Five Dynasties River Mountains Fengyue

Chapter 119 Southern Tang Reinforcement
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 troops, and he led the Control He five Army with about [-] troops
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!

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.

(Also, post after a meal)
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