Han Dang is stronger

Chapter 256
The previous military strategy proposals have never been adopted by the Wei army. Uncle Zhou left a deep impression on the generals of the Wei army who would only talk on paper. It was discovered that he was so timid that he led the Han army to flee ahead of time. General Bai Zhi decisively led the elite of the Wei army to launch a pursuit, not to mention that Wei's generals Feng Jing and Zhang Zhi, who were good at fighting, also decisively led the rear of the Wei army to dispatch in an emergency, aggressively killing the Han army who fled shamelessly under Zhou Shu's troops.

Even Wei Bao, king of the Western Wei Dynasty canonized by Xiang Yu, was the same. On the morning of the second day when Uncle Zhou fled, after receiving the battle report from the front line, he learned that the old minister of Wei State, Uncle Zhou, had fled watching the wind. Even if he can't win a big battle this time, at least teach Uncle Zhou that he is absolutely sure, and he will no longer worry so much about the frontline battle situation, and save time and energy to care about his palace.

As the earliest capital of the State of Wei, Anyi City also had a fairly large palace. Unfortunately, after the State of Wei moved its capital to Daliang, the Palace of Anyi began to gradually fall into disrepair. Dilapidated and withered, almost in ruins, it is impossible to continue to live. After Wei Bao took over Anyi, he could only temporarily live in the Sheriff's Mansion in Hedong County.However, the foundation of the palace is still there after all, and many things in the ruins can still be used, so Wei Bao came to the old palace of Wei in person to check the situation, and wanted to see if a building could be rebuilt on the site of the old palace. Palace of King Wei.

It is a pity that the interior of the Weigong site is more dilapidated and old than it looks from the outside. There is almost no place where the grass is waist-deep, there are nests of nests and rats everywhere, and snakes and insects can be seen occasionally. It was covered with moss and weeds, the palace was crumbling here and there, and there was not a single intact house left. The walls of the palace were also dilapidated, overgrown with weeds, and deserted like an ancient tomb.

"It can only be completely demolished and rebuilt." Wei Bao came to a conclusion, and asked the accompanying Shaofu: "Estimate, how much food and time will it take to rebuild this Wei Palace?"

"This...." The young mansion was full of embarrassment, and replied: "Reporting to the king, how much time and money and food will be spent on rebuilding can only be roughly calculated after careful survey and measurement, but it is definitely not a decimal number, nor is it a year. It can be completed in half a year.”

"Draw up a reconstruction plan for me as soon as possible, and calculate a rough figure." Wei Bao ordered: "Don't worry too much about money and food. Now that the Central Plains is in chaos, roads are blocked, and salt prices are soaring. We have the Hedong Salt Pond in our hands. Don't worry about raising money." There is no money or food."

The Shaofu hurriedly agreed, but secretly complained in his heart, because although the price of salt in the Central Plains and Guanzhong has soared, and the state of Wei with the salt pond in hand does have a steady stream of financial resources, but after the chaos, the population of Hedong has dropped sharply, and they want to rebuild Wei. Palace is obviously not an easy task.

There is no way to complain, dare not disobey Wei Bao's order, the Wei Guo Shaofu can only quickly figure out how to rebuild the Wei Palace step by step, Wei Bao is too lazy to continue wasting time in the ruins of the Wei Palace, wearing armor The bright guards went directly out of the palace and boarded the car, ready to return to the temporary residence to rest. The official guards waiting outside the palace and some onlookers also hurriedly bowed and saluted, and respectfully waited for Wei Bao to board the car.

There was an accident, and when we returned to the gate of the Governor's Mansion in Hedong by car, a servant came to report that Wei Bao's mother felt unwell occasionally. The filial Wei Bao didn't dare to neglect, so he went straight to the backyard to visit his mother. It was also when he arrived at his mother's residence that he discovered that there were already several female relatives of Wei officials who had come over to serve Wei's mother's soup and medicine. Wei Bao ignored these women, but hurried forward to say hello and asked about his mother's current situation. .

It's okay, Wei's mother is just feeling chest tightness and flustered because of acclimatization, and some eating disorders. It's not a serious illness, and the medical staff also said that there is nothing serious. Wei Bao felt a little relieved, and Wei's mother asked in turn. Regarding Wei Bao's situation, he asked, "Your Majesty, where have you been just now?"

"Go back to the old palace of our Wei State to see the situation." Wei Bao replied truthfully, "My son wants to rebuild the Wei Palace as soon as possible, so that mother, you can have a better place to live."

"It's very good here, don't worry." Wei Bao's mother was more considerate of the people's feelings, and said: "Now that the army is in chaos, don't rush to rebuild the palace. Save money and food and give priority to the national economy and people's livelihood. This is the right way."

Wei Bao prevaricated casually, and then his eyes suddenly lit up. He noticed a beautiful girl standing in the corner of the room, and couldn't help asking her, "Where did you come from? What's your last name? Why have you never seen her before?" you?"

The girl was very shy and shy, she blushed and dared not answer, but a middle-aged woman in luxurious clothes stood beside her, and said with a smile on her face: "My lord, she is the daughter of the little girl, surnamed Bo." My name is Yuanzhi, and you can be regarded as relatives, and you are of the same generation as the king. Daughter, why don't you greet your brother Wang soon?"

Bo Yuanzhi had no choice but to follow the instructions of his mother, Wei Yu, and shyly stepped forward to greet Wei Bao. Wei Bao also immediately recognized Wei Wei, a distant relative who came to his army to eat and drink, and smiled. Said: "It turns out to be Wei Yu's daughter, she is so beautiful, are you engaged?"

If it was changed to Wei Wei, who was more snobbish than Mr. Uncle Sun in the past, she would definitely not be polite. She would definitely go along with the flow and dedicate her beautiful daughter to Wei Bao to sleep with. Unfortunately, the situation is different now, and my heart is already different. Wei Wei, who had a golden tortoise son-in-law, didn't even blink her eyelids, and immediately replied with a smile on her face: "Thank you for your concern, Majesty, she is already married."

"Already have a marriage?" Wei Bao was a little disappointed, but when he carefully looked at Bo Yuanzhi's moving appearance, Wei Bao still refused to give up, and asked with a smile: "Which family will you promise? Is it from our Wei country?" ?”

The snobbish Wei Wei didn't dare to continue talking nonsense. Fortunately, at this time, the maid suddenly brought the freshly brewed soup. Wei Bao, who wanted to pretend to be filial, had to quickly take the medicine bowl and serve his mother himself. After taking the medicine, Wei Yu, who was afraid that her daughter would be targeted by distant relatives, was amnesty, so she took the opportunity to bid farewell, and fled quickly with Bao Yuanzhi.

It's useless to run away, Wei Bao has already set his sights on his distant cousin Bo Yuanzhi, watching Bao Yuanzhi leave from the corner of his eye, Wei Bao still said in his heart: "It doesn't matter if you are engaged or not, as long as you are seen by the widows Come on, even if you put on your wings, don’t even think about flying away, when the widow has time, I must bring you, a little girl, to talk carefully.”

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When Wei Bao made up his mind on this idea, the main force of the Wei army had already chased after Uncle Zhou's troops and arrived near the pile platform located more than forty miles northeast of Puban. Marching on a spacious and flat road, but after the rapid march of about sixty miles, whether it is the Han army led by Uncle Zhou or the elite troops of the Wei army led by Bai Zhi, they are all exhausted and panting, their physical strength has seriously declined, and most of them are recruits. The soldiers of the Han army fell behind very seriously.

Looking at the densely wooded hills to the northwest, and looking back to see that the Wei army has been gradually pulled away, and may give up the pursuit at any time, Uncle Zhou decisively ordered the army to stop advancing, and formed an formation on the spot to prepare for the battle.Then, as Uncle Zhou expected, when he saw the Han army stop, his old colleague Bai Zhi, who had planned to give up the pursuit, immediately yelled, "Uncle Zhou can't run anymore, catch up! Kill all the bandits in Guanzhong!"

According to Bai Zhi's order, the exhausted Wei army elite forcibly cheered up and continued to advance, and soon approached the Han army's position, and immediately formed an formation to prepare for battle.As a result, at this time, a soldier with a white flag in the Han army suddenly rode out, trotted to the front of the Wei army, and shouted: "General Baizhi, please come out and answer."

Glancing contemptuously at the envoy of the Han army, Bai Zhi pouted at his soldier captain. The soldier captain understood, immediately patted his horse and stepped forward, and shouted loudly: "Speak if you have something to say, and fart if you have something to say, what are you? , and dare to ask our General Bai to come out and answer you?"

"General, please report to General Bai. Although our General Zhou and he were colleagues in the same country, we have long wanted to compete with him." The envoy sent by Uncle Zhou said loudly: "But now I am two The army is tired and hungry, the fight is not enough fun, we General Zhou hope that General Bai will be as patient as him for the time being, let our two armies rest for an hour, and then we will fight to the death, please General Bai must agree."

The captain of the personal army immediately returned to the Wei army flag formation, and reported Uncle Zhou's request to Bai Zhi. Bai Zhi laughed and said, "Go back and tell Uncle Zhou's emissary that I have agreed to his request and rest first." An hour, and then we will fight to the death."

The captain of the personal army took the order to go, and the general next to him hurriedly reminded: "General, is Zhou Shupifu playing a game of slowing down the army, trying to delay the time for a while, and wait for his reinforcements to come to reinforce?"

"He has reinforcements, so we don't have any?" Bai Zhi sneered and said, "Don't forget, General Feng Jing and General Zhang Zhi are also rushing here, one hour is enough time for them to arrive here."

After all, Bai Zhi also sent someone to send an order to the rear, ordering Feng Jing and Zhang Zhi to speed up and come to reinforce him as soon as possible, and at the same time ordered the soldiers of the Wei army to take the time to rest, eat and drink water to recover their physical strength, so that they can be sent to the Zhou army. All the uncle's troops were killed.During this period, another general suggested that Bai Zhi should send more scouts to the northwest of Duitai to conduct a detailed inspection in case the Han army had hidden ambushes in the hills and mountains. If there were ambushes, they would have been killed long ago, so how much time would have been wasted?"

At this time, on behalf of Bai Zhi and Uncle Zhou's envoy, the captain of the personal army has also reached a verbal promise to take a temporary rest for an hour. The two armies are facing each other about two miles apart. Physical strength, each stared at each other's back, carefully guarding against the sudden arrival of the other's reinforcements.

Near Mo Zhehei, Uncle Zhou, who was originally a pretty good character, was indeed brought down by Xiang Kang. He offered to rest for an hour and fight again, but just over half an hour later, more than 1 Han soldiers suddenly pulled out together. The back team was changed to the front team, and under the leadership of Uncle Zhou's banner, they quickly flew towards Puban.When Bai Zhi saw it, he was of course furious, and shouted: "Chasing! Get rid of Uncle Zhou, who has never kept his word!"

Amidst the shouts, eight thousand Wei army elites chased after them fiercely, and aggressively killed the untrustworthy Han army, Uncle Zhou's men. At least two paths were given to them, and during the period, there were continuous cases of soldiers falling behind, fully revealing the true qualities of the recruits of the mob.

The battlefield experience is relatively rich. The overall quality of the elite Wei army is indeed better than that of the temporary recruits of the Han army. , can only hastily order the soldiers of the Han army to form a circular formation and take a full-scale defense to contend with the Wei army. Since the face was torn apart, the real contest between the Han army and the Wei army has begun.

It is a pity that the Han army was obviously at a disadvantage in the process of the contest, and the battlefield experience was seriously lacking. The Han army was not able to hastily establish a strict round formation to effectively resist the attack of the Wei army. The relatively experienced Wei army directly seized the opportunity of close combat. Forced to fight hand-to-hand with Wei Jun in a chaotic queue, and continue to magnify the weakness of inexperience, he was killed by Wei Jun in a hurry, causing casualties. The internal Zhou Shushuai flag advances.

Fortunately, Uncle Zhou had anticipated this possibility a long time ago, and decisively led two thousand troops directly under him to seal the rescue gap that was about to be torn open by the Wei army. With richer battlefield experience and melee combat ability honed through countless actual battles, he successfully blocked the tide of the Wei army's offensive, barely stabilized the Han army's position, and won the Han army recruits from the other three directions to gain a firm footing. time.

However, the Han army was still at a comprehensive disadvantage. The experienced Wei army found that the combat effectiveness of the Han army in the three directions of the northwest and south was not too strong through tentative attacks, so it immediately adjusted the main attack direction and changed to storm the Han army from the north. The generals of the Han army selected from the old men of the young commanders kept roaring, desperately urging the generals of the Han army to fight the enemy, but the effect was still ineffective. The position of the Han army was quickly shaken by the Wei army. dangerous situation.

During this period, the generals of the Han army who knew the inside story all persuaded Uncle Zhou to send out a signal to reverse the current passive situation, but Uncle Zhou was unmoved at all, saying: "Don't worry, hold your breath and let the line grow. We can catch big fish."

Uncle Zhou didn't wait in vain, and endured for a while longer. The road from the east was full of smoke and dust. The Wei army's rear team led by Feng Jing and Zhang Zhi finally rushed to the vicinity of the battlefield. It turned out that the Wei army's main attack still had an obvious advantage. Feng Jing and Zhang Zhi Zhang Zhi only left more than a thousand soldiers to guard the transportation vehicles, and he couldn't wait to bring the rear army to reinforce, shouting excitedly to kill the Han army who was at a disadvantage.

"It's finally here." Uncle Zhou smiled slightly, and after the Wei army's rear team had completely crossed the pile, Uncle Zhou shouted, "Beat the drums, attack!"

Dozens of war drums were beating together, only to hear the general attack signal issued by the Han army first. Most of the soldiers of the Han army and all the soldiers of the Wei army were all dumbfounded. They didn't understand why the Han army who was being suppressed by the Wei army Want to launch a general attack?Or launch a counterattack on the basis of a circular formation that is not conducive to attack at all?Bai Zhi, who was supervising the battle in the rear, was also a little stunned, and then laughed loudly: "Uncle Zhou, you are really incompetent to the extreme! You want to retreat and escape, but you can even give the wrong order!"

"Kill—!"

The sound of shouting suddenly remembered interrupted Bai Zhi's wild laughter. Under the gaping gaze of the soldiers of the Wei Army, countless red flags and soldiers of the Han Army suddenly appeared in the mountains and forests where there had been no movement until now. The tide rushed directly towards Wei Jun's back, and Bai Zhi couldn't believe it and yelled: "There is an ambush! How is it possible? Uncle Zhou is so calm, so he sent out an ambush at this time?!"

Bai Zhi also quickly understood why Uncle Zhou was able to hold his breath so calmly. Seeing the Han army's ambushes rushing out suddenly, the Wei army's rear led by Feng Jing and Bai Zhi decisively turned around to meet them, but they marched in a hurry in the middle of the day and night. Seventy miles away, how much physical strength do the soldiers have left now?When the two armies met, there was only one charge, and the long-awaited ambushes of the Han army killed the exhausted rear of the Wei army into chaos.

The situation on Baizhi's side was equally miserable. Seeing the Han army ambushing out suddenly, the soldiers were flustered, and the morale of the front team of the Wei army, which could only be regarded as a second-rate army, was immediately frustrated, and its combat effectiveness was immediately directly affected.The generals and soldiers of the Han army, with most of the recruits, were on the contrary. Seeing the arrival of the helpers, their morale was immediately boosted, and they began to show their heroic qualities in a smooth battle. The obviously taller Wei Jun elite turned around and beat.

The ensuing battle can only be described as a one-sided massacre. Under the leadership of the two veterans of the young marshal Lu Kuang and Ling Yi, the morale of the Han army ambushed was like a rainbow, and the massacre was as frantic as cutting melons and vegetables. The Wei army's rear team killed the Wei army's rear team until it was covered with corpses and blood pools, but in a short time it killed the Wei army's rear team to collapse and completely collapsed.Then, like a tiger descending from the mountain, he killed the front team of the Wei army led by Baizhi. The front team of the Wei army was already overwhelmed by Uncle Zhou's troops. Before they could join the battle, they shouted in unison and ran for their lives in all directions, and Bai Zhi rushed to the front very resolutely.

At this time, the large number of recruits of the Han army can finally show their talents. Without the order of Uncle Zhou, the recruits of the Han army who were trampled by Wei Jun before have spontaneously started chasing, roaring and rushing to kill Faster and fiercer, he cut down and chopped up the soldiers of the Wei army one by one, and excitedly cut off their heads to collect military merits, and captured prisoners in exchange for rewards, as fierce as hungry wolves chasing sheep on the grassland.The generals of the Wei army faithfully played the role of sheep, crying and shouting, but fleeing desperately. Not a single soldier dared to turn around and fight, let alone organize a rear team to fight to the death to cover the main force to escape and retreat.

Li Bi, a Han general selected by Uncle Zhou himself from among the recruits in Guanzhong, made great contributions. During the chase, Li Bi, who was excellent at riding, led a team of Han cavalry, and kept a close eye on Bai Zhi, a general of the Wei army who was wearing conspicuous robes. After chasing desperately, after only five or six miles away, he succeeded in chasing and killing Bai Zhi. Bai Zhi hurriedly ordered his soldiers to turn around and fight to the death. Unfortunately, the loyalty of his soldiers was obviously insufficient, and only half of them turned around to intercept , was quickly killed by the cavalry of the Han army led by Li Bi. During this period, Li Bi saw the opportunity and suddenly threw the spear in his hand. The spear flew out and hit the rear of Bai Zhi's horse. Bai Zhi's horse suffered pain. , first stood up with hissing miserably, and then pulled Bai Zhi on the battlefield and ran wildly, running wildly, and directly knocked Bai Zhi, who had no Takahashi saddle and stirrups, off the horse, and fell into a coma. His head was bleeding.

"Ouch, beast! It hurts me to death!"

After falling off his horse, before the poor general Bai Zhi struggled to get up, the cavalry of the Han army led by Li Bi rushed up and surrounded him, and several sharp spears with blood were pointed at him. General Bai Zhi was so frightened that he quickly raised his hand and shouted: "Don't kill me! I surrender! I am General Bai Zhi of Wei State. General Zhou Shuzhou and I of Han State are not only old friends, but also lifelong friends. , you must not kill me, take me to see General Zhou, he will give you a big reward!"

"Have you ever had a lifelong friendship with our General Zhou?" Li Bi asked a little strangely: "But what does our General Zhou say when he was in the army of Wei State, General Bai, you never looked down on him and never let him go. In your eyes, have you never been polite to him?"

"Misunderstanding! Misunderstanding! Absolutely misunderstanding! General Zhou is just joking with you. He and I have a very good friendship. I even invited him to dinner and called each other brothers. They are even closer than real brothers!"

(End of this chapter)