Xizhou Prefecture is under the jurisdiction of Song Ping. The city gate is closed and the guards are on high alert. The enemy troops are at the city. The defenders plan to defend and wait for assistance. The main force of the imperial army is now attacking Xuanhu. It is about 160 miles away from Song Ping. The reinforcements sent by the troops can arrive within six days.

Traveling for 30 or 40 miles a day is the speed of the mass marching under normal circumstances. If the cavalry is on the road with light equipment, it is more than two days enough, so the defenders of Song Ping were not worried about being isolated and helpless, and they were not worried at all about the enemy troops appearing outside the city.

The enemy troops who came from Guangcheng set up camp in the eastern suburbs of Songping, and seemed to be sieging the city. However, the defenders knew that there were strong aids in the north and the other side would withdraw sooner or later, so they felt very at ease about the safety of the city. Now they are mainly concerned about when the war will end and when they can return to their hometown.

Song Ping had succeeded in a sneak attack for the enemy before, but later the imperial army headed south. The enemy who occupied Song Ping knew that it was alone and could not resist, so he abandoned the city and retreated to Zhiguang City, Guangzhou Prefecture.

The soldiers in the city and many people were swept south by them, so most of the soldiers guarding the city were not locals, but soldiers in Hebei and counties along the Yellow River that followed the imperial army southward.

Some of them were war soldiers, and some were people who were recruited to serve in the military. They had been away from home for several months. Seeing that the end of the year was approaching the New Year's Day, their homesickness became increasingly strong. They were very concerned about the development of the war, but were a little disappointed.

Originally, everyone thought that the government army would soon recover Xuanhu and drove all the rebels who invaded Yuzhou back to Shannan. At that time, those who were conscripted for military service would be able to go home. As a result, Xuanhu could not conquer him for a long time, and chaos broke out in Huainan, and there was still a war to fight.

I want to go home, but I don’t know if it’s the year of the Monkey and Horse Month.

"Hey, don't miss home all day long. I'll give you a benefit first, so as not to be empty-handed when you go home and can't afford to buy a sheep."

"What are the benefits of man with me?"

"Look, look south and see if there is the mountain opposite the river? That mountain is called Fuguang Mountain, and there are treasures on the mountain!"

"What treasure is there on the mountain? Let's listen!"

Several soldiers were whispering that they were recruited to serve in the military. They came from their hometown of Yingzhou on the south bank of the Yellow River to Xizhou, more than 600 miles away to fight. As the saying goes, people leave their hometowns and are drifting outside without relatives, so they expect their fellow villagers to help each other, so they pass on any news.

They are ordinary people, and the wild and wave war is useless, so they are arranged to do chores and can be arranged to guard the city. That is the blessing of the Bodhisattva. The smoke from their own ancestral graves is coming out. If they can get some treasures home, of course it is the best.

An older man was working for a short-term job for a wealthy family in his hometown. He heard the man show off his chess pieces and the visitor, saying that the chess pieces used to play chess were made of jade produced on Fuguang Mountain in Xizhou. It was expensive and valuable.

Xizhou Prefecture is located in Songping, located on the north bank of the Huai River. On the south bank opposite the river, there is a mountain called Fuguang Mountain, which is the mountain that everyone is looking south now.

From Yingzhou to Yuzhou to Xizhou, it is basically a plain area. The Fuguang Mountain outside Songping City seems very abrupt in a plain area, which makes the soldiers who have just arrived in Songping amazed. When they heard that the valuable jade on the mountain was produced, their minds began to come alive.

Everyone lives a tight life. If they can get some valuable things to go home, they will not be in vain to follow the government army to fight. As the saying goes, it is good to rely on the mountains to make a small fortune, but the problem is not without it.

"We don't know what the jade looks like?"

"You haven't seen Jade before?"

"without."

"I really don't know! Let's find an opportunity to go to the Fuguang Mountain opposite, and I'll check it when the time comes!"

"That's good!"

While several soldiers were dancing, the city-submarine general looked at him from afar and shouted: "What do you want to do when you get together? A group of lazy donkeys, itchy skin..."

Before he finished speaking, he heard the sound of trumpets on the city tower. The soldiers on the city were nervous when they heard this. They quickly looked around and then found that there seemed to be some movement in the enemy camp outside the east suburbs of the city.

After a while, news came: the enemy troops retreated outside the city.

Just as the soldiers were worried, afraid that they would be killed by the rushing arrows on the way out of the city to pursue, new news came: Shangguan Youling, no one is allowed to go out of the city to pursue, in case of encountering a disaster.

The soldiers were happy when they heard this, feeling that after the war was quelled, they had nothing to do, so they just found a free time to leave the city and go to Fuguang Mountain on the south bank to find jade. However, just after afternoon, dust was flying outside the northern suburbs of the city, and a large number of cavalry rushed over.

......

"Where has the enemy gone now?"

"Reported to the Prime Minister, the enemy crossed the Huai River and retreated south. Under the harassment of our cavalry, he only walked twenty miles in two days, and now he has arrived here..."

"How many troops are they?"

"Reported to the Prime Minister, the enemy's troops have more than 10,000 troops, mainly infantry, and the cavalry is about two or three thousand."

"What about other places? Are there any enemy cavalry lying in ambush?"

"The Ranger has already investigated everywhere, and there will be results tomorrow."

"The Fuguang Mountain on the other side of Song Ping must be sent to search, so as not to lurk under the nose without knowing it."

"yes!"

In the Song Ping Prefecture Office, Prime Minister Yuchi Dun was listening to the general's report and trying to attack Song Ping's enemy. Hearing the turbulent movement, he retreated south and tried to withdraw to Guangcheng. However, Song Ping was not a toilet, so he came whenever he wanted and left whenever he wanted.

Yuchi Dun re-determined the strategy with the generals in the camp outside Xuanhu City, and personally led 20,000 cavalry to the south to destroy the enemy troops that raided Song Ping. The many cavalry he sent had already surrounded him and was about to cut off the opponent's retreat.

Song Ping and Guangcheng are about eighty miles away, and they can reach it in two or three days of normal marching. However, under the harassment of the official cavalry, the enemy retreating south traveled ten miles a day and no longer had the chance to go back.

There is a Huai River between Song Ping and Guangcheng, but the Huai River is actually the moat on the south side of Song Ping. There is also a river on the official road between the two places, which is just near the middle line between the two places.

This river is called Chaishui. It originates from the Dabie Mountains, flows from southwest to northeast, and finally flows into the Huai River. It is a tributary of the Huai River and flows all year round. It must pass through Chaishui when traveling to Ping and Guangcheng of Song Dynasty.

Under the arrangement of Yuchi Dun, the enemy troops retreating south could no longer cross the south of the firewood.

With 20,000 cavalry in hand and fighting in the plains, Yuchi Dun had absolute advantage and confidence at this time, and he won the final victory in the upcoming battle at the junction of Xizhou and Guangzhou.

If it weren't for the purpose of preventing the Xuanhu Shou Army from breaking through, he could have brought about 30,000 cavalry south, but even if he only brought 20,000 cavalry over here, it would have been a decisive force that could easily crush the Yuwen family's conspiracy.

Yuchi Dun judged that the enemy troops attacking Song Ping should have been a feint attack, and the main force was ambushed somewhere, waiting for the main force of the official army to crash into the trap.

The army that was feinted and the tiger-head flag flying in its army shows that the core of this bait is the Hulin Army, an army that is good at infantry combat, and is said to be not afraid of cavalry.

Yuchi Dun determined that his commander, Xiyang Wang Yuwen Wen had escaped from Xuanhu and joined the Hulin Army, so no matter what, he must annihilate this army.

There is also the main enemy force who uses it as bait but hides in an ambush.

Yuchi Dun had no definite news about whether the main force of this enemy army existed, but he expected the enemy to be lenient and decided to use the force of a fierce tiger to fight against a rabbit to wipe out the opponent's field forces in one fell swoop.

At that time, whether Yuwen Wen is in this army or not, Yuchi Dun thinks it is something worth looking forward to.

He had figured it out that no matter how hard Yuwen Wen could fight, he had to fight an army as a thug. As long as he destroyed the opponent's army, Yuwen Wen would have to escape like a skinny dog.
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