Ten cavalry galloped in the mountains and forests, this is a scout sent by Li Bing, although their war horses have not yet arrived, but there are still more than 100 war horses in the naval camp, Li Bing used these war horses to form a scout battalion, sent ten teams of scouts to Xuanzhou various official roads to inspect, monitor the enemy's movements.

"It's an abandoned official road over there, and most people don't know about it except for the locals!"

A local soldier acting as a guide points to a deserted road in the distance, paved with fallen leaves and branches.

The brigade commander of this cavalry scout is called Wu Gan, a native of Hedong, and this time he went to the south of the Yangtze River, Li Bing transferred 500 elite soldiers from the scout battalion, and Wu Gan was an elite scout brigade commander.

He and another scout team were in charge of the front line in Changzhou, and at this time they were patrolling near Zhanggong Mountain, and the official road from Xuanzhou passed between Zhanggong Mountain and Guoshan Mountain, and reached Yixing County on the west bank of Taihu Lake.

Wu Gan really wanted to lead the soldiers to the abandoned official road, but suddenly, a frightened bird flew up from the mountains and forests in the distance, Wu Gan was stunned, and immediately shouted: "Quickly retreat!" ”

The crowd turned their horses and retreated, and they did not alarm the birds all the way, but a large number of birds and birds were frightened a few miles away, indicating that a large group of people and horses had come.

Ten cavalrymen quickly retreated, and they retreated to high ground, and with the help of the dense woods, they could clearly see the situation on the abandoned official road hundreds of paces away.

About a quarter of an hour later. The army has been a mighty army appeared on the abandoned official road, the army is infantry, wearing leather armor, carrying spears, swords at their waists, camping blankets and dry food bags on their backs, hurriedly walking on the abandoned official road.

Wu Gan silently counted the number of enemy troops, and the enemy brigade walked for a quarter of an hour, and he also estimated that it was about 10,000 people.

They immediately wrote an eagle letter, recording the place and time, tied the letter to the eagle's leg, and the eagle flapped its wings, circled the sky twice, and flew northeast.

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Li Bing led 10,000 troops to be stationed in Jinling County at this time, and his troops were divided into three routes, one led by the general Wang Ning, the garrison of Jiangning, and the other led by the general Lu Hongtai, and the army went to Suzhou.

In the evening, Li Bing stood at the head of the city and looked into the distance, he liked the big city of Jinling County very much, the city was rebuilt for about ten years, the city was tall and strong, the area was vast, and the residents in the city were not too many, and more importantly, the large fertile land east of Jinling County was official land, which could be converted into military land, which was convenient for the army to settle the field.

Li Bing began to consider Jinling County as the location of the military office, and before that, the King of Jin was considering placing the military government in Jiangning County, of course, where to place the official office of the Jiangnan garrison was not decided by Li Bing, but by His Royal Highness the King of Jin, Li Bing needed to write a letter to persuade His Royal Highness the King of Jin.

At this time, there was a long roar from the sky, and Li Bing looked up to see an eagle hovering in the air.

"General, it's Shinying!" The soldier next to him recognized the eagle at a glance.

The letter eagle chirped again and flew towards the eagle tower in the northwest corner, and Li Bing immediately realized that there must be a situation.

After a while, the eagle slave came galloping in, holding a red eagle letter in his hand.

Li Bing took the letter box and unfolded it to look at it for a moment, and he immediately said, "Go back to the camp!" ”

He said to his own soldiers: "Go and invite Zhou Tingshi and Li Sima to come to the camp, just say that there is an urgent matter to discuss!" ”

Li Bing got out of the city and walked to the military camp outside the city, there is a military camp outside Jinling County, which is a brick and wood structure, which can garrison up to 30,000 people, and the current 10,000 troops led by Li Bing are stationed in the barracks.

Although there is also a commander's room in the barracks, its area is a little narrower, and there is no way to place a sand table.

Li Bing set up a big tent in the open space, one zhang wide, and a sand table two zhang long was placed in the center of the big tent.

As soon as he arrived at the big tent, Zhou Qing and Sima Li Yanjun hurried over.

"General, what's wrong?" Zhou Qing asked.

"I just received information from the scouts and discovered that an army of 10,000 people has entered Changzhou!"

Zhou Qing was taken aback, "It's coming so soon?" ”

Li Bing nodded, "It is estimated that Liu Shining wants to capture Jinling County and cut off our way south." ”

He handed the eagle letter to Sima Li Yanjun, "Li Sima, you are familiar with the terrain, you can confirm the position of the enemy army." ”

Li Yanjun is a local, very familiar with all parts of Changzhou, he took the eagle letter and read it carefully, then walked to the sand table, looked at it for a moment, and pointed to the two big mountains in the west of Taihu Lake with a wooden pole: "The south is Zhanggong Mountain, the north is the national mountain, Zhang Gong's old road is located at the foot of Zhanggong Mountain, and the current official road is at the foot of the national mountain." ”

Li Bing stepped forward to take a closer look, and found that the enemy's position was located in the middle of Zhanggong's old road, about one hundred and fifty miles away from Jinling County, according to the speed of Xinying, that is, an hour ago, he asked Li Yanjun again: "Can you get out of Zhanggong Mountain before dark?" ”

Li Yanjun nodded, "You can walk out, if you speed up, they will be able to reach Yixing County at night." ”

"It's impossible for them to go to Yixing County, they won't startle the snake, and after entering Changzhou, they must be day and night."

At this time, Zhou Qing next to him asked, "How does the general plan to deal with this army?" ”

Li Bing smiled faintly, "The enemy is clear and I am secret, the initiative is in our hands, since they want to sneak attack Jinling, then I will definitely fulfill them!" ”

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Li Qingyang was the first group of generals to take refuge in Liu Shining, and after Liu Shining took power, Li Qingyang was quickly reused and became one of the four tiger generals under Liu Shining's account.

Li Qingyang is about 50 years old, and he is also a veteran under Liu Qia's account, he has followed Liu Qia for many years, fought in the south and north of the Central Plains, and finally settled on the south bank of the Yangtze River.

But Liu Shining's ambition pushed him to the front line of the battlefield, and the reason why he was selected was also because Li Qingyang was good at defending the city, he had been guarding the county in Bozhou for three months, Li Xilie was never able to attack, suffered heavy casualties, and had to retreat from the army.

Liu Shining also promised Li Qingyang that as long as he took Jinling City and held it for half a year, he would be promoted to his general, rewarded with 50,000 taels of silver, promoted his eldest son Li Gan to Xuanzhou Taishou, and his second son would also be promoted to Zhonglang General.

This condition can be described as fame and fortune, which makes Li Qingyang excited, plus he knows Jinling City very well, the city wall is tall and generous, easy to defend and difficult to attack, and there is a lot of grain in the city, as long as the sneak attack is successful, it should not be a big problem to defend for half a year.

Li Qingyang only hesitated for a moment, and then agreed to Liu Shining's conditions.

Li Qingyang knew in his heart that he must first ensure that the sneak attack was successful, this was the premise, only by taking Jinling County, he could have the possibility of defending.

And they didn't carry siege weapons, they could only sneak attack the county seat at night, so along the way, Li Qingyang was particularly informative, avoided the official roads, and also avoided the towns and villages, and tried to march in the wilderness and mountains, and the soldiers rested and slept during the day, and marched at night, but the march was smooth, and it was not discovered by the people along the way.

The next night, 10,000 troops marched forty miles west of Jinling County, the soldiers were mighty, trotting all the way, the team stretched for six or seven miles, they waved the banner of Liangzhedao, disguised as soldiers of Liangzhedao, and no one could recognize them at night, in fact, the official road was empty, and there were no pedestrians at all.

The 10,000 army marched rapidly on the official road, and Li Qingyang's heart was also very excited, so far, he had not found anything abnormal, and he was almost certain that he would be able to easily capture Jinling City.

"General, Jinling County is an upper county, will there be defenders at night?" One of the generals asked in a low voice.

"Don't worry! There will be no defenders. ”

Li Qingyang saw that several generals were looking at him, and explained: "The Guo Song army should still be in Runzhou, the militia army of the two Zhejiang provinces will not be deployed in the hinterland of Jinling County, and the defenders should be in Yixing County, but we have avoided it, Jinling County has dozens of veterans guarding the city gate during the day, but there are generally only one or two soldiers at night, the lord has already sent someone to investigate, there should be nothing wrong, we can directly use the rope ladder to go to the city." ”

The generals applauded together and praised one after another: "Know yourself and know your opponent, and you will not be defeated in a hundred battles!" ”

As soon as the words fell, I saw a rocket shot out of the woods in the north, the color was red, and it was 'popping!' The ground exploded, and the crisp sound could be heard for miles.

Everyone was stunned, and Li Qingyang found that there were woods on both sides, which was the best place to ambush, and he immediately shouted, "Not good!" There was an ambush. ”

But it was already too late, thousands of arrows were fired in the woods on both sides, and the Xuanzhou soldiers on the official road were caught off guard, and they were hit by arrows one after another, and thousands of people fell to the ground with arrows, and the team was suddenly in chaos.

Immediately after the second round of 10,000 arrows were fired, many of the soldiers' shields were pressed down by their luggage and bags of dry food, and they could not be taken off for a while, so frightened that they fell down one after another, but still thousands of people were shot down.

Li Qingyang's war horse was shot by more than a dozen arrows and fell down, and the soldiers hurriedly helped Li Qingyang up, and fled back in embarrassment.

"Whew-"

The horn sounded, and 10,000 Jin troops killed from both sides of the woods, like a rushing tide, and fiercely killed into the enemy ranks, cutting off the enemy army, and the soldiers of the Xuanzhou army were panicked and fled in all directions.