Chapter Seventy-One: Hindered in the South
Feng Wang is not only a bad thing, at least for the Yan clan is good, the news spread to the south bank of the Yellow River, and all the generals are full of enthusiasm in their hearts, especially Lu Yi. Yanbei's expedition to the Xiongnu to seal the king, everyone knows that this is an outlier, but Yandong sent troops to conquer Goguryeo and Buyeo, and everyone knows that the marquis of Fengxian is known. At present, both of the Yan family are princes, and Lu Yi, who has always regarded himself as the number one general of the Yan family, knows that he is not far from being a marquis.
In fact, the hearts of the Han Emperor lost a lot of hearts in the armies of various places on the way back to the east, but the court did not know. The generals and officials who escorted them on the way back to the east, those who were alive and dead, sealed out dozens of marquis without making any great contributions, so that no one in the world was comfortable.
Some people with broad knowledge can guess that there are many reasons, and the emperor has no choice but to do it, but more people don't have the heart to think about the reasons for the wanton reward of officials, and only feel that the emperor's rewards and punishments are uneven, and the order is unclear...... In fact, where does the emperor have other methods, the land of Guanxi is due to Dong Zhuo's destruction of gold and people to mint small money, and the economy has regressed to the situation of bartering, otherwise the queen does not have to drag the cloth when fleeing, and the emperor can't even eat, where is there money and cloth as a bargaining chip to reward officials, and although the title is precious, it can only be used to appease people's hearts when there is nothing to do.
But as long as it is appeased once, the reciprocal reward will be given later, what can be equal to the title? No, there is no reward equal to the title in the world, except for blood, this is the only reward that can make commoners nobles, and no amount of money can be exchanged for money.
At the beginning of this year, even Han Fu, who had always looked down on Lu Yi, won the title of Marquis of Ting, and Lu Yi on the south bank of the Yellow River vowed to make a great contribution to Yanbei, who was named the king of Zhao.
The tragic battle for Jinan began again after the night battle on the plains. More than 20,000 soldiers and horses left Luoyin and continued to enter Jinan into the country, marching on a battlefield nearly 100 miles wide. Even in the night battle on the plains, witnessing the chaotic battle of the soldiers of the headquarters of the Luyi Army, the morale of the soldiers was still like a rainbow, but the four thousand Huns looked like frost-beaten eggplants, and they were depressed.
The whole war was full of ridicule, and Yuan's army launched a war northward at the moment when the Yan clan was in a hurry, trying to seize the Bohai Sea in Jizhou in the hope of driving Yanbei back to Youzhou in the coming year, cutting off the vast territory of the four states under Yan's control, and thus controlling the imperial court to become the first prince in the world. Yuan Shang, the supervising army, thought that his real enemy would be the main force urgently dispatched from Yanbei, but he didn't expect that the Bohai defenders would touch him with ashes just the first line of defense, and Han Meng was trapped in Leling without achieving results, but was beaten into Qingzhou by Lu Yi and occupied the entire plain.
The Huns were very easy to fight south at first, and Yanbei also said lightly, the Pingyuan battalion, the Jinan battalion, the Beihai battalion, and the nine thousand cavalry captured the three counties and held them, which did not seem difficult. Can't beat the elite men and horses under Yanbei, after all, they are from a secluded background, they are all Han border troops and follow Yanbei to fight in the north and south, the best Xianbei horses and Han soldiers are forgivable. Can't beat them, can't Lao Tzu still be able to beat the Qingzhou soldiers in the hinterland of the Han Kingdom?
Can't beat it.
The plains were defeated, and the plains battalion was dead. Now it's time to fight Jinan, how can the two thousand elders of the Jinan battalion feel good in their hearts? Not to mention the Beihai camp behind, which is 500 miles away from Beihai!
"General Xu, the scout said that the enemy army in front was garrisoned, and the cavalry could not break through, so let the Hun Beihai battalion guard the grain road behind." The harassment of the enemy scouts did not stop during the march, and the scouts of Koji continued to break through and attack the main army behind the enemy scouts, and even saw their line from a distance. "Yuan Shang's camp is forty miles to the southeast, alas, the scouts reported that the Qingzhou people intermittently dug a good plain to set up a wooden base, and then to the south is Mount Tai, and the Jinan battalion can only enter the flank of the Le'an garrison to the east...... Have you ever heard of Camp Diggers, what is that? ”
Everything they knew was that the scouts caught the secret of the enemy captives, and the prisoners outlined a lieutenant department composed of craftsmen and soldiers who were proficient in civil engineering, with no more than 3,000 personnel, carrying tools specialized in excavation and construction, and being invincible in building bridges and roads in the face of water, which was Yuan Shao's trump card in the battle with Yuan Shu and Sun Ce in the south.
Xu Huang shook his head, although the only commendable performance of the Yuan army in this war was this digging battalion that dug trenches and erected wooden barriers, but it far exceeded the entire army of the Northern Yan clan, which made him breathtaking, "Yuan Benchu was by no means good at his generation, and the digging battalion did something that was difficult for tens of thousands of people to do, and it was really difficult for our army to rush through the defense line against the enemy." It is better to set up camp and confront each other in this place where the terrain is dangerous, and wait for the Huns to detour around the country at their own leisure, in order to take advantage of the opportunity. ”
"Counting on the Huns? They can only do what we are a military marquis, they don't know the location when they are rough, they don't know how to set up camps, they don't know how to set up camps, and the Hun cavalry is brave when they fight, but they don't care about the front and back, and they are like thunder when they are powerful, and they flee in embarrassment when they are defeated. The baggage, guidance, and breaking all want you General Xu to do it for you. Lu Yi pursed his lips, and finally sighed and said: "You first lead the army to find a dangerous place and set up camp, and later I will take my personal guards to bypass the enemy scouts and see the enemy camp with my own eyes...... It is better to count on the Huns, than to count on General Tian floating on the sea! ”
Xu Huang couldn't help but show a little decadence when he heard the first half of Lu Yi, what Lu Yi said was right. He once fought against the Southern Xiongnu with Yanbei, even if it was Liu Meng, the commander of ten thousand cavalry, or Yu Fuluo and Liu Bao, who were active in the battlefield of Guanzhong, their leaders were just like bandits who did not know the art of war. To be a general depends not only on bravery, it is the matter of leading the troops to charge the subordinate generals, and the general needs not only bravery, but also the coordination of troops and horses, the arrangement of troops, the communication of baggage, astronomy and geography, and the vanguard and the rear. Like the Hun soldiers, when they had 9,000 cavalry to go south, they still had the strength to fight when they encountered the main force of the Yuan army, like the current more than 4,000 cavalry?
It can only be cited as a partial division, and the soldiers of the county without the leadership of the general still have the ability to fight, and if they fall into the battlefield alone, they can only be slowly eaten away.
However, when he heard the second half of Lu Yi's sentence, Xu Huang came to his senses and asked, "The Lord Gong is going to fight Qingzhou?" How did Xu not know? ”
"General Xu, you don't know, and you don't know either! A certain will only command the horse infantry army, but the lord has always liked to fight with a naval army when he was from Liaodong, and he will never forget it. Lu Yi looked at Xu Huang and smiled, beckoned his own soldiers Huang Zhongyi to line up, and then raised his horsewhip and pointed to the southeast direction: "The three Xiongnu Plains, Jinan, and Beihai, let Koji and General Xu fight happily, what about Donglai?" There will always be people who go to Donglai, and at this time, as long as Tian Guo lets him go to Donglai and divide his troops to attack and disturb his back, my department will have fighters to the south...... If it is a management and a management, it will be much more difficult...... Koji can't believe those two pirates, it depends on who the lord sends. ”