Chapter 584 Ambush

Nanyang.

After a sleepless night, Chang Wenjun wanted to take a nap, but he didn't expect that as soon as he lay down, he heard the urgent reports from his men.

"what happened?"

Chang Wenjun had just removed his armor and looked at his men and asked.

"There are Qin troops outside the city!"

"What did you say?"

Chang Wenjun had no time to wear the armor, so he hurried towards the city wall with his men.

"They are county soldiers from a nearby county. I don't know who mobilized them. The scouts came to report that they approached Wancheng this morning."

Wancheng is the seat of Nanyang County. After Chang Wenjun captured it, he quickly sent 10,000 horses to Luyang and surrounded Luyang together with the cavalry of the Tenglong Legion who had already ambushed in Chendi.

In Nanyang County, except for the county soldiers in Wancheng who have some combat effectiveness, the only remaining ones are the thousands of defenders in Luyang and the 20,000 troops of the Chu clan who are at the field army level.

The county seat of Nanyang is far away, and Chang Wenjun's army cannot take care of it. Lord Chang Wen didn't even pay attention to the troops and horses in Jiyang, Lixian and other places that were close by.

But now, it was these people that Chang Wenjun didn't care about, but they gave him a "surprise".

Standing on the city wall, looking at the army outside the city wall, Lord Changwen's face was full of doubts.

What can be seen with the naked eye is that the equipment of these soldiers is quite crude and the armor wearing rate is very low. There are always thousands of soldiers and horses outside the city, only a few wearing leather armor, and most of them wearing cotton clothes.

County soldiers are not field armies and will only be issued equipment when they are mobilized during wars. Their daily duties are to maintain law and order and exterminate bandits. Therefore, they do not have long weapons in their hands and only rarely carry shields. Basically, each of these county soldiers only held a sword and a crossbow.

Their members were divided into several strands, apparently unfamiliar with each other and only improvised.

It can be seen that they are neither elite nor have any fighting ability at all. Among the Qin army, their basic position is at the front of the infantry formation. As crossbowmen, during battles, they fired arrows in front of the formation and then retreated after firing.

Compared with the rebels in Wancheng now, they are just a mob.

"Are you saying that some of our pavilions on the periphery have been taken away by them?"

"Yes, of the more than a thousand troops sent out, only one scout escaped and came to report the news. Moreover, because this scout did not arrive at Tingsai, he did not know the specific situation. He only knew that we sent him out last night All the troops were wiped out."

"Just them?"

Chang Wenjun was a little in disbelief. But he did not let the city's soldiers and horses go out to defeat this rabble. Instead, he asked.

"Is there any news about the troops heading to Ji and Ye?"

Chang Wenjun raised his troops here not to occupy this place. In fact, the soldiers and horses in his hands were not enough to occupy this important territory. Moreover, even if it is enough, Chang Wenjun will not occupy this area that is destined to be lost. More importantly, it was to cope with Lord Changping in Chen County and to prepare for the subsequent strategic situation between Qin and Chu.

More importantly, not all of the 20,000 rebels were single. They brought their families with them, and Chang Wenjun had to maintain the evacuation channel from Nanyang in order to escape in time before the elite Qin army arrived.

This is where the military spirit lies. Although the 20,000 rebels are plotting rebellion, they have no plans to fight to the death.

"It's only been two days, it's not so fast!"

The deputy general's voice came to his ears, and Chang Wenjun was in a daze. Yes, it only took them two days to raise their troops, and the 10,000 troops they allocated should have just arrived in Ye County.

"Is it only two days?"

Some of the torturous days made Chang Wenjun think that a long time had passed, but now he realized that only two days had passed.

But then, Chang Wenjun became even more confused.

It had only been two days, how did these county soldiers in front of me arrive so quickly?

"Mr. Changwen, are we going out of the city to defeat them?"

"Don't worry about them. Deploy heavy troops to guard the east gate and the fortresses outside the city in preparation for retreat at any time."

With these people, Wancheng cannot be conquered. As long as the smelting city in Nanyang is destroyed, they will withdraw immediately.

Luyang.

"How is this going?"

Long Qie, the major general of the Tenglong Legion, was walking in the empty military camp with doubts on his face. Following the orders of the Xiang clan, they lurked secretly in Chendi.

Even when Li Xin led an army to attack the city that day, they did not take action. Until Lord Changping of Qin suddenly raised troops in Chen to rebel against Qin, they were ordered to obey Lord Changping's orders.

Lord Changping intercepted the supplies of the Qin army and distributed 3,000 fine war horses to them. In Chu State, it is rare to see Qin war horses, and among the materials given to them by Lord Changping, there are many tall horses, which are exotic species and are very rare.

Long Qi was very happy and naturally knew the importance of this mission.

Immediately, he led the cavalry to Luyang. This fortress of the Qin State originally belonged to South Korea. After the death of South Korea, it belonged to Nanyang County.

Although Long Qie was young, he could still see that Lord Changping's strategic intention was to trap thousands of Qin troops in Luyang and maintain the passage between Nanyang, Chendi and Yingchuan.

The mission of the Tenglong Legion is to sweep the periphery of Luyang. If the Qin army dares to come out, they will be defeated. After that, they waited for the 10,000 reinforcements from Nanyang to capture Ji and Ye.

Long Qie successfully completed the mission, but when he was waiting for the 10,000 reinforcements, he found something strange in the county town of Luyang.

For a few days, flags were flying and soldiers were patrolling the city. Qin Jun's reaction was a little unusual.

Long Qie felt something was wrong and immediately decided to test and attack. Even though this was beyond his original task, he still successfully completed it.

A night attack was successfully carried out.

"Major General, there is no one in the other military camps."

The soldiers sent by Long Qie came back and reported that there were no traces of thousands of Qin troops in the city.

"It's strange. There are clearly thousands of Qin troops in the intelligence. Where have they gone?"

"These thousands of Qin troops are Koreans after all. Did they see something was wrong and run away first?"

Long Qie shook his head.

"Luyang is a large county and the city defenses are strong. They can hold on and there is no need to run away."

If these thousands of Qin troops were not here, where would they be?

"Oops!"

Long Qie suddenly thought of a possibility and his expression changed drastically.

"Major General, what's wrong?"

"Luyang is an important place and cannot be lost, right?"

Long Qie's lieutenant looked at Long Qie's eyes that were shining like gold and stone and nodded.

"yes!"

"This is what we think, and the world thinks so too. It is impossible for the Qin army to give up the important land of Luyang. However, given the current situation, Luyang is not a place that must be defended. If the Qin general had already figured out the situation, One step earlier, we avoided our eyes and ears, abandoned the defense of Luyang, and led thousands of troops southward. So what?"

After hearing Long Qie's words, the faces of the people around him changed drastically. And Long Qie was even more certain of his guess.

"The military situation is unpredictable, and the right way is to attack what they must defend. What's even more frightening is that the 10,000 troops in Nanyang know nothing about it now. If the Qin generals set up an ambush in the middle, our army will be defeated."

When Long Qie said this, he almost gritted his teeth.

"Send the order and the entire army will move south immediately."