In just a few dozen breaths, heavy armored soldiers in black helmets and black armor could be seen everywhere on the half-battle-wide city wall.
The corpses of hundreds of thieves lay scattered on the adobe city wall.
The swarming bandits dispersed like flies being driven away, running down the city wall or along the corridor to other walls.
The knights of the royal court followed and chased them, After a while, the northern city gate and the east gate that was under attack opened almost at the same time.
Dozens of royal court heavy cavalry poured in from the east, while a group of people and horses poured out from the north.
Wang Erquan fled with three hundred horsemen without hesitation.
The heavy cavalry entering the city stood shoulder to shoulder in groups, pressing forward like an iron wall along the narrow roads in the city.
The thieves who had no time to dodge or who still tried to resist fell down like straw being pushed down.
There were cries of ghosts and howls of wolves in the Tucheng.
Seeing that their leader Wang Erquan had abandoned the city and fled, the remaining bandit soldiers knelt down and begged to surrender.
Wang Erquan's three hundred cavalry did not run far before they were overtaken by more than a hundred light armored flying cavalry.
At first, Wang Erquan thought that he had the advantage in strength and tried to break through the opponent's interception with force.
Soon he realized the power of these flying cavalry with strong arrows.
His soldiers kept falling off their horses after being hit by arrows.
The opponent did not intercept Wang Er Quan, but spread out to both sides, but Wang Er Quan's horse was not as fast as the opponent's.
These light-armored flying cavalry sandwiched Wang Erquan from both sides and kept shooting at him.
There were fewer and fewer soldiers around Wang Erquan.
Finally, when the desperate Wang Erquan was about to surrender, he was hit by an arrow in the temple. , fell under the horse without saying a word.
The rest of the bandits, knowing that it was impossible to escape, stopped their horses and begged the flying cavalry for surrender.
The dragon flag and military flag of the Sui army were planted on the top of Tucheng.
The Sui army on the other side of the Huaihe River also crossed the river with more than a thousand people to replace the hundreds of Tianxingjun cavalry that captured Tucheng.
These cavalrymen rode upriver to pursue the fleet.
Yang Guang's fleet sailed westward along the Huaihe River and captured a series of small Wubao towns like Tucheng on both sides of the Huaihe River.
Even some of the larger counties and cities near the river were occupied by Yang Guang.
They were either defeated by forceful attacks or voluntarily surrendered to the Sui army.
After acquiring these city docks, Yang Guang immediately sent an imperial edict to mobilize Sui troops from Huainan counties to garrison, and ordered them to consolidate these city docks as military strongholds.
Half of the Sui troops stationed on the north bank of the Huaihe River were cavalry.
They would patrol and patrol back and forth between these strongholds within two miles of the north bank of the Huaihe River, guarding against the infiltration or southward invasion of the Wagang Army.
Xingyang, in the residence of General Wagang Army.
Li Mi came to the hall early in the morning and sat upright, waiting for the report from the front.
The soldier held the letter and ran all the way to Li Mi.
He respectfully presented the residence report with both hands.
Li Mi took out the letter paper, read it twice in a row, and stood up immediately.
He said to himself: "Why didn't Yang Guang enter the Tongji Canal and go west along the Huaihe River?"
As he said this, he walked to the map and looked at it carefully.
After a while, he asked to himself: "What does he want to do?
Is he going to enter Henan along the Rushui River Valley or go west to Nanyang?
Nanyang is where Xiao Xian is in the south, and past Wuguan in the north is Li Yuan's territory in Guanzhong."
No, he can't go to Nanyang."
"Yang Guang must have abandoned his boat and landed at the mouth of the Rushui River.
This must be the case along the Rushui River Valley all the way north through Songyang and into the east."
Li Mi suddenly said loudly, and then realized that he was just talking to the air.
He quickly ordered his soldiers to convene a meeting of the generals.
Soon, all the generals of the Wagang Army gathered together.
Li Mi was the first to speak: "Brothers, that foolish emperor Yang Guang did not take the Tongji Canal, but went west along the Huaihe River.
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I concluded that this foolish emperor must have abandoned his boat at the mouth of the Rushui River and traveled overland from Ruzhou to the east.
Du Luoyang.
Once this foolish king enters the Eastern Capital, it will be very detrimental to my great cause.
Do you brothers have any countermeasures to prevent Yang Guang from entering the Eastern Capital?"
The military advisor beside him, Wei Zheng, lightly twirled his beard and continued: "Yes, we absolutely cannot allow Yang Guang to enter the Eastern Capital, otherwise our great cause of countering the Sui Dynasty will be in vain.
However, our previous judgment was wrong, and all our troop deployments were It's all in vain.
It's too late to urgently mobilize troops to the Huaihe River to attack Yang Guang's army returning from the north. " Another general, Shan Xiongxin, looked at the sand table surrounded by everyone and said, "Why don't we snipe him directly in Ruzhou?
Yang Guang's Xiaoguo Army has 70% infantry and 30% cavalry.
Although the Ru River Valley is flat, there is no road.
It's feasible.
Once they abandon the boat and travel on land, they will move slowly.
They dispatched an elite force and rushed to Ruzhou first to build a defensive line to block their way.
Their fleet from the Huaihe River channel and their baggage must be stationed at the mouth of Rushui River, which is still three miles away from Ruzhou.
Hundreds of miles away.
We can easily cut off this transportation channel through harassment."
Li Mi said happily: "Xiongxin's plan is very good.
As expected, the Sui army will not be able to advance.
Once the food and supplies are not available, the army will inevitably lose morale and retreat towards the Huaihe River.
If we send troops to pursue, intercept, rob and kill, we will get twice the result with half the effort." " Everyone was in agreement and admiration.
Only Wei Zheng narrowed his eyes and pondered for a moment before saying to Li Mi: "Wei Gong, this strategy is very subtle, but it is all based on the fact that the Sui army really intends to land from Ruzhou.
What would have happened if the Sui army's goal was not to march northward to Dongdu, or if they had not abandoned their ships and marched overland."
Li Mi chuckled and responded to Wei Zheng: "Sir, you are overly worried.
Then Yang Guang will definitely not go to Nanyang.
Taking a step back, he really went to Nanyang, which is what he wants.
It saves us the energy and asks Xiao Xian Go and worry about it with Li Yuan.
As for him, he will definitely abandon the boat at the mouth of Rushui River and travel on land."
When he said this, he paused for a moment and then said to Wei Zheng in a nonchalant manner: "Sir, he is well versed in the past and present, but he must rarely read miscellaneous books like Shui Jing Zhu.
But Gu is quite fond of such idle books.
According to According to the Shui Jing Zhu, the middle and lower reaches of the Ru River can only be reached by small boats such as bamboo rafts and sampans.
Due to the strong current upstream, even sampans could not move.
According to military reports from the front, although the ships currently used by the Sui army were not the giant dragon boats that Yang Guang took to Yangzhou, each ship could carry dozens of people.
Human ships.
Such ships can easily run aground or run aground when entering your waters.”
After Wei Zheng heard this, he bowed and said, "Wei Gong is more knowledgeable than Zheng.
Zheng has learned a lesson."
Li Mi waited for a while, and after seeing that everyone had no objections, he issued the military order.
Let General Wang Bodang lead 20,000 elite troops to go south from Xingyang, arrive at Ruzhou from the Songyang border between the southern foot of Songshan Mountain and the northern foot of Jishan Mountain, and build a defense line in the Rushui River Valley to snipe and intercept the Sui army.
Then he ordered the fierce general Qin Shubao to lead 10,000 troops to attack the Sui army stationed at the mouth of the Rushui River
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