Chapter 921 Taishi Ci, the road blocker
?As for speaking, the senior generals of the army attacking Yinan Road unified their thoughts in a very short time and no longer headed straight for Chengdu. Instead, they detoured from Wuyang to the east, preparing to intercept the retreating army led by Zhang Ren near Zhui County.--.
So, how accurate is Li Ru's judgment? The answer is 100%.
Just three days after Taishi Ci led an army of 80,000 to settle in Qi County, the vanguard of Yizhou Legion retreating west appeared thirty miles outside Qi County. After Zhang Ren commanded the army to retreat from Yiling, he rushed on his way to death at the speed of running a horse. He even eliminated 20,000 weak soldiers along the way, and finally rushed back at the moment when the Sima family was about to die.
The vanguard general Zhang Yi and Zhang Yi led 20,000 elite troops in Yizhou to approach Qixian County and carefully sent a post to reconnaissance. However, they found news that shocked them. The post sent a post replied: "There are many flags on the top of Qixian County, and the largest flag among them read "The Marshal of the Southern Army of the Attack on Yinan". There are also flags such as "Qinghuai Army Pass", "Land Battle Brigade King", and "Dragon Army Gan". There are countless soldiers and horses in the city, but I guess the number of people must be quite large!"
Zhang Yi and Zhang Yi were confused, so they quietly approached Hui County in the morning and evening to observe. Sure enough, they found that there was a large army not far ahead, and they were scared and sweating. If this unknown unit came from quietly ambushed, they would have hit the head in vain with 20,000 troops without discrimination, they would be afraid that they would never come back.
The two hurriedly led their troops to turn around and move towards the Central Military Office in the rear. In the view of Zhang Yi and Zhang Yi, instead of letting the blocking troops separate and annihilate them, it is better to gather the troops and launch a decisive charge. Although doing so may have delayed a few days, it also protected the Central Military Office and reduced unnecessary casualties.
In fact, just before the two generals Zhang Yi and Zhang Yi led their troops to approach Qi County, the more intelligent reconnaissance methods had already discovered their traces. Taishi Ci looked at Zhang Yi and Zhang Yi coming and left again. Why didn't he design to ambush them outside Qi County? With the current forces and means of attacking Yi Nan's army, the middle army of Zhang Ren rushed to Qi County, but he was afraid that the 20,000 troops that were attacking the front station had been spit out by Gan Ning, Wang Lu and Guan Ping's army, and probably there was no waste left.
The reason why Taishici did not ambush Zhang Yi and Zhang Yi was because he was planning to make a few moves with Zhang Ren, the number one general in Shu, in Zhu County. I saw whether Zhang Ren and Fa Zheng were powerful, or whether the Southern Army led by him was more brave.
The army of the Yinan Route Army originally had 80,000 troops when they entered Shu. Later, Gan Ning left 10,000 troops to guard the other side in Buwei, Yongchang County, and Guanping's army left 10,000 to guard Dianchi and Jianling, and Wang Lu left 10,000 to guard the Kunze area. Yan Yan was captured. The 60,000 troops he brought were wiped out, nearly 20,000 troops, and more than 40,000 were left. After some selection and testing, Taishici selected 30,000 people from the more than 40,000 Yizhou soldiers to supplement them, and then collected 80,000.
Although the selected 30,000 Yizhou Army's individual combat power is lower than that of the direct troops of Jin State, these soldiers were also from Yan Yan's years of training, and there is no need to say about military discipline and hardship. The key is that they are all children of Han people.
As long as they are children of Han people, they will be easily transformed and influenced. After all, everyone speaks the same language and has the same cultural traditions. These Yizhou soldiers played the role of propaganda teams and work teams in the process of attacking the Yinan Route Army and advancing northward, eliminating many unnecessary troubles for the army, making the Sima family's desire to incite and delude the people to fight against the Jin army eventually fail.
This time, Taishici wanted to bring these 30,000 local soldiers in Yizhou, plus 50,000 elite troops to fight against the 140,000 Yizhou army led by Zhang Ren in Xi County, and forced Zhang Ren to watch the Sima family destroy themselves in Chengdu, but in the end he was unable to rescue him.
Along the way, Taishici repeatedly thought about Zhang Ren's person. Although he thought that maintaining sufficient loyalty as a general was a rare quality, Zhang Ren's approach, which was almost foolish, had fulfilled his reputation and destroyed the lives of countless soldiers. In Taishici's view, the Sima family, which can do everything for the benefit of the family, should be completely wiped out by King Pingxi, otherwise when will the world be peaceful?
If everyone wants to be an emperor, they must first have the responsibility and ability to be in mind. If the Sima family continues to grow and grow in Yizhou, it may cause much harm to the surrounding people in the future.
Considering that Zhang Ren is Zhao Xing's famous senior brother, Taishici felt that only by defeating Zhang Ren on the front battlefield and asking him to reflect on it carefully, maybe there would be a possibility of subdue. Otherwise, with this guy's character of not eating soft and hard and not getting into the water, he could really do stupid things that could be broken by the death of the net and broken by the jade.
Therefore, Taishi let go of Zhang Yi and Zhang Yi openly and asked them to report to Zhang Ren, which was actually a silent challenge to Zhang Ren!! I haven't taken a fancy to you, a little shrimp soldier and crab general, and I have the ability to bring the army to come over.
Zhang Ren, who was leading the main force in the central army, saw Zhang Yi and Zhang Yi turning around and guessed that something had happened in front of him, so he asked the two generals: "I ordered you to open the way forward, but now he leads the army to turn around. Why?"
Zhang Yi replied: "Forty miles ahead is Hui County. There are large troops stationed in the city. Look at the flags that are not Yizhou troops, but rather the regular army of Jin State!"
Zhang Ren asked again: "Look at what generals have blocked our army's way!"
Zhang Yi stepped forward and replied: "Based on the name on the flag, the last general speculated that the main general was Taishici. Among the deputy generals were the surnames of Guan, Wang and Gan, but they didn't know who they were!"
Zhang Ren thought for a while and then said, "No matter who is blocking the army, since we are going to return to Chengdu, we cannot say that we have to fight a tough battle and break through the obstacles on the road!"
Afterwards, Zhang Ren commanded the army to move closer to each other and then headed towards Hui County.
When he arrived at Zhu County, Zhang Ren and his horse came to the city gate and shouted to the top of the city: "I am Zhang Ren, the marshal of the Eastern Yizhou Road. I don't know who blocked my army's way in the city, but I think my army is not good at swords and guns, the arrows are not sharp, and the army is not majestic!"
As soon as Zhang Ren's voice came to an end, a heroic general rode out from the city gate that had never been closed in Wei County.
"I attacked Taishi Ci, the marshal of the Yinan Route Army. Today I am lucky to see Marshal Zhang here, but I have the honor of three lives." Taishi Ci said in an equally powerful voice.
"It turned out that Donglai Taishi came to Yizhou, but he didn't know how determined Brother Ziyi led a large army to attack Yizhou from thousands of miles away." Zhang Ren asked without fear when he saw Taishi Ci.
Taishi Ci smiled indifferently and replied solemnly: "The King of Pingxi once vowed that if Yizhou dared to invade Liang Kingdom again, he would send a large army to siege Yizhou and destroy the Sima family. Last year, the plague broke out in Xiliang. It has been found that Sima Yi secretly instructed his subordinates. Such inhumane and despicable methods still make the world dislike. I am the general in front of the King of Pingxi. I was entrusted by the lord to wipe out the Sima family." Please come to see if there is no advertisement for the first release--.
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