In fact, on the second day of November, Bao Yuan, Feng Ting and Jin Bo were already aware of Zhao Hongrun's "Tactics Two".
Of course, this was not what the three Beiyuan tycoons thought of themselves, but Zhao Hongrun deliberately revealed it to them.
On that day, the day after Baoyuan sent a letter to Zhao Hongrun to persuade him to surrender but was silently rejected by the latter, the Korean army tried to use troops against Wei Qiu.
More than ten thousand Korean troops built a pontoon bridge, crossed the unknown river, and took the lead in attacking the Wei army camp at the foot of Weiqiu Mountain, that is, the army led by Wei general Qian Ben.
Unfortunately, due to the restrictions of the river terrain, the Korean cavalry was unable to participate in the battle. Only the Korean infantry and crossbowmen were dispatched. As a result, the two armies fought fiercely for two hours, but the Korean army was still unable to shake the army of Wei General Qian Ben.
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This is not surprising. After all, the strength of Wei's infantry is obvious to all. Wei's experience in training infantry is just like Korea's training of cavalry.
At that time, Bao Yuan was upset about the defeat of his soldiers. In order to dampen the morale of the Wei army, he shouted in front of the formation and advised the Wei army to surrender early and not to make unnecessary resistance.
Unexpectedly, this move was ridiculed by Wei General Qian Ben.
Wei General Qian Ben laughed and taunted Bao Yuan: "Arrogant fool, when you gathered your sergeants to surround our army, our army had already conquered Changzi City!"
Hearing this, Bao Yuan was stunned and uneasy. Without saying a word, he returned to the camp with a sullen face and told Jin Mao and Feng Mao what Wei General Qian Ben had said. Jin Mao and Feng Mao looked at each other speechlessly for a long time.
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No wonder, in the past few days, they had been preoccupied with how to capture and kill Wei Gongzi Run, and they had not bothered to carefully consider the situation in Changzi City. After hearing Bao Yuan's words, Feng Ting was covered in cold sweat.
You know, a while ago he learned about the defeats of Jin Pao and Bao Yuan. In order to besiege the Wei army in Xuushi City, he dispatched 30,000 troops, which was almost the strength of nearly seven cities in Changzi City.
Then, when he realized that Wei Gongzi Run might lead an army to surprise Gaolang, he brought his troops here without having time to think about it. He had no time to think about the remaining 80,000 troops in the Xuushi City area.
Maybe he subconsciously felt that as long as he captured Wei Gongzi Run, the war would be over.
But now, before Wei Gongzi Run was captured, he learned that the Wei army in the area of Xuushi City was attacking Changzi City in a surprise attack. As a Shangdang guard, Feng Ting was worried about his death.
"What can we do? How about you lead the army back to help?" Jin Yao thought for a while and said to Feng Ting.
After hearing this, Feng Ting shook his head and sighed: "It's too late... If the Wei army really planned to attack Changzi City, then with the 80,000 Wei army troops in Changping (Xun's City), it might only take two days to attack Changzi City.
Three days' time... Even if I lead my army to return for reinforcements at this time, I may only be able to see the fluttering Wei army flag on the tower of Changzi City." At this point, he looked around Baoyuan and Jin Mao and said in a deep voice: "
As long as we capture Wei Gongzi Run, this battle will have a chance of turning around."
From then on, Jin Miao, Bao Yuan, and Feng Ting were determined to capture Wei Gongzi Run alive, because only by capturing Wei Gongzi Run alive would this battle turn around.
Unexpectedly, on the fourth day of November, Bao Yuan suddenly learned from several scouts who came to report that the Wei army on Wei Qiu Mountain was actually quietly moving to the Taihang Mountain to the east.
It turned out that it took a long time for the Wei army to build defense facilities in Weiqiu and Niudu Mountain just to attract their attention.
At first, Bao Yuan suspected that Wei Gongzi Run was trying to sneak attack Gaodu, but when he thought about it more carefully, he felt something was wrong.
After all, both of them knew that Gaodu was the rear granary of Tianmenguan and was bound to be heavily defended. How could Wei Gongzi Run's 20,000 surprise attack troops without any siege equipment attack the underground Gaodu?
Some people may say that the Wei army in Wei Qiu has nearly 20,000 people. It is nothing to build some war weapons before attacking Gaodu. But the question is, how can the Wei army have time to attack Gaodu step by step?
Are Baoyuan, Feng Ting and Jin Yao really dead?
In other words, there is only one way for the Wei army to attack Gaodu, and that is to attack Gaodu by surprise - before Bao Yuan, Jin Ao, and Feng Ting can react.
But this matter was unrealistic, so Bao Yuan thought of another guess, that is, Wei Gongzi Run was trying to escape to the Taihang Mountains in the east.
This is terrible. You must know that the Taihang Mountains stretch for thousands of miles and are tens or even hundreds of miles deep. If an army escapes into the mountains, it will be impossible to catch it.
What's embarrassing is that in order to besiege Wei Gongzi Run, Shangdang guard Feng Ting even lost Changzi City. If Wei Gongzi Run could not be captured in the end, then even if nearly 20,000 Wei troops here were wiped out, it would not be able to make up for the Han army's losses in the entire Shangdang
Strategic failure.
"Damn it!"
Bao Yuan cursed bitterly, because he was originally worried that Wei Gongzi Run still wanted to attack Gao Lang, so he deployed the infantry to the west and southwest of Wei Qiu, and sent cavalry to the other directions of Wei Qiu.
Scouts monitored the movements of the Wei army.
Unexpectedly, the other party actually wanted to escape.
"It seems that the Qian Ben army on the other side of the river must have 'abandoned their sons', abandoning their chariots to save their commander...a knowing choice." Feng Ting said with a bitter look on his face.
Hearing this, Bao Yuan remained silent, and after a while he said in a deep voice: "Maybe we can still make it in time..."
"What?" Jin Miao and Feng Ting asked in confusion.
Baoyuan glanced at the two of them and said in a deep voice: "Send the cavalry to intercept... According to the news from the scouts, Wei Gongzi Run may be worried about being seen through by our army, so he still adopted the method he used in the Xuans family.
He used the method of passing through our cavalry blockade around the city, and used a thousand-man patrol as a cover to escape to the Taihang Mountains in the east... If he plans to withdraw as many Wei troops as possible to the Taihang Mountains, then we will still have a chance.
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Hearing this, Feng Ting frowned and asked: "How can you guarantee that Wei Gongzi Run will evacuate in the end?...Maybe he has already evacuated to the Taihang Mountains at this moment."
"I can't guarantee it, but do you have any better ideas?" Bao Yuan asked back, leaving Feng Ting speechless.
Seeing this, Bao Yuan said again: "Immediately send out cavalry to intercept, maybe we can capture Wei Gongzi Run... If he has escaped into the Taihang Mountains at this moment, then ask the cavalry to abandon their horses and go into the mountains to search along the tracks."
Jin Yao and Feng Ting looked at each other. Jin Yao nodded and said, "This is the only plan for now... What should we do with the Qian Ben Army on the other side of the river?"
Bao Yuan glanced at Jin Yao and said nothing.
Thinking about it, after seeing through the possibility that Wei Gongzi Run was trying to escape to the Taihang Mountains, Bao Yuan had no intention of paying attention to the army led by Wei General Qian Ben at the foot of the southwest mountain of Wei Qiu.
From Bao Yuan's perspective, this was clearly an army that had been abandoned by Wei Gongzi Run as an outcast.
So that day, Bao Yuan dispatched all the cavalry in the army camp and ordered them to detour from the north of Wei Qiu and go to the east side of Wei Qiu to block it. After all, the road to the south of Wei Qiu was almost blocked by Wei General Qian Ben.
, under the blockade of the Wei army, it was not easy for the Korean cavalry to cross as quickly as possible.
Of course, the more important reason is that Bao Yuan doesn't want to pay attention to the Wei army that has been cut off. Anyway, this Wei army cannot escape the encirclement of his Korean army, and there will be many opportunities to deal with it in the future.
However, when the cavalry of Baoyuan Army and Feng Tingjun rushed to the east side of Wei Qiu, the Wei Gongzi Run who Baoyuan thought might have fled to Taihang Mountain was actually staying on the top of Weiqiu Mountain.
Have a bonfire and eat barbecue.
In fact, this Wei Gongzi Run had no intention of escaping at all.
"Report!"
With a urgent cry, two green crows quickly came to Zhao Hongrun, knocked on the ground and reported: "Your Majesty, just now, the Han camp dispatched a large number of cavalry, bypassing this hill to the north, along the
Head east along the mountain."
"Eat it for me."
Passing the barbecue in his hand to Zongwei Mu Qing, Zhao Hongrun sucked his greasy thumb and said lightly: "Very good, it seems that Bao Yuan took the bait."
Saying that "the Wei army quietly moved to the Taihang Mountains on the east side of Wei Qiu" or "Wei Gongzi Run's old skills are repeated" are actually just the Wei army's old formation to create suspicion.
It is undeniable that Han Jun's cavalry did see the Wei Army's thousand-man troops between Wei Qiu and the Taihang Mountains, which "seemed to be moving to the Taihang Mountains." But in fact, they were just a few Wei Army's thousand-man troops performing a show.
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When they discovered that there were Han troops scolding the cavalry in the distance, these thousands-man troops of the Wei army marched towards the Taihang Mountains in the east, deliberately exposing themselves to the eyes of the Korean troops rebuking the cavalry; but if these Han troops rebuked the cavalry and left, the thousands-man troops of the Wei army would
Go back.
Therefore, it seems that there is an endless stream of thousands of Wei army troops quietly moving to the Taihang Mountains, but in fact, there are only a few going back and forth.
With this move, Zhao Hongrun once again deceived Bao Yuan, Jin Miao, and Feng Tong, making them mistakenly believe that Zhao Hongrun was trying to move to the Taihang Mountains, so they quickly sent the cavalry in the camp to the east side of Wei Qiu to intercept them.
For this reason, Zhao Hongrun did not hesitate to let General Qian Ben wait for an opportunity to reveal to Bao Yuan the secret that "the Wei army in the area of Yuan's City is attacking Changzi City", just to make Bao Yuan, Jin Mao, and Feng Ting firmly believe that "Zhao Hongrun must be captured alive."
, because only by capturing "Wei Gongzi Run" alive can the Korean army's strategic mistakes be undone.
At this time, two Wei generals, Zhai Huang and Sun Shuke, were also sitting by the campfire. After hearing Zhao Hongrun's words, they looked at each other with smiles on their faces.
Zhai Huang stroked his beard and said with a smile: "Your Highness has a clever plan. As a result, the Korean army at the foot of the mountain will have no cavalry..."
"More importantly, they mistakenly thought that our army was trying to move to the Taihang Mountains in the east..." Sun Shuke also added with a chuckle.
Hearing this, Zhao Hongrun couldn't help but chuckle a few times.
Immediately, he slowly suppressed his smile, licked his lips, squinted his eyes and said in a deep voice: "Go down and tell the soldiers to eat and drink, fill their stomachs, and build up their strength. Tonight, our entire army will be dispatched to level the foot of the mountain.
The Korean army camp!...Many days of planning, just for this battle!"
Upon hearing this, all the nearby soldiers and generals, including Zhai Huang and Sun Shuke, showed resolute and solemn expressions.