Zhou Pulema stands on the north bank of Xiatanggou, Xiatanggou flows down from the northwest tip of Xiaozhushan, lies in front of it, this place is the upstream of Xiatanggou, the water surface is about more than ten zhang wide, the stream and stone on the beach are vertical and horizontal, the water and grass are thick, the fields and meadows are spread out to both sides, there are villages to the south, more than ten houses are oblique, but there is no trace.

The war is abrupt, no matter whether it is an official or a bandit who comes, the people are far away, who dares to show up in the strict and cold soldiers? Occasionally, the brave villagers may show their heads to watch, and they may also be hunted and killed as enemy scouts. In troubled times, human life is cheap, and even if the Huaidong Army has a strict ban on harassing and plundering the people, it has the right to do things, and under the power, there is nowhere to appeal for the lives of those who have died unjustly.

The stream here has long been explored by the advance sentinel, and the shallow place is no more than the body of a horse, and there is no need to build a bridge to build a ship, that is, it can wade across the water.

On the south bank, Zhao Bao and Chen Daozi led their troops to cover the front flank, although the enemy infantry and cavalry were mixed and driven, but the fighting spirit was not strong, and they did not dare to directly attack the scattered cavalry formation of the Huaidong Army on the south bank, but stayed around the slope on the south side.

More than 3,000 horsemen here, or dismount to lead, or straddle the horse and wade through the water, divided into several teams, and quickly crossed the lower pond ditch. After arriving at the south bank, the armored light horse galloped to the two wings, and gathered at the grass slope where Zhao Bao and Chen Daozi led the troops, and the two teams of six or seven hundred horsemen each mounted in formation, unfurled with sharp sharp cones, the knight reined in the horse, the horse's nose spewed hot steam, the horse's hooves stepped on the feet, and the turf was trampled, revealing the black soil.

And between the two groups of light horses, there are more than 1,000 armor soldiers dismounted, untied the lacquered cloth bag tied on the horseback, took out the strong bows and crossbows wrapped inside, and took out the strong crossbows such as the foot bow and the crossbow, and the accompanying horses carried a large number of large shields and strange knives.

After the horses were taken away by the soldiers to avoid the formation, Yuan Zhou watched the scouts on the distant hill and found that the more than 1,000 armor soldiers were slowly approaching to the south after the formation was reorganized, as if it was the elite infantry array of Huaidong, just riding horses to participate in the battle.

Between the end of the mountain and the Mengshan Mountain, hills, forests, and streams are vertical and horizontal, forming a complex terrain with staggered traces, which is not conducive to the direct impact of the large cavalry group on the infantry defense formation.

The greatest advantage of cavalry lies in mobility, in the rapid and mobile entry into the predetermined battlefield, in the choice of the initiative on the battlefield, rather than in any terrain, riding on a horse to fight is more advantageous.

In the face of the enemy's tight formation in the steep terrain of Yipo Valley and steep river, and with a large number of long-range strong bows and crossbows to defend, the cavalry dismounted and fought, with swords and shields, heavy armor, broadswords, spears, and infantry bows, and a well-organized infantry array to impact the enemy's defense line, it was more advantageous.

Zhou Pu crossed the Xiatang ditch under the support of dozens of cavalry, the two battalions of infantry armor had just finished the formation on the slope of the south bank, and there were more than 300 cavalry behind the formation, with the assistance of the cavalry, the war horse was covered with heavy armor, and the war horse neighed in the open valley, as if it had smelled the bloody smell after the bloody battle.

Zhao Bao came over on horseback, dismounted in front of Zhou Pu, took out a map, spread it on horseback, and pointed to the map to introduce the current distribution of enemy troops to Zhou Pu: "The interceptor in front is the Zhangxiong Mountain Department of Huang Binghao's guard battalion, with about 4,300 soldiers and horses. They restrained us all night, and then scattered at the western foot of Xiaozhu Mountain, and spread out about twenty miles deep in front of us. Although they are all elite soldiers of Yuanzhou who are loyal to Huang Binghao, they are also exhausted. Slightly south, 4,000 foot soldiers left the north bank of the Yuan River and came in two groups to intercept them. The main force of the Yuanzhou army led by Chen Zishou, in addition to the more than 3,000 infantry soldiers in the front hurried to Xinyu City, about 10,000 soldiers and horses in the rear were in our southwest direction, shrinking and forming a formation at the southwest foot of the terracotta gang, and about 6,000 soldiers and horses, a little farther away from Xinyu, were rushing to join the soldiers and horses of Chen Zishou at the terracotta gang......"

Zhou Pu looked up at the sky, the sun was skewed, not to mention that there were still two hours before it would be dark, summoned the generals, pointed to the map and said: "Before it gets dark, we must hit the north bank of the Yuan River, so that the enemy army of Chitu Gang will not be able to advance, and will not be able to retreat!" ”

Although there were only more than 4,000 soldiers and horses from Huaidong to Xinyu, it took two days to drive 300 miles from Yuzhang, but they did not show any fatigue.

After the Shangrao War, Huaidong's soldiers and horses in Jiangxi almost had more than three months of rest and recuperation, replenishing new soldiers, and wounded veterans also returned to the camp, this time it was the first time to go to the battlefield after resting.

Two days across the horse forcibly 300 miles, it is really not too difficult for this elite. If it weren't for the fact that they needed to enter the battle as soon as they arrived in Xinyu, Zhou Pu and the others could have arrived faster.

Four thousand soldiers and horses, mixed with light cavalry, armored cavalry and horse infantry, crossed the Xiatang ditch, and also slightly reorganized the formation, and launched a fierce attack before the enemy troops scattered at the western foot of Xiaozhu Mountain gathered in the center.

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It is said that the Huaidong Army is the strongest army in the world, but before last night, Zhang Xiongshan lacked intuitive feelings, and only knew that the luxury elite of the Western Line Wireless had beaten the Huaidong Army to the ground, and it was difficult to win for several years. Speaking of the elite of the luxury family, Zhang Xiongshan followed Huang Binghao to guard Jiangzhou, and he also guarded it well, and also kept the elite of the luxury family outside the city of Jiangzhou, if it were not for Emperor Yongxing to abandon Jiangning and leave, making people discouraged and disappointed and losing their fighting spirit, Zhang Xiongshan was not afraid that the luxury flying bear could really gnaw Jiangzhou down.

Zhang Xiongshan is the first brave general in Jiangzhou after Chen Zishou, with his own arrogance and self-confidence, not to mention the soldiers and horses led by him are Huang Binghao's guard battalion, although the number is small, but the combat training, armor and generals are brave, he thinks that he is qualified to be included in the list of strong soldiers in the world.

When everyone in Yuanzhou was worried that Huaidong might forcibly march west along the Yuan River to force Yuanzhou, Zhang Xiongshan didn't care, and even wanted to compete with the elite of Huaidong, so that he would have the opportunity to make meritorious contributions on the battlefield and become famous in the world.

Yesterday's night battle allowed Zhang Xiongshan to appreciate the elite of the Huaidong Army, but he still felt that it was because the Yuanzhou army and horses were not accustomed to night battles, and they were mostly selected from Sichuan and Yunnan, and their speed was not as fast as that used in Huaidong, so that the Huaidong Army took advantage of him last night by taking advantage of the cover of night and the terrain.

Zhang Xiongshan still hopes to have a chance to fight in a dignified array to wash away the shame of last night, he doesn't think that the elite of the guard camp under his command is really too much inferior to the Huaidong Army.

Watching the Huaidong military horses wade across the stream, and in less than half an hour on the south bank, they rushed murderously along the slope of the western foot of Xiaozhu Mountain, Zhang Xiongshan really felt a chill.

Such a short period of time was far from enough for Zhang Xiongshan to gather the soldiers scattered between the mountains at the western foot of Xiaozhu Mountain, and only two battalions of more than 1,000 soldiers and horses were the first to enter a slope south of Xiatanggou to form a formation, responsible for delaying the Huaidong Army.

Zhang Xiongshan only watched the Huaidong army leave less than 1,000 people on the south bank of Xiatanggou to prepare, and the remaining 3,000 soldiers were in the center with infantry armor and a cavalry hidden behind the infantry formation, while more than 1,000 light cavalry covered the front flank, like a sharp long knife, waving towards the more than 1,000 soldiers and horses in Yuanzhou in front of the slope.

The front where the two armies came into contact was Li Xu Kuan, and Zhang Xiongshan stood on the ridge, and he could almost see the process of his own front disintegrating under the strong attack and impact of the Huaidong Army.

The Huaidong soldiers' style of play is very simple, the two wings use light horses to compress the formation of the Yuanzhou army, the infantry armor is in the center, and the big shield is in front to cover the rain of arrows shot by the Yuanzhou army, and then the Huaidong armor soldiers, holding bows and crossbows or holding Mo knives or spears and spears, directly press up to engage the battle, and first flatten the combat power of the Yuanzhou army on the defensive line.

Then he used the armored cavalry to penetrate from the left flank, interspersed between the gap between the infantry armor and the light cavalry, and stabbed a sharp awl directly into the foot of Yuan Zhou's army. A cavalry with people and horses, weighing more than a thousand catties, after speeding up the impact force, is not dozens of big shields connected to the shield wall can resist, although the big shield between the hastily erected spears, have pierced the drape of the war horse, maybe several Huaidong soldiers, to the people with horses pierced, but more Huaijia cavalry is to rush into the Yuanzhou army formation to trample everywhere, the horse pistol stabbed, bring out a canopy of blood, like rain sprinkled.

The impact of the first cavalry caused the array of more than 1,000 soldiers and horses of the Yuanzhou army to cross in front of the Xiatanggou like a piece of porcelain knocking out a crack that could not be repaired, which directly affected the front of contact between the two armies.

Under the strong crack blow of the Huaidong Army, the Yuanzhou Army had no chance to adjust the defense line at all, and the left flank called the Huaidong Jiacai Cavalry to produce chaos, and the cracks on the surface of the porcelain quickly spread to the entire surface under the effect of pressure, and the Yuanzhou Army's position was almost in the blink of an eye, and there was irreversible chaos.

The light cavalry of the Huaidong Army on both flanks decisively attacked, and the sabers that were wielded were shining with silver light in the air, and they were so dazzling in the bloody rain.

After the foot of the infantry defense formation was pried open and disrupted, the light cavalry cut the entire defense formation more efficiently, not to mention that the Huaidong Army still occupied an absolute numerical advantage. After the defensive formation was penetrated by the Huaidong cavalry, Zhang Xiongshan stood on the ridge and could hardly see any more decent counterattacks from his side, and the entire defensive formation collapsed.

The time for a stick of incense is not enough, and the elite of more than 1,000 guard battalions that Zhang Xiongshan is proud of, like tender tofu, beat the Huaidong Army to pieces, and the rout soldiers are scattered all over the mountains and fields, shouting to the sky and the earth, hating his father and mother for having one less leg.

The more than 1,000 soldiers on the south side of Xiatanggou were so easily defeated, and in a valley to the south, a battalion of soldiers was rushing to converge. This group of men and horses could not see the situation of the battle in front, so they had Zhang Xiongshan's military order to go to the south of Xiatanggou and join up with friendly troops, so that the defensive position became thicker, and ordered the Huaidong Army not to leave the coast of Xiatanggou and march south.

Only Zhang Xiongshan, who was standing on the ridge and watching the battle, could clearly see the fate of this group of men and horses, and when they walked out of the valley, they would just meet the blades of the Huaidong army that were coming out to the south, and in a hurry, they would only collapse faster than just now.

", damn it, I don't believe that the Huaidong soldiers are all beaten with iron, Deng Fu, you order all the people and horses, and rush down the mountain with me!" Zhang Xiongshan's eyes were red, his blood veins were full of blood, his beard was standing upright, his arms holding the gun were like bruises, and the sound of orders was like a roar and a roar, which seemed to arouse the fighting spirit and fighting spirit of the more than 600 cavalry around him.

Seeing that the Huaidong army was attacking so sharply, and seeing that Zhang Xiongshan was going to take them down the mountain to meet the tiger-like Huaidong military horses, his face was pale, and he scolded in his heart: Isn't this going to die?

Of course, Deng Fu understood what Zhang Xiongshan meant, if he could not delay the speed of the Huaidong Army's attack, it would not take two hours for the Huaidong Army to kill from Xiatanggou to the north bank of the Yuan River, and the five or six thousand soldiers and horses they did not have time to gather at the western foot of Xiaozhu Mountain would be stabbed to death by the Huaidong Army.

It is necessary to curb the momentum of the Huaidong Army's southward attack, so that the scattered soldiers and horses at the western foot of Xiaozhu Mountain can win more time to gather, Chen Zishou can win more time to form a formation at the southwest foot of Chitugang, and Cao Teng can also win more time to deploy defense in Xinyu City.

At the moment, it seems that the simple step formation formed in a hurry cannot withstand the strong impact of Huaidong's infantry at all.

Although the four cities of Xinyu City were destroyed, the city wall is still intact, as long as there is time, you can only set up enough obstacles on both sides inside and outside the four city gates, you can pull more soldiers and horses up the city wall, and you can condescendingly shoot the approaching Huaidong soldiers and horses with bows and crossbows. With more time, Chen Zishou can also be asked to lead the main force to choose a more steep terrain formation at the southwest foot of the terracotta gang, and even create simple fence walls, reject horses, and dig trenches to form more protective obstacles on the periphery of the infantry formation.

Time, what is scarce right now is time.

The generals of the guard camp must be veterans who have followed Huang Binghao for many years, and they can be loyal, but the main force led by Chen Zishou is difficult to say about the morale of the generals and the army. If the main force led by Chen Zishou was also in front of the slope as he had just now, even if there were fifteen or six thousand soldiers and horses, Zhang Xiongshan doubted whether he could withstand the impact of the Huaidong Army in front of him.

Chen Zishou must be given more time.

It's just that Deng Fu didn't know how much time he could buy with more than 600 cavalry behind him and Zhang Xiongshan rushing down.

Deng Fu was dissatisfied with Huang Binghao and Chen Zishou not hesitating to provoke Huaidong and send troops to Xinyu, and at this time he did not have the determination to be martyred, he said to Zhang Xiongshan: "Boss, it is not a good way to intercept directly to the front. It is better for you and me to divide into two teams, and go around the forest at the bottom of the mountain, and attack from the flanks, and we will be able to disturb their formations......"

"It's a good plan!" Zhang Xiongshan did not suspect anything else, and immediately divided his troops with Deng Fu, and asked him to lead more than 300 horsemen with himself, go down the mountain separately, and attack the two wings of the Huaidong Army. Deng Fu led the team to deliberately detour farther, and saw from a distance that Zhang Xiongshan led his troops to contact the light cavalry on the left wing of the Huaidong Army, and then galloped up from the right wing.

The Jiangzhou cavalry stepped off the war horse, mostly selected from the Yunnan horse, the foot is short and the body is short, the foot strength and walking speed, and the weight are not as good as the Huaidong war horse. However, bantam horses have the advantages of bantam horses, and it is more convenient to drill into the woods and climb the slopes than the Huaidong war horses, so that Deng Fu can get rid of the steep slopes and woods from the pursuit of the Huaidong light horse.

When Deng Fu led his troops out of the woods again, and had to turn around and attack the flank of the Huaidong Army again, he saw that Zhang Xiongshan on the left flank had less than 100 horsemen left to flee to Xiaozhu Mountain, and he could clearly see Zhang Xiongshan with several arrows stuck in his shoulder.

Deng Fu was so frightened that he led his troops to flee in the direction of Mengshan in the northwest, completely ignoring the infantry at the western foot of Xiaozhu Mountain to defeat the Huaidong army with one blow. When Deng Fu led his troops to flee to a ridge at the eastern foot of Mengshan Mountain, and looked back at the battlefield in the southeast, he saw that there were six or seven thousand soldiers and horses on the north bank of the Yuan River and at the western foot of Xiaozhu Mountain.

Deng Fu was confused for a while: Will Chen Zishou in Chitu Gang flee? Do you want to keep it, can you keep it? Do you want to escape, can you escape? Cao Teng may be able to enter Xinyu City in time, but can the three or five thousand demoralized men and horses contain the Huaidong Army from the flank for Chen Zishou and let Chen Zishou win a chance to breathe?