Chapter 2623 Chai Rong defeated Shi Gonghu, Zhurong assisted Shengjing Pass
Chapter 2620: Chai Rong defeated Shi Gonghu, Zhurong assisted Shengjing Pass
Chiyou and Zhurong both had bad tempers and refused to give in to each other. They started a big quarrel when they had disagreements, and then they started to fight again.
The guards next to him were more and more afraid to step forward to pull him forward. After all, Chiyou and Zhurong had fought since childhood, and it was normal for them to fight between them.
However, Chi You was seriously injured at this time, so naturally he could not be Zhu Rong''s opponent.
Zhu Rong was angry, but he was also very cautious and did not dare to take heavy measures against his brother. Without using his internal force, he knocked down several big arms of the frame, which directly shocked Chi You.
"It''s too much to slap in the face." Chi You said angrily.
Zhu Rong sneered, "Your life was saved by my mother. What''s wrong with slapping you in the face?"
"I…"
Chi You was so angry that he couldn''t speak.
Zhurong also stopped when she saw it, but she felt particularly happy. After all, his brother didn''t know how to be polite. Since she was a child, she was beaten a lot by her brother, and now she finally got beaten.
Seeing that his brother stared at him and refused to speak, Zhu Rong became even happier and said sarcastically: "Brother Wang, you are so angry that you are hurt. You are now injured. If you are angry to death, then I will only be able to inherit the position of King of Southern. I don''t want to take over this mess."
"Hmph, don''t worry, even if I really die, it''s not your turn to inherit the position of the Southern King." Chi You snorted coldly.
Zhu Rong looked at Chi You with a smile: "That''s not necessarily true."
Chi You immediately wanted to refute it, but then he thought that there was such a possibility, and the possibility was not low.
After all, the Southern Kingdom is not the Central Plains, and strength is the most respected, and the status of women is not low. In the previous tribal era, there were not no female leaders.
At present, the Zhurong family has only two unique brothers and sisters. He was focused on martial arts before and had no descendants. If he was gone, there would be only a woman like his sister who could succeed the throne.
After all, my sister made great contributions and her prestige in the army is not low. Moreover, Gonggong, the licking dog, is definitely willing to support her as the queen to please her.
As soon as he thought of this, Chi You felt more helpless, and he also became more eager to get married and have children. After all, the huge Southern Royal Family, besides himself, only her sister, which is indeed a bit too dangerous.
I hope the princess sent by Daqin to marry is a good woman.
Chi You thought to himself that he naturally hoped to marry a wife with pure character and noble blood, but if this princess had bad intentions, he could only give her up and leave her descendants in her concubine.
"snort."
After snorting coldly, Chiyou said to Zhurong with a slight anger: "You really want to **** your brother to death and then become the queen of the South, right?"
"As long as you don''t interfere with my lifelong affairs."
After saying that, Zhu Rong turned his head and left.
Hearing Zhu Rong''s words, Chi You said with a headache: "But sister, you are not young anymore, you will get married after all. Who else can be worthy of you except Gonggong?"
Chi You said this right then. Apart from Gonggong, there was no one in the southern country who was as compatible with Zhurong. It was precisely because of this that he would match the two.
What Chi You didn''t expect was that Gonggong, who is excellent in all aspects, had no feelings for him at all. Could it be that the saying "Incompatible with water and fire" really happened?
After hearing this, Zhu Rong rarely refuted and fell into deep thought. She knew that she could not marry outside, but there was really no one she loved in the South.
Zhurong left without saying a word, and Chiyou neither stopped him nor stopped him.
The marriage is closed and the plan to help Gonggong break through. Since Zhurong disagreed, even Chiyou cannot force his sister to sacrifice herself, so he can only turn to find a breakthrough from other aspects.
Fortunately, he severely hit Xing Tian this time, making him unable to participate in the war, and the morale of the Shu army also plummeted, and it would not pose a fatal threat to the Southern Army in the short term.
On the other hand, although Chi You was still absent from the Southern Army, there were Zhurong, Gonggong, Feilian and Pingyi, which had surpassed Shu in terms of high-end combat power, which could completely offset the shortcomings of some troops.
In the next few confrontations, Chi You found that it was not only Xing Tian, ??but Lu Ya did not participate in the war. He guessed that Lu Ya''s injuries were heavier than expected, so he immediately organized a large army to fight back.
But Liu Yu seemed to have expected this, and he reduced his troops in advance and gave up many strongholds, so he did not suffer much casualties.
When Chiyou regrouped and was preparing to take advantage of the victory and recovered the lost territory in one fell swoop, he received news of the emergency on the Eastern Front.
Li Xiucheng and Cao Shen''s 50,000 Chu troops had not yet arrived at the Shengjing Pass. They lost no less than 3,000 troops due to miasma, wild animals, mosquitoes, etc., and they were also lost in the jungle several times.
If Cao Shen had not had enough experience in fighting in the jungle, the 50,000 Chu troops who attacked the southern country might have collapsed due to food shortage.
Under the leadership of Cao Shen, the Chu army approached the southern country''s Shengjing Pass little by little in the right direction, but the army''s march was not fast, and the harsh environment continued to decline.
Cao Shen and Li Xiu Chengdu knew that this was not a solution. The morale of the army was so declining. Even if they arrived at Shengjing Pass, they would probably be difficult to break Shengjing Pass when facing the Southern Army, which was waiting for their hard work.
Just when Cao Shen and Li Xiu felt very difficult in Chengdu, Shi Gonghu, the guard of Shengjing Pass, provided an assist.
Seeing that the Chu army had already touched the territory, Shi Gonghu ruled out several small-scale troops and continued to harass the Chu army along the way, delaying the Chu army''s marching speed, and at the same time using the harsh environment to drag down the Shu army. Shi Gonghu''s decision was not wrong. Unfortunately, it was not only Cao Shen, but also Chai Rong in the Chu army.
Chai Rong offered a plan to show weakness and deliberately defeated several times to lead the Southern Army in Shengjing Pass to encircle and annihilate it with ambush.
As the elder of the Southern Barbarians, Shi Gonghu is naturally a man of both civil and military affairs, but his opponent this time is indeed too strong. He can still deal with one, but three are a bit too forced.
Seeing that Shi Gonghu succeeded in all three attacks and burned the Chu army''s ration trucks, but the Chu army was indeed depressed, so he let go of his guard and prepared to lead 8,000 defenders to attack the Chu army at night and completely defeat them.
Shi Gonghu was full of confidence in this night attack, but only one of the empty camps was broken. Although he realized that this was an ambush by the Chu army, it was obviously too late.
The Chu army lying ambushed around them and rushed out together. Although the morale of the Chu army was low, its military strength was more than five times that of the Southern Army. Where was the opponent under the 8,000 defenders? Soon he was beaten to retreat step by step until he was completely defeated.
Shi Gonghu decisively chose to break through. Relying on his understanding of the terrain, although he fled back with more than a thousand soldiers, the remaining nearly 7,000 troops died under the ambush of the Chu army.
After this great victory, the Chu army immediately recovered and went to Shengjing Pass with a swagger.
On the other hand, there were 10,000 defenders at Shengjing Pass, 7,000 were killed in battle, and only 3,000 defenders were left. The situation was instantly extremely critical.
Shi Gonghu quickly ordered to abandon the surrounding camps and Wubao, take back a thousand soldiers to defend the city, and at the same time, he used the flying pigeon to send a letter to Chiyou for help.
Chi You, who was on the battlefield in southern Shu, learned that the Eastern Front was in urgent need. Shi Gonghu was defeated by a plan, and there were only 4,000 defenders left in the Shengjing Pass, but he had to face the news of more than 45,000 Chu troops.
After some discussion, Chiyou decided to send only 3,000 reinforcements back, and at the same time led a 10,000 army in the rear, a total of 13,000 troops to support Shengjing Pass.
The reason why Chiyou only sent 3,000 people was naturally because the northern line was short of troops and could not withdraw more troops to support the eastern line.
As for who to lead the army? Just when Chiyou was hesitating, Zhurong took the initiative to ask for his order to lead his army to support the Eastern Front.
Chi You did not alienate his sister because of the previous fight. He knew that the Eastern Front was not only short of soldiers, but also a strong man to boost morale in the future. Although Zhurong was a female general, his strength was ranked among the top three in the southern country, so he agreed to Zhurong''s leadership request.
Zhurong led 3,000 troops south and returned to support Shengjing Pass. However, the Chu army, who had already arrived at the pass, had launched a fierce attack on Shengjing Pass.
Although Shengjing Pass is not very majestic, it is built in a dangerous place that is easy to defend and difficult to attack. It occupies a geographical advantage. Even if the Chu army is ten times more than itself, it will take some effort to break it.
For the Southern Army, the real problem of defending Shengjing Pass is actually an internal morale issue. After all, the entire army has reduced its personnel by 70%. The morale of the Southern Army, which is under low morale, is already very fragile.
Fortunately, the elder Shi Gonghu was very loved by the soldiers at the bottom. Every time the Chu army attacked the city, he would personally participate in the war at his age, and with his personal prestige, he forcibly appeased the turbulent morale of the army.
Zhurong led 13,000 reinforcements, and after ten days of marching, he finally arrived at Shengjing Pass.
But at this time, there were smoke everywhere in the pass. It was obvious that the Chu army had already attacked the pass, but had not completely captured the pass. There were still southern troops resisting within the pass.
Shi Gonghu was guarding Shengjing Pass for ten days and had completely exhausted ammunition and food. More than half of the defenders in the city were injured or killed, but they still fought to the death and refused to retreat.
Zhurong was extremely grateful to see this. Just a little bit, Shengjing Pass would not belong to the Southern Army, so he decisively led his army into the Pass for support.
The army of Chu and Nan fought for a whole day in Shengjing Pass, and both sides suffered huge losses. Zhurong defeated many powerful generals of the Chu State, including Fan Kuai, Wei Wentong, Gai Yan and many other powerful generals of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, including: Yan King Lin Qirong and Mu King Tan Shaoguang.
Li Xiucheng and Cao Shen saw that so many powerful generals could not defeat Zhurong, and their army suffered more and more casualties, and their morale became lower and lower. If they continued to fight, they would not be able to defeat Shengjing Pass. Instead, they would suffer more casualties, so they took the initiative to retreat and rest.
Although Zhurong drove the Chu army out of Shengjing Pass, he also lost nearly 5,000 troops. Shi Gonghu also died at the hands of Chai Rong after being injured by Fan Kuai. The two sides of Chu and Nan were both in a defeat.
Just as Zhurong was fighting with Chu State at Shengjing Pass, Yang Xiuqing also broke out in a war with the Ruan Yue coalition forces in Jiaozhou.
Yang Xiuqing did not obey Liu Xiu''s orders and defended Rinan County with 15,000 Chu troops. Instead, he voluntarily gave up the five counties of Rinan County and the two counties in the southern part of Jiuzhen County, totaling seven counties, and concentrated his troops to defend the three counties of Xupu, Jufeng and Wugong in the northern part of Jiuzhen County.
The reason why Yang Xiuqing did this was naturally because after seeing the appearance of the Ruan and Yue armies, he knew that the Ruan and Yue armies were no longer the same as before. He still wanted to fight 5,000 to fight 70,000, or 10,000 to fight 100,000, which is probably no longer like this.
If Yang Xiuqing followed Liu Xiu''s orders and guarded Rinan County to the death and waited for Ma Yuan and Zeng Guofan''s reinforcements, he would not be able to wait for reinforcements even if he fought his troops. It would be better to give up the poor Rinan County and the southern part of Jiuzhen County to ensure the essence of Jiaozhi County, and at the same time extend the logistics supply line of the Ruan Yue coalition.
The Ruan Yue coalition forces were able to obtain two counties and seven counties without spending one soldier. Naturally, they were overjoyed.
Although these two counties do not have many populations, it is an unprecedented victory to be able to seize territory from the Chu State. However, the Ruan Yue coalition did not take advantage of the victory to pursue it. Instead, it had a dispute over the uneven distribution of spoils.
If it weren''t for the envoys of Qin and Nan, who dissuaded them, Ruan and Yue might have been able to fight.
After Ruan and Yue divided the two counties, they continued to lead their troops north to attack Xupu City, the capital of Jiuzhen County.
This time, the Chu army did not give up, but defended the city to the death.
After Ruan Yue''s coalition attacked Xupu City for ten days and lost nearly 10,000 troops, Yang Xiuqing took the initiative to abandon Xupu City and retreated to Jufeng City.
After the Ruan Yue coalition attacked Jufengcheng for another fifteen days and lost more than 10,000 troops, Yang Xiuqing also gave up Jufengcheng again and chose to retreat to Juwugongcheng.
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(This chapter ends)