A thousand-year-old family that began with the Battle of Makino

Chapter 271 The war failed
March
Hebei, Bairen battlefield

"General, more than half of the soldiers who attacked have been killed or wounded. Please withdraw your troops!" A general begged Deng Yu.

Deng Yu's face was gloomy, as if he had just escaped from a fire.

Now it has been nearly a month since they started their first attack after arriving at Bairen. The two hundred thousand troops were blocked by Li Yu with tens of thousands of infantry, and the plan to raid Handan also failed.

But there is still a chance, because there has been no bad news from Julu. Now as long as the Bai people are defeated and the 200,000-strong army marches down to join the team besieging Handan, the strategic goal can be achieved.

"Ming Jin, let the night fighting troops prepare." Deng Yu had no choice but to order.

Although the city of Bairen is fortified, it is still a small town, and its defense preparation is not as good as that of large cities like Handan and Julu. Therefore, in the next half month, the defenders relied purely on people to defend.

"How many capable warriors are there in the city?" Li Yu, whose face was stained with blood, unshaven and mentally exhausted, sat by the city wall and asked the secretary beside him.

The secretary quickly asked someone to move a wooden box over and took out a few bamboo slips. Several clerks went back and forth to make statistics. After a quarter of an hour, they reported to Li Yuhui:
"Da Sima, there are still 20,000 men capable of fighting. Today alone there are 3,000 casualties."

After the secretary finished his report, he saw Li Yu closing his eyes and thinking without saying anything. He bowed respectfully and then withdrew.

"This can't be like this anymore." Li Yu thought to himself, "If this continues, the Bai people will be defeated within five days. We have to find a way."

Looking at the residences in the city, the wood needed to defend the city was torn to pieces. The people also followed the water one after another half a month ago. Now, except for our own soldiers, there are only There is no one left.

Suddenly, I had a flash of inspiration and said, "I have it."

With the idea in hand, Li Yu immediately made arrangements. First, he sent the wounded soldiers upstream through Zhushui, and then sent people to build dams and store water upstream.

Because the people of Bai relied on the water to build their buildings, and the direction of Deng Yu's army's attack was the side facing the water.

In order to prevent Li Yu from attacking halfway across the river, Deng Yu had cut off his own food route. Instead of crossing the river from both sides, he chose to rely on boats and build pontoons to attack the Bai people head-on.

March th
Li Yujun, who was close to Zhushui, suddenly collapsed. Deng Yu finally attacked the top of the city and then entered the city.

Seeing the fall of Bai Ren, a string in Deng Yu's heart finally relaxed, and he immediately ordered the army to follow up through the pontoon, and must completely occupy Bai Ren today.

At night, Deng Yujun almost occupied the Bai people, but Li Yujun still held the southern wall firmly in his hands.

But it's no big deal. According to Deng Yu's own estimation, Li Yu will be completely defeated early tomorrow morning.

Now there are more than 50,000 Deng Yu's troops entering the city, and more than 100,000 people are still north of Zhushui.

And Deng Yu led his personal guards into the city to supervise the battle.

"General, something is wrong!" A always cautious and careful captain came to Deng Yu.

"what happened?"

At this time, Deng Yu was in a good mood, because he could break through this defense line immediately, and when the army arrived at Handan, his unparalleled achievements would be made today.

"Looking at the fierce resistance of the enemy forces in the south of the city, it doesn't look like they have no troops. Then why were they defeated so easily in the north of the city?"

Deng Yu said indifferently: "It's just a cut-off. What's weird? If we don't hold on to the south of the city and the army is defeated, it will be a real defeat. Li Yu is not one of those mediocre generals."

The captain added: "But has the general noticed that there are too many firewood and other fire-starting materials in the city?"

"What?" Deng Yu stood up in a hurry and came outside the house. He looked at the soldiers who were picking up firewood that had been knocked down on the outer wall and preparing to light a fire. He felt more and more uneasy in his heart.

Finally, he decisively gave the order: "Quickly, order the entire army to withdraw from the city, and do it quickly."

By the time the soldiers and horses were mobilized, Deng Yu had already arrived in front of the north gate of the city, looking at the fire rising into the sky behind him. I wiped the cold sweat off my head. Fortunately, I found it in time and the loss was not big.

When Deng Yu and others crossed the pontoon bridge, they saw three meters of water flowing straight down from the upper reaches of the river.

General Li Yujun, who had built a dike on the upper reaches of the river, immediately ordered the dike to be destroyed when he saw the red sky in the distance in the direction of Bairen.

The water flowed down the river.

Deng Yu's army was burned by fire and flooded, and its morale suddenly collapsed, and the command system fell into chaos. Li Yujun, who was well prepared, drove a small boat and continued to chase and kill the defeated Deng Yu army.

Overnight, Deng Yu's 200,000-strong army was defeated. Fortunately, Deng Yu and other generals ran out with the power of their horses. However, all the soldiers ran away, and there were only thousands of people around them. After reuniting with Bai Bai who had been wandering behind, He and 10,000 cavalry troops were stationed in Baixiang to prevent Li Yu from pursuing him.

After all, Li Yu had few soldiers and did not have the strength to pursue any more, so he retreated.

Deng Yu and others in Baixiang continued to gather the defeated troops, and their strength returned to 50,000.

However, with this small number of people, there was no need to go south to Handan, so they had to garrison here and wait for Liu Xiu's order.

March 10
As the troops who went out to explore came back, Liu Xiu already had more than 50,000 people in his hands, and he was ready to try to attack Julu. By today, Liu Xiu had been attacking Julu City continuously and was delayed for half a month under the city, so his offensive became more and more urgent. Julu deserves to be known as a world-famous fortified city. During the half-month siege, Liu Xiujun also suffered heavy losses.

Although there were only 10,000 Julu defenders, with their complete city defense equipment and deep city walls, they killed and wounded more than 30,000 Liu Xiujun, leaving Liu Xiu with only 20,000 people in hand.

But the good news is that there are only 5,000 people in Julu City.

Liu Xiu planned to transfer Feng Yi back from Xindu, leaving only a few thousand people to guard against reinforcements from the Bohai Sea. Then we mobilized 20,000 to 30,000 men from the army of Deng Yu from Bai. In another half month, the giant deer will descend.

"Bang!" Liu Xiu slapped the cases in front of him loudly.

Because the battle report of Deng Yu's defeat came over. There were only 50,000 soldiers left in the 200,000-strong army. How could Liu Xiu not feel distressed and angry?

To make matters worse, Feng Yi from Xindu heard that reinforcements from the Bohai Sea had arrived near Xindu, numbering about 150,000 people. In order to preserve his strength, Feng Yi withdrew from Xindu and gave them up.

Liu Xiu pinched his head. It was a critical moment again. This battle was no less difficult than the battle of Rongcheng.

What to do next, Liu Xiu did not ask the military advisor Su Jin on the side. Because of the specific tactics and tactics, Liu Xiu asked himself that there was no one in the army who could surpass him.

Looking at the map, Liu Xiu ordered: "Order, the entire army retreats to Nanluan, and then retreats to Guang'a. Let Deng Yu bring 20,000 people to Guang'a to rendezvous, of which 10,000 include the 10,000 cavalry. Remember. , asking him to arrange his defense well and never let Li Yu go.

Ask Feng Yi to abandon Xindu, gather all the troops to come to Guang'a, and put the Bohai Navy into Julu. I will fight Liu Ziyu decisively under Nanluan City. "

The order was followed by several messengers, and Liu Xiujun under Julu City also slowly retreated towards Nanluan.

This made the Julu guard breathe a sigh of relief and quickly wrote a letter to report to Liu Ziyu.

March

The Bohai Zhao army defeated Xindu and Nanluan all the way to Julu City.

Liu Ziyu was overjoyed when he received the news that 150,000 reinforcements had arrived in Julu.

As soon as the Bohai Navy arrived in Julu, Liu Xiu led an army of 70,000 to re-attack Nanluan, allowing all of Liu Ziyu's main forces to be concentrated in the vast area from Julu to Handan.

There were 100,000 garrison troops stationed in Handan, but the enemy only had 100,000 troops. In order to prevent being attacked from the front and back, Liu Ziyu ordered General Zhang Shen to lead the 150,000 Bohai Navy resting in Julu to defeat Liu Xiujun in Nanluan.

March

Zhang Shen led the army to Nanluan City.

Liu Xiu avoided his attack and only defended it for one day before withdrawing from Nanluan County and leading his army to retreat north.

March 22
Fifty miles north of Nanluan, Liu Xiu formed a formation, preparing to resist Zhang Shen's 150,000 troops head-on.

This battlefield was specially prepared by Liu Xiu, with the army leaning on Zhangshui on the left and Dalu Ze on the right. In order to prevent Zhang Can's army from raiding from both sides, Liu Xiu stretched out the battle line as much as possible and formed a battle formation that stretched for three or four miles.

Zhang Shen became happy when he saw Liu Xiu's formation. It seemed that Liu Xiu had the most luck in the battle of Kunyang. This kind of formation has come out. If the battle line is stretched, doesn't it mean that the battle formation is getting thinner? , it seems that it will not take long for him to become famous.

Although it was difficult for the army to deploy here, Zhang Shen had a large number of troops and launched an attack shortly after Liu Xiu set up his formation.

Comparing the strength of the two sides, Liu Xiu's army is 70,000, and Zhang Can's army is 150,000. Liu Xiu is at an extreme disadvantage. However, in terms of the elite level of the army, Liu Xiu relies on the Bai Kingdom and has the armaments provided by the Bai Kingdom. In addition, in the past two years, he has The armor rate of the captured soldiers was more than 10% higher than that of Zhang Canjun.

Talking about the level of training, Liu Xiu had a systematic training method, but Zhang Canjun also had the support of the children of local wealthy families, and his elite level was only slightly lower than Liu Xiujun's.

Finally, in terms of military discipline, Liu Xiujun completely defeated Zhang Canjun. Liu Xiujun had basic military discipline, but Zhang Canjun had no discipline at all.

But in general, in a head-to-head confrontation, Liu Xiu still couldn't beat Zhang Shen over time.

After the two sides exchanged arrows, the two armies came into contact and fell into brutal hand-to-hand combat.

Because Liu Xiu had 20,000 cavalry, he did not put them in the main force this time, but hid them in a woods five or six miles behind the battle, where Zhang Canjun's sight was blind.

So to be precise, there are only 50,000 Liu Xiujun here.

Even though there were few people, with Liu Xiu personally going into battle, Zhang Shen's offensive was still stopped, and even caused Zhang Can's army to be in chaos for a time.

Because both Liu Xiu himself and the infantry generals risked their lives to attack the enemy's formation and use offense instead of defense.

Among them, General Yaoqi was the most courageous. He charged into the battle, killed more than fifty people, and once made the enemy retreat. Even if his forehead is injured, he still wraps up his injuries and fights again.

But Zhang Shen is not an ordinary person. After the front line led by the former army general Liu Feng collapsed, Zhang Shen effectively took advantage of his strength and put in fresh troops to rotate the front line. Not only did there not be chaos, but it was also successful. Stabilized the position.

(End of this chapter)