The reason why the Han army was able to build a camp overnight was naturally not because of the help of some gods. It was because Zhou Buyi had specially developed the ability to measure the land by traveling around. During his time at Taixue, he and Liu Xie studied arithmetic and military science many times.
, talking about all the things before the war, he thought that building the camp was the most time-consuming, so he was ingenious and conducted a special study on it. Whenever he rode on the land, whether it was flat or not, whether it was a wetland or a mountain plain, he would
You can immediately calculate the material consumption of building a camp based on horse steps.
This time he personally built the camp in Hefei, and it really achieved miraculous results. He rushed to the camp location at two o'clock and spent half an hour walking around. He had a plan in mind, and then assigned tasks to the generals.
It only lasted a quarter of an hour. The orders were distributed, and the ministries acted according to the orders. As expected, the camp was built before 00:00 the next day, without even delaying breakfast for the next day.
Seeing that the Han army's camp was completed, Quan Cong had to go back and reconsider Zhang Zhao's plans. After all, the Wu army in Shouchun and Bagong Mountain relied on water transportation from the Feishui River for supplies, and the Han army's camp was built in a bay on the bank of the Feishui River.
The place is called Xiaotaiwei. The Han army camped here, clearly intending to block the Wu people's water transportation, which would change the entire war situation.
Quan and Zhang analyzed this: In the long run, if the Han army is allowed to take root here, the Wu people will have only two choices strategically, either to change water transportation to land transportation and fall into a competition with the Han army in material losses.
Dilemma; either transfer the navy in Shouchun and attack the Han army in Xiaotaiwei with the Wu army in Hefei, but success or failure is still between two sides. At that time, how to defend Shouchun and Bagongshan will depend on Wu
This is another problem faced by the people. Therefore, the best plan now is to try to make the Han army retreat quickly.
But how to do it? After thinking about it carefully, I found that there are only two strategies: one is to go to Xiaotaiwei camp immediately while the Han army is resting and reorganizing. If the camp is successful, the Han army will of course retreat; the other is to take advantage of the Han army to march forcefully
When they arrived, they would definitely not have much food with them. As long as they sent people to intercept the Han army's food and grass halfway, the Han army would naturally retreat because they were hungry.
Quan Cong thought over and over again and thought that with the inferior force, the risk of forcibly seizing the camp was too high. If it failed, even Hefei would be at risk of falling. After careful consideration, he finally planned to go out of the city to seize food. However, how could Zhou Buyi give him this opportunity?
The whole army had just rested for a day, so Zhou Buyi sent Hao Zhao and Huo Yi to move camp to the foot of Hefei City, and happened to bump into Quan Cong who was opening the door to leave the city.
Seeing that the number of Han troops was not large, Quan Cong suddenly thought of having a small battle with the enemy to test the situation. Unexpectedly, before the order was issued, he heard the Han troops on the opposite side shouting: "Soldiers on the opposite side, listen.
It is clear that Sun Zhongmou failed the emperor's favor, squandered the divine throne, went against the grain, usurped his relatives and hid his throne. The truth is clear. Now that people are angry and resentful, he is suffering from chronic illness and his life is not long! Why are you still stubbornly resisting and working hard for him? Do you still want to?
Are you going to die with him? Before our army came, Your Majesty had a holy word. Anyone who defected in front of the battle, abandoned his bow and arrows and surrendered, would not be punished. The country would hire people according to their talents. Only Sun Quan would be punished!"
After saying that, Quan Cong immediately secretly exclaimed that something was not good. After the Battle of Huaibei, Sun Quan was seriously ill. Although he was getting better now, he was still unable to travel and attend to matters. Therefore, there was a lot of slander in the army. However, the Han army mentioned this again at this time.
The surrender almost hit the Wu army's weak point. He had no intention of fighting anymore and immediately planned to lead his army back to the city. However, before the order was sent out, he saw dozens of scattered people in the team heading towards the Han army.
He ran away. This caused a commotion among the Wu troops who were leaving the city. Quan Cong quickly asked his followers to shoot arrows at the fleeing people, killing several people in a row, so that it did not turn into a bigger commotion.
But this almost completely dispelled the Wu army's will to fight the Han army. Under Zhang Zhao's care, the Wu army on the city fired arrows at the attacking Han army, which made Quan Cong escape back to the city in embarrassment.
Seeing Zhang Zhao again, Quan Cong hesitated for a long time, and finally said: "Mr. Zhang, I think Shouchun is in serious trouble, so I'd better pass the news to the lord and Lu, the two governors of Lu, and ask them to withdraw their troops." After that, he
He almost didn't dare to look at Zhang Zhao.
Zhang Zhao was not surprised by this. He sighed and comforted Quan Cong: "Zihuang doesn't have to be like this. The enemy army is the imperial army after all, possessing the wealth of ten states, and under his command is a victorious army. Even Cao Cao,
A great man like Yuan Shao cannot resist, let alone you and me. Winning is certainly gratifying, but losing is not deplorable."
Quan Cong was suspicious when he heard this, and quickly raised his head to correct Zhang Zhao and said, "Mr. Zhang has gone too far! How can you increase the enemy's arrogance and destroy our army's ambition!"
Zhang Zhao knew he had made a mistake, so he immediately changed his words and said: "I will go to repair the book first. If Zijing and Ziming can withdraw safely, and use our navy to fight the rebels here again, we may not be able to turn defeat into victory!"
Quan Cong sighed and said: "This matter is urgent and should not be delayed. Mr. Zhang, if the Han army over there gets the news and launches a fierce attack on our army first, then they will not be able to withdraw even if they want to!"
Although Quan Cong could not have expected Zhou Buyi to set up camp overnight, he was indeed a wise general among the Wu army. What he had in mind was completely consistent with Liu Xie's prior plan. After the Han army at Xiaotaiwei forced the Wu army back into the city,
The first batch of grain and grass arrived from Lu'an, and it was also announced that the Han army had completely established a foothold here. While counting the grain and grass, Zhou Buyi immediately sent an envoy to Huaibei to send a message, hoping that Liu Xie would immediately send troops as planned.
It's just that this time the envoy didn't have the good luck of the previous surprise attack on Lu'an. In order to speed up, he did not return by the original route, but went north along the Feishui River, intending to take a shortcut and go straight to the Huaibei Camp. Unexpectedly, he collided with him on the way.
When a Wu army fleet arrived, he had to take a long detour. When he asked for directions, the local Wu people saw that he was from Huaibei because of his accent, so they deliberately pointed him to the wrong way. As a result, the envoy made a detour in vain.
After two days of detours, the news was finally delivered to Liu Xie.
At this time, a fierce battle that lasted for more than ten days had begun on the Bagong Mountain battlefield. After Huang Quan moved the navy back to Bagong Mountain, he and Guo Huai crossed the Feishui River to conduct a company camp. Then, according to Liu Xie's previous arrangement, the Han army
They launched an attack on Bagong Mountain from the west and south at the same time. After learning the lesson of the first setback, the Han army was not eager to put the entire army into the battlefield in one battle. Instead, it divided the entire army into ten teams, each with two soldiers.
The first team to attack, the other teams to rest and press the formation, so as not to expose the flaws that would cause the Wu army to go down the mountain.
This chapter is not finished yet, please click on the next page to continue reading the exciting content! However, the casualties of the Han army's attack were huge. After all, the Bagong Mountain fortress built by Lu Su can be called a complete system. He
Taking advantage of the protruding terrain, dozens of mountain ladders were built between the strongholds, which connected the seemingly isolated wooden enclosures to each other, and often adjusted the distribution of manpower according to the movements of the Han army in a timely manner, allowing Guo Huai to design several eastward attacks on the western capital.
Returned in vain. During this period, the entire army had suffered 7,000 casualties, but there were still no signs of breaking the camp, which made the army gradually resentful. Guo and Huang also had to make changes to the original regulations.
Troops were sent to seize the camp every day. At this time, in order to appease the morale of the troops, they also postponed the attack to one attack every two days.
What makes the two people even more troubled is that just yesterday, the Shouchun Navy from the south also moved north and docked directly at the mouth of the river ten miles to the south. According to reports from the scouts, the Wu Navy was out in full force and was camping on the shore.
It was obviously intended to carry out a counterattack.
Under this situation, Guo Huai couldn't help but think of the last defeat, and then he once again had the idea of retreating to the west bank. He said to Huang Quan: "Brother Gongheng, although your Majesty ordered you and me to attack Bagong Mountain, what we did was not enough."
It’s to cover up Governor Zhou. Now that the Shouchun Navy has gone north, why do we bother to stay here? If we don’t withdraw in time, I’m afraid there’s a risk of another defeat!”
Huang Quan understood what Guo Huai meant, but he also hesitated in his heart, and retorted: "Brother Bo Ji, I think this is strange. Wu Jun clearly has the advantage. As long as they continue to defend, they can probably succeed, so why bother to take the initiative?"
In a posture of decisive battle? If they were so belligerent, they would not have made a truce so easily last time. I am afraid there is something fishy in this, so we might as well stick to the camp first and see again in a few days."
After hearing this, Guo Huai thought it was reasonable, and agreed to wait and see for a few more days. As a result, that night, the Wu people who went north and the defenders of Bagong Mountain launched a counterattack against the Han army. The intensity of their offensive was completely different from before.
They beat drums all night long outside the camp and launched counterattacks from the east and south. Arrows fell like raindrops inside the camp, flying in from the towering fence and through the gaps in the fence. The arrows pierced into the soil and suddenly seemed to grow long.
There was a patch of ironweed.
Guo Huai was supervising the battle on the front line that night. Everything he saw was the soldiers of the two armies fighting bloody battles. What he heard were the shouts and roars of the opposing sides. This shocked him. During the reign of Yin, the Wu people changed their strategies and tried to massacre them.
The antlers were burned to open a breakthrough in the Han camp. Fortunately, the antlers had been covered with a layer of cowhide and were not easy to burn. Then Wang Ling led his cavalry to repel the Wu army who entered the camp, and the Wu army stopped the offensive. But in the dark night battlefield,
, there was still a thick smell of gunpowder smoke. Without counting, Guo Huai knew that his losses this night could catch up with those of the previous few days.
After this battle, Guo Huai had even more thoughts of retreating. Without consulting Huang Quan, he planned to submit a letter to the emperor first. Unexpectedly, when he was returning to the camp, someone stopped him. He turned around to look, and he couldn't help but be stunned.
It is the Emperor Liu Xie who has arrived!
Liu Xie was dressed in a black outfit and had just dismounted. He had obviously just arrived from the Huaibei Camp. His face showed a bit of fatigue, but his eyes were very bright, as if there were burning flames. When he saw him, he turned to Guo
Huai said: "Bo Ji, send people to organize the army immediately. The traitors are about to retreat!"
Guo Huai was shocked and didn't understand what was happening. He asked: "Your Majesty, our army has just experienced a big battle. We are exhausted physically and mentally. How can we capture the camp with the Wu thieves?"
"Idiot!" Liu Xie saw that he had not yet understood, and immediately cursed: "Zhou Buyi has successfully established a foothold in Hefei! The traitor knows that there is no hope of holding on, so he came here to try. If he can't succeed at this time, he will not succeed.
We have to beat our troops until they are short of breath, and then they can retreat. Are you already discouraged?!"
After that, Liu Xie said no more, turned and passed Guo Huai, and issued orders to the generals of the two armies, ordering the entire army to immediately set out to pursue the Wu army.