Great Wei Overlord

Chapter 451
Chapter 455

The [-] or so Ding soldiers of Wu Jie met the [-] or so main force of Sima Xun's army, and they might not even be able to deliver food to them.Wu Jie turned around and ran away, and Sima Kang led the cavalry in pursuit.When Wu Jie and others had no way to go to heaven and no way to enter the customs, Wu Jie's master Bo offered advice to Wu Jie.

"Burn the plank road to save your life!"

Wu Jie was worried about the safety of his old mother, so he agreed to rely on this method to save his life.

Ziwu Road is the expressway from Chang'an to Guanzhong in ancient times. Due to the ruggedness of Ziwu Valley, it is made of chiseled stones, pierced with wooden piles to set up shelves, and paved with planks. Because Chinese pine and redwood are strong and corrosion-resistant, they are ideal wood for the plank road. Although the wood of the plank road is strong, it contains oil, so it is afraid of fire.

Wu Jie ordered to set fire to the plank road to stop the pursuers. As a result, Sima Kang's pursuers were successfully blocked, and Sima Xun and his 30 vanguard troops also lost contact with the main force.Wu Jie hastily burned more than [-] miles of plank roads, and even if it takes a while to repair, it will not be repaired.

Wu Jie, who successfully fled back to Chang'an, found that Sima Xun had few soldiers, five to six thousand, so he reported the situation to Chang'an Wei Jun.

Chang'an Haoqiang, who was originally uncertain about left and right in Chang'an, learned that the Wei army's reinforcements were coming, and Sima Xun only had 6000 people. Everyone was as excited as if they wanted to beat chicken blood.They contributed their soldiers to the Wei army one after another, and cooperated with the Wei army to counterattack Sima Xun.

The combat effectiveness of Sima Xun's troops is definitely the bottom in this era.In his history, he couldn't even defeat the powerful Zhang Ju in Guanzhong, and the Diqin army who was beaten into a mess by Huan Wen could easily finish his abuse.Wei Jun's counterattack caused Sima Xun, who was unprepared, to suffer a big loss, but when Sima Kang repaired the plank road in Ziwu Valley and joined Sima Xun, Sima Xun received Dong Run and Zhang Wen and led more than [-] Wei Army troops to enter Tongguan. news.

Tongguan is only 280 miles away from Guanzhong. The cavalry can reach Chang'an in one day, and even the infantry only needs three days.

Sima Xun was about to cry, but he wanted to take advantage of it, but he didn't expect that Mao would lose a lot if he didn't get it.Don't talk about taking advantage now, whether you can save your life is one thing.Anyway, Wei Guo would not let him go.

Although he understands Ran Min's intentions, Ran Ming still has a headache about the Xianbei. The Hu people in northern China have always been a threat to China. In the past, there were the Huns, and after the Huns failed, they became the Xianbei, and after the Xianbei came the Turks. , After the Turks came the Khitan, and then the Jurchens.

Even though Ran Ming has more than 1000 years of knowledge, he still has no way to solve this problem.Although Ran Ming is not a cynical youth, he is at least a big Han nationalist. Of course he doesn't want to see the Hu tribe in the north harm the Central Plains.

It is not an easy task to destroy the Yan army, because almost all the Xianbei people are cavalry, and they can flee back to the grassland when they see that the momentum is wrong. With the current national strength of the Wei state, it is impossible to support the long-term and arduous grassland chase!

Ran Ming thought about it, but he didn't think of how to wipe out the Yan army, and at worst, he would seriously injure the Yan army.

Suddenly, Ran Ming smiled.

In the past, there was no way for him to do it himself. Now that Wang Meng is by his side, it would be unreasonable not to allow the famous prime minister in history to use his skills.

Ran Ming organized his words, and said: "Sir, I just want to wipe out the Yan army in one battle, can you teach me?"

Hearing this, Wang Meng smiled slightly and said, "Your Highness, what's so difficult about this?"

"The plan will come out!" Ran Ming was very surprised, he didn't even think of a solution, but in Wang Meng's mouth, it turned out that Zhang Fei ate bean sprouts, a piece of cake!
At this time, the Wei army of Xu Yuan, who was confronting the Yan army in Fanyang, had the same situation as the Wei army led by Ran Min during the Battle of Liantai.Although Xu Yuan defeated the Yan army many times, as long as the Yan army was defeated, they would turn around and run away.It is impossible for a two-legged man to catch up with a four-legged cavalry.This is the advantage of cavalry, cavalry against infantry, they are always invincible.

The Xu Yuan tribe originally had nearly 2000 cavalry and more than [-] horses.It's a pity that when encountering a pig-feeding commander like Linghu Lei, not only more than two-thirds of the more than [-] elite cavalry battalions suffered casualties, including Shi Ning who was seriously injured, the cavalry battalion was less than [-] people including the seriously injured. The county soldiers suffered heavy casualties. In the battle of Juma River alone, more than [-] soldiers of Jizhou County were killed and more than [-] were injured.Now the Xu Yuan Department has more than [-] soldiers, but only the Back Cub Army, Middle Base, and Tiger Roaring Battalion have more than [-] troops.

The grain and grass in Xuyuan were burned in the Juma River.The grain transportation team sent by Ran Zhi was attacked by the cavalry sent by Murong Ke, and lost more than [-] shi of grain and grass three times in a row.

Unless it is a brain-dead enemy, he will let the grain transport team join Xu Yuan.Murong Ke is not stupid, how could he make such a poor mistake.In desperation, Xu Yuan had no choice but to kill horses to satisfy his hunger.Now, in addition to more than [-] cavalry with one horse, Xu Yuan's troops have eaten more than [-] horses and crossbow horses.

The food was reported to Xin, and the morale of Xu Yuan's troops was affected by the injured soldiers, and it was also extremely low. If Ran Min hadn't been received and returned to the city unharmed, Xu Yuan's troops would have been defeated without a fight.

At this time, it is too difficult to win, not to mention, it is not easy to save the [-] remnants and defeated generals.

Wang Meng laughed and said, "If General Xu Yuan gets food and grass, can he stabilize the morale of the army and launch a counterattack in a short time?"

"Yes, yes! Wei Guo is not without food!" Ran Ming said: "Sir, it's easy to say, but is it so easy to send the food? I know that the crown prince has sent three waves of food delivery teams. Not only did they discard all the food, but Murong Ke got more than [-] stones of grain and grass, I am afraid that he will not have to worry about grain and grass for at least two months now."

Now Wei State's troops are stretched thin, it is impossible to draw out reinforcements to ask Xu Yuan for help, and it is even impossible to draw out troops to protect the food transport team.Eight hundred escort troops are not enough for the Yan army to fit between the teeth, but there is no more Wei army to draw out, unless the battle of Guanzhong can be withdrawn quickly, but the battle of Guanzhong will not be resolved in a short while.

Wang Meng laughed and said, "Did your Highness forget Buqicheng? Why don't we use that method to send food?"

"Not the city?" Ran Ming suddenly realized.In order to deceive people, Wang Meng built Buqicheng into a city of miracles. Wang Meng first laid the foundation of the city wall, and then made the bricks and various materials of the city wall into semi-finished products and buried them in the moat.In this way, Wang Meng built a new city in the shortest time!
High, it is high!

Ran Ming already understood Wang Meng's intention.Wang Meng just wanted to bury the grain on Xu Yuan's retreating road first, and then send someone to tell Xu Yuan where it was buried.In this way, the food can be sent to Xu Yuan without too many troops, and Murong Ke can suffer a dull loss!
"I'm afraid this is still not enough to destroy the Yan army?" Ran Ming asked doubtfully.Although this strategy can send food to Xu Yuan, even if Xu Yuan can restore morale, he still cannot defeat the 6-[-] Yan army with [-] capable soldiers.

"Naturally, relying on this strategy alone cannot wipe out the Yan army!" Wang Meng said calmly, "Your Highness, I plan to fight the Yan army in Hunyang."

"Muddy mud?" Ran Ming is not a professional soldier after all, and his knowledge of geography is not very good!Moreover, the geography that Ran Ming understands are all the names of later generations. In addition to the ancient names, Ran Ming knows some famous cities such as Beiping, Luoyang, Ye, Jiankang, and Chang'an. up.Ran Ming really doesn't know what this muddy mud represents.

Looking at Ran Ming's bewildered look, Wang Meng explained: "The place where Hunni meets Gaoyang and Rongcheng counties is located in the hinterland of Jizhou. It is open and not dangerous on all sides. It is also 140 miles away from Rongcheng (the straight line on the map) The distance, you don’t need to be serious) Gaoyang is also ninety miles away, which happens to be a breaking point.”

"There is no danger to defend, of course Murong Ke can be fooled, but how to wipe out the enemy?" Ran Ming asked.

Wang Meng said with a smile: "I have already observed the sky. If there is no accident, within ten days, the temperature will drop suddenly, and there may even be a blizzard. When the temperature drops, the breath in the wild will turn into ice, and it is impossible to camp or fight. Even the Xianbei people who often live outside the Great Wall cannot withstand the cold. If Murong Ke does not want to return empty-handed, he will choose another opportunity to fight again. In order to maintain the pressure on General Xu’s troops, he must be stationed in Gaoyang or Rongcheng. "

Then, Wang Meng told Ran Ming his strategy, and Ran Ming became more and more satisfied with listening to Wang Meng's strategy.Ran Ming said happily: "With Mr.'s help, why not worry about being humble!"

Ran Ming immediately called Xue Tao and asked him to find a dozen or so people who used to be the guards of major merchants from among his followers.

After a while, Xue Tao brought thirty or forty soldiers who had been the guards of major merchants to Ran Ming.

"The villain sees Your Highness!" Everyone bowed to Ran Ming one after another.

Ran Ming didn't go around the bush, and said straight to the point: "Can you still contact your boss now?"

"This?" Everyone hesitated for a while.

All the merchants sent a large number of guards in the name of protecting Ran Ming, but in fact they also wanted to get some inside information from Ran Ming's side.Ran Ming didn't point it out at the time, after all, Ran Ming's core was not available to ordinary guards.These ordinary guards are useless at all.

Ran Ming didn't care about the attitudes of these people, and said directly: "No matter what method you use, I will tell your master that I will accept your [-] shi grains, [-] sets of down jackets, and as much fire oil as possible in Hunni City." I don’t want these things for nothing, I bought them from your boss at three times the market price!”

After all, this is related to the future of Wei State, Ran Ming dare not be careless.

In fact, these merchants have something to do with the Yan army openly and secretly. They can avoid the blockade of the Wei army and transport goods into the territory of Yan. Of course, in the past, these merchants had no access to weapons or core technology products. Some of what they smuggled were highly mellow liquor, tea, green salt, canned food, and exquisite silk, which were not of much benefit to the economic development of Yan.

(End of this chapter)