Great Warriors of Sui and Tang Dynasties

Chapter 904 Moving the Capital
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Dou Jiande shook his head when he saw that Cao Bao was still planning to send troops around.

"After today, don't you see the gap with the Qin army? Even if you can quietly send a fine cavalry around behind the Qin army, it will be enough to defeat Luo Cheng? Don't forget, Luo Cheng is not A lone army, its 5 men are just one of the five armies, in the north is Zhao Gui's army, and in the south is Feng Xiaoci's army."

Detours, there are fewer detours, and they can't escape Luo Cheng's eyes. Once discovered, this detour may become a lone army and be surrounded and wiped out.

But if you go around far, although you can avoid being discovered as much as possible, you may be discovered by the two groups of troops from the south and the north, and you may be blocked and surrounded.

Cao Bao's eyes were red, "Surrender here? I'm not reconciled, and neither are my brothers. The current territory, everything today, was taken down by the brothers, including your throne. Now that you surrender without a fight, you Are you sorry, brothers?"

Dou Jiande sighed.

"Abao, I know you have ambitions, but sometimes, ambitions are beyond your ability, which is a burden. You want to fight, and I don't want to persuade you much. I just want to remind you that your strategy of outflanking is not good. Instead of turning around and outflanking, you might as well lead your army back and lure Luo Cheng to lead his army to pursue, if you can lure Luo Cheng's lone army to go deep, you will still have some chances."

Cao Bao's eyes lit up.

Sending troops in a detour would mean entering Luo Cheng's territory. Whether it was through Boling County or Zhao County, they were all under the control of the Qin Army.

But if they retreated, lured the enemy deep, retreated east, and lured Luo Cheng to go to Hejian County or Qinghe County, they would be fighting in the heart of the Xia army.

The geography is more familiar, and the supply and so on are also more convenient.

Use retreat as advance, lure the enemy to go deep, and wait for the opportunity to move.

Although Luo Cheng has five armies, but the five armies are far away from each other, it is impossible to act completely in unison. There will always be a time when the news is delayed, and there will always be a time when there will be a loophole. That time is their opportunity.

Cao Bao has to admit that his brother-in-law Dou Jiande is indeed more discerning than him.

"Your Majesty, now is the time when my Great Xia lives and dies, please Your Majesty personally preside over it."

Dou Jiande looked at Cao Bao. In fact, when his brother Wang Fubao was killed, he was completely disheartened and no longer wanted to fight for hegemony.

But now watching Cao Bao and the others lead the 20 soldiers of the Xia army, striking stones with eggs, it is extremely distressing.

"A Bao, you can't win the fight. The current situation is not in the Eastern and Western Wei, let alone the Northern Zhou and Northern Qi. If you insist on fighting, there will be no result except that countless brothers will die."

"But I'm not reconciled." Cao Bao shouted.

"Then that's all I have to say." Dou Jiande closed his eyes.

Cao Bao asked him with red eyes, "Are you going to watch us fail like this?"

"I can't stop you, and don't expect me to be united with you again. When you kill Fu Bao, we will no longer be brothers." Dou Jiande said.

Cao Bao gritted his teeth and put his hand on the hilt of his sword.

Dou Jiande chuckled, "If you want to kill me too, then do it, but you will end up with nothing good."

Gritting his teeth, Cao Bao finally just flung his sleeves and walked away.

At this time, although I really want to kill this weak emperor, but it is not the time, we still need the banner of the emperor, otherwise the Xia army may collapse before fighting.

Back in his commanding account, Cao Bao summoned the generals and announced a new plan to lure the enemy in, but he did not say that it was the emperor's idea.

He took Dou Jiande's meaning as his own to the generals, and everyone finally expressed their support.

On the third day of September, Cao Bao led his army to retreat from Lucheng. However, Cao Bao did not lead his army to retreat north to Hejian, but to the south, intending to retreat to Wu'an and Wei Commanderies via Xindu and Qinghe, intending to retreat to Yecheng. I hope that I can take advantage of the dangers of mountains and rivers in Yecheng, and rely on the dangers of Taihang and Zhangshui to avoid being attacked on all sides.At the same time, it can also avoid several Qin troops attacking Hejian.

Various detectives kept sending news to the emperor's case.

Luo Cheng and the generals gathered information, researched and analyzed, and finally guessed Xia Jun's movements.

"Wei County is indeed more dangerous than Hejian. There is Taixing to rely on, but Hejian is already surrounded by me on three sides. Wei County now has Wu'an in the north, Ji County in the south, and Wuyang Qinghe Xindu in the east, all of which are still in the hands of Xia Jun. .”

"Your Majesty, if Xia Jun is allowed to retreat into Yecheng, it will be difficult to encircle and wipe them out immediately."

The location of Yecheng is very dangerous. If the 20 Qin army shrinks its defense, it will indeed be able to resist for a period of time due to the danger of mountains and rivers.

However, Luo Cheng opposed the pursuit and interception. After all, the Xia army still had 20 troops, even if they were put together, it was still a large force.

The more this is the case, the more unwilling Luo Cheng is to push too hard, the injured beast is always the most vicious.

"Let Zhao Gui lead his army into Hejian and recover Hejian County. Let Feng Xiaoci lead his troops to go south to attack Wu'an County, and take Wu'an County before the main force of Xia's army arrives. Let Shi Xin lead his troops to land in Bohai County and recover it. Bohai County along the coast. Let Cunxiao send troops to recover Pingyuan County, and then go south to Qinghe County."

Luo Cheng pointed at the map.

"As for us, don't worry about the main force of Xia's army fleeing south, let's recover Xindu County first."

Xia Jun wants to abandon the capital Leshou and escape, so let him escape.

If they want to go to Yecheng, let him go, take advantage of this opportunity, and first mop up Hejian, Xindu, Wu'an, Bohai, and Pingyuan counties. Break each one.

If they continue to hold together, they will take back the surrounding counties one by one, and finally the five-way army will surround him in Wei County, and they will be successful in one battle.

In short, Luo Cheng was not in a hurry, did not pursue immediately, let alone intercept, and fought steadily.

He now occupies the overall initiative, and it is not him who is in a hurry.

"Strategically, we must despise the enemy, but tactically, we must pay attention to the enemy."

Cao Bao led his army to withdraw to the south, but as he was walking, he found that Luo Cheng hadn't followed.

He was dispatched all the way to explore the horse, and the news of the investigation made him extremely distressed.

Luo Cheng did follow up, but he followed very slowly and didn't concentrate on pursuing. On the contrary, Luo Cheng pursued half-heartedly and was busy recovering the Zhucheng they gave up.

"Feng Xiaoci went south from Xiangguo County and entered Wu'an County. He even broke through Wu'an and Linming City. His troops were extremely aggressive."

"Luo Cunxiao's army has already invaded Pingyuan County, and even broke through several cities. No one can stop it."

Hearing these news, Cao Bao panicked.

"We must speed up our journey to the south, otherwise we will lose both Wei County and Qinghe County."

In order to stabilize the morale of the army, Cao Bao simply announced that the capital would be moved to Yecheng.

Facing the precarious counties such as Hejian, Cao Bao no longer dared to divide his troops to defend them, so he had to pin his hopes on defending the counties in the Shandong, Yellow and North of Taihang.

late at night.

Cao Bao came to see Dou Jiande.

"You said to lure the enemy to go deep and wait for the opportunity to attack, but now Luo Cheng is not going deep alone. On the contrary, he is taking the opportunity to snatch the Wu'an and Bohai counties in the Hejian Plain."

(End of this chapter)