The next day, Yanping suppressed the anger in his chest and found Meng Ao, and respectfully asked him about the battle report.
Meng Ao first pretended to be surprised and said: "Why hasn't the general written a battle report and sent it to Xianyang yet? According to convention, the news should be sent back to the capital as soon as the battle is over!"
Old Yanping blushed and said: "This is my first time as the commander-in-chief of the armed forces. This...I have no experience at all in how to write a battle report. Please give me some advice from General Meng!"
Meng Ao thought to himself, I think it’s not that you don’t know how to write, but that you don’t know how to write a battle report of failure. If the Qin army had won a big victory last night, it is estimated that the fast horses you sent out to deliver the message would have gone halfway.
"It's actually very simple, just tell the truth!" Meng Ao spread his hands.
"Tell the truth? Isn't that asking for trouble?" Yanping's voice couldn't help but raise an octave. He thought Meng Ao was deliberately playing tricks on him!
Meng Ao explained: "General Yan, you don't think that all the 200,000 soldiers of the Qin army are loyal to you, do you? There are so many spies planted by Ji Jie and people planted by Lu Xiangguo. They are so many." Do you know that you have to report to the line for a long time? The result of fabricating lies is to shoot yourself in the foot, don’t you think?"
Yanping broke out in a cold sweat after hearing this. What he said made so much sense.
"Thank you, General Meng, for reminding me. I know what to do. I'm going to write a battle report now!" Yanping turned around and ran away.
Meng Ao looked at his back with contempt and said to himself: "Another guy who only knows how to talk on paper, he is far worse than me!"
Yanping wrote a battle report of what happened last night without any modifications. At the same time, he noted at the end that he would launch a powerful counterattack in the near future. He was confident that about one-third to half of the Zhou army would be wiped out, and then he would send fast horses. Lu Buwei.
Then, he spent a day formulating a plan to sneak attack Zhou Jun, and immediately put it into action, hoping to regain the city before Lu Buwei's reprimanding letter arrived.
One hundred thousand Zhou troops were stationed in a small city on the border between Zhou and Qin. The city wall was not high and the moat was not wide. The two armies were thirty miles apart. Yanping's plan was to send two teams of 20,000 each after nightfall and make a roundabout way to the small town. From the rear, an hour and a half before dawn, attacks were launched from two different directions. An hour before the attack, a third force of 50,000 men set off from the front and took advantage of the chaos to capture the small town. If they were lucky, they could completely annihilate the Zhou army.
This is a good plan. According to common sense, Zhou Jun, who had just won a victory, would never think of these things.
But it happened that the commander of the Zhou army was Ji Jie. His way of thinking was very different from that of ordinary people. At this moment, he was staring at the map hanging on the wall in a daze.
"What are you thinking about?" Sima Xueran walked to him and asked.
Ji Jie put his arms around her waist and said with a smile: "I'm trying to put myself in someone else's shoes!"
"Put yourself in someone else's shoes?"
"Yes." Ji Jie pointed to a location on the map and said, "I'm thinking, if I were the general of the Qin army, what would I choose to do after a defeat?"
"Can't get out of here!"
"Wrong!" Ji Jie expressed his judgment: "Yanping urgently needs a victory to prove his ability to his master Lu Buwei, especially after losing for a while, he is afraid that Lu Buwei will blame him or deprive him of the title of general, so... "
"So an attack will be launched immediately, right?" Sima Xueran said the following.
Ji Jie nodded and said: "If you want to ensure victory, a sneak attack is undoubtedly the best choice! Haha, go and ask the messenger to call Ji Jian and Zhao Ling, I have a task for them!"
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At night, the 40,000 elite Qin army quietly set out on the road. Everything that could make a sound, including bells, was removed from the horses, and the four hooves were wrapped in linen pieces. No one was allowed to speak during the march. Otherwise, they will be killed on the spot.
When the mission was assigned, Meng Ao once asked for a fight, but Yanping rejected it.
The reason is simple, because Yanping himself has to personally serve as the commander of the frontal attack, and deputy general Meng Aoxu will lead the remaining soldiers to stick to the camp without any mistakes.
Of course Yanping would not give him the opportunity to make meritorious deeds, and Meng Ao was equally eager to make meritorious deeds in order to turn around.
Therefore, Meng Ao could only watch the arrogant Yanping set off as the second echelon with 50,000 elite soldiers. When Yanping disappeared from his sight, he suddenly had an idea: Ji Jie, you are a thousand Don't let me down. If you lose at the hands of someone like Yanping, what qualifications do you have to be my opponent?
The first echelon quickly arrived at the predetermined location. They walked smoothly along the way and were not discovered by anyone. They waited for the time to start charging immediately.
It was almost time, and Yanping's 50,000 men were also in place. He looked at the small town not far away, and said confidently to the few generals around him: "Ji Jie really didn't expect that I would make a sneak attack tonight. Tell me later." Soldiers, both wings will attack in a quarter of an hour. At that time, everyone will hold their torches high and obey my orders!"
"Yes, General!"
A quarter of an hour later, thousands of torches lit up on both sides of the small town, followed by deafening shouts of death. Two teams of cavalry launched a charge at the same time, and the ground shook violently.
Forty thousand people successfully rushed to the city, and a group of cavalry responsible for attacking the east gate even rushed through the city gate!
Seeing the city gate wide open, Yanping shouted excitedly: "Come for me!"
Fifty thousand people were like a flood that broke the embankment, rushing towards the small town. Yanping ignored one problem, that is, no matter how poor the defense of the small town was, if there were really 100,000 people stationed inside, they would not be swept away so easily. City gate?
Immediately afterwards, several other city gates were also knocked open, and 40,000 vanguard troops swarmed into the city. The Qin people valued military merit, and everyone wanted to rush in and kill a few heads in exchange for corresponding rewards.
The first people who rushed in were dumbfounded. The streets were empty and there was no one in the houses. Where were the people?
Could it be that he fell into a trap?
I guess it's time to withdraw immediately!
Evacuate? How can it be that easy? Those soldiers who don’t know why behind are pouring into the royal city gate, and they can’t stop them! When it’s too much, you don’t even need to lift your feet to walk, the flow of people will take you into the city.
Ji Jie, five miles away, sounded a signal flare, and brilliant fireworks exploded in the air.
Then, in a cave outside the small city, several Zhou soldiers lit the fuse, then ran out of the cave and towards the rear defense.
At least 80% of the 40,000 people poured into the small town. Just when they were confused, explosions sounded one after another under their feet.
"Boom boom...boom boom boom...boom..."
The ground shook, broken limbs flew everywhere, and blood rained all over the sky. Houses began to collapse, and the city walls were not spared. A small city turned into a pile of ruins in the blink of an eye.
It’s just that these ruins swallowed up the lives of 40,000 Qin troops!
Yanping, who was rushing here, was dumbfounded. Fortunately, the 50,000 men were still some distance away from the small town, otherwise these people would have had to follow suit.
"We've fallen into the trap again!" Yanping suddenly became cold and shouted hysterically: "Get out, get everyone back!"
Even though we have come, it is not easy to leave, so Ji Jie sounded the second signal flare.