The southeast wind brought a drizzle, the sails were like crossbows, and the boats were like arrows, and more than 200 warships of the Jiangdong Left Army passed through Huaikou and headed west.

Sun Gongzi did not guess Lin Lian's identity from the banner of "Huaidong Jingkou System Envoy and Jiangdong Xuanfu Envoy Si Zuo Participating in Politics" for a while, but letting such a large-scale water battalion officer and soldier suddenly leak through the Yunti Pass will inevitably affect the war situation in Huaibei.

Chen Yan has sent fast cavalry to Suyu, Sizhou, Suining ventilation to report, Sun Gongzi is still relieved, handed over the cloud ladder pass to Chen Yan for defense, he will be more than 600 cavalry in his hand gathered out of the plug, embellished with the tail of the water camp fleet and chased over.

On the plain on the north bank of the Huai River, more than 600 cavalry trotted in a conical shape, and the team was more than two miles long.

It is not as good as Chen Hansan's fortune, there are nearly 2,000 elite horses, and the more than 600 war horses in the pioneer camp are made up by Sun Gongzi in the past two years, and they are very precious. If it weren't for the fear that the officers and soldiers would suddenly land on the north bank to attack the displaced army scattered on the north bank to raise food, Sun Gongzi would not have been willing to ride his horse on a slippery mud road on a rainy day to chase the warship that was traveling in the wind.

At this time, the exiled army scattered on the north bank to raise food was also a descendant of Sun Gongzi's soldiers and horses, but he was reluctant to catch the officers and soldiers off guard.

The Huai River flows north-east from Huai'an City, and the fleet enters the Huai River from Yunti Pass, which naturally goes south-west in turn.

This section of the Huai River waterway is quite straight, about 160 miles to Huai'an City.

Fortunately, the fleet was going against the current, and the wind was just the right time, and Sun Gongzi and his cavalry could barely mount the fleet on the north shore.

Chased until dark, Sun Gongzi gathered the scattered homeless army on the north bank, more than 600 horsemen have become more than 2,000 foot cavalry, but in the Shushui River blocked the way, the pontoon bridge built by the previous march was cut off by knives and axes, and set on fire, leaving only the scorched black remnants in front of him.

At this time, the rain had stopped, and the remnant sun was unexpectedly exposed on the horizon, illuminating the golden waves of the river mouth.

Sun Gongzi tightened the reins, established himself on the east bank of the mouth of the river where the Mushui River joins the Huai River, and ordered people to search for ferries in the upper reaches of the Shushui River.

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The efficiency of the Wandering People's Army's fast cavalry to transmit messages was not slow, and the more than 2,000 cavalry were bitten to death, but the mouth of the Shushui River, which joins the Huai River from north to south, was three or four miles wide, blocking the way, but on the west bank of the river's mouth, there were also more than 1,000 Wandering People's Army receiving a report from the fast horse and staring at the shore to prevent this side from landing on the north bank of the Huaishui.

Boat landing on the water flow, the topography of the beach bank is very high, the west bank of the river mouth into the Huai is a large area of river beach wetland, in the shape of a triangle, there are two or three miles deep, or hidden in shallow water, or exposed on the surface of the water, the river beach exposed on the surface of the water is also muddy. The green reeds had reached the height of the side of a warship, and if they continued to grow wildly, they would form a large area of reeds on the riverbank.

The Jinhai stopped in the middle of the waterway, the forest tied the female wall and looked far away, the twilight was heavy, at this time, if you don't rush to the beach and land, drag it out overnight, maybe there will be ten thousand people's troops crawling over in the dark, and Sun Zhuzi, who is temporarily blocked on the east bank, will also find a way to cross Shushui overnight, and it is even more difficult to cross the north bank of the Huai River west of Shushui at that time.

Ning Zechen changed to a dinghy, boarded the aft deck, and said: "I have touched the situation, you can try it, I will personally lead the team up, there are still few rogues on the west bank, send a boat to continue westward to the west, disperse the pressure here, and you can gain a firm foothold if you grab the shore......"

"Good! Liukou did not have a warship to enter Huaishui, and the fleet continued to disperse to the west, looking for other landing sites, "Lin Jian is sure of Ning Zechen's plan, he must rush ashore before it gets completely dark, and said to Zhang Yubo, "I will send a boat to Huai'an City to meet Liu Tingzhou, if it is not bad, when you come again, we will already have a foothold on the north shore, and we will be able to contact the Changhuai army that retreated to Shuyang......"

In the twilight, although Huai'an City is far away, it is less than thirty miles in the southwest direction, and along the Shushui River River to the north, Shuyang City is only forty or fifty miles away from here.

Zhang Yubo changed the cabin and led a team of guards to the south bank.

The fleet continued to disperse to the west, scattering hundreds of soldiers and civilians at the mouth of the river to the west, and Ge Cunxiong and Ning Zechen organized the landing.

Two Jinhai-class troop transport warships stopped in the middle of the river, stopped at the lower anchorage, and several high-cabin warships on each side parked as far as possible to block the river beach with crossbow arrows. More than a dozen flat-topped shallow-bottomed boats with shallow to deep draft are filled between the troop carrier and the river beach, the lower pile falls and stops steadily, is connected by a pallet, and is tied firmly, each of which quickly forms two nearly 100 zhang long boat dock passages in the bow and stern of the ship to reach the river beach directly, more than 100 soldiers each carry a bundle of hay on their backs and board the dock, and a bundle of hay is passed to the front river beach from the back, and spread to the muddy wetland and extend forward......

Taking advantage of the twilight, Sun Gongzi took four cronies to swim to the west bank, put on their armor and ran over, and the first hundred armor soldiers to land on the shore killed more than 100 nomadic troops who intercepted the river beach.

At this time, more than 200 exile troops came from the north, and Sun Gongzi grabbed the leader and asked, "Do you recognize me?" ”

"The little one is from the Left Guard, why don't you recognize you?" The leader recognized Sun Pole, and saw that there was no one else to see except for the more than 100 people who were scattered here, so he asked in surprise, "Where are your soldiers?" ”

"Stop at the east side," Sun Gongzi looked at the east bank and pointed out, he couldn't see the situation on the east bank clearly, he said, "The soldiers of the left guard army can fight, okay, you all come with me, and drive these officers and soldiers into the water...... "More than two hundred people are wearing armor, and in the homeless army with less than 11 armor piercings, it can be seen that they are elite.

There is no embankment at the mouth of the river, and it is all a shallow river beach with a shallow entrance to the water, so the range is very wide.

He picked a shield and a straight spine knife, and rushed into the river beach according to the terrain, so that the archers scattered on both wings and scattered while rushing down......

As soon as the last group of exile troops was defeated, another group of exile troops came to kill, wearing armor and holding shields, and rushed with arrows, and the speed was so fast that Ning Zechen, who landed on the shore first, was taken aback.

The dry land that can settle on the river beach is not large, and it is far away from the warships behind, and the crossbow arrows cannot cover it, Ning Zechen knew that he had to take the armor soldiers who landed first to rush out and hold the position, so as to give enough landing space for the follow-up soldiers and horses, so as not to make this landing a failure.

Ning Zechen brought a Mo knife, looked up at the enemy, and the enemy who rushed forward spread out in a cone, the former was naturally a brave general in the exile army, and he also took it seriously, and asked the guards to stand behind with his brigade commander's flag, and he raised his knife and stepped straight over......

Sun Zhuang raised his shield to block, and the shield broke and the knife that slashed did not decrease, hitting his left arm. If it weren't for the iron guard on his left arm, he would have been cut off immediately, and even so, he was almost broken by the shock; Sun Zhuang's reaction was not slow, and the straight spine knife in his right hand slashed straight away, but he took the shield for the guards on Ning Zechen's side and swung it away.

The straight ridge knife is not as powerful as the Mo knife, and it is normal that the shield cannot be broken with a hasty knife.

In Sun Zhuang's view, face is a big loss.

He saw that Ning Zechen in front of him was the chief general of the officers and soldiers, he almost killed Ning Zechen with a knife that broke the shield, and the inconspicuous guards beside Ning Zechen actually took the shield and swung away his knife, how could he be willing?

The guards around Ning Zechen looked inconspicuous, but Zhang Jiheng, a member of Ning Zechen's heavy reliance in the Fengli camp, was also born in Fengli and was a homeless household, and he was superb in martial arts.

Zhang Jiheng led his troops to rush ashore first, and Ning Zechen personally rushed out to kill, so he naturally had to protect himself on the side in case of loss.

Zhang Jiheng was still unwilling, he thought that he would be able to kill the enemy general in one fell swoop with Ning Zechen, but he didn't expect the straight spine knife to be so heavy, so that he took a step back before he took off his strength, and when he attacked again, the two sides had already scattered the soldiers of the two sides who quickly engaged him, and there was no chance to fight directly......

Although Sun Zhuang was illiterate, he was not a reckless man, he was scared into a cold sweat by a knife in the head, grabbed a shield, and did not dare to rush into the enemy formation alone as before, and kept a cone with the dozens of brave soldiers in front of him, and drilled into the formation of officers and soldiers.

At this time, Sun Zhuang felt the elite of the officers and soldiers in front of him, although he felt struggling, he was still able to take advantage of the advantage of strength to cut down or push the current officers and soldiers to rush forward, but the brave soldiers of the homeless army around him could not keep up. Sun Zhuang took a few steps towards the conflict, and the thick conical formation was squeezed into a slender cone, and if he didn't retreat, it was likely to be cut off and trapped in the officer and soldier formation......

Sun Zhuang had no choice, he didn't want to give his life here, he retreated a little, and then led people to rush forward, coming down several times, although he had the advantage of rushing down from a high position on the terrain, he gave the officers and soldiers a hard way out of twenty or thirty steps.

Sun Zhuang saw that nearly half of the more than 200 people who rushed down with him were wounded, and he also knew that he could not do anything, so he fought and retreated, so as to form a more open battlefield, so that the displaced soldiers who had been lured away and rushed back again could fill the battlefield to fight a tug-of-war.

Upon hearing the news, most of the displaced army rushed over to intercept it was a scattered army raising food, not the elite of the displaced army, and there was no one out of ten who pierced the armor. A more open battlefield was formed, and it seemed that more soldiers of the wandering army would come in to participate in the battle, but for Ning Zechen, it was far less than the pressure on the elite of the more than 200 armor-piercing militia troops on the narrow ground of the river beach just now.

It was almost dark here, and although the boats in the river raised many fires, and the homeless army lit many torches on the shore and threw them here, the light of the real face-to-face fight was already dim.

Ning Zechen rushed left and right with elite armor, the weak light had little effect, but the wandering army that could not adapt to the dim light began to be chaotic, and the gap in physical strength between them was also obvious......