Chapter Seven: Trapping and Killing the Grain Interception Army
Chapter 7: Trapping and Killing the Grain-Separating Army
Chapter 7: Trapping and Killing the Grain-Separating Army
King Wuyou returned to Wucheng, and King Ping had already commanded the army to tightly surround the Shu army outside Yucheng. Doctor Ji used the antidote obtained by King Shun, checked it carefully, and reported to King Wuyou: Shun
Wang's injury has been controlled, but because he has been poisoned for too long, the toxicity has entered his body. Although there is an antidote, he cannot recover. He can only take a good rest and be careful not to get angry. He is most forbidden to eat spicy and fishy things.
King Wuyou thanked Doctor Ji for his hard work, then looked at King Shun and said with a smile: "Uncle King Shun, I'm afraid you won't be able to drink anymore. Even if you go fishing again, you can only give it to me to eat!"
King Shun was also in a good spirit, so he chuckled and said, "Si'er, good boy, I know that you risked your life for me and went to Shu to seek medicine. This kind of flesh-and-blood affection is no matter how many fishes Uncle Wang catches for you.
Unable to repay.”
King Wuyou laughed heartily, and Doctor Ji on the other side also smiled.
Seeing that King Shun's injury was not serious, King Wuyou said goodbye to King Shun and rushed to the front enemy to assist King Ping in attacking Yucheng. King Shun nodded after hearing this and told King Wuyou in detail about his understanding of Yucheng.
King Wuyou nodded repeatedly as he listened.
When King Wuyou arrived at Yucheng, King Ping's army had just launched an attack on Yucheng. However, the terrain of Yucheng was easy to defend and difficult to attack. Although the Qi army had sharp crossbows, the Shu army hid behind the city wall and did not suffer much damage.
On the other hand, the Qi army attacking the city was injured a lot by the Shu army's rolling logs and rocks. Because the city of Chongqing was high, the siege trucks could hardly function if they hit the city, so the threat to the Shu army on the city was much smaller.
If the army's rolling logs and rocks fall, the terrain will still roll down, but the damage to the Qi army will be great.
King Wuyou paid homage to his father in the handsome tent and met with the generals. King Shun also took the antidote and recovered well from his injury. He told everyone the good news.
When asked about the situation of the battle, King Ping sighed lightly and ordered General Qi Lu to briefly explain the situation of the failure of the siege.
King Wuyou nodded and offered advice to King Ping: "Father, this city of Chongqing is easy to defend but difficult to attack, and the Shu army led by Yang Yun is unwilling to fight. We might as well besiege the city tightly until he is short of food and grass.
We must break out of the encirclement and then take advantage of the situation to annihilate them!"
King Ping nodded after hearing this, shook his head, and said: "Besieging the city is actually a good strategy, but our army of 100,000 troops consumes a lot of money every day. It is not easy to recruit people from nearby Shu. They are all transferred from Xincheng. And Shu
The road is difficult to travel, and it is extremely difficult to transport food and grass. It will be delayed for a long time, and I am worried that the food and grass will not be enough to help."
King Wuyou laughed and said, "Father, don't worry, just send the order to besiege the city."
Seeing the mystery of what King Wuyou said, King Ping knew that he must have some plan, so he nodded and ordered the generals: Stop attacking the city, dig deep trenches, strengthen the camp, and tightly surround Yucheng!
The generals were ordered to go down, and only King Ping, King Wuyou, and Qi Lu were left in the commander's tent. King Wuyou said to King Ping: "Father, if we besiege the city, Yang Yun in the city will naturally know our plan. He
They also expect that our food and grass supplies will be insufficient. They may even risk attacking our food and grass in order to force us to retreat. So we will have an opportunity!"
After hearing this, King Ping smiled slightly and said: "This plan is feasible, you and Qi Lu can do it!"
Yang Yun in Yu City saw that the Qi army stopped attacking the city and began to build fortifications. He made a posture of besieging Yu City. He also understood in his heart that the Qi army wanted to trap him in Yu City and take away the food and grass in Yu City.
Cut off and then destroy yourself.
Yang Yun also knew that at this time, the food and grass in the city of Chongqing was only enough to last for half a month, and the people in the city did not have much food left. If the Qi army besieged the city for half a month, the food and grass in the city would be cut off, and the city defense would be broken without attack.
Yang Yun stood on the city tower and looked at the Qi Army's joint camp. He was also thinking to himself that it was the hot summer season and the Qi Army should not have too much food and grass. The last time he attacked the Qi Army, in the Qi Army's camp
We didn't see much surplus grain, indicating that the Qi army's grain basically relied on subsequent transportation.
Thinking of this, Yang Yun had a bold plan. He quickly ordered several of his trusted generals to come over. After explaining this, the generals took their orders. Yang Yun also returned to the commander's tent, waiting for him.
The strategy worked.
On the post road, a group of Qi army's grain trucks were moving slowly. This group of vehicles and horses seemed to have nearly a hundred carts, and the convoy stretched for several miles. There were more than 200 Qingqi in the front, and a group of Qingqi in the back.
In the middle are the accompanying light cavalry, and the driver is driving the carriage lazily.
There was a forest in front of them, and the post road passed through it. Apparently the general of the Qi army who led the team was very cautious. He sent dozens of light cavalry and rode into the forest first. After checking that there was nothing unusual in the forest, he returned to the general.
After reporting back, the general leading the team waved and the convoy continued to move forward. Just as the convoy passed through the woods, a group of cavalry emerged from behind a hill not far away, roaring towards the convoy escorting grain and grass.
The impact comes.
The Qi army obviously thought that there was no ambush in the forest, so they relaxed their vigilance. When they saw the cavalry rushing from behind the hill, they hurriedly looked at the flag of the incoming army, but it was the flag of the Qi army. The soldiers in front were also chasing the Qi army.
The Qi army escorting the convoy hesitated a little. While they were hesitating, the team of light cavalry arrived not far from the convoy.
When the Qingqi approached, they suddenly threw away the flag of the Qi army and raised the banner of the Shu army. The soldiers in front also took off their Qi army uniforms, revealing their original uniforms. The escorting Qi army could see clearly what was coming.
But it was a Shu army, with about two thousand people, all riding fast, and they were already coming to kill them with their swords brandished.
The Qi troops escorting the chariot saw that there were many Shu troops, but the Qi troops in front and behind had not yet come to support them, so they all pulled out their weapons and stood in front of the chariot to resist.
The Shu army's attack on the Qi army's grain and grass convoy was exactly Yang Yun's plan. He learned through his informants outside the city that the Qi army would have a grain and grass convoy coming from the direction of Wucheng every three or two days, and they all took this post road.
There were about six to seven hundred Qi troops escorting them. Yang Yun sent his confidant General Yang Zhun and two thousand elite Shu troops, disguised as Qi troops, to pass through the junction of the Qi army's joint camp at night and ambush here.
Now seeing that the grain and fodder convoy had arrived, Yang Zhun led his men to kill them. When he got close to the convoy, he took off the flags and uniforms of the Qi army and grabbed them with a knife.
The Qi army, which was on alert at the front and rear, saw that the situation had changed and wanted to rush up to rescue them from both wings, but it was too late. The Shu army had already detached two groups of light cavalry to meet them. When the Shu army group rushed to less than a hundred meters away from the convoy, Yang Zhun saw
Seeing that there were only less than 200 escort soldiers of the Qi Army in front of him, he was already secretly happy. The military order he received this time was to annihilate the Qi Army's grain and grass convoy in one fell swoop, and then pretend to be a Qi Army escort transporting grain and grass, and sneak into the Qi Army's main camp.
Camp, all the grain and grass depots of the Qi army will be set on fire, causing the Qi army to lose all their food and grass. In this way, the Qi army will naturally retreat without a fight. At that time, when the Qi army retreats, they can cover up and kill from behind, and they can defeat the Qi army again.
When Yang Zhun was about to kill all the hundreds of Qi troops in front of him, he suddenly saw Qi Jun's forage truck roaring and moving. The forage on it fell to the ground one after another, revealing the carriage inside, and one side of the carriage.
You can see the cold light of arrows and crossbows. The grain bags on the grain carts have also been pushed aside. On each cart, several Qi army spear throwers stood up from above, holding spears in their hands, pointing towards Shu.
The army threw it out with all its strength.
When Yang Zhun was shocked, he hurriedly used the weapon in his hand to strike the spear, but the soldiers around him had been stabbed many times by the spear, and they fell off their horses one after another. At this time, there was also the sound of spring breaking in the carriage.
Raining bows and arrows were fired at the Shu army.
The Shu army was not even aware that there were spears and crossbows hidden in the grain carts. They just wanted to kill the Qi soldiers in front of them. When the arrows rained down, the Shu army had no shields to protect them, so they could only cry when they were shot.
Father called mother. Within a moment, the Shu troops rushing in front turned into hedgehogs and fell off their horses one after another. Yang Zhun dodged, raised his crossbows and spears, and shouted for the soldiers to retreat. But the people in the carriage
The bows and crossbows kept firing, and the spear throwers of the Qi army also kept throwing spears. The soldiers of the Shu army were shot or hit before they had time to react. When they heard the general's order and wanted to retreat, more than a thousand soldiers
There are less than three to four hundred people left.
Yang Zhun's horse was also hit by an arrow, and he himself was hit by a crossbow arrow in the leg. Yang Zhun saw that the Qi army had already been ambushing him, and was waiting for him to fall into the trap. He was still frightened, so he retreated after announcing
He gave the order and ignored the soldiers under his command. He turned his horses and fled to the hills where they were coming.
The Qi armies on both sides had now killed very few of the Shu armies facing them. Those Shu armies that were blocking the attack saw a sudden change in situation. They originally hoped that General Yang, who was charging in the middle, would succeed and come back to help, but what they saw was themselves.
Most of his companions were dead or wounded, and they still wanted to escape from the battlefield.
Seeing that the Qi army had succeeded, how could they easily let go of the remaining Shu army? They shouted and chased after them.
Before Yang Zhun could reach the hill, he heard the sound of a bowstring behind him. He knew it was not good and did not bother to look back, so he wanted to duck and dodge. However, he felt the war horse tremble, then tilt, and he was taken along with him.
He fell to the ground. The war horse fell to the ground and pressed one of Yang Zhun's legs underneath. Yang Zhun screamed in pain.
Then a group of generals came up from behind, drove their horses in a circle around Yang Zhun, and asked: "Shu generals have the same name!"
Yang Zhun was still struggling, and then several soldiers of the Qi Army came over. They dismounted and dragged him out and tied him up with a rope. Only then did Yang Zhun raise his head and see the general of the Qi Army in front of him. Yang Yun pretended to be
He snorted disdainfully and said: "I am Yang Zhun, the general of the Shu army. Who are you to attack from behind!"
The general of the Qi army was Ye Xing. He laughed and said: "I am a shooter in the Qi army. As a general of the Shu army, you did not face the enemy head-on, but just abandoned your troops and fled, and you said that I attacked from behind?! It's really funny."
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When Yang prepared for Ye Xing's teasing, he blushed and stopped talking. He turned his head and looked around, only to see that on the battlefield, most of the two thousand Qingqi he had brought with him were dead or injured, and the rest had all been killed.
The Qi army captured him. Seeing this, Yang Zhun secretly complained. He was originally planning to attack and kill the Qi army, but unexpectedly fell into the Qi army's plan.
Ye Xing escorted Yang Zhun back to the convoy and checked the battlefield. He found that more than a thousand enemies were killed, hundreds were wounded, and there were two to three hundred prisoners captured. Ye Xing ordered the soldiers to tie up the wounded and captured soldiers of the Shu army.
Throw it on the grain truck; then fix the mechanism of the crossbow carriage and put the crossbow into the firing hole. Then cover it with fodder. After everything is done, order the team to continue moving forward.
Yang Zhun was tied tightly and tied to a horse. He was led by two Qi soldiers with ropes and followed behind Ye Xing. When the convoy arrived at the Qi army camp, Qi soldiers had already escorted the captured Shu army to