Chapter 12 Attack and Attack and Attack 4

Shang Rang was eager to win and ordered the Northern Expeditionary Army to attack Eshan. As a result, the Northern Expeditionary Army was full of corpses and only captured a few small hills, but could not capture the main mountain of Mount E.

Lin Yan found Kang Shiming and said angrily, "Shiming, he has become a madman now. He doesn't care about the casualties of the soldiers and must seize the competition. Now the army has stored grain for less than ten days, and more than 10,000 people have been damaged in a few days. If this battle continues like this, we will all have to be buried in Eshan!"

Kang Shiming sighed: "Brother Lin Yan, this is getting more and more outrageous! After capturing Sanyuan City, he indulged Li Yu and Yang Neng's subordinates to plunder the people's property. Isn't this the same as those Fangzhen warlords? Daqi has always trusted the people with strict military discipline and autumn, but now it is really resentful to let us kill chickens to get eggs!"

Lin Yan said, "Before the Northern Expedition, Your Majesty told me to supervise Shang Rang's actions, but Shang Rang has led the army for many years and cultivated many party feathers. Now that the roots are deep, I feel unable to effectively supervise Shang Rang. I'm ashamed of Daqi! Shame on Your Majesty!"

"Do your best to listen to fate!" Kang Shiming looked helpless.

A few days later, the Northern Expeditionary Army of Daqi fell thousands of soldiers in Eshan. Shang let him feel that the hard bone of Eshan was really difficult to capture, so he agreed to Lin Yan and Kang Shiming's suggestion and transferred troops north to attack Yijun.

Who knows that Yijunzhai is extremely strong, because Zhu Mei has already built many fortifications there, such as night fork, flying hook, suspension, wolf tooth pat, but wood, furnace, collision, pole, fork rod, iron impact wood, swallowtail torch, swimming fire iron basket, wooden female head, ground listening, injection plate, leather man, earth-colored felt curtain, tile, plug door knife cart, There are all kinds of defensive weapons such as iron thistle, horse gun, deer fortress, ground astringent, hooves, ground surge gun racks, paving brocade, golden vertebra plates, etc. The Qi army suffered even more casualties in front of Yijunzhai, and countless corpses, but they have never been able to seize the main strongholds of Yijunzhai.

The house leak coincided with continuous rain. At this time, it was late autumn. Unexpectedly, the weather was not beautiful. Just as the Qi and Tang sides started a life-and-death war in Yijunzhai, there was heavy snow in the sky. Although the Qi army set up a tent, because of the heavy snow, more than a foot high snow piled up on the ground, and the generals of Daqi were hungry and cold. Two or three out of ten people froze to death.

At this time, there were only thousands left in Daqi's 50,000 Northern Expeditionary, and their morale was greatly frustrated and depressed. Shang Rang was also disgraced at this time, and he could no longer see the previous arrogant appearance.

One day, Shang was asked to inform Lin Yan, Kang Shiming, Li Qian, Yang Neng and other generals to discuss the Chinese army account.

After the generals entered the account, they sat down one after another.

Shang gave up and said: "Brothers, after this northern expedition, after our army captured Sanyuan, we thought that the Tang army was vulnerable. Under the condition of insufficient preparation, we launched a full-line attack on the Tang army in the area of Eshan and Yijun. As a result, after more than a month, our army suffered heavy casualties. There are only a few thousand horses left now, ten go*, my heart hurts! I don't know what to do now? If we continue to fight, we must all have to leave our lives in front of Yijunzhai; if we withdraw from Chang'an, how can we tell your majesty!"

After saying that, Shang Rang pretended to cover his face with his hand and squeezed out a few drops of crocodile tears. While "tears", he observed the reaction of the generals through his sleeves.

Lin Yan and Kang Shiming have a blue face and don't say a word.

For a long time, Li Yu whispered, "General Shang, I don't think you have to blame yourself too much. Victory or defeat is a common thing for soldiers. May I ask which general has never lost the battle? It is because of the defeat that there are lessons learned. Although our army did not capture Eshan and Yijunzhai, the Tang army also suffered a lot of casualties. Our army can return to Chang'an and go back to the north after rest and replenishment.

Yang Neng echoed: "General Shang has been fighting in the south and north for many years and has made countless military achievements. This northern expedition and captured Sanyuan City is a great achievement. It's actually normal not to capture Eshan and Yijunzhai. Because our army is the attacker, the Tang army is the defense, and the attack is several times more difficult than the defense. This is a military common sense, so it is not a shame for our army to return to Chang'an!"

Some generals also expressed opinions similar to Li Qian and Yang Neng, and still listened and looked happy.

Lin Yan and Kang Shiming will be next to each other and still don't say a word.

Seeing this, Shang Rang really couldn't hold back it. He said to Lin Yan and Kang Shiming, "General Lin and General Kang, you two are the commanders of the Chinese army and have a high prestige in the army. You two also express your views on the current situation of the war! Do you agree to withdraw or not? I want to hear your opinions!"