As soon as the sun rose above the treetops, Zhang Gou and Chen Yan led their troops to the shore of Yishui, and Chen Hansan also led the cavalry to rush to help.

The wind was so strong that the ashes with the embers were flying, and under the rising sun, it burned people's hands and faces!

The Hexi battalion was also completely broken at the moment before they arrived, and two or three thousand soldiers were driven by the cavalry and fled in all directions, only hating their father and mother for having two legs. About two battalions of the Jiangdong Left Army lined up in the west camp to stand guard, and the other soldiers began to gather and reorganize, perhaps waiting for the sun to drop a little and the scorching sun to slow down a little, and then start the next rush.

The iron cable pontoon bridge between the east and west camps was still there, and Zhang Gou peeked at Chen Hansan's gloomy face from a distance, wondering if he had the courage to drive his troops to the pontoon bridge to attack the Jiangdong Left Army that had gained a foothold on the west bank?

Chen Hansan hated so much that he poked the saddle with a horsewhip, and he really couldn't understand why the defenders of the Hexi battalion failed to burn down the pontoon bridge in time and stop the Jiangdong Left Army on the east bank?

Lin Jian stood on the embankment, looking at the east bank, there were a lot of reinforcements, Chen Hansan pulled out all the precious cavalry under his hand, but thinking with his toes, he also knew that he would not be able to force the pontoon bridge to attack.

Seeing Zhou Pu riding a horse from behind on the river embankment, Lin Jian said: "The stone-throwing crossbow is erected, it can't be useless at all......"

"What can it be used for?" Zhou Pu was puzzled, the two sides of the strait were separated by three or four hundred paces, and they might just reach the edge of the east bank, and they would not be able to pose any threat to the reinforcements led by Chen Hansan, unless Chen Hansan sent people to storm the pontoon bridge so that they could use catapults to blockade it.

Lin Jian smiled and said, "Cutting off Chen Hansi's head and hitting it with a catapult can be regarded as a meeting gift for Chen Hansan!" The next time we see him, I'm going to cut off his head! ”

"Hah!" Zhou Pu looked up to the sky and laughed and said, "Okay! I'm going to cut it myself. ”

At dawn, Chen Hanwu, the guard of the Yihe battalion of the Wandering People's Army and Chen Hansan's sibling brother, was in Hexi at that time. Hearing the sound of the horn of the attack, he hurriedly pushed the two women he had forcibly married away from the bed, pierced his armor and carried a knife, and crossed the bridge and crossed the river to supervise the battle.

Where did you think that Dongying would break too quickly, Chen Hanwu had just crossed the pontoon bridge to enter Dongying, and the armored cavalry had already penetrated Dongying to the pontoon bridge. Chen Hansi hurriedly retreated, and A Cavalry took advantage of the situation to kill. Chen Hanwu did not escape death, and when Dongying was not broken, the iron cable pontoon bridge had already been taken here, so there was no need to take a big risk to wade through the water and rush to cross.

A head the size of a pig's belly arced through the air and smashed into the floating earth on the east bank. Watching Sui Hu lift the familiar brother's head over, Chen Hansan yelled with hatred.

Chen Han's three brothers had many people, and when they were Liumakou, they either killed the government or fought for territory, and there were not many deaths, and when Chen Hanwu was killed, he was left alone in the Chen family.

Zhang Gou watched coldly, he persuaded him to send troops last night, he just didn't listen, if he could send cavalry to attack in the dark of night, and spread out along Yishui, where could the Jiangdong Left Army attack the Yishui camp at night?

Regardless of what Chen Yan and Zhang Gou thought, Chen Hansan whipped his horse and led the cavalry to the north.

The Jiangdong Left Army peeked into the west bank, and if it wanted to cross the river smoothly, it could only make a detour from Tancheng County in the north, but it had to make an additional detour of more than 100 miles. The cavalry may be able to catch up with them with horsepower, but Zhang Gou and Chen Yan knew that they were going to make a detour from Tancheng, and most of them would not be able to catch up.

In addition to sending people to swim across the river from the lower reaches to ensure that the news of the defeat of the Yishui camp reached Siyang, Zhang Gou and Chen Yan decided to stay on the east bank and wait for the main force of the Jiangdong Left Army to advance westward, and then find a way to forcibly cross the river from here.

Chen Hansan led the cavalry to cross the river from Tancheng by detour, but there was an elite soldier on the opposite bank guarding the pontoon bridge and ferry. Lin Jian must lead the elite combat force to quickly cross Surabaya, enter the central area controlled by the Liumin Army, and do not have so much time to entangle with the enemy on the eastern front on the bank of the Yishui River.

Pile of firewood and pour oil, big flame day.

Dozens of flat-topped boats piled, tapped, and connected by iron cables, half of which were quickly burned down, but the iron cables remained undestroyed.

The five battalions of the Fengbu battalion, the three sentinels of the cavalry battalion, and a number of auxiliaries and engineers, after rushing all night and capturing the two large battalions in the east and west of Yishui, only took a short rest, hastily filled their stomachs, and then continued to set off.

An army can only be truly strong when its ability to sustain combat is tested.

Compared with other generals who often have tens of thousands of soldiers, as the vanguard of the Liumin Army, Sun Gongzi likes to use elite soldiers to fight tough battles, and the soldiers and horses under his command add up to five or six thousand, but most of them are fierce soldiers. There are many hard battles, and compared with the same party, the armor and equipment are also excellent; Often, five or six thousand people can take a city or trap a land, and the supply of grain and grass will naturally be much more abundant.

The 3,000-foot brigade drove all night to the bank of the Yishui River, and still had the strength to fight.

Such elite soldiers, all over the world, are reasonable.

Previously, Sun Gongzi pulled thousands of people to support Ma Lantou, who had tens of thousands of troops in Siyang and Suyu, which was also confident in the soldiers and horses under his command.

Seeing that the Jiangdong Left Army immediately pulled out the camp and marched west after running overnight and capturing the Yishui camp, Zhang Gou and Chen Yan had to worry about the gap between their own army and the Jiangdong Left Army.

Half of the iron cable pontoon bridge was burned off, and there were still more than 200 horsemen lingering on the west bank, guarding against rushing to cross the Yishui - a thought flashed in Zhang Gou's mind: Is the more than 4,000 elites of the East China Sea Fox Forest bound to Siyang?

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Guo Touli was originally a big village in the northwest of Siyang, at this time the village was dilapidated, the houses were destroyed a lot, and they had been broken by the bandits before, and the big families in the village naturally could not escape the catastrophe, many people fled out, and there were some old and weak diseases left to guard the village house.

Even after months of heavy rain, no one took care of the earthen fence outside the village, and it was even more devastated that it was not good, but it was this earthen fence like an old lady with her teeth and mouth, so that the Duhuai army that avoided it in time avoided a devastating blow.

Xiao Kuian limped around, commanding people to cut down trees and dismantle pillars, tie them into wooden fences, and fill in the gaps in the earthen fence as much as possible. He didn't close his eyes for several days and nights, and his eyes were red.

When the sun rose and the weather became hot again, Tao Chun came over from behind and said to him: "Find a place, you can sleep first, and you have to fight hard!" I'll keep an eye on it here. ”

Yesterday, thanks to Tao Chun's immediate arrival with his troops, he rushed to the outpost of the bandits, so that the headquarters of the Duhuai Army avoided a fatal impact and had time to withdraw to Tuweizi.

Tao Chun had previously led the dead soldiers to sneak to Siyang and contact Siyang's private soldiers, and gathered more than 300 soldiers, but the key to fighting was to be able to vote in the right place.

The Duhuai army was not completely defeated, and at this time it was able to preserve nearly 5,000 elites, and Tao Chunju made the greatest contribution.

"How is Lord Teng's injuries?" Xiao Kuian asked.

"It......'s hard to say," Tao Chun shook his head.

Yesterday's war, Teng Xingyuan, the magistrate of Shanyang, was hit by two arrows, and fled to Guo Touli in a crowd for his subordinates. Teng Xingyuan lost too much blood, and there was a lack of medical treatment here, so he fell into a coma, and never woke up again.

Lack of medical care and medicine is secondary, when I stole the camp yesterday, I didn't think that I would be caught in the bandits, let alone that I would fall into this place, so I brought more dry food with me.

The soldiers also launched an attack early in the morning after eating a full meal, and at most they had a few dry cakes on their bodies, afraid that they would not be able to end the war in half a day, but they did not carry more.

The village itself had been looted by bandits, and there were still some old, weak, sick and disabled people in the village, and the rations were only three to five hundred catties. The dry food carried by Tao Chun's troops can last for five or six days, but the troops he has gathered in Siyang in the past few days are only 3,500 people, and the Duhuai army that has withdrawn is nearly 5,000 people.

At present, I can only take down all the green grass blades in the earthen enclosure to satisfy my hunger, but with more than 5,000 mouths, even if all the wood in the earthen enclosure is dismantled and eaten, it will not be able to eat for a few days.

The battlefield fights rely on strength, and after two or three days, you can only wait for the bandits to break through and rush in to kill them.

The bandits outside the soil fence gathered more and more, and they were not busy attacking, digging earth for a wall, to surround this place with knots, thinking that they also knew that there was a shortage of food and medicine here, and they wanted to surround it for two or three days, and then break through in one fell swoop.

Xiao Kuian and Tao Chun glanced at each other, and at this time they were counting on the ability to lead the Jiangdong Left Army to come to aid in time, but they didn't know when the control envoy would come to help, let alone whether the envoy would come to help......

Under the current situation, if the envoy does not aid Siyang, the villagers and Qingliu of Huai'an, instead of making accusations, will look forward to the envoy leading troops to fill the gap in Shanyang's defense line.

At the beginning, the army of Shanyang County was transferred to cross Huai, deliberately leaving a big gap in Shanyang County, isn't this the intention? Isn't he just waiting for the big defeat here, so that he can lead the army to fill the gap in Shanyang's defensive line?

Xiao Kuian'an only then understood the viciousness of the civilian-official fight, the real murder does not see blood, no wonder Lord Liu has never mentioned the matter of reinforcements from yesterday to now, he probably has already realized in his heart, right?

It's just that no one can say anything about this worry.

Now that the generals below can still hold on, and their morale is not weak, they are counting on the envoy to lead the Jiangdong Left Army to help. If they knew that the envoy and the prefect had a falling out over the matter of crossing Huai to aid Xu, the envoy would probably return to guard Huai'an and ignore them, and the battle would not be able to be fought.

Xiao Kui said secretly in his heart: At this time, while the generals still have the strength to spare, they should concentrate their forces to break through to the Huaishui or Surabaya River, as long as they are next to the Huai Sishui River, even if they can't withdraw for a while, they can always use boats to transport some grain and grass from the waterway, which is much better than sitting here and waiting to die.

Xiao Kuian made up his mind and planned to enter the village to persuade Liu Tingzhou to decide to break through.

At this time, there were several bandits approaching outside Tuweizi, Xiao Kuian only regarded it as the outpost where the bandits came over to snoop, and didn't pay much attention to it, and was about to drive away the arrows, when he saw one of them suddenly rushing towards him, and when he waited until the arrow was far away, he shouted loudly: "The envoy of Shukou Secret Letter, don't shoot arrows!" ”

Xiao Kui'an hurriedly stopped the soldiers from shooting arrows, but the bandits saw that the officers and soldiers were infiltrating, so they opened their bows and arrows in the back, and the messenger inserted three arrows in his back and rolled into the earthen enclosure. Failed to pierce the armor, the three arrows were deeply inserted into the flesh, rolling on the ground and pulling the wound, the Shukou messenger screamed in pain, and saw Xiao Kuian, who was wearing a general armor, coming over and said: "The road is uneven, except for the preparation of the messenger letter and printing paper, there is only a message to tell each other, and the prefect Liu is here?" ”