Chapter 1059 Bitter Fruit
It was still noon, and the sky suddenly became gloomy.
Outside the Liao family fortress, camps had been built, and many miscellaneous Hu soldiers were stationed inside, looking at the fortress tightly.
If you look closely, this group of miscellaneous Hu is mainly infantry.
Part of the reason is that everyone has horses, and they didn't borrow them when they went to war, so they could only be infantry; on the other hand, there was only one horse, so they would be a little sick and could not run, so they could only give up their horses. Just walk here to monitor the Liao family.
Just yesterday (the sixth day of October), the Liao family sent more than 2,000 troops, and the Zahu in Hezhou sent troops to fight. Both sides formed in the wild, Zahu was defeated and rushed back to the camp.
If you can't fight head-on and have weak combat power, there is nothing you can do.
The Liao family took advantage of the situation to attack the camp, but failed, but lost a lot of manpower, so they retreated.
And as more and more large troops marched south through this, they were afraid of passing by battalions after battalion.
Such a strong force filled almost every inch of land. Even if the Jin army could attack from the river, what's the use of it? Thousands of people in the front army came over. You just walked around the back, and two thousand more infantry came from miles away. If you let them go, two or three thousand people came soon, layer by layer, waves forward, completely compressing the space for sneak attacks. Drop.
Shao Shen has arrived west of Fancheng.
He divided the troops into three parts.
Jiang Ke, the governor of the left camp in the Silver Gun, was the commander-in-chief of the West Route Army, and ruled the entire left camp in the Silver Gun, one part of the Yi army, the left Jinwu Guard, and the Helong Miscellaneous Hu soldiers of 10,000, totaling more than 20,000 infantry and cavalry, including the auxiliary soldiers for about five. The crowd crossed the river from Xiangyang west and went south to collect the counties in the western part of Xiangyang.
Even Jiang Ke sent envoys to travel through mountains and rivers to summon Xincheng County in the deep mountains.
Under the order of Jin Zheng, the general of Zhenxi, Weixing County, divided a group of troops and horses to travel east along the Mian River, putting pressure on the new city.
However, he did not send troops south to the three counties of Liangdong, because he needed to cross many mountains, the road was difficult and the supply was expensive, and it was also because he had just quelled a rebellion caused by the land. The large army returned to Chang'an a few days ago to rest.
In addition, seeing the complex situation in Guanzhong, Yang Nandi began to lure his old subordinates again, and his momentum was slightly boosted, and he would never mention the matter of surrendering to the court again.
After the rest, Kim Jong still had to turn around and beat this guy, and had no energy to go south.
Of course, Jiang Ke, the governor of the Western Route Army, was unwilling to see Jin Zheng coming to grab the credit.
From the sixth to the eighth day of October, he assembled his main force into Zhonglu County, and began to enter Wu Township west and go south to Shanghuang.
When you open a road to a mountain or build a bridge to a water, the momentum can be heard from a distance.
In addition to the Western Route Army, there is the Eastern Route Army.
On this road, General Huang Biao, the Right Jinwu Guard, led the Right Jinwu Guard, part of Luoyan Army, and the Heiqi Zuo Camp, and served as the National Cavalry and 10,000 cavalry. They also had 50,000 auxiliary soldiers to go south, and divided the troops to capture the eastern border of Xiangyang. Waiting for an opportunity to hit Yangkou.
The road is not easy to walk, so the march is slower.
There are also many small-scale enemy camps and Mianshui ferry along the way, and they are attacking each other one by one.
Shao Shen served as the governor of the Central Army and the Grand Commander of the Southern Expedition. He led the Right Feilong Guard, the Second Battalion of the Huangtou Army, the Capture Army for more than 10,000 infantry and cavalry, and more than 20,000 Hu soldiers from various ranks and more than 20,000 soldiers from various counties in Nanyang. The warriors exceeded 100,000, and besieged Xiangyang and Fancheng.
Shao Shen's camp was located in Yu Jin's former building west of Fancheng, and the largest floating bridge was also built there.
In fact, there were still thousands of soldiers from the Left Feilong Guard, but they were suddenly transferred away during the journey south.
Shao Shen was furious. After learning about it, he learned that he was temporarily transferred by his uncle. He became angry and didn't say more.
As for the personal army, Youzhou Tuqi Supervisor, Yi Cong Army, Luoyan Army, and the First Battalion of the Yellow Head Army, he stayed in Jingyang to protect the sages and accompanying officials, concubines, princes, Princess.
Shao Shen did not fully implement the tactic of siege but not attacking.
In fact, he dispatched thousands of Hu soldiers to attack Xianshan in the south of Xiangyang City, but failed.
He transferred the troops of the palace and the Huangtou army to the army, but he still failed.
There is no way, so I can only siege first, weaken the morale of the enemy, and then make a decision.
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On October 12, the army of Xu Lang, the general of the Left Feilong Guard, appeared in Jiangxia.
When they set off, more than 7,000 troops and troops were fully loaded, and this would have fallen behind by one third.
The road is difficult to walk, there are many rivers and lakes, and the horses are in poor condition. As we walk, this highly mobile unit slows down.
In fact, they are pretty good, and it is even more difficult to get to the three thousand Youzhou light cavalry commanded by Xu Lang. At this time, most people are walking with their horses. Along the way, sick horses can be seen everywhere, and some shepherds are taking good care of them, trying to recover.
Fortunately, it has passed Shiyan Mountain now and is not far from Anlu (now Yunmeng County area)...
Anlu is Jiangxia County City, and it is in a state of chaos at this time.
Li Chong brought almost all the soldiers who could fight with him, with a total of more than 2,300 people rushing south, under the banner of helping him, and with the help of his subordinates, he opened the city gate and entered the city.
In the afternoon of that day, officials from all over the city were under house arrest, but there were still some Jin soldiers in the city guarding the south gate and the city tower, resisting stubbornly, which made him very worried.
At this time, in the south of Anlu City, a group of Xianbei cavalry of Youzhou, with a size of more than a thousand people, was trapped in the soft mud, with people rising and falling.
They were the pioneers of Xu Lang's army, and they plundered a group of horses in good condition, rode one by one and went south quickly.
When we arrived in Anlu, we saw many Wu soldiers coming from the west and south of the city. There were boats on the river, and we could not see at first sight.
In a hurry, they rushed straight towards the ferry.
Instead of retreating, the Wu soldiers shouted to fight hard and led them into a muddy and soft land. Arrows were fired on the ship, and the soldiers of the water and land formed a formation on their backs, killing the Xianbei soldiers from Youzhou to defeat. Li Chong was very anxious to see it.
Especially when I saw the "Tao" flag flying high on the fleet, I was even more worried.
He understood immediately.
Some people said that Tao Kan went to Yiyang, but in fact, everyone only saw Tao Kan's big crow going to Yiyang, and no one really saw Tao Kan himself with his own eyes.
Now it seems that Tao Kan didn't go at all. He is likely to have been collecting funds and gathering troops in Xiakou - Xiakou is an important town in Jingzhou, the most critical hub and the place with the most troops stationed.
"Kill the Hu Dog!"
"Kill the Southern Barbarians!"
A group of barbarian soldiers with broken hair on the face of ghosts were in a not-standard Wu Yu. They were highly morale and extremely brave, and they collided with the fallen Xianbei cavalry.
The Xianbei people were muddy all over, pulled out the short soldiers beside the saddle and started fighting with the barbarians.
But they were depressed in the end, and many people have already started to run away.
How can you live for the reward of a few pieces of silk? He did not disintegrate on the spot and fought with the Wu people for a few matches, which was worthy of Shao Zhe.
No mistakes, one song, one content, one in 6, one book, one bar, one reading!
This terrain cannot fight. If you have the ability, we will find a dry and open land and fight again.
Several clever chiefs gathered two or three hundred people, rushed out first, rushed out from the south gate, and launched an attack on the Wu soldiers from behind.
They knew very well that escaping on foot would definitely be lifeless, and the end result was that they were killed by these ghost-like Wu soldiers in the reed lake. Now the only way to survive is to retreat into the city and stick to the city.
So, they rose up their last Yu Yong, rushed into the open south gate, and attacked the Li family in the city, and soon defeated the stubborn Wu people.
Wu Bing on the river surface noticed the movement.
Thousands of people rushed out of the reed marsh and the ferry, like shrimp soldiers and crab generals, and rushed to Anlu City.
But they were a little slower after all.
The fastest group of people was only dozens of steps away from the city gate. Suddenly, the south gate was closed, and even hundreds of Xianbei soldiers cried outside the city were ruthless.
The battle on the city tower on the south side continued, and the shouts of killing resounded throughout the sky, but outside the south city gate was in a strange silence.
A moment later, hundreds of Youzhou Xianbei knelt on their ground with their weapons and cried and asked to surrender.
Inside a ship on the river, Tao Kan looked at all this expressionlessly.
It looks just a little bit short, but it is actually too much.
The Li family in Jiangxia is a large clan in Jingzhou. Because of Li Tong's unparalleled loyalty to Cao Cao at the end of the Han Dynasty and his strong ability, since the Wei and Jin Dynasties, there have been many people from the Li clan serving as governors and prefects.
In this generation, Li Shi (deceased, Li Chong's consul) once served as the Minister of the King of Jin. Li Chong's mother, Mrs. Wei, taught Wang Xizhi's calligraphy of the Wang family of Langya, and so on.
Such a family can also be reversed. Is this a little bit of a problem?
Tao Kan was not very satisfied with the family that was divided into the north and south, but the scholars from the south were like this, and he had no choice but to taste the bitter fruit so soon.
"It must be Li Chong's uncle Wei Daoshu persuaded him to surrender." He sighed helplessly, and then thought about which families in Jingzhou were divided into north and south.
As for the battle situation in front of you, there is actually nothing to see.
Going south to Anlu, you have entered Yunmengze.
Land, lakes, swamps, forests, cities, and forts intertwined, and many rivers ran through it. He was not afraid of Liang's troops going south.
Of course, the Liang people should not be so stupid as to head south from Anlu.
The battle situation in Jiangxia has actually stabilized. He just needs to leave a small number of troops to monitor him. If the enemy really goes south in a big way, he will be polite and will lead his army back directly to win a brilliant victory. He just doesn't know if the Liang people will give him this opportunity.
Now the main force still has to go south and west to Yangkou.
In the evening of that day, Tao Kan ordered the nearly 1,000 Youzhou Xianbei heads to be killed on the outside of the ship's side.
Good horses take away injured horses and dead horses slaughter them on the spot.
All kinds of equipment were also taken away, and a total of less than 300 Xianbei prisoners were taken onto the ship.
Li Chong stood firmly at the top of the city, watching Tao Kan's soldiers clean the battlefield and did not go out to fight.
When the sun sets, he saw Tao Kan's troops retreating one after another. He bowed to the south, as if he was seeing him off.
This is the general trend, no one is wrong. Everyone has to consider themselves and their family.
On October 16, Xu Lang's troops, who had once again "slimmed down", arrived in Anlu exhausted.
As soon as he met, his first words were: "Did I come through Yunmengze?"
Li Chong smiled and said, "It was part of Yunmeng Ze in the Han Dynasty. Now it is not. There are more places where the silt land is gradually becoming more and more, and many lakes have disappeared, otherwise -- I can't wait for the general to arrive and this city has been destroyed."< br>
Xu Lang also smiled and ordered his personal soldiers to get the public uniforms and seals, saying, "You are already the prefect of Jiangxia, so it is better to collect all counties as soon as possible."
(This chapter ends)