marquis of jingan

Not only Su Ding.

Even Shen Yi clearly felt that there was something wrong with these Qi people today.

Not only is the personal force much weaker than last time, but also the execution ability and military quality seem to be much worse than last time.

In an instant, many thoughts and guesses flashed through Shen Yi's mind.

He was thinking, are these Qi people in front of him a "cover" sent by the enemy to confuse him, is it the Qi people's cannon fodder army, is the real Qi people's army at Xue Wei's place further east?
He was even thinking, what happened to Xue Wei's fight, did he lose?

But now, it's useless to think about these things. Everything must be fought well in Gaozhuang before we can think about other things.

Thinking of this, Shen Yi glanced at Su Ding, and said in a deep voice, "Compared to those people from Qi two days ago, they are much weaker."

"But the number of people is much higher than last time."

Last time, there were only a little over 2000 Qi people at most, but this time it is estimated that there are about 5000 to [-] people who came to attack Gaozhuang.

Su Ding glanced at the battlefield and said with a smile: "Mr. Shen, there are too many of them, but they are out of order. Up to now, they haven't been able to land on the shore to form an array. According to this style of play, they can fight until noon at most, and these people won't be able to hold on." Living."

He said firmly: "They won't last long."

The night before yesterday, the Qi army that Shen Yi saw was extremely fierce and unusual. Under the extremely unfavorable situation, even surrounded by ambushes, three or four hundred soldiers of the capital were forced to die in battle!

That kind of combat power, if the conditions of both sides are equal, if they meet in the wild, the coastal capital basically has no chance at all, and will be smashed by the Qi army.

It is precisely because of this disparity in combat power that Shen Yi feels a little depressed, and even despairs in his heart.

However, the fighting power displayed by the Qi army today is comparable to that of the soldiers of the capital, and there is a big gap compared with the Qi army the night before yesterday.

This gap is not only manifested in combat effectiveness, but more manifested in combat will.

As long as the front line suffers and too many people die, they will soon be in chaos and flee.

Comparatively speaking, the coastal capital built by Shen Yi may not be much stronger than these Qi people, but the fighting will must be stronger than them.

After listening to Su Ding's analysis, Shen Yi glanced at the battlefield again, nodded first, then frowned and said, "I'm thinking now, the Qi people in Gaozhuang today must not be the Qi people from the night before yesterday, so what happened the day before yesterday?" Where did those Qi people go at night?"

Shen Yi looked to the east with worried eyes.

"If it's at Xue Wei's place..."

Su Ding quickly lowered his head and said: "Mr. Shen, although there are many enemies, we occupy a favorable location, and the subordinates are [-]% sure that we can defend Gaozhuang!"

"If you are worried, you can take someone to General Xue to have a look."

Shen Yi frowned, and said in a deep voice: "To defend is to defend, but to cherish the strength of the troops, you give me a number."

Su Ding glanced back at the battlefield, then gritted his teeth and said, "Mr. Shen, the number of enemies is really too many. If they don't take the initiative to retreat, but fight with us to the end, I can't give you any number..."

He said in a deep voice: "But this subordinate promises to guard Gaozhuang!"

What he meant was that if the enemy rushed up desperately and didn't consider retreating at all, then the remaining 2000 generals in Gaozhuang might be wiped out.

Speaking of this, Su Ding paused, bowed his head and said, "But I guess the people of Qi will not be so tough."

Shen Yi frowned even deeper, he glanced at Gaozhuang's battlefield, and gritted his teeth.

"Well, you stay here first, I am really worried, go to the east to have a look."

Speaking of this, Shen Yi paused, and said in a deep voice: "If Xue Wei's side has fallen, I will send you a message as quickly as possible. When the time comes, you will retreat immediately, and we will retreat to Huai'an!"

Su Ding bowed his head respectfully.

Shen Yi called the three thousand households in Gaozhuang, and told them to listen to Su Ding's command before leaving Gaozhuang on horseback, and went straight to the battlefield in the east.

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At the same time, in the camp of the Southern Expedition Army along the North Bank of Huaihe River, a burly man in iron armor was sitting at the head of the commander's tent. In the commander's tent, Major General Zhou Yuanhu and Qianhu Tong Sheng were deeply moved. He lowered his head and said nothing.

A messenger ran over in a hurry, knelt on the ground, lowered his head and said, "General!"

"A battle report is coming from the Gaozhuang area on the south bank!"

"The southerners resisted very resolutely, and they still have a lot of artillery and crossbows!"

"Our army is landing, but the casualties are heavy."

The big man known as the "Great General", surnamed Zhou and named Shizhong, was the son of Zhou Jin'an, the former Northern Qi general, and the current commander of the Northern Qi Conquest to the South.

This man practiced martial arts since he was a child, and grew up in the army. He has the ability to capture tigers and leopards alive. He was nicknamed "Sanlang" in Yandu.

After Zhou Jin'an's death, the Northern Qi court valued the general Zhou's family very much, so they still entrusted the southern army to his son Zhou Shizhong to take care of it.

At this moment, after hearing the reports from his subordinates, General Zhou did not speak directly. Instead, he glanced at his son Zhou Yuanhu and Tong Sheng, and then waved to the messengers. Said: "I see, pass an order, let the front-line commanders command on the fly, and make their own decisions."

Speaking of letting the frontline commanders make their own decisions is basically the same as letting the army retreat.

It's just that the responsibility for retreating needs to be borne by the frontline commanders themselves.

He paused and continued.

"Gaozhuang can't attack, and the east and west lines can't stop. Break through the defense line along the Huaihe River as soon as possible!"

The orderly nodded quickly, turned around and retreated.

After the messenger pushed it down, Zhou Shizhong took a hard look at his son.

"say!"

Zhou Yuanhu was so frightened that he knelt down on the ground and kowtowed: "Father!"

"Your father is not here!"

General Zhou said angrily: "Called General!"

Zhou Yuanhu swallowed his saliva, bowed his head cautiously and said: "General, let's pretend to attack Gaozhuang's two wings. According to the law of war, the southerners will definitely rescue them. Who knows..."

"Gaozhuang's soldiers and horses didn't move at all!"

Zhou Yuanhu raised his head, looked at his father, gritted his teeth and said, "That Huai'an civil servant from the Southern Dynasty is clearly a fool who doesn't understand the art of war at all!"

"The last general was negligent for a while, and didn't notice it..."

"Please punish the general!"

"Idiot?"

Zhou Shizhong stood up, walked in front of his son, glared at the latter fiercely, and said in a muffled voice: "I gave you two of the most elite thousand-household battalions of the Zhengnan Army, and let you play the forward. Take the credit!"

Having said that, Zhou Shizhong looked up at Tong Sheng again, and Tong Sheng was so frightened that he quickly bowed his head without saying a word.

"But what's the result?"

General Zhou said angrily: "There are two thousand elites, not only did you fail to break through Gaozhuang, but you even broke half of them!"

"Your two thousand-household battalions, in the 28th year of Yongping, once besieged and killed more than 300 imperial troops in the Southern Dynasty, and only lost less than [-] people!"

The 28th year of Yongping in the Northern Dynasty was the seventh year of Hongde in the Southern Dynasty.

This year is the 32nd year of Yongping in the Northern Dynasty. The emperor of the Northern Dynasty has been in power for more than 30 years.

"In your hands, only one night's time has been lost by more than half!"

He was scolded by his father for being bloody, but Zhou Yuanhu was not very convinced. He lowered his head and said, "General, that's also because of inaccurate information. I don't know where you heard it, that Gaozhuang's defense is weak!"

"The results of it?"

Zhou Yuan defended his breath and said: "As a result, the subordinates have not yet landed, and thousands of people from the Southern Dynasty are already waiting on the shore!"

"How many are there in total?"

Zhou Yuanhu opened his mouth and said: "Didn't you say that the civil servant in the Southern Dynasty had a total of [-] people under his command? Of the [-] people, at least [-]% of them were arranged by him in Gaozhuang!"

Zhou Yuanhu opened his mouth, wanting to say something else, General Zhou snorted and waved his hands impatiently: "Okay, don't say any more."

"Where should I go?"

Zhou Yuanhu limped and took Tong Sheng with him, and left the camp of Zhengnan Army.

After the two walked out of the tent, General Zhou took down a letter from his desk, and then looked to the south thoughtfully.

"This Southern Dynasty civil servant Shen Yi..."

Zhou Shizhong frowned.

"There are really some tricks..."