Chapter 128: Crossfire
On that day, Xia Yang Jun led thousands of Wei troops to Linjin and retreated to the river bank halfway. This action puzzled the Wei soldiers who were still paying attention to crossing the river.
When he learned that Xia Yangjun led his army back, a thousand generals took the initiative to meet him, clasped his fists and said, "Xia Yangjun, Xiangbang just sent people to look for you everywhere, saying that he was asking you to discuss the war."
"Where is it?" Xia Yangjun asked with a tense face.
The Thousand Generals didn't know why Xia Yangjun looked in a bad mood, so he pointed in one direction.
Seeing this, Xia Yang Jun handed over the army to Marquis Zheng, Hua Jia and others, and took a few guards to the direction pointed by the Thousand Generals.
When he got there, he saw that about one mile away from the river, his Wei army built a temporary military tent, probably Gongsun Yan and others were discussing military affairs in this tent at this moment.
Sure enough, when he flirted with the tent and walked into the tent, Gongsun Yan, Long Jia and several other Korean generals led by Han Ju all gathered in the tent and sat down, obviously discussing something.
"Hao Yangjun is here? Please take your seat."
When he looked up, he saw Xia Yangjun breaking into the tent. Gongsun Yan's eyes flashed with a hint of displeasure, and then he smiled and invited the former to take his seat.
To be honest, Gongsun Yan was actually very unhappy about Xia Yangjun's sudden army leaving, but Xia Yangjun was born into a Duke of Wei, so no matter how unhappy he was, he could only endure it.
"Feel sorry."
Xia Yangjun bowed to Gongsun Yan and the people in the tent, and then walked to the chief of the right to take the seat.
Seeing this, Gongsun Yan said, "Okay, everyone is here, so..."
Before he finished speaking, Xia Yangjun raised his hand and interrupted: "Xiangbang, before discussing military affairs, I would like to say a few words first and tell you what I have seen just now."
"...please speak." Gongsun Yan looked at Xia Yangjun in a depressed manner.
Xia Yang Jun bowed to Gongsun Yan again, and then said seriously: "I led people to leave the army just now, because I wanted to go to Linjin and Cangcheng to find out whether Shaoliang's army had joined the Qin army. However, halfway through... I met Shaoliang's strange soldiers... Shaoliang, most of them were joining the Qin army, and should be taken seriously..."
He licked his lips, as if he wanted to say something, but he didn't know what to say, and after a while he said, "I'm done."
“…”
Gongsun Yan looked at Xia Yangjun speechlessly.
Han Ju raised his eyebrows, but said nothing.
There was a strange silence throughout the tent.
After a long time, Gongsun Yan coughed and said, "Thank you, Mr. Xia Yang, took the risk of finding such important information for our coalition forces. Okay, please pay attention to the situation. There are only four cities in Herong Kingdom, namely Linjin, North City Pass, Xincheng, Cangcheng, and seven or eight towns. According to the distance, our coalition forces will attack Cangcheng, Linjin, North City Pass, and finally Xincheng... Cangcheng is the city that our Wei Kingdom renovated to help build Herong Kingdom. There are many barns in the city. If the Qin army did not destroy it, after the coalition forces captured it, it would be a rear granary for recapturing Hexi and even counterattacking Qin... Do you have any objections to this?"
The generals in the tent looked at each other a few times, but no one objected.
Seeing this, Gongsun Yan continued, "Since the route of advance has been determined, let's discuss the deployment arrangements of each army..."
Immediately, he began to assign tasks to each army, such as the army was responsible for building camps, the one responsible for alerting the Qin army to harass and even sneak attacks.
Don’t think that Gongsun Yan didn’t know how powerful the young Liang Qibing was - a mere 200 Liang Qibing could kill 200,000 Qin soldiers, how could this not be powerful?
So he asked Han Ju to be responsible for patrol and guarding, because the Han army had excellent weapons and strong crossbows, even if they encountered Shao Liang's soldiers, they could still severely hurt him.
However, how could Han Ju agree to this request?
He had already reached a tacit understanding in private through the Han envoy stationed in Shaoliang, Shen Chun and Li He, that is, both sides should not hurt each other as much as possible, and work together to weaken Qin. The Han army of Wei, the Han army, was responsible for weakening the Qin army, and Shaoliang was responsible for weakening the Wei State. For Han and Shaoliang, this was a tacit understanding of the same interests.
Therefore, Han Ju immediately opposed: "Although our Korean army has relatively good weapons, they have never dealt with Shaoliang Qibing. In contrast, Xia Yangjun once fought side by side with Shaoliang. I believe that I have more knowledge about Shaoliang Qibing. Why not ask Xia Yangjun to be responsible for the night watchdog?"
I have to say that Ying Qian could see through the profound meaning of Li He's only brought surprise soldiers and five thousand crossbowmen to help him. How could Gongsun Yan not know Han Ju's intention to shirk him? He just didn't want to say it too straightforwardly, causing each other to break up.
After all, in the current battle in Hexi, the Wei army still needs 50,000 Han troops to help them attack the Qin army together.
Thinking of this, Gongsun Yan nodded and agreed.
While agreeing, he wrote a note in his heart, preparing to meet the King of Wei after the war is over, and advised the King of Wei to teach Han a lesson. After all, Han has become increasingly restless recently, and he actually wants to bring Shao Liang to balance his country with Wei and Qin. How can this be tolerated?
The next day, 120,000 Wei and Han allied troops rushed towards Cangcheng, with the Wei army in front and the Han army behind. Han Ju's move basically eliminated the possibility of Shaoliang's army's "accidentally injured friendly troops."
At this time, Ying Qian had already taken Li He, Wei Zhu and his generals to Cangcheng, climbed up to see the 120,000 Wei and Han alliances gathered far outside the city, and then sent soldiers to cut down trees everywhere and build camps.
Although all the Qin generals were very adapted to Li He standing beside Ying Qian, Ying Qian had no strange looks at all. He solemnly said to Li He: "Today is September 12th, and there is only more than a month left before the beginning of winter. If we can try to delay the speed of the Wei and Han alliance army building, Gongsun Yan would not have much time to attack Cangcheng, and even, we would have the opportunity to wipe out his entire army!"
"Truncate the Wei army's retreat?" Li He said casually.
"right!"
Ying Qian was not surprised that Li He guessed his intention and said with a smile: "But our army was newly defeated, and the morale of the soldiers was not high. I hope the surprise soldiers could help our army... No, let the coalition forces boost morale!"
In other words, he hoped that Li He would order the surprise soldiers to kill Wei soldiers to the fullest, just like the surprise soldiers of Shaoliang who dealt with him in the Qin army last year.
"I see."
Li He nodded slightly.
In the afternoon, he recruited five 200 generals, Han Yan, Wu Heng, Xu Wu, Gao Yun and Hou Yun, and ordered: "From tonight, hunting and killing against the Wei army!"
Han Yan and the other two looked at each other, and Xu Wu hesitated and asked, "Do you show mercy?"
Li He certainly understood everyone's thoughts, and after a moment of silence, he said: "The Wei soldiers in Yuanli have kindness to me Shaoliang, but Wei... He still refuses to admit my Shaoliang's independence. There is no doubt that if Qin was defeated this time, Wei will never let me Shaoliang go, so there is no need to leave any mercy. Besides, I Shaoliang is not capable of leaving any mercy. Last time I hurt the Qin army, Qin began to face my Shaoliang. This time, the same is true. Only by hurting Wei, the overlord of the Central Plains will put aside his arrogance and face me Shaoliang.... We are not fighting for Qin, we are fighting for Shaoliang!"
"yes!"
Han Yan and the five of them held their fists and took the order.
Late at night that night, when most of the soldiers of the Wei and Han army fell asleep after being busy building a camp for a whole day, Xia Yangjun had no intention of sleeping and took several guards to patrol the coalition's garrison.
During this period, he met the two generals Zheng Hou and Hua Jia who were also unwilling to sleep.
Zheng Hou said to Xia Yangjun half-jokingly: "Your Madam Xia Yangjun can't sleep?"
Xia Yangjun smiled bitterly in response.
In fact, all three of them understood that if Shao Liang really joined the Qin army, then once the night came, his Wei and Han coalition forces would usher in the most terrifying nightmare - no, it should be said that it was just his Wei army. After all, Han and Shao Liang were all alliances. Judging from Han Ju's various performances, they had already reached some agreement with Shao Liang in private, and I think Shao Liang's brilliant army would not attack the Han army.
Only his Wei army must be the target of attack by Shao Liang Qibing.
"Have you sent extra staff?" Xia Yangjun asked Zheng Hou.
"Yes." Zheng Hou nodded and said, "I use a hundred people as a patrol team and ordered them not to be separated by more than a hundred feet from each other in order to support each other, but... I don't know if I can stop the surprise soldiers."
All three knew that Shaoliang Qibing ambushed the enemy at night was a good player, but they did not see Shaoliang Qibing with their own eyes. They could only say that they raised the alert level to the highest level, but they did not know whether it was effective.
Just as the three of them were talking, a scream suddenly sounded outside the station, followed by a few more screams.
here we go!
The three of them changed their expressions and immediately climbed up to a sentry tower, climbed up to look at the direction of the screams. Today, when the Wei army was building the camp, Xia Yangjun specially cared for the soldiers under his command to build several sentry towers for this moment.
The screaming was located on the west side of the Wei and Han Allied Forces. When Xia Yangjun and the other two climbed up to look up, there was a small group of very dense fire points there. It was undoubtedly the light of the Wei army patrol soldiers holding torches. If you talk about it carefully, there were probably dozens of them.
However, while the screams and shouts continued to be heard, the fire points in the distance quickly decreased, and in just a few dozen breaths, dozens of light spots disappeared.
This efficiency...
"...I am worthy of being Shao Liang Qibing."
Xia Yangjun sighed in a complicated expression.
It was not until now that he saw a patrol of 100 people being wiped out with his own eyes that he truly realized how fear and despair the Qin army was in the face of such an elite force last year. It was no wonder that the Qin army called Shao Liang Qibing "Ghost Soldier".
"Two patrol teams chased after him..." Hua Jia said with a complicated expression.
Xia Yangjun and Zheng Hou were silent, but just looked at the light spots in the distance.
As Hua Jia said, there were indeed two patrol teams of hundreds of people chasing each other. They could be judged by the dense light spots of the torch, but...
Chasing Shao Liang Qibing?
Last year's Qin army gained an experience with bloody examples. Never chase Shao Liang Qibing at night, because these people will lead you to a real trap.
As expected, not long after, the light spots of the two patrol teams of 200 people dimmed one third in an instant. They were obviously ambushed by Shaoliang's soldiers, and perhaps using crossbow tools to instantly dealt with these 200 Wei soldiers.
"After the ambush, you will be forced to kill..." Zheng Hou sighed.
Just after he spoke, a burst of screams burst out from afar, and the three of them saw with their own eyes that the previously dense spots of light quickly became dim at a speed visible to the naked eye, and then gradually disappeared.
After a patrol team was wiped out, two more patrol teams of 100 people were wiped out.
Undeniable that the shouts of killing outside the garrison also alarmed the Wei army in the garrison. Looking back at the garrison that gradually became noisy, Xia Yang Jun let out a sigh and said in a deep voice: "We must find a way to limit or kill these young Liang soldiers, otherwise... our army may follow the footsteps of the Qin army last year."
Zheng Hou and Hua Jia nodded one after another.
But the problem is that Liang Qibing is a good player who specializes in sneak attacks, ambushings and assassinations. He has undergone special training. However, the Wei army generally does not know how to protect themselves and ambush the enemy at night. How to target this?
At the same time, Ying Qian also stood in front of the gate tower of the east city of Cangcheng, looking at the light spots that disappeared in the night with a smile.
He knew that every light spot basically corresponded to the life of a Wei Zun.
"Wonderful!"
He strodes his hands and praises him, which is completely different from the anger he had in the Dongliang City area.
Chapter completed!