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Chapter 727 The First Ambush

To the south of Xuzhou, there are rivers and rivers running through, and there are many hills blocking it.

It is not only a place where it is easy to escape the pursuers, but also a place where it is easy to set up an ambush for the enemy.Fu Gongyou, who has grown up in Jianghuai for a long time, naturally knows this.In his eyes, there are seven or eight out of ten Zhao Jun, who will set up an ambush in the place where they are fleeing in the south.

As far as Fu Gongyou is concerned, there is a bit better news that the rear army has broken away from contact with Zhao Jun's pursuers and kept at a relatively safe distance.The Zhao army is all from the north, and they can gallop horizontally and vertically on the plains, but their advancing speed will drop a lot in the hills and mountains.

The subordinates all believed that the vertical and horizontal rivers and rivers of the Jianghuai River were natural barriers that could prevent Zhao Jun's cavalry from going south.

But Fu Gongyou didn't think much about it, Zhao Jun's pursuers retreated a little bit, instead he ordered his subordinates to be vigilant all the time, the soldiers needed to string their arrows, draw their knives out of their sheaths, and take a short rest before ordering the soldiers to feed the horses with hay and stock up their horsepower.Because Fu Gongyou knew that if Zhao Jun's pursuers left, then the ambush ahead must be approaching.

Knowing that a big battle was about to come, Fu Gongyou summoned the generals to discuss. Except for a few generals who led the troops, the generals of the Shangzuying and Danyang Army gathered together. Half of them were Du Fuwei's death. Replace the cronies in order to maintain control over the two most combat-effective units of the Jianghuai Army.

Fu Gongyou put his hands behind his back and said: "We have temporarily thrown off the pursuers behind, everyone, don't be in a hurry to be happy. Zhao Jun attacked Xuzhou this time, with about 6 horses. Yesterday's attack on Xuzhou city was at least 2 people, deducted below. Pi, part of the troops in Peixian County. I guess the Zhao army has nearly [-] horses, waiting for us on the road ahead."

Hearing what Fu Gongyou said, all the generals looked around, at this time a young general stepped forward to speak.

"Father, although our army is short of men and horses, there are still a lot of people who have been withdrawn from the city of Xuzhou. If we face head-on, we are not afraid of them. Father, tell me, how should we fight?"

Fu Gongyou, like Du Fuwei, has adopted more than a dozen adopted sons. This adopted son is called Gao Xiang, who is the most capable of fighting, and is also the most heroic on weekdays. The most rare thing is this spirit of optimism in any dangerous situation, so He is deeply liked by Fu Gongyou.

Fu Gongyou smiled and said: "How else can we fight? When we meet on a narrow road, the brave wins. Zhao Jun set up a net in front of him. I, Fu Gongyou, don't believe in evil. He has ambushes on all sides. I have only one life to kill. I will kill it if I fight hard." Won."

As a veteran of many battles, Fu Gongyou had never seen any kind of battle. He knew that the Zhao army was ahead and laid many ambushes, but he had the courage to go to the tiger mountain knowing that there were tigers on the mountain.

"After killing the Zhao army, don't get entangled, go directly to the south, and enter the deep mountains and great swamps, which is our territory."

Seven miles in front of Fu Gongyou's Chinese army, there is a wide lake, the blue sky shrouds the lake, and water birds flutter their wings and fly from time to time.

On the side of Huze, a road runs through, and the soldiers of the Jianghuai Army who retreated from Xuzhou are on their way.

The road winds like a long snake leading to a hill. The hill is full of dense forests, lush trees and dense vegetation. The lake wind blows and sets off green waves. On both sides of the road are rice fields that have just pulled out seedlings. Standing bellflowers and scorpions, the paddy fields here are harvested from the low-lying parts of the lake to build fields around the lake.There are farmlands here, so there should be people nearby, but right now there is no one there, not even a farmhouse, but this is normal, now that the rivers and Huaihe Rivers are in chaos, the people must have moved to the mountains long ago.

The former generals of the Jianghuai Army arrived in front of Huze and felt that the terrain was very unfavorable. Why did the road lead to the forest strangely, and it was smoother to walk from the field depression beside the forest.The former general stopped the guide and asked, "What's going on with this road? Why do I see it a little strangely?"

After hearing this, the guide looked at it for a while and replied: "General, this road was originally built by the edge of the field, but there is also a small path leading to the mountain. As for why the road by the edge of the field was erased, I don't remember. .I wonder if it was filled in when the lake was reclaimed."

The former general said: "Nonsense, I think someone deliberately erased the avenue and built the road to the top of the mountain to lure our army into the dense forest."

The former general immediately became vigilant and ordered the soldiers to stop and rest, and sent troops to spy on the military situation ahead.With the order to rest, the tired and hungry soldiers of the Jianghuai Army who ran all night fell limply on both sides of the road, stretching their legs at will, and many of them even sat in the muddy rice fields.

From last night to the present, the Jianghuai soldiers are exhausted.

Not long after the general sent his men and horses to investigate, another group of soldiers from the Jianghuai army arrived in a panic.Their troops were obviously in a hurry, seeing that the former soldiers were resting on the road beside the field ridge like a puddle of mud, they immediately blocked there.

Seeing this scene, the Jianghuai generals were very upset at the moment. They got off their horses and went to the rice fields, kicked up a few soldiers who were resting on the ground with their leather boots, and asked, "Who told you to rest at the edge of the fields and stop moving forward?" , don’t you know that Zhao Jun is still chasing after us?”

The soldiers hurriedly said that it was the meaning of the former general, saying that the terrain ahead was unfavorable, and there was probably an ambush in the forest, and they had to send people to search the forest before moving forward.The general looked at the terrain, and immediately found the former general and said: "Searching the dense forest can't be done in a short time. , it didn’t take long for Zhao Jun’s chasing soldiers to catch up.”

The former army general was also angry when he saw that the other party was not polite at all. This person is the old general of Du Fuwei of the Jianghuai Army, and he was just promoted by Fu Gongyou. The two sides have always been at odds.

The former general immediately said: "To put it bluntly, Mr. Fu said that Zhao Jun would probably set up an ambush on the road ahead. Be careful, and you won't make mistakes."

"I've been fighting all my life, I haven't seen any ambushes, and I'm cautious, I think I'm a coward!" The man scolded disdainfully.

The soldiers on the left and right of the former general were enraged and drew their sabers at their waists.Although this man was furious, he was not reckless. He knew that Fu Gongyou had issued a strict order that people from his lineage should not provoke these Jianghuai army veterans for the time being.

At that moment, the former general held back his anger, told his subordinates not to act rashly, and sneered, "Okay, I know that Your Excellency is a veteran. If so, why don't you volunteer to be a former soldier?"

The general said angrily: "Don't provoke me with words, when I was a general, you didn't know where to wear crotch pants."

Speaking of this, the general ordered his subordinates: "The soldiers may encounter accidents when entering the dense forest. We will bypass this hill and walk from the low-lying rice fields on the side. However, it is a bit difficult to walk, so be careful, there is nothing to be afraid of!"

The former general nodded and said: "This person is not reckless."

At that moment, the general led five hundred soldiers to explore the road, and all the five hundred soldiers were wearing full body armor or half body armor, holding shields in their hands and walking towards the hills and dense forest.

The soldiers were full of exploring the road, their eyes fixed on the dense forest beside the mountain, and they didn't care about the muddy lakeside under their feet.Five hundred soldiers passed through the rice fields, and all the rice seedlings were trampled down, but there was nothing unusual from the hills.

After the [-] soldiers had all passed through without incident, the Jianghuai army officers and soldiers were relieved. The soldiers in the rear followed the front army and also detoured through the dense forest and advanced from the side in a low-lying area.

Just as the soldiers of the Jianghuai Army passed by here, a quick ride from the rear came forward and reported: "General, the wooden bridge behind suddenly broke, and more than a dozen soldiers fell into the water. The follow-up troops were blocked by the river and could not cross."

"What?" the general said angrily, "Why did the bridge break when the rear troops got on the bridge just now?"

The soldier lowered his head and replied: "General, there are no vehicles or horses passing on this bridge, so it broke down for no reason. I don't know what happened!"

The general heard the words and smelled a conspiracy, and he suddenly said: "There must be fraud in it!"

As soon as the voice fell, there was a sudden bang of a clapper on the hill that had just passed.

At this time, thousands of soldiers from the Jianghuai Army passed through here, and now there are about a thousand more soldiers walking in the muddy rice fields at one depth and one shallow, with their bag bags and straw sandals wet.

After the sound of the clapper, a burst of arrows shot from the forest on the hill.The soldiers of the Jianghuai army who were marching in the rice fields were caught off guard and were shot in one area.Only experienced veterans rolled over in time, jumping into the muddy water up to half of their calves.

After the first wave of arrows, the soldiers of the Jianghuai Army put their side cards on their chests to resist the arrows from the mountain.

The arrows just shot a wave in a hurry and then stopped, followed by the sound of dense army drums.Countless figures appeared in the sparsely dense forest.A battle flag with Song characters was erected high.The Jianghuai army is no stranger to this battle flag, and this general is Song Jingang, the general of the Zhao army who fought against them in Langya County before.

Song Jingang, General of the Zhao Army, was standing in the forest wearing a mountain armor at this moment, and the soldiers of the Zhao Army on the left and right crossed the ridge and rushed down the mountain.
Song Jingang said to Gao Tao, his beloved general beside him: "Someone has only 5000 troops, and ambushed the Jianghuai army in the first battle. My old Song is not that capable. In the battle of gods, 2 can wipe out [-] horses. But killing It is still possible for the Jianghuai army to dampen its spirit for a while."

Gao Tao said: "This battle must show the prestige of our Imperial Guard Army, we cannot let the Wu Wei Army and Yi Wei Army look down upon us."

Song Jingang nodded and said, "Exactly."

After finishing speaking, the troops of the Imperial Guard rushed down the mountain and started fighting with the Jianghuai army.

At this time, Fu Gongyou was in the middle army, and following the soldiers rode forward, a soldier rode forward and reported: "The former army was ambushed by Zhao Jun, it should be the troops of Song Jingang, the general of the imperial guard!"

Fu Gongyou sneered after hearing the words: "Okay, Li Chongjiu really blocked me on the way forward."

All the generals said one after another: "Mr. Fu, do you want to rush up to fight Zhao Jun and break out of the encirclement?"
After hearing the words, Fu Gongyou pondered for a while and said: "No! Order people to detour, don't get entangled with Zhao Jun! Everything is first to get out of Xuzhou!"

PS: A few days ago, we had a funeral for a relative, so there were few updates, and I am very sorry for the lateness.I will make up the two updates today, and ask for a monthly ticket and a recommendation ticket.

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