On November 21st, Weiyang Lord Yinghua led 30,000 Qin troops and braved the wind and snow to go to Fenghao.
Due to the wind and snow blowing on the way, the journey of the 30,000 Weiyang Army and Qin soldiers became more difficult. The only good thing is that the "Feng River" flowing to the Wei River has frozen, so that the 30,000 Weiyang Army did not have to stop to build the bridge.
You can walk directly through the thick ice on the Fengshui River to the opposite side.
"I really think too much..."
After stepping on the ice to the other side of the Feng River, Weiyang Jun Yinghua looked at the vast white snowfield in front of him, secretly laughing at himself.
I remember that at first he was still worried whether he would be ambushed by the Wei army on the way to Fenghao, but if he thought about it carefully, the Wei army would be able to ambush them in this ice and snow after being full? They have four county walls for defense, I believe this will happen
Son, most of the Wei soldiers under Wei Gongzi Run are hiding in the towering city walls to warm themselves by the fire. How can they have time to brave the severe cold to ambush them?
Just as Zuo Shuchang Wei Yang judged, the Wei army was clearly adopting the defensive strategy of "waiting for work", forcing the Qin State to take the initiative to send troops to attack the city occupied by the Wei army in the cold weather of the twelfth lunar month.
"Tap tap tap——"
A group of cavalry appeared in the distance, heading towards the direction of Weiyang Lord Ying Hua.
Among these cavalry teams, there was a cavalryman holding a banner with the words "Qin, Weiyang" in his hand. He was undoubtedly the cavalry under the command of Weiyang Lord Ying Hua.
"Report!"
With a loud shout, the cavalry team galloped to the front of Weiyang Lord Ying Hua. They all turned over and dismounted. The leader of the cavalry team clasped his fists and said: "Sir Ying Hua, there are several fields about twenty miles west of Fenghao.
The woods have either been cut down or burned, and there are two woods seven miles away, which are the only two woods left in this area."
After hearing this, Weiyang Lord Ying Hua frowned tightly.
In fact, he had already predicted that the Wei army in Fenghao might have guessed that Xianyang would send troops to attack, so they burned or cut down the woods in the suburbs of Fenghao.
However, Fenghao's Wei army happened to be still about twenty miles away from Fenghao, leaving two forests for the Qin army. This was really beyond Weiyang Jun Ying Hua's expectation.
But after thinking about it carefully, Weiyang Jun Ying Hua understood it, and couldn't help but secretly said in his heart: What a cunning Mr. Wei Run!
The reason is very simple, because whenever you lead an army to a certain place, it is inevitable to set up camp first - unless you are absolutely sure to defeat the enemy, otherwise, setting up camp honestly will allow you to have a way out if the initial battle is unfavorable; otherwise,
, it is very likely that there will be a situation of overwhelming defeat.
Therefore, after Weiyang Jun Yinghua led his army to the Fenghao area, the first step must be to build a military camp. After all, his enemy was the famous Wei Gongzi Run, and he would not be so conceited that he could recapture Fenghao in one day.
.
However, if the Wei army cut down all the trees in advance and destroyed the nearby forests, making it impossible for Weiyang Lord Yinghua to build a military camp, Weiyang Lord Yinghua would have no choice but to find as many trees as possible to build a batch of ladders, and then storm Fenghao City.
If you win, you will survive, if you lose, you will freeze to death in the wilderness. In this case, the 30,000 Weiyang troops will definitely show the fighting spirit of a last-ditch battle.
With this will, regardless of whether the 30,000 Weiyang Lords can recapture Fenghao, at least they will pose a threat to the Wei army.
Therefore, Wei Gongzi Run very cunningly left two woods for the Qin army to build military camps, giving the Qin army a "retreat path". What's more, he even used the locations of these two woods to delineate the Qin army's construction of military camps.
range - unless the Qin soldiers are willing to drag logs of wood to their favorite place in this world of ice and snow to build a camp.
To be fair, this made Weiyang Jun Ying Hua feel very bad, as if he was being led by the enemy.
And through this incident, he had to admit that Wei Gongzi Run was indeed a famous general who was good at fighting in the world. He was very good at accumulating slight advantages through repeated calculations, until he finally turned these advantages into victory.
"...It's actually the "righteous" type? Shouldn't it be "cunning"?"
Frowning, Weiyang Jun Ying Hua muttered secretly in his heart.
The "righteousness" and "deceit" he was murmuring in his mind were the two ways of using troops contained in the Art of War: the so-called "righteousness" can be understood as uprightly revealing all the cards in hand to the enemy without any conspiracy or tricks.
, winning victory purely by "gradually establishing an advantage", leaving the enemy with no choice but to lose; and the so-called "deception" means setting up deceitful tricks, using surprise troops, and winning by surprise.
And through the two woods deliberately left by the Wei army, Weiyang Jun Yinghua felt that Wei Gongzi Run was a commander who was good at using troops in the right way, but it happened that this man had made a plan to "run seven hundred miles in ten days" a while ago.
An astonishing move, which left him a little confused.
In the end, Weiyang Jun Yinghua evaluated Wei Gongzi Run as a famous general who "used troops in the right way, supplemented by cunning tactics", that is, the most difficult enemy.
After thinking about it, Weiyang Jun Yinghua asked his deputy general to lead the army to build a military camp near the two woods, while he himself led three hundred cavalry to Fenghao - he was idle anyway, and he was going to inspect Fenghao.
See if there are any exploitable vulnerabilities.
At the same time, just as Weiyang Jun Ying Hua guessed, Wei Gongzi Run, or Su Wang Zhao Hongrun, was in the city guard mansion in Fenghao City, lying on his side on a bed and reading the captured Qin books.
In front of him, Que'er was playing with a bronze stove, stuffing charcoal into the stove piece by piece to make the stove burn more vigorously.
At a table not far away, Wu Ji, Nanmen Chi, several generals of the Shang Shui Army, as well as Wei Jiao and other clan guards were having a heated discussion around a map.
"Sir, are you just watching the generals arguing?"
Seeing Zhao Hongrun leisurely flipping through the book and turning a blind eye to the discussion of the generals not far away, Que'er lowered his voice and asked.
Zhao Hongrun didn't even raise his head, and said casually: "With all the arguing, I might come up with a good plan."
It turned out that Feng Hao had given full power to the city defense to Wu Ji, Nanmen Chi and other generals, and also asked Wei Jiao and other Zongwei to participate in it - after all, the Zongwei had already fought in Shangshui a few years ago.
If you take a temporary position in the army, you can almost reach the position of a general with two thousand soldiers by virtue of your military merit.
Nowadays, Zhao Hongrun has gradually faded out of tactical arrangements and is only responsible for considering strategic formations. To put it bluntly, if he had to personally take action in everything, what would Wu Ji and Nanmen Chi do?
, this is also a good opportunity to sharpen the generals.
Due to this battle, Sima An, the general of the Dangshan Army, served as Zhao Hongrun's deputy general, which made Zhao Hongrun finally realize how lucky he was to have a deputy general who could stop him.
You know, it was precisely because Sima An led thousands of Dangshan cavalry and Jiejiao cavalry to attack the territory of Qin, braved the cold and snow to drive away the Qin people, and destroyed Qin's farmland facilities, that he, Zhao Hongrun, could sit safely in the country.
Fenghao, roasting over charcoal fire, isn’t it?
Therefore, it is not advisable to do everything personally. As a superior, you must know how to train your subordinates and let them share rights and responsibilities. This is the best way to achieve long-term peace and stability.
"Report!"
An announcement sounded outside the study, causing the discussion among the generals in the room to stop.
Immediately, a member of the Green Crows walked into the house. After looking around, he cupped his fists and reported to Zhao Hongrun, who was lying on his side on the couch: "Your Highness, King Su, twenty miles west of the city, traces of the Qin army were found. Visual inspection.
It came from the direction of Xianyang, under the banner of "Weiyang". This Qin army has about 30,000 people, about 10% of which are cavalry."
"Weiyang..."
A map of the Qin Kingdom appeared in Zhao Hongrun's mind, and he seemed to be talking to himself: "Weiyang is located on the northwest border of the Qin Kingdom, and it actually came to support so quickly. It seems that when our army left Xianyang that day, the King of Qin came from
Mobilizing troops across the country... Calculating the schedule, well, this Qin army is moving very fast, not easy, not easy..."
After that, he glanced at the Green Crow member and asked, "Is there anything going on over there in Meiyang?"
The Green Crow clasped his fists and said: "According to the news sent back by General Sima An, Meiyang Kaicheng took in some refugees and sent troops to chase the general, but they did not catch up."
"Chasing Sima An? The defender of Meiyang City is also thinking too much..."
Zhao Hongrun laughed dumbly.
You must know that the harassing troops under Sima An are a mixed combination of cavalry and horse-drawn sled infantry. Unless the Qin State sends several times or more than ten times the number of troops to encircle a large area, otherwise, just one or two armies will not be able to do anything.
It is impossible for the cavalry to block Sima An; in fact, it may even be swallowed up by Sima An.
"Meiyang can actually send troops to pursue Sima An. It seems that Xianyang has not mobilized troops from Meiyang... Yes, Meiyang, as a large county, is too close to our army, and Xianyang is also prepared for our army to attack Meiyang.
, Therefore, you don’t need to pay too much attention to the Meiyang side. In contrast, it is the Weinan side..."
After thinking about it, Zhao Hongrun said to the Green Crow: "You can send someone to Xiagui and tell Zhai Huang that Wuxinhou Gongsunqi, who was left behind by us, should be approaching Weinan... Since Xianyang is facing
I, Feng Hao, am using troops, so Gongsun Qi, the Marquis of Wuxin, should also try to attack Xia Gui and tell Zhai Huang to be careful. By the way, tell Zhai Huang that there is no need to send troops to ambush Gongsun Qi, just sit back and wait for the rest of Xia Gui."
To be fair, Zhao Hongrun guessed that Wu Xinhou Gongsun Qi might have led his army to retreat to the Qin mainland, but he had no intention of ambushing the opponent.
Firstly, Wuxinhou Gongsunqi was cautious, especially since he had already suffered an ambush, so he was unlikely to fall into the trap; secondly, Zhao Hongrun was not sure when Wuxinhou Gongsunqi would attack Xiagui, so there was no reason to let Xiagui
The Wei army stupidly lay in ambush in the ice and snow, waiting for Wu Xinhou Gongsun Qi to lead his army.
"PS: Some book reviewers said why they didn't ambush Gongsun Qi's army. The reason is very simple. In the middle of winter, when the cold wind blows in the wilderness to ambush the enemy, you may have to lie down on the snow. After a while, your whole body will be cold.
What energy do you have to ambush the enemy? This is an act of suicide and is meaningless.』
The Green Crow member took the order and left. After a while, another Green Crow member walked into the study and said, "Your Highness, there is an urgent report from Luocheng!"
Hearing this, Zhao Hongrun's face darkened. Under the surprised gazes of Wu Ji, Nanmen Chi and other generals, he got off the bed, took the letter from the Green Crow's hand with an almost snatching action, opened it and looked at it.
Zhao Hongrun was seen clasping his hands behind his back. After being silent for a while, he sighed and said: "Fenyin... was successfully captured by General Han."
Upon hearing this, the expressions of the generals in the room suddenly changed.