Three Kingdoms: Peak Summons

Chapter 1597 A hundred secrets and one sparse

Chapter 1595: One hundred secrets and one sparse

By the Yellow River, Li Jing looked expressionlessly at the huge waves of the Yellow River surging eastward. He knew that if the flood went down, even if the Qi army could not be completely wiped out, at least half of the Qi army would be killed or injured, but in his heart he couldn't help but feel sad. Can't bring up any joy.

 Since ancient times, water and fire have been merciless. Fire attack will harm Tianhe, and water attack will be even worse.

 When the flood comes, it will be completely out of control, and it is unknown how many innocent people will be affected.

Li Jing naturally knew this, but he was forced to have no choice. After all, once the coalition forces from all parties were allowed to join forces, the Qin army would completely lose the initiative. Whether it could hold Beihai by then was a question, let alone go to support it. Jizhou was the last straw that broke Beihai's life.

Li Jing is not afraid of Wang Mang's 80,000-strong coalition. Although Wang Mang's troops are large, they are patchworked together and of varying quality. As long as he is given enough time, Li Jing is sure to win.

But the 70,000 elite Qi troops in Zhu Tianpeng's hands are not weaker than the Qin army in terms of overall quality. They are simply invincible to the current Beihai Qin army.

Even if all the troops in Beihai were mobilized, and even if Li Jing took personal command, he would not be sure to defeat Zhu Tianpeng's 70,000 Qi army.

Since he couldn't defeat them openly, Li Jing could only use tactics. If he wanted to defeat a total of 70,000 Qi army elites in one fell swoop, there was no more effective way than fire and water attacks.

Li Jing had fought against Zhu Tianpeng and knew that he was a general with both wisdom and courage. Ordinary strategies could not defeat him, so he put a lot of effort into designing strategies.

Originally, Li Jing was more inclined to use fire to attack, but after he mobilized all the files about Zhu Tianpeng, he unexpectedly discovered a secret report recently sent back by Qingzhou secret agents, that is, Zhu Tianpeng actually did more than land battles. Good at water fighting?

Although Li Jing was also puzzled by this, this information was definitely true. After all, the secret agent in Qingzhou had never delivered any false news.

So Li Jing decisively gave up the fire attack and chose the water attack. After all, people are always more confident in the fields they are best at, and self-confidence and arrogance are only a matter of thoughts.

Since Zhu Tianpeng is good at water fighting, I am afraid that ordinary water attacks cannot be hidden from him.

Therefore, Li Jing first tried to confuse the situation with his plan to cross the Yellow River four times, and deliberately delayed Zhu Tianpeng's attention. The real goal of the Qin army was to induce Wang Mang.

But in fact, Li Jing's real purpose was to gather the main force of 70,000 Qi troops on both sides of the Yellow River to facilitate the smooth implementation of the water attack plan.

Secondly, Li Jing took the initiative to send the 4,500 naval troops to die. Only in this way could he ensure that there were no clear flaws in the naval attack plan and that Zhu Tianpeng would not be suspicious.

In the end, it turned out to be what Li Jing expected. The sacrifice of the 4,500 navy troops was not in vain. Zhu Tianpeng did not raise any suspicion, and the naval attack was successfully carried out. The Qi army was bound to suffer heavy losses, but Li Jing could not be happy at all.

During the Battle of the Han River, Qin Hao was forced from Nanyang to Xiangyang by Xiang Yu. He had no choice but to dig up the Han River and launch a water attack. Although Xiang Yu's army was finally wiped out, it also caused the displacement of millions of people in Yuzhou. Qin Hao was reviled by countless people and his reputation plummeted.

It was also a water attack. Even the Lord Qin Hao couldn't avoid it, and Li Jing certainly couldn't escape. He could even guess that soon, even the DPRK would be full of officials who wanted to impeach him.

　　　　“One general’s achievements will make thousands of bones wither.”

Li Jing sighed. Only then did he realize the meaning of this sentence more personally.

“Huh? Didn’t I order the flow to be restricted? Why is the water getting bigger and bigger?”

Li Jing couldn't help but frown. He was also afraid that the situation would get out of control and that the water would be too strong and endanger the people downstream. Therefore, he made an extremely strict arrangement for this water attack, and the Yellow River dam was not completely dug. Why was the water flow still not flowing? Is it under control?

“Your Excellency, General Ran Min ignored military orders and dug up the entire dam without permission. Now the water is completely out of control.”

"What?"

Li Jing's eyes widened immediately. He never thought that Ran Min would dare to disobey his order. Li Jing only brought one general, Ran Min, with him on this trip. After all, among the Qin army in the North Sea, Ran Min was the only one who had any suggestions for water warfare. But when Li Jing came up with the water attack plan, he and Ran Min had a disagreement, that is, whether to dig it out completely. Yellow River dikes.

Li Jing believed that the people downstream would definitely suffer from the water attack. However, as long as the water was controlled properly, it could also flood the Qi army. Therefore, there was no need to completely dig the dam. In this case, the casualties of the people downstream would be much smaller.

Ran Min believed that completely digging the dam would cause greater trauma to the Qi army. As for the casualties of the people downstream, he didn't care. After all, there is no human being in a war, not to mention that the people who died were the people of Qi, not Qin. The people of the country?

Li Jing and Ran Min each insisted on their own opinions, and neither could convince the other. In the end, Li Jing relied on his status as the commander-in-chief to force Ran Min to bow his head. However, they did not expect that Ran Min was just pretending to compromise. As soon as he left Li Jing's side, he completely defeated Li Jing. The dam was dug.

 After a while, Ran Min returned with all his men and came to hand over the order to Li Jing: "To report to the prefect, the general has completed the task, so I came here to give the order to the prefect."

Li Jing pointed to the surging Yellow River tremblingly and asked, "Ran Min, do you know what you have done?"

Ran Min raised his head, looked directly into Li Jing's eyes, and said calmly: "The general will know, but the general will not regret it."

"you…"

Looking at Ran Min who still had a clear conscience, Li Jing became completely angry and wanted to scold Ran Min, but when he thought that he was the one who proposed the water attack, he couldn't say anything.

Li Jing let out a long breath, then stepped forward and patted Ran Min on the shoulder, sighing: "Well done."

 Looking back to Zhu Tianpeng.

 Under the water, people seem so insignificant and unable to resist the power of nature.

Although Zhu Tianpeng discovered it in time, it was still a step too late.

Among the 20,000 Qi troops on the Yellow River and Beihai, only 3,000 cavalry escaped, while only 7,000 land troops on the south bank survived.

 That is to say, Zhu Tianpeng was calm enough and directly let the navy board the ship and sailed all the way eastward away from the seaport. Only then did the navy remain intact.

After the flood, the Qi army's navy quickly returned, and the surviving troops also launched a rescue operation. Although the rescue was carried out as quickly as possible, only more than 5,000 soldiers were rescued.

Afterwards, statistics showed that the flood directly killed 45,000 elite Qi troops, while the Qin army only suffered 4,500 naval casualties, which can be said to be a complete victory.

Looking at the countless corpses scattered all over the ground, Zhu Tianpeng felt extremely sad and angry. He looked up to the sky and roared: "Li Jing, you will not die well."

He never expected that he would head north with confidence, only to lose most of his troops in the Yellow River after only one battle. The defeat was really humiliating.

 “Lord, what should we do now?” Wang Yanzhang asked with a bitter look on his face.

After Zhu Tianpeng thought for a long time, he gritted his teeth and said: "The cavalry will return to Linzi for repairs. The navy will stay and continue the war. I will make Li Jing pay the price."

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