The afternoon sun shines down, and the field is no longer so cold, and it feels more peaceful.
At this time, the military villages near the Niushou Mountains also sent people to see Xu Huai.
In their excitement, they saw the corpses of enemy soldiers lying on the river beach, and saw more than two hundred heads stacked in the style of building a Jingguan to form a tower of six or seven feet high, and the blood in their chests surged and boiled.
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Jianye is located in the plains on the lower reaches of the south bank of the Yangtze River, but there are many low mountains in the territory. The main ones are Zijin, Baohua, Tianmu and other mountains in the east that belong to the Ningzhen Mountains; there is the Maoshan Mountains in the southeast, which are famous in Taoism and run in a north-south direction.
The west wing is the Niushou Mountain Range, located between Dangtu and Lishui counties, with the Niushou, Xianku, Yuanzi and other mountains stretching out.
More than 20,000 soldiers surrendered to the Han army, and 4,000 soldiers crossed the Yangtze River south. In addition, the Japanese navy had an absolute advantage in the middle and lower reaches of the Yangtze River. It could control many Yangtze River branch rivers on the south bank at any time. It can be said that there is nothing in the Pingchuan area at present.
There is no room for movement, unless the Suwei imperial army breaks out from Jianye City at this time.
However, the Junzhaiwu forts located near the three low mountain ranges were protected by the dense forests of the mountains. They could communicate with each other and conduct some military spying, but they were unexpectedly completely cut off by the captive soldiers.
Xu Huai led his personal guards to land on the west bank of the Caochang River, attracting more than 2,000 soldiers, sailors, infantry and cavalry, and annihilated more than 500 enemies on the west bank.
, such a big commotion for most of the day has already attracted the attention of several military villages north of Niushou Mountain.
After Zhang Xiongshan sent people to contact him, they all knew that it was Jingsheng Hou Xu Huai who came to Jianye in person. People in these military villages were extremely excited and sent people to see him.
Xu Huai requested to recruit Jian Rui from various villages. Some of them entered Yuelong Army Village to strengthen defense, and some of them followed him into Niushou Mountain. After that, he and other villages relied on Niushou Mountain to reinforce each other, jointly defend and contain, and harass intruders.
The captive soldiers and villages west of the Caochang River all agreed to such an offensive and defensive guerrilla plan.
In the afternoon, four more groups of captive cavalry crossed the river from the upper reaches. Together with the remnants of the previous troops, the Red Husband's cavalry on the west bank of the Caochan River exceeded more than 600 before dark, but they still did not dare to approach the vanguard formation.
There were decapitated corpses everywhere on the river beach, and nearly two hundred floating corpses floated down the river into the Yangtze River. Everyone knew that if they killed Jingsheng Hou Xu Huai, they would gain supreme glory and merit.
Even being directly granted the title of marquis is not a problem, but such military exploits require a life to enjoy.
In addition to being as dense as a rock, the selected vanguard army also wielded powerful bows and crossbows that were far beyond the reach of mounted bows.
The cavalry are approaching, and their arrows are blocked by the shields and armor, so it is difficult to hurt the generals of the vanguard army. However, as long as they or their horses are slightly evacuated, and they are bitten hard by the rifle bows, it will be difficult to get even the slightest benefit.
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After the representatives of the villages north of Niushou Mountain returned, they immediately mobilized. Groups of rebels and horses used the cover of the dense forest at the foot of the mountain to gather at Huanglongxian, near the Caocha River.
Huanglongxian is a solitary mountain more than twenty feet high on the north side of Niushou Mountain. It is only thirteen or four miles away from Yuelong Village. There is an open shallow valley of nearly ten miles between it and the main line of Niushou Mountain, but there are deep trees in the shallow valley.
If a large group of infantry enters it, they are not afraid of the red cavalry rushing in directly.
Therefore, before the enemy's main force of infantry enters the west of Caochang River, Huanglong Xian is the most ideal gathering point for the rebel armies and civilians of Zhuzhai in the early stages of their growth.
Night fell quickly, and the cold moon shrouded the earth. The surrounding fields seemed to be immersed in the bottom of a clear lake, and the soldiers in the distance were still vaguely visible.
At this time, more than a thousand rebels who had assembled in Huanglongxian in advance, under the cover of Jian Rui of the selected vanguard army, decisively headed towards Yuelong Village along the outer edge of the beach on the west bank of the Caochang River.
The soldiers also tried to attack them, but they were met with accurate and vicious arrows.
In addition to the indestructible formation of the selected vanguard, the rebel team also performed extremely bravely without causing much disturbance. There were even many rebel generals who only wore simple leather armor and dared to hold sharp spears, like hunting.
Usually they come around.
In the end, the Luqi did not dare to rush forward, but chose to temporarily retreat and distance themselves.
More than a thousand rebel soldiers and civilians escorted them into Yuelong Village, and ordered the commander-in-chief of the Selected Front Army, Liu Fujin, to lead a group of heavy-armored infantry, and Cheng Xiao, the military officer of the Jingbei Military and Horse Department, stayed behind to assist the commander-in-chief of the Youxiaosheng Army.
Zhoushan defended the stronghold, and Xu Huai finally led 400 men and horses into Niushou Mountain at night and went to Hongjue Temple to rest.
Hongjue Temple is an ancient temple built in Ye. It was built during the Liang Tianjian period in the Southern Dynasties. It was originally named Foku Temple. It is located on the southwest slope of Zutang Mountain on the east branch of the Niushou Mountains. It faces the Caochang River in the east, Yuntai Mountain in the south, and is surrounded by mountains on the left and right.
Although the terrain of the Niushou Mountains is not very dangerous as a whole, as long as the Red Husbands can be restrained from coordinated infantry and cavalry operations and the Red Husbands can be restrained from dragging heavy war equipment such as stone cannons from the Western Regions, it will be a good choice for the elite vanguard army.
It's enough.
Xu Huai and others rushed to Hongjue Temple in the middle of the night, where more than 600 military camp volunteers also gathered.
The five military villages south of Niushou Mountain have also received the news and sent people to wait at Hongjue Temple.
They all expressed their determination to obey the restraints and wished they could gather their troops right now and have a hearty battle with the captives.
Of course, Xu Huai did not want to be too hasty, nor did he intend to assemble too many rebel troops at once. On the one hand, it would be difficult to organize calmly in a short time, and on the other hand, the target was too big, making it difficult to advance or retreat.
In addition to sending people to Jurong, Yanling and other counties to contact various military villages, Xu Huai also sent three or five military officials to each of the five villages in Shannan to assist each village in organizing the rebels. The rebels were first dispersed and hidden among the armies.
Stronghold, it will not be too late to assemble again if necessary.
In the final analysis, Xu Huai mainly wanted to take advantage of the special terrain relationship between the Jiuzhaigou Village in the south of the mountain and the Yuelong Village in the north of the Caochan River, and the ridges at the head of Niushan Mountain, to deal with the Japanese soldiers for about a month, waiting for Generals such as Fan Zongqi and Shi Hu to lead the way.
The main force of the Beijing-Xiang aid division came to join them.
This plan is definitely much better than Xu Huai personally leading the main force of the reinforcements to march east slowly.
On the one hand, Xu Huai's early arrival in Jianye will greatly stimulate the resistance of Jianye's soldiers and civilians. Unexpectedly, the city of Jianye will suffer losses during this period; on the other hand, Xu Huai's call for rebels will be able to contain a considerable part of the captive infantry, cavalry and naval forces.
On the left and right, it was unable to gather more troops and go to Chizhou or Jiangzhou to intercept, delaying the rapid eastward advance of the Beijing-Hangzhou reinforcement division along the south bank of the Yangtze River.
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"What, what, Jing, Jingsheng Hou Xu Huai personally arrived in Jianye, and at this time he has led four to five hundred elite guards to hide in Niushou Mountain!?"
Zhong Changqing crossed the river in the middle of the night and entered the camp established at the mouth of the Pogangdu (Qinhuai River) river. He learned about the battle on the west bank of the Caochang River from Wu Chi, the general on the south bank and the governor of Songzhou. He was stunned for a long time and stumbled.
Baba really didn't know what to say.
The governor of Songzhou, Wanhu Wuchi, could understand Zhong Changqing's shock. He himself had not completely recovered until now.
Unlike most of the generals of the Ping Yanzong Palace who had never dealt with the Jingxiang Army, during the Ruying Battle, Wu Chi first led the elite cavalry stationed in Songzhou, together with the Zhengzhou garrison, to pursue and intercept the Chushan soldiers and horses that were attacking Bianliang;
Entering between Ruying and Yue Hailou, they planned to completely block the Chushan troops attacking Bianliang to the north of the Yingshui River and annihilate them.
Fortunately at that time, Wuchi led his troops to be stationed in Shangshui County south of Wancheng. When Chushan opened the Ru River to divert it to the north, he escaped to the east in time. Later, he was isolated by the flood from the main battlefield of the Ruying Battle.
outside.
But this does not mean that the shock brought to Wu Chi by the Battle of Ruying was less.
Many years later, he still asked himself whether he should feel regretful or grateful for being isolated from the main battlefield.
In any case, the Battle of Ruying made Wu Chi deeply realize that the Central Plains was not without its famous generals.
After that, Jingxiang rose further, and blocked the 300,000 horses gathered by Zhennan Zong Palace on the middle road to the north of Rucai, preventing them from advancing even half a step south. Wu Chi further realized that Jingsheng Hou Xu Huai might be related to Chi Hu, who had died.
Like the old Khan King, he is a chosen son who only comes across once in a hundred years.
Therefore, in many aspects, he tended to agree with the opinions of the Zhennan Zong Palace, advocating that Jingxiang should be taken seriously as a monster much more terrifying than the entire Southern Dynasty.
At this time, Wu Chi invited Zhong Changqing to go up to the watchtower, and sent someone to call Qianhu Zhuosu, asking him to describe in more detail the details of today's battle in Caochanghexi.
Zhong Changqing looked at the rippling water at the mouth of the Pogangdu River under the moonlight, and did not say a word for a long time.
Their camp on the south bank was built with a fence on the foundation of Zhufengtang's pavilion at the mouth of the river.
Their advance was fast enough, but all the supplies in the Zhufengtangpu courtyard had been transported in advance, and most of the houses had even been set on fire. From this, it can be judged that Jingxiang and Xiang most likely had advance notice of their attack on Jianye.
Judgment.
"Jianye has become useless. General Wuchi immediately sent people to report to King Ping Yan of the Ming Dynasty. We must withdraw our troops from the south bank as soon as possible, besiege Lujiang and Shucheng with all our strength, and establish an interception defense line west of Lujiang and Shucheng, facing the Qianshan of Shuzhou.
," Zhong Changqing took a long breath and said, "As long as we capture Lujiang and Shucheng, we will have enough time to capture Shouchun.
So that we can truly gain a foothold on the south bank of the Huaihe River, and the Southern Dynasty can still be defeated..."
At this time, Prince Ping Yanzong organized the East Route Army to go south, mainly dispatching elite infantrymen under Zhong Changqing and Meng Cheng from Heluo and West Jing to participate in the battle.
Just to confuse Jingxiang, Zhong Changqing himself has been staying in Huaichuan. It was not until recently that he escaped and went south to join Wuchi, preparing to organize troops to intercept the troops of King Qin of the Southern Dynasty and attack Jianye.
But he never expected that he would hear such bad news just after crossing the river to Jianye.
Xu Huai had arrived in Jianye, and he killed them all by surprise on the first day.
Perhaps the loss of three to five hundred men and horses was equivalent to a drop in the bucket for the 200,000 troops mobilized by Prince Ping Yanzong to go south at this time, but he had to consider how drastic the impact this incident would have on the morale of the soldiers and civilians of the Southern Dynasties.
And swift and violent.
The raid on Jianye was originally a surprise attack with partial divisions, and it was inevitable that there would be huge flaws in both the battle line and the supply line.
Only by fighting quickly and winning quickly can we avoid risks and achieve ideal results.
They had previously achieved major results in annihilating the Jianye Navy and severely damaging Youxiao's victorious army. The surprise attack on Jianye to this point can be said to be a great victory.
If the Jingxiang reinforcements could be sealed to the east of Chizhou or Shuzhou, they would have a chance to capture Jianye and achieve the most complete victory, but it is obvious that such an opportunity no longer exists.
In a short period of time, they had no way to kill Xu Huai who had already penetrated into Niushou Mountain. At least with the force they had crossing the river to enter the south bank at this time, they were far from enough. It would be too risky to transfer more troops from the north bank.
Zhong Changqing thought that Prince Ping Yanzong's palace should be closed as soon as it was ready, and the next strategic focus was on attacking the entire territory of Huaixi.
Speaking of this, Zhong Changqing thought of something and asked Wu Chi:
"By the way, Sun Yanzhou, have you found Hu Danzhou's family?"
"I found it. It was taken to Huoqiu by Tian Rusheng the day before yesterday. I may have missed you on the way," Wu Chi said.
There is no problem in persuading Sun Yanzhou and Hu Dangzhou to surrender, but being able to transport their children there will make them work harder for Chi Hu. This can be regarded as another result of the raid on Jianye.
"General Wu Chi should send people to King Pingyan for instructions as soon as possible!" Zhong Changqing suggested, "Of course, before King Pingyan replies, it is still time to organize troops to go to the west of the Caochang River to encircle and suppress. I am really lucky to have this general."
If this Chushan Fox is captured, the whole world will be under the control of the Red Husband..."
