Chapter 638: The Fall of Yingdu (13)
That night, the husband sat in the tent and chatted with some friends over dinner, and the more he thought about the strange things that had happened in the morning battle, the more wrong he became, and asked, "What is the prince mad about?" Do you engage in tactical performances? The jugglers in the city were not as good as he could toss. ”
A commander beside him said, "I think he is luring us into giving orders, so that the Qin people will understand our orders." ”
The husband was stunned for a moment, and after a while, he threw away a chicken bone in his hand and said, "It's broken, give the order to go down, pack up and retreat overnight." ”
As soon as the words fell, the envoy of the Qin army came to write a war letter, and the place of the battle was behind the Wu army, and everyone present was shocked.
When the two armies fought the next day, Wu Jun finally learned what it meant to be called "the tiger of Hexi" and "the division of tigers and wolves". The battlefield is a vast plain, with no jungles to hide ambushes and no high points for both sides to fight, so a lot of brain-consuming tactics are eliminated. Both sides set up in a dignified formation, spear to spear, sword to sword, and chariot to chariot, colliding and squeezing each other. One of the characteristics of the Qin army that terrified the Wu army was that the soldiers did not say a word during the battle, but looked directly into the eyes of their opponents with a fierce and vicious look - as if they were about to stare out the opponent's brains, and the weapons in their hands were neatly stabbed straight to the point.
The legend of the "half-orcs" resurfaced in the minds of the Wu people, and the soldiers began to tremble with fear, their hands were weak and weak, their waists and knees were weak to resist, and the array began to slowly move back. Seeing that the situation was not good, Fu gave the order to change tactics, but those signals were already known to the Qin people, and the Qin army was able to take timely countermeasures according to the enemy's tactics, while the Wu people were not familiar with the enemy's orders.
The Fu generals divided the army into parts, hoping to offset the enemy's overall combat advantage with the fierce combat effectiveness of individual soldiers, but the Qin people did not show weakness, and the sergeants mostly formed groups of three or five people, and sometimes several groups were combined to fight. When the sun was three poles, the people of Wu could not stand it, and the escape began to spread from one point, and soon spread to the entire army. The Wu army finally retreated on all fronts, and the Qin army was about to press the whole army, when a support army of the Tang State attacked the Qin ** battalion from behind; The Qin army had no choice but to turn around and rush back to expel the Tang army, and the Wu army escaped.
On the way to retreat, the Fu army was attacked by the Zixi army in Junxiang (southwest of Suiguo). The husband suffered two defeats in a row, lost countless soldiers, and retreated to Yingdu in disgrace.
At this point, the state of Chu had reversed its decline, and the armies of Shen, Xi and Huaishang were continuously assembling towards Suiguo, and then marching south, forming a north-south confrontation with the Wu army in Yingdu. At this time, the Cai army and the Tang army in the Chu coalition had returned to China, and because the Tang state was less than 100 miles away from the Sui country, it became the first country to be retaliated against.
In the summer of May, Ziqi and Zipu Shuai surrounded the Tang Dynasty, and Tang Chenggong faced the enemy army all over the mountains, knowing that it was impossible to escape the disaster of the country, and he died of exhaustion. His son was immediately crowned and began his short-lived reign. The new Tang Marquis asked for help, but he had no time to care about his former allies, and was already thinking about how to withdraw his troops. In the autumn and July, the coalition forces invaded the Tang State and destroyed this small country established in the Yuxia era.
The founding monarch of the Tang Dynasty was a descendant of Di Yao, surnamed Qi, who was founded in Yicheng, Shanxi, and the Fan family of the Jin State came from that country. After King Cheng of Zhou destroyed the Tang Dynasty, he gave the hometown of Yao Tang to the ancestor of Jin, and moved the ancient Tang Kingdom to the east bank of the ancient water to continue the sacrifice to Emperor Yao. Tang, like Sui, was also a state within a state of Chu. The Tang State was able to coexist peacefully with the Chu State for two hundred years, and in addition to the alliance, the Tang people must have paid great sacrifices.
But Gou An did not bring a good ending to the Tang Dynasty, thanks to the most shameless, greedy, and evil sac tile in the history of the Chu State, the ancient Tang Kingdom was destroyed in one day, which is really embarrassing.
The Chu army swept away the enemy behind them, and then prepared to cross the Qingfa Shui with the Qin army. When the combined forces of Chu and Qin surrounded Suiguo, He Lu began to recall the stragglers who were robbing outside and prepared for the upcoming battle. The summer and autumn of that year rained heavily, and the convening operation was carried out relatively slowly. After the Wu army gathered, He Lu planned to return to China by water, but was told that most of the ships were on their way back with stolen goods; And the two land routes (one is the road from which they came, and the other is through Baiju-Qiancheng) are full of enemy troops, and they can no longer walk. On the one hand, he sent people to urge the ships to return as soon as possible, and on the other hand, he ordered his husband to go to Pusao (west of Qingfa Shui, on the opposite bank of Yunxian) to build a defensive line to prevent the coalition forces from crossing the water.
On the surface, the husband accepted the order without hesitation, and in fact made the appearance of rushing to the battlefield majestically, but he had other plans in his heart.
It turned out that after the "Ling Yin Mansion" incident, Zishan sued his uncle in front of his father; He Lu was very annoyed, so he summoned his husband and beat his son in front of him. On the surface, he was teaching his son a lesson for his husband, but he actually vented his anger against his husband on the unlucky son.
Later, the husband did a lot of things that he couldn't tolerate (those things were commonplace for the cruel and greedy husband), and he expressed his dissatisfaction with him through his expressions, eyes, etc., but he continued to show his unruliness by doing his own thing.
Later, in a crucial battle against the Qin and Chu coalition forces, He Lu transferred Zishan from Fu Jian back to his side, and watched from the sidelines when Fu Yi suffered a crushing defeat (He Lu had originally arranged a reserve nearby).
The husband was lucky to escape, and the more he thought about it, the more uneasy he became. He thought that his brother could no longer tolerate his unruly brother, and wanted to use the enemy's hand to get rid of him; Therefore, he had the ambition to kill Lu and seize the throne with the help of the hands of the people of Chu.
The husband did not go to Pusao as instructed, and he planned to cross the Han River and turn east through the Dabie Mountain to return to China. However, the speed of the combined forces of Chu and Qin was quite fast, and as soon as the Fu army arrived in Yongxi, it encountered the vanguard of the Chu State. The two sides met unexpectedly, and no one was psychologically prepared, and the result was a battle in a daze. The Chu army suffered a loss of insufficient numbers and quickly retreated. The husband did not dare to fight, and continued to retreat to Baiju, only to encounter the main force of the Qin army. The people of Wu were frightened by the Qin army, and did not dare to fight hard, so they moved to the side while fighting, and later climbed a hill and fled along the other slope.
The bad news finally came, and the scout came back to report that the Chu army had arrived at Baiju and blocked the entrance to Dabie Mountain. Now there are only two options left for the husband: one is to return to the Yingdu base; The second is to rush to the Yangtze River, and bet on whether the return ship of the slaves carrying goods can be intercepted, and then return to China by water.