Chapter 704
: Sweeping six counties in a row
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The flowers in April of the world are gone, and the peach blossoms in the mountain temples are beginning to bloom.
On Guanling, Shandong, Li Mi stood in a small mountain temple with his hands behind his back, looking alone at the colorful peach tree in the quiet courtyard that was falling in the wind. At this time, the peach blossoms in Luoyang had already faded, but in a small mountain temple on this mountain, the peach blossoms were blooming.
Looking at the peach blossoms blooming all over the trees, Li Mi was distracted.
The fifth day of the fourth month is the beginning of the Qingming Festival among the twenty-four solar terms of the year. During the Qingming Festival, the spring is bright and the earth is thriving. Everything makes people feel refreshed and the scenery is bright.
However, although this year's Qingming Festival is still bright, the earth is thriving and the scenery is bright, Li Mi's heart is filled with haze and cannot be bright at all.
On the night of the second day of April, 10,000 naval troops under his command were annihilated by Chen and Zheng coalition forces. Then Chen and Zheng coalition forces landed. He ordered the Wei army who had been waiting for a long time to attack, but it was not that they drove Chen Kefu, Wang Xuanying and the others down the Yellow River, but were beaten by Wang Xuanying alone in Jianghuai army.
The 60,000 army almost collapsed across the board. If the 50,000 troops from the back arrived in time, the consequences would be unimaginable. Even if the reception was timely, with the 10,000 miscellaneous navy that had been destroyed before, he had already lost almost 30,000 troops from the evening of the second day of the lunar month to the afternoon.
Li Mi has never experienced such a crushing defeat since he followed Yang Xuangan in the ninth year of Daye. 120,000 people ambushed the other party, but was defeated by the other party, losing 30% of his horse.
A big defeat in Luokoutan made Li Mi, who was originally proud and excited, faced a blow. This blow suddenly woke Li Mi up from his original plan.
After this battle, he realized how ridiculous he had planned to ambush Chen Kefu in Luokou in one fell swoop and capture him alive.
Not only that, Li Mi has long regretted it now. Even if he washed all the Luo River water and the Yellow River water, he could not wash away his regret. He never expected that the ambush in Luokou would eventually put himself in a difficult situation of being unable to advance or retreat.
On the third day of April, in Luokou, except for the Hebei Navy, which showed their tall warships and amazingly powerful firearms, the Hebei army, which did not participate in the war, suddenly appeared in Luokou Cang City dozens of miles behind him.
Just like a divine weapon descended from the sky, 30,000 Hebei troops raided his food and grass base, seizing Cangcheng, which was left with only 10,000 defenders, and also snatched his 20 million stone of grain and grass. Not only that, 30,000 Hebei troops occupied Cangkou Cangcheng, cutting off his retreat.
When Li Mi heard this news, she felt dizzy and almost fainted.
The loss of Cang City in Luokou and the 10,000 Wei troops was all gone. Li Mi cared more about the 20 million stones of grain in Cang City, which was two-thirds of all the military rations he had at this time. Even the 100,000 Wei troops in Luokou were all in Cang City. Without the grain and grass in Cang City, the grain and grass they brought were only enough for three days to eat.
Just as Li Mi was about to return to the army immediately to regain Cangcheng, an emergency military information came at noon on the third day. Chen Kefu personally led 15,000 Hebei troops to the city of Hulao Pass. Huang Jun, the guard of Hulao Pass, was an internal response and controlled Niu Jinda and five other lieutenants to surrender.
When Li Mi heard the news, he was discussing with the generals to regain Luokou Cang City in the big tent. After reading the letter, he immediately vomited a mouthful of blood and fainted. Luokou Cang City was taken away, and Li Mi was determined to snatch it back. After all, Luokou Cang City was surrounded by Yanshi, Baihua Valley and their Luokou army.
However, the news of Hulao's fall almost couldn't reply to Li Mi's attack. Luokou Cang City was Li Mi's food and grass logistics base, but Hulao was the most powerful fortress in his defense against Hebei and Shandong in the east. It was also an advance base for him to attack Hebei, and it was also a weapon and armor manufacturing base for the Wei army. But now, Hulao's heroic pass was captured by Chen Kefu's troops without bloodshed.
Not only did he lose another ten thousand troops, but he also lost the most important pass, and he also gave Chen Kefu three million stones of food and grass in the Hulao Pass, countless armor, bows, arrows, swords, guns, spears and other items.
Not only that, the Wei army first lost the Luokou warehouse and then the Huzhu, but it was equivalent to blocking the 100,000 Wei troops in Luokou to the ground and completely encircled. Luokou ambushed, originally intended to surround Chen Kefu, but now, it suddenly lost the city and lost its territory, and was surrounded by Chen Kefu. Even most of the Wei Kingdom's food and grass weapons fell into Chen Kefu's hands. Why is Li Mi not anxious and how can he not be shocked?
Li Mi now felt this feeling when the house was leaking and raining all night.
Luo** failed in the battle. Li Yuan, who originally thought it was a treasure, suddenly died in his army. Then Luokou Cang was lost and all the food and grass were lost. Then the Huzhu was thrown away again, blocking the things and surrounded on three sides.
Originally, Li Mi was looking forward to severely damaging Chen Pojun in Luokou, then turned around and swept Henan, sent troops to Hedong, completely annexed the Wang family's Jianghuai army and territory, and occupied the Central Plains and laughed at the world. But in the end, this was just a ridiculous daydream. In the blink of an eye, he fell into many dangers.
However, when people are unlucky, they will fill their teeth with their teeth. Less than half a day after the news of the fall of Huzhu on the third day of the lunar month came. Four days and nights, urgent reports came from the east. After Chen Kefu took the Huzhu, he left 5,000 troops to guard Huzhu, and brought the remaining 10,000 Hebei troops and 10,000 originally from Huzhuo Guanzhong to surrender. He went east with a thunder and without scattering his ears. On the afternoon of the third day, his vanguard arrived at Xingshui County. Wei, who was stationed in Xingshui, boldly led 3,000 subordinates to open the city and surrender.
Afterwards, the Hebei army rushed all the way and rushed to the Dacheng Guancheng, Xingyang County before dark. The Guancheng general manager Meng Rang finally did not disappoint Li Mi. Meng Rang refused to surrender, but his persistence lasted for less than half a day. In the middle of the night, the Hebei army raided the Guancheng Water Gate and quickly captured Guancheng. The 30,000 Guancheng defenders were defeated, and Meng Rang committed suicide and casualties.
On the fourth day, Chen Kefu took advantage of the situation to attack Xingze City, and in just half an hour it broke through the south gate of Xingze City, and took advantage of the situation to capture Xingze City in one fell swoop.
On the fourth day of the lunar month, Hebei general Luo Yi led 30,000 troops to cross the Yellow River from Ji County, captured the Baima Ferry of Dongjun on the south bank of the Yellow River, and quickly divided his troops to sweep the cities of Dongjun. On the same day, Hebei general Li Jing launched two troops in Shandong, and sent 20,000 troops from Lujun and Pengcheng County each, and launched an attack on the four counties of Jibei, Dongping, Jiyin and Liangjun at the same time.
Chen Kefu, Luo Yi and Li Jing swept through the six counties like autumn wind sweeping away fallen leaves. The rebels sent by Li Mi to garrison the six counties completely collapsed in one blow, fled in sight, and surrendered one after another.
The attack of the three armies of Hebei Army is better than a hunting. There are dozens of cities in the six counties and a rebel army of up to 200,000, but none of them can stand by and wait for the enemy in front of only 100,000 people in the three armies of Hebei.
What's even more amazing is that the 200,000 rebels could not defeat the Hebei army, but they could not even run away. Faced with the light cavalry chasing everywhere in Hebei, they surrendered one after another. Often, thousands of Wei army were chased by dozens of cavalry Hebei army, and in the end, thousands of people surrendered to dozens of Hebei army.
In less than two days, all six counties, except for Jindi Pass, Jibei, Dongping, Jiyin, Liangjun, Dongjun and Xingyang County, fell into the hands of Chen Kefu. To the east of the Tongji Canal, all fell. Dozens of cities and more than 200,000 soldiers and horses were wiped out. However, the Hebei army was not damaged at all.
In the morning of the five days, 100,000 Hebei troops, carrying 200,000 prisoners they captured along the way, finally arrived at the Jindi Pass in Xingyang to join.
More than 300,000 people, flags are like the sea, swords and guns are better than snow, and soldiers are like ants!
The Jindi Pass Guard Bing Yuan was sent to the Wei army camp in Luokou in the afternoon, but in the face of this emergency rescue report, everyone did not know how to deal with it.
A sound of light footsteps sounded in the temple, and Li Mi did not look back.
"King of Wei, you haven't had food for two days. If you continue like this, your body will have to cross first." Shen Luoyan stood on Li Mi's side, and his face also cleared a lot.
Li Mi sighed, "Today is the time to pay homage to our ancestors in Qingming Festival. I should have used a great victory to comfort our ancestors. But now, I am overwhelmed and in danger on all sides. What are my faces facing our ancestors?"
"The King of Wei must not improve others' ambitions and destroy his own prestige. Chen Kefu was just a moment of cunning, intentional and unintentional. Now it seems that the news that Lord Fang brought back must have been deliberately released by Chen Kefu." Shen Luoyan stood under the peach blossom tree and persuaded Wen Wen.
Li Mi has not fallen asleep for several days. After a few days, his eyes were deep, Yin Tang turned blue and his face was pale. He often sighed, "I still underestimated Chen Pojun. This boy is so amazing. In just a few days, he has lost 300,000 troops, six counties, dozens of cities, and tens of millions of stones of food and grass."
"King of Wei, it's not time to lament that we have lost dozens of cities in six counties and lost 300,000 soldiers. But in fact, except for the more than 10,000 soldiers and soldiers in Luokou, the rest are just mobs who come to surrender. These people are just numbers to us, and they are useless in real battles. The key is to rely on your own 300,000 elite Tiger Ben. As long as these tiger Ben is not lost, the King of Wei has not lost. Now what we really care about is not the dozens of cities in the six counties and the 300,000 large mobs. What we really care about is the 20 million stone of food and grass in Luokou Cang City, the 50,000 elite Wei Kings under his command."
Li Mi nodded slowly, "What the military advisor said is exactly. We will immediately summon all the civil and military officials to discuss this matter and come up with a strategy as soon as possible."
Chapter completed!