Chapter 144: The History of the Exploration of the Jin Kingdom (1)
Between the Xicheng Mountain and the Wangwu Mountain, there is a tribal alliance called "Lirong" living in the area of Jiaozuo, Lirong took advantage of the Jin State to make a "Fu Rebellion" when he was too busy to take care of himself, gathered the Dongshan Gaoluo clan (Chidi Beshken) entrenched in the Yuanqu area, attacked Quwo and Wangguan on a large scale, destroyed many villages and towns, and plundered countless people and livestock.
The Dongshan Gaoluo clan is located between the Jin Kingdom and Lirong. During the reign of Quwo Wugong, the Gaoluo clan and Quwo could still coexist peacefully - those fierce Chidi would be beaten by the Quwo people if they had the slightest trouble. After Jin Xiangong moved the clan to Jiangcheng, Quwo's strength was greatly reduced, and the Gaoluo clan began to move.
After Jin Xiangong destroyed Fuzi, Li Rong united with the Dongshan Gaoluo clan to launch an attack on the Jin State. Lirong was the dominant force in the Jin invasion, but the damage caused by the Gaoluo clan to the Jin state was even more severe.
Xiangong then sent an envoy to strongly condemn the Gaoluo clan. The Gaoluo clan thought that since the envoys sent by the Jin State were envoys instead of chariots, it meant that the Jin people had become weaker than in the Wugong era, so they were very arrogant and bombed the Jin envoys away.
Soon, Xian Gong moved the clans back to Quwo and ordered You Zhong and Gongzi Jian to take charge of Quwo's government affairs, and then the Jin State began to prepare for the war against the Gaoluo clan.
Shi Ping believes that the soldier with the most experience in fighting against Chidi is still the clan armor of the Fu clan. But now they were either relegated to slavery, or fled to the enemy, which was so detrimental to the state that he asked Xiangong to release the rich slaves, recall the exiles, and reorganize them into an army.
Uncle You expressed strong opposition, he was afraid that the Fu clan would retaliate against him once he became a powerful person.
Shi Bao said that these people were indeed warriors trained by the Fu clan, but many of them were only given the surname Fu, so they were not related to Fuzi. For decades, Quwo had never had a war against Di without the participation of the children of the Fu clan, nor did it have a Rong Di that they could not defeat. If Uncle You was willing to use their ill-trained children to charge into battle instead of the rich slaves, and be massacred by Chidi or even the exiles (you know, Rong Di's army was mostly led in by exiles), he thought that kind of scene would be what many people wanted to see; And the children of the Fu clan will eventually have to be recruited to deal with the enemy, and the situation of the You clan will only be worse at that time. There was no need to worry that the Fu clan would make a comeback, because the king could have given them a new clan and made them into pawns, and all problems would be solved.
When the You heard that the Fu family could use the remnants of the Fu family as their shield, they no longer objected. Jin Xiangong was thus able to bring an elite army under his command, and he changed the surnames of his soldiers to "Zhu".
Subsequently, Hutu was ordered to form a cavalry guard composed of 2,000 Jin Rongdi, and the captains of the left and right guards were served by Humao and Huyan respectively.
Hu Tu was originally a nobleman of the Hu clan in the northern part of the Jin Kingdom, and he went into exile in the Jin Kingdom because he was persecuted by political enemies. He dedicated his big fox Ji, a daughter who was tall and beautiful like a fairy, to Jin Xiangong, and in this way he took root in the Jin Kingdom.
Fox Tu also has two sons, Fox Fur and Fox Yan, both of whom are tall and strong, handsome in appearance, and extremely brave in battle, although they are very young, they have become famous warriors.
When Chi Dizi heard that the Gong clan had moved back to Quwo, his eyes suddenly appeared with golden and green spoils, and the Gaoluo clan soon invaded Quwo again. The Jin people deliberately did not resist and gave up some of their population and property, and the Gaoluo clan, who had tasted the sweetness, quickly requisitioned a large army, and Li Rong smelled the smell of the captives and mixed in.
After the Rongdi coalition army went west out of Yiguan, the troops were divided into four routes, the main force went straight to Quwo, and the remaining three roads ran to Tong, Wangguan, and Zhouyang along the coast of Shushui.
Zhouyang is in the west of Jiangxian County, the north bank of Shushui, it is the closest to the mouth of the city, the city is not big but relatively rich. Chidi's scouts reported that most of Zhou Yang's soldiers had been requisitioned to Quwo. However, what the scouts saw was an illusion created by the Jin people; Zhou Yang's army swaggered out of the city gate and set off to the west during the day, but at night more than five times as many troops secretly entered Zhou Yang along the mountain and forest trails on the north bank of the river.
This army was mainly composed of elite "Zhu's" pawns and the Darong cavalry led by Hutu. The cavalry and pawns were ambushed on the south bank, while the rest of the army was hidden in the city.
The enemy believed that attacking Zhou Yang should be the least costly and rewarding action, and that it was a rare difference, so the team that entered was composed of the most powerful and greedy nobles and their sons.
The enemy began to cross the river in a haphazard and high-spirited manner, and the defenders of Zhouyang adopted the tactics of half-attacking, attacking the enemy with wet pants and still in motion; The guards and cavalry who were lying in ambush in Shuyin attacked the part of the river that had not crossed the river at the same time, and the enemy army was caught off guard and immediately collapsed.
The remnants of the enemy fled for their lives in the direction of Quwo, and the fox fur led the cavalry in hot pursuit. The defeated enemy caused a lot of panic among the enemy besieging Quwo, and the enemy army was completely confused at first what had happened, and the deserters could not understand it. When the enemy calmed down and found that the pursuers were only a few cavalry, they immediately organized forces to launch a counterattack against the pursuers.
The tide was suddenly reversed - now it was the fox's turn to flee in disarray. In the middle of this back-and-forth, the male servant following the cavalry quickly set up an ambush belt on a pass sandwiched between the hillside and the water. The Jin Rong cavalry fled in front, and the enemy was in hot pursuit, and when the first half of the enemy passed through the pass, the ambushers pushed down the stones and broken logs, dividing the enemy into several sections.
The enemy who did not enter the encirclement was lucky to escape, but the truncated enemy was attacked by the enemy from a high place but could not fight back, so they had to jump into the river one after another, and the guards rushed down, and constantly poked them to death in the water with their spears, and those who escaped to the opposite bank were pursued and killed by the fox cavalry (fox fur in the south of Shushui, fox Yan in the north of Shushui), and finally few people escaped by luck.
The enemy camp stretched for miles, from southwest to southeast of Quwo. The size of the enemy camp looks very bluffing, but in fact the distance is a little too long.
Just when the enemy army besieging Quwo divided its troops to pursue Fox Fur, the Jin army in Quwo City suddenly rushed out of the east gate and occupied the enemy's half-empty enemy camp in the southeast of the city in one fell swoop (the enemies here are all chasing Fox Fur). Since the enemy had just arrived, their fortifications had not been built, and many people wandered around the perimeter to gather wood.
The enemy began to panic, shouting and calling back their scattered companions. The Jin army took advantage of this opportunity to quickly dig a trench, cut off the occupied territory from the enemy's main camp, and began to build fortifications. The enemy gathered to attack the Jin army, and the rest of the Jin army in Quwo City rushed out of the west gate to attack the camp that had not yet been built on the west side of the enemy army.
After several battles, the enemy army has been exhausted by the Jin people, and they do not understand why the Jin people do not come to a face-to-face battle with them, but use all kinds of treacherous tricks to harass and sneak attacks. However, they firmly believed that the Jin people could not win the war by fighting a small battle alone, and there would be a decisive battle between the two armies. The enemy then held his breath and wanted to kill the opponent in the big battle.