Chapter 496 The strategy of besieging without attacking
Li Zhen was wet. He looked up at the Taiping troops who had entered the mountain forest. He nodded with satisfaction. He looked away and said energetically: "Hong Xuanjiao has been trapped. Now immediately block all the passages down the mountain to prevent Hong Xuanjiao from leading his army to break through. This Let’s have a good fight with Hong Xuanjiao and Yang Xiuqing once.”
Lu Shaochuan asked: "Commander, how long does it take for Yang Xiuqing to arrive."
Li Zhen said: "No more than two days."
Lu Shaochuan thought about it carefully and knew what he was doing, and then ordered the soldiers to give Li Zhen the dry clothes he had already prepared, and asked Li Zhen to change into a set of clean and refreshing clothes. After all, Li Zhen came across the river and felt wet easily. At the same time, the soldiers led by Lu Shaochuan took out the clean and fresh clothes that had been prepared and asked the other soldiers who followed Li Zhen to change their clothes to avoid catching the cold.
The army was ready and stationed at the foot of the mountain.
By this time, it was already noon.
Because Li Zhen had already arranged everything to ambush Hong Xuanjiao, food, water, meat, etc. were all arranged. He immediately started preparing lunch. The soldiers in charge of logistics buried the pots to make rice, and soon the rich smell of meat floated in the air. The smell of rice and rice made the soldiers salivate. They were already swallowing saliva non-stop, and their stomachs began to growl.
However, there were so many people that the soldiers could only wait slowly.
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Hong Xuanjiao led the soldiers to the top of the mountain and then asked them to stop and rest. She listened carefully and found that the Qing army at the bottom of the mountain did not catch up. She breathed a long sigh of relief. Hong Xuanjiao looked at the guard of Xiashu Town and sighed "Immediately count the number of soldiers and see how many are dead or injured," he ordered.
"The general will obey his orders."
After receiving the order, the guard of Xia Shu Town immediately counted the number of people.
After counting, the expression on the face of the Xia Shu town guard was very sad, a look of sorrow, because they set out from Longtan Town with 11,000 soldiers, and they have not yet arrived at Xia Shu Town, but only four are left. There were 1,158 people, not even 5,000. The remaining soldiers were either killed, injured or fell on the road, or ran away...
In short, the situation of the army is very unoptimistic.
After hearing the report, Hong Xuanjiao's face darkened. Immediately, she ordered: "Li Zhen's army is still at the bottom of the mountain. Check it immediately to see if Li Zhen is moving."
The garrison general of Xia Shu received the order and immediately ordered his soldiers to find out the news.
At this time, the guards of Dongyang Town and Longtan Town looked down the mountain. Although they could not see the situation at the foot of the mountain, their expressions were not optimistic. The two stood side by side, feeling a sense of despair. The thoughts spread in my heart, now that I am trapped by Li Zhen, there are no reinforcements to help, what should I do?
About half an hour later, the soldiers who went to the foot of the mountain to inquire about the news came back.
The soldier ran back quickly with a stunned expression on his face.
The guard of Xia Shu Town asked: "What's going on at the foot of the mountain?"
The soldier replied: "Reporting to the general, the Qing army has blocked all the passages down the mountain, and troops are stationed. We have to go down the mountain, and we can only leave by fighting hard with the Qing army. Fortunately, Li Zhen temporarily surrounded the foot of the mountain, and No attack was ordered."
When the generals from Dongyang Town and Longtan Town heard this, their expressions changed greatly.
The mountain was surrounded.
The two looked at each other, and immediately looked at the guard of Xiashu Town. Among them, the guard of Longtan Town said: "Lao Yu, the situation is critical, what do you think we should do."
Lao Yu is the name of the guard general of Xia Shu.
Lao Yu shook his head and said, "I don't know either."
Hong Xuanjiao had already wrung out the water stains on her clothes, put on another piece of clothing, and covered the exposed parts of her body. She saw the soldier who reported the news had a strange look on his face, and asked: "You look strange, is there anything else?" Something?"
The soldier nodded and said: "Mrs. Xiao is a wise judge. After I came down from the mountain, I carefully inspected the number of Qing troops and found that the number of the Qing army was not large. There were only more than two thousand soldiers."
"What."
Hong Xuanjiao exclaimed, with a surprised look on her face.
When she led the army to fight with Li Zhen, the opponent's banners were fluttering and the momentum was huge. It was exactly like the appearance of a large army, not two thousand people at all.
Lao Yu also had an expression of disbelief on his face, shook his head and said: "It's impossible. During the battle, the soldiers under Li Zhen's command were huge. At least there were more than five or six thousand people. It couldn't be two thousand. You are wrong. Bar."
The Dongyang Town Guard General and the Longtan Town Guard General nodded one after another and both asked.
The soldier said: "It's true, there are only so many soldiers."
"ah,."
Hong Xuanjiao exclaimed and suddenly said loudly: "We were deceived. We were deceived by Li Zhen. At that time, we fought with Li Zhen. There were 11,000 soldiers. Even if some of them were killed, the number of soldiers still had an absolute advantage. Yes, Li Zhen was afraid that we would fight him decisively, and deliberately created a situation with a large army, so that we did not dare to fight, and continued to be defeated, resulting in heavy losses to the army."
After hearing this, Lao Yu also thought about it.
Finally, Lao Yu nodded helplessly and said: "We met someone blocking the road at the bottom of the mountain. The other party also adopted the same method, waving flags and shouting to build up momentum, which scared us so much that we could not fight and had to go up the mountain. Li Zhen is cunning. "
Hong Xuanjiao asked: "What can you do."
Lao Yu shook his head and said: "There is no way, it is impossible to fight at all. Although there are four thousand of our soldiers, they are all incompetent. If you look carefully, they are all wet, and the weapons in their hands have been thrown away. The armor has also been thrown away, and they are all a group of flesh and blood people. If such soldiers rush up to fight Li Zhen's elite, they will definitely be dead or alive. Madam Xiao, now we can only wait for reinforcements."
"Reinforcements."
Hong Xuanjiao murmured and sighed: "Where are the reinforcements? Troops from Dongyang Town, Xia Shu Town and Longtan Town are all gathered here. The surrounding troops have been deployed. Can we escape?" He paused. Suddenly, Hong Xuanjiao's eyes lit up and he said: "Li Zhen's army only has two thousand men. Although we can't defeat each other, we still have a chance to escape. Let's rush down the mountain and fight Li Zhen head-on, and then take the opportunity to retreat." Shu Town.”
Lao Yu shook his head and said: "Mrs. Xiao, judging from the situation of our battle with Li Zhen, Li Zhen had a premeditated plan and had already designed a strategy to push us to this mountain step by step. Under such circumstances, , can we go down the mountain? Going down the mountain will definitely be a dead end. The most important thing is that our soldiers cannot fight."
Hong Xuanjiao looked at the embarrassed soldiers around her and felt helpless.
This time, it's really over.
Lao Yu continued: "Mrs. Xiao, we can only hold on for now. You have sent a message to King Dong. Now we can only pray that King Dong will lead his army to rescue us in order to save us."
"East King."
After hearing this, Hong Xuanjiao's eyes flashed with wonder, and she kept saying: "Yes, yes, King Dong can save us. King Dong will definitely come to save us, and he will definitely save me."
At this moment, Hong Xuanjiao grasped a life-saving straw.