Lord of the House

(asking for a red ticket)

Sun Zhuang and Li Liang each led a cavalry, sneaked at night, and caught the trace of the Yanhu sentry that penetrated into the Huaiyang line at the northeastern foot of Mount Mangdang.

Mangdang Mountain is the commanding height of the eastern Henan plain. The mountain is not high. There are thirteen hilltops scattered in Yongcheng County, which is four or five miles in depth, including Fuya Village in Mangdang Mountain and nearby Yongcheng. The county seat has been destroyed in recent wars.

Yongcheng County was subordinate to Henan. After Tao Chun was changed to the post of Henan's system envoy, Jiangning sent a new Yongcheng County magistrate and other officials to recruit Ding Zhuang from the people who had returned home one after another. The spears are not complete, let alone the ability to repair the dilapidated city.

Although Lin Fu had always coveted Mangdang Mountain as a better fortification terrain than Huaiyang, he did not have a legitimate name to extend the Huaiyang line of defense to the northwest for another 40 to 50 miles.

Yongcheng County was attacked by the elite Yanhu outpost that had infiltrated before nightfall yesterday. The three or five hundred families that had finally gathered in the city were slaughtered, and only a few escaped.

After the captives swept through Yongcheng County, they were also worried that the exposed trail would attract soldiers from the Southern Dynasty, and they moved to the remnant village of Confucius Cliff in the east of Yongcheng County at night to rest.

When they found the enemy's trail, Sun Zhuang and Li Liang first contacted him to pass the air. Seeing that the sky was getting brighter, the captured soldiers would probably move after dawn. When the cavalry in the middle route came to meet, they would outflank from the southwest and the east. Mangdang Mountain Confucius Cliff Remnant Village.

The prisoner sentry was ten miles away, and the whistle sounded at the slightest touch and ran back. Sun Zhuang led his troops to the northeastern foot of Mount Mangdang, and in the clear morning light, he saw more than 400 cavalry soldiers galloping out of the remnant village of Confucius Cliff, spreading out for a radius of two or three miles.

The Huaidong cavalry battalion were all veterans skilled in bowing and horses. The enemy cavalry rushed in, scattered to the northeast, and blocked the enemy cavalry's escape route to the north; Of.

The sound of hooves coming from Li Liang's troops approached, and the captive soldiers rushed to break through, peeking out their direction, and drilled through the gap on the north side of Confucius Cliff, even if they exposed their flanks. Sun Zhuang, of course, did not hesitate, and led the crowd to bite at the exposed flank of the captive. After approaching, the bows and crossbows were shot, and thousands of arrows fell like torrential rain, like locusts crossing the border.

Both sides are armored and light cavalry, and they are both within the range of the other side. It depends on which side shoots more arrows and has a better shooting situation. In the first round of confrontation, Sun Zhuang led the Huaidong Cavalry Battalion to pounce from the flank, which naturally had a great advantage, causing the enemy cavalry to fall.

The cavalry was powerless to fight, and only wanted to take advantage of the horses to break out of the encirclement. For captive soldiers, the way of roaming deep into the enemy's environment is to learn the way of horse thieves. Generally, they only attack targets with little threat. Otherwise, even if there are a few more wounded, it will be a great burden on the way forward or retreat. Seeing that the number of Southern Dynasty cavalrymen who had come to encircle clearly had an advantage, the cavalry of the cavalry naturally gave priority to breaking out of the encirclement.

However, the first breakthrough of the cavalry was a fake, and it was to lure Sun Zhuang and his troops to chase. The first rain of arrows was shot, and the flanks of the captive cavalry seemed to be bulging. A group of men and horses quickly separated. Using the speed of the horses, they slanted through an arc, and the sharp and curved swords were raised high. Come directly to attack Sun Zhuang's left front wing.

The Huaidong cavalry battalion was also divided into two teams, one team continued to bite the flanks of the captive cavalry, and the other team was led by Sun Zhuang to meet the captive soldiers who counterattacked.

Generally speaking, the standard equipment of light cavalry is riding crossbow, riding bow and light and narrow saber, and the sentry of captive soldiers is also equipped with bow and sword. Without foot soldiers accompanying, Sun Zhuang could not use both the big bow and the horse lance at the same time.

Sun Zhuang could use his bow to shoot flat while riding on a horse. When someone else used a crossbow to shoot an arrow, he had already shot down three people. When he saw a group of captives fighting back, he immediately took up a big bow and drew out a bow that was more than a foot longer than a saber. The saber was unsheathed, and the horse's belly collided with the counterattacking soldiers. When they were about to miss the first enemy, they crossed the horse's head and raised their knives. Sun Zhuang struck the man's side arm with the hilt of the knife between the electric light and flint. Although the man was also Yan Hu Yongrui, he couldn't take it. With a heavy blow, his body softened and he leaned over. He took a knife to the neck of the Huaidong cavalry who came later, and blood spurted out from the neck and neck, about four or five feet away...

The two teams of cavalry quickly rushed over. No matter how fast Sun Zhuang was, he could only kill three people in time. Fortunately, two people were behind to help make up for the knife.

The captive soldiers saw that the Southern Dynasty cavalry they encountered was very strong, and they did not dare to fight against it, so they spread out with their horses. Sun Zhuang returned the sword and put it into the sheath, then took the longbow in his hand, and looked for the prisoner in thick armor to shoot the horse that he stepped on. The captive soldiers also had this in mind. Many of them were good at using longbows on horseback. Sun Zhuang shot three of them in just one stick of incense.

The Huaidong cavalry had one horse and one horse. The ordinary cavalry shot the horse and followed the other cavalry with swords and bows to kill the enemy. Sun Zhuang was the main general, so the entourage on the left and right would naturally give the horse to him to ride. enemy.

Li Liang and his troops came, but the captives did not dare to entangle them any more, so they fled with their horses. Li Liang rushed from the flank for a while, but there were many captives and horses, and after resting for the night, they still managed to escape for most of them.

In just one stick of incense, Huaidong and Huaiyang cavalry wounded more than 30 people in total.

Whether it is Huaidong Cavalry Battalion or Huaiyang Cavalry Battalion, they are all elites who are one in a hundred. They wear light armor at least. Arrow and knife wounds are hard to hurt, but two people are trampled by enemy cavalry after shooting down their horses. and die.

However, the captives were eager to flee, and some of the wounded soldiers who fell to the ground were too late to save them. After the war, they cleaned up the battlefield and chopped off 30 heads and captured seven or eight prisoners. The rider did not dare to wander around Huaiyang City again.

After dispersing the scouts, Sun Zhuang and Li Liang rested on the spot.

Many injured horses had to be treated on the spot so that they would not be destroyed, so they had to wait for Huaiyang Town to send foot soldiers to come and respond.

Few people were injured, but many horses were injured. Fortunately, forty or fifty injured horses that were abandoned by the prisoners were collected, otherwise Li Liang and Sun Zhuang would have complained.

At noon, Liu Miaozhen personally led the soldiers from Huaiyang Town of the Fourth Battalion to come to support, and Lin Fu, Zhou Pu, Gao Zongting and others also accompanied him to Mount Mangdang to observe the destruction and slaughter of Yongcheng County.

Between the rivers and Huai, except for a few cities that were renovated after the war, most of the cities were the same as Yongcheng County. The soldiers were weak and the cities were broken.

If the defense line along the Yellow River could not block the leaks and prevent the infiltration of small captives, the production recovery of the inner line would naturally be impossible, and the transportation of grain and fodder would also be greatly affected, thus making the Changhuai Army want to defend the north. A few cities will also become difficult.

Yongcheng County was slaughtered, but no one stood up to stop the Huaiyang Town Army from establishing an outpost in Mount Mangdang.

The significance of the line of defense is not only to require the soldiers to guard the city, but also to intercept the enemy outside the area in field battles, so that the production in the defense area is not damaged.

Although the Huaiyang town army was equipped with a large number of flying contradictory vehicles, under the threat of a large number of cavalry, the infantry went out of the city with shield vehicles, and the scope of activities was also very limited. The ability to attack from a long distance can ensure that the Huaiyang line of defense is tight and effective. Transferring more Huaidong cavalry battalions to Huaiyang to fight together can also increase mutual familiarity and trust.

Returning to Huaiyang from Yongcheng, Lin Fu served as the deputy commander of Sun Zhuang's Cavalry Division, and was specially responsible for Huaidong's deployment of Huaiyang's cavalry battalion and coordinated operations with the Huaiyang town army.

The news of returning to Huaiyang to interrogate the prisoners was surprising.

Between September, Yan Hu adjusted the military and subordinates, respectively in southern Jin and southern Yan, with the elite cavalry of the headquarters as the core, equipped with a considerable number of cavalry in Yanxi and the new affiliated army, formed with Ye Ji Luorong, The east and west armies headed by Ye Jiduo-dysprosium.

Before Lin Fu returned to Chongzhou from Mingzhou, and then set off from Chongzhou to Shanyang, Yanhu's Jinnan and Yannan troops were launched together. With 60,000 cavalry as the main force, Ye Jiluorong went out of Zezhou to surround Qinyang, and attacked the city at the southern foot of Taihang Mountain and the north bank of the Yellow River.

Qinyang lies on the north bank of the Yellow River and is also the most important city in the middle reaches of the Yellow River except Zhengzhou and Daliang. The Liang family lived in Qinyang, and Liang Chengyi, the son of Liang Xi, once served as the guard of Qinyang. Later, the Liang clan expanded to Hezhong, Luxi and other places, all of which were based on the Qinyang army to expand their troops and horses.

When the elites of the Qinyang Army were given time, although the Qinyang defenders had never been lower than the tenth battalion in the later period, their combat power was no longer comparable.

When Yanhu controlled the entire Jin County and Tao Chun retreated from Qinghe and other places south to Daliang and other places on the south bank of the Yellow River, the Liang family also knew that Qinyang would be difficult to defend alone on the north bank. However, as early as after the Huaisi War, after the Liang clan won Jining, they moved their tribesmen in Qinyang to Jining, Jinan and other places for scattered resettlement.

The outpost of the captive cavalry that penetrated the front line of Huaiyang this time is the far post separated by the troops and horses encircling Qinyang on the west Yanhu Road. Outside the city suffered a loss before returning.

Although Yanhu's military commander in Jinnan was Ye Jiluorong, the commander who surrounded Qinyang was Chen Zhihu.

Although the captive cavalry sentry that penetrated the front line of Huaiyang was the same, Lin Fu stayed in Huaiyang for the next few days and passed through peacefully, but the news from the northern line was very disturbing. Not optimistic.

After the incident of King Lu's secret edict, the Liang family was finally forced to sign a congratulatory form, acknowledging the Jiangning regime, but their vigilance towards Huaidong was greatly increased. In the case of the tight defense line in the north, the Liang family also sent general Gao Yanhu to lead 10,000 elites into Yinan~www.wuxiaspot.com~ to strengthen the control over the southern part of Yishan and the middle and upper reaches of Yishui. While guarding against Huaidong, the Liang family also completely blocked the possibility of Huaidong entering Shandong by land.

After Liu Ye flew out of Zhideng Prefecture and controlled the Dengzhou Town Army, the eastern part of the Shandong Peninsula, including Laizhou, was under his control, and the people of Qingzhou were very hostile to Huaidong, so it was difficult for the Huaidong Military Intelligence Department to detect horses. Timely access to news in Shandong.

The military situation on the front lines of Yangxin and Pingyuan, detouring the sea route will take several days to delay compared to the land route.

The news of the East Road reached Huaiyang several days late, but the situation was even more worrying - Ye Jiduodi left Pingyuan Mansion and surrounded Yangxin with 20,000 cavalry, while about 20,000 fine cavalry bypassed Yangxin. Attack on Linzi and Qingzhou...

"Although Yanhu has no plan to break through the Hehuai line of defense in one fell swoop this winter, he has no intention of letting the Hehuai line of defense continue to strengthen..." Facing the news of the confluence from the northern line, Lin Fu could only come to this conclusion. in conclusion.

Just like when Yanhu bypassed the Yanbei line of defense and attacked Yannan and Jinjun, this time Yanhu was doing the same thing, but there was no good plan to deal with.

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