sweeping the world

Chapter 446 The will to die

Engagement has always required enough space. The more troops participating in the battle, the wider the space is needed. Otherwise, the troops will not be able to spread out and squeeze together, which will consume not only time but also supplies.

The Han army is constantly mobilizing, effectively covering the arrival of the Huben army.

The Huben Army is a group of cavalry equipped with armor and cavalry. They are more particular about what battlefields they join than other arms. For example, light cavalry with light clothing can perform well on slopes and hilly areas, while heavy cavalry with heavy equipment are used to carry heavy loads. The relationship with the installation cost will not affect the slopes and hilly areas at all.

The terrain on the north bank of the Yellow River in Jijin is relatively more complicated than that on the south bank. Most of Puyang County is flat terrain. There have been many large-scale battles between cavalry (chariot soldiers) in Puyang County in ancient times. However, if you read some Everyone in the history books knows that Puyang County is suitable for cavalry operations.Probably because it was suitable for cavalry combat, the Shijie Zhao army positioned Puyang County as the battleground, but they also seized the opportunity to retreat when they realized that they were about to be encircled.

The north bank of the Yellow River in Jijin is under the jurisdiction of Ji County. Ji County is divided into six counties, except Linlu County in the north, which is the largest county, such as Xiuwu County, Huojia County, Gong County, Chaoge and Ji County. The county capital is located in the south along the Yellow River, which fully reflects the Chinese habit of building cities based on water.

The terrain in the southern part of Ji County is flat. In order to form a military defense, some checkpoints seem to be important military towns. For example, Tongguan in the southwest of Ji County, Fancheng in the west of Ji County, and square head.They exist to defend the capital of a county, so that the enemy will not take advantage of the flat terrain to drive straight into the capital of a county, causing a domino effect in the entire county after the fall of the capital, that is, after the death of the capital, the highest officer is killed or After being captured and losing the supreme officer, various places fight on their own.

The Han army's conquest against Jijun had several steps. First, Huanwen's troops went north from Xingyang County in the southwest of Jijun, and they conquered Tongguan without much effort.

There are historical reasons why Huanwen's troops were able to easily win Tongguan.No matter it was the end of the Eastern Han Dynasty, the Western Jin Dynasty or the pre-Zhao period of the Xiongnu, Tongguan has always been valued. After Shijie ruled the Central Plains, it can be said that the Jie people have made no achievements in governing the country, let alone the recovery of productivity, and some important passes have not been taken into account at all. , As a result, Tongguan has not been repaired at all.

In fact, it’s not just Tongguan that seems to be unknown. Take the several passes that must be passed into the Qinland of Guanzhong. Whether it is Tongguan or Yiguan as the gateway, or the backup pass Lantian Pass, they all clearly have extremely powerful capabilities. It has important strategic value, but Shijie Zhao State has never thought about maintaining and repairing it.

The real situation is that in the Central Plains under Shijie’s rule, in addition to the few guarded cities around Xiangguo in the early period, after the massive construction of palaces in Yecheng later, several cities were listed as barriers. Otherwise, Shijie’s ruling class would only be Attention is paid to several important places on the border, and the rest are basically ignored.

After Huan Wen's troops captured Tongguan, it can be said that they quickly captured the capital of Ji County, and even the surrounding Huojia City and Gong City were easily captured.The cause of this situation is still related to Shijie's ruling thinking. Shijie has full Hu people's characteristics.

Later, Huan Wen's troops marched to Chaoge and were blocked.Chaoge is located in the north of Jijin. At that time, Shihu was the white horse who led the army in Puyang County. He chose to garrison in Chaoge because he valued the retreat route.This move really played a key role. It was because Huan Wen's troops were blocked in Chaoge that Shi Hu retreated to Fangtou first, and finally retreated back to Yecheng safely.

The second group from the southwest to the north was Xie An's troops. They entered Ji County from Hanoi County. Gong County and Ji County went a step further to take down Fancheng, completely wiped out the Shijie Zhao army in the west of Chaoge, and laid the foundation for the rescue of the trapped Huanwen troops.

Xie An's troops had a solid rear, and they rushed a hundred miles away to the northwest of Jijin, turning into an attack route from north to south.There is only one reason for this. At that time, the number of Shijie Zhao troops in Jijin, Fangtou and Chaoge was too large, especially the front line of Jijin and Chaoge was almost crowded with Shijie Zhao troops. Huan Wen's troops rushing to help the besieged will inevitably fall into it. It is better to open up enough space from north to south to involve Shijie and Zhao Jun to go north, and at the same time, there are more detours to choose from.

Facts also proved the correctness of Xie An's choice of rushing aid direction. They attacked from north to south posed an extreme threat to Shijie's Zhao army. Li Kuang's side gained an advantage in Suoyang City, and it was Xu Zheng who led his army into Yangping County. , Han troops from three directions directly forced Shi Hu to give up staying on the front line and retreat back to Yecheng.

The current layout of the Han army is divided into several parts. Xie An's troops are in the northwest, Li Kuang's troops advance from Fanyang in Yangping County to Neihuang in Wei County, and Ran Min leads the main force in the Jijin area.

The main force of the Shijie Zhao army led by Shi Xuan was stationed in Fangtou, and the miscellaneous cards still surrounded Huan Wen's troops in Chaoge.Cao Fu also led a part of the Shijie Zhao army to serve as the periphery. This group of Shijie Zhao army was located a hundred miles north of Chaoge, and it can be seen that they were targeting Xie An's troops located in the northern part of the battlefield.

The recent movement of the Han army is divided into three steps. First, the troops that responded to the refugees from the Zhao Kingdom in Shijie retreated southward, and then Xie An, the northernmost, led the army to make a maneuver to approach Jijin.The first two steps are pulling and leading the Shijie Zhao army to make corresponding changes. The third step is to stretch the Shijie Zhao army, forcing the Shijie Zhao army to make adjustments, and the various armies become loose. , to create a combat environment for the newly formed Northern Expedition Corps.

The Northern Expedition Corps headed by Ran Min will be composed of [-] imperial guards and [-] field troops, which means that only these troops will attack north. The other troops will enter the stage of defending on the spot or retreating to counter the rebellion.

Shi Jie Zhao Guo made his own judgment on the movements of the Han army. It is not clear what Shi Hu considered. As the commander-in-chief of the front line, Shi Xuan's thoughts were absolutely simple.

"The besieged Han army must be destroyed!" Shi Xuan looked at the young-looking man with a ferocious face: "They have fired fewer and fewer arrows recently. It can be seen that the military supplies will be exhausted. They will send more miscellaneous soldiers to attack and sacrifice human lives." Change the arrows, try to consume their arrows as soon as possible, and lay the foundation for the general attack."

The miscellaneous soldiers mentioned by Shi Xuan are Zahu and Jin people. In fact, most of the Shijie Zhao army located around Chaoge is also composed of Zahu and Jin people.

Shihu provoked a racial vendetta. While the Hu people of various ethnic groups in Shijie Zhao State slaughtered the Jin people, they also received orders to arrest the Jin people and go to the front line. What appeared in front of Huan Wen was driven by a mob with the Jin people as the main force. With forced attack.

Shi Xuan's judgment came from Zhang Qun and other high-level officials in Shijie.This group of Shijie officials made such judgments based on common sense. From the mobilization of the Han army and the racial vendettas in various places, it cannot be said that they are too stupid. country of judgment.

Chaoge's Shi Jie Zhao army wanted to seize the opportunity to eliminate Huan Wen's troops. Ran Min cooperated very well and continued to stretch enough space for the upcoming attack. Huan Wen, who was surrounded, was really anxious.

"How could that happen!?" Huan Wen was talking about the arrow situation. He had already learned from Shijie Zhao Jun's deliberate publicity that the peripheral Han troops were retreating. Knowing that Liu Yan made the adjustment, he panicked for the first time: "Impossible!"

Tiao You's long history gave an extremely positive answer: "The production of arrows in the field has stopped. Judging from the reserve and consumption, it will bottom out in three days."

"It shouldn't be!" Huan Wen felt really unbelievable. He was silent for a long time with an extremely ugly face, and asked, "Grain?"

"There is enough food and fodder." Tiao You's long history is in charge of many things, including army logistics.He asked in a speculative tone: "It should be true that the external reinforcements retreated. There is a problem with the supply of arrows. What happened that we don't know about?"

Because of the current situation of being under siege, Huan Wen and Tiaoyou are actually unaware of the outbreak of ethnic vendettas in various places.The amount of information determines the direction of a person's thinking. Huan Wen suspects that he has become an abandoned child, and Tiao You actually has similar worries.

Tiaoyou's panic is higher than Huan Wen's, and his thoughts are more direct than Huan Wen's. The soldiers on their side have more than seven layers and are reorganized from the original Ran's Qin State, whether it is due to differences in closeness or to weaken the Ran's Qin State. Under the influence of various realities, it is not impossible for the Han Kingdom Center to give up on them.

The two were negotiating with the big account located in the position of the Chinese army, and they could still hear the sound of shouting and killing from a distance. What is more strange is that the shouting and killing were all in Chinese.

"I don't believe that the king will give up on us!" Huan Wen put aside his panic and confusion and said as if he was trying to convince himself: "The Han army has never been wiped out by the establishment, and we will not be the first!"

Tiao You frowned and remained silent. If it was true as he guessed, the possibility of them becoming abandoned children was infinite. After all, compared to the stability of the country in the future, what is an army wiped out by an established system?

Annoyed, Huan Wen didn't want to talk any more, but wandered around various fronts to boost morale, and told the soldiers that the news spread by Shijie's Zhao army was false, and all the soldiers should unite as one.

The besieged Han army suddenly cut off the supply of arrows and had to control the consumption of arrows, and Shi Xuan went mad to drive a strong attack. Before the Han army was able to keep the front line outside the camp, it was only the first day after a day. The camp has become a battlefield.

The new changes in the battle situation greatly stimulated Shi Xuan's enthusiasm. He ignored the [-] casualties that occurred in just one day, and even more frantically drove the miscellaneous soldiers under his command to launch attacks from all sides.

Huan Wen wanted to dispel the rumors spread by Zhao Jun in Shijie, but things were not that simple. In fact, the rumors really affected the morale of the soldiers under his command, especially after the first camp became a battlefield, their confidence was declining with the passage of time.

On the second day of the new change in the battle situation, Zhang Qun launched a new psychological offensive and spread the news to the besieged Huan Wen's troops, saying that Ran Min was beheaded because of launching a rebellion, and that most of them were from the Ran family at the center of the Han Dynasty. The reason why Qin State has given up the rescue, and deliberately let them be wiped out here.

On the one hand, spread specious rumors that were not confirmed by difficulties; on the other hand, Zhang Qun also issued a suggestion to Shi Xuan to persuade him to surrender. A further blow to their morale."

Shi Xuan had a high degree of trust in Zhang Qun and accepted the suggestion without hesitation.

People who were born in Ran's Qin Kingdom basically had a certain understanding of Ran Min. When the rumors spread by Shijie and Zhao Jun arrived, Tiao You was really frightened.

According to Tiaoyou's understanding of Ran Min, he deeply knows that Ran Min is really not a person who is willing to be subordinate to others. He knows that Ran Min is an ambitious hero, and the self-disintegration of Ran's Qin Kingdom is just Ran Min's last resort. This is a dormant measure, and this is also a secret of the original Ran family and the Qin high-level officials. The difference is that after they understand the true strength of the Han country, they will divide themselves internally.

[It's not impossible! ] Tiao You was extremely anxious and thought: [Just because I don’t say it, it doesn’t mean that others don’t say it. Once someone confesses to the king, Yong Zeng is really likely to rebel regardless of it. Then the king will withdraw the reinforcements and borrow stones. Jie Zhi's hand annihilated this large distribution of troops from the original Ran clan's Qin army, didn't it become a matter of course? 】

People really can't think wildly, especially as a high-level person, they can't easily panic and lose confidence. Huan Wen is doing his best to support it. The problem is that those soldiers who were reorganized by Ran's Qin State have more natural closeness to Tiao You, Tiao You Yau's abnormality directly affects the soldiers' thinking.

When the hearts of the people are confused, the hardships that can be overcome by standing up will become unsustainable. As a result, their first camp fell in just one day, and the overall situation took a turn for the worse.

Huan Wen wanted to break the situation, so he calmed down alone and finally remembered that there were some prisoners. After interrogating them personally, he learned the general situation of the world.

"Shihu provoked vendettas of all ethnic groups, and the barbarians from all over the place continued to riot." Huan Wen knew what happened, but his originally calm mind was confused again.He said to Tiao You with an almost livid face: "This can explain clearly. The reinforcements are really retreating, and they want to withdraw to the country to suppress the rebellion."

"Ours was really abandoned?!" Tiao You turned pale in an instant, trembling: "Then the matter of Yong Zeng's rebellion..."

"That's not something we're thinking about." Huan Wen's face was livid, but his expression was extremely determined: "No matter what the situation is, even if I fight to the death, I will never surrender! "

It's not that Tiaoyou didn't work hard in Shijie before, but in fact he was already shaken by Shi Xuan's persuasion to surrender. When he saw Huan Wen's firm will to resist to the end despite his despair, he couldn't help but froze for a moment.

(End of this chapter)