Chapter three hundred and seventy-eight: Wei and Han attack Chu
In May, all countries had completed their farming work. South Korea used the excuse of border friction to condemn Chu, and then declared war on Chu, sending general Han Ju to lead 80,000 Korean troops to attack Chu.
At this time, the Wei State had stopped its attack on the Song State after the new king Dai Han surrendered. According to the promise, he sent General Pang Juan to lead 80,000 to attack the Song and Wei army to assist Han.
There were 80,000 Han troops and 80,000 Wei troops, totaling 160,000 troops. Although the State of Chu had already anticipated this incident, Jingshe, who had been ordered to return home, gathered more than 200,000 troops to garrison in Chu Fangcheng, it has to be said that the advantage of military strength still cannot make up for the gap in the quality of the army.
On May 15, Han Ju led the Korean army to Wanyi, Chu State, first, and set up camps while preparing to siege.
Han Zhang and Bao Yuan, who led the Korean surprise soldiers at that time, spoke to Han Ju, "Why do you need to order the soldiers to camp? Tonight we will attack the city, kill the city gate, and seize Wanyi from the inside and outside."
Han Ju smiled and waved his hand and said, "I know that the strange soldiers are powerful, but it is easy to capture Wan's land and destroy the Chu city. For the sake of future consideration, we will first surround Wancheng and force the Chu State to lead a large army to fight here. If we can defeat the Chu army, it will be easier to capture Danjiang and Han River in the future."
Han Zhang and Bao Yuan suddenly realized.
Yet, the Wancheng area is basically plains, which can accommodate hundreds of thousands of troops to fight. On the other hand, Chu Fangcheng, which is the northern barrier of Chu, is built between high mountains and ridges, and is adjacent to rivers and streams. The terrain is dangerous. Although Han Zhang and Bao Yuan's surprise soldiers can be as good as walking on flat ground, the Korean soldiers cannot do it.
In this case, even if the Korean surprise attacks and captures a certain pass and hills in Chu Fangcheng, how can they be defended?
It is better to trick the main force of the Chu army into Wancheng first, defeat it in one fell swoop, and wait for the reinforcements of the Wei State.
Three days later, Pang Juan also led 80,000 troops to attack Song to arrive in Wancheng, discussed with Han Ju, and agreed to be besieging the city to attack the aid, and used Wancheng to lure the Chu army led by Jingshe.
At this time, Jingshe had received news about the siege of Chu Fangcheng, but he had no intention of rescue because he knew he could not save it.
Although the Wei and Han armies only have 160,000, while the Chu army under his command has more than 200,000, the combat effectiveness of the two armies is not at the same level. If they were placed in the plains such as Wancheng, they might re-enact the devastating defeat of Sui County again. Only by garrisoning in Chu Fangcheng and using the local terrain can we block the Wei and Han coalition forces.
For this reason, he had already stated to the King of Chu before sending troops, and even suggested that the Chu State send a delegation to Han to cede Wancheng to Han. It was not that Jing She was afraid or that he was not patriotic. However, in the past year, the Little Three Jin Alliance led by Wei was too strong. Except for Yan State, which did not have any conflicts of interests with Wei, the rest of the countries have basically surrendered to Wei, and he was the only one of Chu State left, with a single power.
However, the King of Chu did not obey Jing She's advice. After all, in the eyes of the King of Chu, the Chu State was also the top three major powers in the world. That's right, although the "top three in the world" squeezed five countries, including Qin, Qi, Chu, Han, and Zhao, in the eyes of the world, in the eyes of the King of Chu, the Chu State was also the top three major powers, even if the Chu State had almost never won any battles in the past few years.
Although the Wei and Han coalition forces were very powerful, they surrendered without fighting before they were really fighting, and compromised the whole place to ced Wancheng, thinking that Chu was the Song State?
In response to this, the King of Chu issued a strict order to Jingshe. If the army of 200,000 is not enough, it will be 300,000, and if the army of 300,000 is not enough, it will be 400,000. In short, no matter how many troops we have to recruit, we must severely defeat the arrogance of Wei and Han trying to get involved in the Chu State.
In fact, most of the ministers of Chu State, including Jingshe, actually thought so, but they couldn't imagine how many troops they needed to be summoned, and even more, would it be cheaper for Qin and Qi countries.
As of May 25, Han Ju waited in Wancheng for ten days but did not see Jingshe lead his army to help. He knew that Jingshe would not come, so he decided to attack the city.
Late at night that day, Han Zhang and Bao Yuan led 900 Korean surprise troops to sneak into the city, seized the east gate of Wancheng in just one stick of incense, and placed the Korean army that had been waiting outside the city for a long time.
The Chu army stationed in Wancheng was shocked and fled one after another after a little resistance, so that the Korean army occupied Wancheng without much effort.
During this period, Pang Juan stood in the coalition camp outside the city and watched the fire in Wancheng City. When he learned that South Korea was so easy, he frowned unconsciously.
You should know that siege has always been the most difficult. Even if you make all your preparations for siege, you may not be able to capture the city immediately. It is common to spend ten days and half a month. However, with the help of a strange army, South Korea attacked the city overnight, which made Pang Juan feel a little afraid.
After all, that was an elite that he did not have in Wei.
After dawn, the Korean army entered the city one after another. From the faint crying from the city, it can be seen that without Liang Mo's supervision, the South Korean army may not have violated the captured city. At most, it would have not attacked the civilians, so as not to blame Liang Mo in the future and destroy the relations between the two countries.
At this time, Pang Ju took the initiative to find Han Ju, praised Han Zhang, the elite troops who had captured Wancheng, and tentatively said: "... Since two or three years ago, our Great Wei Dynasty has also followed Shaoliang to build an elite troops for attacking the city. The elite troops selected were all martial soldiers, called "Speech Soldiers". They also trained them to climb, swim, rope subside, short soldiers and other skills, but for some reason, they were far inferior to the general's leading today. I wonder if there is any mystery in it?"
In fact, Pang Juan was also puzzled. He thought that he had trained all the Wei Kingdom, so why did the "Single Soldiers" trained only climb and swim? It is okay to bully civilians or ordinary military soldiers, but if Wei Wu soldiers were also used as opponents, the "Single Soldiers" could not do anything like the Shaoliang Qibing.
Of course, it is not as good as the Korean surprise.
Han Ju laughed and said, "Actually, I don't know much about it... I also asked these little boys when they returned from Shaoliang's school, but they refused to reveal that I was angry and wanted to punish them. But these little boys said that they were only controlled by Han Hou and I have no right to punish them... These bastards!"
He changed the subject by scolding.
Pang Juan knew in his heart that it was impossible for him to ask anything from Han Ju.
After a while, when Pang Juan said goodbye and left, Han Ju's smirk immediately stopped, and even looked at Pang Juan's leaving back and snorted coldly.
Just as the crossbow-making process is the common secret between South Korea and Shaoliang, the training method of the surprise soldiers is the same now, how can it be leaked to Wei?
This time, Wei State obtained the Eight Universes of Dong'a from Qi State and Dingtao from Song State, becoming the biggest winner in the conquests of various countries in recent years. In fact, Han Hou and the king and ministers had already regretted it, and regretted that Wei State should not have gained such an advantage.
It is precisely because of this that Hou Han was eager to seize benefits from Chu, not only Wancheng, but also Hanzhong, and even Jingchu.
At the end of May, after Han Ju and Pang Juan captured Wancheng, they continued to advance southward and headed towards Chu Fangcheng.
Just as Han Ju and Jingshe foresaw, the Wei and Han Allied Forces encountered trouble in the attack on Chu Fangcheng.
You should know that Chu Fangcheng is not a city, but a Great Wall built between mountains and steep mountains, which is one or two hundred miles long. Even if the 900 Korean surprise troops led by Han Zhang and Bao Yuan can attack and occupy one of the passes and hills, as long as the subsequent army cannot keep up, the Wei and Han armies will not be able to defend their advantages.
Jingshe knew the power of the Wei and Han Allied Forces, and divided the troops under his command into two groups, one deployed on the Chu Fangcheng that lasted hundreds of miles, and the other deployed in the south. He also ordered the hills to use beacon as a sign. Once attacked, the beacon fire would be ignited. Jieshi Jingshe immediately sent support from the reserve army.
Under Jingshe's arrangement, although Han Zhang and Bao Yuan attacked and occupied a hill in Chu Fangcheng more than a dozen times, they were soon forced to retreat because of the Chu reinforcements coming to support. After repeated more than a dozen times, they did not gain a real advantage. The two sides were in a stalemate to compete for the Chu Fangcheng that had been hundreds of miles away.
During this period, Li He led Tian Rang, Qin Zi and Zhuang Zhou family, and the numerous Song people across Wei and Han countries to Hexi.
Upon hearing the news, Yin Qi, a doctor from Heyang County, came to greet him in person, which was to give Li He and Song Mo face.
After Li He introduced each other, Qin Zi, who was seriously ill and needed someone to help, asked Yin Qi bluntly: "How is Shaoliang going to resettle Song Min?"
Qin Zi was Mo Zi's first disciple, and he was older than Yin Qi. Although his tone was not polite, Yin Qi still answered very well: "...Dongliang Jun has ordered the acceptance of Song people as a top priority. Any Song people who defect to my Shaoliang will be placed in Heyang and Pi's two towns. After registration and naturalization, they will be moved to Yuanli, Zhiyang and other towns..."
After hearing this, Qinzi was still worried, so Yin Qi took everyone to a private camp outside Heyang City, which was specially used to store the people of the Song State. Seeing that everyone in the private camp had food and a temporary shelter from the wind and rain, they felt relieved.
Even so, Qin Zi still said to Yin Qi in an elder tone: "I hope Shaoliang will implement it as soon as possible when relocating households and replacing people."
"Natural." Yin Qi, who is actually in his sixties, nods bitterly.
It has to be said that in fact, Shao Liang's actions have been very rapid in the relocation of Song people this time. The problem is that there are too many refugees in Song State who moved to Shao Liang, with as many as tens of thousands. This does not include the Song people who came to Shao Liang one after another. How could this be resettled overnight?
At least I have to be busy for about half a month to twenty days.
Fortunately, Shaoliang had prepared enough food and temporary accommodation for these refugees in advance, and sent the Dongliang army to maintain it for the sustainability, so it would not cause any trouble.
After seeing the private camp outside Heyang City, everyone bid farewell to Yin Qi and took Li He to Shaoliang County.
Now the most prosperous and lively city in Shaoliang is Dongliang, but Qinzi and Tian Rang are not interested in this. At their request, Li He took them to Old Liang.
At this time, Mo Jian had also received the news that he brought the whole city of Mo people to greet him. The people of the old Liang Dynasty did not know the truth, and they didn't know which big man had come to ask the whole city of Mo people to go out of the city to welcome him. Therefore, they also followed the whole city of Mo people to come and have fun.
Thousands of men in short clothes gathered outside the Old Liang City. Even in the heyday of the Mo family, there was never a single case. Tian Rang and several men in Shaoliang who had visited Shaoliang before were fine. Those who had never been there, such as Qin Zi, were trembling all over and their lips were trembling unconsciously.
"well!"
Chapter completed!