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Liu Ling stood on the deck of the ship, looking at the raging battlefield in the distance with clairvoyance, and a faint smile appeared at the corner of his mouth.
The fight was very lively.
He smiled and waved his hand, signaling Xu Sheng to order the last dozen gunpowder packets to be thrown out. These dozen gunpowder packets exploded in the dense crowd of Ding'an troops who counterattacked, knocking down at least four to five hundred more people. The people on the ship were carrying
The burning gunpowder bag has been projected, and what Liu Ling has to do today has also been completed.
"Weigh anchor and return!"
Xu Sheng gave orders loudly, and the sailors ran back and forth on the deck, gradually controlling the rocking ship, and then pulled up the anchor. The ship slowly turned around and sailed back the way it came. It was Li Tianfang who attacked the Ding'an Army camp.
The Kaifeng Army of the Qingzhou Army trapped Qu Sheng's 30,000 cavalrymen to death in the Han Army's camp. So, where was the Han Army?
The Han army had indeed been ready in the camp before, but this camp was not the same camp where the Han army was stationed before. The night before, Li Tianfang's Kaifeng army and the Han army changed camps, and the Han army was responsible for the attack
There are 20,000 Ding'an Army soldiers stationed in the branch camp on the right side of the Ding'an Army Camp. The reason why Li Tianfang was willing to lead the battle was because Liu Ling gave him two promises. First, the Han Army provided the Kaifeng Army with a total of 300 rifles.
Crossbows, this is a very tempting condition. Three hundred continuous-fire ballistae, one salvo is enough to send a team of ten thousand people to hell. If the Han army really provides the Kaifeng Army with three hundred continuous-fire crossbows,
Li Tianfang will never give back the crossbow. With these powerful weapons, who else does Li Tianfang fear? Second, Liu Ling promised not to attack Kaifeng within three years, and teamed up with Li Tianfang to destroy the Qingzhou soldiers!
Li Tianfang was really tempted by these two promises. He knew that Liu Ling's promise not to attack Kaifeng within three years would be impossible to accomplish. Joining forces with him to destroy Yue Le Mi Huang might not be possible.
Liu Ling couldn't impress Li Tianfang with these two points. However, Li Tianfang couldn't refuse the three hundred repeating fire ballistas. After Liu Ling sent someone to test-fire once to let him see the power of this weapon, he was deeply impressed by it.
I was deeply shocked. One bursting fire ballista could turn hundreds of straw men into hedgehogs. If three hundred of them fired in volley, what a spectacular scene it would be?
Therefore, after some hesitation, Li Tianfang agreed to Liu Ling's proposal. His Kaifeng Army was responsible for the first attack, while the Qingzhou Army and Liu Ling's Han Army attacked the Ding'an Army from the right wing. More than 200,000 troops surrounded and attacked.
There were also heaven-defying weapons like the repeating fire ballista. Li Tianfang knew that Pei Zhan was destined to die this time. He couldn't sleep unless Pei Zhan died.
The last hesitation in Li Tianfang's heart disappeared because Yue Le and Mi Huang agreed to join forces with the Han army to attack the right wing camp of the Ding'an Army for unknown reasons. Was it Liu Ling's agreement to Yue Le Mi Huang's conditions, or was it
Purely because the defense of the Ding'an Army's right-wing camp was relatively weak, Li Tianfang didn't care very much. He was worried about cooperating with the Qingzhou Army, just as he was worried about cooperating with the Han Army. If it weren't for Pei Zhan, he had already taken action against him.
Suspicious, he will definitely die once Pei Zhan returns to Kaifeng, and he will not agree to Liu Ling's proposal to cooperate. Pei Zhan must die so that he, Li Tianfang, can live.
As long as the Qingzhou soldiers are not behind the Kaifeng army, Li Tianfang has nothing to worry about.
But what Li Tianfang didn't expect was that Liu Ling was so cunning. The three hundred repeating pyrotechnics had been rigged so that they could only fire one salvo, which would ignite the gunpowder hidden in the pylons and cause an explosion.
, this was undoubtedly a huge blow to the morale of the Kaifeng Army. Also, he clearly sent scouts to watch the Qingzhou soldiers heading towards the Ding'an Army's right wing camp, but he didn't know that it turned out to be a cover-up. The Qingzhou soldiers did go to the right wing.
, but it was only 20,000 people each holding two torches, and a few torches were tied to the horses. From a distance, it looked like a hundred thousand troops marching out. He didn't know that the 80,000 Qingzhou soldiers and horses had already quietly
Arriving behind his Kaifeng army, he surrounded the Han army's camp.
The reason why Yue Le and Mi Huang did this was actually very simple. Liu Ling did not give them two powerful weapons, nor did he give them any promise not to attack for three years. Liu Ling just told them that after the Ding'an Army was attacked
, Pei Zhan will definitely send troops to counterattack the Han army's camp. As long as he sets up Liu Ling's flag in the Han army's camp, the Ding'an army who attacked will come over like crazy. The most dangerous thing is undoubtedly to go
Attacking the Ding'an Army camp and fighting to the death with Pei Zhan, Liu Ling gave the two of them the safest task, just lie in ambush around the Han Army camp and wait for the Ding'an Army's surprise attack.
This is a temptation that cannot be refused.
Neither Yue Le nor Mi Huang are willing to really fight to the death with Pei Zhan. Their goal is to Kaifeng. As long as the Han army, Ding'an army, and Kaifeng army fight together, the two of them will immediately lead Qingzhou.
The troops withdraw to attack Kaifeng. This is the battle strategy that the two of them have already discussed. No matter who of the three parties wins in the end, they, the Qingzhou soldiers, will be the biggest beneficiaries. The prerequisite is that they, the Qingzhou soldiers, do not have to rush to the front to fight bloody battles.
Liu Ling came at this time and told them that your Qingzhou soldiers did not need to attack the Ding'an Army camp.
How could Yue Le and Mi Huang not be happy? Liu Ling also swore that at least 20,000 Ding'an Army cavalry would attack the Han army camp. As long as the Qingzhou soldiers destroyed the Ding'an Army that attacked, Pei Zhan would be defeated.
Not only did the interests negotiated by the Han Army, Qingzhou Soldiers, and Kaifeng Army remain unchanged, anything captured by the Qingzhou Soldiers tonight will not be counted among their share of the interests. Furthermore, Liu Ling promised Yue Le and Mi Huang,
The Han army was responsible for containing Li Tianfang's Kaifeng army, so that the Qingzhou soldiers could safely rob Kaifeng. If the two of them were willing, Liu Ling even promised them that the Han army was willing to cooperate with them to destroy Li Tianfang as long as the two of them wanted.
What a series of tricks.
In this way, Li Tianfang's Kaifeng Army went to attack Pei Zhan's camp. The Qingzhou Army appeared behind the Kaifeng Army. The Han Army, which was supposed to perform its duties and attack the Ding'an Army's right-wing camp, withdrew after feinting for a while.
Then Hua Ling and Zhao Er led an army of 40,000 people and drove through the night without knowing where they were going. The 20,000 Qingzhou soldiers had just arrived at the right wing camp of the Ding'an Army, and happened to meet the moment when Pei Zhan ordered the entire army to counterattack.
The fight was so chaotic that the Han army, who was supposed to be the protagonist, became the audience.
Pei Zhan led his army to counterattack wildly. Without the continuous fire ballistae, the momentum of the Kaifeng Army suddenly weakened. In addition, Li Tianfang was originally a little afraid of Pei Zhan, so the Kaifeng Army was quickly outnumbered and began to retreat. The Kaifeng Army
After retreating, he found that there were shouts of killing all along the way. Li Tianfang sent people to investigate and found out that it was the Qingzhou soldiers who had cut off his return. Li Tianfang was furious and ordered the army to rush away from the Qingzhou soldiers' interception. The Qingzhou soldiers had just killed Qu Sheng.
The 30,000 cavalrymen were still immersed in the joy of obtaining tens of thousands of horses and countless equipment, when they were violently attacked by the Kaifeng army.
The Ding'an Army was fighting fiercely behind, and the Kaifeng Army was blocked on their way back. How could they not be frightened? They were blocked from both ends, and the only way out was to defeat one of them in a deadly battle. Obviously, Li Tianfang was not willing to face a hundred thousand killers.
He hated Liu Ling the most, followed by the treacherous Qingzhou soldiers who blocked him behind him.
The Qingzhou soldiers were caught off guard and suffered heavy losses, but they immediately began to counterattack under the command of Mi Huang. The Kaifeng army, which was trapped in a desperate situation, was finally forced to show its blood, fighting to the death with the Ding'an army and the Qingzhou soldiers. This battlefield
, leaving hundreds of thousands of corpses overnight. The Kaifeng army was almost completely wiped out. Li Tianfang led more than 10,000 troops to break out and fled in embarrassment towards Kaifeng. Soon, knowing that Qu Sheng had been killed by the Qingzhou soldiers, the three
After the news that all ten thousand cavalrymen were wiped out, Pei Zhan ordered the army to continue to attack the Qingzhou soldiers. Mi Huang led his army to fight to the death, and both sides suffered countless casualties. Just when both sides were exhausted and no one could do anything, something shocking happened.
There was something speechless. Yue Le and his men took advantage of the chaos and beheaded his sworn brother Mi Huang, and then withdrew from the battle with his troops!
Immediately, Mi Huang's troops were in chaos, and the Ding'an army took advantage of the situation and advanced in, killing the Qingzhou soldiers!
The next evening, the battle finally ended.
The Ding'an Army, which seemed to have achieved a brilliant victory, found after counting the casualties that only less than 20,000 troops were left in the 150,000-strong army. More than 130,000 soldiers either died in battle or fled. Such a victory was still considered a victory.
Victory? Li Tianfang led more than 10,000 troops to break through and escape, and Yue Le returned to Qingzhou with more than 30,000 horses. In this battle, the Ding'an Army lost 130,000 horses, the Qingzhou Army lost more than 50,000 people, and the Kaifeng Army was almost completely destroyed.
, the combined casualties of the three parties were nearly 300,000!
What a huge number this is, 300,000 people. There is no powerful force in the Zhou Dynasty that can compete with the Han army!
In this huge battle, more than 400,000 troops from the four parties participated in the battle. Each party had its own calculations, but without exception, they plunged into Liu Ling's calculations. Liu Ling seemed to be resting leisurely in Huazhou, but in fact
He has been planning from that time on. It is no exaggeration to say that he has been planning since he led his army to leave the small town of Laihe County. What he plans is not just a battle between Pei and Pei? What he plans
, it is everyone in the world of Dazhou who still has the strength to fight against the Han army.
As for Pei Zhan's eventual defeat of the Kaifeng Army and the Qingzhou Army, this was within Liu Ling's expectation.
Who is Pei Zhan? He was a famous general who successively defeated Zuo Wuwei Han Yizhi, You Wuwei Liu Ji, Huben General Luo Xu, Cheng Dejun Zhao Tieguai, and Zhu Sanqi. Neither Li Tianfang nor Yue Lemihuang was him.
Whether it is conspiracy, scheming, or direct bloody battle, these three people are far different from Pei Zhan. As Pei Zhan himself said, the only person who can compare with him in the Central Plains today is Liu Ling.
If Li Tianfang fails and Yue Lemihuang fails, even if they are given another 200,000 troops, they are still no match for Pei Zhan.
Pei's victory was temporary, but it was temporary.
Looking at the dead bodies on the ground and the misery everywhere, there was no smile on Pei Zhan's face. Because he knew that what he had to face next was the most difficult moment.
He knew that Liu Ling, who had tricked all of them once, was waiting for him in front. (To be continued)
