Chapter 691: The decision at the end of the item (2)
Five hundred thousand Chu troops evacuated southward. It must be said that this was a very spectacular sight.
Looking around, the mountains and plains are filled with Chu infantry armed with long swords and wearing ink-colored armor, like a black tide.
But for General Xiang Mo of Fuli Fortress, he was not in the mood to appreciate this spectacular scene. His mind seemed to be still on the majestic pass.
"Report!"
With a sharp shout, a scout rushed to Xiang Mo's mount, knocked on the ground and clasped his fists to report: "The rear of the army was attacked by Qi's chariots and cavalry. Look at the flag, it's Qi's Tian Ba!...
…Currently, General Tu Shen is in a stalemate with Tian Bao’s army.”
"Tian taboo..."
Hearing this, Xiang Mo glanced in the direction behind him and secretly said in his heart: "Tian's Five Tigers". I wonder how many Lu Xi brought out this time.
The Five Tigers of the Tian clan are the five generals of the "Linzi Tian clan" from the main family and the branch families. They are Tian Dan and Tian Bao's cousins from the main family, as well as Tian Ao, Tian Wu and Tian Kuo from the branch family. They rule the Qi State.
A famous general and a confidant of Lu Xi and his family in Qi State.
Although Tian Dan has the highest reputation, Xiang Mo knows very well that the other four are not easy to mess with, especially Tian Tao and Tian Ao.
The former, Tian Tao, was the favorite vanguard officer of King Lu Xi of Qi, while the latter, Tian Ao, was a veteran who had been stationed in Julu County for a long time and made Korea complain endlessly.
But having said that, although the opponent this time was Na Tian Bao, Xiang Mo was not worried because the general Tu Shen he sent to cut off the rear was also a brave general who was no less brave than Wu Yuan.
Once upon a time, Wu Yuan and Tu Shen were Xiang Mo's right-hand men, but now, Wu Yuan is in Suxian. Xiang Mo feels a dull pain in his chest when he thinks of this.
"Tell Tu Shen not to keep too much distance from the brigade."
After giving a few instructions to the messenger and ordering him to convey the message to Tu Shen, Xiang Mo drove his mount slowly towards Suxian.
At this time, the Longji Mountain guard Zi Cheji rode up on his war horse and clasped his fists towards Xiang Mo: "General."
Because Xiang Mo did not deliberately wait for the friendly forces in Longji Mountain, this was the first meeting between the two of them in recent times.
"General Ziche." Xiang Mo returned the greeting with fists clasped.
After saluting, Xiang Mo saw that Zi Cheji was the only one who came this time. In order to confirm a certain guess in his mind, he asked: "General Zi Che, Nanmen Yang..."
"That guy has surrendered to the enemy!" Zi Cheji turned his horse's head, rode his mount forward side by side with Xiang Mo, and said angrily: "That guy led 50,000 soldiers to stay on the west side of Longji Mountain. What are you talking about in order to cut off the Wei army?"
The way out, I felt something was wrong at that time... General Yesterday
The army ordered us to evacuate to the south, and I sent someone to convey the matter to Nanmen Yang. Seeing that he could no longer fish in troubled waters, this guy actually took a bunch of confidants, abandoned 50,000, and fled to who knows where... Before leaving.
He even burned the general’s food and fodder, what a fucking bastard!”
"Oh." Xiang Mo responded calmly.
He was not surprised at all. After all, according to what he knew, Ji Cong, the defender of Qixian County, lost the city because of the alliance between the merchant navy of Wei State and the Nanmen clan of Qixian County, and retreated to the Huihe River in embarrassment.
Since the Nanmen clan has surrendered to the Wei State, how can Nanmen Yang stay out? If nothing goes wrong, looking at Nanmen Yang's passive fighting attitude in the past few days, I am afraid that the Nanmen clan's people have already been in contact with him.
"Nanmen Chi, Nanmen Yang... What a pity."
Xiang Mo sighed secretly, feeling quite sorry for losing these two generals from the Nanmen clan.
After all, in Xiang Mo's view, the two brothers Nanmen Chi and Nanmen Yang can be regarded as rare generals. If they defect to the Wei State this time, they will definitely become their strong enemies in the Chu State in the future.
Of course, despite this, these two people are not worthy of the term "confidence". In contrast, Xiang Mo believes that one person in the Wei army is more dangerous.
That is Qu Cheng, the current commander-in-chief of the Yanling Army of the State of Wei.
"If Qu Cheng becomes famous in this battle, I wonder how the Qu family in China will react..."
Xiang Mo murmured to himself.
You must know that the feud between the Xiong family and the Qu family lasted for more than a hundred years. Even though Qu Cheng was only a member of the branch family of the Qu family, and he was once a marginal figure in the branch family, but now, Qu Cheng has transformed into a
The generals of the Wei State hold tens of thousands of troops and are even said to have a high status in the Wei State.
Xiang Mo didn't believe it at all if the Qu family in China didn't respond at all to this.
In Xiang Mo's view, Nanmen's defection to Wei was actually just a trivial matter. Although it was a pity for the two generals Nanmen Chi and Nanmen Yang, to be honest, it was not something worth making a fuss about. After all, the Chu State was similar to Nanmen.
There are many clans like the Men clan, no matter how numerous they are, one less or one more will not have much impact on the Chu State.
But the Qu family is different. Although the Qu family has been suppressed by Chu King Xiong Xu and other royal families of the Xiong family in the past hundred years, as the saying goes, a skinny camel is bigger than a horse. The Qu family is still quite powerful in the Chu State. If it is because of Qu Cheng
This relationship led to the Qu family, who had always been at odds with the Xiong family, to also turn to Wei. This was the disaster for the Chu state.
It's a pity that although Xiang Mo is very aware that Qu's current political stance may endanger Chu, he can't do anything early. After all, in a sense, Qu's is also his brother's clan with the same ancestry as Xiang's.
Not only is it impossible for Xiang Mo to arrest and attack the Qu family for something that has not happened yet, but if he does so, it will inevitably trigger an even more violent backlash from the Qu family. Maybe, the Qu family will simply
He really went to Wei State.
Of course, these things just flashed through Xiang Mo's mind. After all, it was the King of Chu, Xiong Xu, or the ministers of the Chu palace who should negotiate and win over the Qu family. It was not something that he, a general, could intervene in.
After thinking about it, Xiang Mo put all his worries behind and turned to Zi Cheji and said: "General Zi Che, Xiang wants to ride lightly to Su County to explore the situation. I wonder if the general would like to go with me?
"
Zi Cheji was stunned for a moment when he heard this, and then said with joy on his face: "As you wish."
It has to be said that the Chu State's military system is very chaotic. Although they are all "regular troops", Zi Cheji is not strictly a subordinate of Xiang Mo. However, even so, facing Xiang Mo, the domestic leader,
General, Zi Cheji is naturally willing to get close to him.
It is a beneficial and harmless thing for him personally and for his family.
Therefore, Xiang Mo took Zi Cheji and a group of two personal guards, and quickly arrived within the visual range of Suxian County in advance. They climbed up a slope and looked at the situation in Suxian County from a distance.
However, what surprised Xiang Mo was that the military flag of his country of Chu was actually hanging above the Su County city.
"Huh? Hasn't Suxian been captured? How..."
At this moment, Xiang Mo suddenly had an extravagant hope in his heart: he really hoped that Wu Yuan did not die in the battle in Suxian, although his reason repeatedly told him that this was impossible.
Looking at each other with Zi Cheji, Xiang Mo slowly approached Suxian on his horse until he was a stone's throw away from Suxian. Then he stopped and shouted towards the top of the city: "Who is in charge in the city?"
As soon as he finished speaking, several heads popped up from the city wall. Judging from their clothes and armor, they looked like Chu State troops.
"Could it be..."
Xiang Mo's obsession with a certain extravagant hope grew stronger and stronger, until the city gate opened, and a Chu general led several groups of Chu soldiers to come out to greet him.
"The last general, Bian Cang Ke, greets the superior general." The Chu general quickly came to Xiang Mo's mount, kowtowed to the ground and clasped his fists to report.
Xiang Mo sighed secretly, and then he realized that the Chu soldiers in the city were most likely the troops he sent to protect Su County that day, not the troops of his right-hand man Wu Yuan.
"Get up, Biancang." Xiang Mo made a gesture and asked the Chu general Biancang Ke to stand up. Then he asked: "Why is Suxian in your hands? Where are the Wei and Qi armies here?"
Bian Cangke clasped his fists and said: "Reporting to the general, I don't know the specific reason... After the Wei army arrived in Suxian, they somehow guessed that Gongyang Jian and I were each leading an army lurking in the northern suburbs, and immediately attacked both of us.
The army launched an offensive. Yesterday, the Wei army suddenly withdrew, and the general came boldly with his troops.
After some testing, I discovered that Suxian County was already an empty city, so General Mo led his troops to settle in the city." As he spoke, he shrugged and added: "Gongyang Jian is not far away, and he is better than Mo.
The general will be cautious, thinking that this is a trick played by Ji Run and Tian Dan, and refuses to enter the city."
"Hmm." Xiang Mo nodded and then asked: "You just said that Suxian County is already an empty city. What about the soldiers and civilians in the city?"
"They are all gone." Bian Cangke shook his head and said, "After Ji Run and Tian Dan worked together to conquer Su County, the Wei army integrated the remnants of General Wu Yuan. When the general entered the city, some people in the city were unwilling to defect to the Wei army.
According to their soldiers, there are many Chu soldiers and generals in the Wei army. These people may
They offered various preferential treatment and promised to surrender the remnants of General Wu Yuan. Now those who were willing to defect to the Wei army, including the people in the city who were also persuaded, followed the Wei army southward, probably to Zhi County...
The general does not have many troops at his disposal and dare not go south. Please forgive me, the general."
"The remnants of Wu Yuan's troops were collected and the people of Suxian County were swept away... It seems to be the handiwork of Mr. Wei Run."
Xiang Mo took a deep breath and glanced south.
It has to be said that this behavior of Wei Jun made Xiang Mo feel a great threat.
At this moment, Xiang Mo was probably more afraid of Wei Gongzi Ji Run than Tian Dan.
After all, Tian Dan was just bloodthirsty, and in fact, the more Chu people he killed, the stronger the Chu people's resistance to him, so Xiang Mo was not worried.
But that Ji Run launched the slogan "Liberate the Chu People" and swept away countless soldiers and civilians of the Chu State without doing much killing. As a result, the bad reputation of King Su of Wei has not been spread in this area until now.
This is not a good thing.
"It seems that in the future, the State of Wei will replace the State of Qi and become the most serious problem for Chu..."
There was a hint of coldness in Xiang Mo's eyes.
He glanced at Suxian and sneered secretly in his heart: How ridiculous! Leaving an empty city for Xiang Mou, do you really think Xiang Mou would foolishly choose to regroup here?
Shaking his head, he asked in a deep voice: "Have Ji Run and Tian Dan both evacuated to the south?"
"The end of this general is unknown." Bian Cangke shook his head and said.
Seeing this, Tian Dan stopped asking further questions.
At this moment, several scouts rushed over from a distance, kowtowed to the ground in front of Xiang Mo and reported: "Report to General, the army was ambushed by the Wei and Qi armies!"
"Huh?"
Xiang Mo was stunned for a moment, and then his eyes showed a strange color.
"Not only did they not retreat, they actually dared to ambush my army of 500,000...could it be that they were using themselves as bait? Hahaha, Ji Run or Tian Dan are really brave people!"
Thinking of this, Xiang Mo's face suddenly darkened.
"Since you are waiting to commit suicide, I just want Xiang to kill you two and avenge Wu Yuan!"