"PS: I have something to do today, so there is no additional update. The second update will be after twelve o'clock."
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In early July, when South Korea was facing the most ferocious offensive in Wei's history, the earliest battlefield in Song County seemed calm.
In fact, during the half-month period from mid-June to early July, Xiang Pei, the king of Xinyang of Chu, who was stationed in "Dongmin", tried to attack "Changyi" many times. After asking for help several times, the army was originally stationed in "Changyi".
Lord Chu Shui of "Fang Yu County" also mobilized his army forward.
On June 26, General Xiang Kuan of Chu State led his troops, accompanied by the Dongou Army of Yue State General Wu Qi, and arrived in the Dongmin area.
At this point, the armies of Chu and Yue have basically been assembled.
On June 28, Chu Shuijun ordered Xiang Pei, Xiang Kuan, and Wu Qi to attack Changyi.
In this siege that lasted a whole day, the Chu-Vietnam coalition mobilized as many as 200,000 troops. However, given that more than half of them were food recruits, and the siege equipment was incomplete, the results of the siege were not objective.
, the Chu-Vietnam coalition sacrificed nearly 20,000 troops, but still failed to capture Changyi.
On the Changyi side, the Wei army also suffered heavy casualties. Even with the help of the city wall, the number of casualties still reached nearly 9,000.
Although the number of casualties is still mostly on the side of the Chu army, judging from the proportion of casualties in Wei's exceptional foreign wars, the Wei army did not actually have an advantage in this battle - if it were replaced by the Shang Shui army, the Yanling army, the Wei Wu army and other Wei armies
Elite, I think the number of casualties will never be as high as 9,000.
It can be seen that the strength of the Wei army gathered in Changyi is indeed far inferior to that of the regular army.
But no matter what, with the help of the county troops who were called back from the counties in the east of Song County, as well as the private armies of Chengling King Zhao Shen and other nobles, the Wei State was able to temporarily hold Changyi City.
But having said that, a large part of the reason why the Wei side was able to defend Changyi was because the Chu-Vietnam coalition had not yet made any real move.
On the third day of July, a messenger sent by Qi general Tian Dan traveled day and night to find Fang Yu and Dongmin, and came to the Chu camp to deliver the news.
At this time, in the Chu army camp outside Dongmin County, Chu Shuijun was discussing with Xinyang Jun Xiang Pei, General Xiang Juan, Wu Qi of Yue State, and other generals of the Chu-Vietnam coalition army to attack Changyi.
Just as he was talking, he heard soldiers coming from outside the tent to report: "Report! There is someone outside the camp who claims to be the messenger sent by Tian Dan, the general of Qi, and has an important letter to send to the king."
After hearing this, Chu Shuijun couldn't help but murmur in his heart: Linzi, the capital of Qi State, could not have been captured by Wei State's Huling navy, right?
To be fair, Lord Chu Shui didn't care about the life or death of Qi. After all, although the two countries are now allies in jointly resisting and attacking Wei, this does not mean that the two countries have become close.
To put it bluntly, if Chu can defeat Wei with a huge advantage in this battle, Qi may be the next target to attack - I believe Qi himself knows this.
But having said that, before Wei was defeated, Qi must not make any mistakes - especially the large amount of food and grass Qi had prepared for this battle.
"Bring him to the commander's tent." Lord Chu Shui ordered.
After a while, a young general led by several Chu soldiers came to the commander's tent. After looking around at the generals in the tent, the young general turned his attention to Chu Shuijun who was sitting on the main seat.
, then he clasped his fists and asked, "Are you Mr. Chu Shui?"
Chu Shuijun nodded, smiled and asked, "Are you General Tian Dan's messenger?"
Seeing this, the young general clasped his fists and said, "The last general, Tian Wei, is here to deliver a letter on the orders of my general." After that, he took out a letter from his arms.
At that time, there was a witch standing behind Chu Shuijun. Seeing this scene, she stepped forward to take the letter, and after checking it briefly, handed it to Chu Shuijun.
She probably wanted to check if there was anything wrong with the letter.
After receiving the letter, Chu Shuijun immediately opened it, took out the letter and looked at it carefully.
After just a few glances, his brows furrowed deeply.
Seeing this, General Xiang Kuan asked in shock: "Master Chu Shui, could it be that the Qi State was defeated by the Wei army in Huling?"
No wonder he was so surprised, because as far as he knew, in the previous period, Qi State's Tian Dan and Tian Wu respectively led their armies to return to Linzi. If the troops stationed in Qi State are also included, Qi State had at least 200,000 troops.
In terms of military strength, could these 200,000 troops be no match for the 50,000 Huling navy of Wei State?
However, after hearing Xiang Juan's inquiry, Lord Chu Shui shook his head and said gloomily: "No, Qi State is safe and sound. The cunning State of Wei, he deceived us, and the Huling navy attacked Linzi.
It’s just a pretense. In order to force Tian Dan and Tian Wu to lead their troops back to Linzi, its real purpose is to sneak attack on South Korea!”
Hearing this, the generals in the tent looked at each other.
"South Korea?"
"That's right!" Chu Shuijun said in a deep voice: "Not only that, the Wei State also transferred the Wei Wu Army that retreated to Wuyan County a while ago to Hebei, combined with the Yanling Army in Hebei, and sent its army north to attack South Korea..."
At this point, he shook the letter in his hand and continued with a gloomy expression: "Tian Dan speculated in the letter that South Korea may be forced to abandon the "Wu'an-Boren-Julu Defense Line" and return to Jicheng to aid.
And once the Korean army on the Wei-Korean border gives up this line of defense, the Wei army on the border will definitely take the opportunity to attack..."
When he said this, he paused again, held Tian Dan's letter tightly in his hand, and said through gritted teeth: "In other words, when our army slows down its offensive, Wei Guo is very likely to be facing South Korea.
Chasing and fighting...damn it!"
No wonder he was so angry. After all, from a strategic point of view, he was completely fooled by King Zhao Run of Wei, and was led by the nose from beginning to end - no, in fact, it was not just him, including Tian Dan of Qi State.
Tian Wu, including Ji Wu and Huan Hu of Lu, and the entire coalition were fooled by Wei.
Chu Shuijun felt ashamed and angry when he thought that a while ago he had privately felt that Wei Wang Zhao Run was nothing more than this.
"Wei attacked South Korea?"
"How could it be? The Wei State had clearly given up attacking South Korea before and chose Qi State as a breakthrough point..."
For a moment, everyone in the messy Caishikou tent was shocked by Wei Guo's unreasonable strategy.
Finally, Wu Qi, the general of the Yue Kingdom, asked calmly: "Chu Shuijun, in your opinion, can South Korea stop the Wei army?"
Chu Shuijun was silent for a moment after hearing this, and said: "I don't know much about South Korea, but according to Tian Dan's judgment in the letter, if the Wei State really devotes all its elites to attack South Korea, South Korea will lose "Wu'an-Boren-
Behind the "Julu Line of Defense", it is likely that the Wei army will not be able to stop it... At most, within half a year, the Wei army may destroy South Korea."
"Half a year?"
There was an uproar in the tent.
No one is a fool. How could they have never thought that once the elites of the Wei State defeated South Korea, these elites of the Wei State would be released. At that time, these elites of the Wei State would take advantage of the military front to move south and destroy them.
After falling to Qi, they immediately moved south again. Even though their coalition forces still had hundreds of thousands of troops from Chu, Yue, and Lu, they might not be able to stop the 300,000-strong Wei army with high morale.
By that time, let alone the successful crusade against Wei, the coalition forces could not even guarantee victory in this battle.
It's unbelievable. It was obviously a start with an absolute advantage, but now it seems that Wei is about to take the lead.
"...He is indeed the "Wei Gongzi Run" who swept across the Central Plains."
The generals in the tent looked at me and I looked at you, thinking secretly in their hearts.
After a period of silence, a general asked in a low voice: "What should we do now? Should we send troops to rescue South Korea?"
"Rescue Korea?"
Chu Shuijun glanced at the general and sneered secretly in his heart: Whether South Korea is dead or alive, what does it have to do with Chu State? What does it have to do with Chu Shuijun?
Wasn't it Han Ran, the monarch of South Korea, who took the initiative to use South Korea to attract the attention of Wei? Now, although it is a bit late, it can be regarded as South Korea fulfilling its original promise - this can be regarded as benevolence and benevolence, right?
Of course, although I thought so in my heart, it was hard to say, so Chu Shuijun thought for a while and said: "Send troops to help South Korea... I'm afraid I won't be able to catch up. By the time my army arrives in South Korea, I'm afraid the Wei army has already conquered Jicheng.
South Korea was destroyed. When the time comes, the Wei army will take advantage of the momentum of victory, wait for work, and turn around to attack our army. Our army may be difficult to resist. For the current plan, the only way is to step up the attack on Wei and force
Ask Wei to bring back the troops that attacked South Korea... Only in this way can we have a chance of winning." At this point, he raised the letter in his hand and added: "This is also what General Tian Dan meant... General Tian Dan wrote in the letter
Zhongyan said that he would ask General Tian Wu to garrison the country to prevent Wei's Huling navy from returning, and he himself would come as soon as possible with half of the country's troops to join our army and attack Wei."
With that, he said to the messenger Tian Wei who was still in the tent: "Please return to General Tian Dan immediately and tell him that I will step up the attack on Changyi. I hope he will lead his army to Song County as soon as possible to join my army."
Convergence.”
"yes!"
Tian Dan's messenger made Tian Wei clasp his fists and retreat.
After the messenger left, Chu Shuijun said to the witch standing beside him: "Immediately send someone to Ningyang to see Ji Wu of the Lu State, tell him Wei State's conspiracy, and ask him to cooperate with
Huan Hu, immediately lead his army to Song County and join our army."
The miko nodded expressionlessly and walked out of the tent.
At this time, Chu Shuijun looked around at the generals in the tent and said in a deep voice: "Everyone, the fall of Korea is a foregone conclusion. Even if we can't bear it, we can't save it. The only thing we can do is to step up the attack on Wei."
.This is not just for South Korea, but also for ourselves... If our army cannot attack Luoyang, the capital of Wei State, within half a year, then after half a year, our army will have to face hundreds of thousands of elites who have destroyed South Korea.
Wei Jun..."
After hearing Chu Shuijun's words, all the generals in the tent looked serious. After all, they also understood this truth.
Seeing that none of the generals in the tent raised any objections and all raised their heads to look at him, Lord Chu Shui nodded with satisfaction.
"Then let's do it!... Pass the order and attack Changyi together tomorrow. We are bound to capture this city!"