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Chuzhou, Shanyang.

Shanyang City is located in the Huai, Si and Jianghuai Canal intersecting place, the Huai River flows in the north of Shanyang City, across the Huai River is the mouth of the Huai River in Surabaya, and in the west of Shanyang City, it is the mouth of the Jianghuai Canal across the river with Surabaya. Shanyang City is located in the triangle where the Huai River and the canal intersect in the southeast of the cross waterway formed by the Huai, Si and Jianghuai canals.

Since ancient times, Shanyang has been an important town in Huaidong, controlling the way from Surabaya in the north.

Huai Sishui Road since ancient times for the north-south traffic artery, the Western Jin Dynasty Wang Jun attacked Wu, Du pre-wrote a letter to encourage him to go straight to Jiankang to destroy Wu, and then, "from the river into Huai, over Sibian, tracing the river upstream, Zhenlu also capital, also a matter of the world."

In the early years of Cao Wei and Huang, Cao Piqin, the lord of Wei, led the naval army to enter the Huai River along the water of Cai, Ying, and Whirlpool to Guangling, and the boat division went south from Huai'an. The Eastern Jin Dynasty and the Southern Dynasties all took Huai'an as an important town, and Zu Yue, Liu Kui, Xun Xian and others would successively guard their places.

Huai'an during the Jin and Southern Dynasties, that is, Shanyang in Chuzhou during the Tang Dynasty.

When the Huai army went north this time, Gao Yu personally explained to Gao Yu that Shanyang controlled the place, and if it was lost, there would be no way to shield Huaidong.

Liang Zhang, the general of the Huai Army, also said that the north and south of Shanyang must fight for the land, I can get it, but I can enter Shandong, if the enemy gets it, Huainan can not be fixed day and night.

The reason why Gao Biao blatantly struck first this time was that Li Jing suddenly seized the land of Sizhou, and the troops pointed directly at Shanyang, Chuzhou, which had seriously threatened Huainan. As long as the Qin army crosses the Huai River and captures the important town of Shanyang, then the Qin army has sufficient sailor ships. You can quickly take a large boat down the Jianghuai Canal down Yangzhou. Huainan is not guaranteed.

An important town like Sanyo. This time, it did not become Gao Yu's camp.

The reason is actually very simple, Gao Yu's initial battle plan was to attack the east and the west, and to hide the real main force in Huaiyin, and Shanyang was the location of Gao Yu's camp on the surface, but in fact it was just a logistics center.

It's just that what happened later broke Gao Yu's arrangement one after another, and when Gao Yu wanted to retreat into Shanyang City. It's too late.

At this time, the defender in Shanyang City is Gao Biao's brother Gao Ba, although he is not a good general in the Huai Army, but during the decades that Gao Biao has served in Zhuzhen, he has been following Gao Biao's side, without merit and hard work, and is Gao Biao's relatives, so he is also very trusted by Gao Biao. This expedition, sitting in Shanyang, bluffing, pretending to be Gao Yu's main force. In fact, he is in charge of logistics and forage affairs.

"To hold Shanyang is to guard the gateway to Huaidong." Gao Ba recalled Gao Yu's instructions before he left. Standing at the head of Sanyo Castle. Only then did I know the cause of the portal that Gao Biao said. Shanyang City is the seat of Chuzhou and the gateway to Huaidong, so this city is very strong. The city is sixteen miles long, and there is Luo City outside, and there is Yacheng inside. Guarding this city, not only stuck on the south bank of the Huai River, but also guarding the mouth of the canal and monitoring the mouth of the Surabaya River.

The north is the place where the north and the south must fight, and the north can go straight down to Yangzhou along the canal, enter the river, and go down to Jinling and Zhejiang.

If you control it in the south, you can cross the Huai River, enter Surabaya, Bianhe and Yishui, pass through Henan and Shandong, and even go straight to the Yellow River and Hebei.

And the current situation, the Qin army has captured Sizhou, if they are allowed to seize Chuzhou, then the Qin army will send the warship directly to the city of Yangzhou.

Although in his heart, Gao Ba was also a little worried about the momentum of the Qin army. But as a veteran of the Huai Army and Gao Biao's kinship, his heart still makes him firmly stand on Gao Biao's side. Gao Ba looked forward to it in his heart, hoping that Gao Yu and Gao Jie's two nephews could use the 100,000 troops in their hands to beat Li Jing this time and defeat the ambitious Qin army in the Huai River.

Just like the Battle of Huangshui in the Jin Dynasty and the Battle of Chibi in the Three Kingdoms period, the southern army defeated the northern army.

As the night deepened, the rain intensified.

Listening to the dense sound of rain and the rushing waves of the Huai River in the distance, Gao Ba's heart that had been carrying it slowly regained its calm.

On such a rainy night, across the wide Huai River, who can sneak attack?

Even if they wanted to come, across a canal, to the west was the Huaiyin camp of Gao Yu's 50,000 troops. Even if it is his Shanyang City, which has only 5,000 people, but the huge fortress city of sixteen miles, it is not something that the Qin army can attack.

Such thoughts came to mind, and tiredness came like a tide, and after a busy day during the day, it was to dispatch grain and grass transportation, requisition ships, and arrange for inspection of warehouses, etc., Gao Ba was really tired. barely supported until midnight, and issued the last order of the night to the deputy general: "Plus send more men to guard the city." Then, with the reply of his own soldiers, he fell asleep.

The raindrops hit the roof densely, making bursts of rustling and rhythmic sounds, like a lullaby of dreams, which made Gao Ba fall asleep deeply.

I don't know how long it took, but he suddenly woke up from a severe headache, and before he could open his eyes, the footsteps of his own soldiers rushing into the house were already ringing in his ears. When the frightened and anxious eyes of the tooth soldier jumped into his eyes, his heart immediately became as cold as the bottom of the sea, and the enemy attacked!

Hastily put on his coat, and he didn't even have time to put on his armor, he lifted the familiar two-handed sword and ran out of the general's mansion, and as soon as he reached the top of the city, he immediately found that it was a rainy and misty morning, and the rain had stopped in the early morning.

In the distance in the direction of the West Gate, a defeated army was rushing towards it.

A gust of cold wind blew, and Gao Ba couldn't help but shiver.

What made him even more chilling was that he had already recognized the flag that had fled, it was the banner of the Huai Army.

Behind these Huai troops who fled like a tide, a red light cavalry swept in, with guns and bayonets, drowning the fallen Huai troops one by one in the red tide.

He didn't know how the Huaiyin camp was discovered by the Qin army, let alone how the Qin army crossed the Huai River overnight, and how the Huaiyin battalion, which had 30,000 infantry soldiers, 10,000 cavalry, 10,000 sailors, plus 50,000 people, was broken and defeated.

But now what he sees in front of him is indeed the defeat of the Huai army, and the defeat is like a mountain.

It doesn't matter how all this happened, the important thing is that the Qin army was killed and the Huai army was defeated.

Looking at the frightened defenders of the city, he shouted angrily: "Follow me out of the city to answer!" ”

The Huaiyin camp was defeated, and only 5,000 defenders remained in Shanyang. If Gao Ba did not bring in the defeated troops outside the city, the defeated troops outside the city would definitely be swallowed up by the pursuing red light cavalry. If the army outside is annihilated, Shanyang City will be alone.

Only then did the defenders come to their senses, and hurriedly took the city, shouting loudly, and began to assemble behind the city gates.

At this time, it is very dangerous to open the city gate to welcome the defeated soldiers, and if one is not good, the pursuers of the Qin army may take advantage of the situation to rush into the city. But there is no second choice for Goba!

The west gate opened, and Gao Ba led 3,000 soldiers and horses out of the city to respond.

However, before leaving the city, Gao Ba gave an order, and after he led 3,000 infantry out of the city, the city immediately closed the west gate. At the same time, open the south gate.

This is done in order to avoid the defeat army being frightened and seeing the west gate open, they will rush directly to the west gate, which will not only break through the infantry formation that is out of the city to meet them, but also let the pursuers rush straight to the west gate. Close the west gate and open the south gate, so that the defeated army can go around the city wall to the south gate and enter the city, and if the enemy pursues around the city, they will enter the range of the defenders of the city with bows and arrows.

Don't look at this as a small military order, but it can play an absolute role when it is critical.

Although Gao Ba is not a famous general of the Huai Army, he has been fighting for many years and has a lot of experience.

Sure enough, as soon as the west gate was closed, the defeated soldiers who had originally rushed straight out of the city phalanx immediately turned their heads and rushed to the south.

Not all the defeated soldiers rushed to the south gate in a hurry, and some officers began to join Gao Ba's team among the defeated soldiers of the Huai army, leaning next to their array.

More and more Huai troops chose to stay and line up to face the battle.

One after another, the banners of the Huai army were raised again, and the infantry formation centered on Gaoba relied on the strong city walls, and the defeated soldiers gathered more and more.

With the new force of Gaoba, and the tall city wall behind, the Huai army finally stabilized its mind.

Yao Guili arrived, Yu Gongchu arrived, Chen Qi arrived, Feng Shou arrived, Zhang Huan, An Zairong, and Ren Conghai also arrived.

Pursuing behind were Wang Yanzhang's feather cavalry and Jinjia Shengjie's cavalry, as well as the light cavalry of the Black Flag Army.

The cavalry of the Qin army rushed like a tide, but with the response of the high tyrant, they still failed to annihilate these defeated soldiers in the field.

Wang Yanzhang tentatively made a wave, and then ordered to stop the attack and slowly retreat.

It is very irrational for the light cavalry without infantry cover to directly attack the infantry phalanx formed by the city. What's more, now that the Qin army has the upper hand, there is no need to be so desperate.

Gao Ba covered Gao Yu and others and led the defeated troops to slowly retreat and retreat into Shanyang City.

Wang Yanzhang divided the cavalry into several clusters, besieged the gates of Shanyang City, and then sent someone to report to Li Jing.

At this time, Li Jing had already arrived at the west bank of the canal, returned to the Huaiyin camp, and was leading the army to kill and pursue the Huai troops who did not cross the river last night, and to search for those fleeing people and Huai troops. The sailors, in turn, and the marines were besieging the water village of the Huai army camp.

At this time, the Huaiyin troops actually had a small centaur with more than 20,000 people. But at this time, it had already become a plate of scattered sand, and it was broken by the Qin army, and if it was not surrendered, it could only be killed in battle.

In the afternoon, except for a few who escaped and were not found, most of the Huaiyin Huai army was wiped out.

On the Jianghuai Plain, there were groups of Qin soldiers everywhere, escorting a long list of Huai prisoners. The Huaijun Water Village was even wrapped in dumplings, and all the large and small warships fell into the hands of the Qin army.

This was a great victory, a great victory that even far surpassed many Qin generals. (To be continued......)