On the second day of May, on the fourth day after Lin Zhan led his troops out of the city, his troops were only more than 160 miles away from Jiangdu, and more than 100 miles away from the ships transporting grain in the Southern Qi Dynasty.

When the Southern Qi brought food, Jiang sent troops to protect it, and mobilized local garrison troops, which included one or two thousand troops.

With the eight thousand soldiers and horses brought by Lin Zhan, there were nearly 10,000 soldiers and horses responsible for transporting grain this time.

In the eyes of outsiders, Jiangdu also spent a lot of manpower and force to ensure the smooth flow of this grain channel, but no one expected that the Northern King's cavalry would also be very quick. In just ten days, from getting information to sending troops south, from marching all the way to the south of Jiangdu, the grain transporters had already blocked the grain channel, so that the ships carrying grain could not go north.

Fearing the power of the Qi Dynasty, the Northern King Army did not dare to start a rash battle with the Qi Dynasty. Therefore, even though they knew that the Qi Dynasty soldiers and horses were less than 500 soldiers who were responsible for escorting food and grass, the Northern King Army stopped and watched, waiting for the food to be transported outside Jiangdu before taking action.

But at this moment, Lin Zhan's eight thousand soldiers arrived, and a fierce battle seemed inevitable.

On the evening of the second day of May, the first small battle began. A small team of about 100 cavalry sent by Lin Zhan encountered about 600 cavalrymen of the Northern King Army.

In a massacre that took place on the river bank, there were only two cavalry teams in the Eastern Palace who returned alive.

Originally, Lin Zhan led his troops to walk for more than forty miles a day, but at this time, he had to order to station him because he would go south to contact the regular army of the Northern King's Cavalry.

After this small battle, Lian Chengju was making arrangements for the next step in the camp of the Beiwang Army's vanguard camp. When he got the news, he immediately disbanded the meeting. He quickly wrote a letter to the head coach Lin Shi, who was forty miles away, to inform him of the occurrence of the incident.

This was an unexpected war. For the Beiwang Army, the strategy of first contacting head-only and then pretending to retreat, and Lianchengju led the troops and horses to perform this scene. However, this small encounter seemed to have changed the situation. Lin Shi had more than 2,000 cavalry under her command. She came to meet in three directions, and the troops she encountered with the cavalry team of the East Prince's Mansion were one of them.

Lin Shi realized that although such a small war was inconspicuous, it would make the East Prince's Mansion suspicious and hinder its advance.

As expected, on the morning after Liancheng sent a letter to Lin Mu, he received news that the eight thousand cavalrymen who came to support the food route of the East Prince's Mansion had been stationed. He had no intention of going south for the time being.

Lian Chengju couldn't help but be angry when he heard this. His two thousand cavalry, even if he pretended to retreat, would not lose one soldier or one general. He was very confident in his soldiers. He always looked down on the people of Jiangnan and believed that these people of Jiangnan were weak by nature. In yesterday's battle, his six hundred cavalry fought one hundred cavalry and achieved complete annihilation. Although this was not a great achievement, it also reflected that the people of Jiangnan were indeed vulnerable.

Even with this idea, he was ready to lure the enemy into the deep. But he knew that the people in Jiangnan were very timid and even if they lost a hundred soldiers, they would not dare to continue marching.

At this time, the Southern Qi fleet transporting grain also stopped.

Because of heavy rain and the river water surged, many sections of the river were no longer accessible. In this case, the ship could only temporarily dock in two or three county towns along the river, with these grains being hundreds of thousands of dan. Lianchengju knew very well what changes the situation would bring to the war after transporting these grains to Jiangdu.

"General Lian, if the bad guys from the Eastern Prince's Mansion retreated back to Jiangdu like this, how could we win in one fell swoop?" At the military meeting, his subordinates asked Lian Cheng directly.

When Lian Chengju sent troops before, he vowed to bring his men to make contributions. He even believed that it was not impossible to wipe out the 8,000 troops of the Eastern Prince's Mansion with his two thousand cavalry. He pretended to retreat and could act without having to go to the encirclement.

But now, the credit he received was almost ruined due to the small changes, so how could he not be angry?

"Change the plan, I will ask General Lin for instructions. We will lure the enemy to attack the enemy camp. At that time, we will catch him off guard when the chaos is in trouble."

The subordinates felt that Lian Chengju's proposal was nothing wrong.

Now Lin Zhan's troops are obviously timid and dare not advance and stationed. At this time, taking advantage of the panic of the soldiers and horses of the East Prince's Mansion, attacking is the best plan.

The generals were not allowed to be ordered by the foreign army. Lianchengju is now a "appropriate" response based on changes in the war, which is also reasonable in the eyes of the generals.

"After a word from General, we will attack the camp tonight."

"Since that's the case, please go back and prepare first. At noon, the whole army will attack."

Lian Chengju had a mouthful of passion in his heart. Since the generals of the Eastern Prince's Mansion were so cowardly, he wanted to let the people of the Eastern Prince's Mansion see the bravery and good at fighting. These subordinates were all trying to make a living on horseback like him. It can be said that they were nothing left without horseback. Now that there is such an opportunity to make achievements, no one will miss it easily.

At this time, the two thousand cavalry raised in Liancheng were about forty miles away from Lin Zhan’s central army camp.

According to Lin Zhan's march speed, he had to march for one day. But for the troops raised in Liancheng, one afternoon was enough.

Although the weather is bad and the road conditions are not good, they know how to ride horses and how to avoid consuming too much physical strength on the horse's back.

By nightfall on the third day of the fifth month, the two thousand cavalry raised in Liancheng had been less than five miles away from Lin Zhan's central army camp.

Because the road conditions were not good, although Lian Chengju felt that there was little possibility of a large number of scouts in the East Prince's Military Camp, in order to be cautious, he still sent a lot of people to investigate the situation around the East Prince's Military Camp.

He was going to use the first half of the night to investigate the situation and then launch a military operation in the second half of the night. Although Lian Chengju was arrogant, he was also very cautious. Over the years, he learned a lot from Lin Shi. It was Lin Shi who taught him to first understand the enemy's situation and know himself and the enemy when fighting.

After two hours of looking around, a lot of news came to him.

Judging from the information, outside the Jiangdu military camp, only two or three miles of defense were deployed. Although the scouts involved a range of four or five miles, there were not many people and the formation was very scattered, obviously they did not have the efficiency and ability of regular scouts.

Lian Chengju knew very well that there was no large number of formal evidence in Jiangdu City now, and Lin Zhan’s 8,000 soldiers and horses were also temporarily pieced together. It is not easy for such soldiers to form formations. How could they still dare to ask them to be able to deploy at night, or in such a harsh environment?

Lian Chengju summoned all the generals under his command overnight and held a brief mobilization meeting before the war.

In his opinion, this war should be fast and we should not be too eager to achieve success. We must catch the soldiers of the Dongwang Mansion off guard. (To be continued)
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