Chapter 1863: muddy road
Chapter 1863 Mud Road
Chapter 1861: Mud Road
“Forget it, the military advisor must have his own intentions for making such arrangements. We just need to obey orders and act accordingly,” Long Qie said.
After these several reversals and being slapped in the face, Long Qi, whose face still hurts until now, decided to believe Zhuge Liang unconditionally.
All decisions made by military advisors will be supported unconditionally.
All orders from military advisors will be obeyed unconditionally.
Surely you won’t get slapped in the face again, right?
As soon as Long Qie's 10,000-step cavalry set off, Gongsun Xuanyuan in the northeast also received Ye Qingmei's flying pigeon message.
Gongsun Xuanyuan did not hesitate at all, and decisively ordered the 10,000 troops to pursue at full speed, so the army chasing Cheng Wushi increased from 10,000 to a full 20,000 troops.
The two armies of Long Qie and Gongsun Xuanyuan, one pursued from the northeast to the west, and the other pursued from the southeast to the west. Although the coalition forces did not join forces, they were chasing in the same direction, that is, Yuyang was heading west. county.
The two armies chased for ten miles but still failed to catch up. Just when Long Qie and Gongsun Xuanyuan felt that it was impossible to catch up and Cheng Bushi would definitely be eaten by the ambush, a piece of news from the frontline changed their views. .
Not all roads in Youbeiping have been repaired, and due to heavy rain, the road leading to the middle section of Yuyang County has obviously become muddy.
Before escaping into the middle section of the road, the main road Cheng Bushi took was a road that had been repaired by the Han army. Even after heavy rain, it was still feasible and easy to pass, so Cheng Bushi naturally withdrew his troops quickly.
But when the Han army reached the middle section of the road, the road was muddy and difficult to pass, so the marching speed naturally slowed down. It took two days to cover one day's journey.
At this time, Long Qie and Gongsun Xuanyuan finally understood Zhuge Liang's intention of letting them pursue the Han army.
After the Han army enters the quagmire, their marching speed will be directly halved. Naturally, the same is true for them. It is also halved. Naturally, they still cannot catch up with the Han army.
So, Zhuge Liang asked them to lead the army in pursuit, not to catch up with the Han army, but for other purposes.
Long Qie and Gongsun Xuanyuan were both famous generals in the world, and they quickly guessed Zhuge Liang's true intention.
Cheng Bushi's troops left the city in a hurry, carrying not much food and grass, only enough for a few days at most. And when the marching speed was reduced by half, it was impossible to reach Yuyang County.
The Han army's food and grass will be exhausted halfway. In order to ensure that they can reach Yuyang, they can only abandon part of the army to ensure the normal supply of food and grass.
Therefore, the number of the 18,000 troops under Cheng Bushi will become smaller and smaller during the march, and they can capture a large number of prisoners of war just by following them, without even starting a battle.
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At the thought of this, both Long Qie and Gongsun Xuanyuan took a breath of cold air. This is the rhythm of defeating the enemy without fighting!
As expected by the two men, in the next two days, the Han army and the Liao army encountered several groups of stragglers during their march. They were all Han soldiers left behind by Cheng Bushi.
Most of these Han troops looked hungry, their stomachs were weak, and they no longer had much fighting power.
After seeing the Qin and Liao armies, these soldiers not only did not panic, but showed expressions of being saved. They all threw away their weapons and surrendered to Long Qie and Gongsun Xuanyuan.
There is no other way to surrender. After all, there is no food. In this wilderness, it will be a matter of time before you starve to death. But if you surrender and become a prisoner, at least you will have a bite to eat.
It’s better to live than to die!
In this way, the two armies of Long Qie and Gongsun Xuanyuan captured about 10,000 Han troops without spending a single soldier.
“This Zhuge Kongming is indeed worthy of his reputation, he is really powerful.”
Gongsun Xuanyuan sighed, and then remembered the idea of marriage that Zhuge Liang had mentioned to him in his letter.
Given Gongsun Xuanyuan's 96-point political attributes, it is not difficult to see that Zhuge Liang's proposal, called a marriage, is actually a means to annex the Liao army. Gongsun Xuanyuan knew this, but he couldn't refuse, because marrying Qin Hao would bring no harm to himself or the Liao army.
Although Gongsun Xuanyuan's ambition has not been extinguished, he also knows that in the current situation he is in, it is almost impossible to continue to dominate the world.
If he were alone, he might be like Wang Mang, leading thousands of remnant troops into foreign lands and sealing off the territories.
But Gongsun Xuanyuan is not alone. He has the Gongsun family behind him, his wife and children, and a large number of subordinates who depend on him for their lives, so he cannot be selfish and only consider himself.
“Marriage may also be a way out.”
Gongsun Xuanyuan secretly thought that he admired Qin Hao very much, so even if he knew that the purpose of the marriage was not pure, he still did not resent Qin Hao being his brother-in-law.
Gongsun Xuanyuan was worried about the future, while Cheng Bushi felt what real despair was.
When Cheng Bushi ordered the withdrawal, he did not expect that the road leading to Yuyang would become muddy due to heavy rain, so that the marching speed would be greatly reduced.
The Han army did not carry much food and grass. If they saved some food, they could still make it to Yuyang County.
However, due to heavy rain, the road became muddy and difficult to travel, and a one-day journey took two days. However, the appetite of the soldiers did not decrease, so the food and grass in the army were naturally not enough.
Seeing that the food was about to run out, and the distance to Yuyang was still far away, Cheng Bushi was extremely anxious.
After a series of ideological struggles, Cheng Bushi finally made up his mind. Taking advantage of the fact that the army was not in chaos due to lack of food, he abandoned the 10,000-strong army and only led the remaining 8,000 elites back to Yuyang.
For Cheng Bushi, abandoning the army and fleeing was undoubtedly a difficult decision, but if he did not abandon the 10,000-strong army, even these 8,000 people would not be able to return, so Cheng Bushi had no other choice at all.
But what made Cheng Bushi feel even more desperate was that after he finally made up his mind, he abandoned the entire 10,000-strong army, and when he got out of the quagmire and was about to enter Yuyang County, he found that the way forward was blocked by the Qin army.
Cheng Bushi didn't know that this army was Zhuge Liang's subordinates, nor did he know that the main force of the Qin army in his eyes was just Zhuge Liang's suspicious troops. He thought that the Qin army in front of him came from Xu Wu.
The road ahead is blocked, there are pursuers behind, and our own army is exhausted and does not have much fighting power at all.
This is a situation of no life or death!
"Cheng Bushi, my military advisor has already laid ambushes on both roads leading to Yuyang. No matter which way you take, you are destined to not be able to escape back to Yuyang."
Yue Xi rode his horse to the front of the army, pointed his spear in his hand at Cheng Weizhi, and shouted coldly: "You have no way to escape, get off your horse and surrender quickly."
"What?"
Cheng Bushi’s eyes widened, as if he realized something.
trap, all of this is a trap, I have been being played by Zhuge Liang from beginning to end.
“Pfft…”
Cheng Bushi was so angry that he vomited blood and fell off his horse.
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(End of this chapter)