Chapter 107: Pang Juan's Expedition(1/2)
The next day, morning court.
The king and minister of the Wei State agreed to send Prime Minister Gongshuzu to lead 10,000 soldiers of Wei Wu, 30,000 Cangtou army, 2,000 cavalry, 400 chariots, and 20,000 chariots, totaling more than 70,000 people to head north to fight against Nahan and Zhao coalition forces.
At the same time, General Pang Juan sent 10,000 Wei Wu soldiers, 20,000 cavalry, 200 chariots, 10,000 soldiers, 10,000 servants, a total of nearly 50,000 people. He went east to Taihang, and his soldiers were directly aimed at the Zhao people and Feiyi.
For a moment, the Central Plains once again fell into the midst of war and was in turmoil.
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A few days later.
On Taihang Mountain, a large number of Wei troops drove out the famous caliber and marched on the official road leading to Yecheng.
Here, it is only more than a hundred miles away from Yecheng, and it is less than three hundred miles away from Lie people and Feiyi.
Although the war is imminent, Pang Juan's ambition is not very high.
The day before yesterday, in the court, the proud look of Gongshu's pride made him unable to relieve his anger.
In Pang Juan's opinion, what's so great about your uncle? Isn't it just that he has experienced it?
What a bullshit ability to compare qualifications when a man is alive? If he is really capable, he would be better than military achievements.
Pang Juan made up his mind to conquer Le Renhe and Feiyi this time, and he must fight beautifully and neatly, and he must not let Gongshu compete.
Thinking of this, Pang Juan finally became a little interested.
"Report——" Suddenly, a red flag messenger in front rushed over and rolled out of the horse: "General, emergency military information."
"explain."
"According to the detailed response, Zhao State heard that our army was going to attack the Le people. Feiyi was mobilizing a large army to prepare to rush to the second city."
"That's great!" When Pang Juan heard this, he was not worried but happy.
In his opinion, it was not a good idea to build two small cities with only three or five thousand people stationed. Now, it is really good for Zhao's army to be reinforced. This is simply because he is afraid that he will make little contributions and give him credit.
For a moment, Pang Juan said anxiously: "Can you know how many reinforcements are there? Who is the one who leads the troops?"
"Return to the General," the messenger said hurriedly: "There are about 50,000 reinforcements, and the one who led the troops was Li Jing, the deputy general of Zhao."
"Li Jing?" Pang Juan heard this, but had never heard of it, and hurriedly said, "Who is this?"
The messenger said: "Great General, Li Jing was over 20 years old and was born in the famous family of the Zhao State, the Li family of Handan. It is said that he often regards himself as a good general, and is arrogant and has a family background. However, he has gained the trust of Mr. Zhao."
Pang Juanmo, who claimed to be a good general, dared to be careless and asked: "What are the achievements of this person?"
The messenger said: "I heard of what achievements have been made in the war. This person has been serving in the Zhao imperial army. This time he heard that he volunteered and was named a deputy general and commanded the three armies."
Hearing this, Pang Juan couldn't help but sneer in his heart: He didn't have any record of the battle, and he dared to claim to be a good general!?
In his opinion, Li Jing's performance was simply a typical child of a wealthy family - he was not very capable, but he was often above his brilliance and arrogant.
However, the more incompetent the enemy is, the better news it will be for the Wei army.
"Very good, where is the enemy reinforcements now?"
"You should have left Handan and you can arrive at Lie people in two days, Feiyi."
"I understand. You go down and rest." Pang Juan waved his hand and began to think about it in his heart.
The Zhao State reinforcements arrived at the Liemen, Feiyi two days later.
The Wei army took four days.
In this way, the Zhao army had the advantage of waiting for labor. If they seized the city and defended it, the Wei army would be in trouble.
The casualties of siege have always been very large.
What's more, the Zhao army has a relatively more advantage in terms of number of people.
It seems that the best way is to lure the enemy out of the city and fight in the field, so that the victory will be much less difficult.
After making up his mind, Pang Juan marched with peace of mind and headed straight to the people, Feiyi.
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Four days later.
Outside Feiyi City, the Wei army camped ten miles away from the city. Under the setting sun, a large number of Wei army were squirming like ants, busy.
Thirty miles northeast of Feiyi, the city of Leren looks at each other from afar, making each other a horn.
"Report—"
Just as Pang Juan supervised the army to camp, and at the same time, he was alert to the Zhao army's sneak attack, a revenge came to report.
"What military information is there?" Pang Juan was shocked and asked quickly.
"Return to the general," the scammer said quickly: "We wait for the surrounding provocateurs to capture a memorial who claimed to be the messenger sent by General Li Jing of Zhao. Please order the capture."
"Oh?" Pang Juan was a little surprised. He thought that Zhao Jun was going to steal out of the city and beat him up to a weak point, but he didn't know what was the intention of Li Jing sending someone to come. After thinking about it, he said, "Bring someone here, I want to see you."
"No." He went there with a horse.
Soon, several snatchers were escorting a young genius in blue, and they all dismounted.
"Great General, people brought it."
"Very good." Pang Juan nodded, looked at the genius in green, and said lightly: "Is it that Li Jing sent you here?"
"No," the genius in green said politely: "You are General Pang Da, you have long been honored. My general has a letter of war, and I ordered a villain to pass it over. Please read it." As he said that, he took out a silk book.
Zhan Shu? Pang Juan took it in surprise and opened it to see it.
He saw Li Jing saying in the letter: He had heard about the name of the disciples of Pang Juan Guigu for a long time, and it was honored to be able to fight against the battlefield today. He specially invited Pang Juanming to fight the decisive battle outside the city to determine the heroes and the women.
After reading this letter, Pang Juan was a little messy in the wind.
After all, the Wei army dominated the world for many years, and he was worried that Li Jing would choose to defend and dare not fight easily.
But before he arrived, he didn't take him and the Wei army seriously at all, and he took the initiative to invite the battle.
Pang Juan could not imagine where Li Jing’s confidence came from? It was so stupid that it was incredibly stupid.
Even if it is a child of a wealthy family, it is strange to be ignorant and arrogant to this extent.
However, when the enemy wanted to give him a big gift, Pang Juan naturally would not refuse, and immediately smiled faintly: "Very good, please reply to your general. Tomorrow morning, I will lead the army outside the city to fight against the male and female."
"So, the villain said goodbye." The scribe in green bowed respectfully and was taken down by the rebuke.
"Wei Zheng." Pang Juan turned his head.
"General." Wei Zheng, who was alert on the side, hurriedly stepped forward and stood by.
"Send someone to summon the generals above the commander-in-chief from the army to see me." After Pang Juan said that, he strode away.
"promise."
Wei Zheng quickly arranged a few people to pass the order, and then hurriedly followed Pang Juan.
Soon, all the generals came to the central army.
"General."
After the generals met, they stood aside.
After nearly a year of getting along, the generals still admire Pang Juan.
This young general not only has outstanding martial arts skills, but also has a rigorous attitude towards military governance and excellent military training skills.
More importantly, Pang Juan is not only strict with others, but also strict with others.
On weekdays, Pang Juan never drinks alcohol. Even if the whole army drinks freely during festivals, he will stop drinking casually and never get drunk.
In terms of clothing, Pang Juan is also very simple and never wears gorgeous clothes.
In terms of diet, Pang Juan was not like other generals, who had no meat or food, but was not as good as his soldiers, sharing the same joys and sorrows, and eating the same food was never special.
In training, Pang Juan also sets an example and never slackew.
Even in this year, without official duties, Pang Juan had left the military camp at the end and truly took the army as his family.
As for what is searching for flowers and willows, Pang Juan is even more uninterested.
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In addition to being strict with oneself, Pang Juan pays more attention to building a strong morale in the army.
Most of the wealth and land that Wei Ying usually rewarded Pang Juan to his soldiers.
Every soldier with a difficult family background will be fully helped as long as Pang Juan knows it.
So, after a year, the grand general was completely worthless.
And every soldier who had asked about his name would clearly recognize him even after several months.
When patrolling the camp at night, he would tuck the quilt for every soldier.
Some soldiers were injured or sick, and Pang Juan often took care of them with his own hands and never cared about pus, blood, dirt, etc.
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Pang Juan's wholehearted efforts were not in vain.
To be continued...