Chapter 256: Aftersound
The Qin army was singing, and the cavalry under Lu Zhe who were ambushed on the left and right flanks of the battlefield immediately plugged in, and what the few cavalry with only two thousand could do was to stop some of the Qin soldiers who had no time to retreat, and cooperate with the soldiers caught up by Ji Bu and Zhou Wen to fight.
From the beginning of the hour to the end of the Oriental Whitening, the real battle in the process of eliminating preparations was less than an hour, but the number of casualties produced in such a short period of time was not low.
After each collected its troops and returned to their original positions, the soldiers on Lu Zhe's side were still cleaning the battlefield, and the casualty figures counted afterwards were that the losses of the Qin army were at least more than 15,000, and the losses on Lu Zhe's side were also more than 5,000.
Most of the Qin casualties were suffered from almost saturated long-range attacks during the charge, and more than 3,000 men were stopped when they withdrew. Not many of these more than 3,000 Qin soldiers died in battle, and they were basically taken prisoner.
The largest loss on Lu Zhe's side was Su Lie's department, which entered the second lane of the Qin army, and less than 3,000 of the 6,000 people came out completely. Ji Bu's department and Zhou Wen's department each lost about 1,000 yuan each to guard the equipment unit, but Mei Hong's crossbowmen did not lose because they didn't need to go up to engage in battle.
A victory with a casualty ratio of three to one was produced under full preparation, Ji Bu, Mei Kai, Zhou Wen and others did not firmly entangle the Qin army that came out of the camp, and let most of the Qin army retreat when the main force came up, and the result was not satisfactory to be honest.
did not let go of more blood of the Qin army, in the future, these Qin troops will inevitably be members of the south, but it is a pity that no matter how unsatisfactory Lu Zhe is, it will be difficult to attract the Qin army out, and it is Lu Zhe who is unwilling to wave the army to attack the camp, so the matter can really only be confronted until the edict is issued.
After packing up the equipment and retreating to the camp, Lu Zhe did not send back the prisoners and wounded of the Qin army again free of charge, but ordered people to go to the Qin camp again to shout, saying that they exchanged the corpses and wounded of the war dead, and also notified the Qin army that the Qin army had Xianyang to issue the Qin envoy to arrive.
Losing 17,000 people again, Sima Xin's combat power was less than 50,000. He knew very well that when the war was fought, not to mention that he was unable to go south, it would not be easy to break through.
150,000 Qin troops went south and lost 40,000 successively, and this was less than a month. In fact, the loss of 40,000 is acceptable, after all, the number of war dead is actually only 13,000, and the rest are wounded, except for those who have lost limbs and are disabled, there are nearly 20,000 people who can always recover their combat strength after a period of recuperation. However, the fact that there were 40,000 sick people was a heavy blow, both to the commanders and the soldiers.
Sima Xin originally had a plan. If there is no epidemic, his plan may really succeed when Lu Zhe leads the army. The 20,000 Qin troops in the direction of Shandu have not moved, which is a deliberate arrangement he has been deliberately arranging. This plan is very simple, but it often works, his original strategy was to engage Lü Zhe's main force here, and then let the 20,000 Qin troops in the direction of Shandu directly bypass the fortress system and enter the hinterland of Nanjun to plunder and destroy, so that Lü Zhe's hinterland with 20,000 Qin troops will inevitably be unstable, and then the Qin army will have an opportunity.
Lu Zhe came with the main force, but a sudden epidemic caused Sima Xin's plan to be interrupted just when it was just executed, and at this time Sima Xin's idea was to withdraw the army and fight again in the future. Although it is a loss of some manpower and no success, but the withdrawal of troops will not be like staying here without medicinal materials and shortage of firewood, waiting for the coming day is really a very appropriate way, and it can also contain or cure the epidemic in the camp.
A series of strategies that are not wrong, because too many things have happened, Sima Xin can't really call the shots. The epidemic is not something he can control, and the withdrawal of troops is not allowed, so all that remains is to drag and test each other, and use conservative defense to find fighters.
It's got to this point. From the perspective of the current situation and the overall situation, Sima Xin's strategy is still not wrong, consolidating the camp and abandoning part of the camp. Holding on to it, similar to the deployment of defensive counterattacks, is indeed what the Qin army should do now. But obviously? A series of disadvantages had caused Sima Xin to lose the trust of his subordinates, so even as the main general, he had to make some compromises.
Lu Zhe once again sent people to talk in front of the battle, in addition to exchanging the remains of the war dead and the wounded, Xianyang also sent an edict to inform the news of the arrival of the envoy.
Naturally, there is no problem with the exchange of corpses and wounded, but what kind of exchange method should be worth the right to discuss, but it is for Lu Zhejun to notify the Xianyang delegation to issue the edict made the Qin army deeply suspicious.
"The corpses can be exchanged completely. It is not good for us to change the wounded one by one, we have more than 400 wounded of the enemy, but the enemy has nearly 10,000 wounded on our side......" Although Qin Jun was talking, his expression was a little absent-minded?
In fact, it's no wonder that Qin Jun was in a trance, the generals, including Sima Xin, were actually a little lacking in interest.
Counting the time in the early morning, the Qin army in the south has suffered three defeats, not that the Qin army has not suffered defeat, but when the battle was lost, the other party suddenly informed that there was an edict from Xianyang that the Qin envoy came to promulgate the edict of Lu Zhe's official entry into the knighthood, which is really ......
"The enemy has expressed its attitude that it will not attack again until the time comes." Although Sima Xin was depressed, he was not so decadent, and this battle was obviously a crime of non-war. Since Xianyang had already reacted, Lu Zhe expressed a truce, and the strangest thing in his mind was the exchange of wounded.
Obviously, Lu Zhe already had a general idea of the contents of the edict, and at the same time decided to accept the edict from His Majesty, so it was equivalent to saying that they would soon be out of the state of belligerence, and it was reasonable to release prisoners of war and wounded prisoners of war to each other under such a situation, so why should they be exchanged?
Although it is very unpleasant, it is estimated that by the time the angel finishes reading the edict, the two armies should be in the same camp again. The moment before the death of life, the result may be a "misunderstanding", even if it is not a misunderstanding, it will definitely become a misunderstanding. It's ridiculous, really. But they didn't have a choice.
“…… It was our incompetence that we failed to break through the South County defense. Shibuma, who had a bandage on his shoulder, said this.
"If there is no epidemic in the army...... Shao Ai glanced at Shima with an ugly face, and replied: "Otherwise, who will not ...... if the deer dies."
It's not interesting, it's already like this, and what are you talking about so much? The generals simply quieted down.
The atmosphere of the silent Chinese army tent has become very strange, not only the Chinese army's tent, but also the Qin military camp is also full of silence.
Li Liang in the wounded barracks was silent with a hint of sigh, he already knew the news of last night, and he was very puzzled by Lu Zhe's failure to send a signal for the rebels to make trouble.
Last night, Su Lie entered the second camp, and most of the Qin army's troops were transferred to the third barrier to fortify, and they were pushed up to fight in the back, and the rear camp of the Chinese army was very empty. The two flanks almost poured out to try to destroy the equipment of Lu Zhe's army, and the troops left in the camp were almost set up in the third camp. If anyone is ...... at that time It doesn't take much, as long as dozens of people set fire to the camp tents everywhere in the back camp, or successfully burn the grain and grass, then this Qin army will definitely not suffer a catastrophe, but it will definitely be greatly damaged.
I don't know if it's okay, I know that I can always see something on my face, in Li Liang's opinion, he is definitely not the only one who leans towards Nanjun, there are no less than thirty people with the wrong face he sees, as long as the signal is sent, there is still something to do. But no, the signal that should have come was never given.
Just now, Li Liang got another piece of surprised news that Xianyang sent an edict to the Qin mission. Xianyang sent an angel to Nanjun, looking for Lu Zhe, is there more surprising news than this? He didn't know the purpose of the angel, but judging from Lu Zhe's reaction, it should be a good thing for Lu Zhe.
"It seems that the shy third brother of his own family is really going to gain a firm foothold in the three counties." Li Liang secretly speculated.
Gongwei led the army to the south yesterday, and Feng Zheng and the others who came from Xianyang were naturally in the army, and they only walked fifteen miles on the first day before setting up camp.
It was not the first time Feng Zheng had come to the south, and he had no curiosity about the geography of mountains and rivers. He was thinking about what attitude he should show to face Lu Zhe all the way, and after looking at the army under the command of the communist lieutenant, he thought that Lu Zhe himself could lead the army to resist Sima Xin's 150,000 troops outside Nanjun, and decided to focus on affinity.
The Qin army's southward movement was unfavorable, to be honest, it was really unexpected by the Qin court, and the subsequent development was even more annoying and unexpected. After Zhao Gao was recalled, it is unknown what happened to the two monarchs and ministers in Xianyang Palace, and the ministers including Feng Zai, Li Si, Wang Juan, and Meng Yi were summoned.
Feng Zheng can still remember the scene at that time, and Zhao Gao didn't know what rhetoric he used to bewitch His Majesty, and even made His Majesty believe that all the calamities came from the Xiang family, and that although Lu Zhe was autonomous, it was not a big disaster, and the 150,000 troops going south would be wiped out at any time because of the epidemic, so that Lu Zhe's troops could be evacuated for the time being.
Using stratagems to allow hundreds of thousands of troops to return, any means can be used, and no one in the courtiers has any opinion on this. What made them pay attention to the emperor's strategy of using what wolf devouring and driving away the tiger was proposed, and he seemed to be very confident that he could drive Lu Zhen to attack Baiyue in the south and attack Xiang (Chu) in the east?
Where did the First Emperor get his faith? Feng Zheng didn't know, and it was estimated that except for Zhao Gao, the courtiers who were called behind didn't understand. However, they agreed to gather a large army first to exterminate those who had re-emerged in the Central Plains.
The focus on the strategy was originally the strategic deployment of the Qin State, and sending the army south was just one of the steps of the two ways of exploration, and what puzzled Feng Zheng was that Li Si and Meng Yi also agreed with the wolf-devouring and tiger-driving strategy that made Lu Zhe fight with Baiyue and the Chu people, and it seemed that the emperor was more determined under the approval of Zhao Gao, Li Si, and Meng Yi.
Was the First Emperor mediocre? No! Feng Zheng never felt that His Majesty was a mediocre monarch, but in recent years, due to his poor health, the emperor has become obsessed with the immortality that the warlock said is true.
An emperor who is not mediocre, Zhao Gao can't be bewitched no matter how much he spits out lotus flowers, right? Feng Zheng had already thought about it, and this time he was going to take a closer look at what kind of person Lu Zhe was and figure out what was going on. (To be continued......)