Zhao Zhixian and Tan Yuliang originally fled to a mountain col with a narrow entrance in the upper reaches of Zhugong River to block the ambush and wait for reinforcements to arrive. However, the scene at the mouth of Lujiao River made them dare not sit still and wait for death.
The scene before them made Zhao Zhixian and Tan Yuliang believe that the four barbarians were colluding with the Han family and his son.
Although they thought it was impossible before this, what did the bloody scene in front of them make them think?
Zhao Zhixian was timid, but Tan Yuliang was worried that the Han family and his son might lead troops to attack from the direction of Qianyang City at any time. In fact, at this moment, there were already several smoke pillars rising in the clear sky south of Shima'ao.
They have spies hidden in Qianyang City and several villages north of Qianyang City. As long as the Han family and his son make any big changes in Qianyang City, the spies will ignite the firewood piled in the houses to cause fires and injure them.
Warning here.
The road from Qianyang City was rugged, but it didn't take three hours for the Han family's father and son to lead their troops and horses, which meant that they only had three hours at most to kill the four surnames' soldiers and retreat to the Chinese city to hold on.
Although the time it took for the soldiers and horses from Qianyang to sail over by boat was shorter, the several water camp warships owned by the Han family and his son were all large pointed-bottomed ships. Although they were fast, they needed a ready-made dock to land quickly. Otherwise,
, it would be faster to come by land.
Tan Yuliang put on his fine steel scale armor and rushed out of the mountain col with more than 30 horse riders. He lost more than ten people and fought his way out from the siege of more than a hundred soldiers of four surnames. He joined the more than 300 cavalrymen on the mountain crest.
, and fought hard to get closer to the south bank of Lujiao River.
There was abundant rain in summer and the water level of Lujiao River was high. War horses could not cross the stream directly, so Tan Yuliang ordered to storm the wooden bridge behind the soldiers of the four surnames.
Seven or eight war horses were organized into a group and charged towards the soldiers of the four surnames guarding the wooden bridge. While the belly and chest of the war horses were pierced by iron spears, the soldiers on the horses also waved their sabers and struck hard at the heads of the soldiers of the four surnames.
Severely chop it off, or hold the long spear tightly with your arms, and pierce the three-foot-long sharp blade into the bodies of the soldiers of the fourth surname...
For hundreds of years, Wuxi barbarians have rarely suffered defeats against soldiers and horses from the Central Plains. In addition to being brave and warlike, a more important reason is that they occupy dangerous areas and are familiar with the dangerous terrain. They rarely fight in open river valleys.
In the ground or Pingba area, fight hard with elite soldiers.
At this moment, it was a fierce and bloody battle for both sides in the lower reaches of Antler Creek.
The soldiers of the four surnames gathered in the open plains downstream of Lujiao River were fighting a last-ditch battle.
On the one hand, they firmly believed that what was happening in front of them was a trap set by the Han family and Tanzhou together. Tanzhou soldiers and horses would not allow them to evacuate calmly. On the other hand, their sentry ship had already detected two people.
A warship sailed slowly from the direction of Dawankou.
This is a warship for the Xuzhou camp. It is several times stronger and larger than the awning boats built by the four surnames.
Although the four surnames used more than 30 black-topped sailing boats to raid Yingyu Village (Zhongfang City), they had not made preparations for a water battle before.
Their small warships did not prepare a large number of fire oil tanks and firewood for fire attacks, and they did not prepare hooks and latches to engage enemy ships in boarding battles. They faced warships that were more than ten times larger and equipped with multiple crossbows.
, on the open Yuanshui River, no matter how many awning sailboats they had, they still had little chance of winning.
In a hasty water battle at this time, the greatest possibility is that they will sink to the bottom of the river and become food for fish and shrimp.
As for the Tanzhou Jia soldiers faced by the four surnamed village soldiers, in addition to defeating the four surnamed village soldiers, they were able to retreat into the center in time.
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Outside Fangcheng, he also didn't feel that he had any other way out.
The collision of iron and blood, the entanglement of knife and flesh.
Puffs of blood flew into the air, and the broken limbs rolled down on the creek beach. The corpses lay across the river. The blood had stained the creek water and flowed into the turbid Yuan water, but it was quickly stirred up and lost its color.
At dusk, Han Qian and more than a thousand generals from the Tiancheng Xuzhou camp passed through Shima'ao and arrived at the south bank of Zhugong River. The bloody battle on the bank of Lujiao River had just stopped.
At this time, Yang Qin led four warships and five hundred soldiers from the water camp encircled him from the upper and lower reaches of the Yuan River. Chen array was outside the mouth of Lujiao River. Feng Changyu, Feng Jin and others had no choice but to abandon the ship and lead more than 300 remaining soldiers.
The defeated general fled deep into Zhongfang Mountain to the east along the north bank of Lujiao River.
Zhao Zhixian's arm was cut off in the melee and he fainted for a while. When he woke up from the pain, he and more than 400 other disabled soldiers retreated into the Chinese city.
Tan Yuliang, Tan Tie, and Zhao Zhixian had less than 500 remnant soldiers left in the Chinese city. Biaoyong, the four-surnamed soldiers who were not afraid of death, exceeded their expectations. He armed almost all the troops hidden in the city and went out to fight.
Defeat the enemy soldiers and recapture the wooden bridge.
Even if you don't take into account the gains made by the Han family and his son, this battle was an extremely tragic victory for them.
At this moment, Zhao Zhixian saw the remnant soldiers of the four surnames fleeing hastily towards Zhongfang Mountain. At the same time, Feng Changyu and Feng Jin also watched with deep confusion as the Tanzhou soldiers fled into Zhongfang City and closed the city gate. Both sides suddenly understood that among them,
They fell into the trap of the Han family and his son, but their eyes were full of doubts.
"What are the Han father and son trying to do? Do they have no intention of joining forces with Tanzhou and want to swallow the entire Xuzhou alone? How big of an appetite do they have? Can they swallow the entire Xuzhou?
?" Zhao Zhixian asked Tan Yuliang sadly and incomprehensibly.
Xuzhou has a vast territory and sparsely populated areas, but it is precisely because of its vast territory that it is sparsely populated. The people are scattered among the mountains and rivers, and the roads are inconvenient. Coupled with the complicated local people's sentiments and strong folk customs, it is more difficult for foreign rulers to control it.
Because of this, the Han family and his son expressed their goodwill to cooperate with Tanzhou, so Zhao Zhixian and Tan Yuliang did not become suspicious at all.
"Why did that eunuch Zhang Ping help the Han family and his son?" Feng Changyu stood on a rock and angrily punched the pine tree that grew tenaciously from the crack in the rock. He asked himself and others this question.
The attack on Zhongfang City was the suggestion of Zhang Ping, the supervisor of the army. Zhang Ping also promised to come and join them after they captured Zhongfang City. However, he summoned the local powerful forces from Jingzhou in the upper reaches of the Yuanjiang River and Chenzhou in the lower reaches of the Yuanjiang River to send troops together.
Zhongfang City gathered together and expelled the Han family and his son.
No matter how stupid Feng Changyu is, he will know that Zhang Ping has a problem. What's more, Zhang Ping informed them of the newly established Zhongfang County, as well as the time and route of Zhao Zhixian and Tan Yuliang leaving Qianyang City to Yingyu Village to establish the county. Otherwise, they would not have been able to do it.
The self-righteous plan of luring the snake out of the cave today resulted in a fight between them and Tanzhou soldiers and horses on the bank of Lujiao River. Both sides suffered losses.
Han Qian knew that there were only a handful of people who had planned the overall plan. Even more people around him didn't even understand at this moment how Tanzhou's soldiers and horses in Xuzhou suddenly fought against the soldiers of the four surnames, and both sides suffered losses.
?
The soldiers of the four surnames were well fed and supported, so they gathered their forces to attack the Chinese city?
Doubts remained in their hearts, but it did not prevent more than a thousand generals from working hard to drag several awning boats into the Zhugong River. They tied them together with ropes and fixed them to the giant trees hugged by several people on both sides of the bank. Then they removed the boat awnings.
, put freshly cut miscellaneous trees on it and build a pontoon bridge.
The road deep in the Zhongfang Mountain is rugged and surrounded by the Yuanjiang River on three sides. Han Qian is not worried that the remnants of the four surnames will be able to escape in a short time.
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After leaving the Chinese side, we still have to first deal with the 400 Tanzhou remnant soldiers led by Zhao Zhixian, Tan Yuliang, Tan Tie and others who retreated to Zhongfang City (Yingyu Village) like trapped animals, and plunge Tanzhou into the heart of Xuzhou.
The nails were completely removed.
Yingyu Village was originally built near the water. After the Tanzhou soldiers and horses took over, they laid several rows of wooden piles outside the wall of the western village and filled the space between the wooden piles and the wall with earth and rocks to form a simple wharf.
The Yingyu Village Pier was only four to five hundred steps square. Yang Qin led four warships to immediately blockade the Yingyu Village Pier, so that more than a thousand soldiers who came overland could reach the river beach at the southwest corner of Zhongfang City.
Set up camp smoothly.
Gao Bao followed Yang Qin off the boat to see Han Qian, walked into the temporary tent, and saw Han Qian excitedly shouting:
"Young Master's plan is so clever. That old guy Feng Changyu fell into the pit dug by Young Master. He didn't think about it from the beginning to the end. He almost lost all the soldiers and horses in Tanzhou before he thought of retreating to Zhongfang Mountain.
When they saw that we were preparing to attack Yingyu Village, their eyes probably went straight, right?"
Today, almost a thousand native soldiers died by the Lujiao River. These must be Gao Bao's tribesmen. Seeing that Gao Bao could still be so excited and excited, everyone in the big tent looked at Gao Bao with a somewhat awkward look.
Han Qian, however, does not have any mental mysophobia. If he wants to govern Xuzhou well in the future, Gao Bao will be a very key person. To a certain extent, he is even more worthy of his trust than Feng Xuan. He smiled and waved to Gao Bao to sit down.
He came to his side and said, "When Tiancheng captures Zhongfang City, you will be the first magistrate of Zhongfang County. Are you mentally prepared to be a county magistrate?"
"This, this..." Gao Bao said with some embarrassment, "If you want to govern Zhongfang County, Feng Xuan is more prestigious than me. Young Master might use Feng Xuan more appropriately."
"Feng Xuan, I have another appointment. The Zhongfang County Magistrate is the reward you deserve." Han Qian said without allowing Gao Bao to refuse, and summoned Tian Cheng, Yang Qin, and Lin Jingzong to make them prepare to attack Zhongfang City overnight.
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Although they trapped more than 300 remnants of the Four Surnames in Zhongfang Mountain, they were unable to completely block Zhongfang Mountain, which was more than fifty miles long from north to south and more than thirty miles deep from east to west. Only two or three people ran out, and the Four Surnames were able to escape in a short period of time.
Thousands of village soldiers gathered.
After all, they captured the Chinese city before the soldiers of the four surnames gathered again.
"Han Qian..."
At this time, he heard faint shouts coming from the top of the Chinese city. Han Qian opened the curtain and walked out. He saw a few people standing vaguely at the top of the Chinese city. It sounded like Zhao Zhixian was shouting at the top of his lungs.
"Han Qian, I, Tanzhou, have treated you and your son very well. We have not given you money and food, but we have also allowed you to flee to Xuzhou. You don't care about the kindness Tanzhou has treated you, and instigated the four surnamed soldiers to sneak attack on us, and even raised the troops yourself.
Harmful. You are so treacherous. Soon our Tanzhou army will march in and crush your treacherous father and son into ashes!"
"Please note these words of mine and send someone to call Zhao Zhixian at the top of the city later to hear them!"
Han Qian was too lazy to yell at Zhao Zhixian and asked Lin Zongjing to write down what he said. Later, he would send someone to shout to the city for him.
"My father is the defense envoy of Xuzhou who was granted the title of Da Chu. I am the Sima of Xuzhou who was granted the title of Da Chu. I am the military envoy of the camp. Tanzhou is the Tanzhou of Dachu. I secretly block the waterways and intercept the merchant ships heading to Xuzhou.
, what kind of kindness do you have to Da Chu, what kind of kindness do you have to my father and son of the Han family? Tanzhou is the Tanzhou of Da Chu, but it hides troops and horses in Xuzhou, and what kind of evil intention is it hiding? With Zhao Zhixian, Tan Yuliang, Tan
Tie will open the city gates and surrender when the sun rises tomorrow, and I may be able to send them back to Tanzhou by boat. If they don't surrender, just wait for the city to be destroyed and everyone to be destroyed!"
