When the Wei army was defeated in Huatai, Yu Lixi rushed to Jixian with 5,000 light cavalry.
When we arrived at Ji County, we did not see the Yong army besieging the city. After entering the city and asking about Qiudui, we found out that the Yong army only appeared near Huojia City. After waiting for a messenger to ask for help from the city, they turned back.
Yong's army was just bluffing and had already left for nearly two days. Yu Li led his light cavalry to come to the rescue. However, he was tired and lacked horses and did not dare to pursue him, so he had to let Yong's army leave.
The Wei army crossed the river and returned to the north bank of the Yellow River. Seeing that the siege of Huatai had been resolved, Mao Xiuzhi led 3,000 county soldiers back to Linqiu City, while Wang Huilong stayed in Huatai City.
Qi Ke urgently recruited military personnel, rebuilt the sentry tower on the south bank of the Yellow River, and re-reinforced the landing area with wooden palisades. After experiencing the Wei army's night attack across the river, the soldiers guarding the sentry tower no longer dared to be careless.
Wang Huilong divided his five thousand light cavalry into two thousand and headed for Xingyang. At this time, he had received news that the reason why the Wei army retreated north was because his uncle Wang Qiang (1) led his army to attack Jixian and implemented the plan of "surrounding Wei and rescuing Zhao". Taiwan turned danger into safety.
Wang Huilong admired this uncle in the clan very much. Wang Qiang was knowledgeable and resourceful. He was much smarter than the heroes he knew in the clan. It's a pity that he was born in a common branch, and the family was limited to distinguishing between direct descendants and could not use it, which resulted in many years of wasted time. From this, it seems that the decline of the family was not without reason.
On the contrary, the protagonist Yang Anxuanhui recognized talents and did not hold grudges over old friendships. He pulled him out of the dust and gave his uncle a chance to show his ambition. Every time he heard his uncle mention the past, he was filled with emotion and his gratitude was beyond words.
When ordered to go to Ruyin City this time, Wang Huilong knew that there was little chance of him returning to Xingyang, and he would probably be retained by his lord to serve in the staff department.
Before leaving Xingyang, Wang Huilong recommended to Yang Anxuan that Wang Qiang should take over Xingyang.
Yang Anxuan ordered Wang Qiang to temporarily manage the military affairs of Xingyang as General Yingyang. This time Wang Qiang led his army to risk crossing the river and attack Ji County to relieve the difficulties of the sliding platform and made great achievements. Taking over the post of Xingyang Governor should not be a problem. Sending two thousand Qingqi to Xingyang will make up for the lack of Qingqi in Xingyang and help Wang Qiang secure Xingyang's defense line.
After learning that the Wei army was defeated after attacking Huatai, Yang Anyuan in Yishi City could not restrain his desire to make meritorious deeds and decided to launch an attack on the Wei army.
Yang Anyuan did not launch a direct attack on Anyi City, but asked Chen Yu to wait for the Yellow River to thaw and lead the navy to Xujin, transport troops and horses from Hongnong County to seize the ferry on the north bank, and then go east to seize Maojin Ferry and fight with the Shaanxian soldiers. The horses gathered together to attack Dayang City (not far southwest of today's Pinglu City).
On February 17, the Yellow River had melted. Chen Yu made a sneak attack at the Xujin North Ferry in the dusk. After a fierce battle for half an hour, he drove away the Wei army stationed there. Ships ferried Yong's army across the river from Hongnong overnight. In the middle of the night, reinforcements from the Wei army arrived. Three thousand Yong troops were already waiting in full formation. The Wei army rushed and retreated.
On February 19, 7,000 Yong troops crossed the river and assembled, leaving 2,000 men to guard Jinkou, while the others headed east along the river to Dayang City. Mo Zheping, the defender of the Wei army in Dayang, knew that the Yong army had crossed the river from Xujin, and it was estimated that the Yong army would attack Dayang City.
There are more than 12,000 Wei troops in Dayang City, 3,000 of whom are stationed on the north bank of Maojin Ferry. There is sufficient food and grass in the city. Even if the 40,000 to 50,000 Yong troops besiege the city, they are confident that they can hold on for three to five months.
Anyi City is more than a hundred miles north of Dayang City, and Nanping Duke can send troops to help within three to five days, so Mo Zheping did not panic, and even the gates of Dayang City were not closed. They just sent out reconnaissance cavalry to investigate the movements of Yong's army, and ordered the troops stationed at the ferry to stand ready.
When he learned that Yong's army was coming from the direction of Xujin and numbered only five or six thousand, Mo Zheping laughed and said: "Yong's army won several battles with the help of gunpowder, and they were so arrogant that they didn't know the heights of the sky. They really thought they could compete with me." Shall we have a showdown with Wei's army? I'm going to send troops to teach these Yong dogs a lesson."
The deputy general was ordered to guard the city, and Mo Zheping led three thousand light cavalry to attack. The five thousand Yong army was led by Jianwu general Xiao Jing. Xiao Jing was originally the commander of the Beifu army. He accompanied Yang Anxuan to rescue Luoyang and became a member of the Yong army ever since.
In the past twenty years, Xiao Jing led his troops to become a fifth-rank Jianwu general. He married a wife and had children in Luoyang, and brought his parents and brothers to Luoyang to settle down. Xiao Jing is very satisfied with everything today and is very grateful to his lord Yang Anxuan. I am also very grateful and glad that I came with Yang Anxuan back then.
Xiao Jing has fought with Yang Anxuan for many years and knows
The Wei army in Dayang City will send light cavalry to attack. The 5,000 soldiers and horses he leads are mostly infantry and cannot resist the enemy's light cavalry. All they rely on are the accompanying 400 chariots and ordnance.
When Yang Anxuan set up Queyue Formation in Hejia Village outside Yanshi City to defeat the Qin army's light and heavy cavalry, Xiao Jing was also one of them. This battle made Xiao Jing admire Yang Anxuan to the ground. Later, Queyue Formation repeatedly made military exploits on the battlefield. The general defeated tens of thousands of Wei's light cavalry in Liyangjin, which made all the athletes in the army feel inspired.
This time Xiao Jing was ordered to attack Dayang City, so he thought that if he could use Queyue Formation to defeat the Wei army once, he would be able to talk to the robes with honor in the future.
The advance report revealed that the Wei army's 3,000 light cavalry were more than ten miles away. Xiao Jing hurriedly ordered the chariots to be arranged in an arc along the river, set up crossbows on the chariots, and stood ready.
Soon, Mo Zheping arrived with his light cavalry and saw the arc-shaped formation deployed by Yong's army. Abogan suffered a disastrous defeat in Liyangjin. Yu Lihuan reported the characteristics of the Yong army's formation to Tuoba Si and gave a method to solve it: use a small number of light cavalry to cruise outside, induce the Yong army's crossbows to fire crossbows, mobilize catapults, Ballistas, siege engines and other objects should be able to destroy them.
General Tuoba Si informed the generals about Yong's army's formation, and Mo Zheping naturally knew how to break it. Seeing Yong Jun displaying the "tortoise shell" again, he immediately sent an order: "Go to Dayang City to deploy catapults to defeat the enemy."
Xiao Jing fully expected Wei Qi to come and kill him with his iron crossbow, but Wei Qi stopped more than 200 steps away, and occasionally sent more than a dozen cavalry to spy, but they were still far away from each other.
Seeing that the Wei army had no intention of attacking at all, Xiao Jing's heart became heavy. It seemed that the Wei army had found a way to defeat the enemy after the Queyue formation had been defeated many times. However, the Queyue formation was well defended and difficult to attack. If the Wei army did not attack, there was really nothing he could do. . If Wei Qi was allowed to transport catapults, wells and other items, the soldiers in the formation would have nowhere to escape.
As a general, you must know how to adapt to changes. Since Wei Jun has learned not to rush into battle, he can only find another way. Xiao Jing calculated the fighting strength at hand. He had five thousand soldiers, including one thousand archers, all carrying three bags of arrows; four hundred chariots, four hundred wolf spears, two hundred crossbows, and three thousand iron spears; long swords and choppers. Six hundred axes.
The baggage and rations were carried away by the navy on ships. The five thousand soldiers and horses of his were considered lightly armed, and the navy might come to support them at any time. This place is about thirty miles away from Dayang City. Unable to wait for the Wei army to transport catapults from the city, Xiao Jing decided to take the risk and attack.
Untie the iron chains of the chariots and let the soldiers push the chariots forward slowly. Set up a crossbow in every two chariots and let the wolf warriors fill the exposed gaps. The archers followed closely behind the chariot. If the Wei army's light cavalry broke into the formation, they would use long swords and axes to deal with the horse's legs.
In order to prevent the Wei army from bypassing the car formation and attacking from both sides, Xiao Jing was well prepared. He expected to encounter the Wei army's light cavalry in advance, so he specially carried two hundred bags of caltrops. One bag contained three to four hundred caltrops. , every three soldiers were responsible for a bag of caltrops, which was thrown on both sides of the chariot.
When Mo Zheping saw Yong's army taking the initiative to attack, he laughed and said: "Yong's army is so poor that they have to come and die. Sons, cut off their dog heads and build a Jingguan."
Divide the three thousand light cavalry into three parts. The middle thousand cavalry shoots arrows at the chariot formation from a distance, and the other two teams copy the Yong army's retreat from the left and right sides.
Seeing that Wei Jun had been caught by his surprise, Xiao Jing placed the direction of attack on the side of the chariot. He waved the command flag and moved the thousands of archers to the two wings. The chariots at both ends also slowed down and gradually formed an arc. The soldiers guarded the formation.
Mo Zheping led Qianqi to attack the left side of the chariot formation. Seeing Yong's army slowly changing formations, he sneered: "Hurry up, boys, I will kick Yong's army's ass hard."
Horse hooves rolled, and the Yong army a hundred steps away fled in panic. Wei Qi waved his scimitar and howled loudly, as if the Yong army in front of him were a group of lambs waiting to be slaughtered.
The war horses rushed towards Yong's army like the wind. They were still more than forty steps away from Yong's army, with only sporadic arrows blocking them. This point was only a few breaths away. Mo Zheping was calm in his heart, raised his sword crazily and said with a smile: " We are going to build a huge Beijing temple so that the Yong people will no longer dare to look north."
Before he could finish his words, a sudden change occurred, and the mounts beside him hissed and jumped, and some even fell forward directly. Mo Zheping reined in his horse, and the horse he was riding suddenly jumped up. Mo Zheping jumped off the horse's back and fell heavily to the ground. Severe pain came from his body, and Mo Zheping was horrified to find that the ground was covered with caltrops.
The screams of the horses were endless, and Wei Qi, who was fighting with all his strength, could not stop at all. He threw himself into the caltrop formation like moths flying into the flames. In an instant, more than a hundred horses fell to the ground, but Wei Qi behind him still could not stop. Stop and keep charging towards the caltrop formation.
At this time, arrows rained down, and Mo Zheping closed his eyes, thinking, "My life is at stake." The guards beside him rushed over and blocked him. Mo Zheping could feel the twitching and shaking on his back, and the hot blood flowed down his neck.
When the bodyguard on his back stopped moving, Mo Zheping gritted his teeth to prevent himself from howling.
Wei Qi finally recovered from the attack of arrows. Someone jumped off his horse and ran to the ground with a round shield to save the moth. Mo Zheping stood up under the protection of the shield, glanced at his bodyguards who were full of arrows, gritted his teeth and pulled three caltrops from his body, and said in a hoarse voice: "Evacuate this place first."
After walking more than ten steps, the sound of "Beng Beng" sounded, and Yong Jun's bed crossbow shot out the iron spear. Mo Zheping had to lie on the ground in disgrace again, waiting for the iron spear to fly by before crawling forward.
After leaving the iron caltrop formation, someone brought a war horse for Mo Zheping to ride on. Mo Zheping stroked the bleeding wound under his ribs and looked at the hundreds of men lying down in front of him. He could no longer muster the courage to charge and kill them.
The wound was bleeding and needed to be treated back to the city. Mo Zheping turned his horse's head and loudly ordered: "Retreat to Dayang City."
Under the iron spears fired by the Yong army's bed crossbows, Wei Qi abandoned more than 500 corpses and fled back to Dayang City in panic.
On February 22, Xiao Jing led his army to the north bank of Maojin Crossing, and jointly launched an attack with the navy led by Chen Yu to attack the Wei army stationed at Maojin Crossing. The Wei army asked for help from Mo Zheping in the city.
Mo Zhiping was stabbed in the abdominal ribs by a caltrop. The wound became infected and inflamed. He had a high fever and was sometimes conscious and sometimes comatose. After learning that the Yong army had stormed Maojin Ferry, he ordered the Wei army guarding the crossing to withdraw to Dayang City, and ordered people to urgently seek help from Changsun Song of Anyi City. Before he could arrange for someone to take over the military affairs, he passed out again.
"Note (1): Corrected a previous mistake. Although Wang Qiang and Wang Huilong are about twenty years apart in age, their relationship should be that of grandson and grandson. Wang Qiang first followed Wang Xu, and the two were brothers, and Wang Xu was related to Wang Guo Bao's same generation, Wang Guobao and Wang Huilong's grandfather Wang Yu are brothers, so Wang Qiang should be Wang Huilong's grandfather according to his generation. In the previous article, there was an error in writing the clan uncle, and it is difficult to correct it due to difficulty in searching. I would like to inform you and apologize for this. "
