Chapter 356: Chu-Song coalition
In mid-June, Chu general Jingshe and Song general Jingdi led the Chu and Song coalition forces to Dingtao, and contacted spies who had been sent to the guards earlier to inquire about the movements of the Sanjin coalition forces.
In just one or two days, a detailed report was sent, saying that Pang Juan, Han Ju, and Zhao Gongzicheng had led a large army to attack Qi. The military camps in the Juancheng area are now stationed by Li He, the Liangchengjun of Shaoliang Kingdom, and under their command, there are about 70,000 to 80,000 troops from Han, Zhao and Shaoliang.
When they learned about this, Jingshe and Jingdi were slightly relieved. After all, in the last battle of Sui County, their 200,000 Qi, Chu, Song and Wei coalition forces of the four countries of Qi, Chu, Song and Wei were really defeated in Pang Juan's hands, and they could not help but feel a little bit of shadow. Now that they learned that Pang Juan led his army to Qi State, the two couldn't help but feel the kind of "dead fellow Taoists will not die."
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"Who is Li He?" Jing Di asked in surprise.
He was curious why Pang Juan appointed this person to guard the Juancheng camp rather than other generals from Wei, Han and Zhao. What puzzled him even more was that the generals from Wei, Han and Zhao had no objection to this arrangement?
When Jing She heard Jing Di's inquiry, she was stunned and asked the former: "Don't you know that Li He?"
Seeing Jingdi shook his head, Jingshe told the former what he knew.
It has to be said that Jingshe knew Li He's background. After all, Chu was an ally of Qin. In the past few years, Qin and Shaoliang were close, so Chu would naturally send people to explore it. However, the two countries were far apart and had no interest. In addition, South Korea and Chu were incompatible, so Chu did not have much contact with Shaoliang.
Even in Chu Ying's view, since Shao Liang was an ally of South Korea, he was an enemy of Chu, so naturally he didn't have to spend more time on this.
Of course, the more important reason is the size of Shaoliang. At least in Chu and Ying's view, Shaoliang is just a small country and will sooner or later be annexed by one of the Wei and Qin countries.
On the other hand, Shaoliang was not annexed by Wei and Qin, and Chu was also very surprised.
In short, based on his ally with Qin, Jingshe also knew a lot about Shaoliang and Li He, including Li He who led people to abduct the King of Qin from Liyang Palace, which forced Ying Qian and his 200,000 Qin troops to withdraw from Shaoliang.
With this incident alone, Jingshe knew that it was a difficult guy to deal with.
As for the Song general Jing, although Song Mo was in the State of Song, and in recent years, Song Mo's master Tian Rang and Liang Mo also had letter exchanges, Song Mo's position and attitude cannot represent Song.
On the contrary, Song Mo was actually an existence that both Song Dynasty rulers and ministers felt a headache, especially in the past two years, Song Gong built a large-scale palace, which wasted the people and the money, which made the relationship between Song Mo and Shangqiu very tense.
Considering that Jing Di had no contact with Song Mo and did not pay much attention to the matter in Hexi, he did not know Shao Liang or Li He, so he was naturally also an accident.
After hearing Jingshe’s story today, Jingdi realized that he was a person who had defeated Qin.
There are not many people who can defeat Qin today.
Based on this point, Jing Di did not dare to be careless and asked Jingshe: "How should such a person be dealt with?"
Jingshe thought for a while and said, "You and I can be careful to advance."
Yes, even if Li He was another Pang Juan, he and the other two could not stop in Dingtao, especially Jingdi. Who knew whether Pang Juan would turn to attack Song after defeating the Qi, Lu and Si coalition forces? After all, Song was built in a fertile land, with a flat momentum and fertile land, not to mention that Dingtao is one of the few prosperous and fertile towns in the world. Wei had long been coveting this for a long time.
Therefore, the best way to defend the State of Song was to take advantage of this time that Wei State aroused public anger and united the coalition forces of Qi, Chu and Si to defeat the State of Wei, so that Wei State never dared to peek at the territory of the State of Song again.
In a nutshell, he entered Juancheng, defeated Li He first, and then defeated Pang Juan!
After reaching the opinion, Jingshe and Jingdi each led a large army into the guard area carefully and headed straight for Juancheng.
One day passed, and as soon as the Chu and Song army led by them arrived at the border of the guard and Song dynasties, they ran into a cavalry.
There is no doubt that it was the Shaoliang soldiers who were sent by Li He to patrol the border of Wei and Song - to be precise, it should be the border of Wei and Song, because Zhuyi in the southern part of the Wei State had been occupied by Wei State at this time, and only Puyang was left in the entire Wei State.
Cavalry is still a very rare thing in the Central Plains. Only Shaoliang, Wei, Qin, Han and Zhao countries with cavalry are capable of building cavalry, but they have not yet been able to own them.
As for Jingshe, who came from Chu and Song countries, they did not know how powerful the cavalry was. They only knew that they were "soldiers riding horses". They would never have thought that after the cavalry appeared, the chariots of all countries in the world would become decorations and be swept into the corner of history.
Just now, Jingshe and Jingmen, who were standing on a chariot, were curiously looking at the Shao Liang Qibing in the distance, without any notice. Although there were only dozens of cavalry on the opposite side, as long as the opponent wanted, the opponent could bite off their 200,000 troops at any time, and easily caused dozens or hundreds of casualties without any damage.
Fortunately, Jingshe and Jingdi were lucky because Shaoliang's strange army had not yet received Li He's order. Otherwise, this Chu and Song coalition army would have tasted what it would be like to be sniped by crossbow cavalry and name one by one.
"Are the Chu and Song coalition forces?... Immediately report to the camp, the Chu and Song coalition forces entered the country and headed straight to the Juancheng camp."
"yes!"
With a command, several young Liang soldiers immediately drove away, and the remaining dozens of cavalry continued to peek at the Chu and Song coalition forces in the distance.
It has to be said that after Shao Liang Qibing worked part-time crossbow cavalry, it became more effective in inquiring about the enemy situation. Not to mention a large-scale army of more than 200,000 people like the Chu and Song coalition, even a small force of hundreds of people, it would be difficult to get rid of the surveillance of these Shao Liang Qibing.
Obviously, Jingshe also realized that the horse-riding soldiers on the opposite side were monitoring their movements. He quickly sent out more than a dozen chariots and hundreds of infantrymen accompanying the army to try to expel the other side. The result was naturally self-evident. The dozen chariots were full of energy and could not even catch up with the cavalry.
In just about half an hour, Li He received news of the entry of more than 200,000 Chu and Song coalition forces, and frowned slightly. After all, as far as he knew, Chu sent 200,000 troops this time, Song sent 50,000 to 60,000 troops, and the two armies added up to 250,000. Compared with his more than 70,000 troops, the troops of the two sides were actually very different.
He immediately called the two generals Kong Ye and Zhao Jie to inform the former of the news that Shao Liang Qibing had found, and then said to the two generals: "The Chu-Song coalition forces are aggressive and have a large number of people. I intend to take the defensive first to eliminate the opponent's spirit. I wonder if you have any objections?"
Kong Ye and Zhao Jie were not the kind of generals who were ignorant of advancing and retreating, and they all expressed no objection.
So Li He and the two generals were prepared to guard the camp, and checked for omissions again to see if there were any omissions in the camp with weak defense.
By the time Li He was almost ready, Jingshe and the two generals of Jingzhe had led more than 200,000 Chu and Song coalition forces to the area around Juancheng Camp.
Under Jingshe's order, he left 100,000 Chu troops about ten miles away from the camp in Juancheng, and cut down wood and built camps on the spot. He and Jingmen brought the rest of the troops to the camp where Li He was located, and condemned the crimes of the Three Jin coalition forces in order to be famous for their troops: "... Wei State betrayed his faith, shamelessly tore up the alliance, and used the righteousness to seize the Wei land, and coveted Qi, Song, Han, and Zhao torture the evil forces to abuse... Now, Jingshe is on the order of our monarch to help Wei country. I hope you can quickly tell Daliang and ask the King of Wei to change his mind. Otherwise, it will be too late to regret when the army is defeated!"
In the camp, Kong Ye heard the envoy sent by Jingshe and sneered: "A mere defeated general's voice is so rampant!"
You know, when he was the winner of Pang Juan's battle in Sui County, he had not participated in the war, but he had also heard about how the 200,000 Qi, Chu, Song and Wei coalition forces were defeated by him, Wei and Han coalition forces in an instant.
In Kong Ye's impression, the countries around South Korea had the weakest army, and they were not much better than the Zhou army of the Zhou emperor. Unexpectedly, such a weak brigade of such a great power was arrogant.
Compared to Kong Ye, Li He seemed very calm. After all, his army was famous. Which country should not put himself in the moral side first when fighting? Just listen to this kind of words.
This is similar to Pang Juan's performance outside Dong'a City. Jingshe and Jingdi showed off their power outside the Juancheng Camp, and then slowly retreated to build the camp.
In response, Kong Ye and Zhao Jie both said to Li He: "...If the Song coalition forces built a camp and rushed forward, there were more than 200,000 troops on the other side, and our only 70,000 to 80,000 troops may be difficult to resist. We must find a way to delay the establishment of the camp."
Li He thought deeply for a moment, nodded and said, "First hand over the surprise troops to harass him for a few days, and then make a decision in a few days."
Hearing this, Kong Ye said with a smile: "I heard that Shao Liang's military attacks and harassment are arbitrarily, but he was not able to meet him in the past, and he finally got what he wished today."
From the side, Zhao Jie also looked expectant, obviously wanting to see Shao Liang Qibing's ability.
Under the expectation of the two generals, Li He sent Hu Ben to order the 1,500 young Liang Qi soldiers under his command, ordering the latter to harass and attack the Chu and Song coalition forces in various ways from now on, which will slam their spirits and delay their establishment of the camp.
After receiving the order and authorization of Li He, 1,500 young Liang soldiers gathered in just half an hour and then rushed to the garrison of the Chu-Song coalition army ten miles away.
At this time, the soldiers of the Chu and Song armies were logging wood and building camps. Suddenly, they felt the earth tremble slightly. When they looked up, they found that countless cavalry were running towards them.
Although they had seen these "horse soldiers" on their way to Yecheng, there were only dozens of horses at that time and did not make any attacks. They just peeked at them from a distance. However, at this moment, hundreds of horse-riding soldiers were heading straight for them, who would not understand what was going on?
"Enemy attack! Enemy attack!"
Countless soldiers from Chu and Song countries exclaimed.
Amid the screams of these people, one thousand five hundred Liang Qibing gradually slowed down the speed of galloping horses. During this period, five hundred people waved Wu Heng to order: "Shoot the arrow!"
Chapter completed!