Chapter 2716 Long live the battle between Li Mu, Meng Tian attacks Xining County
Chapter 2713: Long live the battle between Li Mu, Meng Tian attacks Xining County
Although Yuwen Chengdu and Huluguang''s vanguard army successfully occupied Jincheng, killed 8,000 elite Sui army soldiers, and killed Dugu Xin, the grandfather of the Sui King, strictly speaking, they were still attacked by Yang Su''s plan.
After all, in the case of being in an all-round way, it still failed to keep an eye on Yang Su, causing the 35,000 main force of the Sui army to withdraw to Daxing. This is an indisputable fact.
This situation will be caused. Of course, it is not that the two of them are not capable, but that Yang Su is too difficult. The two of them are even worse in strategy, so they will fall into Yang Su''s open plot.
On the other hand, Li Mu did not encounter an opponent of Yang Su''s level, so naturally it went much smoother.
After Li Mu captured the Three Mountains and Five Villages, although he failed to leave Liu Fang, the guard general of the fifth village, he also dispatched cavalry to pursue him as soon as possible.
Liu Fang''s troops were all infantrymen. If they retreated normally, they would definitely be caught up by Li Mu''s cavalry. Therefore, Liu Fang did not escape to Daxing at all, but changed directions halfway and retreated to Haizhou and defected to his father Liu Feng.
Liu Fang''s father Liu Feng was a famous general of the Northern Wei and Eastern Wei and Northern Qi dynasties. He was majestic and resolute, and had a lot of argumentative arguments and was fond of military affairs.
Like his son Liu Fang, Liu Feng was one of the hidden figures. After his birth, he was implanted into the Sui State with his son and was appointed as the governor of Guoluo County, one of the seven counties in Haizhou.
Li Mu led the light cavalry to chase him at full speed, but he didn''t catch up with him when he was approaching Daxing. He immediately realized that Liu Fang had changed his way, but he didn''t care about it either. After all, just Liu Fang was just a few, and killing or not killing would not affect his plan.
By the way, Liu Fang had released the carrier pigeon before retreating to inform the news of the fall of the Three Mountains and Five Villages of Daxing, Li Mu speculated that Liu Fang should not have the carrier pigeon in his hands.
After all, although carrier pigeons are not rare resources nowadays, it is impossible for a copycat to have many pigeons in one copycat.
After all, Liu Fang was just a lieutenant. Although the fifth village he guarded was the last pass in the southeast of Daxing, it was just a village after all, and the priority was far smaller than that of Heguan. Naturally, there would be no more than one carrier pigeon.
Li Mu guessed that the carrier pigeon that Liu Fang released before retreating was the only one in Liu Fang''s hand, which means that Daxingcheng did not know where Liu Fang retreated, which gave Li Mu a lot of room for operation.
Of course, these are just Li Mu''s speculations, and he is not 100% sure, but when it comes to war, how can he get a complete grasp? Li Mu is 60% or 70% sure, so he is ready to take a gamble.
Fortunately, Li Mu bet right, and Daxing really didn''t know that Liu Fang did not withdraw Daxing, so Li Mu succeeded in defrauding the city.
Li Mu asked a spy who was good at disguise in Heibing Taichung to disguise himself as Liu Fang, and then took the seal and flag of the Sui army, and led hundreds of Qin troops in Sui army uniforms to flee to Daxing under the false pursuit of the Qin army.
The lieutenant of Daxing City Gate saw that it was Liu Fang himself, and the seal, ribbon and flag were all right. In addition, although the Qin army had not yet chased the city, it was almost there. It was too late to drag it down, so he did not report it and directly opened the door and greeted the fake Liu Fang, and ended up hitting Li Mu''s plan to defraud the city.
After Liu Fang entered the city, he immediately killed the defenders of the city tower, opened and occupied the east gate of Daxing, preparing to welcome the Qin army into the city.
The Sui army''s reaction speed was not slow. Seeing that the city gate was being taken away, the Sui army surrounded them, hoping to kill the Qin army and regain control of the city gate.
What a pity that the Sui army finally slowed down one step and failed to regain the city gate before Li Mu''s army arrived, which also allowed Li Mu''s cavalry to invade the city.
The situation has developed this way, and it is still the same as Li Mu’s plan. But if nothing unexpected happens, the accident will not happen.
Li Mu was indeed lucky to bet right, but unfortunately, he missed the two people, Shi Wansui and He Ruobi.
Li Mu originally thought that as long as he opened the city gate and attacked the city, the Sui army would not be able to stop the Qin army''s offensive at all. The Qin army would occupy Daxing City with a destructive force, but the Sui army''s will to resist was beyond imagination.
Under Li Mu''s command, although the Qin army invaded Daxing, it failed to penetrate deep into the city because there were also defenses of the Sui army behind the city gate.
In addition, the Sui army in the city reacted very quickly. After learning the news, they gathered together and blocked the Qin army near the city gate, causing the two sides to fight fiercely at the East Gate.
If it is just a field battle, the Qin army is naturally not afraid of any army in the world, but the Sui generals Shi Wansui and He Ruobi who were left behind in Daxing were one of the first-level war gods and the other was the peak **** general.
Although there is Yan Xing, the peak general on the Qin army, Li Mu is only the general of Jiwu 101, and is far inferior to the Sui army in terms of the lineup of fierce generals.
Relying on the benefits of cavalry, the Qin army had to break through the defense of the East Gate, but after Shi Wansui and He Ruobi arrived, they not only blocked the Qin army directly, but also had the tendency to bombard the Qin army with great success.
Faced with an unfavorable situation that was worse than the opponent in the lineup of fierce generals, Li Mu was rational and did not confront him head-on, but chose to take the lead.
Seeing that the Qin army''s offensive was blocked, Li Mu took the initiative to order his retreat, widen the distance, regroup, and at the same time lure He Ruobi to attack.
He Ruobi was eager to regain the East Gate, so he did not realize that this was a trap. When he led his army to pursue it, he was first blocked by Yan Xing, and then was attacked by Li Mu with a hidden arrow and was shot in his arm.
If Shi Wansui had not been for the timely rescue, He Ruobi would have died of Li Mu''s sneak attack, but he had to temporarily leave due to serious injuries.
After severely attacking He Ruobi, Li Mu and Yan Xing joined forces again to prepare to kill Shi Longsui as usual, but Shi Longsui, the first-level **** of war, is much more difficult to deal with than He Ruobi.
Even though Li Mu''s potential exploded and he made a breakthrough in the battle again, Kiwu reached 102, but the two of them could not do anything to Shi Wansui, and they were still at a disadvantage.
Li Mu had no choice but to give up killing Shi Wansui and instead commanded the entire army, preparing to completely defeat the Sui army with all his might. However, he unexpectedly, King Yang Guang of Sui suddenly cheered up and personally led the elite troops of the Xiaoguo Army to support him.
Yang Guang couldn''t help but be unsustained. After all, the Qin army had come to the door. If he still didn''t cheer up, the Sui King would have really ended up being the end.
Yang Guang''s personal participation in the war caused the morale of the Sui army to soar, and made the Qin army entering the city more difficult, but Li Mu still stabilized the situation.
Li Mu did not want to give up this great opportunity, so he ordered to defend the city gate to wait for the infantry in the rear to come to support. So the Qin and Sui sides launched the most primitive battle around the East Gate of Daxing.
After nearly half a day of fierce battle, the infantry reinforcements of the Qin Dynasty arrived, but soon after, Yang Su''s vanguard, who had retreated from Jincheng on Zhiyang Road, also arrived. Li Mu never expected that Yuwen Chengdu and Huluguang, plus 30,000 elite soldiers, could not even stare at Yang Su, and even let him retreat to Daxing safely.
At this time, the Daxing City defenders had a strong will to resist, and although the withdrawn Yang Sujun was just the vanguard, the subsequent army would definitely not be too far away.
Li Mu knew that the initiative had been lost, and it was impossible for his own army to capture Daxing by relying on his own, so he rationally chose to retreat.
Yang Guang was originally planning to pursue the victory, but after seeing Yang Su and learning the reason why he could withdraw, he rationally did not choose to pursue. After all, Yuwen Chengdu and Huluguang might arrive in Daxing at any time. At this time, he might not be able to come back if he leads his army to chase him out of the city.
Seeing that Yang Guang did not chase him out, Li Mu felt a little disappointed. After all, although the casualties in the interruption of the battle after the war were large, they were much better than the siege.
The same casualties were consumed by the Qin army, but the Sui army could not afford it, so Yang Guang did not dare to easily confront the Qin army head-on.
After listening to Li Mu''s story, Yuwen Chengdu looked apologized and self-blame. After all, if they hadn''t been bad this time, Daxing might have been captured by Li Mu.
Li Mu did not mean to blame Yuwen Chengdu. After all, Yang Su''s open conspiracy was indeed unpredictable. In addition, Dugu Xin was determined to fight to the death, so he might have been fooled if he had done so. He was just worried about the casualties in this battle.
In this fierce battle at the East Gate of Daxing, the Qin army suffered a total of 4,000 casualties, including 2,500 cavalry and 1,500 infantry, while the total casualties of the Sui army were about 5,000.
The Sui army''s comprehensive combat power is weaker than that of the Qin army, but it can achieve a casualty ratio that is not much the same as that of the Qin army in the field. This is mainly due to the fact that the Xiaoguo Army is elite enough.
If the Xiaoguo Army had not participated in the war in time, the Sui Army would have at least increased by more than 2,000 casualties.
After Yuwen Chengdu and Li Mu met, Li Mu was no longer afraid of Shi Wansui. He sent Yuwen Chengdu to challenge that day, but how could the Sui army, who had just suffered a loss, dare to fight for the first time?
Even if Shi Wansui took the initiative to ask for the battle, Yang Guang said he would not refuse, but just appease Shi Wansui and wait until the reinforcements from Haizhou and Xiliang arrived.
The next day, Deputy General of Li Mu, Xu Rong, and Deputy General of Yuwen Chengdu, Hu Luguang, all led their troops to Daxing City successfully, and Hu Luguang also brought news about Li Jing''s main force in the rear.
At this time, Li Jing''s army had already entered Jincheng, but he did not immediately advance to Daxing, but chose to divide his troops into two groups.
Li Jing sent Li Maozhen to lead 30,000 people to follow Zhiyang Road and attack northward. Zhiyang, Yunjie and Lingju counties were completely cut off the connection between Jincheng County and Wuwei County under the Sui Dynasty.
As for Li Jing himself, he led a 40,000 main army to follow Yunwu Road and come to meet with Li Jingyu and Wen Chengdu.
After two days of emergency marching, the 40,000 army led by Li Jing also arrived in Daxing smoothly, while the Qin army gathered here had reached 110,000.
In just ten days of combat, the 150,000 Qin troops from Li Jing and Li Mu had captured many important places such as Heguan, Yuzhong, Jincheng, Sanshan and Wuzhai, and killed and captured nearly 30,000 Sui troops.
You should know that the Sui Kingdom had only a total of 210,000 troops, but within just ten days, one-seventh of the troops were wiped out by the Qin army, and the Qin army also suffered nearly 8,000 troops.
But considering that the Qin army is the offensive side and the Sui army is the defensive side, such casualties are completely a big victory.
After Li Jing led his army to arrive, Li Mu and Yuwen Chengdu thought that the Qin army would launch a fierce attack on Daxing next, but he did not expect that Li Jing not only did not attack, but would also transfer Yuwen Chengdu back to the rear.
After hearing this, Yuwen Chengdu naturally became anxious and asked with confusion: "Governor, why is this?
Yes, in the battle of Jincheng, he was negligent and failed to see through Yang Su''s plan, which made Yang Su escape back to Daxing, which made General Li Mu fail to conquer Daxing.
This is indeed a mistake. I will accept the punishment, but it will not even have the chance to make meritorious service, right? ”
As soon as Yuwen Chengdu finished speaking, Huluguang also stood up and apologized: "If Yang Su is released, the general is also guilty. The general is willing to share the responsibility with General Yuwen."
Seeing this, Li Jing quickly helped the two of them up and explained: "The two generals misunderstood and transferred General Yuwen back to the rear. There was no punishment. Instead, all the elite soldiers and powerful generals of Shu Han were released, Chen Bing Jian Pavilion, intending to invade Hanzhong.
However, our elite troops were still on the way to the west. There were only a few people including Yang Jian, Wen Zhong and others in Hanzhong. They were weak and General Wu Qi was worried that they would suffer losses, so he specially sent a letter to recall General Yuwen. ”
After saying that, Li Jing handed Wu Qi’s handwritten letter to Yuwen Chengdu.
After reading Yuwen Chengdu, he suddenly showed a look of depression on his face. He wanted to stay and continue to attack the Sui Dynasty. After all, compared with resisting Shu, the contribution of destroying the Sui Dynasty was obviously greater.
Yuwen Chengdu, Sui and Sui, has already been in the rank of generals, but before him, he also has the word "reputation" before, so he naturally wants to remove the word "reputation".
But now that Shu Han is in the northern expedition, all the elite soldiers and strong generals are coming out. The situation in Hanzhong is in crisis, and it is indeed difficult to rely solely on Yang Jian and Wen Zhong. It is no wonder that Wu Qi summoned him back urgently.
This is no longer something he can choose. Yuwen Chengdu could only admit his unluckyness. After returning the military power to Li Jing, he only took five hundred personal guards and headed straight for Hanzhong.
After Yuwen Chengdu left, the Qin generals saw Li Jing ordering the siege, thinking that Li Jing was finally about to attack the city, but they did not expect that Li Jing was just besieging the city and still had no intention of attacking.
Faced with the confusion of the generals, Li Jing just explained: "The army is the first to attack the plan, the second is the second is the enemy''s military, and the second is the enemy''s army. Let''s wait. The first thing to do is to attack the heart of the attack on Daxing."
The generals immediately understood when they heard this. After all, what Li Jing said was waiting for was Meng Tian and Long Qi.
Meng Tian and Long did not let Li Jing wait for a long time, and soon the good news came back from Meng Tian.
The 80,000 troops led by Meng Tian quickly occupied the important areas in the northern part of Haizhou after sending troops from Wudu County. It is unstoppable and is currently invading Xining County and is about to be under the Xining City of Xining.
(This chapter ends)