At dawn, the world is like being covered in a translucent glass cover. The dark green forest and the city walls in the distance outline a blurred outline. Under the reflection of the bonfire, the guards at the front of Xuchang City in the distance are like panic-like little

People are running.

Yingshui, which rushes out of the valley, is like a wild beast roaring lowly under his feet...

"The defenders panicked, and the ministers and the others were in Ruyin. Taihe would win another brilliant victory. The secret spies in the city also reported that the Xuchang defenders were preparing to leave the city at midnight. They were about to escape in a hurry!"

Han Qihu strode to the Tang Pan, the commander-in-chief of Caizhou Camp, shouted excitedly,

"Please allow me to lead my troops directly from the east wing of Xuchang City to penetrate north to attack the rioters!"

"What are your few men and horses in charge of birds? Can you stop Feng Shizhao's 30,000 soldiers?" Du Wu walked over and said.

As a child of the Han family who followed Chen Zixiao to join the Chu Mountains, Han Qihu had already accumulated merits and was promoted to the deputy capital of Yuhou.

In recent years, in addition to the cavalry of the vanguard selection army, Jingxiang has also been working hard to develop cavalry units, engaged in scouts and small groups of infiltration reconnaissance operations. Han Qihu has stayed by Chen Zixiao in recent years and is responsible for leading and training cavalry units.

, also in charge of military affairs scouts and other matters.

After the incident of fleeing to Beijing, Xu Huai took charge of the government affairs with the Sikong Mansion and transferred Chen Zixiao to take charge of the Military Intelligence Staff Office. Tang Pan replaced Chen Zixiao to lead the Caizhou camp, and Han Qihu continued to stay in Caizhou camp to lead the cavalry troops.

Tang Pan??????????????????? Before the war, they understood the plan for the Yingzhou Battle. However, four or five hundred miles from Ruyin to Xiangcheng, and there was a floodplain barrier. There was a message.

Many things remain unchanged, and they still don’t know the specific situation of the Battle of Taihe at this time.

However, it is not difficult for them to judge that Sikong Mansion has achieved a critical victory in Yingzhou due to the panic and intending to abandon the city.

However, the result of the Yingzhou Battle was not confirmed in advance, and because of the strange and righteousness, both sides could not use dangerous strategies. Therefore, although Caizhou Camp forcibly built a floating bridge on the Yingshui River before, the main force of the camp was stationed on the south bank.

Only two thousand elite soldiers were deployed on the North Bank as a restraining method.

Now the Xuchang defenders are about to escape, and they only have 2,000 elite soldiers in the forefront camp on the north bank of the Yingshui River and south of Xuchang City. It is definitely not enough to pursue and intercept 30,000 Xuchang enemy troops.

Moreover, no one knows whether the Chihu people will arrange cavalry troops to cover the retreat of the Xuchang enemy troops - this is a high probability that it will happen.

However, the main force of Caizhou Camp on the south bank of Yingshui wanted to enter the north bank through a simple floating bridge that was only seven or eight feet wide to participate in the pursuit. It would not be possible to complete just one or two hours of 20,000 people crossing the river to the north bank.

After Sikong Mansion decided to launch a strong attack on Taihe, in order to concentrate more cavalry combat power on the western front, Caizhou camp was also transferred away a thousand extremely tense cavalry by Sikong Mansion. Now Han Qihu only has five hundred left in his hands.

Cavalry available.

Even if the Chihu people did not arrange cavalry to respond and cover, it would be unimaginable that they would use 500 cavalry to cross Ying and directly penetrate the heart of the enemy who fled north to 30,000 abandoned cities.

However, Tang Pan did not rush to reject Han Qihu's request for credit.

Han Qihoo's suggestion is so tempting.

If a small number of cavalry quickly penetrated into the northern part of Xuchang, as long as the enemy in Xuchang is blocked and delayed for half a day, the main force of the camp will have relatively plenty of time to cross Ying north and annihilate the enemy in Xuchang.

General Tang Pan, the general Zhang Xiongshan, the camp Sima Chen Songze, and Yuan Lei and other capital Yuhou, came to the emergency consultation.

Caizhou camp has always been the most important support point along the Huaihei defense line. Xu Huai transferred Chen Zixiao to Sikong Mansion to preside over the Military Intelligence Staff Department and planned the Yingzhou Battle. Caizhou defense line was even more inaccurate, so he led Zhang Xiongshan.

Chen Songze was transferred to the camp and served as a staff officer and a military officer. He was a Sima of the camp, and strengthened the overall command capabilities of the Caizhou camp.

"The main force on the Western Front must first severely damage the main force of the Escaping Cavalry before it can be defeated in Taihe, and Ruyin will win a great victory."

Since Chen Songze served as Sima of Caizhou Camp, although he was mainly responsible for military affairs in the camp, he learned that the enemy in Xuchang had signs of abandoning the city and fleeing north, so he clearly advocated that the camp immediately arranged troops to cross the Ying pursuit, saying,

"Even if the enemy Wang Wululie will arrange cavalry to take over the enemy in Xuchang to retreat north, they will definitely be weak troops who have just suffered heavy damage, so they are not afraid of it; and the enemy in Xuchang is even more frightened. According to my plan, except for Qihu, leading him.

Five hundred cavalry headed north first

, In the future, all the horses and infantry should be arranged to cross the river in batches, followed Qihu and the others, and penetrated directly northward..."

The horses and infantry are all ordinary pack horses, and the generals and soldiers have not received strict riding and shooting training. Normally, they use horses instead of foot strength to improve their ability to fight, but they will still dismount and form formations after encountering enemy forces.

Chen Songze is now advocating the camp to directly use more than 10,000 elite horse and infantry as cavalry. After crossing the Yingshui River, he entered the Xuchang enemy array that fled north...

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Xu Huai received a letter in the afternoon of the next day and learned that the Caizhou camp was using more than 10,000 horses and infantry as cavalrymen, and Duying directly pursued and encircled and annihilated the enemy Feng Shizhao's troops who fled from the north of Xuchang City.

Although the king of the enemy Wululie sent three thousand cavalry from Luyi to respond, the battles of Ruyin and Taihe caused heavy casualties in Chihu cavalry, and Wululie did not have a complete cavalry unit to be sent out.

The three thousand cavalry sent by the king Wululie to Xuchang to respond. After a day of hardship and fierce casualties, he traveled more than 200 miles overnight to the northeast of Xuchang. How much combat power can he have left?

Han Qihu led 500 cavalry to cross the Ying River at dawn yesterday. At this time, most of the Xuchang defenders had not yet left the city, allowing Han Qihu to quickly penetrate from the gap to the northeast of Xuchang.

Faced with the enemy cavalry that was several times higher than him, Han Qihu was not afraid and led 500 troops to attack and delay Xuchang's enemy from the city and fled north while fleeing.

Do everything possible to prevent the reciprocating enemy cavalry from joining the main force of the Xuchang enemy army.

In the next two hours, Du Wu, Yuan Lei and other generals led 5,000 infantry soldiers one after another, and rushed through the gaps of the scattered array of enemy troops in Xuchang, who were like frightened birds, fleeing north in a hurry, and met Han Qihu, completely reunited.

The three thousand enemy cavalry sent by Lu Lie blocked the enemy army in Xuchang from the north fleeing array.

After that, Tang Pan and Zhang Xiongshan personally led 2,000 soldiers and 5,000 horse soldiers from the east of Xuchang City, from the southern wing to the scattered enemy formation in Xuchang City, and entered Xuchang City; it was almost the middle of the Japanese and midnight

He completely defeated the enemy troops in Xuchang, and captured Xu and captured Xu.

Unfortunately, yesterday afternoon, there was heavy rain in the northern part of Xuzhou on the eastern foot of Taishi Mountain. The main troops of Caizhou camp were forced to retreat to Xuchang City, and there was no way to distribute all the horses and infantry to pursue the defeated soldiers without scrupulously.

However, except for a small number of defeated soldiers fleeing westward into the foothills of Taishi Mountain, most of the defeated soldiers either surrendered or fled to Wanqiu and other places in the southeast. At that time, the enemy troops in Xuchang did not know that Wanqiu had fallen into the hands of the Jingsheng Army.

Han Qihu, Du Wu and others immediately set up an intercepting front in the north to play a key role. Even if they cannot be wiped out for a while, they will drive the defeated soldiers to the east and west wings as much as possible. The defeated soldiers who fled into Taishi Mountain may escape from the ascension to heaven.

But Fu Liang had led his troops to recover Wanqiu and other cities, and was not afraid that the defeated soldiers who fled to the southeast could escape from the Sikong Mansion's net.

Xu Huai looked at the rain curtain outside the window and handed it over to Jiang Xie for archives by Tang Pan from the newly recovered Xuchang City. He said to Wang Ju, Liu Shiwang, Cheng Lunying, Xu Xin'an, Yang Qiye, Jiang Ang and other generals:

"Maybe we need to consider withdrawing the troops for the time being..."

Although there was no heavy rain in Yingzhou, it had been drizzling for a day and a night since yesterday afternoon. Not only did the water level of the Ying River soar two or three feet, but also the big and small rivers north of Ruyin also had a tendency to be full of water.

——This is very likely to have officially announced the arrival of this year's rainy season.

Although the surging rivers are full of rivers, which is conducive to the penetration of small and medium-sized warships of the navy to the hinterland of the Hehuai River and Huai River, without the cooperation of infantry and cavalry, at most it will harass and obstruct the movement of the enemy.

It is impossible to find opportunities to annihilate the main enemy forces on a large scale in the hinterland of Hehuai in a short period of time.

"This thief, God is also helping the evil! But at this time, the heavy rain poured down, making it difficult for the troops to move lightly!" Jiang Ang angrily clenched his fists and hit the table, regardless of the arrow on his left shoulder, frowned loudly, and hated that the heavy rain had come too early.

They missed the opportunity to take advantage of the opportunity to regain Zheng and Bian.

"I'm not satisfied yet," Xu Huai said with a smile, "We have to be glad that the heavy rain did not come two days earlier..."

The impact of heavy rain on infantry marching and combat is far greater than that of cavalry. If the heavy rain comes two days earlier, the main force of the front army will have to delay the Zhanzigou camp waiting for the weather to change, and it may even end this Yingzhou battle ahead of schedule.

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Even before the rainy season passes, large-scale combat plans will no longer be considered

However, the three important cities of Xuchang, Wanqiu and Ruyin, which have recovered the northern bank of Yingshui, have long fallen into the control of Sikong Mansion, and in the future, they were completely annihilated.

In addition to the remaining enemies of Jiaobi and Quanhe cities, they will also send troops to recover some small and medium-sized cities around them.

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The next two days, the moderate rain in Yingzhou was not stopped. There were heavy rains in Xiangcheng, Dengfeng and Ruzhou in Ruzhou, which was upstream of the Ying River, officially announced that the flood season in the Hehuai region was coming.

Except for Yuan Lei leading a group of troops, he quickly advanced westward through the muddy post road between Taishi Mountain and Ji Mountain, and entered the upper reaches of Yingshui River, the battles in other places had to be stopped.

Even though the weather turned clear in the following days, the water levels of the rivers such as Ruying, Caisi and Si soared.

The enemy soldiers were intentionally destroyed the river embankment in Zhecheng, Luyi and other places, causing floods to the south of Zhecheng, Luyi and Qiaocheng, flooding the fields and fields, and blocking the troops in the south to head north.

At this time, in addition to strengthening the siege and suppression of Yue Hailou and the remaining enemies of Meng Jie, the troops in other directions were resting on the spot. Xu Huai also signed a warrant to withdraw tens of thousands of injuries to Xinyang and Chushan.

Treatment and recuperation; arrange for the postponement of the garrison troops from all provinces and prefectures to return home for more than half a year.

At this time, the defense line in the northern part of Beijing and Xiang was also promoted to the Yingshui coast as a whole. Xu Huai made new adjustments to the former Caizhou and Shenzhou Xingying War Zone in the name of Sikong Mansion:

The Caizhou camp was removed, Caizhou was reset, and Tang Tian was departed from the magistrate of Caizhou, and Wuyang was the prefecture, restoring Xiangcheng, Zhaoling, Xiping, Shangcai,

The county seats of Runan and Pingyu were in charge of the excavation of the Lishui River channel into Ying River, the construction of the embankment on the south bank of the Ying River, and the construction of the Rushui River embankment.

With Xuchang and Wanqiu as the core, the Beijing West Camp was established, with Tang Pan as the commander-in-chief, Yin Peng and Yu Jin as the deputy general, Zhang Xiongshan as the military commander, and the first and second towns of Tianxiong, Jingsheng Army was the first and second towns.

One town, the second town and the Wanqiu Water Camp were organized, with a total of 50,000 combat soldiers, 10,000 defenders, and 20,000 garrisons and 20,000 garrisons in the prefectures.

In addition to being responsible for combat missions to the areas east of Songshan and on both sides of the Cai River (formerly northern Xuzhou, Zhengzhou, northern Chenzhou, eastern and southwest Bianzhou), the Beijing West Camp is also responsible for sending troops to recover Yingshan between Songshan and Jishan.

The river valley area of ​​the waterway (Yuzhou, Dengfeng and Yingyang counties) maintains military oppression against the enemy in Heluo (located between Shaoshi Mountain and Wan'an Mountain), and actively sends troops to join forces with Ruzhou camps.

Preparing for recapturing the Heluo area.

The former Ruzhou Xingying was renamed Heluo Xingying, with Wang Xian as the commander-in-chief and Zhou Jing as the military commander. Fu Liang, Jiang Ang, and Liang Wenjiang led the third town of Jingsheng Army, the fourth town and the second town division of Xiaosheng Army.

Advance westward, he was incorporated into the Heluo Camp, with 50,000 combat soldiers and 30,000 defenders, responsible for the main planning of the combat mission of regaining Heluo.

With Ruyang as the core, the Jingnan Camp was established, with Yang Qiye as the commander-in-chief, Fan Zongqi and Xu Ling as the deputy generals, in addition to the first town of the Xiaosheng Army, the third town of the Tianxiong Army, Ruyin and Yingkou Shui Camp, there are also Ru.

Based on the Yin Uprising Army, more than 200 middle and lower-level military officers and generals were drawn from various routes to form the third town division of the Xiaosheng Army, with Yang Ji as the commander, with a total of 50,000 combat soldiers, 10,000 defenders, and 20,000.

Luzhou Prefecture's wheels and garrisons.

The Jingnan Camp also uses Yan Xiaoyi as its military adviser. In addition to defending the defense lines of the middle and lower reaches of the Ying River and the middle and upper reaches of the Huai River, it will also cooperate with the Shouhao Camp under the command of Deng Gui to fight against the southern part of the Jingnan area controlled by the Pingyanzong Palace (Song, Bo,

Operational missions in Susanzhou and southeastern Bianliang).

Including the Caizhou camp, which occupied the southern bank of Yingzhou, the Sikong Mansion once mobilized 350,000 to 60,000 troops to participate in the Battle of Yingzhou. With the arrival of the rainy season, large-scale soldiers retreated south or returned to their hometowns, and the west of Beijing.

The troops under the southern camp of Beijing were quickly reduced to 160,000; even if the second reserve line of defense formed by Huangchuan, Chushan, Wuyang and other places were calculated, the total force was reduced to 200,000.

The siege and extermination of the remaining enemies in Jiaopi and Quanhe cities were also left to the south of the Jingnan camp; in order to prevent the resilient soldiers who retreated to Qiaocheng, Luyi and other places, the main force of the Selected Front Army temporarily retreated to Huai.

Sichuan will replenish and rest.

As the water levels of Ruying and other rivers soared, the floodplain south of the Ying River naturally became increasingly flooded.

Not only was Quanhe City completely submerged in the accumulated water four or five feet deep, but Jiaopi City, which Yue Hailou led the remaining troops, also suffered severe flooding.
Chapter completed!