Chapter 233: Turning Point
To go to Beiping, naturally have to cross the Yongding River, leaving the Texas camp of 500,000 troops to the Yongding River, is slowly crossing the river along the Lugou Bridge on the Yongding River, one hundred and forty pillars on the Lugou Bridge, six hundred and twenty-four stone lions with different postures on the top quietly watch this murderous army, such a scene, is not the first time to appear on this ancient bridge that has been windy and rainy for hundreds of years.
Li Jinglong, who was dressed in bright armor and hunting with a big flag behind him, boarded the bridge, whipped and pointed directly at Beiping City, and was full of spirit, his eyes rolled, and he always felt that he had to say something on the eve of this kind of war to boost morale, so he smiled and said: "This river is hundreds of zhang wide, if the Yan army destroys the bridge, or takes advantage of the gap between the army crossing the bridge to set up an ambush and sneak attack, how can this commander easily wave the city of Beiping?" Since Zhending, the Yan army has retreated everywhere, and does not dare to engage our army at all, which shows that Yan Wei is not only ignorant, but also frightened! Isn't this a sign of our army's victory? ”
Qu Neng, Li Wen and several other governors who were on standby could only look at each other and smile bitterly when they heard this, the previous discussion in the military tent was made for them to understand, this Li Jinglong in front of him was a straw bag who could only talk about soldiers on paper, no matter what he said, he had to talk a few words about the art of war, and now it was obviously the best opportunity to trap King Yan, but he had to fight Beiping City... But the good thing is that even if you fight according to the strategy of this princess, it will only prolong the time for counterinsurgency, as for victory or defeat? There is no doubt about it, in the face of this 500,000 army, how can King Yan have the possibility of victory?
If Gu Huai saw the various beings here, he would probably subconsciously think of the German army that attacked Moscow in 1941, at that time they were also so optimistic, thinking that they would definitely be able to end this war before the harsh winter came, and even many people thought that it was just a matter of a few days earlier and a few days later, and victory would definitely belong to them...
Probably this is one of the charms of war, there is never a war in this world that must be won, all the tests are only the commanders of both sides and the soldiers who are close to each other.
And now, it's almost November
It is commonly known as the cold winter wax moon.
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Bloodstained Yongping city head, a Yan soldier is planting the "Yan" word flag on the city tower, this city was briefly captured by the southern army, back to the hands of the king of Yan, before also threatened to fight Yongping and then the king of Yan Geng Jiao outside the city in the siege of an arrow unconscious, at this moment has probably been seen bad Wu Gao led all the way to Shanhaiguan run.
And Zhu Di also played his always fine tradition, that is, to send the Buddha to the west, Geng and Wu Gao were defeated, and Yang Yangwen, the general soldier of Liaodong who had not been able to arrive before, was even more unlikely to come at this moment, so only some wounded veterans were left in Yongping City to clean up the battlefield, and the soldiers who could still fight were taken by Zhu Di to chase Wu Gao.
In detail, Geng Jian guarded Yongping for a day and a half, although the previous siege battle was not smooth, but after breaking with Wu Gao and doing it alone, Geng Ten, who did not hesitate to attack with his life with a breath of anger, really beat Yongping down, but when he triumphantly went to Wu Gao to prepare to ridicule him, Wu Gao smiled and led the troops into Yongping together, which made Geng Jian feel that he had punched into the air.
But what they didn't expect was that just one day later, the Yan army had already arrived at Yongping City, lacking the 20,000 soldiers and horses of Yang Wen, the general soldier of Liaodong, coupled with Geng Jian's previous siege of the city at the cost of his life, which caused them to fall behind in terms of the number of soldiers and fatigue, even if they took advantage of the location to wait for work, they still did not block the attack of the Yan army - especially when the kind of weapons that had only heard rumors and had never seen the real thing also appeared in the siege battle.
Everything is very simple, because Geng Jian and Wu Gao know that they can't hold Yongping and don't have to die, and all the Yan army knows that if they can't beat Yongping and eat this lonely army, they will be forced into a desperate situation.
The composition of the Yan army is very complicated, some of them are from Liaodong, some are from Shanhaiguan, and some are from Xuanfu Datong, but the same thing is that they have all fought under the hands of King Yan, either worship King Yan, or sympathize with King Yan, or they are simply dissatisfied with the court, and think of having an addiction to rebellion, and what about those court soldiers? They knew that Li Jinglong and General Li's 500,000 army had already pressed the border, and there was no need to fight the desperate Yan army here, and Yongping and they did fight for some time, even if it was only one day, it was enough to make a difference.
Of course, there are many other coincidences in this war, such as Geng Jian took the lead in defending the city and gave an order, but was shot down by a cold arrow from the city tower, for example, one of Wu Gao's generals sent a ruthless army out of the city to prepare for a sneak attack on the camp but happened to bump into the iron cavalry of King Yan, and after the defeat, this iron cavalry rushed into the city along the city gate, and for example, the southern soldiers under Wu Gao's master saw the iron cavalry of King Yan appear in the city, and the panic that spread like a plague made Wu Gao's hastily organized defensive front begin to collapse, Like the snow melting under the spring breeze - everything came together, so that this Yongping City only held on for only one day, and let Wu Gao's plan to drag King Yan go to waste.
But there is also good news, knowing that Wu Gao, who was hopeless in defending the city, made a quick decision, withdrew his troops in one go, and led less than half of his troops to flee to the direction of Shanhaiguan, in his opinion, Zhu Di would definitely choose to stay in Yongping City, because so many troops were dispatched to fight this battle, wouldn't he be afraid that Yongping City would be lost when he chased down, and met Yang Wen on the way to pursue?
However, Zhu Di chased extremely resolutely, and there were 8,000 iron horsemen under Wu Hao's hand, which Zhu Di must eat, so he didn't care about the soldiers who fled to the southern Texas camp, just ran with Wu Gao, and Wu Gao was quite embarrassed to flee all the way, not only left countless grains and grasses, but also the musical instruments used for the guard of honor and the cotton clothes and military uniforms brought out to prepare for the cold became Zhu Di's trophies.
So Wu Gao became a good person for Zhu Di to be raised.
And when everyone, including Wu Gao himself, felt that Zhu Di was going to chase them all the way to Shanhaiguan and then try to see if he could take down this Xiongguan, Zhu Di's cavalry stopped and watched Wu Gaojun go away in embarrassment.
All because of a letter.
The bearded Zhu Di hadn't had a good night's sleep for several days, but with black circles under his eyes, he still woke up the moment he saw the letter.
The letter was very short, only a few sentences, and a simple name, but it was these few words that made Zhu Di give up the defeated army that was close at hand.
It would be good if you could eat these cavalry of Wu Gao and Geng Stretch, and it would be better if you could defeat Shanhaiguan, but everything was not as good as the news from Daning.
The one he'd dreamed of for a long time... Duoyan Sanwei, the strongest cavalry of this era.
He put away the letter and gave the military order:
"Collect your troops immediately and turn to Daning!"