Ten days can be said to be short or long, but for a war that is stuck in a stalemate, it is just the blink of an eye. On the sixth day of September, Zhou Buyi received a reply from Huaibei, saying
Guo Huai and Huang Quan are ready. They will start the attack on Bagong Mountain in three days. I hope he will act quickly. They must defeat the Liu'an defenders and cut into the Wu army's front and back before the Wu people can react.
This plan had been decided a long time ago. Although there were various accidents on the Bagong Mountain battlefield, there were no major changes in the strategy, and the plan remained unchanged. After all, Liu Xie had always taken Zhou
It is undoubtedly used as a trump card to win, and this time is no exception. Just talking about the major and minor wars in the past few years, there is no war as dangerous as this one, and many soldiers feel a little frightened by it.
Therefore, before setting off, many soldiers from the front team left home letters and entrusted them to the commander of the rear team. Once the situation was unfavorable, these letters would be the last to be written.
Fortunately, the commander-in-chief Zhou Buyi could always keep calm. On the day of departure, when all the troops were gathering in formation, Zhou Buyi dressed lightly and simply wore only an autumn suit before he came out to inspect the soldiers. He talked and laughed with the generals calmly and looked as usual.
It didn't feel like he was going to fight, but rather like he was leading people to hunt. Then when he ordered the whole army to go out, he played the drums himself. The general's courage to treat the enemy as if they were nothing naturally gave the soldiers a great encouragement. The original
Some timidity was also dispelled by the sound of drums.
But is Zhou Buyi really sure? In fact, not really.
The plan required him to take him by surprise, but the scale of the operation of the 70,000-strong army was too large, and it was impossible to completely conceal the traces. Especially when walking in Huainan, which the Wu people had occupied for a long time, even if the Wu people did not send scouts, the local people would
They will also take the initiative to report the news. Therefore, for the Han army, if they want to achieve unexpected results, the only option is to have troops and speed. But marching quickly in the enemy's territory is easier said than done. Once you take a detour and waste time, the news will be lost.
It was leaked out first. Even if Zhou Buyi had found a guide in advance, as long as he could not stop the Wu army from setting up sentries halfway. What's more, after a long-distance attack, the soldiers must be extremely tired. It would be a difficult task to defeat the Liu'an defenders under such circumstances.
Dilemma.
But the battlefield is like this. No one can be completely sure. Every decision is a big gamble. Sun Wu, the military sage, is afraid of such a big gamble, so he said that defeating the enemy without fighting is a good thing. But for Zhou Bu
As far as doubt is concerned, since the decision has been made, he will not complain. Only by believing in his own gambling luck can he be a good gambler.
Before setting off, except for transporting grain and baggage, he stopped all other affairs in the army and ordered the soldiers to rest for three days and eat for three days to recharge their batteries. And he also chose the right time to set off.
During the day, it was just for the convenience of traveling at dawn. Before leaving, the soldiers saw that he looked calm, but Zhou Buyi rarely said harsh words to all the officers under his command. He said: "Once you set off, you must go all out.
Follow the front troops and must not rest without permission. Anyone who violates this will be dealt with personally by His Majesty!"
After saying that, Zhou Buyi turned his horse around, picked up the reins, and galloped away surrounded by his horsemen. The generals did not dare to neglect, and immediately returned to their respective departments to reorganize the army. A continuous stream of Han knights rode out of the camp.
The sound of horse hooves was like bursts of muffled thunder that resounded across the north and south of the Huai River. There were only thousands of auxiliary troops in the baggage train, watching the rolling iron stream go away in the camp.
Although Zhou Buji's determination was revealed, after the forced march began, the generals were still shocked by the speed of the generals. Zhou Buji personally took charge of the front army and ordered the forward cavalry to change horses every hour. In just half a day,
He had already passed through the dense water network to the west of Wuyun Mountain and arrived at a small river called Yueshui. The distance traveled was more than a hundred miles. Zhou Buyi only rested here for two moments.
, after making the horses drink water, he continued to march southward at this speed. He ignored most of the troops behind him and had been thrown away for several miles.
Deng Ai, the accompanying chief secretary, was greatly surprised by this move. Although he was from a humble background and dared to endure hardships, he had never experienced such a high-intensity march. Seeing the surrounding scenery passing by quickly made him feel a little dizzy and tired.
, after reluctantly touching his face with cold water from the water bag, he caught up with Zhou Bujie and asked, "The general is walking so fast and doesn't care about the rear. Aren't you afraid that the army will get lost?"
Zhou Buji looked around at the surrounding terrain and replied: "Every mile, I will leave a rider halfway to guide the way. This can still lead to getting lost, unless they are all stupid."
It turned out that the general had already made arrangements. After hearing this, Deng Ai was very impressed, but new doubts arose in his heart. He then asked Zhou Buyi and said: "If this continues, after we arrive in Liu'an, the main force may not have arrived yet."
,How to fight against the Wu thief?"
Unexpectedly, Zhou Buyi chuckled, pointed behind him and said: "There are six thousand elites in our front army. They are all the elites of the country's hundreds of battles. They are not comparable to those on the right. Even if there is an army of one hundred thousand in front of us, it is not scary, let alone the six thousand."
An enemy of safety?"
Just at dusk that day, the sun set over the Western Mountains, the sky became gloomy, and the boundary between the sky and the ground gradually became blurred. The earth half blended into the twilight, but it still could not hide the outline of Lu'an City. The Han cavalry saw the city wall from a distance.
The black shadow immediately noticed that there was an abnormal trace of darkness stretching beside the city wall. They quickly guessed the truth: there was not enough room to station tens of thousands of Wu troops in the city, so the Wu people divided their troops and stationed camps outside the city.<
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At this time, Deng Ai led seven cavalry forward to explore the enemy. They were walking among the endless shallow hills, large and small. The horses' hoofs were slipping on the semi-wet and semi-dry land. Both the horses and the people were constantly breathing and exhaling. Despite the hard work,
But they still insisted on exploring forward. Suddenly, after crossing a mound, on the leeward slope to the west, they ran into more than ten Wu people wearing autumn clothes.
These Wu people put their horses next to them and sat around the fire to roast a deer. They had obviously just hunted a deer. They fully expected that enemies would rush down the slope. They had no time to mount their horses and went to get it in a panic.
The bows and arrows were still on the side, but after just one shot, Deng Ai and others' counterattack arrived. Deng Ai first ducked sideways to avoid an arrow, then immediately grabbed the arrow and stood up to fight back. The heavy arrow hit the Wu man in the front, knocking him down.
His unprotected back was shot in pieces.
After shooting the arrow, the Han cavalry had already flown down the slope, and were only a few dozen steps away from the Wu people. Seeing that they could not escape, the remaining Wu people simply stood there, threw down their weapons, and attacked the Han army.
Deng Ai signaled that he would surrender. But Deng Ai still did not dare to be careless. After he ordered his entourage to ride horses to surround him, he approached the Wu people to talk. After asking, he learned that after the Wu people had won for a while, they were so satisfied that they thought the Han people
The army was still resting, and the Double Ninth Festival was approaching, so the entire army was ordered to rest for three days. Originally, there were 40,000 defenders left here, but at this time, most of them were scattered around, and there were only a few thousand people left in the camp.
Deng Ai was overjoyed when he heard this and immediately turned his horse back to report to Zhou Buyi. Zhou Buyi had already set up a banner and was ordering his men to dismount and take a rest. After listening to Deng Ai's report, he smiled and whispered
: "It seems that destiny is in Han, and this career has been completed."
After saying that, he immediately sent an order to the whole army to eat on the spot. After resting for two quarters of an hour, they directly launched an attack on Wu Jun's camp. At this time, the Han cavalry had been running around for a day and were relatively exhausted. However, after the training of the previous days,
The cultivation level was within a tolerable range. After hearing the news that Wu Jun was not prepared, they all realized that this was a rare opportunity to fight, and immediately gathered themselves together and took care of the weapons they had brought.
The Wu people in Lu'an were actually aware of the arrival of the Han army. After all, this group of people came from the northwest and looked very eye-catching under the last rays of the sunset. However, the Wu people were scattered in all directions at this time and had no time to communicate in a short period of time.
, let alone want to organize a defense. The news was reported to the guard Pan Zhang, who was also stunned for a moment. He murmured: "How did the thieves come so fast? I didn't receive the news." It turned out that he was there.
Sentries have been deployed on the road, but unfortunately, the power of the sentries is far less than that of the Han cavalry. After the Han army forwards have arrived at the gate of Lu'an City, these sentries are still on their way.
Seeing that the Wu people had no time to resist, Zhou Buyi naturally would not miss this opportunity. He ordered his subordinates to be fully armed and hold long spears, and then lit the torches. A fire dragon suddenly rose from the dark sky and earth, and they illuminated the Han cavalry.
Their iron armor reflected the brilliance of stars in the early night, and what was even more eye-catching was the long tree they erected, pointing uniformly at the sky. The cold light reflected from the top of the tree looked like a crystal clear stream from a distance.
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Soon, the Han cavalry launched an attack on the Wu camp next to the city. Like a strong wind, they broke through the antlers on the outside of the camp and poured in all the gates of the camp. What greeted the Han cavalry was the panic-stricken faces of the Wu people.
, it was almost a charge, and the Wu people's temporary front line was shattered into pieces like paper, and then there were noisy sounds of Wu people running for their lives and begging for mercy.
Pan Zhang was watching this scene from the top of the city, feeling desperate in his heart. He originally had a glimmer of fantasy that the soldiers in the camp could resist the Han army with help, but now it was completely shattered and in pieces.
The flames had begun to ignite in every corner of the camp outside the city. He knew that it would not be long before the camp would be completely swept away by the flames. The only thing he could do at the moment was to save the remaining defenders in the city, so he closed the door tightly.
At the city gate, no matter how many Wu people were crying and shouting outside the city, he would never go to war.
Zhou Buyi had no intention of attacking Lu'an. There were at most two thousand defenders in the city, and the Wu people guarding the camp had been completely torn to pieces. He looked at the blazing fire and waited outside the city for half a minute.
At about two o'clock in the morning, a follow-up cavalry envoy finally caught up and asked Zhou Bujie: "Envoy, most of us are less than three miles away from here. The generals asked me to ask, should we continue on our way or rest on the spot?"
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Zhou Bujiu immediately replied: "Just rest here, and we will go straight to Hefei early tomorrow morning!"