There were no big locust trees on the east bank of Surabaya, so Chen Yi had no choice but to be wronged, and Kong Rong and his men were hanged on the gate of Dazhai.
The Taishan Army captured 3,200 soldiers of the Lu State in this battle, and selected all the officers and soldiers from among them. All officers above the general rank were executed, and the rest were returned to the countryside. In addition, there were 60 people with martial arts skills, basically all of them. They wanted to continue serving as soldiers to feed themselves, so they chose to join the Taishan Army. After all, people like them no longer had any land at home. After leaving the army, they continued to play with their swords and fight to the death. Where would it be different?
After the troops had eaten their fill on the east bank of Surabaya, they burned the camp and returned to Bingbo County.
On the seventh day of March, the Taishan Army, which had been repairing for half a day, set off. On the eighth day of March, the Taishan Army's sudden cavalry followed the sentinels to explore the boundaries of Cheng County and Juping County. These two counties are the two counties between Bo County and Lu County. The Taishan Army Passing through the county, it did not cause much commotion in the two counties.
Finally, at 6 o'clock on the 10th day of March, the Taishan Army suddenly arrived at the west bank of Wenshui River after two days of slow march. Bo County was in sight on the other side of Wenshui River.
The two-day march was not easy for the assault riders even at normal speed. But no one complained. Compared with victory and continuing to live, suffering has never been a pain point for the poor people like Taishan Army.
The Taishan Army found a guide nearby and took a detour from the mouth of the Wenshui River, where the water channel was the smallest and there was a pontoon bridge built, making it an ideal ferry.
When the Taishan Army was flying across the Jin Bridge, the Jibei Kingdom's fleet docked on the Wenshui River had already discovered it. After all, thousands of war horses were galloping, and it was impossible not to discover it.
Then the fleet issued a warning sound to notify the camp in the distance. Suddenly, the Jibei national soldiers by the Wenshui River were busy again and looked at the cavalry with the flag of "Chong" warily.
Although the Jibei National Army discovered reinforcements, Zhang Chong no longer cared, because the victory or defeat had already been decided.
Zhang Chong ordered the guards behind him to blow the sound of conch shells. This was a batch of conch shells specially made by Zhang Chong, specially used as his rallying call. Whenever the Taishan army heard this sound, they would definitely know that Qu Kuai was coming.
Sure enough, when the conch sound rang out east of Wenshui River, the sound of trumpets and drums was soon heard from two miles away. This was the response of Ding Sheng, Dian Wei, and Guo Liang.
After that, Zhang Chong walked forward on his horse and looked at the camp of Jibei soldiers in front of them.
Zhang Chong has already discovered that the morale of this wave of soldiers is not high. There are not many flags. Traces of the battle can be seen everywhere. There are corpses on the battlefield in the southeast that no one has buried. This will attract countless flies and stench. soaring.
These are the corpses of the right captain of Jibei Kingdom who died in battle. Three days ago, they were forced to fight a battle with the Taishan Army, but the result was that they were all wiped out here, and no one has taken care of it until now. This is not the east bank of Wenshui River. It has been developed for a long time. These Human corpses have long been eaten by jackals, tigers and leopards.
The battle that day was sad to say. After Yi Er and others captured Zhang Rong, they really planned to quit. But because of Ding Sheng's arrogance and arrogance, he had no intention of letting them go. These were also the right commanders of the thieves. Wei could only lead his troops to attack Ding Sheng's troops.
Their intention was to beat these Taishan thieves so hard that they would not dare to look down on them anymore and would sit down and talk to them honestly. Moreover, in their hearts, they also wanted to beat Ding Sheng because they had been beaten by Ding Sheng before. Fatty Jin took revenge on Sheng's sneak attack.
Indeed, Xinkui led his troops to attack Ding Sheng's troops without hesitation and got the upper hand. Zhao Rong, the leader of the Taishan Army at that time, was stabbed three times and was seriously injured and dying. But soon, Dian Wei's and Guo Liang's troops moved closer, and the three-party encirclement immediately trapped You Xiaowei's troops to death.
Originally, a few surrendered on their knees, but they were directly chopped down by the furious Ding Sheng. Knowing that there was no way out, the remaining Jibei soldiers all fought to their death. In the end, they were all killed by Ding Sheng, but three of them were also lost. Disastrous, unable to launch an attack.
But what is even worse is the Jibei Kingdom. They are still fully capable of fighting, including Zuo Xiaowei Zhou Feng's three troops and a thousand soldiers. After the seven-day battle, his troops on the east bank of Wenshui River have been hit. The army camp recalled the army camp. In the next three days, Jibei Kingdom did not send out a single soldier.
In fact, in the past three days, the Chinese army in Dazhai of Jibei Kingdom was greatly divided between the two choices of holding on and waiting for reinforcements or withdrawing troops.
Dai Qi, who presided over the military meeting on behalf of Chen Gui, the Prime Minister of Jibei, advocated holding on and waiting for reinforcements. Li Chen, the commander-in-chief of the Chinese army, also agreed with Dai Qi. They believed that there were still a thousand old soldiers in Sheqiu, and they could recruit two more soldiers from each family. Thousands, when the time comes to go south along the Wen River, we can gather another four thousand troops. With this military strength, the outcome is uncertain.
But Zhou Feng, the last powerful faction in the camp, disagreed. He told the two of them very realistically:
"Jibei is a small country with a sparse population. There are no more than 40,000 households in the whole country and a population of only 200,000. The original army of 4,000 was already one for every ten households. If we need to recruit another 3,000, then We really want to wipe out the Jibei Kingdom."
You must know that those who serve in the army must be strong laborers, and the Jibei Kingdom may only have less than 50,000 young adults. In addition, most of the young adults are vassals of wealthy families and will not be recruited. In other words, if this wave If another four thousand people die in Jibei Kingdom, and eight thousand people die, the entire countryside of Jibei Kingdom will be depleted of young people. And how can a family's livelihood depend on these young people? They all died here. Then their families won't be able to survive.
Although Zhou Feng came from a proud clan, he still couldn't bear to have his township party be wasted like this. But the more critical factor that made him object was that he felt it was not worth it. Although the reason why Dai Qi and Li Chen still wanted to fight was not stated clearly, Zhou Feng knew at a glance that it was simply because the two of them were the direct commanders responsible for the defeat. If they went back like this, it was unclear whether their lives would be saved, but their future would definitely be gone. So it was better to take a gamble now and fight with the rear. Soldiers, fight again.
This is just like a gambler who loses all his money and never thinks of giving up. Instead, he will borrow money and continue gambling, hoping to recover his money.
Zhou Feng can understand the two people's thoughts, but I'm sorry, he can't accompany these two people on crazy gambling. The thousand soldiers he has are his property, and as long as the soldiers are there, the power of his Zhou family will be there. Why take risks with these two people.
In the end, neither party could convince the other, and they could only reach a deadlock. Zhou Feng was the most powerful faction in the camp, and if he didn't agree to send troops, the troops would not be sent out. And Dai Qi was trusted by Chen Gui in times of crisis, and he had great righteousness, so he couldn't do it. Even though Zhou Feng was talking about withdrawing his troops, he did not dare to take his troops back.
But the three-day stalemate finally ended with the news of the arrival of Taishan's cavalry.
Dai Qi and Li Chen no longer said anything about standing still and waiting for help. Now that they have reached the point of whether they can survive, they can't even think about making a comeback.
They were all smart people. When they learned that the Taishan Army crossed the Wenshui River from the west, they guessed that the Lu soldiers in the west were probably gone. Originally, they planned to send people to contact the Lu soldiers, thinking
Let them march eastward and directly attack the Fenggao stronghold of the Taishan bandits, but before they are dispatched, the Lu soldiers cannot count on them.
There is no other way, so they have to retreat. Fortunately, their fleet is on the Wenshui River. As long as they get on the boat, they will be safe.
So when Zhang Chong sounded the clarion call for troops, the Jibei State Camp was also preparing to retreat. They sent Chen Gui, the seriously ill Prime Minister of Jibei State, onto the chariot and began to organize the retreat.
For this retreat to go smoothly, there is a necessary condition, which is that there must be troops to break the rear. Without the troops to block the enemy's attack in front, it would be a dream to retreat in an orderly manner.
But no one wants to cut off the rear, because this job is not only dangerous but also demanding. The danger is easy to understand. After all, if you can cut off the rear, you will definitely not have many soldiers left for you. So it is not possible to use weak soldiers to resist the enemy's many soldiers.
Is it dangerous? But this life is also very challenging. Imagine that when your clothes are gradually safe, you are still in danger on the battlefield. Do you want to run away? Will you be resentful? Why should you give others a chance to survive?
Stay and die?
So, generally, the troops that cut off the rear are either non-direct lineage that is not favored by the general, or they are powerful troops that are good at defending. Moreover, once you cut off the rear once, then I'm sorry, all the tasks in the future will be handed over to you. This is
Nothing bothers the two masters.
Therefore, when retreating, they had to choose the troops to cut off the rear. All the generals turned their attention to Zhou Feng, because he fully met the conditions for cutting off the rear, and he was not popular despite his strength.
But Zhou Feng also has a strong heart. With so many people staring at him, he can remain calm and remain motionless, just not expressing his position. Because he knows that time is on the side of a powerful person like him.
Sure enough, Dai Qi, who couldn't wait the most, took the initiative to propose a lottery to decide who would serve as the rear guard. Li Chen and Zhou Feng each took a bamboo stick from his hand, and whoever had the shorter one would be responsible for the rear. Li Chen had no problem, Zhou Feng
Feng couldn't refuse openly, so he decided to make arrangements.
The final result was no surprise, it was Zhou Feng.
Looking at the short chip in his hand, Zhou Feng didn't know what trick Dai Qi was playing, but he knew that he had been tricked. But to this extent, he could only swallow the revenge and just keep it in his heart.
Zhou Feng had two generals under his command, Liu Yan and Fan Yi. One was his favorite general, and the other was his brother-in-law. In the end, he chose his favorite general as the rear guard, not because he loved his brother-in-law more, but because he understood
Fan Yi, if this person's character is bad, none of them will be able to survive. On the contrary, it is Liu Yan who he can trust the most, and it is absolutely right to entrust him with the task of cutting off the queen.
Sometimes things are like this. You are abandoned not necessarily because you are incompetent. On the contrary, it is because you are capable and trustworthy that you are abandoned.
Because those who are capable are called abandoners, and those who are incompetent are called waste.
In this way, the Jibei national soldiers opened the camp gate to the west in the direction of Wenshui. The first to leave the camp were five hundred chariot soldiers. They pushed fifty carts and lined up along the Dazhai to the ferry.
Then a general under the banner of "Liu" built fortifications based on these carts, hoping to build a complex road to connect Dazhai directly to Wenshui Ferry.
At the same time, the "Ding", "Dian" and "Guo" tribes from the southeast also meandered over. Under the sun, the armored soldiers were full of morale. It was obvious that the three days of repairs and the arrival of Qu Kui had made them fighting again. Complete.