Chapter 510 Getting closer
It felt like being stabbed by a silver gun. God was finally willing to rain, and it lasted for several days, making both sides of the river transparent, although it was a little late.
Huangchi is in the west of Neihuang County, not far away. Looking from the top of the city, one can see vast expanse of blue waves with extremely rippling waves.
There are some sandbars looming in the lake, which seems to tell people that this lake is not entirely a deep water area. There are many shoals. You must be careful when sailing.
"Is this the place where Liu Can once hunted?" Shao Xun asked, looking at the dense water plants on the lakeside.
"Back to Ming Gong, when Liu Can was stationed in Wei County, he came here to hunt for three days." Huang Tong, the master of Wubao, replied respectfully.
His son Huang Tao stood behind him, stealing glances at Shao Xun from time to time, as if he wanted to see clearly what this powerful man in the North looked like.
"During the battle of Gaoping, I kept guessing where Liu Can was. If I had known that he was in Huangchi, I would have killed him directly, and Gaoping would not have gone." Shao Xun said with a smile.
Because I didn’t know where Liu Can was, I went to Gaoping to get Jin Zhun. There seems to be no movement for this guy among the Xiongnu now, and he should have been excluded from the upper echelons of power.
A disastrous defeat at a critical moment, when there are many competitors, has an extremely far-reaching impact. If Jin Zhun wants to rise to the top, he can only rely on strange moves.
Today Shao Xun also came to Huangchi for hunting, and most of the invitees were nearby Wubao commanders and manor owners.
After hunting for half a day, we didn’t get much. Some people even returned empty-handed.
It’s not that they don’t work hard, it’s that they really don’t know how to shoot.
In troubled times, some Wubao commanders and manor owners gathered refugees to form their own Wubao. These people generally had some courage.
But there are still many who rely on generations of family servants and bookmakers to protect themselves. To put it bluntly, these people rely on the "rules" formed by social traditions, inertia and values to control everyone. , they may not necessarily be proficient in bow and horse, even if they are in troubled times.
For the former, Shao Xun gave silk as a reward.
For the latter, try to get them to talk as much as possible. After all, they should still have nephews and nephews who are skilled in bow and horse.
Yu Chen followed him.
Compared with Shao Xun, he spoke more. After all, he had guarded Jijun for many years and had considerable influence in the four counties of Ji, Wei, Hanoi, and Dunqiu. There were many people in front of him, and he had even met them more than once. In the past, he had relied on these people to provide food, equipment, and even soldiers to defend Ji County. The relationship was unusual.
After taking up the post of Sili Xiaowei, he took charge of recruitment work and also opened up gaps among these people. Otherwise, do you think that once the army arrives, if you say a few impassioned words, people will bow to you? It's not that simple.
Everything has a premise. In this matter, Yu Chen made great contributions. Shao Xun knew it very well and appreciated him very much. At the same time, I also lamented how important it is to have useful helpers around you.
He has always been the one taking others to fly. In fact, he also really wants to be taken flying by others.
"Dong, dong, dong..." A dense sound of drums and horns sounded on the surface of Huangchi Lake.
Everyone looked over subconsciously.
A ship was moored in deep water, and the boatmen were busy, carefully checking various supplies.
Neihuang is not the end, or even just a starting point for the Hebei War.
After the supplies accumulated in the north and south cities of Fangtou are shipped bit by bit, Shao Xun will use this as a logistics transfer node to enter Huanshui westward and head straight to Anyang.
He didn’t believe that when he got there, Shi Le didn’t show up.
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The cities on both sides of Qishui are already quite large.
The names of the cities are also very vulgar, namely Shiqiao North City and Shiqiao South City. It is thirty or forty miles away from Chaoge County in the south and more than forty miles away from Dangyin County in the north.
When the city was nearly completed, Li Chong transferred ten thousand people from the Yangdan tribe and stationed them inside and outside the north city.
Ten thousand people from Liang Su tribe were stationed inside and outside Nancheng.
As for Chaoge, it was left to the garrison of 5,000 Luonan Dingzhuang who had recently arrived. This was the only support army Shao Xun gave him.
After careful calculation, the West Route Army under his command consisted of 3,000 Heiji troops, 10,000 Nanyang troops, 10,000 Guanxi troops, 5,000 Luonan Dingzhuang troops, and 2,000 Yicong troops, a total of three Wan Bu Qi.
The two troops that really have some combat effectiveness are the Heiji Army and the Yi Cong Army.
The Yangdan tribe has two thousand people who are more resistant to fighting. They are mainly the elite tribe of the Nanyang wealthy family. They have iron armor and relatively sophisticated equipment. They train very diligently on weekdays, and the others are just mediocre.
The Kansai soldiers are actually the Wancheng soldiers. There are only more than a thousand people who can really fight.
So, Li Chong has always adopted a step-by-step strategy. He first stabilizes the food routes and accumulates supplies. At each critical node, he strictly follows the pre-war deployment and builds the city to ensure that there is enough space for the army for more than two months. Collect the supplies you need, and then head north to look for enemy troops to fight with.
Because of this, Yang Dan privately nicknamed Li Zhong "Zhang Weng", mocking him for being as timid and slow as an old man.
Today is June 16th. I don't know if "Zhang Weng" took the wrong medicine or something, but he actually asked the Beicheng garrison to send a group of troops northward to act as a vanguard and advance in the direction of Dangyin.
Yang Dan directly ordered the two thousand elite troops, took the two thousand bankers and the five hundred cavalry assigned to him, and headed north with the chariot. He walked more than twenty miles that day. We set up camp at a place called "Changsha Valley" - it was only about twenty miles away from Dangyin.
In the evening, four thousand pioneers formed a camp around the car and slept in the wild.
Yang Dan climbed up a tree and looked around.
When he finished eating, there were a little more Hun cavalry peeping outside, which made him a little bit less arrogant, worried that he would encounter a large Hun army and cause huge casualties.
He first looked to the south, which was where they came from, and it was peaceful.
Then he looked to the west, still calm.
There is smoke and dust rising in the north and east, quite a bit, slightly more in the north and less in the east. If nothing unexpected happened, it was the noise caused by a large group of cavalry, at least five thousand or more, which made him a little worried——
As expected!
The sound of rapid horse hooves sounded from the north. Yu Wei, the leader of Yi Cong's army, galloped back on his horse and shouted: "The enemy cavalry are galloping from the direction of Dangyin, and there are no less than three thousand in number."
"There are only three thousand horses, you can't beat them?" Yang Dan jumped down from the tree and asked maliciously.
Nima! Yu Wei almost yelled, but considering that he was now under the command of Yang Dan, he held it back, snorted coldly, and led the cavalry into the car formation.
Yang Dan sneered and began to assign orders to his generals.
The auxiliary soldiers shouted slogans, moved the crossbows to the baggage cart, and then loaded the arrows. Melee infantry began to wear armor, hold shields, and catch swords.
The archers gathered together, divided into several groups, and prepared to take turns in battle.
The smoke slowly approached and stopped not far away.
At this time, the last trace of light in the sky disappeared. The torches and braziers were ignited, illuminating half of the camp - without fire, it would be difficult to control, and if the fire was too strong, it would be easy to become a target.
Yang Dan put on two layers of heavy armor and was guarded by a large shield of his own soldiers. He looked into the distance with excitement in his heart.
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Zhiquliu and Kui'an dismounted from a distance and observed the Jin army's camp.
"Shao Thief has more and more cavalry." Kui An looked at it and sighed: "There are only a few thousand vanguards, but there are actually hundreds of cavalry."
"These cavalry have average combat power and are not as good as the previous ones." Zhi Quliu was a little less confident when he said this, but he still insisted on his opinion.
“That used to be the Luoyang Forbidden Army.” Kui An smiled and said: “But after several rounds of wars, almost all the old soldiers are dead, and the current people are not very good.”
Zhi Quliu nodded secretly.
No one can always fight, no one can always be strong.
Since the melee between the kings of the Jin Kingdom, he realized a truth: the competition in this world is who can bear it.
Duan Bu Xianbei participated in the melee early and lost tens of thousands of people. Later, he was killed by Shao Xun in Chang'an and killed five thousand. He was then chased by Murong Xianbei and Yuwen Xianbei. Recently, he fought against Tuoba Xianbei and others. , can be said to be extremely weak.
Otherwise, they would not have succumbed to Da Hu after falling out with Wang Jun.
Currently, it seems that Tuoba Xianbei is also looking for death.
Fighting with Wang Jun, fighting with Duan Bu Xianbei, and even fighting with the Pingyang court for years. Zhi Quliu didn't know how many of them died. He guessed that it was definitely not less than 10,000, or even more.
These are the 10,000 best warriors in the tribe, and they are slowly being consumed. It is hard to say whether they can be replenished in the future.
If Shao Xun had not intervened, Zhi Quliu felt that Dahu might have come from behind and expelled all the Xianbei from the Central Plains, or even made them vassals - he didn't need anything else, just learn from Shao Xun's methods , I will fight you every year, in spring and summer, and in autumn and winter, to see who can't stand it first.
"Woo——" The sound of horns sounded, with the unique sense of desolation of the grassland.
Hundreds of riders rushed out and began to circle around the car formation, shooting arrows secretly from time to time.
The night became their best cover, preventing them from becoming living moving targets for the infantry.
While turning around, some people got bold and began to get closer. After quickly shooting an arrow, they immediately turned their horses' heads and ran towards the distance.
The huge "buzzing" sound of the crossbow machine sounded in the vehicle formation.
The thick crossbow arrow shot out of the air with a scream of death. Most of them missed, but a few hit people and horses, causing a lot of noise.
The arrows shot from the walking bow also flew out and scattered under the vast night sky.
People on both sides kept falling down, letting out horrifying screams.
"This group of Jin people is not as good as the Silver Spear Army." Kui Jing looked at it quietly for a long time and said with some joy.
Zhi Quliu's heart moved and asked: "Should we leave them behind?"
"Da Hu is still collecting food, and the infantry brigade has not returned to Yecheng yet." Kui'an He shook his head and then said: "However, Taobao has a lot of people in his hands, and we might invite them."
When Zhi Quliu heard this, he immediately said: "That person Taobao, I am a good person." I know. He claims to be a wise general and will not agree."
"There is no other way." Kui An asked people to retreat and said casually: "We all have to obey his orders. "
Zhi Quliu sighed and was about to say something when several horses came galloping from a distance. After being stopped by his own soldiers, he realized that they were messengers from Yecheng.
"How do you say it?" Kui An asked.
"Taofu Jun has an order. You will immediately go eastward to Neihuang to harass the Jin army. You must slow down their advance and make sure there is no mistake." After the messenger finished speaking, he handed a letter of order to Kui'an. .
"What happened in the east?" Kui An asked in a low voice.
The messenger hesitated for a moment, then whispered: "The Shao thieves gathered their fleet on the Huangchi to gather the powerful families of the counties and counties, and there were many people who responded."
Kui An understood.
Now that the main force of the Shao thieves has arrived at Huangchi, there is no need to hold on to Dangyin. Anyang is the next focus.
If Anyang cannot be protected, then prepare for the defense of Yecheng as soon as possible. There is no other way.
Shao Thief doesn't want to play tricks with you, he just comes straight here without any intention of hiding his intentions.
To deal with such people, either confront them head-on or think of other ways.
The two sides engage in a main force decisive battle, which is what Shao Thief wants.
In fact, everything he did was to force Da Hu to fight him.
Kui An couldn't hold his breath anymore.
He felt that the situation was not very good. How to neutralize Shao Thief's intention of decisive battle? And fast!
The vanguard of the Jin's West Route Army was almost in danger, while the East Route Army was gathering in Huangchi.
Every day that passes, they are approaching Yecheng.
Kui'an felt heavy pressure.
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