When the Chu army's scout team was about to report back to Juyang County what they saw in the Wei army's Bingcheng area, Zhao Hongrun's opponent in this battle, Chu Shouling Junjingshe, was in Juyang County.
In the courtyard of the mansion, they watched the local march map attentively.
Shouling Jun Jingshe did not dare to despise that Wei Gongzi Ji Run.
Because in the past twenty days, the two of them had fought several times, but neither could do anything to the other, and the fight was evenly matched.
Zhao Hongrun was certainly afraid of Jing She, but why wasn't Jing She afraid of this Wei Gongzi Run?
"I haven't encountered such a difficult opponent for a long time... Ji Run is obviously only sixteen years old, so..."
Jing She took a long breath and rubbed the bridge of his nose quite tiredly.
Seeing his general acting like this, his personal servants and generals could not help but say: "Master Jingshe, the Wei army has been silent for several days. The general thought that Ji Run would not make any more moves...
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"Should it?" Jing She glanced at the attendant and shook his head slightly with a half-smile.
Because just a dozen days ago, the Wei army, which had been dormant for several days, suddenly sent out a surprise force to cross the mountain to attack Caixi County. Fortunately, Jingshe had been prepared for this attack and had asked the general of the Caixi County Division in advance.
The county magistrate Cai Hou set up sentries on that snowy hill. Otherwise, the poorly guarded Caixi County might really be attacked by the Wei army.
What frightened Jingshe was that the commander-in-chief of the Wei army, Wei Gongzi Ji Run, after realizing that his whereabouts were exposed, actually took advantage of Jingshe's plan of "surrounding Wei and rescuing Zhao" and plotted against Juyang County. "Note:
Some book friends please stop focusing on certain idioms. It’s not that the author doesn’t know when these idioms allusions appeared, it’s just because if you don’t use certain idioms, you have to use a long paragraph to describe them, such as this sentence of surrounding Wei and saving Zhao.”
Fortunately, he Jingshe had thought of this and set up an ambush outside the city in advance, and finally the Wei army did not succeed in a surprise attack.
After that time, Jing She realized that the Wei Gongzi Ji Run opposite him might not be as good as Jing She in terms of experience in leading troops in battles, but his grasp of the battle situation and the use of strategies were not much inferior to him, and even more so.
What frightened him was that he still had not figured out what method the Wei master used to enable the Wei army to make fires to cook rice and keep warm.
In addition to these, Wei Gongzi Ji Run's affinity and broad-mindedness to accommodate the Chu soldiers and Chu people also made Jingshe feel like facing a formidable enemy.
Because he already knew that the Wei troops who fought against him during this period, the two Wei troops named Yanling Army and Shangshui Army, were actually subjects of their Chu State.
To make the people of Chu willing to be driven by him, and to come to attack Chu this time, one can only imagine the methods of Wei Gongzi Ji Run.
However, although he was wary, in fact Jingshe did not believe that Ji Run would send a large number of troops to attack Juyang County in the twelfth lunar month. After all, the recent weather was too cold. The flesh-and-blood palms of the Wei soldiers held the cold iron spears and
If it's not good, the skin and flesh will freeze on it. If it is torn off by force, the skin may even come off.
In the final analysis, he Jingshe just felt a little guilty because he couldn't figure out whether Mr. Wei opposite him would do the opposite and send out troops in the twelfth lunar month.
To be fair, if Ji Run attacks Juyang County, Jingshe is not afraid. After all, Juyang County is not that easy to attack. What Jingshe is worried about is that Mr. Wei has created something strange that he cannot understand or understand.
Invite, for example, build an ice city overnight, for example, you can make Wei soldiers light a fire to cook rice without firewood.
"It will be better if the weather gets colder..."
As a Chu person, Shouling Junjingshe has never liked the cold winter, but at this moment, he wishes for the weather to be colder, because in this way, the Wei army can only huddle in that ice city, at least until the beginning of spring next year
, he no longer has to worry day and night about what weird moves that Mr. Wei will come up with to attack.
What's more important is that during the one or two months of avoiding the cold winter, the morale of the Wei soldiers will gradually decline. This is inevitable for any army, including the Chu army in Juyang County.
In Jingshe's view, the number of Chu soldiers on his side was three times that of the Wei army. If Fang Zhong's Xiang Mo army was included, it was nearly six times that of the Wei army. As long as the morale of the Wei army dropped in the spring of the next year, then their Chu troops would
The military's chances of winning will be greatly increased.
Just as Jingshe was thinking about this matter, a soldier suddenly walked into the study room of the other courtyard. He cupped his fists and reported, "Sir Jingshe, the scouts sent out have reported urgent military information."
"Huh?" After hearing this, Jingshe's expression suddenly became solemn.
He couldn't help but guess: Could it be that Wei Gongzi Ji Run had done something else?
"Tell them to come in."
"yes!"
After a while, several scouts walked into the house, knocked on the ground and clasped their fists to report: "Lord Jingshe, today I saw the Wei army conducting drills outside the Ice City."
"Drill?" Jing She was stunned.
He originally thought that Zhao Hongrun had some actions against him in Juyang County, but he didn't expect to get such an answer.
"Practice in this horrible weather? Doesn't this increase the burden on the soldiers?"
Jing She couldn't figure it out again, frowned and asked, "Is it really a drill?"
However, after hearing this, the expressions of the scouts became a little strange. One of the soldiers said hesitantly: "It is said to be a drill... but it is more like playing and playing."
The more Jingshe listened, the more suspicious he became, so he said, "Tell me exactly what you saw."
Hearing this, the scouts told Jingshe about the snowball fight between the Wei army that they had seen, and Jingshe's expression changed slightly.
After a long time, Jingshe waved his hand and dismissed the scouts with some confusion.
"Lord Jingshe?"
Maybe he noticed something different in Jing She's expression, so the attendant beside him couldn't help but asked with concern.
I saw an inexplicable look on Jing She's face, frowned and said: "That Ji Run is more powerful than I thought... I thought that wasting these two months would inevitably weaken Wei Bing's strength and morale.
Will be weakened, but I never expected that Ji Run would actually come up with such a playful way to train his soldiers and maintain their morale... This boy is really a great talent!"
Thinking that the general had been following Jing She, he naturally understood the reason. Seeing this, he said: "In that case, why don't we also use this method to maintain the physical strength and morale of the soldiers..."
Jing She didn't speak, just smiled bitterly.
Thinking about it, he also felt a little depressed. After all, when was he, one of the Three Pillars of Chu State, the dignified Shouling Junjingshe, reduced to the point of trying to pick off people's wisdom?
The self-esteem in his heart made him unwilling to copy the clever strategies of Wei Gongzi Ji Run.
After thinking for a while, Jing She said in a deep voice: "Come on, follow me to the ice city to have a look."
After hearing this, the general's expression changed slightly, and he quickly tried to dissuade him. After all, the snowfield outside the city was already up to his thighs, which was not conducive to passage. Furthermore, what if he encountered a scout from the Wei army?
However, Shouling Junjingshe insisted on going, and the general had no choice.
So, Jingshe and a group of guards disguised themselves as general scouts, trudged through the snow to the vicinity of Wei Jun's Ice City, and looked into the distance on a high slope.
As those few scouts reported, at this moment, the Wei troops were still continuing the snowball fight outside the Ice City, having a great time.
Even from a distance, Jingshe seemed to be able to feel the excitement of those Wei soldiers at this moment.
After watching it from a distance for a while, Shoulingjun Jingshe silently returned to Juyang County.
After returning to Juyang County, the first general order he issued was to imitate the Wei army's drill. After all, a drill like that that combines entertainment and exercise is indeed a very rare and clever strategy.
I don't want to turn a blind eye to such a brilliant strategy.
However, because of this incident, his fear and admiration for Wei Gongzi Ji Run rose to a higher level.
A few days later, the Wei army's scouts also noticed something strange outside Juyang County - tens of thousands of Chu soldiers imitated their Wei army and started throwing snowballs at each other, and quickly reported this matter to Zhao Hongrun.
I remember that after hearing about this incident, Zhao Hongrun was a little surprised, because even he did not expect that the entertainment activities he came up with would be secretly copied by Chu Jun.
Compared with the soldiers and generals under his command who all scolded the Chu soldiers for being shameless after hearing about this incident, Zhao Hongrun seemed to be very generous. After all, it was normal for someone to steal someone else's moves and methods on the battlefield. He came up with it.
The method was secretly learned by the Chu army, which shows that his method is good.
In December of the 18th year of Hongde's reign in the Great Wei Dynasty, the Chu and Wei armies stopped on the West Road battlefield. Both sides were committed to maintaining the combat effectiveness and morale of their respective armies. This made the next confrontation after the spring of the next year destined to be a change.
It becomes more intense.
However, at this time, something happened in Caixi County.
It turned out that three thousand-man generals, Ran Teng, Zhang Ming, and Xiang Li, who had not returned the previous month, saw that the defense of Caixi County was empty, so they finally seized an opportunity. With the help of their respective Green Crows, they took over the defense.
The county town which lacked troops was defeated.
This incident affected both Zhao Hongrun and Jingshe's plans.
Especially Shouling Junjingshe, who learned the news earlier, immediately ordered Zhou Zheng's Zhangyang army to attack Caixi County.
After all, Caixi County was captured by the Wei army. Let alone Cai Hou's Caixi County division, the location of its camp would become very awkward. More importantly, in this way, the only thing standing in front of the Wei army would be
A "Haoshang" county.
Once Haoshang also falls into the hands of the Wei army, it means that the Wei army will be able to join forces with Qi King Lu Xi's army. You must know that at this time, Qi King Lu Xi's army has already captured Xia Cai. However, due to the weather, it is temporarily
They did not launch an attack on Shouying, the capital of Chu State.
When Zhou Zheng led the Zhangyang Army to Caixi County, Caixi County Duke Cai Hou was shocked and immediately returned for reinforcements. After all, his Cai clan was all in Caixi City.
In late December, although they knew that it was unwise to attack the city in the coldest month of winter, the Chu army was still forced to launch an attack on Caixi County.
But unfortunately, the Chu army tried for several days but failed to capture Caixi County.
In desperation, Chu general Zhou Zheng led the Zhangyang army to camp in the mountain pass between Caixi County and Haoshang County in the wind and snow to prevent the Wei army from attacking Haoshang again.
Since then, there has been no fighting in these seven battlefields, including the West Road Battlefield, the Middle Road Battlefield, and the East Road Battlefield, including Dongyue, Xiyue, Xinyang, and Zhi County. Whether it was the Qi, Lu, Wei, and Yue allied forces, or the Chu State, both sides
They are all recuperating their strength and preparing for the fierce battle after the coming spring.
Everyone knows that when spring comes next year and the ice and snow melt, this war will usher in the final and most intense battle.