At dawn the next day, more than 12,000 Qin troops, under the leadership of Xiahoudun, finally rushed to the street pavilion.
Xiahoudun originally thought that the street pavilion was a critical place, and most of its cities were also a strong city, but what he saw in front of him made Xiahoudun a little surprised.
It was a small city, no more than a mile in circumference, the walls were less than two feet high, and the walls were dilapidated, and they had just been strengthened by less than half.
Obviously, such a small city must be quite difficult to resist the siege of more than ten times the Wei army.
Xiahoudun frowned, so he ordered the army to temporarily camp outside the city and not enter the city to garrison first.
The Qin army rushed all the way from Xiangwu City, all of them were exhausted, and all the soldiers breathed a sigh of relief, camped and rested.
Xiahoudun himself led dozens of horsemen and left Jieting City to inspect the geographical situation around him.
Just after Xiahoudun left, the deputy general Wang Ping rushed over and said: "General, the Wei army may be killed at any time, we should enter the city as soon as possible and build a city wall, why did the general ask the army to camp outside the city?"
"Ben will do this, he has the deep meaning of Ben Jiang, you just obey the order, where did so much nonsense come from."
Xiahoudun glared at Wang Ping.
Wang Ping was choked, his expression was slightly embarrassed, he knew that Xiahoudun was a general, who was in a high position in the Qin State, and his personality had always been a little domineering and arbitrary, and he was not a general of the Cao family's cronies, but a general in Shu, Xiahoudun did not have a good face for himself, which was normal.
In desperation, Wang Ping didn't want to touch the nails again, so he had to leave silently, and ordered the soldiers to set up camp.
Xiahoudun galloped his horse and inspected along the Longshan Road crossing east of the street pavilion.
Xiahoudun was proficient in the art of war, and soon saw that although this street pavilion was located at the general entrance of the five roads of Longshan Avenue, the geographical location was extremely important, but its city was not solid, and its city was not rooted on the pass, but for the convenience of taking water, it was built on an open ground, and the surrounding terrain was quite flat, enough for 100,000 troops to deploy.
"This kind of terrain is not conducive to sticking to it" Xiahoudun was secretly worried in his heart, and continued to inspect the terrain.
Suddenly, Xiahoudun's eyes lit up and he restrained his horse.
He saw a lonely cliff, so abruptly standing on the southeast side of the crossing, the cliff is steep, the trees are luxuriant, and it is not connected with the surrounding mountains, and it is a situation of its own.
This lonely cliff attracted Xiahoudun's attention, so he turned his horse to the bottom of the cliff slope, raised his eyes and looked up, and found that this lonely cliff mountain is relatively flat and wide below, and the higher it goes, the narrower it is.
However, if you want to garrison troops, you have to see if there is enough space on the top of the cliff, and whether there is a water intake, so Xiahoudun abandoned his horse and climbed to the top of the cliff on foot.
After climbing nearly hundreds of feet high, Xiahoudun gasped for breath and stepped on the top of the lonely cliff, and his eyes were bright again.
Not only was it a light up, but there was even a trace of ecstasy in Xiahoudun's eyes.
Because the momentum on the top of this lonely cliff is far from being as narrow as it can be seen from below, on the contrary, the top of this cliff seems to have been flattened by the invisible axe of nature, and the entire cliff top is more than 100 steps in circumference, and it is all flat land.
Such an open and flat terrain is conducive to the stationing of troops, enough to lay down nearly 10,000 soldiers and horses.
"This is really a good place to camp" Xiahoudun nodded slightly, his tight brows slowly loosened, and he stood on the top of the cliff and looked down.
To the northwest, Jieting City is right under the nose, and not far to the north, Longshan Road is not far from the mountain.
Xiahoudun observed on the lonely cliff for a long time, and after muttering for a long time, he went down the mountain and rode his horse straight back to the camp.
Subsequently, he immediately summoned the generals, issued a new order, changed the established tactics, and changed the whole army to camp on a lonely cliff.
As soon as these words came out, the expressions of all the generals changed, and Wang Ping's face also changed in shock, and he couldn't help asking: "The general doesn't guard the street pavilion, but suddenly wants to camp on the lonely cliff, why is this?"
Xiahoudun opened the curtain of the tent, pointed to the street pavilion city not far away, and said in a deep voice: "This street pavilion city has thin walls, you have all seen it, and its terrain on all sides is very wide, which is just conducive to the Wei army to give full play to the advantages of many soldiers, such a city, is not conducive to holding at all, if we choose to camp in the city, I am afraid that it will not last half a month to be broken by the Wei army." ” After that, Xiahou Xuan's eyes were bright, and he pointed to the direction of the lonely cliff, and said excitedly: "But Ben Jiang Shicai personally saw the terrain of the lonely cliff, which happened to sit next to the crossing, the mountain is steep, easy to defend and difficult to attack, and the top of the cliff is extremely flat, which is conducive to the garrison, there is such a good and dangerous place, of course the general will go to defend there." ” Xiahou said a lot of words, expressing his judgment, and he stroked his beard lightly, his expression was flying, and looking at the momentum, he was quite complacent about his decision.
Most of the generals were persuaded by his words, and they all nodded their heads in agreement.
Wang Ping said worriedly: "But the general, Your Majesty is asking us to stick to the general entrance of the Five Roads and the Jieting City, and the general is not disobeying Your Majesty by doing this."
"Will the foreign monarch not give the order, will this truth still be taught to you by this general?"
Xiahoudun flicked his hand and drank Wang Ping, and said proudly: "Your Majesty asked us to be stationed in Jieting City, the purpose is to prevent the Wei army from advancing westward, and now the army will be stationed on the lonely cliff, and choose a more dangerous place to camp, although it violates Your Majesty's camping strategy, but it is more conducive to preventing the Wei army from advancing westward, but it is better to complete the task assigned by Your Majesty, is there anything wrong with this?"
Xiahou said a word, blocking Wang Ping to the point of speechlessness.
Wang Ping is also a person who is proficient in the art of war, although he is disgusted by Xiahoudun's domineering attitude, but he has to admit in his heart that Xiahoudun's analysis is very reasonable.
Even he himself felt weak in his heart, and felt that the street pavilion was so dilapidated that it was really a headache to defend it with only more than 10,000 soldiers and horses.
After a moment of silence, Wang Ping said again: "What the general said is reasonable, as long as you can defend the street pavilion, camping on a lonely cliff may be a better choice, but the general is well versed in the art of war, and naturally he should also know that although the camping mountain occupies a steep position, if the Wei army surrounds the mountain and cuts off the way to draw water, the consequences will be unimaginable." ” Xiahoudun smiled, laughing sarcastically, that expression, as if Wang Ping was a child and ignorant.
Wang Ping's face changed slightly, and he became embarrassed again.
Xiahoudun had already put away his smile and said arrogantly: "This general has been marching for decades, this little bit of superficial truth, can't you still teach it?"
When Shicai Ben inspected the mountain, he had already found that the lonely cliff had two water sources, one bright and one dark, the bright water source was the small river that flowed in front of the cliff, and the dark water was a spring at the back of the mountain. ” Xiahoudun said this, Wang Ping had nothing to say, and he couldn't find any flaws.
In this battle, they brought enough military rations to come, and there was the danger of a lonely cliff, and there was no threat of being cut off from the water, and from the perspective of various objective conditions, Xiahoudun's decision to camp on the lonely cliff was indeed the wisest.
Seeing that Wang Ping had no objections, Xiahoudun nodded with satisfaction, and then passed down the order, and he led 9,000 elites to move to the top of the lonely cliff, while Wang Ping led 3,000 infantry to guard the dark spring behind the mountain.
Although Wang Ping always felt a little uneasy in his heart, he couldn't raise any objections, so he had to act according to the order.
So, that night, Xiahoudun led 10,000 Qin troops to camp and began to move the camp to the lonely cliff.
Longshan Avenue.
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When Xiahoudun arrived at Jieting, Bai Qi had already led 70,000 Wei troops to ride on foot, crossed Longshan Avenue, and marched all the way to the location of Jieting City, and the forward was only more than 40 miles away from Jieting.
At dawn the next day, Bai Qi led his army to ten miles east of Jieting, where the scouts who had arrived in advance sent back information, claiming that Xiahoudun, the general of Qin, had led more than 10,000 soldiers and horses to Jieting in advance.
The street pavilion is the throat of Longshan, how can the Qin army not be guarded, and the appearance of Xiahoudun is expected by Bai Qi.
Bai Qi then ordered the army to continue to move forward, and at noon, he led 70,000 male soldiers to finally kill at the intersection of the street pavilion.
When the army arrived, Bai Qi ordered the soldiers to go down to the village five miles east of Jieting City to make a little rectification, and he and his deputy general Li Guang, with a team of soldiers and horses, went to inspect the situation of the enemy army.
Bai Qi originally thought that the main force of the Qin army would be stationed in Jieting City, and he was ready to besiege the city according to the city.
After this investigation, Bai Qi was quite surprised, he found that Xiahoudun did not stick to the street pavilion, but instead planted all the soldiers and horses on the lonely cliff in the southeast of the city.
"Xiahoudun didn't stick to the street pavilion, but ran to this lonely cliff, what tricks is he playing" Li Guang looked at the lonely cliff with a puzzled face.
Bai Qi pondered for a moment, but he smiled and sighed: "This Xiahoudun is worthy of being the general of the Qin State, and he is also proficient in the art of war." ” Li Guang was stunned, his eyes suspicious.
Bai Qi raised his horsewhip and pointed to the street pavilion from afar: "Look at this street pavilion city, the city wall is thin and low, the radius is not more than a mile, the surrounding terrain is quite open, although the geographical location is important, but there is no danger to be feared, my army is surrounded, and it will be broken in less than ten days." ” Then, Bai raised his horsewhip and pointed to the lonely cliff, "Xiahoudun is proficient in the art of war, and he can't fail to see the truth in this, and he can see that this lonely cliff is steep, and it is located next to the general entrance of the five roads, which is an excellent place for soldiers, so he will put the soldiers and horses on the cliff." ” Bai Qi's words clearly analyzed the situation between the enemy and us, which made Li Guang suddenly realize.
Li Guang nodded and said, "You're right, this Xiahoudun is indeed a great character, I just hate that we didn't kill him at that time."
So what do we do now, in your opinion?"
"Do you still need to ask, we have made a military order to Your Majesty, take the street pavilion within ten days, don't say that Xiahoudun tied the soldiers and horses on the cliff, even if he is rooted in the sky, we have to take it down" Bai Qi's eagle eyes shot at the lonely cliff, shot at the "Xiahoudun" battle flag, and the murderous aura rose again, and said sharply: "Pass the order, the army will rest for one night, and as soon as it dawns tomorrow, I will attack the cliff for the general and kill all the Qin thieves" isjgy: