Chapter 325 Beautiful scenery on the east bank of the Lanjiang River
It was not easy for Song Zhiwen to send people to reinforce No. 3 Ferry, because the incident happened suddenly. He had not noticed that there were a large number of puppet Tang rebels at No. 3 Ferry before. Therefore, Song Zhiwen only sent people to No. 3 Ferry.
Four to five hundred people were sent to the border for garrison.
Last night, he was attracted by the movements on the No. 2 Ferry. When it was dawn, the puppet Tang rebel army launched a large-scale frontal attack on the Lanjiang Ferry, which made him believe that the No. 2 Ferry was
The pseudo-Tang rebel army on the other side of the ferry was just a bluff, and the Lanjiang ferry was the main direction of attack for the pseudo-Tang rebel army.
To this end, he also sent people to mobilize 500 troops from Ferry No. 2 back to Fanglan River Ferry.
But what he didn't expect was that at No. 3 Ferry, which had been extremely calm and had defeated an attack by 200 people of the puppet Tang rebels last night, suddenly nearly 2,000 puppet troops of the Tang Dynasty appeared.
The occurrence of this situation almost confirms that the No. 3 Ferry is the main direction for the puppet Tang rebels to cross the river. Whether it is the bluff at the No. 2 Ferry or the frontal attack at the Lanjiang Ferry, it is just to cover the No. 3
It's just an action on the ferry side.
what to do?
It is unlikely that the 500 troops at Ferry No. 3 can stop the 2,000 puppet Tang rebels.
It is even possible that the five hundred troops have been defeated by the puppet Tang rebel army. In this case, do you want to send troops to Ferry No. 3? Is it still too late?
The No. 3 Ferry is almost ten miles away from the Lanjiang Ferry. If it is just a fast horse, these ten miles will only take two-quarters of an hour. If it is an ordinary person walking a little faster, it will only take half an hour.
However, the march of a large army, even if it is a rapid march with light equipment, takes more than an hour!
If you need to be more prepared and be more cautious on the road, it may take two hours or more.
After these two hours have passed, it is estimated that all the puppet Tang rebels at the No. 3 Ferry have landed. In this case, the number of troops sent is too small and they cannot be defeated at all. They can only increase casualties in vain.
There are too many, do we still need to guard the Lanjiang Ferry?
You must know that fighting is also breaking out at the Lanjiang Ferry. Although the frontal attack of the New Army of the Tang Dynasty is not very intense in order to control casualties, if the Ming Army dares to send two or three thousand people away, only more than a thousand will be left.
In human terms, Li Xuan would immediately launch an all-out attack without saying a word.
As for the troops coming back from the No. 2 Ferry now, it is even more unreliable. Although it can be done, when the troops from the No. 2 Ferry come back, I am afraid that the main force of the puppet Tang rebel army will have already come behind our own side.
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Today, Song Zhiwen can be said to be facing the same troubles that Li Xuan faced in the last battle of Lanjiang.
At that time, the Ming army attacked in three directions. Li Xuan also felt powerless due to insufficient troops. In the end, he gritted his teeth and sent 800 main troops to the No. 2 ferry.
Fortunately, Hao Bainian did not disappoint him at that time and led the 800 main force to defeat the 2,500 Ming army's main recruiting force, thus ensuring the victory of the Second Battle of Lanjiang.
But now, Song Zhiwen was not as confident as Li Xuan that he could stop the nearly 2,000 main force of the puppet Tang rebel army by sending just a few hundred men.
He knew very well what kind of troops his own troops were. The guardsmen were weak in combat, and the young and strong ones could only build up their momentum. They could still fight with the fortifications at the Lanjiang Ferry, but they really had to go to the wilds and fight with them.
If the puppet Tang rebels engage in a decisive battle, they will die miserably.
This soldier cannot be sent, otherwise he will die!
But if you don't send troops, you will be waiting for death if you stick to the Lanjiang Ferry. When the main force of the puppet Tang rebel army reaches your back, you will still end up with your entire army annihilated.
After thinking for a while, Song Zhiwen took a deep breath and immediately ordered: "Let's go, we will return to Xingquan Fucheng immediately!"
It is not feasible to send troops to intercept the puppet Tang rebels, and it is also not feasible to hold on to the Lanjiang Ferry. The only way now is to retreat, return to Xingquanfu City with the remaining troops, and finally rely on the walls of Xingquanfu City to resist the puppet Tang rebels
offensive.
Although this is tantamount to giving up the Lanjiang natural moat. After the puppet Tang rebels cross the Lanjiang River, the eastern part of Xingquan Prefecture will also fall into the hands of the puppet Tang rebels. However, abandoning the Lanjiang River and sticking to Xingquan has become his problem.
Song Zhiwen's only choice.
After hearing Song Zhiwen's order, the Ming army generals did not show any expressions of surprise, and no one advised Song Zhiwen to continue to defend the Lanjiang Ferry. Instead, they all breathed a sigh of relief.
After fighting several battles with the puppet Tang rebels, they had already deeply realized how terrifying the puppet Tang rebels were.
Those puppet Tang rebels are definitely not something that their current guard soldiers and young men can resist.
If you don't want to die, the only way is to retreat.
After returning to Xingquanfu City, with the strong walls of Xingquanfu, the chance of holding on will be much greater. When the governor of the provincial capital led his lords to Xingquanfu, they were crushed by tens of thousands or even more troops from the imperial court.
If suppressed, the puppet Tang traitor army will naturally be wiped out.
The Ming army retreated, and the retreat was quite clean. As soon as Song Zhiwen's order was conveyed, Song Zhiwen himself had already retreated first with 500 personal guards. The subsequent Ming army generals also did not care about fighting with the puppet Tang thieves.
The troops were fighting, and everyone was scrambling to escape.
Although Li Xuan was hundreds of meters away on the other side of the river, he still saw something strange about the Ming army on the other side of the river at a glance!
"The Ming army has retreated? Could it be that Hao Bainian has led his army to the back of the Ming army?" Li Xuan did not expect that before Hao Bainian led his army around the back of the Ming army, the Ming army had already begun to flee.
But although he had not expected it, now that the Ming army had retreated and handed over the Lanjiang Ferry, he would naturally not be polite.
Let’s take down the Lanjiang Ferry first.
Besides, since the enemy has retreated, he has the responsibility and obligation to turn the Ming army's retreat into a rout!
So he sent the order without any hesitation: "Order all frontline units to immediately pursue the remnants of the enemy and be sure to entangle them!"
These Ming troops retreated, where did they retreat to?
It will definitely be Xingquan Fucheng, and Li Xuan cannot let these people escape back to Xingquan Fucheng smoothly, otherwise it will cause big trouble for the new Tang Dynasty army to attack Xingquan Fucheng later.
Just when Song Zhiwen was escaping with his men, Hao Bainian also learned from the scouts that the Ming army at Lanjiang Ferry had retreated and began to flee towards Xingquan Fucheng!
After learning the news, Hao Bainian immediately took out the map and looked at it carefully. Although the map was very abstract, the general terrain and route could still be seen.
After silently calculating the speed and distance of the Ming army's retreat, he set his sights on the location of Xingquan Prefecture on the map, then pointed to the Xingquan Prefecture sign on the map and said: "Send the order, the whole army will march with light equipment, we will
Go to Xingquan Fucheng!"
Although the initial plan was to go to the Lanjiang Ferry, that was based on the fact that the Ming army did not retreat. If the Ming army retreated on its own initiative, the plan would naturally change.
His mission was not to go there, it had nothing to do with going to Lanjiang Ferry and Xingquan Prefecture. The important thing was to stop the Ming army outside Xingquan Prefecture.
We cannot let the Ming army escape into the city!
In order to speed up the march, Hao Bainian once again left behind a large amount of baggage, not even a large amount of food and grass. The soldiers only carried sidearms and five days of dry food, and abandoned everything else.
Then they began to march continuously and quickly. They were about sixty miles away from Xingquan Fucheng. If the army marched normally, it would take two or even three days to walk these sixty miles.
But in this state of rapid marching with light equipment, it is possible to arrive in one day.
The Ming army retreated from there to Xingquan Fucheng, which was about sixty miles away. In other words, the distance between the two sides was almost the same. Whoever walked faster would reach Xingquan Fucheng first.
In order to arrive at Xingquan Fucheng before the Ming army, Hao Bainian led more than 1,300 lightly-armed troops on a rapid march. At the same time, the reconnaissance cavalry also constantly monitored the movements of the Ming army, and had several small-scale fights with the Ming army's reconnaissance cavalry.
Fight.
While Hao Bainian was marching towards Xingquan Fucheng, the main force of the Chinese army under the personal command of Li Xuan also completely captured the Lanjiang Ferry.
After the frontline troops cleared out some of the remaining enemies, Li Xuan also led Zeng Ziwen and took a boat directly to cross the river. Crossing the river with them were the artillery of the artillery team and a large amount of baggage.
Ammunition, spare muskets, a large number of weapons such as bows, arrows, and spears, as well as a very important large amount of military rations, all needed to be crossed one by one.
Used to meet the needs of frontline combat troops at any time!
When Li Xuan arrived at the east bank of the Lanjiang River by boat, he stepped on the land on the east bank of the Lanjiang River. He showed a faint smile, looked towards the direction of Dongfang Xingquan Mansion and said softly: "My dear friends, this is the east bank of the Lanjiang River.
What a beautiful view!”
Everyone followed Li Xuan's gaze to the east and saw an extremely ordinary hilltop and wilderness, similar to that on the west bank of the Lanjiang River. There was a beautiful scenery to speak of.
Several people were muttering to themselves that as for the scenery, our hometown in the mountains is more beautiful, with many more dangerous peaks and deep ravines!
However, some people heard other meanings in Li Xuan's words. The flatterer Wang Wenhua immediately took two steps forward. When he reached Li Xuan, he took a deep breath and was about to make a long speech, talking about the west bank of the Lanjiang River.
How wonderful, how awesome my Tang Dynasty is, and how wise His Majesty is.
However, just as he was about to speak, he heard Ma Wei, the left minister of the Ministry of War, saying: "What your Majesty said is absolutely true. Xingquan Mansion is divided into two parts by the Lanjiang River. The west bank of the Lanjiang River is Zhengtai. Although it is a hundred miles wide, the land is barren.
Many people are in hardship.
On the east bank of the Lanjiang River are Bailin County and Lianhe County. Although these two counties are not large and have fewer monks than Zhengtai County, the terrain within their territory is flat, the land is fertile, and they can educate as many as 200,000 people. Bailin County has
This is a place governed by Xingquan Prefecture, with many merchants. This land of a hundred miles on the east coast has all the military, food and salary.
Now that our army has crossed the Lanjiang Gorge, the land of these two counties and the city of Xingquan are in the possession of the Tang Dynasty, and they can become the foundation of the king's hegemony!