Chapter 921: Attacking While Winning (4)
After Wang Ben led the Qi army to set off, Lu Xiuhong also breathed a sigh of relief, it was almost the fourth watch at this time, and although Wang Ben only took away 100,000 troops, but the people and horses from preparation to pull, the movement was naturally not small, so most of the Qi soldiers who stayed in the camp were noisy all night, and now they finally left, so they all hurried up and tried to sleep a little more, and after a while, the whole camp was quiet, and there was a snoring sound.
Lu Xiuhong's skills are profound, even if he doesn't sleep for two or three nights, it has no effect, and Lu Xiuhong can't sleep at all at this time, so he took advantage of this time to gather Shui Xinyue and Huo Blazing Yang to discuss the next step.
Because in the past two days, the battle situation in Handan has undergone a great reversal, the news of Xianyang has been completely interrupted, Han Teng, Feng Bo, Yushi and others do not know whether they are alive or dead, and Sang Qingti led the armies of the three clans to leave, coupled with the collective rebellion of the Qin army, this continuous change really made Lu Xiuhong feel overwhelmed, and it was only now that Lu Xiuhong was able to calm down and discuss his next plan.
Of course, the current situation, the withdrawal of troops from Handan is a foregone conclusion, and the top priority now is to determine the life and death of Han Teng, Feng Bo, Yushi and others, although Lu Xiuhong had sent people to Xianyang two days ago to inquire about the news of Han Teng and others, but now it is found that there are still too few people sent, and they are just ordinary spies, and now it seems that I am afraid that the ability is insufficient, so Lu Xiuhong Jue decided to send Shui Xinyue and Huo Lieyang to Xianyang to run a trip to find out the situation of the battle in Xianyang.
And Shui Xinyue and Huo Lieyang were also very worried about Han Teng's safety, and even if the two of them withdrew to Daliang with the army, they would not be able to play any role, so both of them immediately happily obeyed, and decided to set off from the camp as soon as dawn and rushed to Xianyang to find out the news.
A few people had just discussed and decided, only to hear the shouts and killings outside the camp, and Lu Xiuhong and the others couldn't help but be shocked, could it be that the plateau launched an attack on the Qi army camp? This is too bad, because Wang Ben has just taken away 100,000 Qi troops, and now there are only 1670,000 troops left in the Qi army camp. Soon, soldiers came in to report and confirmed everyone's speculation, and sure enough, the Han army launched an attack on the Qi army camp.
Lu Xiuhong naturally couldn't sit still in the big tent, and immediately ran out of his big tent, only to hear the sound of killing, and in some places the figure of the Han army could be seen on the camp wall, and there were rockets, and there were constantly rockets, and stones with fire flew in from outside the camp, fell into the camp of the Qi army, and fell on the tent, causing a fire. Lu Xiuhong couldn't help but be taken aback, he couldn't imagine that the Han army even used heavy weapons.
Fortunately, the Qi army has been trained by the Han army, although it lacks actual combat experience, and there is still a considerable distance from the strong army, but it does have a bit of well-trained appearance, and there are a few strong army shelves, although it is at night, but the Qi army has not relaxed its vigilance, leaving enough soldiers to keep vigil, and at this time the Qi soldiers who are on the night vigil have almost all stood on the camp wall to defend, and the soldiers continue to drill out of the camp tents, many people are not dressed neatly, so they pick up weapons and rush to the camp wall to participate in the defense, Therefore, although it was taken by surprise by the Han army, it was still able to hold it in a short time.
Although Lu Xiuhong was not good at using soldiers, he had fought for several months and learned a little bit, so he was also a little relieved at this time, and on the one hand ordered to recruit all the soldiers in the battalion to join the battle, and on the other hand, he ordered people to go to the Chu army camp for help, and asked the Chu army to send troops to rescue.
But before he could wait for Lu Xiuhong to send a candidate, he saw a Qi military captain hurriedly running in front of Lu Xiuhong and said, "Mr. Lu, the Chu army camp sent someone to report that they were attacked by the Qin army, please send an army to rescue him quickly." ”
When Lu Xiuhong heard this, he couldn't help but be shocked, could it be said that the plateau was using sound to attack the east and west, feint to attack the Qi army camp, and actually attack the Chu army camp? Then he really couldn't ignore the Chu army, so Lu Xiuhong hurriedly ordered to recruit a group of Qi troops and prepare to send them to reinforce the Chu army.
But at this moment, only to hear the sound of "bang", the camp wall of the Qi army camp suddenly cracked a big gap three or four zhang wide, and more than ten Qi soldiers guarding the camp wall all fell down, and the Han army rushed in from the gap and killed the Qi army camp.
Seeing this, Lu Xiuhong hurriedly ordered to block the Han army, and at the same time sent a batch of Qi troops he had recruited, but after a hard battle, the gap was finally plugged and the Han army was not allowed to enter the camp.
And this time, Lu Xiuhong couldn't help but hesitate a little, because looking at the appearance of the Han army, it didn't look like a feint, so it was better to wait and see, don't rush to send troops to reinforce the Chu army.
The battle went on for a while, and two more camp walls in the Qi army camp were opened by the Han army, after all, the camp wall is not as strong as the city wall, and the foundation is all civil structures, so in the repeated impact of the Han army, it is still possible to destroy part of the camp wall. Fortunately, at this time, the Qi army had all been raised, and Lu Xiuhong had also gathered a group of reserve troops, so they were all very reinforced, and Huo Lieyang, Shui Xinyue, and the remaining Kuafu warriors were also in the camp to rescue everywhere, and they did not cause any crisis, but naturally they did not have the energy to rescue the Chu army.
Although during this period, the Chu army sent two rescue envoys in a row, but Lu Xiuhong did not send reinforcements, because Lu Xiuhong was convinced at this time that the direction of the Han army's main attack was the Qi army camp, not the Chu army camp. Therefore, Lu Xiuhong did not send troops to reinforce the Chu army camp, but only sent people to the Chu army camp and asked the Chu army to stick to the camp.
Although Lu Xiuhong does not have a lot of actual combat experience, fighting this kind of defensive battle does not require the defenders to have any too clever tactics and strategies, as long as they have a strong enough will to fight, and the Qi army is not satisfactory in this regard. In addition, after all, the Qi army was trained by the Han army, and the basic tactics were not bad, so they were able to withstand it for a while.
The battle lasted for more than an hour, the night was about to pass, and the sky had begun to brighten, and although the Qi army camp was opened more than ten gaps of different sizes, they were all firmly guarded by the Qi army, and did not let the Han army enter the Qi army camp.
But at this moment, Lu Xiuhong once again received news from the Chu army camp that the Chu army camp had been broken by the Qin army, and the Chu army was completely defeated.
Lu Xiuhong suddenly felt like he was struck by lightning, and the whole person was stunned, if the Chu army camp was breached, then only the Qi army camp would be left, and it would be difficult to preserve. And Lu Xiuhong was puzzled, where was the main direction of the Han army's attack? Is it Qi Jun? Or Chu Jun?
In fact, there is such a question, or because Lu Xiuhong has insufficient actual combat experience, if Wang Ben was here, he would have been able to see that this time the Han army was a two-pronged attack, attacking the camps of the two armies of Qi and Chu at the same time.
It turned out that after receiving the report of the detective and learning that the Qi army had begun to withdraw from Handan, Gao Yuan immediately sent 15,000 cavalry to pursue the evacuated Qi army, and at the same time ordered to concentrate all the Han and Qin troops in Handan City and attack the Qi and Chu armies out of the city.
Moreover, Gao Yuan also made a decision to divide his troops to attack, with Hehua and Mengwu leading all the Qin troops to attack the camp of the Chu army, while he himself led all the Han troops to attack the camp of the Qi army.
Generally speaking, if the troops are divided into two ways to attack at the same time, only one side will be the main attack, and the other side will be a feint to contain it, and although the total strength of the two sides at this time, the Han and Qin coalition forces are slightly more, and there are also Jiuli troops in the two armies of Qi and Chu, so the strength of the two sides is still roughly equal.
However, now the morale and military spirit of the two sides are not the same, the morale of the Han and Qin coalition forces is high and the momentum is like a rainbow, while the Qi and Chu armies are morale dropped, and they have no intention of fighting, and they are not on the same level at all. In addition, the Qi army has just withdrawn part of the army, with a total of about 8 to 100,000, which not only weakens the combat effectiveness of the Qi army, but also further weakens the fighting spirit of the Qi army.
Therefore, based on the consideration of these factors, Gao Yuan believed that this battle could completely break the convention, pay equal attention to the two routes, regardless of the main and secondary, and attack the two armies of Qi and Chu at the same time.
Now the distribution of the strength of the Han and Qin coalition forces is about 270,000 for the Han army, and about 380,000 for the Qin army, considering that the Qi army has withdrawn part of the troops, and the Jiuli army is in the Qi army camp, so the plateau decided that the Han army will attack the Qi army camp, if the Jiuli army goes to war, the Han army has a back army, a heavy armored cavalry army, and a beast training army, which can completely resist for a while. The large camp of the Chu army, which was attacked by the Qin army with a large number of people, had Hehua escort array, and the fighting spirit of the Qin army did not need to be questioned, Meng Wu was also a veteran general who had experienced a hundred battles, and there was no strong army like the Jiuli army in the Chu army, and the Qin army was absolutely sure that it would conquer the Chu army camp.
After the war began, the Han army suffered some setbacks in front of the Qi army camp, and the Qi army was guarded with a clear eye, and it was in vain that it was trained by the Han army, and this kind of tough battle, it was inconvenient for the Beiwei army and the heavy armored cavalry army to fight, and the high plain had to guard against the Jiuli army, and did not dare to send the beast army lightly, so the battle situation was temporarily stalemate. After all, it is impossible for Gao Yuan to know that the army of the Jiuli clan has already been taken away by Sang Qingti, and the army of the Kuafu clan has basically been disabled.
However, unlike the stalemate of attacking the camp of the Qi army, the Qin army's attack on the camp of the Chu army was very smooth. The second is that the Qin army has always looked down on the Chu army, as long as it fights the Chu army, it has a considerable psychological advantage and is full of confidence.
In addition, the military discipline of the Chu army has always been very lax, and after the main general returned to the camp, he immediately announced that he was ready to pack up, withdraw the army after three days, and then he was busy sorting out and packing up his property, and the soldiers of the Chu army listened to it, naturally they were like arrows, and they had no intention of fighting again, and suddenly the whole army was scattered, and they were busy packing up their things. Even the soldiers on duty were greatly reduced.
As a result, when the Qin army launched an attack, it was very easy to attack the camp of the Chu army, and the Chu army was caught off guard and was immediately thrown into chaos by the Qin army, and when the Qin army saw the situation, its morale immediately increased greatly and developed towards the in-depth attack of the Chu army's camp. At this time, the Chu army could not organize a comparative resistance, and the Chu army had no will to fight at all, so it could only scatter and flee, and when it was dawn, most of the Chu army fled from the camp, and the remaining Chu army was either killed in battle or captured by the Qin army, and the large camp of the Chu army was completely occupied by the Qin army.