Chapter 305: Out of Control

After a fight, Su Lie's helmet was lost when he was hit on the head by something during the charge, and the scarf on his head didn't know when it was torn off, so he looked like a wolf with a cloak of hair.

The cavalry that came to support launched a charge against the 15,000 Chu army, in fact, there was no hard fight, and many horses were lost, but there were not many casualties.

After entering the camp, Su Lie saw that Mei Kai and the co-lieutenant were both smiling, but before he could speak, he saw Mei Kai and the co-lieutenant looking at him with an incomprehensible gaze.

"I don't know if I was smashed by something on the way." Su Lie only thought that it was his wolf appearance that made them have this kind of look.

Mei Li sighed: "You ......", he wanted to say that as the commander of the first army, how could he leave the troops and come over by himself, but Su Lie saved them anyway, and it was not appropriate to say that.

The lieutenant asked, "Who will lead the army?" ”

"Oh, there are still 30,000 foot soldiers behind who are handed over to He Yi for the time being." Su Lie didn't seem to realize the question, and replied with a big grin.

He Yi? Gongwei knew that this character seemed to be good on the side of Ye County, and was left behind by Lu Zhe in Jiujiang County, and he was a person who acted delicately and led troops steadily. However, He Yi seems to be the position of a military marquis now, and Su Lie did not hand over the army to a lieutenant in the army but to a military marquis, and it is estimated that Su Lie can do this kind of thing.

Su Lie was very arrogant but not a mindless character, and when Gongwei's frowning expression was seen, he explained: "Shu Dao, the patriarch of the Shu clan, is more familiar with He Yi. ”

More than 13,000 of the 30,000 troops were from Shu's side, and Shu said that the person who had the most contact with Su Lie outside of himself was He Yi.

In fact, the lieutenant also had the same idea as Mei Kai, Su Lie left 120,000 troops and brought cavalry, no matter how you look at it, he is not a qualified general of the army. He was also sighing in his heart, but not to Su Lie but to himself. He himself fell for Xiang Liang's trick, didn't he also put down the troops?

Danyang is now a powerful Chu army, and it seems that the main general of the Chu army is very old and spicy, and he is not a good character. Danyang has absolutely no room for error. Once the entire battle situation is lost, it will get out of control, and then the initiative of the war will be controlled by the Chu army. When the time comes, don't say anything to destroy the Chu army of Surabaya County that is heading south, it is unknown whether Lu Zhe can safely return to it.

At this stage, Xiang Zhu thought that only the 30,000 Lu Zhejun who came to support him, and he didn't know that there were 80,000 Hengshan County headquarters behind him; Mei Hong and the others did not know that the attacking troops were not only the Chu army under Surabaya County, but also the newly recruited army of Huiji County.

In terms of the entire major battle situation, including Lujiang County, Huizhang County and even Jiujiang County, so far Lu Zhe's side has lost about 110,000 troops, and the Chu army has lost about 160,000 troops.

The 110,000 losses on Lu Zhe's side are counting the 70,000 people in Huan Chu, and the losses on various battlefields are not too much. However, on the battlefield of Lujiang, not only Huan Chu lost 70,000, but Ji Bu also threw nearly 30,000 into it.

In the Lujiang battlefield, the Chu army filled in 90,000, and the losses of the garrisons in various parts of Huizhang County added up to nearly 30,000, and then the troops brought by Xiang Zhu from Surabaya County and Huiji County lost another 40,000. If it weren't for the fact that Xiang Liang forcibly pulled more than 100,000 people in Lujiang and urgently recruited 80,000 in Huiji County, it can be said that according to the total number of Chu troops before the war, which was about 250,000 troops, it had already lost 7788 in less than a month.

Both sides lost 270,000 men in a month, excluding the deserters and wounded soldiers. The number of soldiers who actually died in battle should have been nearly 100,000, which can be said to fully demonstrate the cruelty of war.

At present, the distribution of troops, Lu Zhe now has 70,000 troops regathered in Lujiang County, after Xiang Liang retreated from Lujiang. Ji Bu and Huan Chu were rushing to Huizhang County with these 70,000 people. And Lu Zhe himself moved in the direction of Danyang with 80,000 troops, and with the troops of Mei Kai, Gongwei, and Su Lie, Huizhang County had more than 143,000 people. Lu Zhe's army, which is still at the border of Jiujiang County, still has the headquarters of Hengshan County, and this army of 70,000 people should have another day to reach Danyang City. Then the total number of troops that Lu Zhe participated in the war was 280,000.

Xiang Liang's side is also frantically mobilizing troops. In addition to the 230,000 men he himself carried, Xiang Zhu had 80,000 troops in his hands. Xiang Liang had even borrowed troops from the Qi State, and Qi Wang Dan considered that if Jiujiang County was occupied by Lu Zhe, there would be a threat behind it. The state of Qi has also mobilized 80,000 Qi troops in Donghai County, and may launch a military operation against LΓΌ Zhe at any time. Then if the Qi army really went south, the total number of the Chu-Qi coalition army would be 390,000.

The war between Qin and Zhao in the Central Plains is also going on, and the main force of Xu Yan in Sanchuan County has 150,000 troops to kill Dangjun, and there is a force that is quite unlucky when the army crosses the border, that is, the Wei Wangjiao forces entrenched in Xindeng, Yunling, and Weishi.

In addition to South Korea, Wei Wangjiao is currently the smallest in the army against Qin, with a total strength of only more than 30,000 people, and the number of generals in Wei is only five people, one is Wei Bao, the younger brother of Wei Wangjiao, and the other four are the nobles of the old Wei, but looking at the expansion of Wei's power, and then looking at the Wei army's defeat to Xiang Zhu, it is estimated that the ability of those generals does not seem to be much better.

This time, Xu Yan sent an army north, because Jinyang, the capital of Taiyuan County, had been taken by Wang Ben, and the necessary troops were gathered.

Chen Yu and Wuchen of Zhao successively threw a lot of troops into Taiyuan County, but at the cost of 130,000 people, they successfully dragged Wang Ben when winter came.

In the entire battle of Taiyuan County, the Zhao army lost 130,000 yuan, and the loss of Wang Ben's department also reached more than 40,000. In some respects, a considerable part of the Zhao army's troops were farmers who had never held weapons, and only more than 50,000 were soldiers of the former Zhao State, and Wang Ben's command was a soldier allocated from the elite Great Wall Army of the Qin State, so it is difficult to say who took advantage of it.

The result that there will be 40,000 elites lost under Jinyang City is actually not too much, after all, Wang Ben is the besieging side, and the defending side has the most advantage since ancient times.

Chen Yu and Wuchen's insistence was not in vain, their bloody battle in Jinyang bought Zhao Chen time for Zhang Er and other Zhao Chen in the rear to build a curtain army and build a defensive line, but Zhao's request for help from Yan and Qi was only a verbal promise, and the promised reinforcements did not arrive.

Now, Xiang Liang borrowed troops from Qi State, and Qi Wang Dan gathered troops from Donghai County, so it can be said that Xiang Liang's move indirectly pitted Zhao State. However, even if Xiang Liang did not borrow troops from Qi State, Qi State also had nearly 100,000 troops running to Guangyang County to confront the 60,000 Yan army, and so far there was no reinforcement to support Zhao State, so it seems that Zhao State's situation is bound to be worrying.

Lu Zhe had long known that his appearance would change the direction of history, what he didn't expect was that Xiang Liang would have so much courage, and he didn't expect that his surprise attack from the waterway would be used as a reference, so that Danyang fell into a predicament.

The terrain of Huizhang County was too narrow, and there were not many roads to choose from when marching, and when Lu Zhe's headquarters was marching in the direction of Danyang, as they got closer and closer to Danyang, the attacks encountered on the road became more and more frequent.

The frequent attacks didn't make Lu Zhe think much about it a little earlier, he only thought that Xiang Liang was trying to close the distance, but a move by Xiang Liang later made Lu Zhe suspicious.

"Xiang Liang is trying to keep getting closer to us, but Xiang Liang's approach has a pattern, and he lacks the momentum to catch up frantically." Lu Zhe knew too well what the pursuit should look like, it was a kind of ferocity that wanted to bite it, and the crazy pursuit day and night was the posture that Xiang Liang should have, and although Xiang Liang was chasing quickly, it was rare to march overnight.

"The contact with Danyang has also been cut off......" Lu Zhe saw Xiang Liang's suspicious behavior only after combining many aspects, "Could it be that there is a problem between Gongwei and Mei Kai?" ”

Now they are only eighty miles away from Danyang, and there is still a Yangtze River to cross during this period, even if there is really an accident on the Danyang side, Lu Zhe does not have a good way to deal with it in a short time, what he should be worried about now is whether there are land and water troops of the Chu army on the Yangtze River, and if there is, he should deal with it in advance.

Lu Zhe wanted to set up a bureau to put Xiang Liang inside, he naturally knew that Xiang Liang could of course set up a bureau to deal with himself, the current importance of Danyang does not need too many words, and then combined with multiple directions to think, it is obvious that Danyang has become a place that the two armies must take, so it is not surprising that Xiang Liang made a deployment against Danyang.

The arrangements that should be made have been deployed by Lu Zhe a long time ago, and he can only hope that Mei Kai and the lieutenant can disobey the trust, Mei Kai will protect Danyang, and the lieutenant will be able to cooperate with Su Lie to ambush and eliminate the Chu army in Surabaya County that is heading south.

The development of the matter was obviously out of Lu Zhe's control, the marching speed of the Chu army in Surabaya County was too fast, and he did not expect that the lieutenant would leave his troops behind and want to come to him to ask for his guilt, it can be said that the whole arrangement has been out of control in two directions.

Danyang is not lost, even if there is an accident in the battle situation, but the deviation is not too much, after all, Lu Zhe is still attracting Xiang Liang according to the plan, and Huan Chu and Ji Bu are also hanging far behind Xiang Liang's headquarters from the direction of Lujiang County.

Once Danyang falls, the battle situation will evolve into the situation from Hengshan County and Jiujiang County Lu Zhe's army is separated by Xiang Zhu, Xiang Zhu and Xiang Liang Bao are sandwiched by Lu Zhe's headquarters, and at the same time, Lu Zhe's army in Hengshan County and Jiujiang County and Lu Zhe's headquarters are sandwiched by Xiang Zhu's Chu army, and Ji Bu, Huan Chu's troops and Lu Zhe's troops are sandwiched between Xiang Liang.

"It seems that ......" Lu Zhe carefully checked the map of the mountains and rivers and looked through the previous letters with Danyang and Fanyang, "You should speed up and rush to Danyang." ”

Lu Zhe must speed up, as for whether Xiang Liang will follow or not, it will depend on Xiang Liang. Otherwise, when Danyang is lost, Lu Zhe will not talk about designing Xiang Liang, and it is still a question whether he can get out!

In many cases, all the person in charge of the army can do is lay out the battle plan and try his best to complete the plan, but what kind of result will occur depends on the enemy's response in addition to his own efforts. Before the real outcome of the war, no one can really fully grasp any possible changes, if you can go according to your own will, it is not a war, but a conjecture. (To be continued......)