Chapter four hundred and ninety seventh secret layout
Xie Gong led his troops and struggled to stop the Qingdu Army from breaking through, but in the end the Qingdu Army fought a bloody path and successfully broke out.
The Qingdu Army led by Sun Mao numbered 100,000. After this battle, their strength was reduced to half. The number of Qingdu Army who successfully escaped with Sun Mao was only about 50,000.
This battle frightened Sun Mao so much that he led the remaining troops and fled from Chaoge all the way back to Quanshe. The Youlai army, which was heading towards Chaoge, immediately turned around and returned to the mountain after hearing the news of Sun Mao's defeat.
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Even Sun Deng's troops stopped advancing and stayed in place to watch.
This time, the Han army once again won a complete victory and severely damaged Sun Mao's tribe in Hanoi. Now, the morale of both Liu Xiujun and Xie Gongjun had been boosted.
Liu Xiu and Xie Gong discussed it and decided to strike while the iron was hot, pursue the victory, go straight to the Qingdu Army's lair, and completely annihilate the Qingdu Army.
Quanshe is a small town next to Shanyang County. Shanyang County is the home base of Youlai Army, and Quanshe is the home base of Qingdu Army. The two are close at hand and live next to each other, so Qingdu Army and Youlai Army
We have always had a good relationship, we often communicate with each other, and we often cooperate together.
This time the Qing Calf Army wanted to avenge Sun Li and asked You Lai Army for help. You Lai Army did not make excuses and directly sent 100,000 soldiers and horses to assist the Qing Calf Army, but they did not send the 100,000 soldiers and horses as reinforcements.
It was put to good use, and he only walked halfway when he was frightened back by the Han army.
Liu Xiu speculated that if his own army went to attack Quanshe, the Youlai army in Shanyang would be frightened away. The Youlai army would never join forces with the Qingdu army and fight to the death with his own side.
It is unlikely that Yu Lai's army fled south. If they crossed the Yellow River and went to Luoyang, wouldn't they be seeking death? Therefore, the most likely possibility for Yu Lai's army is to flee north.
Liu Xiu suggested that Xie Gong lead his army northward and intercept Yu Lai's army as they fled north. There was no need to defeat Yu Lai's army, but they only needed to block their route north.
He himself led his men to conquer Qushe and Shanyang first, and then turned around and headed north, joining forces with Xie Gong's army to attack the Youlai army and completely annihilate the Qingdu army and the Youlai army.
As long as the rebels in Hanoi are eliminated, Wei County will be stabilized. Once Wei County is stabilized, it will create a stable southern granary for Jizhou, which is crucial to the overall stability of Jizhou.
Xie Gong was convinced of Liu Xiu's strategic analysis and agreed to Liu Xiu's strategy without thinking too much.
Afterwards, the Han army began to divide into two groups. To be precise, it should be divided into three groups. However, the third group of troops was so secretive that even Xie Gong didn't know about it.
On the surface, the Han army led by Liu Xiu is advancing to the southwest, heading straight towards Qushe and Shanyang. The Han army led by Xie Gong is advancing west, hoping to stop Yu Lai's army who is about to flee north.
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In private, Liu Xiu gave Wu Han a secret mission, asking him to lead five thousand cavalry, quietly return to Wei County, and go straight to Yecheng.
Let's talk about Liu Xiujun, who drove south from Chaoge and marched quickly towards Quanshe and Shanyang. When Liu Xiujun's vanguard passed through Xiuwu County, they encountered a group of soldiers and horses from the Youlai Army.
This vanguard force of Liu Xiujun, headed by Geng and supplemented by Jingdan, has a strength of 3,000. They are all Youzhou cavalry. They encountered more than 10,000 Youlai troops, all of whom were infantry. Both sides were in Xiuwu County.
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In this battle, Geng and Jing Dan led three thousand cavalry and took the lead in charging towards the enemy's square formation. This battle was fought like a textbook.
The three thousand cavalry commanded by Geng and Jing Dan seemed to turn into an extremely sharp knife on the battlefield, while the ten thousand You Lai army was like a piece of fat meat ready to be slaughtered.
The sharp knives pierced the flesh, and the cavalry trampled the infantry and passed through the formation. In just one round of cavalry charge, the 10,000-person phalanx of Yu Lai's army was scattered. What followed was a complete unilateral massacre of the infantry by the cavalry.
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Yu Lai's army was defeated. Of the tens of thousands of soldiers, less than a thousand escaped alive. The remnants of Yu Lai's army hurried back to Shanyang to join the main force of Yu Lai's army. The frightened remnants of Yu Lai's army described the Han army as if they were gods.
Just like descending to earth.
Before the main force of the Han army came over, You Lai's army had already suffered a huge loss in morale. When Geng and Jing Dan led the vanguard army to approach Shanyang and Qushe, as Liu Xiu expected, You Lai's army had already lost a lot of morale.
The Qingdu Army had no intention of fighting hand in hand with the Qingdu Army, and the retreat route they chose was exactly as Liu Xiu expected, fleeing north.
However, what Liu Xiu didn't expect was that You Lai's army fled so fast that they even overran Xie Gong's army who had robbed and killed them on the way.
Before Xie Gong's army arrived at the pre-arranged blocking point, he heard that You Lai's army had already passed by and was still fleeing hastily to the north. It seemed that he was fleeing to the Linli area.
Linlu County is the northernmost county in Hanoi County. It can be seen how frightened You Laijun was by Liu Xiujun.
Xie Gong was dumbfounded when he heard the news. The You Laijun's running speed must have been too fast. We hurriedly and slowly failed to catch up with their running speed.
After careful inquiry by the spies who reported the news, they found out that You Lai's army was scared away by Liu Xiu's 3,000 vanguard troops.
After Xie Gong heard this, he almost became angry. There were more than 100,000 people in Youlai's army, but he was so frightened by 3,000 people that he fled. The thief army is a thief army. It seems that there are many people, but they are all a mob.
, completely vulnerable.
Liu Xiu's target was the home base of Qingdu Army and You Lai Army, but Liu Xiu could not take all the credit alone. Xie Gong decided that the entire army would go north and attack Linli, intending to annihilate You Lai's army in Linli.
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Quanshe and Shanyang were originally the base camps of the Qingdu Army and the Youlai Army. In its heyday, hundreds of thousands of rebels gathered in this small area.
But now, You Lai's army ran away, Sun Li's troops were completely wiped out in Wei County, and Sun Deng's troops stayed in Huaicheng and looked around, Qushe and Shanyang, leaving only Sun Mao's defeated army of 50,000 men.
When Liu Xiu led his army to Qushe, serious disagreements were occurring within Sun Mao's tribe. Some people advocated war, some advocated fleeing, and some advocated surrender.
Within the Qingdu Army, there was no consensus on whether to fight, withdraw or surrender. Liu Xiujun's attack had already begun.
Quanshe is not a city, it is just a small town. There is no city wall on the outside, only a two-meter-high earth wall. As for the city defense weapons such as rolling logs, stones, trebuchets, crossbows, etc., there are none.
How could such a level of city defense be able to withstand the army commanded by Liu Xiu himself?
The person who directed the Han army to attack the city on the spot was not Liu Xiu, but Deng Yu. Deng Yu divided the Han army into three groups and launched attacks from the north, east and south of Quanshe.
Besiege the city without being besieged to death, attack the city on three sides. Leave one side without attacking. This is called opening one side of the net. Its purpose is to weaken the fighting spirit of the defenders and deliberately leave a way for the defenders to retreat so that the defenders can see the way to survive.
Hopefully, the defenders' fighting spirit will no longer be so strong.
Under the strong attack from three sides by the Han army, Sun Mao's army was completely unable to resist. In the end, Sun Mao had no choice but to lead his troops to retreat from the west of Quanshe.
Deng Yu opened one side of Quanshe's net, but this side was not so easy to escape. When Sun Mao and his men escaped from Quanshe, they encountered the Han cavalry who had been waiting for a long time and was ready to attack.
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The two cavalrymen, Geng and Jingdan, charged in from the two wings of Sun Mao's tribe and caused a great chaos. Sun Mao's tribe did not dare to fight, and the people only had one thought, which was to run away.
But how can the two legs of the infantry outrun the four legs of the cavalry?
Geng and Jing Dan led the cavalry and chased Sun Mao's army. The soldiers of Qingdu Army ran and died all the way. Even Sun Mao's back was hit by two crossbow arrows.
Sun Mao lay on his horse and ran for more than ten miles with the remaining soldiers. After making sure that the Han army did not continue to pursue him, he reluctantly reined in the horse and counted the number of soldiers under his command. He spurted out a mouthful of blood.
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The original fifty thousand soldiers were now less than five thousand. Even the remaining less than five thousand, most of them had discarded their helmets and armor, their hair was disheveled, and they were covered in blood. They were in terrible condition.
Sun Mao, who was sitting on the horse, felt like the world was spinning. He fell sideways from the horse. Fortunately, the generals and followers around him had quick hands and caught Sun Mao in time, preventing him from falling to the ground.
Sun Mao's eyes were scarlet and he said in a trembling voice: "The revenge of killing my brother is more than 200,000 brothers. I, Sun Mao, and Liu Xiu are at odds with each other..." Before he could finish his words, he spat out another mouthful of blood.
Suffering two arrow wounds, coupled with his anxiety and anger, Sun Mao couldn't hold on any longer and fell ill. He never recovered from his illness, and he died not long after.
After Sun Mao died, his younger brother Sun Deng naturally became the leader of the Qingdu Army.
Sun Deng had an army of more than 100,000 under his command. He could have entered Quanshe before the Han army arrived.
But he chose to stop moving forward, which makes people suspect that Sun Deng deliberately refused to save Sun Mao, and his purpose was to become the leader of the Qingdu Army.
A person's insensitivity is also one of the important factors in whether he can succeed. The so-called insensitivity is literally understood as insensitivity, but in a deeper understanding, it is a person's ability to resist being hit.
No one can achieve success all at once. There will inevitably be ups and downs in life.
Sun Mao was obviously not as good as Liu Xiu in terms of insensitivity. After only experiencing this tragic defeat, he was unable to recover, fell ill, and finally died.
And Liu Xiu's insensitivity is undoubtedly extremely strong.
During the rebellion, his second brother and second sister were killed, and he withstood it; when the situation improved, his eldest brother was suddenly killed, and he himself was placed under house arrest by Liu Xuan, losing everything, but he also withstood it.
He finally left Liu Xuan and went to Hebei. As a result, another prince emerged from Hebei and proclaimed himself emperor. He placed a reward of 100,000 yuan on his head, forcing him to act like a rat crossing the street. He almost starved to death, but he still resisted.
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Liu Xiu's success is no accident. He has too many excellent qualities, and these are the basis for his success.
At the same time that Liu Xiu led his army to defeat the Dog Shooting, Wu Han led 5,000 Youzhou sudden cavalry in Yecheng, Wei County, and arrived outside Yecheng without anyone noticing.
Seeing so many cavalry suddenly arriving at Yecheng, the soldiers guarding the city didn't know what was going on. They hurriedly closed the city gates and pulled up the drawbridge, as if facing a formidable enemy.
Wu Han walked out of his own camp, came to the city gate single-handedly, raised his head and shouted at the defenders at the top of the city: "I am Wu Ziyan, Wu Han, please ask Governor Chen to come out of the city to talk to me!"
The soldiers guarding the city were all stunned, Wu Han? Didn't Wu Han follow King Xiao to Hanoi to quell the rebellion? Why did he suddenly return to Yecheng?
Thinking that there was an urgent military situation on the front line, the soldiers did not dare to neglect and asked Wu Han to wait outside the city. People ran into the city to report to the prefect Chen Kang.
Chen Kang was also startled when he heard the news that Wu Han suddenly returned to Yecheng. He hurriedly left the prefect's mansion and hurried over.
When he arrived at the city gate, he saw that the city gate was closed. He ordered everyone around to open the city gate.
As the city gate opened, Chen Kang rode out and ran out. When he approached Wu Han outside the city, he stopped his horse, raised his hands to Wu Han and said, "Why did General Wu suddenly return to Yecheng? But what happened ahead?"
