Chapter 260: Wei Army Breaks Out

In the next few days, the Zhao army launched a fierce attack on Puyang City. At the beginning, the Wei army still defended with ease and was relatively smooth. However, under the Zhao army's crazy attack like a tide, the Wei army became more and more difficult to defend, and the casualties became increasingly serious, forcing Pang Kuo to find a way.

In Puyang City, the Wei army camp and the central tent, Pang Kuo sat in the first place and said, "Everyone, the Zhao army is now in a fierce offensive. Although our army can still hold on for the time being, there are no reinforcements outside, so we may not last long, so we must think of a way."

"Why don't you know what Grand Sima is thinking?" Chu Fei asked.

Pang Kuo thought for a while and said, "Now our army is trapped in Puyang and cannot get any support at all. If this continues, Puyang City will eventually be compromised by the Zhao army. So Sima means to break out and go south to seek support from reinforcements."

This made everyone confused. Shang Luo said: "Sima, in addition to the tens of thousands of elite troops here in the entire Weiwei, there are also troops from General Weibu in Luoyang, but General Weibu still needs to defend Henan County and cannot provide us with support."

Before the Wei army started the war, there were 200,000 troops. Later, after retreating south, it was plundered forty or fifty thousand people, a total of 250,000 troops. This is the largest force that Wei State can produce. Now there are only less than 100,000 troops left with Wei Bu. Although it seems to be similar to the Qi army, Wei State has to defend too many places and not enough troops. Moreover, the Zhao army has suppressed 600,000 troops this time, which is much more critical than Qi State. There are still tens of thousands of elite troops in Chen County and Pei County, but that is the last retreat for Wei State and cannot be moved lightly, so everyone can't think of where to pull reinforcements.

Pang Kuo said: "Now that the Zhao army has entered the Central Plains, it doesn't make much sense for General Wei Bu to guard Henan County, so Sima planned to give up Henan County, gather the strength of the entire army to resist Zhao's army in Changyuan."

"What! Grand Sima, you have to give up Henan County!" Everyone was shocked. Is Pang Kuo crazy? He even said that giving up Henan County. If the King of Wei knew about it, Pang Kuo would not be able to take it. However, now the military power of the Wei army is in Pang Kuo's hands, and the King of Wei may not dare to do anything to Pang Kuo. However, to everyone's opinion, it was a very crazy decision.

Pang Kuo also knew that this decision was unacceptable for a while, but this was a decision made by Pang Kuo after careful consideration. Now that the main force of the Zhao army has entered the Central Plains, once Puyang City is lost, the Zhao army is likely to use the same trick again, give up chasing itself and instead attack Wei Bu in Luoyang, trying to take over the 200,000 Zhao troops under Zhang Chuan's troops across the Yellow River. More importantly, once the Zhao army attacks Henan County, Wei Bu has no way to escape. Instead of being defeated by the Zhao army in Henan County, it is better to give up Henan County directly, withdraw the army and join forces.

More importantly, once the Zhao army occupied Henan County, it would directly border Deng State. Deng State was stationed in Yingchuan and Runan, fearing that the Deng army would suddenly go north and the Zhao army would leave a group of troops to stay behind. In this way, the Zhao army would reduce the Zhao army, and they could also seek cooperation with Deng State and ask Deng State to send troops.

Pang Kuo told everyone what he thought about. After thinking about it carefully, he felt that it made sense. However, no one dared to have any hope for the matter of Deng. Now Zhao has the whole country to conquer Qi and Wei. It is an important juncture. Giving Zhao has ten courage to provoke Deng at this time. After all, if there are too many, Deng can still pull out 200,000 to 300,000 troops. Once Deng joins the battlefield, Zhao will be really unpredictable. As for cooperation with Deng, he will have no hope. After all, Deng lost too much money when destroying Wu and has not recovered his vitality. How could he take the initiative to get involved in the muddy waters of the Central Plains? However, it is still beneficial to transfer the troops back, at least the gap is not that big.

So everyone nodded, all agreed to Pang Kuo's idea of ​​breaking through the south, and giving up the idea of ​​Henan County, and began to arrange the breakthrough. After several days of bloody battle, the Wei army had only less than 50,000 left. However, the Zhao army was not easy, and the casualties were estimated to be close to 100,000. However, despite this, the Zhao army still had 300,000 people, and the troops were still very different.

On the first night of May 18th year of Qianyuan, the Zhao army had just repelled the strong attack of the Zhao army during the day. Pang Kuo summoned the entire army to prepare for breaking through. Most of the main forces of the Zhao army were stationed outside the north gate and the east gate of Puyang City. This time, Pang Kuo chose the direction of breaking through the south gate. There were only tens of thousands of Zhao troops stationed here. As long as you unexpectedly, the chance of breaking through is still very high.

At the end of the 19th century, the south gate of Puyang City slowly opened, and Pang Kuo led tens of thousands of Wei troops out in a row. At this time, the Zhao army camp was silent, as if he had not noticed the Wei army's outflow. Under a charge of the Wei army, the Zhao army was caught off guard and was beaten off guard. The general of the Zhao army stationed outside the south gate was Li Rengong. After learning that the Wei army broke through, he hurriedly sent someone to notify Zhao Xin and led the army to fight to block it.

Zhao Xin had already rested in this matter. After learning that the Wei army had broken through the south gate, he got up from the bed, and named Li Rubing led the army to reinforce Li Rengong and sent troops to attack Puyang City.

In fact, after the siege of the city over the past few days, Zhao Xin knew the losses of the Wei army and believed that Pang Kuo was likely to break through. However, what he did not expect was that before he could make arrangements, Pang Kuo came out and caught him off guard. However, it was not the time to think about this. Pang Kuo broke through. All Zhao Xin could do was to try his best to stop the Wei army. Even if he could not keep them all, he should consume the Wei army as much as possible.

After a night of bloody battle, Li Rubing was unable to leave Pang Kuo, but the Wei army also suffered a lot of losses. With 40,000 or 50,000 troops and less than 30,000 people could fight out. Seeing that Pang Kuo could not be kept, Zhao Xin had to give up. At this time, the Zhao army who went to attack Puyang City had already captured Puyang City, and Zhao Xin then led the army into Puyang City.

In this offensive and defensive battle in Puyang City, both Zhao and Wei paid a huge price. The Wei army had more than 70,000 troops and the troops lost to break through, and the Zhao army also suffered 110,000 casualties, which made Zhao Xin a little worried. With such a large casualties, how many people could be left after the Qi and Wei countries were completely captured?

On the other hand, after breaking through the siege, Pang Kuo went south and ordered all the troops, horses, and money and grains of Lihu, Baima, Yan County to transport all the troops, horses, money and grains to Changyuan City. As for how many people could reach Changyuan, it is unknown. At the same time, he sent someone to order Wei Bu from Luoyang to lead the troops of Henan County to Changyuan to meet. In addition, Pang Kuo also told Wei Bu everything about the reason for giving up Henan County this time. After all, although Wei Bu was nominally commanded by Pang Kuo, Wei Bu was in charge of the army alone, and now he brought more soldiers than Pang Kuo. If Wei Bu refused to retreat, Pang Kuo had no choice.

But Wei Bu was not a person who ignored the overall situation. Indeed, when he first received the order from Pang Kuo to give up Henan County, Wei Bu was a little reluctant. However, after seeing the reason why Pang Kuo gave up Henan County, Wei Bu still withdrew the 100,000 Wei troops in Henan County and gave up Henan County.

On May 10, the 18th year of Qianyuan, Wei Bu led 100,000 Wei troops to evacuate from Henan County. At the same time, Zhang Chuan on the north bank also led more than 100,000 Zhao troops to cross the Yellow River, entered Luoyang City, and began to sweep away the counties in Henan.

On May 18, the 18th year of Qianyuan, Wei Bu led a large army to Changyuan to meet with Pang Gu. After seeing Pang Gu's remaining troops, he couldn't help but feel embarrassed. He knew that Pang Gu was defeated, but what he didn't expect was that Pang Gu was defeated so badly, with only such a few people left in the 100,000 army. The losses were so heavy. No wonder he would give up Henan County to meet with him. It turned out that he couldn't stand it.
Chapter completed!