Chapter 239: Li Rubing vs. Pang Kuo (Part 1)

On March 20, the 17th year of Qianyuan, Zhao army general Tu Gao Yu Yanci under the city, defeated three generals of the Qi army and achieved the first battle. That night, Yanci army general Li Rengong personally celebrated Tu Gao's achievements in the central army tent.

"Come on, let's give General Tu a cup!" In the central army's tent, Li Rengong sat in the main seat, raised his glass and toasted Tu Gao.

After three rounds of wine, Huang Qing said to Li Rengong: "General Li, General Tu has defeated General Qi in this battle. Although it has greatly shocked our army's morale, the Qi army will not be able to defend the city to the death, so we have no good idea."

Li Rengong nodded, put down the wine glass in his hand, frowned and said, "Yes, I didn't expect that after so many years, Han Qing was still the Han Qing. He didn't know how many times he blocked General Zhao Xin's tactics. At this moment, I really couldn't think of any good way."

This set of strict prevention is really amazing. If someone doesn't come out, you can only attack the city, but there are 50,000 people in the city, and it is impossible to catch it without 200,000 or 300,000 troops. If it is said that the city is besieged and the enemy is exhausted from ammunition and food, it will not be realistic. This will take too long and it is not cost-effective. Secondly, according to Han Qing's personality, he will definitely stock up enough food and grass in Yanci City that the Qi army consumed for a long time. Maybe there are not many food and grass in your own family.

Li Rengong thought for a while and said, "Since I have come to Yanci, it's not okay to not fight the city. Let's do this. Tomorrow, General Tu leads a team of troops to test Yanci's city defense first. This general sends someone to ask the general for instructions."

"Here!" everyone responded.

The next day, Tu Gao led 10,000 people to attack Yanci City, but He Jiong in Yanci City had already prepared for a fierce battle. After an hour of fierce fighting, Zhao's army threw down more than a thousand corpses, but could not touch Yanci City Wall. Li Rengong had no choice but to order his troops to retreat. Li Rengong hoarded troops under Yanci City for several days. Finally, Zhao Xin sent a military order, ordering them to withdraw their troops back to the Majiahe Camp.

Compared with Zhao and Qi's mutual temptation and small fights, Li Rubing and Pang Kuo in the Central Plains were in full swing.

On the fifth day of the third month of the 17th year of Qianyuan, Li Rubing vowed to the south at Ganling City, the capital of Qinghe County. The journey was as powerful as a bamboo shoot, Poping, Liaocheng, Leping, and several cities. On March 12, the troops were under the Yangping City.

Compared with Han Qing's strict defense, the Wei army commander Pang Kuo's actions were more radical. By the time Li Rubing led 200,000 Zhao troops to Yangping City, Pang Kuo had already led 100,000 elite troops to wait outside the city, and set up two camps in the north of Yangping City, and were struggling to capture each other.

Li Rubing was not a famous general in Zhao State. The only record that he could make was to destroy the remnant Yan who was struggling in Liaodong. Such a record did not attract Pang Kuo's attention.

Li Rubing was quite happy that Pang Gu gave up the city and set up a camp outside the city to resist him. After all, attacking a camp is much easier than attacking a city. And judging from Pang Gu's posture, he planned to fight with him head-on.

Yangping City is located in the east of Luohe and in the south of Pingtung Wuyang. It is the throat area of ​​the north of the East County and connected to the east and west. It has a very strong strategic position. The Wei State has also arranged heavy troops here for many years. As long as it breaks through Yangping and Dongwuyang, the Zhao army can reach Puyang, the capital of Wei State.

Outside Yangping City, the Zhao army camp, after arriving in Yangping City on March 12, Li Rubing has been stocking up here for more than ten days. In these ten days, the Zhao and Wei armies have fought several times, but they are not sure of the winner. From the news from Hanoi and Pingyuan, they learned that the other two troops of the Zhao army had made no progress and had been in war for a month. The 800,000 troops of Zhao State went south, and the daily money and food consumed were astronomical, and the Zhao army could not afford it, so the Zhao army urgently needed to find a breakthrough point.

In the central army's tent, Li Rubing sat in the main seat, with the generals Zheng Tuo, Le Ting, Zhuang Hong, Wang Buyi, and military advisor Lin Qingfeng. He fought with the Wei army for several consecutive days, but he could not start the situation. Li Rubing was anxious.

"This Pang Kuo is truly a famous general in the world. With half of our army's strength, he blocked our army and was helpless." Li Rubing frowned and sighed.

"General Li, we will have a plan at the end, maybe we can do it." Le Ting said out of the line.

"Really? Tell me quickly!" As soon as he heard that Le Ting had a solution, Li Rubing came in his spirit.

Le Ting bowed: "Return to the general, according to the spies' response, all the Wei troops in the Dongjun area gathered in Yangping, and there were not many soldiers in the rest. The last general suggested that it would be better to send a soldier to secretly bypass Yangping and attack Dongwuyang behind him. As long as Dongwuyang is threatened, Pang Kuo will retreat in panic."

The more Le Ting talked, the more excited he became, as if he saw Zhao Jun heading straight into Puyang City because of his own strategy.

But Li Rubing kept shook his head and said, "General Le's plan is not feasible. Dongwuyang and Yangping are both important places in the throat of Dongjun. How could Pang Kuo be unprepared? Moreover, Yangping and Dongwuyang are too close to each other. As long as Dongwuyang can hold on for a day, Yangping's Wei army will arrive. Maybe the troops who will attack Dongwuyang will be wiped out."

Li Rubing had not thought about this method, but because the success rate was too low, Li Rubing finally gave up. After this period of fighting with Pang Kuo, Li Rubing finally understood that it is unlikely to defeat Pang Kuo with a strategy. If you want to defeat Pang Kuo, you may have to defeat the Wei army head-on like Yue Fei in the Battle of Changshe.

Li Rubing thought for a while and said, "We have been delayed in Yangping for too long and cannot continue like this. Judging from the current situation, to defeat the Wei army, we can only fight the soldiers. Tomorrow morning, General Zheng Tuo will lead 50,000 troops to attack the Wei army's Beizhai, and General Leting will lead 20,000 troops to support the formation, and will definitely take down the Wei army's Beizhai."

"Here!" Zheng Tuo and Le Ting responded.

The next day, Li Rubing sent general Zheng Tuo to lead his troops to attack the camps north of the Wei army.

The Beizhai was stationed by Wei general Sima Song and Ouyang Ke, leading 20,000 troops to prevent the Zhao army from going around the north of Yangping City.

"Kill!" Zheng Tuo was commanding the army to attack the camp gate, but the Wei army's resistance was very tenacious. Zheng Tuo had fought this Beizhai several times during this period, but he couldn't defeat it. This time, Zheng Tuo brought a total of 50,000 people to come, intending to break through Beizhai in one go and pull out this nail.

"General Sima, the Zhao army's offensive is too fierce, and there are many people, and the camp gate is almost unable to hold on." Ouyang Ke came to Sima Song, who was commanding the army to fight in blood, and said.

Sima Song frowned. He obviously noticed that the Zhao army's offensive today was much more powerful than usual. After two hours of fighting, the Wei army could hardly resist it.

"General Ouyang, how many mobile forces our army still has?" In order to better arrange defense, Sima Song has always kept a mobile force, but today the Zhao army's offensive is so fierce, it is unknown how many mobile forces can be.

Ouyang Ke replied: "There are three thousand people back to the general, are they all sent?" After two hours of fierce battle, under the fierce attack of the 50,000 Zhao army, the camp almost changed hands several times. Sima Song and Ouyang Ke kept sending more troops, so that there are only three thousand mobile troops left now.

"Are there only three thousand people left?" Sima Song felt a little tricky, so he thought for a while and said, "Send all of them to me. General Ouyang, I will send someone to the Grand Sima office to invite reinforcements. Your task is to buy an hour for our army. Can you do it?"

Ouyang Ke thought for a while and gritted his teeth and said, "General Sima, don't worry, even if I, Ouyang Ke, sacrificed my life, I will still block Zhao Jun for an hour."

The Wei army sent all three thousand people to the last, and finally stabilized the situation, but still fell at an absolute disadvantage. When the Zhao army saw that the Wei army had reinforcements, Zheng Tuo sent someone to inform Le Ting, asking his 20,000 people to join the battle.
Chapter completed!