Vol 2 Chapter 2342: Wang Jian's debut
Chapter 2342 Wang Jian’s debut
Chapter 2338: Wang Jian’s debut
Kyushu Island is dominated by mountainous terrain. The northern part is the Chikushi Mountains, which are low and gentle, and the southern part is high and steep, with mountains running through it.
Why is Otomo Haruhide so confident that he can stop Zhou Yu with a hundred thousand troops? Naturally, it’s because of the favorable location.
The Dayou family took advantage of the period when the Qin army was not attacking and relied on the Zhuzi Mountains to build the Zilianying Fortress. The defensive power of a single round was more than ten times stronger than the city wall.
If even this fortress can't stop it, even if the entire Kyushu forces are concentrated, it still won't be able to stop Da Qin's troops. It's better to surrender as soon as possible.
Otomo Haruhide was waiting for the arrogant Qin and Wei coalition forces to smash into each other under the Chikushi Fortress, but he never expected that Zhou Yu did not attack by force, but was planning to bypass the Chikushi Fortress and attack from both sides.
This is just like the Maginot Line in World War II. France tried its best to build a steel fortress, but Germany did not attack it at all. Instead, it used other directions as a breakthrough, and finally launched an attack from behind, causing the entire fortress to be lost. played a role.
If Zhou Yu were to make a detour to the rear of Zhuhou State, the fortress in Zi would naturally lose its effectiveness under attack from both sides, and the 100,000-strong army would be in danger.
The 100,000-strong army of Otomo and Mori's family in Chikugo Province accounted for 80% of Kitakyushu's troops. If they were completely wiped out by the Qin army in one battle, the Qin army would also directly sweep Kitakyushu.
Therefore, as a daimyo of the Maori family, Motoharu Mori must not let Zhou Yu succeed no matter what, and must find every way to block him in Bungo country.
The method Maori Yuanchun thought of was also very simple. The Qin army could not be stopped in a frontal battle, so he sent a large number of small troops to constantly harass the Qin army and set a large number of traps for the Qin army on the way. At the same time, a camp was set up on the only road to intercept, hoping to delay the Qin army's advance.
The combined forces of Qin and Wei have now been divided into two groups, and the total number of troops left in Zhuhou State is only 30,000 to 40,000.
As long as Motori Motoharu can delay enough time until Otomo Haruhide, who has an army of 100,000, can annihilate the Qin and Wei coalition forces in Chikugo, Chikuhou in Kyushu will naturally win this battle.
What Motoharu Motoharu didn't expect was that all the small guerrillas he sent out never returned. Even the most elite ninja team, no one came back alive.
When things have developed to this point, no matter how stupid Maori Motoharu is, he knows that there must be masters in the Qin army to help, otherwise it is absolutely impossible for his people to be unable to come back after practicing, but he never expected that they would be masters at the grand master level. Helping the Qin army.
The traps set by Maori Yuanchun's men on the way only caused some negligible casualties to the Qin army at first, and then were all solved by the three thousand pathfinding pioneers led by Wang Jian.
As for the camps set up on the only way? Without exception, they were all defeated by Wang Jian Zhuyi. None of the six camps could block the Qin army's vanguard for two days, let alone the main force behind them.
As for the position of vanguard, Zhou Yu originally planned to use Chen Tang. After all, Chen Tang was the first martial arts champion in the Qin Dynasty, but Wang Jian stepped forward and took the initiative to challenge.
Wang Jian had the experience of serving as the governor of a county, and during his tenure he led the army many times, repelling enemy armies externally and suppressing rebel bandits and bandits internally. He has not yet been defeated.
Compared with Wang Jian, even if Chen Tang is the top scholar in martial arts, he is still a little too young.
Out of caution, Zhou Yu ordered Wang Jian to serve as the vanguard, but he did not expect that this pioneer pathfinder officer was a bit too fierce.
With only 3,000 troops, they dared to penetrate directly into the enemy's hinterland and won repeated battles. They defeated six villages in two days and killed more than 7,000 Japanese troops, leaving Zhou Yu's main army far behind. .
Zhou Yu was extremely shocked after hearing the news. Even if he were to personally command, he might not be able to do what Wang Jian did. The Wang family was still crouching tiger, hidden dragon.
"Send the order and speed up the march. If we don't hurry up, the battle ahead will be finished by General Wang Jian (Jian)." Zhou Yu ordered.
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On the other side, Motoharu Mouri learned that none of his three methods to stop the enemy had any effect on the Qin army, and when the Qin army's three thousand vanguard troops were about to kill Bungo country, he was naturally furious.
“You trash, they are all a bunch of trash. There are six fortified strongholds and tens of thousands of troops, but three thousand Qin troops can cross them at once. What’s the use of raising trash like you?”
Maori Motoharu cursed loudly, while the four Maori warriors and the fifth Maori warrior below also looked ashamed. After all, their defeat was really ugly.
After Maori Yuanchun cursed for a while, his anger subsided a lot, so he began to think about countermeasures and decided to concentrate his forces to eliminate the Qin Army's three thousand vanguard army.
The reason why he did this was firstly to weaken the Qin army, and secondly to wash away the shame.
There are only three thousand Qin vanguard troops, which can run rampant in Jiuzhou. If they are not eliminated, there is no hope of defeating the Qin army.
So, even if it was to boost morale and strengthen the people's determination to resist Qin, Mao Liyuan must eliminate these three thousand vanguards.
At the same time, most of the generals in the Qin Army's vanguard army did not know that they had been targeted by Maori Yuanchun.
As the vanguard general, Wang Jian guessed this, but not only did he not care at all, but he also hoped that the Japanese army would come to his door as soon as possible, and only in this way could he achieve success quickly.
"Uncle Wang, your military skills are really amazing. Even my father-in-law may not be better than you." Yue Yun said with admiration.
Previously, he felt that Wang Jian was selected as the vanguard by the governor based on his qualifications, so he was not convinced by Wang Jian.
But after several battles, Yue Yun was convinced by Wang Jian, because even his most admired father Yue Fei may not be better at fighting than Wang Jian, who is not well-known.
When Xue Dingshan saw Yue Yun calling Wang Jian uncle, he immediately frowned and scolded: "Ah Yun, Wang Xianfeng is the uncle of Prime Minister Wang. If you call him uncle, aren't you the same generation as Prime Minister Wang? You are taking advantage of Prime Minister Wang. ”
Yue Yun suddenly became unhappy. He put his hands on his hips and said, "Dingshan, Prime Minister Wang and the Prime Minister can take a boat. How can they care about this? You are making a fuss out of a molehill."
"you…"
The two boys started arguing again.
Seeing this, Wang Jian smiled and stroked his long beard, thinking that it was great to be young, but he was not old now and still had the opportunity to make contributions.
“General, I received news from spies that Dayou’s family is gathering troops, and they may have targeted us.” Deputy General Chen Tanghui reported.
Although Zhou Yu did not let Chen Tang be the vanguard, he did let him and Yue Yun serve as deputy vanguards. The three thousand-man captains who accompanied him were: Xue Dingshan, Mi Houwang, and Chen Dao.
So, although Wang Jian's three thousand vanguard soldiers are few, there are two fierce generals who are gods of war.
After hearing Chen Tang's words, Wang Jian's eyes suddenly flashed with light, and he laughed and said, "I'm waiting for them."
Chen Tang's eyelids twitched inexplicably when he heard this, and he couldn't help but have a bad premonition in his heart: "You don't want to fight against the main force of the Dayou family with just us, do you?"
"why not?"
“But there are less than 3,000 infantry and cavalry left in the vanguard army, and the attacking army from Dayou’s family is at least 20,000. Isn’t it too risky to fight between 3,000 and 20,000?”
Chen Tang said worriedly, hoping to dissuade Wang Jian from taking risks.
Wang Jian, however, looked unconcerned and said with a faint smile: "The soldiers are more elite than too numerous. Although the number of our vanguard army is smaller than that of the Japanese army, its combat power is far superior to that of the Japanese army. If we plan properly, even if we are Even if you fight three thousand against twenty thousand, you will not necessarily lose.”
"But…"
Before Chen Tang finished speaking, he was interrupted by Mi Houwang on the side.
"Stop, I didn't hear that Senior Wang already had a strategy." Mi Houwang looked at Chen Tang with some dissatisfaction and said, "Chen Tang, you are still the number one scholar in martial arts, why are you so timid?"
As the first winner of the Qin Dynasty's martial arts examination, Mi Houwang was naturally extremely dissatisfied with Chen Tang, the number one scholar. However, it was useless to be dissatisfied. After all, even without Chen Tang, there was still Chen Dao in front of him. In short, he would definitely not be accepted. The top scholar.
Chen Tang didn't care about Mi Houwang's attitude. After some thought, he said: "If the general has a complete plan, he will be willing to obey orders."
Wang Jian is not surprised at all by this. As a veteran, he needs credit, and Chen Tangmi hopes that these young players also need credit.
He can be said to know that the competition between the younger generation is more intense than that of the older generation.
“I do have a perfect plan.”
As he spoke, Wang Jian took out the map, pointed to the location of the vanguard army, and said: "Now we are at this location, and the Dayou family's army is now encircling us from three directions.
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Chen Dao, who has always been taciturn, was the first to answer this time: "We will stop our army at all costs."
“That’s right.”
Wang Jian couldn't help showing admiration after hearing this. He secretly thought that he was worthy of being ranked second in the military competition, and then continued: "And this just gives our army the opportunity to defeat them one by one before they join forces."
Yue Yun, Chen Tang, Xue Dingshan, Mi Houwang, Chen Dao and others all looked surprised. They had obviously understood Wang Jian's intention, but then they fell into deep thought.
If you really follow what Wang Jian said, the chances of winning are indeed high, but the risks are also high.
If you are not careful at all, you may be trapped in a tight siege, unable to escape, and eventually the entire army will be annihilated.
“md, I’ll starve the coward to death and starve the bold to death, I’ll do it.” Yue Yun shouted.
General Chen Tang, Xue Dingshan and other generals also showed approval, obviously feeling that they could take a gamble.
Wang Jian's eyes were full of admiration. It was really comfortable to lead this group of young people to fight. Being young is different.
“Since no one objects, Ben will decide that the battle will be fought.
The vanguard army had less than 3,000 men, including 700 cavalry, and these 700 most powerful cavalry were the main force that defeated the Otomo family. "
At this point, Wang Jian's eyes fell on Yue Yun and Mi Houwang, and he said in a deep voice: "Yue Yun and Mi Houwang, you two are the strongest, so you will lead these seven hundred cavalry, with Yue Yun as the main one. Mi Houwang is the deputy."
“Nuo.” Yue Yun and Mi Houwang said in unison.
"Pass on my general order, the whole army speeds up the march, let's go and turn Kyushu Island upside down."
“No.” All the generals shouted in unison.
Three thousand cavalry under the command of Wang Jian began to march at full speed, and jumped out of the encirclement before Maori Motoharu encircled them, and inserted straight towards the rear of Chikugo Kingdom like a sharp sword.
"What? The Qin army has already rushed out of the encirclement before they came to remember? Then what are you doing stupidly? Why don't you hurry up and chase?"
Motoharu Mouri was shocked when he received the news, but now that the last line of defense was almost breached, he had no time to think more. Before he could join forces, he ordered the army to pursue the attack at full speed.
When Wang Jian learned that the enemy troops had not had time to join up and came to pursue them at full speed, he secretly breathed a sigh of relief. While he postponed his march and waited for the Japanese army to catch up, he secretly searched for his target.
The pursuing army of the Otomo family consisted of three groups: left, middle and right. The left army was led by Noriyoshi Kuchiha, one of the Four Samurai of Maori, and the right army was led by the equally famous Sadatoshi Fukuhara. The center army was led by Motoharu Mori himself.
Among the three armies, the strength of each army is no less than 7,000, which is more than twice the strength of the Qin army, so the first target must be carefully selected.
The next day, late at night.
After a rapid march, the Maori left army was extremely exhausted, but after most of the soldiers fell asleep, Wang Jian led the Qin army to sneak over quietly.
Obviously, Wang Jian was preparing for a night attack this time, and the Maori left army was his target.
After Wang Jian cleared the outposts set up by the Japanese army, he led his army to sneak all the way to the Japanese army camp without being found. The next step was to break through the camp.
"Yue Yun, Mi Houwang, you two will lead the cavalry and help me crush this camp." Wang Jian said in a deep voice.
“Promise.” The two generals responded in unison.
Da da da…
The constant sound of horse hooves also made the Japanese soldiers guarding the camp realize that something was wrong. But when they reacted, the Qin army's cavalry was already close at hand.
“Break it for me.”
Yue Yun roared and threw the giant hammer in his hand.
The two-meter-high wooden door was smashed open with a hammer.
“Enemy attack, enemy attack…”
The Japanese soldiers shouted in panic, but the Qin army's cavalry had already rushed over, killing everyone they saw and setting fire everywhere. The fire gradually illuminated the entire camp.
After all the cavalry entered the camp, they were followed by the infantry. However, the infantry did not enter the camp. Instead, they blocked the camp gate, occupied all the favorable positions, and shot Japanese soldiers in the camp with their bows. .
After Yue Yun killed several Japanese generals in a row, he saw that the situation in the camp was almost in chaos, so he raised his hammer and shouted: "Follow my captain and kill the central army."
When Yue Yun reached the central army, he found that Mi Houwang had arrived first and went straight to the Japanese general. He immediately became anxious and shouted: "Brother Mi, give this Japanese general some face." Give it to me, and give it to me next time you meet me..."
Before he finished shouting, the stainless steel stick that Mi Houwang held high fell down, and the sword in Kouyu Tongliang's hand shattered with the sound, and then the stick hit him directly on the chest.
Poof…
Kuchiha Toryo, who was on horseback, was directly blown away. He vomited blood crazily in the air and even vomited out a lot of internal organs. After landing on the ground, he died without a few struggles and died miserably on the spot.
Mi Houwang turned around at this time, pretended not to hear, picked his ears, and said, "Ah, Lieutenant General Yue, what did you just say? I didn't hear you clearly."
Yue Yun’s mouth couldn’t help but twitch.
(End of this chapter)