Chapter 34, the military situation is tight and tender
The poem says:
The spring water surrounds the bamboo forest of the house, and the fairy aunt interprets the "Fish Watching Sutra".
The butterflies dance with the void, and the good birds rhyme and just sing.
So the spring sorrow on the eyebrows, prompting the warriors to remember the long pavilion.
When the brocade book was transmitted, the word goose was returned, and the military situation was urgent.
That night, Li Shijian led 500 guards and kicked the enemy camp at night; so the Yang company camp, the south area was on fire, shouting everywhere to kill, I really don't know how many people Li Shijian had!
Yang Qingcai was about to mobilize troops and horses to rescue the camps in the south of the country, when he suddenly heard the sound of shouting and killing and approached the camp of the Chinese army! Yang Qingcai couldn't help but be taken aback: The surnamed Li loves to engage in night battles and sneak attacks, could it be that this is another trick of "black tiger digging out the heart"?
Yang Qingcai's adviser also said: "Heavenly King, that Li Shijian, capture Ping'an Prefecture at night, fight Nan'an Prefecture at night, and attack Shunyi Prefecture at night-
Looking at these battles, they are all night operations, and it can be seen that this person is very good at night battles, and often plans and then acts.
Yang Qingcai said: "This king can't be taken lightly, so what should he do if he hits my southern company camp now?"
Jia Mouyuan, a former military counselor, said: "Heavenly King, you can order the battalions near the southeast and southwest to defend themselves, and send archers to shoot at the positions to prevent the enemy from breaking through! ”
Fu Liming, a counselor of the Left Army, also said: "Heavenly King, what Jia Senjun said is reasonable! The camps in the south have been broken, and most of the generals and colonels of the army have fled into the nearby camps, so the minister believes that our focus is to transfer troops to block the troops in Shangguancheng and prevent them from meeting the two armies!"
Yang Qingcai nodded helplessly.
At this time, the shouting and killing gradually moved away from the Chinese army camp again.
Seeing that the sky was about to dawn, Yang Qingcai's subordinates came down to report: Shangguan City only fired a trumpet cannon, and did not send a single soldier; the enemy troops who robbed the camp had fled, and our army had burned down eight large camps, with more than 5,000 casualties.
When Yang Qingcai heard this, he hated and was angry!
This kicking camp, the dervishes remembered this, and couldn't help but praise it, singing:
The enemy's 100,000 soldiers are fierce, and they are trapped in the city.
The purple lightning is cold at the beginning of the clouds, and the green frost is cold when the murderous aura is born.
There are strategists, and the swords and guns are all cold.
The company camp was hunted by the sky, and the antlers were surrounded by thousands of times.
After a thousand sieges for many days, the city was in an emergency and asked for help.
The westward expedition to the north was handsome, and the Khan Emperor rescued the county.
The division of the army into several roads is determined, and the joint battle drives the horse in the first place.
First send grain and grass into the city, and then kick the enemy camp in the middle of the night.
In the middle of the night, the courage of the camp was slightly higher, and the arrows shot the camp sentry into the trench.
When the spear was raised, the deer broke, and the torch was thrown into the company camp and burned.
The warriors behind him followed, and the enemy troops in front of him scattered and fled.
I will chase the fleeing enemy soldiers, and five hundred broadswords will be waved at the same time.
The sword light flew out of the silver dragon hanging, and the spear tassel bloomed with red roses.
The horse's hooves broke through the dreary night, and the sword shone brightly.
The enemy will smash the gall of the rat and scare the soldiers into shrinking turtles.
The instigated soldiers have to be ordered to hold on: there is a conspiracy in the night battle of the Li family.
The Chinese army's account should be safeguarded, and the 8th battalion in the south temporarily let go.
If you wait for the dawn and then transfer the troops, you will inevitably retreat by yourself.
So that the three armies all love themselves, and no general dares to come forward.
No one defeated the battle, and the poetry sword drove the horse home to the mountain.
Five hundred soldiers should retreat first, and the heroes will return to the battle.
Everyone should be knighted if they have merit, and they should kill more than a thousand enemies.
He has never robbed the camp as a general, and today he is still counting Taiping Khan.
It is said that Li Shijian kicked the enemy camp at night, burned eight camps, and killed and injured thousands, so that Yang Qingcai was very angry. Yang Qingcai discussed with the strategists: "The Taiping soldiers and horses of the Li family robbed my camp last night, burned eight camps, and damaged more than 5,000 of my horses, what should I do?"
Jia Mouyuan, the former military counselor, and Fu Liming, the left army counselor, both said: "Heavenly King, Li Shijian attacked last night, and now it seems that his troops should be said to be not many." ”
Yang Qingcai said: "How can you see it?"
Jia Mouyuan said: "Last night we had given up the eight battalions in the south, if he had enough troops, he should join forces with the outside and attack our camp together, in order to break the siege, instead of retiring after robbing the camp." ”
Fu Liming, the counselor of the left army, also said: "That's true. Why don't we transfer the army today, defeat the outnumbered with the crowd, and give him a Taishan crushing attack to see how he responds?"
Jia Mouyuan said: "In the art of war, ten rules are encircled, and many times are battles, although our army suffered some losses last night, it is still no less than 110,000 horses - I think it is reasonable to join the army." However, Li Shijian is both courageous and strategic, should we find out his situation first before deciding?"
Yang Qingcai said: "Okay, since both of you see it this way, let's first find out the enemy's situation before fighting; ”
At noon on the same day, Tanma reported one after another: "Li Shijian led 20,000 troops to rescue Shangguan County, falsely claiming 50,000, but he divided the army into several roads, and he didn't know where he went!"
Yang Qingcai heard this, and was shocked: "He is only 20,000 horses, and he divides his troops for several roads and does not know where to go?"
Not necessarily, there was a report from Tanmalay: "In the east ten miles of Shangguan County, there are enemy soldiers lurking behind our army's camp!"
Yang Qingcai said: "He Li Shijian has 20,000 horses and horses, and he divides his troops into several roads, so the Chinese army camp must be seriously insufficient, as the saying goes, capture the thief and capture the king first, and we will give him a direct attack on the Chinese army camp!"
Fu Liming listened to it and admonished: "Heavenly King, then Li Shijian is very good at using soldiers, besides, if my whole army moves, I am afraid that the soldiers in Shangguan City and the ambush soldiers of Shilipo will take the opportunity to attack, if some men and horses are dispatched, I am afraid that he will not be able to defeat him Li Shijian, please think twice!"
Jia Mouyuan said: "Heavenly King, if he can sneak attack, we can also sneak attack." Why don't you send a general to lead the attack tonight to test the enemy?"
Yang Qingcai listened and said, "Okay." ”
Najia Mouyuan and Fu Liming both said: "Heavenly King, send troops to test the enemy tonight, you should respond with a large army, if the battle of testing the enemy is smooth, then our army can rush up and eliminate Li Shijian!"
When Yang Qingcai heard this, he was naturally happy, and said, "Okay! Tonight, this king will personally lead the army to respond. ”
Jia Mouyuan and Fu Liming both had to stay in the camp alone, and they couldn't go out of the whole army.
Therefore, the result of Yang Qingcai's discussion with Jia Mouyuan, Fu Liming and other strategists was to select the general Nan Lizhi to lead 5,000 troops to test the enemy, leaving Fu Liming to guard the camp, and Yang Qingcai and Jia Mouyuan led a total of 50,000 soldiers in the old battalion to respond.
By this time, it was already dusk. Yang Qingcai ordered the meal, and all the strategists and generals all dined in the big tent of the Chinese army.
was eating, and suddenly there was a meteor scouting horse urgent report: Li Shijian sent two soldiers to take away Fang County, Mazhou, and burned all the grain and grass in the county!
Yang Qingcai was shocked: "Fang County is the key way for our soldiers to retreat, and he burned the grain and grass! Who can take it back for me?"
At that time, Yang Qingcai's subordinate general Yang Jin said: "Heavenly King, the last general is willing to lead the troops to recapture Fang County!"
Yang Qingcai then ordered 20,000 troops and handed them to Yang Jin, and said, "The general must recapture Fang County!"
After Yang Jin led the troops, Fu Liming said: "Heavenly King, it is better to send another army to meet General Yang, so as to ensure that nothing goes wrong!"
Yang Qingcai nodded yes.
However, it was said that Yan Junping and Yang Can, Wen Ziming and Zhang Li sent by Li Shijian had a total of 8,000 men and horses, and after seizing Fang County, the four generals gathered to discuss:
Our lord Emperor Khan led 12,000 men to fight against Yang Qingcai's 120,000 horses, and the bigger the movement on our side, the more it can attract Yang Qingcai to divide his troops, and the more beneficial it will be to the Khan.
Yan Junping said to Wen Ziming and Zhang Li: "Fang County should be rushed, for Yang Qingcai's must be saved, it is better for me and General Yang to ambush in the county, you two lead 4,000 troops to ambush outside the city, but when Yang Qingcai's rescue comes, two ambushes, and then beat him and retreat, how about it?"
Wen Ziming and Zhang Li also agreed.
Speaking of Li Shijian's side, after returning from the camp, Li Shijian ignored the rest and arranged today's preparations and related actions.
Suddenly, someone entered the account and reported that Li Yunhang had sent a messenger.
Under Li Shijian's inquiry, it turned out that Bai Shilong, the scholar next to the master, went home for the funeral because of his father's death, passed by Ping'an Prefecture, and left a letter asking to be handed over to Li Shijian, but the letter was written by Shi Cuigu.
When Li Shijian took the letter and read it, he saw that what he said in the letter first was to take the opportunity of Bai Shilong's junior brother passing through Ping'an Prefecture to ask him to carry the letter. Secondly, he was very happy to hear that Li Shijian had established the Taiping Khanate on his own, and only hoped that he would dominate the world as soon as possible and reopen Taiping.
Then he said that Master's study of the "Dafa of Watching Fish" was quite beneficial. I studied with my master, and I realized that this book was about the cultivation of immortals, and I gave many explanations to Li Shijian. Next, I asked my brother Shi Qiangsheng if he was doing well.
In the end, it is a small poem attached:
The spring on the stone is singing, the warbler in the forest is singing, and the double swallow is light in the wind. Say anything, fly over the old pavilion. How many whispers, discuss and see, Daishan is deep and green. Flowers are like fire, burning dreams to wake up, and looking at the stars of last night alone.
Stargazing, flying a little bit, obviously extinguished, but it is a stream of fireflies. Ask him why he has no sleep and want to express his affection. Only enter the house without words, read the scriptures, and watch the fish practice. Cultivating immortals, no one can solve it, and tell you to listen.
Li Shijian read the letter, felt melancholy, and picked up the pen, but after a while, he wrote a reply to the effect:
I want to restore peace, and the war is still going on. As for Brother Johnson & Johnson, when Chen Zhiyuan surrendered that day, I only heard that he went to Beihai Dadu Mountain to look for you, but I didn't expect you to know where he went!
As for saying that I have become the Emperor of the Taiping Khan, I will swear an oath hereby to express my sincerity:
I, Li Shijian, do not open the harem like other khanates, and I have not yet accepted a concubine! When the spring breeze is all over the world and the good news is good, it doesn't matter if I am the emperor of the Khan, I only practice and cultivate immortals with you, and accompany Qingqing for a long time.
At the end of this letter, a small poem is also attached, which reads:
Rushing into battle with horizontal guns, swinging swords and arrows, galloping and riding lightly. I remember in my heart, I also dreamed of Changting. I also thought of leaving Lishu, filling in the ravines, and the fertile grass was green. The heart is like fire, fighting for blood, and Geng Geng shines on the long star.
The long star, the light is long, the light is always there, and the glow is reflected. The spring breeze reports a good letter, telling me my heartfelt feelings. Hand in hand with Qingqing to understand, read the scriptures, watch the fish practice. Often accompanied, Penglai Road, listen to the heart.
After writing the reply, Li Shijian carefully sealed it, selected a fine person, and ordered him to send it to the True Confucian Residence in Dadu Mountain.
Li Shijian shook his head, shook off his melancholy, and then dealt with the military situation, called Li Shilong and Miao Hui, and secretly instructed:
"The enemy soldiers are numerous, we are outnumbered, we kicked the camp last night, and the enemy soldiers will definitely fight back today. Our army falsely claimed 50,000, and divided the army into several ways, Yang Qingcai was difficult to find out the reality of our soldiers for a while, I expected that tonight, Yang Qingcai would inevitably send troops to test me, first robbing my camp all the way, and then answering with cameras all the way.
The two of you, leaving Shilong to dominate the men and horses, lay outside the camp, and when the enemy soldiers came, they only shouted, but did not attack, but waited for him to kill each other. When the enemy retreats, they will chase after them from behind, and they must not really engage in battle! Miao Hui, the commander of the army, will go to the camp with me tonight!"
Then, Li Shijian sent a report to Qin Yuan, Gao Yuan, Chen Tong, and Yang Rong, each with confidential arrangements.
Not long after the herald went, another secret agent reported: Yan Junping and Yang Canzuo all the way, Wen Ziming and Zhang Lizuo all the way, and the two roads worked together to defeat Fang County.
Li Shijian listened and said with a smile: "My plan is about to succeed!"
So Li Shijian said to the secret agent: "Fang County should be rushed, Yang Qingcai must be saved, but I am afraid that there will be more than one rescue all the way!"
When you go back, tell them to be prepared, and not to stay in Fang County for a long time, but only to take care of the two roads, break through the state and county, or make a move to attack the main city of the state. If Yang Qingcai's army retreats, they will also retreat immediately and move closer to me.
In addition, in the future, it is not necessary to burn grain and grass as a last resort. Grain and grass can be distributed to the local people, after all, there are still many people who lack food and clothing; moreover, this can also build up a reputation for our army and win the hearts of the people. ”
The spy naturally agreed, so he went back and reported to Yan Junping and Yang Can, Wen Ziming and Zhang Li.
Sure enough, Yang Qingcai sent two troops and horses back to save Fang County.
The first group, Na Yang Jin soldiers and horses, came out of the besieged camps in Shangguan County, set off after dusk that day, and rushed to Fang County at the end of the night, running for more than 100 miles, and was out of breath.
Yang Jinzheng ordered the army to rest on the spot for a while, and then he was about to attack and seize the city.
I didn't want to be outside the city of Fangxian County, and the ambush soldiers suddenly rose up, waiting for work at ease, and beat him so that his 20,000 horses couldn't stand on his foot, so he abandoned his armor and dragged his troops away.
Just as he was fleeing, a detachment of soldiers came upon him.
However, it was dark, and it was impossible to tell whether it was friend or foe, in fact, it was the reinforcements sent by Yang Qingcai to lead the reinforcements. Yang Jin fought with Ruan Ting, and only then did he recognize that it was his own horse.
So the two sides stopped fighting, and Yang Jin's soldiers stopped their defeat and escape. Look at the dawn, the second general counted the people and found that nearly 10,000 people were folded.
Yang Jin discussed with Ruan Ting: "How can it be good for the enemy soldiers to ambush inside and outside, killing and wounding nearly 10,000 of our army?"
Ruan Ting said: "Fang County is the back road of our army, we must not take it, the king of heaven ordered me to lead the army to help the general, it is better for our army to recapture Fang County now, it is estimated that they are celebrating the victory - we will also take him by surprise!"
So the two generals joined forces and attacked Fang County, and when they arrived at the county seat, they saw that the four gates of Fang County were wide open, and there was not a single soldier.
The second general hesitated, sent a scout horse, and when he entered the city to see, it turned out that the two soldiers had already evacuated, and they didn't know where to go, and there was only one empty city here.
Yang Jin and Ruan Ting were at a loss, and hurriedly sent someone to report back to Yang Qingcai. - It's the second day.
Looking back on the afternoon of the same day, after Yang Qingcai sent two troops back to rescue Fang County, he chose another general, Nan Lizhi, and ordered him to lead 3,000 soldiers to attack Li Shijian's camp on the third watch that night, so as to test the enemy.
At the time of the third watch, the leader of the Southern Calendar came to attack Li Shijian's camp at night, Yang Qing waited for his troops to come out, and after half an hour, he also led the army to come, according to the established policy, it was both the intention of responding, and the intention of randomly attacking Li Shijian according to the battle situation.
- This is the policy agreed by Yang Qingcai's army, to go straight to the old camp of the Taiping Army and destroy Li Shijian!