Han Dang is stronger

Chapter 279
"Many troops of the King of Han passed through Zhongtiao Mountain and suddenly arrived at Yuanqu. Is it possible to invade Zhiguan?"

"Are you kidding me? This king has never had any conflicts with the Han King's army since he took the throne. The Han King's envoys also clearly stated that they are going to attack Shangdang. How could the Han King's army approach Zhiguan and threaten our Hanoi County? Did the scouts at Zhiguan make a mistake and mistook Yuanqu’s Hanwang garrison for a new army?”

Relatively speaking, he was too honest and honest. When he received the news of Zhiguan’s warning, poor Henan Wang Simaang couldn’t believe the warning. The Han army's troop increase.Fortunately, Sima Ang also had a very reliable think tank, Li Zuoche, who immediately said loudly: "Your Majesty, whether it is a misunderstanding or not, the most important thing we should do right now is to prepare for the battle quickly and mobilize troops to reinforce Zhiguan! Otherwise, Zhiguan If anything goes wrong, our Hanoi hinterland will be in big trouble!"

After hesitating for a while, Sima Ang still accepted Li Zuoche's suggestion. In addition to ordering the main force of the Henan Army stationed outside Luoyang City to prepare for battle immediately, he also ordered the Pingyin garrison to garrison at the ferry, so that the Pingyin garrison was sent to rescue Zhiguan immediately. .But when things got to this point, Sima Yang still had illusions in his heart, and he sent an order to the Zhiguan garrison of the Henan Army alone, asking the Zhiguan garrison to exercise restraint, unless the Han army really launched an attack on Zhiguan, otherwise it would never allow unauthorized provocations The Han army took the initiative to cause trouble.

The cruel facts quickly shattered Sima Ang's beautiful illusions. Only a little more than a day later, Hanoi County sent two bad news one after another. The Yindu Pass fell, the defenders were defeated by the Han army, and the most convenient and fast connection between Luoyang and the hinterland of Hanoi was directly cut off by the Han army.While being stunned, Sima Ang finally understood that Xiang Kang was serious this time, and immediately roared like crazy...

"Little Xiang Kang, you shameless traitor! The most despicable thief in the world! You son of a bitch! What did you say that you are going to send troops to the party? After a long time, it turns out that you, a shameless traitor, are planning to go to war with the king! This time, the king , I have been fooled by you! You shameless and despicable villain——!"

Cheng Lian, who had urged Sima Ang to get along with Xiang Kang before, didn't even dare to take a breath. He lowered his head and wished he could hide in a place where Sima Ang would never see him, but Li Zuoche looked helpless and couldn't help but lighten Sighed lightly: "Sure enough, you hide a knife in your smile, Xiang Kang, you really have a thicker skin than usual. In order to make us take it lightly, you even used methods to please our Queen Mother. You can be so despicable as you are!" People, I'm afraid there are not many in the world."

After the frantic roar, Sima Yang, who almost exploded his chest, didn't think about it, and immediately shouted: "Pass down the decree, tell our main force to prepare to go immediately, this king will personally lead the army northward, and kill the Han who dared to attack us. Kill all the bandit army!"

"Wait a minute!" Li Zuoche jumped out to stop him, and said loudly, "Your Majesty, please calm down! Although it is hateful for the Han bandit army to attack Zhiguan and Pingyin, we still don't know whether the Han bandits are going to attack Hanoi or not! We must prevent the Han thieves from pretending to attack Hanoi and actually attacking Sanchuan. If we fall into the strategy of the Han thieves to divert the tiger away from the mountain and send the main force to Hanoi, and the main force of the Han thieves takes the opportunity to attack Hangu Pass, then we will be in big trouble !"

"Mr. Guangwu suspects that Xiang Kang'er is pretending to attack Hanoi?" Sima Ang asked calmly.

"This possibility cannot be ruled out." Li Zuoche replied immediately: "Although Hanoi County is important, Sanchuan County is more important to us and Xiang Kang'er. If Xiang Kang'er intends to go east, Sanchuan is definitely the first choice. Instead of Hanoi, we must guard against Xiang Kang's young son attacking Hanoi and actually taking Sanchuan."

Sima Ang frowned and calculated quickly. After a while, Sima Ang suddenly shook his head and said, "It can't be a feint attack. If the Han bandit army is a feint attack, it will be enough to win the Zhi Pass. They won't continue to go south to Pingyin to block the attack." Our road across the river prevents us from going north to rescue Hanoi."

"Your Majesty's words are very true." Wanda, the capital of the Shaofu, hurriedly echoed: "Our detailed work has found accurate information. Before Xiang Kang sent the bandit army to advance eastward, he went directly to Puban and built a road at the Puban Ferry. The strong pontoon bridge clearly intends to enter Hanoi via the east side of the river, if we don’t hurry north to Hanoi to retake the Zhi Pass, when the rear of the Han bandits invades Hanoi, Hanoi will be completely destroyed.”

Just as Sima Ang nodded, Li Zuoche immediately scolded: "Absurd! The Han bandits built a pontoon bridge in Puban, which proves that they are going to enter Hanoi via the east side of the river? How far is Puban from Ningqin? The Han bandit army only needs In one day, you can go south from Puban to Ningqin, and then leave Hangu Pass from Ningqin to the east! Besides, Xiang Kang’s child went out to the east, leaving the wide and flat road, how could he go east to enter Hanoi? Is Hanoi so important to Xiang Kang’s child that he must win it at any cost?”

"Mr. Guangwu, who said that Hanoi is not important enough to Xiang Kang?" Du Wanda retorted: "Xiang Kang's capture of Hanoi will immediately cut off our direct connection with Handan, and then we can use Handan County to curry favor with him." The country of Zhao, whose roots are broken, can cross the Yellow River from Guangwu to the south and threaten our Ao Cang stronghold. When Ao Cang is in a hurry, and Xiang Kang's main force will come from the front of Hangu Pass, how should we deal with it?"

"How to deal with the food and grass of Kang Xiaoer?" Li Zuoche said angrily: "How much manpower and material resources will it take to transport grain from Xianyang to Hedong, and then go through Zhongtiao Mountain and Zhiguan to the hinterland of Hanoi? Xiang Kang Don't you even know how to settle this account?"

"Stop arguing!" Sima Ang interrupted the dispute between Li Zuoche and Du Wanda, and said with a dark face, "Let's go to Pingyin first, and play by ear when we get to Pingyin. If Xiang Kang is really planning to attack Hanoi, We will rush across the Yellow River to rescue Hanoi, and if Xiang Kang’s child is just a feint attack in Hanoi, we can immediately turn around and go west, blocking him in the Xiaohan Road.”

Considering the fact that the Han army may turn false into reality and really take Hanoi with all its strength, Li Zuoche did not object to Sima Ang's prudent decision, but suggested: "Your Majesty, just to be cautious, we'd better inform Han Wang Shenyang of the situation immediately. , explain to him the reason why the lips are dead and the teeth are cold, and ask him to make preparations to go north to reinforce us. In addition, another division will be sent to the west to reinforce Mianchi. Go out to fight, so that we can be prepared for everything."

Sima Ang really respected Li Zuoche, and immediately nodded in agreement with Li Zuoche's proposition, and immediately ordered Wei Heng, a general of the Henan Army, to lead an army of [-] troops westward to Mianchi to set up a blocking position to prevent the Han army from leaving Hangu Pass eastward. He also sent someone to ask for help from Han Wang Shenyang who was close at hand, and at the same time sent someone to Pengcheng to inform the Western Chu side of the situation, so that Xiang Yu was also ready to send troops to help him as soon as possible.

By the way, even though Zhao Guo's army, which is also close at hand, has already torn face with Xiang Kang, but Sima Ang not only didn't consider asking Zhao Guo for help, but instead went directly to order his Handan garrison, and let the Handan County The Henan army was careful to prevent Zhao's army from taking advantage of the fire, and suddenly stabbed itself in the back-Sima Yang had kidnapped so many Zhao's troops to build a country for him, but Zhao would definitely do such a wicked thing and retaliate.

It's a good thing, Sima Ang's troops are still enough, imitating Xiang Yu's militarism, excluding the guard troops stationed in places and various important places, Sima Ang's mobile troops are as many as [-], even if [-] are allocated Going west to garrison Mianchi, there are still [-] troops that can be used on the Hanoi battlefield. In terms of strength, it can form an overwhelming advantage over the Han army's partial division, Zhou Shu's troops. The army is still big.So even if they were killed by the Han army and were caught off guard, the Henan army was not particularly flustered, and soon made preparations for the expedition. The main force left Luoyang one day later under the leadership of Sima Ang. Sun Yin was the vanguard and marched towards Pingyin via Henan County.

The distances are different. When Sun Yin’s [-] Henan army’s front team arrived in Pingyin, the Hedong Han army’s rear team led by Lu Kuang and Chong Da was still on the way from Anyi to Pingyin with food and supplies. The north bank is still only garrisoned by the [-] Han troops led by Uncle Zhou, and the troops are immediately at an absolute disadvantage.However, Uncle Zhou was not afraid at all, and immediately climbed to the highland on the north bank of the Yellow River, condescendingly looking down at the garrison of the Henan Army. Daxi said: "Okay! The opportunity has come! Sun Yin is careless and underestimates the enemy. We have an opportunity to take advantage of it."

"General Zhou, what loopholes can we take advantage of?" General Li Bi asked curiously.

"The ferry wharf of the Henan bandit army." Uncle Zhou pointed to the fleet of the Henan army gathered by the South Bank wharf, and said, "Sun Yin is careless, thinking that the original bandit army in Pingyin can protect the fleet and the wharf until he leads The army came to reinforce, and it must be no problem now, so they didn't send more troops to the pier. The original Pingyin bandit army saw that the reinforcements had arrived, and felt that they could rest easy. They will definitely sleep at ease tonight. We will surely win by launching a surprise attack at night! "

"The general wants to slap Sima Ang in the face? Make him cross the river?" Li Bi understood Uncle Zhou's meaning.

"Ask if you know?" Uncle Zhou smiled and asked, and immediately ordered: "Immediately gather the sailors we selected earlier, and secretly prepare firewood and fireboats. We will be dispatched at the second watch tonight to sneak attack on the south bank wharf of the bandit army."

It was the second watch of the night, and more than [-] officers and men of the Han army who were proficient in water took [-] fast boats and took [-] fireboats full of firewood as the vanguard. The sneak attack was carried out, and the result was just as Uncle Zhou expected. The Pingyin Henan Army, which had successfully protected the pier and ferry before, saw the arrival of the reinforcements. As expected, it completely relaxed its vigilance. The soldiers of the Han army had already lit the fireboat, and most of the soldiers of the Henan army who were responsible for guarding the ferry at the pier were still asleep.

In the face of such a vicious and cunning opponent as Uncle Zhou, the negligence of the Henan Army naturally caused a catastrophe. In the late autumn, the north wind was fierce, and the wind helped the fire, and the fire took advantage of the wind. The Henan army fleet immediately ignited many ships of the Henan army, and then the Han army fleet that killed them concentrated their firepower, focusing on attacking the large ships of the Henan army docked on the dock, and once again expanded the results of the battle. He was in a hurry and was burned by the Han army into chaos.In the end, when Sun Yin hurriedly sent to rescue the pier, the death squads of the Han army stopped as soon as they saw it, and quickly withdrew to the north bank of the Yellow River with very slight losses.

The results of this battle of the Han army were actually not great. They just burned down more than [-] large ships of the Henan army and some small boats, causing some damage to the wharf facilities of the Henan army, and the actual number of enemies killed was negligible.But at noon the next day, when Sima Ang arrived at Pingyin Ferry with the main force of the Henan Army, he was still furious and yelled at Sun Yin at his love. The last general is incompetent, it's because Uncle Zhou is too cunning, he didn't do anything before, and deliberately did it after the last general led the army to the ferry, and the last general was careless for a while, so he fell into his trap."

"It's a shame that you still have the face to say you were careless?" Sima Ang roared angrily, "Humiliate my military might, demoralize me, come here, push Sun Yin to this king and behead him!"

"Your Majesty, spare your life!"

"My lord, victory or defeat is a common matter in military affairs. There is no need to behead our general for a small defeat. Please forgive General Sun this time for the sake of General Sun's previous achievements."

Everyone interceded for Sun Yin, and Li Zuoche also said: "Your Majesty, Zhou Shupifu is the favorite general of Xiang Kang's son. When he was in Hedong, he wiped out the main force of the Western Wei Dynasty in just a few days and forced Wei Wang Wei Bao to surrender. It is not an ordinary person. It is not surprising that General Sun Yin was defeated by him because of his carelessness. Fortunately, our army did not lose much. I hope that the king will not be punished too severely. This will increase the ambition of the traitors and destroy our prestige. "

After listening to Li Zuoche's persuasion, Sima Ang waved his hand to signal the guards to let go of Sun Yin. Sun Yin hurriedly thanked Sima Ang, Li Zuoche and others, but Sima Ang didn't bother to pay attention to him and just said to Li Zuoche : "Mr. Guangwu, Uncle Zhou defended the ferry with a weak force, and sneaked into our fleet at night, preventing our army from having enough ships to cross the river. It seems that the main target of the Han bandits this time should be ours. Hanoi County."

"Not necessarily." Li Zuoche shook his head resolutely, and said: "If this subject is Uncle Zhou, in the face of the current situation, in order to cover Xiang Kang's main force going east, this subject will stick to the ferry and create a way to block our army in the Yellow River. The illusion of the south bank. Because only in this way, we will suspect that the Han bandit army is preparing to attack Hanoi."

"If that's the case, then I don't have to worry about Hanoi." Sima Ang smiled, disdainful of Li Zuoche's analysis in his heart, and said: "But regardless of whether Xiang Kang is mainly attacking Hanoi or not, the opportunity to fight is rare. We We have to take advantage of the opportunity that the rear army of the Han bandits has not arrived to reinforce Zhou Shupifu, and take back the Pingyin Ferry as soon as possible, so as to be prepared for any eventuality."

After all, Sima Ang did not discuss with Li Zuoche, and immediately ordered the main force of the Henan army to hurry up and prepare to cross the Yellow River, and decided to launch a rush to cross the Yellow River early the next morning to regain the North Bank ferry that was shamelessly occupied by the Han army.Li Zuoche did not object, but said in his heart: "It is true that the ferry can be brought back as soon as possible, but our main force must not cross the Yellow River. Otherwise, with Uncle Zhou's ability, we will definitely not be able to come back after crossing the river." So easy."

At the same time, in the Han army camp, Uncle Zhou finally received the news from Lu Kuang, Chong Da and other generals, saying that the rear army led by them could come to Pingyin for reinforcements before sunset the next day. After reading the report, Uncle Zhou After thinking for a moment, he immediately ordered: "Send fast horses to Lv Kuang and Chongda to order, let Lv Kuang protect the military supplies and go slowly, stop after resisting Zhiguan, set up more flags behind Zhiguan, and arrange It is an illusion that we have a large number of soldiers. Ask Chong Da to lead four thousand elite soldiers to rush forward with light clothes, and they are not allowed to bring tents and luggage. They must arrive at Pingyin before three quarters of the hour tomorrow, and there must be no mistakes."

"Also." Uncle Zhou ordered again: "Let our soldiers hurry up and prepare to guard the river. Mr. Sima Yong bullies our young soldiers, and he will definitely launch a rush to cross the river tomorrow morning!"

Uncle Zhou, who was finally able to show his strengths, was as good as a god. In the early morning of the next day, the Henan Army indeed dispatched a large number of troops to initiate a rush to cross. The Henan army who rushed to kill them fought in the dark, day and night.

The Han army fought very hard in this battle. Relying on the absolute superiority of troops, the Henan army repeatedly attacked the Han army's coastal fortifications one after another. Although the Han army fought desperately, the Henan army's offensive was too fierce. There is also a serious lack of water warfare weapons such as kerosene rockets, so it can only rely on bloody battles to survive.During this period, the Henan army was also very cunning to divide the troops to cross the river from the lower reaches and rush to the beach to attack the Han army's flanks. Fortunately, Uncle Zhou was prepared and let his beloved general Li Bi lead the reserve team to fight hard to block the Henan army. wish.

If the few primitive grenades hadn't been used in time, the Han army's ferry position might have been broken by the Henan army at noon. Fortunately, the scaring effect of the primitive grenade was amazing. The soldiers of the Henan army who had used gunpowder weapons were scared to death, and finally helped the Han army successfully repel the fierce attack of the Henan army, and firmly held the ferry position.However, even so, Li Bi, a young general of the Han army, was injured in the fierce battle, and the number of casualties of the Han army soldiers directly exceeded the [-] mark.

The reinforcements who arrived in time also helped Uncle Zhou a lot. According to Uncle Zhou's order, the four thousand elite soldiers of the Han army led by Chongda gave up all their supplies and traveled lightly. Greatly inspired the morale of the soldiers of the Han army.At the same time, according to Uncle Zhou's order, when the reinforcements arrived, under the leadership of the middle-level generals of the Han army, the soldiers of the Han army shouted loudly, "The King of Han is here! Our King of Han is here in person! Long live the King of Han! Long live the King of Han!"

Hearing this shout vaguely, Sima Ang, who was supervising the battle on the south bank, jumped up in shock, and tried to wait and see with his hand to shade the sun. Li Zuoche was also taken aback, and blurted out, "Xiang Kang came in person? How is that possible?"

In the end, of course, it was proved that the Henan army was just a false alarm. After confirming that the reinforcements of the Han army were only four thousand, Sima Ang was relieved, but he still had a drum in his heart. If Kang Xiaoer really personally leads the army to reinforce Hanoi, then the King’s Hanoi will be extremely dangerous."

The reinforcements who arrived in time successfully helped Uncle Zhou block the strong attack launched by the Henan Army on this day. Reluctantly, Ming Jin withdrew his troops, withdrew the troops that had already suffered heavy casualties, and angrily withdrew his troops back to the camp.However, Li Zuoche was not in a hurry to go back to rest with Sima Yang, and chose to continue to watch the situation of the Han army on the high ground on the south bank. When he saw that the reinforcements of the Han army were forced to camp in the wilderness because they had no military tents, his stomach was full. Li Zuoche, who was groaning from hunger, nodded, with a smile on his lips...

Li Zuoche may have laughed too early, because before that, Uncle Zhou had already summoned the generals of the Han army and told Generals Chongda and Li Bi: "Generals, please work harder tonight and supervise us. The soldiers should be prepared for the night and prepare enough dry food and torches. Tonight, Sima Yupifu will definitely send troops to attack the North Bank Ferry. Lead the army to the queen."

The generals of the Han army looked at each other, and then Chongda asked, "General Zhou, how can you be sure that the bandits will launch a sneak attack tonight?"

"Your army doesn't even have tents, so they can only sleep in the open. How could that old fox Li Zuoche miss such a good opportunity for a sneak attack?" Uncle Zhou asked with a smile, and said regretfully: "It's a pity that our mission It was to lure Sima Yang's men across the Yellow River, otherwise I really wanted to take the opportunity to set up an ambush and give the bandits a heavy blow, so we have no choice but to bite the bullet and suffer a defeat."

After finishing speaking, Uncle Zhou added: "There is another very important thing. We must tell all our soldiers the news that our King of Han is personally leading the army to Hanoi and will arrive in Hanoi soon. Night It is difficult to withdraw our troops, our soldiers fought very hard during the day today, and if we abandon our camp overnight and retreat overnight, some of our soldiers will definitely be captured by Henan bandits."

(End of this chapter)