The reason why the Han army was able to set up camp overnight was naturally not because of the help of some gods. Rather, Zhou Buyi has specially developed the ability to move around quickly. While at Taixue, he and Liu Xie studied arithmetic and military science many times. Among all the matters before the war, they thought that building the camp was the most time-consuming, so he was ingenious and conducted a special study on it. Whenever he rides on a horse, he can immediately calculate the material consumption of building a camp based on the horse's steps, regardless of whether the terrain is flat or not, whether it is a wetland or a mountain plain.
This time he personally built the camp in Hefei, and it really achieved miraculous results. He arrived at the camp location at two o'clock in the morning and spent half an hour walking around before he had a plan in mind. It only took him a quarter of an hour to assign tasks to the generals. The orders were distributed, and the ministries acted according to the orders. Sure enough, the camp was built before Mao hour of the next day, without even delaying the breakfast of the next day.
Seeing that the Han army's camp was completed, Quan Cong had to go back and reconsider Zhang Zhao's plans. After all, the Wu armies in Shouchun and Bagong Mountain both relied on water transportation from the Feishui River for supplies, while the Han army's camp was built at a bay on the Feishui River, called Xiaotaiwei. The Han army camped here, clearly intending to block the Wu people's water transportation, which would change the entire war situation.
Quan and Zhang analyzed this: In the long run, if the Han army is allowed to take root here, the Wu people will have only two choices strategically, either to change water transportation to land transportation and fall into a competition with the Han army in material losses. Dilemma; either transfer the navy in Shouchun and attack the Han army in Xiaotaiwei with the Wu army in Hefei, but success or failure is still between. At that time, how to defend Shouchun and Bagong Mountain will be another problem faced by the Wu people. Therefore, the best plan now is to try to make the Han army retreat quickly.
But how to do it? After careful consideration, I found that there were only two strategies: one was to immediately go to Xiaotaiwei to cut the camp while the Han army was resting. If the camp was successful, the Han army would of course retreat; There must not be much. As long as people are sent to intercept the Han army's food and grass, the Han army will naturally retreat due to hunger.
Quan Cong thought over and over again and believed that with a weak military strength, it was too risky to forcibly seize the camp. If it failed, even Hefei would be at risk of falling. After careful consideration, he finally planned to go out of the city to grab food. However, how could Zhou Buyi give him this opportunity? The whole army had just rested for a day, and Zhou Buyi sent Hao Zhao and Huo Yi to move the camp to the foot of Hefei City, and happened to bump into Quan Cong who was opening the door to leave the city.
Quan Cong saw that the number of Han troops was not large, so he suddenly thought of having a small battle with the enemy to test the situation. Unexpectedly, before the order was issued, they heard the Han army on the opposite side shout: "Soldiers on the opposite side, listen, Sun Zhongmou betrayed the emperor's favor, arbitrarily peeped at the throne, acted against the will, usurped his relatives and hid his position, it is clear. Today, people are angry and resentful, causing long-term illness. His life is long gone! Why are you still stubbornly resisting and giving up your lives for him? Do you still want to die with him? Before our army came, His Majesty had a holy word. Anyone who defected before the formation, abandoned his bow and arrow and surrendered, will not be punished. , the country hires people based on their talents. Sun Quan is the only one to be punished!"
After saying that, Quan Cong suddenly secretly screamed that something was wrong. After the Battle of Huaibei, Sun Quan fell seriously ill. Although he is getting better now, he is still unable to travel and see things. Therefore, there is a lot of criticism in the army. The Han army raised this point and then surrendered, which almost hit the Wu army's weakness. He had no intention of fighting anymore and immediately planned to lead his army back to the city. However, before the order was given, he saw dozens of scattered people in the team running towards the Han army. This caused a commotion among the Wu troops who were leaving the city. Quan Cong quickly asked his followers to shoot arrows at the fleeing people, killing several people in a row, so that it did not turn into a bigger commotion.
But this almost completely dispelled the Wu army's will to fight the Han army. Under Zhang Zhao's care, the Wu army on the city fired arrows at the attacking Han army, which made Quan Cong escape back to the city in embarrassment.
Seeing Zhang Zhao again, Quan Cong hesitated for a long time, and finally said: "Mr. Zhang, I think Shouchun is in serious trouble, so I'd better pass the news to the lord and the two governors Lu and Lu, and ask them to withdraw their troops." After that, he He almost didn't dare to look at Zhang Zhao.
Zhang Zhao was not surprised by this. He sighed and comforted Quan Cong: "Zihuang doesn't have to be like this. The enemy army is the imperial army after all, possessing the wealth of ten states, and his command is a victorious army. Even Cao Cao, A great man like Yuan Shao cannot resist, let alone you and me. Winning is gratifying, but losing is not sad."
Quan Cong was suspicious after hearing this, and quickly raised his head to correct Zhang Zhao and said, "Mr. Zhang has gone too far! How can you increase the enemy's arrogance and destroy our army's ambition!"
Zhang Zhao knew he had made a mistake, so he immediately changed his words and said: "I will go to repair the book first. If Zijing and Ziming can withdraw safely, and use our navy to fight the bandits again here, we may be able to turn defeat into victory!"
Quan Cong sighed and said: "This matter is urgent and should not be slowed down. Mr. Zhang, if the Han army over there gets the news and launches a fierce attack on our army first, then they will not be able to withdraw even if they want to!"
Although Quan Cong could not have expected Zhou Buji to set up camp overnight, he was indeed a wise general among the Wu army. What he was thinking was completely consistent with Liu Xie's prior plan. After forcing the Wu army back into the city, the Han army at Xiaotaiwei received the first batch of grain and grass from Lu'an and announced that the Han army had completely established a foothold here. While counting the grain and grass, Zhou Buyi immediately sent an envoy to Huaibei to send a message, hoping that Liu Xie would immediately send troops as planned.
It's just that this time the envoy didn't have the good luck of the previous surprise attack on Lu'an. In order to be quick, he did not return along the original route, but went north along the Feishui River, intending to take a shortcut and go straight to the Huaibei Camp. Unexpectedly, he bumped into a Wu fleet on the way, and he had to take a long detour. When he asked for directions, because of his accent, the local Wu people saw that he was from Huaibei, so they deliberately gave him the wrong directions. road. As a result, the envoy took two days of detours before delivering the news to Liu Xie.
At this time, a fierce battle that lasted for more than ten days had begun on the Bagong Mountain battlefield. After Huang Quan moved the navy back to Bagong Mountain, he and Guo Huai crossed the Feishui River to conduct a company camp. Then according to Liu Xie's previous arrangement, the Han army launched an attack on Bagong Mountain from the west and south at the same time. After learning the lesson of the first setback, the Han army was not eager to put the entire army into the battlefield in one battle. Instead, it divided the entire army into ten teams, using two teams to attack at a time, while the remaining teams rested and pressed forward, so as not to be defeated. Expose the flaw that caused Wu Jun to go down the mountain.
But as a result, the Han army's attack suffered huge casualties. After all, the Bagong Mountain fortress built by Lu Su can be regarded as a complete system. He took advantage of the protruding terrain and built dozens of mountain ladders between the strongholds, connecting the seemingly isolated wooden enclosures to each other. He could often adjust the distribution of manpower according to the movements of the Han army in a timely manner, allowing Guo Huai to design several attacks to the east and west. All in vain. During this period of time, the entire army had suffered 7,000 casualties, but there were still no signs of breaking the camp, which made the army gradually resentful. Guo and Huang also had to make changes. It was originally stipulated that troops should be sent to attack the camp every day. At this time, in order to appease the morale of the troops, they also postponed the attack to one attack every two days.
What made the two of them even more troublesome was that just yesterday, the Shouchun Navy from the south also went north and docked directly at the mouth of the river ten miles south. According to the reports from the scouts, the Wu navy was out in force and camping on the shore, apparently planning to launch a counterattack.
Under this situation, Guo Huai couldn't help but think of his last defeat, and then he once again had the idea of retreating to the West Bank. He said to Huang Quan: "Brother Gongheng, although your Majesty ordered you and me to attack Bagong Mountain, all we did was cover up the Zhou Governor. Now that the Shouchun Navy has gone north, why should we stay here? If we don't do it in time, If we withdraw, we may risk losing again!”
Huang Quan understood what Guo Huai meant, but he also hesitated in his heart, and retorted: "Brother Bo Ji, I think this is strange. Wu Jun clearly has the advantage. As long as they continue to defend, they can probably succeed, so why bother to take the initiative?" Pretending to fight decisively? If they were so belligerent, they would not have made a truce so easily last time. I am afraid there is something fishy in this, so we might as well stick to the camp first and see again in a few days."
After hearing this, Guo Huai thought it made sense, and agreed to wait and see for a few more days. As a result, that night, the Wu people who went north and the defenders of Bagong Mountain launched a counterattack against the Han army. The intensity of their offensive was completely different from before. They beat drums all night outside the camp and launched counterattacks from the east and south. Arrows fell like raindrops inside the camp, flying in from the towering fences and gaps in the fences. The arrow clusters pierced into the soil, and suddenly a bush of iron grass seemed to have grown.
Guo Huai was supervising the battle on the front line that night. Everything he saw was the soldiers of the two armies fighting bloody battles. What he heard were the shouts and roars of the two opposing sides. This shocked him. At the time of Yin, the Wu people changed their strategy and tried to ignite the antlers on a large scale to open a breakthrough in the Han camp. Fortunately, the antlers had been covered with a layer of cowhide, which was not easy to burn. Then Wang Ling led his cavalry to repel the Wu army who entered the camp, and the Wu army stopped the offensive. But the battlefield in the dark night was still filled with a thick smell of gunpowder smoke. Without counting, Guo Huai knew that his losses this night had already caught up with those of the previous days.
After this battle, Guo Huai was even more tempted to retreat. Without consulting Huang Quan, he planned to submit a letter to the emperor first. Unexpectedly, when he was returning to the camp, someone called him. He turned around and looked, and he couldn't help but be stunned. It was the emperor Liu Xie who came!
Liu Xie was dressed in black and had just dismounted from his horse. He had obviously just arrived from the Huaibei camp. His face showed a bit of weariness, but his eyes were full of energy, as if they were burning with flames. When he saw him, he said to Guo Huai: "Bo Ji, send people to assemble the army immediately, the traitors are about to retreat!"
Guo Huai was shocked and didn't understand what was happening. He asked: "Your Majesty, our army has just experienced a big battle. We are exhausted physically and mentally. How can we seize the camp with the Wu thieves?"
"Idiot!" Liu Xie saw that he had not yet understood, and immediately cursed: "Zhou Buyi has successfully established a foothold in Hefei! The traitor knows that there is no hope of holding on, so he came here to try. If he cannot succeed at this time, he will not succeed. You have to beat our troops until they are short of breath, and then they can retreat. Are you already scared?!"
After that, Liu Xie said no more, turned and passed Guo Huai, and issued orders to the two generals, ordering the entire army to immediately set out to pursue the Wu army.
