Chapter Eighty-Eight: The Blood of the Han River (4)

The key to this battle is inevitably the weather factor, now in the cold winter season, the Han River is frozen, and the river that could have been relied on as a barrier has also been greatly weakened, and the tens of thousands of Wei troops, if they do not withdraw, they will fight to reduce their personnel, and they will attack in winter, and the Han army is really not exhausted now!

The Wei State has been in the Central Plains for decades, although it is extravagant and wasteful, but it has also accumulated a lot of family funds, while the Han State has been fighting for many years, but there are not many family funds.

However, the key point in this battle is that Sima Yan is not the first time to lead troops, and his conservative posture in military affairs has gradually become known to many people.

And the Han army, after Yang Yi personally arrived here and integrated the three armies, the morale of the Han army was full in a short period of time, and the generals were willing to obey the arrangement, so they could make bold and clustered military actions, and only in these few days could they make these actions.

After all, now, in terms of logistics and grain, the Han country's family foundation is too thin, and the preparation is not sufficient, and the three counties are not even as prepared as the Xiliang battlefield.

In today's situation, everyone in the Wei army originally thought that it was impossible for the Han army to take the initiative to attack the main force of the Wei army, but with the arrival of an emperor and a bold decision, the Han army came, and it came so resolutely and so violently!

These things, coupled with a simple and direct division of troops to lure the enemy by relying on the art of war strategy, are the real art of war, the real high-level military knowledge, and the real strategy at the strategic level.

On the battlefield where tens of thousands of people are facing up, except for the number of people, morale, armaments, and fighters, there is nothing to talk about, and even the bravery of Guan Yi after inheriting the martial saint can only reflect the value in the most anxious place! What about the rest?

War is absolutely absurd on a microscopic level, but all the absurd things come together and seem so logical.

Back to the present, the current situation of the Han army is that with the most resolute attitude, just fight!

Almost within half an hour after Guan Yi advanced, Yang Yi did not hesitate to wave her banner and once again drove the expedition in person.

Ji Han for decades, although it is only a corner of peace, but it is also divided into upper and lower kings, this emperor personally recruited, naturally also greatly boosted morale!

And Yang Yi is not worried that Li Yi will betray, or be recognized by Sima Yan, now that Sima Yan has seen through it, he is ready to run away in advance, it is nothing more than chasing and killing, but he can also swallow a lot of results.

If you haven't seen through it, then the Wei army will leave at least a small half of the soldiers behind this time!

The first was that Guan Yi basically led all the elites, about 20,000 troops went first, and then Yang Yi led the rear guard and auxiliary army to follow, and Yang Yi himself personally put on armor and carried a bow, riding a horse to accompany him, but with Jiang Bin's department as the escort center, the Han army camp was almost empty, and in a broken posture, everything was smashed into the city of Yunxian.

The strength of the Han army, originally Guan Yi was delayed by the enemy army, plus the previous losses, there were only 10,000 people, and later the replenishment was only a few thousand, and at most 15,000 people.

However, after Yang Yi arrived, Jiang Wei sent more than 5,000 reinforcements, plus Jiang Bin's collection of the people of the three counties, etc., close to 20,000 people, among which the ones who could fight were actually Guan Yi's department.

And in Yang Yi's hands, if he is defeated, I am afraid that he will be defeated in one rush, even if the morale is high, at this time it can only maintain the march, and there are some who can fight, which were sent upstream by Yang Yi, in fact, more than 5,000 horses were put together, which looked like 10,000 people, attracting almost 20,000 troops of the Wei people.

Therefore, the comparison of the strength of the two sides is not 50,000 versus 20,000 as Sima Yan thought, but 50,000 versus 40,000!

This gap is not big, and even, if Sima Yan can't get a glimpse of the changes in the strength of the Han army as soon as possible, this time the Han army is likely to form a local advantage in the use of troops!

This news, because Guan Yi's actions and Luo Xian's leading the army to the upper reaches attracted a large number of Wei army sentry horses, and because Yang Yi had ordered someone to deliberately clean up, so there would definitely be a little delay in the transmission of the news to Sima Yan in Yunxian County.

In fact, after learning that Guan Yi led the troops to attack, Sima Yan first lost his temper and killed people.

It was not because of the military situation, the news that Guan Yi led the troops to attack, Sima Yan knew, although there was a slight difference in strength from what was expected, but the difference was not big.

It's just that Sima Yan felt this situation, and wanted to ask the rebel general of the Han army carefully, because he had ordered someone to watch Li Qi before, but Li Yi actually disappeared from the ground.

Because of the attack of the army, Sima Yan recruited people locally, in fact, he plundered some people, ordered people to build pontoon bridges and other facilities, and also repaired the city wall, of course, because of the sudden snow, the pontoon bridge was only half repaired, and the Han River froze.

It is expected that in the middle of the night in the past few days, you can cross the river to come, these people are now drinking some soup every day and waiting for backup, but they were mixed in by Li Qi, and they can't be found at this time.

This made Sima Yan a little uncomfortable, and cut down a few homeless leaders who looked a little unscrupulous, because those leaders were Qiang, and Li Qi was also a Qiang, and it must have something to do with these people if he could escape!

At this time, Sima Yan, who was losing his temper, learned that Guan Yi was coming here with only 20,000 people, and he didn't care at all, so he asked the main general Chen Qian and the deputy general Wen Yang to take the initiative to lead troops to meet the attack, but by the way, they were ready to take Li Qi to sacrifice the flag.

This time the 100,000-strong army attacked, Sima Zhao was fully prepared, such as the royal family sent Sima Ling and Sima Ji to assist Sima Yan, and among the generals with foreign surnames, they also sent a few irons.

For example, Jingzhou Thorn History, Xiangcheng Taishou Deng Ai, Deng Ai was demoted, although his ability was okay, but Sima Yan didn't want to use him, but he couldn't kill him, so he was appointed as Xiangcheng Taishou, and the position of Jingzhou Thorn Shi was not removed.

Of course, at this time, Jingzhou and Wei also occupied a Xiangcheng County, and this thorn history just looks good.

In addition to Deng Ai, it is Chen Qian and Wen Yang, both of whom are capable generals.

Chen Qian, the word Xiuyuan; Linhuai Dongyang people, Cao Wei Situ Chen Jiao's son, but in terms of background, it can only be regarded as a poor family, but now it is two generations of success, and one or two generations can also be among the high-ranking lords.

Chen Qian has been simple and steady since he was a child, and he is quite resourceful; When he first joined the office, he was Shang Shulang, and later successively served as Cao Wei Zhongshan Taishou and Anping Taishou, all of whom were famous for their good governance during their tenure; Later, he was enlisted as the Sima of Xiangguo, Changshi, and then moved to Zhongcheng in the imperial history, and then moved to Shangshu, and was awarded the title of Marquis of Anguo Ting, and once used Shangshu to conquer the Shu general, and defeated the Han army.

In the second year of Ganlu, Zhuge launched a rebellion in Shouchun, and Chen Qian served as General Anton as Shangshu.

In the third year of Ganlu, after Sima Zhao destroyed Zhuge Birthday, he first worshiped the festival and supervised the military of Huaibei, and was officially worshiped as General Anton, and entered the Marquis of Guangling.

After four years of manna, he was transferred to the military governor of Yuzhou and the history of Yuzhou assassination; Then he successively transferred to the capital to supervise the military of Jiangnan and the military of Jingzhou, and served as the general of Zhengnan, and was awarded the title of Marquis of Tan.

He is here now, which can be regarded as overkill, but Sima Zhao has wronged Chen Qian in order to let Sima Yan take over smoothly, after all, this is Sima's loyal dog, and it is nothing to be wronged.

As for Wen Yang, he is the general trained by Sima Zhao to leave to his son, and he can be regarded as a son of a poor family.

Wen Yang is the assassin of Cao Wei Yangzhou and the former general Wen Qinzi.

Wen Qin was brave and good at fighting, and because he was a fellow townsman with the Cao Wei royal family, he was especially loved by Cao Shuang, a powerful general at that time.

After the coup d'état in Gao Pingling, the Cao Shuang group was destroyed by Taifu Sima Yi, and Wen Qin suddenly lost his backer.

At that time, some people said: Wen Qin often falsely reported that the enemy on the battlefield was rewarded more, and was suppressed by the ruling Sima Shi, so Wen Qin was dissatisfied with Sima Shi, and later Wen Yang was stationed in Yangzhou with his father to defend Wu State.

In the sixth year of Jiaping, the general Sima Shi deposed the Wei Emperor Cao Fang; Wu Qiu Jian, who was the general of Cao Wei Zhendong at the time, and Shi Wenqin, the assassin of Yangzhou, were angered by Sima Shi's disobedience and decided to raise troops to Qin Wang.

In the second year of Zhengyuan, Wen Qin, Wu Qiu Jian, Zheng Yi, Lu Xuan, Zhang Xiu, etc., pretended to trust the edict of the Empress Dowager Guo, put forward the eleven charges of Sima Shi, and raised troops in Shouchun to crusade against Sima Shi.

Wu Qiu Jian once asked Deng Ai, the assassin of Yanzhou, to raise troops together, but Deng Ai killed the messenger and was ordered to lead more than 10,000 people to march quickly to Lejia City to make a bridge to meet Sima Shi.

Wuqiu Jian ordered Wen Qin to attack Deng Ai; At that time, Sima Shi secretly led the army from Ruyang to Lejia, and Wen Qin was stunned when he saw the sudden arrival of the army.

At that time, Wen Yang was only 18 years old, and he bravely won the three armies, and he once said: "Before the enemy has yet to gain a firm foothold, attack immediately, and you will definitely be able to defeat the enemy army." So Wen Qin led his troops to attack, divided his troops with Wen Yang, and attacked Sima Shi at night.

Wen Yang led the strong men to the front of the village, beating drums and shouting the name of Sima Shi, and the whole army of Sima Shi shook.

At the beginning, Sima Shi newly cut the tumor on his eye, and some people advised him that he should not travel far away, so he asked Taiwei Sima Fu to replace him.

Because this was an important battle, Sima Shi decided to go out with illness, and Wen Yang suddenly attacked, which made Sima Shi frightened, and the injured eyeballs burst out from the sarcoma sore, and the pain was unbearable; Sima Shi was afraid that he would have the heart of the army, so he had to bite the head and endure it, and the head was bitten to pieces.

Wen Yang clamored all night, Wen Qin still did not come to rendezvous, after dawn, Wen Yang saw that the Wei army was strong, so he had to retreat.

After Wen Yang left, Sima Shi, who had already burst out of his eyeballs and was bleeding all over the ground, ordered the generals to chase after him, and the generals asked: "Wen Qin's father and son are brave and have not been defeated, and they will definitely not give up."

Sima Shi said: "One blow, and then decline, Wen Yang made noise, but there was no response, their momentum has been frustrated, and they can't go!"

At this time, Wen Qin wanted to lead the army back to Shouchun, Wen Yang thought that he must frustrate the morale of Sima Shi's army, so he and more than ten people of Xiao cavalry fought into the enemy formation, invincible, and then led the troops away.

Then Sima Shi sent Zuo Chang Shi Sima Ban to lead the eight thousand wings to come, Wen Yang single-handedly rushed into the thousands of cavalry formation, killing and wounding more than 100 people in a blink of an eye, in and out six or seven times, and the chasing cavalry did not dare to approach.

After Wuqiu Jian's army was defeated by Shouchun, Wen Yang surrendered to Wu with Wen Qin.

In April of the second year of Ganlu, Zhuge Dan, the general of Wei Guozhendong, raised troops against Sima Zhao in Shouchun, and Wu ordered Wen Qin's father and son, Quan Duan, Tang Shi and others to enter Shouchun to support.

In January of the third year of Ganlu, the battle situation in Shouchun was very unsatisfactory, Zhuge Dan had a bad relationship with Wen Qin, and in an emergency, he was even more suspicious.

In the end, Zhuge killed Wen Qin; Wen Yang and his brother Wen Hu led the troops in the small city, heard the news of their father's death, and led the army to Shouchun City, but the soldiers refused to obey, and the two had to cross the city wall alone and defect to Sima Zhao.

After Wen Yang and Wen Hu surrendered, Cao Wei's military officials asked to kill the two brothers, and Sima Zhao said: "Wen Qin's crime is extremely evil, and of course his son should be killed; It's just that the two brothers have nowhere to go and throw themselves into our army; Moreover, the city is not broken, and killing them will make the defenders afraid, and they will fight and refuse to surrender. “

So, Sima Zhao pardoned the two for capital crimes, and recommended Wen Yang and Wen Hu as generals, gave them the title of Marquis of Guannei, and asked the two to lead hundreds of cavalry to patrol the city, shouting to the defenders in the city: "Wen Qin's sons are not killed, what are the others to be afraid of!"

The morale of the city was weakened, and soon, Shouchun City was captured, and after the city was broken, Sima Zhao asked the Wenyang brothers to bury Wenqin, and admired the two of them and treated them well.

Although Sima Yan doesn't like Wen Yang very much, he will not refuse such a fierce general, he is ready to be the emperor, how can he refuse to be virtuous because of his own likes and dislikes?

With these two people, it is said that they are worry-free, Sima Yan also told the two of them the information, and Chen Qian and Wen Yang did not oppose Sima Yan's strategy.

At this time, he was ready to cut off the Qiang people's sacrifice flag, however, the whole army was neatly draped, but there was no one to find for a while, and Sima Yan was angry, so he had to bring the Qiang leaders in a few people's camps and replace them.

Killed someone, the Chinese army tent was in a mess inside and outside, Wen Yang received the military order and was preparing to attack Chen Qian, a bad old man, he was naturally the commander of the former army general, and Chen Qian sat in the Chinese army, and there were more than 10,000 troops left in Yunxian County to be Sima Yan's guard.

Guan Yi had already led the army to cross the river, and at this time, the Han River was already frozen, and he only needed a super simple pontoon bridge to spare it, and was preparing to attack.

At this time, the sentry cavalry stepped forward to report carefully, saying that it was the direction of Yunxian, and the Wei army had suddenly been dispatched at this time, and it was also coming here, although the specific number could not be found out for a while, but the banner was strict and there were many soldiers and horses, I am afraid that the main force was exhausted!

Guan Yi, as the main general, also has a collection of intelligence from all sides, knowing that the Wei army has a total of more than 80,000, and it is to go to the north to be led away by Luo Xian under the guise of being taken away, and there are scattered out, and the remaining soldiers and horses are at least 50,000 people!

At least 10,000 will be left to guard, thinking about these days, the several battles with Sima Yan are indeed the traditional art of war of the Sima clan!

In other words, the Wei army coming here may reach more than 40,000! If he marched again, he would probably be attacked by the 40,000 Wei army, that is, nearly twice the number of enemies.

At this time, Guan Yi became completely serious, but he ordered the messenger to go to the north quickly to find Luo Xian's department, looking for an opportunity to attack; At the same time, he ordered the army to prepare for an attack at this time, and the battle that was originally intended to start at dawn seemed to be ahead of schedule.