Chapter 55: Remnant Victory
Yue Lengqiu didn't expect that the Zhejiang-Fujian army, which was like a lost dog, would still have fighting spirit at this time.
In fact, the luxury family is dying, but Chen Hansan is high-spirited.
After that, the luxury family will be completely lost in Jiangxi, from a hero to a lost dog, even if the remnants can successfully cross the river and escape to the north bank, it is really a tragedy.
However, for Chen Hansan, the feeling is completely different.
In the past six months, despite the secret support of Suizhou and Jiangzhou, Chen Hansan led his troops into eastern Hubei and absorbed bandits and bandits, with a troop of more than 10,000 troops, which can be regarded as having some foundation. However, the main force of the luxury family soldiers and horses to contain Jiangzhou on the south bank, and Luo Xiancheng still quarreled with Jiangning, not daring to turn his face, Chen Hansan was sandwiched between Jinghu and Chizhou, and the situation was really precarious.
Even if the luxury family is half-crippled by Huaidong, Jiangxi will completely fall into the hands of Huaidong, and from the overall situation of the world, Huaidong's advantages will be further clarified.
However, for Chen Hansan, who is in danger of not being able to survive day and night, he can't take care of the overall situation of the world for a while, and he can only try to survive in the small situation of Jinghu Lake at the moment.
Even if the luxury family is crippled, the emaciated camel is bigger than the horse, and there are still sixty or seventy thousand remnants of the luxury family who can cross the river and go north, and no less than half of the elites will completely reverse the balance of power in Jinghu in a short period of time, which will at least free Chen Hansan from the current crisis.
As for the general trend of the world, Chen Hansan didn't think that he could compete with Huaidong again, and he didn't think that the remnants of the luxury family would have the strength to compete with Huaidong if they joined forces with Zhou Luo Xiancheng - it should be Beiyan who should compete with Huaidong.
After the remnants of the luxury family crossed the river and went north, Luo Xiancheng could no longer be a pool of stagnant water and immobile like a mountain.
Luo Xiancheng did not move before, it was the soldiers and horses of Beiyan who were still far away from Suizhou, and if they moved, they would be surrounded by Huaixi, Nanyang, Jinghu, and Chizhou. Therefore, Luo Xiancheng did not dare to move.
After the remnants of the luxury family fled to the north bank, they would share the strength of Jinghu and Chizhou for Suizhou, and Huaidong could not get involved in Jinghu for a while.
At this time, the Northern Yan troops in Guanshan were like fire, and the Cao family struggled to support Guanzhong without retreating, mainly considering that Jinghu and Nanyang had strategic support for them behind the belly.
Once the balance of power in Jinghu changes fundamentally, and Luo Xiancheng also raises the flag in Suizhou, will the Cao family still dare to guard Guanzhong alone?
If the Cao family retreats to eastern Sichuan, Liang Chengchong is just a candle in the wind in Nanyang.
The most critical development of the situation will be in the next year or two.
The luxury family and Chen Hansan are all people who have no way out, and it is impossible for them to go to Jiangning, but they have no grudges with Beiyan.
In addition, the people of the Beiyan clan are only 350,000 people, and if they want to rule the world, who can they borrow? It can only be with the help of the forces of the annexed army.
The luxury family did not give up their efforts to cut the land and stand on their own until they retreated to Jiangxi, but the remnants fled north across the river, and the luxury family lost the capital of self-reliance.
The luxury family can no longer afford to defend itself, but it is not that they do not have the capital to attach to Beiyan.
After the luxury family crossed the river and fled north, although they lost the strength to compete head-on with Huaidong, they still had 60,000 or 70,000 troops, and among many forces, they were second only to Huaidong, Huaixi, and Caojia in Sichuan, Shaanxi, and stronger than Jinghu, Tanzhou, Chizhou, and Luoxiancheng in Suizhou.
At this time, it has become the best choice for luxury families; Beiyan wants to sweep south, there are luxury families who can borrow it, why will they abandon it?
And as long as the luxury family can always master an elite combat power, it is not impossible to cut a corner and become the king of the fief in a different day.
Due to the loss of popularity and deep enmity between the luxury family in Jianghuai, Zhejiang and Jiangxi, the Northern Yan won the world one day later, and then ceded Eastern Fujian to the luxury family, at least for a short time, there is no need to worry that the luxury family still has the ability to sweep the world and threaten the rule of the Northern Yan in the Central Plains. Or ask the luxury family to guard Guangnan, which is also a choice.
In fact, the luxury family crossed the river to the north, and there was only one way to join Beiyan.
First of all, the land of Jinghu is narrow, and there are already five forces, including Luo Xiancheng, Liang Chengchong, Chen Hansan, Hu Wenmu, and Yue Lengqiu.
If the luxury family really wants to divide Jinghu, Luo Xiancheng will definitely refuse.
In addition, Huaidong has become a general trend in the periphery, and the longer the time drags on, the easier it will be for the Huaidong army to crush Jinghu - the three forces of the luxury family, Chen Hansan, and Luo Xiancheng, the only chance is to open up the Jinghu channel for Beiyan when the general trend of Huaidong is about to be completed.
Either lead the Northern Yan army southward, or attach themselves to the Northern Yan, so that they can compete with Huaidong.
The truth in this, Luxury Wenzhuang also sent someone to explain to Chen Hansan one by one, and Chen Hansan can also understand the mentality of the luxury family facing the end of the road at this time.
Luxury is the end of the road, and all-or-nothing is a last resort. However, after the defeat of Xuzhou, Chen Hansan almost lost all his dirty pants, and at this time, there was an opportunity to welcome the Northern Yan army to the south and attach it, Chen Hansan's mood was diametrically opposed to the luxury family.
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The luxury family is fighting for the death struggle, and Chen Hansan is fighting for more chips for the surrender of Beiyan on a different day, and it can be said that this opportunity has pushed the morale of his troops to the highest after going south.
It was a hasty plan for Luwenzhuang to abandon Jiangzhou and cross the river to the north, and Chen Hansan had only two days to get the letter.
In order not to alarm the Chizhou army, Chen Hansan led the elite 600 cavalry of his headquarters to sneak back to Huangmei from the defense line facing Leijing Lake from the west of Qichun under the cover of night.
The No. 3 Water Battalion of Jinghai had to rush from the Yijiang River, and there were nearly 400 miles to go against the water, and it would take three to four days to rush to the outer river area of Huanglongling to intercept it.
In order to restrict the large-scale withdrawal of the luxury family from Jiangzhou and flee north across the river, the Chizhou army attacked in three ways, and Yue Duming led more than 12,000 people to attack from Xiaocang Mountain on the north bank and attack Huanglongling; At this time, Chen Hansan was in Huangmei City, staring at the grass and trees east of Huangmei City.
Chen Hansan was also worried that the Zhejiang-Fujian army would not be motivated by the Shangrao rout, so he resolutely decided to lead his troops out of the city first.
There was not a single soldier left in Huangmei City, and Chen Hansan led 5,000 cavalry out of the city and attacked the flank from the northwest side, which Yue Lengqiu and Yue Duming did not expect in advance.
When Yue Duming was in a hurry, he could only divide half of his troops and horses to meet Chen Han's three troops from the flank, and half of the 6,000 soldiers and horses to meet the Zhejiang-Fujian army from Huanglongling.
Luxury Wenzhuang gave up Shangrao and did not save it, and secretly ordered the troops of Ganzhou, Yuzhang, and Fuliang to withdraw south from the east bank of Poyang Lake; When the other soldiers and horses had not yet withdrawn to the south bank of the Yangtze River, none of them abandoned Jiangzhou and crossed the river first, which made the generals and officials of the Zhejiang-Fujian army in Jiangzhou very resistant and angry.
Although the order to retreat was carried out under the suppression of Haowenzhuang, the morale of the Jiangzhou army, including the Huanglongling garrison, naturally fell to a low point.
Perhaps it was the advance of the Chizhou Army that angered the Huanglongling garrison, or perhaps it was Chen Hansan's troops who spared no effort to attack the flank of the Chizhou Army, which aroused the fighting spirit of the Huanglongling garrison.
Huanglongling guard general Hao Yuan is the eldest son of Hao Fei Xiong, his father and his younger brother are trapped in Shangrao, and his grandfather categorically refuses to divide troops to rescue, he is angry, he resentful, and even wants to abandon his position as a general to go to Shangrao. Hao Yuan's anger was held down by Hao Wen Zhuang, and there was an evil fire in his heart, and attacking the Chizhou army and slaughtering the Chizhou army at this time became the only channel for him to vent.
In addition to 1,000 soldiers and horses who stayed in the camp and did not give the Chizhou naval army the opportunity to land and capture Huanglongling, the other 8,000 elites stationed in Huanglongling poured out under the leadership of Haoyuan.
Hao Yuan was wearing an eight-foot war horse, the war horse was armored, and he was also wearing heavy armor, holding a halberd as the front to rush into the military formation of Chizhou. To use killing to wash away the anger in the heart, the halberd waved like a dead star, all the way to the blood and flesh rain, there is no triad in the Chizhou army.
It also has a lot to do with the fact that the luxury family can use a corner of the land and a clan to remnant several counties in the southeast, and the luxury family itself will emerge endlessly.
When the front formation and flank were fiercely attacked by the Huanglongling soldiers and the Huangmei Chen Han three troops almost at the same time, Yue Duming completely understood that he was wrong, and only then did he fully understand why Lin Lian's secret letter emphasized that the Chizhou army should make every effort to prevent the Haojia Beidu on the north bank.
We must prepare the enemy on the north shore with all our might, and we must prepare the enemy on the north shore with all our might!
Yue Duming looked at the enemy army like a tide pouring in, and there was a burst of darkness in front of him, about half of the Chizhou army was led by Yue Zhi and Deng Yu to attack Peng Ze on the south bank, and half of the strength was dispersed.
"Divide the enemy and unite yourself", the six-character mantra of the art of war, may not be able to be fully comprehended until death, but for Yue Duming, it is too late.
Under the attack of the two wings, the 12,000 soldiers and horses led by Yue Duming to attack from the north shore could not support them for even an hour, and they collapsed. Chen Hansan even led a thousand elite cavalry to fight out of the rout and directly attack the main camp of the Chizhou army in Xiaocangshan.
After the main force was led out by Yue Duming, there were less than 2,000 guards left in the main camp of Xiaocangshan. Seeing several enemy troops like wolves, interspersed with the routs all over the mountains, and went straight to the camp of Xiaocang Mountain, Yue Lengqiu also knew that the general trend had gone, and he could not save it alone.
I don't know the life and death of Du Ming, the front of the attacking soldiers and horses has been completely dispersed, and he was involved in the chaos, Yue Lengqiu could only endure the pain of Du Ming's life and death, abandoned the main camp and fled, surrounded by the troops, boarded a military ship from the east bank of Yangui Lake, sailed to the south bank, and joined Yue Zhi and Deng Yu.
At this time, Chen Hansan and Hao Yuan had already captured the main peak of Xiaocang Mountain, and on the top of the Mashan Rock, two forces of soldiers and horses swept to the western foothills, covering up the garrison that had not had time to withdraw from Yangui Lake Water Village.
Yue Lengqiu's heart ached, and he could only go to the south bank to avoid it first.
The land battle on the north bank was so easily defeated, and the Xiaocangshan camp and the Yanguihu water village at the western foot were lost one after another, which was also fatal to the Chizhou water army that was advancing westward from the waterway to suppress the Jiangzhou water army. From noon onward, they were defeated and retreated, and when the sun was waning, they could no longer support the ship's formation, and hastily fled eastward.
Taking advantage of the big victory on the north bank, the Jiangzhou Navy also poured out, and was bound to defeat the Chizhou Navy Army.
Xiaocang Mountain is not lost, and the Chizhou Navy loses the battle on the water surface, so it can avoid the Yangui Lake, and use the shallow water swing at the mouth of the lake and the topographical characteristics of water and land to block the enemy army outside the Yangui Lake. After the loss of Xiaocangshan, the Chizhou Navy had to flee to the mouth of the Qiupu River to get rid of the pursuit of the Jiangzhou Navy Army. The rout of the 200-mile waterway almost caused the remnants of the Chizhou Navy to collapse psychologically.