Chapter 159: One Defeat and One Victory

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It has been almost two and a half months since the last time the three tribes of Ouyue, Guiyue, and Minyue invaded Nanjun together, and the deviation from Lu Zhe's guess that they would come to retaliate would not exceed a month.

Nanjun is currently a large construction site, there are projects under construction everywhere, at this time, if Baiyue kills in, it will inevitably cause devastating damage, so the defenders of Nanjun can only choose to take the initiative.

The Yangtze River is a moat, but it also depends on the strength of the two sides. At present, there is no naval army in Nanjun, and there are no Baiyue people. The comparison of strength between the two sides is very fair, so the Yangtze River cannot be regarded as a moat. In the absence of a naval army, the Yangtze River should actually be said to be a flaw for the defending side, as long as the enemy is willing to take a detour, it can cross the river to attack, and it is the kind of sneak attack that cannot be prevented.

At present, Lu Zhe does not have enough strength to develop a water army, and the Yangtze River cannot be used for the time being.

A set of operational plans that had been repeatedly revised was put on the table, and it became a top priority to take the initiative to attack Qianzhong County, seize the resources and population of Qianzhong County to restore the vitality of Nanjun, and create a necessary buffer zone.

Now that Linyuan City has been successfully captured, and the auxiliary troops led by the communist lieutenant have also opened a road, it is not so smooth, and even a little rudimentary because of the hurry. However, this road connects Linyuan with Nanjun, and the necessary war materials are being transported back and forth.

The auxiliaries would bring food and prisoners back from Linyuan, and they would come to Linyuan from Gangneung with weapons, meat, arrows, and other items.

The improvised road crossed two waterways, and in the course of which it crossed about twenty-five miles of forested territory, and it became a very important line of communication. There were 3,000 soldiers who were transferred from Jiangling by Lu Zhe to guard them in sections.

The grain on the side of Linyuan City was sent back day and night by the requisitioned wagons, and although there was no proclamation or anything like that to announce the victory of the expedition, the steady stream of grain brought back spoke for itself. Gangneung has also become a sea of joy, they are praising the good fighting of the army, and they are happy to have captured a large amount of food.

It may be a bit illusory or exaggerated, but the steady stream of food sent back has boosted the morale of the soldiers and civilians in Nanjun, and in addition, the cash-for-work has saved many people from starvation, and the army has fulfilled its responsibility to protect the head of the Qianqian during the turmoil, and a kind of cohesion is sublimating.

Yan Bi, who stayed in Nanjun to be in charge of civil affairs, not only did he personally preach Lu Zhe's wisdom among the people. He also sent countless people to spread the word that the stability and safety of Nanjun was the credit of Lu Zhe. The people also agree that Nanjun is indeed Lu Zhe's efforts, and many people have also joined in advocating and singing.

Su Lie, the guard general who stayed in Nanjun, was a little stunned when he learned that Yan Bi was doing that, and he found Yan Bi and said: "You shouldn't do this, this is harming the main general." ”

Yan Bi knew what he was doing, and he explained to Su Lie: "Now is a very opportune time, Changsha County, Hengshan County, Lujiang County and even Baiyue people will be killed, and the people of Nanjun should be gathered to survive the next crisis." ”

Su Lie said very bluntly: "It's a good thing to want to unite the people's hearts, but if you concentrate the people's hearts on the main general, even if you have to do so, you will be held accountable by Xianyang." ”

Yan Bi disapprovingly refuted: "A large part of the reason for this southern chaos is precisely from the Qin State itself. The head of Nanjun Qian, who had suffered greatly, was in a stage of disappointment with the Qin State. Under this premise, no amount of effort can be made to summarize the people's will in the Qin State, and it may backfire. ”

Su Lie is a martial artist, and he doesn't have too good eloquence to argue with Yan Bi. In the end, he could only write a letter to remind Lu Zhe, who was in Linyuan City.

Nanjun did cause great turmoil because of the careless layout of Qin, and Nanjun was not included in the territory of Qin for a long time, so he really had no sense of belonging to Qin.

Yan Bi also saw this point and put what he wanted into reality, of course he knew that if he did that, if he was known by Xianyang, he would definitely be suspicious of Lu Zhe. And that's exactly what he wanted.

Lu Zhe had countless people alive during this time. has a certain prestige among the people, and Yan Bi did those things very smoothly under the premise of constantly sending back food, and for a while, Lu Zhe was implanted with ideas such as trust and worship in the heart of Qianshou.

The war in Qianzhong County was in full swing. Ji Bu had been attacking the granary with 10,000 defenders in the mountains for four days, Wu Liang's troops had been increased to 10,000 and plundered, and the Gongwei was leading his auxiliaries to strengthen the Linyuan city wall.

Many things are divided in an orderly manner, and there are natural and unsmooth ones.

There are 10,000 defenders in the granary built on a small hill ten miles away from Linyuan City, this granary is built on the mountainside, and the terrain is easy to defend and difficult to attack. Ji Bu led the army to arrive, and immediately felt bitter when he saw the terrain, there were not too many trees in the mountains, but there were many boulders, and the Baiyue people only opened a narrow road to connect to the granary halfway up the mountain.

Ji Bu's original battle plan was to take advantage of his unpreparedness to attack and occupy it, but the Baiyue defenders here were very different from the defenders of Linyuan, and the defenders of the granary knew that there was an enemy attack on the road, and they only panicked a little and began to be on guard. Judging from that posture, they were much more elite than the defenders of Linyuan City.

The first assault was only about three hundred steps away from the granary halfway up the mountain, and he was forced down by the rolling stones, and Ji Bu saw that the first assault could not be successful, and organized a second one. This time, it was still a dense body of rolling stones, causing great casualties, and it was unable to attack.

Seeing that the strong attack failed, Ji Bu tried every means to lure out the defenders and annihilate them, but no matter what they did, the defenders of the granary just held on, and the battle was deadlocked.

Although Ji Bu did not boast to Lu Zhe about going to the sea before leaving, he still felt embarrassed, and even in the stalemate stage, he was ashamed to ask the main general for reinforcements.

After losing nearly 1,000 men and gaining nothing, and unable to lure the enemy army down, Ji Bu, who saw that the war had reached a stalemate, was a little difficult to ride for a while.

Just when Ji Bu's thinking was in confusion because of embarrassment and anxiety, the military marquis Chen Xuan made a suggestion.

Chen Xuan proposed to send scouts to check if there were any roads up the mountain in other parts of the forest, and Ji Bu felt justified after hearing this.

The scout found a rugged trail in the back mountain, according to the description, the trail is not easy to walk, the back mountain is still a rocky environment, the width of the trail is only less than two meters, and the Baiyue people also set up a few checkpoints on the way.

Ji Bu, who gradually regained his composure, gritted his teeth: "First detour a group of elite troops to the back mountain, and still attack the front to attract the enemy." Roundabout past troops wait for the enemy to be distracted by the head-on attraction before killing! ”

Chen Xuan opened his mouth and swallowed back the words that came to his mouth. He felt that this was still not a good way to go, and that it would cost a lot of casualties.

Of course, Ji Bu knew that the road would be costly, but under the premise that he could not set fire to the mountain and could not cut off the water source of the enemy troops on the mountain in a short time, that was already the only way.

There were only about 4,000 soldiers left, and about 1,000 troops were divided for Chen Xuan to take on a detour, and after two days of stalemate, Ji Bu led his troops to attack the front.

Bai Yue, who guarded the granary, was still on the defensive for the first period of time, and successfully repelled several attacks by the Qin army. Later, he found that the number of enemy troops under the mountain was somewhat less, and guessed that the Qin army was going to attack from the back mountain.

Chen Xuan, who made a detour back to the back mountain, found that the number of defenders of the trail had decreased, thinking that he was attracted by Ji Bu's past, so he first sent more than 100 people to touch it. After solving the two levels, the general attack was launched, but I didn't expect that a large number of enemy troops suddenly appeared at the fourth level, and for a while the Qin army was caught off guard, and only about 300 people, including Chen Xuan, fled back to the bottom of the mountain.

After solving the Qin army in the back mountain, the Baiyue defender pretended to be unfavorable to let the troops led by Ji Bu attack less than fifty steps away from the granary fence, and at the moment when the Qin army thought that the enemy army did not have a rolling stone to attack this time, the fence was directly knocked over by the thick rolling stone, and then the Qin army in a low position was crushed all the way by the bloody wind and rain, and the Baiyue defender opened the gate and launched a counter-charge.

This time, Jibu paid an unprecedented price for his mistakes, and a whole 5,000 soldiers were killed all over the field. When the defeated army fled back to Linyuan City, there were less than 1,000 people left.

At the time of Ji Bu's rout, Lu Zhe, who was in Linyuan, had already been rewarded by the scouts, and after Lu Zhe lost his temper, he personally led 6,000 out of Linyuan City and stopped Ji Bu's rout army halfway.

The two forces met about five miles from the granary. Ji Bu, whose clothes and armor were torn, immediately knelt down and pleaded guilty when he saw Lu Zhe.

Lu Zhe, who was riding on a war horse, looked at the remnants of the army who had lost their helmets and abandoned their armor, and then looked at Ji Bu, who was kneeling on the ground and looked very ashamed.

Ji Bu knelt on the ground and lowered his head: "That's Chen Xuan's headquarters sent to attack the back mountain." ”

Lu Zhe was very angry in his heart. But now was obviously not the time to pursue it, so he learned about the course of the battle, and asked: "Did the defenders chase down when you were defeated?" ”

Although the defeat was very bad. Looking back, it was very shameful and painful, but Ji Bu still thought about it for a moment and said: "The enemy has been chasing and killing for about two miles with a countercharge. ”

Lu Zhe smiled after hearing this, and he looked around at the officers around him: "So...... Our army will win! ”

There was no superfluous nonsense, Lu Zhe ordered Ji Bu to rest the rout of the headquarters in place, first met Chen Xuan, who had retreated, and then asked about the battle.

Knowing that Chen Xuan proposed a sneak attack from the back mountain, but unfortunately he was ambushed, Lu Zhe took a serious look at Chen Xuan, who was embarrassed but not panicked: "I'll give you another thousand men and horses, this time you still go back to the back mountain to wait for the opportunity to sneak attack." ”

Chen Xuan looked left and right, but did not find Ji Bu's figure, he saw that the Lord was looking at him with blazing eyes, and his eyes were full of encouragement. At that moment, he straightened his waist and saluted loudly: "Hey! ”

When the more than 6,000 Qin troops continued to march towards that mountain range, they encountered thousands of Yue defenders who had won the battle and were cheering loudly. These defenders didn't expect the Qin army to go and return, probably because they had won a battle and looked down on the Qin army, thinking that they had more than 5,000 people on their side who could defeat the Qin army that invaded again, so they actually launched a charge with "wow, ahhhh

If LΓΌ Zhe's choice to continue the attack was an attempt, then when he saw the thousands of Vietnamese troops who saw that they had taken the initiative to charge instead of retreating to the favorable terrain of the mountains, he immediately realized that the enemy had been careless because of a great victory.

Without any nonsense, when thousands of enemy troops were charging, Lu Zhe personally blew the order for the vine armor soldiers to attack.

"Woo woo woo-" in the sound of the horn, waiting for two thousand rattan armor soldiers to take the lead in stepping in with sharp axes to make the Baiyue people see clearly, the Baiyue defenders for the first time saw the Qin army covered under the rattan armor, they were in a state of confidence because they picked up a lot of metal weapons of the Qin army, and collided with the rattan armor soldiers in this mentality, and strangely found that the sharp weapon in their hands could not break the armor woven by the plant. When he was stunned, he had been cut down by the sharp axe of the vine armor soldier.

The rattan armor is tempered with tung oil, and when it is cut down or stabbed by a sharp blade, it will slide the blade away, and if you want to deal effective damage, a heavy blunt weapon is much more effective than a sharp blade. Also, the weakness of the rattan armor is also very prominent, that is, this type of army is very afraid of fire.

At present, there is obviously no chance for the Baiyue defenders to set fire, but the two thousand rattan armor soldiers completely suppressed the five thousand or so Baiyue defenders to fight, waiting for the horn of "woo-woo-woo-" when it was blown again, the Baiyue defenders found that many Qin troops wearing leather armor and holding small round shields and short swords rushed up again, and they hesitated to turn around. A trumpet of "Woo woo woo" was sounded again, and this time a large number of spearmen, spearmen, and archers were seen. They didn't hesitate at all for a moment, and only the idea of "running away" was left in their hearts.

Lu Zhe saw that he was defeated just by touching the enemy army, and immediately laughed "hehehe", his idea before setting off was that the Baiyue defenders would inevitably relax if they won once, so the defensive position must be incomplete, and if they wanted to try to attack again, they would retreat if they couldn't do it. I didn't expect to encounter thousands of hundreds of Yue defenders who were picking up weapons and looking extremely excited on the way, which was an unexpected surprise, and I thought to myself, "Just annihilate this enemy army can weaken the number of mountain defenders." Just as the order was given to form an encirclement, the enemy army collapsed.

There are a lot of tactics that can be replicated over and over again. Such as cover up tactics!

In addition to Chen Xuan's troops to make a detour, the 5,000 soldiers led by Lu Zhe personally pursued the Baiyue rout all the way to the foot of the mountain range, and naturally took advantage of the enemy's rout army to flee to the mountain and follow.

Named Luo Shao Baiyue Shou will be a member of the Ouyue tribe, and according to legend, he is a descendant of Goujian, the king of Yue. It was he who was responsible for guarding this granary called Wuling Hill. After he successfully repelled the Qin army's attack, he really didn't expect the Qin army to kill, waiting for his own troops sent to pursue to collapse and come back, and it was too late to reorganize the defense.

Luo shakes and shakes or shakes, and there is no more. Therefore, it can also be called shaking the mother. If there is no mistake in history, it will be the Dongou King of the Western Han Dynasty, the eighth grandson of the Yue King Wujiang, and now he is one of the leaders of the Ouyue people at this stage.

Because of Lu Zhe's appearance out of thin air. It is estimated that it is impossible for Luo Yao to follow Mei Kai to revolt with Fu Huyi, after all, Mei Kai is now mixing very well under Lu Zhe, and history is impossible for Mei Kai, Luo Shao, and Fu Husheng to lead the army to follow Poyang and order Wu Rui to enter the war to destroy Qin according to the original direction.

Lu Zhe naturally didn't know what would have happened in the original history, his eyes were fixed on the battle that took place halfway up the mountainside, and when he saw the enemy army above pushing down the rolling stone despite the mixing of the two armies, the thick round stone rolled down all the way down and turned blood-red, his face couldn't help but twitch.

"The guards above are ruthless enough, but they can't change anything." Lu Zhe saw that the troops who rushed forward had not yet entered the enemy village, and there was already a sound of fighting halfway up the mountain, how could he not have thought that Chen Xuan had successfully killed him from the back mountain. He summoned Wei Han over and instructed: "Let the soldiers above pay attention to beware of enemy dogs jumping over the wall and setting fire to food." ”

Almost as soon as the words fell, several pillars of smoke rose from the granary halfway up the mountainside, and Luo Shao saw that he could no longer hold the granary and really set fire to the grain!

Lu Zhe didn't know how much grain there would be on the road, but the scale of the granary would definitely not be less than that in Linyuan City. Seeing a pillar of smoke rising, he didn't care about the danger, so he immediately dismounted and rushed up the mountain.

The wing flail was startled when he saw Lu Zhe personally rushing up, he knew too well that Lu Zhe didn't have much force, so he hurriedly led five hundred armor soldiers to chase after him, and protected Lu Zhe all the way to the halfway up the mountain.

The situation in the grain village is relatively chaotic, the people and horses on both sides are mixed together and fighting each other, but from the situation, the Baiyue defenders have been defeated, only about 3,000 Baiyue people are still stable in Luo Shao's shouting and resisting, and the rest have basically been divided into several pieces and are being slaughtered.

The expression on Luo Shao's face was rather bitter, he felt that he was still careless, and he didn't organize a new defense immediately after the victory. The act of sending the pursuing troops made him even more annoyed, although he had already smashed his own troops with a ruthless heart, but the lack of nearly half of the manpower was not the same as the defensive power of the 10,000 defenders in the heyday. He had already made a lot of reasonable arrangements, but it was a pity that no matter how hard he resisted, he was still killed by the Qin army.

Due to the relative haste, the Baiyue defenders set fire to the grain in a bit of a hurry, and they only had time to set fire to four or five granaries before they were squeezed and contracted. However, it is enough to light four or five, the wind is strong in the middle of the mountain, and the granary is full of flammable materials. It only takes a little time for the fire to get bigger.

Lu Zhe, who was halfway up the mountain, was relieved to see that only a few granaries were ignited, he would not stupidly ask people to find water to put out the fire, but first commanded the troops to squeeze the remaining defenders' living space smaller, and then let the idle troops directly remove everything near the burning granary, and then let people bring water to wet all the granaries near the fire source.

After a while, there was enough space for the carriage, and the area that might have been ignited became wet again, and the fire was finally brought under control.

Luo Shao didn't fail to see Lu Zhe, who was very conspicuous, as early as when he saw Lu Zhe who kept giving orders, he led his subordinates to try to kill him, but unfortunately he couldn't break through the encirclement of the Qin army. Due to the failure to rush a few times, it lost a lot of manpower.

Those Baiyue defenders who were divided had either surrendered or had died in battle, and the Baiyue defenders who were squeezed into smaller and smaller space and had no way to retreat were already less than two thousand, Luo Shao knew that the defeat of the Dao was inevitable, and sighed and shouted: "The main general of the Qin army dares to talk to thousands of people!" ”

At this time, Ji Bu's rectification of the defeated army finally followed. To tell the truth, he was surprised when he came to the bottom of the mountain to see that his troops had successfully entered it, and a strong sense of shame also arose in his heart.

Jibu attacked for almost four days, and the greatest result was to within fifty paces of the granary fence, and it was that time that caused an irreparable rout. He saw that Lu Zhe had only attacked once. It's just that one time, I actually took down the granary, and the embarrassment in my heart can be imagined.

Luo Shao was still shouting loudly, and his expression became more and more ugly when he saw that the main general of the Qin army did not come out.

Lu Zhe was not reluctant to come forward to talk. Instead, he was nervously mobilizing manpower to extinguish the still burning granary, and now how could he pay attention to the Baiyue defenders who could be annihilated at any time.

Almost subconsciously, Ji Bu saw the Baiyue man who was shouting loudly for the Qin army general to come out and speak, and knew that Lu Dao was the guard of this granary. His eyes were fixed on Luo Shao, and he couldn't wait to go up and stab this enemy defender who had defeated him miserably. But when I think of something, it seems very decadent.

It took Luo Shao a quarter of an hour to scream, and Lu Zhe, who had already contained the fire, knew what the Baiyue guards were doing.

In this era, the commanders of the two armies invited to speak, which was nothing more than two intentions. One is to scold each other before the war, intending to use language to defeat the morale of the other party; One is more special. In fact, when you can still resist but can't change the final occupation, you ask the lord of the other party to negotiate the surrender in the future.

Lu Zhe came to the front of the battlefield under the protection of his own soldiers such as the wing flail, and Luo Shao couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief when he saw that the main general of the Qin army had finally come.

The situation on the battlefield is already very clear, the Baiyue defenders basically have no possibility of turning the tables, and the Qin army has already extinguished the already small fire.

When Luo Shao saw Lu Zhe approaching, he thought that he was willing to come out to negotiate the conditions for surrender, but he was about to step forward when he saw the main general of the Qin army stop again, talking to another Qin general.

In this situation, how could Lu Zhe guess the intention of the Baiyue guard, but he didn't know if it was a fraud. He has always insisted on not giving the enemy a chance to turn the tables, but he didn't want to be killed by a cold arrow because he went up to talk, and when he saw Ji Bu, he stopped drinking.

Lu Zhe could see the embarrassment on Ji Bu's face and the kind of decadence that could not be concealed, he did not encourage or reproach, he just said flatly: "You go up and negotiate the surrender conditions with that Baiyue guard." ”

Ji Bu thought that he would be scolded angrily, but he didn't expect Lu Zhe to send him up to talk, and he was stunned for a while.

Lu Zhe really couldn't help it when he saw that Ji Bu was stunned and didn't react, he walked over and kicked it: "Don't go yet!" ”

Ji Bu was kicked and his eyes turned red and tears flowed out, not painful but touched. At this moment, he thought to himself: "The main general did not speak ill of him because of the defeat of the cloth, but gave me such an important task, which shows how the main general is heavy, but the cloth is ......", after thinking about it, he howled and cried in front of so many people, and his gratitude to Lu Zhe in his heart was nothing to add.

Military discipline is not humane, of course Lu Zhe will be punished accordingly because of Ji Bu's defeat, and he is also disappointed because Ji Bu has betrayed his trust, but think about Ji Bu suddenly got a high position, his person has not gone through so much experience, and he is so young now, which is not in line with the strength of the generals in history.

It didn't matter what Lu Zhe's intention was when he sent Ji Bu to talk to him instead of him, he couldn't help but be stunned when he saw Ji Bu kneeling on the ground and kowtowing to him and crying, and his original disappointment turned into a bitter smile. (To be continued......)

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