Five Dynasties River Mountains Fengyue

"promise!"

The three listened to the order at the same time.

"Shi Yanchao was the vanguard of the camp in the south. He led the Longjie Army's first five armies, the elite cavalry, to rush to the rescue without waiting for the rear army."

Shi Yanchao's face was stern, and his height of just over 1.9 meters was full of oppression. He bowed his hands and listened to the order: "No, I'm going to kill those Tang children!"

After saying that, go out directly, beat the horse and mobilize the troops.

Shi Congyun was sweating profusely, shit, why is Dad a pioneer again!

Then the officials looked at Li Chongjin: "Li Chongjin deployed for the camps in the south, and led the fifth, sixth, seventh, eighth, ninth, and tenth armies in the left wing of Hujie to follow up, and quickly supported Li Gu without waiting for the main army. "

"Respect!"

Finally, the official looked at him, "Shi Congyun, you are Marquis Yu, the camp capital.

He led the first army, the second army, the third army, the fourth army, and the fifth army to support Li Chongjin's deputy.

You just won the battle in the west, and your performance is not bad, don't let me down. "

Shi Congyun took a deep breath and agreed, "No!"

"Go down and mobilize the troops, set off immediately, don't delay!"

Chapter 120, Southern Tang Reinforcements

On the way back to his own army, Shi Congyun kept thinking about the official orders in his heart.

The officials did not say how many reinforcements were sent by the Southern Tang Dynasty, but Shi Congyun could guess from the number of troops sent by his own side.

Shi Yanchao was the vanguard and brought about 1 elite cavalry from the Longjie Army, Li Chongjin led the Hujie Five Army with about 1 people, and he led the Control He five Army with about [-] people......

Calculated in this way, the total force should be [-].

This time, the officials took out almost half of the troops of the Southern Expedition!For a war dispatch of this scale, there are definitely a lot of people coming from the other side.

Thinking about it, the counterattack of the Southern Tang Kingdom should have come long ago.

Li Gudu had been besieging Shouzhou City for almost three months before they slowly assembled an army thinking about going north to rescue them. If the guard Liu Renshan hadn't been capable, the day lily would have been cold.

It has to be said that the Southern Tang Kingdom is really slow to respond, and it is also possible that their high-level court officials are not firm in their will to fight and are still vacillating.

Shi Congyun didn't know the specific reason, and it was impossible for him to go to Jinling to ask the senior officials of the Southern Tang Dynasty, but he still kept this information in his heart.

After thinking about it, he rushed back when he saw Li Chongjin in front of him.

Shi Congyun went straight to the horse, trying to hide his face. After all, we are all colleagues, and Li Chongjin is still a big man who the officials want to give face to. Moreover, this person is his boss at this time, and he is Li Chongjin's deputy in this rescue operation.

"I have met Marshal Li, and it is a great honor to be able to cooperate with Marshal Li." Shi Congyun wanted to extend his hand not to hit the smiling face, so he said something nice.

Unexpectedly, Li Chongjin was expressionless and didn't even stop the horse.

He just glanced back at him, his eyes narrowed into slits, and his voice was stern: "I heard that you won the battle in the west, but it has nothing to do with XX, who knows if your battles were mixed with water.

There are a lot of people cheating the world and stealing their reputations these days, so I don't think it's strange, speaking with my strength, I don't care about you, but we are going to fight together, so I have something to say first, and you don't hold back when the fight starts. "

The words in Shi Congyun's stomach were blocked immediately, his brows were slightly frowned, and a fire rose in his heart.

Reason told him not to offend Li Chongjin. This person has a high position and authority, and he is not a good person to offend. But he couldn't help but counterattacked: "You can't say who will hinder who. Let's see the outcome on the battlefield."

Li Chongjin looked at him, his expression flashed with surprise, then he nodded, "Okay! You are right, see you on the battlefield if you have any business.

Take a step first, your crane control army is too slow to assemble. "

After saying that, he rode his horse and led the people to go south. Soon, a large banner moved to the west of the team, raising dust all over the sky.

Shi Congyun was angry in his heart, so he called Wang Zhong, Dong Zunhui, Luo Yanhuan, Yu Cheng, and Shen Zhiyi to scold them when he went back. He was so slow in rectifying and gathering troops, what's the point of fighting!

Immediately after that, he ordered people to reorganize the army, and led the first five armies in the left wing of the crane to rush south to Zhengyang to rescue Li Gu!

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Shengtang County is located on the bank of a tributary of the Huaihe River. It is an important naval camp of the Southern Tang Dynasty. From here, it goes north and joins the Huihuai River in the waterway near Zhengyang.

The army led by Liu Yanzhen took the road from the prosperous Tang Dynasty to Zhengyang, advancing by water.

Riding on the horse, Liu Yanzhen looked at the boats in the river stretching for tens of miles, with masts everywhere, filling the river.

The soldiers on land formed a row of six and lined up on the main road beside the case. You couldn't see the beginning and the end at a glance. You could only vaguely see the banners flying in the wilderness and the wide and horizontal farmland.

Such a magnificent scene made Liu Yanzhen feel complacent and excited for a while.

His father was a bandit, and he climbed to a high position step by step by relying on Wu's meritorious service, while Liu Yanzhen was born in a wealthy family, and was rewarded by shade, but he had never experienced any fighting for leading the army.

Now being deployed by the Lord of the Southern Tang Dynasty to worship the northern camp, leading more than 3 main soldiers to assist Shouzhou, there are more than [-] auxiliary soldiers, tens of thousands of civilians, the military vehicles and flags stretch nearly a hundred miles, and the battleships are tied to the tail. The prestige has reached the extreme, and the ambition in his chest can hardly be concealed.

He proudly said to the generals beside him, "With the might of our army, who else in the world can resist?

I think as soon as the army arrives, the siege of Shouzhou will be relieved. It would be better if we can capture a few heads of the enemy generals to add some credit. "

Walking north for a few days and approaching the Huaihe River, the scouts in front reported that Li Gu, the general of the Zhou army, was afraid that the king's division would destroy the pontoon bridge, and was attacked by the enemy. He burned the siege camp outside Shouzhou City and began to retreat to Zhengyang.

Liu Yanzhen was even more proud when he heard this, and laughed at Li Gu's cowardice, and the generals around praised him for his foresight and foresight.

Liu Yanzhen was even happier when she heard it.

At the end of February, he led his army day and night to the city of Shouzhou. Afterwards, the troops in the surrounding cities burned their tents and fled, leaving only more than 2000 civilian husbands from Huaibei who were captured by him.

Shouzhou Jiedu envoy Liu Renshan was very cautious, did not open the door, and only met him at the top of the city.Liu Yanzhen was very annoyed by this move, how could he go against it!

I thought that this Liu Renshan was relying on the old to sell the old, and thought that he would be great after fighting a few battles. When he returned from this meritorious service, he must read a book carefully to see if he dared to be arrogant.

So he was full of ambition and told Liu Renshan about the situation. The Zhou army outside the city had been scared away by his army and was retreating towards Zhengyang to the west of the city. , Completely repelled the invasion of the Zhou army.

After all, the reaction of Liu Renshan on the top of the wall was not the same as he imagined. The other party was not surprised, nor did he praise his talent, but asked tactfully: "Dare to ask the commander, what is your successor?" Where is the army's supplies and provisions now?"

"Naturally in the heyday of the Tang Dynasty, the peasants were moving north." Liu Yanzhen agreed of course. He felt that the best soldiers and strong generals were needed to fight the war.

"The prosperous Tang Dynasty is more than [-] miles away from this place. Is the team for transporting grain, grass and supplies lined up all the way?"

Liu Yanzhen frowned. He felt that there was nothing wrong with it. It was the army in front that was fighting, not the food transport team behind.

Liu Renshan said at the top of the wall: "I think the commander-in-chief should wait a little longer."

Liu Yanzhen was completely annoyed, she snorted heavily and ignored it, thinking that after Lao Tzu defeated Zhou Jun, see if you have anything else to say, if I knew it would be like this, I shouldn't have come here, he brought people here to make a rescue out of fear of danger in Shouzhou. Thinking that Liu Renshan is not Zhou Jun's opponent, I want to teach him a lesson!

So he ordered, "Let Wu Yanhui, Zhang Yanhan, and Cheng Shilang gather all the people to Zhengyang, and move quickly. Don't worry about the food, grass, and supplies. The soldiers are very fast, and we will stop the Zhou army!"

The messenger nodded, then got on his horse and rode his horse to deliver orders to the various armies.

At the beginning of March, more than [-] reinforcements from the Southern Tang Dynasty began to gather in the direction of Zhengyang. On the vast plains near Zhengyang, the wide and dense fields were full of soldiers, and the people who could escape fled, but they could not escape. He was also scared and hid.

To the east of Zhengyang Town, the soldiers who were withdrawn from Shouzhou fled to Zhengyang hastily, and thousands of civilian husbands conscripted from Huaibei were trapped near Shouzhou City, and it was too late to evacuate.

The arrival of the Southern Tang army caused the Zhengyang defenders to panic.

Chapter 121, Reinforcements

In Zhengyang in early March, the frontier peripheral troops of the two armies had already encountered in the farmland outside the town.

On the afternoon of the third day of March, a soldier reported that he had shot and killed two scouts from the Southern Tang Army in the farmland about a mile outside the town. Li Gu knew the situation was urgent. Far, ordered everyone to speed up the southward retreat.

The official was eager to realize his ambitions, so he would rather put the more than 1 forward troops in Huainan in danger than withdraw the troops and destroy the bridge.

Li Gu is more conservative. As the coach, he is more concerned about the army.

There are too many reinforcements in the Southern Tang Dynasty, and they have been fighting for more than three months. Liu Renshan is not a kind person.

If Zhengyang is captured by the Southern Tang Dynasty, their retreat is cut off, and the pontoon bridge is destroyed, then more than 1 of them will be blocked by the Huaihe River and be trapped on the south bank without food and grass, and there will only be a dead end.

To be on the safe side, Li Gu ordered the siege of Shouzhou to be abandoned, the entire army retreated to Zhengyang, and then retreated to the north bank of the Huaihe River in an orderly manner.

But this kind of practice is undoubtedly not liked by the radical officials. The officials are not afraid of death, and they are afraid that things will make no progress or even go backwards.

That's why when he decided to withdraw his troops from Shouzhou, Li Gu wrote a memorial and sent it to the imperial court to explain the situation.

He also understands that rhetoric and justification can't dispel the anger of the officials, and the officials will definitely not be happy. The officials want them to fight to the death to defend the pontoon bridge and guard the road for the follow-up army, even if they die to the last person...

But such a thing is easier said than done.

Not to mention ordinary generals and soldiers, even if he asks himself, he is actually afraid of death.

At this moment, a large number of flags suddenly flew up on the north bank of the river, and the ground could feel the ground shaking under their feet even though the river was in a trance.

Li Gulian walked out of the big tent by the river, followed by Han Lingkun, Bai Yanyu and others. Looking south, the villages on the north bank were almost covered by dust, and the low thatched houses and tile houses were looming.

.......

"Reinforcements?" Han Lingkun said first.

Slowly, the figures on the other side of the river became clear, and many cavalry stopped on the bank, stretching a long line across the city, covering the river.

Everyone was excited, the reinforcements really came!

Across the rushing water of the Huaihe River, a large flag with the word "History" in the middle of the other bank is fluttering in the wind.

Shi Yanchao, the number one general of the Zhou army!

Everyone was suffocated, and then they were ecstatic. Shi Yanchao led reinforcements!

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Shi Congyun led the Crane Control Army and ran all the way south, along the road all the way south.

The plains on both sides of the Huaihe River are very suitable for marching troops. Unlike the previous Qinling Mountains in Shanxi, the vast plains have nothing but occasional fog and a few dense forests.

On both sides of the avenue are large farmlands with fresh green. No wonder everyone wants the places on both sides of the Huaihe River. It is true that the fertile fields are suitable for farming. Whoever owns this land can increase a lot of food output and raise a large army. .

If it was normal, Shi Congyun would definitely let the army pay attention to the farmland on both sides of the avenue, but now he can't take care of it, Li Gu is still waiting for him to reinforce in the south!

So the whole army marched in a hurry, all the way to the south, and even at night they just slept for a while in the fields by the roadside, and when they got up, they ran south in disgrace.

In addition to worrying about Li Gu's safety, Shi Congyun also cared about Li Chongjin's words, so he said to the whole army, "Let them see who is the elite!"

The officers and soldiers of the Crane Control Army also competed for the first place. Many talents came back from the battlefield against Shu and believed in him.

The rapid march for several days directly left Li Chongjin's Hu Jie army far behind.

On the fifth day of March, Shi Congyun got up in the morning, washed his face in the ditch by the roadside, and then yelled: "Get up, gather and hurry, whoever doesn't get up, I will crush his eggs!"

Everyone laughed, turned over from the field beside the road, and continued on their way south.

Not long after walking, they met the messengers who were rushing northward with the red command flag on their backs. As they ran, they shouted loudly: "Great victory! Great victory! The former vanguard Shi Yanchao defeated the Tang army in Zhengyangnan and beheaded more than a thousand!"

"Great victory! Great victory! The former vanguard Shi Yanchao defeated the Tang army in Zhengyangnan and beheaded more than a thousand!"

The sound gradually faded away, and then cheers broke out in the army, and the morale was greatly boosted.

Shi Yanchao led the cavalry, and arrived a few days earlier than them. He did not expect to defeat the Southern Tang army for a while when he arrived in Zhengyang.

Shi Congyun was both happy and worried. Of course, the more contributions the father made, the better, but he was also worried that his father would suffer if he was too aggressive.

So they rushed south quickly, encouraged by the victory ahead, and the soldiers marched faster.

By the time the army arrived at the north bank of the Huaihe River, it was already daylight, and the villages and towns on the other side of the river were smoky, and the houses were sparse, bathed in the blood-colored sunset, and the Huaihe River was also dyed blood-colored, as if the whole world was a piece of red.

When the army arrived at the north bank, someone from the opposite side had been sent out to meet him. It was a short man in his thirties who brought a few people with him.

He spoke very politely, cupped his hands and said: "Such Mr. Li Gu's vanguard deputy capital commander Si Chao is here to meet the owner of the chamber.

The deputy commander in front of the temple (Shi Yanchao) fought a great victory in the south of Zhengyang, and captured more than 2000 Southern Tang troops. Armored cattle and horses were thrown everywhere in the fields. The owner leads the way. "He said with a hearty smile.

As soon as Shi Congyun met him, he immediately felt that this person was very nice. He didn't know why, probably directly or because of his attitude, so he cupped his hands and said, "You are being polite. The brothers are here to fight the enemy, not to visit the kilns. , no one needs to wait on you.”

Everyone laughed when they heard this, and Si Chao also laughed, "The owner of the room comes with me."

Afterwards, a man named Si Chao led people to lead the way, and the army began to cross the river from the pontoon bridge.

Si Chao sent them to the north of Zhengyang Town.

To the north is a village outside the town, with more than [-] households, most of them are thatched houses, and there are three brick and tile structures.

"These houses have been requisitioned. Li Xianggong arranged for Shi Xiangzhu to camp here, which is much better than tents." Si Chao said.

"Thank you!" Shi Congyun cupped his hands, and asked him curiously: "When I came from the north, I heard that the military situation here in Zhengyang was urgent. Are you all right now?"

"It's just fine for the time being, Deputy Commander Shi defeated the bandit army for a while, and they were too scared to approach Zhengyang for the time being, but there are still a lot of people.

After the general packs up and settles down, let's go to see Li Xiang in the big tent.Li Xianggong must have a lot of things to explain. "

Shi Congyun nodded in response, of course, even if Si Chao didn't say anything, he would go to see him.

Nowadays, there are many troops stationed in Little Zhengyang Town and its surrounding areas. If the arrangements are not made, there will be big troubles.