(2nd Update)

The army in the river relied on a large number of soldiers, out of the mountain pass to intercept, chasing the enemy to retreat to a section of the gentle slope at the west foot of the Yanque Ridge to form a formation, almost when the rooster crows all over the head, the crescent moon before dawn did not fall, the clear light was boundless, the Liang family's river soldiers and horses more than 4,000 steps rode to the Yanque Ridge, and the two armies fought together.

Over the years, Liang Chengyi has guarded the Hezhong Mansion, and his life is better than that of his brother Liang Chengchong.

The Cao family had to rely on Liang Chengyi to block the Yanhu soldiers and horses from advancing west along the Hangu Pass, and the two sides were resting their troops, communicating with each other, and the relationship had always been good, and there was no large-scale confrontation between the troops.

Huaidong stationed troops in Xuzhou, attracting Yanhu to enter the Hehuai region, and the soldiers and horses concentrated in Shandong; In the dilapidated Henan, when Chen Zhihu's troops were at their peak, there were only 50,000 people. Chen Zhihu had to face Liang Chengyi in Hezhong in the west, Liang Chengchong in Nanyang in the southwest, and Dongyuan in Huaixi in the south at the same time in Henan.

In addition, the river is located between Heluo and Luo, and it is also the only big city that the exile army did not conquer in Henan that year, and it was less damaged by the war. On the other hand, the land in Hezhong Province is irrigated by the Yellow River and Luoshui, the land is fully developed, the river canals are complete, and when there is a great drought in Guanzhong, Heluo has a bumper yield year after year, and it is a rare granary in the Central Plains at that time.

After Yanhu entered the customs, the north bank of the Yellow River fell into his hands, and Liang Xi guarded Shandong at that time. According to its reasoning, the Liang family should give up the Hezhong Mansion and concentrate their forces to run Jinan, and the Liang family successively gave up Jinnan, Henan and other places to call the Huai Army, the minister of Tao Chun, to defend the palace, but Liang Chengyi led the elite to guard the river, but also because of the wealth in the river, and was reluctant to lose it to other families.

However, it was the greed for the wealth of the Hezhong Mansion that made the Liang family's soldiers and horses scattered in Hezhong and Shandong. After Gu Wuchen's defeat in defending Qingzhou, Liang Xi still had 60,000 soldiers and horses in his hands, but he did not dare to defend Jinan, and besieged the Yanhu army on the way to the south, and only Liang Chengchong led the remnants to retreat to Nanyang.

If the Liang family had made a decision at that time, ceding the Hezhong Mansion to the Cao family or asking the imperial court to send a general to lead an elite guard, and Liang Chengyi led his troops east into Jinan and joined forces with his father and brother, the Liang family would have more than 100,000 soldiers and horses available in Jinan, and Gu Wuchen who guarded Qingzhou and guarded the lower reaches of the Yellow River, and Yanhu would have conquered Shandong in the early years of Yongxing, which was by no means a simple matter.

It's a pity that there is no regret medicine in the world, Liang Xi betrayed and killed his generals, and Liang Chengchong led the remnants to retreat to Nanyang and had a bleak life. However, Liang Chengyi guarded Hezhongfu, a rich land that was not greatly affected by the war, but he also lived a nourishing life.

After Liang Chengyi guarded the river, the influx of a large number of displaced people also made the river government have sufficient human resources.

If it weren't for the unfavorable encounter in crossing the Yellow River last year, the soldiers and horses in the river would have been strong.

The so-called law of generals, as long as there is sufficient money and food and strict discipline, the fighting spirit of the soldiers will not be too bad.

Although the battle to cross the Yellow River last year was a failure, with a loss of less than 20,000 soldiers and horses, and the southward retreat this time was also hasty, seeing that there were few pursuers, relying on the more to bully the less, the soldiers and horses in the river pressed towards Yanque Ridge, and the momentum was still violent, and it was impossible to see the decadent appearance of a hasty southward retreat.

The front has been pressed towards Yanque Ridge, the pass of the mountain is completely opened, and there is no trace of the enemy within thirty or forty miles of the Tanma Huiyu, Liang Chengyi and Liang Dai discussed, and he has the intention to eat the whole of the enemy soldiers who do not retreat from Yanque Ridge.

In addition to leaving more than 1,000 soldiers and horses to guard the camp, Liang Dai led 3,000 soldiers and horses to Yanque Ridge. In the clear morning light, the shadows of black oppression are like wolves running in the wild grass.

To the west of the camp is the Dayu Mountain, and to the east is the Ou Mountain, but except for the two mountains, the endless hills are endless, and the mountains are mostly dense forests, which cover the view.

Liang Dai was supervising the battle in the front, and Liang Chengyi wanted to sit in a large camp in the mountains, so he couldn't see the battlefield ten miles away.

Constant heralds came galloping over to report the situation of the battle, saying that the enemy soldiers were retreating and pressed into a ravine in the northern section of Yanque Ridge, but by the middle of the day, the battle had stagnated, and there was no further progress.

Liang Chengyi was anxious, and no one knew when Chen Zhihu's main force would cross the Yellow River. Coming from the south bank of the Yellow River, it is more than 100 miles, and if the battle at Yanqueling is entangled, even if it drags on overnight, it may be particularly unfavorable to the army in the river.

Liang Cheng guarded the camp with his adjutant general Zhang Ding, and he ignored the heat in the middle of the afternoon, and rushed to Yanque Ridge surrounded by more than 200 horsemen, intending to personally supervise the battle and annihilate the enemy soldiers who were very likely to be pursued from Xingyang before sunset.

Passing through the canyon between the hills, in addition to the sound of horses' hooves in his ears and the rapid rain, Liang Chengyi also faintly heard the sound of swords and halberds hitting each other in front of him.

Listening to the sound approaching at a speed that seemed to be too fast, Liang Chengyi felt something abnormal, and drove his horse up a hill on the left to look north.

This look made Liang Chengyi tremble.

Liang Chengyi only led Liang Dai to besiege the enemy soldiers in the valley in the northern section of Yanque Ridge, and only waited to attack to annihilate all the enemy soldiers.

The enemy soldiers all wore black armor, which was the color of the armor of Chen Zhihu's Henan army, like a black torrent, which rushed the "earth dam" barely surrounded by Liang Dai's department to the point of collapse.

Chen Zhihu is good at generals, but the resources that Yanhu gave to Chen Zhihu are also limited, and when the Henan army is the strongest, there are more than 50,000 people, and it is impossible for all of them to be the elite of a hundred battles.

The elite main forces of the Henan Army were all brought to the north bank of the Yellow River by Chen Zhihu, and those who stayed behind in Xingyang and Daliang were all weak brigades.

Liang Chengyi called Liang Dai's generals and soldiers and horses, all of whom were the elite of the army in the river, with 7,000 to 3,000, and they still occupied an absolute advantage in the battle, and the enemy soldiers were defeated and retreated.

Liang Chengyi scolded Liang Dai for being incompetent, thinking that he would definitely remove him from his post after the war.

I don't want to discard the good situation, I must block, intercept, and disperse the black torrent that rushed out, Liang Chengyi still has two hundred horsemen available in his hand, all of them are elites from the army, and he drinks the horses and follows him to the mouth of the valley.

It used to be a little farther than two miles here, and the light cavalry was speeding up at this time, barely being able to hit the head of the black torrent, so as to prevent the enemy from attacking the defensive positions on the two flanks of Liang Dai.

Walked more than a mile in one go, sweated all over his body when he came from the camp, and then panted heavily, pulled out the saber, Liang Chengyi swallowed a mouthful of saliva, moistened his throat that was about to split, and was just about to charge, when a fierce war drum suddenly sounded from the woods on the side, and he saw a group of enemy soldiers ambushed in the woods to kill.

The enemy soldiers mostly carried bows and crossbows, and they came from the flanks, and the slope to the east was quite steep, so that the enemy soldiers could stand on the slope and shoot down. Liang Chengyi reined in his horse and avoided to the west, and in the blink of an eye, the rain of arrows covered him.

The mount of one of the guards next to him was immediately hit by an arrow in the chest, and he jumped violently in pain, throwing the guard on horseback onto Liang Chengyi's body.

Liang Chengyi avoided it quickly, but the jujube horse under him was also hit by several arrows, and seeing that it couldn't be done, he changed to another white horse and rode to the hills and mountains to the west. Caught this ambush by surprise, and he didn't have the heart to take care of Liang Dai's side.

There were about four or five hundred ambush soldiers, I don't know how long they were in ambush in the woods, Liang Dai didn't even notice it?

Although Liang Chengyi did not raise the banner, his armor and the armor of the soldiers made the enemy soldiers recognize him as a general, and this ambush army was all foot soldiers, but he was reluctant to chase after him.

Liang Chengyi asked a partial general to lead more than 100 cavalry to entangle this ambush army, and he only led a few cavalry to join Liang Dai.

More than 200 cavalry suddenly covered the ambush with a rain of arrows, and more than 20 people were lost at once, which made Liang Chengyi feel sorry.

At this time, the enemy soldiers who came out of the valley to fight a counterattack had already penetrated the defensive positions of Liang Dai's troops on the periphery, but the formations on both flanks were still intact, and they were all trying to fight in the middle, to entangle the enemy soldiers who counterattacked and annihilate them outside the valley mouth.

Before noon, they had an absolute advantage, and their troops were more than twice as many as the chasing enemy, no matter how bad they were, they could still transfer more troops from the ferry, and it was impossible to give the enemy a fierce counterattack and be scared!

Seeing that Liang Dai could still hold his position, Liang Chengyi calmed down a little from the attack just now, reined in his horse, and asked Liang Dai with a calm face: "What's the matter, obviously pressed the enemy soldiers to fight in the valley, how did you make a counterattack by the enemy soldiers cause chaos?" He also told the enemy to hide an ambush in the woods to the east and not find out, if I hadn't led my troops to rush and just plug the gap in the right flank, how would you defend your right flank? ”

Liang Dai's face was not good-looking, and he didn't question Liang Chengyi.

Leading the troops to fight, no one's temper will be good, reprimanding and scolding on the battlefield is a common thing, and Liang Chengyi's questioning tone is quite kind.

Liang Dai drove his horse over, and said to Liang Chengyi in a suppressed voice: "This enemy army is much more tricky than imagined, I am afraid that Chen Zhihu transferred the elite ...... of the Henan army from the north bank."

"Yesterday, Zhao Kui also sent someone in Mengjin to confirm that Chen Zhihu led the main force of the Henan Army to raise ferries on the north bank, could it be that the elite of the Henan Army could fly to Ruyang with wings?" Liang Chengyi asked, he only thought that Liang Dai had lost his courage in the defeat of the river crossing operation last year, and he had lost his sharpness.

"The person who led the troops to counterattack just now was Lu Xiong, the horse-leading general." Liang Dai said.

"How is it possible, Lu Xiong is by Chen Zhihu's side without leaving an inch?" Liang Chengyi shook his head and said, but when he said this, his heart jumped violently, and he led the horse to Lu Xiong in Ruyang, could it be that these three thousand chasing enemies were led by Chen Zhihu himself?

Lu Xiong once served as Li Zhuo's personal guard, and his reputation was not well known during the war in Eastern Fujian.

After Li Zhuo's death, Lu Xiong voted for Chen Zhihu, and then followed Chen Zhihu to Yan, and has always stayed by Chen Zhihu's side as a personal guard.

Chen Zhihu himself is a first-class general, and he is used to taking the lead, Lu Xiong, as a personal guard, has the opportunity to shine.

Lu Xiong is not good at riding horses, holding a long iron stick, wearing iron armor, and leading a horse for Chen Zhihu during the battle, so those who know him call him "the horse general".

After the autumn of last year, Liang Chengyi led his troops to cross the Yellow River, wanting to contain Yanhu's soldiers and horses in Jinzhong to share the worries of the Cao family. Then crossed the river to the north bank, and met with Chen Zhihu's soldiers and horses who came back to help, a bloody battle, so that the 20,000 elites who crossed the river with Liang Chengyi were lost, and Liang Chengyi was only spared.

In that battle, Chen Zhihu took the lead, and in the battle array, the generals of the Hezhong Army who died under Lu Xiong's iron-clad long stick would have hundreds of people, and the Hezhong Army had no opponents to resist.

Thinking that this enemy army might be the elite led by Chen Zhihu himself, Liang Chengyi had an ominous feeling in his heart, and he still said to Liang Dai in a deep voice: "Don't panic, calm down, even if Chen Zhihu comes in person, what's the big deal?" "It's not so much to comfort Liang Dai as to comfort himself.