Chapter 1245: The Beginning of the Battle of Yongqiu
On the 18th day of March in Hongde, with the surrender of Yu Wang Zhao Yuanji, Chu Shoulingjun Jingshe led a Chu army of one million and easily occupied the hills and plains in the Yongqiu area.
Like last time, when King Yu Zhao Yuan'e retreated, he ordered the mountains and forests around Yongqiu to be set on fire, leaving the Chu army with several bare and lifeless hills.
"Fight and retreat at the same time, erect a wall to clear the field...a strategy to lure the enemy!"
In the temporary tent, Jun Jingshe of Chu Shouling was thinking about countermeasures with worry.
Although in the eyes of the world, from the beginning of this battle, it seemed that the Chu army was overwhelmingly attacking the Wei state. However, as a person involved, Shouling Jun Jingshe knew that the Chu army was actually led by the leader of the Wei army.
As soon as the tent was raised, Xiong Sheng, the prince of Chu State and Lord of Liyang, stepped in and saluted: "Master Jingshe, in accordance with your order, we have ordered people to set up small camps on several nearby hills and set up security."
"Hmm." Shouling Jun Jingshe nodded and gave Liyang Jun Xiong Sheng enough respect: "Thank you, sir."
"Don't dare."
Xiong Sheng, Lord of Liyang, waved his hand humbly, and then saw Lord Shouling Jingshe drawing a landform map of the "Yongqiu" area. He was greatly confused, so he asked: "Master Jingshe, the Wei army has retreated from Yongqiu.
In this area, why does Mr. Jingshe still need to draw the landform map of this area?"
Shouling Jun Jingshe paused for a moment, then thought about it and said: "Further ahead from Yongqiu is the Liang County of Wei. I believe that the commander-in-chief of the Wei army will never let our army attack Liang."
County, if you think about it this way, Yongqiu may be the last "concession" of the Wei army coach..."
"Concession?" Xiong Sheng, Lord of Liyang, frowned and asked, "As Master Jingshe intended, is our army's previous victory really the result of Wei Jun's intention?"
"Hmm!" Shouling Junjingshe nodded and said in a deep voice: "Sir, have you ever seen a pack of wolves hunting cattle?"
Liyang Jun Xiong Sheng shook his head.
Seeing this, Shouling Jun Jingshe smiled and said: "Master, don't despise the cow because you think it eats grass. In a united herd, even tigers don't dare to offend. I have heard that tigers and leopards were gored to death by the horns of cows...
...But even so, when a herd of cattle encounters a pack of wolves, they will inevitably become prey for them. Master, do you know why?"
"Master Jingshe, please give me some advice." Xiong Sheng, Lord of Liyang, said respectfully.
Stroking his beard, Shouling Junjingshe said seriously: "I once heard the old man say that when wolves hunt for prey, they often follow the prey on a trek, constantly attacking unwary prey along the way, even if they encounter animals that are as united as a herd.
If the prey cannot be captured for a while, the wolves will find a way to bite one of the prey. Once they succeed, they will immediately retreat... and temporarily retreat.
The injured prey follows its companions in an attempt to escape from the hunting wolves. However, if it is too seriously injured, it will eventually be abandoned because it drags down its companions. This is not a question of whether it is cruel or not, but that it is no longer alive. Instead of letting it go,
If it drags down the rest of the companions, it is better to abandon them.
A wild beast abandoned by its companions will certainly not survive and is destined to become the food of the pack of wolves."
"Huh?"
Liyang Jun Xiong Sheng was greatly surprised when he heard this.
Because this was the situation of the Chu army after the beginning of spring. They were constantly attacked by the Wei army. The Wei army was like a pack of wolves in the story, biting east and west. The Chu army was covered with bruises and injuries, and the number of wounded increased day by day.
In the end, these wounded were just like the injured beasts in the story, abandoned by the Chu army that continued to penetrate deep into the territory of Wei, and died silently in a tent.
At this time, Shouling Junjingshe said again: "I have heard that among the wolves, there will be a wolf king who orders the wolves. The wolf king is more cunning than ordinary wolves. He will appear in front of you and attract you.
Be careful. Just when you think it will attack, several strong male wolves under the Wolf King will swarm up to your side or behind you and bite you on the ankle. At this time, the cunning wolf
Only then will the wolf king lead the remaining wolves to attack together..."
Liyang Jun Xiong Sheng nodded repeatedly when he heard this. It seemed that Shouling Jun Jingshe was explaining to him the story of wolf hunting, but in fact, it was about the actions of the Wei army.
Ji Ji, King of Yu of the Wei State, and the "Northern Army" are the Wolf King in the story, and Shao Hu, Long Ji, Yi Gu, Zhao Bao, including Baili Ba of the Dredging Army, these Wei generals are about to
They are the strong male wolves under the wolf king in the story; on the other hand, his Chu army is like the herd of cattle in the story. Although they have brute strength, they cannot withstand the harassment and sneak attacks of the wolves again and again, so that they are scarred.
However, as Lord Shouling said, going further from Yongqiu is the Liang County of Wei State. No matter how cunning the wolf king is, if it is forced to close to its lair, I believe it will eventually show up, right?
Thinking about this matter, Liyang Jun Xiong Sheng said goodbye to Shouling Junjingshe and went to inspect the military camp.
After all, Shouling Jun Jingshe had almost clearly told him that the Wei army was likely to launch an attack on his Chu army in this area. Therefore, his Chu army should be very alert and eliminate any omissions that could be exploited by the Wei army.
But when he thought of the Chu army's completely exposed camp, Liyang Jun Xiong Sheng felt powerless.
"Erect a wall, clear the field", the simple word "clear the field" in the art of war, in actual combat, will indeed make an army feel constrained.
No, when the Wei army withdrew from the Yongqiu area, they set fire to the mountains and forests in this area, so that the Chu army could not even build a decent camp. The dense military tents were completely exposed on the plain. If the Wei army launched a fire attack, the consequences would be severe.
It's really unimaginable.
Liyang Jun Xiong Sheng was thinking about it when he suddenly heard a noise coming from a distance.
Frowning, Xiong Sheng ordered the guard behind him: "Go and see what's going on?"
After a while, the guard came back, clasped his fists and said, "Sir, it was a soldier of the Suiyang Army who had a quarrel with our soldiers over rations."
"The Suiyang Army..."
Liyang Jun Xiong Sheng frowned slightly.
The Suiyang Army was once nominally the elite of the Sixth Battalion of Wei's garrison, but in fact, this army was equivalent to the private army of the rebel general Nangong Yao.
Xiong Sheng, the Lord of Liyang, did not have a good impression of Nangong Yao. After all, for the sake of power and interests, Nangong Yao first rebelled against the Song Dynasty and then against the Wei Dynasty. Is such a duplicitous person worthy of close friendship?
Speaking of which, isn't Nangong Yao's Suiyang army attacking Dingtao? How come they are acting together with Shouling Junjingshe's army?
The reason is very simple, because Nangong Yao suffered a defeat in Dingtao.
No, it was not as simple as just losing the battle, because during Nangong Yao's attack on Dingtao, Song Yun, the leader of the Song Dynasty rebels, took the opportunity to recapture several cities.
Although he was also called a "rebel general" and a "rebel army", Song Yun was very supported by the Song people in the Song Dynasty. Unlike Nangong Yao, the Song people hated him because he first rebelled against the Song Dynasty and then against the Wei Dynasty.
, the people of Wei also hated him.
Then in early March, Song Yun, the leader of the Song Dynasty rebels, did not know whether he had secretly signed an agreement with the Wei State, led his army to Dingtao, and struck hard at the rear of the Suiyang army.
At that time, Wei general Bailiba, who was stationed in Dingtao, led the Junshui army to attack decisively, and joined forces with Song Yun's Song rebels to attack the Suiyang army, causing Nangong Yao to lose his troops and defeat the general.
Seeing that Dingtao could not be defeated and the territory was occupied by Song Yun, the rebel leader of Song Dynasty, Nangong Yao became angry and defected to Lord Shouling of Chu.
Shouling Junjingshe was quite generous towards Nangong Yao leading his army to surrender. After all, not to mention Nangong Yao's character, the Suiyang army under his command was a rare elite force, at least 70% better than the Chu state.
The above troops are elite.
After some negotiations, Shouling Junjingshe incorporated Nangong Yao and his Suiyang army into the army. Although he was very happy to get such an elite "original Wei army elite", the soldiers of the Chu army,
Not very happy.
The reason is that after Nangong Yao's Suiyang army was defeated by Song Yun and Bailiba, they lost all their food, grass and baggage, so that they were now completely dependent on the Chu army for support. This made some Chu army soldiers very unhappy: Why? Why?
Do you want to give your Suiyang army another share of the already sluggish military rations?
"No trouble!"
After understanding the cause and effect, Liyang Jun Xiong Sheng immediately stepped forward to stop the quarrel between the soldiers of Chu and Suiyang.
Under the restraint of Mr. Chu, a verbal dispute was stopped.
At this time, in front of a hand-pulled cart not far away, there were two men wearing the general-style armor of the "Suiyang Army". They were chewing and swallowing the rations they had just received from the Chu Army's quartermaster, with indifferent expressions.
He looked at the dozen Chu soldiers and Suiyang soldiers who caused the quarrel.
"How do I feel that this massive army of one million people has actually come to an end?" One of the men wiped his mouth and murmured with a strange expression.
If Zhao Hongrun were here, then he would never be unfamiliar with this man. This man was the evil party Huan Hu who was so bold that he led hundreds of horse thieves to attack the merchant navy.
The man next to Huan Hu was also an unusual person. He was the man who had injured the hand tendons of Shen Yu, the original guard chief of Zhao Hongrun's sect. Now he had changed his name to Chen Shou, Chen Xiao.
"Seriously? This is an army of millions." After hearing Huan Hu's muttering, Chen Shou frowned and said.
I saw Huan Hu stroking his beard and saying with a strange expression: "No matter how many soldiers there are, it doesn't matter. In recent days, I asked Jin Gou to secretly find out that the Chu army's food and grass are almost exhausted... they can't even eat, how can they fight with the Wei army?"
Fighting?"
Suddenly, he asked Chen Shou teasingly: "Which side of the Wei and Chu armies will win according to your wishes?"
Chen Shou glanced at Huan Hu with a cold expression.
As a hero of Zhaoling County, the son of the late county magistrate Chen Bing, and the former chief of the "Yangwu Army" in Zhongyang, as a Wei man, Chen Shou certainly hopes that Wei will win - even if he is in the Chu Army at the moment
, but this does not mean that he will fully assist the Chu army in attacking Wei.
It was just that for some reasons, he and Huan Hu were in Chu camp at this moment.
Seeing that Chen Shou had no reaction, Huan Hu didn't care. He stroked his beard and murmured: "I think the Chu army is probably going to be defeated... The Wei army's coach who has not shown up yet makes me feel... Well, it's not simple.
not simple."
"Isn't that just right? You can just replace Nangong Yao and steal Suiyang's army." Chen Shou said lightly.
"It's not as easy as you said." Huan Hu laughed for a while, stroking his beard thoughtfully.
"...Do the millions of Chu troops led by Chu Shouling Jun Jingshe really want to collapse in Yongqiu? If this is the case, then I must arrange a retreat as soon as possible..."
A pair of tiger eyes scanned everything in the Chu camp, Huan Hu said secretly.