Chapter 251: Zhou Lang was cowardly to protect the remnants of the army, and he burned the ship after losing the attack
After returning from the siege battle that day, Zhou Yu really stopped for several days, and while introspecting, he deployed a blockade of Guangling City and spread false news to lure the enemy.
Chen Deng's side, seeing that Zhou Yu's strong attack was not active, and there was no chance to continue to kill and injure a large number of Jiangdong troops with leisurely work, he was also a little out of breath, and tried to send people to fall into the city in the middle of the night and attack the camp.
However, Zhou Yu defended tightly, and Chen Deng tried a sneak attack on the main camp in the south city and the new camp outside the north gate, but they all ended in failure, so he decisively stopped. Fortunately, the loss is not big, every time it is a loss of more than 100 people, although they are all elite soldiers, but they also stop the loss in time.
Chen Deng in history, when defending against Sun Ce's all-out attack on Guangling, also used the trick of robbing the camp in the middle of the night while the enemy was unprepared, which can only be regarded as the original inertia of history, and he will not give up if he does not try.
And because of all kinds of butterfly effects, Sun Ce personally attacked that time in history, and there was no Zhou Yu in charge, Sun Ce was much more reckless than Zhou Yu, so it was understandable that he was hit. Now that Zhou Yu, who is cautious, is in charge of the overall situation, he has been besieging the city for ten days, and he can still maintain a high degree of vigilance every night, and Chen Deng has to admire.
The two sides had such a small friction that dragged on until the end of March. Chen Deng felt that there was no point in spending it like this, so he wanted to find another way to hit Zhou Yu's confidence and the morale of the Jiangdong Army.
Chen Deng's positioning is very clear: Zhou Yu, a wise general who is stable and stable, has a strength advantage of more than five times, and it is impossible to defeat the opponent on his own. His main task is to exhaust the enemy and make the enemy's army slack, as long as the morale drops to a critical point, when the main forces of Zhuge Jin and Guan Yu come to trap it, Zhou Yu will definitely be defeated.
So, on March 27, taking advantage of the Jiangdong Army to organize another tentative siege, Chen Deng also personally went to the city to supervise the battle, and organized a large number of scolding fighters in advance.
Zhou Yu, on the opposite side, pulled more than 10,000 soldiers, pushed the ladder to rush the car, the rattan long shield, and the golden drums sounded in unison, making all preparations before the strong attack.
When the battle was about to be fought, Chen Deng asked dozens of scolders to shout in unison: "Zhou Yu child! You lost so badly in the first few strong attacks, do you still want to let the Jiangdong sons die in vain! You just want to completely surround Guangling, so that General Fubo mistakenly thinks that Guangling is in danger and can't wait to come to the rescue.
I think you better save some effort, General Fubo will be here soon! It's been a few days! You don't need to lure the enemy! You've already fallen for General Fubo's tricks! ”
Zhou Yu on the opposite side was originally mainly bluffing, and more of a performance was shown to Liu Beijun's scouts outside the encirclement, so that the garrisons of the counties around Guangling could send back false news to Zhuge Jin and Guan Yu. was drunk by Chen Deng like this, and Zhou Yu was also a little annoyed and angry.
"Don't listen to the thief's nonsense! Our army did not hit the scheme! Zhou Yu subconsciously shouted orders to the generals around him, but soon realized that this kind of words had no effect.
In the middle or not, everyone has a rod scale in their hearts. And the other party broke Zhou Yu's intentions in public, which obviously made the soldiers of the Jiangdong Army muttered in their hearts.
Zhou Yu wanted to ignore it, but when he saw that it couldn't go on like this, he had to bite the bullet and let people prepare a strong shield array to protect himself and step forward.
and urgently arranged one hundred and ten loud voices to fight with Chen Deng to boost morale.
I saw Zhou Yu coming to the city wall two or three hundred steps away, and there was a shield array to cover him, and he retorted loudly: "Chen Dengpifu!" Don't be arrogant, you also robbed the camp twice a few days ago, and suffered heavy casualties. Guangling rats, how can you be my Jiangdong Erlang's opponent! If it weren't for the support of Jiancheng, this little bit of people would have already turned into powder! ”
As soon as Zhou Yu came up, he first talked about the results of Chen Deng's trial of the camp a few days ago, trying to save some morale, and these words were more for his own people.
Then Zhou Yu immediately changed his words and retorted: "You want to say that Zhuge Jin and Guan Yu have long planned to come to Guangling to rescue and fight with me, but Guangling has been surrounded for nearly half a month, why haven't they come for a long time?"
It's not because the water war can't beat me! Otherwise, Wuhu to Guangling, less than 300 miles of waterway, warships down the river, two days can't arrive? Soldiers, Liu Bei's army is all gutless rats, we Wuhui warriors don't have to worry! No one can defeat us on the river! ”
Zhou Yu's words, also shouted in unison by dozens of scolding fighters, spread throughout the three armies, and for a time also regained a little morale of the Jiangdong soldiers.
Everyone thought about it and it really made sense, Chen Deng said that all this in front of him was what Zhuge Jin was happy to see, and the water war was something that the enemy couldn't ask for, so why didn't they come? It must be the enemy who is afraid of us!
However, Chen Deng could completely answer Zhou Yu's hypothesis, only listened to him laugh a few times, and waited for the noise in the audience to subside a little, and then he said:
"You want to know what General Fubo is waiting for? Good! I'll let you die to understand - of course, General Fubo is waiting for the news of Yuan Cao's war to spread all over Jiangdong, and when you find out that Cao's army has not invaded Xiapi and Donghai at all, everything is General Fubo's plan to lure the enemy!
The Han soldiers in Jiangdong, Cao thief deceived the king, and was attacked by the secret edict of the Son of Heaven, General Yuan had already raised 300,000 troops to cross the Yellow River, and now I am afraid that he has broken through Yanjin and Baima! The general of the chariot and the general will be sent together to kill the national thieves!
You got on the thief ship of the national thief and were deceived by the Cao thief! Cao Cao is letting Sun Ce fight with the general of the chariot cavalry alone, dragging the general of the chariot cavalry, he has a glimmer of life and fights with the general! ”
Chen Deng asked the scolding fighters to openly shout these words in front of the two armies, and finally made the Jiangdong soldiers' military formation loosen slightly.
Zhou Yu on the other side was even more shocked. In the ten days after he attacked Guangling, some news from the north did come through Liu Bei's occupation area one after another, and Zhou Yu also faintly felt in his heart that Cao Jun did not break out into a large-scale battle with Liu Bei, or at least Cao Cao's side exaggerated the propaganda.
But Zhou Yu knew that this was a matter of the army's heart, and since the fight had already begun, he should have no hesitation, and he must no longer sway and hesitate from side to side. Therefore, he did his best to block the news in this regard, and did not let the army talk about the progress of the battle between Cao Cao and Liu Bei.
Even some generals occasionally asked privately, and he also drew cakes casually, saying that "I heard that Cao Gong has broken through Xiapi City, and Liu Bei's reinforcements from the three counties of Xuzhou will be attracted by the northern line and will not come to reinforce Guangling."
Now that Chen Deng has been told in public, how can Zhou Yu not be in a hurry?
So far, he has no way not to attack and storm in today's battle, if the thunder and rain are small, the people below will definitely doubt whether what the enemy said is true, and whether Zhou Dudu is weak-hearted.
"Don't listen to this dog's nonsense! Assault me! Onslaught at all costs! The first to enter will be rewarded with 100 gold! A reward of 100 gold for slashing Chen Deng! ”
The generals around Zhou Yu all felt that it was a little unwise to make a hasty decision to attack with all their might regardless of casualties today, but they also knew that they could not show weakness at this time, otherwise once the army's morale was shaken, it would be very important, and they could only bite the bullet.
Ge bus has long been completely destroyed, and now it can only rely on the traditional ladder truck to attack with human lives, how difficult is it?
A few days ago, Zhou Yu finally relied on the night battle to guard against Chen Deng's sneak attack on the camp, and recovered the casualty exchange ratio of several hundred people.
Moreover, it is precisely because the Jiangdong Army has recently made arrangements for taking turns to be on duty at night, that many soldiers do not have good energy during the day, and they did not expect that they would suddenly feint and turn into a strong attack, and the state of the troops was not adjusted well, and the losses became more and more heavy in the fighting.
Rows of soldiers fell from the ladders and flying ladders with arrows, or were killed and injured by the gold juice of rolling logs, and the scene was terrible.
And Chen Deng didn't intend to stop even at this time, and he was still letting the scolding fighters wait for an opportunity to yell and shake the enemy's morale:
"Zhou Yu'er! I'm not afraid to tell you that General Fubo had made a plan before the war, let me hold on alone for half a month, and when your soldiers are tired and depressed, he will bring reinforcements to harvest! General Taishi on the northern front will also go south from Huaiyin five days later to Guangling to attack!
When the time comes, you will know that there is no Cao army attacking in Huaibei at all! General Taishi's soldiers and horses can come if they want to! You just wait to be besieged on three sides by my army! Don't leave in five days! The end is the annihilation of the whole army! ”
Chen Deng's words were shouted by people because the shouts of killing and the sound of golden drums were too loud to be heard by the Jiangdong generals in the distance. But the soldiers fighting on the nearby ladder can still be heard to some extent, but they have not been able to form a diffuse effect.
After these news are brought back, if Zhou Yu instigates and withdraws his troops within five days, then they will be completely defeated in this battle.
If the army is not withdrawn, in five days, Zhuge Jin, Guan Yu and Tai Shi Ci will really contact and rush to the Guangling battlefield for reinforcements. At that time, the Jiangdong army will naturally think of Chen Deng's announcement today, and they will know that what Chen Deng said is true, Zhou Yu is really tricked, and all this is a game from the beginning.
At that time, even if there was still a decisive battle, the soldiers of the Jiangdong Army were panicked, and they all started to fight with the mentality of "our army has been planned", and the fighting will and tenacity were at least cut in half.
Zhou Yu is already difficult to ride a tiger.
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With a whole day of bloody assault and fighting, which ended in the defeat of the Jiangdong Army again, Zhou Yu had to pull his troops back to lick their wounds.
The one-day assault only saved a little face and diverted everyone's attention from "whether our army has a plan or not". But the casualty exchange ratio is definitely a pure loss.
After returning to the camp, Zhou Yu also fell into the battle between heaven and man. Huang Gai, Ling Cao and a few other confidant generals all came to check the situation, hoping that Zhou Yu would make a decision.
"Governor, do you want to continue the siege? If Tai Shici, Zhuge Jin, and Guan Yu don't show up five days later, they can expose Chen Deng's lies and boost the morale of my army. But if the enemy reinforcements really arrive, the soldiers will definitely think that our army is a trick! There is no fighting spirit! ”
"Yes, why hasn't there been any movement in Huaibei so far? Could it be that Cao Jun really didn't cooperate with us at all, and was deceived by Cao thieves from beginning to end? Chen Deng is unashamed to take the initiative to disclose this 'prophecy' today, just to wait for the time to come true, to shake our army, right? ”
Zhou Yu's face was pale, his fingers grabbed a celadon wine jug, smashed it on the desk, and the residual wine splashed all over the ground.
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"I can't risk the lives of the remaining 25,000 soldiers. Tomorrow and rest for a day, urgently bandage and dispose of the wounded, and expedite the latest progress of Cao's army. If it is confirmed that no progress of Cao's army has been detected, the army will be withdrawn back to Jiangnan the day after tomorrow!
I should bear the responsibility of losing 5,000 soldiers! Please Bo Fu demote my military position, remove my military power, and hand it over to General Cheng Lao and General Huang Lao to take charge of the troops! Please ask Xu Fujun and Zhu Fujun Counselors to assist. ”
When Huang Gai heard this, he had to be humble, and at the same time, he was also worried that Zhou Yu had fallen for Chen Deng's plan again, and was deceived by Chen Deng and retreated, so he couldn't help but remind:
"Governor, could this be Chen Deng's trick to shoot a shot? Maybe he's just afraid that we'll keep besieging us, and he wants to use this trick to break the siege. ”
Zhou Yu shook his head: "No, today our army attacked again with dead force, with nearly 2,000 casualties, and the price is not undeniable!" But the Guangling city defense did not see the slightest flaw in the imminent fall. Moreover, from the mouths of a small number of prisoners who fell into the city, we also learned that there was no shortage of food in Guangling City, and salted fish was especially abundant, so how could Chen Deng be afraid of surrounding?
He will only be afraid that our army will attack at any cost. But it is impossible for our army to really smash down 10,000 or 20,000 casualties and swallow Guangling hard, so that our military strength will be weakened to a very dangerous point, and even the three counties of Wuhui may not be able to defend it.
In addition, Gwangneung County began experimenting with rice-wheat rotation in the winter of last year, and last winter was the second round, and the winter wheat planted in October will be harvested at the end of April and early May this year, and then planted with rice transplanted rice.
We came to attack this time, just after the people here in Guangling raised seedlings in the spring and before the wheat harvest in early summer. Unless our army can hold out on to the siege until the beginning of May, and then harvest the ripe wheat in Guangling, it is impossible for Chen Deng to be short of food.
It's only the end of March, and we're still a little over a month away. No matter how slow Zhuge Jin reacts, it is impossible to delay the reinforcements until the wheat can be harvested, and our army is destined to not be able to delay the wheat ripe. ”
After hearing this, Huang Gai was silent and admitted that what Zhou Yu said was right.
Zhou Yu can indeed afford to let go, and after knowing that he has lost, he is willing to accept the punishment and withdraw to stop the loss.
In the next two days, the Jiangdong Army stepped up its investigation while dealing with the wounded. Two days later, the wounded were almost all bandaged, and Zhou Yu confirmed that he had not found any news of Cao's army's progress in Huaibei, and finally gave up and retreated as planned.
Unexpectedly, on the night when Zhou Yujun planned to retreat overnight, an accident still happened.
Zhou Yu was already very cautious, and planned to personally break the rear and let the troops go first in batches.
But the 25,000-strong troops must be dragged on board all night, after all, the berths at the dock are so small that it is impossible for all ships to dock at the same time, and the soldiers cannot be allowed to swim from the sandbar to the deep water area to board the boat.
What's even worse is that in order to prevent Chen Deng from seeing that he was leaving in advance, Zhou Yu didn't dare to let the troops that originally blocked the east, west, and north gates of Guangling retreat in advance during the day, all of which had to wait until night before maneuvering.
Perhaps the movement was not secret enough, or perhaps the scouting activities of Liu Beijun outside the encirclement were too frequent, Chen Deng finally found out that Zhou Yu was leaving, and sent troops to kill from the city and cover the attack in the direction of the port.
After Zhou Yu broke off in person, he fought with Chen Deng for a while, avoiding being defeated by Bandu, but he still paid some casualties.
Zhou Yu himself can be calm and composed, but the other troops under his command who want to retreat can't be like their fingers, and they are covered up and killed when they leave, who is willing to fight to the death?
In the melee, the Jiangdong army lost more than 1,000 people, while Chen Deng's side only paid a price of three or four hundred at most.
Moreover, the reinforcements in Chen Deng's mouth had actually already moved to the vicinity, but they had not yet reached the agreed general attack day, so they did not move.
For example, Tai Shi Ci's troops, before the war, made an appointment for half a month after Guangling was besieged, and after Zhou Yu was tired, he attacked together, and at this moment Tai Shi Ci with thousands of reinforcements has been stationed in Sheyang County, which borders Guangling to the north, but Tai Shi Ci is very low-key and has rushed back long ago without revealing himself, but he also sends scouts to the south every day.
After discovering that the Jiangdong Army had withdrawn from the siege, Tai Shi Ci immediately dispatched cavalry to pursue the part of the Jiangdong Army camped in the north of Guangling City, and the Jiangdong Army was only more than 3,000 people along the way, and finally retreated too late, and was killed and annihilated by Tai Shi Ci in the dark.
By the time Tai Shi Ci defeated this retreating army and fought all the way to Guangling City and Chen Deng's division, Zhou Yu had already abandoned the last nearly 1,000 beachhead troops and decisively crossed the Yangtze River south.
There are more than 100 large and small boats on the riverside, all of which were unmanned after the soldiers were killed, or could not drive away in the chaos, and were captured or burned by Chen Deng's soldiers, and the fire reflected the sky in the north of the river.
When Tai Shici saw Chen Deng, he was full of complaints: "What's the matter? Didn't you say that after fifteen days of siege, General Guan and I went to Guangling and attacked the enemy army by land and water? Why did Zhou Yu suddenly leave ahead of schedule. General Guan's sailors should still be ambushed in Chuxian upstream, and they may not be able to intercept it if they go down the river overnight! ”
Chen Deng was also a little surprised: "In order to seduce Zhou Yu to attack and scare Zhou Yu that day, it was true that I said all this, and I specially paid attention to it for two more days, in order to hit Zhou Yu's morale - if he didn't believe in this evil, it was really the day of the decisive battle, and the general and General Guan were killed together, and his whole army knew that the middle was counted, and the army's heart collapsed?"
Unexpectedly, Zhou Yu couldn't help but be frightened, I said that he would believe it, and he didn't dare to gamble! And go so fast! But fortunately, today, our army covered up and killed, basically killing three or five thousand enemies without business, and he took back at most 20,000 remnants! If he withdraws from the army without any results in this way, there will definitely be people within the Sun family who want to hold him accountable and remove his military power! If you change someone to lead the troops, it will be easier to fight next time! ”
Tai Shi Ci shook his head when he heard this, but he couldn't criticize Chen Deng. Chen Deng was improvised, speaking eight truths and two falsehoods, and when he scolded the war before the battle, the date of confiding was also slightly adjusted for a few days, but he didn't expect Zhou Yu to be too timid and cautious.
It is also a common thing to use tricks to make a big one, scare the enemy away, and finally only earn a small one.
For Zhuge Jin's teammates, there is no such thing as "victory or defeat is a common thing in soldiers", only "winning more and winning less is a common thing in soldiers".
Failed to completely realize the pre-war plan, swallowed up the enemy completely, and earned less, which is also a loss.
On the other side, on the Yangtze River that night, Guan Yujun also found an abnormality, and dispatched overnight and went down the river for dozens of miles to try to intercept and kill.
Guan Yu's 8,000 sailors were actually ambushed in the Chushui River many days ago, and they were ambushed in the fork of the last tributary on the north bank of the upper reaches of Guangling.
In the end, it was found that Zhou Yu's main force ran away, Guan Yu pursued frantically, and only chased the rear army, slightly intercepted and killed Zhou Yu's more than a dozen ships and dozens of boats, and annihilated one or two thousand people, so he had to regret the withdrawal of troops.
After coming back, Guan Yu immediately regretted that the results of the decisive battle were not big enough, and complained to Zhuge Jin.
Zhuge Jin later spent a few days figuring out the situation, and he didn't punish Chen Deng, but just asked him to pay attention to the scale in the future, and not to play too many small actions to scare the enemy away.
But Zhuge Jin also knew very well that it could only be said that in ancient times when the means of communication were backward, it was really too difficult for the side fighting on the outside line to rush to the battlefield at the same time by attacking in several ways.
In ancient wars, the side fighting on the inner front had an absolute advantage in concentrating troops. My initial plan was indeed too difficult to attack half a month in advance, when there was no communication inside and outside Guangling, and the deployment could not be adjusted. Even if Zhou Yu is stopped, if Zhou Yu is not completely weakened and his morale is not collapsed enough, he may still fall into a bitter battle of equal strength.
At that time, the number of Jiangdong soldiers killed and wounded may be more, but the cost of your own losses will also be even worse.
Now, although the 30,000 enemy troops put back nearly 20,000, and only 10,000 were annihilated one after another, they almost did not pay the price, and they should be content.
The inside side has an advantage in being adaptable, as was the case in Napoleon's time. It was not until the Civil War, Pudanpu, and the invention of the radio station that the outside line had an assembly advantage. Napoleon's military thought was still an internal advantage, and Moltke's military thought became an external advantage.
Zhuge Jin knows the development of military history, so he will not ask Chen Deng too highly.
can only eat a trench and grow a wisdom, and slowly improve their troops.
"Our army's means of communication are still too backward, and it seems that in the future, it is necessary to raise more carrier pigeons for this kind of fixed-point defense of the city and the occasion when reinforcements come together on an agreed date. If there is a change in the reinforcement plan outside the city, the party inside the city will also know about it.
It's a pity that carrier pigeons can only be used for fixed-point return voyages, and can only send messages to the troops in the city, but cannot send messages to the troops who are mobile in the field. In today's situation, if you want to send a letter to the outside in the Guangling encirclement, you have to improve it......
In addition, the officers in the army who operated technical weapons in the army that Yuan Long responded lacked a foundation in arithmetic and needed intensive training, which was also a big problem. In the future, a separate set of mechanisms should be set up for the selection and promotion of officers in technical and communications units, and it is no longer possible to let anyone become an officer based on who has made great contributions, who has killed the enemy, and who has more seniority. Technical officers have to have their own training system......"
Zhuge Jin reflected on a lot of things, and recorded the lessons of the not too successful Battle of Guangling in their original form, while pondering the optimization plan.
Chen Deng was also quite ashamed after seeing Zhuge Jin so introspective, and the joy of destroying the enemy's 10,000 troops was also diluted by more problems that needed to be improved and improved.
Chen Deng took the initiative to find Zhuge Jin to admit his mistake: "This battle can be won, the main thing is that Ziyu is calculating, properly deployed, and has a full backhand, I want to play a little clever and hit Zhou Yu's morale more, but in the end it was self-defeating, and I really dare not take credit for this battle!" It can only be regarded as a small loss! ”
Zhuge Jin patted Chen Deng's shoulder: "It's right to be improvised, and I don't forbid you to tell your plans for our army, and the truth and fiction should scare Zhou Yu, not to mention that the date you said was originally fake, and Zhou Yu was too timid."
Next time, I will discuss with the generals before the battle, what must be kept secret, and what can be used to deceive the enemy. The merits of the generals in this war will be judged by the Lord after the war. Now let's think about it again, is there any other way to seduce Sun Ce to have another water battle.
Zhou Yu's withdrawal will not be without a price, his status will definitely be seriously reduced, and he will be responsible for this defeat. If Sun Ce can't withstand the pressure and uses other veterans, it may be easier to play in the future. ”
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