At the beginning of the tenth year of the coherence of the East and West Kings of Yue Kingdom, Wei Tong announced at the New Year banquet that he would send 500,000 troops to fight against rebellion. The army appointed Zhu Feiling as the marshal, Wei Qian as the commander, and Lin Haoming as the deputy commander. He was preparing to cross Pingjiang and point straight to the capital while Pingjiang had not yet thawed.
It is said to be a large army of 500,000, but the real army is only 300,000, but 300,000 is no longer a small number.
The 300,000 army was divided into three north, central and south routes. The central route army was dominated by Zhu Feiling's defeated bandit army and led 120,000 troops, claiming to be a 200,000 army, and directly taking the capital. The Northern route army was led by Lin Haoming with 100,000 troops, claiming to be a 150,000 troops, attacking from the north, while the Southern route army was led by Wang Jiangman with 80,000 troops, also claiming to be a 150,000 troops, advancing from the south.
The division of troops into three groups can be said to be a dangerous move. If the opponent concentrates his superior forces, it is absolutely possible to eat one of the other two groups without time to rescue them. But on the other hand, if it cannot be done, it is very likely to be eaten by the inside and outside. Therefore, this battle is no longer a small fight, but a real stance to determine the outcome in one battle.
When Zhang Xiao learned about this, he immediately summoned a group of generals to meet the enemy with Jiang Ziqi as the head coach, and the battle was about to begin.
The Northern Army led by Lin Haoming was the first to set out. The army crossed Pingjiang, and the first to attack Changning County. The poor Changning County has been destroyed several times since Lin Haoming came to this world. The originally rich and peaceful county town on the Pingjiang River has been constantly poisoned by war and has long been decayed. It is easy to conquer it, and it has a foothold, which has laid the foundation for subsequent battles.
After conquering this place, Lin Haoming took Zhou Guangyi as the vanguard general and led 30,000 troops to sweep the three counties northwest of Pingjiang County, and then joined the army to enter Changping County to conquer Changping. Some of the main forces went south to join the middle army to attack the capital, while some blocked the 100,000 border troops in Wu'an County, which guarded the frontier.
Of course, this is the strategy originally decided, and the battlefield changes rapidly. If the 100,000 border troops serve the king in advance to rescue, then he may have to fight the 100,000 border troops. Lin Haoming felt that this possibility was extremely high. Wei State hoped that the split Yue State would definitely not want to see a unified Yue State beside him.
At the beginning of the war, Lin Haoming's Northern Route Army was very smooth at the beginning. Zhou Guangyi recovered the three counties northwest of Pingjiang without any obstacles. He followed the army and broke into Changping County directly.
In Changping County, Lin Haoming's main force captured three counties in succession, and the troops were directly aimed at the Changping County. At the same time, Zhou Guangyi's 30,000 troops were inserted into Changping County, and they also captured two counties one after another, and rushed to Ping'an Cang further north. At this time, as Lin Haoming expected, the 100,000 border troops of Wu'an County went south early.
If there is food and grass for Ping An Warehouse and Changping County City, then the 100,000 border troops will be able to hold up Lin Haoming's 100,000 people, which makes Zhu Feiling's main force lacking aid. Therefore, it is important to break through Changping County City early and lose Ping An Warehouse as soon as possible.
Faced with such a situation, Lin Haoming did not let Zhou Guangyi practice Ping'an Warehouse, because Ping'an Warehouse itself had 8,000 defenders and was a solid fortress. It was impossible for 30,000 people to easily defeat it. The burning Ping'an Warehouse was hard to come by.
The war has begun for a month. Although spring is coming, the cold wind is still there, at least in the north of Yue Kingdom.
Of course, the northern army is mainly northerners, so he is not afraid of such weather. It is just that Heian Canal is in front of him and the border troops have already moved south. He himself has no confidence in capturing Heian Canal before this.
At this moment, someone suddenly reported Lin Haoming's order.
Seeing that there was an order coming, Zhou Guangyi immediately asked Che Ying to come.
Since the two surrendered, Zhang Xiao has searched the Zhou family and destroyed the family, which made the two of them have a deep hatred for Zhang Xiao. After all, Lin Zhaoying was the one who was in charge of the crime, so they beat Zhang Xiao, and the two of them were also revenge.
Now that they saw Lin Haoming's letter, both of them were also a little surprised, but naturally they believed Lin Haoming's plan.
So, early the next morning, Zhou Guangyi immediately set up a formation and began to attack Ping'an Cang. As a result, not only did he not fight on the first day, but he did not fight on the last three consecutive days.
On the fourth day, halfway through the battle, the army suddenly stopped and began to flee south. At the same time, the defenders of Ping'an Cang came out in full swing and took the initiative to attack, dragging the opponent's troops. The enemy was defeated and fled to the south with his armor.
Not long after, the vanguard of the border army and ten thousand cavalry arrived, and then went south to pursue without thinking. However, they did not expect that they would chase Bailongling and encounter an ambush from the enemy. Ten thousand cavalry were wiped out, and Zhou Guangyi captured the vanguard General Guan Ning directly.
When Guan Ning was escorted to the opponent's commander, he realized that the ambush was actually led by the local North Road Army Marshal Lin Haoming.
When Lin Haoming learned that the opponent's border army was heading south first, he knew that it was impossible to attack Ping'an Cang. He also wrote a letter to Zhou Guangyi overnight, asking him to attack Ping'an Cang and acted as if he wanted to take it down immediately. If he could really take it down, it would be better. If he found that he could not take it down, then he would seize the opportunity, pretend to be defeated, and lead the opponent's reinforcements to Bailongling.
After Lin Haoming issued the order, he immediately dispatched 20,000 troops to ambush at Bailongling and asked Zhou Guangyi to capture the opponent's pioneer Guan Ning alive.
The reason why Lin Haoming did this was because he knew that Guan Ning was originally Zhou Yuan'an's subordinate and had a friendship with Zhou Guangyi and Che Ying. Since Zhou Yuan'an was exterminated, he was also implicated and demoted to the Northwest Frontier Army. Fortunately, he had good skills and gradually became an important general of the border army in ten years.
At present, Guan Ning was tied up and sent to him. Lin Haoming looked at the thin but very capable man and smiled and said, "General Guan, are you willing to avenge Marshal Zhou?"
"Avenge?" Guan Ning looked at Lin Haoming and asked in surprise.
"General Zhou, how did your uncle be killed? Did you tell General Guan?" Lin Haoming asked.
"This is not yet, I am about to say it." Zhou Guangyi said immediately.
"Since this is the case, we should not immediately loosen the ties to General Guan. General Guan is a tiger general promoted by Marshal Zhou. If we know the truth, we will naturally not be in vain." Lin Haoming said.
"Yes." Zhou Guangyi immediately helped Guan Ning untie the rope, and then talked about what happened back then with Che Ying.
Chapter completed!