Chapter 42: The Five Tigers Wither
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Although the hillside in front is not high, it stretches out gently for seven or eight miles, completely blocking the view to the east.
Standing on the embankment, Bu Renxian could not see Yangxin City, and could not confirm that the Jiangdong Left Army would meet them in Yangxin City, and saw that the number of captives and cavalry pursuing in the wilderness had increased for two consecutive days, and some despair grew in his heart.
When they ambushed the captives in Jihe County, Jihe County closed the city gates, afraid that when the city gate was opened and let them in, the captives took the opportunity to seize the city. What he didn't know was that only one day after they left Jihe, Jihe Zhixian, who had lost the courage to resist, opened the city gate and surrendered. Due to the large number of captive outposts between Jihe and Yangxin, the news that Lin Jian led the Jiangdong Left Army to aid Yangxin did not reach Jihe County in time, otherwise the situation would have been slightly better.
It was the ambush that failed to avoid Jihe City in time, so that the more than 2,000 Zhaowu troops who finally escaped from Jinan City suffered a heavy setback. When encountering an ambush, there was no time to adjust the defensive array, so the cavalry that suddenly appeared was cut into several pieces and fought separately. In the first battle, they lost five or six hundred people, and it was not easy to gather together. Blocking the enemy cavalry on the periphery, and before dark, he fought hard to the Jihe River before breaking through at night, and then formed a formation to hold on at dawn, and moved eastward at a very slow speed; Last night, I broke through and advanced for dozens of miles, and the distance should be to Yangxin City.
It's just that Bu Renxian is not familiar with the terrain around Yangxin and Jihe, and he can't compare it with the already rough map, and he can't prepare to estimate the distance when traveling at night. At present, the sight is blocked by the hillside again, Bu Renxian even wonders if he is going to the wrong river, the river they are in is not the Zhulong River that flows through Yangxin, they have deviated from Yangxin, otherwise it is impossible not to see Yangxin City.
Bu Renxian jumped off the embankment, quickly ran to Lu Jingyan's side, and said: "Duwei, standing on the embankment, you can't see Yangxin City, there is a hillside in the east to block your eyes, but Yangxin City can't just be on the back of that hillside, right?" ”
"......" Lu Jingyan struggled to sit up, but the arrows in his chest and side ribs were still in the flesh and hurt badly, when he was ambushed in Jihe County, his back was hit hard by the enemy general and fell off the horse, and the lower half of his body was completely unconscious, and he was only a life-saving person to survive here, at this time he felt better, he felt that he was not far from Yangxin, he looked at the embankment that blocked his vision weakly, and instructed Geng Quanshan, Chen Dingbang and other generals around him, and said, "If I can't support Yangxin, you have to put down the shelf, At least in wartime, you must obey Lin Bin's arrangement, and when the thieves retreat, the commander will come forward to arrange your way out......"
Bu Ren listened to the lieutenant arranging the aftermath there, his heart was sour, and his tears couldn't help but fall.
"What are you crying about, there is no point in it! Du Wei's life is great, you are crying and farting! Geng Quanshan raised his foot to kick Bu Renxian, he couldn't help but be sad in his heart, pulled out his knife and cut off a piece of frozen soil on the embankment, and swore fiercely, "As long as I am alive and have a breath, I will not cut the corpse of Zhao Jinlong, a beast, into ten thousand pieces!" ”
"Zhao Jinlong is afraid that he has also surrendered to the east," Lu Jingyan said weakly, "What do you say about revenge or not, it is only right that this world must survive first." I still hate that I didn't persuade the governor to stay in Dongmin, and the Dongmin army was torn apart by the imperial court......" Lu Jingyan's cloudy eyes looked at the river embankment, and he couldn't see the scene behind the river embankment, he was thinking: Will Lin Jian be the second commander? If he was in the position of commander, would he let the Chu Party break up the Eastern Fujian Army?
Lu Jingyan knew that he couldn't see the day coming, he looked at the river embankment, and when he was dying, he still couldn't help but want to laugh: Lin Jian is really a ghost talent who uses soldiers, except for the commander, he has never seen anyone who can use soldiers to compare with him.
When Lin Jian sent messengers to Jinan to report the victory, the county divisions of Shandong also organized a celebration banquet in the governor's palace to boost the morale of the defenders, and people from the Lu Wangfu also attended.
Zuo Tanggui, the eunuch in charge of the Lu Wangfu, and there is a eunuch called what, because Lin Jian led the army into Jinan to capture Zuoguan'er Village, so he had a grudge against him, and at the celebration banquet, he made it difficult for the messenger to report the victory, saying that the victory in Cangnan was just a false report of military achievements by the Jiangdong Left Army, and the blizzard night foot cavalry could travel hundreds of miles at night to lead the captives to Cangnan?
The two eunuchs questioned the authenticity of the victory in Cangnan with a blizzard and a hundred miles at night, and the messenger sent by Lin Jian did not answer at the banquet, and the two eunuchs were naturally triumphant.
Lu Jingyan also had some doubts about this in his heart, he didn't suspect that Lin Jian had falsely reported his military exploits, but in the deserted Yanji Plain, it was very difficult to march at night, not to mention the snowstorm? There must be ingenuity in the use of soldiers in the forest that others can't understand.
However, in private, the messenger sent by Lin Jian told Lu Jingyan and the generals of Zhaowu Town the details of the night march in the snowstorm.
The wilderness is difficult to navigate, but it is much easier to choose a river course that flows to the south of Cangnan and advance along the frozen river at night than to simply march on the potholed wilderness, that is, it is not easy to get lost, and the army is not easy to disperse.
In other words, the victory in Cangnan was completely because Ye Jinayan fell into the trap that Lin Jian had set up a long time ago.
The first battalion of the Jiangdong Left Army advanced by the frozen river, Ye Ji Nayan could not see through the secret, although there was the strongest king tent elite in the East under his command, but in the wilderness chasing wildly, after arriving in Cangnan, the live horse also ran into a dead horse, and the living man also ran into a dead man, and it was no longer an accident to completely annihilate the Jiangdong Left Army that was still weak.
The way of using troops lies in judging the situation, strong and weak, difficult and easy are all relative theories, "a strong enemy does not expand, that is, it cannot be said to be strong", the ingenuity of this is two eunuchs who think they have read a few military books can see through?
Thinking about it seriously, Lin Jian should have been worried about the breakthrough of the Eastern Min army after the fall of Jinan, otherwise he would not have asked the messenger to tell them in detail the secret of the snowy night march. In the past two days, they have been able to maintain a relatively complete formation and break through to the east under the pursuit of twice the enemy's cavalry, which is to take advantage of the convenient terrain of the frozen river channels of the Jishui and Zhulong Rivers, and they can break through at night without worrying about being scattered and losing their direction, and can advance relatively quickly.
Lu Jingyan deeply regretted that because of his temporary conceit, he ignored Lin Bin's diligence when he was in Jinan. He knew that Lin Jian was actively trying to contact him at that time, but he hated that Lin Jian was a member of the Chu Party and didn't pay attention to it. The Chu Party has misunderstood the world, but it is not that there are no officials in the Chu Party who are knowledgeable and capable, and they are so arrogant, isn't it blinding the party struggle? Otherwise, whether it is to defend Jinan with the Jiangdong Left Army, or to Yannan together, it will not be today's situation: more than 6,000 elite people of the Eastern Fujian Zhaowu Army who stayed in Jinan with him are now more than 1,000 people left.
There is no regret medicine to buy in the world, Lu Jingyan shouted the generals and gave a few more orders, feeling that the strength in his body was about to be exhausted.
At this time, there was a sudden burst of dense gongs and drums in the southeast direction in the wind, and there was a faint shouting of the crowd, the sound of gongs and drums was too abrupt, Zuo Tanggui stumbled over from behind, and asked: "What is this sound, is there an ambush in front?" In the past few days, Zuo Tanggui's chin has become thin and pointed, and he marched with the army, but he was unexpectedly not injured at all. Zuo Tanggui came over with a thin little boy, surprisingly handsome, others didn't know, but Lu Jingyan knew that she was the only young girl left by Lu Wang Yuan Jiancheng, the little county lord Yuan Yan, who was only twelve years old this year, and could only disguise herself as a man when she fled with the army.
Yuan Yan looked at Lu Jingyan, who was about to be cured, with black and white eyes, and wanted to see his wounds, but she was afraid that it would be too abrupt, so she cautiously followed behind Zuo Tanggui. These days, she's really freaked out.
Lu Jingyan glanced at Zuo Tanggui with disdain, this eunuch who thought he had read a few military books and talked about soldiers on paper, at this time, couldn't he even think that the other side of the hill was Yangxin City?
They gave 2,000 captives to chase them here, and what ambush did they need to set up in the east?
Geng Quanshan, the captain of the Zhaowu Military Academy of Eastern Fujian, stood on the river embankment and shouted: "Captain, there is Yangxin City in front." The Jiangdong Left Army rushed to the aid of Yangxin in time as expected by the commander, and Lin Dujian must have seen the abnormal movement of the peripheral sentinels at the head of Yangxin City, and judged that we were here, summoned people to beat gongs and drums, and waited for us to reply......"
"Sons, who can still walk, pick up the knife and gun, rush over to see Yangxin City, and the last journey, don't pretend to be a bear for Lao Tzu!" Chen Dingbang grabbed the halberd knife used in the starting battle, and led more than 100 elites with more than 100 brave brave to brave the attack of enemy cavalry on both sides and rushed forward along the river, as long as the Jiangdong Left Army guarding Yangxin knew their existence, and the Jiangdong Left Army sent troops out of the city, it could relieve the pressure of breaking through on their side.
Bu Renxian also shouted happily, as long as he entered Yangxin City, he could find Lang Zhong to heal Du Wei's injuries, his eyes looked at the southeast direction excitedly, and after a while, he found that the hand he was holding was cold, and he turned around and saw that Du Wei had closed his eyes, and cried loudly......
Lu Jingyan's death did not completely collapse the remnants of this Zhaowu Town, but aroused the brave soldiers who desperately broke through the siege, and the foot soldiers on both sides of the river embankment and the river were mainly divided into three roads and struggled to break east. When the enemy cavalry attacked, there were always countless foot soldiers who forgot their life and death to recoil into the enemy cavalry assault array, even if they trampled on the broken muscles and bones, they had to cut off the horse's feet with knives, and disrupted the enemy cavalry impact array. As they bypassed the low hillside along the river, Yangxin Castle and the Jiangdong Left Army and the Jinzhong cavalry who fought from the city were displayed in front of them......
Lu Jingyan's personal guard Bu Ren carried Lu Jingyan's corpse and followed the brigade forward, in front of which was the mouth of the Yangxin moat, and the Jiangdong Left Army went out of the city to respond, so they could quickly approach Yangxin City from there and get rid of the entanglement of the enemy cavalry.
The vest hurt, Bu Renxian glanced back, and saw a captive who didn't know when to rush to the river embankment, riding on horseback, holding a bowstring still oscillating, looking at him with cold eyes, so it seems that he shot an arrow from the gap in the crowd and hit himself? Bu Renxian felt that his feet were weak, and he fell on the ice with Lu Jingyan's corpse......