Chapter 536 The former teacher is at a disadvantage
Fancheng and Xiangyang are across the river, and the city itself is built tall and solidly.
However, compared with Xiangyang City, which is surrounded by mountains and rivers and has an excellent location, Fancheng itself does not have much geographical advantages. From then on, there is a flat plain to the north. If there are enemies in the north, they can easily reach outside the city. The Han Dynasty behind it is
The protection that water can provide is also very limited, and occasionally the city will be flooded due to surges in the river.
The loss of the five Mianbei counties left Xiangyang completely unobstructed to the north, and Fancheng, located on the north bank of the Han River, was the first to be affected. In order to make up for this, a series of dock fortifications were set up around Fancheng, and the Xiazuo garrison was set up near the water.
It is the largest and most important defense stronghold among them.
The name of the garrison general at Xiazuo is Du You'an, who was born in the Du family of Jingzhao. His ancestors moved south during the Hu Dynasty and the Di Rebellion, and settled in Xiangyang since then. Today he is also one of the powerful local families in Xiangyang.
Many of the Du Youan brothers were brave and strong. They were ordered to guard Xia Zhe. They did not panic in the face of the enemy's attacks. They repelled the enemy's offensives several times with steady command. However, they saw that the enemy's several attacks were fruitless.
, had no choice but to retreat back, and couldn't help but sneered: "The bandits may look ferocious, but they are just beasts running in the mountains. Once they encounter the hunter's snare, bow and arrow, they don't know how to fight and break through."
He also ordered the officers and men in the garrison to eat and rest quickly before launching a raid on the enemy camp at night. When it came to fighting in the plains, the southerners were not as good as the northerners. After all, they did not have much cavalry to use in battle.
But the reason why the territorial boundary between the north and the south is basically stable at the Huaihan line is that the northerners are not adapted to the southerners' combat environment and combat methods.
Seizing a camp at night was one of the important tactics used by the Southerners to defeat the Northerners. Because camps usually needed to be set up near water, the Southerners used the river network to launch night attacks on enemy camps by boating and swimming, often achieving twice the result with half the effort.
Effect.
After hearing Du You'an's instructions, one of the generals couldn't help but said: "Liu Sima sent the order to defend, but he didn't order to attack at the right time. If we act rashly, I'm afraid..."
Before the general could finish speaking, Du Youan waved his hand to interrupt impatiently, and snorted coldly: "Liu Fanggui is a mediocre person, how can he know how deep the army is? The invading bandits appear to be ferocious, but in fact their troops are scattered and weak.
The number of soldiers is small, and the rest are all bluffing and weak-willed. They will be frightened if they are frightened, and they are all thought to be pawns from the natives of Mianbei.
I am now trapped in the city garrison and dare not go out to fight, just like the enemy's arms. If the troops from behind come one after another, I can no longer plan an attack and push the enemy's momentum to the thieves. It will be too late! I will take advantage of it now.
When there are few new soldiers, attacking and defeating them is the best way to defeat the enemy."
When the general saw that Du Youan was speaking plausibly and his tone was firm, and it was obvious that he had made up his mind, he did not dare to say anything more and could only retreat to prepare for the night camp.
As night fell, time passed by minute by minute. Probably due to the fierce battle during the day, Zhu Meng did not feel sleepy after nightfall. There was always an inexplicable palpitation and panic lingering in his arms. After dinner, he simply went around the camp to inspect
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Since fighting during the day consumed a lot of energy, the encampment and fences were all left to the accompanying Jingzhou Tribes. Now that we were at the forefront of the enemy's territory, these camps and fences were also protecting our own safety, so those Jingzhou Tribes
They were also very careful in building the tents, fences, ravines, etc. in order.
But when Zhu Meng walked to the east side of the camp, he looked at the beach outside the simple fence and frowned: "Why not cut off this place with a gully? If there is an enemy approaching in the river, how can we stop it?"
"After a day of running and fighting, the men are really exhausted. After the war, they have to retreat to set up camp. It's a bit late..."
A Jingzhou governor general in charge of the camp here explained with a smile. Seeing that Zhu Meng still looked serious, he flattered him again: "General, he fought bravely today and destroyed several bandit camps. The enemy soldiers didn't even think about it.
I was so frightened that I didn’t even dare to go out of the city to offend."
"Whatever the enemy's plan is, I'm afraid it won't follow our expectations!"
After Zhu Meng heard this, he said in a deep voice, but it was already late at night, so it was not appropriate to do any more civil engineering work, so as not to affect the rest of the soldiers in the camp, so he then ordered: "Arrange the camp soldiers to keep watch here, and wait for anything unusual to happen."
, call the police immediately!”
After hearing the words, the governor nodded in agreement. After respectfully seeing off Zhu Meng, he casually gave instructions to his subordinates and returned to his tent to rest.
When Zhu Meng was awakened from his sleep, there was already a fire outside the tent, and the voices were chaotic. Countless figures were running for their lives in the camp in panic. At the same time, an unknown number of enemy soldiers holding short blades were roaming around the camp.
Walking and killing these panicked people.
"Withdraw, withdraw from the camp quickly, don't be reluctant to fight!"
Seeing that the situation in the camp was already in chaos, Zhu Meng knew that the situation was irreversible. Even when he summoned a group of people, they all rose up upon hearing the sound. The soldiers who were waiting to organize a counterattack first left this chaotic camp.
Fortunately, the southerners who were guarding the camp were not very mobile, and Zhu Meng also placed his war horses behind the camp far away from the river bank. When he led his men to leave the chaotic camp with great effort, there were not many enemies.
After catching up, many defeated soldiers also rushed out of the camp along their retreat route.
Zhu Meng led his troops to form an array outside the camp, preparing to collect the defeated troops. The troops brought from Kansai naturally obeyed the order and quickly returned to the organization. But the other Jingzhou troops were not so obedient.
, they rushed out of the camp fence and fled in all directions, completely ignoring the shouts of Zhu Meng and others.
After staying outside the camp for another half-quarter of an hour, Zhu Meng found out that he had gathered five to six hundred soldiers. He saw that the enemy soldiers had begun to rush towards him in an organized manner. It was obvious that they were losing their armor and horses and that they could no longer stay.
In this battle, we could only lead our troops to retreat north.
Along the way, Zhu Meng gathered some defeated soldiers. In the early morning, he met the army on the middle route that was about to break out of camp. Seeing the embarrassment of these seven to eight hundred defeated soldiers, the officers and soldiers in each camp could not help but change their expressions.
In the big tent, before Li Tai had time to listen to Zhu Meng's account of the retreat, several Jingzhou officials who came with the army came outside the tent to ask for a meeting. After being blocked, someone shouted loudly to advise them to withdraw, saying that the former army had been defeated and was defeated.
After returning, it can be seen that the enemy has already made preparations to resist the enemy. If the army moves forward, there will be no good results and it will only pay a greater price.
Li Tai was speechless for a moment when he heard the frustrated voices of these guys losing their fighting spirit.
Although he also understood that losing the first battle would inevitably have a negative impact on the morale of the army, for someone who had experienced the turn-based fighting style between the two Wei Dynasties, this was not a catastrophe. Why did it come to these people's lips?
Here, it seems that if you evacuate even a little late, you will lose your life?
In order to prevent these people from shouting again and shaking the morale of the army, Li Tai ordered a few people to come in. Before these people could speak, he directly drew his saber and said in a deep voice: "The defeat of the forward is indeed detrimental to the morale of the army.
, but the outcome has not yet been determined, it is too early to say defeat!
There is nothing to be afraid of even if the traitor is fierce and stubborn. I will try to show you how to control this stubborn traitor. You will all lead your troops to stay here for one day only. If there is no news of defeating the enemy on the front line tomorrow at this time, you will leave on your own.
.If you dare to leave early, military law will not tolerate it!"
He also knew very well how harmful his pig teammates were on the battlefield. If he really forced these people to continue going with him, they would probably disperse before the war even started.
It’s not that the people in Jingzhou are really so unbearable, it’s just that firstly, he has no stable integration of interests with these people, and secondly, he doesn’t have enough grace and power to control them, and Jingzhou has been a border town for a long time, so these people have developed the habit of encountering each other.
The survival instinct of preserving strength in danger, of course, was unwilling to follow Li Tai forward in the face of such headwinds.
These people were overjoyed at first when they heard that they were no longer required to move forward, but when they heard that Li Tai still had no intention of withdrawing his troops and was still insisting on marching on his own, they couldn't help but start to give advice, with earnest expressions on their faces.
They did not believe that Li Tai could achieve a substantial breakthrough on the front line in one day. Once something unexpected happened to the new envoy, local officials like them would also be implicated. Especially the magnanimous officer who took action to get rid of him was really a human being.
It's so rare that if you miss it, you probably won't encounter it again easily.
Li Taizi ignored the persuasion of these people and still ordered his troops to continue marching. The subordinate officers hesitated again and again, and in the end most of them chose to stay, but two people still chose to follow and continue marching.
The two people who chose to continue to follow the march were not too old, in their thirties, one was named Du Zhaohui, and his official position was the magistrate of Wan County, and the other was named Chen Yuchen, and his official position was the chief of the Chiyang garrison.
Jingzhou's military and political affairs were in chaos, and all those who held local official positions were basically employed by their respective departments, so political officials such as county magistrates also had to follow them to the front line.
Look at the way these two people hesitated, but still resolutely ordered the song to start. It was obviously a gamble, and they were going to place their bets on Li Tai. Li Tai secretly sighed in his heart that these two guys had taken an easy road.
However, during the journey, they were still sternly ordered to lead and restrain their respective troops, and were not allowed to act without permission without military orders.
Although this is a normal request, the two people looked at each other and felt that the situation was a bit strange. It should be noted that they had considered it for a long time before deciding to help him in times of need. Why did he feel like he was being disliked?
Li Tai didn't bother to care about how these two people felt. At the moment, his mind was full of thinking about how to get back the situation.
After leaving behind the powerful troops from Jingzhou who accompanied the army, his troops' advance speed was greatly improved. Along the way, he met the defeated people who had gathered to go north, and he did not waste time to appease them and let them go north. As for Nanliang
There was no follow-up action by the army.
It can be seen that this night attack on the camp was probably just an act of the frontline generals' own initiative, and there was no effective communication with the Xiangyang base camp at the rear, so as to seize the opportunity to expand the results. Xiangyang, as a big town in the Han Dynasty, would not be able to
Not even a large-scale field force can be produced.
It is estimated that the situation of the commander-in-chief of Nanliang in Xiangyang may not be much better than that of the newly appointed governor of Jingzhou. Compared with the local forces in Jingzhou, the local forces in Xiangyang are undoubtedly stronger, but they may not be completely able to be used by Xiao Laosan.
As they advanced all the way, Fancheng was already vaguely in sight. Originally, there were some Nanliang garrison wandering among the city garrison. After seeing the enemy leaving and returning, they all retreated back to the city.
There were no obstacles along the way, and Li Tai felt more confident. He led his troops past the ruined camp that had been breached by the enemy, looked at the stone-stacked river embankment, and then pointed at the Xiaxie garrison not far ahead and gave orders to his troops. : "Set up the Heyang cannon and blast it for me!"