Lord of the House

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Even if Huaidong invested 50,000 troops and horses in the hinterland of Jingxiang, in the entire Jingxiang battlefield, it did not completely change the strength of the two sides. Jingxiang's military deployment.

Even if there are a few enemy generals such as Shewenzhuang, Chen Zhihu, Su Tingzhan, etc. to see the significance of the Huaidong Army, they are not able to adjust the deployment of troops and horses on the north and south fronts in time to deal with the current crisis.

No matter how many troops and horses the enemy has, once they are in disarray, they will fall into a panic that cannot be restrained. The final fate will only be eaten by the Huaidong Army, who has a careful plan.

This is the case with the defenders of Suizhou City, and the same is true of the reinforcements in Shicheng.

After receiving assistance from Xiangyang in Shicheng, Su Tingzhan sent deputy general Suo Chengdong to lead 3,000 cavalry troops to advance to Fancheng at noon on the 20th.

On the 21st, at the end of the day, Suo Chengdong led his troops to the Longzuishan area, about 30 miles southeast of Fancheng. At that time, it was less than 20 miles away from the Baihetan fortress set up by Azhige on the periphery of Fancheng.

Suo Chengdong only needed a little more force to join Azige's troops at Baihetan, but he did not expect that on the other side of Longzui Mountain, Huaidong cavalry had already entered.

Before noon on the 19th, Sun Zhuang led 5,000 cavalry from Lishan, bypassed Suizhou City, and drove west without stopping, only half an hour earlier than Suochengdong and entered Longzui Mountain.

Sun Zhuang's troops had an advantage, but they could travel four hundred miles in two days; while Suo Chengdong's troops were at a disadvantage, but they could only travel two hundred miles a day and one night, so it could be said that they were not at a disadvantage as a whole.

However, most importantly, Suo Chengdong rushed to help Fancheng wholeheartedly, and did not take into account that Huaidong still had hidden soldiers in Jingxiang, and did not even send out a distant sentry on the other side of Longzui Mountain. Cao Zi'ang and the others had an accurate judgment on the strength of Shicheng's reinforcements to Fancheng, the timing of the advance and the route of travel, and a large number of scouts were deployed on this route to monitor the movement of Shicheng's reinforcements at any time.

Suo Chengdong was unaware of the Huaidong reinforcements coming from the east; and before Sun Zhuang entered Longzuishan, he knew that he would meet 3,000 enemy cavalry on Longzuishan. Either fight or surrender, or wait for the night to bypass the Ajige Baihe Beach camp and enter Fancheng to join forces with Huang Zuyu and Zhou Bin. Sun Zhuang's initiative is in his hands.

Although Chen Jige had already joined the reinforcements from Xinye, Zhongyi and other cities, and gathered more than 8,000 soldiers and horses at the Baihe Beach on the north bank of the Han River, his vision was firmly attracted to Fancheng. From Baihe Beach to the north, there is a gap dozens of miles wide. Sun Zhuang can be asked to sneak over and enter Fancheng after nightfall, and join Huang Zuyu and the others.

The scouts of the Huaidong Army were scattered on the hilltops of Longzuizui, which were not dangerous to mention, monitoring the two squadrons of enemy soldiers entering the west foot from the south. The two squads of enemy cavalry came very quickly, and they quickly passed through the ditch at the western foot of Longzui Mountain; almost ten miles away, the main force of Shicheng led by Suo Chengdong was the main force of the enemy, and three thousand cavalry scattered and ran. It is bound to the river valley between the east bank of the Han River and the southern foot of Longzui Mountain.

The river valley on the west side of Longzui Mountain is very open, with a depth of almost ten miles; Longzui Mountain itself is far from steep. Flooded fields overgrown with wormwood.

Three thousand cavalry galloped past, almost filling the space of nearly ten miles, which was even more spectacular than the crossing of ten thousand foot soldiers.

It's just that this group of enemy cavalry did not realize that at the eastern foot of a long ridge separated from them, the 5,000 generals of the 3rd Brigade of Huaidong Cavalry Battalion were taking time to rest in the woods to recover their strength.

When they set out from Lishan, Sun Zhuang had 5,000 men and 8,000 horses. If you walk in a hurry in the front, in a hurry, and walk slowly in the back, you save your physical strength considering the possibility of encountering an enemy. Even so, by this time, more than 1,000 horses will be lost.

At this time, it is necessary to further pick out the horses with insufficient physical strength.

The cavalry is more scattered than the infantry, especially when the enemy cavalry is attacked in the field, the formation will be more scattered, but the physical strength of the horses is higher. In order to ensure sufficient impact, two teams of sharp knives must be temporarily drawn. thought forward.

"Do you want to beat these turtle grandchildren, or let these turtle grandchildren have a chance to escape to Xinye?" Sun Zhuang stopped at Long Jiang, Chen Daozi and other generals to discuss countermeasures.

When the true strength of Chaishan's ambush is revealed, once the enemy soldiers in Baihetan realize that there is simply not enough time to retake Fancheng, they are likely to flee directly to Xinye to the north.

Everyone knows that even if the battle of Jingxiang is won beautifully, it is impossible for a single fish to completely wipe out the enemy in Jingxiang without slipping through the net. However, the three thousand enemy cavalry in front of him were able to escape, and Chen Daozi and other generals were unwilling.

"Beat him, mother," Chen Daozi cut his hands down, and answered very succinctly, "These grandchildren, there are more than 6,000 horses in 3,000 cavalry, and I'm not reconciled if they don't kill them!" He didn't care how many enemy soldiers were killed or wounded. , he was greedy for the more than 6,000 war horses in front of him.

"I know that you son of a turtle is greedy for war horses," Sun Zhuang scolded Chen Daozi and said, "You don't want to defeat the enemy soldiers in Baihetan together, but you just defeat Shicheng to help the enemy, and you have time to catch them all on the battlefield. horse?"

Tang Xitai, who came to the rescue with Sun Zhuang, asked: "Is it possible to defeat the enemy forces in Baihetan? Azige built fortresses on both sides of Baihetan mainly to prevent Huang Zuyu and the others from counterattacking from Fancheng in the west, only digging west of the river. Long trenches, the defenses to the east are weaker; they never imagined that we would have more troops coming in from the east..."

"If Huang Zuyu can go out of Fancheng to attack Baihe Beach, he should be able to catch him by surprise and eat these turtle grandchildren in the meat pie," Chen Daozi said, rubbing his hands together, "It's just that the enemy of Shicheng is going to pass through as soon as we see it. There is no time to send someone to sneak into Fancheng to inform Huang Zuyu to send troops."

"It's not that we can't fight," Sun Zhuang said, rubbing his beard and messy chin, "Let's let the enemies of Shicheng go first, we will attack from behind, and after defeating them, we will bite the defeated soldiers and attack the Baihetan together. Enemy base..."

All Sun Zhuang led were light cavalry, and it was very dangerous for light cavalry to attack a defensive fortress.

No matter how weak the defense of the enemy's camp is, even if it is just a fence, it can be effective only if two more lines are set up in advance of the fence to resist horses, and behind the fence, the infantry is formed with spear formations, supplemented by large shields and crossbows. Block the direct onslaught of the cavalry.

Once the speed of the cavalry is suppressed, it is extremely difficult to break through the formations and camps, and the casualties are unimaginable.

Since 17 or 18 miles from Longzui Mountain is the enemy camp in Baihe Beach, Sun Zhuang wanted to let the 3,000 Shicheng enemy cavalry pass Longzui Mountain first, and then he led his troops to attack the enemy from the rear to defeat it. However, after chasing and killing the defeated soldiers, they made the defeated soldiers attack the enemy camp in Baihetan, so that even if Baihetan built a defensive formation, they would meet the attack of their own defeated soldiers first; and they followed the defeated soldiers and rushed into the enemy camp in Baihetan, in one fell swoop. This group of enemy soldiers outside Fancheng overturned, so that Huang Zuyu from Fancheng did not need to cooperate.

Of course, there are dangers in doing so. If they can't run down more than ten miles in one go and directly attack the enemy camp in Baihetan, they will fail to step on the camp; even if they can withdraw and disengage in time, the casualties will be difficult to control.

"If you beat him or your mother, you can't give all the battle merits to Huang Zuyu and Zhou Xianzi." Chen Daozi said, he was excited, and two bloodstains on his face jumped, extraordinarily hideous and fierce. Obviously, if they entered Fancheng according to the plan and joined Huang Zuyu and Zhou Blind, even if they successfully defended Fancheng and blocked the front line of Fancheng, their military achievements would be much inferior. How could he be reconciled?

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Baixi is a stream that flows from the southern hills of Zaoyang to the Han River in the south. Because of the white calcium stone in the upper reaches of the stream, it was named Baixi. When the river merged into the Han River, the river beaches on both sides were two miles wide, but at this time it was early winter, the stream was thin, and the surface of the stream with running water was no more than ten feet wide, and the water depth was not no greater than the belly of a horse. Overgrown with wormwood and reeds that can no one be topped.

When the world is like this, if there are no natural cliffs and artificial levees on both sides, the river in the plain area will overflow to the flat ground on both sides without restraint. The further downstream, the wider the river beach, the slower the water flow, the more serious the accumulation of sand, and the shallower the water level.

The upper reaches of the Han River are sandwiched by the steep hills and mountains on both sides of the river. The narrowest part of the upper reaches is only more than 100 zhang, and the water depth is more than 10 zhang. After reaching Xiangyang, the width of the river is only five or six hundred steps. Further downstream, especially after Zhong Yi, the river banks on both sides suddenly opened up, increasing by more than seven or eight times. On the one hand, the river water is spread out, on the other hand, the water flow is slowed down, and the sand accumulation is serious, so that the water depth suddenly becomes shallower. Even a warship with a load of one or two thousand stones must be careful to avoid hitting the underwater shoal. . Such a small tributary of the White River is even more unbearable.

Azige did not entangle with Huaidong who attacked Fancheng at the iron pile wharf, but retreated to the mouth of Baihe, 11 or 2 miles east of Fancheng, burned the wormwood and reeds on the river beaches on both sides, and built two bases, waiting for reinforcements to come. confluence.

As Tang Xitai said, Azige mainly guarded against the Huaidong army in Fancheng from going out of the city to counterattack, so he dug a long trench in front of the west base to increase defense; Reinforcements from the east coast. In addition, Azige built two pontoon bridges on the water surface more than ten feet wide at the estuary to connect the east and west camps.

The navy in Nanzhang, Zhongyi, Xinye, Zaoyang, and Baiyangguan was the closest to Xiangyang. Although the garrison was small, it accumulated more. The total number of soldiers and horses that came was 8,000.

At this time, there were still 3,000 reinforcements from Jingmen entering Xiangyang City, and under the control of Deputy General Tong Ruilin, they filled the iron pile wharf from the pontoon and crossed the river to attack the Qiaodu District in the south of Fancheng City.

Azige stood on the watchtower of the Dongtan fortress, and the three thousand cavalry of Shicheng had entered his field of vision. At this time, the three thousand aid riders slowed down and started to walk in the wild, almost filling the field of vision, so that Azige breathed a sigh of relief, and said to Shen Haobo, the prefect of Xiangyang: "There is still no reply from Wuyang Leng Zilin, But when the three thousand reinforcements from Biyang arrive tomorrow, we will be able to attack Fancheng..." In his opinion, it is only a matter of time before we can retake Fancheng and restore our food supply.

Shen Haobo also thought so: with the reinforcements from Shicheng and Tu'an from Biyang, Azige's forces in Xiangyang would reach more than 18,000, and he was already capable of attacking Fancheng for a counter-offensive. The Qiaodu area, which is relatively weak in defense, should be seized first, so as to prevent Huaidong from attacking the enemy and jumping over the wall to knock down the bridge and burn the pontoon bridge.

According to the fact that two days and one night have passed since the fall of Fancheng, Azige and Shen Haobo are still full of hearts to keep the Hanshui pontoon connecting Xiangyang and Fancheng.

Seeing that the outpost of Shicheng reinforcements had arrived in front of the camp, Aziger ordered the camp door to be opened, ready to welcome the Shicheng reinforcements stationed in the east base. At this time, a few people from Xilei walked over the pontoon bridge and rushed to the watchtower at the gate of the camp. They saluted Azige and said, "The king of Ruzhou has an urgent letter that needs to be read by General Nahe..."

There was no reply from Wuyang, but Chen Zhihu in Queshan sent a letter to Xiangfan?

Azhige asked his guards to take Chen Zhihu's letter to the watchtower, opened it and read it, he found it ridiculous, he handed the letter to Shen Haobo and said, "The king of Ruzhou is really worried, he actually said that Huaidong is in Luzhou. The tens of thousands of elites have already entered Jingxiang, and they want us to immediately divide our troops and retreat to Xiangyang and Xinye, even Zaoyang, and want me to destroy the pontoon bridge. Lord Shen, do you think it is ridiculous?"

Shen Haobo took the urgent letter sent by Chen Zhihu's courier. Before he could read the letter, he saw a commotion after Shicheng's reinforcements were heading towards Donglei.

The commotion behind the tail is like the waves of water thrown by stones thrown into the river and spread rapidly. Almost in the blink of an eye, the commotion spread throughout the front line, and there were dozens of horsemen who rode desperately to this side, and shouted in panic in front of the camp: "There are attacking enemies behind the tail, all cavalry, the number is unknown... "

Shen Haobo didn't catch the urgent letter sent by Chen Zhihu for a while, the chill on his back ran straight to the top of his head, his blood froze as if he couldn't move at all, he was so frightened that he grabbed his throat and couldn't utter a word.

Azige's face was also ashen and pale, his mind went blank for a while, and he stood there in a daze. He didn't expect Chen Zhihu's guess in the letter to be verified in the blink of an eye...

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Although Shicheng's enemy cavalry in the front was alert, everything was slow. Sun Zhuang's troops had slowly approached the rear and started a cone-shaped attack formation three or four miles behind, waiting to speed up the charge. On the right flank, Chen Daozi led three battalions of cavalry to bypass the northern foot of Longzui Mountain and stared at the right flank. Their purpose was to defeat the enemy cavalry in front, and to route the enemy cavalry to Baihe Beach. Donglei drives away...

"All generals and pawns have orders. The Hugou who killed my father and my fellow villagers is right in front of us. Today, to avenge blood and make military exploits, we don't need to be merciful in killing the enemy," Sun Zhuang said word by word, "For the glory of Huaidong, pull out Knife……"

The Huaidong hussars were all standard sabres, and the three thousand generals who spread out to prepare for the final attack, all sent out their swords upon hearing the order. ocean.

Sun Zhuang pulled up his swords. Nearly three thousand swords shone brightly among the wormwood and shrubs under the sunlight. Chen Daozi and the others were at a high place, although they were far away, but seeing the light, they knew that Sun Zhuang had already ordered an attack without any further prompting.

"Draw the knife." Chen Daozi pulled out the sword and made a stabbing motion forward, thinking that the attack command, the 2,000 cavalry behind him also clamped and tightened the horse's belly, and slowly accelerated, moving towards the panicked enemy in front of him. Approach quickly.

The closer to the enemy, the faster the horses galloped, and soon the sound of hoofs flowed through the west foot of Longzui Mountain like a torrential rain, and poured out to the plain area at the east mouth of Baixi on the sloped terrain.

Although Suo Chengdong was a valiant general who had gone through **** battles, he was in the front line and found something unusual in the rear. At this time, he came to observe the enemy's situation. At this time, he was horrified when he saw two large groups of cavalry attacking diagonally from the back and the right flank. Bloodless. When the abnormality was discovered at first, I thought it was a small group of enemy soldiers approaching to harass, but I didn't expect it to be a cavalry force with a larger number of them.

The light cavalry marched at full speed, as fast as lightning. The distance of three or four miles seemed far away, and it took a blink of an eye to drive and cover up.

Looking at the dust raised by the Huaidong cavalry in the wild, forming a huge dust barrier that closed the entire Longzui Mountain, like a flood waterline, Suo Chengdong knew that he had no decision at this time. Enough time to communicate and make adjustments.

Suo Chengdong knew that the situation was over. Surrounded by dozens of soldiers, he rode his horse and headed west. As he walked, he ordered the cavalry on the road: "Go north, go north..." His voice was hoarse and full of despair. .

At this time, Suo Chengdong could still think of the Huaidong cavalry coming from behind, in order to defeat the soldiers and then attack the Baihetan camp. Therefore, Suo Chengdong, surrounded by the hussars, went west, thinking that he would take a step away from the camp before the Huaidong cavalry came after him, but at the same time he ordered his men to flee north.

Suo Chengdong's reaction was not wrong at all, but it was a pity that his order in such a hurry and panic would only cause even greater panic. When they walked, they all fled to the Baitan River subconsciously, thinking about the first step to avoid the camp and escape to the rear to cover up. There were those who heard the order to go north, and those who fled west subconsciously. In addition to the cavalry on the periphery that could quickly run, more cavalry could only mess around on the plain on the east bank of the White River.

At the tail, there were also a few **** brave soldiers who fought on their horses to meet the Huaidong cavalry, trying to buy some time for the friendly troops in front to escape, but the two or three hundred cavalry at the tail could not pull up the speed of the horses, so they gave Huai a sharp knife to the cavalry. Eastern cavalry entered.

The sword that swayed sideways with the momentum slashed through the air like lightning, and it didn't need to slash with extra force. The blade hit the body of the enemy, even the tough leather armor and thin iron armor would be broken at the moment of contact, naked. , The exposed neck is as fragile as the crops in the field, and the whole is easily cut off.

Two or three hundred enemy cavalry could not bring up the speed of the horse, and they could not even block the momentum a little, and they were completely defeated.

Occasionally someone escaped the front sword, but they couldn't escape the follow-up sword... As the three thousand cavalry rushed towards the flood, there was not even a single living hole left for the two or three hundred cavalry, but the horses stopped in a chaotic manner. On the battlefield, it seems to be used to blood.

Although Azige ordered the camp gate to be closed, the Shicheng cavalry was scrambling to escape into the camp, one after another, and they couldn't stop it at all, so there was no chance to close the camp gate - the depth of the east base was more than 300 paces wide. , the cavalry in front fled in, and it was too late to dismount, and the cavalry behind rushed in, pushing the cavalry in front to the river beach, unable to hold back the momentum at all.

Azige had 2,000 soldiers and horses in the east base, but he asked hundreds of cavalry to flee in the first place, and the two thousand soldiers and horses of the east base were also rushed...

"General, you can only go to the south bank, it's too late for anything." Shen Haobo grabbed Azige, who was anxiously red-eyed, and asked him to flee to the south bank of the Hanshui River instead of crossing the Baihe River to Xilei.

The main force of Huaidong's cavalry was still six or seven miles away from the camp, but in the six or seven miles outside the camp, the cavalry who were all scrambling to defeat the cavalry who fled, were killed by the tail. Don't say that there is no chance to close the camp gate. Even if the camp gate is closed, the fence will first be overrun by these many rout horses. The two or three thousand soldiers and horses in the camp will be in chaos, and will soon form a rout...

"No!" Azige roared unwillingly. His arms were full of divine power, and he threw Shen Haobo's body for five or six steps, almost stepping on it by a frightened horse.

Azige drew his sword and hacked to death the two panicked soldiers beside him.

"The Baihe mouth is too shallow, and there is no way for the enemy soldiers to block the pontoon bridge. A large number of defeated troops here will directly drive into the West Base, bringing the West Base into chaos, and Fancheng will soon follow." Shen Haobo If he rushed over to stop Azige, if he didn't die in the chaos of the soldiers, he could only flee to the bank of the Han River immediately and retreat to the Han River by boat.

"Those who disturb our army's heart will be cut without mercy!" Azige stabbed directly at the crazy Shen Haobo.

When Shen Haobo was dying, he still refused to believe that Azige killed him like this - Azige left Shen Haobo's body that was still bleeding out, and took more than a hundred soldiers to kill the chaos in the camp. Pass through the blood of the pontoon bridge, and want to retreat to the west bank and lead the 6,000 soldiers and horses of the west base to establish a defense.

The camp gate is too small, and more cavalry can't squeeze into the camp gate, and all of them are fleeing behind, and they can't turn around and rush to ~www.wuxiaspot.com~ and can only go directly to the fence wall on the east side.

The fence quickly collapsed, forming a large gap where the Huaidong cavalry directly attacked the east base. But just as Shen Haobo judged, the soldiers and horses in the camp were quickly collapsed, and the defeated soldiers had nowhere to escape.

In the chaos, waist-deep shallow water can drown people. Countless people fell in the river and couldn't get up, so they were trampled and held down by the fallen soldiers behind, drowning and countless people died, but there were also countless people who waded through the shallow water and tried to escape to the west base to avoid the cover-up at the rear.

Because everything happened so quickly, even though there were 6,000 troops on the west base, there was no way to stop the defeated troops from rushing to the shore for a while. Azig retreated to the west bank with the retinue, and took the lead in killing the defeated soldiers, so that they would not rush to the enemy's west fortification, but more of the defeated soldiers rushed ashore. When Azige understood that the general situation was lost, the front troops of the Huaidong cavalry had already occupied the pontoon to hide behind the defeated troops and rushed over. For the defense on the west bank, Azige didn't even have the chance to retreat to the Hanshui River...

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The weather was fine. Although Baihe Beach was 11 or 2 miles away from the east gate of Fancheng, Sun Zhuang led his cavalry to attack the east bank of Baihe Beach. Huang Zuyu and Zhou Bin stood in front of the east gate tower. The shore collapsed, and everything was understood.

"Master Pole is so **** ruthless!" Gao Hu couldn't help shouting excitedly.

Huang Zuyu was also so excited that he trembled a little when he spoke, trying to calm himself, and said to Zhou Bin who came from Qiaodu: "You go to the south of the city immediately and fight back against the iron pile wharf and the enemy soldiers at the bridgehead, take advantage of the chaos to kill them, and don't make them retreat. South Bank. I will lead my troops to attack Baihe Beach..." My QT room is open! More vulgar official QT room number [9167] Click to enter