Chapter 529: Counter-espionage and bitter meat plan
The drizzle kept pouring down the already bumpy roads of Qi State into mud, adding a lot of difficulties to the army's advance. The generals believed that camping should be set up on high places and wait until the sky cleared before leaving.
But the emperor said: "The road is even thinner and softer after the rain. I'd better grit my teeth and walk these fifty miles and wait until I arrive at Makino City."
The generals complained: "You can't blow the wind and rain, of course you can grit your teeth..." They had to drive the troops to get on the road slowly. More than 200,000 people were crowded on the official road that only allowed four horses to run parallel, and the team took more than ten miles. From time to time, large cars were trapped in the mud and blocked the road. The journey was slow, chaotic, and there were endless curses and complaints.
The autumn grass in the pasture field is yellow and endless, and it looks even more vast in the endless autumn rain.
A big river rushes down from the Taihang Mountains, and the turbulent water roars through the winding rivers, which not only brings floods to the Makino Plain, but also nourishes this fertile land, making people love and hate.
This river is called Wei River, which is only more than 500 miles long, but the source is short and the current is fast, the main stream is curved, and several tributaries are distributed on the left bank of the main stream in the shape of comb-tie. The land between the rivers is wet and fertile, and is full of dense red willows and poplars, and it is impossible to see at a glance.
In the slanting wind and drizzle, a group of cormorants were leisurely foraging and playing on the river. Occasionally, they looked at the old man wearing a green bamboo hat and a green straw raincoat by the river. The fat old man sat on a small bamboo stool with a thin fishing rod in front of him, staring at the slightly undulating fish float on the river surface with all his attention, and sat motionless for a long time.
Behind him were two generals in military uniforms. One had a square face with a younger expression and calmness; the other had a older round face with an older face and looked quite anxious, looking back at the forest path behind him from time to time. Every time he turned around, his armor would make a slight friction sound, which also made the old man's brows frown slightly.
I don't know how long it took, a sudden burst of footsteps came from the path. The round-faced general turned around again, but made a silence at the person who came and said in a low voice: "Don't make a sound, the general is fishing..." The old man in the straw straw hat was still motionless.
The visitor immediately slowed down and slowly walked to the back of the two of them, standing still, staring at the red fish float together in a daze...
Finally, the fish float trembled violently. The old man with yellow beard tightly held the fishing rod with his right hand, and the fishing float suddenly sank. The old man smiled a long time ago, then shook his arm and lifted the fishing rod, pulled the straight line out of the water. A green silver carp with a pound of pounds was instantly caught.
The old man just threw the fish more than foot long into the fish basket with a light swing.
Then he put down the fishing rod and said softly: "No injuries, you must keep your breath to catch fish..."
The round face bowed with shame and said, "I know, I know." Then he stepped forward to help the old man stand up and whispered, "Zhao Hang is here."
The Captain Zhao, who once pursued Qin Yutian for thousands of miles, has been re-appointed as the Captain of the Reconnaissance Cavalry, responsible for the scout reconnaissance mission of the Yum Army... It is a miracle for a Captain of the Preparatory Battalion who has experienced the complete annihilation of the Preparatory Battalion, to be able to hold an important position.
"Da Li, what are you getting?" Zhao Wujiu wiped his hands.
Hearing the commander's name, the young man later knelt down on one knee and said, "Report to the commander, the front team of the Qin army has reached fifteen miles southwest, and it is possible to discover us at any time."
Zhao Wujiu smiled and said, "Where is the Emperor of Qin? Have you explored it clearly?"
"The Qin army dragged fourteen miles in front and behind, and Emperor Zhaowu's chariot was in the middle of the team." Zhao Hangchengzhu said in his heart: "Because we destroyed most of the roads in advance, the Qin army's squad was like a long snake, and it lacked protection for both wings."
"Well," Zhao Wujiu handed the towel to Wu Zhilong and said in a deep voice: "Action as planned!"
A hint of excitement finally flashed on Wubo's face of Takeshiro Gujing, and he nodded heavily and said, "Abide by the order!"
A series of dull horn sounds, and with this desolate sound, countless soldiers of Qi were wearing straw raincoats, wooden clogs, and spears appeared in the continuous bushes by the Wei River. These soldiers gathered together silently, gradually gathering together into a yellow dragon, moving firmly towards the west.
If you can look down at Makinobara from the air, you will find that there are as many as ten giant dragons like this. Although they come from all directions, they only have one target... that is the middle road of the Qin army!
This is exactly the Qi army that Qin Lei was looking for!
This huge army can hide from the Qin army's eyes and silently enter the battlefield, which is inseparable from Zhao Wujiu's ability.
In order to prevent the Qin army's reconnaissance, after evacuating Hulao Pass, he ordered the troops to hide in Taihang Mountains, and did not even release a few spies. He completely avoided the vanguard of the Qin army attacking Makino City and the Jingshan Army scouts' carpet-style search of Makinohara, which made the Qin army mistakenly believe that there was no Qi army activity north of Makino City.
It was not until a few days ago that he had reported that Emperor Qin personally led his army northward that he led his troops to set out carefully and came to the predetermined decisive battlefield, preparing to ambush the Qin army crossing the river north.
A few seemingly ordinary moves led the Qin army into your pocket... You may say that this is because Emperor Zhaowu was too stupid, but Zhao Wujiu would sneer and said, "It will be the same if you lead the army!"
For this decisive battle, he sent countless spies to the Qin State a few years ago. The most powerful one has gained the absolute trust of the senior officials of Qin State, not only allowing him to obey his words, but also able to read the confidential documents of Qin State at will. This made Zhao Wujiu know the situation of Qin State, and even used this to dig out the detailed actions of Qin State that had been lurking for many years, using a beautiful counter-espionage plan.
Before the Qin army set out, Zhao Wujiu grasped all their situations, from strength to strength to strategies and tactics, and even the contradictions between leading figures. Naturally, he could make a good plan in a targeted manner:
As the world's number one general, Zhao Wujiu was naturally not satisfied with just defeating the Qin army. He had to make a contribution to his efforts and completely crippled the Qin army! But how easy was this? It was basically impossible for the Qi army, which was mainly infantry, to annihilate the Qin cavalry that was galloping across the country. Even the great victory twenty years ago did not hurt the Qin army's muscles... Infantry could defeat the cavalry through a strict military formation, but could hardly eliminate it. This was the innate advantage of the cavalry.
The reason why famous generals are famous generals is because they can turn the impossible into possibility! If there is no condition, create conditions and achieve strategic goals!
Zhao Wujiu knew very well that he needed to fight a beautiful ambush with the right time, place, and people, which would be the only hope of annihilation of the Qin army!
The so-called ambush is to fight ambush, which is generally used by relatively weak armies in the interior defense operations. In fact, it has the color of guerrilla warfare. Because it can catch the opponent off guard at a selected battlefield and at a selected time, the efficiency and fee ratio is the highest among all kinds of tactics.
However, it has high requirements for the support of the people, the accuracy of intelligence, the commander's judgment and command ability, as well as terrain, confidentiality work, etc. It is not easy to achieve a beautiful ambush.
After repeated thinking, Zhao Wujiu decided to place the battlefield on the Makino Plain. This place is very interesting. It looks flat and flat, but under the cover of the weeds, there are bumpy and ravines on the ground, which is extremely unfavorable for cavalry operations. The Qi army can obtain a "local advantage" here.
In addition, domestic operations and public support, it is easy to keep confidential and obtain information, and the advantages of "people and harmony" are incomparable... If you can choose another suitable weather, you can occupy the "good time, place and harmony", and it is difficult to win.
It is easy to choose the battlefield, but how to lead the Qin army over has become the biggest problem that Yumeng Gong needs to solve...
After another careful consideration, he decided to adopt the "defeated plan of defeat" and asked you to get into the trap through several self-harm:
He first took advantage of the Qin people's behavior and love of merit, and lost a real game in Luoshuiyuan, which inspired the confidence of the Qin people. He also incredibly gave up Hulao Pass, making his confidence expand to the point of being arrogant, and regards the Qi army as a native chicken and a dog, which is not worth laughing at.
He used his meticulous work to hypnotize the Qin Taiwei, which made the decision-making power of the Qin army completely in the hands of the blind emperor... Those who had never been on the battlefield were easily discouraged by minor failures, and were easily lost by victory, forgetting what it means to "take the money for peace." Therefore, Zhao Wujiu did not seek a victory, but instead took a deliberate defeat and completely fooled the Qin emperor into his name.
Then he used his fine work again to throw out the millions of stones of food and grass from Muye City as bait, successfully attracting Emperor Zhaowu's gaze to the north and avoiding the Qin army's robbery to the east. Finally, relying on the third defeat of Muye City, completely eliminating the wariness of the Qin generals and finally leading the Qin army to the Makinoland.
This is definitely a technical job. It cannot let the other party see the flaws, nor can it lose the root cause. This is the invincible Yum, supported by the tremendous reputation. If other generals were defeated again and again, they would have lost their morale and turned it into reality.
Even the time of the double-shot battle was within Zhao Wujiu's precise calculations... He had expected this autumn rain a few days ago.
Looking at the whole process, it has indeed embodied Yum’s rich battlefield experience, keen insight, and superhuman courage to “catch gangsters with your wife”. It is the result of careful preparation and accumulation of strength. Anyone would have been hit...
At this moment, the "ambush and annihilation battle" was finally ready!
As for the Qin emperor leaving Hulao Pass and rashly following the army northward, it was beyond the expectation of Yu Shenggong... In his plan, he could wipe out the main force of Qin and won a great victory. He really never thought about how to do the Qin emperor.
But since the Qin emperor gave the gift, Mr. Yum naturally accepted it with a smile. He ordered the entire army: 'Those who captured the Qin emperor would be rewarded with 100,000 taels of silver and granted the title of Marquis of Ten Thousand Houses!' He gave another injection of chicken blood to his subordinates who were already full of anger!
When the Qi army approached five miles away, they were finally discovered by the scouts of Qin... The Qin army had one scout at one mile, and the range of investigation was fifteen miles, but only five miles on the left, so Zhao Wujiu simply gave up the encirclement and concentrated his forces to attack the Qin army's middle route.
Looking at the long yellow line slowly coming from afar, the Qin army scout was distracted and shouted at the top of his throat: "Enemy attack!" and he rushed the war horses to report the message to the large army. Originally, wolf smoke or whistlebrating was the best choice, but it was not lit on rainy days, nor could it shoot a sound arrow. He could only use this most primitive method...
When the news was finally learned by the senior officials of the Qin army after five transmissions, the Qi army advanced halfway, and the two sides were less than three miles away!
"Stop moving forward! Get ready for battle!" While quickly informing the emperor, the generals quickly organized defense on the spot. The Qin army was already weak due to exhaustion. At this time, when he heard that the Qi army fell from the sky, he suddenly panicked and crowded on the road in chaos. The soldiers were in chaos and could not be unfolded, and even the military flags gathered together and could not be opened, so that the soldiers could not find the generals and the generals could not find the soldiers. The situation was very dangerous...
However, the Qin army was of high quality. The generals ordered the supervisory team to kill hundreds of run and screaming defeated soldiers, and gradually stabilized their positions. The officers and soldiers escaped from the initial panic, and the cavalry dismounted one after another and formed a formation of a hostile formation with the infantry, preparing to fight to the death with the other side...
But at this moment, someone suddenly shouted: "The dragon flag is back!" The soldiers turned around and saw the emperor's flag begin to fall back... This means that their commander, His Majesty Emperor Shizong Lie... ran away!
Seeing that his commander fled before the battle, the fighting spirit that had just gathered disappeared. Although the soldiers stood in a defensive formation, they were no longer interested in fighting... This is definitely fatal in the era of cold weapons!
The Qi army, wearing a straw raincoat and holding a spear, soon appeared in the middle of the Qin army, and rushed up yellingly, like a giant axe slashing the waist of a long snake.
On rainy days, the range and accuracy of bows and arrows were reduced to an outrageous level... This is mainly because the bowstrings will become soft in the rain, causing the bows and arrows to lose their strength and accuracy. Therefore, the two armies simply saved the process of shooting bows and arrows and started hand-to-hand combat directly!
As soon as the two sides fought, the tall and brave Qin soldiers took advantage of it. They swung out the Painted Spear and stabbed the Qi army in the front. The Qi army behind immediately rushed up and stabbed the Qin army with their spears, but most of them were blocked by the shield hands, causing very little damage.
The Qin army's spearmen took advantage of the situation to attack again and stabbed a group of Qi soldiers. After repeated this several times, the Qin cavalry actually killed the Qi army, which was known as the best at infantry battles, to the point of falling into trouble!
Blood awakened the fighting spirit of the Qin men, but they were all thinking: ‘Repel the enemy and retreat safely…’ instead of defeating the enemy and destroying them. This is the consequence of the retreat of the commander’s flag!
After a slaughter of cutting melons and vegetables, Qi Jun, who had no fighting spirit, retreated like a tide!
Looking at the enemy troops that were away, the Qin army, who was unwilling to fight, did not pursue them. Instead, the formation slowly moved southward, trying to evacuate the battlefield.
Unexpectedly, not long after, Qi Jun, who had just retreated, made a comeback again, and still rushed over in a straw raincoat, holding a spear, and shouting.
The Qin army did not see the other party at all, and stood up casually, preparing to form a formation to meet the enemy... But this time the formation was too sparse and chaotic, so that even the shield player was not in place, so they started hand-to-hand combat again!
But this time the Qi army was completely different. Their lower plate was so solid, and the sprint was so fast and powerful that even the iron spear in their hands was three feet long!
As soon as they fought, the Qin army soldiers were killed off guard. Many soldiers were stabbed down by the other party before they could even stab out the iron spear, and the casualties were severe.
The Qin soldiers were shocked to find that the other party's formation was so clever. Although the two sides seemed to have a similar number of people, they had to face three spears alone and could not resist it at all!
The Qin army, which was already in a low morale, retreated one after another, and could no longer stop the Qi army's breakthrough and let the other party cut off his own countermeasures in half!
This Qi army is like a murderous machine, harvesting the lives of one Qin army after another in an orderly manner. Its combat power is completely incomparable to any Qi army before!
The soldiers of Qi army shook off the straw coats on their bodies because of the thorns, and finally revealed the dark armor inside!
Chapter completed!