After the rebel army crossed the Ru River in rolled armor, they rushed northward. Fu Zonglong's deployment of troops was very conservative and prudent. He hardly deployed many skirmishers near the Ru River on the front line, but concentrated all the heavy troops in the more consolidated Xiangxiang area.
However, due to the harassment from Xiao Yuan's camp in the front and back, some Qin troops under Niu Chenghu's command had to be stationed in the direction of Linying.
Li Laiheng's strategy of rushing to Chu required a powerful launch on the northern front, and the results were better than the larger offensive on the southern front. Only in this way could he mislead Fu Zonglong's judgment.
However, although the Allied Forces of Chuang Cao had experienced hundreds of battles, they could chat and laugh with Yang Sichang and Zuo Liangyu easily, and had experienced countless fierce battles. However, like Xiangcheng and Yancheng, they had enough time to strengthen their defenses and repaired the city defenses to the extreme.
This fortified city has never been attacked by the rebel army.
Li Zicheng's tactical purpose has always been to avoid the real and avoid the weak. Luo Rucai also focused on annihilating the enemy in field battles, directly attacking large cities that were tightly fortified by the superior force of the army. Almost everyone had no idea.
Fortunately, this time we did not seek to break through Xianglan, we only sought to deceive Fu Zonglong and make him content with standing still and strictly guarding the defensive line.
At this time, the leading vanguard of the rebel army had already bypassed Xiping County and was only a few miles away from Yancheng. Li Laiheng led the generals of the former standard army and joined him as the vanguard of the leading vanguard.
Gu Kecheng, an old friend who has a close friendship.
This area is all flat wilderness, which is suitable for the mobile rebels to conduct battles. Unfortunately, if you go a little further north, you will be blocked by forts built by Fu Zonglong everywhere. The government troops have gathered at several larger strongholds on three sides of Yancheng.
Thousands of soldiers were mobilized, and the river crossings were controlled by boats and artillery. The situation was consolidated and dangerous. It was really difficult for the coalition forces to achieve greater results in this area.
"Madman He burned down all the nearby villages, leaving only more than 30 people alive in more than a dozen villages. When they heard that the intruders had arrived, they all came out of the mountains to seek refuge. They asked us to go to Xiangcheng to avenge the villagers."
He Renlong's Qin soldiers went on a killing spree between Yancheng and Xiping, razing all the villages in this area to the ground. The area around Xiping was full of plains, and the villagers didn't even have a valley or hill to take refuge in, so they had no way to escape.
Almost all of them died under the swords of Qin soldiers.
There are more than a dozen villages and countless households, but now only these thirty people are left.
Everyone of them was filled with hatred, and they wanted the Chuang army to go north to attack Xiangcheng and defeat the Qin army in revenge. But both Li Laiheng and Gu Kecheng knew that the Chuang Cao coalition army's march north this time was still just a feint attack, just to lure the enemy and avenge the local people...
Even if revenge is possible, it will only be after Ben Chu.
However, they also brought a lot of important information about the war situation. These people who were able to survive after being burned and killed by the Qin army knew the local geographical situation very well.
Where the officers and soldiers established their strongholds, where they built fortifications, which dangerous strongholds had viable detours and paths, and which rivers had fords that could be forded, are now mostly under the control of the rebels.
Therefore, although the rebel army was a sudden attack from afar, its grasp of the situation between Yancheng and Xiping was still better than that of the official army here.
Li Laiheng held the bridle in one hand and raised a whip in the other, pointing to the vaguely visible official and military camp in the distance, and asked Gu Kecheng: "Brother Gu, what is the name of this place? Do the villagers know it?"
Gu Kecheng nodded, took two steps forward on his horse, and replied: "There is a small river between Xiping and Luohe called Silt River. The locals say that Luo Cheng, the seventh hero in the Sui and Tang Dynasties, was inspired by Li Jiancheng."
He was framed and led into the mud river by Su Dingfang. He and his horse fell into the mud, and were shot to death by ambushed archers."
"There is an ancient tomb here that is said to be the Luo Cheng Tomb, so the locals call this place Luo Cheng Tomb."
"Ha, Luo Chengfen. Brother Gu, you are quite familiar with the stories of heroes in the Sui and Tang Dynasties!"
Li Laiheng laughed twice. The first battlefield where the vanguard of Cao Cao's coalition attacked Fu Zonglong's army was called Luo Chengfen, which made people feel a little uneasy.
Luo Cheng is also a famous general in the Wagangzhai rebel army. If you compare the Chuang Army and Wagangzhai, Luo Cheng is probably a character similar to Liu Fangliang? On the contrary, Su Dingfang, who killed Luo Cheng in the storytelling story, belongs to Feng Ping
After being killed, he became a common villain in Sui and Tang storytellers, and Su Hai, Su Dingfang's descendant, also became a villain in Xue Rengui's storytellers series of sweeping the north and conquering the west.
Speaking of various rebel armies in history, the Chuang Army is indeed the most similar to the Wagangzhai Rebel Army...
However, Pu Shanggong was defeated in Luoyang, and famous generals such as Cheng Yaojin and Qin Shubao ended up serving as subordinates of another eighteenth son, Li Shimin.
But in the late Ming Dynasty, how could there be a second eighteenth son?
Unless Li Laiheng himself becomes the second eighteenth son.
"Bros!"
Li Laiheng stood at the forefront of the front line, raising his whip high, and the sun shone from behind him, so that the soldiers could only squint and see the black silhouette of a general riding a horse, an elusive sight.
A sacred atmosphere was created.
"These days, everyone is holding back their energy and getting angry a lot. In Shangcai Camp, we suffered a lot from the officers and soldiers, and were almost swallowed whole by Hu Dawei. This is the Little Tiger Team. In the past,
This has never happened since the founding of the army."
"Then we attacked Xinyang. We didn't have a few fights with Zuo Zhen, and we didn't ask Zuo Liangyu for advice. Then we hurriedly retreated north. I know everyone has grievances in their hearts. Now everyone knows that we have to attack Yancheng.
We are the main attacker, the vanguard, and the front team."
"The enemy of Yancheng is Yang Wenyue, the man who almost ate up all the elite cavalry in Shangcai camp. What kind of thinking are you using to attack Yancheng this time? It is to prepare for the collapse of the house, the ruin of the family, and the destruction of the tank.
I threw all the jars and jars in, and it hurt Fu Zonglong and Yang Wenyue no matter what!"
Li Laiheng suddenly pulled out his sword, and the buzzing sound of the blade being unsheathed resounded throughout the battlefield. The soldiers immediately raised their swords and guns, and the horns and conch shells were blown in a row.
All these sounds finally converged into a wave, a turbulent and surging wave that was enough to overwhelm the enemy in front of him.
"It's a good day to die... a good day to let our enemies die!"
"The former standard-setting army...all units came out and the whole army went out to attack."
Zhang Pilu led his troops to line up first, followed by Hao Yaoqi, Guo Junzhen, Li Shiwei, and Miao Lichen.
In addition, Gao Yigong was also here with his troops and horses. Except for Bai Wang who stayed at the stronghold, it can be said that this time all the best of the former standard army were gathered in the leading team to participate in this furious advance.
The Battle of Benchu.
Gao Yigong, as the deputy sentry of Qianbiao and the second-in-command in Li Laiheng's system, is naturally not comparable to Li Shiwei, Zhang Pili, Miao Lichen and other young generals who were promoted from humble beginnings by Li Laiheng. Even Hao Yaoqi and Guo Junzhen
None of the veterans in the camp have the same qualifications as Gao Yigong.
He immediately stood next to Li Laiheng and asked in a low voice: "Are you ready to attack?"
Li Laiheng reined in the reins lightly. He could not suppress the heavy and excited mood in his heart at this moment. He immediately stood up on the sand dune, looked at the city head, paused and said: "Brother Yigong, you can attack. All departments should be prepared. From now on, all the way to Chengtian Mansion.
It will be a breathless and tough battle.”
He respectfully called Gao Yigong his elder brother for the first time in a long time. The heavy pressure from Zhan Yun made Li Laiheng, who was somewhat "floating", put half of his foot on the ground again.
There are many cannons and muskets exposed on the battlements of the fortresses and various strongholds near Yancheng, and flags of different colors and sizes are flying at the top of the city.
The soldiers of the government army poked their heads out of the gaps in the battlements, observing the movement of the standard troops in front of Li Laiheng's troops. There were also some people who pointed at the neat formation of the "rogue bandits" who were leading the battle.