Chapter 14: A Dark Winter Night
After returning to Feng'an City, I immediately led my troops to plan a big battle, and put the advance of marrying Lin Su in the back of my mind. Less than half a month after returning to Feng'an, the "Weihe" battle was about to break out.
Our army's main battle is Li Yunda on the north bank of the Wei River, Li Yunda is close to the Xishan camp in the east and the danger of the Wei River in the west. The banner and battle equipment were all prepared, so that Li Yunda's iron cavalry was like walking on the ground, and Li Yunda sat down on the central battle ship of the navy, summoned all the generals, and each obeyed the order. Li Yunda's soldiers from both the north and south were on the boat, enthusiastically showing bravery, bayoneting guns and swords. The front and rear armies on the left and right, the flags are not mixed. There were more than 50 small boats, and the patrol police came and went. Li Yunda stood on the platform, watched the exercise, and was overjoyed in his heart, thinking that he would win; Li Yunda properly solved the problem of the northern soldiers being afraid of the water by interlocking the big ships with iron chains, and there were hundreds of small boats to satisfy the superiority of the southern soldiers on the water, and as long as the southern soldiers used the advantage of small boats to seize the position on the south bank of the Wei River, they only needed to work hard for a moment to buy time for the northern interlocking warships to land, and they could launch a fierce attack on our Feng'an City with absolute numerical superiority, and it was only a matter of time before the city was broken.
Now is the autumn and winter, the northeast wind, Li Yunda has an absolute advantage, and for us is a disadvantage, I also think of the story of Zhuge Liang of the Three Kingdoms borrowing the east wind and burning Chibi, now the direction of the wind is not dominant at all, even if there is, Li Yunda's hundreds of small warships are not vegetarian, I also specially looked for Zhang Yuliang to see if I could borrow the southwest wind, Zhang Yuliang smiled and said, Dashuai is really joking, he just knows yin and yang, knows the principles of heaven, and does not change the immortal power of the day; I knew that Zhuge Liang's borrowing of the east wind was just a legend, how could it be in reality, if only I could fly, I could fight a battle if I flew over, but I wouldn't either.
I used to think that I could do anything in this day and age with more scientific and historical knowledge than they did. But after experiencing many things, I really realized that although I know a lot, the gap between the perception of the world and the objective material conditions of the people around me has caused even if I am the new generation of the advanced civilization era, in this era I am just an ordinary human reality, and the kind of thinking in the past is completely imaginary and imaginary without any life experience. Only by slowly abiding by the objective laws of nature and with the help of more people with lofty ideals can it be possible to survive in this era, and to work as hard as possible for more people to survive well.
In the early morning of late autumn, I walked out of the military tent, although there was no fog in autumn, but the temperature in the early morning was still very low, the river breeze was cold, the fog was misty, and the Weishui was cold and condensed, thinking of the more than 100,000 troops of Li Yunda on the other side of the Wei River, and although I claimed to have 70,000 elite soldiers, in addition to the 20,000 garrisons of Hanshan Pass and Hanshan County and the 20,000 garrisons of Huangliang County, there were more than 30,000 people in Feng'an City and Li Yunda, and the battle of Hanshan Pass was the tragic death of the deputy general Yang Zhilin, which basically broke a powerful arm of Deng Pinghe. And Pan Wenyuan's lieutenant general is now also in charge of Hanshan County, the current lieutenant generals of several generals under my command are either dead or stationed elsewhere, I can only be a marshal as a general in Feng'an City now, fortunately, several generals Deng Pinghe, Zhang Jiahe, Pan Wenyuan, Wang Qizhong and strategist Zhang Yuliang are all around, and the ratio of troops between me and Li Yunda is now one to three, and I am not at all advantageous in numbers.
Just when I was worried, my "east wind" came-Pang Yan, I didn't expect that it was the last time Pang Yan followed Yang Yudong back to the Xishan camp, although Yang Yudong went to prison, and Pang Yan established a great achievement, this time Li Yunda's subordinates had no available people to enable Pang Yan, and Pang Yuan got the combat strategy over there through communication with Pang Yan.
Li Yunda is considered to be a lucky general who has the wisdom to fight in the Great Calendar Dynasty, and his deployment: the first day of the tenth month of the lunar calendar (this is a day to pay tribute to the dead, we have the tradition of putting river lanterns to worship here), the wind is northeasterly, which is completely beneficial to Li Yunda, hoarding hundreds of thousands of catties of black oil, wanting to pour into the Wei River and burn our warship. It's another battle with surprising fire, but unfortunately, Li Yunda ran into me Guo Chusan, and I want to make him completely dumb.
As for how to dumb fire, I don't have any good way, Xiaozhu said, if we mobilize troops and horses on a large scale now, it will inevitably arouse Li Yunda's vigilance, and it will definitely not be able to make large-scale military moves in Feng'an City, but fortunately, Zhang Jiahe can take the head of the enemy among the ten thousand troops with a spear, so I have to let him borrow troops from Song Xiangtong's Anyang, and take advantage of Li Yunda's attack on my Feng'an camp in Weibei from the upper reaches of the slope to completely break off, so that he can not care about each other.
Before the first day of October, Zhang Yuliang took tens of thousands of straw men, and the grass man's body was wrapped in a firearm (similar to our explosives), Zhang Yuliang explained, from Li Yunda to set fire to our warship, and then to the straw man It takes a certain amount of time, after the warship is extinguished, the straw man will slowly burn for a period of time, at this time Li Yunda's warship must have come, just when the firearm burns, the firearm burns, so that Li Yunda's warship is also in the sea of fire, His chain of big war ships blocked the way back of the boat, his entire team and soldiers were in the sea of fire, plus General Zhang Jiahe burned his backyard in his Weibei camp, he had to go down the Wei River, at this time General Pan Wenyuan had informed Pan Yu'an, the capital of Hanshan County, to lure troops along the Hanshan River of the Wei River, and he Li Yunda could not escape down the Wei River to Nantongguo, so he had to flee to Nanyan Town opposite Hanshan County, and then ask for help from the Xishan camp or take Nanyan Town to reach Nanyan Town.
Zhang Yuliang continued, this is to give Li Yunda a way out, but we also took the opportunity to seize the four towns of Feng'an County in Weibei, waiting for Futong and Song Xiangtong to come to Weiyang, we can take Xishan in one fell swoop, and then break Weizhou City. In this way, we can directly collide with the Dali Imperial Court.
I said, so our warships are all burned down, how can we cross the river?
Pang Yuan on the side said, Feng'an lives on the water, and there are no less than 1,000 civilian boats, so we can requisition them.
I know that the so-called "expropriation" is mandatory to take it over, and there is no other way, I propose to take out some expenses to expropriate, to minimize the loss of the people, I also gave a play to the people of Feng'an City, and the righteousness was awe-inspiring, the requisition of civilian ships is not possible, if the imperial court once the city is broken, the lives will be ruined, anyway, it is a benevolent speech, in short, things are still going well, and there are some small frictions, but for the sake of the overall situation, everyone mediated privately.