Five Dynasties River Mountains Fengyue

Chapter 425
Liu Renshan walked through a bluestone path. A few soldiers on the side of the road were busy putting out the fire, and a few local villagers were crying softly, but they didn't dare to say anything.

In the distance, there were a few fleeing elephants that were carefully driven into the forest by the soldiers.

In this war, the Southern Han Army sent out a very peculiar force, that is, the elephant army. Several soldiers rode elephants to fight.

I heard from the people that this is a unique combat method in the Lingnan area. Its advantage is that elephants can strengthen the army. Some strong elephants can also carry heavily armed soldiers into the enemy's line and clear the way for the rest of the troops. It looks overwhelming.

Elephants are indeed majestic, but the Southern Han army is also really whimsical.

Elephants just look powerful, but they are far less docile and humane than war horses. War horses can share joys and sorrows with their riders, and share life and death. As long as a smart horse is trained with its master, it will not even be afraid of the sound of huge artillery. To die in battle, many cavalry regard the horse as their second life.

But the elephants were not. During the battle, the soldiers of the Qin Army used powerful crossbows to shoot at the elephants. The injured elephants were frightened and ran around in shock. It can be said to have a great reaction.

It's not vulnerable, it's a blow to the friendly army.

In this way, the elephant troops of the Southern Han Army inexplicably helped the Qin Army a lot.

However, after the war, the soldiers of the Qin Army did not dare to provoke these rough-skinned and thick-skinned guys too much, for fear that they would be injured and go crazy. We can only drive them into the mountains carefully, so as not to hurt the soldiers and local people.

Pan Mei's temporary foothold was in an unburned cottage. When he entered, Pan Mei was holding an oil lamp to look closely at a picture scripture hanging on the wall.

The adjutant next to him was reporting for him with a note in his hand, and Liu Renshan immediately knew that it was information from the scouts ahead, and Pan Mei was judging the general situation ahead based on the information.

On the next table, several clerks were writing furiously, and they ignored him even when he came in.

It is true that there are many things for the clerk at such a juncture. All kinds of intelligence and military orders must be recorded, and even if the battle damage report is sent back to the court, everything needs to be preserved.

If there was a war ten years ago, there would be no need for such a thing at all. Everyone would kill, anyway, killing people would be the right thing to do.Just like when you were fighting in Huainan, who would care about you, kill and set fire, and do whatever you want.

But it is different now. In just ten years, the bureaucratic system of the imperial court has become more and more complete, and the rules and regulations for doing things have been re-established.

With the successive victories of the officialdom in foreign wars, the internal weakening of the feudal towns, the abolition of the feudal towns, the suppression of the dominant bureaucrats, the restoration of the imperial examination, the selection of talents, the imperial court organization and framework became more and more complete.

Nowadays, even if the generals are out in battle, they can be arbitrary, but any order and the results of the battle need to be preserved, and finally reported to the archives, more and more like a country.

Thinking of these, Liu Renshan felt an emotion ready to come out, but he didn't know how to say it.

Over there, Pan Mei saw him coming, and said repeatedly: "General Liu came just in time, come and take a look."

As he spoke, he called him over and asked him to watch the news sent back by the scouts ahead.

The news is very messy, and some of them are contradictory. Most of the information is like this, so it needs to be screened and judged. This is a test of the general's ability and experience.

The two studied and discussed carefully for a while, finally determined the general direction of the pursuit, and judged the enemy's situation in the south.

It is finally determined that the remaining enemies should flee south to Yingzhou, and most of the rest should be scattered civilians and refugees, who are not worth pursuing, so they can be ignored.

This kind of speculation can also be compared with the intelligence of most scouts, and if the remaining enemy troops really have no fighting intentions and want to escape back to Panyu, they can only go to Yingzhou. If they want to continue to resist, it is possible to go east and west. Face each state and county.

Both of them agreed that the remnants of the Southern Han Dynasty were unlikely to resist, and more than [-]% of them would flee back to Panyu.

But then there was another big problem in front of them.

"Should we pursue directly to the south, pass through Yingzhou and take Panyu directly, or take Xiongzhou in the east and Lianzhou in the west?" Liu Renshan asked the key point.

Pan Mei also hesitated without saying a word.

The two looked at each other, and they could see the hesitation and flicker in each other's eyes.

On the one hand, let Xiongzhou, Lianzhou and other places be ignored, and the flanks are unstable. If safety is paramount and conservative, they must take these places and then go south. After all, the main force has been defeated, and the local defenders must not be able to defend their attack. Yes, even if it takes time.

However, they had already received news that Si Chao's West Route Army had captured the important town of Guizhou, and then successively captured Zhaozhou, Fuzhou, Wuzhou and other places. Now the forward has passed Wuzhou and is approaching Panyu.

And because they are taking the water route, mainly the navy, going down from the south of the Gui River, the marching speed will definitely be much faster than their east road.

In this way, it is very likely that the West Route Army is about to come to Panyu, and the first effort to conquer the Southern Han Dynasty will not be there. This is where the two hesitated, so they are undecided whether to go straight to Huanglong or not. Otherwise, I'm afraid that the West Route Army has already captured the enemy's country before they reach Guangzhou.

Liu Renshan couldn't help but said: "They are also lucky. We attacked Hezhou early, and all the bandits and rescuers came to the east. The west is empty, and they are unimpeded. They got a big deal."

Everyone in the room gave approving glances.

Most of the people present were thinking this way, if it weren't for their East Route Army to attract the enemy's main force, how could the West Route Army advance so fast.

Pan Mei said: "It's useless to talk about it. This is the official arrangement. Our East Route Army will launch an attack first to attract the enemy, and the West Route Army will catch the enemy by surprise and attack south along the Guijiang River.

Everyone is their own brother, and they are all carrying out the orders of the court. There is no need to complain about those, the officials have their own decisions.Let's talk about going east and west, or going south. "

Only then did everyone quiet down, and Liu Renshan had a decision in his heart.

What he said just now was actually to test the attitude of the coach Pan Mei. After all, he was promoted, and he still came here. In the past few years, he has been idle in the capital. In addition to his unfulfilled ambitions, life is also difficult. He cherishes this opportunity very much in his heart. .

Although Pan Mei was younger than him, everyone in the court knew that Pan Mei was a trusted confidant of the official family, and had served as the official's supervisor many times as early as in the previous dynasty.

Many people privately speculated that the official's Jackie Chan aspirations might have been revealed long ago, and it was only because of the help of the superintendent Pan Mei that they kept hiding it from Zhou Shizong. Beauty, send yourself a future.

Now that Pan Mei made her statement, he immediately said: "Actually, a certain person also feels that today is not the situation it was decades ago, nor is it the chaos of the late Tang Dynasty.

Now the Southern Han Dynasty is vulnerable, and only Jiangnan and Wuyue are left in the north.

Wu Yue only followed the lead of the officials, but in fact only Jiangnan!The momentum of my great dynasty is far better than that of Houliang and Later Tang, and the return of the world is not far away. In this way, we don't need to distinguish each other, and we can no longer adhere to the style of the original (later) Liang, Tang, Jin, Han, and Zhou.

The whole world is one family, planning and fighting as a whole, they all serve the emperor, and they must consider the overall situation.

Therefore, I feel that we don't need to rush to Panyu to grab credits, and the key is to win the surrounding counties such as Lianzhou and Xiongzhou, and to stabilize the overall situation. "

As soon as these words came out, he really saw the joy in Pan Mei's eyes, and saw Pan Mei get up and said: "General Liu Gao Yi, what I said is exactly what I think in my heart."

At that moment, Liu Renshan suddenly understood why the Qin Dynasty had become the climate and had the momentum to swallow the world.

Afterwards, the Eastern Route Army stopped going south, and did not rush to Panyu in the south to seize meritorious service. The forwards only pursued to Yingzhou.

Afterwards, the troops were divided to capture and control Xiongzhou, Lianzhou and other places in the east and west. In the next month, Liu Renshan led the troops to the west, Pan Mei led the troops to the east, and soon conquered Lianzhou. Zhouzhou and other counties, go forward to control a large area of ​​land near Shaozhou.

Many of these cities had heard of Shaoguan's great defeat, and the Qin army had just arrived and immediately surrendered to the city.

The most important thing is that two consecutive rounds of reinforcements were defeated, losing more than [-] yuan. The officials of all states and counties knew that no matter how hard they defended, there would be no reinforcements, and once the isolated city stood firm, it would be breached sooner or later.

So wherever the Qin army went, they surrendered their cities almost everywhere, and the main time was spent on taking over, abolishing the laws of the Southern Han Dynasty, promulgating the laws of the Qin State, informing the people, and letting the people who had fled to the mountains and took refuge in other places come back and other trivial matters.

At the end of June and the beginning of July, various armies joined forces in Yingzhou one after another, preparing to continue going south.

At this time, the navy had already passed Wuzhou and was approaching Guangzhou.

The navy of the Qin State did not take the lead in attacking the ashore. Guo Tingwei and Si Chao, as navy generals, were very keen. They immediately ordered the navy to go down the river and seal off the sea. Encircled Panyu.

As a result, they were really pleasantly surprised. The Qin State Navy stopped dozens of large ships full of eunuchs, beauties, gold, silver, and silk near the mouth of the sea.

Under pressure, the eunuchs and soldiers confessed that the Eastern Route Army was defeated one after another, losing troops and generals, and the Southern Han court was terrified.

On the one hand, Guo Chongyue, the adopted son of Liang Luanzhen, the court lady, was sent as the commander-in-chief, and the general Zhi Tingxiao assisted him. He gathered the remnant soldiers and generals in the north at Majing, which was only [-] miles away from Panyu, and prepared to resist to the death.

In addition, he asked his cronies, eunuchs, to prepare a large number of ships at the mouth of the sea, and load gold, silver, treasures, daily necessities and beauties on the ships.

However, the general of the Qin army soon realized that what this person said was wrong, because they intercepted these ships a few miles away from the sea, and they were obviously about to go to sea. Why did they run away before the king boarded the ship.

After being pressed, these soldiers and eunuchs confessed honestly that they didn't want to wait for the king at all. There were food, drink, gold, silver and beauties on board. What they thought was that they sailed away by themselves.

This answer made the soldiers of the Qin army dumbfounded, but considering the actions of the court and the ruler of the Southern Han Dynasty, it is not difficult to understand that these soldiers and eunuchs would do this.

Fortunately, the Qin army arrived in time, stopped them and made great contributions. This is where the Southern Han royal family accumulated a lot of wealth.

As for those soldiers, everyone felt that they were enemies and disloyal, so they should be beheaded.

However, Si Chao still didn't kill him, so he decided to go to the officials to deal with it.

They also revealed an important piece of news that the ruler of the Southern Han Dynasty organized a last resistance, and there were heavy troops near Majing in the north.

So the navy sent people to contact the East Route Army, preparing to attack the last Southern Han army on both sides.

At the beginning of July, Pan Mei of the Eastern Route Army had already received battle reports and letters from the navy, informing them of the place where the Southern Han army was gathering ahead, and had also agreed on a plan. .

In the vicinity of Majing, the Southern Han Army deployed [-] to [-] soldiers after being scouted by the vanguard, and the momentum was huge. However, most of them were remnant soldiers from the north who were defeated and were collected again after fleeing south. Generally, their morale was not high, and they were very fearful. Qin Jun.

So much so that the Qin army's small group of scouts dared to swagger and approach to investigate.

After grabbing a few tongues for interrogation, Pan Mei learned that the leader of the opposite army was Guo Chongyue, the adopted son of Liang Luan, a court lady of the Southern Han Dynasty. This news really shocked him for a long time. There are still some doubts, how can there be such a stupid king in the world, doubts are exaggerated.

Now I believe it, this horse is [-] miles away from the capital of Guangzhou, and Ma Jingnan is over for the Han Dynasty. This is obviously the last battle of the last stand. Such a last stand is entrusted to the godson of the maid, which really opened his eyes.

When the Qin army on the east road arrived at Majing one after another, the Southern Han army used bamboo and wood to build "zhatou" on the main road to guard the camp and block the Qin army.

The dense fences and trenches stretched for more than ten miles, which not only blocked the attack of the Qin army, but also made it difficult for the Southern Han army to launch an attack. It seemed that they were preparing to defend to the death.

Pan Mei went up the mountain to observe the enemy's layout and camp for two days, and then ordered to station troops on the Shuangnv Mountain in Majing, looking down at Guo Chongyue's troops from a high position, and not attacking for the time being.

Afterwards, the Qin army frequently sent out cavalry to challenge.

Because Pan Mei knew that many of the opponents were remnants and defeated generals, and their morale was low. If they won a few more games through the challenge, their morale would definitely be severely hit.

On the other side, he ordered the troops to actively prepare fish oil, gunpowder and other flammable materials.

There are a large number of fences made of bamboo and wood on the periphery of the Southern Han army. If you want to block them, there is no better way than attacking with fire.

In the next six or seven days, the rangers of the Qin army called out to taunt one after another, and only once did a general of the opponent come out to challenge. The two sides confronted each other in front of Majing Beiying Avenue. He fell off the horse, was seriously injured and wailed, and bled to death.

The relative speed of the horse battle is too fast, the weight of the man and the horse plus the terrifying relative speed, a slight touch can kill, so life and death are only in the blink of an eye, experience and mentality are very important, these need years of tempering, Nan Han in this regard The generals are far behind the Qin army.

After that, no one went to battle again, and Qin Jun was allowed to scold and ridicule him.

Pan Mei didn't care either, he was just yelling at people to weaken the morale of the enemy army, while distracting their attention to prepare his own plan
(End of this chapter)