Han Hai Tang Ergui

Chapter 780 Is This the Battle of Feishui?

In ancient and modern times, at home and abroad, the most important thing is to pay attention to diseases and epidemics when the army is fighting.

Especially in summer, after the corpses are exposed to the sun, it is most likely to cause cholera, a terrifying death-level epidemic. In addition, the weather is too hot, which is not conducive to the army's battle.

Therefore, Zhang Ting tentatively sent Gao Huaide to lead an army of [-] troops to break through two small forts of the Qinghuai army to provoke. However, after Liu Renzhan couldn't hold on, he withdrew his troops and retreated, waiting for the heat to subside before attacking.

At the same time, Zhang Ting didn't go to Haozhou at all, because Gao Huaide already had 2 horses in Haozhou City, and he took another 2 people there. The pressure is too great.

So Zhang Ke simply retreated to the Guide Mansion, and sent more than [-] soldiers to go to the states for food. During the period, he called the Queen Cao Yanxi and Zhang Xianjing to reunite for a few days.

Then he went to Xuzhou to appease the local people, and re-established three guards in Xuzhou, using the fields after the relocation of Wuning Town. By the way, he also listened to Li Cunhui, Pan Mei and others' plan to take Yangzhou.

On September [-]th, when Zhao Kuangzan and Zhang Xianyu escorted Cao Yijin's coffin to Chang'an, and the empress Cao Yanxi and the third wife Cao Yannai all went to greet him, Zhang Kai once again gathered an army in Suzhou.

Prior to this, Tian Guogong Liu Zaisheng had led an army of [-] land and water troops from Yingzhou (Fuyang, Anhui) down the Yingshui River, and stormed the Qinghuai army's Anfeng City on the north bank of Shaopi.

Anfeng City is located in the southwest of Shouzhou, in the middle of the "Chuan" shape formed by the three rivers of Lishui, Tangshui and Feishui (Dongfei River). .

As long as these three rivers are in hand, it can be guaranteed that the aid materials and troops will be sent to the outside of Shouzhou City briskly by water.

But if the Zhou army occupied Anfeng City, they could calmly stab the chrysanthemums in Shouzhou City, especially the Dongfei River. At this time, the Yellow River had not come to "loot" Huainan, and Wabu Lake had not yet appeared.

To the south of Shouzhou, the area around Wabu Lake where the Dongfei River flows is fertile and has a large population. Zhou Jun can calmly collect food and husbands here, and use Shouzhou people to attack Shouzhou City.

Liu Renzhan naturally knew this truth. He built Anfeng City as a small fortress early on, and sent the mighty general Huangfu Hui to lead 4000 people to guard it. The people in the city had already moved away and stored enough food for eight months. Shaopi does not worry about water sources.

Liu Zaisheng brought 5000 people here, of which only 3000 were the imperial guards in Wuwei Town, and the rest were guards from various prefectures and Changzheng Jianyong from various inspection departments. They fought around for a few days, but they really couldn't beat this bastard. shell.

So Liu Zaisheng simply left 2000 people to guard outside the city, and personally led the rest of the troops to the northeast to participate in the siege of Shouzhou.

As a result, Huangfu Hui was immediately embarrassed, because he found an unsolvable problem, that is, Zhou Jun had too many mules and horses, so that if they only dispatched tens of thousands of people, they could almost do it. Half a mule per person.

This time when Liu Zaisheng went to Shouzhou, the 2000 people left behind had one person and two horses. Relying on high mobility, they directly showed Huangfu Hui to death.

His purpose of guarding Anfeng City was to control the upper reaches of the three rivers of Lishui, Tangshui and Feishui, but the Zhou army had [-] cavalry and mounted infantry outside the city, which made him dare not go out of the city at all, let alone talk about it. Take control of the three rivers.

Huangfu Hui tried to send hundreds of people out of the city to test it out, but just as he expected, the Zhou army who stayed behind on the opposite side immediately came out with hundreds of people to confront them.

They were about to go far away from the city, and when the Zhou army sounded the gong, they would dispatch twice as many troops to the battlefield as quickly as possible.

If they were not far from the city, the Zhou army would only send dozens of people to follow them from a distance, and if there was any change, they would summon a large force through something called a firework bomb.

Huangfu Hui and several officers under his command looked at each other in blank dismay, they had never seen such a thing before, they could rely on a large number of cavalry to play hide-and-seek with them.

But even so, Huangfu Hui still didn't rush to the next step, because he didn't know whether Liu Zaisheng really left or faked.

However, Huangfuhui was on the top of the city, seeing Zhou Jun transporting carts of grain and grass to Shouzhou continuously, he felt very anxious.

You must know that Liu Zaisheng has been hoarding supplies in Yingzhou, which is close to Shouzhou, since Liu Renzhan attacked Haosi two states last year. At least half of the military supplies for Zhou Jun's siege of Shouzhou this time must be supplied by Yingzhou.

He kept letting the Zhou army's luggage pass by like this, which completely wasted Liu Renzhan's purpose of asking him to guard Anfeng.

So Huangfu Hui gathered the good horses in the city, and sent out a few sentries to scout out in the dark.

These sentries have been exploring far away to a place more than 50 miles away from Anfeng City before reporting safety.

Because Anfeng City is only about ninety miles away from Shouzhou, and if there is no enemy army in fifty miles, it is natural to really go to besiege Shouzhou.

Huangfu Hui was overjoyed, and immediately mobilized [-] of the [-] soldiers in the city, and went out of the city to storm the Zhou army's fortress outside the city.

On the side of Zhou Jun, Caizhou Zhongwei, the Weisuo Army, was left behind. They only had 2000 people, and they had to send part of the army to escort the rations. In addition, Huangfu Hui's troops were also quite powerful, so they could only defend the stronghold and fight hard.

Huangfu Hui personally put on the armor and took the lead in the fierce attack. The two sides fought from early morning until almost noon. Seeing that the military stronghold of Caizhou Zhongwei was crumbling, Huangfu Hui suddenly heard horseshoes. When he looked up, he couldn't help screaming. Coming from three sides, it rolled up the sky full of dust.

It turned out that Liu Zaisheng had indeed retreated to a distance of fifty miles, but the [-] cavalry in Wuwei Town under his command were all Hexi dragon horses, and Huangfuhui's Youyi cavalry had only a hundred cavalry, so it was impossible to search and intercept them like a blanket. You Yiqi had already detoured, but instead monitored Huangfuhui leaving the city.

As soon as there was a fight on his side, Liu Zaisheng dispatched five hundred of the most elite cavalry to encircle and hunt Huangfu Hui's scout cavalry, while the rest rushed to the battlefield outside Anfeng City.

Amidst the thunderous sound of horseshoes, Huangfu Hui's army, who had been fighting for more than two hours, was extremely exhausted, and they wanted to retreat. The Zhou army, Caizhou Zhongwei, who was in the army stronghold, suddenly went out of the city desperately to entangle them.

In panic, Huangfuhui's troops were defeated by the Zhou army who ran back for more than [-] miles.

Huangfuhui still wanted to save him, but was directly opened by Murong Xinde, the chief soldier of Zhongwu Town. He was seriously injured and fell to the ground.

More than [-] people scattered like birds and beasts, and the gate of Anfeng City was robbed and entered before it could be closed.

After pulling out the stronghold of Anfeng City, Liu Zaisheng left Murong Xinde to guard it with 3000 people. The supplies from Yingzhou can finally be safely transferred to Anfeng City.

Moreover, Anfeng City is only 150 miles away from Luzhou, that is, Hefei, which is enough to monitor the movements of the Luzhou Baoxin Army in the Southern Tang Dynasty.

On September 23, Zhang Yu led [-] pacers to Haozhou. Before he arrived, Gao Huaide and Fu Zhaoxu had led an army of [-] and tens of thousands of civilians, and marched westward to the vicinity of Shouzhou.

Liu Renzhan's defense in Shouzhou was very comprehensive, showing his ability as a famous general in the Southern Tang Dynasty.

Shouzhou is the gateway to Huainan. Historically, when the Northern Dynasties attacked the Southern Dynasties, they often attacked Shouzhou first in order to occupy it and use it as the base camp on the Huaihe River, and then divided into two groups to attack the north of the Yangtze River along the river.

The most famous in history is, of course, the Battle of Feishui, where Fu Jian of the former Qin Dynasty lost hundreds of thousands of troops, leaving behind idioms such as "all trees are all soldiers, and the wind is jittery".

After that, during the Southern Song Dynasty, the Southern Song Dynasty court also defeated the Mongolian army outside Anfeng City, which Liu Zaisheng captured just now, and made Huaiyou safe for more than ten years.

It's just that it's a bit weird when it comes to me, Zhang Shengren. Others captured Shouzhou first, and then went down the Huai River to conquer the two states of Haosi and Huaiyin Prefecture.

But the last time Zhang Shengren sent troops, he first attacked Huaiyin Mansion, then went straight to Yangzhou, and finally blackmailed from Nantang to Haosi two prefectures.

This is thanks to the opponent's foil!If there was an Eastern Jin Dynasty in Jiangnan at this time during the Battle of Feishui, or Liu Song, or even Southern Chen, they would not be so easy to deal with.

But Yang Xingmi alone not only occupied all the luck of his descendants, but also took all the luck of the Southern Tang Dynasty.

After him, only Li Min had two successes, and the rest of them couldn't succeed at all. If Shouzhou was not breached, Yangzhou would be gone first.

Therefore, at this time, Zhang Yan does not need to fight Shouzhou at all, because he can surround Shouzhou and then send soldiers to fight Yangzhou.

However, this also has a disadvantage, that is, if Li Jing resists the threat, Zhang Tie will have to wait for Ma Zhaoyuan, Zhao Yanjin, Zhao Kuangyin and others to gnaw away the Southern Tang strongholds in the upper reaches of the Yangtze River before crossing the river.

Therefore, Zhang Yu finally decided to take down Shouzhou with a thunderbolt, and then force Li Jing to surrender.

. . . .

Shouzhou City is on the south bank of the Huaihe River, protected by the Bagong Mountains to the northeast and northwest.

The Huaihe River passes through the Bagong Mountains, and the northwest of Hebei is the Kipshi Mountain belonging to the Bagong Mountains.

To the southeast of the river is Feiling Mountain, the main mountain of the Bagong Mountain Range, and Bagong Mountain in the general sense refers to it.

To the southeast of Feiling Mountain is Zijin Mountain.

These three mountains perfectly wrap Shouzhou City inside.

Liu Renzhan built a water village on the Huaihe River, with trebuchets, crossbows and various small fortresses on both banks. It was extremely difficult to reach Shouzhou City from the upstream of the Huaihe River.

Then the best way is to take down one of the two mountains, Feiling Mountain and Zijin Mountain.

Among them, Feiling Mountain is steep and the road is difficult.Zijin Mountain is a little shorter and looks like a hill, so it will definitely be the main breakthrough target.

But Liu Renzhan had thought of this a long time ago. In the past few years, he has built more than [-] large and small forts on Zijin Mountain, and dug tunnels to connect them all the way to the city of Shouzhou.

On the northeast and southeast sides of Zijin Mountain, he led the Huaihe River to soak the city in a piece of mud, and it was extremely difficult for the cavalry to pass through.

With these arrangements, Feiling Mountain and Zijin Mountain are like two fists protruding from Shouzhou City, which can be attacked and defended, and they can mobilize troops and material support from Shouzhou City at any time.

The only weakness is that Liu Zaisheng quickly broke through Anfeng City and captured Huangfuhui, making the chrysanthemums in Shouzhou always a bit cool.

. . . .

After Zhang Tie led his army upstream and reached three miles east of Zijin Mountain, he couldn't help but gasped. Liu Renzhan's Feiling Mountain and Zijin Mountain were definitely hard nuts to crack.

He was a little uneasy, because historically, there were many wise masters who were overwhelmed by their brains and finally fell under Xiongcheng. The former Qin Fujian lost all his family fortune here.

The so-called the older the rivers and lakes, the less courageous, probably that is the case.

However, Gao Huaide, Yang Jiye, Qu Yanqing, Fu Zhaoxu and others were not as hesitant as Zhang Ke.

They happily said to Zhang Ting: "Although Zijin Mountain has the advantage of physical victory, it is not as numerous as Hedong Wangwu and Luliang, and it is not very steep.

The main force of the Qinghuai army was defeated by us in Haozhou. Liu Renzhan did not defend Shouzhou Jiancheng, but arranged them on Zijin Mountain. It was a dead end! "

(End of this chapter)