The refugee army was defeated, and Sun Zhuang followed him and fled north.
The moon was about to disappear in the sky, and the sky was filled with thin clouds. Sun Zhuang was unable to gather the scattered soldiers. Two of the four trusted followers who followed him across the river died, one was separated, and one person was left with him.
Fortunately, the soldiers and horses on the east bank of the Shushui River were intact. They were only blocked by the Shushui River and were beyond the reach of the war on the west bank. They raised their torches and spread out along the bank. Sun Zhuang fled north for nearly ten miles and escaped when he saw his pursuers retreating.
Armor swam across the bank and met up with the elite troops on the east bank. The pursuers retreated, illuminated by torches from the east bank, and the skirmishers on the west bank gradually calmed down. Sun Zhuang sent people over to lead the retreat to the north.
Sun Zhuang fought this battle in a depressing manner. All his elite troops were blocked on the east bank. On the west bank, except for the more than 200 elite troops sent by Chen Hansan, the others were miscellaneous soldiers raising food from all over the place.
In the end, they were killed in a huge rout, which made Sun Zhuang feel particularly dissatisfied.
The officers and soldiers had sentry boats to search the Shushui River. There were not a large number of ferries or pontoons. Sun Zhuang could not lead his two thousand cavalry across the river under the supervision of the officers and soldiers. He could only send people to the river fork to monitor the movements of the officers and soldiers landing on the other side.
It's just that the mouth of the river is too wide, and with the river beach, it's still five or six miles away from the water's edge. You can only vaguely see some blurry black shadows under the torches, so it's hard to know the specific movements on the other side.
Sun Zhuang led 2,000 cavalry and continued to retreat north. There was a relatively narrow waterway in the Shushui River in the north. It was convenient to cross the river and block the river to restrict the penetration of officers and soldiers' warships into the upper reaches of the Shushui River. Chen Hansan had already led his troops there.
The siege of Shuyang City cannot be allowed to be disrupted by this new group of officers and soldiers.
I set fire to the dark and walked north for more than ten miles until I reached the narrow bridge. The Sushui River here was only three hundred paces wide. In the early years, there was a wooden bridge on it, but it collapsed due to floods, and there are still two half-rotted bridges.
Piles were erected on the river beach...
When we rushed to the narrow bridge, the other side was on fire like daylight. Thousands of people were camped on the other side. After asking the sentry who came to contact them, they found out that Chen Hansan had led his troops to arrive here. Knowing that the previously intercepted troops and horses were defeated, he came here
Stop here.
Sun Zhuang fucked Chen Hansan and his blind mother-in-law 10,000 times. He thought that he had sent two hundred elites to the shore to intercept him before. It was better for him to drag behind and gather thousands of people to go out, and his movements were natural.
It would be too late to make the trip. If Chen Hansan was convinced and could directly send a thousand cavalry to block the coast, and then send one or two thousand infantry to follow, it would not be a big problem to stop this group of officers and soldiers and prevent them from boarding the north bank.
There are also more than a dozen small boats connected together in the river, sealing the river channel - Sun Zhuang was born in a water village, and he knew that such a boat formation could only stop the officers and soldiers' warships from rushing upstream at night, so he pressed Chen's command.
Han San was dissatisfied and crossed the river to see Chen Hansan, the commander of the left guard army.
"We need to dig more hidden piles in front of the boat formation. If we are not afraid of trouble in the future, we will sink a few more boats and fill up the deep channel. It is best to have a long iron chain, which can directly seal the river channel!" Sun Zhuang is also straight-tempered. See,
Chen Hansan directly talked about the boat formation and refrained from complaining about the delay in sending troops. After a while, he smacked his lips and said, "These officers and soldiers are hard to chew. If we don't drive them off the shore,
I'm afraid it won't be possible to besiege Shuyang! It will also be difficult to transport the food from Yunti Pass to Suyu!"
"If Jiangdong Zuojun is easy to chew, there will be no place in the world that your grandson cannot go!" Chen Hansan's face was as red as a jujube under the light of the campfire. It was hard to see what emotion he had when he said this.
Sun Zhuang was slightly startled. After fighting for a long time, he realized that he was fighting against the world-famous Jiangdong Zuojun. He was not afraid. There was still a chance to suppress the soldiers on the beach. Most of the refugee troops who would only gather on the north bank were
The miscellaneous soldiers are not strong enough.
Sun Zhuang raised his head and stared at Chen Hansan's face, smiled without concealing it, and thought to himself: I said that you, the boy, procrastinated and gathered thousands of people to go south, but you were frightened by the name of the Jiangdong Left Army.
Already.
When Chen Hansan saw the disdain in Sun Zhuang's eyes so openly, he felt sullen and a little embarrassed. No matter how strong Jiangdong Zuojun was, it was just a rumor. Who had seen it with his own eyes?
Sun Zhuang did not make trouble with Chen Hansan. Zhang Gou went to Suyu to see Commander An. Chen Zhi wanted to guard Yunti Pass with 700,000 to 80,000 shi of life-saving food. Except for 600 cavalry, the others in his hands were useless.
In order to drive the Jiangdong Left Army down the Huaihe River, Chen Hansan's troops in Shuyang were also needed.
Chen Hansan was not a direct descendant of the Hongzepu Refugee People's Army, but also claimed the title of Tianyi Zuohujun. Knowing that Liu An'er's generals had some opinions about him, he hid some displeasure and strengthened the efforts to lock the river here overnight.
Driving hidden piles in front of the ship array, scuttling several ships, locking the ship array together with iron rings, removing flammable sails and masts, and smearing mud on the ship boards to prevent the Jiangdong left army from setting fire to the ships when they charged into the array.
They also built a fort on each side of the boat formation. Feeling that this was not enough, they sent people overnight to find the iron furnace and open fire to lock the river chain.
In addition to preventing Jiangdong's Left Army from reaching Shuyang City from the Shushui River, Jiangdong's Left Army must also be driven down the Huaihe River. This will not allow Jiangdong's Left Army, which has defeated the Donglu cavalry four times in infantry battles, to stand firm on the north bank!
There was no sign that Jiangdong's left army had landed on the east bank of the Shushui River. After dawn, Sun Zhuang took his 2,000 infantry and cavalry on the east bank to the west bank, gathering the broken troops and still had more than 3,000 troops.
Chen Hansan's troops were even larger. A total of 6,000 troops were drawn from the outskirts of Shuyang, all of which were elites from his headquarters. They were far inferior to Sun Zhuang's 3,000 infantry and cavalry, who were mostly miscellaneous soldiers.
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It was bright enough to see clearly, so Sun Zhuang urged Chen Hansan to join him in sending troops south to attack the north bank of the Huaihe River. More than 20 miles away, when the warm sun rises above the treetops, you can see the east of the Yangtze River from a high slope on your horse.
The left army formed camps east of the Shu River and north of the Huai River.
The left army from Jiangdong, which landed overnight, was divided into three groups, with two groups in the front, using shield cars with short spears to form car camps.
The two car camps were 400 paces on Wednesday. Counting them in detail, nearly five or six hundred shield cars were used.
There are dozens of short spears thrust out from the front of each shield chariot, making the shield chariot a chariot that can charge and defend.
The armored soldiers were arrayed in the chariot camp, layer upon layer, and there were probably no less than a thousand armored soldiers behind each chariot camp.
Sun Zhuang cursed in his stomach, Jiangdong's left army was too strong. Five or six hundred chariots only used tens of thousands of short spears. If his subordinates could equip these five or six hundred chariots, one or two thousand Donglu'er
What's there to be afraid of? But he had to admit that this hedgehog-like formation of shield vehicles did give him a headache.
Apart from the two shield chariot formations in the front, what gave Sun Zhuang even more headache was the one in the back near the Huaihe River where the Jiangdong Left Army was building a barracks.
Most of the camps and carriage camps are temporary in nature.
Even if the shield car camp is like a hedgehog, as long as they have a duel advantage in terms of military strength, and their soldiers dare to fight and are not afraid of death, a dozen people can dig a hole in the shield car camp and directly carry a big log.
Using cavalry to charge and using lives to fill them can also scatter the shield chariot camp into pieces - even if the chariots are connected together, they are very weak.
Jiezha camp is prepared for long-term persistence.
Adding horses and iron caltrops to the wooden palisade wall, digging trenches outside, or even building two wooden palisade walls with rammed earth in between can strengthen the fortress and make it much more difficult to attack by force.
The Muzha Camp needs to cut down wood for a fence. The Jiangdong Zuo Army just landed last night. There are no large forests nearby. It is thought that these wooden fences were prepared in advance when the Jiangdong Zuo Army came over - the front wooden fence wall has been built.
, the front alone is nearly 400 paces long, what a huge scale the camp is! After it is built, it will be no less than a city - Sun Zhuang thought that the left army in Jiangdong is fully prepared!
Seeing the cold light flickering in the grass in front of the horse, Sun Zhuang thought that it should be the iron caltrops emanating from him. There were hundreds of cavalry behind the wooden fence wall. The Jiangdong left army was so extravagant that they used warships to transport their war horses.
Only the large-scale naval battle we saw last night has such a large space. Take the black boat in Hongzeeppo. A ship can carry two or three horses over a long distance. It is as big as the sky!
Seeing the formation of Jiangdong's left army on the north bank of the Huai River, and the intention of forming a strong camp for a long time, Sun Zhuang suddenly felt that it was very difficult. He couldn't help but look at Chen Hansan and thought to himself: How to fight this battle?
Chen Hansan also secretly regretted it. After receiving the news last night, he sent two thousand cavalry to blockade the coast, so that he would not have to face such a difficult problem. Shuyang could not be captured or completely blocked. Yue Lengqiu still had other options.
The passage south from Linyi has not been lost. Now it seems that it is difficult to attack Shuyang without driving the Jiangdong Left Army down the Huaihe River. But how can we attack the Jiangdong Left Army with such a tight array?
The Zha camp was built in half, and the two shield chariot formations were in front of each other to protect each other. There were still a few armored soldiers arrayed between the chariot camp and the Cha camp. They had to break up the two shield chariot camp formations to threaten the following.
In the Zha camp, we must also be prepared for a sudden attack by the Jiangdong Left Army's cavalry behind the Zha camp.
The Jiangdong Left Army is famous for its infantry victory over the Donglu and its water victory over the East China Sea pirates. It may not be bad at cavalry.
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At this time, Zhang Yubo and Liu Tingzhou, the prefect of Huai'an, crossed the Huaihe River to meet Lin Fu. When crossing the river, they saw a large group of bandits coming from the direction of Shuyang.
Lin Fu's boat was parked in the river, but Lin Fu himself had already gone to the north bank in person. Zhang Yubo didn't care, he wanted to go to the north bank to see him, but Liu Tingzhou's scalp was numb and his back was cold, even under the not-so-hot sun.
There is sweat oozing out.
The Huai'an government army fought against these rogue bandits on the north bank and was severely defeated, losing thousands of soldiers and horses. Liu Tingzhou knew that this group of people who interspersed between Shuyang and Huai'an was definitely the elite of the rogue bandits.
Liu Tingzhou was worried about whether the Jiangdong Left Army's hasty landing on the north bank could block the attack of the rogue bandits. He was panic-stricken, but he had to bite the bullet and meet Lin Fu, the Huaidong Jing bandit commander who had control over him.