Chapter 1228: Seize the Opportunity

Sun Datong and the three of them made up their minds to fight this battle, and also judged the movement of the enemy after the attack, and when choosing the location of the interception, the eyes of the three of them were also on Liuzi Town at the same time. Developed transportation is an important condition for the development of the town, the strong transportation function of the Grand Canal in the Sui and Tang Dynasties has led to the rise and development of towns, post stations and villages on both sides of the river, Liuzi Town was founded in the Eastern Han Dynasty, belongs to Suzhou, and is located in the northwest of Fuli 100 miles.

Liuzi Town in the period of the Northern and Southern Dynasties for the location of Lianbei County, Emperor Yang of the Sui Dynasty excavated the Grand Canal section of the Tongji Canal through the town and gradually prospered, the still lonely and nameless Liuzi Town occupied the convenience of water conservancy and transportation, the transit wharf on the "boat successively", fixed a picture of "half of the world's wealth, all from this road to advance" of the busy transport map. The population is also gathered by gathering, from the market to the town, from the town to the township, from the township to the village, and when it went down to the river, a palace was also built here.

After the Song Dynasty built the capital of Kaifeng, the supplies from the southeast to the Central Plains basically relied on the transportation of the Sui and Tang Grand Canals, becoming the golden waterway of Caoyun, transporting Cao business travel, endless exchanges, Liuzi Town experienced the development of the Sui and Tang dynasties, and also became the political, economic, military and cultural town of Huaibei region. However, after the Song Dynasty crossed to the south, the Jin people occupied the Yellow River Valley, and the Cao transportation was interrupted, and Suzhou and Linli were owned by the Jin, but Liuzi Town still existed as the establishment of the town.

Due to the repeated wars between Song and Jin in Suzhou, the Grand Canal was neglected for a long time, and the river was gradually blocked and cut off. In the fifth year of Guangzong, the Yellow River flooded, the flood swept into the sea, and the Tongji Canal was silted up, and the prosperous commercial economy of the towns along the route was seriously damaged, and the towns that relied on the benefits of the canal also lost their former prosperity, and Liuzi Town also declined. However, because Liuzi Town is located in the hinterland of the Central Plains, Bianshui has to be rushed, and it has always been a place for soldiers to fight.

After Chen Sheng and Wu Guang rebelled, they fought between Gongcheng and Liuzi. Cao Cao also recruited troops and stockpiled grain here. In the tenth year of Tang Xiantong, the camp of Xuzhou recruited Kang Chengxun to lead 70,000 Tang troops to Liuzi Town, and fought fiercely with Yao Zhou, the general of Pang Xun, the leader of the rebel army. Huangchao also started an incident here according to the river. In the tenth year of Song Shaoxing, Yang Yizhong, the deputy envoy of Huaibei Xuanfu, led 500 cavalry to attack Liuzi Town at night. In the sixth year of Xingding, the Red Jacket Army drove Liuzi Town and fought to the death with the Jin Army to control Zhang Yu's troops. At this time, they chose it as a battlefield......

Early in the morning, the whole team of the Mengyuan Kipchawei and the five guards of the Han army set out from Yingtianfu, because the Bianhe River had long been silted up, the wide river had become a major road, and the Kipchawei had set off ahead of the brigade as the vanguard army; The Chinese army consisted of the right guard and the middle guard of the Han army, the firearms guard and some local garrison troops, and discharged several columns to march in the river; The rear army was composed of the Han army and the Oulu army, and the guards were behind the heavy grain and grass.

Tens of thousands of troops marched, the team meandered more than ten miles, although Suzhou is a battlefield at this time, but there has not been a Song army invasion here, plus the march a few days ago all the way safe, and there is no sign of the Song army sneaking in, and here is only a hundred miles away from Fuli, the future terrain is open, there is no danger, it is more difficult to hide soldiers. Therefore, apart from routinely sending out sentinels, the various departments did not strengthen the search along the way, nor did they expand the scope of the search.

"The front and middle armies of the enemy army have left Liuzi Town, and the rear army is preparing to leave. No enemy sentries were found around! A scout came to tell him.

"Fang Dutong, Zhang Dutong, let's get ready to go!" The day before yesterday, the three of them made a decision after deliberation, and began to prepare for a battle, Sun Datong stood up and said with a smile after hearing this.

"Okay, let's set off immediately, launch an attack on the army behind the enemy first, disrupt its formation, and create fighters for your troops to take the opportunity to occupy Liuzi Town!" Fang Sheng also got up and said.

"Zhang Dutong, whether we can hold Liuzi Town or not depends on your artillery, you can't hold back!" Sun Datong looked at Zhang Pingyan and said.

"Don't worry, we will follow up later, set up positions before the enemy brigade returns, and discipline them if they come or not!" Zhang Ping also assured.

"So let's split up!" Sun Datong nodded and said, "Fang Dutong, don't fall in love with the battle after you succeed in the first blow, you must quickly move to the flank, ensure the safety of our left flank, and don't let the enemy army detour back to our rear, otherwise you will face a two-sided battle, which will be very difficult!" ”

"It's so long-winded, I can't forget it!" Fang Sheng scolded with a smile. The three of them have a good personal relationship, and they all understand that the resistance battle must be based on the Fifth Brigade as the main force, and they are all in an auxiliary position, so even if the three of them have the same positions, he and Zhang Ping are better than Sun Datong in terms of qualifications, but they don't care, and they all cooperate very consciously.

"Okay, we'll see you in Liuzi Town!" Sun Datong punched Fang Sheng on the shoulder and smiled.

The three of them arched their hands and returned to the army to mobilize their troops, and Sun Datong also began to dispatch troops to Liuzi Town, he stood on a high slope and watched countless soldiers gather or divide from the staggered and crisscrossed dry ditch to the battlefield, and couldn't help but feel a little emotional. At the beginning of Shenzong's Xining, it was also during Wang Anshi's reform that Jiang Zhiqi, a famous minister, moved to Huaidong to the canal. He employed more than one million people to build an irrigation project with the 'three ditches of horizontal slopes' as the main body, which was able to irrigate 9,000 hectares of fields and 114,000 people.

Now, who would have thought that this project, which once benefited the country and the people, would be silted up by the Bianhe River and abandoned by natural disasters and wars a hundred years later, and tens of thousands of hectares of fertile land have become barren again. However, the relics left behind as dense as palm prints have become a passage for later generations to march and hide soldiers, blocking the smooth road, and the fertile land with countless living people has also become a battlefield for thousands of troops and horses, and a place for the two countries to compete for power.

Sun Datong raised his telescope slightly and looked at Liuzi Town in the distance, although this was not the first time he had observed, but he was still shocked by its scale, saying that it was a town, but in fact it was comparable to the scale of an inferior state city, and the houses were built on the Bianhe River. Wharves, warehouses, shops, monasteries, and dwellings are scattered within a radius of 20 miles, especially a pagoda like clouds is particularly eye-catching. Even if there is no longer the mast of the past, the scene of busy traffic can still make people imagine the prosperity of the old days.

It was precisely because of this that they decided to wait for the enemy to leave the town and launch a surprise attack to seize the town of Liuzi. Otherwise, not to mention that the troops cannot be surrounded, even if they are surrounded, the enemy army can rely on the houses in the town to fight with them, then they will inevitably pay a great price. On the other hand, if you occupy the town, you will be able to defend it accordingly and cut off the enemy's retreat.

"Call the shots, start attacking!" At this time, the enemy troops were leaving one after another, and the rear army was at the end, because they had to escort the baggage of the whole army, the speed of the carts was slow, and the distance between them and the Chinese army in front gradually opened up for several miles. And because the line is at the end, and there is a front army to open the way, so the vigilance is not high. Sun Datong seized the rare opportunity to order.

'Boom, boom, boom!' Three cannon shots rang out, and the cavalry brigade took the lead, and they fought their way out of several dry ditches in several groups, and swooped down on the enemy's rear troops marching through the river. After a burst of fire, they rode through the ranks of the enemy, slashing the unsuspecting enemy and throwing grenades into the crowd. The troops behind the enemy who were suddenly attacked were in chaos for a while, and they scattered and fled to hide.

"Order the 1st and 2nd regiments to quickly capture Liuzi Town, immediately occupy the commanding heights, and start to block the retreating enemy troops. The three regiments escorted the artillery brigade into position, and the baggage followed! Seeing that the enemy's marching column was disrupted and pinned down by the cavalry brigade, Sun Datong ordered again.

After receiving the order to attack, the units of the 5th Brigade attacked from various concealed positions, and the 1st and 2nd regiments attacked from the north and south respectively, entered the town, and in a burst of killing, routed and expelled the enemy troops who had not yet left the town, and then turned to the defense on the spot to block the enemy troops who were trying to return to the town. Slightly stable, Sun Datong also led the brigade directly into the town, and the third regiment also escorted the artillery brigade through the open area, and the people dragged the artillery into the town.

Sun Datong entered the town, and immediately found a commanding height to look outside the town, he couldn't tell the mood at the moment, he felt very excited, excited, and a little panicked, so that the hand holding the telescope was a little trembling. He started as an ordinary soldier and grew step by step into an officer, fantasizing that one day he would be able to command thousands of troops across the battlefield.

However, Sun Datong did not have such an opportunity, at most he only commanded local battles as a commander-in-chief, he only needed to act according to the commander's orders, and when he rose, he could also go into battle with a gun and fight with the enemy. This time, however, he had to preside over a campaign on one side, organize and coordinate all the ministries, bear all the consequences, and no longer act rashly, but see the overall situation.

"Inform the cavalry brigade that the enemy's Chinese army has returned to meet them, so that they can quickly get out of the battle and retreat north according to the predetermined plan!" After receiving a report from the enemy troops set up on the tower to reinforce the enemy, Sun Datong looked at the battlefield again. The troops behind the enemy, who had been attacked at first, had gradually stabilized their positions from the initial panic, and began to use their vehicles to block the cavalry's assault path, and entangle themselves with them, and seeing that they were in danger of being flanked by the enemy, he ordered.

"After all the cavalry brigades have withdrawn, order the artillery to cover the enemy troops in the river!" Sun Datong looked left and right, and the artillery regiment directly under the artillery brigade and the fifth brigade had entered the town and was building a position, he ordered. In fact, he was very greedy for the enemy's vehicles full of food and baggage scattered in the river, although many supplies did not have much effect on the Song army, but he was still very greedy, at least so much food was enough for them to eat for a while. But it was too late to collect it, so since he couldn't get it, he would simply destroy it all and no longer let the enemy use it.

"Send a signal, order the engineering battalion to detonate!" In sight, after the cavalry brigade had completed its mission, it had withdrawn from the battle and moved towards the quilt, and the artillery had also begun to conduct test firing to correct the firing of Zhu Yuan. Sun Datong gave the order again, and after the herald conveyed it in flags, three red signal flares rose from the tower and floated into the air......

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