Chapter 416: Peak Loop
Wang Ben was stunned when he learned that the follow-up troops were defeated by Zhang Er one after another, and he was in an unbelievable mood for the defeat of the 70,000 Qin army under the multi-way attack of the 100,000 Zhao army, after all, the reputation of the Qin army for good warfare was not boasted, but the reputation established after the Warring States Shang Dynasty changed the law.
"Defeated? Defeated by a so-called scribe with the newly armed Zhao army? ”
In an instant, not only Wang Ben, but also the generals of the Qin army under the Huguan Pass were all dizzy, and as soon as the follow-up troops were defeated, their cavalry of 20,000 people became a lone army, and there was an army of 100,000 people in front of the Huguan Pass to block the road, and it seemed that it was a bit bad to continue to stay in Huguan?
Wang Ben and other generals of the Qin army felt incredulous, and the kings and courtiers of the Zhao State in Handan, and even the Zhao people who heard that Zhang Er had defeated hundreds of thousands of Qin troops in front of them, they all looked dumbfounded after hearing this.
Zhao Wangxi couldn't guess how Zhang Er defeated hundreds of thousands of Qin troops, and it seemed that the Qin army was not as many as tens of thousands, so he thought that the news was conveyed incorrectly, and it was the news from behind Wuchen that confirmed that Zhang Er had indeed defeated the Qin army, but not as many as tens of thousands, only more than 70,000 Qin troops.
When Zhao Wangxi was excited by the news of Zhang Er's victory, he agreed directly without thinking about it, after all, there were only 20,000 Qin troops outside Huguan, and Wuchen used 70,000 people to fight, even if he couldn't win, he wouldn't be defeated.
The Wuchen in Huguan was annoyed because Zhang Er bypassed the Handan center and asked the Huguan defenders to attack in the form of orders, they were both commanders of the first army, and they were considered to be the same level according to their ranks, and the Wuchen was not Zhang Er's subordinate at all, and Zhang Er's tone of command was too inattentive to people.
Wu Chen was unhappy, but he knew very well that now was a good time to defeat Wang Ben, so he also replied to Zhang Er, saying that he would go out to face the battle.
Zhang Er invited the military ministers, and the military ministers also agreed to switch the troops. But the two seemed to have forgotten something, that is, they agreed on the timing of sending troops, and they did not tell each other how to fight.
As a scribe leading soldiers, Zhang Er may have really not paid attention, but how could a military minister who was born with a soldier have such negligence? In the final analysis, Zhang Er really doesn't have much talent and common sense to lead troops, and Wuchen doesn't want to sit on the position of Zhang Er as the leader in this battle.
Obviously, the follow-up troops of the Qin army are finished, and Wang Ben's Qin army in Huguan has become a lone army. What is a lone army? It is a piece of fat meat, and eating it will not only increase your reputation but also grow stronger.
The 20,000 cavalry of the Qin army brought nearly 60,000 war horses over, and when Wuchen defended Taiyuan County, he was too impressed by the assault ability of the Qin cavalry, and he kept building a cavalry army in the Zhao state. However, Zhao Guo had just been reinstated, and he didn't have the financial resources to buy horses, in fact, even if he purchased horses, it would take time to train them into war horses, so the formation of cavalry was also dragged and dragged into a matter of no news.
Wang Ben's lone army has more than 60,000 war horses, how can the military ministers not be moved?
Wuchen has been paying attention to Zhang Er's movements, waiting for Zhang Er to lead the army to block Wang Ben's way back, and at the same time, he has been sending troops to attack and harass Wang Ben, making it difficult for Wang Ben to clean up and withdraw his troops.
To be honest, although Wang Ben was surprised and angry when he learned that all the follow-up troops had been beaten out of Shangdang County, he was not very worried about his situation. They're all cavalry. If you can't beat it, you still don't have a problem if you want to run.
What Wang Ben is thinking about now is how to redeem the influence of the defeat of the pawns, he did not go to the battle without asking for instructions, and the lack of instructions here includes the Xianyang Center and the top boss Xu Yan, if he does not redeem the defeat. It doesn't matter if Xu Yan is there, but Xianyang is definitely not going to be able to explain it.
The general Wuchen of the Huguan guard is calculating Wang Ben, and he wants to calculate with Zhang Er, who is not very happy, why doesn't Wang Ben want to set up a game here to save the defeat?
On the entire battle situation in Shangdang County. The 70,000 foot soldiers of the Qin army died, those who fled, and those who were captured were captured, Zhang Er took the remaining 70,000 Zhao troops from several battles to march towards Huguan at a speed that was not fast or slow, and the generals and military ministers of Huguan were staring at the movements of Wang Ben's headquarters and Zhang Er's army.
Wu Chen came from a humble background. He has been looking for opportunities to make himself famous all over the world, and Jinyang has made a little reputation in the first battle, but the credit has been taken by Zhang Er. He knew very well that he had gained further political prestige in Zhao by blocking Wang Ben in Huguan, and now what he lacked was to defeat Wang Ben's headquarters and give himself a stronger prestige.
The military minister, who had been paying attention to the movements of Zhang Er's army, was hesitant when he saw that Wang Ben had no signs of pulling out for the time being, but the movements of Zhang Er's army that he was concerned about seemed to be a little wrong?
According to reason, what Zhang Er should do now is to block Wang Ben's retreat route, and after contacting Wuchen's side, he will encircle Wang Ben from two directions, which is the battle plan with the best chance of winning. But Zhang Er, a new famous general, didn't know what the hell he was thinking, not only did Wang Ben not arrange troops to encircle and chase and intercept the troops on the withdrawal route, but even those Shangdang County and Guizhou capitals that could have been comforted for their own use did not soothe, but rushed to Huguan like a fool.
Wu Chen, who found that Zhang Er seemed to be starting to make a faint move again, was so angry that he kept jumping to his feet, and the "again" here confirmed that Zhang Er was not the first time to make a faint move.
When guarding Jinyang, Wuchen proposed a lot of useful Jianyi, if Jinyang was done according to Wuchen's Jianyi, he could hold on for at least half a month, but Zhang Er stubbornly held his opinion and did not adopt it, so that Jinyang, who could be defended for a while longer, soon fell.
Wu Chen was very helpless after jumping his feet, he tried to send someone to inform Zhang Er, reminding Zhang Er that he should send troops to block Wang Ben's retreat route, and kindly hinted in which direction Wang Ben would withdraw if he retreated.
The newly promoted general Zhang Er was furious when he received a notice from Wuchen. Who is he? It was a famous general and famous soldier of Zhao who defeated the 70,000 tiger wolf Qin army with 100,000 new soldiers, how to use soldiers and need Wuchen, a guy from a humble background, to give advice? Not only did he not take the Wuchen's Jianyì, but he also humiliated the people sent by the Wuchen, and then continued to swagger and continue to march towards Huguan in a posture that no one was in his eyes.
The people sent by Wuchen turned around, and he was happy to learn Zhang Er's attitude. His construction is out of public intentions, and no one can say that he is overstepping his authority. Since the new celebrity disagreed, not only did he not adopt the correct opinion, but also humiliated the person who was sent, then no matter what bad things happened next, it had nothing to do with him.
Originally, Wang Ben, who was more or less worried that Zhao Guoguo would send troops to block the way back, was relieved after hearing the return of the scout, Zhang Er's actions did not exceed Wang Ben's expectations, and the role of celebrities in the army is a bad thing rather than a success.
The so-called ideal is to conjecture according to one's own ideas, not to refer to the actual situation, and to take it for granted that everything will happen according to one's own imagination.
Wang Ben has fought with Zhang Er, and he knows very well that Zhang Er has no ability to lead troops at all. Recently, he has also figured out how the follow-up troops were defeated, it is nothing more than the soldiers robbing the field, and the gap between the various departments is too large, so that it is difficult to get in touch without prevention and snowball back to Taiyuan County.
There are not too many Qin soldiers who were really killed or captured, and Wang Ben can see from the defeat that there are nearly 50,000 soldiers who returned to Taiyuan County that Zhang Er's ability to lead troops is really poor enough, otherwise under the absolute advantage at that time, which general of the unified army would let an enemy army that could not get in touch with each other and did not have the slightest advantage, but was beheaded more than 8,000 and captured and not more than 10,000.
Just when Zhang Er pulled his troops and marched to Huguan, the military ministers planned how to make great achievements, and when Zhao Guo was waiting for the news of the annihilation of Wang Ben's headquarters at the front, Wang Ben staged an unexpected and reasonable thing.
Taking advantage of a dark and windy day at night, Wang Ben, who had been ready for a long time, left some of the suspicious soldiers, and took the main force of the horse's hoof cloth to discredit the path through Tunliu (eldest son), annihilated the defenders who stayed in Tunliu (the eldest son), and then made a big turn to pounce on the 10,000 vanguard troops that Zhang Er had already arrived around Xiangyuan, and almost did not make much effort to disperse the 10,000 Zhao troops who could not be prevented, Zhang Er had not received the news of the defeat of Xiangyuan, and Wang Ben ran non-stop to the headquarters of Zhang Er, who was also unfortified.
It is conceivable that Zhang Er, who was high-spirited and felt that the soldiers should be restrained as soon as they arrived at Wang Ben, what kind of expression he had when he encountered the main cavalry of Wang Ben's headquarters.
Wu Chen only found out that the Qin army camp outside Huguan was wrong when it was dawn, and waited for him to send an army to test the truth.
"It's all gone?"
Wu Chen has been sending people to closely monitor Wang Ben, but you must know that it is a cold winter that can freeze people to death, and whether Zhao Zu, who is monitoring the Qin army's camp, can fulfill his duties faithfully depends on keeping warm and whether he will be sleepy.
As a result, Wu Chen found that the Qin army had already cut off Zhao Zu, who was in charge of surveillance, when he went to the camp to be empty, and it was useless, so he hurriedly sent scouts to investigate the movements of Wang Ben's headquarters, but the scouts failed to find out Wang Ben's movements, but they showed Zhang Er's tragic situation the truth.
Zhao Guo's new famous general and Zhang Er, who has a long-standing reputation and the title of a famous man, lost 50,000 of the 70,000 army overnight, and the remaining 20,000 still dodged because he walked too slowly and did not get too close to Huguan.
Losing the movements of Wang Ben's department, the military ministers were all infantry troops, and the military ministers did not whimsically go to pursue Wang Ben after hearing that Zhang Er was almost all finished overnight, and could only regret that the war horses that were about to arrive were all gone, and looked at the sky for a long sigh.
"It's a good situation, if General Zhang Ming can listen to my advice and block Wang Ben, and the two armies will cooperate with the encirclement and blockade combined, even if they can't win a big victory, they won't lose the good situation brought by Wang Ben's mistake." Wu Chen really sighed in vain. (To be continued......)