Four hundred and sixtieth chapters preemptive strike
After Zang Yan was seriously injured and unconscious, the position of the coach of the Yan ** team was temporarily responsible by his wife and brother Li Hao. Fortunately, Li Hao knew very well that the reason for the Yan army's last defeat was that Zang Yan was too greedy for merit and had little to do with the Han army. Therefore, after taking the position of temporary coach, he not only had no complaints, but also respected Uncle Zhou like Zang Yan and continued to work hard to maintain the current friendly relationship between the Yan army and the Han army.
Because the Yan ** team was just a servant of the Han army, although the Han army had the right to dispatch and command the Yan ** team, it had no right to inquire about the specific internal affairs of the Yan ** team. After finally crossing the Ji River, which had once cost the Han and Yan coalition forces a heavy price, according to the habit of joining forces of the vassals in this era, the Yan State still stood alone on a high ground about eight miles east of the Han army camp, avoiding orders, flags and organizational accidents, and temporarily took on the task of monitoring the defenders in Licheng City led by Qi General Tian Ji.
In return for being loyal and obedient to the Yan ** team, Uncle Zhou of course also took good care of the Yan ** team. In addition to giving enough food and grass, he tried his best to win over the generals of the Yan army, and also specially gave a group of good iron weapons made by the Han army using later technologies to smelter to help the Yan ** team, which still had bronze weapons as the main equipment, improve their combat effectiveness. When the Han army was encouraged to hold a banquet to celebrate its promotion to the Han army general, he did not forget to give Li a request. During this period, he also asked about Zang Yan's injuries and recovered.
It is precisely because of this that Li Yao also knew the good news that the 120,000 Han army reinforcements were coming to Licheng on the day of the incident. Envying the Han army's foundation and strong capital, Li Yao no longer took the reinforcements of the Western Chu army that arrived later. After receiving the scout report of the Western Chu army reinforcements arriving at the Jinjiling battlefield, Li Yao sneered proudly: "Good here, you are just adding 80,000 troops. We will add 120,000 troops, and you can still use more troops to bully your few soldiers!"
Of course, learning from Zang Yan's last lesson of greed for merit and underestimating the enemy, Li Hao still did not relax his vigilance because the reinforcements of the Han army were about to arrive. In addition to sending more people to closely monitor the Licheng enemies opposite him, he also organized the Yan army soldiers to build the camp very strongly. The deep trenches and high trenches were not included. He did not bother to bury dense spikes in several key trenches. He was afraid of repeating the same mistakes and was also implicated by the Chuji coalition forces who refused to give up.
As we all know, of course, it is impossible to make the Han and Yan coalition forces wait until the reinforcements arrive at the Licheng battlefield to meet. In the middle of the night after the Western Chu army reinforcements arrived at the Licheng battlefield, three Yan soldiers who were forced to surrender to the Chuji coalition forces when the Yan army was defeated. They took the opportunity of darkness at night to escape from the Chuji coalition forces. After dawn on the fourth day, they fled into the Yan team's defense zone and asked to return to the team, and said that there was important military information to report to the Yan team.
After verifying that these three soldiers were indeed old soldiers of their own army, the Yan army naturally sent officials to come forward to understand the situation. As a result, the three Yan soldiers actually reported rumors in the Chuji coalition camp that Xiang Zhuang and Tianda had made the decision to withdraw their troops overnight because they confirmed that reinforcements from the Han army would arrive, and they might suddenly withdraw within one or two days.
When he learned of this situation, the Yan army officials did not dare to neglect it and quickly reported the news to Li Yao. Because Li Yao knew that the Han reinforcements were about to arrive were true, he immediately believed it. In addition to deciding to send additional personnel to monitor the movements of the Chuji coalition camp, he immediately sent people to the Han army camp to report this important situation to Uncle Zhou.
What happened next almost made Li Hao's nose skew. After a while, another Yan general came to report that one of the three Yan army's old strokes who had just returned suddenly turned against him. He left his companions and told him, admitting that they were actually deliberately let go by the Chuji coalition forces, and took Xiangzhuang's reward back and reported false news to the old team. Li Hao was furious when he heard the news and immediately summoned the surrendered soldiers who took the initiative to inform them. At the same time, he immediately took the remaining two treacherous soldiers down and interrogated them.
After being brought to Li Yao, the surrendered soldier who took the initiative to surrender the money given to him by the Western Chu army, admitted that the Chuji coalition they had reported before was about to retreat secretly was false news, and Xiang Zhuang ordered them to report it like this. At the same time, the other two surrendered soldiers also told the truth under the question, admitting that they had indeed taken the benefits of the Western Chu army. Li Yao, who was almost cheated, was even more furious after hearing this, and immediately ordered the two traitors to be executed and the rear of the Quwen to pursue their family's joint responsibility. Then, after a little calculation, he rushed to the Han army camp in person to apologize to Uncle Zhou, and took the initiative to explain the truth.
Li Dao's proactive confession was not afraid of shame, of course, and Uncle Zhou's praise and kind-hearted comfort. Li Dao was also a little relieved while ashamed, and then asked Uncle Zhou with great curiosity: "General, what is the purpose of Chu Ji thieves sending people to deceive the last general?"
"Of course I want to mislead me through you so that I can't judge the real changes in the enemy situation and reveal flaws to let them get into it." Uncle Zhou smiled and said, "Because the Chuji thief army is very clear. With General Li, you are loyal to our King of Han, and when you hear such important news, you will definitely report to me as soon as possible. As long as you deceive you, you will be cheating me."
After hearing Uncle Zhou’s disguised praise, Li Hao, who was indeed not unfair, was of course quite relieved. However, at this moment, the Han army guards suddenly came to the account to report and said to Uncle Zhou: "Report to the general, our army scouts came to report that the amount of smoke they stole in the Chuji thief camp was 30% more than yesterday and the day before yesterday, and the duration was more than half an hour longer than yesterday two days ago. The thief camp on Jinjiling and the camp at the foot of the mountain were in the same situation."
"I know, continue to explore again. Be sure to continue stealing some of the amount of smoke from the thieves' army's supper." Uncle Zhou replied calmly.
The guard sang a promise and left. Li Yao next to him heard something was wrong and hurriedly said to Uncle Zhou: "General, the Chuji thief army quietly increased the cooking time to build a fire stove, and extended the cooking time. Could it be that they were rushing to make dry food? Any despicable intentions?"
"This is the only possibility." Uncle Zhou nodded, and after a moment of consideration, Uncle Zhou ordered: "General Li, after you return to the camp, immediately prepare for night battles and prepare more dry food torches. The night-time army will double down tonight, be careful to prevent the enemy's night attacks."
Li Hao immediately clasped his fists and sang No. However, Uncle Zhou reminded him with concern: "Remember, no matter what happens, you must pay attention to the safety of your camp and leave enough troops to guard your camp."
Li Yao agreed again, and saw that Uncle Zhou had no other orders, so he quickly said goodbye and organized the army to prepare for the night battle. After Li Yao left, Uncle Zhou immediately ordered: "Give me instructions to prepare more night battles in each battalion, and distribute the biscuits we prepared in advance before nightfall, and the quantity for two days will be distributed. In addition, we will add meals to our soldiers for dinner today, and the army and posts on the night will be doubled."
It was only after the guards came out of the tent to pass the order that Zhou Shu, the old man from Shangshan on the other side, asked curiously: "General, what do the thieves want to do?"
"I don't know yet." Uncle Zhou replied calmly: "But if nothing unexpected happens, the Chuji thief army will definitely make big moves tonight, because they can know by counting the time. As soon as possible, our reinforcements should be here, and there is not much time left for them."
Zhou Shu nodded, but felt that something seemed wrong with Uncle Zhou’s arrangement, but it was wrong there. Zhou Shu, who didn’t understand the army, couldn’t tell any reason.
Let’s look at the situation on the Yan ** team. After returning to the camp of his own army, Li Hao immediately sent orders to the Yan army battalions according to Uncle Zhou’s request, asking the Yan army battalions to hurry up and prepare for night battles. He also decided to arrange the most effective generals to lead the army at night. He also made a more cautious decision to arrange five thousand soldiers to wear armor at night and be ready to guard against everything.
The preparation room was quickly arranged. The day passed quickly. At night, Li Hao, who was very conscientious, not only led the team to patrol the camp himself, but also refused to take off his clothes and armor and fell asleep directly with his clothes. As a result, it was proved that the soldiers of the Yan army were not messing around. When the second update was about to pass halfway, an unknown number of enemies suddenly touched the gate of the Yan army camp under the cover of the night, trying to open the gate and directly entered the Yan army camp. Fortunately, the Yan army soldiers were well prepared and had already issued an alarm before the enemy touched the gate. The closely guarded Yan army soldiers immediately rushed to the front of the camp and shot arrows in a row, shooting back the enemy who tried to destroy the gate. The other Yan army soldiers also quickly stood up and gathered, and quickly prepared for the battle.
After several attacks, the Yan army was shot back by arrows. The enemy outside the camp saw that the Yan army was well prepared, so he could only retreat and flee to the direction of Licheng. The Yan army general asked Li Hao whether to send troops to pursue him. After he hesitated for a while, he shook his head and said, "The enemy retreated too quickly, and there is a possibility of seducing the enemy. It was just the second half of the night. The situation outside the camp was unclear. Be cautious and don't chase him."
Following Li Yao's orders, he continued to monitor the movement outside the camp for a period of time. Seeing that there was no new situation, the enemy who had attacked before also fled back to Licheng City with torches. Only then did the Yan army lift their guards. The Yan army, who were not on duty on the night duty, returned to the tent to continue to rest, leaving the night duty troops to continue to guard against the enemy. Li Yao repeatedly reminded the night guard troops to be careful, and then returned to his tent to continue to rest with his clothes.
After a while, Uncle Zhou sent someone to contact Li Yao, saying that the enemy was cunning and wanted to prevent the enemy from failing to attack in the first half of the night, so that the Yan army soldiers were careless. In the second half of the night, they made a comeback and launched a sneak attack on the Yan army camp. Li Yao agreed deeply and once again told the night generals to be careful in the second half of the night.
This night, the weather that had troubled the Han army for many days was still not very good. There was no starlight in the dark night sky, and the field outside the camp was even darker, and it was hard to see five fingers. It was precisely because of this, and Li Hao repeatedly reminded that despite the very cold weather, the soldiers of the Yan army on the night were still vigorously cheered up and were careful to prevent the enemy from launching another sneak attack. However, the problem of the biological clock was difficult to overcome. When the fifth update of the fourth update was approaching, many Yan army on the night still could not resist the power of the Sandman, and gradually fell asleep while yawning, and even many guard posts were like this.
Uncle Zhou made a decision. When the fifth correction was just arrived, a group of black shadows quietly touched the door of the Yan army camp. Taking advantage of the opportunity that the Yan army sentry was exhausted, they successfully touched the Yan army gate. They were not discovered by the Yan army soldiers when they took action to get the door bolt. They quickly raised their weapons and stepped forward to stop them. At the same time, they hurriedly rang the Tonggong to call the police. The Yan army camp soon entered the state of combat for the second time one night.
The Chuji coalition was indeed really here this time. Even when the Yan army soldiers discovered it, they still waved their sharp axes to cut down the Yan army's gates crazily. At the same time, they used several flying ladders brought by the army to spread the ant attachments, climbing the wall to try to break into the Yan army's camp, and almost really splitting the Yan army's gates directly. Fortunately, the Yan army soldiers on the Ye Yan army were still on guard and quickly dispatched to reinforce, which blocked the Chuji coalition's crazy attack.
However, the Chuji coalition forces still refused to give up. After turning sneak attacks into strong attacks, the Chuji coalition forces successively launched rockets and throwing bundles into the Yan army camp, which indeed ignited some Yan army's tents and wooden fortifications. Seeing this, Li Yao was furious and immediately sent troops to gather the Housing Gate next to the camp gate, ready to reinforce the battlefield at any time, and also ready to go out to fight back at any time.
The attack of the Chuji coalition lasted for nearly half an hour. After seeing that the Yan army had all been dispatched, the Chuji coalition, who had no hope of success, gave up the attack and hurriedly reorganized the team and retreated to Licheng. When retreating, he shouted at the Yan army camp. He was extremely contemptuous of the Yan army. When the Yan army generals asked again whether to send troops to pursue, Li Hao first looked at the dhehu next to him. Seeing that it was not far from Tianming, he gritted his teeth and said, "Chasing! Let Zhang Gu lead the army to pursue three thousand! Give the Chuji coalition a lesson and let them know that we Yan people are not easy to bully!"
The command had just reached the throne and had already been full of anger in the Yan army. Zhang Gu, the general of the Yan army, immediately led three thousand elite troops out of the camp to pursue, and with red eyes, he rushed towards the Licheng enemy who had repeatedly harassed and despised his own army. The Licheng enemy who was retreating quickly accelerated and lured the Yan army away from the camp. As a result, when the Yan army was about to chase the city of Licheng, the sound of killing suddenly rose in the darkness to the west, and a team of Chuji coalition forces shouted and rushed to the scene, and the Licheng enemies also turned around and fought back.
"There is an ambush! Retreat quickly!"
Seeing that the situation was not good, there was no idea how many ambushers the enemy had in the dark night before dawn. Zhang Gu could only order to retreat quickly and quickly retreated to the future with the Yan army. However, the Yan army was still behind. When they were about to retreat to the gate of the camp, a Western Chu army once again broke out from the northwest, all of which were cavalry and cavalry. They rushed to them with lightning speed and rushed to the camp, and immediately stormed their queues. The Yan army soldiers were panicked and dared not fight, so they could only flee to the camp in chaos. Under the cover of their comrades' bows and arrows on the base, they quickly entered the camp and fled.
At this time, Han Xin's real killer move finally appeared. When the Yan army soldiers in a state of chaos returned to the camp, more torches suddenly appeared in the northwest of the Yan army camp. Countless Chuji soldiers carried the stairs and trenches and shouted at the torches. The number of torches was dense, and it was impossible to judge how many enemies came. At the same time, the Chuji coalition troops who were dispatched first also charged and attacked at the fastest speed, setting up an opportunity to take the opportunity to return to the camp to take advantage of the opportunity to enter the Yan army camp.
Seeing this, the soldiers of the Yan army could only try harder to return to the camp. Fortunately, the Yan army retreated in time before, and some distance from the enemy was somewhat widened. In the end, when the enemy pursued the enemy about fifty steps in front of the camp, all the soldiers of the Yan army guarding the camp also quickly closed the door...
"kill--!"
An accident happened again. Nearly a hundred soldiers who had fled into the camp suddenly rushed out, waving sharp steel swords and iron swords to kill Yan soldiers who were closing the door. The Yan soldiers were caught off guard and were killed by the group of enemies wearing Yan soldiers. The camp gate that was about to be closed was also opened again. The Chuji coalition soldiers who had already chased nearby took the opportunity to speed up. With the response of the soldiers who were in trouble, they seized the camp gate that was crucial to the Yan team...
"How is that possible?" Li Hao screamed loudly from the height of the Central Army Camp, and continued to roar in anger, "What is Zhang Gu doing for? The thieves of the Chuji bandit army sneaked into our army, why didn't he notice it at all?"
"How is that possible?" Zhang Gu, the general of the Yan army who made a big mistake, also screamed near the camp gate, "When did the bandits sneak into my army? I haven't had any contact with other our troops before? Why did they sneak in without realizing it?"
After a little recollection, Zhang Gu suddenly screamed again and said, "I'm too careless! I'm sure when the thieves and cavalry killed us, the thieves in our uniforms also came on horseback, and took advantage of our turmoil and got in!"
Of course it was too late to find out that something was wrong. The Chuji coalition army had successfully seized the entrance of the camp gate and destroyed the camp gate as soon as possible, forcing the Yan army soldiers to quickly go out to make up for the leak. At the same time, they tried their best to stop the enemy from entering the camp. They fought with the Chuji coalition army near the camp gate so that the sky was dark and the earth was not open. Li Hao had no choice. In addition to sending people to ask Uncle Zhou to urgently report the emergency, he quickly sent orders to the battlefield of the camp gate, requiring the Yan army soldiers to defend the camp gate with all their strength, and absolutely not let the Chuji coalition army rush into the depths of the camp camp.
In fact, as early as the fifth hour, when the front army of the Chuji coalition arrived, the Chuji coalition's front army had already begun to attack the Yan army camp for the second time, the Chuji coalition's main force had already begun to gather in the camp. It took less than half an hour to complete the entire army's assembly and preparations. Then, under the command of Han Xin's staff and Xiang Zhuang, the Chuji coalition's army not only immediately dispatched an army to the battlefield for reinforcements at the Yan army camp, but also immediately launched a torch and advanced greatly, and rushed to the Yan army camp to prepare for the battle.
During this period, the Yan army cavalry, who successfully covered their comrades infiltrated the enemy situation, quickly reported the good news that they had successfully taken advantage of the troubled waters to Xiangzhuang. Xiangzhuang, Liu Laosan and others were overjoyed when they heard the news, and hurriedly urged the army to move forward faster and rushed to the Yan army camp as soon as possible to prepare for the decisive battle. Han Xin, who likes to pretend to be cool, rarely showed some smiles and murmured:
"Shuppa Zhou, I know you will definitely plan to attack the Yan army camp first and force you to fight to the decisive battle, but you must have never thought that I would use this method to attack the Yan traitor army camp. The plan went smoothly, and the Yan traitor army camp was in a hurry. Now it depends on whether you will send troops or not?"
After a grim smile, Han Xin added with a low voice, "I know you have a lot of capital and a strong foundation. Even if you throw away the camp of the Yan traitor army, you will not feel sorry for the Yan traitor army. But if you don't help me, will the Yan traitor army still obey you in the future? Who would dare to sacrifice your life for the Han traitor army?"
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At the same time, the old man Shangshan, who had already arrived at the Central Army tent to help Uncle Zhou handle military affairs, suddenly remembered that he had discovered something wrong during the day and hurriedly said to Uncle Zhou: "General, don't blame me. During the day, you told General Li Hao to strengthen his defense at night. Why didn't you remind General Li Hao to let him send troops out of the camp no matter what happened?"
Chapter completed!