Chapter Seventy-Nine: The Battle of Jinyang (15)
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If you look down from above, the entire battlefield looks like a huge whirlpool centered on Jiexiu Castle. (Please search Bayi Chinese Net, the fastest updated novel website!) Batch after batch of elite soldiers marched out of the military camps in the four directions, killed Jiexiu, and then failed again and again, and retreated. Countless shouts of killing, the clashing of weapons, countless shouts, wails, and gasps converged into a rapid current, which was thrown from all sides to the center of the unfathomable whirlpool, and then was swallowed up and disappeared without a trace.
In stark contrast to this battlefield of fighting and fighting, it is thirty miles west of Jiexiu City.
There was a well-fought barracks. A whole army of 20,000 people was quietly stationed in it. No matter how fierce Jiexiu's offensive and defensive battles were, they were unmoved, like a monstrous beast ready to wait.
From time to time in the middle of the battlefield, flying horses were dispatched to report the battle situation to this military camp in the west:
"Report, our army launched an attack for the fourth time today, mobilizing 3,700 men and horses to storm the east, west and south sides of Jiexiu!"
"Report, our army reached the city wall with a cloud ladder flying tower, and Liu Qin, the general of Wuya, led 300 dead soldiers, wearing heavy armor and holding sharp blades, to break into the city and kill the enemy soldiers!"
"Report, the Jin people have a general, holding a double iron halberd, and fighting with General Liu Qin. This person is extremely brave, General Liu's offensive has been slightly frustrated, and he will not retreat after being injured, and he is full of spirit! โ
"Report, Jin general Lu Chang splashed the flying tower with fierce fire oil, and then ignited it with a rocket. General Liu had no choice but to retire, 300 dead soldiers, more than eighty percent of the dead in battle! โ
"Report, the Jin people dug a secret door in the city wall, and the halberd general led a hundred strong men to stand out from the secret door, ten swings and ten decisions, and burned more than 30 cloud ladders, our army was caught off guard, and there were heavy casualties!"
"Report, the halberd-wielding general fought around the city, our army desperately blocked it, but it was still crossed by the horse stepping company camp, and the number of people killed in the battle of more than 100 generals along the way has reached nine! Xiao on the left led the guards to stop the Lihu Lake, and was stabbed to death after only one close, and the rest of the people were scattered! โ
"Report, Wuya General Liu Qin mobilized more than 1,000 spearmen to surround the halberd-wielding enemy generals layer by layer. The enemy generals shouted and fought, dismounted with halberds and fought, cutting off more than 100 spears in an instant, and slashing and killing countless generals! General Liu was almost injured by his flying halberd, and he was unable to fight again, so he had to kill him back into the city! โ
The military newspapers came one by one, and every time they reported one by one, there was a sound of gasping air in the camp. At this moment, the entire big tent was already silent, and the atmosphere was extremely heavy.
"Hahaha! Hahaha! I, the Xiongnu hero, have been fighting in the north and south for several years, and have been destroyed all of them, but now I can't help this small place? Could it be that the wolves in the desert only dare to hunt sheep, but not to fight against beasts? The person who heard the report laughed angrily, and angrily waved his arm and slapped the case, making a loud noise.
Dozens of people in the tent bowed down to the ground together: "The big single is to calm the anger, and the big order is to forgive the sins!" โ
The person who took the case angrily was eight feet four inches tall, with a burly posture, a dignified appearance and a beautiful beard, and was not angry and arrogant. It is the Xiongnu Dashan Yu, the Han King Liu Yuan and Liu Yuanhai.
Liu Yuan was the grandson of the Xiongnu Shan Yu in Fuluo in the Later Han Dynasty and the son of Liu Bao, the king of Zuoxian. Legend has it that Hu Yan, the wife of Liu Bao, went to the Yellow River Longmen to pray for a son during the Jiaping period of Cao Wei, and suddenly saw a big fish, with two horns on the top, dancing in the river water of the sacrificial place for a long time. That night, Huyan dreamed that the big fish he saw during the day turned into a human, and handed a thing to Huyan's and said: This is the essence of the day, and the service gives birth to a noble son. In the thirteen months after that, Huyan's family really gave birth to a son, and he was even more miraculous when he was born: there was a natural text on his left palm with the word "yuan", so he was named Liu Yuan.
Liu Yuan proclaimed himself the king of Han in the first year of Yongxing, raised an army against the Jin, since the uprising, the army of the army in the south and the north to fight, invincible, before and after the defeat of the Jin army hundreds of thousands of people, the prestige shook the north of the river.
At this moment, Liu Yuan's anger was blazing, walking back and forth in the dome. Dozens of generals on both sides of the dome were on the side, and Tai Ban trembled, sweating like pulp.
Liu Yuan pushed open the door of the felt tent and glanced into the distance, the sunlight shining into the tent, making the few wisps of white on his sideburns look very eye-catching. Maybe the sun was too dazzling, Liu Yuan frowned, turned around and walked towards the tent. Although he was still energetic, he was already a sixty-two-year-old man after all. The fate of the Xiongnu tribe was tied to him, and occasionally he felt powerless.
Everyone thought that the Xiongnu and Han States were dominating the north and south of the state, invincible, threatening Luoyang, as if swallowing mountains and rivers. However, Liu Yuan himself knew very well: when the Xiongnu were at their peak, they occupied the vast land of thousands of miles north and south of the desert, controlling millions of strings. Today's Xiongnu power is confined to a mere annex of states, and the household registration is less than one-tenth of that year. If it weren't for the efforts of Yu Wei and Liu Yuan himself for hundreds of years, almost even the surrounding Zahu tribes would not have been able to move.
Although the Great Jin Dynasty is declining, it is orthodox after all; Despite repeated setbacks, compared to the Huns, he was still a behemoth opponent. In the past three years, the Xiongnu have attacked from all sides, but as soon as the soldiers and horses retreated, the Jin army made a comeback, and they could not take a piece of territory. In the late autumn of last year, he finally defeated Sima Tengquan to take the state, but as soon as he got it in his hand, he was secretly crossed by Liu Kun and his strange soldiers from Shangdang, and recaptured the northern part of the state in a war, which is really annoying.
This time, the Huns took advantage of the spring to take Taiyuan, but it was actually a helpless move. Sima Yue, the king of the East China Sea, is now powerful, and the military and political affairs of the imperial court are in his hands. He stationed heavy troops in Xuchang, Yecheng, Luoyang and other places, and reorganized the army every day, as if he had the ambition to stabilize the world. In order to obtain a stable rear before the bloody battle with the imperial army, Liu Yuan tried his best to collect grain and straw, and rushed to the north in the spring in order to reverse the situation in the northern part of the state.
According to the best plan, the Xiongnu army should rely on the superiority of troops to fight a decisive battle, with Huyanyan all the way to capture the strategic place of Jiexiu, with Qiao Xi and Huyanhao each with the other army to the north, and Liu Yuan himself led the main army to respond, according to the situation Zhan into battle, in one fell swoop to break Liu Kun's regime. But who knew that although the Jinyang army under Liu Yueshi was small, it was brave and good at fighting to such an extent that tens of thousands of troops were blocked by just one Jiexiu!
"In the early morning of the day before yesterday, it was reported that the champion general Qiao Xi was attacked by the Jin army's light cavalry at night and was killed by the enemy general 6 Yao. Today, some Jin people regarded our army as nothing, and entered the city beyond the camp; Later, Liu Qin, the general of Wuya, was blocked by the unknown general, which made our army fail! โ
Liu Yuan walked back and forth a few times, his anger gradually subsided, and he suddenly stopped and sighed: "Among the Jin people, there are so many heroes!" โ
There was silence in the tent, and no one dared to answer. The Xiongnu have been invincible since the beginning of the army, and all the generals have developed the habit of looking above the top. This is like an insult to them who are arrogant and abnormal. But this is the case, and it is irrefutable. The generals looked at each other and showed stupid looks.
Liu Yuan muttered again: "This Jin army warrior with a halberd has never heard of it a few days ago. Could it be that he disguised himself as my Hun nobles and blended into Jiexiu City? Hehe, right to the deer king, your golden crown and ribbon can cause a lot of trouble for my army. โ
The so-called right to the king of the deer is Liu Jing's Hun king. A few months ago, he was beaten by Liu Kun and lost his armor, and when the wolf bรจi escaped from Jinyang, he didn't even have time to take away his beloved gold crown, ribbon and other things. Who knew that today it was used by the Jin people in disguise and deceived many camps.
Liu Jing hurriedly came out of the column to bow down, and did not speak, but just knocked again and again. His forehead hit the ground with a thumping sound. He was one of the sixteen great chieftains with the title of king in the Xiongnu tribe, and he was even more brave and invincible in galloping across the field, so when the Han State was established, he was awarded the high position of the general of the Jin Dynasty; Although he was frustrated by Liu Kun in Jinyang, his prestige was not greatly damaged. But such a character is like a lackey in front of Liu Yuan.
Liu Yuan lowered his head and looked at Liu Jing who was kneeling at his feet, and said abruptly: "Don't lie on your stomach, you take three thousand men and horses to support Hu Yanyan, and give me a serious fight!" โ
"Honor!" Liu Jing replied loudly. He stooped and bowed, not daring to look up; went backwards out of the big tent, and then mobilized people and horses to roar away.
"Hetuyan!"
"The last general!" The general of the auxiliary Han Dynasty, He Tuyan, came out of the ranks. He Tuyan is about thirty years old, with sword eyebrows and tiger eyes, ape arms and bee waist, and he is full of heroism. He is a general in charge of sentinel reconnaissance, and the elite light cavalry under his command has long been dispatched, reporting the military situation everywhere day and night.
"How is the Jin army moving?"
He Tuyan replied: "Liu Kun, the assassin of Bingzhou, has already sent troops. He personally led the main force of the Jin army of more than 10,000 people, and rushed south along the west side of Zhaoyu Qi; At this moment, it should have passed Pingtao, and it will cross the Fenshui, and General Hu Yanhao's headquarters is about to contact it. The vanguard rangers of the Jin army crossed the front of our army and moved frequently in the area from Zishi to Zhongyang. The last general's reconnaissance cavalry fought with him many times, and the losses were roughly the same. In addition, on the front line of Zhongdu and Jingling, there were more than 1,000 people of the Jin army who confronted the troops led by Shile. โ
"It's so fast!" Someone was surprised.
The degree of the Jin army's southward movement was indeed very fast, but in three days, it had already approached Xicheng. Xicheng is only a hundred miles away from Jiexiu, and the cavalry can be reached in half a day. Such a situation has forced Liu Yuan to react.
Liu Yuan turned back to his seat and called in a loud voice: "Chen Shilang, please take the map of the region." โ
A middle-aged civil servant with a clear appearance walked forward quickly, removed the file on the desk, and instead laid out a large map. Seeing that the tent was a little dim, he lit two more candlesticks and gently placed them on the left and right of the table.
This civil official is Chen * Yuanda, the squire of the Yellow Gate of the Xiongnu Han Kingdom, who is deeply trusted by the Han king, although the official position is not extremely high, but he is in charge of a huge spy network and participates in many confidential affairs, which is by no means comparable to ordinary courtiers. And as a dignified Huangmen squire, he actually did these things that belonged to the servants himself, and all the generals knew in their hearts that what Da Dan Yu was going to say next must be extraordinary.
After Liu Yuan raised his hand and made a gesture of please look, all the generals stepped forward one after another and gathered around the front of the case.
This is a fairly detailed map of the annexed states. As you can see from the map, the entire state is roughly presented as a slightly inclined quadrilateral. Many mountain ranges are intertwined, and rivers such as Fenshui and Zhangshui flow between the mountains, connecting multiple basins.
Among them, the Xiongnu Han State controlled the area across the three counties of Xihe, Pingyang and Hedong, and only the Baili Bird Mouse Valley, through which the Fenshui flows, can be passed between the Xiongnu and the Taiyuan State. And in the north of the Bird Mouse Valley, there is a vast water surface of Zhaoyu Qi traversing. With such a terrain, there was almost no room for maneuver in the actions of the Xiongnu army, and the only way to attack and attack was fierce. Therefore, tens of thousands of troops were blocked in the small city of Jiexiu, and they were in a dilemma.
Liu Yuan stared at the terrain on the map and said indifferently: "Everyone, Liu Kun's department is indeed good at fighting, which is different from that Sima Tengda. But the change in the tide of the battle was still expected. The art of war says: The image of the soldier is water, the line of water avoids the high and tends to go down, and the shape of the soldier avoids the real and hits the void; The water is controlled by the land, and the soldiers are defeated by the enemy...... Liu Yueshi used heavy troops to block me from the front line of Jiexiu, thinking that he would get a plan, but he didn't know that this was just his own defeat! โ
Liu Yuan bowed slightly to Chen Yuanda, and then lightly slapped the cinnabar pen in his hand on the map, and the large drop of color suddenly melted on the map. I saw that the red color was intense, like blood stains.
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