Chapter 62 Xuzhou Soldiers
The fighting on the north bank of the Yellow River has not stopped since the time when Lu Yi and others were happily drinking. More than 9,000 Huns rode in the night with fire and roaring, they were not the strongest warriors in the Huns, the real warriors died in the previous battles, they were not originally in the tribe for their courage and name, but this did not prevent them from having the ability to sweep the water village in Hebei.
There are not many cavalry in the Yuan army, although there are many warriors in the land of Qingxu, but people are engaged in agriculture rather than animal husbandry, and the villagers are more accustomed to spears and halberds, even Yuan Shao can not change this law, the entire general headquarters may not be able to have Sanqu cavalry, and the soldiers who were ordered to garrison the water village are even more so, eighty percent of them are some sailors, responsible for guiding the ships on both sides of the strait to transport troops.
To fight a battle, all kinds of soldiers, horses, and ordnance are indispensable, and the real meaning of the Yellow River is not to stop the enemy army from moving north...... The river is so wide that there are hundreds of people who can land along the river, and as long as there are boats, a small group of soldiers can be transported to the opposite bank at any time. But can only a strong soldier win a battle?
Ordnance is the most important thing, the things of the golden drum can't be transported if they go to the road, and as for the stone cannon ladder, only the big ship can be sent to the other side, what the Yuan army wants to do now is exactly this, but they didn't expect the Hun soldiers to roar, far faster than their scouts!
The Huns came and went like the wind, and the bonfire in the water village at night was the beacon that guided them to plunder, and the clear goal brought them unparalleled precision. Approaching the water village, the soldiers in the village were frightened and inexplicable because of the sound of horses' hooves, only to climb high and look far away, the piercing sound of the sound of the beetle with a scream was nailed to the watchtower, followed by a piece of feather arrows like flying locusts to shoot the Qingzhou soldiers on the watchtower and under the gate of the village into a sieve.
The generals of the Yuan army, who were lucky enough to avoid the rain of arrows, cautiously climbed the heights, but even thirty paces away by the moonlight it was still pitch black, and the figures of the Huns holding torches scattered hundreds of paces away, but the heavy sound of horses' hooves was close at hand.
"Extinguish the campfire!"
The Huns, they actually met the Huns! If it weren't for the sudden sound of the war before the arrival of the war, no one would be able to tell whether it was the Huns or Wuhuan or Xianbei or even Senehan'er outside the camp, but the Huns were the only ones in the world who rode and shot with the Ming Di!
The lieutenant of the garrison wisely let his subordinates extinguish all the fires in the camp, so that he could put the enemy and us in the same darkness, which reminded him of the bow and crossbow officer who was famous for his shooting sound in the early Han Dynasty...... But they don't have that ability.
Soon, the fire in the camp weakened, and the sound of horses' hooves exploded outside the camp again, taking advantage of the last opportunity to release arrows, and for a time the Qingzhou soldiers in the camp had to hide left and right. The Huns outside the camp did not stop, the captain of the camp saw it really with the wooden stacks of the wall, and there were many figures around the hundreds of Huns holding torches outside, and the fire spread in a blink of an eye and quickly separated, whistling towards this side.
The camp fell into darkness, but the sound of arrows outside never stopped, even if the arrows just grazed the edge of the wall and shot into the endless darkness, the feathered arrows of the Hun soldiers still flocked to them. This is difficult to cause damage to the Qingzhou soldiers, but it makes General Yuan's subordinates, the newly recruited pawns in Qingzhou, afraid to death, all like turtles with shrunken heads hiding in the corner and not daring to fight.
In an instant, the captain of the garrison showed his head again, and saw the arrows flying in the air replaced by spinning torches, some of which smashed into the wooden barrier and were extinguished in a burst of sparks, and more torches fell to the ground, on the watchtower, and on the tent, burning slowly.
The situation is not good, and the captain knows what he and his men have to face. He once fought against the Yanbei Army under General Chun Yuqiong, and he knew enough about the combat power of the Yan soldiers many years ago, and now there are countless Huns outside his water village, and they only have more than 600 people!
"I'm afraid it won't be possible today, pass my order, burn the ship, ordnance, grain and grass, and burn it all!"
He knew what these Huns wanted, and they were not worthy of such an attack except for warships that could cross the great river. His prediction was correct, when the whale oil-stained walkers ignited a fire, and the low sound of bull's horns sounded in the distance outside the camp at the same time, the Huns who had already rushed into the camp retreated into the boundless darkness like a tide, and ran eastward with the little light lit by the torches, and gradually drifted away.
It's just that the Huns didn't go clean, when the burning water village released the riders to report to Leling, more than ten arrows were shot in the dark and the riders and horses were all shot to death.
Between day and night, the Huns swept over more than ten water villages along the river bank like thunder, some of which were wise enough to destroy the warships and baggage, but more would not have such an opportunity at all, because after the test of the first few water villages, the Huns had already known that the Yuan army left few men and horses in the Hebei water villages, and even only a few healthy horses were needed to break through the camp, and three hundred cavalry rushed into the camp to kill all the defenders who had no time to reflect...... Perhaps Yuan Shaojun didn't expect that someone would bypass Leling and attack Shuizhai in such a way, they were all new soldiers recruited from Qingzhou, and they had not experienced the baptism of bloody battles.
Night battles, the Huns took advantage of it too much!
After breaking through all the water villages along the coast, the Hun cavalry was broken into pieces, scattered and wandered on the riverbank, and attacked the Yuan soldiers outside the city of Leling.
Three days later, the Xiliang cavalry of the Huaxiong Department of Nanpi City was drawn out, rushed to Leling, scattered outside the city and eyed the city, followed by Zhang Jaw to kill the headquarters and Fang Yue's Department to Leling City and Huaxiong Department, Zhang Jaw even really sent someone to Ye to ask for a stone cannon, but it has not been sent yet.
Lu Yi also finally sent troops, and the commander of nearly 20,000 cavalry divided into two parts, east and west, bypassed Leling City and went straight down to the bank of the river, wanting to collect all the ships and launch a general attack to the south.
It's just that when Lu Yi arrived at the riverbank, he only saw Xu Huang's solemn face.
"General Koji, there are more garrisons in Henan, just today."
When Lu Yi climbed high and looked south, he saw a camp set up on the opposite bank, and the flying smoke and banners all told him that there were more soldiers and horses coming from the south, and these soldiers and horses were most likely to ...... Xuzhou soldiers.
He had already heard the Huns say that the Qingzhou soldiers guarding the river bank were weak, so he guessed that Yuan Shao's elite should be the army that participated in the Second Yuan Battle of Xuzhou in Xuzhou, and then fought with Sun's company.
And now, it is very likely that they are on the other side of the river, and Yuan Shao will also be among them, and the Xuzhou soldiers are here!
"General Koji, we have collected hundreds of horses, and it only takes two days to transport the soldiers and horses across the river, for the sake of today, should we risk crossing the river while his army is not set up to strike first, or will we wait for the north to attack in Hebei?"