Lord of the House

As soon as the sun rose above the treetops, Zhang Gou and Chen Zui led their troops to the bank of Yishui River, and Chen Hansan also led cavalry to come to the rescue. Arrow remnants and the Hedong camp that was completely burned.

The strong wind was blowing, and the ashes with embers were flying.

The Hexi camp was also completely broken just before they arrived. Two or three thousand soldiers were driven to flee by the cavalry, and they only hated that their parents had less than two legs. The Jiangdong Left Army had about two battalions of Jia soldiers lined up in the Western Camp, and the other soldiers began to gather and mobilize. Perhaps the sun would fall a little and the scorching sun would slow down a little before starting the next attack.

The iron cable pontoon bridge between the east and west camps was still there. Zhang Gou peeped at Chen Hansan's gloomy face from a distance. I wonder if he would have the courage to drive his troops across the pontoon bridge to attack the Jiangdong Zuo Army who had established a firm foothold on the west bank?

Chen Hansan hated to stab the saddle with the whip. He really couldn't understand why the defenders of the Hexi camp failed to burn down the pontoon in time and stop the Jiangdong Zuo Army on the east bank?

Lin Fu stood on the river bank and looked out at the east bank. There were quite a lot of reinforcements. Chen Hansan pulled out all the precious cavalry under his hands, but thinking with his toes, he knew that he would not be able to force the pontoon to attack him. .

Seeing Zhou Pu riding the river bank from behind, Lin Fu said, "The catapult is not useless at all..."

"What use can it be used for?" Zhou Pu was puzzled. The two sides of the strait were separated by three or four hundred steps. Maybe they could just hit the edge of the east coast. People stormed the pontoon bridge, and it was easy to block it with catapults.

Lin Fu smiled and said, "Cut off Chen Hansi's head and hit him with a catapult. It's a gift for Chen Hansan! The next time I see him, I'm going to cut off his head!"

"Ha!" Zhou Pu laughed loudly and said, "Okay! I will cut this head myself."

At the dawn of the night, the guard of the Yihe camp of the refugee army and Chen Hansan's brother Chen Hanwu were in Hexi at the time. Hearing the sound of the horns being attacked, he hurriedly pushed the girl of the two people he had married off the bed, pierced his armor and carried a knife, and walked across the bridge to supervise the battle.

Where did he think that Dongying was broken too fast, Chen Hanwu had just passed the pontoon bridge and was about to enter Dongying, and the armored cavalry had already passed through Dongying and killed to the pontoon bridge. Chen Hansi retreated hastily, and the armored cavalry took advantage of the situation to kill. Chen Hanwu could not escape his death. Before Dongying was broken, the iron cable pontoon bridge was taken down, so there was no need to take a big risk to rush to cross.

A head the size of a pig's skull drew an arc in the air and smashed into the floating soil on the east bank. Seeing the squire lift the head of his brother with a familiar face, Chen Hansan roared with hatred.

The three Chen Han brothers were many. When they were robbers, they were killed by the government or fighting for territory. Not many died. When Chen Hanwu was killed, he was the only one left in the Chen family.

Zhang Gou watched with a cold eye. Last night, he tried to persuade him to send troops, but he just didn't listen. If he could send cavalry to attack when it was dark, and spread out along the Yishui River, how could the Jiangdong Zuo Army attack the Yishui camp at night?

Regardless of what Chen Zui and Zhang Gou thought, Chen Hansan whipped the horse and led the cavalry to the north.

Jiangdong Zuojun peeped at the west bank, and if he wanted to cross the river smoothly, he could only take a detour from Tancheng County in the north, but he had to detour more than 100 miles. The cavalry might be able to catch up with horsepower, but Zhang Gou and Chen Zhu knew that they were going to take a detour from Tancheng, and most of them would not be able to catch up.

In addition to sending people to swim across the river from the lower reaches to ensure that the news of the collapse of the Yishui camp was communicated to Siyang, Zhang Gou and Chen Zui decided to stay on the east bank and wait for the main force of the Jiangdong Zuo army to move westward, and then find a way to get from here. It's better to cross the river by force.

Chen Hansan led his cavalry to cross the river by detour from Tancheng, but there was still a group of elite soldiers on the other side guarding the pontoon crossing. Lin Fu had to quickly cross Sishui with his elite fighting force and enter the central area controlled by the refugee army. , It was still quite a headache, and immediately ordered the pontoon to be burned, and the whole division immediately set off westward.

Pile of firewood and fuel, big flames.

Dozens of flat-topped boats fell off the anchorages, built the pontoon bridge with pallets, and were connected with iron cables.

The five battalions of the Fengbu battalion, the three cavalry battalions of the cavalry battalion, as well as a number of auxiliary soldiers and workers, after rushing the road overnight and even capturing the two large camps in the east and west of Yishui, they only rested for a while to fill their stomachs. Just keep going.

An army can be called a real strong soldier when its continuous combat capability is tested.

Compared with other generals who often have tens of thousands of troops, as the vanguard of the refugee army, Sun Ganzi likes to use elite soldiers to fight tough battles. The more tough battles are fought, the better the armour and equipment will be compared to those of the same party; often five or six thousand people can capture a city or sink a land, and the supplies of food and grass will naturally be much more abundant.

The three-thousand-step brigade rushed all night to reach the banks of the Yishui River, and they still had the strength to fight.

Such elite soldiers can be justified in the world.

Previously, Sun Ganzi pulled a thousand people to support Ma Lantou, who had tens of thousands of troops in Siyang and Suyu. Speaking of which, he was confident in his troops.

Seeing that after the Jiangdong Zuo army ran all night and captured the Yishui camp, they immediately pulled out the camp and moved westward. Zhang Gou and Chen Zui had to think about the gap between their own army and Jiangdong Zuo army.

Half of the iron-cable pontoon bridge was burned, and there were still more than 200 horses lingering on the west bank, guarding against rushing to cross the Yishui River here—a thought flashed in Zhang Gou's mind: the 4,000-odd elites bound by the East China Sea Fox Forest are heading for Si Does the sun go away?

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Guotouli was originally a large village in the northwest of Siyang. At this time, the village was dilapidated and many houses were destroyed. It was breached by bandits before. Naturally, the big households in the village could not escape the catastrophe. Some of the old, weak and sick are left to guard the village house.

In the torrential rain that has been coming in months, no one has taken care of the soil enclosure outside the stockade, and it has been devastated. But it is this soil enclosure that looks like an old lady's teeth and mouth, so that the Duhuai army who escaped in time can avoid it. a devastating blow.

Xiao Kuian limped around, instructing people to cut down the logs, remove the pillars, tie them into wooden fences, and fill in the gaps in the earthen fence as much as possible. He hadn't closed his eyes for days and nights, and his eyes were red.

The sun rose and the weather became hot again. Tao Chun came over from behind and said to him, "Find a place, you can sleep first, and you have to fight hard! I'll watch it here first."

Yesterday, it was also fortunate that Tao Chun arrived immediately with his troops and rushed to the outpost of the turbulent bandits, so that the headquarters of the Duhuai Army could avoid a fatal impact and have time to withdraw to the Tuweizi.

Tao Chun had previously led the dead soldiers to sneak across to Siyang, and contacted Siyang's private army, and gathered more than 300 soldiers, but the key is to cast in the right place.

The Duhuai Army was not completely defeated. At this time, nearly 5,000 elites could still be preserved, and Tao Chun was the most responsible.

"How is Master Teng's injury?" Xiao Kuian asked.

"It's hard to say..." Tao Chun shook his head.

In the chaos of war yesterday, Teng Xing, the magistrate of Shanyang County, was hit by two arrows, and he was surrounded by his subordinates and fled into Guo Tou. Teng Xingyuan lost too much blood and lacked medical treatment and medicine. He fell into a coma and never woke up again.

Lack of doctors and medicines is the second thing. When I stole the camp yesterday, I never thought about the tricks of the bandits, and I never thought that I would be trapped here and bring more dry food with me.

The soldiers also attacked in the early morning after having a full meal. They had at most a few dry biscuits on their bodies. They were afraid that the war would not end in a long time, but they did not carry more.

The village that escaped into was looted by bandits, and there were still some old, weak, sick and disabled in the village. The dry food carried by Tao Chun can last for five or six days, but the troops he has gathered in Siyang in the past few days are only three to five hundred, and the Duhuai army who has withdrawn is nearly five thousand. Grain is exhausted.

Right now, I can only scrape down all the green grass and leaves in the soil enclosure to satisfy my hunger, but with more than 5,000 mouths, even if I eat all the wood in the soil enclosure, I will not be able to eat for a few days.

Fighting on the battlefield relies on strength. After two or three days, you can only wait for the bandits to break in and kill them.

The bandits outside Tuweizi gathered more and more, and they were not busy attacking, digging the earth to form a wall, and wanting to encircle this place. Thinking about it, they also knew that there was a shortage of food and medicine, and they thought about encircling it for two or three days. Breakthrough in one fell swoop.

Xiao Kui'an and Tao Chun looked at each other. At this time, they were counting on the Zhizhi Envoy to lead the Jiangdong Zuo Army to come to aid in a timely manner, but they didn't know when the Zhizhi Envoy would come to help, let alone whether the Zhizhi Envoy would come to help...

Under the current situation, if the regime envoys do not help Siyang, the village elders and Qingliu of Huai'an will not speak out, but will eagerly hope that the regime envoys will lead troops to fill the gap in Shanyang's defense line.

At the beginning, the envoy dispatched soldiers to cross Huai River in Shanyang County~www.wuxiaspot.com~ deliberately left a big gap in Shanyang County. Isn't that the intention? Isn't it just waiting for the big defeat here, so he can lead the army to fill the gap in Shanyang's defense line?

Only then did Xiao Kuian understand the viciousness of civil servants fighting each other. There is no blood in the real murder. It is no wonder that Lord Liu has never mentioned the matter of reinforcements from yesterday to now.

It's just this layer of worry that no one can say.

Now the generals below can still hold on, and their morale is not weak. If they were told that the envoy and the prefect fell out over the matter of crossing Huai to aid Xu, the envoy would likely return to the division to guard Huai'an and ignore them, and the battle would not be able to go on.

Xiao Kuian thought to himself: At this time, while the generals and soldiers still have spare strength, they should concentrate their forces on the Huai River or the Sishui River. As long as they are next to the Huaisi Waterway, even if they cannot withdraw for a while, they can always use boats to bring some grain and grass from the waterway. Much better than sitting here and waiting.

Xiao Kuian made up his mind and planned to enter the village to persuade Liu Tingzhou to break through.

At this time, there were several bandits approaching outside Tuweizi. Xiao Kuian just regarded it as the outpost that bandits came to spy on. He didn't pay much attention to it. He shouted loudly: "The secret letter of the envoy Shukou, don't shoot arrows!"

Xiao Kuian hurriedly stopped the soldiers from shooting arrows, but the bandits saw that the officers and soldiers had entered the sentry and opened a bow to shoot arrows. The messenger stuck three arrows in his back and rolled into the dirt enclosure. Failed to pierce the armor, the three arrows were deeply inserted into the flesh, rolled to the ground and pulled at the wound, the messenger Shukou cried out in pain, saw Xiao Kuian in generals approaching, and said, "The road is bumpy, except for the restraint. In addition to the letter and the printed paper, there is only a word of mouth telling that the prefect, Master Liu, is safe?" My QT room is open! More vulgar official QT room number [9167] Click to enter