"The Metropolitan Governor has been running Jiangxi for many years, and he can withdraw to Jiangxi, and he can breathe a sigh of relief, rest and recuperate, and do it again from the beginning, but," Zheng Mingjing put the saber sideways in front of the table, calmly looking at everyone, at the moment of life and death, he summoned the military attachés above the commander of the capital for the last mobilization and military discussion before breaking through, "Flee to the west together, you will definitely not be able to escape, at this time someone must make sacrifices, divide the troops to the south to attract the pursuers, and the division of troops cannot be less, too little will not play the role of attracting pursuers......"

The Qingshan River crossing is close to Gucheng, and it is no problem to retreat to Gucheng first and cross the Qingshan River, but the main force of the Huaidong Army bypasses Gucheng Lake from the south, and it will go twenty or thirty miles more, which is not enough for them to escape to Nanling safely.

The division of troops to the south, in addition to attracting Huaidong pursuers, also happened to block the Huaidong army's detour from Gucheng Lake to the west.

Everyone present has already understood the speed of the movement of the Huaidong Army, and they don't even dare to stay in Fengqiaozhu overnight, knowing the inevitable move of dividing the troops to break their tails to survive, but separating the soldiers and horses to the south makes it clear that it is a bait that the Huaidong pursuers will definitely eat.

It's easy to tell, but who really wants to be the bait of death?

The generals were silent.

A bearded tiger stood up on the stool and scolded: "There is a nest of bears, people are dead and birds are facing the sky, you are afraid of a ball, you don't dare, I will lead the troops south, maybe it will be longer than you egg-shrinking goods!" ”

"Han Li, sit down!" Zheng Mingjing shouted in a deep voice to stop the bearded man, and said, "The soldiers and horses who retreated to the west must leave tonight, there is no time to rub here, whoever stays and who leaves, I can't allow you to worry about me, and if you don't obey, military law will not tolerate ......."

"Please give the general an order!" Everyone scolded Han Li, the bearded man, with a scornful face, and at this time, Qi said, most people were unwilling to take the initiative to stand up and be bait, but they also accepted their fate when they were on their heads.

"That's good," Zheng Mingjing looked at everyone, the battle was so hard, the generals could still be like this, and he no longer fell into the name of the soldiers of Fujian, he announced the decision to divide the troops that he had been thinking about for a long time, "Father and son are in the army, and the father leaves the son to go; If the brother is in the army, the brother will leave the younger brother behind; 'The blind man of the night' is difficult to argue that the night passer-by stays, I stay, and the generals will go ......"

When the world selects soldiers, most of them are selected by one household, but over the years, the luxury family has long used the limited Ding Zhuang resources in Eastern Fujian to the extreme, and fathers and sons, brothers and Ding Zhuang soldiers of the whole clan abound, and fathers and sons are generals, and brothers are also very common.

The soldiers and horses going south to cover the retreat of other soldiers and horses must have the consciousness of being afraid and entering in danger, fathers and sons, brothers and soldiers, fathers and brothers go to death, and leave the hope of life to their children in order to have the will to die!

For this, all the generals under the hall also silently admitted that the soldiers of Fujian can deter the southeast, relying on the cohesion of the clan, and they stay as bait, leaving the hope of life to their children, who can shirk it?

"Night blindness" is commonly known as "bird blindness" and "night blindness", the poorer the place, the more common the people who suffer from "bird blindness", and it has a great relationship with food.

As long as three or five of the 60 soldiers in the Yidu team suffer from "finch blindness", even on a moonlit night, the ability to march at night will be extremely weak.

There is a parapet wall around Fengqiaozhu, like a fortress, the army enters Fengqiaozhu, but is not afraid that the Huaidong cavalry camp can rush in at night, but at this time the sky is dark, the Huaidong cavalry battalion does not go, the main force of the Huaidong army infantry battalion will take advantage of the night to surround at any time, to divide the troops, must be decisive, and immediately divide the troops.

Eliminate all the "night blind" and put them into the southward soldiers and horses as bait, and the westward retreat of the soldiers and horses can rush to Gucheng overnight, and after crossing the Qingshan River, they can also retreat west day and night - when fleeing for their lives, it is not difficult to carry the soldiers for two or three nights without sleeping; Crossing the Qingshan River from Gucheng and burning the ferry, as long as the Huaidong Army can pursue the troops on the east bank of Gucheng Lake for a day, the troops and horses withdrawn from the west can safely withdraw into Nanling.

Zheng Mingjing's arrangement was not selfish at all, and the generals could not disagree, and the bearded man and other generals pleaded: "A certain person is willing to lead the troops south, please lead the army to withdraw west......"

"The situation has to be broken to survive, I can't bring everyone to Jiangxi safely and unenvious, there is already the trust of the governor of the capital," Zheng Mingjing said with a gloomy expression, "Don't mother-in-law anymore, let's make arrangements according to this, at dawn, the soldiers and horses will go south to make a feint out of the village first, covering the westward withdrawal of troops and horses along the Xu River......"

The sentinels were scattered around the periphery, and the generals dismounted and rested in the windy part of the valley, and surrounded the bonfire, and wrapped their bellies in wheat bread and broth, and fed their stomachs, and lay down in the field in the field in the units of the capital, and the horses took turns to take care of them.

Zhou Pu, Zhao Bao, Wei Xu, Chen Daozi, Ma Po Monkey and others will stand on the top of the mountain, looking at Fengqiao Zhu under the cold moon in the west.

Fengqiao Zhu has a protective wall, so that the cavalry camp can not be forced too close, otherwise, not only can not be disturbed, but there is also the possibility of counterattacking the enemy army at night - seeing this situation, Chen Daozi and others will hate it greatly.

After the fall of Huizhou, except for Meng Yishan who led the main force of the Hanghu Army to fight a vicious battle with the Zhejiang-Fujian Army in Liyang, and stopped the main force of the Zhejiang-Fujian Army in the middle for seven or eight days, more than ten counties in the south and west of Jiangning were quickly lost, which made the westward escape route of the Zhejiang-Fujian Army extremely smooth, and the retreat of the left flank of the Zhejiang-Fujian Army was very decisive, so that the Huaidong Army could not rush to the front with a small number of troops to intercept.

The cold moon is like a jade plate, the streams, fields, and mountains under the moon are stretched out, and the Fengqiao bridge at the east head of Fengqiao Zhu spans the Xu River, like an ink painting. The town is full of torches, standing at the head of the ridge, you can clearly see the movement of the left flank of the Zhejiang-Fujian army that retreated into Fengqiaozhu, and there is no meaning to rest and recuperate.

Zhao Bao came to Zhou Pu's side and said, "Lord Leopard, depending on the situation, the enemy army is about to slip away at night!" The Ascending Tiger will not arrive until dawn at the earliest, and you can't fight it right away! ”

"They run like turtles during the day, and they can fly with wings at night? At most, let them escape to Gucheng smoothly," Chen Daozi said with a grin, "It is not necessary to intercept the enemy army on the east bank of the Qingshan River, after crossing the Qingshan River, before entering Jiuzi Mountain, there is still a depth of one hundred and twenty or thirty miles that can be used to intercept the soldiers and horses of the left wing of the Zhejiang and Fujian army......"

Zhou Pu grabbed Da Yu to cover his body, and said to the generals: "Send someone to tell Chen Yan to ask him to put away his steps, and he won't be able to eat meat if he is in a hurry; You are staring separately, the enemy army is really out of the village, come and wake me up again! Let Sui Hu take a piece of felt, wrap it tightly, and fall asleep under a pine tree on the top of the mountain, and in a moment there was a loud noise.

When it was about to dawn, Zhou Pu woke up from Hu Congtui, he got up, opened his sleepy eyes, saw Zhao Bao and Chen Daozi in front of him, and opened his mouth to ask: "The enemy is out of the village......

"The situation is not right," Chen Daozi said, "Open the gate of the village in the east, and a small number of soldiers have come out of the village, it seems that they are going to flee south, how can they flee south?" ”

The position of Liyang and Fengqiaozhu is to the north, and the position that the Huaidong Army chased out from Xiling and Fuyu Mountain is just to the south of Liyang. The left flank of the Zhejiang-Fujian army fled south to Ningguo, which meant that there was a great chance that the asylum would collide head-on with the Huaidong soldiers and horses, and the Huaidong army would have to chase fifty or sixty miles less. Unless there is an interception in the west, the left flank of the Zhejiang-Fujian army will generally not retreat south.

Zhou Pu was silent, rubbed his face, made himself sober, walked to the edge of the cliff and squatted down to look at Fengqiaozhu, the enemy army in the town did have some soldiers and horses out of Fengqiaozhu and spread upstream along the Xu River. After the Xu River enters the winter, the water is not deep and narrow, but it is also the main stream between the four towns and eight miles, including Fengqiaozhu and Gucheng, the Zhejiang and Fujian armies have three or five hundred elite garrisons, so that although the cavalry camp is fast, it can not be won in a hurry, if a fierce battle is launched immediately, the Huaidong army will be at a disadvantage in terms of geographical advantages.

At this time, the sound of people and horses behind the mountain came, Zhou Pu looked back, and more than a dozen people in black and dark came this way. There are sentinels on and down this mountain, and it is naturally their own family that can come in, and when they get closer, they see the general of the Chongcheng army Dengcheng Tiger Chen.

Zhou Pu frowned slightly, and asked Chen Yan: "Why is it so fast, didn't you send someone to tell you to take a closer step?" How far is it from here? ”

"The enemy wants to run away at night, so why don't the turtle son hurry? If you can intercept this group of soldiers and horses on the head of Xu He, how can you fight smoothly next? Chen Yan said with a shy face, "Three thousand soldiers and horses are rushing away, and a stick of incense can come to listen to the leopard's orders!" Most of them can come before noon, how about it, isn't it slow? ”

"You go back to me quickly, stop your feet immediately, and you can't get close to Fengqiao Zhu anymore!" When Zhou Pu heard Chen Yan say this, he was so anxious that he jumped to his feet, eager to whip Chen Zhen, and glared, "You open your eyes and look at the bottom of the mountain, this enemy army is going to fight for its life when it comes out of the east gate, how can you fill it up after running all night with 3,000 horsemen?" He also instructed Chen Daozi and Zhao Bao, "The two of you will take people and Chen Yan to the east to protect the two wings." ”

Chen Yan was startled, he heard that the enemy army had a night escape, and hurried over, thinking that there were more ways to delay the enemy army by coordinating with foot and cavalry, but he didn't expect the enemy army to move at night, but the enemy army didn't just want to escape. The total number of Chen Yan's troops and Zhou Pu's cavalry battalion was less than 5,000 people, and they could not withstand the full counterattack of the left flank of the Zhejiang-Fujian army, so they could only stick to the back and wait for the main force of the infantry battalion to catch up. If the vanguard is defeated, the pursuit behind will be in vain......

Zhou Pu's tone was so heavy, Chen Yan was still a little uncomfortable in his heart, and asked rhetorically: "How did Zheng Mingjing know that I only led three thousand soldiers and horses over?" ”

The cavalry's ability to cover the battlefield is not comparable to that of foot soldiers, and now they can clearly know the deployment of troops of the Zhejiang-Fujian army around Gucheng Lake, but it is difficult for the Zhejiang-Fujian army to know the march of the Huaidong chasing troops.

"You want to go slowly!" Zhou Pu didn't have a good face for Chen Yan, "If you mess up, see what you can explain?" ”

Chen Yan is also a stinky temper, but his stinky temper is useless in front of Zhou Pu, and Zhou Pu is not angry to come back, he can only go back in a muffled voice, and go to the army to restrain his position - Chen Daozi and Zhao Qi each point Qi three sentry cavalry to shrink to the east to help Chen Yan defend the position, and Zhou Pu soon led the rest out of the valley,! ~！