Warrior in Turbulent Han Dynasty

In mid-October, Guo Shao heard that Li Chuyun had captured Tongling (northeast of Chizhou).

The situation is a bit complicated. There are two Jiangxinzhou in the river near Chizhou, called Fengyi and Changxiang. The existence of Jiangxinzhou has greatly shortened the distance across the Yangtze River, making it possible for Li Chuyun to build a floating bridge. However, the river is very urgent and the water surface is not narrow. The fragile pontoon bridge was destroyed in a few days.

The Jiannan Army Gao Yanjian was still in Jiangbei and was ordered to cross the river by boat, but did not catch up with Li Chuyun's main force. Li Chuyun hurriedly marched into Tongling, captured the garrison and water village of the Southern Tang Army, and seized more than 200 warships... At this time, Gao Yanjian's men and horses were still in Chizhou and had not fully crossed the Yangtze River.

Li Chuyun's momentum was like a broken bamboo, and the military commander couldn't stop it at all under this situation. After occupying Tongling, he kept running and continued northward into Wuhu. He completely ignored the threat of the direction of Hukou (Poyang Lake) and Gao Yanqi's situation.

Guo Shao couldn't sit still, and hurriedly sent orders to relocate the Chinese army to Hezhou (He County on the opposite bank of Caishiji, Ma'anshan), and pay close attention to the situation in Jiangnan. They also sent people to urge the Luzhou Tiger Army to rush to Chizhou.

In the second half of the year, the Wuhu Nantang garrison was empty and defeated. After more than 10,000 people occupied the place, Li Chuyun stayed a small number of soldiers and horses to continue to look at Dangtu Town near the ferry for quarrying... When Guo Shao got the report, Li Chuyun had already set off to Dangtu.

...And in the lobby of the prefectural government, what Guo Shao can do is to use a ruler to continuously measure the distance between different places.

Wang Pu said next to him: "Li Chuyun rushes faster than Shi Yanchao..."

Shi Yanchao's expression was very embarrassing, and he couldn't reveal Li Chuyun's shortness at this time.

Guo Shao had the feeling that he couldn't stop even when he stepped on the brakes. Wuhu couldn't reach Dangtu for dozens of miles. Even if he sent someone to order Li Chuyun to stop the attack, it might not be too late. Maybe now Li Chuyun has reached Dangtu...not to mention Guo Shao at all. I don't want to stop Li Chuyun, otherwise he should have ordered it long ago.

Dangtu town is always mentioned in the historical annals of war books. The place always mentioned in the book is a very important strategic place, because there are always wars on these names, and it will be mentioned many times. This place controls quarrying, the upper reaches of Jiangning Mansion, the very important place in the south of the Yangtze River...the quarrying ferry is what is in the bag to lay down this city.

As long as this place is occupied, the flames of war will be directly burned to Jiangning Mansion, the center of the Southern Tang State, and the blocking effect of the Yangtze River's natural dangers will be as if nothing exists. The central breakthrough, a very fast offensive route; compared to advancing from the upstream city by city, this road is a shortcut. Li Chuyun is greedy for merit, and Guo Shao is equally impatient.

There are loopholes in the defense management of the Southern Tang State, and Guo Shao is unwilling to stop Li Chuyun, otherwise he may be questioned if he is timid and fearful of neglecting the opportunity when he is mentioned again in the future.

But at the same time, Guo Shao was also under great psychological pressure... The strength of the Southern Tang State was still very strong, and there were hundreds of thousands of troops in various places, which is not an imaginary number. And Li Chuyun tens of thousands of people in the middle of his border, there are threats on all sides. He has not yet arrived and is insufficiently prepared, and he has stretched the front for hundreds of miles, lonely and deep into the strategic center of Southern Tang.

Guo Shao felt that Li Chuyun's approach was very risky and could not bear any single accident. Once defeated, the entire front would be broken from Dangtu to Chizhou, Chizhou to Jiangbei.

"It's almost November, and it's been more than a month since the war started." Guo Shao muttered, "The enemy troops in the southern capital are still standing still. They are not coming?"

Wang Pu said: "If Zhu Lingyun would come from Hukou, he would have come long ago. Li Yu or Zhu Lingyun could delay the reinforcement of Hukou for more than a month, and it would delay even longer..." He then persuaded, "Li Chuyun can be in Dajiang. Threading needles and threads all the way, he must be a knowledgeable person. He is anxious to attack Dangtu and should have a chance of winning."

Guo Shao paced back and forth: "Jiangning Mansion (Nanjing) wants to reinforce Dangtu, and the journey is not far away... I only hope that Li Yu will continue to make mistakes, and the Southern Tang Guochaotang will still be as slow as before."

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In Dangtu Town, Li Chuyun took the lead to ride to the south bank of the Guxi River. The army was still behind. They came all the way and clashed with the Southern Tang Army scouts.

The ancient city walls and towers were facing each other across the river. Li Chuyun took the lead to observe the city in his line of sight. This city is not big, but the southern Tang state has a strong army; the brick wall, and The moat makes it look different from other small cities. The Guxi River in the south of the city has become a natural moat to the south of Dangtu. There are water gates in the city wall, and moats have been dug on the east, west and north sides... If this city is guarded carefully, it is not easy to attack.

There were sporadic warships of the Southern Tang Army cruising on the Guxi River. The people on it could see clearly, but the warships did not rush over to threaten Li Chuyun's team. They only watched from a distance on the river.

Li Chuyun looked back at his surroundings. A flat open area was very suitable for the army to start a battle. The place where he is standing is across the Guxi River and Dangtu Town in the north of the front, and to the east is the Qingshan River flowing from north to south into the Guxi River, and then into the Yangtze River to the west; the west of Li Chuyun Station and the west of Dangtu City are open areas. .

The neigh of horses came from far behind, Li Chuyun turned his head, and saw that the army on several roads had appeared in sight, and his troops were advancing here.

On the west side of Dangtu City and on the other side of the Guxi River, there are also faint signs of the Southern Tang Army. The Southern Tang Army seems to have deployed troops outside the western city.

Li Chuyun looked at the sun to the west, and said: "The ministries of the transmission order, choose a place to camp. At night, they will send me to cross the river to report the situation of the Southern Tang Army."

"Telling!"

Zhang Lingduo, the commander of Long Jiejun's right side, asked at this time: "Gong Li has taken a plan to make a mistake?"

"No." Li Chuyun said frankly, "The fortifications in this city are strict. We have too few people now, and it is difficult to attack by force."

Zhang Lingduo asked, "Are you waiting for Gao Yanjian's support?"

Li Chuyun disapproved and said: "Shu people are not willing to work for us. It's not very useful, don't worry about it... Don't wait, our army will not attack the city, first cross the Guxi River and seize the Caishiji.

When the Tucheng defenders did not have the strength to block our troops. First of all, their navy was very weak, and obviously no reinforcements came to strengthen the defense; secondly, the Southern Tang Army was huddled on the north bank of the Guxi River, a sign of defensiveness. Only when the troops were insufficient would it be so conservative. "

Li Chuyun rode westward along the river until he reached the edge of the Yangtze River. The sun was about to set. The soldiers advised him to return to the barracks, but he still sat on the horse to observe the surrounding situation with his own eyes.

Looking westward, the Yangtze River is very narrow here, but the opposite bank is not Jiangbei, but Jiangxinzhou; if you don’t know the topography in advance, you may think that the Yangtze River has narrowed here and the opposite is Jiangbei Land. ...In fact, it is not, just because this Jiangxinzhou is too big, the Jiangshui has been split into two parts.

Not far to the north is Caishiji, one of the most important ferry crossings on the lower reaches of the Yangtze River, but Li Chuyun still can't see it with his eyes. He looked at the northern horizon, imagining that place.

The opposite side of Caishiji is the north corner of Jiangxinzhou, and the other side is the Jiangbei Hezhou site. Li Chuyun had learned that Guo Shao had moved the Chinese Army Xingyuan to Hezhou, and at this time the two were very close.

Caishiji is a very important place. It has always been the breakthrough point for the north to attack Jiangnan. Judging from the strategy of attacking the southern Tang Dynasty formulated by Guo Shao, the target is also here, and this place will be the core of the overall battle.

Li Chuyun pondered secretly: If you won the quarry, no one has done as much credit as me! As long as Guo Shao ascends the throne in the future, the old man will rely on the two most crucial contributions of the Tokyo Mutiny last year and the Battle of the Southern Tang Dynasty this year, which will establish the Li family's fortune for a century!

"Tomorrow, crossing the river to sweep the Southern Tang army outside Dangtu city, and then attack Caishiji, to achieve the goal, the quarry will lead to the Dajiang floating bridge, then Jiangbei aid troops will cross the river, and then try to become Tucheng." Li Chuyun said to the general.

...... The next morning, as soon as it was light, the main force of the elite right side of the Long Jie Army was on the south bank of the Guxi River, laying out against the river. Fighting on the water first started in the morning, and the Nantang Army's water was quickly swept away. The most important role here is to control the Yangtze River ferry, but the Southern Tang Army has very few navy here, and it is not the opponent of the Zhou army's more than 300 warships.

When the sun rose, the Zhou army warship with a shallow draft had entered the Guxi River to move.

On the north bank, the large number of soldiers and horses of the Southern Tang Army and the Zhou Army were facing each other across the river, but this did not stop the Zhou Army from crossing the narrow Guxi River. Just to the west of the city, the river bank has more than ten miles, and it is impossible for the Southern Tang Army to disperse the few troops on the river bank.

More than two hundred people from the First Division of the Zhou Army Navy first landed in one place, and the Southern Tang Army mobilized cavalry over there. When Li Chuyun rode his horse to the place where he crossed the river, he saw that the Southern Tang Cavalry had broken up the navy infantry's phalanx, the killing sound shook the sky on the opposite side, and the sword and spear dancing were in a melee. More navy soldiers abandoned their boats and landed on the waterfront to assemble the battlefield.

Commander Xiangdu made Zhang Lingduo a bit anxious. After reading the book www.uukanshu.com for a while, he yelled, "Looking at the navy forces fighting, let me take my troops by ship!"

Zhang Lingduo has nothing to do with Li Chuyun. He is a commander of the Long Jie Army and cannot control the right side of the Long Jie Army. So Li Chuyun did not stop him.

Zhang Lingduo then led his soldiers to abandon the horse and cross the Guxi River. The river is not wide, and the fighting over there can probably be seen from the south bank. Seeing Zhang Lingduo jumped off the boat, he took a long spear and rushed up, killing the two in an instant. This martial arts is really good... Zhang Lingduo has no one on top, and he can basically rely on combat exploits to be able to command and envoy. These generals are all brave.

Li Chuyun saw that the Southern Tang Army was unable to attack the group of people who had landed, and judged that there was hope for crossing the river from here. At the moment, the elite guards who came here were ordered to cross the river by boat, and there were more and more Zhou army soldiers on the other side.

At this time, the warship began to transport horses, and some cavalry soldiers gathered in the west to form a horse team. The Southern Tang Army came from the east with a second cavalry reinforcements, but a cavalry team of more than a hundred horses in the Zhou Army had already become a trend, and immediately under the leadership of Zhang Lingduo, he rushed forward.

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