Carrying the Sword into the Rivers and Lakes Chapter 87 - Who is the Lamb
When Wan Jun returned to the study, his servants hurriedly stepped forward to take off his master's armor and put on casual clothes. Wan Jun glanced at the guards outside the door.
When the leader saw this, he could wave for everyone to disperse and guard everywhere in the general's mansion. He turned around and guarded in front of the study door.
"Commander Yan, you have worked hard these days. Why not take a rest? Today we are leaving for Liangzhou." Wan Jun said to the guard leader outside the study.
"The last general has received the emperor's order to protect General Wan Jun. We dare not slack off." Commander Yan bowed his head and replied in a deep voice towards Wan Jun.
Commander Yan then continued to speak: "General, we have to go on a journey today. Let's rest first, and then we will guard outside." After saying this, Commander Yan closed the door for Wan Jun and continued to guard.
Wan Jun was deep in thought in the study. Although he had told Yang Huchen, he still felt a little uneasy in his heart.
That man was outside Liangzhou City, and with just a few words, the blood of the Liangzhou men boiled, and they followed him to pursue the Jin army all the way to the Jin Kingdom.
Wan Jun recalled the thrilling pursuit battle eighteen years ago. Closing his eyes, Wan Jun quietly recalled the battle that made the eldest prince Qi Lin famous all over the world.
As the garrison of Liangzhou, under the request of many Liangzhou soldiers, I could only join forces with the eldest son of Qi Lin to leave Liangzhou. The Liangzhou garrison and Qi Yun Jingqi joined forces, totaling more than 30,000 people.
On the day of departure, all the soldiers received military orders. From the generals to the soldiers, they all took off their heavy armor and wore only light armor. Each of them only carried ten days of rations.
Although the Jin army's cavalry was defeated, its strength was far greater than that of Qi Yun's pursuers, and the Qi Yun army's guard guru Gu Jianyi was seriously injured and did not go with the army. In Wan Jun's view, Qi Lin's pursuit of the Jin army at this time was suspected of being a great success.
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As Qi Lin led his army to break into the territory of the Jin Kingdom, winning consecutive battles and victories, Wan Jun admired this prince from the bottom of his heart for leading the army, decisively killing, and using troops like a god.
And Qi Lin's reluctance completely aroused the anger of the Jin people.
Chun Yumeng, a famous general of the Jin State, asked for orders to go out from Zongyan's tent to gather the Jin army's capable soldiers. He also requested an order to bring in some reinforcements, about 60,000 strong. Chun Yumeng asked the state master Daoxuan to accompany his majesty first.
He retreated and led a mighty force of 60,000 troops and horses in the direction of Qi Yun's pursuit.
Chunyu Meng was worthy of being a famous general of the Jin Dynasty. He was well aware of Qi Lin's many tricks. Although his 60,000 troops and horses were twice as many as the enemy's, they had just suffered a defeat and their morale was declining.
On the other hand, Qi Yun had won several battles in a row and his morale was high. If he fought head-on at this time, with not to mention twice the force, but five times the enemy's strength, his death would be in vain. Therefore, he sent scouts to explore the movements of Qi Lin's army first, and followed Qi Yun's army after entering Jin.
Number of battles.
Chunyu Meng listened to the report from his sergeants and analyzed Qi Lin's tactics and marching movements in detail. Chun Yumeng stroked the tiger's beard and smiled at the general under his tent: "Qi Lin, you luckily defeated me through trickery.
The army, now that they have eaten the heart of a bear and the courage of a leopard, dare to enter our Jin territory with only 20 to 30 thousand people."
He got up and got out of the military tent, led the generals to the sand table, pointed to the sand table and analyzed with the generals: "Look, everyone, he led his army to break in this time. If he changes his previous deceitful tactics, every battle will be finished."
He used all his strength in order to achieve a quick victory, and the scouts discovered that the first thing he did after winning was to gather our troops' horses."
The generals under his command were puzzled: "Although there are casualties among the war horses, why are there so many war horses collected?"
Chunyu laughed fiercely and said, "That's because he broke into our territory this time and did not bring enough food and grass. The war horses can still eat grass for a living, but the soldiers have no food, so they can't also eat grass."
Then he pointed at the terrain of the sand table and said with a smile: "As for why we must try our best in every battle, it is because most of our Jin soil is plain land. The trick and ambush method that this boy is good at cannot be used in our Jin soil. Therefore, he can only use
The order of a sergeant comes in exchange for his false reputation of being good at fighting."
"Unfortunately, this is not Zhao Tu, nor is it a place where Qi Lin can come and leave whenever he wants." Chunyu Meng seemed to have a winning chance.
"Does the general have a plan to defeat the enemy?" The generals gathered around the sand table asked when they saw that the famous general of Jin was confident.
"A delaying tactic, in one word, delay."
Chunyu shook his cloak fiercely, then returned to the general's seat, took out a command arrow, and called out: "Wang Dou."
A person under the tent came out proudly: "The end will be here."
"I order you to lead the front army of five thousand as the vanguard. Even if the battle is fought to the last soldier, you will drag Qi Lin's army outside Changzhou City." Chunyu fiercely threw out his command arrow.
Wang Dou took the command arrow and shouted loudly to take the order. Then Chun Yu fiercely took out two command arrows with his fingers and said loudly: "Liu Gui, Liu Feng, I order you two to lead five thousand cavalry each, one from the left and one from the right."
On the way, the troops left Ziyang Valley and circled to the rear of Qi Yun's army to intercept their return route. When Qi Lin's army was defeated, they took advantage of the situation to cover up and kill them."
"I have the order." The second general took the order and left.
Then Chunyu Meng stood up and said: "The rest of the generals, follow me and lead the central army to meet the enemy."
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A few days later, thirty miles outside Changzhou City, corpses lay everywhere, and the land was dyed red with blood. Looking around, he could only see vultures pecking at the corpses on the red soil. Sergeant Qi Yun was cleaning the battlefield and burying the corpses of the Jin army. Wang Dou
None of the 5,000 Jin vanguards survived.
In the general's tent of Qiyun Camp, Wan Jun was sitting under the tent, listening to the scout's report: "Your Majesty, the one who led the army this time and was wiped out by us was really Chunyu Meng's general Wang Dou. The last general
It has been detected that Chunyu Meng is leading the army from the middle route towards Changzhou. The army will arrive tomorrow. Chun Yumeng's two generals Liu Gui and Liu Feng have led more than 10,000 troops to take a detour to Ziyang Valley.
Cut off our army's retreat."
As soon as the scout said this, the generals under the tent couldn't sit still. Some said to retreat, others said to take Changzhou directly and wait for reinforcements. At this time, Wan Jun also felt that it was time to retreat, so he spoke to persuade.
"Your Highness, our army has gained a lot of bargains. Now we are alone and have no backup. Moreover, these days we are only eating the enemy's horses to satisfy our hunger. If we continue to fight fiercely, we are afraid that the entire army will be annihilated."
Sitting in the commander's position, Qi Lin listened to the arguments among the people below, with a smile on his face and a pair of starry eyes shining with wisdom. After listening to Wan Jun's words, he then signaled Wan Jun to be calm and calm.
When the generals under the tent got tired of quarreling, everyone remembered that His Royal Highness was still in the tent, and they all looked at the eldest prince at the foot of Wugui Mountain, who had defeated the many and defeated the Jin army's cavalry with less.
"You're all tired of noisy, take a rest, take a rest!" Qi Lin said with a warm smile, motioning for everyone to sit down.
Then he said: "Everyone has suffered a lot these days, but why don't I let you eat the ten-day rations I brought and only let you kill the enemy's horses to satisfy your hunger? I think you are also very confused.
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Many of the generals in the tent looked at me, and I looked at you. Everyone was really puzzled. They obviously brought ten days of rations when they sent out troops to pursue, but His Highness the Crown Prince only asked everyone to take out a small amount to satisfy their hunger, and instead let everyone eat more.
The army and horses satisfy their hunger.
Although they are puzzled, these generals are all old men under the command of Qi Yunhou, and they have followed the eldest prince for many years, so they will not disobey the eldest prince's military orders.
Now the eldest prince took the initiative to mention that there was a rude general in his tent, and asked: "Your Highness, you also know that I, Lao Zhang, am a rough man and speak straightforwardly. These days, our group of people are almost going to have trouble eating horse meat."
Well, even though I usually drink and eat meat, I always dislike the white flour steamed buns, but if I don’t eat them these days, I really can’t stand it anymore.”
The eldest prince loves the soldiers as much as his own son, and would eat and live with the army sergeants on weekdays. He has a high prestige in the army. From the leading generals to the soldiers, everyone gets along with the prince and even makes fun of each other. It is common for everyone.
Everyone knew that the prince would not punish everyone for a few questions, so Lao Zhang asked.
As soon as Lao Zhang said these words, the prince jumped up and cursed with a smile: "Damn it, you still have problems with eating? I don't know who stole my share of horse meat yesterday. It's not enough. What's wrong?"
He tried to reach out to catch Lao Wu, but Lao Wu gave him a lesson and he became honest."
Lao Zhang was exposed by the Crown Prince about yesterday's behavior. Hearing the roar of laughter from the brothers in the tent, Lao Zhang blushed and muttered: "Your Highness, Crown Prince, with my appetite, how can I eat enough with just a few pieces of meat?"
Lao Wu was laughing so hard that he couldn't stand up straight. He patted his thigh and said: "Old Zhang, you think you stole the prince's share of horse meat. Didn't everyone see it? Ask everyone here, who didn't see it for real?
, His Highness the Crown Prince is just telling us all to act stupid."
When Lao Zhang heard this, he was so ashamed. In an instant, everyone forgot that they were still arguing about advancing and retreating.
Wan Jun watched from the sidelines and saw the eldest prince using this military swear word to instantly resolve the dispute between his generals and bring everyone back into a harmonious atmosphere. He couldn't help but admire him.
Seeing the harmonious scene between the generals again, I was in a trance. I couldn't help but sigh, how wonderful it would be if I were also a general under the eldest prince's command. How happy it would be for everyone to go into battle to kill the enemy like brothers.
It's a pity that he has now recognized others as his master, and can only look at the generals laughing at each other with envy.
Just when Wan Jun was thinking wildly, he heard the eldest prince said: "Okay, okay. The joke is over. I won't let everyone touch the rations I brought, just waiting for today."
Wan Jun's heart trembled. Could it be that all of this was part of his plan? But other than that, there was really no other explanation for why he didn't let everyone use the rations he had brought with them.
"Although the Jin army is defeated, it still has the strength to fight. There are still tens of thousands of soldiers capable of fighting in Jin. However, our Qi Yun army has divided our forces at home to resist the enemy. Therefore, I pursue the pursuit with all my heart to eliminate this trouble forever. If
When Zong Yan takes a breather, he will definitely start fighting again due to his temperament, and by then, the people of Zhao State will be plunged into war again."
The eldest prince raised his sword eyebrows slightly, glanced around the generals under his tent, and then continued.
"I pretended to go deep alone, just to lure the Jin generals to see my flaws and think I was greedy for credit. If I went deep alone, they would gather more capable troops, and then divide their troops to cut off my lonely army's retreat. Then I would go all out here to solve the problem.
them."
The gleaming light in the eldest prince's eyes made Wan Jun dare not look directly at this proud man of heaven, so he could only bow his head slightly and listen to him continue to speak.
"General Wan just now advised me to go deep alone without any backup. I would like to apologize to General Wan and all the generals. It is not that Qi Lin deliberately concealed it, but this move is too dangerous, so Qi can only hide it from everyone first.
Now that it’s done, I might as well tell everyone.”
"Although Jianyi was injured, he had no problem leading the troops in an ambush. When we set off on the expedition, he had already led his troops to hide his whereabouts. Now he is ambushing his troops on the road we must pass through to retreat, waiting for the Jin army to fall into a trap.
Woolen cloth."
"Chun Yumeng is well versed in the art of using troops, so he would naturally think of dividing his troops to attract our army's attention, wear down our army at the same time, and then divide one army to intercept our army's retreat. In this way, he could lead the middle army to kill and reap the benefits.
Not happy."
"It's a pity that the consuming army he sent was a remnant. They didn't consume us, but they lost their lives. And the more than 10,000 soldiers he thought were going to cut off our retreat are now probably falling into Jian Yi's ambush.
middle."
"If he were a straight-faced general and led an army of 60,000 to attack, our army would probably be in a hard fight. But I know him too well. This man thinks he is familiar with the art of war, divides his troops to consume, and then divides his troops to intercept my retreat. Now he leads
It is better for our army to wait for the work than to wait for the Chinese army to travel a long distance to attack."
"Everyone, tomorrow is when the Jin army will be defeated."
The corners of the eldest prince Qi Lin's lips were slightly raised, and the dimple appeared slightly on his lips.