"PS: Something happened today, which delayed the update. I'm really sorry. I'm sorry, I'm sorry."
——The following text——
The fire in Longji Mountain was particularly eye-catching in this dark night. Even from a distance of dozens of miles, Dou Lian, the Chu general at the Chu camp in Mengshan, could see it clearly.
He originally thought it was the fire from Lieshan Mountain.
Because Lieshan was originally called "Split Mountain", the entire hill split from it, and a large amount of natural gas and oil in the mountain emerged from the ground and flowed into the nearby lake "Nanhu".
Even more miraculous is that it is said that on a thunderous day, the lightning in the sky ignited the natural gas leaking from the cracks in the mountain, causing the entire hill to be covered in a sea of fire, so the locals renamed it Lieshan.
It was precisely for this reason that Chu General Doulian thought it was the fire in Lieshan Mountain at first. Unexpectedly, after careful identification, he discovered that the fire was actually in Longji Mountain.
"Could it be that the Qilu Allied Forces attacked Longji Mountain at night?"
Doulian thought subconsciously.
It's no wonder he had such a guess. After all, it can be seen from the geographical location of this area that Longji Mountain is not on the Wei army's advance route. It belongs to the middle battlefield of Fulisai, not the west battlefield of Xiangcheng.
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Because of this, Dou Lian thought of asking for help from Longji Mountain in order to catch the Wei army off guard.
At this time, the middle-aged deputy general also raised a possibility: "Could it be the merchant navy?"
"Shang Shui Army?"
Chu General Doulian's expression was slightly startled, and he was a little disapproving at first.
After all, the Shang Shui army only had 20,000 troops, but there were nearly 100,000 Chu troops stationed in Longji Mountain. According to common sense, this Wei army would not have the courage to tease the tigers in Longji Mountain who were heavily guarded.
But for some reason, the more Dou Lian thought about it, the more he thought that perhaps this guess was the closest to the truth.
The reason is that during the day, Wei General Xu Yin's abnormal attitude and the merchant navy's unpredictable and strange behavior of standing still made Dou Lian feel an inexplicable pressure on his heart.
"The Western Route Army of the Three Kingdoms Allied Forces of Qi, Lu and Wei...the commander-in-chief of the Wei Army, Ji Run, the Su King of Wei..."
Dou Lian imagined the face of the young King Su of Wei in his mind.
He had not seen King Su with his own eyes, nor had he dealt with the latter. He only heard that the young King Su of Wei had defeated their Chu country's son Tuo (Yangcheng Jun Xiong Tuo), and,
The two seemed to have some ulterior secret agreement after the war.
Perhaps it was while listening, but Dou Lian had indeed heard that someone said in front of Xiong Xu, the king of Chu, that "Gongzi Tuo secretly colluded with Ji Run, the Su king of Wei, to plot evil."
"Could it be that this guy has already seen through my intentions?"
A guess came to Dou Lian's mind, and he shook his head with a smile.
He felt that he was too suspicious: How could a sixteen or seventeen-year-old child have such insight?
And just as he was laughing secretly, a guard who was on duty outside the Chinese army's tent suddenly walked in, clasped his fists and reported: "General, there is something strange happening to the Wei army down the mountain!"
"Xu Yin?"
After hearing this, Dou Lian walked out of the Zhongjun tent without saying a word and came to the watchtower on the top of the mountain. He climbed up and looked at the Wei army at the bottom of the mountain.
At this moment, at the foot of Mengshan Mountain, there are still two Wei armies, Fenxing Army and Yanling Army of Wei State.
Since the Wei army had repeatedly attacked Mengshan during the day, neither of the two Wei armies had time to build military camps in that plain area.
If Dou Lian hadn't been waiting for news of the sneak attack on General Nangong Yang of the Shang Shui Army, and the inexplicable fire in Longji Mountain made him a little uneasy, he would have organized his troops to attack the two Wei armies at the foot of the mountain.
After all, the latter does not have the protection of the military camp. Once the night attack takes the lead, the Chu army can achieve a great victory: even if they cannot win, Dou Lian can retreat to the Chu camp in Mengshan.
It is no exaggeration to say that this is simply an invincible position.
But unexpectedly, Wei general Xu Yin, who was clearly in an unfavorable situation at this moment, actually took action before him to fight for integrity.
What does Xu Yin want to do?
Standing on the watchtower, Dou Lian squinted his eyes and looked at the dark night in the distance.
Back to half an hour ago, in the central tent of the Wei army, Xu Yin, the general of the Fenxing army, invited his generals, including the generals of the Yanling army, to the tent to discuss the next war.
It is undeniable that the gains made by the Wei army during the day were not small today, killing at least 5,000 Chu soldiers from the Mengshan Chu camp.
Although these five thousand Chu troops did not account for a large proportion of this battle involving hundreds of thousands or millions of people, it must be considered that this time the Wei army achieved such results at a very small cost.
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No, all the generals in the Chinese military tent, including Xu Yin himself, were all smiling, obviously very satisfied with the battle situation during the day.
And if the conversation between the generals during this period was heard by Mengshan Guardsman Doulian, he would probably be furious to death on the spot.
Because almost every general was making fun of Dou Lian for thinking he was hiding deep enough, but in the end he was tricked by Xu Yin, who quietly achieved the outstanding result of killing 5,000 enemies.
"Okay, okay, enough gossip."
After being praised by the generals for a while, especially the generals of the Yanling Army who were committed to establishing an irreversible friendship with the Fenxing Army, even Xu Yin could not bear the praise.
Because Xu Yin knew very well that if Zhao Hongrun hadn't reminded him this time, he might still have been deceived by Dou Lian's blinking technique, and he would have been unaware that it had brought the army to an extremely dangerous situation.
Waving to the generals in the tent to calm down, Xu Yin said seriously: "Our army has indeed gained a lot from today's battle during the day, but I'm afraid this trick can no longer be used... If nothing goes wrong, Doulian will be defeated at this moment.
I must have learned that his intentions, including the inside story that he hid many troops in Mengshan, have been discovered by us."
After hearing this, the generals in the tent couldn't help but sneered.
This is indeed a very interesting thing: on the surface, the Mengshan Chu army, which was only guarded by about seven or eight thousand Chu troops, initially lost about a thousand people at the location where their Wei army was preparing to camp, and then ambushed the Fenxing army's Western Wei camp.
Cai Qinhu lost more than a thousand men, and in the Mengshan offensive and defensive battle that ended at dusk, the Chu army lost another five thousand soldiers. But what is the current situation in Mengshan? There is actually a visual inspection
The Chu army numbered no less than five or six thousand men.
That Dou Lian was completely embarrassed.
In fact, the generals were very curious about what the Chu general Dou Lian would look like at this moment.
However, what Xu Yin said next made the generals gradually stop laughing.
"... You must have heard about it, and maybe you have seen it with your own eyes. Just now, a fire broke out in the direction of Longji Mountain. If Xu expected it right, this should be the work of His Highness Prince Su..." After a pause,
Xu Yin looked around at the generals in the tent and said in a deep voice: "According to the information given by Qi State, there are nearly 100,000 Chu troops stationed in Longji Mountain, guarded by two Chu generals, Nangong Yang and Zi Cheji. Logically speaking, Long
Ridge Mountain is not on the advance route of our army's "Strategy of Forcibly Crossing the Huihe River". There is no need for His Highness Prince Su to take the risk of setting fire to Longji Mountain. But he did it anyway, what does this mean?"
"This means that the Chu army in Longji Mountain wanted to take our army's retreat..." Qu Cheng, the general of the Yanling army, replied solemnly.
Xu Yin glanced at Qu Cheng approvingly, nodded and said, "That's right!... Fortunately, His Highness King Su is escorting us this time, otherwise, the consequences would be disastrous."
As he spoke, he took a map from the hands of his bodyguards, walked to the table in the center of the tent, laid the map flat on the table, and greeted: "Everyone, look at the map... From what is shown on the map, I
The Fenxing Army and the Yanling Army are now located between Mengshan, Xiangcheng, and Tanshan. It can be said that they are surrounded by Chu troops on three sides. In this case, if the retreat is cut off by the Chu Army at Longji Mountain...
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Having said this, Xu Yin took a long breath and said no more.
But the meaning he wanted to express was understood by all the generals in the tent.
The faces of the generals were all solemn. After all, they also believed that this trip was really dangerous. If the Chu general succeeded in fighting Lian, 55,000 Wei troops might really be buried here.
"You actually want to devour my 55,000-strong army in one go. That's a big fight against Lian... Where did this bastard come from?" Hua Yu, the general of the Yanling Army, said coldly.
It has to be said that "Hua" is also a prestigious aristocratic surname in the Chu State. Although Hua Yu comes from a different clan, he can still be regarded as a noble. In the past, he had heard of many generals in the Chu State.
But he had never heard of Dou Lian.
Similar to his expression, Qu Cheng, Yan Mo, Zuo Xunxi, Gong Ye Sheng, Zuo Qiu Mu and other generals of Yanling Army also frowned and thought hard.
Xu Yin's view on this is quite similar to Zhao Hongrun's: just allow talents from the Wei State to emerge in endlessly, but not allow talents from other countries to emerge?
Thinking of this, Xu Yin waved his hand and said: "Okay, we don't need to investigate too much about Doulian's background. We just need to know that this person is not easy to deal with."
After hearing this, the generals nodded.
Seeing this, Xu Yin added: "Let's talk about the current battle situation... Although our army has the advantage during the day today, the situation our army is currently in is really embarrassing. If we advance, we will not be able to capture Mengshan in a short time; if we retreat,
I believe that Mengshan's Doulian and the two Chu armies to the south of our army coming from the direction of Xiangcheng to assist will obviously not sit back and watch our army withdraw. Therefore, Xu thought that instead of waiting for the Chu army to attack our army, it would be better to
Take the initiative!”
"Night fight?" Qu Cheng raised his eyebrows upon hearing this, and quickly grasped Xu Yin's intention.
"Hmm!" Xu Yin nodded.
Seeing that Xu Yin really nodded, the generals in the tent looked at each other and couldn't help but started talking in low voices.
After all, since ancient times, both the enemy and ourselves have avoided night battles, because night battles cannot bring out the strength of the soldiers, making the war reduced to a war of attrition that simply consumes the number of each other's soldiers. To be honest, it is meaningless.
Perhaps guessing the confusion of the generals, Xu Yin said seriously: "Xu understands your concerns, but the situation is urgent now. Our army can only have a chance to reverse the unfavorable situation if we bite the Chu army and take the initiative to attack. Otherwise,
Without the protection of the camp and unable to evacuate, our army will be dragged to death by the Chu army sooner or later."
After hearing this, the generals thought about it carefully and then nodded in agreement one after another.
Seeing this, Yan Mo couldn't help but ask: "But General Xu, it will be even more difficult to attack Mengshan at night."
However, Xu Yin showed a little smile.
"Then attack the Chu army in the south. Anyway, like our army, they have no defense facilities to cover each other..."
"Eh?"
The generals in the tent were really stunned when they heard this.