Currently, there are limited troops and horses stationed near Xiaoquegang, and only three thousand soldiers under Chen Zixiao were stationed in the camps on both sides of the north and south. In addition, Guo Jun ruled to be the master of Zhaoling County and led two thousand prefecture troops to garrison Zhaoling.

The city is only about fifteen or sixteen miles away from Xiaoquegang. Once the north bank of Xiaoquegang is attacked, you can still reinforce it as soon as possible.

The state army was incorporated into the name of the State Army and Horse Supervisor. The generals and soldiers were equipped and supplied with local soldiers, which were slightly worse than the regular soldiers of the Tianxiong Army. However, the state army under the jurisdiction of the Chushan Camp was far from anything else.

What the Xiang Army can match.

At present, the scale of the construction carried out on the north bank of Xiaoquegang is still relatively limited. It is mainly due to the fact that building a camp on the north bank requires land replenishment, and soil is excavated from the site of the new channel. At present, the north bank of Xiaoquegang has gathered young and strong civilians and labor camps.

The army was only more than 3,000; there were two thousand young and strong civilians in Zhaoling’s ruined city, mainly for repairing the city.

After taking over the defense of the west wings such as Wuyang, Ye County, Chushan is currently making full efforts to build a new post road from Qingyiling to Ye County, and gathering more than 30,000 young and strong men in total.

In addition to the elite troops led by Tang Pan and Yin Peng to settle in Ye County, Wuyang and other cities, Xu Huai also used the excuse of protecting the construction of the new post road from disturbances, and expanded nearly 6,000 troops from Xinyang and Chushan.

Wait for the eastern city wall, and transfer to Wuyun Mountain, Dengjiatai Mountain and Jinding Mountain.

This is mainly convenient and convenient when necessary, it can gather tens of thousands of elite troops near Xiaoquegang as quickly as possible to ensure that the mountains and channels can be opened smoothly.

However, this will take a while before it can be implemented, and the main purpose is to delay time.

Don't look at Xuchang and Wanqiu cities where the puppet Chu army was stationed heavily, not far from Xiaoquegang, but don't talk about the wild paths and fields between Yingru, even the post road to Wuyang in Shangshui County went south, in the past two or three years

Not only did it not receive careful repair and maintenance, it was also destroyed twice by both sides of the enemy and us, and it was soaked in rain and floods, which had long been extremely bad.

It is much harder for cavalry to gallop across the wilderness, and infantry to trek through the wilderness.

Chushan really wants to assemble tens of thousands of elite troops on the north bank of Xiaoquegang. If Yuehailou wants to chew hard, it needs to assemble troops with sufficient scale. At the same time, it also needs to ensure sufficient supply of combat materials. Without a month of calm dispatch, it will be done step by step.

, is not enough.

In other words, as long as Chushan gathers tens of thousands of elite troops to Xiaoquegang, at least one more month can be bought for breaking the mountains and opening the canal.

However, the matter of breaking the mountain and opening the canal has just begun to be implemented. As we assemble tens of thousands of elite troops too early, even if it still delays the last month, it is far from guaranteeing the stone canal to be dug.

Considering that Xiao Gan's troops stationed in Hulao, Xingyang's troops were very likely to go south early. The scale of troops that the enemy could gather between Yingru could reach 50,000 or 60,000 people, including a large number of elite soldiers from the Chihu people.

cavalry.

By then, Chushan would not be able to engage in large-scale battles with enemy troops several times more in open areas and would be easily cut off from the opponent's superior cavalry when contacting the rear.

At that time, I would have to be forced to withdraw from the north bank, and even the Xiaoquegang on the south bank was difficult to defend, so the matter of breaking mountains and opening canals would naturally be abandoned halfway.

Now Yue Hailou's reaction is more intense and strong than everyone expected by Chushan.

In order to avoid the battle happening far beyond expectations, Chu Shan’s only choice was to hold on, and Chu Shan decided to welcome the enemy’s attacks that might come at any time by entering Chen Zixiao’s troops near Xiaoquegang.

The light of the sky passed by for more than ten days. By mid-August, dozens of enemy cavalry scattered across the Ru River from Shangcai and Xincai controlled by the puppet Chu army, and then quickly penetrated westward.

"The military marquis is strict orders, and you will immediately follow me to retreat to the southern camp. You must not be entangled with the enemy cavalry, otherwise you will be ruled by the law of the army.

On the wilderness south of Xiaoquegang, Han Lurong pulled his horse to block Xu Yan's horse, shouted loudly, and signaled the two guards and cavalry to step forward to help Xu Yan break the two arrow shafts on his shoulders.

The arrows were still stuck in the gaps in the shoulder armor, but fortunately only a small amount of blood oozed out, so there should be no major damage.

Then Han Lurong ordered two guards and cavalrymen to hold Xu Chen from the left and right, and did not ask him to ride his horse out.

Xu Yanhun didn't feel the pain of the arrow on his shoulders and the blue veins on his back storm rose. He grabbed the horse spear that was standing in front of his knees, staring at the enemy soldiers who were not far away, calmly rushing to the end.

A dozen civilians who failed to break through the siege in time shot and killed them one by one.

The enemy cavalry crossed the Rushui from Shangcai and spread the scattered between Wuyang and Zhaoling (Xiaoquegang) at an astonishing speed. There were several mule and horse teams responsible for transporting materials, but they did not have time to avoid the nearby ones.

The camp was cut off by enemy cavalry that were raiding like locusts.

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But I didn't expect that hundreds of enemy cavalry would soon surrounded them from all directions.

Xu Yan was young and extremely brave. He led more than 20 cavalry to attack left and right in the enemy's siege, killing more than a dozen cavalry in succession, but no enemy could stop him.

However, the Chihu people were very capable of galloping among the low mountains and rivers. They knew Xu Yan’s power and no longer stepped forward to compete with Xu Yan. Instead, they used crossbows from left and right to entangle Xu Yan and others, or shot and kill civilians.

, trying to lead Xu Yan and others into the depths of the south wilderness.

Chen Zixiao rushed to the south bank and ordered Xu Yan to withdraw twice and ignored him. He was so angry that he had to let Han Lurong bring people over and forcibly drag Xu Yan back to the camp.

Returning to the Xipo Camp in Xiaoquegang, Chen Zixiao, who stopped on a slope to observe the enemy situation, saw Xu Yan still looked reluctant at this moment, raised his whip and slapped him hard.

The whip, angrily commanded his left and right: "Bind him up, and reward him with twenty military sticks to punish him.

"A kid who is usually very smart, he is so stupid at this time," Tang Tiande looked at Xu Yan's face being whipped by Chen Zixiao, and smacked his lips and shouted, "I'm going to be responsible for the punishment, not ruthless."

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Su Laochang pulled Tang Tiande and refused to ask him to cause trouble.

Xu Wuli is just such an only son. If they really want to leave the battlefield, they are not easy to explain to Xu Wuli, but it is necessary to reward him with a long memory of twenty military sticks. Besides, the executioner still doesn't know the right way.

, I need Tang Tiande to run over and let the water out? Although the terrain between Wuyang and Zhaoling has fluctuations, the gap is not large. Xiaoquegang, which has a maximum height of less than 20 feet, is considered high here.

They stopped their horses and stopped on the slope southwest of Xiaoquegang. They saw the enemy cavalry that had penetrated from east to west between Zhaoling and Wuyang for half a day, with as many as two thousand cavalry, and were also secretly shocked.

They also know the deployment of enemy troops in Wanqiu and Xuchang.

In addition to the puppet Chu army under Yuehailou, the cavalry and cavalry of the Chihu clan, led by the Nayan clan's son Wanhu Molihu, were stationed in Wanqiu, Xuchang, Ruyang and other places.

After the Spring Festival, the enemy retreated from both sides of the Mingxi River. Molihu had a considerable size of cavalry under his command, and the cavalry remained at about 3,000 troops.

Now about two-thirds of the elite cavalry are directly interspersed between Wuyang and Zhaoling (Xiaoquegang). It is naturally clear that their intention to cut off the communication between Zhaoling (Xiaoquegang) and Wuyang.

After blocking the reinforcement passage between Wuyang and Zhaoling (Xiaoquegang), the troops gathered in Heishigou of Yuehailou will inevitably approach the North Bank camp as quickly as possible!

At this time, Xu Yan was stubborn and showed off his own bravery in front of the enemy cavalry who was good at riding and shooting like a swarm of locusts. Chen Zixiao had to rush to the south bank in person and drag him back to the camp. How could it be

Not angry?

The Rushui River - Rushui is not considered wide. Chen Zixiao and others stood on the slope on the south side of the camp, less than three thousand steps away from the camp on the north bank.

At this time, there were more than a dozen scouts on the north bank from afar, heading from east to west to the north bank camp, holding a cigarette rod that was lit and used to warn. Chen Zixiao and Fu Liang led their troops to guard the south bank camp, and he and

Han Lurong, Tang Tiande, Su Laochang and others rushed to the North Bank camp.

Chen Zixiao and others rushed to the North Bank Camp. Zhou Jing had already learned from the scouts about the dispatch of the enemy troops from Heishigou in the tent, and told Chen Zixiao, Tang Tiande, Su Laochang and others:

"At noon, more than a thousand enemy cavalry rushed to Heishigou without any stop; the six thousand troops that had previously gathered in Heishigou also set off at this time, divided into five teams, and rushed here-

The sixteen warships of the pseudo-Chu naval army that had entered Rushui had entered the Shangcai River section at noon."

"Finally come." Chen Zixiao let out a sigh of relief, looked at the generals of the North Bank camp, clicked one of them, and said, "Du Wu, immediately click the two battalions of troops out of the camp and lined up to the enemy.

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The soil layer two or three meters deep along the new channel has been dug up, and the subsequent firewood burning and drilling operations will be carried out, which will be a relatively long process.

The workplace is more than 2,000 steps long and narrow.

At present, two camps are built on the north bank on the north side of the work site, one camp on each of the east and west sides, plus the camps on the north side of the bridge. Several thin walls are connected between the camps.

In terms of overall defense, it is not very strict, let alone indestructible.
Chapter completed!