marquis of jingan

Chapter 859 try the fineness
Above the Huaihe River, the water battle is still fierce.

After Shen Yi's reinforcements from the western front arrived, they immediately spread out on the river bank to assist the former soldiers on the eastern front to deploy their defenses.

[-] people may sound inconspicuous, but in fact the number is already very large, even if spread across the entire Eastern Front, it is not a small force.

With the participation of these five thousand-household battalions, the morale of the soldiers on the eastern front was even more boosted.

Because there are currently [-] defenders on the eastern front, and although there are many Qi people, it is impossible to send all the troops to the south bank of the Huaihe River. Facing the Huaihe River, no matter how hard the Qi people work, they will be willing to die , to send people to the south bank.

And it is a certain proportion of casualties.

There are 2 defenders on the eastern front. That is to say, the Qi people must prepare at least [-] troops before they can send enough troops to the south bank, so as to break through the [-]-strong defense line and move the front line from the Huaihe River to the south bank. Continue south.

This is the so-called geographical advantage.

If there is no Huaihe River, and the Qi people can drive straight in, Shen Yi would not even think about it, and would directly retreat to Huai'an City and defend the city.

It is precisely because it may take huge casualties to forcefully cross the river to fight the main force of Huai'an's defenders, so the Qi people will think of ideas and find ways to mobilize Shen Yi's main force to break through the relatively weak places in Huai'an.

If you just blindly rely on the number of people to force it, how many people are not enough to toss.

At noon on February [-]th, the water battle on the Huaihe River was still going on, but at this time, the artillery of both sides had basically stopped ringing. Firstly, it was because of the huge consumption of ammunition, and secondly, because there was no need to use artillery anymore. .

Now, the two sides are more about ramming each other with boats and shooting arrows at close range.

Xue Wei has not disembarked for three consecutive days.

Every time Su Ding went up to replace him, he just went back to the cabin, fell asleep, and would not disembark and go ashore.

It was noon that day, after Xue Wei ordered his own warship to ram and sink an enemy medium-sized ship, he stood on the deck and watched the barbarians retreating in front, frowning slightly, thoughtfully.

After a while, he called one of his subordinates, Qianhu, and asked, "Ask the other ships, have the Qi people continued to go south?"

This Qianhu first went down to make a semaphore to inquire, and then came back quickly, clasped his fists at Xue Wei and said: "Xue Shuai, most of the Qi people's ships seem to be retreating, and they seem to have no intention of moving closer to the south bank. !"

General Xue frowned even deeper. After thinking for a while, he waved his hand and said, "Find a small boat and take me ashore. I want to go back to Xiangshui Camp!"

"This ship is in your command, keep an eye on Qi people!"

The thousand households clasped their fists respectfully: "Yes!"

Soon, a small boat came close, and Xue Wei jumped onto it directly from the deck. He was strong and heavy, and almost flipped the small boat over. The boat swayed left and right, but Xue Wei didn't care Said in a deep voice, "Get to the shore quickly!"

The boat did not dare to neglect, and soon approached the shore to dock.

Xue Wei jumped off the boat, but he didn't see Su Ding and Shen Yi on the shore, so he called a horse, got on the horse, and ran back to Xiangshui Camp.

In the main hall of the camp, he saw Shen Yi who was talking to the firearms craftsman, and General Su Dingsu was also present.

Xue Wei has been with Shen Yi for a long time, knowing that Shen Yi attaches great importance to these craftsmen, so he honestly stood aside and did not speak.

Finally, after Shen Yi sent these old craftsmen away, he stepped forward, cupped his hands at Shen Yi and said, "Mr. Shen!"

Shen Yi glanced at him and said with a smile: "I heard from General Su that you had a great time fighting those Qi people on the boat, why did you come back?"

Xue Wei bowed his head and said: "Mr. Shen, I feel that something is not quite right. Those people from Qi fought fiercely on the first day. They would try to snatch our boat and try to land on the south bank, but yesterday and today , seems to have softened."

Xue Wei frowned and said: "After three days, the casualties of both sides will probably be around 500."

"The subordinate suspects that these Qi people have some kind of conspiracy?"

Hearing his words, Shen Yi turned his head and glanced at Su Ding. Su Ding lowered his head and wanted to laugh, but he didn't dare to laugh, and his expression was rather weird.

Master Shen also patted Xue Wei on the shoulder, and said with a smile: "Yes, General Xue can finally think about problems, but the speed of reaction is a little slower."

Xue Wei stared at Shen Yi with wide eyes.

"Mr. Shen, what do you mean?"

Shen Yi nodded lightly, and said: "The Qi people attacked the Xiangshui camp on the first day, and it was obvious that it was a real fight. Even I was sweating, but after the Qi people found it difficult to attack, what I thought in my heart was, It’s no longer the Xiangshui Camp on the Eastern Front.”

"All their ships are clearly on the Eastern Front, but some of them are hidden. The Eastern Front is a bit difficult to navigate, so they will naturally turn their attention to other places."

Shen Yi sat back in his seat, knocked on the table, looked to the west, and said lightly: "No accident, either today or tomorrow, there will be a fight on the western front, maybe..."

"The person who reported to Ling Su is already on his way."

Although Xue Wei is not particularly smart, he is definitely not stupid. He immediately figured it out, and immediately said: "Mr. Shen, it should not be too late. The last general will personally bring people to support General Ling, so as not to be taken advantage of by those barbarians." !"

Shen Yi shook his head slightly: "If you are led by the nose like you, and you are already exhausted before fighting, then why fight?"

Xue Wei first looked at Shen Yi, then turned his head to look at Su Ding. He didn't speak immediately, but walked up to Su Ding, touched Su Ding with his elbow, and said in a low voice: "Old Su, what is Mr. Shen?" Why do I not understand the regulations at all?"

Su Ding shook his head slightly, and said with a wry smile: "Don't say it's a general, my subordinates don't know much about it either. This morning, my subordinates came to ask Mr. Shen for advice."

Master Shen sat on the main seat, pointed to the chairs in his handsome tent, motioned for the two of them to sit down, and then said calmly.

"You don't need to worry about things on the western front. I have made arrangements in advance, which is enough to block the attack of the Qi people, and there will be no problems."

"Now, we need to wait for news from the Western Front."

"I can arrange for you to do things when it is confirmed that Qi people are going to fight on the western front."

Having said that, Shen Yi glanced at the two of them, yawned and said, "Okay, the two of you probably haven't slept much in the past few days, so if you have time now, go back and sleep for a while, and wait for news Yes, I will notify you immediately."

Xue Wei and Su Ding looked at each other, and they all said to Shen Yi: "Your subordinate obeys."

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That night.

When approaching midnight, the lights in Master Shen's tent were still on.

Jiang Sheng ran all the way to Shen Yi's tent, took out the letter from his arms, handed it in front of Shen Yi, bowed his head and said: "My lord, the information on the western front is sent by the Dibao Division!"

Without further ado, Shen Yi put down the brush and saw that he had received the information.

After he opened it, he glanced at it briefly, and then said slowly: "What did Ling Su say?"

"General Ling probably has asked for help from the young master, but his letter is slower, and the report from the mansion is faster..."

Master Shen nodded silently and narrowed his eyes.

"Go and call Xue Wei and Su Ding."

"Yes!"

Soon, the two trotted to Shen Yi's military tent, bowed their heads and cupped their fists respectfully to Shen Yi.

"Meet Mr. Shen!"

Shen Yi nodded, glanced at the two of them, and said slowly: "The western front... has already started fighting."

"The number of Qi people is only a lot more than here in Xiangshui Daying."

Xue Wei immediately said: "Duke Shen please give orders, this subordinate can lead the cavalry to help General Ling!"

Shen Yi shook his head slightly: "I have arrangements over there, so you don't need to go."

His eyes looked outside the tent, towards the direction of the Huaihe River.

"However, we can't do nothing here."

"Pass my general order, all warships, ships, assemble immediately!"

The two lowered their heads, and Xue Wei raised his head to look at Shen Yi, blinking his eyes: "Mr. Shen, we are not going to the western front..."

"Where to go?"

Master Shen looked to the north.

"Let's go and try..."

"The fineness of Qi people."

(End of this chapter)