Liu Jian spurted blood and fainted, and it was difficult to say whether he was really unconscious.
It took nearly five days for the 80,000 Jin troops to come from the south bank of Huaishui to the north bank, and generally speaking, the current Jin soldiers are really high in terms of morale and morale, because they were informed that they had won a big victory, and a friendly army had wiped out a certain Han army or something.
Because the truth is only in the hands of a very small number of high-level officials, the non-commissioned officers and middle- and low-level officers of the Jin army basically believe in their own victory somewhere.
Some people with brains and thinking don't dare to open their mouths even if they guess that the victory is fake.
A false victory really aroused the confidence of the soldiers of the Jin army, otherwise the 80,000 Jin army should not have completed the crossing of the Huaishui in only five days, and under normal circumstances, even if the 80,000 army was fully prepared, it would have taken ten days and half a month.
Xie Shi asked Liu Jian, who might be unconscious, to be carried down, and stood speechless for a long time before looking at his brother Xie Shang, and said: "It is true that only by fighting to the death can we win the victory, and the longer it drags on, there is no other way but to withdraw to the south bank, and even if it drags on any longer, it may not be possible to retreat safely." ” Since the crossing of the Huaishui, the Jin army has lost nearly 10,000 yuan, and Liu Jian has changed from a good full crew to an empty shell of General Yingyang.
According to Liu Jian's explanations, they probably wiped out seven or eight thousand Han troops, which shows that the Jin army, which has high morale, is not unable to compete with the Han army.
Of course, Xie Shi and the others really couldn't believe that the Han army had been wiped out by seven or eight thousand, and they discounted it with a conservative mentality, thinking that the Han army would still lose three or four thousand.
After saying those words, Xie Shi had no extra hesitation, and without waiting for Xie Shang to respond, he said with a more determined expression: "Block the news of the destruction of Liu Jian's department, announce that Liu Jian's department has wiped out seven or eight thousand Han troops, no longer consolidate the camp, try his best to boost the morale of the whole army, and pour out to fight the Han army."
Xie Shang nodded very calmly.
The war is not only in the Huaishui area of Bagong Mountain, Shouchun and Dangtu have long been inseparable, and the information gathered is that the attacking Jin army has all been frustrated, and when Tu is even counterattacked by the Han army to the city, Shouchun is successfully crossed by the Han army.
In response to the possible collapse, Xie Shi had already sent an expedited horse to Jiankang, asking the center to send reinforcements to reinforce it, and the troops in the rear were to reinforce Shouchun and Dangtu.
It doesn't really matter what the strategy was before the war, it was just a feasible plan, and the arrangement was made in order to achieve what kind of goal, and as much as possible to cover what would happen.
It's not that the Jin army's side has not done a plan that has not succeeded, and it can even be said that the worst outcome has been prepared for prevention.
For example, if Xie Shi's Jin army is finished, Guozhang Chu Li should ensure that the Liyang County and other fronts behind him can resist the Han army.
In fact, the current small court of the Eastern Jin Dynasty is still quite funny, the small court redrew the territory map, such as Youzhou, Qingzhou, Yanzhou, and Yuzhou are those states that are not in control anyway, and the area under control is marked with a piece of land, and it is named after a range that is not much larger than a county, and then the place that is not much larger than a county is called Qingzhou, Youzhou and so on.
Therefore, in the worst plan predetermined by the small court of the Eastern Jin Dynasty, you can see the plan to defend a certain state and a certain state everywhere, once Xie Shi's side is finished, Chu Li, the national abbot in Jiankang, will become the governor of several "states", leading the Jin army to defend the territory of several "states".
After nightfall, Xu Zheng once again received a war letter sent by Xie Shi, in which he agreed that the two armies would set up a battle tomorrow.
"With the credit of the puppet dynasty, it is very likely that they will come to steal the camp tonight" Tiao Yu paused with a full smile, waiting for everyone to follow suit, and then continued: "In order not to let them be like frightened rabbits, they will retract after jumping twice, do you want to?"
A burst of laughter broke out, and the generals and colonels in the military tent were all trembling with laughter, even Xie An, who was in a very complicated mood, smiled.
The use of strategy to assist in the victory or defeat of a war has always been the mainstream of the Chinese battlefield, but many times strategy is not so important, mainly because any strategy is based on relevant strength.
That night, there were really Jin troops who wanted to come to attack at night, but they were discovered before they were close enough to the camp of the Han army, and the Jin army that was sent out was basically wiped out by the Han army that had been prepared, and only a few fled back.
Four or five thousand people were thrown in overnight, and a series of unfavorable divisions filled the hearts of the high-level of the Jin army with shadows, but fortunately, the Han army did not take the initiative to attack, as if they were really waiting for the start of the hunt.
In order to boost morale, Xie Shi had to continue to falsify and inform the whole army that last night's attack on the camp had achieved great results, and the Han army had suffered heavy losses and low morale.
In the early hours of the morning, Xie Shi, who had not slept all night, summoned all the generals and ordered the slaughter of cattle for the soldiers to have a good meal, and ordered in everyone's shocked expressions: "I have ordered the navy to evacuate, the navy will not return after this battle is invincible, and the whole army will be notified after the soldiers have a full meal." ” "Learn the old things of breaking the cauldron and sinking the boat" Sun Sui could feel Xie Shi's will to make up his mind, and said with a smile: "It's okay, the overlord and the marquis of Huaiyin were both put to death and then reborn, arousing the soldiers' will to fight to the death and win a big victory." ” Of course, the Marquis of Huaiyin is Han Xinluo, his "last battle" is very famous in military history, and it is a battle example that countless generals who are not in an advantage want to learn, but not many people can copy it.
The current Xie Shi is much higher in temperament than before, and he can no longer see hesitation and hesitation, some are just firm.
Xie Shi actually understood that the Han army's repeated static braking was not stupid, on the contrary, the Han army's static braking made all the Jin army's conspiracies lose room for fermentation, if they hesitated and waited for the truth of the matter to let the soldiers know, the illusory high morale would fall directly to the bottom, and even collapse without a fight would happen to the Jin army.
The enlightened Xie Shi knew the seriousness of the matter, and he really had to fight to the death, otherwise even if the whole army retreated to the south bank of Huaishui safely, the Jin army, which lost confidence in victory, not to mention maintaining the previous strong morale, might even lose the confidence to defend at the beginning.
The commander's will is firm, and no matter how many ideas the generals below have, they are also converged, first of all, the thinking of the top level of the Jin army is unified, and the result driven by the generals is that the army's desire to fight is becoming stronger and stronger.
Liu Jian, who had lost his troops, approached Xie Shi, who asked Xie Shi to allocate some troops under his command and strongly requested to join the war again.
Xie Shi didn't have the time to pursue Liu Jian's disobedience for the time being, on the contrary, he really needed the indomitable Liu Jian's warlike heart, and just made a little necessary beating to supplement Liu Jian's troops.
"If this battle is won, everything is easy to say" Xie Shi faced Sun Sui's strange face and explained: "If we lose, we will either die on the battlefield or be captured, and some things can only be put aside temporarily." ” The Han army behaved fairly civilized in this invasion, not as brutal as it was in the Central Plains with the Hu people, and the surrendered Jin army, whether it was a soldier or an officer, was just a guard, and if the Hu people were to slaughter the leaders and turn the prisoners of war into lowly slaves.
Furthermore, every time the Han army occupies a place, it only deals with the local heroes, although it is impossible for ordinary people to do it in autumn, but there is no place for tea poison.
The darkness before dawn was replaced by the white of the fish in the east in the dense smoke of cooking, the light of the morning sun showered the earth again, and the drums were beaten on both sides of the Han army and the Jin army.
Before going to the battlefield, the soldiers of the Jin army were informed that their naval army had withdrawn, and Xie Shi even ordered to burn all the grain after only three days of dry rations, and kept shouting: "I will go to glory with all the kings, and if we win, we will go to glory together, and if we lose, we will die together." ” Suddenly there was such a scene, the soldiers of the Jin army were actually quite confused, the withdrawal of the navy meant that they had lost their way out, and they only had three days of dry food to represent that they could not fight for a long time, and it was absolutely false that they were not panicked.
"The commander of the Han army has already informed the whole army" Xie Shi's words will naturally be repeated by others, and he roared: "The Han army will kill all of us if it wins this battle, and there will definitely be no one left."
After victory, it will go straight south of the Yangtze River.
For the lives of all the kings and for the fathers and elders of the homeland, our army must win" Of course, Xu Zheng didn't inform the whole army of those fuck-up words, and Xie Shi did this just to make the Jin soldiers desperate.
Xie Shi's methods were very bad, but looking at the appearance of the Jin army, it seemed to be very effective The Jin army first fell into a long silence, some pre-arranged "tuo" took the lead in shouting, and soon some soldiers followed and shouted, and in a moment the whole army was shouting and killing.
The same is the side of the Han army, which has just finished breakfast and left the camp, the officer led the soldiers to the position where they should be waiting for the formation, and in the midst of the busyness, the earth-shattering shouts of killing came.
The Han army generals who were on the top of a hill watching their own army and the Jin army in the distance stopped talking when they heard the shouts of killing, and looked at the Jin army in the distance with different expressions.
Since the battle, the first stage of the offensive and defensive battles of the two armies actually won and lost each other, it can only be said that the Jin army will appear more serious in terms of losses, and it is difficult to distinguish a clear high and low in morale, but the Jin army has never shown the whole army boiling before the battle.
"No matter what method the enemy commander uses, the morale of the Jin army is really pushed to the peak."
Tiao You's expression was very serious at this moment, and he said, "You can smell the smell of fighting to the death in the call. ” As for what tricks Xie Shi did before the battle, the Han army generals can only guess, and when they see the sky-high pillar of smoke, they have already guessed some truths, and Tiao You is one of them.
"Withdraw the navy, burn the military rations, and there may be some rumors."
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Xu Zheng was different from the seriousness on Tiao You's face, and said in a very relaxed tone: "They want to fight to the death, and satisfy them." ” Xie An can't be seen on the top of the mountain, he and many generals left the Chinese army last night, it is difficult to say what the others are doing or where, he was ordered to rush to the upper reaches of Huaishui overnight, and the order he got was that once the main battlefield of Huaishui started, he would directly attack Zhongli along the way, and then swept all the way south.
The Han army that was preparing to fight with Xie Shi's main force had always been about 50,000, and Xu Zheng was very obedient to withdraw the fleet in Huaishui, and honestly placed the troops in a place twenty miles north of Huaishui, even if it was to attack Shouchun and Dangtu's Han soldiers under the city, it was not a breach of the contract.
The Han troops on the outer battlefields who were about to launch an offensive were not part of the agreement.
Xu Zheng made up his mind at the beginning, no matter what Xie Shi wanted to do, he watched coldly, and the conspiracy that should be carried out on the outer battlefield was not relaxed at all, the trustworthiness of the Han State had already been shown, and the small court of the Eastern Jin Dynasty only focused on the main battlefield and ignored other places, and in the final analysis, it could only be said that the small court of the Eastern Jin Dynasty showed stupidity again.
Don't forget that the Han army is not only Xu Zheng's headquarters, at the beginning of the Han army's southern invasion was to arrange three roads, Xu Zheng was in the Huaishui battlefield, not necessarily the Han State regarded this side as the main battlefield, Huan Wen and Xie Ai at any time can take on the main force of the main attack as needed.
For Xu Zheng, ensuring the effective progress of the southern invasion is the main thing, whether they defeat the Jin army on their side, or whether Huan Wen or Xie Ai break through the Jin army's defenses and kill in, the process is not important, and the goal is that the southern invasion of the Han army can destroy the small court of the Eastern Jin Dynasty.
On the battlefield, the drums on both sides did not stop from the beating, first the Jin army began to advance to the north, and then the Han army also advanced to the south, and soon the two armies stopped three miles apart.
The flags are displayed on the battlefield everywhere, the flags are hunting in the wind, and the soldiers on both sides are standing under different flags, and they may try very hard to see the faces of the soldiers of different camps on the opposite side, but it looks blurry.
Xie Shi, dressed in a gorgeous and gorgeous military uniform, rode out of the crowd on a majestic war horse, protected by five hundred troops who were also riding war horses.
Xu Zheng, who was originally staying at the top of the mountain, also came to the front of the battle, he originally expected that Xie Shi would have a meeting before the battle, but he didn't expect it to happen.
The commander of the enemy army has the courage to come out in front of the battle, he can't show his cowardly side, otherwise it will be an opportunity to give Xie Shi to boost morale.
The commanders of the two armies marched forward with the necessary contingent of defenders, and there was no sound on the battlefield except the sound of banners and the neighing of horses.
Xu Zheng and Xie Shi stopped at a distance of about ten paces from each other, both of them looking at each other, and their respective guards were on full alert in case of accidents.
Xie Shi looked at Xu Zheng very seriously, the expression on his face became more and more resolute, and the hand that deliberately stayed behind sent a signal to the back, and he himself very suddenly pulled out the bow and arrow on the side of the war horse and shot without saying a word.
Xu Zheng is not blind, he just didn't expect Xie Shi to be so shameless, he almost shot arrows with many accompanying guards at the same time as the Jin army shot arrows Xie Shi actually kicked the horse's belly after shooting and turned the horse's head, and without looking at the result, he came to a dustless horse gallop, while constantly shouting "The main general of the Han army is dead", and then shouted: "Attack, attack, the whole army attack":