The Maojin knife from the late Jin Dynasty

Chapter 319 Records of Military History

Zhao Gu soon discovered that Li Ju led 10,000 elite troops to conquer Luoyang.

After all, Zhao Gu did not capture Hulao, the gateway to Luoyang, so he naturally sent many spies to explore the surrounding Hulao.

Now that the spies discovered that Li Jun was leading an army to attack, they couldn't help but frown.

"General, whether you want to fight or surrender, tell me a direction. Brothers are all counting on you!" Zhao Gu's subordinate Yin An said to Zhao Gu, "If you ask Liu Tai to surrender, we will naturally follow. If not, we will follow." Surrender, we will ask Chang'an for help as soon as possible!"

Zhao Gu couldn't help but frown when he heard his subordinates urging him. Speaking of it, there was still some dispute between Zhao Gu and Liu Tai.

Not to mention that Zhao Gu was Wang Mi's subordinate at the beginning. However, after Wang Mi's death, although Liu Tai had already become famous, Zhao Gu really did not believe that a young man like Liu Tai could have a bright future.

So he thought over and over again and chose to go north to join Liu Kun. After all, there was nothing wrong with following the Jin Dynasty's orthodoxy.

But what Zhao Gu didn't expect at all was that Liu Kun, who he considered famous, capable of generals, and decisive, would be defeated repeatedly, causing him to return to Liu Cong's arms, and then beat Liu Cong again. Yao's subordinates.

Liu Yao ordered himself to be stationed in Luoyang, but Liu Yao rushed over to save Shi Le, and then he and Shi Le were both gone!

In his own opinion, Liu Tai should not be the one who dominates one side. In the end, he swept all the way, defeated Gou Xi, destroyed Wang Jun, killed Shile, and captured Liu Yao. Whoever stood in his way would die. He was so cruel. What a mess.

If Liu Tai had crossed the Yellow River, he would have been ready to kneel down to welcome His Majesty the Emperor back to the old capital of Luoyang.

As a result, Liu Tai only occupied the north of the Yellow River and had no intention of attacking Luoyang, leaving him empty-handed.

This made the ambition that I had finally suppressed begin to rise, and I felt that I might be able to get back Hulao.

If he can really take back Hulao, then he can block this gap and at least he can be free for a while.

Then he faced off with Li Ju. When it came to the commanders' soldiers, both sides should be regarded as beggar army systems. It was just that one followed the Huns and the Han Kingdom, and the other followed the Jin court. As for the strength of the generals on both sides... …

Zhao Gu didn't think he was any worse than Li Ju. At least he was only slightly at a disadvantage after fighting against each other.

At this time, Zu Ti started his Northern Expedition. Seeing Zu Ti's courage, he shook hands with Li Ju and made peace.

Even at that time, Li Ju thought that Zu Ti might be the only guy in the world who could resist the monster Liu Tai.

He was thinking about whether he should take advantage of the situation and join the Jin court, but Zu Ti died like this.

This gave Zhao Gu an extremely headache and he gave up all his plans.

As expected, it did not go beyond Zhao Gu's expectations. Less than a year after Zu Ti's death, Liu Tai set foot on the Central Plains. The entire Central Plains was almost swallowed up by Liu Tai in one breath. This also made Zhao Gu completely give up trying to defeat You Ziyuan. Taking advantage of the situation became King Zhao's plan.

After all, being the king of a force is not qualified to surrender, but being a general can still surrender.

Zhao Gu had watched Liu Tai develop all the way. If he said there was no pressure against Liu Tai, it would be absolutely unrealistic. However, he did not expect that it would be Li Ju this time.

"Do you think we can resist Li Julai?" Zhao Gu asked Yin An again and again after thinking about it.

"Although Luoyang does not have a large number of soldiers, the opponent only came with ten thousand people. We have to work together and get support from Chang'an. I think we can naturally resist it!" Yin An knew Li Ju's strength after all, and felt that if it was just Li Ju, moment, it should be able to withstand it.

After all, it’s not like I didn’t fight Li Ju before. Although I suffered a small loss, Luoyang didn’t lose anything!

"Yes, even if you want to surrender, you have to surrender to Liu Tai and Li Ju - even if we surrender, we will definitely not be taken seriously by Liu Tai!" Zhao Gu thought for a while and said,

"Select elites from the army. When Li Ju's troops are not yet stable, they will make a surprise attack to test Li Ju's spirit."

To be honest, although Zhao Gu wanted to surrender to Liu Tai, Zhao Gu was not willing to part with the power and wealth in his hands.

After all, since Liu Yao's defeat, Luoyang has gradually become a no-nonsense area.

Liu Tai didn't want to take care of this land, Yang Xianrong couldn't take care of it, Zu Ti had the intention and the strength, but he didn't have time and died of illness.

This led to Zhao Gu becoming the power holder of these three no matter areas.

It wouldn't be a problem if he insisted on calling himself a small prince. As long as he had tasted the rights of princes, Zhao Gu really didn't want to give up his rights unless he had to. After all, it felt so comfortable to be a prince.

But Zhao Gu himself was very self-aware. As Liu Tai captured several states in the Central Plains, he had vague momentum to sweep the world.

Moreover, Luoyang he occupied was the only way to enter Chang'an in Guanzhong. Now Li Ju led his soldiers to attack Luoyang. To be honest, Zhao Gu knew that he had reached a crossroads in his life.

Zhao Gu's idea was not to use Liu Tai's army as a chariot. After all, even if he defeated Li Ju, he would still be injured, not to mention Liu Tai would crush him with an army of 100,000 people. !

So Zhao Gu's idea is that he must fight this battle. He is not fighting to prevent Liu Tai from unifying the north. After all, compared with Gou Chun's battle, let's look at Liu Tai's battle. Which war? , it does not mean that the battle must be conquered and conquered.

No matter who Liu Tai's opponent is, if the coach is lucky, he will escape a few times like Gou Xi, but if he is unlucky, he will be handed over to the battlefield directly.

But for Liu Tai, every time he took action, at least strategically, he achieved his goals, so any general in this era would be very stressed when facing Liu Na.

The same goes for Zhao Gu. The most important thing is that Zhao Gu is not an unknown person in Liu Tai's army.

Not to mention, Cao Ni and Zhang Song had more or less met each other, and for example, Wang Sang and Zhao Gu, who were stationed in the south, had somewhat of a promise to "live in wealth and honor, and never forget each other."

Not to mention Liu Qun. Although Zhao Gu finally surrendered to Liu Cong, Zhao Gu was a normal general and his army was defeated. Zhao Gu surrendered when he saw that the general trend was over, so he followed Wen Qiao to some extent. Liu Qun and others can also speak.

Don't tell me how deep the friendship between so many people is with Zhao Gu, but being able to talk to him is of great value.

However, Zhao Gu wanted to have more rights under Liu Tai's command, such as giving himself more land, for example, being able to control his own soldiers as a foundation, or giving himself a higher title or something. .

Therefore, Zhao Gu wanted to teach Li Ju a lesson and planned to step on Li Ju's face to make his surrender appear more valuable.

Li Ju led the army all the way to Luoyang City, about fifteen miles away, and began to set up camp, preparing to send soldiers to attack Luoyang tomorrow.

As for dealing with possible night attacks, Li Ju made normal arrangements and only asked the soldiers to sleep in fish scale armor.

After all, we are approaching Luoyang, so it is always right to be careful.

Zhao Gu looked at the dark and windy night, pinpointed the day around the second watch, and led the selected brave men to attack Li Ju's military camp under the cover of darkness without hesitation. However, Zhao Gu did not expect that the attacking soldiers seemed to have touched something without knowing it. Suddenly, there was a crashing sound, which woke up the soldiers in the camp, and the alarm sounded throughout the camp.

Even so, Zhao Gu did not retreat at all. After all, the camp had just been set up, and it was just a wall on the outside. Other traps to guard the camp had not yet been arranged.

This is also the reason why most generals will attack when the camp's foothold is not stable.

Because even if a sneak attack is discovered at this point in time, the sneak attack can be converted into a strong attack at any time. However, if you wait until the entire camp is set up and then find that the sneak attack fails and still want to attack, it will simply cost your life.

Therefore, at this moment, Zhao Gu's troops rushed directly into Li Ju's camp without stopping.

As a general, Li Ju got up immediately when the alarm sounded in the military camp.

Li Judu had just put on his armor and picked up his weapons when he saw He Canjun coming to his tent with a pen and paper in his hand. After questioning, the guard at the gate let He Canjun in.

"Why is He Canjun dressed like this?" Li Ju asked after seeing that He Canjun was only wearing a thin singlet.

After all, it is gradually entering early spring, but the weather is still very cold, at least the ice on the Yellow River has not melted yet!

"As a military historian, I have to record the first-hand information when the general was attacked, but I only remembered to take my own paper and pen, and forgot to take the clothes on the bed. Please forgive me, general, Qiu!" He Shenjun said with a little embarrassment. .

Li Ju gave his cloak to He Canjun to put on, and said with a bit of calmness: "Did Shenjun think that someone ran away due to a mere night attack?!"

"The general is dedicated to fighting, and military history is only responsible for recording!" He Shenjun said calmly.

Li Ju was not in a hurry, and planned to use his personal guards as the basis for defense, and then pushed the brazier to his banner.

Although this will attract the opponent's attention, at the same time the opponent also needs to face its own strongest army that is directly under its control.

Generally speaking, you don't need to worry too much when encountering a night attack. As long as you defend according to your own camp, the other party will not be able to do anything to you.

After all, the dark night gives the opponent the best cover, but at the same time, the dark night also makes the opponent lose the possibility of conducting command operations.

In the chaos of the night, the only ones competing are the basic soldiers under their command.

As long as the soldiers under his command did not panic, the enemy would have no choice but to attack with a small number of soldiers.

However, when Li Ju put on his armor and planned to take his five hundred personal guards to execute his plan.

At this time, the soldiers in the military camps everywhere in the camp had chosen to directly open their own tents, and then they pushed out small square formations one after another.

After they came out, they immediately found a bonfire or hot pot next to the camp. In the dark night, they lit bonfires everywhere without any hesitation, and the light of the fire spread quickly throughout the entire military camp.

Seeing the scene in front of him, Li Ju couldn't help but sigh, "How can the soldiers be so calm and not panic when encountering a night attack!"

"Why are you panicking?!" He Canjun looked at Li Ju and said with a little doubt, "Didn't the general order the soldiers to sleep in armor? With armor on them, even if there are bandits attacking, it should be the other party who needs to panic Bar!?"

Li Ju was about to say something just now, but the warriors who were so angry that they didn't want to let go of these guys who disturbed their sleep.

The soldiers in each camp took their weapons and formed small military formations, and then instinctively surrounded the enemy troops who rushed into the military formation.

"The poor man without fish scale armor is the enemy!" Although in the darkness, some soldiers soon shouted.

After all, as bonfires were lit everywhere and hot pots were burned one by one, the entire camp began to shine clearly. Even so, it was not easy to distinguish between ourselves and the enemy in the dark.

But I don't know who shouted this first, and the soldiers under Liu Tai's command immediately reacted. No matter who rushed in, those who didn't wear armor were not their own.

And the light reflected on his fish scales is the best proof in itself.

When the soldiers under Zhao Gu heard this, they couldn't help but feel the absurdity of this world. Since when did fish scale armor, an equipment worn only by captains, become standard equipment that can be worn by the entire army?

You know, Zhao Gu's subordinates are more or less from the refugee army. Even if a general at the rank of captain wants to wear fish scale armor that covers the entire army, it is probably not easy. Most of them still use the leather armor first!

But I have to say that you don't have fish scale armor, but Liu Tai's soldiers are all wearing fish scale armor.

At this moment, it was not so much that they had attacked Li Ju's troops by surprise, but that they were trapped in a circle surrounded by fish-scale soldiers.

As the head of the charge disappeared, a soldier named Fish Scale Armor formed a small formation and began to surround and kill Zhao Gu's army. Zhao Gu soon discovered that while he was killing, why did his subordinates There were fewer and fewer people, so Zhao Gu decisively ordered a retreat.

Zhao Gu retreated early and fled with some of his troops. As for the captain Yin An, he was stabbed to death by a spear that came from nowhere in the dark.

After all, even if the firelight illuminates part of it, even if they want to surrender in the darkness, these soldiers cannot see clearly.

Besides, capturing them was about the same as killing them, so it was better to just kill them.

It can only be said that this is how Li Ju watched this army. In the form of a small group, they quickly lit bonfires in the dark night, illuminated the military camp, encircled and strangled, and achieved victory. This skillful skill and tacit cooperation was obviously not the first. Did this once.

Li Ju asked himself more than once in his mind what kind of troops he was carrying!

"It's over!" He Canjun couldn't help but yawned, and then sighed,

"It's really cold today. General, I'm going to bed first. I'll leave the aftermath to you!"

"Can I see today's battle record?" Li Ju couldn't help but asked He Shanjun.

"On the 21st, if we encounter a night attack, we will win!" He Shenjun showed the line to Li Ju casually, and then said, "We have won the battle, so there is nothing to remember. I will go back to sleep." .”

Just leave Li Ju in the cold wind and let him continue to be messy.

Li Ju understood that the army he led, even if it relied on instinct, was far more elite than he thought.

(End of this chapter)