Chapter 316: Continue to kill prisoners
According to Yue Fei's tactics, this is called a little attack, more reinforcements.
That is, to create a situation of multi-party melee to confuse the main force of the enemy, so that Long Fen did not know how to use the troops.
It was like a flawless puzzle, which was disrupted by Yue Fei, and one or two puzzle modules were thrown away, making it impossible for Long Fen to put this puzzle back together in a short period of time.
At that time, when the Tiger Roar Pass was attacked, it was the same.
As soon as Yue Fei moved, the whole army moved, and everyone followed Yue Fei's intentions.
However, the difference is that for him, the last attack on Tiger Roar Pass was passive, and this time, he took the initiative to do so.
Xiang Yu only has 30,000 iron cavalry, and it is a fool's dream to attack Fengyang, which is claimed to have 200,000 troops.
But the day before he marched into Fengyang, Xiang Yu received an order from Yue Fei to let him stare at Fengyang, not that he had to insist on taking Fengyang down, in that case, it would be difficult for some strongmen.
Long Fen sent the general Xiang Fei to attack Suizhou, and it was Yancheng's troops that were dispatched, but Yue Fei only moved the main force to Suizhou for hundreds of miles, so Xiang Fei knew the difficulty and retreated, forcing him to retreat to Deyang, which allowed Yue Fei to seize an opportunity, he immediately let Huo Qu die of illness and dragged Xiang Fei to death, and then he did his best to surround Yancheng, which was empty of troops at the moment.
And the army left under Heiyuan City was actually a very small number of troops under Yue Fei's command, with only two battalions and more than 10,000 people in total.
When the enemy army sees through Yue Fei's suspicious methods, Yue Fei will be defeated at any time.
But fortunately, Zhao Changqing trusted Yue Fei 100%, agreed to his request for soldiers, and changed 100,000 to 200,000.
In this way, the Wei army left in the city of Zhuchu was only 200,000.
But this battle is crucial, and there is no room for sloppiness.
Therefore, Zhao Changqing also trusted Yue Fei at all costs.
Win or lose.
Now the outcome of this battle has almost affected the situation of Wei and Chu.
The Wei army has done so many means, and it is to fight Heiyuan, Fengyang, and Deyang, etc., but the place that always really wants to break through is Yancheng.
Yancheng is in the middle of the three major cities, and if Yancheng is lost, it will cut off the connection between the main forces of the Chu army, so that the Wei army will completely grasp the opportunity of the war.
If it could not be captured, the Wei army could be defeated at any time due to logistical problems.
The crux of this problem now is whether Yue Fei can capture Yancheng in a very short time.
Under the city of Yancheng, Yue Fei personally led the troops.
There are 100,000 troops, and the siege of Yancheng is impassable.
They had already figured out the situation in Yancheng, and at this moment, all the defenders of Yancheng added up, only 100,000.
Yue Fei was confident that within three days, he would take Yancheng.
In terms of siege skills, Yue Fei can be said to have a lot of experience.
First, a small force was sent to harass, and finally Jian Yi's army was invited, and Jian Yi, a master, was invited to climb the city wall to open an opening, and then 150,000 horses attacked the city together, and the city gate was broken at a very fast speed, and after the army entered the city, all the remaining 50,000 Chu troops were captured.
Yue Fei has 100,000, Jian Yi has 50,000 cavalry, and where the soldiers are united, it is a full army of 150,000.
The 50,000 Chu troops did not even resist.
After all, Xiang Fei, the original defender of Yancheng, is now trapped in Deyang City, and Yancheng is facing a leaderless group of dragons, so he has to let the deputy general temporarily command Yancheng affairs, but after seeing the brave battle of the Wei army, this person has already retreated, especially at the moment when the city was broken, he actually committed suicide with a knife, so that the entire Chu army was leaderless again, like a basin of scattered sand, and it was self-defeating.
After capturing Yancheng, Yue Fei immediately gathered his army and assisted Xiang Yu in breaking Deyang.
Xiang Fei, the general of the State of Chu, fought to death from exhaustion.
In this way, the Wei army had already occupied Deyang and Yancheng.
After Long Fen learned the news, he almost fainted.
After all, he is old, and his ability to resist blows is far less than when he was young.
But often at the critical moment, which is the moment that best reflects the experience of the veteran, he originally wanted to continue to gather the army, annihilate the Wei army in the opposition, and then go all out to fight the enemy general Yue Fei in Yancheng, and decide the victory in a battle.
If Yancheng was perfectly defended and could not be captured in a short time, he still thought of dividing his troops to attack Rejection Chu City, leaving Yue Fei with no time to take care of it, forcing him to send reinforcements to Rejection Chu City.
At that time, Yancheng will still be unable to cope due to the shortage of troops, and this is a good time to take Yancheng.
But after Long Fen fought this defeat, Emperor Chu, who was in the rear army, was unhappy, and specially issued an order to let Long Fen hold on and defend Heiyuan City and Fengyang City.
As long as these two cities are not breached, Emperor Chu can be carefree.
But this is a big deal for Long Fen.
As a result, the army stagnated, and when the Wei army reacted, it would soon be besieged by them.
But if you go out of the city to fight, once your majesty knows about it, you have to detain yourself for disobeying the holy order.
In a dilemma, Long Fen fell into deep thought.
The Chu armies in Deyang and Yancheng were defeated, allowing the Wei army to directly harvest and capture nearly 100,000 prisoners.
Now it's a problem that Wei often faces.
That's what to do with these captives.
If these people are sent to watch over them closely, they will need to disperse the forces.
If all these people were sent to Wei to serve as laborers, in case there were some mutinies or bad situations along the way, it would be enough for you to regret it.
Therefore, Yue Fei didn't dare to assert himself, so he wrote a letter to inform Bai Qi of the matter here.
In the city of Chu Rejection, after Bai Qi saw the number of prisoners in the letter, he fell into deep thought.
What to do?
What a headache!
However, the military situation was urgent, and if these prisoners were not properly handled, Yue Fei would not be able to gather troops to attack Long Fen's main army.
Therefore, Bai Qi almost hesitated for a moment, and then made a difficult decision.
One hundred thousand captives, not one remained, and all of them were killed.
Anyway, the sins on my body are already very heavy, and I don't care if they are heavy.
After Yue Fei got Bai Qi's reply, he also fell into deep thought.
Is this what Your Majesty means?
Fighting in the territory of Chu and killing Chu prisoners will not make Wei unable to gain a foothold in this country?
Forget it, I was originally aggressive, so let's listen to the marshal.
As a result, another incident that shocked the world happened, Yue Fei gave Bai Qi the intention and killed 100,000 prisoners of the Chu army.
After years of accumulation, no less than 300,000 of the prisoners of the Chu army died in the hands of Bai Qi.
That's an amazing number.
The name of the killing god resounded in the entire world again.
When Zhao Changqing learned the news, Yue Fei was ordering the poisoning of the captives.
It's already too late.
He wasn't very angry about this matter at first, after all, the killing of prisoners didn't happen to Wei once or twice.
But after listening to Jia Xu's opinion, Zhao Changqing was stunned, and then fell into contemplation.
Jia Xu said: "We are here to attack the state of Chu, we are to occupy the land of the state of Chu, today we kill prisoners, tomorrow the people of the state of Chu will know that our Wei country is a person who eats and kills, they will hate our Wei country because of this, so that even if our Wei country occupies the state of Chu, it will be because of the unpopular people, and sooner or later, the land of the state of Chu will be lost." ”
At this point, Zhao Changqing fell into deep thought.
After contemplation, I regret it.
He summoned Bai Qi and scolded him.
Anyway, the gist of scolding him is that you have made the reputation of my Wei State stink, which cannot be saved by no matter how many victories I have won.
Bai Qi knelt on the ground, quietly waiting for the emperor's punishment.
He knew that he would be punished, if not for the killing of prisoners, then he would be punished for his arbitrariness and failure to reach heaven.
Anyway, this punishment is indispensable on the left and right, and the thing has already been done, whatever your majesty wants, let him go.
Even if you want to borrow your own head, you don't hesitate to do it.
When Jia Xu told Zhao Changqing about the seriousness of this matter, he also vaguely proposed a solution, that is, to kill Bai Qi and let Bai Qi be severely scolded by the people of Chu State.
But after thinking about it carefully, Zhao Changqing felt that this thing could not be done like this.
Bai Qi is a hero no matter what, and he can't be killed.
Since not killing is not enough to solve the problem, then simply let this problem exist, and do not punish Bai Qi, since it can't solve the problem, then what is the point of punishing Bai Qi?
Zhao Changqing kicked at Bai Qi and scolded bitterly: "This kick is to teach you a lesson, the next time you dare to hide this kind of thing from me and not report it, I will divide your five horses!"
After saying this, he left in a huff.
Bai Qi looked at Zhao Changqing's departing back and wanted to stop talking, but in the end, after just kowtowing to him, there was no follow-up.
He was very grateful to His Majesty the Emperor at the moment, because if he were the emperor of another country, he would have already come to win a good reputation by himself, but his lord did not do anything, which made him feel guilty about the emperor in his heart.
However, even if he did it all over again, he believed that he would still choose to kill the prisoners, and only in this way could the morale of the Chu army decline and make them dare not fight against the Wei army.
The Wei army was able to suffer fewer casualties.
The reason why Zhao Changqing is angry is that the matter of killing prisoners will not affect it well, if it is left in the past, it is not a big deal to kill it, but now it is different, if the matter of killing prisoners will affect his occupation of Chu State, then it will be too much to lose.
He was not angry at Bai Qi for concealing and not reporting the matter.
Because he knew that Bai Qi did this because he wanted to bear the infamy for himself.
But he thought everything too simply.
When he did this, the people of the world scolded him for being white, and the people of Chu State scolded the entire Wei army.
The impact of this incident caused an uproar in the local Chu State, and many areas were already spontaneously organizing rebel armies, and they, the common people, wanted to unite and resist the invasion of the Wei army.
After Emperor Chu knew about this incident, Longyan Dayue, not only vigorously supported the people everywhere to spontaneously organize the righteous army, but also distributed weapons to them.
(End of chapter)