Chapter 57: failed ambush
Chapter 57 Failed Ambush
Chapter 56: Failed Ambush
Qin Wen is a famous Confucian general, and he is also one of the most capable generals in the Han Dynasty. Confucian generals are not good at strength, but good at using wisdom.
This is the biggest reason why the Han court always placed Qin Wen in Yanmen to resist the Xiongnu.
After all, Yanmen Pass is the front line in northern Xinjiang. If a strong general who only knows how to fight head-on is placed at Yanmen Pass, it will also be a big drain on national power.
As a Confucian general who is full of wisdom and scheming, Qin Wen still cannot fail to understand the importance of grain roads. Logically speaking, it is impossible to arrange only such a few people in Pingcheng for defense.
However, there are only a thousand defenders in Pingcheng. Is it because Qin Wen was careless? of course not.
When he just led his army to leave Yanmen, Qin Wen indeed deployed 3,000 defenders in Pingcheng. However, in the decisive battle with Fang La, Qin Wen was worried that his 30,000 army would not have enough troops to fight against Fang La's 80,000 army.
After a great victory, the Yanmen Army killed 20,000 enemies. Now that Fang La had retreated to the east of Dai County and could no longer threaten the rear of the Yanmen Army, Qin Wen transferred two thousand defenders from the rear to supplement them. .
However, Ren Qin Wen was full of clever plans, who would have thought that the Wang family would rebel at this time!
A little bit of oversight led to the current huge crisis. Wang Shichong also saw the loopholes in the Yanmen Army's deployment, so he immediately dedicated the strategy of cutting off the food road to Dongfang Sheng.
In this way, it can be used as a petition to join the Yellow Turban Army, fully demonstrating his value in front of Dongfang Sheng, so as to ascend to a high position as soon as possible; secondly, he can also take revenge on Qin Wen and Qin Hao's father and son.
When Wang Shichong retreated, he saw the chaos at the city gate and knew that the Yin Pavilion might not be able to be defended. He did not enter the Yin Pavilion out of caution.
Wang Shichong also advised Wang Xiong to abandon the city and run away quickly, as the palace could not be defended. However, Wang Xiong not only refused to listen, but instead put all the responsibility for the defeat on Wang Shichong, and insisted on gambling on the vague hope.
As a result, the Yin Pavilion has fallen, and all his wife, children, and children have fallen into Qin Hao's hands.
Rebellion was a major crime against the nine tribes, and now that he had joined the Yellow Turban Army, Wang Shichong could not think of any reason for Qin Hao to let his wife and children go, so he was full of hatred for Qin Wen because of Qin Hao.
Wang Shichong was full of confidence in his plan to cut off supplies. He did not believe that Dongfang Sheng would miss the opportunity to annihilate 30,000 elite Han troops.
But what Wang Shichong didn't expect was that as soon as he finished speaking, Fang Jie, who had been standing silently aside, suddenly interrupted.
“Is it gone?”
Wang Shichong was stunned, a little confused as to what Fang Jie meant.
“No, if this plan can be implemented smoothly, we will definitely be able to annihilate them all…”
Before Wang Shichong finished speaking, he was interrupted by Fang Jie, who said disdainfully: "I don't think you guys from aristocratic families can come up with any clever ideas, it's nothing more than that, the young lady you are thinking of has thought of it, and More comprehensive and complete.”
Wang Shichong was stunned when he heard this. The first reaction in his heart was that he didn't believe it, but Fang Jie didn't look like he was lying. Did this woman really think of it in advance?
Seeing Wang Shichong's unbelieving look, Fang Jie continued: "Why else do you think we are here? It's not just to wait for you. The young lady has already guessed that you might come alive. Most of what you just said is right. , only one thing is wrong.”
Looking at Dongfang Sheng’s flawless and beautiful face, Wang Shichong suddenly had the illusion that the woman in front of him was terrifying.
Wang Shichong pretended to be surprised and asked: "Oh? I would like to hear the details!"
"My eldest brother has more than 50,000 troops in Daijun. Zhang Xianzhong, the leader of the Jizhou rebel army, has led 50,000 troops to support. The purpose is to annihilate Daijun's 30,000 Yanmen troops as quickly as possible. By the time Shidai County has 100,000. "
"enough!"
Before Fang Jie could finish speaking, he was interrupted by Dongfang Sheng. Seeing that Fang Jie had leaked the secrets of the Yellow Turban Army to Wang Shichong so easily, Dongfang Sheng glared at Fang Jie, and Fang Jie realized that he seemed to be a little too proud. He quickly shut up and lowered his head.
"The whole army listens to the order and marches to pacify the city." Dongfang Sheng ordered coldly.
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After two hours of rushing, more than 6,000 soldiers and horses under Dongfang Shenghe finally arrived at Pingdao. As long as they walked through this winding and not flat road at all, they could reach it in less than an hour. Pingcheng.
"General, there is a flat road ahead. After passing the flat road and walking for another thirty miles, you can reach Pingcheng!" Wang Shichong pointed to the long and narrow road ahead with winding paths and said slowly.
"Wait a minute." Dongfang Sheng glanced at the quiet ancient road ahead and said coldly: "Send the order to the entire army to stop marching!"
"Miss, what's wrong?" Fang Jie, who was behind, noticed something strange in front of him and asked on horseback. "Qin Hao is here, there is an ambush ahead!" Dongfang Sheng stared straight ahead and said calmly.
“What?” Everyone was shocked.
Dongfang Sheng ignored the crowd and rode up to the crossing alone, shouting: "Xiao Hao'er, come out, I know you are there!"
Hiding behind a huge rock, Qin Hao heard this. Although he didn't know where he had exposed his flaw, he also knew that Dongfang Sheng had indeed discovered him. He couldn't help but secretly cried out in his heart that it was a pity that he could almost wipe out the six thousand enemy troops.
Although Fang Jie's five thousand troops were away from the battlefield, Qin Hao could not let them wreak havoc in Yanmen. Therefore, when Fang Jie led his army to retreat, Qin Hao sent spies to find out the movements of Fang Jie's army.
After taking down the Yin Pavilion, when the spies came to report that Fang Jie had gone to Pingcheng, Qin Hao knew that this was Dongfang Sheng's idea to attack the Yanmen Army Food Road in Dai County, so he quickly ordered the soldiers to break the barracks and turn the heavy cavalry into Qingqi, and then led more than 400 lightly-armed troops to break into the military camp, and came to Pingcheng for rescue at full speed.
Dongfang Sheng's men were all infantry, and even if they marched in a hurry, they couldn't compare to the broken military camp that had turned into light cavalry and had one man and two horses.
After Qin Hao arrived at Pingdao, he found that Dongfang Sheng had not arrived yet. He wanted to enter the city to defend, but Yue Fei came up with a plan. Relying on the dangerous terrain of Pingdao, he calculated and ambush the Yellow Turban Army unintentionally.
Qin Hao felt that Yue Fei's plan was very feasible. In the minds of Dongfang Sheng and others, his main energy must still be to deal with the remaining enemies in the Yin Pavilion, and he would not be able to appear on Pingdao.
So Qin Hao made a decisive decision, immediately seized the favorable terrain, and mobilized all the 1,000 defenders of Pingcheng, preparing to ambush Dongfang Sheng on Pingdao and annihilate all 6,000 troops.
Although Pingdao has the word "平" in its name, it has nothing to do with peace, and the terrain is very dangerous.
It was precisely because of the advantageous location that Qin Hao had the confidence to annihilate Dongfang Sheng and Wang Shichong's more than 6,000 enemy troops with more than 400 exhausted barracks and a thousand garrison troops.
But man’s calculations are not as good as God’s calculations. Qin Hao thought that his concealment was foolproof, but he didn’t expect to be discovered by Dongfang Sheng.
Now that the other party has discovered it, there is no point in hiding it anymore, so Qin Hao urged his horse to come to Dongfang Sheng and asked with a faint smile: "You are the only one who dares to call me that now, but there is one thing I am curious about. , Sister Sheng, how did you find out? Is there any flaw in my deployment? "
Qin Yong and other three generals saw that Qin Hao actually went to face Dongfang Sheng alone, so they immediately followed him. You must know that the empress has never been defeated since her debut. Sword Saint Wang Yue can't do anything to her, and Qin Yong and the other three generals can't do anything to her. Think Qin Hao is Dongfang Sheng's opponent.
However, when they heard Qin Hao call Dongfang Sheng "sister", the three of them were completely confused. It seems that the young master and the empress are still old acquaintances!
Qin Hao didn't care when he saw Qin Yong and three others following him. After all, they were also doing it for their own safety.
Dongfang Sheng glanced coldly at the three generals behind Qin Hao, and said calmly: "There are no flaws in your deployment, I just feel that you are there."
Qin Hao's mouth twitched. The reason for Dongfang's victory was really strong. He attributed the reason to women's sixth sense. Qin Hao was speechless for a moment.
"Since I am here now, I will never let you, sister, take Pingcheng." Qin Hao stared into Dongfang Sheng's eyes and said seriously.
"If I guess correctly, there should be no soldiers in Pingcheng at this time. As long as we defeat you, Pingcheng will still belong to our Yellow Turban Army." Dongfang Sheng looked playful.
Qin Hao's face changed slightly when he heard this, and he said coldly: "You can give it a try!"
Dongfang Sheng glanced at Qin Hao meaningfully, then drew his horse back to the formation and said to the left and right: "The whole army retreats and goes back to Dai County via Changshan Mountain."
Changshan County in Jizhou borders the southeastern part of Yanmen County, and entering Changshan State to the north is Daijun in Youzhou. Now Dongfang Sheng's route back to Daijun from Yanmen has been cut off by Qin Hao. If he cannot capture Pingcheng, he cannot return to Daijun, so Dongfangsheng Sheng could only take a detour to Changshan and return to Daijun.
"What? Aren't you going to defeat Pingcheng?" Wang Shichong asked in disbelief. Such a good opportunity was right in front of him. Does this woman want to give up?
"Yes, miss, the opponent can only have more than a thousand people at most, so we won't necessarily lose." Fang Jie on the other side also advised at this time.
After hearing this, Dongfang Sheng glanced at Wang Shichong coldly, shook his head and said: "It's useless. Based on my understanding of Qin Hao, since he can reach Pingdao before us, he definitely has a perfect plan to protect Pingcheng. Besides, since he can If we can mobilize the defenders of Pingcheng, we can definitely mobilize the defenders of other counties. If we don’t leave, will we be surrounded and annihilated?”
The generals were immediately speechless upon hearing this. According to this, what is before them now is not only an opportunity, but a big crisis of annihilation of the entire army.
Wang Shichong didn't dare to say anything at this time. From the warning look in Dongfang Sheng's eyes, he felt murderous intent, so how could he dare to go against Dongfang Sheng's intention?
After watching Dongfang Sheng lead the army away, Qin Hao finally breathed a sigh of relief. Just now, Qin Hao was just pretending to be tough. The ambush strategy failed, so he could only confront the opponent head-on. Even if he could win, he would definitely suffer heavy casualties if he broke the barracks. , this is a victory but a defeat for Qin Hao.
However, he finally managed to frighten Dongfang Sheng, a difficult woman. If the broken barracks were crippled, Qin Hao's subsequent deployment against the Huns would probably be affected.
“Young Master, are you going to let them leave Yanmen?” Zhang Lioce immediately stepped forward and asked with some reluctance. Watching the enemy slip away from his eyes was really not Zhang Liao’s style.
"Don't worry, when I left the underworld, I had already sent an order to the other eleven county magistrates, ordering their county lieutenants to lead a thousand troops each and set up an ambush in the southeast to intercept them. Dongfang will defeat these six thousand troops. In the end, if one thousand men can escape, Not bad!" Qin Hao said calmly while looking to the southeast, but praying secretly in his heart.
Sister Sheng, Qin Hao has specially set up a dragnet for you in the front, I hope you can escape unscathed!
I, Lian Yuefei, also known as Pengju, was just a civilian one day ago, but the next day I became a military commander of the Yanmen Army, just because of a word from my wife Li Xiao'e. The young master Qin Hao is indeed an amazing person. What Xiao'e said is absolutely right. People who are born extraordinary must have their own extraordinary qualities. People like the young master who are capable and ambitious will eventually become the one who ends up There may be heroes in troubled times. I, Yue Fei, should follow the young master wherever my sword goes and where my heart goes! (Asking for recommendation votes)]
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