Chapter six hundred and eighty seventh genius commander
On the matter of deposing Deng Yu, Liu Xiu finally made a compromise.
First, Deng Yu's defeat on the Western Front aroused strong dissatisfaction with Deng Yu among the ministers, and he continued to impeach him, which put great pressure on Liu Xiu. Second, now that Deng Yu's resignation has been approved,
It was also a form of protection for Deng Yu himself.
Liu Xiu accepted the seal of the Grand Situ handed over by Deng Yu, but did not accept the seal of the Marquis of Liang from Deng Yu. He retained the title of Marquis of Deng Yu and appointed him as the right general.
After Deng Yu was demoted, the impeachment of the ministers came to an end. Fu Zhan, who was originally acting as the acting chief minister, suddenly became a regular agent with Deng Yu's demotion.
The person who succeeded Deng Yu and assumed the post of Grand Situ was none other than Fu Zhan.
At present, the three princes in the court are Da Situ Fu Zhan, Da Sima Wu Han, and Da Sikong Song Hong. Except for Da Sima who has not been replaced, Da Situ and Da Sikong have been replaced one after another.
While Liu Xiu was in Luoyang and actively forming a new army, the war situation in Hongnong County on the western front changed dramatically again.
Speaking of which, whenever there is a critical moment, there will always be one person under Liu Xiu who steps forward to act as the backbone and carry the banner of the Han Dynasty. The person who stepped forward this time was none other than Feng Yi.
In the Battle of Huxian, Feng Yi was completely implicated by Deng Yu and suffered a complete defeat. He only took the remaining troops and horses with him and retreated to Huixiban. When he arrived at Huixian, Feng Yi roped in the local powerful and reorganized his army.
After seeing the evil deeds of the Red Eyebrow Army in conquering Hongnong County, the local powerful were frightened, fearing that they would follow in their footsteps, so they strongly supported Feng Yi and placed their own safety on Feng Yi.
With the strong support of the landlord class, Feng Yi's troops and horses were quickly replenished and they had sufficient food and grass.
The red eyebrow army that captured Hongnong County had stronger morale and did not stay in Hongnong County for long. They continued to advance eastward and approached Huixi. Feng Yibu, who was stationed at Huixi Ban, took the initiative to fight.
Of course Feng Yi also wanted to win over Deng Yu from Yiyang, but in the Battle of Hu County, both he and Deng Yu's main forces were wiped out.
He was recuperating here in Huixi. Relying on the strong support of the noble family, he had restored his strength in a short time. However, Deng Yu was still in a state of severe damage, and there was basically no hope for him.
Therefore, Feng Yi did not inform Deng Yu about this battle, and only led his troops to fight alone.
Feng Yi led his troops to set up defenses on the west side of Hui River. However, the west side of Hui River was flat and there was no danger to defend. Once the Red Eyebrow Army attacked in a large scale, Feng Yi's army had no other choice but to confront the Red Eyebrow Army head-on. Feng Yi's heart
There is no bottom line. The Red Eyebrow Army is extremely capable of frontal combat, and it has a large number of people. A frontal confrontation is very disadvantageous to one's own side.
Feng Yi, who had already set up a defensive line, led his troops to withdraw from the defensive line under the pressure of the approaching Red Eyebrow Army.
This gave the impression to the Red Eyebrow Army that Feng Yibu was afraid of his own side and did not dare to fight with his own side. After that, the Red Eyebrow Army's advance became even more rapid.
Feng Yi retreated all the way to Huixi. However, during the retreat, Feng Yi separated some of his troops and asked them to put on the uniforms of the Red Eyebrow Army and ambush in the dense forests on both sides of the road. Feng Yi was among the remaining soldiers.
Among the soldiers and horses, a part of the new soldiers were divided as the front army to resist the Red Eyebrow Army.
With only these few soldiers and horses, and they were all new recruits, how could they be the opponent of the Red Eyebrow Army? As soon as the two sides came into contact, Feng Yibu's front army was severely defeated, and the Han soldiers fled back in a hurry.
Seeing how vulnerable the Han army was, Fan Chong, who commanded the entire army, became more confident and ordered the entire army to rush forward to pursue and kill the remnants of the Han army.
Mo Yan sensed that something was wrong, and he advised Fan Chong not to rush to chase the defeated enemy army, but to investigate the situation ahead first before proceeding.
But this time Fan Chong didn't listen to Mo Yan's advice. At this time, Fan Chong had already been dazzled by the series of victories.
Since the Red Eyebrow Army approached Hongnong, they have never suffered a defeat. They fought and won consecutively. First, they won a great victory in Hu County, severely damaging Deng Yu's tribe and Feng Yi's tribe. Then they attacked Hongnong County in one fell swoop, captured the county seat of Hongnong, and returned to Hongnong.
Successfully killed the Hongnong prefect and the hussar general Jing Dan.
Now in Fan Chong's eyes, the combat power of the Han army is not worth mentioning. The officers and soldiers of the Han army are like a mob, vulnerable to a single blow.
Fan Chong led his troops to pursue the defeated generals. Unknowingly, the Red Eyebrow Army had been seduced too deeply by the remnants of the Han Army.
Seeing that the defeated Han soldiers were about to be wiped out by the main force of the Red Eyebrow Army, at this time, the main force of the Han army led by Feng Yi finally appeared on the battlefield and received the defeated soldiers. At the same time, they formed a formation and
He put on a posture of wanting to fight to the death with the Red Eyebrow Army.
Fan Chong was somewhat surprised when he saw this. He had thought that after the battle of Hu County, Feng Yibu's strength had been severely damaged and his strength had been reduced sharply. But now, looking at it, the Han army on the opposite side had at least 50,000 more troops.
Of course, Fan Chong didn't pay much attention to the more than 50,000 Han soldiers and horses. The Red Eyebrow Army has more than 200,000 soldiers and horses. With more than 200,000 soldiers and horses against 50,000, this is completely overwhelming.
The advantages.
Fan Chong did not think much and immediately ordered the entire army to attack and be sure to annihilate the Han army on the opposite side.
The battle formations of both sides advanced in opposite directions and soon came into contact. The Han army led by Feng Yi and the Red Eyebrow Army led by Fan Chong started a head-on confrontation to the west of Huixi.
In this battle, neither side was willing to give in, and the fight was extremely brutal.
The soldiers in the front fell to the ground in groups. Whether it was a song or a unit, as long as they stood in front and stood in the central area of the battle between the two sides, it would hardly take a quarter of an hour for them to be almost dead.
Already.
In this battle, both the Han Army and the Red Eyebrow Army showed tenacious will to fight. As the fighting lasted, the center of the fighting pushed to the left and to the right. The corpses on the ground were already piled on top of each other.
Luoluo.
The corpses of the Han army were laid out on a layer, the corpses of the Red Eyebrow Army were laid out on a layer, and then the corpses of the Han Army were laid out on another layer, and the corpses of the Red Eyebrow Army were also laid out on another layer. Repeatedly, the corpses in the center of the battlefield were stacked higher and higher.
, blood flowed into a river.
The brutality of the battlefield stimulated the nerves of every soldier on both sides. There were corpses everywhere and scarlet blood everywhere, as if the sky and the earth were dyed red. Such a scene of hell on earth would either make people collapse or make them miserable.
People are crazy. And people with nervous breakdowns also fell into a state of madness in the end. They rushed towards the enemy without hesitation. Their weapons were broken and they were gone. They used their fists to hammer, kicked with their feet, bit with their teeth, and used everything they could.
methods used.
Since the Red Eyebrow Army entered Hongnong, this battle to the west of Huixi was the most difficult battle they had fought.
Although there are more than 200,000 people in the Red Eyebrow Army, and Feng Yijun only has more than 50,000 people, Feng Yi is such a tough guy that he knocked out several of the Red Eyebrow Army's teeth.
After being unable to attack for a long time, Fan Chong became more and more anxious to fight. Looking at the battlefield ahead, Fan Chong asked angrily: "What is Xie Lu doing? The enemy has only 50,000 soldiers and horses. Can't he defeat it?"
The generals around looked at each other and lowered their heads. No one dared to speak. Mo Yan stepped forward and reminded in a low voice: "General, You Sima has been injured!"
Fan Chong was stunned for a moment, and then he remembered that the soldiers from the front had indeed reported back just now. Xie Lu was wounded in many places when he led his troops to storm the enemy formation.
He pulled the sweat towel at his collar distractedly and said through gritted teeth: "It's only 50,000 enemy troops, why are they so difficult to defeat!"
The strength of the Han army was indeed very different from that of the Red Eyebrow Army, but Feng Yi's superb command ability on the battlefield made up for this gap to a large extent.
Among Liu Xiu's ministers, Feng Yi was definitely among the best in terms of his ability to lead troops in battle.
With 50,000 soldiers and horses, they can fight evenly against the more than 200,000 red eyebrow troops with high morale. How many people in the world can do this? It is not unreasonable for Liu Xiu to value Feng Yi.
This confrontation lasted from morning to noon.
It was not until noon that the Han army gradually showed its decline.
The center of the battle began to press towards the Han army. The Han soldiers fought and retreated, but the overall formation did not break up. The Red Eyebrow Army pressed forward step by step and continued to advance.
In this way, the battle continued from noon to afternoon.
After a fierce battle for most of the day, the Red Eyebrow Army's vigor was completely worn out. As the art of war goes, it will be strong in one go, then weaken again, and then be exhausted in three attempts. The Red Eyebrow Army is now in the stage of being exhausted in three attempts.
The Red Eyebrow Army is strong, but that is just an appearance. In fact, the Red Eyebrow Army has been in a state of extreme fatigue.
This state of exhaustion started when the Red Eyebrow Army took the initiative to evacuate Chang'an for the first time. The Red Eyebrow Army wanted to withdraw to Xiliang, but was severely defeated by Kai Xiao, who was the king and hegemon in Xiliang, and returned in vain.
Defeated and returned to Chang'an, Chang'an was occupied by Deng Yu. The Red Eyebrow Army had no choice but to fight back Deng Yu's army before returning to Chang'an.
But when they returned to Chang'an, what they got was just an empty city, which was meaningless. Then, the Red Eyebrow Army marched eastward non-stop, approaching Hongnong County.
In Hongnong County, we were on the road and fighting again. Although we were gaining momentum and winning consecutive battles, the whole army was already exhausted.
This time the Red Eyebrow Army fought with Feng Yijun. At first, they relied on their vigor to support them. However, when they were unable to defeat Feng Yijun, their vigor was lost, and the situation on the battlefield gradually began to become passive.
Just when Mo Yan was about to advise Fan Chong to stop fighting and let all the soldiers retreat to rest, Feng Yi suddenly ordered a loud arrow to be shot. This loud arrow flew high into the sky, making a shrill scream.
It's a long way out.
As soon as the sound of the arrows was fired, many red eyebrow troops suddenly rushed out from the woods on both sides of the battlefield. This sudden change made the red eyebrow troops on the battlefield a little confused. They had not heard that their own side was there.
Was there an ambush in the woods? When did these brothers hide in the woods?
The Red Eyebrow Army rushed out from the woods and quickly rushed towards the Red Eyebrow Army's main formation.
The soldiers of the Red Eyebrow Army did not make any attack, they just stood there, watching helplessly as these "brothers from our own side" rushed in front of them, and the spears in their hands pierced into their chests.
The Red Eyebrow Army who was stabbed to the ground had his eyes wide open until he died, with confusion and confusion in his eyes. The Red Eyebrow Army that suddenly came out of the woods onto the battlefield was exactly what Feng Yi had disguised himself as before.
of ambush.
At this time, the Red Eyebrow Army on the battlefield was already in a weakened state. As these "Red Eyebrow Army" whose enemy was difficult to distinguish between ourselves and the enemy rushed into the formation, the formation of the Red Eyebrow Army suddenly became chaotic.
People couldn't tell who was the enemy and who was one of their own, and they were confused. From time to time, someone was knocked to the ground by spears thrust from around them.
It's now! Feng Yi saw that the Red Eyebrow Army's main formation was in chaos. He drew out the sword from his ribs, waved it forward, and shouted loudly: "Kill all the invading enemies! Use the blood of the enemy troops to pay tribute to the deceased Jing Lao."
The general’s spirit in heaven!”
"kill--"
The morale of the Han army was greatly boosted and they launched a comprehensive counterattack.
At this time, the Red Eyebrow Army on the opposite side could no longer hold up. Inside the Red Eyebrow Army, there were Han troops disguised as Red Eyebrow Army causing chaos. In front of the Red Eyebrow Army, there were wolf-like and tiger-like Han troops. The whole army was in chaos.
A bunch.
This was truly an incredible battle. Feng Yi used 80,000 troops to defeat more than 200,000 red eyebrow troops in an incredible manner. In this battle, Feng Yi's extraordinary strategy, deployment, and ability to command on the battlefield were all fully demonstrated.
A genius commander should have the ability to step forward and turn the tide when the enemy is strong and we are weak.