Chen Shi's mood was definitely worse than Xiao Yuandong's.

was suspicious before, and gave away sour dates, giving up the advantage of waiting for work. Then he sent scouts to investigate, and finally understood the situation in Huting, and it turned out that his guess was wrong again. Hu Ting did encounter a strong attack, not to trap him, and if he could react and reinforce in time at that time, it was very likely that he would cooperate with the Hu Ting people to fight back the Huainan army.

However, it was too late to say anything now, after he gave up the sour dates, the defenders of Huting were also wiped out by the Huainan army that suddenly went north, and when he sent someone to investigate, the Huainan army had completely established itself in Huting.

At present, this situation is completely beyond Chen Shi's expectations, the Huainan army suddenly went north, and successively occupied two very important strongholds on the south bank of the Yellow River, directly threatening the root of Yecheng, no matter what kind of disputes there are in Yecheng, the king of Wei has to face the threat of the Huainan army.

In this situation, Chen Shi has only two choices, either to directly lead the people north to cross the river and wait for the King of Wei to gather people to fight. Either take advantage of the fact that the people of the sour jujube are still alone, and take back the sour jujube first to wait for the army of King Wei to come to help.

There are pros and cons to these two options, the former seems to preserve his strength, but it puts Chen Shi in an extremely dangerous place. This is no longer a contradiction between him and Tian Ni, but a big question related to the survival of the north and the south, the Huainan army quickly won several important strongholds in Henan, Tian Ni's department at least had a vicious battle, but Chen Shi did not even see the enemy and retreated to Hebei, you can imagine how angry the King of Wei will be.

As for the latter, it was necessary to directly face the pressure of the Huainan army, and even the enemy of Huting was encircled and suppressed in a very short time, although Chen Shi's troops were stronger than Huting, but they may not be able to hold out until the arrival of reinforcements from King Wei. The most important thing is that the sour dates that could have been held on to the aid were cleverly given up by him. And if it is a field battle, not to mention the Huainan Army, which is transferring additional troops to Huting, the cavalry of Sujube alone is a great threat.

In the end, the reason for Chen Shi to choose the latter was the news from Hebei, Tian Ni already knew about the attack on Huting, but he didn't know that Huting had been broken, and he was gathering the people of Jijun to prepare for the south to fight, and the news had been transmitted back to Yecheng. If Chen Shi crosses the river at this moment, he will go straight into Tian Ni's arms, the two sides are already resentful, and he is now a sin, if he falls into Tian Ni's hands, he will not be lucky.

Chen Shi did not fully believe the news passed back by the spies, the reason why he was able to grow from a general of the Wei Dynasty to a general in charge of his own affairs, in addition to his martial bravery, was to think a little more in case of trouble, and never be reckless. This time, it was really because the Huainan Army was advancing north too fast, and his cognition was fundamentally wrong, so there was a situation of faint tricks.

But now that he has realized his mistake, he will naturally not fight an uncertain battle again. Maybe the situation of the Huainan cavalry is really bad enough to have to retreat, but its successor army is also moving to the sour date, how can it be willing to give up the sour date under such circumstances. Even if you want to retreat, you will probably have to ambush yourself on the way.

Although he understood this, Chen Shi finally decided to launch a night attack to recapture the sour dates. This is the only way for him to survive, otherwise when Tian Ni or the King of Wei leads the army to reinforce here, he will first have to take his sacrifice flag.

He also had the idea of simply surrendering to the Huainan army, but even if he dispelled it, on the one hand, he was still more optimistic about the King of Wei, and now he was not in the dangerous situation of dying if he did not surrender, on the other hand, without the sour date, he also lost one of the biggest bargaining chips, and the Huainan army may not pay attention to him, a rebel general who surrendered to the enemy.

Two days earlier, he had already prepared for a counterattack on Sujujube, although the enemy had a mobile advantage, but after all, the strength was limited. Therefore, as soon as the spy sent back the information, after a little thought, he immediately sent out all his troops, and the villagers who had been captured before were also put to use, and they all spread their torches and spread out in the field to blind the other party's ears and eyes.

In this way, even if the Huainan army prepares to intercept in the wild, it will first be confused by those villagers, and it will be difficult to reap the effect of the surprise attack. At the same time, his men and horses also carried a lot of weapons for cavalry raids, such as spears that were more than a foot long, and horses that were transported by carts.

Chen Shi led more than 3,000 horses this time, in addition to the main foot soldiers, the remaining cavalry scouts also brought all the horses, ready to wait until the Huainan cavalry was forcibly blocked by the infantry formation and then put into pursuit to expand the results of the battle.

The team carried so many weapons, the speed was naturally not too fast, and those villagers were too scattered, and the cavalry needed to be restrained by the spirit of twelve points, so that there would be no large-scale escape. But even so, Chen Shi did not dare to travel lightly, the formation of the infantry on the march was originally unstable, and if he encountered another cavalry impact, the probability of collapse would be greater.

When he learned that Huainan was sending thousands of reinforcements to the sour jujube, he had given up the idea of swallowing this Huainan cavalry, as long as he could return to the sour jujube to wait for the arrival of Hebei reinforcements, it would be a great victory for him.

There was no lack of caution along the march, but the expected Huainan ambush army did not appear for a long time, which was both fortunate and disappointed for Chen Shi. It is true that it is best to be able to march steadily to the sour jujube in this way, but in this way, it will also lose the opportunity to bite the cavalry of the Huainan Army.

The matter of the spies has been exposed, if the Huainan army really has the intention of retreating, it will definitely not wait to be besieged and killed by him. Through the description of the spies, he knew very well the strength of the Huainan army, the field battle may still be a threat, and if the city is defended, it will lack troops and few weapons, and it is absolutely impossible to hold out until the reinforcements arrive.

After the halfway march, the Huainan ambush army did not appear for a long time, and Chen Shi's face gradually became difficult to see, he thought he was well prepared, but he ignored the most important point, that is, physical strength!

Although he had gradually moved his army out of the reed pond and waited for an opportunity to counterattack, in order to avoid the eyes and ears of the Huainan scouts, the distance between them was nearly twenty miles.

Twenty miles away, if he really traveled lightly and quickly, his troops would definitely be able to support it, but the problem is that now the team carries a large number of weapons used to deal with cavalry, not to mention anything else, just those long bamboo spears that have been urgently built in the past few days are all newly cut and not dried, even if they are usually lifted, they are quite heavy.

Not only to maintain the formation, but also to carry such heavy ordnance, after the halfway line, many soldiers have gradually exhausted, originally each carrying a bamboo gun, first dragged on the ground, then a few people shouldered, and soon someone simply discarded it!

In addition, the villagers were also a nuisance, in order to confuse the enemy, the line was too scattered, and the cavalry needed to run back and forth to restrain it. Before long, the horsepower was also severely lost, and the fur was soaked into felt with sweat.

"The southern thief is cowardly, this battle will be won!"

Chen Shi was running around the team to boost morale, but in fact, he also had doubts in his heart, could it be that the southern thief was really too timid to attack but had already retreated? But if not, one more point forward for his team would have made the situation worse. But even so, he is now difficult to ride a tiger, so he can only move forward.

Finally, the sour jujube city was vaguely in sight, and the first thing that caught my eye was the extremely powerful firelight, like a fire dragon lying flat on the ground! After seeing this scene, although it was still unclear what the situation was in the city, Chen Shi also understood that since the other party had put on such a position, he would never have abandoned the city and fled.

If he had found out earlier that the Huainan army was actually staying in the city and there was a possibility of besieging it, Chen Shi might have been overjoyed, but now that he looked at the tired appearance of his subordinates, the bad feeling in his heart became more and more intense.

Now that each other is in sight, even if they want to retreat, it is impossible, the other party is now waiting for work, and they are thousands of cavalry who can charge at any time, Chen Shi can already imagine that the next battle will not be easy.

There were still miles between them, enough cavalry to charge, and he was mostly foot soldiers, and he carried a large amount of heavy ordnance, and each step was a great physical exertion. The distance has been shortened to this point, and even if you want to drop your ordnance and surround it lightly, you will not be able to catch up with the cavalry shock team. At present, this situation is like going to die!

Chen Shi also thought about stationing and defending here, but not to mention that the Huainan army was close at hand, and would not give them a chance to replenish their strength at all, once they waited until dawn and there was no cover of night, the situation would become even worse.

"Damn it!"

originally thought that he was well prepared, but because the Huainan army did not dare to go out of the city to attack, it became a drag that consumed his physical strength, and Chen Shi's mood at this time can be imagined.

At the moment, the only thing he had at his disposal was to gather the cavalry again, drive those villagers forward, and use these chaotic villagers to stop the Huainan army's momentum, so as to shorten the distance to the city as close as possible. The Huainan army was no more than a thousand people, and it was impossible to defend all the Tucheng camps, as long as his army entered one of the camps, he would be invincible.

Soon, the villagers in front were driven up, wailing and rushing forward, although the number was small, but nearly two thousand people spread out in the suburbs, and also occupied a rather wide space in front of the earthen city.

Seeing this scene, Chen Shicai breathed a sigh of relief, returned to the military formation and said loudly: "There are less than 1,000 people in Huainan, and they dare not attack when they are trapped in Tucheng. ”

Seeing that Tucheng was vaguely in sight, coupled with the encouragement of Chen Shi and his descendants, the soldiers also mustered up their strength and rushed forward, thousands of people rushed forward together, and the scene was grand for a while.

Many of these soldiers are not newly recruited recruits, they have a lot of experience in battle, and they also know how to deal with cavalry charges, and the bamboo guns in the front row are all trying to be raised, even if one person is not strong, there are people in the back row to help. Although these bamboo guns do not have a sharp edge of gold and iron, because the water has not been removed, the tenacity is enough, once the Huainan army collides head-on at high speed, it is enough to penetrate the body of the people and horses!

For a while, the smoke and dust outside the Tucheng were everywhere, Chen Shi saw the Tucheng getting closer and closer, and even could see the Huainan Army knights who had been assembled outside the city, and their heartstrings were still tight, but they were relieved to see the villagers who had rushed up in front of the military formation, although those villagers were unusable, but they were enough to cause a certain impact on the Huainan Army's momentum.

At such a critical moment, even a slight advantage is enough to determine the outcome of the battle. At this moment, all fancy schemes are useless, the competition is which side is more sharp, more fearless of death, as long as his army can rush to the bottom of the earth city, this battle can be said to be half of the success.

However, at this moment, the people who had been running frantically in front of them suddenly dispersed, as if an invisible force was pulling them towards both sides of the earthen wall. Outside the campfire-lit camps, there were many sacks of flowing rice piled up, enough for these precarious villagers to forget their deaths!

"Capture and kill the slave general Chen Shi, whether he lives or dies!"

At this moment, there was no longer any obstacle between the two armies, Xiao Yuandong provoked the horse lance in his hand, and the cavalry of the Huainan Army, which had already finished the formation, rushed straight towards the enemy army.

"Kill...... Kill! Fight to the death, fight to the ......"

The team was suddenly exposed in front of the Huainan army, and after Chen Shi was stunned for a moment, his face showed a thick bitterness. In this battle, he was not cautious, prepared a lot, thought he was thorough, and when it came to the war, he found that everything was useless, and in the end he had to win in this basic battle.

He jumped out of the formation, then turned back from the flank, and as he moved, the thousands of men in front of him suddenly became disconnected from the Chinese army. At this moment, the strong man broke his wrist, and he gave up the front of the thousand people in order to stop the Huainan army for a moment.

The Chinese army quickly assembled and contracted the formation under his orders, the original preparation was not useless after all, the board carts that had been arranged on the two wings were overturned, the loaded horses were hastily lined up, and the soldiers were assembled inside, although the formation was chaotic, but the most basic defense line had been pulled up on both wings.

Even if the soldiers are exhausted, they know what to do at such a life-and-death moment. This is the experience of bloody battles and countless human lives, and it is also the most important asset of an army.

Because both sides were charging, the distance of several miles was rapidly approaching, and relatively speaking, the momentum of the Huainan army was undoubtedly sharper. And the enemy army was already running for half the night, and they were fighting the cavalry with foot soldiers, and they were so energetic for a while that they soon exhausted. When the Huainan army rushed into range, the enemy's momentum had almost stopped, his face was full of terror, and his mouth let out a terrible howl.

A sharp whistle sounded, followed by a rain of arrows, and the enemy's front was like a seedling in a strong wind, and it was suddenly knocked down!

"Rush over!"

Xiao Yuandong roared, the horse bow turned his hand and hung on the saddle, his arms lifted the horse lance and the upper body was slightly on the horse's back, the man and the horse were united like a dragon out of the water, and the trembling lance was sensitive to stab in front of the horse's head, and where it rushed, it was instantly penetrated out of a bloody channel!

The rest of Fan Li and the others are not left behind, the front row of horses and lances chiseled out thousands of holes in the enemy formation, and the back row is a long-handled horse chopping knife, the blade chops and chops, and the corpses are in pieces!

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