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The difference between friend and foe is clear, and the mask that was false before is revealed.

It was getting late, and the decisive battle of the army was to be delayed until tomorrow, but the small cavalry raids were not interrupted during the night.

Of the 20,000 soldiers and horses that Liu Miaozhen led into the periphery of Xuzhou this time, there were 6,000 elite cavalry, and Zhou Pu, Sun Zhuang, Li Liang, and others were all first-class generals who dared to fight tough battles, and the combat situation was very impressive. If it weren't for the fact that she didn't want to suffer too many casualties and didn't want the defensive situation in the later period to be too severe, Liu Miaozhen was confident that she would win by fighting hard with Zhou Zhizhong and Chen Hansan.

The chariots surrounded the camp, and the doors were sealed with spears or shield carts in the middle, and bags of salt and charcoal slag were continuously brought down from the carts.

Some of this salt was pulled by cattle, horses or soldiers into the valley at the southern foot of Xiaogu Mountain, and the ice layer was cut from the upper reaches of the Jingma River and salt poured into the water, turning the section of the Jingma River flowing through the southwest foot of Jiuli Mountain into a salt river. Some of them followed the cavalry team that attacked on a small scale, and under the cover of night, they continued to scatter on the ice of the Jingma River. It sounds complicated, but it's easy to do, just put two bags of salt on each camel and make a few holes in the Jingma River.

In addition, salt charcoal slag is sprinkled intermittently at regular intervals in specific river sections; When the sun rises tomorrow, the ice beneath the carboniferous slag will melt the fastest, and will be the first to destroy the structure of the river ice, causing a collapsing rupture of the river ice.

However, the black charcoal slag is too obvious, and Chen Hansan is quite cautious by nature, so he cannot use it on a large scale, so as not to arouse his vigilance, so he can only sprinkle it intermittently.

Of course, in the eastern section of the Jingma River, it is also necessary to ensure that there is a passage for the Huaidong Army to safely enter the south bank of the Jingma River.

The night is fine, the snow at the southwest foot of Jiuli Mountain has long been trampled beyond recognition, the night wind is as cold as a knife, and the muddy earth trampled by the war horses and generals during the day is frozen soon after nightfall. Around the three large camps that were close together, and only eleven or twelve miles apart, the cavalry fought in the fine night.

Through continuous small-scale disturbances, it can not only damage the morale of the enemy army, but also disturb the rest of the enemy soldiers.

The iron hooves of the war horse stepped on the frozen earth, and the strange sound of "boom boom" sounded in the ears like dense rolling thunder, and the old soldiers did not dare to sleep peacefully without any psychological quality.

Worried that the Huaidong Army might launch a night attack at any time, Chen Hansan led the main force out of the city, and did not dare to untie the armor after nightfall.

Chen Hansan stood at the head of the small walled city on the south bank of the Jingma River, staring at the land under the hazy night, watching the teams of Huaidong cavalry cross the Jingma River and constantly harass.

Chen Hansan has sent someone to get in touch with Zhou Zhizhong, although the night is good, but Zhou Zhizhong does not dare to fight rashly at night, and the cavalry is also strictly restrained, and he is unwilling to fight at night - the cavalry in Zhou Zhizhong's hands is mostly from the Xuanfu and Jizhen surrender army, and when it comes to riding and shooting and even stepping off the war horse, it is not as good as the Huaidong cavalry. The daytime engagement also proves this, and the night entanglement is nothing more than an increase in consumption, it is better to guard the position, recuperate and save taxes, and leave it for tomorrow to march out and defeat the Huaidong army at once.

Liu Miaozhen was even more able to let go and send a team of cavalry to constantly cross the Jingma River from all over the country to harass the south bank, and Chen Hansan was under a lot of pressure.

Although Chen Hansan led the elite into Xiaozhai, surrounded by a wall, it was relatively safe, and he was not afraid of the Huaidong Army attacking at night, but the camping place outside was not so strong and unbreakable.

The small village on the south bank of the Jingma River is not large, it is originally the Tuweizi where the clan lives outside the city of Xuzhou, and the three or four thousand people feel crowded, how can nearly 17,000 soldiers and horses enter? Even if they are barely squeezed in, and the Huaidong army surrounds them to block the north and south gates, too many soldiers and horses are crowded inside and can't be opened, and they will die even worse.

In addition to the 4,000-foot elite cavalry into Xiaozhai to garrison, Chen Hansan put more soldiers and horses outside Xiaozhai, and camped on the south bank of the Jingma River according to Xiaozhai - this deployment was also when the peripheral camp was attacked by the Huaidong Army, Chen Hansan had enough counterattack ability.

It's just that the defense power of the spear as a battalion to prevent the enemy from stealing the camp is far less than that of the fence camp or the trench camp, and the Huaidong Army is famous for fighting at night, so it is impossible not to mention the spirit of ten times, at least it must hold out until tomorrow after the victory is decided.

Seeing that the Huaidong Army was so strong, although Chen Hansan knew that he and Zhou Zhizhong had an advantage in terms of strength, he couldn't help but have deep worries in his heart.

All the generals arranged to lead the troops and strictly guard the camp, accompanied by Ma Zhen alone, Chen Hansan couldn't help but sigh with emotion: "This fight is very big!" ”

Ma Zhen nodded, if this battle is won, the Huaidong army will be slumped on the north bank of the Huai River, needless to say, Dong Yuan's Huaixi armies and the Changhuai army are not enough to resist the Yan army going south, and it may even be too late to withdraw to the south of the Huai River, and it will be encircled and annihilated on the north bank of the Huai River - the general trend of the world will be completely biased to the side of Dayan. Chen Hansan, as the first contributor to the key of this battle, does not seek to cede the land as the king, and it is also the duty of the marquis and his descendants to be crowned.

The two sides invested almost 300,000 soldiers and horses in the land of Hehuai, and perhaps the real wedge was the battle in front of them.

Over the years, Chen Hansan has rebelled and surrendered in order to seek power, and has long become a sworn enemy with Huaidong, with Cao Ziang, Qin Chengzu, Zhou Pu, Liu Miaozhen, Ma Lantou, Sun Zhuang and others in Huaidong, Chen Hansan and Huaidong have no possibility at all. Jiang Ning didn't like him either, he was very defensive, like Liu Tingzhou's wife and children, all of whom died under his knife - what else could Chen Hansan ask for but to throw himself at Yan Hu for a safe reputation?

This is also the ultimate reason why Chen Hansan has always refused to conspire with Huaidong to trap and kill Yan Bing, and now only Da Yan does not take into account his past bad deeds and allows him to be famous.

When he first made up his mind, Chen Hansan felt that the odds of winning were very great, but sixty or seventy thousand soldiers and horses were crowded to the southwest foot of Jiuli Mountain, but Chen Hansan was worried in his heart, and felt that the chances of winning were not great.

Under the red-jacketed woman Liu Miaozhen, Zhou Pu, Sun Zhuang, Li Liang and other generals are good at fighting tough battles, and the 20,000 foot cavalry is unprecedentedly composed of 6,000 elite cavalry who are brave and good at fighting, and the other infantry armor is also murderous from a distance.

On the eve of the decisive life and death, it is inevitable that anyone will have anxious thoughts, but this time it was the self-confidence performance of the Huaidong Army after entering the southwest foot of Jiuli Mountain, which made Chen Hansan feel uneasy.

Although Liu Miaozhen led more than 20,000 paces to ride across the middle, the Sentinel Ranger could gallop around from a farther distance. I saw that the night was riding on the remnants of the snow, almost to the Huaidong Army's harassing cavalry, and dangerously rode the horse to the outside of the gun camp, and the people who came grabbed the reins and stepped off the horse, and shouted: "The emergency military situation in the North Camp needs to be reported to your family Chen Shuai immediately!" ”

Vaguely hearing that the number of horses was sent by Zhou Zhizhong, Chen Hansan stood at the head of the city and waited for the few people to bring it over, took the letter from Zhou Zhizhong, unfolded it, laughed, and said to Ma Zhen: "The Northern Dynasty is not without heroes!" ”

Ma Zhen took the letter, was ecstatic, and said, "The handsome man is relieved now!" He was also worried that the Xuzhou soldiers and Zhou Zhizhong's troops might not be able to gnaw Liu Miaozhen who had entered the periphery of Xuzhou, but Zhou Zhizhong told the Beiyansu general Nahe Xiongqi in the letter that he was leading more than 10,000 elite horsemen to Xuzhou to fight, and he would be able to rush to Jiuli Mountain at noon tomorrow at the earliest, so how could Ma Zhen and Chen Hansan not be ecstatic?

The battle of Jiulishan has not yet begun, but it is not difficult to imagine that Na He Xiongqi will lead more than 10,000 elite cavalry to arrive will be the decisive force for victory or defeat on the battlefield, and Liu Miaozhen will no longer have the slightest room for struggle.

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The information that Nahe Xiongqi led more than 10,000 elite horsemen to come to Xuzhou for the decisive battle at night was almost after midnight before it was transmitted to Liu Miaozhen by the outpost scouts deployed in the periphery by Huaidong.

Liu Miaozhen slept wrapped in clothes and hugged the sword, the battle was in the middle of the battle, and she couldn't sleep, and when she heard the news that the enemy cavalry was approaching, she immediately summoned Zhou Pu, Sun Zhuang, Li Liang and other generals to the big tent to discuss.

"Fuck it, it's coming so fast!" Sun Zhuang rubbed his hands and said, frowning, with his fearless and dangerous nature, he also felt that the situation was not so optimistic at this time.

Nahe Xiongqi's department is the elite of Yanlu cavalry, galloping in the starry night, everyone has two horses, and they can be put into battle when they arrive at the battlefield, and the combat power of these more than 10,000 horsemen is even more tricky than Zhou Zhizhong's 20,000 cavalry - the key is that Nahe Xiongqi's department moves very fast, and the Huaidong scout is Yutai to confirm the enemy's situation and run back to the letter, counting the time, Nahe Xiongqi will arrive at the Jiulishan battlefield tomorrow afternoon.

It was expected that Yan Hu would at least send the second batch of soldiers and horses after confirming Chen Hansan's exact defection, but who would have thought that Yan Hu's second batch of soldiers and horses would arrive two days earlier than expected?

"We must defeat one of Chen Hansan and Zhou Zhizhong before noon tomorrow, so that we have the strength to deal with the ...... of more than 10,000 captives who suddenly arrived," Zhou Pu said in a decisive manner.

The situation is already obvious, if you can't take advantage of the trap of Jingma River, first defeat Chen Hansan and Zhou Zhizhong, and wait for Nahe Xiongqi to lead his troops into the battlefield, the situation will be extremely bad and difficult to grasp.

Liu Miaozhen clenched her fists and decided: "The situation is worse than expected, then you are ready to kill!" ”

All the generals present knew that there was a face as delicate as a flower hidden under the ugly bronze mask, but when they heard her say this, they felt that there was an awe-inspiring murderous aura permeating the big tent.

Sun Zhuang snorted lightly, suppressed his voice and said, "Please give the order of the eldest lady!" ”

"The timing of the attack on Shajiaji was advanced to the time of the rooster's song, Li Liang led his troops first, and I led the infantry to withdraw from the battalion, and then lured Chen Hansan to lead his troops to cross the Jingma River to attack my rear road," Liu Miaozhen ordered in a deep voice, "Sun Zhuang led a thousand armor cavalry to prepare in the heart of the infantry formation, and recuperate." Limited to the time of the sunset, if the river ice cannot break before the sunset, more than 1,000 armor horsemen will be killed, and Chen Hansan's troops will also be defeated! ”

Zhou Zhizhong guards Shajiaji, and the camp is relatively densely garrisoned, and it is difficult to form a breakthrough at noon tomorrow, and the troops who lure Chen Hansan to Jingma River are the key targets.

As long as Chen Hansan's troops were disabled and could not form a fatal threat on the flanks, Liu Miaozhen could abandon the baggage carts and withdraw the soldiers and horses to the south bank of the Jingma River from the upstream section of the river that was not affected by salt and coal, and use the Jingma River to block the two divisions of Nahe Xiongqi and Zhou Zhizhong on the north bank.

"Don't kill Chen Hansan to the point of being frightened, please take my head to see the adult!" Sun Zhuang's face was as red as blood under the lamp, and he opened his eyes and panted, as if Chen Hansan was standing in front of him.