Pinglefu City is surrounded by water and mountains on several sides. Only the hills in the northeast are relatively broad.

Just as many cities are built where rivers converge, Pingle City is at the intersection of the Li River and the Lechuan River (Chach River), and has the advantage of water transportation. The Lechuan River surrounds the north of the city and flows into the Li River in the east of the city; the Li River water surrounds the southeast of the city. There is also a mountain range that runs across the east and west outside the city, and the ridge blocks the southeast corner of Pingle City.

On the afternoon of the tenth day of August, the main force of the Han Wang Army arrived north of Pinglefu and near a ferry on the west bank of the Lechuan River. There are several islands in the middle of the river, which facilitates the establishment of floating bridges.

But the army was unable to cross the river immediately, and the floating bridge was not completed at this time.

Because the vanguards were on the Lechuan Water, the vanguards failed to find enough ships in time; the civilian ships they found from the Li River were to pass through Pinglefu City, but were intercepted by the official ships of Pinglefu, and have not been able to row to the Lechuan Water so far.

The vanguard army once sent envoys to the city to persuade the surrender, but unfortunately the government saw that the 100,000 Wu Gao's army had arrived in the south bank of the Li River. Not only did they refuse to surrender, but they also sent the envoys of the Han King's Army to Wu Gao's camp!

Zhu Gaoxu was furious when he heard the news and blurted out in public: "I don't know how to politely! The prefect thought that Wu Gaojun would protect them?"

The generals showed indignation, and someone said, "When Wu Gao is destroyed, we will also level the Pingyue Mansion!"

Zhu Gaoxu then gradually stopped his anger and said quietly: "It has nothing to do with my people in the Ming Dynasty." If these warriors do not restrain them, it would be quite terrible.

"Hell!" Zhu Gaochi slapped his horse and rushed towards the riverside, and the generals followed one after another. He strangled the brown horses by the river and looked at the lush island in the middle of the river. On the clear river water, soldiers were busy building a floating bridge.

After a while, Wang Yu, the general of the former army, came up and dismounted his horse and held his fists and saluted.

Zhu Gaoxu asked directly: "When can we build a floating bridge?"

Wang Yu said: "At the end, the brothers who are on the Lechuan River will row their boats back overnight. The boat bridge should be able to pass through the army until tomorrow night."

"It's set up before noon tomorrow!" Zhu Gaoxu ordered without saying a word.

Wang Yu gritted his teeth and clasped his fists and said, "I'll get the order!"

Zhu Gaoxu watched for a while, then returned to the headquarters of the Central Army located on the west bank of Lechuan River. After the right chief Hou Hai and the generals greeted each other, they continued to discuss what. Zhu Gaoxu didn't even listen to a word, but was still thinking about his own affairs.

If you think too much, especially if you still want things before falling asleep, your brain is too active and you will easily suffer from insomnia. In the past two days, Zhu Gaoxu has suffered from insomnia again without exception, and his spirit is not very good at this time.

The river situation near Pingle City falls on the map, like a crooked herringbone; the city is on the right side of the character "ren", and there is a mountain range to the southeast.

The current Wu Gaojun is just below the shape of the character "man"; he may have to go to the right of the "man", because there is no road in the south and the terrain is not convenient for the army to walk. According to horse exploration, it will be as early as noon tomorrow before the Wu Gaojun can reach the south bank of the Li River.

If Zhu Gaoxu's army had not crossed the Lechuan water late, he would have arrived at the north bank of the Li River before Wu Gao! In that case, the Han Wang army confronted the river and defended the riverside, and could delay Wu Gao for a while with the mountains and rivers.

But now it seems that Zhu Gaoxu feels that when his main force arrives in the northern bank of the Li River, Wu Gao has already crossed the Li River...

Although the Han Wang Army maintained an active attack attitude, Zhu Gaoxu's troops are less than 60,000 people. If they set up a decisive battle with Wu Gao, the chances of victory are not high. Once defeated, Zhu Gaoxu's split and attack will become a situation where they are defeated one by one.

Therefore, the Wu Gao army was delayed and the battle was delayed. When the Sheng Yong army appeared in the southern part of Wu Gao, then the time was the time for a decisive battle!

Just then, a shout came from outside the door: "Report! Lu Liangwei Commander Chen Zhen, Governor Sheng Yong's Army Report!"

Zhu Gaoxu immediately raised his head and said, "Take it in."

Since Zhu Gaoxu left Libo County, Qingyuan Prefecture, this is the first direct contact between the army on the middle and south. Zhu Gaoxu took two military newspapers from the guards and took them apart, so he naturally read Sheng Yong's letters first.

Judging from the content of the letter, Sheng Yong had sent a letter before this; but Zhu Gaoxu did not receive it, so he didn't know that something was wrong on the road. This time, Sheng Yong sent someone to the east of Laibin County and took a detour from the mountain road.

The messenger found the defeated army of the vanguard army in the east of Luorong County. Chen Zhen sent someone to escort the team. The team passed the roads in Guilin Prefecture and Yangshuo County, and passed around the scout activity area of ​​Wu Gao's army, and finally sent it to Zhu Gaoxu's central army headquarters.

Zhu Gaoxu carefully read Sheng Yong's date and location of his marching, and then calculated according to the map. He estimated that Sheng Yong's army is about four days away from Wuzhou Prefecture; and the size of more than 70,000 troops will take at least seven days to march from Wuzhou Prefecture to He County!

After a while, Zhu Gaoxu came to the judgment: If there would be no continuous rainy days within the next eleven days, Sheng Yong's main force would arrive in He County eleven days later, around August 21st...

Zhu Gaoxu guessed a few days ago that Wu Gao must have wanted to go to He County. So after he occupied some post stations, he sent someone to search the documents from the official office of the postmaster to find out the distance between postmaster's postmaster's office; he also sent scouts to explore horses to estimate the distance of each nearby road, and compare the information recorded on paper.

So he now remembers that the length of the post road from Pingyuefu to He County was 230 miles in the official booklet.

If you sit down and watch Wu Gao's army march normally, Wu Gao will arrive in He County five days later, around the Mid-Autumn Festival! The main force of Sheng Yong's army will not be able to catch up anyway, which may be the reason why Wu Gao decided to leave He County first.

Once Wu Gao arrived in He County, he could go south to Guangzhou Prefecture of the Guangdong Provincial Administration and the Guangdong Provincial Administration and the Jiangxi Provincial Administration and the Jiangxi Provincial Administration and the Jiangxi Provincial Administration and the Jiangxi Provincial Administration and the

Before the war started, Zhu Gaoxu had already set the strategic goal of this battle and tried his best to annihilate Wu Gao's army. At least he should drive Wu Gao's army to the direction of the Guangdong Provincial Administration and the General Office!

Otherwise, whether the battle in Huguang should be fought will have to be reconsidered.

Zhu Gaoxu was silent for a while and still passed Sheng Yong's military order to the generals present. He then read Chen Zhen's report.

After Chen Zhen replaced Wang Bin's military power, he was nearly a hundred miles away from Wu Gao's army and followed the marching. He also left the wounded soldiers in a village, leaving a hundred-house team to protect the wounded soldiers, and led the main force of the vanguard to continue to march eastward. After Wu Gao's army left near Leping Prefecture City, the vanguard army could meet with Zhu Gaoxu's main force of the central army.

...On the afternoon of August 11, the troops under Zhu Gaoxu crossed the Lechuan River from the floating bridge one after another. The troops of the Foreward Wang Yu's army failed to build the floating bridge before noon, but it was much earlier than what he said at the beginning, "the army could pass through at night at the earliest."

As expected, the Wu Gao army had not crossed the Li River at this time, but most of the troops had already reached the north bank of the Li River.

At this time, the distance between the two armies was very close! The troops of both sides were located on the east side of Pinglefu City, with a long mountain range between them; the west end of the mountain range reached the banks of the Lijiang River.

Scouts came back one after another and came to the central army to report military information.

Zhu Gaoxu soon learned that Wu Gaojun and his troops had taken the lead in occupying a mountainous highland near the other side of the city.

"Go to the front army to send orders to Wang Yu and immediately enter the eastern mountain range of the city. Choose a place to set up a camp to build fortifications on the east side of the enemy's vanguard!" Zhu Gaoxu said immediately.

"Get the order!" The personal soldiers holding the order flag responded and rushed out of the central army.

At this time, the sun was already west, and Zhu Gaoxu ordered the army to choose places to camp; the troops would probably camp in the hilly areas on the east bank of the Lechuan River, near the Forward Army camp tonight. Zhu Gaoxu also asked the generals on the night of the night about the deployment of open and secret whistles and horse exploration.

The two armies are probably only about ten miles apart, and the situation is already quite tense. However, there should not be a big war today. Wu Gao could not order a 100,000 army to attack at night; otherwise, the enemy would not have reached the place, and the formation would be in chaos. Tonight, the Han Wang army would only prepare for enemy surprise attacks.

Zhu Gaoxu arranged for a while, and then took his personal cavalry and rode his horse to Wang Yu's vanguard camp.

They climbed the long hillside road and came to the ridge that stretched east and west. The sun was about to set, and Wang Yu's five thousand men were still busy digging trenches and repairing soil walls.

Zhu Gaoxu first looked west along the ridge. The vanguard of the government army was also on this mountain range, just far to the west; however, the mountain was uneven, and the enemy could not be seen here.

His eyes moved, looking south. To the south of the mountain range, at the foot of the mountain was a long and flat land, and the main road was also there.

On the south side of the official road, the terrain began to undulate, and a large number of abrupt mountains stood on the ground... These abrupt mountains are very distinctive, as if they were composed of limestone; Zhu Gaoxu once saw similar mountain shapes when he led his army through the southern part of Guilin Prefecture.

A long mountain range blocks the landforms on the north and south sides are completely different.

"Greetings to the prince!" Wang Yu rushed over and saluted.

Zhu Gaoxu waved his hand and said, "You build a camp as soon as possible so that the soldiers can rest for a while."

Wang Yu clasped his fists and said, "I will obey the order."

Zhu Gaoxu said again: "You are here, the main thing you do is to send people to keep an eye on the movements of the main force of Wu Gao's army. If the enemy's superior forces come to attack, General Wang can wait for an opportunity to evacuate from the mountain and move closer to the main force of the army."

Wang Yu nodded and said, "I understand."

...Just ten miles southwest of the Han King's Army, Wu Gao's army set up camp in a swagger. Obviously, he showed no sign of avoiding the decisive battle this time.

After the main force of Zhu Gaoxu's army walked out of the mountainous areas in Rongxian, the terrain became relatively flat and the army was unable to hide its tracks. Moreover, the two armies had been chasing for many days. At this time, Wu Gao must have figured out how many troops Zhu Gaoxu had.

Wu Gao was cautious in using troops and was not adventurous, but as an experienced veteran, he had a force with a strength of nearly multiple advantage, and there was no reason to be afraid of such a battle.

Wu Gao should be willing to play a duel with Zhu Gaoxu this time, but Zhu Gaoxu certainly didn't want to.
Chapter completed!