The sky is dark, the river breeze is blowing slightly, and the birds are flying from the reeds.
Only the Peishui River was completely unmoved by the bloody fight that was about to unfold on the side. It continued to flow into the Huai River as it had for thousands of years. At this time, the water in the Peishui River was huge, forming clear and clear water divides at the confluence of four or five miles.
The line comes out.
Several pallets of the floating bridge were set on fire. Although no major damage was caused, it took time to inspect the damage and replace the pallets. However, a warship came from the north shore first, but did not dock at the floating ferry port, but directly
Driving into the Pishui River, we observed the battlefield closely.
At this time, the 2,000 heavily armored infantry of the Selection Front Army had already formed in front of the prisoner camp on the south bank. Each team consisted of a hundred people, forming two large cone-shaped battle formations in the middle, and began to advance...
The cone formation is the most advantageous for forced assault. The battle formation has a cone-like forward and strong wings. The goal is to penetrate the enemy from the narrow front. The forward breaks through and splits the enemy's defensive formation. The soldiers on both wings expand the results. It is not brave.
Incomparable generals and elite soldiers are not up to the task.
Two thousand selected forward troops, armored and heavy cavalry, formed two fish-scale formations with a number of small fish-scale-shaped square formations, advancing close to the flanks of the heavy armored infantry formation.
The larger Khitan cavalry was currently engaged in a fierce battle with the enemy cavalry on both wings, trying desperately to suppress the captive cavalry in order to select the important force for the vanguard.
The rapid advancement of Jiabuqi eliminates interference and clears obstacles.
The first group rushed to the mouth of the river as quickly as possible, seized the hillocks, drove them away, resisted the enemy's front assault and harassment, and created favorable conditions for the subsequent infantry and cavalry to rush to the battlefield for a short rest. Two thousand selected forward armored cavalry and four thousand
The Khitan cavalry was stationed on the hillock at the rear as a reserve at this time.
They only need to pay attention to the changes in the battlefield at any time and re-enter the battlefield when necessary. In short, in addition to striving to ruthlessly tear apart the enemy's interception array across the Fudu in one fell swoop, they also need to guard against the prisoners who are still in the camp.
Soldiers will send out reinforcements at any time.
Shi Hu, Sa Luhe and others reined in their horses and stopped beside Xiao Yanhan, staring intently at every plant and tree on the battlefield.
Xu Huai needed to march with the main force of Jingsheng's army, but it was Zhang Xiongshan and Liu Shiwang who went north overnight to meet up with the forward troops.
Liu Shiwang stared at the roaring Huaihe River in the distance and couldn't help but asked worriedly:
"I wonder if Jiang Qian succeeded in mobilizing Huaidong Water Camp when he went to Chuzhou?"
It was only when the raid plan was formally formulated that Liu Shiwang learned that Deng Gui had been maintaining secret contact with Jingxiang in recent years, but when he thought about it carefully, he felt that it was all natural.
Although Deng Gui was named as a young man and passed the martial arts exam in high school at an early age, he could only work in low-level military positions such as patrol inspectors for twenty years after entering the officialdom. After being frustrated, he had already experienced the hardships of the world.
Liu Shiwang and Deng Gui had similar life experiences, and he could better understand Deng Gui's state of mind in his early years.
This state of mind enables them to have a more objective and in-depth understanding of world affairs, Beijing and Xiangzhou, and the overall situation, and will not be easily obscured by flashy fame and power.
Compared to him, Deng Gui had earlier and deeper contact with the people of Chushan, and even fought side by side during the bandit rebellion in Tongbaishan, Pingjing.
As long as we study the Tongbai Mountain Bandit Rebellion in depth, we will know how strange and complicated the situation was at that time. As a real participant in the Tongbai Mountain Bandit Rebellion during the Pingjing Period, Deng Gui was even the nominal leader. His understanding of Xu Huai and the people in Chushan was closely related to
How could the experience not be profound?
Liu Shiwang is now worried that something went wrong when Deng Gui was lobbying or controlling Gu Fan, causing Huaidong Shuiying to
Unable to dispatch in time.
And this is something that no one can say well.
"Even if everything doesn't go as planned, it doesn't affect the overall situation." Xiao Yanhan turned around and said with a smile.
The Huaidong Water Camp was currently stationed in Chuzhou, which was more than 500 miles away from the mouth of the Peishui River. It was impossible to reach the mouth of the Peishui River within two days.
However, according to their pre-planned plan, after Jiang Ping rushed to Chuzhou to report the news, Deng Gui immediately lobbied or controlled Gu Fan to mobilize the Huaidong Water Camp to join them in advance and sail two iron-shelled boats upstream.
Enter Hongzeppo and pin down part of the Japanese navy from the lower reaches.
At the same time, the Xinyang navy will attack the blockades set up by the Japanese soldiers in Huangchuan, Huaichuan, Yingkou and other places from the upper reaches, and try to weaken the ferry power of the Japanese soldiers on both sides of the Huaihe River to the maximum extent - the upstream and downstream are also under fierce attack
, even if the captive soldiers still have a large number of boats at the mouth of the Peishui River, they will never dare to ferry troops on a large scale easily.
As long as the imperial troops cannot evacuate the rear troops to the north bank or send reinforcements to the south bank in a short period of time, it will buy enough time for the Jingzhou Navy to transfer from the Yangtze River waterway to the Huaihe River and completely blockade the Huaihe River.
Of course, this is the most ideal result.
Which step can be achieved in the end still needs to be adjusted in real time according to the development and evolution of the battle situation.
"What the princess said is true. The battle situation may not be as perfect as expected, but there should be no problem in destroying the floating ferry in the first step!" Liu Shiwang showed a sad face, smiled and looked towards the prison barracks with everyone...
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The reason why the Chihu people chose to build the pontoon bridge at the mouth of the Pishui River is not only because of its important strategic position, but also because there are large rocks on the north and south banks to the east of the river mouth that can fix the iron ring cables.
However, except for this small rock cliff near the mouth of the Peishui River, the rest is a sandbar landform formed by sedimentation of sand. The estuary delta with a radius of 20 to 30 miles is not only low-lying, but also easily flooded in the flood season, and the foundation is also floating.
Shaking it loose is not conducive to building a strong stronghold.
The mouth of the Peishui River is the most important transit base for the Chihu East Road army heading south this time, and Fudu is also the core hub connecting the north and south sides. Of course, the construction of the camp should not be sloppy.
After the army crossed the Huaihe River on the Chihu East Road, two camps were built on the south and east sides of the selected ferry on the basis of the forts built by the locals, one leaning on the Peishui River and the other leaning on the Huaihe River, as if the gates were floating across the river.
The Shuiying Pier is sheltered on the inside; and then several small environmental protection camps were built based on these two large camps.
The layout characteristics of the camp at the mouth of the Chihu Cishui River formed a funnel shape on the front of the Fudu, with a gap about seven or eight miles deep.
The 6,000 elite infantry cavalry of the Selected Front Army and more than 8,000 Khitan reinforcement cavalry departed from the camp at the northern foot of Huaiyang Mountain overnight and headed north along the east bank of the Feishui River. They wanted to enter through this gap, destroy the floating ferry, and attack the enemy in a short time.
Destroy the ability of the Japanese navy to quickly mobilize large-scale troops and horses on the north and south banks of the Huaihe River, and then use the Xinyang Navy and the Huaidong Water Camp to contain the Japanese soldiers and naval forces from upstream and downstream, allowing the Jingzhou Navy to enter the Huaihe River on a large scale and completely defeat the Japanese soldiers behind it.
The soldiers blocked the south bank to buy time.
"It's not enough to kill! I thought that Yang Laogou, that black and white man, would pull all the rear troops out of the camp and form an array - one battle will determine the outcome, so why don't we save everyone the trouble?"
As the commander of the heavy armored infantry battalion, Xu Pang was strictly prohibited from rushing to the front line immediately before the war. He was very dissatisfied when he looked at the infantry defense array in front of him which was much thinner than expected, and raised his eyebrows.
The sound is dozens of steps away, also behind the array.
Sun Yanguan, who was supervising the advance of the army, complained.
"Are they deliberately trying to lure us in, and then the main force will come out of the camp to cut off our retreat? What a trick to 'invite a turtle into the urn', but it's a pity that the turtle they invited today is a bit big. This one is
The jar won’t fit!”
"Your son is the turtle, and your whole family is the turtle!" Sun Yanguan laughed and said, "Of course they are afraid that they will block the gap too tightly and block us out, or scare us!"
Soon the forward line was close to the enemy formation to about an arrow's distance, and rain of locust arrows shot out from the enemy formation. Sun Yanguan no longer talked to Xu Zan, and concentrated on staring at the subtle changes on the battlefield, his eyes showing his concern for the prisoners.
Brutal light.
To be honest, it's not cowardly. If Yang Jingchen really wants to pull 30,000 infantry soldiers, 4,000 light cavalry, and 4,000 armored heavy cavalry out of the camp to form a formation, today's battle will be really difficult.
In the planned plan, they also considered the possibility that the enemy's rear troops would mobilize in full upon hearing the news, so their response strategy would have to be adjusted accordingly:
The raiding troops can first choose a tentative assault. However, if the tentative troops resist more resolutely and it is estimated that it will be difficult to form a breakthrough in a short period of time, they should switch to control.
Focus on the outer battlefield, waiting for the main force of the Jingsheng Army to arrive with some light war equipment before launching a new attack.
Now the Khitan cavalry has successfully suppressed the captive cavalry on both wings, completely exposing the frontal array of the captive soldiers blocking the gap in the camp. There are only less than 8,000 infantry in formation, and they are still surrendered Han troops with weak combat effectiveness and armor.
There were no weapons at their disposal. The generals were certainly confident of killing them in one fell swoop, and decided to directly invest enough offensive power.
In the final analysis, the Red Husbands were too greedy. They did not expect in advance that Jingxiang would urgently mobilize 8,000 elite light cavalry from the remaining Khitan troops, but they also thought of luring Jingxiang's raiding troops into the inside of the camp, cutting off the road, and annihilating them in one fell swoop.
This also shows that the Chihu people never discovered the existence of Qionglai Mountain Road from beginning to end.
At the beginning of the year, Xu Huai announced that he would build a floating ferry on the Yangtze River between Songyang and Qiupu counties, and he did so with great fanfare in the following months.
On the one hand, this is to paralyze the soldiers, making them mistakenly believe that Jingxiang has no navy to compete with them for dominance in the Yangtze River waterway. It also lures a army of soldiers into Fengsha Lake to annihilate them and capture Fengsha.
An important reason for the great victory in the Lake War.
On the other hand, it is to use the construction of floating ferries to isolate the Yangtze River waterway, and at the same time, together with the garrisons in Songyang, Qiupu, Tongling, Lujiang and other places, completely cut off the east-west channel between the Jianghuai River and Jinghu Lake.
Otherwise, even if the soldiers were not aware of the existence of the Qionglai Mountain Road for a while, and were not aware that the Dajianlu on the east wing of Tubo was only three or four hundred miles away from Jiazhou and Lizhou on the upper reaches of the Yangtze River, they would still have to pass through the Khitan troops on a large scale.
It is difficult to keep the Yangtze River waterway completely secret.
How could so many people and horses eat, drink, and have sex, and pass through the mountains at the southern foot of Huaiyang Mountain from Songyang and lurk in Huoshan Mountain? How could they not leave any traces?
The best plan is to block the channel and isolate things, and the blockade should be invisible so that the Chihu people are completely unaware that it is a blockade.
Of course, Xu Huai had already had a plan to secretly borrow troops from the Khitan, but at first he did not expect that the Qiandi faction would make peace with the Chihu people so quickly. He only thought that during the confrontation between Long Shushui and Li Lingshan, he could secretly
An additional 8,000 to 10,000 cavalry would be enough to maintain an invincible position.
When the situation changed later, Xu Huai completely followed the trend and followed the trend...
