The Shuiying Clippers reported the news and headed east along the Huaihe River at a very fast speed. The messenger sent by the refugee army from Siyang rode on horseback and had to wade across the river along the way, but fell behind.
When Lin Fu received the news of the defeat of the Huaihe Army at Shukou, he immediately dispersed the only 400 light armored cavalry in the camp and chased and killed the scouts of Chen and Han who were scattered outside. Zhao Hu led his personal guards again
The new soldiers of the battalion moved in full force and advanced towards the main camp of Zhaiqiao.
Chen Hansan didn't think about anything else. He just withdrew the peripheral scouts and closed the camp to hold on until after dark. The light armored cavalry turned eastward and the infantry retreated south. Only then did the messenger sent by Siyang take advantage of the opportunity and enter the narrow bridge.
Ying met Chen Hansan.
"Pah!" Chen Hansan then learned of Siyang's great victory, and angrily hit the saddle with the whip handle, cursing, "Damn East China Sea fox, you have to wave your tail coquettishly before crossing the Huaihe River!" Calling for his followers.
, ordered, "Send out the spies overnight and make sure to find out where the Jiangdong Left Army's water camp and cavalry camp in Huai'an are heading before dawn!"
Chen Hansan still doesn't know how many infantrymen Lin Fu transferred from Shukou before dark. What is certain is that no matter how elite the infantrymen of the Jiangdong Left Army are, they must gallop through the Huaisi area without the strength of the water camp and the cavalry camp.
Cooperate.
"Regardless of how the Jiangdong Left Army moves, we must ask the Zuo Guard Army to immediately send cavalry to deploy along the east bank of the Yishui River. This will definitely delay the Jiangdong Left Army for two to three days. Ma Ye and Gan Ye will have enough time.
Wipe out all the officers and soldiers crossing the Huaihe River in Siyang, and we can expect a great victory!" The person who came from Siyang to deliver the message was Zhang Gou, a subordinate of Sun Zhuang. Both Malantou and Sun Zhuang knew that they had to persuade Chen Hansan to drag the Jiangdong Left Army with all their strength.
In Shukou, there is no use sending an ordinary character here.
In addition to Chen Hansan's troops, Sun Zhuang also had 3,000 elite infantry in the east camp of Zhaiqiao. However, judging from the situation in front of him, Lin Fu had led an unknown number of elite troops to advance westward in advance. Unless Chen Hansan sent cavalry to pursue and intercept,
The infantry simply couldn't catch up.
Chen Hansan looked at the sky. There were fish-scale light clouds covering the sky. The stars and the moon were dim. It was dim and not very bright. It was obviously not a good weather for traveling at night. He said: "It's so dark. If the East China Sea Fox comes back again,
You are cunning, how can you use ghost skills to transport troops? I sent scouts to keep an eye on Shukou. The left army in Jiangdong wants to use water to transport troops. I immediately sent troops to suppress it, so as not to miss the big event in Siyang!"
"Lin Fushan led his troops to move at night. In his first battle in Yannan, he defeated the elite of the Donglu King's tent on a snowy night and won the great victory in Cangnan. The left guard army must be on guard!" Zhang Gou advised.
Chen Hansan frowned and said: "The fields are full of potholes, and the cavalry is driving at night. I don't know how many horses will be lost! You have never fought with the Jiangdong Left Army, so you don't know their cunning. They dig holes in the battlefield.
The big pit is covered with floating grass and is very inconspicuous, but when the horse steps into it, it will make a "click" sound, and a good horse will have to break one of its legs to be useless..."
"Master Gan said that as long as the Zuohu Army holds back the Jiangdong Zuojun, no matter how many men and horses are lost here, we will double the amount to you after the war!" Zhang Gou said unwillingly.
"What's the noise?" Chen Hansan said impatiently, "Do you think I'm sparing my troops and not fighting? I didn't move at the narrow bridge, and the Jiangdong left army didn't dare to give up on Shukou. Even if the fox drew three
Four thousand soldiers are advancing westward, and Ma Shuai and Gan Shuai cannot handle it? If I act rashly and let the Jiangdong Left Army take advantage of it, killing the soldiers and horses greatly, and the entire Jiangdong Zuo Army moves westward, then I will destroy Ma Shuai and Gan Shuai.
Shuai Zai’s plan to annihilate the enemy!”
No matter how he tried to persuade him, Chen Hansan was just being cunning and refused to use his wealth to drag the Jiangdong Left Army to Shukou. Zhang Gou tried his best to persuade Chen Hansan, but when he saw that he could not persuade Chen Hansan, he felt secretly resentful and had no other solution, so he said:
"If Zuo Hujun is determined to do this, then please allow me and Chen Zhi to lead our troops to the west..."
"Those are the soldiers of you and Commander Gan. If you want to advance westward, I can't stop you." Chen Hansan said at this time, not wanting to leave Sun Zhuang's 3,000 elite infantrymen to guard the east camp, "If you
If you fell into the East China Sea Fox's trick, don't blame me for not warning you in advance!"
"Thank you Zuo Hujun for reminding me." Zhang Gou clasped his fists with regret and left.
Zhang Gou arrived at Dongying and met up with Chen Zhi, the tiger who climbed the city, and immediately prepared to break camp overnight and chase west.
Donghai Hu Linfu probably led an elite group westward in the afternoon, but his water camp in Shanyang had not moved yet, and he was traveling on two legs and could not go very fast.
The Yishui River blocks the way to the west. Even though the Yishui River is not wide and shallow, the water camp of the Zuo Army from the east of the Yangtze River will come to take the ferry. There is no ready-made ferry. Three or four thousand people will board the boat tomorrow afternoon.
Afterwards, the Jiangdong Left Army had to go upstream to find a place to land on the north bank of the Huaihe River west of Si River. With soldiers and horses here to monitor and intercept, it would not be a short time before they could enter Siyang.
Zhang Gou thought that they could take the pontoon bridge built by the Yishui River Fenghe camp in the northwest direction and quickly reach the west bank of Surabaya.
The Jiangdong Left Army wanted to seize the beach in Siyang, but the water camp of the Jiangdong Left Army could not spare the troops to blockade the Sishui River. They had the opportunity to cross the Sishui River to support the battle in Siyang...
Considering that Jiangdong Left Army would set up an ambush to intercept them on the way, Chen Hansan did not dare to send out cavalry, but to ensure a great victory in Siyang, Zhang Gou and Chen Zhi could not care too much, as long as they could ensure the complete annihilation of the Huaihe River crossing into Siyang
Officers and soldiers, even if we spend all the three thousand soldiers and horses here, it is worth it.
At that moment, Zhang Gou and Chen Zhi gathered three thousand soldiers and horses, took three days' worth of dry food, dismantled some camp tents to make torches, and marched westward with the empty camp, leaving the east camp to Chen Hansan to defend.
Zhang Gou and Chen Zhi led their troops into the west bank of the Sushui River and headed towards the Yishui River. There was no well-organized official road. Most of the rural soil was washed away by the heavy rains in summer. With the faint light of the stars and moon, in the surrounding fields, deep
One foot was shallow and the other was heading west. By midnight, they had gone less than thirty miles. The team was already loose and scattered, and the formation was spread out five or six miles in length.
He ordered the soldiers to stop for a short rest and drank the dry biscuits with cold water. At this time, they saw a fire burning in the northwest, making the sky red.
Zhang Gou turned pale with shock, stood up suddenly, and asked Chen Zhi in disbelief: "That's the Yishui camp over there?"
"It's impossible for Jiangdong Zuojun to fight through, right?" Chen Zhi was also very surprised.
Including the time when the Jiangdong Left Army might have set off from Shukou, it would only have been seven or eight hours at most.
If the fire in the direction of Yishui Camp was really caused by Jiangdong Zuojun, it means that in such a short period of time, Jiangdong Zuojun not only ran non-stop for more than a hundred miles to Yishui Camp, but also did not stop.
Launch an offensive.
"Why did the left army in the east of the Yangtze River not use the water camp to take the ferry to Siyang to rescue Liu Tingzhou, but instead went to the northwest to seize the Yishui camp? Do they want to seize the Yishui camp's pontoon bridge to cross the Yishui River and rush to the east bank of Surabaya to use water again?
The camp will then cross over to Siyang?" Chen Zhi asked.
"It's possible. They couldn't figure out the situation of the officers and soldiers crossing the Huaihe River led by Liu Tingzhou in Siyang for a while. They were worried that Marshal Ma and Commander Sun would take the opportunity to force their troops to cross the Huaihe River. It's not difficult to understand why the Shuiying did not dare to leave Shanyang lightly.
Since the water camp cannot be transferred, the first batch of reinforcements led by Lin Fu can only go overland to the east bank of Surabaya!" Zhang Gou analyzed, thought for a moment, and then said, "We attacked Yuntiguan before, and we also attacked it all night.
Next. Although the Yishui camp is a bit crude and cannot be compared with the Yunti Pass in Huaikou, the defenders are far more numerous than the officers and soldiers at the Yunti Pass and will not leave easily - we can fight if we rush there.
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"Whether it's the Yishui camp of the Jiangdong Left Army, Chen Hansan can't just sit back and watch this time, right?" Chen Zhi said while blowing his nose.
The camp blocking Yishui was also under the command of Chen Hansan. Chen Hansan did not want to drag the Jiangdong Left Army to Shukou desperately to ensure victory in Siyang, but he would not stand idly by when his troops were attacked.
Sishui is the main waterway connecting the Yangtze and Huaihe Rivers to Heji. In order to ensure that Sishui still has sufficient water levels in the dry seasons of autumn and winter, Yishui built a dam in the lower reaches of the south of Tancheng County. This is actually filled with rocks and siltation, forcing the Yishui River to
The water level rises, diverting river water from the Xinhe River into Surabaya. As a result, the Yishui River downstream of the dam becomes a shallow river that is unfavorable for the passage of large ships.
The barrage became an obstacle for large and small ships to enter Tancheng County northward. Therefore, after the capture of Tancheng County, the refugee army was not worried that Huainan officers and soldiers would go north from Yishui River to aid Xuzhou.
Due to the existence of the barrage, ships of all sizes cannot travel north and south. However, precisely because of the existence of the barrage, soldiers and horses on the east bank can find out the location of the barrage and can wade to the west bank without using a boat bridge.
Chen Hansan was cautious. In addition to stationing troops and horses in Tancheng County, he also set up a Yishui camp at the dam and stationed 4,000 troops.
No one expected that the Jiangdong Zuojun rushed to rescue Siyang and did not rush to transfer the water camp to pick up the ferry. Instead, they detoured to the Yishui barrage, intending to break through the Yishui camp and then cross the river.
Zhang Gou and Chen Zhi calculated the distance. The Tancheng County defenders rushed to Yishui Camp to support them, but they might not be faster than them. They immediately stopped to rest and urged the soldiers to walk all night, thinking that Chen Hansan would see the direction of Yishui Camp.
When the fire started, they sent cavalry to help, and they should arrive at about the same time as them... As long as the Yishui camp holds on until tomorrow noon, if they rush over, they can give the Jiangdong left army a perfect cover-up.
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Yishui Daying is similar to Zhaiqiao Daying. It also has east and west camps on both sides of the river. However, there are no ready-made villages that can be used as town forts. Yishui Daying is a fence camp made of felled wood. Compared with Zhaiqiao Daying,
Much thinner.
This also shows that the manpower and material resources that the refugee army can organize in a short period of time are far from being comparable to the Jiangdong Left Army.
In just one month, the Jiangdong Zuojun built a new solid fortress at Shukou on the south bank of the Huaihe River that was comparable in size to a county. They even wrapped the rammed earth wall with city wall bricks;
, and also built a large-scale ferry terminal.
Perhaps Yishui was not the main defense direction of the refugee army. The blockade of the north and south mainly relied on Tancheng in the north, and the number of troops stationed in the Yishui camp was much smaller.
That's fine, otherwise Lin Fu and the others wouldn't have been able to choose Yishui Camp for their breakthrough.
Lin Fu, Qin Chengzu, Ning Zechen and others set out from Shukou at noon, leading five battalions of infantry from the Fengli camp, one battalion of labor camp auxiliaries, one sentry heavy cavalry and two sentry auxiliary soldiers with swords and shields. Zhou Pu led four
More than a hundred light-armored cavalry first cooperated with Zhao Hu to attack the Zhaiqiao camp of Chen Hansan's headquarters. After dark, they turned west and came to join them.
Although when setting off from the Shukou camp, the main force was infantry and there were only about 200 heavy cavalry. However, the army was equipped with as many as a thousand horses and mules, which provided good maneuverability for short-distance thrusts across the wilderness.
It was about 140 miles from Shukou to the Yishui camp of the refugee army in the northwest. Four thousand elites rushed to the Yishui camp of the refugee army before dawn.
When we arrived at the Yishui Camp of the Refugee Army, it was still dark, but the stars and the moon were still shining brightly in the surrounding fields.
Lin Fu had no intention of letting the army rest for a while before attacking, so he wanted to take advantage of the enemy's unpreparedness and surprise, and attack at night.
In the twilight light, the refugee army was scattered outside the camp, and the scouts who were chasing them were galloping back with all their strength, shouting: "Attack, cover the door!" The whistle on the guard tower blew the horn, and in front of their eyes,
On the eastern horizon where the faint morning light shines, there are layers of shadows, and there is no telling how many soldiers and horses are attacking at night.
The soldiers of the refugee army who were sleeping soundly in the camp were awakened by the horn and were stunned. When they heard the general's scolding, they hurriedly got up, put on their military uniforms, picked up their weapons, and hurriedly went up to the village wall to guard. In the darkness, there were only a limited number of campfires.
More people are in confusion.
Outside the camp, the light cavalry dispersed, the heavy cavalry advanced in armor, and the auxiliary soldiers with swords and shields followed them, mixed with charging chariots, and then came the armored pawns supporting the shield chariots.
Rider A stopped a few miles away, reorganized his formation, and then raised his hoof from here, rushing to the outside of the fence just as his speed reached maximum.
The heavy armored cavalry, including man, horse and armor, weighed more than a thousand kilograms. In Lin Fu's view, they were human tanks. When the speed was raised to the highest level, four heavy armored cavalry could make the ground shake slightly.
The arrows shot from the wall of the village were blocked by the armor. A few arrows shot through the gaps between the armor plates, but they could not cause fatal injuries, and they could not stop four heavy armors.
He rode towards the fence wall, which was only three feet deep into the soil, and crashed into it.
The fence camp usually has two rows of fence walls, with the outside high and the inside low. The outer fence wall also has crenels for archery, and horizontal timbers are laid on the two rows of fence walls so that soldiers can stand on them to guard.
If possible, the middle of the two rows of fence walls should be filled with soil and compacted to strengthen the structural strength of the fence walls.
If there are still conditions, the two rows of fence walls should be erected as high as possible and spaced as wide as possible. The soil should be filled with lime, sandstone, bamboo reinforcements, and wood chips to form a real city wall, supplemented by rain protection measures.
It will be as strong as a fortress.
If there are still conditions, use the palisade wall as the wall core, increase the height and thickness of the rammed earth, and cover it with city bricks to form a truly solid city wall.
The refugee army set up a Yishui camp. In a hurry, the space between the two rows of fence walls was filled with sandy floating soil taken from nearby areas, and horizontal logs were laid on top to stand people. There was no way to take waterproofing measures.
For more than a month, there have been heavy rains for three to five out of ten days in the Huaisi area. The horizontal timbers laid cannot stop the rainwater from seeping into the fence wall, and the floating soil is washed out by the rainwater, effectively turning the fence wall into a hollow one.
There was no chance to use the charging car or the sling crossbow being assembled behind. Under the combined force of the four heavy armored riders, the current hollow fence wall of more than ten feet was seen tilting inward. The refugee soldiers on the fence were
It was also thrown away, with no chance to shoot the armored knight who landed on the ground.
The armored horses were naturally broken into pieces, and the cavalrymen on the horses were able to escape the fiercest impact and were thrown off their horses or pinned under their horses. The light-armored cavalry following behind them galloped away and dragged them away.
Make way for the entire row of armored cavalry to charge behind...
Although armored cavalry has many shortcomings, we have to admit that on special battlefields, armored cavalry has invincible power when used to attack fortresses.
Lin Fu sat on his horse and watched dozens of heavily armored cavalry jump into the enemy camp through the gap in the collapsed fence wall. Since the gap in the enemy camp was so easily broken, it was natural for the armored soldiers to follow...