When great changes occurred in Ba County, the battlefield on the northern front was exceptionally calm.

From Hanshui in the west to the three passes of the underworld in the east, this is the dividing line between the two regimes in the north and the south, hundreds of miles long, and more than 200,000 people are stationed on both sides of this line, and they have been facing each other for more than a month.

"It's still the same, I can't even see a dog."

Again took the robes to swim across the Baishui River on horseback, and after inspecting the villages on the north bank, Sima Lao Wu, the cavalry of the Northern Expeditionary Army, scolded.

The fifth child is a native of Anlu County, he is actually the eldest in the family, and the reason why he was given such a name is because the first four brothers and sisters, none of whom lived to be three years old, either died of famine or disease.

When he was fifth, his parents also died, and in order to make a living, he went to seek refuge in the black husband's family, who was recruiting customers.

At first, he helped to take care of the family and nursing home in Anlu, and later Heifu went to be the lieutenant of Beidi County, and he needed to choose some brave diners at home to accompany him, and Sang Mu, who came back to pick people, named Lao Wu - because this guy has a large amount of food, is more than seven feet five inches long, is strong and fast, and can shoot arrows, which just meets the standard of "martial knight".

Although he met the standards, Lao Wu had never ridden a horse in the past, and his riding skills were notoriously bad, often falling off smooth horses, and he was ridiculed by the Liangjiazi of the North Land and the Rong Di riders.

It wasn't until later that the cavalry in the north was generally equipped with saddles and stirrups, and the fifth often practiced hard, and the riding skills gradually caught up.

As one of Heifu's personal guards, although he has not participated in the battle to break the Huns, he has also seen the big scene of ten thousand horsemen fighting each other. When Heifu went to Jiaodong, he still took him, the fifth was the tail of the crane in the cavalry when he was in the north, and in the Jiaodong County soldiers, the riding skills became the middle and upper reaches of the level, so he became a cavalryman who commanded ten cavalry, and once followed Gongao to raid the Zhutian rebels, and he was too addicted to rushing into battle.

A few years later, he went to Lingnan with Heifu and was promoted to a cavalry general with 200 horsemen, but unfortunately, the mountains and forests in Lingnan are dangerous, the rivers are crisscrossed, and the cavalry is almost useless.

Fortunately, after the Marquis of Wuzhong raised his troops, the cavalry team was rebuilt, because the southern war horses were scarce and the cavalry was even less, and there were only three cavalry horses, which belonged to Han Xin, Dongmen Leopard, and one was directly under the generalissimo.

Lao Wu relied on his resume to become one of them, directly responsible to Heifu, and his duty was to be responsible for the security of the Baishui River, which was more than 100 miles away......

Two months had passed since the Northern Expeditionary Army occupied the Baishui River (Zaoyang Rolling River in Hubei) and south of Tongbai Mountain, and the Qin court's army continued to march from Wuguan into Nanyang, but they did not rush to attack south, but concentrated in the areas of Wan, Ye, and Deng, and the two sides fell into a stalemate.

This also led to the fact that dozens of miles north of the Baishui River have become uninhabited no man's land, or the Qin court forcibly moved, or the people took the initiative to go into exile to avoid the war, and the ten-mile village community was empty, and recently there was not even a dog in sight, only the corn and rice heads mixed with weeds in the field drooped lower and lower, and it was almost the day of harvest.

"In recent days, food has been tight, and it is really like taking time to cut these corns."

When it was time to eat, they were munching on dry food in an empty alley, and a rider looked at Tian Mu and licked his lips while feeding the horses a bag of beans that he was reluctant to eat.

Lao Wu scolded: "Before you start cutting the corn, the scouts of the northern army will rush over and shoot you in the field." ”

Although the northern and southern armies had been facing each other for a long time, each accumulating vast amounts of grain and straw, as if they were going to fight a protracted war, the exchange of fire between the cavalry and scouts on both sides was very fierce, and they fought almost every day in order to compete for a larger area of reconnaissance space.

But after several fights, Lao Wu had to admit that the scout cavalry of the Northern Expeditionary Army was not the opponent of the Kansai elite cavalry at all.

Not to mention the cavalry and the familiarity with the horses, the southerners could not catch up with the northerners at all, even if they only looked at the horses, the northern expeditionary army was completely defeated, and the southern horses they rode were completely crushed by the enemy, and they could not have any advantage in the confrontation.

But even these war horses were obtained by the Northern Expeditionary Army crossing the Baishui River in May and attacking the stables in Tangzi Township, Caiyang County. There is the ancient Tang Kingdom, rich in horses, the descendants of those horses, good at enduring hardships and climbing mountains, is a rare good horse in the south.

But the descendants of the horses meet the Saibei and Hexi horses, and it is still not enough to see.

"If those Northern Army riders never had saddles and pedals, we would definitely be able to beat them, and it would be good if Marquis Wu Zhonghou didn't make these harnesses back then."

One of the riders muttered.

Lao Wu scolded again: "What are you thinking? Do you know how many people died when they fought the Huns because of these sharp weapons? Furthermore, what happened eight years later, how could you have imagined eight years ago? ”

In his opinion, the colleagues he has met over the years have been merciful, and they do not have the undying ruthlessness when they fought against the Huns, and most of the time they tacitly avoided it, and even hid from the rain together and shared food.

After all, a few months ago, everyone was still Qin Jun.

It's a pity that I learned from the mouth of the captives that most of the soldiers who came were Shangjun soldiers, and there were few Beidi soldiers, and the fifth only felt that it was a pity, if there were good cavalry in the army that Marquis Wu Zhonghou had built in the north, they would not have to scout secretly along the river.

But it is precisely because of this tacit understanding between the lower-level officials that the northern front is very quiet, so quiet that people forget that this is a war of great scale......

Until the fifteenth day of July, this silence was broken!

At the end of the day's inspection, Lao Wu returned to the south bank of the Baishui River, and successively received reports from the three cavalry teams of A, B and C, saying that the scouts of the Northern Army were more frequent than usual.

Lao Wu felt that something was wrong, but the two cavalry teams in the west did not report for a long time, and it was not until a few empty horses ran back to the river in horror that he was sure that something had happened to his subordinates!

The scouts of the northern army rode across the north bank of the Baishui River, showing off their might, without the tacit understanding of weekdays, and even worse, on the sentry tower, the scouts also saw that the northern sky, smoke and dust were high, covering the sky and the earth!

Wang Ben's army of Wan and Ye has finally been dispatched!

Lao Wu's complexion changed greatly, and he spit out the fried rice in his mouth: "Quickly send someone to report to Marquis Wuzhong!" ”

……

Lady Black in Yan County (Yicheng, Hubei).

"The harvest is good, and the tens of thousands of troops on this side of Yandi can also be self-sufficient by relying on local food."

In mid-July, on the eve of rice ripening in the south, Heifu was inspecting the fields in the suburbs of Yan County.

The early capital of Chu here, called "Yan Ying", it can be selected as the capital, naturally has its advantages: here is close to Jing Mountain in the north, there are mountains and forests, and the east is a vast terrain, the fields are plastered, and it has been an important grain producing area of Chu for hundreds of years.

In addition to the promised May Day rent, the surplus grain in the local area was purchased by the Northern Expeditionary Army Sou Su Du Lieutenant at a reasonable price and used as front-line military rations.

After seizing Yancheng, Heifu did not bet on this, after all, although the history of this city is important, there are loopholes, that is, the city was built on a depression, it is easy to accumulate water, and in history, it was built by Wu Anjun Bai to build a long canal to irrigate the city, and the Chu people suffered heavy casualties.

In order not to repeat the mistakes of the past, Heifu stationed a large army here, and ordered the lieutenant to continue to move north, and established an outpost fortress in the south of the Han River.

This precaution was correct, and within an hour, he received several warnings in succession:

"Shandu, Fancheng, Caiyang, Baishui Township, Shangtang Township...... All traces of enemy troops were discovered, and the smoke and dust were high, covering the sky and the earth, and it seemed that the northern army had really begun to move south. ”

After reading the urgent report sent back by Lao Wu, Heifu looked at the rice ears that were about to ripen, and said with a smile:

"You have to pick up the critical juncture of harvesting grain in the south to force us to fight, Tongwuhou is a shrewd person, and he doesn't want to give me a chance to sit in the corner safely, but it's ......"

"In this war, the fight in the corner is a preemptive strike, but in the center of this belly, the fight is indeed a preemptive strike, old general, can't you wait?"

……

Although the Qin court army continued to move south, Wang Ben, the Marquis of Tongwu, did not leave Wancheng.

However, after several months of accumulation, he had assembled 200,000 troops in Hanzhong, Nanyang, and Chenjun, and at the same time established a complete logistical grain route. Whether veterans or newcomers, the troops were ordered to arrive at the predetermined battlefield and be ready to attack Hef's defenses.

However, Wang Ben's eyes did not focus on Yancheng, Shen'er, and Suixian, but he was extremely interested in a newly built city south of Hanshui.

His finger was pointed on the map, south of Fanzi City, a small town separated by the Han River.

"This is the new city built by the Hefs?"

Changshi immediately said: "Yes, after the black thieves occupied Yancheng, they drove their soldiers to build this city with all their might, and now they have also sent a common lieutenant to garrison 10,000 troops." ”

Wang Ben bowed his head: "Although this town is new, it uses Han water as a pool, and because of the Da Xian Mountain, it chokes the Jianghan danger at once, it is really a good place, and the black man has a vicious eye." ”

This Xinyi is precisely the top priority of this autumn offensive, and whoever gets it will take the initiative on the battlefield!

Thinking of this, Wang Ben asked again: "What is the name of this city?" ”

"Yutong Wuhou, the black thief personally named: Xiangyang!"

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