Chapter 30: Surprise Attack on the Shen Army
"Yide, you have really grown up and matured, and you understand what a soldier should have the most, and what a soldier should do. Soldiers should take the battlefield as the greatest honor, not to seek temporary peace and amuse themselves. Today, you and my brothers will join forces again to teach the army of Shen Guo what real war is, war is not a child's play, and it is not something that little children like them can play!"
"Big brother, don't always treat me like a child, you're just a year older than me!"
"Yes, you have grown up, and the eldest brother will treat you as an adult from now on!" The two set off to Qishan with 50,000 people, Zhang Liao and Bai Qi agreed that the two armies would converge in Qishan, and then set off to Yan State, Murong Fu had already taken the lead in returning to China and preparing grain and grass for the 100,000 army.
To the west of Qishan, the 50,000 horses led by Bai Qi were already in place, waiting for another team of men and horses led by Zhang Liao.
"Marshal, why should we wait for the people of the Qilin Legion, we will go and fight first, and first show the prestige of our Vermilion Bird Legion, and wait for them, and then the credit will be robbed by their Qilin Legion. A group of soldiers surrounded Bai Qi, all wanting to rush out to kill the enemy and make meritorious contributions.
"That's what you all think?" Bai Qi didn't say anything, but turned around and asked the group of generals behind him.
"Marshal, we also think that with the tens of thousands of people in our legion, we will definitely be able to defeat the army of Shen State. One person stood up and said, which immediately drew laughter from the people around him.
"Hmph, short-sighted! Why are you just a little bit of a person? We can't play with the enemy in our own territory, and besides, we're fighting across borders now. Ben Shuai came to ask you, do you know how many troops Shen Guo has dispatched? Do you know how to do it? You know that you are brute force, Ben Shuai told you, refuse the spies to report, Shen Guo sent 350,000 troops this time, they want to wipe out the living force of Yan State in one fell swoop, why, can you fight five? Do you think you have played in the summoner's canyon? As a leading general, you don't know how to think carefully, for the soldiers below, you blindly pursue fame, is it useful?"
The generals were so speechless that Bai Qi was training, and they all pulled their heads, because Bai Qi was right, they were a little arrogant by the training during this time, and now they are entering the real war time, not the time when they are still training in the barracks, and they will be wiped out here.
"Report, Greetings, a team of men has appeared in front, numbering about 50,000 people!"
"Do you see who the other party is?"
"I didn't see it clearly, but I just saw a word on the other party's flag. ”
"Oh, you go down, it should be General Zhang Liao of the Qilin Legion. Go, go and meet them. ”
"Is it General Zhang Liao who came from the front?" Bai Qi asked, standing in front of the army.
"Is it General Bai Qi?" replied. After receiving the reply, the two Zhang Liao brothers quickly dismounted and walked over to Bai Qi.
"General Zhang, you are here, come on, let's go in and talk. ”
"General Bai, thank you for your hard work. ”
"General Zhang, now that the two armies of you and I have been merged into one, we can now start discussing our march route and defensive deployment. ”
"General Bai, we completely agree, we have to complete the task assigned by Your Majesty as soon as possible, otherwise you and I will go to see Your Majesty. ”
"Death, I'm not afraid, but I don't want to die where I want, if I want to die, I have to fight with those so-called first-class empires, break my wrists and die, I don't want to die because of this so-called Shen Kingdom!"
"Two marshals, I have a proposal, I don't know if it's feasible?" Zhang Yide interjected next to him.
"Oh, this general can say whatever he wants, why do you soldiers pay attention to frankness, don't hide it. ”
"Two marshals, you see, after these two teams are combined, we are a super large team, the so-called order is forbidden, the military is in one place, this must have a leader, I think we should first set a leading general, so that it is easy to distribute military affairs and give orders. It cannot be in an army where someone obeys orders and someone ignores military orders, so that the two armies are not greater than two. ”
"Your Majesty didn't say who listened to whom after our two legions were combined! In this way, the 50,000 men of our Vermilion Bird Legion are at the disposal of General Zhang, including me. I'm not a generalissimo now, I'm a leading general. ”
"No, General Bai, you will be the general, you have a clear mind and flexible thinking, you will be the leading general, I will be the leading general, I am only suitable for charging into battle, not suitable for commanding generals. "The two of you push me and push me, both of them are pushing the position of this leading general to someone else.
"Eh, if you want me to say, you two don't want you to push me, just give me the position of this general, you don't want to be this general, then I'll do it. ”
Bai Qi and Zhang Liao both turned around and gave Zhang Yide a big white eye, just your temper is like a barrel full of gunpowder, a violent temper that will explode when it encounters sparks, and let you be a general, then these 100,000 good sons and daughters don't want to have a peaceful life.
In the end, the two pushed back and forth, or Bai Qi served as the commander of this army, in Zhang Liao's words, only Bai Qi, who seeks progress in stability, is suitable for the general of this army. Bai Qi couldn't shirk it, so he had to take the post of general, and at the same time let Zhang Liao serve as the deputy general, after all, the two armies were combined, and there was no emperor's will, and there was no order from the military department.
Then the two led 100,000 troops through Qishan and marched along the official road of the Yan Kingdom. At about noon on the third day, the three armies arrived not far from the place agreed with Murong Fu, Bai Qi ordered the troops to stop and repair, and then summoned the generals to the camp of the Chinese army to discuss matters. Bai Qi spread the map of the army on the table, and said to the generals, "Generals, this is where we are at the moment, this is the current location of the army of Shen State, let's talk about their respective opinions!" Bai Qi pointed to the two locations on the map.
"According to me, I will directly lead people to rush up and kill them without leaving a piece of armor. Zhang Yide, who was still hot-tempered, said.
"Reckless, do you know how many people are on the other side? Do you know that the army of the Yan Kingdom behind us will not take this opportunity to stab us in the back?" the other general standing next to Zhang Yide retorted.
"General Lin said to the point, this time the Yan State borrowed troops from our country, whether their real purpose is to let us help repel the Shen State that invaded their land, or to unite with the Shen State to deal with our Xin Han State. Zhang Liao suddenly thought of it, and then expressed the worry in his heart.
"Your Majesty should have taken this into account, otherwise Your Majesty would not let us depend on the situation. The key is that even if they have a conspiracy and conspiracy, we have to break out, if Shen Guo's invasion of Yan is true, and we help Yan Guo repel the enemy who invaded them, they will owe our country a great favor, if they join forces with Shen Guo to trap Xin Han State, then we just use this opportunity to attack Yan and Shen. Bai Qi stood in the middle and said.
"General Bai, what is the purpose of our garrison here, this is very close to the army of Shen State, I'm afraid it won't be long before we will be discovered. Zhang Liao asked.
"It's because it's very close to Shen's army, which gives us the best chance of getting off, you see, with this ten miles of rapid march north, we will bypass Shen's front army and insert directly into the rear of their Chinese army, so that our chances of victory will be a little higher. "Along the way, Bai Qi has been studying the map, with 100,000 people against 300,000 people, he is at the biggest disadvantage in terms of numbers, not counting the reinforcements of Shen State, and Yan Guo is still holding back Shen Guo's army in the front, then it is possible to score five or five points.
"General Bai, do you mean that we are attacking the army of the Shen Kingdom?"