Chapter 1060 Obstruction
A large amount of supplies have been hoarded in Zhonglu County.
From Xiangyang to the south, there were endless chariots and horses, and countless Ding Zhuang transported the resources and equipment to the front line.
Even on the river, there are ships of all sizes sailing south. The boat's draught was very deep, obviously full of various materials.
A little further downstream of the Mian River, the Eastern Army captured Juxian County in one day and then went to Yicheng again. In two days, it broke it, and then built a floating bridge on the Mian River in the southeast of the city to communicate with the east and west.
Tens of thousands of troops advanced side by side along the east and west banks of the Mianshui River and arrived in the northwest of Zheng County on October 20th.
The Wu soldiers burned down all the bridges and confronted the Liang army across the river.
On the 22nd, Huang Biao led thousands of infantry and cavalrymen to arrive.
In the afternoon of that day, because the Jin people's boat troops appeared downstream, Huang Biao stopped advancing wildly, so he found a relatively open terrain, ordered a floating bridge to be built on the river surface, and placed wooden stakes to stop the enemy naval army.
On the 23rd, freezing rain fell from the sky, and the river water was biting cold, but many auxiliary soldiers and miscellaneous Hu were still driven out of the river and worked endlessly.
For a moment, the sound of "Hey Ho" kept ringing, and the cold river was full of sturdy lips with purple lips.
There seems to be a part of the enemy army in Zheng County, with unknown numbers.
They stood by the river and shot with bows and arrows, but they were soon dispersed by the Xianbei cavalry heading south from the east bank of the Mian River.
The Wu soldiers ran around, but how could they run over four legs? They were quickly killed one by one, and more than 200 other prisoners were captured, and they drove them into the river to work.
The defenders of Zheng County no longer attacked and just watched blankly.
Huang Biao looked back at the north.
They had already gone deeper along the Mian River, and the more than 10,000 Wu soldiers in Xiangyang had become lonely.
Tao Kan tried to use them to consume Daliang's military power, but he made a mistake in his plan.
Unless a strange plan is used to use such a strong city surrounded by mountains and rivers, who would be so stupid that he could use his life to fill it?
"Dongdong..." A small black shadow appeared on the horizon in the south.
After waiting for a while, there were more and more shadows.
Huang Biao climbed up a high platform and looked into the distance: it turned out to be the Jin army fleet.
The flag was waving repeatedly, and after a moment, a cavalry immediately ran out.
The grass on the river bank was yellow, and teams of boatmen were pulling the heavy ships forward.
The ship was full of water and land soldiers, staring at the team of cavalry running over.
The sound of horse hooves is getting closer and closer.
In an instant, hundreds of light cavalrymen appeared in their eyes.
They kept a distance from the ship. Just as the people on the ship looked at each other, the group of people suddenly accelerated and rushed directly towards the boatman.
Someone didn't react and was shot to death on the spot by riding a bow.
The remaining boatmen shouted, jumped into the water and climbed towards the boat.
The Wu soldiers on the ship reacted, fired their bows and crossbows at once, and shot several cavalry in an instant.
The Xianbei cavalry moved a little further away, and then followed suit, and then shot again after getting closer.
With their efforts, the "big belly" canal ships carrying supplies were in a hurry and went down to anchor.
The boat was supported by the boatman, and the larger warship was paddled by the man. At this time, it was still possible to hold on, but it was so messy that the entire fleet stopped completely.
"Dongdong..." As the drums rang, many warships docked one after another, put down their boards and sent a team of soldiers to the shore.
They leaned against ships and formed small formations to try to fight against the Xianbei cavalry.
But unfortunately, the Xianbei Light Cavalry who had just ventured to the death and roared away, and refused to fight them.
In the fleet, Song Xia left the cabin and rushed to the bow of the ship and watched carefully.
"General, do you want to travel north?" someone asked.
"Xiangyang is surrounded, how can we sit and watch?" Song Xia looked back at everyone and said, "Our army is the pioneer. If we are timid, how can we rescue Xiangyang?"
It is correct to consume the enemy army in Xiangyang, but if you sit down and watch it be trapped for a long time and the reinforcements are not in the presence of them, how can you be determined to stick to it?
Besides, even if the enemy's besiege of Xiangyang is unfavorable, the teacher and veterans are tired, and retreat in a hurry, it is not convenient for you to pursue.
No matter what, you must go north to go north.
"Tell me the order, get off the ship and line up to invite the enemy." Song Xia no longer hesitated and issued an order.
Everyone looked at each other and finally could only respond: "As for your order."
After the order was issued, the Wu soldiers also enforced the order. In an instant, three thousand people disembarked, slowly gathered, and leaned against the Mianshui and warships, forming a moon-shaped formation.
The navy soldiers also transported various instruments used in land battles.
The baggage vehicles used to hinder the enemy's charge were placed on the periphery, and there were also deer antlers, horse-repellent rifles and other objects. The entire 3,000 people looked like hedgehogs, with sharp thorns spreading outwards.
At this moment, Song Xia and the three thousand Wu soldiers seemed to be possessed by the Northern Palace Army, with amazing momentum.
However, I just don’t know if there are any stupid Northern Wei cavalry dismounted and charged.
The choice between fighting and not fighting is in the hands of others.
In history, the Northern Wei Dynasty chose to give away their heads. Are these Xianbei cavalrymen in front of them?
They just wandered far away, seemingly without any intention of going forward.
Moreover, as the Wu soldiers completed the formation, more and more Xianbei cavalry gathered with news, and they saw that they had already exceeded a thousand.
The messenger was running back and forth, and after a while, maybe more soldiers gathered.
*******
On the small ground, the big flag of the character "Dou" flutters in the wind.
Dou Qin sat on the horse's back and looked at the Tuoba knights swimming back and forth in the open space ahead.
To be honest, he couldn't figure out what the Wu people were doing.
Three thousand infantrymen came ashore to form an array, with their backs against Mianshui and warships, like hedgehogs.
There were also many obstacles in front of the formation that hindered the cavalry's charge, and the bows and crossbows in the formation were all prepared and spears were like forests.
If you put on this posture, would you ask me to lead the cavalry to rush over or dismount and fight in the field?
No, right? No, right?
Are there really such stupid Xianbei cavalry in the world? Isn’t this a gift?
Your mother! Dou Qin felt that the enemy general was in a bad mind. Even if you wait for another hundred years, there would not be any cavalrymen who would come over foolishly.
However, the enemy general seemed to be a little stupid. Dou Qin looked at it for a while and issued an order.
Soon, a cruising cavalry received the order, accelerated suddenly, and rushed straight towards the enemy formation.
As we approached, more than a hundred cavalry rushed horizontally in front of the formation, and rode bows and fired continuously.
An arrow shot out of the infantry formation.
The cavalry screamed in succession, and more than ten people were dismissed one after another. When the others saw it, they swarmed and flew backwards.
There was no expression on Dou Qin's face and soon issued a second order.
After a moment, about two hundred cavalry rushed up and used the same trick again.
As expected, they were also shot by infantry crossbows and quickly dispersed.
The third wave of people came on again.
Perhaps there were two groups of people in the front to make a case. This group of 300 cavalry had just approached and was shot over by the infantry formation. They immediately ran away with shouts and fled backwards.
The retreat process was in a mess, with no formation at all.
"Cross the flag and withdraw! Leave some horses for the people of Wu to see." Dou Qin didn't care what others would be in chaos, but only firmly controlled more than a thousand cavalry of the Hedouling tribe and retreated in an orderly manner.
Before leaving, he glanced at Wu Bing opposite him, and was suddenly disappointed when he saw that they had not moved. However, just as he was about to turn the hill, he saw that Wu Bing was already moving to the baggage truck and deer antlers in front of the formation, and he was immediately overjoyed.
Wu Bing did move.
There were dozens of lonely masterless war horses left on the battlefield, and hundreds of steps ahead, there were thousands of horses that the enemy had no time to take away.
Song Xia had been staring at it long ago.
Liang had really many horses, so many that he was jealous that he actually stared at them in circles while grazing the replaced horses in the distance. But I was not sure to defeat the Liang people at that time, so I focused on sticking to it. But who would have thought that these Hu Knights were so depressed that they failed to rush to the battlefield three times and fled in a hurry, and even the grazing horses were too late to collect.
In the flash of lightning, Song Xia decided to pursue!
Even if you can't catch up with the Miscellaneous Hu cavalry, you will still snatch the horses back.
No one knows how precious a qualified war horse is in the south!
So he quickly made a decision to spread the few dozen cavalry out, while intimidating the Hu cavalry, making them afraid to return, and at the same time, he was alert to prevent them from rushing back.
Yes, he suspected that it was the enemy's plan.
But many times, it’s just a trade-off.
This may be the enemy's trick, or it may not be. Should I take a gamble?
Song Xia chose to bet.
No mistakes, one song, one content, one in 6, one book, one bar, one reading!
One thousand five hundred straits were divided into two parts, one thousand people rushed straight to the hills, facing the direction where Hu Chief just retreated, and the other five hundred people headed straight to the horse-herding land and took back the horse as quickly as possible.
Wu Bing moved very fast.
A thousand infantry quickly seized the high ground.
There were golden drums, rice steamers, water bags abandoned by the Liang people, and even a few flags, which showed that they were walking in a hurry.
When Song Xia took five hundred people by, he felt relieved and had a little joy on his face.
The horse herd is right in front of you and can be seen from afar.
The Wrangler seemed to have just received the news of his retreat and was busy packing up the horses.
"Beat the drum! Scare them away!" Song Xia shouted.
One horse is a loss!
If the Wrangler takes these war horses away, where can you chase them?
"Dongdongdongdong..." The intense drum sounded, but Song Xia was stunned.
The drum sounds a bit far away, who beats it? And the sound wasn't right, like the kind of drum that hits on the horse's back.
Um? Drum?
The sound of horse hooves suddenly rang out.
Song Xia suddenly changed his expression.
Under the hills, hundreds of cavalry rushed over and rushed directly to their rear.
The knight skillfully manipulated the horses, and the arrows fell like rain.
And in the place where the horses were shedding in front of them, hundreds of riders came out, with a ferocious look on their faces.
There seemed to be a sound of horse hooves in other directions.
"I'm trapped!" Song Xia cried secretly.
"Form a formation! Get close!" he shouted.
"Dongdongdongdong..." This time it was Wu Bing who was really beating the drum.
It was almost at this time that Dou Qin personally led 500 elite cavalry, holding a long spear and a large halberd, and inserted it into the middle of the two Wu soldiers.
Wu Bing, who was moving in a hurry, was caught off guard and was swept away.
"Buzz!" The rain of arrows came again from behind, screaming endlessly.
Song Xia was in the battlefield and really couldn't figure out where the enemy got out. He felt that there were enemy cavalry from all directions, and his ears were filled with the sound of horse hooves and the screams of his infantrymen.
It's over, surrounded.
He didn't even dare to guess how many enemy troops came, he didn't know! He dare not guess!
A total of 1,500 stairs were cut into two parts.
Countless cavalry surrounded them, repeatedly pulling and shooting arrows, pulling and rushing, and covering them with rain of arrows.
The infantry were panicked, unobstructed in the wild, people kept falling down, people were constantly being picked up by horse spears, and people were constantly running and hitting were knocked out.
The formation was gradually fading away and disintegrated.
In the end, only hundreds of people gathered on the hills, taking advantage of the unfavorable disadvantage of the cavalry uphill and surviving.
"Buzz!" Another team of cavalry flew through the diagonal thorns in front, and after the cavalry was shot in a row, Song Xia was shot with an arrow on his thigh and shoulders, and he couldn't support him and fell down.
"Dongdongdongdong..." The drums sounded again by the river.
Almost all the fleet was mobilized.
People kept getting off the boat, and even navy troops who could fight with crossbows and fight with swords and shields were coming.
The deputy general took over the command, waved the banners and voices of commands.
Looking down from the air, tens of thousands of Wu soldiers formed three square formations and slowly wriggled forward.
They kept a good distance and tried not to allow enemy cavalry to intercept the rear and flanks.
Tens of thousands of people marched forward in fear, and bows and crossbows were fired in succession, driving out all the enemies on the way forward.
The Xianbei cavalry avoided the front and went around to the rear to attack.
The Wu soldiers quickly stopped and transferred some archers to the flanks, trying to expel the enemy.
The Xianbei cavalry quickly dispersed, but still stared at them like wolves.
Hundreds of people on the hill saw it and cried with joy.
These people immediately plucked up Yu Yong and moved closer to the main army that almost filled the shore.
As they ran, the Xianbei cavalry gathered again and tied them behind and bit them hard.
Wu Bing ran all the way, and some people fell down all the way. In the end, only about 200 people escaped and retreated along the gap between the main formation.
Dou Qin rode his horse up the high slope, holding a bloody head in his hand.
Wu Bing seemed to no longer move forward, afraid of repeating the same mistakes.
Both sides looked at each other from afar, as if they were seriously scrutinizing each other.
The Wu people seemed to have realized the tactics of the cavalry coming and going like the wind for the first time in the north. As long as the terrain is wide enough, without any cover, and slightly away from the river bank, there is a risk of being surrounded and annihilated by them.
The Xianbei people also saw the tactics of the Wu people using ships to maneuver, and at the same time, they lined up with their backs and used bows and crossbows to kill and injure cavalry.
Both sides have the ability to kill the opponent in large quantities.
"Retreat!" After the cavalry under his command eliminated the last Wu soldier, Dou Qin issued an order to retreat.
The sun gradually sets westward.
The cold wind blew across the battlefield, and it was bleak.
The Wu people quickly disbanded the formation and retreated to the fleet.
This time, they did not continue to go north, but returned south.
The loss of the main general made everyone feel a little depressed.
(This chapter ends)