Changsun Yuanhong abandoned Nanhai and Jianxing, the western gateways to the east of Hedong, and instead drove straight in, heading straight for Qingyuan, the county seat. This was a surprise to the army, including Tang Yin. Changsun Yuanhong's tactics also impressed those who were traveling with him.
Wei Zheng found it difficult to understand and felt incredible.
Without capturing Nanhai and Jianxing first, the 300,000-strong army marched straight towards Qingyuan. Even if we could successfully capture it, our own army would be trapped in the hinterland of Hedong. By then, we would have no reinforcements, no way to retreat, and three
One hundred thousand people would be trapped in the east of the river and die, and the entire army would be annihilated.
Wei Zheng strongly opposed Changsun Yuanhong's tactics. But Changsun Yuanhong also had his own ideas.
First, Hedong was only temporarily occupied by the Feng Army, but in fact it was still the territory of Ning State, and the people in Hedong were still Ning people. Our long-distance advance was not an intrusion of a lone army, but a direct penetration of the enemy's vital points. Second, Qingyuan was
Once the Hedong County is threatened, the Feng Army must rescue it, otherwise the Nanhai, Jianxing, Xiaoxia, and Fengcheng areas occupied by the Feng Army will lose contact and become four isolated cities. Third, Changsun Yuanhong has already discovered the Feng Army.
The city defenses of the army in Nanhai and Jianxing are very strong, and he is not willing to fight a difficult offensive. The other 100,000 Yue cavalry are not suitable for fighting a difficult battle. He threatens Qingyuan by himself, and the Fengfeng Army comes to rescue. In this way, he can
In a head-on confrontation with the Feng army on the plains, the power of the Yue cavalry can be maximized.
This was Changsun Yuanhong's strategic thought. He sneered at Wei Zheng's concerns and ignored them at all. He did not explain how Wei Zheng understood his tactics, and the conflicts and analysis between the two deepened.
Qingyuan is a county town, and the city defense is extremely strong. Not only the city walls are high and thick, but also there are two inner and outer walls, which are easy to defend and difficult to attack. However, the Feng Army's garrison in Qingyuan is only 20,000 Feng Army led by Du Qing, the county lieutenant.
It is impossible for people to withstand an army of 300,000 and defend such a huge county.
However, after Changsun Yuanhong led his army to Qingyuan, he surrounded but did not attack, trapped but did not capture, and confronted the Feng army outside the city. His intention was very clear, to encircle the point for reinforcements! I will trap your vital points first.
*You must come to save me, and if I want to occupy Qingyuan, I can win with one blow at any time.
His tactic is so awesome.
Hearing that Qingyuan was threatened by the Ningguo army, the Feng Army's garrisons in Xiaoxia and Fengcheng each sent 10,000 troops, divided into two groups, to reinforce Qingyuan. However, the eldest son, Sun Yuanhong, had already calculated the Feng Army's movements, and he came to Qingyuan.
An ambush of 50,000 Western Army troops was set up on the official road between Yuan and Xiaoxia, and 100,000 Yue cavalry were deployed between Qingyuan and Fengcheng.
As a result, two lines of reinforcements from the Feng Army encountered an ambush from the Ning Army along the way. They were beaten to pieces and most of them were destroyed. Only a thousand remnants of the defeated soldiers were left and returned to Xiaoxia. The reinforcements from the other line were even worse, with hundreds of thousands of soldiers.
The Vietnamese cavalry came face to face.
The Yue people were called Yue barbarians by the Ning State. Firstly, their civilization was backward, and secondly, because the people were fierce and brave and good at fighting. When the Yue people only wore animal skins and held stone axes and bone spears, it was very difficult for the Ning State to conquer the Yue people.
, and the Yue people often dared to resist, which gave Ning Guo a headache. Now that the Yue people have received the support of Changsun Yuanhong, they wear refined steel helmets and armor, and hold extremely sharp steel knives and guns, and their combat effectiveness has been virtually improved by several levels.
Steps. The Yue cavalry is not only fast, but everyone is good at riding and shooting and throwing knives. The Yue cavalry charges. Before the horses arrive, the arrows arrive first. Just after the arrow array passes, the sword array arrives again. Wait for the sword array to pass.
, the cavalry has rushed forward.
When ten thousand Feng troops encountered the Yue cavalry, as soon as the battle started, they were stunned by the arrow array of the Yue cavalry. They finally blocked the Yue cavalry's arrow array, and the flying knives thrown by the opponent arrived again. Many Feng soldiers
Without even seeing clearly what was going on, his head was chopped off by a machete whirling towards him. Ten thousand Feng troops were dispersed by a hundred thousand Yue cavalry in a single charge, and in the plain of Hedong
Once defeated, there would be no place to run or hide, not to mention how the two legs of the infantry could be faster than the four hooves of the war horse? The poor wind army who came from Fengcheng to reinforce Qingyuan, almost no one survived in the end
, he was killed by the Vietnamese cavalry like a storm.
The two cities reinforced Qingyuan, but the reinforcements from the two cities were blocked, and nearly 20,000 troops were lost. The defenders of the two cities hurriedly used flying pigeons to send the battle report to Jianxing, asking Tang Yin to make a decision. They received the news that Xiaoxia and Fengcheng failed to reinforce Qingyuan.
, Tang Yin immediately realized that Changsun Yuanhong's tactic was to deliberately trap Qingyuan and surround him for reinforcements.
He immediately sent people to send a message back to the two cities, not to continue to reinforce Qingyuan. In addition, he sent people to pass the battle report to Xiao Muqing and Liang Qi in Nanhai. Then, he urgently summoned Ziying to discuss with him how to deal with the enemy. As for Changsun
Ziying was also shocked by Yuanhong's tactics of directly attacking the vital points and encircling them for reinforcements. She lowered her head and looked at the map, speechless for a long time.
Tang Yin was waiting for Ziying to come up with a plan. Seeing that the latter had not said a word for a long time, he raised his eyebrows and asked: "Ziying, how do you think our army should defeat the enemy now?"
Ziying took a breath and said: "Qingyuan City only has 20,000 defenders from our side. As long as the commander Sun Yuanhong gives the order, with his 300,000 troops, he can break the city with one blow. But he besieged but did not attack, that is
He expressed his attitude to attract the main force of our army to come and engage in a decisive battle with our army. This shows that he is confident that he can defeat our army in a decisive battle."
Tang Yin sighed impatiently. He understood what Ziying analyzed. What he wanted to hear was not this, but the way to defeat the enemy. Seeing Tang Yin's impatient look, Ziying hurriedly raised his hands and saluted, saying:
"Your Majesty, I don't know anything about the enemy's combat power and characteristics, so I don't dare to speak nonsense. However, Qingyuan City is very important to our army. Once it falls into the hands of the enemy, Jianxing and Nanhai will be destroyed."
The two cities will lose their backup and logistical supplies and become in danger, and the situation of the 300,000 soldiers stationed in the two cities will also be extremely pessimistic."
This is a fact. Qingyuan City must be saved. The key is how to save it? Tang Yin said quietly: "Since Changsun Yuanhong wants to fight a decisive battle with our army, our army will accompany him. I will immediately summon the Pingyuan Army and Sanshui Army in the South China Sea."
Army, unite with the Directly Affiliated Army and the Tianying Army to fight to the death with the Ning Army!"
Ziying stirred up a shiver, waved his hands repeatedly, and said: "That's not right! Your Majesty, although Changsun Yuanhong is a fierce general, he is also a wise general who can govern the country and secure it. Since he wants to fight our army decisively, he must be fully confident.
, If your Majesty joins forces to fight, wouldn’t it be in line with the enemy’s wishes?”
Hearing this, Tang Yin raised his eyebrows, looked at Ziying, and asked with a sneer: "Ziying, do you think our army's 300,000 brothers can't defeat Changsun Yuanhong's 300,000 men?"
Ziying thought so, but he couldn't say it that way. He said seriously: "Your Majesty, our army has been fighting continuously for nearly two months. All the officers and soldiers in the army are exhausted. However, the enemy army has just arrived and their morale is high.
If our fighting spirit is strong and we engage in a head-on confrontation, our army will suffer losses. In addition, in a head-on decisive battle between 300,000 and 300,000 people, even if our army can win in the end, the casualties will be heavy. The enemy will lose 1,000 and we will lose 800. This is the courage of an ordinary man.
Please give your Majesty the benefit of the doubt in this fight!"
When Ziying said this, if Tang Yin persisted, he would become an ordinary man. He frowned and took a deep look at Ziying, and muttered dissatisfied: "This won't work, that won't work either, tell me, what should our army do?
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"King, I have been studying the terrain of Hedong for a while, and found that there is a place that is very suitable for setting up an ambush." As he spoke, Ziying pointed to the Hedong area and said, "This is it. There are ditches here, and you can even lay an ambush in them."
One hundred thousand or two hundred thousand people, there is no clue just from the appearance, and this place is only more than a hundred miles away from Qingyuan. If our army can lead the enemy here, not only will the Yue Kingdom's cavalry be rendered useless,
You can also catch Ning Jun off guard."
"Oh?" Tang Yin lowered his head and carefully looked at the place where Ziying's finger was. From the map, it is indeed not far from Qingyuan, but it is not like the ditches and criss-crossings mentioned by Ziying. You can't tell from the map. Look.
After a while, Tang Yin frowned and asked, "Ziying, even if this place is as easy to set up an ambush as you said, it is still more than a hundred miles away from Qingyuan. How can we attract Ning's army here?"
The corners of Ziying's mouth moved, and he hesitated to speak with a look of embarrassment on his face.
Tang Yin suddenly felt impatient and urged: "You should say something if you have something to say!"
Ziying took a deep breath and said: "It is not impossible to attract the enemy here. The key is to see if the bait to attract Ning's army is attractive enough."
Tang Yin blinked and asked, "Ziying, in your opinion, who is the best bait?"
Ziying lowered his head and pondered. After a long while, he knelt down and kowtowed at the same time: "Your Majesty is the best choice!"
After hearing this, before Tang Yin could express his position, the faces of Guyue, Wuying, and Shangguan brothers who were standing aside changed greatly. Shangguan Yuan Biaohuan was stunned and shouted: "How brave! Ziying, you actually want to use your Majesty's name."
As a bait, if the king encounters something wrong with the rebel army, can you afford it?"
Ziying knelt on the ground and did not move, nor did she raise her head from the ground.
Tang Yin was just stunned for a moment, then turned his head and glared at Shangguan Yuan Biao with dissatisfaction, and asked suspiciously: "Yuan Biao, am I a three-year-old child? Am I so easy to make mistakes?"
Yuan Biao was dumbfounded and stammered: "This... general... of course the general doesn't mean that..."
Tang Yin stopped paying attention to him, bent down and grabbed the collar of Ziying's neck, and lifted him up directly. Then he looked at Ziying and shook his head with a smile, and said quietly: "I just asked you to take the blame for something insignificant for me.
, but you ended up throwing a bigger scapegoat at me, Ziying, it’s really your fault.”
When Ziying heard this, her legs became weak, her body sank, and she was about to kneel down again, but Tang Yin grabbed his shoulders first and prevented him from kneeling down. Then he took two steps back, with his hands behind his back, in the room.
Wandering back and forth inside. After thinking about Ziying's strategy carefully, Tang Yin nodded secretly. He was the monarch of the Feng Kingdom and the biggest enemy of the Ning Kingdom. No one was more attractive than him, even if the eldest son Yuanhong was again
With foresight and foresight, no matter how cunning and cunning, he would never have guessed that he would use himself as a king as a bait to lure him into taking the bait. This strategy might also work.