Chapter 359: Defeating the Plan

Because of Wang He's initiative to give in, Zhuge Liang and Yue Fei's troops entered Dengcheng smoothly.

Wang He, who had been paying close attention to the situation of Dayu Army, keenly discovered that Yue Fei's troops were out of touch with Dayu Navy and Zhuge Liang's troops.

[Good opportunity! ]

Wang He couldn't help it.

Yue Fei's troops were only more than 100,000 people and were on the east side of Han River. Even if the Dayu Army had the advantage of water battle, the Qin Army in Xiangyang had trained a lot of naval forces in recent years, built a large number of warships, and had a large number of space soldiers and naval forces that were weak in land battles but had certain water battle capabilities. In this case, Wang He thought that the opportunity for war had appeared.

He could first mobilize the main force to annihilate Yue Fei's troops who were advancing rashly, and then fight a decisive battle with Zhuge Liang's main force with the power of a great victory.

Annihilate the enemy in the wild and defeat them one by one!

The advantage of this battle is mine!

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Wang He made up his mind.

Wang He gathered 250,000 elite soldiers, including 80,000 elite soldiers.

Wang He's elite soldiers currently have a total of 100,000 soldiers, including 50,000 veterans of Qin elite soldiers who have been fighting with Wang He in Nanjun since the Battle of Yingdu, and 50,000 new recruits who have been trained and selected in recent years.

About one-third of these new recruits are elites in the elite army of Qin, and two-thirds are generals and elite natural persons of war agents.

Wang He didn't know about the war agents, but he thought that it was because of his strong ability that he trained another 50,000 Qin elite soldiers for Daqin in just a few years - although many of them just barely reached the level of Qin elite soldiers, they were also Qin elite soldiers.

In this decisive battle, Wang He directly led 80,000 Qin elite soldiers.

The Battle of Bashu made Wang He realize that Dayu's combat effectiveness had a qualitative leap, but most of them still felt that Changping Jun was incompetent, and Dayu had the big killer weapon of elephant soldiers, which caught Qin off guard!

But this time Yu State didn't have elephant soldiers! He, Wang He, was not as incompetent as Changping Jun.

The two armies lined up on the plain east of the Han River.

The battle was stalemate from the beginning.

After the routine rain of arrows, Wang He pressed all 70,000 Qin elite soldiers into the central army. He wanted to defeat the Dayu central army with absolute strength, and then the most elite legion collided with the Dayu army under Yue Fei's central army.

Yue Fei was fearless and personally commanded 100,000 Beiwei troops to fight a decisive battle with the central Qin army.

The central armies of both sides fought a bloody battle on the vast plain.

The Qin army's elite soldiers were indeed powerful, but Yue Fei's Beiwei army was by no means mediocre.

With a large number of Hu Ben troops as the backbone, there was a large-scale Beiwei army in the Song, Liao, Jin and Xia worlds. In the years since they came to this world, they have never slacked off, especially the previous battle with Bie Gong and the raid in the Chengdu Campaign, which made this army have the strength to confront Qin Ruishi head-on.

In the more than one year of the Battle of Bashu, this army has not stopped training, and has also exchanged ideas with generals such as Xiahou Fa from Qin Ruishi many times. Now it has the capital to compete head-on with Qin Ruishi.

Compared with Qin Ruishi, Yue Fei's troops seem to have more fierce generals. Yang Zaixing, Gao Chong, Yue Yun, Zhang Xian, Niu Gao and others are all first-class fierce generals.

The Beiwei Army with 100,000 people did not fall behind when facing the Qin Ruishi with 70,000 people and a large number of other elite Qin army corps.

This situation made Wang He uneasy.

He did not expect that in just a few years, the Yu Army could actually pull out so many troops that could fight against Qin Ruishi.

[Why does the enemy have so many elite soldiers on the east coast? Is there any conspiracy? ]

Wang He's uneasiness was getting worse.

In his opinion, such an elite level is probably the whole country of Dayu coming, or at least all the elites of this Northern Expedition.

[We must fight quickly and decisively! ]

Wang He made up his mind: "Pass the order, the left and right wings will break through at all costs, defeat the two wings of the enemy, and surround the enemy's center."

Wang He's mind was very clear. As long as the left and right wings formed a breakthrough and surrounded the enemy's center on three sides, then even the strongest army would collapse.

However, not long after his order was passed down, a messenger came to report: "The general's left wing was attacked by the elite of the enemy, and General Sima was killed in battle!"

Wang He: ? ? ?

What's going on?

Wang He was confused.

It turned out that not long ago, Zhao Yun, who was facing the left wing of the Qin army, realized that the Qin army had only more than 5,000 elite soldiers and the rest were ordinary legion elites. He decisively led the Longdan Corps to launch a surprise attack on the left wing of the Qin army. Zhao Yun's generals Hua Rong, Luan Tingyu, Shi Wengong and others led a cavalry to go around and attack from the side.

The Qin general did not expect that the right wing of the Yu army, which seemed to have only 40,000 to 50,000 people and was very weak, was also full of elite soldiers at the level of elite soldiers. They were caught off guard and the Qin general Sima Ke was directly killed by Zhao Yun.

When Wang He's order was issued, the fanatic corps Longdan Corps, led by Zhao Yun and other fierce men, had already penetrated the left wing of the Qin army.

Wang He, who realized that something was wrong, quickly separated some soldiers to defend on the left side of the central army.

However, not long after, another messenger came to report: the right wing of the Qin army could no longer hold on.

Attack Zhang He's troops on the right wing of the Qin army.

Zhang He used his troops skillfully. His training included both halberd cavalry and infantry halberd cavalry. After years of training, although the core legion only had more than 30,000 people, which was less than Zhao Yun's fanatical legion, its combat effectiveness was very good.

As expected, the Qin army suffered a great loss and could no longer hold on.

The fact that Zhao Yun and Zhang He's troops, who were supposed to be on the west bank of the Han River, appeared on the east bank of the Han River actually speaks volumes.

Zhuge Liang had a plan.

This plan was made before the army went north, which was to let Yue Fei's troops go deep into the enemy's territory alone, giving the Qin army an opportunity to take advantage of it.

After the Qin army felt that they had basically figured out the strengths and weaknesses of Yue Fei's troops, they secretly transferred Zhao Yun and Zhang He's troops to Yue Fei's troops to replace the space soldiers originally allocated to Yue Fei's troops, thus causing the Qin army to make a misjudgment.

At this time, if the Qin army could not accept the temptation and went out of the city for a decisive battle, then with the elite troops of Yue Fei, Zhao Yun, and Zhang He, even if they could not win a big victory, they would definitely be able to hold on until the arrival of Dayu's reinforcements.

Of course, it would be even better if they could win the battle.

If the Qin army could resist the temptation, then this unit would, with the cooperation of the navy, go straight to the rear of Xiangyang, form a siege on Dengcheng, cut off Dengcheng's food supply, and cooperate with the main force to trap the enemy in Dengcheng!

It is difficult to attack Dengcheng by force, but it is not difficult to besiege it under the advantage of the navy.

In order to achieve this strategic goal, Zhuge Liang has written a letter to request further support from the navy, and Jia Xu has sent another 100,000 navy and shark troops to Jiang Qin's command.

Jiang Qin is one of the generals who started with Dong Huang. He and Zhou Tai joined Dong Huang together. His position in the navy has always been below Zhou Tai. Although his ability may be inferior to Lu Xun, Dayu has its own national conditions. It has long acquiesced that the navy along the Han River is mainly Jiang Qin.

Fortunately, Jiang Qin, who has experienced many battles, has good ability and listens to advice. It is by relying on strength that he has always been in an advantageous position in the battle with the Qin navy.

In fact, the current naval wars are not so fancy. If you use a trick, it is just a fire attack. As long as you defend it well, Jiang Qin has already done multi-directional reconnaissance.

In the case of a head-on battle, first look at the ships, and then look at the combat effectiveness of the soldiers. These Yu troops have an absolute advantage.

Therefore, even if the Qin army does not fall into the trap this time, Dayu can ensure that Xiangyang will become an isolated city.

Wang He can obviously see it, so the best choice for him is not only to "avoid war and protect ships" like Li Hongzhang, leaving the possibility of ensuring the passage of food and reinforcements, but also to take the initiative to attack.

As long as they can defeat Yue Fei, the Qin army will be alive in strategy, and Zhuge Liang's Northern Expedition can only end hastily, and even the occupied Yancheng and other places may not be able to be saved, because Yancheng has been a dead place for military strategists since Bai Qi made a pattern.

Therefore, as long as Wang He is not too useless, he has only one choice.

As one of Bai Qi's deputy generals, Wang He is certainly not a waste.

But precisely because he was not a waste, his actions had been calculated by Zhuge Liang and others before the Northern Expedition began.

Of course, strategies are strategies, and the ultimate decision of whether the strategy can succeed depends on hard power. Obviously, the current Dayu army has enough hard power.

When Yue Fei and other troops were fighting with Wang He's army, Zhuge Liang's troops and Jiang Qin's troops, who had been using Hai Dongqing's vision to observe the battlefield, immediately took action.

With the support of a part of the navy, Zhuge Liang crossed the Han River, defeated part of the Qin army defending along the Han River, and entered Dengcheng.

The main force of Jiang Qin's troops quickly went upstream along the Han River, making a gesture to attack Wang He's troops from the flank, forcing the Qin navy to fight a decisive battle.

At the same time, Xiahou Lan and Xiahou Fa's troops, who were ambushing in the rear commander space cavalry, also quickly moved to the position of Yue Fei's troops.

The Dayu army attacked on multiple fronts.

Wang He had already realized that the situation was not right from the strong fighting power of Yue Fei's troops, and wanted to fight quickly, but who made his left and right wings weaker!

In order to defeat the Dayu army in one fell swoop, Wang He concentrated all 70,000 elite soldiers in the central army. There were only 5,000 elite soldiers on each of the left and right wings, and they were newly trained elite soldiers, and they were trained by the war agent and his subordinates.

What is the biggest characteristic of these people?

That is disloyalty!

They can't die for the Qin State!

The same is true for the elite soldiers related to the war agent in the central army and the elite of the ordinary army formation!

The war agent asked them to go public by backdoor listing or steal the skills, not to die for the natives of the mission world.

This is also an important reason why the left and right wings of the Qin army were quickly defeated.

Seeing that the left and right wings were defeated, the Yu army had formed a three-sided encirclement, and although the Yue Fei Corps in front of the Dayu army suffered heavy casualties, it still remained motionless. These war agents and their men soon wavered.

Wang He realized that defeat was inevitable. In order to reduce losses, he wanted to order the main force to break out to the right wing and retreat along the Han River relying on the navy. However, as soon as his order was issued, the war agent troops under his command were already in chaos, especially those war agent troops who were ordered to cut off the rear, almost immediately fled in panic.

Some people fled, and the originally organized army behind them immediately became chaotic.

The Battle of Feishui was not won by breaking through the Former Qin Army. On the contrary, most of the Former Qin Army behind them began to flee before they saw the Eastern Jin Army.

The Qin Army's fighting will, organizational ability, and combat quality were undoubtedly far stronger than those of the Former Qin Army. However, after absorbing a large number of war agents and their subordinates, they were no longer pure. Many people did not have the fighting will to be happy to hear about war for military merits.

Although the addition of war agents made the Qin army more human, material and elite, it also reduced the overall fighting spirit of the Qin army.

There were even a large number of war agents trying to win over the Qin army and gain their loyalty, which further reduced the centripetal force of the Qin army.

War agents are a double-edged sword, and at this moment they finally cut the Qin army.

The Qin army's collapse was inevitable.

The veteran Wang He was dragged by the defeated army and finally escaped to Dengcheng with the cooperation of the navy.

There were 250,000 people on the expedition, but less than 10,000 returned. Wang He was so ashamed and angry that he vomited blood and fell into a coma. He died three days later.

In history, Wang He actually died in the third year of Qin Shihuang.

"Historical Records·Volume 6·Qin Shihuang Benji 6": In the third year, Meng Ao attacked Han and took thirteen cities. Wang Zhi died.

Wang Zhi is Wang He.

But Wang He's death at this time was a fatal blow to the morale of the Qin army.

At the beginning, Dayu did not know that Wang He was in a coma and died, but from the loss of command of the Qin army, it was still possible to detect certain problems.

Unfortunately, the Qin army's navy was really timid and would rather cut off their arms than fight a decisive battle with Jiang Qin's troops, which made Dayu's strategy of annihilating the Qin army's navy in one fell swoop fail.

Wang Yue, Wang He's deputy general who witnessed Wang He's defeat, had to take over the burden of guarding Dengcheng, but he was extremely distrustful of Qin Ruishi, especially the newly trained Qin Ruishi.

However, there was no way to distrust.

When Wang He went to war, he only left 20,000 Qin Ruishi in Dengcheng and other places, of which 15,000 were enlisted Qin Ruishi, and there were only 5,000 Ruishi veterans.

Wang Yue had to use these people.

Wang He did bring back about 7,000 defeated soldiers, but they were mixed, and Wang Yue had reason to execute them all just because he forced the main general to flee.

Unfortunately, Wang Yue could not do so at this time.

Wang Yue could only send Wang He's body and the information of the defeat to Xianyang and ask Xianyang for reinforcements.

As an old Qin man, he had the courage to defend to the death.

When the news of Wang He's defeat and death reached Xianyang, the court in Xianyang was speechless for a while.

When Qin Wang Ying Zheng just succeeded to the throne, there were three regent generals, namely Meng Ao, Wang He, and Biao Gong. Wang He was the second in the army during this period.

However, in the few short years since Qin Shihuang succeeded to the throne, Meng Wu, the eldest son of Meng Ao, died in battle, Biao Gong, the third in the army, was defeated and died, and now Wang He, the second in the army, died of shame and anger after being defeated again. For a time, Qin felt that its generals were dying.

Misfortunes never come alone.

Not long after the news of Wang He's death came, the news of the death of another Qin general, Li Chong, also came.

Li Chong was Li Mu's uncle, and he was already very old. He was defeated by his nephew Li Mu, and he was embarrassed, so he didn't survive.

His son Li Yao and grandson Li Xin could only mourn the coffin.

The two even swore to be irreconcilable with Li Mu.

Lü Buwei's reaction was very quick. He immediately ordered Nei Shi Teng to lead the military of Nanyang County and Nan County, and reached an agreement with Zhao Ji to send General Bai Jie to lead troops to rescue.

As for the population and materials needed for the rescue, Lü Buwei aimed at the "rich households" in the intelligence provided by Luowang. These "rich households" who helped the generals and soldiers in the army to donate food and get promoted not long ago seemed to be suspected of hiding weapons and armor.

Lü Buwei would not kill everyone with one stick, but Lü Buwei did not want to let go of any of the rich households related to the Qin Ruishi who lost contact in the Battle of Deng.

After a political struggle, the matter was finally presided over by Li Si, who was considered by Lü Buwei as his own man, and Neishi Si, a subordinate of Queen Mother Zhao, with the cooperation of Luowang and the Qin army.

This action, under the intentional expansion of Queen Mother Zhao, Xu Shu and others, pulled out the radish and brought out the mud, and dealt with more than 2,000 war agents in total, and Xu Shu and other Dayu personnel beheaded more than 1,000 people.

In this process, although many war agent troops rebelled, the scattered rebellions could not make any waves in the face of the thundering Qin army.

After plundering more than 3,000 small cities owned by more than 2,000 war agents, Daqin recovered a wave of blood.

Daqin obtained a large number of slaves, food, and wealth, and Dayu killed a large number of war agents, which can be said to be a win-win situation.

However, distant water cannot quench nearby fires. The reinforcements and responses of the Qin court could not rush to Dengcheng, and the situation in Dengcheng became more and more critical.

Even with the abilities of Zhuge Liang, Yue Fei, Zhao Yun, and Zhang He, there was no way to easily capture Xiangyang. Their strategy was to surround and attack the reinforcements.

In order to achieve this strategy, Dayu once again launched a fierce attack on the Qin navy.

Under the attack at all costs, the remaining Qin navy could only defend the Dengcheng water fort and hand over the water control of the Han River.

The Dayu army then built embankments in Fancheng to block the water and dig canals, making a gesture of flooding Fancheng.

Dengcheng is not suitable for water attack due to its special geographical conditions, but Fancheng is not.

The possibility of a water attack on Fancheng is very high.

If Wang He had not died, then even if Wang He was defeated once, the Fancheng defenders would not completely lose confidence, but Wang Yue did not conceal the news of Wang He's death, and sent Wang He's body to Xianyang, which made Fancheng completely panic.

Now, the main force was defeated, Wang He was killed, Dengcheng was besieged, and reinforcements had not arrived. The enemy army was ready to attack by water, which immediately made people in Fancheng panic.

It had not been long since Bai Qi flooded Yancheng. Fancheng, which was not far from Yancheng, naturally knew the tragic situation of the water attack.

The last straw that broke the camel's back was the appearance of the "Han" army in the north of Fancheng, which had been flying the Taishi flag.

Fancheng certainly knew that the troops of Taishi Ci and Le Jin, who nominally belonged to Han, had been harassing the Nanyang Basin in recent years, and not long ago they also repelled the Nanjun prefect Nei Shiteng.

Now that Taishi Ci's troops appeared here, did it mean that something had happened in Nanyang County?

If something happened in Nanyang, then they would naturally not have any reinforcements here, and it would naturally be a dead end!

At this time, the generals and soldiers of the Qin army who surrendered to the Yu army also came to persuade them to surrender and publicize the great policies of the Yu army.

Under many factors, Fancheng surrendered.

After surrendering, the Fancheng defenders realized that the troops of Taishi Ci were disguised by the Yu army.

The Yu army used psychological tactics throughout the process. But now that things have come to this, what can the Qin army do?

The change of the king's flag on the top of Fancheng means that Dengcheng has completely become a dead place, and its situation is even more difficult than that of Yingdu, which was surrounded by the Great Yu soldiers.

Wang Yue sighed to the sky, knowing that he was in danger, but still wanted to fight to the death.

To his surprise, those newly trained Qin Ruishi were also determined to die, and had no intention of surrendering. In several offensive and defensive battles, they were even more brave.

This made Wang Yue wonder if he had misunderstood them.

But in fact, these people just knew what would happen if they fell into the hands of the Great Yu army, which was also a war agent army.

As long as there was a chance of survival, these war agent armies would rather sell Wang He and ask for life; but if there was no hope of survival, their will to fight to the death was more determined than anyone else.

But, do they really have no hope of survival?

The answer is no!

Their only hope is to escape by boat.

As for where to escape, although everyone has different opinions, in the end, a smart man named Qian Qianyi came up with a brilliant plan: "Now the main force of the Yu army's navy is actually defending the north, and even if we escape back to Qin, we may not be executed by Qin. In this case, why not do the opposite?

After we seize the navy, we will take advantage of the situation and go along the Han River, Yunmeng, Dongting, and upstream along the Xiang River, all the way to the land of Baiyue, and even to Lingnan and Myanmar?

We are temporarily unable to fight in the Central Plains, but with our elite troops, going to those places is like entering an unmanned place? When the time comes, develop for decades and then fight back!"

Qian Qianyi's brilliant plan was finally unanimously agreed by everyone.

So, after gaining the trust of Wang Yue, the more than 20,000 elite war agents who were linked together suddenly rebelled, entered the water fort, seized the navy, and immediately went downstream.

This move confused Wang Yue.

Looking at the empty water fort, Wang Yue was so angry that he cursed.

Zhuge Liang and others were also a little surprised, but what surprised them was that this Qin army did not go north, but chose to go south.

The only remaining navy in Dengcheng was the retreat left by Dayu for the Qin army. In order to make the Qin army take the bait, the Yu army did not watch it so closely. Of course, they did deploy heavy troops around the Han River, especially in the upper reaches, but the Qin army did the opposite, which was beyond everyone's expectations.

Because the south of Dengcheng is all Dayu's territory.

However, it is not a big problem, because the underwater troops of Dayu's navy have been watching it all the time! ——

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