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Han Xin destroyed the Western Wei state after Han destroyed the Three Qins, but Liu Bang was defeated at the Battle of Pengcheng.
Liu Bangbai's general Han Xin (劉信) was the left chancellor, and with him dou bao and Cao Shan, he led 30,000 horsemen and infantry troops, plus 3,000 or 4,000 friendly troops, and attacked the Western Wei state in the east.
North of the Yellow River, there is a ferry called Xiayang, and on the opposite bank is the confluence of Fenshui and the Yellow River, and there is a ferry called Fenyin. In the past, between Xiayang and Fenyin, pontoon bridges were set up using reefs. Before Zhang Handan's soldiers left the Hangu Pass, in order to prevent the Six Kingdoms from sneaking into Guanzhong from here, they had people destroy two ferry crossings, and the pontoon bridge had long been gone.
There are many reefs in this section of the Yellow River, some are exposed to the water, some are underwater, and boats are easy to touch the reef. Experienced boatmen, who cross the river, still often have the phenomenon of hitting the reef and overturning the boat. Boatmen have good water quality and can generally swim back, and the average water-based crew will die nine times.
Using these two information, Han Xin ordered Cao To lead three thousand troops to the mountains to cut wood and pile it on the bank of the Xiayang River. He then ordered Shi Xiang to rule The Inner Commandery and to organize hundreds of wa poppy [yīng] or wa 缶 [fǒu], and sent five thousand cavalry with irrigation to be dragged to Xiayang on wooden strips.
Cao Ginseng made sixteen vertical and horizontal squares of wooden strips, tied tightly with ropes, and put sixteen tile poppies or tiles into them. This object resembles a large raft, but it is more buoyant than the raft, and the possibility of hitting the reef is greatly reduced. After the raft was well, Han Xin led his army north.
Han Xin and Cao Shan led 25,000 infantry across the river, and the infant-fed warriors could not cross the river on this tool, so they led the 5,000-lang cavalry south to return to the other side of Pusakazu.
After the Wei army's sentry in Fenyin discovered Han Xin's army, the Western Wei king Leopard sent the general SunSu to lead 10,000 troops to meet the battle, and on the other hand ordered Bai Zhi of Pusakajin to immediately send troops across the river to test the strength of the Han army on the other side.
The Western Wei king Leopard thought that the Han army had a total of 30,000 people, and as long as he figured out the deployment of the Han army's troops, he would be able to win the victory. If there were not many Han troops in Jinjin, Bai Zhi and Feng Jing would be completely annihilated, and then against the Han army in the direction of Xia Yang, the Western Wei army still had an absolute superiority in strength. If the Jinjin-Jinjin Han army has strong combat strength, then the Han army in the direction of Xia Yang is a suspicious strategy, and the speed can also completely annihilate the opponent.
The Han army on the opposite side of Pusakajin, irrigation infant cavalry divided into two parts, one guard camp, during the day set up a flag, full of lights at night, and all the ships lined up on the shore, each ship sent one or two dozen troops, waving the flag and beating the drum, pretending to cross the Yellow River. One camped in the west, changed its flag uniforms every day, and came and went, creating a scene of tens of thousands of troops crossing the river.
There were not many Bai straight boats, and only five or six hundred people could cross the river at a time, quietly crossing the river at night and landing more than ten miles south of the Han army camp. When the Han army's cavalry sentry found that Bai Zhi had already landed more than 2,000 infantry.
In fact, the first Western Wei army landed on the shore, and the Han army's horse sentry was discovered. However, the irrigation baby did not move, but instead sent more sentries to the north to reconnoiter, beware of the Western Wei army's east attack on the west and the north and south. After confirming that there were no Western Wei troops in the north, Dou Bao led the main cavalry south. The Western Wei warships were too few, and they were all small boats, and the war horses were large, and Feng Jing's cavalry could not board the ships for the time being.
The main force of the cavalry arrived, destroyed the decay, and rushed back and forth along the Yellow River to kill several times, the Western Wei army died and fell, only a few hundred people fled back in a boat, a total of more than four thousand people were lost, and the infantry against the cavalry, if there was no heavy equipment, was indeed a loss.
On the North Road of the Western Wei Army, with a rate of 10,000 people, they encountered the Han vanguard Cao Shanbu in Eastern Zhang.
There was a military commander named Zhang in the Western Wei army, who said that there was a beryllium army under his command, a few dozen people, but it was an elite division. Beryllium is a long weapon, similar to a gun, the beryllium head is shaped like a short sword, and the beryllium soldier is an elite infantryman with a beryllium and a shield. In the Spring and Autumn Period, he focused on assassinating Wu Wangfu, that is, hiding the beryllium head in the belly of the fish, which was fatal in one blow.
Zhang said that it was Fang and the people, and he led dozens of people to defect to Wei Wangbao, of which more than a dozen were beryllium soldiers, and in the process of Wei Wangbao's foothold in Linji, he had made many military achievements.
According to the military post Zhang, it was impossible to see Liu Bang, but Liu Bang was defeated miserably at the Battle of Pengcheng, and his mentality once fell back to the state of the Surabaya Pavilion Chief, and he attached great importance to the people who came to vote at this time. Liu Bang not only received Zhang Shuo, but also advised him to first take his men back to the Western Wei state, and if the two countries were at war in the future, it would be of great use.
In the Battle of Eastern Zhang, Zhang Said led his beryllium troops to suddenly defect, and Cao Zan took the opportunity to lead the army to attack. SunSuo knew that Pusaka still had the main force of the Wei army and did not need to die here, so he ordered the formation to retreat and stabilize the position. As a result, Cao Shan destroyed the Wei army and killed more than 3,000 enemy prisoners.
The Western Wei army failed one after another in both the north and the south. The King of Western Wei was not in a hurry, and in the Battle of Linji a few years ago, his brother the King of Wei blamed himself, and Wei Bao was also a person who had experienced hardships. At this time, the Han army totaled 30,000, one less died, and the Western Wei army and the Western Chu army had 140,000, with an absolute superiority in strength.
However, the Western Wei king Leopard was too optimistic, and the commander of the Western Chu army, Xiang It, saw that the Wei army had lost two consecutive battles, and there were also internal traitors, and he did not know that there were still no Han troops within the Western Wei state. Xiang It had always been cautious and cautious, and directly withdrew its troops to the east to Xuan Guanxing, and it seemed that it was about to slip away again. Coupled with the loss of 8,000 men at Linjinjin and Eastern Zhang, the Western Wei army had 52,000 more troops to mobilize.
After Han Xin and Cao San joined forces, he led 8,000 bluffs and confronted SunSu, causing Cao Shen to lead 16,000 men to attack An Yi. Cao joined the army day and night, under the banner of Wei in the Western Wei state. At that time, the world was in chaos, the armies of various countries did not have a unified uniform, changing a banner would change a master, plus there was Zhang Said, there were many descendants, and it was not difficult to disguise themselves as the Western Wei army.
Cao joined the army several times to deceive the Western Wei state's cavalry post and came to the vicinity of Anyi. Cao Shan ordered Zhang to lead a small group of Hedong people, carrying the banner of the Western Wei State, into The City of Anyi, saying that the remnants of the Han army had been found in the west of Anyi, about a few hundred.
An Yishou's general Wang Xiang (王襄) belonged to Wang's family, and since Wang's defeat, he threw himself under the command of King Leopard of Wei in order to save the family. After Wei Bao arrived in the Western Wei kingdom, he reused Wang Xiang and handed over the old capital of the Wei state, Anyi, to him to guard. Wang Xiang had no interest in serving any of the princes, and in fact he was already discouraged by the fall of the Qin Dynasty, and only to protect his family and defect to the Wei king leopard.
When Wang Xiang learned that there were remnants of the Han army nearby, he led thousands of people to search and arrest Zhang Out of the city, as long as there was no large-scale battle, he could pretend to be a model for the safety of the family. As a result, the Western Wei army was ambushed, Wang Xiang surrendered, and Cao Join entered Zhan'anyi. Later, Wang Xiang had almost no military achievements in the Han army, and he had always been unable to contribute.
No one expected that Liu Bang's small layout would play such a big role, and after this war, Zhang Said became the military sima of the Han Army (military rank Liupin), and later pacified the Daiwang (self-proclaimed) Chen Feng, and Zhang said that he also paid homage to the general. However, Liu Bangjun was full of talents, especially there were many capable people in the concubine clan, and Zhang said that his later military achievements were limited. Liu Bang was called empress dowager, and Feng Zhang said that he was the Marquis of Anqiu, with 3,000 households, and could rank in the top 20 of the list of gonghou.
The Battle of Eastern Zhang and the Battle of Anyi were the two key battles in which the Han army destroyed the Western Wei state, and Zhang said that this small man played a big role, and if Cao San could not quickly defeat Sunsu and then capture Anyi, the Han army would have to spend a lot of time even if it could destroy the Western Wei state.
Cao Shen obtained a number of warhorses from An Yi and immediately informed the general Han Xin. Han Xinwenxin immediately marched to An Yi, and SunSu followed Han Xin for a day, and then knowing that An Yi was lost, he slowed down and waited for reinforcements from the Western Wei king Leopard.
The Western Wei kings Liu Baizhi and Feng Jing led their men and horses to stay at Pusakajin and personally led an army of 30,000 to capture Anyi. After joining forces with SunSu, the Western Wei king leopard's strength reached 36,700.
The Western Wei king leopard marched along the northern foothills of the Zhongtiao Mountains, but Han Xin did not guard An Yi, only sent a small number of men and horses to supervise Wang Xiang, and personally led a total army of more than 20,000 people to block the Western Wei army at Quyang next to the salt pond.
Picture - Yuncheng Salt Lake view
Facing the main force of the Western Wei King Leopard, Han Xin had no internal response in the enemy army. After several wars, Wei Bao was already familiar with the strength of the Han army, if this battle was not won, Wang Xiang of An Yi could be completely anti-water, did Han Xin have any strange strategies?
Han Xin placed a blocking array next to the salt pond, with Kong Ju and Chen He, two lieutenants, laying down two circular blocking phalanxes, while the other military horses hid behind the two phalanxes. As the war progressed, the two phalanx alternately moved forward two hundred steps, looking like two fists, punching continuously.
The war was very fierce, Kong Ju and Chen He were both fierce generals, the generals under their command did not care about life and death, the two fists constantly attacked, although the casualties were heavy, they would never back down, and the Han army had no choice. However, the Western Wei king Leopard had many choices, he could go to Anyi, he could return to the capital city of Pingyang, he could also transfer Bai Zhi and Feng Jing's two armies from Pusakajin, or only one of them.
The Western Wei king Leopard sent a cavalry to sneak around the back of the Han army, only to be repelled by Cao Shan. The Western Wei king leopard did not want to exchange one life for another, and the Han army's way of playing was most likely that more than 20,000 Han troops consumed the same number of Western Wei troops, and Han Xin was really a madman.
The Western Wei king Leopard ordered that after sending an army to break, he led more than 20,000 people to Xuan Guan, went to Hanoi County to find Xiang It to move the rescue troops, and took the opportunity to consume Xiang It's troops. After defeating the Han army in the future, the Western Wei state still had to be a neighbor of Xiang for a long time, and Wei Bao certainly had his own small calculations.
As a result, Wei Bao's withdrawal became a major defeat in this battle, or a faint move. The Han army obtained many warhorses in Anyi, all of which hid in the rear to wait for work, and when they saw Wei Leopard withdrawing, Han Xin personally led the cavalry to pursue.
Wei Wangbao's pro-soldier cavalry escorted him and ran through Xuan Guanxing, leaving only a few hundred people, and Han Xin's cavalry was still in hot pursuit. Wei Bao fled to Dongyuan (present-day Yuanqu County) in Hedong County for only ten miles, with only a dozen horses left around him, and was finally surrounded and captured by the Han army.
Xiang was in Dongyuan City, listening to the cavalry sentry report this matter, he only knew that the Han army had entered Hanoi County, but he did not know that the Western Wei king leopard had been captured, and only ordered the detectives to ride around, but still did not move.
Han Xin captured the Western Wei king leopard, escorted by 20,000 troops, crossed An Yi and did not enter, went north to Pingyang City, and ordered the defenders to open the city gate, otherwise kill the Western Wei king leopard. As a result, the Han army entered the capital of the Western Wei state of Pingyang, and obtained thousands of old mothers, wives, and sons of the Western Wei king Leopard.
Han Xin's last step was to order Wei Bao to write an edict, and ordered Bai Zhi and Feng Jing, who remained in Pusakajin, to lead their troops to surrender. As for the other cities, Wei Bao's edict was very useful, and all the places looked to the wind and obeyed, and Wei Di was determined.
After han xin destroyed the western Wei state, within a month, he crossed the river with only 25,000 infantry, defeated the 60,000 troops of the western Wei state, and destroyed the western Wei state. From Yang Xia's crossing of the river with the Wa Poppy was just the beginning, after crossing the river, the south was blocked, and even if Zhang said that he would not rebel, Han Xin could still use a small number of troops to drag down his opponents, and let Cao Shan lead the main force to take Anyi, Han Xin was sure that Wang Xiang did not want to pay the price of resistance, and saw through these Qin dynasty generals. Next, the blockade next to the salt pond, if Wei Leopard does not come, the other side's strength will not be too strong, Wei Leopard himself came is the effect of actual combat, Wei Leopard carefully thought about it, did not want to exchange one life for one life, Han Xin had the opportunity to use cavalry to catch up with the captured Wei Leopard. Then escort Wei Bao to Pingyang, even if it is a routine operation. In this series of wars, it may not be difficult to win one of them, but every step is right, each battle is lightly taken by the opponent, among the generals of this era, Han Xin is really standing out from the crowd, Mu Xiuyu is like a forest, even Xiang Yu is half a bit worse.