Chapter 52: Before the Soldiers Arrive

(The second update, ask for a red ticket)

The sun was setting, the weather was not so hot and unbearable, Li Yuer slipped through Hujiagou with a few horses and went out to investigate.

Before noon, a rout fled from the direction of the Yishui camp, saying that the Jiangdong Left Army stole the camp at dawn, and the Yishui camp was defeated before dawn - although the Jiangdong Left Army must have gone to Siyang to aid Liu Tingzhou, who was trapped there, but it was also guaranteed that it would come to fight the camp set up on the east bank of the Surabaya River, and Suyu was not even sixty miles away from the Yishui camp.

Before noon, Li Liang, the lord of Suyu, personally rushed to Hedong to sit in the town, strengthened the garrison, and released the sentinel twenty miles away to guard it.

Li Yu'er is a hundred generals under Ma Lantou's department, with more than 200 sons and twelve horses. Today, he wanted to put a far outpost, Li Yu'er gave Li Liang a general, and personally brought out a few sharp soldiers with good riding skills, even if he collided with the scouts of the Jiangdong Left Army, he could also flee for his life.

Passing by a dry ditch, there is only a little shallow water at the bottom of the ditch, wading over, Li Yu'er took the water bag and poured it, about twenty miles away from the camp, he wanted to unsaddle the horse, let the horse rest for a while.

Feeling that the earth was trembling slightly, Li Yu'er only thought it was an illusion, and subconsciously listened to the sound, which was the horse's hooves stepping on, and there were quite a few of them.

Li Yu'er turned over and got on the horse, grasped the two straight knives on both sides of the saddle, one long and one short, and drove the horse to the slope in front of him with the belly of the horse, but he saw hundreds of armored light riders in front of him rushing over, and the speed was extremely fast.

Li Yu'er didn't dare to stop taking a bow and arrows to shoot the former enemy, while carrying the horse's head and walking back, he took out the black horn from his arms and blew it "woo", it sounded like a night ghost crying, wading across the ditch on horseback, and greeting the sons and daughters who were still under the ditch: "The left army of Jiangdong is coming, follow me back to the camp to spread the word!" ”

The tip of Li Yu'er's tongue could feel that the roared voice was trembling, and he was really afraid of something.

Although I thought about it, no one really thought that after the Jiangdong Left Army broke the Yishui camp, it really came to attack the camp in the east of the Surabaya River!

Mother, mother, I broke into the widow's door at night, and the thief was just going to bump into bad luck, but the widow of the Su family who was his mother also screamed cool, and it couldn't be considered a mistake! Li Yu'er scolded fiercely in his heart, beat the horse and ran back, but still did not forget to look back.

The armored light cavalry of the Jiangdong Left Army spread out for several miles, and it was impossible to figure out how many men and horses were attacking for a while, and their armor was black, and on the wasteland where the weeds grew wildly, it was like a large black cloud floating in the sunset, and there were a few wild dogs, hares, and badgers among the grass to startle out and run......

Li Yu'er intuitively felt that the earth was trembling, and it was not only them who were scattered outside in Hedong Ying, some of them reacted quickly and some reacted slowly. reacts quickly like them, turns around and runs, does not entangle, and does not greedily kill officers and soldiers; Those who react slowly become ghosts under the knife.

After running for a while, the difference between the horses they rode gradually became apparent.

How many good horses with good stamina, strong physical strength and fast feet can be in the Huaisi area?

If the wandering army can have a horse that pulls goods and cultivates the land, it is very precious, and if there is a horse and armor, and a good weapon, no matter how bad it is, it can be mixed with the banner head of the head of the fifteen soldiers.

Desperately whipped, poked the horse with spurs, and did not care about horsepower, but spread the horse's hooves and ran for several miles, and found that the horses ridden by the Jiangdong Left Army in armor and light cavalry were much more durable, and those scouts who were slightly slower caught up and killed off their horses.

The wandering army stayed in the east of the Yu River to scout and sentry into the camp, and in the twilight of the four together, they closed the gate in a panic. The soldiers crowded the wall, and regardless of how far away the enemy cavalry was, they shot arrows out in a mess without command.

Li Yu'er "whoosh" was hit by an arrow, inserted it in his pocket, scared him into a cold sweat, before the gate was closed, he hid in the camp, took the arrow on the tassel, and scolded at the watchtower: "Turn your grandmother, grandpa almost shot you turtle grandsons...... let his subordinates lead the horse away, he took off the big bow behind his back, and took three steps and two steps on the wall, and he was afraid that the armored light cavalry of the Jiangdong Left Army would come directly to rob the gate.

When the Jiangdong Left Army captured the Yishui camp, it directly knocked down the fence with heavy armored cavalry. The fence wall of Hedongying here has been urgently reinforced, but the gate is the thinnest. Seeing the main general Li Liang shouting for people to carry out the rejection horse and arrive at the gate, Li Yu'er did not say anything, came to the section of the wall that his department was responsible for guarding, looked out nervously, and prayed in his heart, hoping that the Jiangdong Left Army would not attack here directly.

To the surprise of the soldiers of the camp in the east of the Yu River, three or four hundred armored light horsemen of the Jiangdong Left Army brushed the edge of the northeast corner of the camp, and turned north, without stopping to attack the camp?

Li Yu'er looked at each other on the left and right: the Jiangdong Left Army did not go to Siyang in the south to save Liu Tingzhou, nor did it fight the Hedong camp in Suyu, what did it do when it suddenly went north?

Li Yu'er was surprised and a little lucky.

When the Jiangdong Left Army set up camp in Shukou, his troops and horses were transferred to the east bank of Yishui, and they took turns to attack the Shukou camp of the Jiangdong Left Army.

participated in the war before, although the casualties were not large, but it also made Li Yu'er understand the hardness of the bones of the Jiangdong Left Army, which is not something they can gnaw at this time.

The reason why there were not many casualties in the previous engagements was that when I think about it seriously, the Jiangdong Left Army mainly defeated them, and rarely took advantage of the chaos to cover up the killings after the defeat.

There is some mercilessness in this, not that the Jiangdong Left Army does not have the ability to pursue.

In their opinion, the Yishui camp is solid, but it can't withstand the strong attack of the Jiangdong Left Army in the middle of the night, and Li Yu'er has no confidence that he can hold the Hedong camp here and avoid the troops of the Jiangdong Left Army, which is the best.

It's a pity that Li Yu'er's luck didn't last long, when Meiyue rose from the forest tops in the east, standing on the wall, he saw the black pressed foot soldiers pressing over from the east......

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Lin Tie held the reins in his pocket, pressed the horse's broken hooves and walked slowly, and Qin Chengzu rode a little later.

On the left and right are dozens of personal guards and cavalry, different from ordinary soldiers, all of them are crimson armor, in the twilight of the first month of the eyebrows, like a dark fire, and like a smoldering sunset. Lin Tie wears green armor, and Qin Chengzu wears black armor, which is very conspicuous.

Lin Jian looked up at the sky, the eyebrows and the moon were clear, the world in the twilight was hazy, and the scenery in the distance was not very clear, only gray shadows, but the light was enough for them to launch an offensive against the Hedong camp of the wandering army in Yusu.

I was really lucky to have two sunny nights in a row.

Liu Tingzhou's Duhuai army was forced to the hinterland of Siyang, unable to get supplies, and delaying it for one day would increase the danger of annihilation of the whole army; If it drags on for a day, the military deployment of the Displaced People's Army along the coast of Surabaya will also be very different.

In order to ensure the victory of the Siyang war, Ma Lantou did not have many elite soldiers left in Suyu at this time, and he could not have time to draw elites from Siyang or Suining to fill Suyu, let alone let Liu An'er transfer troops and horses from the periphery of Xuzhou to support.

As soon as he rode over, he called out the secret words of communication, and the iron arrow in his hand showed his identity as a messenger, and he came to Lin Tie, dismounted and knelt down to report: "Chen Han's three troops of about 2,000 horses passed through Yancheng in the afternoon, and took a short rest at Taowu in the southwest of Yancheng, and then rushed here to contact Xianrendu, which is forty miles away from my light cavalry outpost. Zhou Lushuai broke the enemy camp upstream, relieved the broken river wood, and then led the light cavalry to retreat, Chen Cai chased and bitten, and the brigade commander wanted to prepare here......"

The so-called broken river wood is that the Liumin army cut down giant trees on the river bank in the upper reaches of the river closure camp, mainly to prevent the water battalion of the Jiangdong Left Army from storming the river sealing ship array, and then you can release giant trees upstream to impact the water camp warships of the Jiangdong Left Army.

Zhou Pu led the light cavalry first, did not rush to attack the Hedong camp of the Wandering Army, first went to the upper reaches of Surabaya, and broke the Broken River Wooden Camp of the Wandering Army.

There are few defenders, only more than 100 people, and the attack is broken, and then the giant trees on the bank of the broken river are untied, and they are allowed to rush downstream, some of the giant trees will be washed to the shore by the current, but there are also some giant trees that will flow down with the current, and directly impact the floating people's army's own pontoon bridges and other facilities.

As long as the pontoon bridge on the Suyu section of the Surabaya River is broken and collapsed, the Hedong camp of the Displaced People's Army and the defenders of Suyu City will be cut off, so as to create favorable conditions for attacking the Displaced People's Army's camp in the east of the Surabaya River.

"Chen Hansan is not slow!" Qin Chengzu said, "This battle is difficult to fight!" ”

After the Yishui battalion was broken, the Liumin army was believed to strengthen the strength of the camp on the east bank of the Surabaya River, although the elite soldiers were limited, but the 2,000 cavalry that came with Chen Hansan was a rare elite among the Liumin army.

"If it's hard to fight, you have to fight," Lin Jian said resolutely, "Call Ning Zechen to come over!" ”

Ning Zechen came over on horseback.

Lin Jian said: "Chen Hansan led his troops from Yancheng, and then arrived. Sun Zhuang's generals Chen Yan and Zhang Gou are estimated to be forced to cross the Yishui at night, how do you say this battle will be fought? ”

"Chen Han's three subordinates are tired, and the night battle is not our army's opponent, what are you afraid of him?" Ning Zechen said, "If you want me to say, take down the camp of the bandit Surabaya Hedong at dawn, and Chen Hansan will retreat!" Chen Yan and Zhang Gou didn't even dare to get close! ”

Lin Jian led more than 4,000 elites to the west, one day, one night, three or four hours, captured the Yishui camp of the exile army, and also marched for nearly 200 miles in a long way, only in the middle of the day to avoid the sun, and rested in the forest for a while. If they want to say that they are tired, they must also be counted as tired soldiers.

Although the Liumin Army is not good at night fighting, it can't capture the Hedong camp before dawn, and when Chen Yan and Zhang Gou lead Sun Zhuang's 3,000 elite soldiers to arrive, the Jiangdong Left Army will fall into the encirclement.

Ning Zechen didn't care about these dangers, and suggested that he immediately storm the camp of the Liumin army on the east bank of the Surabaya River.

Lin Jian said: "Okay, you lead the first battalion, the second battalion, the third battalion and the first battalion of the Gongli battalion to attack the Hedong battalion of the bandits, and the fourth and fourth battalions of the Fengli battalion are handed over to me to personally command to ensure that before dawn, you will not be disturbed by Chen Hansan's troops before dawn......

"There are three battalions of soldiers, which is enough." Ning Zechen said that the horse returned to the front and organized the Hedong camp to attack the exile army.