Chapter 262: Expedition, Coincidence of Coincidence
"Woo..."
The long sound of the horn echoed in the desolate wasteland. On the endless wasteland, neat rows of infantry phalanxes were moving forward with neat steps. There were ten such infantry phalanxes in total.
There is no end to the line from one end to the other.
Behind the infantry phalanx, there are military formations of different sizes. In the center is a large phalanx of ten thousand people. In the innermost part of the large phalanx, which is heavily surrounded by troops, there is a huge luxury chariot, surrounded by gold and silver.
The armored cavalryman is holding a dragon flag with the word "kun" written on it.
"In March of the first year of the Dakun Shenwu Calendar, Taizu Yujia personally went on a crusade against the traitor Wang Shichong, and..."
In the big tent, Ye Chen smiled while looking at the records recorded in the book by his entourage. His eyes fell on the sand table in the center of the big tent. His general Zhang Ling held a wooden stick and pointed it at one of the places with a black flag.
Xiaosandui said to Ye Chen and several generals around the sandbox:
"This is Yuan County. Wang Shichong sent General Song Mengqiu to garrison here, with a total of 50,000 defenders."
The wooden stick pointed at two other places and said:
"This is Hangu Pass, an important pass to Chang'an in the west. There are 30,000 defenders. Maojin Ferry is the only way to cross the Yellow River. There are 15,000 defenders. The three use Maojin Ferry as a fulcrum to attack and defend each other.
We can quickly support anywhere, so we must break through Maojin Ferry before the Yuan County reinforcements arrive, cut off the connection between the Yuan County defenders and Hangu Pass, and then defeat them one by one."
Dugu Zhan, standing opposite the sand table, said:
"But the news that we are sending troops has spread out a long time ago. The reinforcements from Yuan County have probably set off long ago. Now Maojin Ferry is probably no less than 40,000 to 50,000 defenders. It will not be easy to capture it."
Zhang Ling smiled and said:
"General Dugu, there is no need to worry. Your Majesty has already prepared for this matter."
Ye Chen didn't show off and said with a smile:
"A month ago, I ordered General Xu Shiji to lead 50,000 troops to cross the Yellow River from Mengjin. Now I am afraid that he has reached Yuanxian County. It would be better if he does not send troops. Once he sends troops, General Xu Shiji will definitely be able to capture Yuanxian County and cut off his retreat.
, then the tens of thousands of troops south of the Yellow River will become rootless water, and they will definitely be defeated!"
Except for Zhang Ling, all the generals were overjoyed. Wang Xuan even stepped forward and said:
"The last general is willing to be the vanguard to capture Maojin Ferry for Your Majesty!"
The others did not compete with him. A battle with Wang Shichong could not be completed in a short period of time. He had many military exploits, so there was no need to compete. Besides, Xu Shiji had already taken away the first merit, so it was useless to fight again.
Ye Chen walked back to his seat with a smile and sat down, with a solemn look on his face and said in a deep voice:
"Wang Xuan heard the order and ordered you to lead 10,000 troops as the vanguard to Maojin Ferry. You must not act recklessly when the opportunity arises."
"Here!"
He received the token and turned around to leave.
"Dugu Zhan!"
"The end is here!"
"I order you to lead 30,000 generals to Hangu Pass, besiege but not attack, wait for action, and do not attack the city without authorization!"
"Here!"
"Zhang Ling, lead an army of 50,000 to Hongnong. Keep a close eye on the movements of Li Tang's army. If there is any movement, please report to me on horseback."
"Here!"
"The others are waiting to follow the Chinese army and set off tomorrow morning!"
"Here!"
The generals left one by one, leaving only Zhang Ling. Since there were no outsiders, he stopped pretending and said with a smile:
"I didn't expect that you, the emperor, actually act like a decent person. How do you feel about it? Do you feel good about it?"
Ye Chen smiled and said:
"There's nothing exciting about this. I've been an emperor in other worlds before. Once the freshness wears off, it becomes the same. On the contrary, it restricts freedom. Anyway, I won't do it when I unify the world."
He looked up at Zhang Ling and suddenly said:
"How about it, are you interested in becoming an emperor?"
Zhang Ling shrugged and said:
"I'm sure I'm interested. I've been here so many times and I haven't tried it yet, but it's impossible in this world. I can't compete with you."
"As long as you are interested. When the world is unified, I will lend you an army and horses. You can go east and wipe out the small messy countries on the island. You can also try to establish a country and become a local emperor. It's not just you, like Wang Xuan and others.
As long as you are still alive after unifying the world, how about giving you a chance as a reward for helping me conquer the world?"
Zhang Ling looked happy and said:
"That's great. I heard that this small country is in such a mess that it dares to form its own country with less than one county magistrate. It's laughable."
"Well, I heard that there are a lot of beauties there. Send some to me when the time comes."
"Come on, a woman of ordinary size like you can't bear it. Don't kill anyone by then."
"Nima..."
Two days later, before Ye Chen's army arrived at Maojin Ferry, news came that Maojin Ferry had been captured. To be precise, Li Yuan's son Li Jiancheng suddenly led an army of hundreds of thousands to attack Hangu Pass and followed the message non-stop.
Guguan defeated his troops and attacked Maojin Ferry. It happened that Wang Shichong's reinforcements from Yuan County, north of the Yellow River, were preparing to cross the Yellow River. Xu Shiji arrived just as he was about to cross the river. He attacked them when they were halfway across the river and defeated the army crossing the river in one fell swoop.
It was broken.
The defenders at Maojin Ferry had internal strife with the defeated troops. Some of them actually opened the city and surrendered to Wang Xuan. Wang Xuan immediately seized the opportunity and joined forces with the surrendered troops to attack Maojin Ferry.
But at this time, Li Jiancheng's army of hundreds of thousands came to surround Maojin Ferry. At the same time, Xu Shiji led his army to cross the river to support Maojin Ferry. The two sides faced off at the ferry.
This series of dazzling changes even Ye Chen, a veteran in the battlefield, was a little overwhelmed, let alone others. He was dumbfounded. He immediately ordered the Chinese army to speed up and catch up with Mao Jin.
The Dugu Zhan army who had crossed the river rushed to Maojin Ferry in the evening of the same day, and saw at a glance the Tang army waiting in formation outside Shuizhai Pass.
I have to say that Ye Chen was a little lucky to have this pass. Otherwise, under the current chaotic situation, Li Jiancheng could easily defeat Wang Xuan's army in chaos as long as he led his army. At that time, he had just accepted the Maojin Crossing surrender.
The situation is chaotic, even if they face the same number of opponents, they cannot defeat them, let alone an army of hundreds of thousands, even if Xu Shiji's troops are included.
The 70,000 Chinese Army arrived at the same time as the 30,000 troops of Dugu Zhan. Wang Xuan on the pass city wall breathed a sigh of relief. The 10,000 forwards plus 100,000 troops, as well as the 30,000 troops that Xu Shiji crossed the river, totaled 140,000 troops, plus Ye Chen, the invincible
God general, it is not difficult to defeat Li Jiancheng.
This time to deal with Wang Shichong, Ye Chen mobilized a total of more than 200,000 troops, 70,000 in the center, 10,000 in the vanguard, 50,000 in Xu Shiji, 50,000 in Zhang Ling, 30,000 in Duguzhan, and 20,000 in the rear, for a total of 23
Wan's regular army wanted to destroy Wang Shichong in one fell swoop, then march westward to destroy Dou Jiande, and finally join forces with Zhang Ling to attack Chang'an Li Yuan.
But this plan could no longer be implemented. Li Yuan had the same idea as him. His eldest son, Li Jiancheng, and hundreds of thousands of troops confronted him at Maojin Ferry. Ye Chen immediately realized that this was a good opportunity and took the opportunity to destroy some of Li Yuan's troops.
Main force, it will be easier to deal with Li Yuan later.
