On August 19, the Wei army marched into "Fanyang". The Shanyang Army under the command of King Zhao Jiang of Yan and the Yuanyi Army under the command of Han Pu, the Marquis of Yuanyi, served as the main force. Wei Wujun suppressed the rebel army, and the Yanling Army provided support.
After learning about this, Qi Jie, who had been appointed as the frontline commander in Jicheng, summoned Generals Yan Ju and Zhao Cong, and said to them in private: "Both generals know it well with me. Like Qin Kai, Xu Li , Bao Yuan, Jin Mao and others all look down on us, so the three of us should work together to defeat the Wei army and make those people look up to us with admiration."
Generals Yan Ju and Zhao Cong nodded in agreement.
The fact is as Qijie said, Yuyang guards Qin Kai, Shanggu guards Xu Li, as well as Bao Yuan, Jin Bo and other generals. Because of the incident of "Lihou Hanwu replaced the two generals Le Yi and Sima Shang" two days ago, Qijie and Yan Zhao Cong held a certain amount of hostility, and some people even spread rumors in private that if Le Yi and Sima Shang were transferred, South Korea would definitely lose.
This was very difficult for Qi Jie, Yan Ju and Zhao Cong to accept.
Immediately, two generals, Yan Ju and Zhao Cong, swore to Qi Jie: "Don't worry, Commander Qi, we will give our full support."
The soldiers were overjoyed at the robbery, and while discussing with Yan Ju and Zhao Cong how to retreat from the enemy, they also sent orders to Qin Kai, Xu Li, Bao Yuan, Jin Mao and other generals to assist them.
At this time, Xu Li, the governor of Shanggu, stationed troops in "Fangcheng City" on the east side of "Fanyang", while Qin Kaize, the governor of Yuyang, stationed troops in "Wuyang City" on the west side of Fan Yang. There were violent kites between the two. Jin Mao, Gong Zhongpeng, Tian Ling, Ji Kuo and other generals set up camp and guarded the main roads.
After learning the news that the Wei army was invading Fan Yang, Xu Li, the governor of Shanggu, sighed and said to his lieutenant: "It must be the Wei people who learned that their plot was successful, causing the two generals Le and Sima to be withdrawn, so they took the opportunity to attack."
But despite this, Xu Li immediately sent troops, hoping to intercept the Wei army's anti-rebellion army or Yanling army and relieve Fan Yang's pressure.
Including Qin Kai, Bao Yuan, Jin Wei, Gong Zhongpeng, Tian Ling, Ji Kuo and other Korean generals. Although they were very dissatisfied with Qi Jie, Yan Ju and Zhao Cong who replaced Le Yi and Sima Shang, the enemy Currently, they are still actively providing support to Fan Yang.
It's just that compared to Le Yi, when Sima and Shang were still there, the generals felt a little uneasy at this moment.
You must know that before this, Le Yi and Sima Shang were like a pair of spears and shields - Le Yi was a solid shield. He could always discern Wei Jun's strategic intentions in time and take precautions in advance; and Sima Shang With a sharp spear, this brave general and more than 20,000 Daijun heavy cavalry under his command forced the Wei army to retreat several times.
Especially when Sima Shang's Daijun heavy cavalry and Xu Li's Shanggu light cavalry were dispatched together, even the Wei army would stay away when they saw it.
However, now, two good generals, Le Yi and Sima Shang, who are "one defensive and one offensive", have been replaced. The Korean generals are inevitably a little uneasy. They can't help but pray secretly in their hearts, praying that Korea's national destiny will last forever, and that the one who replaced Le Yi His ability is worthy of his position.
But to everyone's surprise, the Wei army marched into Fan Yang this time, but was simply forced back by horsemen and robbers.
It's no wonder, after all, Le Yi has already laid a solid foundation for Qijie's defense before. As long as Qijie sticks to Fan Yang, there are generals such as Qin Kai, Xu Li, Bao Yuan, Jin Bo, Gong Zhongpeng, Tian Ling, Ji Kuo and others. With support from the side, even if the Wei army had as many as 300,000 troops, it was not necessarily possible to easily conquer Shanggu County.
What's more, he is not an incompetent idiot who robbed this person, otherwise how could he serve as Le Yi's lieutenant?
All in all, with the assistance of friendly troops from all walks of life, Qijie successfully repelled the Wei army that invaded Fan Yang, but unfortunately, he, Yan Ju, and Zhao Cong did not let Qin Kai, Xu Li, and others do so.
Watch with admiration.
The generals were just a little surprised: it seems that Qijie, Yan Ju, and Zhao Cong are not complete idiots.
The reason is very simple, because before this, Le Yi and Sima Shang had defeated the Wei army more than once, and the Korean generals had long been accustomed to it.
Even after repelling the Wei army, when Bao Yuan led his army to evacuate from Fan Yang, he warned Qi Jie: He will fight like this in the future.
This made Qi Ji very unhappy.
It turned out that because he was in charge of power this time, Qijie himself was very cautious, so he adopted the tactics set by Le Yi. Although this set of watertight enemy defense tactics successfully helped Qijie repel the Wei army's invasion, Qijie's heart
But he wasn't happy - because this was Le Yi's tactic, not his.
He is eager to establish achievements beyond Le Yi to prove himself.
A few days later, the opportunity came. The Wei army attacked Fan Yang several times, but was repulsed by Qijie. Even in the last attack, when Qijie saw the opportunity and called Yan Ju, and General Zhao Cong led the heavy cavalry to counterattack, the Wei army was defeated.
And retreat.
This victory was called Qijie, Yan Ju, and Zhao Cong. They were very excited.
They suddenly felt that Le Yi and Sima Shang were actually nothing special: the former was just "defending the city" and "waiting for opportunities to counterattack," while the latter was simply invincible with the help of Daijun's heavy cavalry.
Thinking of this, Qi Jie's heart gradually became uneasy with defending, and he hoped to take the initiative to attack and defeat the Wei army.
On August 25, without notifying the other generals, Qi Jie led 3,000 Northern Yan troops and two thousand Daijun heavy cavalry to attack the camp of King Zhao Jiang of Yan at night.
have to
Zhao Jiang's more than 30,000 Shanyang troops and Yuanyi Marquis Han Pu's hundreds of thousands troops were frightened away by the 5,000 robbed troops. They did not even take care of the baggage in the camp, so they fled in a hurry and handed over the camp.
Give way.
At dawn the next day, when Xu Li, the Shanggu Shou who came to rescue the robbers after hearing the news, arrived with his cavalry, he was a little surprised to learn that the robbers had only used a mere five thousand troops to capture the Wei army's commander-in-chief, Yan.
Wang Zhaojiang’s camp.
At that time, Qi Jie proudly said to Xu Li: "Before, our army defended Fan Yang. I thought that the Wei army must not have expected that I would lead my army to attack at night. Sure enough, I succeeded in the sneak attack."
After hearing this, Xu Li and his lieutenant looked at each other in confusion.
"Did I misjudge him before?"
Xu Li was very surprised, because Qi Jie explained his tactics very clearly, and the facts also proved that he had successfully succeeded in the sneak attack. The facts were before his eyes, and Xu Li could not tolerate disbelief.
After thinking about it, Xu Li kindly advised Qi Jie: "The general is brave and defeated the Wei army. However, the Wei army is still powerful. General, don't underestimate the enemy."
"That's natural."
Seeing that Xu Li had some respect for him, Qi Jie felt very proud.
At this time, the cavalry did not dare to underestimate the Wei army. Therefore, even if they occupied the camp of King Yan Zhaojiang, they did not dare to divide their troops to defend it. Instead, they sent people to transport the baggage in the camp back to Fan Yang, and then set it on fire.
This Wei camp.
After leading his army back to Fanyang, Qijie learned that after the defeat, King Zhao Jiang of Yan and Marquis of Yuanyi, Han Pu, withdrew twenty miles to reestablish their camp. He couldn't help but feel very happy - the Wei army retreated two miles.
Setting up a stronghold ten miles away doesn't mean that the King of Yan, Zhao Jiang, is afraid of him?
I have to say that if you don’t compare Qijie with Le Yi, Qijie is actually a good general. No, after King Yan Zhaojiang retreated twenty miles to re-establish the camp, he immediately saw that
The whole Wei army was missing a piece.
So he immediately ordered the garrison to guard Xu Li in the upper valley of "Wuyang City" to discuss the matter of a joint attack between the two armies to suppress the rebels.
Xu Li was very hesitant after receiving the order. Due to the huge momentum of the Wei army, he preferred Le Yi's defensive tactics. However, it is undeniable that the robbery theory is indeed very reasonable. The current camp location of the Wei army is indeed
This caused the Wei army's defense line to 'miss' a piece.
"Let's try it."
Seeing the success of the night attack on King Yan Zhaojiang a few days before the robbery, Xu Li hesitated for a long time, and finally decided to take a risk with the robbery. After all, the robbery was indeed very careful.
On that day, three generals, Qijie, Yan Ju and Zhao Cong, took the initiative to engage in battle to suppress the rebel army. This provoked Wei general Pang Huan to use all his troops in the camp to fight against the Qijie army. When the two armies were fighting, Shanggu guard Xu Li led his troops.
They attacked the camp of the suppressing rebels and set a fire to burn the Wei camp.
Wei general Pang Huan had no choice but to withdraw his troops and retreat twenty miles to the stronghold again.
"Wei Jun is no big deal."
As he returned to the city in triumph, Qi Ji thought triumphantly.
In the next few days, there were frequent raids and robberies, and the Wei Wu Army and the Yanling Army of the Wei State were defeated again, causing the entire Wei Army to retreat for twenty miles.
This series of victories made Qin Kai, Bao Yuan, Jin Fu, Gong Zhongpeng, Tian Ling, Ji Kuo and other Korean generals look at each other in disbelief.
They really couldn't understand that when Le Yi and Sima Shang were still there, the Wei army, which they had to win with great difficulty, was now so vulnerable to Qi Jie?
"Is it possible that this robbery is even better than Le Yi's?"
This idea only crossed Yuyang Shou Qin Kai's mind for a moment, and was immediately rejected by him.
Qin Kai never believed that Qi Jie could be better than Le Yi.
He secretly thought in his heart: Either the Wei army faked defeat to lure the enemy, or there was something wrong with Wei itself.
For about four or five days after that, the Wei army stood still and showed no response.
But on the eighth day of September, the Wei army suddenly withdrew southward on a large scale. The armies of Pang Huan, Shao Hu, and Qu Cheng moved first, followed by the armies of Yan King Zhao Jiang and Yuanyi Marquis Han Pu.
After learning about this, Yuyang Shouqin suddenly realized that the Wei State itself must not be able to support it.
He said to the lieutenant general: "Counting the days, the coalition forces of various countries should have already attacked Liang County of Wei State. It must be that the Wei army knew that the country was in danger, so they hesitated in their hearts. In addition, they were robbed and attacked several times. Unexpectedly,
We cannot defeat our armies in a short time, so we decided to withdraw our troops..."
He was determined in his mind: Since the Wei army had decided to retreat, South Korea would naturally not be in danger of collapse.
However, at this moment, he suddenly received the general attack order from Qijie. The latter apparently also guessed the reason for the sudden withdrawal of the Wei army, and ordered all the armies to take the opportunity to pursue the Wei army and pursue the victory, so that the Wei state would not dare to underestimate him again.
South Korea.
Qin Kai thought about it after receiving the order. Although he was very dissatisfied with Qijie replacing Le Yi before, unexpectedly Qijie did a pretty good job. For this reason,
He accepted the order for the general offensive.
On the tenth day of the ninth month, when the Han generals saw the Wei army withdrawing, they launched a general attack. They led Qin Kai, Xu Li, Bao Yuan, Jin Bo, Gong Zhongpeng, Tian Ling, Ji Kuo and other generals to lead their own troops and pursue the victory.
At that time, the Wei army seemed to be really eager to withdraw, and did not want to get entangled with the Korean army. They fled south in a hurry, all the way south to "Gaohe". During this period, the Wei army left behind countless baggage and flags.
At first, the Korean generals thought this was a trick by the Wei army and ordered their soldiers not to scavenge, but later they discovered that the Wei army had no ambush, and they were just retreating lightly.
Seeing this, Qi Jie's desire to defeat the enemy became even more intense. He stood astride his horse and held his sword, loudly encouraging his soldiers and generals: "Defeat the Wei army today!"
Then, eager to defeat the enemy, he led the Northern Yan army under his command, as well as the heavy cavalry of Daijun under the generals Yan Ju and Zhao Cong, as well as Qin Kai, Xu Li, Bao Yuan, Jin Mao, Gong Zhongpeng, and Tian Ling.
, Ji Kuo and several other friendly troops plunged into the Wei army's trap.
At that time, the Shanyang Army under the command of Zhao Jiang, the king of Yan, who originally fled hastily to the south, fought from behind. The Wei Wu Army came out from the east and the anti-rebellion army came out from the west, launching a three-sided pincer attack on the Northern Yan Army under Qi Jie.
At this time, Qi Jie realized that something was wrong and quickly ordered a retreat. Unfortunately, at this time, Wei general Qu Cheng had already led the Yanling army to cut off the return routes of the Korean army.
The Hanoi Army, the Wei Wu Army, the Anti-Rebel Army, and the Yanling Army, these four elite Wei armies with a total strength of about 200,000, completely surrounded several Korean armies. This does not include the hundreds of thousands of soldiers under the command of Han Pu, the Marquis of Yuanyi.
Yuanyi Army.
"The guy who robbed me, I really thought that he attacked my camp that day."
Seeing that his plan to lure the enemy was successful, King Zhao Jiang of Yan laughed loudly.
It has to be said that Qijie did not know enough about the Hanoi Army under Zhao Jiang. You must know that the predecessor of the Hanoi Army was the Shanyang Army. It was the Wei army that was almost completely wiped out in the "Battle of Shanyang". It can be called the Wei army.
The most courageous army - of course, now the Shanyang Army has no choice but to share the compliment of "the most courageous" with the "Daliang Imperial Guards".
Not to mention that King Zhao Jiang of Yan and his generals were already aware of the situation when Qi Jie led his army to attack the Hanoi military camp. Even if the camp was breached by the Qi Jie Han army, the Hanoi army would never retreat because of this.
You must know that "In every battle, you must be the first to fight, and you will not retreat to the death." This is the purpose of the Hanoi Army (Sanyang Army). You can say that the offensive capabilities of this army are not as good as the Shangshui Army, but it is definitely better than the Shangshui Army.
Tenacity - or stubbornness, unless King Zhao Jiang of Yan ordered a retreat, the five thousand troops on the day of the robbery, even if there were two thousand Daijun heavy cavalry among them, would never be able to defeat the Hanoi army.
In fact, if King Zhao Jiang of Yan had not planned to "gather and annihilate" the Han army, Qijie might have died in the Hanoi army's counterattack that night.
On the other side, Wei General Pang Huan also sneered again and again.
Who is Pang Huan? He is the most trusted general of the Nanliang King Zhao Yuanzuo. He has been with the Nanliang King Zhao Yuanzuo for a long time. He has never seen any tricks. How can he really fall into a robbery?
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On that day, Qi Jie started a battle outside the Wei camp and deliberately lured his anti-rebel troops to a plain ten miles away from the camp. At that time, Pang Huan guessed that Qi Jie would probably ask another Korean general to take the opportunity to sneak attack on his empty defense.
Camp, but Pang Huan wanted to be legitimately 'defeated' by the robbers at that time, so he didn't expose it.
The rest, like Shaohu's Wei Wujun, Qu Cheng's Yanling Army, including the troops under Han Pu, the Marquis of Yuanyi, are all like this - Qijie thought that his clever tactics defeated the Wei Army, but in fact, the Wei Army just pretended to be defeated, hoping that
Just lure all these Korean troops out, gather them together and annihilate them.
"The only thing we still need to worry about right now is the more than 20,000 Daijun heavy cavalry..."
Wei general Qu Cheng said thoughtfully.
However, the King of Yan, Zhao Jiang, who was on the other side of the battlefield, did not care about the more than 20,000 Daijun heavy cavalry, and immediately ordered the entire army to besiege.
The reason is very simple, because Generals Yan Ju and Zhao Cong did not understand the essence of heavy cavalry at all, and actually ordered their heavy cavalry to wear thick armor to pursue the defeated Wei army.
Such stupid behavior caused about half of the heavy cavalry to fall behind midway due to lack of horse power, while the rest barely kept up with the heavy cavalry who were hijacking the Northern Yan Army, and pursued them all the way. Whether they were men or horses, they could still
How much energy is left?
I have to say that if it were Sima Shang, he would not have made such a mistake.
It's a pity that Sima Shang was replaced by Yan Ju and Zhao Cong, two generals who didn't know much about heavy cavalry. They only saw the invincible side of heavy cavalry on the battlefield, and they didn't know that the glory of heavy cavalry was in the same place.
A battle only lasts for a short period of time.
More often than not, heavy cavalry is very weak, especially when the horses are exhausted.
On that day, after realizing that they had mistakenly fallen into the trap of the Wei army, Han generals Qijie, Yan Ju, Zhao Cong, Qin Kai, Xu Li, Bao Yuan, Jin Mao, Gong Zhongpeng, Tian Ling, Ji Kuo and other generals,
They all led their troops to break through the encirclement, but the Wei army on all sides was undefeated. Even though there were hundreds of thousands of Korean troops here, they could not break the Wei army's siege.
In this battle, the Wei army surrounded the Korean army for two days. During this period, although there were inevitably a few Korean soldiers who escaped at night, disappeared into the night, or were killed by the intercepted Wei army, the vast majority of the Korean soldiers were killed by the Wei army.
Surround.
But it cannot be denied that the surrounded Korean soldiers and generals were quite courageous. They turned a blind eye to the Wei army's calls to surrender and still tried to break out again and again.
After two days of this, Wei General Pang Huan suggested to Yan Wang Zhao Jiang: "Although the Korean army is surrounded by our army, it is surrounded on all sides, which will stimulate its fighting spirit and make it risk its life to fight with our army. It is not as good as
Let go of a corner and ask the Korean army to break out, and the Korean soldiers will lose their fighting spirit. At the moment of introduction, our army only needs to use our troops to cover up the enemy."
The king of Yan, Zhao Jiang, believed this, so he sent someone to ask Qu Cheng to deliberately expose the flaw and let the Korean army break through.
Qu Cheng received the order, so when Qin Kai, the governor of Yuyang, led his army to break out of the encirclement, he deliberately exposed a flaw, so that Qin Kai successfully broke through the encirclement.
Sure enough, after learning that Qin Kai's Yuyang Army had broken out of the encirclement, the encircled Korean generals no longer had the idea of a life-or-death fight with the Wei army, and followed the Yuyang Army and fled in a hurry.
Seeing this, 200,000 Wei troops and more than 100,000 Yuan Yi troops sent out their troops to cover up and kill them.
On one side is the Wei army, which is in a good situation and has high morale because it is about to see the dawn of victory. On the other side is the Korean army, which has been surrounded by the Wei army for two days and is hungry and thirsty due to lack of food and water. Not to mention that one side pursues and the other escapes. It is conceivable that
The outcome of this pursuit.
In fact, generals like Qin Kai, Xu Li, Bao Yuan and others along the way also guessed that the Wei army deliberately let them break out of the encirclement, but at this moment, they were unable to reverse the situation.
When Le Yi's arrogant and arrogant Qi Li took the place of Le Yi and led the Korean troops such as the Beiyan Army, Yuyang Army, Daijun Army, Shanggu Army, etc., into the Wei army's encirclement, it was already doomed that the Korean army would be defeated.
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"It's over."
Such thoughts flashed through the minds of many Korean soldiers and generals.
The Han army fled all the way, and the Wei army pursued and killed them all the way.
During the defeat and escape, generals such as Bao Yuan, Jin Wei, Gong Zhongpeng, and Tian Ling were captured by the Wei army one after another. Even Yuyang guarding Qin Kai sacrificed himself to cut off the rear for the friendly forces, but was captured by Nan Yan under the command of King Zhao Jiang of Yan.
The cavalry took prisoners, but Xu Li, the guardian of Shanggu, led the Shanggu cavalry to break out of the encirclement.
It is worth mentioning that although Qi Jie was arrogant, he was not greedy for life. Even though the war situation was irreversible, he still led the Northern Yan army to actively block the Wei army, placing his hope in Qin Kai, Bao Yuan, Jin
Wou and others were able to escape with their troops and eventually died on the battlefield.
Before that, Qi Jie sighed sadly, but then he realized that he was indeed far inferior to Le Yi.
It has to be said that Qi Jie's pride led to the rout of the Korean army, but in the end, he still fulfilled his duty as a Korean general and fought until the end. On the contrary, Yan Ju and Zhao Cong, who had previously made an appointment with Qi Jie to achieve great feats together,
The second general, seeing that the situation was not right, abandoned Daijun's heavy cavalry early and fled on his own. As a result, the 20,000 Daijun heavy cavalry were leaderless and scattered, and were defeated by the Wei army in one fell swoop.
A total of 20,000 heavy cavalry, a powerful force that could reverse victory or defeat, were defeated by the Wei army because the general fled, causing the Korean army to lose the last hope of a comeback.
In September of the second year of Wei Zhaowu, Wei generals Zhao Jiang, Shao Hu, Pang Huan, and Qu Cheng deceived the enemy and lured Han generals to rob them. Regardless of the tactics formulated by Le Yi, they moved in full force to pursue the Wei army. Finally, at "Gaoyang"
(North of Gaohe)" defeated the Korean army, beheading tens of thousands and capturing more than 100,000 prisoners.
At this point, Shanggu County no longer had the troops to resist the Wei army.
The next day, the Wei army captured "Fanyang". King Zhao Jiang of Yan was stationed in the city and supervised hundreds of thousands of Korean prisoners. Wei generals Shao Hu, Pang Huan, Qu Cheng, Yuanyi Hou Han Pu and others continued to lead the army into the army.
, approaching Jicheng, the capital of South Korea.
During this period, Han general Xu Li was unable to withstand the powerful Wei army alone and led the defeated army to retreat to Jicheng.
At this time, generals Yan Ju and Zhao Cong had fled back to Jicheng and reported the news of the defeat to Lihou Han Wu.
In order to avoid being punished, Yan Ju and Zhao Conger wiped their armors with blood, pretended to fight their way out of the siege, and went to see Lihou Hanwu. They put all the blame for the defeat on Qijie and testified that Qijie was
Jie sent troops rashly, but they tried hard to persuade him but refused.
After listening to what Yan Ju and Zhao Cong told them, Li Hou Han Wu was shocked.
You know, he had received good news about the robbery a few days ago. At that time, he felt a little relieved, thinking that this robbery might not be inferior to Le Yi. Unexpectedly, within a few days, this robbery would eat a lot of food.
A defeat, and this defeat completely ruined Shanggu County, Korea's last line of defense.
"Are we, Korea, destined to perish?!"
Han Wu, the Marquis of Li, was shocked and angry, and immediately sent someone to summon Ma Kuo, the Qing of Wei.