Lord of the House

In Huaiyang, Lin Bie learned that He Xiongqi had led more than ten thousand elites to Yutai, a little later than Liu Miaozhen and others.

Although he knew that because the Yanlu decisively dispatched a second troop of troops, the battle situation in Xuzhou became mysterious and unpredictable, but Lin Bie was helpless.

"The reconnaissance cavalry passed that Hexiongqi's department at Yutai at noon yesterday and sent a letter to the south. Yutai is about 200 miles away from Xuzhou. Arrive at the periphery of Xuzhou around noon after dawn." Gao Zongting reckoned.

Lin Bie nodded, that He Xiongqi wanted to keep his troops on the outskirts of Xuzhou and be able to enter the battlefield immediately, traveling two hundred miles day and night, which was almost the speed limit for cavalry to advance from the snowy plain.

Ma Lantou was extremely worried about the changes in the war in Xuzhou, but he resisted not asking for reinforcements to advance eastward.

Not to mention that there are less than 5,000 infantry left in Huaiyang City, even if they were to gather troops and rush to Xuzhou for support immediately, they would still arrive in Xuzhou after Hexiongqi.

If Liu Miaozhen can't beat Chen Hansan or Zhou Zhizhong before Hexiongqi arrives at the Xuzhou battlefield, and the Huaiyang reinforcements fall in Nahexiongqi and arrive in Xuzhou, it will only be eaten by the enemy in batches - if Liu Miaozhen can Before He Xiongqi, take the initiative to take the initiative in the peripheral battlefield of Xuzhou, and destroy Chen Hansan or Zhou Zhizhong first. Even if Yanlu throws in another 10,000 cavalry, Liu Miaozhen can resist it, so there is no need to be so hasty here. sent reinforcements over.

At this time, we can only watch the development of Xuzhou's peripheral battlefield. Even if we want to send reinforcements, we have to wait for further news from Xuzhou's periphery. But thinking of the clever plan of melting ice, even if the battle of Xuzhou cannot be won, Liu Miaozhen must be able to cleverly use the Jingma River to divide the enemy and preserve his strength.

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The sky was white with fish belly, and at dawn, the Huaidong Army's troops stationed on the north bank of the Jingma River moved into action, and in the blink of an eye, the initially silent camp turned to the sky.

Chen Hansan slept in his clothes, but he didn't sleep soundly. Hearing that there was something abnormal on the north bank of the Jingma River, he rolled over and got out of bed, climbed the high wall at the head of the village, and looked at the past: the Huaidong Army formed on the north bank of the Jingma River. There is a gap in the north of the car camp, and countless soldiers and horses are pouring out of the gap to the north.

In the direction of Xiaogushan Valley, for some reason, since nightfall, there have been several fires burning, which is the area where the Huaidong Army hid soldiers in ambush earlier. Right now, Xiaogushan has been thrown on the periphery of the battlefield, and even if the Huaidong Army hides too many ambush soldiers there, it will not come in handy.

It's just that there was a fire that didn't go out all night, causing Chen Hansan to be a little puzzled.

"The lady in red jacket also knew that Beiyan Jingqi was on its way to Xuzhou, so she raised her troops before dawn and launched a strong attack on Zhou Zhizhong's troops stationed in Shajiaji, in order to make sure that General Nahe led his troops to arrive. To decide the winner and loser, to achieve the goal of fighting each other..."

Ma Zhen and the generals of the Xuzhou army strode forward, and Ma Zhen was not sure about his breath, so he pointed out to Chen Hansan the intention of the Huaidong army on the north bank of the Jingma River to dispatch at this time.

The enemy is strong and I am weak. When the enemy is divided and each is defeated, the only way to win is to win.

Liu Miaozhen chose Zhou Zhizhong instead of this side as the main direction of attack. Chen Hansan felt a little comfort, and secretly said: At least in the eyes of the red jacket girl, Xuzhou soldiers are more difficult than the newly attached army led by Zhou Zhizhong. The jacket girl was not sure that before He Xiongqi led his troops to come, he would eat the Xuzhou soldiers who had a little strength.

Of course, it's not ruled out that Liu Miaozhen was prepared to retreat to the city first if they couldn't bear the pressure.

The choice Chen Hansan can make at the moment is also clear. He must send troops and horses to cross the Jingma River and attack the Huaidong Army's back road, so that Liu Miaozhen can not let go and fight Zhou Zhizhong - as long as the battle situation is dragged to that Hexiong Qi rate. The Ministry came, and there would be no suspense in victory or defeat.

Of course, if before He Xiongqi led his troops to arrive, Xuzhou soldiers or Zhou Zhizhong's troops had a force to defeat Liu Miaozhen, and the battle situation after that would still be five or five, then the outcome would be unpredictable.

Chen Hansan looked at the fish maw white on the horizon in the east, counted the time, and thought that when the horses were assembled here to cross the Jingma River, it was also just when the sky was about to dawn. The Ministry, even if the battalion is pulled out, is ready to cross the Jingma River.

The Jingma River is not difficult to cross, the ice layer is frozen solid, and it is only three or four feet deep from the embankment. The residual snow on the ice also makes the river ice less slippery, but the key point is that Liu Miaozhen led the main force to attack Shajiaji. In the back road, on the north bank of the Jingma River, there will always be a blocking force.

In any case, Chen Hansan couldn't let Liu Miaozhen go to Shajiaji with all his strength—the 20,000-foot cavalry of the new affiliated army gathered near Shajiaji by Zhou Zhizhong couldn't match the elites of the Huaidong Army; Simple and rudimentary, it is far from comparable to the city wall; besides, the Huaidong Army has been harassing the south bank of the Jingma River all night, even though Chen Hansan thought that the main force of the Huaidong Army would be the south bank today, he did not know that Liu Miaozhen would be so decisive. Go north to fight Zhou Zhizhong.

Now is the time when the people are trapped and the horses are exhausted. Chen Hansan is worried that Zhou Zhizhong may not have sufficient defense in Shajiaji, and he may be a little embarrassed to respond to the enemy; He Xiongqi led his troops to come.

Although the North Shore car battalion was further dissociated and the army expanded further, Huaidong's attacking situation was also thoroughly displayed under the dim morning light. Liu Miaozhen ordered Li Liang to lead 2,000 cavalrymen out to the front wing first, and rushed to Shajiaji to dismount and fight, attacking the camps under Zhou Zhizhong. He personally led the 10,000-foot armored elite to attack the main camp of Zhou Zhizhong, and then pressed on them; Zhou Pu led 3,000 cavalry to cover the flanks of the main formation; in the rear, the 4,000-foot armor was divided into two groups, each forming a horn. , relying on the chariots and shield chariots as an array, facing the Jingma River, Xuzhou City, and the three troops of Chen Han.

Chen Hansan smiled coldly, pointed to the formation of the Huaidong Army on the north bank of the Jingma River, looked around at the Xuzhou generals standing under the wall, and said, "The red jacket girl is a little too big, and I think it's a mere five Qianbuqi wants to defend the back road, and see Xuzhou generals as nothing?"

Chen Han's three generals were disturbed all night without a good rest. All of them had bloodshot eyes, like rabbit eyes. Sitting on the horse, they couldn't help yawning, and their hearts were full of fire; The strength of the troops on the south bank of the river was more than three times that of the Huaidong Army covering the rear wing. In this relatively open Helu Plain, they did not dare to fight across the river, and they had no face to hang around.

Chen Hansan wanted to stimulate the generals, and the generals drove their horses to the fortress wall and asked to lead the troops to fight.

There are 134 li from Shajiaji to the north bank of Jingma River. Although the 20,000 cavalry of the Huaidong Army is quite a lot, there is no way for the rear formation to stand on the north bank of Jingma River when the front formation is attacking Shajiaji. Shou. When Chen Hansan sent 2,000 cavalry to the flank to look for fighters, the Huaidong Army's rear formation was forced to give up defending the north bank of the Jingma River, and the north was closer to the main formation, and the formation was tightened. Tight, reducing the chances of the flank giving Chen Han Sansuo's entry.

When the first ray of sunlight shone on the crystal clear Jingma River ice, Chen Hansan led the main force of Xuzhou soldiers and infantry across the Jingma River and pressed towards the Huaidong Army's rear formation.

Tens of thousands of troops spread out, and the wilderness on the north bank of the Jingma River and the western foot of Jiuli Mountain was packed to the brim. The flags and flags were like forests. The blood of the generals is boiling, forgetting life and death, and fighting with swords, guns, shields and crossbows.

Zhou Zhizhong's subordinates dragged Chen Zhihu to the city of Qingzhou to deceive and lure the enemy, and they were half-crippled. In the end, they gathered thousands of remnants. Their morale was also severely damaged. Soldiers and horses, but in just two or three months, the combat power of Zhou Zhizhong's troops has dropped a bit compared to the Yanji war period.

This time, Zhou Zhizhong's subordinates were assigned as partial teachers, and Yuan Lishan, who made the decision at that time, also regarded them as throwing stones for directions.

Liu Miaozhen led the main force to attack at dawn, and Zhou Zhizhong only dared to rely on the existing simple camp and squat to defend it, and waited for the elites to arrive before He Xiongqi came to counterattack.

The Shajiaji Camp was very simple, and Zhou Zhizhong was conservative in his style of play, and all his troops and horses were withdrawn into three large villages that were horns of each other. Liu Miaozhen divided his troops and pressed them up, and the front troops directly pressed the gate of the village. At this time, Zhou Zhizhong would not be able to send troops out of the camp to fight back.

Zhou Zhizhong also knew that Hexiong Qi would be able to lead his troops to arrive at noon, so he was subconsciously conservative in his style of play, but this conservative approach made him fall into a passive state.

Chen Hansan knew that it was not long before the battle, and Zhou Zhizhong was in danger. He cursed inwardly, thinking that if Chen Zhihu led a partial division to Xuzhou, maybe he would not have stopped at Weimiaopo yesterday, maybe Liu Miaozhen heard that Hearing Chen Zhihu's reputation, he would be defeated in shock, Yuan Lishan chose Zhou Zhizhong to come over.

Chen Hansan had no choice but to grit his teeth and press all the troops at hand to fight the Huaidong Army's rear formation, forcing Liu Miaozhen not to fight Shajiaji with all his strength, but he fought hard for an hour and a half, worthy of being in Jingma Hebei. The bank stood firm and did not notice the Jingma River behind the formation. Under the sunlight, the residual snow covered by the ice layer had long since disappeared, and the river ice gradually had muddy stains.

Nine out of ten soldiers and horses from Xuzhou who went out of the city to fight have entered the north bank of the Jingma River, leaving only two battalions of soldiers on the south bank to guard the Xiaozhai camp. After all, the two embankments of the Jingma River are sunken down three or four feet. Except for the occasional horse-riding post, there were only a few soldiers standing on the river ice at this time.

Even if someone notices that the ice layer is muddy and the tide is returning, they will only think that the residual snow is melted by people and horses, leaving a little snow on the river ice; One black piece here, one black piece there.

No one has thought about it, under the blistering north wind that cuts like a knife, even the residual snow will blow dry snow for two or three days. How can it melt into water, and the river ice will be muddy for horses to step on?

That Hexiongqi led his troops to Weimiaopo, where Zhou Zhizhong's troops were deployed last night. It was less than thirty miles away from the Jiulishan battlefield. He was taking a short rest and sent the outpost here to continue to entangle the Huaidong Army. After he led his troops to rest for a while, he arrived and beat Huaidong to a rout.

The Huaidong Army has risen for several years. Although there have been occasional setbacks, there has never been a precedent for the main force to be formed into an established system to beat the disabled. Seeing that a big victory is at hand, Chen Hansan is excited, but also has a faint anxiety before the victory - he To perform better, beat the horses, urge the generals, press the Huaidong Army's rear formation, and hope that before He Xiongqi arrives, the Huaidong Army formation in front of him will be defeated. Yan Junchen would not despise him, Chen Hansan.

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Sun Zhuang squinted his eyes and looked up at the sky. At this moment, he could only roughly judge the time based on the sun. He thought that it was almost the end of the day, right? That boy, He Xiongqi, should not be too far away from the Jiulishan battlefield. Maybe he knew that the fight was in a hurry, and he was ordering the captive soldiers to take a final rest in the distance, and waited for a rush to press them up to do the final fierce battle. one strike.

Sun Zhuang put Ma Leng in front of him, and the armor and pockets were neatly dressed. The horse armor was also put on the moment before, and in the sun, it shone with silver brilliance; in the face of the upcoming **** battle, Sun Zhuang was still thinking about it. , waiting for Liu Miaozhen's further orders to come from the front.

Zhao Bao came over from the horse, took the reins and put his legs on the horse's belly, and said, "The river ice in the eastern section of Gushan Creek is under the heavy pressure of the carriage, and it has begun to rattle, and there are dendritic cracks. The Jingma River here is trampled by horses, and the ice layer should be cut even thinner. Liu Shuai asked me to wait and prepare immediately. When the counterattack..."

"Okay!" Sun Zhuang's squinted eyes widened, with a fierce light in his eyes. The veins in his hands that grabbed the lance burst out, like a lazy man. At this moment, he suddenly showed infinite energy and raised his fingers. Heaven, looking to the left and right, shouted, "Chen Hansan, this dog thief has no faith, he came and betrayed. I know that everyone looks down on him, so I will give him a good look today!"

"Give him a good look!" The generals responded with a bang, and turned over to their horses one after another.

Before he dropped the gun and hit Chen Hansan, he had to be fast and fierce. The main force of the infantry who attacked Shajiaji would not be able to keep up, so he would stop the offensive and shrink a little to prevent Zhou Zhizhong's troops from rushing out from the Shajiaji camp. The main force to fight Chen Hansan consisted of Sun Zhuang, Zhou Pu, and Li Liang leading 6,000 elite cavalry, together with the 4,000 foot soldiers deployed in the rear to compress Chen Hansan's troops and horses across the Jingma River from three directions. , to oppress the south bank!

The Huaidong Army's counterattack was fast and ruthless. The more than a thousand armored soldiers led by Sun Zhuang who had been in the center of the formation for a long time were the main force in the middle, and the two flanks were filled with more than a thousand infantry armor to cooperate, and they immediately beat Chen Hansan. The front wings of the Huaidong Army's rear formation were not retracted enough, and the losses would be numerous.

Of course, Chen Hansan was prepared to hide the thorns at the back of the Huaidong Army, and immediately dispatched troops to ensure that they could hold their positions. The cavalry on the flank were all transferred back, and almost 6,000 elite cavalry were pressed here to charge.

Chen Hansan could barely resist the current counterattack of 3,000 cavalry, but Zhou Pu and Li Liang each led more than 2,000 cavalry to attack from the flank regardless of casualties. The cavalry, who were quickly defeated, were forced to retreat into the open space between the infantry formations to avoid the edge.

Just after this counterattack, the area controlled by Chen Hansan's group on the north bank of the Jingma River shrunk by nearly half. com and the cavalry were forced to retreat between the ranks, making the entire battlefield crowded and cramped.

Chen Hansan stood on top of the half nest car and looked at the entire battlefield, his brows furrowed. Based on his experience, the Huaidong Army seemed to rely on the valiantness of its soldiers to forcibly defeat his troops in this splash attack regardless of casualties. !

"This is the last struggle of the Red Jacket Army!" Ma Zhen walked under the half nest car, raised his head and said to Chen Hansan, "It's just that the battlefield here is crowded, which makes people a little worried. Is Chen Shuai going back first? Watch the battle on the South Bank!"

"No, how can the handsome flag be moved lightly at this time?" Chen Hansan said firmly, "Let Ma Biao withdraw to the south bank, and let Chen Jinkui take the sons and go forward!"

Ma Biao himself is a commander in the rear of the palace, with more than 2,000 people standing along the Jingma River embankment. Removing the south bank will not have any effect on the military's morale; Chen Jinkui is the nephew of Chen Hansan and one of the two schools of the Chinese Army. To lead the troops to press on, is to adjust the elite of the Chinese army to defeat the spirit of the Huaidong army.

Let the troops at the rear of the palace retreat to the south bank, and then press the elite of the central army to the front, and the entire array can be restored to order from the crowd.

The flag of Pegasus sent a message, and a Xuzhou soldier standing up and down the Jingma River embankment immediately went down the embankment after hearing the order, and wanted to rush to the south bank to form an array, or from the south bank to copy the flank of the Huaidong Army - this section of Jingma The river is about twenty feet wide, and countless people rushed down the river bank. The subordinate Ma Biao and dozens of cavalry soldiers were at the forefront. As soon as they crossed the center of the river, they heard the sound of "clicking" under the horse!

Ma Biao subconsciously restrained the reins, and looked down in horror, just in the horse's hoof, the twig-like cracks seemed to be growing rapidly, spreading around!

"The ice is about to crack!" I don't know who made this sound. Ma Biao whipped the horse and went to the south bank. As soon as the horse's hooves landed on the south bank, he heard a loud bang behind him, and the river ice cracked! My QT room is open! More vulgar official QT room number [9167] Click to enter