?Three miles west of the Anzhou military camp on the west bank of the river, the Great Zhou court's southern expedition army was lined up, with countless wooden shield and curtain chariots distributed in the crowd. A war was about to come.

The Anzhou defenders on the west side of the floating bridge built a large village as a stronghold, and built a small village on the outskirts of the west side to protect them. The small village was divided into three places on the left, middle and right to protect the main village. The enemy attacked the first one was Zhongzhai.

So the chief general of the defender, Sima Zheng Wanqing, mobilized the defender to use Zhongzhai as the core left and right camps to set up formations for the two wings to prepare to resist the attack of the Southern Army.

More than 2,000 soldiers under Yuwen Wen and a thousand defenders set up formations on the right wing of Zhongzhai. Three thousand people in front of Zhongzhai and the left wing of each village, together with the defenders in each village, resisted the enemy's attack approaching in front of him.

"It's coming so fast." Xu Shao stood beside Yuwen Wen and looked at the dark enemy troops in the distance and sighed. The enemy troops who were preparing to attack the camp in front of him were stagnant. The tide of the army behind him was stagnant.

"They are camping." Yuwen Wen glanced at the thousand-mile mirror and smiled bitterly. According to the military situation he had explored before, when the Anzhou army crossed the river three days ago and marched towards Fancheng southwest, the imperial court's southern expedition army was still at the eastern end of Wuguan Ancient Road, where there were about 312 to 20 miles away.

According to the normal marching speed of the army, it is about forty miles a day, and the opponent has now spent three days to complete this section of the road, which means that the marching speed of the army will be nearly a hundred miles a day.

During the Three Kingdoms period, Sima Yi led a large army to attack Shangyong's Mengda's march with a mileage of 1,200 miles. It took only eight days to arrive at Shangyong, Mengda, who thought it would take a month to arrive, was caught off guard.

Meng Da's basis was that the army marched only forty or fifty miles a day. However, Sima Yi made a quick march and arrived in a hurry. Now it seems that the Southern Expedition Army has also arrived in a "Keri".

Therefore, the opponent's large army needs to rest. As for the people who are preparing to attack their camps, they may arrange troops to preserve their physical strength in advance and attack while the floating bridge is broken.

There are no walkie-talkies these days. The other party calculated the time when the army arrived here and then dredged the dam that intercepted the river water upstream and used the method of water to destroy the floating bridge. In this way, the east and west defenders of the floating bridge could not take care of each other, and some of the guards, which were not originally too many, were cut off.

At this time, the army that had arrived just in time was able to launch an attack on the isolated West Bank defenders and eat them. Then the army camped here to wait for the main force of the Anzhou army waiting to return to the rescue.

It takes about 40 miles from the west bank of the pontoon bridge to Fancheng. It is normal for a large army to march once in one way. Normally, it takes more than half a day. The Anzhou army marched from here to the southwest to attack Fancheng three days ago. If they learn that the pontoon bridge was destroyed, the land food route was cut off and then rushed back, they might be tomorrow.

By then, the enemy army might have cleaned up here to deal with the main force of the Anzhou army who was rushing back.

If the main force of the Anzhou Army marched urgently, it would cause exhaustion. The enemy who had been resting for half a day would be able to "wait for work" today.

Let the enemy enter the decisive battle at the time and place he chose at his own pace, so that he invisibly gained the upper hand as soon as the war started. This is some speculations by Yuwen Wen about the purpose of the imperial army's use of troops this time.

According to common sense, if the troops sent to attack the floating bridge in Rangcheng could only use cavalry if they wanted to be fast, the primary target of the Anzhou defenders at the floating bridge was the opponent's cavalry raid. As for the subsequent army, it was the main force of the Anzhou army who was conquering Fancheng and returning here.

The Anzhou Army attacked Fancheng this time to hit the opponent with a time difference, but now the opponent has hit the opponent with a time difference. Based on its behavior of building dams upstream, this seems to be a long-planned strategy.

"It seems that everyone is not stupid!" Yuwen Wen murmured to himself. The four square formations under his command still formed a "┻" formation and turned into a long spear and hedgehog to prepare for bloody battles. Because they were surrounded by the enemy on three sides, the cavalry was useless. Yuwen Shiwu led the three hundred cavalrymen in this building to huddled in the camp to count the ants.

After looking around for a while, he noticed a flag flying in the middle of the opposite army formation. Because the flag had the word "Yang", he was thinking about which historical figure the other party was.

It was impossible for Yang Jian and his son, so they should be other generals with the surname Yang. During this period, there were not many generals who could lead troops as the general manager of the marching and the surname Yang. Later, Yang Su, the powerful minister of the Sui Dynasty, was one of them.

Last July, the marshal Wei Xiaokuan led a large army to attack the general manager of Xiangzhou, Yuchi Jiong. Yang Su, as one of the general managers of the marshal, went out with the army to fight against the governor of Xingzhou, Yu Wenzhou, and defeated him and killed him on the horse.

Due to the change in the battle situation, Yang Su was arranged to guard the important road and did not participate in the battle between Wei Xiaokuan and Yuchi Jiong. The result of that battle was reversed due to Yuwen Wen's reasons, resulting in a disastrous defeat in the imperial army.

However, Yang Su still followed the historical trajectory and was promoted to the state for his merits and was named 2,000 households in the Gongyi of Qinghe County. Therefore, Yuwen Wen was very much looking forward to the general Yang surnamed Yang Su on the other side, who would be the famous Yang Su in the future.

Then it would be interesting if you can find any treasure map of "Yang Gongmi Treasure" when you "brush the dungeon" this time.

Just when Yuwen Wen was "thinking about it", Sima Zheng Wanqing, the general manager of the Anzhou Army's Dazhai, stood in the enemy building and looked at the enemy army opposite him with a serious expression.

These camps on our side were built in a hurry to defend against cavalry raids rather than to deal with the siege of a large number of infantry soldiers. According to the original plan, we should defend here for a few days and wait for the main force of the Anzhou army to conquer Fancheng before turning back.

The date given by the general manager Yuwen Liang was that the time for the round trip was not more than four days. Zheng Wanqing knew that his side had great power siege equipment, so he also believed that the army could capture Fancheng within two days.

It took two days to make siege equipment, and it only took one day to siege the city, so Zheng Wanqing believed that he could defend the floating bridge.

As a result, the performance of the imperial army was surprising. No matter how the floating bridge had been broken or how the other party reached the speed of 100 miles per day, we have to find a way to endure the day until the army returns tomorrow.

There are not many enemy buildings in the camp. First, I feel that it is unnecessary and I don’t have time to come. One main village and three small villages are mainly for the defenders to stay in camps, so the village walls are also made of wooden fences that cannot withstand the attack.

A slightly effective measure was to defend against the cavalry digging an arc-shaped trench outside the small village. The trench was not deep but wide enough, so wide that a horse could not cross. There were many horse-resistance between the small villages to prevent the enemy cavalry from attacking.

These measures are of no use for the enemy infantry that is about to attack now, so they still have to rely on human lives. Their own troops are less than 20,000, but the enemy troops preparing to attack seem to have a total of 40,000, which is not the main force of the army behind them.

Zheng Wanqing felt that the enemy's sufficient troops could only be used to fight the wheels to exhaust all the strength of his soldiers. Under the three sides, his poorly few cavalry could not be used, so I really don't know how long it would last.

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The marching general Yang Su stood in the central army formation and squinted his eyes to look at the Anzhou military camp opposite. He was the main general of the Battle of the Southern Army to attack the camp this time. According to the goal set by the marching marshal Liang Shiyan, it was to "eat" the Anzhou army in front of him before sunset, so that the main force of the Anzhou army that attacked Fancheng would never have a chance to turn the tables.

This year, it was not only the Anzhou General Manager Yuwen Liang who had been deliberately preparing for the war, but also the Prime Minister Yang Jian also put in some effort to solve the problem.

In early June, Yuchi Jiong's "Pseudo Zhou" began to take action. Yang Jian knew that Yuwen Liang of Anzhou would take advantage of the situation and then took the initiative. He killed Yuwen Liang's younger brother Yuwen Chun's family for the crime of rebellion and immediately appointed the marshal Liang's army, Liang Shiyan, to lead the army from Chang'an to Wuguan and go straight to the Jingzhou General Administration.

When Yuwen Liang issued a proclamation and launched an army to attack Chang, the army had already crossed the Qinling Mountains from the Wuguan Ancient Road to enter the boundary of Jingzhou. When the other side occupied Chang, the army had been resting for several days.

In order to set up a doubt, they did not arrive in Rangcheng, Jingzhou Prefecture, and secretly built a dam on the boundary of Xinye County to store water.

This is a strategy planned from the beginning to bring the main force of the Anzhou army into pieces.

If the Anzhou army wants to attack the Jingzhou General Administration, it must first take down Chang and Caizhou on the west side of Suizhou, and then take down Fancheng, which is separated by a river in the north of Xiangyang. Only by solving these places can we move our troops north without worry.

The newly built naval army in Xiangyang is not the opponent of the Fancheng naval army. Therefore, if the Anzhou army wants to take Fancheng, it must attack by land. Then the main force of the Anzhou army led by Yuwen Liang took Chang, and Cai Erzhou must cross the mouth of Lianghe to attack Fancheng in the southwest direction.

The opportunity is here, just during the period when the main force of the Anzhou Army crossed the Lianghekou and started until it captured Fancheng and returned to the vicinity of Lianghekou.

The army had to build a floating bridge when crossing the river. This floating bridge was also the throat of the only land grain route of the Anzhou army. Therefore, once the imperial army cut off and guaranteed that there would be no floating bridge to cross the river, the Anzhou army could only use ships to transport food and grass from the water route by ship by Xiangyang south of the Han River.

The premise is that they can take Fancheng!

Combined with the experience and lessons of Xiangyang's fall, the court has transformed Fancheng into a poisonous bait that the Anzhou army can bite it in its mouth but cannot swallow it: it tries every means to delay the time the other party occupied the city, with the goal of guarding for one month.

The city is in the navy, and when the other party bites the bait, it is destined to be finished and it is impossible to obtain food and grass supply from the waterway.

Therefore, the Southern Expedition Army immediately marched immediately after the Anzhou army crossed the Lianghekou. A large number of baggage had already been transported by ship to Jiyang, Xinye County by water in advance and set off separately from there. The army went lightly to the west bank of the Lianghekou floating bridge in just three days.

At the same time, the levee was broken and the water was released to break the floating bridge and isolate the defenders on both sides. As long as the defenders on the west coast were eaten, the army could firmly nail them here and not allow a floating bridge to cross the river.

Once the land grain route was cut off, the water route was harassed by the Fancheng naval army and could not transport food. The more than 100,000 soldiers in Anzhou would eat horses and chew food to store food soon. At that time, the morale of the army was in chaos and was defeated without fighting.

Unless the Anzhou army strives to fight quickly to survive, the Southern Army is ready to build a village on the west bank of Lianghekou and spend it until the day when the morale of the other party is in chaos.

So Yang Su’s current task is to take down the Anzhou military camp in front of him and then set up camp by the river. The Anzhou military camp opposite him doesn’t have to worry about it. Just control the west bank of the river so that the Anzhou army can no longer transport food and grass across the river to the west bank.

The second task of taking down the camp was to pile all the enemy's heads into Jingguan and let the Anzhou army come back to see what the outcome would be like to fight against the court with Yuwen Liang and his son.
Chapter completed!