Chapter 308 Sadness
The Qingluan Army’s military formation is extremely neat and tidy, with heavy infantry of Chu. When the Chu State comes, it faces the same problem as the Qian State, lack of horses. At the same time, one’s own opponents are often the decisive ones. The key to developing your own ideas.
For hundreds of years, the Yan people had to face the barbarians in the desert, so they had to have their own cavalry to compete with the barbarians.
The Chu people need to fight with the Shanyue people in the barren mountains and rivers. Although the glorious era of the Shanyue people has long passed, their resistance is still coming one after another. In places with dangerous mountains and rivers, cavalry is of little use. , which also gave birth to Chu's heavy infantry and navy.
Right now,
The thousands of Yan troops who had just crossed the river had basically no horses. The eldest prince's military adventure should have been a success, but he did not expect that there would always be an elite group of Chu troops hiding in Yupan City.
Thinking about it this way, the new dynasty established by Situ Yi is really like a spittoon. It will fall down after being used up by all forces without mercy.
"Qu prepared water and wine in the city, and asked the eldest prince of Yan to show his respect."
The Chu State is governed by a coalition of nobles, and each noble has its own fiefdom, and is very particular about blood. and inheritance.
When Yao Zizhan was young, he liked to criticize troubles. He once said: dry etiquette is complicated and cumbersome, while Chu etiquette is repetitive.
This means that Ganren’s pursuit of etiquette is no matter how complicated it is, how formal it is, or how complicated it is.
The Chu people are constantly pursuing the traditions of their ancestors, and everything is focused on aligning with their ancestors. The most obvious point is that in Chu State, there is still an extremely ancient profession like witch doctors. There were also witch doctors and supervisors in the imperial palace of Chu State, who devoted themselves to searching for and discovering the treatment methods used by the ancient sages.
At the same time, there is another characteristic of the Chu State, that is, if there is a rebellion or military dispute in the country, the soldiers can die, but if the noble generals on both sides are captured or surrender, they must be treated with courtesy. At the same time, It has to be returned, at most, with a ransom.
So, when Qu Tiannan invited the eldest prince into the city at this time, he said he was preparing water and wine, which was really not a lie.
The eldest prince grasped the knife in his hand and smiled,
"As can be traced back to ancient times, the Ji family has emperors who died in battle, but they never had descendants who surrendered to the enemy on the battlefield!"
Qu Tiannan was stunned for a moment, then nodded.
Everyone has different cultural concepts, so their thinking patterns are also different. In Qu Tiannan's view, the prince of the Yan people does not cherish his noble blood, which is really a bit inferior to himself.
Qu Tiannan waved his finger forward,
The Qingluan army began to press forward.
Li Bao took a deep breath and yelled:
“All the Zhenbei Army is here!”
“Tiger!”
“Tiger!”
< br>"Tiger!"
All Yan soldiers held their sabers, and the archers readied their bows and drew arrows.
Li Bao turned back to look at the eldest prince and said: "Your Highness, please retreat, and we will cut off the rear for Your Highness."
"Didn't you hear what Gu just said?"
< br>"Death is easy, living Yes, it's actually more difficult. After the war, someone has to take responsibility. Facing His Majesty and the anger of his subjects, please stay alive and take responsibility.
On the battlefield, mother-in-law and mother can't.
Besides, your head is more precious, and I don’t want people to hang your head on the flagpole to show off your power. ”
The words have been spoken very straightforwardly.
The plan to raid Yupan City had already failed when the Qingluan Army of Chu State appeared.
The Battle of Wangjiang of the Eastern Expeditionary Army will end with heavy losses
Now, dying in battle seems to be a good destination, because For hundreds of years, the Yan people have never experienced such a failure, especially in recent years, with the series of great victories achieved by the two princes, the Marquis of Zhenbei and the Marquis of Jingnan, the Yan people's morale has suddenly become high, from the court to the The military, as well as the people, all seem to feel that under the Black Dragon banner, they are invincible. This is what Dayan should be like
"Your Highness, you also know what kind of temper Li Fusheng is. Let him clean up the mess. If he gets sick, he dares to slaughter everyone in Yingdu.
You have to go back and gather your troops. We can't cross this river, but we can't let the Chu people and the barbarians do it easily either. Come back."
The eldest prince's face twitched, and Li Bao said what he was thinking. As a prince, and a prince who was trained as a military commander by his father since childhood, After being defeated like this, he simply didn't have the courage to face future censure.
No matter how many reasons there are, the defeated general is simply incompetent!
"Guard camp, escort His Highness across the river!"
Li Bao issued an order to the guard camp,
then,
he did not hide the slightest from his subordinates,
roared:
" All of the Zhenbei Army, let me take over the throne for His Highness, we just die fighting as heroes, while the eldest prince lives to wipe our butts!”
"Hahahaha!"
"Hahahaha!"
The whole army burst into laughter, but there was no sadness as a Duanhou army, instead, they were just heroic.
The eldest prince bit his lip. At this moment, he was thinking of Tian Wujing. When that man decided to kill his entire family, had he decided to deal with Qingshi and Qingshi just like himself now? The world’s criticism?
But no matter what, he is the coach. Li Bao is right, death is easy, and the prince who dies in battle will also be very tragic. At least, he can earn some tears from his father.
When a person dies in battle, no matter how big the fault is, there is no need to pursue it anymore. The world is always very tolerant of the dead.
But on the other side of the river, there is still a large army waiting for him. He has to put the situation in order, otherwise if it collapses...
Without being held back by his personal guards, the eldest prince started running on his own, going back. Go back, go back...
And behind the eldest prince,
Facing the approaching Qingluan Army,
Li Bao raised his sword with one arm:
"The ambition to trap the enemy!"
Thousands of soldiers from the Zhenbei Army around him shouted in unison:
"Death or life!" ”
………
The flower boat had already approached the gate of the sluice city, and the young man sighed with some regret:
"If I remember correctly, the opponent's Chinese army is the so-called Zhenbei Army, right?"
Made The swordsman nodded and said:
“It is a sharp knife sharpened by the barbarians.”
“Alas, it is a pity that this time the Yan people only lost the left army. It would be great to Zhenbei Army.”
Since such elites are from other countries, the more they die, the better.
The sword maker said unceremoniously:
"If it is the Zhenbei Army, do we dare to let them cross the river like the Left Route Army?"
"Yes. , but I, the Great Chu, have to take advantage of this opportunity to buy horses from the barbarians and form my own cavalry. It is said to be very expensive?”
“Quite expensive”
"Then work harder, make more swords, and sell them."
"If you make too many, they will be worthless."
"Oh, tsk, tsk."< br>
The young man walked to the side of the boat,
unbuttoned his trousers in an awkward manner,
When crossing the shore, I was frightened and peed once, and now, it was the third time.
At this time, part of the corpses of the Yan people floating down from the upper reaches had merged into the tributary, and the river water began to turn red.
The young man did not feel the pleasure of winning the bet.
Looking at the corpse on the river,
it seemed that even the originally pleasant urination suddenly became boring.
.........
On the other side, there was no accident. Li Bao led his army to successfully intercept the Qingluan Army, and the eldest prince was able to cross the river and return to the west bank.
Qingluan Junjun has been hiding in the city, so naturally he cannot make outflanking actions in advance. He is afraid of being discovered in advance, and it is impossible to lay out the so-called dragnet.
The most important thing is that these thousands of Zhenbei soldiers burst out with extremely strong fighting ideas.
Shanyue people are often brave and unafraid of death, and do not take their own lives seriously. It is probably the feeling that a life is nothing.
The Qingluan Army has been fighting Shanyue all year round, so they should have been used to this for a long time.
But the Yan people in front of them are not only brave and unafraid of death, but their fighting experience and battle formation skills are far beyond what the so-called Shanyue tribe can compare with.
The Zhenbei Army, which dismounted and fought on foot, was at odds with the Qingluan Army, which was mainly infantry, at the beginning. If the Qingluan Army's numerical advantage had not been too obvious, it would have been difficult for the Qingluan Army to defeat whom in the end. It's hard to say.
The eldest prince who had returned from crossing the river knelt down on the slope of the bank,
looking at the corpses of the Yan army floating down from the upstream in front of him,
Li Fusheng came back and left again after receiving the order from the eldest prince to collect his troops and retreat thirty miles.
The eldest prince knelt here until nightfall. Until some warships from the Chu navy upstream came down, he did not see Li Bao returning.
Finally, he stood up slowly.
He,
has to live.
He will become a sinner of the Yan Kingdom and a shame to the Ji family.
Tian Wujing's reputation among the people is not good, but what is bad is just his reputation. The Yan people attach great importance to military merit, and they are still convinced of Tian Wujing's ability to win battles.
Even though there are many people in the government and the public who have a very bad opinion of Tian Wujing, there are not many people who add insult to injury. Even if Tian Wujing is autistic in the Jingnan Marquis Mansion in Litian City and does not even accept the imperial edict, More of the officials in the court also wanted to protect and cover up.
Without him, Tian Wujing knows how to fight. With such a military god in the country, everyone can always feel a sense of security.
And now,
As a prince, he
failed,
without military exploits and no victory as a basis,
the so-called title of prince,
will be lost in an instant Become worthless,
It may even become one's own original sin.
Even the emperor who trusted his father and sent him to lead the expedition will be recorded in the history books of later generations:
The emperor favored his son and made war a trivial matter, which ultimately led to a big mistake.
………
A few days later,
The extremely haggard Jin Shuke knelt down in front of Zheng Fan and reported the situation of the Wangjiang battle.
Zheng Fan sat in the first seat,
the other demon kings sat below.
Zheng Fan made the right bet again. He guessed that the Savage King would bring him a surprise, and the Savage King also lived up to his expectations.
In the Battle of Wangjiang, the main force of the Yan State's left route army was almost wiped out. The Wangjiang River was filled with corpses of Yan people.
A big defeat came so suddenly.
However,
Zheng Fan’s face showed no sign of being right about his “far-sightedness”.
On the contrary, he gently kneaded his own cheeks with his fingers a little tiredly. Between the eyebrows,
slowly said:
"Logically speaking, I should be happy to hear this news. But why do I feel a little sad?" (End of Chapter)