When Lin Fu sent Liu Xilin to lead 300 soldiers into Xuzhou City, he had three intentions: first, to confuse Chen Hansan, thinking that Liu Xilin was really representing Huaidong and conspiring with him to surrender and lure the enemy; second, to retreat to Chu during the war.
The palace, using the Chu palace to contain Chen Hansan's troops in the city, still wants to confuse Chen Hansan's judgment; the third is to cooperate with the Huaidong army who rushed to the city at this time, attack the city gate, and welcome the army.
Enter the city.
Although King Yuan Hancheng of Chu had also experienced war, his understanding of military affairs was very limited. Seeing that there were still a large number of rebels in Xuzhou City, he wanted to secure the palace first. However, the enemy's military strength was like water, and the enemy's morale was already serious.
He was shaken and could not have much will to fight. Even if there were twice as many enemy troops in the city, Liu Xilin would dare to fight. Why should he be afraid that the three thousand enemy troops in the city would be scattered everywhere?
Although Liu Xilin could ignore the opinions of King Yuan Hancheng of Chu and rush out of the Chu palace with 300 soldiers alone, he had to respect Zhang Yubo's opinions.
Zhang Yubo saw Liu Xilin looking over. He had worked with Liu Xilin for many years. How could he not understand his determination? He grabbed the saber around his waist and said: "The rebels are no longer able to attack the Chu Palace, and the guard camp is enough. Great achievements can be easily obtained. Three hundred
The brave soldiers must not be able to surrender and defend this place. Please stay here, my lord, and Xilin and I will rush out, seize a city gate, and welcome Huaidong soldiers into Xuzhou City!"
"Master Zhang and Prince Chu will stay here to provide support. It will be up to us soldiers to rush into battle and kill the enemy..." Liu Xilin said. As long as Zhang Yubo agrees, he doesn't want a civil servant to take risks. If Zhang Yubo
There are three advantages and two disadvantages, but he doesn't want to explain them.
Although Yuan Hancheng was conservative, he was not pedantic, so he called the commander of the royal guard camp to him and said: "Go and ask the generals of the guard camp. If there is anyone who is willing to take military glory and seek wealth, he can rush out with Captain Liu...
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The commander of the guard camp did not want to risk his own life for the sake of merit. At this time, he still had to guard the palace to prevent the influx of rebel troops. However, there were generals under his command who followed him out to kill, so naturally he was indispensable for winning the military merit, so he immediately
Send out your cronies to recruit volunteers who are willing to follow you out of the government to fight and gain military merit.
For the lower-level officers and soldiers who have no background and rely only on bravery to make a living, there is no way to get ahead. There are also many adventurous people who dare to lick blood on the edge of the knife; even among the hundreds of Yamen soldiers who retreated to the Chu Palace with Zhang Yubo,
More than thirty people came forward, willing to rush out with Liu Xilin.
Liu Xilin quickly gathered 500 warriors, led the front line with Huaidong Jia soldiers, lowered the door panel as a large shield, opened the north gate, and rushed towards the rebels blocking the north gate.
Zhang Yubo and Liu Xilin led their troops to retreat into the Chu Palace. Chen Hansan did not want to contain too many troops for the Chu Palace. He only deployed five or six hundred soldiers at the north and south gates to blockade them. They wanted to defeat the main force of the Huaidong Army entering Xuzhou.
, and then clean up these little miscellaneous fish. Who would have thought that these little miscellaneous fish, which were not very noticeable at the beginning of the war, would become the last straw that broke the rebels' minds.
The rebels demolished the houses outside the north and south gates of the Prince of Chu's Mansion, piled bricks and stones into a wall about chest high, and built a simple barricade with horses and other objects. If nothing happened on the Jingma River battlefield, they would use barricades and
It was enough for two battalions of soldiers to block more than a thousand miscellaneous soldiers inside the Prince of Chu's Mansion without being able to get out.
At this time, the situation reversed, and the main force of the Xuzhou rebels was defeated in the Jingma River battlefield, causing casualties and casualties. This had an earth-shaking impact on the aspirations of both parties involved in the war.
The Huaidong Army was rushing towards Xuzhou City. There were only three thousand guards left in Xuzhou City. Even at this time, no one knew whether Chen Hansan was dead or alive, and people were panicked.
The Huaidong Army came towards Xuzhou City with only six to seven hundred cavalry. However, the Huaidong Army now completely controlled the Jingma River battlefield, and more troops and horses would be mobilized to attack Xuzhou City at any time.
The six to seven hundred Huaidong Army who came in advance seemed more likely to prevent the three thousand defenders of Xuzhou City from easily escaping from the city.
The defenders at the top of Xuzhou City were not thinking more about holding on to the city and waiting for reinforcements, but about whether they could escape, or whether they could simply open the door and surrender in exchange for a life.
How could the five or six hundred rebels deployed at the north gate of the Chu Palace have any intention of continuing to blockade the Chu Palace at this time? However, they did not receive further orders and did not dare to evacuate easily. However, when Liu Xilin led more than 500 brave soldiers
They were fighting like wolves and tigers, but when they saw that using bows and crossbows to stop them was useless, their fighting spirit was like a pile of sand towers, and they were just short of the final push.
The barricade guard wall was only chest high. The Huaidong warriors rushed nearby and put the door panels over to form a stairway. There were dozens of soldiers wearing thick armor, wielding swords, stabbing spears and other heavy weapons on both wings.
Under the cover of the crossbowmen, they forced themselves up the ladder, jumped off the protective wall, and charged into the rebels.
As more and more soldiers rushed through the barricades, the rebels at the north gate of the palace could not resist and retreat. At first, the advance was organized, but I didn't know who was taking the lead in escaping, so the hundreds of remnant soldiers fled in a swarm - Liu Xilin
Ignoring these defeated soldiers, the rebels in the city were mainly concentrated in the north city. He led his people directly to the east city gate.
Liu Xilin led his troops to fight out of the Prince of Chu's Mansion. The last remaining fighting spirit of the three thousand rebels in Xuzhou City collapsed. First, the half-battalion of rebels in the West City abandoned the city gate and left, and then the 560 rebels who had blocked the south gate of the Prince of Chu's Mansion dispersed.
The feet fled to Beicheng.
There were more than 300 rebels at the east city gate. The defender still wanted to resist, but when Liu Xilin led his troops to attack, the defender chopped off their heads with a knife, and the remaining soldiers knelt down to surrender and beg for mercy.
The rebels in the city were so vulnerable that Li Liang led his cavalry outside the city to intercept the rebels who fled out of the city. He was not in a hurry to enter the city, so Liu Xilin left a group of soldiers to guard the east gate, and then led
The troops went to Chen Hansan's establishment and sent Si Yamen to kill him.
Although Xuzhou is poor, Chen Hansan is also a tycoon, and his accumulation over the years will not be too small. More importantly, Chen Hansan cannot be allowed to escape easily from his family who established the back house of the yamen...
When Na He Xiongqi learned that Chen Han's troops had been defeated, he knew that he had lost the chance to seize Xuzhou City, so he roared with hatred.
Nahe Xiongqi came quickly. As long as Chen Hansan could hold on for one more hour, even if he could not win completely, he would be able to press 10,000 elite cavalry from the flanks and eat up 20,000 Huaidong elites. Who could have expected that?
Chen Han failed to withstand the Huaidong Army's first counterattack even three times?
Chen Hansan's 20,000 soldiers and horses are still called elites, but elites are nothing!
Na He Xiongqi's face was as dark as cold water, but in his heart he was so angry that he cursed his mother and heaven.
A moment ago, I was secretly happy about the victory that was about to come easily, but now I have to worry about how to clean up the mess. This is like seeing a delicious meatloaf hanging in front of my eyes and opening my mouth to bite it, but accidentally breaking my tooth.
The gap was so huge that even Na He Xiongqi, who had always been calm and steady, found it difficult to accept it.
When charging into battle to kill the enemy, morale is the most important factor that cannot be ignored.
Although Nahe Xiongqi and Zhou Zhizhong still had 30,000 soldiers and horses available, at this time their own strength was completely lost. Nahe Xiongqi knew that even if he could overwhelm the more than 10,000 cavalrymen who had traveled nearly 400 miles in two days and two nights,
If we go up and fight, it will be impossible to shake the Huaidong Army's position.
Nahe Xiongqi ordered his deputy general to lead the main force to rest in Wei Miaopo. He led more than a thousand cavalry to the outskirts of Shajiaji to observe the situation.
Zhou Pu, Sun Zhuang, and Li Liang led their troops to gallop on both sides of the Jingma River to attack Chen Hansan's defeated troops. Liu Miaozhen led more than 10,000 elite troops to stand guard in front of Shajiaji, as solid as a mountain.
Mo Jiben was ordered to guard the camp closely, and Zhou Zhizhi, surrounded by more than a thousand cavalry, came out of Shajiaji to join Nahe Xiongqi.
"The last general is incompetent, please punish Na He Xiong Qi!" Zhou Zhizhong got off his horse, knelt in front of Na He Xiong Qi's horse and held a thorn to apologize.
"General Zhou, get up. I can't blame you for this, and I can't be blamed for being late!" Na He Xiongqi felt a fire in his heart and did not dismount to help Zhou Zhizhong up, but he also knew that Zhou Zhizhong could not be blamed for this battle.
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If there is any responsibility, it should be that Ye Jiduo and Yuan Lishan were too conservative when Chen Hansan sent his son as a hostage in order to surrender.
We all know that the troops are just throwing stones to ask for directions. If they decide to send 20,000 elite cavalry to capture Xuzhou City from the beginning, how will the Huaidong Army stand a chance?
Zhou Zhizhi didn't ask Nahe Xiongqi to get off his horse and help him. After hearing what Nahe Xiongqi said, he stood up from the snow.
In any case, he and Chen Hansan combined 40,000 troops and allowed the Huaidong Army to calmly defeat the three armies of Chen and Han. He cannot say that he is not guilty at all - the biggest responsibility is that the Huaidong Army was too cunning.
Could you have expected that the ice on the Jingma River would break at a critical moment, plunging Chen Hansan's headquarters into chaos almost in the blink of an eye?
"Perhaps there is still a chance to seize Xuzhou City. Please ask Nahe General Xu Mo to perform meritorious service and lead the cavalry to bypass it! Not all rivers have been troubled by Huaidong!" Zhou Zhizhong was deeply troubled by Huaidong's conspiracy.
He was dissatisfied. Although he asked for war and wanted to lead his troops to take a detour to seize the city of Xuzhou, he really didn't want to fight anymore.
Liu Miaozhen led more than 10,000 infantrymen to form a formation south of Shajiaji. There were several rivers passing by around Shajiaji. It was unclear why Huaidong could induce the Jingma River ice to break at the critical moment, and how to send troops to entangle Liu Miaozhen and these more than 10,000 infantrymen.
live?
Without entangling Liu Miaozhen's tens of thousands of infantry formations south of Shajiaji, how could he send his cavalry to take a long way around and seize Xuzhou City?
Nahe Xiongqi and Zhou Zhizhong stood on a hilltop northwest of Shajiaji. They could see the battlefields on both sides of the Jingma River were in disarray, with broken soldiers scattered all over the mountains and fields, and several smoke pillars rising into the sky from Xuzhou City in the distance.
Na He Xiongqi shook his head in pain and said, "It's too late..."
Having previously contacted Chen Hansan, he knew that there were still more than a thousand miscellaneous soldiers in Xuzhou City who had retreated to the Chu Palace and refused to surrender.
I didn't take it seriously before. After all, not everyone in Xuzhou City has no integrity and defected to Chen Hansan. But now I can feel that the more than a thousand miscellaneous soldiers are probably a poison step deployed by Huaidong in Xuzhou City in advance.
chess.
Chen Han's three troops were greatly defeated, and the generals and subordinates were panicked and had no fighting spirit. There were more than a thousand miscellaneous soldiers in Huaidong in Xuzhou City, which was the decisive force.
I don't know how long the ice on the Jingma River is broken, and there are Jiuli Mountains blocking it to the east. If I send the cavalry to go around Xuzhou, I have to walk thirty or forty miles more to get to Xuzhou City. How can I make it in time?
"What should we do now?" Zhou Zhizhong asked. Even if the troops were to be withdrawn immediately, Na He Xiongqi would have to come up with the idea. It was still too late to withdraw at this time, but on the south bank of the Jingma River, Chen Hansan still had a
The remaining troops are holding on to the stronghold, do you want to rescue them?
It is easy to save Chen Hansan's remaining troops on the south bank of the Jingma River. As long as Nahe Xiongqi mobilizes more than ten thousand elites, the Huaidong Army will inevitably shrink and even retreat to Xuzhou City. Chen Hansan's remaining troops on the south bank of the Jingma River will naturally
You can get out of trouble.
But if Huaidong captures Xuzhou, there is no need to send heavy troops to strictly guard the three cities of Suining, Suyu, and Huaiyang on the south side of Xuzhou. Huaidong can mobilize tens of thousands of elites from these three cities to come to Xuzhou for support, and it only takes one day.
time.
In addition, Dong Yuan's troops in Huaixi first sent troops northward to Suiyang and Yucheng, while Liang Chengchong had troops in Caozhou and Jining. These four cities were all on the north side of Xuzhou. Xuzhou was captured by Huaidong, and Dong
Yuan and Liang Chengchong no longer have any worries. Will they send troops to Yutai and Pei County to intercept their return?
You can't risk the safety of 30,000 soldiers and horses for Chen Hansan!
Na He Xiongqi said decisively: "Retreat, retreat immediately!"
Na Hexiongqi, Zhou Zhizhong wanted to withdraw, but Liu Miaozhen may not be willing to let them do so.
Just when Nahe Xiongqi made the decision to immediately withdraw north, more than ten thousand Huaidong infantry who had assembled south of Shajiaji moved and moved toward Shajiaji camp again!
Zhou Zhizhong was shocked and yelled: "This bitch has such a big heart that he wants to keep my men here!"