Chapter 226: Le Yi's Worries [Supplementary Update 21/40]
When they learned that Baoyuan was coming, both Le Yi and Yan Kui were surprised.
Because as far as they knew, Bao Yuan was 'loaned' to Qi State during this period to help Qi State train its army, but they didn't expect that he would come to Julu City when he had time.
But when they saw Baoyuan walking into the house covered in dirt and with a dusty face, Le Yi and Yan Kui looked at each other, and their expressions suddenly became solemn.
After all, Baoyuan is also his Korean general and one of the ten tycoons of Beiyuan. Even though most warriors are unkempt, they are not to this extent.
Obviously, Bao Yuan must be so anxious because of some special circumstances.
Sure enough, before they could hold each other's fists and salute each other, Bao Yuan, who was covered in sweat, rushed towards Le Yi and Yan Kui in a few steps, grabbed their hands, and said eagerly: "Quick, quick, come back for help.
Jicheng!"
"..."
Le Yi and Yan Kui looked at each other, wondering what Bao Yuan meant.
Seeing this, Bao Yuan explained anxiously: "You two don't know that more than ten days ago, the Wei State's Huling navy, which was originally deployed in the Weishan Lake area of Song County, went down the Jishui River and made a sneak attack.
The royal capital of Qi State, Linzi..."
"..."
Le Yi and Yan Kui were even more puzzled when they heard this.
"What does the Huling Navy of Wei State have to sneak attack Linzi, and return to aid Jicheng?" Yan Kui asked in confusion.
"No! That's not the case." Bao Yuan took a few deep breaths and said anxiously: "The Huling navy of Wei State sneaked into Linzi. This was just a pretense. The purpose was to deceive Tian Dan. Tian Wu led his army to come back for reinforcements and waited.
The two generals led the army back to Linzi, and the Huling navy immediately withdrew to Jishui... Where do you two think they went?" Without waiting for Le Yi and Yan Kui to answer, he anxiously gave the answer:
"North Sea!"
"Beihai?...Beihai?!"
Julu Shouyan Crepe didn't pay too much attention to it at first, but after thinking about it for a while, he immediately realized that something was wrong.
You know, if you take the Haihe River from Beihai, you can directly attack Jicheng, the new capital of South Korea!
Thinking of this, Yan Kuai's expression changed and he asked in a shocked voice: "General Baoyuan, is this true? Did you really see Wei's naval forces going straight to the North Sea?"
Seeing Yan Kui doubting himself, Bao Yuan was not angry. After all, no one would have thought that Beihai, the rear area where "all the countries are fighting against Wei", would actually become the route for Wei to attack South Korea.
"It's absolutely true!" Bao Yuan nodded repeatedly and said: "On that day, Tian Dan sent hundreds of cavalry to follow those Wei warships, and saw with his own eyes that those warships sailed straight to the north after sailing into the North Sea... It was not a sneak attack on Jicheng
, what else could it be?”
Looking at each other with Le Yi, Julu Shouyan's expression changed drastically. He walked back and forth in the room for a few steps and said repeatedly: "It's bad, it's bad. Ninety percent of our Korean army is deployed on the border, over there in Jicheng."
There is only Qin Kai's Yuyang Army, but at the beginning of the year, Qin Kai's Yuyang Army was transferred to encircle and suppress Han Pu, the Marquis of Yuanyi... This, what should we do?"
Having said this, he seemed to have thought of something, and immediately summoned the soldiers outside the house and ordered: "Send orders to the Julu Navy to prepare for departure immediately..."
"Yes!" the soldier responded and left.
From the beginning to the end, Le Yi watched quietly and did not stop him. It was not until the soldier left that he said to Yan Cree: "Yan Cree, be patient for a moment and let Le Yi ask about the situation."
After that, he asked Bao Yuan: "Tian Dan, Tian Wu, where are the troops stationed now?"
Bao Yuan said with a bitter smile: "When I set out from Boxing, Tian Dan suspected that the Huling navy might attack his coastal city of Qi, so he led his army to station in Ye County. As for the army under Tian Wu, I don't know much about it...
…”
Hearing this, Le Yi immediately frowned and said, "That would be troublesome..."
As he spoke, he saw Yan Cree and Bao Yuan looking at him in confusion, and then explained: "As General Bao Yuan said, this is the trick of Wei King Zhao Run... It is undeniable that this strategy is quite clever, and it can deceive people."
Tian Dan and Tian Wu returned to aid Qi, and also deceived Lu generals Ji Wu and Huan Hu into stationing troops, which delayed Chu Shuijun's time to join the armies of other countries in Changyi, and gave the Wei army in Song County some breathing space.
, the last move is directed at Jicheng, which is currently empty in defense in Korea... Wei Wang Zhao Run is truly a genius."
Seeing Le Yi praising Wei Wang Zhao Run's strategy at this time, Yan Kui frowned and said: "General Le, what's the use of talking about it now?"
However, Le Yi shook his head and said sternly: "It works!... Just imagine, you two, such a far-sighted King of Wei, would he just ask the Huling navy to sneak attack on our country's Jicheng?"
"What do you mean..." Bao Yuan and Yan Kui looked at each other, both of them had an ominous premonition in their hearts.
At this time, Le Yi let out a long breath and continued: "If there is only the Huling navy, it is not the worst result, but I think that since Wei Wang Zhao Run can plot in Luoyang thousands of miles away, it will not be the worst outcome.
How could a person like the Chinese army just ask the Huling Navy to sneak attack on Jicheng, our country?" At this point, he turned his head and glanced out the window, and said in a deep voice: "I suspect that the Wei State is about to attack our country.
Launch a general attack..."
"..."
Although Le Yi's voice was calm, Yan Kui and Bao Yuan heard it with horror.
General attack?!
A general offensive with all the national strength?
As Le Yi said, this is the biggest crisis for South Korea: in the past, several elite groups of the Wei State, such as the Shangdang Army, the Hanoi Army, and the Yanling Army, invaded the border. Later, the Huling Navy of the Wei State invaded Huanglong.
How can South Korea resist a sneak attack on Jicheng?
At this time, Le Yi turned to look at Bao Yuan and said in a regretful tone: "If General Bao Yuan comes this time and brings Tian Dan, Tian Wu and other troops from Qi, I can ask them to garrison.
Julu, and Yan Kui and I returned to aid Jicheng, but..."
He shook his head regretfully.
Bao Yuan opened his mouth, not knowing what to say.
After listening to Le Yi's words, he regretted that he had been too anxious and had not thought of this.
"Then, what should we do now?" he asked bitterly.
"What should I do? What else can I do?"
Le Yi smiled as if he was laughing at himself.
He spent more than two years building a "Wu'an-Boren-Julu line of defense", forcing the Wei State not to dare to attack South Korea easily, and could only find a breakthrough from Qi State.
But now, Wei's Huling navy is heading straight for Jicheng along the Beihai and Haihe rivers, forcing them to send troops back for reinforcements.
But the question is, once troops and horses are mobilized on the border, can this "Wu'an-Bairen-Julu defense line" still be able to stop the elite troops under Zhao Jiang, Pang Huan, and Qu Cheng on the opposite side?
"In this battle, I'm afraid we will win less and lose more."
Le Yi said secretly.
That day, Le Yi, Yan Kui, and Bao Yuan discussed for a long time, but they could do nothing.
After all, in view of the empty rear defense, they had to send troops to return reinforcements, even though they knew that once troops were withdrawn from the front line, the "Wu'an-Bairen-Julu Defense Line" would most likely be broken by Wei.
Afterwards, Le Yi sent his close guards to convey the news to Sima Shang, the governor of the acting county stationed in Bairen, as well as Jin Fu and Xu Li, the governor of Shanggu, stationed in Wu'an, and ordered them to be prepared to withdraw their troops at any time.
This so-called withdrawal preparation refers to burning the grain and grass in the granary on the frontline border. After all, if the Wei State really takes the opportunity to launch a full-scale general offensive as Le Yi guessed, then South Korea will not be able to stop it at all when it is attacked from both sides.
The purpose of the Wei army's offensive was to simply burn the food and grass supplies to the enemy.
For example, "Haixian" maintains the food and grass supply for the entire "Wuan-Baren-Julu Defense Line". During the period when South Korea was preparing to build the defense line, domestic food was continuously transported here. This huge amount of food and grass was
It can't be taken away at all.
At the same time, in the Wuyan area of Dongjun, Chu's general Xiang Mo was still paying attention to the situation over there in Qi.
"Counting the days, Tian Dan should have returned to Linzi. With hundreds of thousands of soldiers and horses, plus the troops stationed by Qi, we should be able to repel Wei's Huling navy..."
Seeing that there had been no news from Qi State asking for help, Chu General Xiang Mo also breathed a sigh of relief.
Even though he was stationed here during this period, he was actually very concerned about the war situation in Qi State. After all, in the second half of the "Countries Conquering Wei", when Chu State's food and grass supplies were unable to continue, Qi State
It will become the rear food and grass supply area for the coalition forces of various countries. Therefore, Qi must not lose anything.
After heaving a sigh of relief, Xiang Mo had the leisure to continue paying attention to Wuyan County, which was more than 20 miles away, paying attention to this county where the Wei Wujun of the Wei Kingdom was stationed.
"Speaking of which, is this Wei army really not going to help Song County?"
Xiang Mo felt strange.
You must know that a while ago, in order to prevent Wei general Shao Hu from retreating to Wuyan County from leading his Wei Wujun to aid Song County, Xiang Mo sent troops to blockade the key roads south of Wuyan County. But strangely, Wei Wujun actually stood still.
, as if Wei General Shao Hu didn't care about the victory or defeat in Song County's battlefield.
This made Xiang Mo very puzzled.
On June 13, Chu general Xiang Mo quietly came to the outside of Wuyan County with a dozen cavalry guards, climbed a hill, and peeped at the Wei army camp outside the city.
After observing for a while, Xiang Mo vaguely felt that something was wrong: there were too few Wei soldiers in the Wei camp.
"Could it be..."
Frowning, Xiang Mo ordered the guards around him: "Go back to the camp quickly and ask Doulian to lead an army of five thousand to try to attack the Wei camp."
"Yes!" The guard responded and left.
Not long after, Chu general Doulian followed Xiang Mo's order and led 5,000 regular troops to attack the Wei camp outside Wuyan County.
Just as Xiang Mo guessed, Doulian captured the Wei camp effortlessly with only five thousand regular troops.
When Xiang Mo saw clearly from the hills in the distance, there were only a handful of Wei soldiers, probably less than a thousand, in the Wei camp, and these thousand soldiers did not resist at all after the camp was attacked by Dou Lian.
, and fled immediately.
Immediately, Xiang Mo also watched with his own eyes as Doulian captured the few thousand Wei soldiers who were guarding the city in Wuyan County with only his 5,000 regular troops. He also abandoned the city and fled after a slight resistance.
"Where is Shaohu's Wei Wujun?"
Xiang Mo, the general of Chu, frowned slightly.
With his army blocking the main road in the south, it is impossible for Wei General Shao Hu to lead his army to aid Song County. Therefore, there are only two possibilities left: either withdraw westward to Weiguo territory, or
It is heading north to Julu County in South Korea.
"It can't possibly be heading north, right?"
Xiang Mo laughed to himself, feeling that the sudden thought that came to his mind was a bit funny.
How could Wei general Shao Hu blindly attack South Korea when his Chu army was attacking Song County in a large scale and half of Song County had fallen into the hands of his Chu state?