Han Li led his troops eastward to Qimen, but they were not harassed along the way. After walking for more than a hundred miles through river valleys and mountain roads, they actually walked for three days, and their patience ran out.
Entering the source of the Changhe River, Han Li saw that Ganzhou's advance army had divided its troops to defend Ma'an Ridge outside the city, so he ordered all his troops to advance to the foot of the ridge and attack Ma'an Ridge first.
Tian Weiye had been serving as city captain for a year in Fuliang, and he was much more familiar with the situation in the surrounding counties than others. Han Li led his troops to the west, and it was difficult to find a trusted guide from the local area, so Su Tingzhan ordered Tian Weiye to
He led the remaining troops to accompany him and served as Han Li's adviser.
Han Li wanted to attack Ma'anling, but Tian Weiye dissuaded him: "The enemy divided his troops to defend Ma'anling, possibly to lure our army to attack by force. At this time, our army's foothold is not stable. If we are ambushed and attacked from behind by the enemy when we attack Ma'anling,
, what should we do?”
"Do you think Han wouldn't be able to see such a clumsy plot by the enemy general?" Han Li glanced at Tian Weiye with disdain, knowing that he was discouraged by the battle at Chengziling, and said, "We can't defeat Ma'anling.
How can we maintain a stable footing? Han wants to attack Ma'an Ridge, so that the enemy troops will emerge from the mountains and fight openly at the foot of the ridge!"
Ma'anling protects Qimen City to the east and overlooks the source of Changshui River.
Han Li led his troops eastward and approached Qimen City. In order to cut off the communication between Qimen City and the surrounding areas, he wanted to camp at Ma'anling. In this way, Han Li and his troops could be surrounded by mountains and rivers, and Su Tingzhan could also pass through.
Waterways continuously bring supplies up.
Now that Ganzhou's advance army has divided its troops to guard Ma'anling, Han Li's previous plan will not work. If the camp is stationed elsewhere, it will be difficult to completely blockade Qimen City. Using ships to transport supplies from Fuliang will also be affected by the source.
Threat - Su Tingzhan had long guessed that there must be an ambush hidden in the mountains in Huaidong. Now the Ganzhou advance army has divided its troops to guard Ma'anling, which is at the horns of Qimen City. How could Han Li not guess such a division of troops?
The intention behind it?
Han Li didn't think that Huaidong's troops who had infiltrated into eastern Jiangxi were so strong. Otherwise, why would he not have attacked Fuliang and disrupted the situation in eastern Jiangxi? The current situation, whether it was true or false, or whether Huaidong had infiltrated
Whether the soldiers and horses are strong or weak, Ma'anling must be defeated. Otherwise, it is better to retreat to Fuliang and let Huaidong's soldiers and horses sneak in and mess up Jiangdong.
Han Li did not listen to Tian Weiye's advice and only urged him to lead his troops to the surrounding villages to recruit civilians to assist in the attack on the ridge. He then ordered his headquarters to form three chain camps around a hillock at the foot of the ridge, preparing to divide his troops to attack Ma'an.
ridge.
Tian Weiye knew that his words had no weight in front of Han Li, but when he thought about it carefully: Han Li's elite troops plus the miscellaneous soldiers he led totaled a total of 3,000 troops. As long as he had three points left, he would not use all his strength to attack by force.
In Ma'anling, even if Huaidong's soldiers and horses sneaked in, and there were still one or two thousand people hiding in the dark, there was actually no big threat, so there was no need to worry too much.
If it doesn't work, you can form a formation and wait for Su Tingzhan to lead his troops to come from Fuliang for reinforcements.
In the three days since leaving Fuliang, Tian Weiye has been constantly harassed by soldiers and horses scattered among the mountains of the eastern Jiangxi advance army. Tian Weiye also feels a headache. Instead of getting entangled, it is better to lure all the soldiers and horses sneaking from Huaidong.
It's a pleasure to come out and fight.
After thinking in his heart, Tian Weiye had no fear in his heart, so he led his troops to hunt down the mountain people and threaten them to attack the ridge, so as to reduce the consumption of his own troops in the attack on Ma'anling.
Naturally, Hu Qiaozhong did not allow Han Li to camp at the foot of the slope calmly. He took command of the camp at the top of the mountain, but asked Wu Jingze to separate and attack in turn to disrupt his formation and tire out his soldiers.
Two or three teams of armored soldiers went down the mountain and along the ditch, using mountains, rocks, forests and trees to force the enemy's position. They either shot with bows and arrows, or held knives and guns to attack the enemy's defensive positions on the outside. In the ravines of Ma'anling, Fight as a group to prevent the enemy from building a camp at the foot of the ridge.
However, it was blocked by Yishan Mountain. In the early stage, the main urgent shipments from the Yidong area were the urgently needed swords and bows, soldiers and armors and other small ordnance, as well as the extremely important wound medicine and other materials that were light and did not take up space, such as bed crossbows and scorpion crossbows. , shield vehicles and other large and medium-sized weapons have not yet had time to be transported in.
Around the foot of Ma'an Ridge, the two armies were facing each other directly. There was not much depth for detours and guerrillas, and there was not much advantage in occupying the terrain. Once the advance army in eastern Jiangxi could not take advantage of the war equipment, , even weaker than Han Li's elite troops in terms of armor, so it would be much more difficult to kill them.
The backbone of the advance army in eastern Jiangxi was mostly veteran soldiers from Huaidong, but the ordinary sergeants were all brave men recruited from eastern Jiangxi. Their combat power was even weaker than that of the soldiers from Han Li's headquarters in Fujian who had suffered many years of bloodshed.
Even though Yu Wencheng sent troops to cooperate with the attack in Qimen City, Hu Qiaozhong still fought very hard and suffered heavy casualties. On the 12th, he had to ask his troops to completely retreat to the simple fortress at Lingtou and hold on to the base. Han Li was able to calmly divide his troops and take turns to attack Lingtou.
The two sides were fighting for the foot of the ridge, and the casualties would exceed 100. Whether they could fight, or how much combat power they had, it was difficult to fake it - Han Li quickly found out the details of the guards at the head of the ridge.
As expected, Huaidong sent a small number of elites to sneak in, and then lured some foolish men from Fuliang and other places into the camp, and hastily formed the Ganzhou advance army. It was not that Huaidong directly broke up the elites and sneaked in in batches.
Although Huaidong sent a small number of elites to form the skeleton of military attachés who formed the Ganzhou Advance Army, and they already had the foundation of elite soldiers, without training and running-in, there was still a big gap between them and the real elite soldiers of Huaidong.
Han Li is the kind of general who becomes more courageous with every setback. Even in Liyang, on the east bank of Gucheng Lake, he suffered the suffering of the Huaidong soldiers, but he was not afraid in his heart. What's more, the defenders at Lingtou were not afraid of the real Huaidong soldiers. The pawn is still far away, so why doesn't he dare to attack?
Han Li divided his elite troops into three teams. Two teams stood guard at the foot of the ridge in case an ambush came from behind. He was very proficient in mountain tactics, and combined them with the tactics stolen from the Huaidong Army in recent years. He nailed wooden signs to a large number of forced wheelbarrows from the countryside and used them as simple shield vehicles. Along the rainwater channel, we headed towards Lingtou Camp.
Ma'an Ridge is a stone ridge. The higher you go, the more stones there are and the thinner the soil layer. There are only some shrubs and weeds growing on the ridge. The trees were cut and fences were erected for camps. The fence walls are not deep and the forts are quite crude. The protective trench in front of the base was only a shallow one and could not be dug more than one foot deep.
The Zhejiang and Fujian armies forced civilians to carry soil in cloth bags up the ridge and throw it into the trench; some soldiers and civilians shot people in the base with their bows and then pushed the corpses into the trench. It only took one day to fill up the trench. There are four or five passages that can reach the fence wall.
Conditions were better than those of the advance army in Huaidong. Han Li even brought three catapult crossbows with his army from Fuliang City, set them up on the ridge, and stormed the wall. The defenders at the ridge lost more than 30 lives in one attack. During the counterattack, three catapult crossbows were destroyed.
Hu Qiaozhong defended Ma'anling. He was under great pressure from the beginning and fought very hard...
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Lin Fu went south to supervise the war, and Gao Zongting accompanied him to provide military staff. Intelligence from the eastern Jiangxi area was diverted through Yijiang and sent to Luzhou and Quzhou at the same time.
Lin Fu was in Quzhou, and it was not until March 14 that he learned that Hu Qiaozhong and others had decided to fight on the outskirts of Qimen with Han Li's troops who had entered Qimen.
In the command hall of Fenglinbu, Lin Fu took over the information handed over by Gao Zongting. After reading it, he frowned and said, "The Military Intelligence Department had previously asked the Gandong side to 'persist in early raids and avoid premature battles,' but this
The strategy was not well executed - the battle at Chengziling was a surprise, and the battle at Qimen was unpredictable."
Gao Zongting heard that Lin Fu was dissatisfied with Hu Qiaozhong, the Yu brothers and other generals who did not implement the intentions of the Military Intelligence Department after they went to eastern Jiangxi. He said: "The Military Intelligence Department has been preparing for a long time in Huaihe. Uncle Pan Wen was invited to go north to summon the old troops. The soldiers secretly gathered in eastern Jiangxi.
There are more than 4,000 horses, and a large number of people follow them; while Han Li leads his troops east to Qimen, with only 3,000 men. The situation in eastern Jiangxi is favorable to our troops, and it is difficult to call Hu. Yu and others can hold their temper
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Zhou Pu's idea was simpler and he said: "The backbone of Jiangdong's soldiers and horses are all veterans sent by Huaidong. When they are incorporated into the mountain people and hunters, they are just a little bit worn out. After seeing blood, they will become stronger as they fight. In the early years of Jiangdong
Isn’t this how the Zuo Army fought? I think it is better to fight late than to fight early. Only when the east side of Ganxi really starts fighting can we reduce some pressure on this side."
Fu Qinghe understood Lin Fu's thoughts best and said, "I don't know what Uncle Pan Wen is like. As the youngest son of Pan Qifeng, he was protected by his generals and hid in the mountains, but he persisted in standing up and summoning his old troops to resist the tyranny of the She family.
The responsible people, Qiao Zhong and the Yu brothers, will not be weaker than Uncle Pan Wen - even if the early game is difficult, there will be no big problems."
After Fu Qinghe said this, Gao Zongting understood. Lin Fu was still worried that Hu Qiaozhong and the Yu brothers would suffer losses in Jiangzhou, which would be a huge loss to Huaidong. He said: "The Guanxiling side is also well prepared.
The Changshan Army can officially press forward and attack. As long as there is movement here, Su Tingzhan in Fuliang will not be able to calmly plan the troops in eastern Jiangxi..."
"Guanxiling has been preparing for a long time, and the main force of the Changshan Army has already entered the attack camp. They are waiting to advance towards Shanxi and Hengshan City Fortress. I think it is better to choose a day and hit the sun. Watch the sky. It will continue to be fine in the past few days. So,
Just decide to march in and seal the stream today!"
Many things can affect the whole body.
What Hu Qiaozhong and the others have to face in eastern Jiangxi is Su Tingzhan, a cunning opponent. Although Han Li is brave, it is not a serious problem - as long as the war in Shangrao reaches fever pitch, even if Su Tingzhan continues to fight in eastern Jiangxi.
If he is patient, the situation will not leave him too much time to make plans calmly.
Lin Fu nodded and said: "We will go to the front camp immediately and send someone to call Ao Canghai, Zhou Tong, Tang Fuguan and others to go there too..."
First, several members of the Huqi team rushed out to inform the generals, and then Lin Fu and others rushed to the Guanxiling camp a little later.
Guanxiling in the west of Jiangshan County was still a barren ridge a few years ago. Except for the three beacon towers built by the She family on the ridge and a few deserted villages at the foot of the ridge, there were no more traces of people in the entire ridge.
, but at this time Guanxiling has become the main stronghold for the Huaidong Army to advance to the frontier of Shangrao.
Coming out of Fenglinbu, you enter the mountain via a rammed-earth road for eight horses to drive abreast, which extends directly to the foot of the slope at the eastern foot of Guanxi Ridge. From the foot of the slope to the gap in the ridge, almost the entire area is set up as a garrison.
, a winding mountain road was dug along the steep slope.
Although the steep Yuxi Road is several times longer than the previous one, the winding mountain road can be used directly for heavy-duty carriages to transport supplies up the ridge, so that Guanxiling no longer becomes a natural barrier between Jiangshan County and Hengshan County, making the Huaidong Army
The military front extends directly to Hengshan County, which is less than twenty miles away from Shangrao. Compared with the attack from the Jiankou Pass in Changshan, it is nearly a hundred miles shorter. In the past three months, huge investment has been made in Guanxiling.
The manpower and material resources are worth it. Otherwise, we have to bite the bullet step by step at the Jiankou Pass outside Changshan County, and Shefei Xiong is camped step by step on the inside of the pass, fighting hundreds of miles of passages.
Not necessarily easy.
In this way, the Jiankou and Litang Pass fortress complex built by the She family with Changshan City as the center would be rendered ineffective.
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