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Sun Zhuang and Li Liang each led a cavalry, sneaked at night, and captured the traces of this Yanhu sentry that had penetrated into the Huaiyang line at the northeast foot of Mangdang Mountain.

Mangdang Mountain is the commanding height of the East Henan Plain, the mountain is not high, scattered and abrupt in the territory of Yongcheng County scattered thirteen mountains, also four or five miles deep, including the Fuya Village in Mangdang Mountain and the nearby Yongcheng County have been destroyed in the war in recent years.

Yongcheng County was subordinate to Henan, and after Tao Chun was reappointed as the Henan envoy, Jiangning sent new Yongcheng magistrates and other officials to recruit Ding Zhuang from the people who had returned to their hometowns one after another, and pulled up a county army of 200 people, not even complete with guns and spears, let alone the ability to repair the dilapidated city.

Although Lin Jian had always coveted the better position of Mangdang Mountain than Huaiyang to build the city, there was no legitimate name to extend the Huaiyang defense line to the northwest for another forty or fifty miles.

Yongcheng County broke through the elite Yanhu outpost that had infiltrated before nightfall yesterday, and the three to five hundred families that had finally gathered in the city were slaughtered, and only a few escaped.

After the captives swept through Yongcheng County, they were also worried that the exposure of their tracks would attract the Southern Dynasty soldiers to outflank them, so they moved to the remnants of the Confucius Cliff in Mangdang Mountain in the east of Yongcheng County at night to rest.

Touching the enemy's traces, Sun Zhuang and Li Liang first contacted through Qi, seeing that the sky was already bright, the captives were likely to move after dawn, and without waiting for the cavalry in the middle to come and converge, they outflanked the remnants of the Confucius Cliff in Mangdang Mountain from the southwest and due east.

The captive sentry was ten miles away, and at the slightest contact, they blew the sentry and fled back. Sun Zhuang led his troops to the northeast foot of Mangdang Mountain, and in the clear morning light, he saw more than 400 cavalry soldiers galloping out of the remnants of Confucius Cliff, spreading out for two or three miles.

The Huaidong cavalry battalion is all skilled veterans with bows and horses, and the enemy cavalry rushes and scatters to the northeast, blocking the enemy's cavalry to flee northward; The enemy cavalry contracted, then spread out and bit it, waiting for Li Liang to lead his troops to come and besiege it.

The sound of hooves led by Li Liang approached, and the captives urgently broke through, peeping in the direction, and drilled through the gap in the north of the Confucius Cliff, even if the flanks were exposed. Of course, Sun Zhuang did not hesitate, and led the crowd to bite the flanks exposed by the captive horse, and after approaching, the bow and crossbow were fired, and thousands of arrows fell like a torrential rain, and they crossed the border like flying locusts.

Both sides are armored and light cavalry, and both are within the range of the other, so it depends on which side shoots more arrows and shoots better. In the first round of shooting, Sun Zhuangsuo led the Huaidong cavalry battalion to pounce from the flank, naturally taking a great advantage, shooting the enemy cavalry one after another.

The captives were powerless to fight, and only wanted to take advantage of the horses to break out of the encirclement. For the captives, learning the way of horse thieves to travel deep into enemy territory, generally only attacking targets with little threat, otherwise even if there are a few more wounded, it will be a great burden on the way forward or retreating. Seeing that the cavalry of the Southern Dynasty came from the encirclement obviously had an advantage in numbers, the captive cavalry naturally took the breakthrough first.

However, the first breakthrough of the captive cavalry was fake, and it was to lure Sun Zhuang to lead his troops to chase. The first rain of arrows shot through, and the flanks of the captive cavalry were like bulging pieces, and a group of men and horses quickly branched out, and with the speed of the horses, they galloped diagonally through an arc, and the snow bright and curved war knives were raised high, and they came directly to attack Sun Zhuang's left front wing.

The Huaidong cavalry battalion was also divided into two teams, one team continued to bite the flanks of the captive cavalry, and the other team was led by Sun Zhuang himself to meet the captives who counterattacked.

Generally speaking, the standard outfit of light cavalry is a crossbow, a bow and a light and narrow saber, and the captive sentry is also equipped with a bow and sword. Without foot soldiers, Sun Zhuang could not use both a big bow and a horse lance on his horse.

Sun Zhuang can shoot flat with a bow on a horse, and when someone else shoots an arrow with a crossbow, he has already shot down three people; Seeing that a group of captives were counterattacking, he immediately collected the big bow, took out a horse chopping knife more than a foot longer than the saber out of the sheath, and slammed the horse's belly into the counterattacking captives. The front enemy, slanted over each other's horses' heads, raised their knives against each other, and was about to miss the time, Sun Zhuang struck the man's side armpit with the handle of the knife between the electric light and flint, although the man was also Yanhu Yongrui, but he couldn't bear this heavy blow, and his body was weak, and he gave the Huaidong cavalry who followed to take a knife and make up for it in the neck, and the blood spurted out of the neck and neck, four or five zhang away......

The two teams of cavalry quickly rushed over, and no matter how fast Sun Zhuang was, he only had time to kill three people, and two of them were fortunate to be helped by the people behind them.

Seeing that the cavalry of the Southern Dynasty encountered was very strong, the captives did not dare to hedge any longer, and scattered in all directions with their horses' heads. Sun Zhuang put his sword into the sheath, and then took the longbow in his hand, looking for the captive wearing thick armor to shoot his horse. The captives also had this in mind, and many of them were good at using longbows on horseback, and in the time of a stick of incense, Sun Zhuang stepped off the horse and shot three horses.

The Huaidong cavalry was one person and one horse, the ordinary cavalry shot the horse, and followed the other cavalry with a knife and bow to kill the enemy, Sun Zhuang was the main general, and the left and right followers would naturally let the horse to him to ride, and they would close to their sides to cover and kill the enemy.

Li Liang led his troops to come, and the captives did not dare to entangle any longer, so they fled, and Li Liang rushed from the flanks for a while, but there were many captives and horses, and they rested for another night, and still gave them most of them to escape.

In just one stick of incense, the Huaidong and Huaiyang cavalry injured a total of more than 30 people.

Whether it is the Huaidong cavalry camp or the Huaiyang cavalry battalion, they are all elites in a hundred, and they are at least wearing light armor on their bodies, and they are difficult to hurt the vital point with arrow wounds and knife wounds, but two of them were trampled to death by the enemy horsemen after shooting down their horses.

However, the captives were in a hurry to escape, and some of the wounded soldiers who landed were too late to save, and after the battle, they cleaned up the battlefield and cut off thirty heads here, and also captured seven or eight prisoners, which was a good victory, at least so that this group of captives and cavalry did not dare to wander around Huaiyang City again.

The scouts were dispersed, and Sun Zhuang and Li Liang rested on the spot.

Many injured horses had to be treated on the spot so that they would not be abolished, so they had to wait for Huaiyang Town to send foot soldiers to come and respond.

There were fewer injuries and more injuries, but fortunately, the forty or fifty injured horses abandoned by the captives were still collected, otherwise Li Liang and Sun Zhuang would have complained bitterly.

At noon, Liu Miaozhen personally led the four battalions of Huaiyang Town infantry to come to support, and Lin Lian, Zhou Pu, Gao Zongting and others also accompanied them to Mangdang Mountain to inspect the destruction and slaughter of Yongcheng County.

Between the river and Huai, except for a very few cities that were repaired after the war, most of the cities were the same as Yongcheng County, the soldiers were weak, the cities were dilapidated, and Yanhu Youshao infiltrated like a horse thief, so he could not resist.

If the defense line along the Yellow River could not plug the leaks and prevent the infiltration of small captives, the production of the inner line would naturally not be restored, and even the transportation of grain and straw would be greatly affected, which would make it difficult for the Changhuai army to hold a few cities in the north.

Yongcheng County was slaughtered, but no one stood up to intercept the Huaiyang Town Army from setting up an outpost in Mangdang Mountain.

The significance of the defense line is not only to require the generals to defend the city and the wall, but also to have a field battle out of the city to intercept the enemy outside the area, so that the production in the defense area will not be damaged.

Although the Huaiyang town army was equipped with a large number of flying vehicles, under the threat of a large force of cavalry, the foot soldiers went out of the city by shield vehicles, and the scope of their activities was also very limited, and it was inevitable that a certain number of cavalry would cooperate in the battle, so as to have a longer range of attack capabilities and ensure that the Huaiyang defense line was tight and effective. Transferring more Huaidong cavalry battalions to Huaiyang to coordinate operations can also increase mutual familiarity and trust.

Returning to Huaiyang from Yongcheng, Lin Jian was appointed as the deputy commander of Sun Zhuang's cavalry division, specifically responsible for Huaidong's transfer of Huaiyang's cavalry battalion to coordinate with the Huaiyang town army.

The news of returning to Huaiyang to interrogate the captives was a surprise.

In September, Yanhu adjusted the subordinates of the army and soldiers, respectively in Jinnan and Yannan, with the elite cavalry of the headquarters as the core, equipped with a considerable number of Yanxi cavalry and new attached troops, forming the eastern and western armies headed by Yeji Luorong and Yeji Duodi.

Before Lin Jian returned to Chongzhou from Mingzhou Mansion and then set off from Chongzhou to Shanyang, Yanhu's Jinnan and Yannan armies were launched together. Ye Ji Luorong took 60,000 cavalry as the main force, went out of Zezhou to encircle Qinyang, and attacked the southern foot of Taihang Mountain and the city on the north bank of the Yellow River.

Qinyang lies on the north bank of the Yellow River, and is also the most important city in the middle reaches of the Yellow River except Zhengzhou and Daliang. The ancestral home of the Liang family is Qinyang, and Liang Chengyi, the son of Liang Xi, once served as the guard of Qinyang, and the Qinyang army was also the only elite that the Liang family could master after the defeat of Chen Tangyi. Later, the Liang clan expanded to Hezhong, Luxi and other places, all on the basis of the Qinyang army to expand the army and horses.

When the elite of the Qinyang army was evacuated, although the defenders of Qinyang in the later period were not lower than the ten battalions, their combat power was no longer the same.

After Yanhu controlled the entire Jin County and Tao Chun withdrew south from Qinghe and other places to Daliang and other places on the south bank of the Yellow River, the Liang family also knew that Qinyang was difficult to defend alone on the north bank. However, as early as after the Huaisi War, after the Liang clan captured Jining, they moved the clansmen in Qinyang to Jining, Jinan and other places to disperse and resettle.

This time, the outpost of the captive cavalry that infiltrated the Huaiyang line was the outpost of the soldiers and horses of Qinyang on the Yanhu West Road, and because they did not encounter a strong interception all the way after crossing the girder, they went all the way south until they suffered a loss outside Huaiyang City and did not return.

Although the commander of Yanhu's soldiers and horses in Jinnan was Ye Ji Luorong, the main general of Wai Qinyang was Chen Zhihu.

Although the cavalry outpost that infiltrated the Huaiyang line was just such a one, and Lin Jian stayed in Huaiyang for the next few days, he spent it very calmly, but the news from the northern line was very not optimistic.

After the Lu Wang's secret edict incident, the Liang family was finally forced to congratulate the Jiangning regime and recognize the Jiangning regime, but their wariness of Huaidong was greatly increased. In the case of a tight defense line in the north, the Liang family also sent the general Gao Yanhu to lead 10,000 elites to station in Yinan to strengthen control over the southern part of Yishan and the middle and upper reaches of the Yishui River. While guarding against Huaidong, the Liang family also completely blocked the possibility of Huaidong entering Shandong by land.

After Liu Ye flew out of the Zhidengzhou Prefecture and controlled the Dengzhou Town Army, the eastern part of the Shandong Peninsula, including Laizhou, was under its control, and the people of Qingzhou were very hostile to Huaidong, so it was difficult for the Huaidong Military Intelligence Department to obtain news in Shandong in a timely manner.

The military situation on the front line of Yangxin and the plains, detouring by sea, is delayed for several days than taking the land route by fast horses.

The news of the East Road arrived in Huaiyang several days late, but the situation was even more worrying - Ye Ji Duodi set aside Pingyuan Mansion and surrounded Yangxin with 20,000 cavalry, and about 20,000 elite cavalry bypassed Yangxin and attacked Linzi and Qingzhou......

"Although Yan Hu has no plan to break through the Hehuai defense line in one fell swoop this winter, he also has no intention of letting the Hehuai defense line continue to strengthen......" Faced with the news of the convergence from the northern line, Lin Jian could only come to this conclusion.

Just like when Yan Hu bypassed the defense line of Yanbei and attacked Yannan and Jin County, Yan Hu did it again this time, but there was no good plan to deal with it here.

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