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Under the city of Chuzhou, the Qin army after the victory besieged Shanyang.

Under the city, Li Jing was listening to the statistical results of the battle.

During the supervision, Sun Lan, the prince of Cheng, personally reported the results to Li Jing, and her crisp voice resounded through the big tent, and her tone was full of excitement and joy.

Before the war, many Qin generals thought that the battle plan was too risky, but now, the result of the battle was even more gratifying than Li Jing expected. From last night to this afternoon, the battle was fought for nearly a day and a night, and the soldiers braved the rain to fight, tired and tired. But the results of the battle were extremely rich, Huaiyin's Gaoyu battalion, 30,000 infantry, 10,000 cavalry, 10,000 sailors, plus 50,000 people. It was first raided by 10,000 horses and horses of the Marine Corps, and then Li Jing led 30,000 horses to attack halfway across the east bank of the canal. First cut off and surrounded half of the Huai army that crossed the river, broke through the Huai army formation with heavy cavalry, and then attacked with light cavalry, the infantry covered and killed, and the Huai army was defeated.

Subsequently, Li Jing sent cavalry to continue the pursuit of the defeated troops crossing the river, and he led the main force to cross the canal and attack the Huai army that did not cross the river.

The battle ended in the afternoon, and the Huai army, which fled into Shanyang City at the least, had only about 3,000 cavalry, about 5,000 infantry, and less than 10,000 people who fled into the city.

In this battle, nearly 30,000 horses were killed by the Qin army, more than 10,000 Huai troops were captured and surrendered, and most of the people were captured after the attack.

In this battle, 30,000 Huai troops were annihilated and 10,000 were captured. Although the Qin army failed to use firearms in this battle, and the power of the bow and crossbow was greatly reduced, the casualties at the end of the battle were compared with the results. It's not worth mentioning. The whole army of 40,000 horses participated in the battle. No more than 3,000 were killed. It's almost a 10-to-1 ratio. However, the Black Flag Army had 2,000 heavy cavalry, but in this battle, it directly lost 200 cavalry, and the casualties were 10%, which made Li Jing's heart ache.

Fortunately, on the whole, this battle was still won by the Qin army, and the victory was brilliant.

Except for a part of the soldiers and horses, they continued to clean up the battlefield and search for the defeated soldiers. The rest of the soldiers and horses have already arrived at the foot of Shanyang City and joined the siege team.

In the previous battle, the main force of the Huai army in the north had been destroyed. The Qin army successfully crossed the Huai River, and was now in a completely active and advantageous position.

Gai Yu pointed to the outer wall of Shanyang City, which was as high as three zhang, and said to Li Jing with a frown: "Chuzhou is not easy to fight, Chuzhou City is sixteen miles long, and it has two cities, inside and outside. Moreover, there were originally 5,000 garrisons of Gaoba in the city of Chuzhou, and now there are 8,000 soldiers and horses in Gao Yu's defeat in the city, adding up to 13,000 soldiers. What's more, Chuzhou is a big city, and there are more than 50,000 households in the city. 300,000 mouths. Gao Yu can collect a large number of young people at any time to help defend the city, and what is more important is that. Chuzhou has always been the gateway to Huaidong, an important military town, hoarding a large amount of money and grain, and this time it is Gaoyu's logistics base, and there is plenty of grain and grass in the city. ”

To besiege a city guarded by more than 10,000 elite Huai troops, and the city is high and strong, and there is no shortage of food or water in the city, such a city is not easy to fight.

Li Jing now has more than 30,000 men and horses, and three times as many people and horses are attacking the city, and it is difficult to capture it in a short time.

And if the time drags on for a long time, Gao Biao will definitely mobilize troops and horses to help. On the other hand, Li Jing couldn't stay in Huainan for a long time, and the soldiers and horses in the Sixu area behind him were all taken south by Li Jing.

"The meaning of the post is that the Huai army was defeated this time, and it is difficult for the Huai army to send troops to cross the Huai north in a short period of time. It is better for us to withdraw to Huaibei and take Shipu's Xuzhou first, as long as we occupy Xusi and defend Huai, we can control Gaoyu south of the Huai River. At present, our biggest threat is still in the north, and we should first concentrate our efforts on a decisive battle with the four towns in Hebei. ”

Jing Xiang's proposal was agreed to by many generals. This is a safe proposal, although the Huai army has just been defeated, but the death of more than 30,000 people is not enough to really defeat the Huai army. Gao Biao's generals are all there, Zhuzhou and County are also there, Huainan is a wealthy feudal town, and Gao Biao has been serving as the Jianghuai salt and iron transfer envoy for several years, and he is very rich.

In the spring and summer season, fighting Gao Yu in Huainan is not a good choice. If you want to fight, it should be the most suitable to play again in autumn and winter.

However, Li Jing was a little unwilling, and finally broke the Huai army.

The main force of the Huai army has been defeated, and now the states and counties in Huainan are like pieces of desserts in front of them, how can Li Jing leave without taking a bite. And now for Li Jing, it is also an excellent opportunity.

The main force of the Huai army has been defeated, as long as Li Jing can quickly take Shanyang in Chuzhou, then Li Jing can lead his troops along the canal, take a battleship to Yangzhou, and go straight to Yangzhou, Gao Yu's old nest.

Capture the thief and capture the king, smash the Yellow Dragon, and break through Yangzhou in a battle, as long as the Yellow Nest is caught, then Huainan Town will be over, and Gao Biao will be directly finished.

This is a huge temptation, even if Gao Biao wants to transfer the soldiers and horses of the eight states in Huainan Town, it will be too late.

Evacuate at this time and let Gao Biao go, then give Gao Biao time, with Huainan's wealth, Gao Biao will be able to recover in less than two years. This is where Li Jing is unwilling.

"Is there really no way to take Chuzhou in a short time?" Li Jing pinched his chin and asked: "If you can take Shanyang, not only can you open the gate of Huaidong, but there are still more than 10,000 elites of the Huai army in the city, especially the generals of the Huai army." I don't want to let them go for nothing. ”

Chuzhou could not be attacked, and it would be difficult to attack for a while, and it would cause great casualties to the Qin army. The key is also that such an important town as Shanyang is difficult to capture even if it is attacked for a while. Li Jing didn't have much time to bring large catapults, firearms and other weapons to attack the city.

You can't attack, you can only outwit. However, it was not easy to come up with a way to capture Chuzhou in a short period of time.

Yangzhou, Guangling.

Gao Biao was reviewing his newly established left and right Mo evil army, which had a newly recruited army of 20,000 soldiers and horses, but the left and right Mo evil army envoys were not served by Liang Zhang, Yu Gongchu and other generals, but by Lu Yongzhi and Zhang Shouyi, among the three warlocks around him, served as the left and right military envoys of this new army with the nature of the tooth army. Mo Xie's weapons and armor are fine, the clothes are gorgeous, and the food and salary treatment far exceed that of other armies. Lu Yongzhi and Zhang Shouyi, two warlocks, have also become hot real power figures under Gao Biao.

However, although Lu Yongzhi and Zhang Shouyi are warlocks, they are still very good at doing it on the surface. The new recruits they recruited were all tall and strong. At a glance. The momentum is extraordinary. Gao Yu was very satisfied.

Just after reviewing the new army, the commander of the commander's office hurried over and reported to him a shocking news.

Gao Yu was defeated by Li Jing's army in Huaiyin yesterday, with 30,000 killed and 10,000 captured, and the remaining 8,000 men and horses retreated into Chuzhou City.

Gao Yu, who was dressed in a Taoist robe, shook and almost fainted to the ground.

20,000 new troops had just been recruited here, but 30,000 had been killed on that side. was also captured by 10,000, if you count the defeated soldiers and horses of Liang Zhang, Gao Yu's family was almost defeated.

"Li Jing personally led tens of thousands of troops to besiege Chuzhou!"

Gao Biao took a breath of cold air, on the front line of Huaidong, there are still more than 10,000 soldiers and horses in Chuzhou right now. If Chuzhou is lost, then Li Jingke will go straight to Yangzhou along the pagen ditch. Gao Yu, who has always been calm, felt a chill in his heart at this time, and he was really scared.

He is a famous general, and Li Jing is not good at stubble, he has broken Shatuo. Defeated the Khitan and fought the Bohai Sea. Destroyed Goguryeo. The battle is not less than him, although Li Jing does not have many soldiers at the moment, only 40,000, but he is now in Yangzhou City, plus the newly recruited 20,000 new troops, it is only about 50,000.

Li Jing really called, but he was confident that he could hold on. But the key thing is that if Li Jing really kills Yangzhou City, the one-eyed Zhou Bao who can't protect the south of the Yangtze River will come to take advantage of the fire to rob, and the heroes will not be able to stand up to the wolves at that time.

Gao Biao immediately made up his mind that no matter what, he had to keep Chuzhou and block Li Jing from the north of the Huai River.

"Immediately recruit all departments and send troops early tomorrow morning." Gao Yu gave a military order in a loud voice.

Fortunately, he was originally going to hand over 80,000 horses to Gao Yu, but because Zhou Bao suddenly sent troops to defeat Liang Zhang's troops, Gao Yu kept the follow-up 30,000 people. At present, those 30,000 people are still in Gaoyou. Otherwise, Gao Yu estimated that even if these 30,000 people arrived in Gao Yu's hands early, it was estimated that they would deliver food together.

"Send someone to Gaoyou immediately, and let Shen Ji and Han Shide wait for the king in Gaoyou."

Yangzhou to Chuzhou 360 miles, Yangzhou to Gaoyou 150 miles.

Although Gao Biao chose to advance by land and water, even if he took a boat from Hangou down the river to Chuzhou, it would take three days at the earliest.

Early the next morning, Gao Biao personally led the troops to Chuzhou for rescue, and arrived at Gaoyou by boat day and night.

As soon as he got off the boat, Shen Ji and Han Shide, two generals who were waiting for him in Gaoyou, told Gao Biao a bad news.

Although Gao Yu immediately came to help, it was still too late.

In this way, three days have passed, and Li Jing has broken Chuzhou.

"How is this possible?" Gao Qi's beard stood up, "Chuzhou is the gateway to Huaidong, a military town, with twin cities, and there are more than 10,000 soldiers and horses in the city at this time. And Li Jing is only 30,000 or 40,000 horses, how can he take Chuzhou in three days? ”

You must know that although Gao Yu is newly defeated, Gao Yu is not the kind of guy who talks on paper, not to mention, there are many veterans of the Huai Army under him, how can he be defeated again and again. Huaiyin's defeat, after he heard the specific experience, he had already seen that the defeat that day was Li Jing's trick. But now guarding Chuzhou City, why can't you hold it for three days?

Shen Ji sighed in a deep voice: "Li Jing is extremely cunning, he asked people to block the Hangou Canal, build an embankment, and store water to directly flood Chuzhou City. Li Jing directly led his troops to row a boat to attack Chuzhou at night, but the generals in the city could not hold it, and Chuzhou fell into the hands of Li Jing. ”

When Gao Biao heard that Li Jing actually flooded the city with water, he was angry and directly split the table in half with a sword.

Li Jing is too cunning, this is simply tricky.

"Forty Lang and what about them?"

Han Shide said helplessly: "There are almost no thirteen,000 soldiers and horses in the city, and there are only a few hundred people who have escaped. I heard that Forty Lang and the generals Yao, Yu, Chen, and Feng fled in chaos, but there is no news of their whereabouts at the moment, the bad news is that they can't be inquired about, and the better news is that Li Jing has not captured them. ”

"Then where is Li Jing's soldiers and horses now?" Gao Yu's heart was dripping blood, Chuzhou was lost, and the door of Huaidong was opened.

After Li Jing captured Chuzhou, the current army is divided into three routes, with Zeng Yuanyu leading the left army of 10,000 horses to attack Xuyi, another important town in Huaidong, Li Jing led the Chinese army of 20,000 to the south along the ditch, has captured Anyi, is leading the army to Gaoyou. In addition, Lin Wei led the right army, divided 5,000 troops to attack Yancheng, and then Zhao Li led 5,000 men and horses to stay in Chuzhou. ”

Gao Chu only felt dizzy for a while, although Li Jingbing divided the way, but the goal was very clear, that is, to point directly at Yangzhou. The left side attacked Xuyi, Tianchang, the right side attacked Yancheng and Hailing, the middle road went straight to Anyi and Gaoyou, and the most Lu attacked Yangzhou. The Third Route Army, after sweeping the periphery of Yangzhou, will directly attack Yangzhou.

Li Jing now has only 40,000 people in Huainan, but since Li Jing has taken Chuzhou, then the empty Xuyi may also be lost. Li Jing now has a great advantage over Huainan, and if he can't keep it, Li Jing will mobilize a large army to go south, ready to swallow Huainan Town and Bazhou in one bite.

Maybe he should have endured it at the beginning, Gao Biao couldn't help but think in his heart that if he waited until Li Jing and Li Keyong fought with the four towns of Hebei and Khitan first, and then attacked, maybe there would not be such a bad situation as today. But now, Gao Yu has no way back.

If you retreat to Yangzhou, you will be driven into the Yangtze River by Li Jing to feed the fish.

Anger sparked in his heart, and Gao Yu slammed his sword into the ground.

Come on, fight to the death here! (To be continued......)