Lord of the House

Hundreds of thousands of soldiers and civilians who retreated south from Hezhong Prefecture were blocked on the north bank of the Beiru River, and it was difficult for them to go south smoothly for a while. Although the Beiru River is not as sweeping and spacious as the Yangtze River and the Huai River, it is a dilapidated ferry, unable to erect a pontoon bridge, and lack of ferry boats. Only with dozens of small fishing boats, more than 20,000 people can be crossed in two days.

On the one hand, Liang Chengyi sent cavalry to drive a large number of refugees to Huangbai Valley in the upper reaches of the Beiru River, making a detour so that they could cross the river from the upper reaches of the shallow water; The elite of the Ministry followed Yuan Jinsheng to cross the river to Wuyang to take over the defense. Less than half a day after Liang Yanshun and Yuan Jinsheng crossed the river, enemy soldiers chased Jinshankou, which was less than thirty miles away from the Beiru River.

Liang Chengyi was not too worried. The main force of Chen Zhihu's army was still on the north bank of the Yellow River in Mengjin, and the main force of Yuan Lishan's army was far away from Tai'an and Jining, and there was no major westward movement. The enemy soldiers who were the first to catch up were mostly from Xingyang. , Daliang and other cities came to the garrison.

Xingyang and Daliang belonged to Henan and were under the jurisdiction of Chen Zhihu, but Yan Ting transferred Chen Zhihu to cross the Yellow River in the north and then westward to Guanzhong to participate in the last autumn. base.

Of course, Yanhu also stationed a large number of elite cavalry in Jinan, under the control of Ye Jiduodi, but it is a long way from Jinan, even if the news of the withdrawal of troops from Hezhong reaches Jinan, it will take two or three days to respond. Not so fast.

Liang Chengyi asked the detective, "How many soldiers and horses are there, and how many cavalry are there?"

In order to prevent the enemy from chasing from the north, in the wide valley formed by the confrontation between Jinshan and Dayushan, Liang Chengyi led his troops and horses to temporarily camp there. There are a large number of enemy soldiers in the army, going around to the east foot of the Jinshan Mountain, and attacking from the lower reaches of the Beiru River, it is quite a headache.

Tan Ma replied: "There are about 3,000 chasing the enemy, both on foot and cavalry, rushing around day and night, near the Huangque Ridge of Jinshan to watch, General Liang Dai is worried about the enemy's night attack, please send the envoy to strengthen the Jinshan Pass..."

"Liang Dai has 5,000 soldiers and horses in his hand, and there is a simple camp to lean on. I'm afraid that 3,000 enemy soldiers will seize the camp. It's really a soft bird!" Fang Keshan, the captain of the left military academy, came to discuss the matter. , regardless of whether Liang Dai is the nephew of the old master Liang Xi, or the cousin of the new master Liang Chengyi, he will not forget to make fun of him when he has the opportunity.

Liang Chengyi frowned, ignoring the conflict between the officers and generals, and said, "It's not like that to have 3,000 enemy soldiers staring at the back. Keshan, when you go back to the inner port, beware of enemy soldiers coming around from the east. I will go to Jinshan Pass, and if I can eat this chasing army, the problem will be simpler..."

There are enemy soldiers biting their tails, no matter how many, always make the soldiers and civilians who are blocked at the ferry temporarily unable to go south to sleep and eat, which adds to a lot of panic. In addition, if the enemy soldiers are not wiped out, they will gather more and more in a short period of time, taking a bite in the east and a bite in the west, which is also called hard to guard against.

If this group of enemy soldiers is annihilated, it will deter other small groups of enemy soldiers from chasing after them, which will give the army and people in the river more time to cross the Henan, and the scope of crossing the river will be wider.

Liang Chengyi raised his head and looked at the sky, the sunset was already sinking, the crescent moon was a little pale, but it gradually became brighter.

Liang Chengyi instructed him to continue crossing the river on the left and right, not to stop. He ordered 3,000 cavalrymen and headed for the Jinshan Pass, where he joined Liang Dai, who was guarding the Jinshan Pass.

When Liang Xi was in charge of the frontier army, ten of Liang Xi's sons and nephews served as generals in the frontier army, and they were known as the Ten Tigers of Liangmen. Over the years, the battle has faded away, and there are only four people left, Liang Chengchong, Liang Chengyi, Liang Dai, and Liang Chengdong, who appointed Liang Chengchong as Fang Chengwei.

All the soldiers have the strength to be transferred to the front ferry to weave ropes and build ferry boats. The camp here is very simple, and the camp at Jinshankou is mainly based on a rocky hill that rises abruptly in the wide valley of Jinshankou. The cave is like a stone valley, with steep slopes on the south and west sides, and standing trees as fences on the northeast sides.

Liang Chengyi led his troops to arrive, it was late at night, just in time for a small group of enemy soldiers to try to attack the camp to repel, a gap was opened in the camp gate, and a corner of the camp was set on fire. Aside from the broken limbs, broken halberds and broken arrows, the night gradually returned to silence.

The soldiers and horses entered the camp. Liang Chengyi and Liang Dai, surrounded by the guards, rode the horses on the stone mountain. Under the moonlit night, they watched the shadows moving to the north. It could be seen that the enemy soldiers were repelled by this night attack, but they were not able to scare the enemy soldiers back.

"Is there any other enemy soldiers coming from the north?" Liang Chengyi asked.

After joining forces with Liang Dai, he had 8,000 soldiers and horses, but he was not afraid of 3,000 pursuers, but he was afraid that other pursuers would come and join forces, and the momentum of the enemy soldiers would increase.

"In Mengzhou, there are still a small group of enemy soldiers crossing the Yellow River, about a thousand people," Liang Dai said. "It should be that after our troops withdrew from the river, Yanhu sent troops from southern Jin to the south. If the enemy soldiers are entangled, there will be no chance to let the exploration horses go out to scout the situation in the north."

In the past, Liang Chengyi occupied Hezhongfu and confronted Jinnan across the river. Yanhu mainly garrisoned troops on the north bank of Mengjin, but there were also garrisoned troops in the counties on the north bank of the Yellow River east of Mengjin, ranging from about 1,800. The garrison of each city does not seem to be many, but the total number of nearly 20 counties in southern Jin is very impressive.

Now that Liang Chengyi has abandoned Hezhongfu, the banks of the middle reaches of the Yellow River will completely fall into the hands of Yanhu, so there is no need to garrison troops in the counties in the south of Jin, and the troops will gather in Hezhongfu, which is also the general trend. However, these scattered garrisoned troops must gather together to form a large group of chasing troops, which cannot be done in three or five days.

Liang Chengyi wouldn't be too worried about Yan Hu's relocation of troops to Jinnan, but what he was wondering was that Yan Hu was too impatient.

Liang Chengyi felt dissatisfied when he saw that Liang Dai clearly had an advantage in military strength, and even suppressed 3,000 enemy soldiers and couldn't get out of the valley. Depressed and lack of fighting spirit, they all thought that it would be good to retreat to Nanyang safely, and they were powerless to fight to the death.

Liang Chengyi instructed the generals behind him: "Dong Biaozi, you and Chen Wei will each command three hundred cavalry, stick to Dayu Mountain and Jinshan Mountain to the north, and after driving the enemy scouts out of the mountain pass," he said to Liang Dai, " With your generals leading two thousand infantry out of the fortress, and heading northward, you can’t make our eight thousand soldiers and horses hold the three thousand enemy soldiers in the camp and dare not go out.”

Liang Chengyi didn't accuse Liang Dai of anything, he first dispatched his generals to fight out at night to compete with the enemy for the terrain of the north entrance. Liang Dai felt ashamed and did not defend himself, and immediately dispatched troops to the camp according to Liang Chengyi's deployment.

Taking advantage of the terrain of Jinshan Pass at night, after dawn, there is a chance to eat the enemy soldiers who are chasing after him, and it will also improve the morale of the ups and downs.

Liang Chengyi had a lot of cavalry under his command. At the height of Hezhong Fu's army, there were 50,000 soldiers and horses and more than 10,000 cavalry.

Last year, they failed to cross the Yellow River, and this time they retreated south with Liang Chengyi, and there were four or five thousand cavalry. The three thousand soldiers and horses who followed Liang Chengyi from the ferry to join Liang Dai were all cavalry. At that time, six hundred cavalry rushed out, divided into two teams, and took advantage of the moonlit night to kill the chasing soldiers in the north of the mountain.

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Yanque Ridge is the remnant of Jinshan Mountain to the north of Hengshan Mountain.

Chen Zhihu stood on the top of the stone, watching the Hezhong Army attacking from the Jinshan Pass under the moonlit night.

Liang Chengyi never imagined that the troops chasing from the north were the garrisoned troops dispatched by Xingyang or Daliang, but the elites led by Chen Zhihu and chased across the river from the east of Mengzhou.

Although the number of these chasing troops was small, only about 3,000 people, they were truly a hundred-fighting tiger who had fought with Chen Zhihu for many years.

Since last autumn, he was transferred to Jinzhong to fight against Guanzhong. Although the number of troops around Hezhong Mansion has decreased sharply, both Chen Zhihu and Yan Ting are closely following the movements of Hezhong Mansion.

The general strategy of the Yan King Ye Ji'er, Ye Ji Luo Rong, Ye Ji Duo and other kings on the western front was to use strong military pressure to seize Guanzhong, forcing the Cao family to retreat south, and to seize the passage to Jinghu in the south.

Hezhong Mansion and Guanzhong are interdependent. Liang Chengyi couldn't stand the pressure, so it was not something that the kings of Yan and Hu couldn't consider - in fact, to move the troops and horses around Hezhong Mansion and attack Guanzhong was to make Liang Chengyi. Scared away from Hezhong House.

About the second day of the sixth month, after it was confirmed that Liang Chengyi was going to flee south, Chen Zhihu led his troops eastward from Hejin in the west of Shanxi, via Hengqu to the north bank of the Yellow River in Mengjin.

It was early summer, and the Yellow River was turbulent, wide and dangerous, and it was not easy for large groups of troops to cross the river. After Liang Chengyi withdrew from Hezhongfu, there were still a few soldiers and horses on the south bank of the Yellow River in Mengjin.

Chen Zhihu made an immediate decision and handed over the main force to Gao Yi to temporarily lead him to cross the Yellow River from Mengjin Huaibei to confuse Liang Chengyi. He himself led 3,000 elite troops and headed east at night to cross the ferry to the east of Mengzhou. The Yellow River, after passing through Xingyang, came in pursuit from the south. Only when Liang Chengyi thought that the three thousand pursuers were Xingyang's three thousand underdogs.

When he was about to catch up with Jinshan, Chen Zhihu ordered the Henan troops and horses from Xingyang and Daliang Zhucheng to join him.

Watching the army in the river attacking at night, under the crescent moon, the dense stubble is full of dark shadows, and it is not clear what troops are dispatched, in short, there are no less than 2,000 people. The general Leng Zilin said to Chen Zhihu: "Hushuai, the army in Hezhong wants to eat us all, why don't you retreat back, first lure them to deploy their troops, and then counterattack after Xingyang and Daliang's troops come over. ?"

Chen Zhihu was born in a big bandit and rescued Li Zhuo on the execution ground, and has been serving by Li Zhuo since then.

At the beginning of the war in East Fujian, the Zhejiang and Gan soldiers fought against each other, and the Jiangxi side called She Feixiong to fight Fuzhou~www.wuxiaspot.com~ At that time, Li Zhuo was the deputy envoy of the inspector and knew Fuzhou Prefecture, and Chen Zhihu led Fuzhou to bitterness. The prisoners formed an army to go to the city to fight.

Since then, Chen Zhihu has led the army independently, and his subordinates are either from the amnesty of felons and prisoners, or from the bandits who have been recruited. After Chen Zhihu is collected, he has become the most powerful and most murderous tiger in the East Fujian Army.

Such a team of tiger-running generals, like Gao Yi and Leng Zilin, were like Chen Zhihu. They all came from big bandits. Maybe they valued personal kindness, but after Li Zhuo's death, they didn't have the slightest loyalty to the court. They murdered like numbness. When they killed the refugee army in southern Jin and Henan, they did not have the slightest sympathy. After they joined Yanhu, they killed people without any mercy.

Chen Zhihu shook his head and said, "The soldiers and horses of Xingyang and Daliang will not be able to arrive before the sun sets tomorrow. Now Liang Chengyi is driving the refugees to Dayu Mountain, so that his troops and horses can cross the Beiru River as soon as possible, and drag the soldiers and horses across the Beiru River as soon as possible. Last day, let’s not talk about sending more than 10,000 troops across the river to cross the river, which is not good for the future. I originally planned to attack their camp by force. Since they went to battle, it would be great, but they must not retreat to the north…”

As soon as Liang Chengyi withdrew, the Cao family would naturally not stand firm, and their troops and horses on the south bank of the Wei River began to withdraw. But after winning Guanzhong, the western route was the biggest obstacle to be removed, but it was only after Nanyang was taken down and troops marched along the Hanshui River that the western route to the south was finally opened up.

Liang Chengyi's soldiers and horses in the river consisted of more than 30,000 people, and the elites who could fight were less than 10,000 people. In the overall situation of the confrontation between the north and the south, they were not very important. However, if more than 30,000 soldiers and horses from the Hezhong Prefecture escaped to Nanyang smoothly and joined with Liang Chengchong's troops, there would be more than 60,000 soldiers and horses guarding Nanyang.

Once the situation develops like this, Nanyang will be difficult to bite. This is by no means what Dayan wants to see. My QT room is open! More vulgar official QT room number [9167] Click to enter