Eastern Jin Dynasty: My powerful father

Chapter 352 Shannan Ambush
Lu Guang deeply agreed with Li Wei's judgment.

After all, from a logical perspective, there is nothing wrong with this idea.

Huan Xi provided military rations to help the victims, and at the same time he added Zhu Xu's 30,000 cavalry, so he faced the problem of insufficient food and grass.

Through reports from spies behind enemy lines, Huan Xi gave porridge to the people. The rice porridge became increasingly thinner and thinner. Until news came yesterday that porridge factories in various places were no longer open, which made the people full of complaints. This was undoubtedly Huan Xi. Evidence that Xi is about to run out of food.

Since Liang Jun was about to run out of food, Huan Xi must have urged Mao Muzhi to send food and grass to the camp as soon as possible.

All the information matched one by one, and Li Wei and Lu Guang no longer had the slightest doubt that Liang Jun was about to run out of food.

Lu Guang smiled and analyzed:
"Presumably the food in Huanxi's camp can only last for a few days, and the food team in Guanxi will not be able to reach Hedong for a while.

"Gong Jianning only needs to rob Huan Xi of this batch of grain and grass. If Liang Jun cannot get supplies, he will definitely run out of food.

"Huan Xi can only retreat in embarrassment, but Duke Jianning can send troops to join forces with Murong Ke to pursue them. Liang's army will be defeated!"

After traveling south for a long time, Li Wei had already recognized Lu Guang's talents, so he was not surprised that he had such insights.

Because a grain team was about to go north from here, Huan Xi naturally sent many sentries to patrol this area. This was what should be done. If not, it would arouse suspicion.

Whether it was the sentry sent by Li Wei back to the camp to report the news, or the messenger sent by Lu Polou to look for him, neither side dared to rush forward. After all, the area south of Yanchi was also considered the occupied area of ​​Liang Jun.

The infantry's response to the cavalry charge was a key training subject, and Huan Wen's cavalry served as training partners.

Choosing to ambush Huan Xi's grain team at the southern foot would be equivalent to being trapped in death once it was delayed. After all, crossing the Zhongtiao Mountains was equivalent to going deep into the Liang Kingdom's occupied area.

Since this is an army responsible for transportation tasks, there is naturally no shortage of vehicles. Whether they are transporting grain or transporting bows and arrows, they can become obstacles to the cavalry charge at this moment.

Worried about alerting Liang Jun's sentries, the messengers walked slowly, and at the same time, they missed each other on the road.

Mao Muzhi was calm and calm. He shouted loudly for the soldiers to form a circular formation relying on vehicles. This move must be to abandon the grain trucks outside the formation at the rear.

The two reached an agreement and no longer hesitated. Li Wei sent one person back to the camp to report the news, while he and Lu Guang led the army southward and crossed the Zhongtiao Mountains.

The battle was about to break out. Lu Polou learned the news but it was already too late.

When Lu Po Lou's messenger arrived at Li Wei's original hiding place at the northern foot of Zhongtiao Mountain, the place was already empty, and he could not find any trace of Li Wei at all.

Due to the lack of cavalry in the south, it could only focus on developing naval forces and infantry.

The cavalry from all over the mountains and plains roared to kill.

When Li Wei's envoy saw Lu Polou, Li Wei had already crossed the Zhongtiao Mountains and was ambushing at the southern foot, and Mao Muzhi's grain team was also approaching his ambush circle step by step.

But Lu Guang quickly realized that as long as he could successfully ambush Huan Xi's grain team and prevent Huan Xi from receiving supplies, even if the 20,000 cavalry suffered heavy losses from Liang's army, it would be worthwhile.

Li Wei pondered for a moment and said:
"If the ambush is at the northern foot of Zhongtiao Mountain, I am afraid that the enemy will be on guard. I want to go south through the mountain and ambush the troops at the southern foot. Shiming (characterized by Lu Guang), what do you think of this move?"

At the southern foot of Zhongtiao Mountain, when Mao Muzhi stepped into the Yu army's ambush circle, with the sound of arrows piercing the air, the ambush troops came out, and 20,000 cavalry shouted and charged towards the Chu army.

Lu Guang said seriously.

"The general seconded the proposal."

After all, they are called cavalry. As a second-line unit, they are actually just mounted infantry. A single man and a horse are not the elite of their Di tribe. As long as they can achieve the strategic goal, they will be exhausted. There is no way to fight without sacrifice. .

Therefore, this elite infantry of Chu State was not frightened.

Lu Guang's heart sank when he heard this. He knew that Li Wei meant to burn the boat.

Li Wei and Lu Polou would not be stupid enough to use light cavalry to attack the infantry formation. Unless the opponent was a peasant army who had just put down their hoes and saw the power of the cavalry charge, they were frightened and disordered. Otherwise, the light cavalry would If you rush into battle, you will definitely lose.

Mao Muzhi's 10,000 Chu troops were naturally not a mob.

The cavalry could not confront the infantry head-on, so Li Wei shouted at the top of his lungs:
"Bypass the enemy infantry phalanx, all we have to do is burn the food!"

He knew very well that the purpose of this trip was not to kill many soldiers of the Chu army, but to burn the food that Huan Xi urgently needed.

Mao Muzhi was in the square formation and could only watch helplessly as the Yu army cavalry bypassed his square formation, set fire to the rear and burned the vehicles. However, neither he nor Zhou Qiong beside him showed any signs of worry. .

Zhou Qiong said with a smile:

"Burn it, let him burn it to its full extent."

Mao Muzhi and Zhou Qiong's tricks soon led the Yu Jun cavalry to discover that the grain bag on a grain truck was punctured, and what came out was not grain, but sand and gravel.

"General! No! We've fallen into a trap!"

When Li Wei heard this, his heart skipped a beat. He couldn't understand why Huan Xi was about to run out of food, so instead of grain and grass, sand and gravel were brought. It could not be that the plank road was built openly and Chencang was secretly visited. Yu State's intelligence work was not that impressive, and there was no way there was a second grain team to reinforce it.

For some reason, Li Wei suddenly had an idea: Huan Xi was not short of food at all. In other words, the food crisis he encountered was not that serious at all. He was not in a predicament of about to run out of food, but it was enough to support the food team in Kansai. arrival.

The reason why he had tried so hard before was just to deceive himself, thinking that as long as he robbed his batch of food, Liang Jun would retreat due to lack of food.

After figuring this out, Li Wei broke into cold sweat on his forehead.

Now that the fish has taken the bait, someone will surely come to seize the net.

Before Li Wei could give the order to retreat, another sharp arrow made a sharp sound. In an instant, the sound of horse hooves rang out from the south. The deafening sound was no less than the sound when the Yu army launched a charge earlier.

Deng Qiang took the lead. He was not only a commander-in-chief, but also a general known as an enemy of ten thousand enemies. He was one of the few subordinates under Huan Xi who could truly take on the duties of a general.

I saw Deng Qiang holding his horse high and rushing into the battlefield first. Behind him were Guanlong Tuqi and Guards Yi Cong.

Huan Xi did not participate in this battle. He led 30,000 heavy infantry and 30,000 Hexi Xianbei to guard the camp. At the same time, he also wanted to monitor the camp of the Yan and Yu coalition forces.

In fact, Deng Qiang had already quietly led the Guanlong Tuqi and Guard Yi Cong around to the south of the Zhongtiao Mountains, following the Chu army from a distance.

Now that the grain team was attacked, Deng Qiang led his troops to the battlefield immediately.

"The enemy is ambushed! Soldiers! Follow me and kill!"

In response to Deng Qiang, Liang Jun’s elite cavalry shouted in unison:
"Kill! Kill! Kill!"

When the cavalry of the Yu army were panicking, the Chu army, which had previously relied on chariot formations to defend, finally came out under the leadership of Mao Muzhi. One after another, they joined forces with Deng Qiang to attack the Yu army.

Of course, infantry charges still need to maintain their formation. Therefore, they do not charge very fast. Every time they go a certain distance, they have to stop and organize their formation. In fact, they cannot be expected to cause much damage to the cavalry.

But if you can put mental pressure on the enemy, you have completed the mission.

After all, when faced with enemies from both sides, some soldiers who are not determined to fight will easily choose to give up.

However, Li Wei tried hard to fight his way out.

The infantry phalanx could not charge, but could only charge towards the enemy's cavalry. Everyone faced off head-on and wrestled with each other.

However, Li Wei overestimated the psychological quality and combat quality of his cavalry. After all, this was only a second-line force, and what they had to face were two of Huan Xi's three trump cards of the cavalry, Guanlong Tuqi and Guard Yi. from.

There is no need to elaborate on the glorious history of these two troops. In the battle of courage of the cavalry confrontation, the first to collapse was the Yu cavalry, which had the advantage in numbers.

If they were truly an elite force, they would not have been left behind in the Yu State during Fu Jian's expedition to Hetao.

A cavalry confrontation turned into a one-sided pursuit because of the timidity of the Yu army's cavalry.

Just like the battle at the Hetao battlefield, where Fu Huangmei led 10,000 fine cavalry against Baibao Xianbei, the same reason was that the soldiers were timid and disorganized themselves.

In fact, except for a few extreme cases, the high-speed charge of the cavalry will definitely evolve into a one-sided pursuit battle. The key is to see who can persist to the end first.

He runs away, he chases, he can't fly.

Don't expect the second-line troops of Yu State to have high-quality war horses, but the Dayuan horses and Tuyuhun horses equipped by Guanlong Tuqi and Guards Yicong can be of great use in this pursuit battle.

Even if Mao Muzhi's infantry could not hold back the Yu army, the Yu army's cavalry were quickly overtaken by the Liang army's fine cavalry behind them. Those lagging cavalry fell down one after another as if they were being cut grass.

Screams, wails, and begging for mercy are endless.

Li Wei was able to lead the army in battle, and he certainly did not have a compassionate temper. After hearing these voices, he would not want to cover his ears in pain.

If Huan Xi was really short of food and Li Wei could successfully burn this batch of food so that Huan Xi could not get supplies, even if all the 20,000 cavalry he brought were buried here, Li Wei would not even blink an eyelid.

However, this is only if, after all, the cruel reality tells him that Huan Xi is not only in danger of running out of food for the time being, but the cavalry he brought will also suffer heavy losses.

Li Wei buried his head in fighting the horse, his heart full of regret. He didn't even know whether he could escape this disaster.

The pursuers were getting closer and closer, and the screams and pleas for mercy became clearer.

"I'm from Jin! Don't kill me! I surrender!"

"Stop it! We are all from Kansai! We were forced by Shihu to move to Kanto! In troubled times, the way back home was blocked, so we had to rely on the Fu clan to survive!"

"Spare your life! I am also from Jin! Don't kill me!"

These pleas for mercy were particularly harsh to Li Wei's ears, but the Liang army officers spared these Yu soldiers who were willing to surrender and could speak Chinese.

(End of this chapter)