Standing in the golden morning light, the wind and snow have stopped, and the thick snow is so white that people can't look at it for a long time.
Above and below the stone seawall, extending for two or three miles, there are figures of Donglu cavalry, Jiangdong left army and Cangnan village soldiers fighting. The white snow, black armor, red blood and silver-shining
The sharp blade was particularly dazzling in the morning light.
Lin Fu led the first battalion to cross the Cangnan Plain in the blizzard, leading the horse at night. The main thing was to use the horse's body to block the wind and snow, which was more energy-saving than riding directly on the horse. In such difficult conditions, from Yang
Leling from Xinbei forced himself nearly a hundred miles away to lure Na Yanbu to Cangnan.
When they arrived at the stone embankment of the seawall in the east sea of Xiaobotou Village, most of the generals were exhausted. Lin Fu also felt that his legs were weak, but the more than a thousand cavalrymen of the Yan tribe could not get there any better than them.
This section of the seawall is a stone seawall, mainly built by the people of Cangnan to prevent sea tides. It is one foot, two or three feet high from the fields outside, and the top of the dike is wider. An enemy cavalry who is skilled in riding and shooting is coming from the north.
Chase along the pond.
No matter how wide the top of the dike is, there is a limit. Four flying cars blocked the seawall tightly. One hundred and fifty or sixty crossbows were loaded with arrows and lined up to take turns to shoot. After shooting, they went down to the seawall, with four or five rounds of crossbows.
Rapidly firing into the air, the swordsmen, shieldmen, and spearmen charged back at the pursuing enemy cavalry under the cover of the flying contracart.
The cavalry of the Jiangdong Left Army was not yet elite enough to kill the enemy at high speed on the seawall, which was just over ten feet wide. The battle on the sea wall could only be left to the armored soldiers. Ma Pohou led a group of armored soldiers to charge forward.
Due to the narrow impact surface, only one soldier from the capital team is needed to launch a counterattack on the seawall.
There are two groups of armored soldiers guarding Lin Fu. The other armored soldiers and cavalry are all lined up along the seawall with Ao Canghai, waiting for battle. They have been forced to fight all night. They desperately need to rest. Try to avoid putting them into battle right away, otherwise they will
It made many people exhausted.
In addition to the more than 300 enemy cavalry who wanted to outflank the first battalion from outside the seawall, they were stopped by the fifth battalion led by Ning Zechen who came out of Xiaobotou Village. Most of the Donglu cavalry also gathered in the southern section of the seawall.
There was no time to expand. The formation of these Donglu cavalry was chaotic and crowded, and the men and horses were exhausted. Many of them were preparing to boil hot water, eat some dry noodles, fill their stomachs, and fight vigorously. Who would have thought that after a night of pursuit, they would be lured to the enemy?
Coming from the ambush circle? Cao Ziang, Zhao Qingshan, and Zhou Pu personally led the second battalion, fourth battalion, and third battalion armored soldiers from three sides to form an encirclement and suppress the Donglu enemy cavalry. In addition, hundreds of cavalry formed a formation and dispersed.
On the second line, there are hundreds of Cangnan Village soldiers forming a third line of encirclement on the periphery...
Hungry and deflated, they had to march all night in such bad weather. No matter how elite the Donglu cavalry were, there were times when their legs became weak.
Lin Fu led the first battalion and the Nayan tribe to deal with the situation between Yangxin and Jiyin for five days. Cao Ziang and others led the main force of the Jiangdong left army to calmly and roundaboutly rush to Xiaobotou Village and rest for three days, and Sun Shangwang came forward.
After contacting Cangnan, they still stood firm at Wuzhai waiting for help, and gathered four to five hundred Cangnan soldiers. In Cangnan, the main force of the Jiangdong left army not only waited for work, but was unprepared for an attack. When the first battalion returned, its strength was close to 4,000
The number of people is three to four times that of the Donglu Nayan tribe.
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Na Yan stood on the seawall, surrounded on three sides except for the icy sea water behind him, and there was no possibility of breaking out.
Only Azige led a small number of cavalry to rush out before the encirclement was formed, but the 300 ethnic soldiers he led were intercepted by the Jiangdong Left Army. Except for a few Azige who escaped, they suffered heavy casualties, and the rest were forced into the encirclement.
Come in.
The Jiangdong Left Army had five or six hundred cavalry on the periphery. Only the fifty or sixty exhausted cavalry led by Azig harassing the periphery could not shake the encirclement at all. Since Azig's men and horses walked all night, they were all
Very tired, but the cavalry and horses of the Jiangdong Left Army were full of energy, and the gap between the combat power of the two sides was eliminated. The cavalry of the Jiangdong Left Army could take advantage of the numerical advantage to kill in the periphery.
Aziq Department.
Nayan sent the guards waving flags to send orders to Azig to call for reinforcements. Nayan knew that the reinforcements would not be able to catch up and that they would be annihilated if they could not break out of the encirclement. However, he did not want Azig to give up the chance to break out of the encirclement.
Lost his life.
The generals of Jiangdong's left army were very cunning. They did not give them any time to breathe. They formed an encirclement and used crossbow arrows to snipe them. Moreover, the crossbow arrows had no feathers. They picked them up and used them as mounted bows to shoot. Their accuracy and stability were extremely poor.
The several bed crossbows in Jiangdong Zuojun's array that were dragged slowly forward by carts were even more disappointing. The distance from the outer ring of the encirclement to the seaside was less than the range of the bed crossbows, which meant that every time the bed crossbows fired,
Arrows, two or three people here will inevitably be shot through the body.
The Jiangdong Left Army's vehicles are also very unusual. They rarely use Flying Contradictory vehicles to form vehicle formations. In the past few days, Nayan has observed carefully that this Jiangdong Left Army often fights in groups of four or five, with a Flying Contradictory vehicle on the high shield.
With the cooperation, it can provide sufficient protection for three or four groups against cavalry attacks. At most, two flying contradiction vehicles are combined together, and it is rare for dozens of vehicles to be connected to form a vehicle formation.
The tactics are so flexible, and the combat awareness of ordinary soldiers is so strong, how could they be new soldiers? Na Yan still refuses to believe that the Jiangdong Left Army in front of him is a new army that has only been organized for more than two months.
On the open and unobstructed seawall, it was undoubtedly a daydream to hold on until reinforcements arrived. Na Yan and Na Tuzhen, who had retreated, said: "This is the only time to break through. The longer it takes, the less strength everyone has...
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"Dongmanzi is ready to break out..."
The narrow seawall can easily form an unbreakable defense line on both the north and south sides. Only the broad side of the seawall facing the Cangnan Plain is the only direction from which the Donglu cavalry can break through. The six inner posts of more than 1,200 armored soldiers are all led by Cao Ziang and Zhao Qingshan.
Under unified command from the front, Zhou Pu rode up to Lin Fu, preparing to have generals on the second and third lines capable of encirclement and annihilation after the Donglu cavalry broke through the inner line.
Lin Fu was sitting on a tree stump, munching on flatbread with sweet fruit wine. Sitting here, he could clearly see the deployment of Yanbu along the slope of the pond. He saw Sun Shangwang approaching in a hurry.
Ask him: "Has the river ice cut through it?"
"It's so thick that the entire river bed seems to be frozen. I'm afraid it won't be possible to dig it out until noon..." Sun Shangwang said.
"Then send someone to tell Cao Zi'ang and ask him to lead the six sentry soldiers and hold on until noon..." Lin Fu said to Zhou Pu.
Cangnan is close to the sea. The rivers dry up in autumn and winter, and a large amount of sea water recharges. The ice layer of the rivers near Cangnan is not very thick. However, it has been particularly cold this year. Although the sea water has not frozen, the ice layer of several rivers has not yet frozen.
Both are thicker, but it is much better than having the entire river bed in the middle and upper reaches covered by ice.
There were two other people who came with Sun Shangwang. One of them was the head of Xiaobotou Village and the head of the Sun family, the leader of the Cangnan area. Sun Fengyi, who was about forty years old and powerful, came over and cupped his fists at Lin Fu.
Salute: "Sun Fengyi from Cangxian County meets Mr. Lin..."
"There are not many other places in Gyeonggi. The little seventh-grade governor is definitely worthless. Mr. Sun, don't be too restrained." Lin Fu asked Sun Fengyi, Sun Shangwang and a township representative to sit down and talk.
Excuse me, I haven't come to say thank you to Mr. Sun yet... let's not mention other things for now, let's watch us work together to annihilate these more than a thousand Eastern barbarians, so that the Cangnan folks can ask the imperial court for their credit."
Sun Shangwang squinted and looked at the seawall in the distance. Nearly a thousand Donglu cavalry were densely scattered on the side of the seawall.
Since the Donglu cavalry was divided into six groups to break through the border and plunder, except for the battle of Gaoyang under Yang Zhaoqi, where thousands of Donglu people were killed and injured, the officers and soldiers rarely had records of annihilating more than a thousand enemies. After all, the Gaoyang battle was a huge defeat for the imperial court.
After bringing in 20,000 elite troops, if Lin Fu could successfully annihilate most of the Eastern Barbarian cavalry, it would be a great achievement.
What's more, many of these more than a thousand cavalry are royal soldiers who are regarded as proud by the Donghu people. The total number of Donghu Wang's tent guards is only more than 9,000. If four to five hundred people die at once, probably even the leader of the Donghu people will die.
It will hurt for a while.
Sun Fengyi said respectfully: "Your Excellency, you are so humble..." The governor who was able to lead an independent Jiangdong left army and annihilate more than a thousand Dongzhi in this freezing and snowy weather was by no means an ordinary person.
Tong's seventh-grade governor.
Lin Fu smiled slightly, and at this time the Donglu cavalry surrounding the seawall began to move and break out.