Anxu (now Langfang) is located in the southeast of Yanjing and is one of the twelve counties directly under the Gyeonggi Province. Different from the mountainous counties in the northwest and northeast, Anxu has flat rivers and thousands of hectares of fertile land.
After the Yan and Hu invaded the south, they occupied nearly half of the fields in Anxu County and distributed them to the military households who moved south.
In the past seven or eight years, hundreds of farms have sprung up on this land.
Most of the new owners of the farm were Hu military households, and there were also a small number of newly attached Han military households who had received military merits and rewards. However, the people who had their land taken away by force were unable to struggle due to the power and the pressure of survival, so they had no choice but to live in these villages.
They lived on the farm. They were called tenant farmers, but they were actually serfs.
There are more than a hundred acres or hundreds of acres of small fields, and tens of thousands of acres on the edges of the big fields. Hu military households with a little influence or military exploits built houses as strong as forts and were scattered on both sides of the Feng River.
The Woshui River, Chaobai River, and Wei River flow through the edge of Anxu County. The Fenghe River is a main river that crosses the middle of Anxu County. Its two ends are connected with the Wushui River and the Chaobai River. Although the water is strong,
The Fenghe River is also 1560 meters wide and 34 meters deep. However, after the river embankment was removed and large areas of embankment soil were pushed into the river, the Fenghe River was just a long trench that divided the battlefield and could not accommodate large warships.
Enter.
More than thirty war horses were galloping in the dark night, wading through the puddles on the east bank of the Feng River. The horses' hooves made a splash with the sound of water. On both sides of the Feng River, the cavalry outposts from both sides were so dense that they were no longer visible at night.
Need to deliberately hide your traces.
Hu Gouzi set fire to the two floating bridges on the Feng River at night. The fire was not extinguished at this time. From a distance, it looked like two fire dragons squatting in the night.
A large number of captive cavalry gathered in the area west of Fenghe River, intending to use Fenghe River as an outer trench to intercept the westward march of the Huaidong Army's middle route troops. However, many military families failed to evacuate in time and became the targets of local farmers to vent their anger.
, countless fires broke out at night, rape, adultery, and things happened from time to time.
The outposts and horses were unable to stop this kind of chaos. Since Yanji moved into a large number of Han households in Liaodong who were loyal to Northern Yan, the Huaidong army could not even distinguish the Han households in Liaodong from the local Han households in a short period of time, and could only remove the people from the battlefield across the board.
The core area was temporarily expelled.
One could vaguely hear the neighing of war horses on the other side of the river. Regardless of the threat from the other side, the first jockey's sentinel patiently moved through the shallow silt flooded by the river inch by inch to ensure that Hu Gouzi did not do anything on the Feng River.
Other limbs.
Looking back, I saw the shimmering phoenix river hidden in the night. The rider in front took off the flame tube from the saddle, raised his hand and lit it. The fireworks sprayed into the air and bloomed like thousands of trees and silver flowers.
Send news to the rear that the east coast of Fengli is safe.
About half an hour after the fireworks were announced, several groups of horse infantry appeared on the land on the east bank of the Feng River, as if emerging from the night.
The opening of the river mouth caused a large area of land in the eastern section of Fenghe River to be submerged in shallow water and turned into a depression. This indeed caused a big problem for the Huaidong Army's westward advance, but it did not make it difficult for the Huaidong Army to move forward.
Chen Zhi accompanied Yang Yihang to the east bank of the Feng River to inspect the terrain in person. He took off his smelly riding boots, rolled up his trousers, walked through a pond, and stood on the remaining embankment on the east bank of the Feng River. In order not to alert the enemy on the other side,
The cavalry caused unnecessary alertness. There were only seven or eight guardsmen around Chen Zhi and Yang Yihang, and the other guards were hidden in the night in the distance.
Yang Yihang squatted down, reached out and touched a handful of wet soil on the embankment, and said to Chen Zhi: "Hu Gouzi is trying to build a dam upstream of the Wushui River to store water. Although the possibility of them building a dam in a short time is not high,
But we still need to resolve the war before the rainy season comes, otherwise several heavy rains will further destroy the dams in Yandong, and the siltation problem will become more serious..."
"What a bastard, they have withdrawn all their cavalry to the west of Fenghe River, but Panju is east of Yanjing. They probably want to kill us when we cross the Fenghe River!" Chen Zhi spat, and then
Asked Yang Yihang, "How fast can the labor camp build the bridge? If it is fast enough, we can wait patiently for two days east of Fenghe River. When all the materials for the trestle bridge are transported, we can work overnight, build the bridge in the first half of the night, and walk in the second half of the night.
Push forward..."
The Fenghe River is smaller than the Woshui River and the Chaobai River. The narrowest point is only thirty to fifty meters wide. It is not impossible to build a trestle bridge in front of the enemy. As long as you cross the Fenghe River, the soldiers and horses in the middle will go west, all the way to Yan
There are no major terrain obstacles in the capital city.
Chen Zhi and Yang Yihang personally felt the terrain, and the engineering camp also sent engineering officers to conduct a detailed survey of Fenghe River. They worked out a plan overnight to build a trestle bridge to break through to the west bank of Fenghe River, and sent fast horses to Jinhai to attack Lin Fu.
Ask for instructions.
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The enemy's intention to use Fenghe to attack Anxu to intercept the battle was obvious. Naturally, the Huaidong Army could not let the small Fenghe River intercept the momentum of the attack.
"If the enemy army does not retreat, the battle should start on the west bank of Fenghe River, right?" Lin Fu read the battle plan sent by Gao Zongting and others, picked up a charcoal pen, and carefully circled several key points on the west bank of Fenghe River on the map.
Except for the Fenghe River, Anxu has no other terrain that can be defended. For the enemy, it is the several strongholds built by the Hu army after occupying the grain fields in Anxu that can be garrisoned. He said, "The enemy will obviously not call
Let's cross the Feng River happily and then fight again. I think when our troops cross the river, the battle will begin..."
"Then ask Zong Ting and the others to make the plan more detailed and make more preparations," Song Fu said.
Wu Qi said: "Sun Huai sent people to ask for help. Although we equipped the heavy artillery crew with six horses, the enemy's massive demolition of the embankments caused serious siltation in Xiqing, Heqiao and other places, making it difficult for the artillery carriage to pass.
We are far behind the infantry brigade. If we attack the west bank of the Feng River within two days, the artillery brigade will probably be unable to catch up! Should we temporarily allocate a thousand horses from the cavalry?"
"At this time, Zhou Pu can fall out with me by drawing a thousand war horses from the jockeys," Lin Fu said. "If there are not enough horses, then use people to pull them and send a reserve brigade up to Sun Huai to command. Tell Sun Huai, if three
The artillery cannot be dragged to the east bank of the Feng River within a few days. Tell him, the brigade commander, to stop doing it!" After thinking about it, he added: "The notice pointed out that the artillery can only be deployed on the east bank in the early stage. The troops and horses entering the west bank in the early stage must be
There is a psychological preparation for the defense line to be penetrated by the Japanese soldiers. The core trestle bridge must be an iron bridge, and there is no need to ignore the enemy's determination to rush in and destroy the bridge... Where did the Iron Bridge Battalion advance? "
The Iron Bridge Camp is part of the Work Camp. It carries a large number of iron bridges with the camp, which are extremely heavy. Although there are a large number of horses and heavy-duty carriages traveling with the camp, the advancement speed is very slow. The only advantage is that
Distributing the cast iron components to more heavy-laden carriages will propel the vehicle slightly faster than the heavy artillery crew.
Song Fu heard Lin Fu's inquiry, leaned over and marked the exact location of Iron Bridge Camp on the map.
Lin Fu nodded, satisfied with the advancement speed of Iron Bridge Battalion, and said: "Then let me change the plan and delay the implementation of crossing the river until three days later..."
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Three days passed in a blink of an eye. Tong Huacheng ventured to the levee on the west bank of the Feng River to look at the deployment of the Huaidong Army on the east bank. Without the support of Emperor Tianming, Fan Wenlan and other Han officials were severely marginalized, especially Fan Wenlan in the defense strategy.
The conflict with Na He Wu Gu was too deep, and he had no intention of staying in the camp to suffer the anger. Regardless of the danger of a battle on both sides of the Feng River at any time, he and Tong Huacheng came to the front line.
As more and more Huaidong troops entered the east bank of the Feng River, all the people with barbarian appearance were detained as prisoners of war, while other people were temporarily expelled from the east bank of the Feng River, making the Northern Yan soldiers and horses blind to the east bank.
With my eyes open, I couldn't figure out the specific progress of the Huaidong Army's troops and horses in the middle.
"How does Master Fan think the Huaidong Army will cross the river?" Tong Huacheng asked Fan Wenlan.
The river where Fan Wenlan and Tong Huacheng were standing was a full 156 meters away, but they were still within the range of the Huaidong Army's powerful crossbows, not to mention those fire-fighting crossbows that could shoot objects three or four miles away.
Fan Wenlan was worried. After hearing Tong Huacheng ask, she seriously thought about this issue.
The Fenghe River was so destroyed that even if the Huaidong Army controlled the river mouths on both sides, its large warships would not be able to enter. The Huaidong Army came across the sea and could not be accompanied by a large number of small ferries and small boats. Therefore, the Huaidong Army
In a short time, the army had to cross the Feng River, enter the west bank, and continue to approach Yanjing. They would either build a forcible trestle or directly transport earth to fill in several dam roads.
Fan Wenlan said: "There are dozens of gaps in the embankment on the east side of Fenghe River. If the Huaidong Army sends people to transport soil to fill the dam road across the river, it will only increase the degree of siltation on the east bank. If we are lucky enough to reduce it,
After a heavy rainstorm, the area east of the Fenghe River is likely to become a deeper flooded country due to the blockage of water... The Huaidong Army attaches great importance to construction and will not fail to consider this situation. It should build a trestle bridge to storm over!"
Tong Huacheng knew that Fan Wenlan was a man with great knowledge in military affairs and politics, so he was able to be reused by the emperor. Unfortunately, the emperor was unconscious. All the princes and ministers in Yanjing City couldn't wait to reveal their distrust of Han officials.
, no matter how talented Fan Wenlan is, there is nothing he can do at this time. Even he, who was born in the Tong family, did not give Na Hewu Gu a good look for three or four days in a row due to his different strategies.
Listening to Fan Wenlan's judgment that the Huaidong Army would build a trestle bridge to cross the river, Tong Huacheng nodded. The strongest point of the Huaidong Army was not just how powerful its soldiers were, but also its craftsmanship was unparalleled in the world.
The Huaidong Army only used a day or two to quickly build a dozen trestles on the Fenghe River so that its horsemen and infantry could forcefully rush to the west bank. Tong Huacheng, who had been studying Huaidong at close range for the past seven or eight years, had no idea what he was doing.
There is not much doubt about this.
The widest part of the Fenghe River is only one or two hundred paces, and the narrowest part is only twenty or thirty paces. Although Dayan soldiers and horses control the west bank of the Fenghe River, the Huaidong Army is on the east bank and can block two to three hundred paces with crossbows.
space, the Fuhuo Crossbow's blockade range is even further to an astonishing extent.
The soldiers and horses of Dayan wanted to prevent the Huaidong Army's engineering troops from building a trestle bridge on the Feng River. The generals could only withstand the intensive shooting of the Huaidong Army's crossbow array, and approached the west bank embankment to destroy the bridge construction - perhaps without stopping the Huaidong Army.
Build a bridge, ask the Huaidong Army to cross the river with a few soldiers and horses, then use elite cavalry to rush into their formation, and then use the cover of the Huaidong Army soldiers to approach the trestle and destroy it; repeating this will definitely consume the offensive energy of the Huaidong Army!