why You Jun's troops in the east were weak was completely a trap set by Chen Bo.
Through the battle at noon, Chen Bo has seen that the new Red Army is just a superficial appearance, but in fact it is weak, not his opponent at all, plus Song Hao is a monarch, cowardly by nature, greedy for life and afraid of death, in the case of such a passive battle, the two of them are likely to have plans to break through.
Rather than letting the New Red Army have a camp to rely on and defend to the death, it is better to release it. Let the enemy lose the advantage of geographical advantage, and the battle will be better for your own side.
Out of such calculations, Chen Bo deliberately weakened the offensive in the east, deliberately leaving the New Red Army a chance to break through.
He really calculated correctly, Song Hao, a death-scared ghost and unlucky bastard, really did it, and led the New Red Army to break out from the east.
Highlighting the encirclement, the New Red Army fled frantically in the direction of Yanguo like a lost dog.
The two armies ran together, and the wounded soldiers also lost one, and now life and death are at stake. Everyone is running for their lives. Where can I take care of my injured comrades.
As a result, the New Red Army only escaped ten miles away, and suddenly the war drums were noisy in front of it, and shouts of killing were everywhere. The 100,000-strong You army seemed to have fallen from the sky. blocked the way of the New Red Army.
Song Hao looked at it. was so frightened that his soul was scattered, and at this time the two of them finally realized that they had fallen for You Jun's tricks. The two of them hurriedly ordered. The rear army became the front army, and all of them withdrew to the camp, but where was the time?
The 300,000 You Army led by Chen Bo had already chased and killed the New Red Army, and did not rush to attack, and the two waves of You Army, one in front and one behind, converged together, and surrounded the New Red Army of more than 200,000 people, three layers inside and three layers outside, and the water could not be passed.
Under Song Hao's order, the New Red Army made the extremely stupid decision to abandon the camp and break through with the whole army, but when it broke out, it fell into the trap of the You army and was surrounded by 400,000 You regiments.
To add insult to injury, the New Red Army soon saw the smoke billowing from their camp, and even if they were ten miles away, they could still see the sky as if it had been burned red by fire.
There were so many materials hoarded in the coalition camp that the You army couldn't grab them all if they wanted to, and Chen Bo was unwilling to leave such a huge amount of materials to the four-nation coalition army, and finally ordered to burn down the camp.
The baggage of the poor four-nation alliance army was reduced to ashes under the fire of the You army, and it was gone.
The camp caught fire, and the New Red Army had no way to retreat, and in the case of being surrounded by the You Legion, the officers and men of the two armies could only fight to the death.
The battle between the two sides was fierce, from day to night, and from night to dawn.
The fierce battle between the two sides with a million armies was grand in scale and the scene was also tragic, and there were many casualties on both sides.
The combat strength of the new Red Army is inferior to that of the You Army, but that is under normal circumstances, and the current situation is that the two armies have fallen into a desperate situation, and there is no other way but to fight to the death.
One person fought desperately, but three people were defeated, not to mention that the New Red Army had more than 200,000 people.
After a day and night of fierce fighting, the casualties of the You army were close to 80,000, and the casualties of the New Red Army were as high as 100,000.
A major battle was temporarily suspended, and the original 200,000 New Red Army was now only half left, and there were barely about 100,000 soldiers in battle.
During the vicious battle, Song Hao didn't want to break out, but he really couldn't break through, the encirclement of the You Army was like an iron bucket array, no matter how fierce the breakthrough of the New Red Army was, but in the end it was blocked back by the You Army one by one.
By now, Song Hao has felt desperate, and it seems impossible to expect the arrival of reinforcements, and with his own strength, it is impossible to be the opponent of the You army, and now there seems to be only one dead end left for the new Red Army.
Song Hao even thought of taking the initiative to disarm and surrender, but the idea of the two was immediately opposed by his subordinates, and the monarch surrendered.
According to the meaning of the generals of the new Red Army, now they can only fight to the death, if they can wait for the arrival of reinforcements, they still have hope of survival, if they can't wait, they can only serve the country loyally and kill themselves.
Under the unanimous opposition of the generals, Song Haocai reluctantly dispelled the idea of surrender and insisted on it.
At this time, the Jin army that came to help had already entered Canglin County, and also heard the news that the new Red Army was trapped, but the Jin army did not rush directly to this side, but divided the troops into multiple routes and made a detour.
Of course, this was also Lin Haotian's idea! He did this for two reasons: he divided his troops into multiple routes, which could be broken into pieces, so that he could hide his own whereabouts, and second, he wanted to carry out a counter-encirclement against You's army.
The You Army can besiege the New Red Army, Lin Haotian plans to follow the example of the You Army, and return the other way to the other side, besiege the You Army on the periphery of the You Army's encirclement, and strive to completely annihilate the Central Army of the You State.
Whether the New Red Army can hold out for another two or three days in the battle with the You Army, no one knows. However, the attack of the You army slowed down next.
Rushing all the way from Huaiyang to Canglin County, first attacking the camp, then fighting fiercely, and the You army was also extremely tired.
Even Chen Bo saw that the physical strength of his soldiers had reached the limit, and if he continued to attack, he was afraid that not only would he not be able to annihilate the New Red Army, but the casualties on his side would be extremely large. Therefore, he gave up the rush to attack, and instead chose a more secure trap, and the new Red Army broke through lightly. Rations were limited. Chen Bo believed that within three days, the New Red Army would have to run out of food, and within five days. The combat strength of the new Red Army had to be cut by half. By then, you will have enough mental and physical strength. Attack again, and get your hands on it.
He was not wrong at all, and even overestimated the grain and grass of the New Red Army. On the night of the second day of the armistice, the New Red Army ran out of water, and by the third day, more than 100,000 remnants of the army had begun to run out of food on a large scale.
For the New Red Army, the water and food cuts that had just begun were not the most deadly, but the most deadly thing was that the mountains of corpses around them could not be cleaned up. In the past few days, the corpses were exposed to the sun and decomposed very quickly, attracting mosquitoes, flies, and maggots all over the place, and soon, hundreds of thousands of remnants of soldiers fell ill. At first, there were only a few occasional cases, but then, the soldiers began to fall ill in droves, and I don't know how many soldiers died of illness due to lack of medical treatment.
The whole battlefield is stinking, whether it is the New Red Army trapped inside or the You Army on the periphery, people usually cover their faces with sweat towels to cover their mouths and noses, even so, they still can't stop the disgusting stench of the wafting air.
When the new Red Army had held out to the point where it could no longer hold on, and the lower forces were already sitting in despair and waiting to die, Chen Bo finally decided to attack the whole army and give the enemy the deadliest and final blow.
However, before the offensive of the You army could be launched, at the last moment, in the rear, there was a rumbling sound, and the dust was raised high, and a cavalry composed of tens of thousands of people suddenly appeared and rushed towards the camp of the You army.
Chen Bo, who heard the news, was taken aback, he didn't know which country's army the sudden enemy was, and in a panic, he ordered his general Yang Ying to lead an army of 50,000 to block the enemy army that suddenly appeared.
Yang Ying is also a well-known fierce general in You Country, but this time he was unlucky to touch Ling Wuya and Zhang Bufan of Jin Kingdom.
These two, neck and neck, rushed to the front of the cavalry team, seeing that You Jun was already attacking, Ling Wuya and Zhang Bufan did not slow down, the former shouted at the oncoming Yang Ying while urging the horse: "The one who takes your head today is the general of the Jin Kingdom, Ling Wuya!"
Before the words fell, Ling Wuya had already arrived in front of Yang Ying, and the whirlwind of knives was released.
When Yang Ying heard Ling Wuya's name, his heart was in a big array, how dare he be careless, and parry the opponent's sword whirlwind with a knife whirlwind.
He had blocked the whirlwind of the sword, but Ling Wuya, who was charging forward, had also rushed to his side, and the long knife in his hand swept forward sideways.
Yang Ying hurriedly raised his gun to parry, and heard two sounds of 'dangchang' and 'plop' in the ear chakra, and Yang Ying's body was smashed under the horse by Ling Wuya's heavy knife.
Before he could stand up, lightning flashed in the air, and a spear pierced the sky and flew straight towards Yang Ying's chest.
At this time, he had been shocked to the blackening of his eyes, where could he still see the spear that came over, he was stabbed in the chest by this gun, and he heard a thud, this flying spear pierced through Yang Ying's chest, and the tip of the spear poked out from behind it, and pierced deeply into the ground, nailing him to the ground alive.
Ling Wuya, who turned his horse back, picked up a ready-made bargain, raised the knife in his hand, and cut off Yang Ying's head.
At this time, Zhang Bufan also urged the horse to run over, without stopping for a moment, he pulled out the spear nailed to the ground while walking, shook his arms, and rushed into You Jun's camp with a gun.
Ling Wuya laughed twice and followed into the You Jun camp.
The two of them split into two ways, one on the left and one on the right, and then the cavalry team behind them was also divided into two.
The two cavalry, like two sharp knives, cut the 50,000 You army into three pieces. Even if it was as fierce as You's army, it couldn't resist the close quarters charge of the cavalry, and the camp of 50,000 men was soon shattered by the cavalry, and it was routed back like a plate of scattered sand.
Unexpectedly, the 50,000 soldiers he had just sent out were killed by the enemy so quickly, and even the general Yang Ying was killed in battle.
He asked the defeated soldiers, who was the enemy, and how could he be so powerful?
A special general opened his mouth and replied in a trembling voice: "The enemy army is all cavalry, and the banner is the Jin army, and the general led by the Jin country is Ling Wuya!"
As soon as he heard this name, Chen Bo's heart suddenly turned cold, not because he was intimidated by Ling Wuya's reputation, but because Ling Wuya was here, it meant that the main force of the Jin army had withdrawn to Canglin County, and there was no hope for his own side to annihilate the New Red Army.
In the critical situation, Chen Bo couldn't think about it carefully, and urgently ordered the whole army to give up the siege of the New Red Army, all of them retreated, and retreated to the south.
But at this time, if he wanted to retreat, it was too late.
At this time, I listened to all directions, the drums shook the sky, the shouts of killing were loud, and the banners of countless Jin Army and the First Army were erected in front and back of the You Army, and under the banner were the soldiers of the Jin Army who could not be seen at a glance.
The current situation is very interesting, the You army is besieging the New Red Army, while the Jin army is besieging the You army, and the two sides are one layer after another.
However, the sudden appearance of the Jin army was a fatal blow to the morale of the You army. Originally, the You Army had already taken the full initiative, and it was only a matter of time before the New Red Army was completely annihilated, but now, the situation has taken a turn for the worse, and the You Army has not only had no time to take care of the New Red Army, but also has to consider how to break through the encirclement.
The Jin army carried out a counter-encirclement of the You army besieging the New Red Army, which made the You army panic and let the New Red Army, which was on the verge of despair, see a glimmer of life.
After the Jin armies from all walks of life completed the encirclement, the 40,000 cavalry led by Ling Wuya and Zhang Bufan immediately launched a charge against the You army camp.
These two Jin generals broke into the camp of the You army, as if entering a no-man's land, the 40,000 cavalry seemed to spin gold, and the places they passed, leaving countless corpses of the You army.
Ling Wuya and Zhang Bufan rushed from the periphery of the You army into the interior, and the cavalry team of Jin Chi rushed straight towards the camp of the New Red Army.
The soldiers of the New Red Army, who saw their banner clearly, were pleasantly surprised, and people began to shout from a distance: "Brother Jinjun, we are here! We are our own people!" (to be continued......