Just when Wang Bodang gathered an army of 20,000 and sailed westward between the Songshan and Jishan mountains, Yang Guang's fleet had already arrived at the mouth of the Rushui River.
Runan County, where the mouth of the Rushui River is located, is the only area south of the Huaihe River that is not under the rule of the imperial court.
There is an armed force of five to six thousand people under the banner of Wagang Army.
The Sui army then easily captured the Runan County they occupied, and their leader surrendered to the Sui army after accepting the amnesty edict.
Yang Guang transferred this surrendered army to garrison at Yiyang Pass between the two mountains of Dabie and Tongbai to guard against Xiao Xian's northward invasion.
Yang Guang stopped for a while in Runan, leaving thousands of Xiaoguo troops waiting for the surrender and the Sui army to change defenses later.
Hundreds of Viking warships sailed into Ru River.
The centipede warships in the fleet were not suitable for sailing in your water, so they turned around and returned eastward.
Their future mission is to rely on the Sui army strongholds on both sides of the Huaihe River to patrol and cruise back and forth in the Huaihe River waterway.
It was early April and the southeast wind was strong.
The Viking ship filled its sails and the sailors rowed hard.
In just one day and one night, the mighty fleet sailed into the Rushui River Valley where the spring rain continued.
The tiers of sails moved northward.
From time to time in the woodlands and hills on both sides of the river, villagers and mountaineers appeared to peer into the river.
They were all amazed when they saw such a scene.
The Rushui River Valley, which is sandwiched between Funiu Mountain and Jishan Mountain, also had many bandits during this time of chaos, and they set up camps in the mountains, but the scale was small.
The counties, counties and cities were basically still in the hands of the imperial court.
But at this time, a huge army entered Songyang along the northern foot of Jishan Mountain.
This army is obviously not the Sui army based on their clothes.
They were the 20,000 elite soldiers led by Wagang General Wang Bodang.
The Sui army defenders in the counties and counties along the way could not stop them.
Some county magistrates surrendered directly to the other side, while more often abandoned the city and fled, rushing east to report the news to Wang Shichong, who was left behind in Luoyang.
Of course, there are also many who are stubbornly resisting the county.
Wang Bodang is eager to rush to Ruzhou.
Unless the strategic location of these cities is very important and directly threatens his own logistics supplies and return route, Wang Bodang will not pay attention to them.
Wang Bodang's army marched day and night, and arrived at Ruzhou at the northern end of the Rushui River Valley in two days.
They captured Ruyang County, which was not defended by many Sui troops, as a way to store and transport food and grass for the front line of defense.
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At the same time, a large number of civilians were recruited to build a ten-mile defense line in the Ru River Valley, cutting off the Ru River Valley, and building a large camp on each side of the east and west banks of the Ru River.
On the construction site, Wang Bodang was inspecting the progress of the Rushui defense line.
Two horses galloped from a distance.
They were the exploration horses sent by Wang Bodang yesterday.
The two men reined in their horses in front of Wang Bodang, jumped off their horses and kowtowed hurriedly, saying: "Tell me, general, the Sui army's forward is less than fifty miles away from here."
Wang Bodang was a little surprised and said: "How come it is so fast?
Although the terrain on both sides of the Ru River is flat, there are no existing roads.
It is estimated that they will only arrive in three days at the earliest."
Another Tanma said something that made Wang Bodang even more surprised: "General Qi, this Sui army did not go overland, but came by boat and water."
Wang Bodang thought he heard or understood wrongly, so he shouted: "Say it clearly, please say it again."
"General, the Sui army did not march on land.
They came in large numbers of ships.
There were only a small number of alert troops on land traveling with the fleet.
These ships were strangely shaped and quite large, and could carry dozens of people.
But he can sail in very shallow waters."
This time Tan Ma spoke carefully, making Wang Bodang understand clearly.
Wang Bodang frowned, thought for a moment and then ordered: "Quick, don't repair that defense line.
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It's useless if it's too late.
Order all soldiers and civilians to strengthen the fortifications of the camp.
In addition, pile obstacles and set up barricades in the river." " In fact, the Sui army arrived faster than Wang Bodang imagined.
Only three hours later, the Sui army's forward scouts appeared in Wang Bodang's sight.
Uncle Wang was thinking about how to set up defenses.
The Sui army's front army has arrived.
Wang Bodang finally chose to set up formations on both sides of the Ru River barrage cable to intercept the Sui army, and set up a large number of crossbowmen on both sides of the river, preparing to defeat the Sui army on the shore and then gather to shoot the Sui army ships in the river.
He had already learned from Tan Ma that these Sui army ships had no decks or sheds.
The soldiers on the ship are all exposed to the open air, so they should be able to break through them easily with arrows.
In a larger Viking ship on the Ru River, Yang Guang kept observing Wang Bodang's military formation with a telescope.
He mentally calculated the situation between the enemy and ourselves.
The fleet was to load enough supplies at once and head westward.
There was no plan to organize the supply chain to replenish the supplies.
Otherwise, it would not be possible to reach the eastern capital Luoyang in two months, not to mention twenty days.
After these sixteen days of sailing, although some cities conquered along the way replenished some food and grass, the food and grass materials stored in the Viking ships were only enough for two or three days.
What were more scarce than food and grass were arrows and fire.
Oil, explosive bombs and other war materials.
So when Wang Bodang set up his formation in the river valley, Yang Guang was a little disappointed.
If Wang Bodang huddled up and could not get out, Yang Guang could naturally drive his boat through the Rushui River Valley easily.
There is no need to worry about Wang Bodang surrounding him, because he has no navy.
Now, the Sui army could only forcefully break into Wang Bodang's formation.
So Yang Guang gave a decisive order: "Pass on my military order, the ships will dock, and a thousand Xiaoguo Imperial Guards will be mobilized to land on the east bank together with the pikemen, longbowmen, and heavy cavalry of the Tianxing Army.
We will focus on attacking the east bank.
The enemy.
Another three thousand Xiaoguo Imperial Guards and crossbowmen were deployed on the right bank to prevent the enemy on the right bank from flanking our fleet and attacking me. " After saying this, Yang Guang said again: "Where is Shen Guang?
Come here."
Shen Guang, who was not far behind him, quickly replied: "I am here, but I don't know what your Majesty's orders are."
As he spoke, he put his ear close to Yang Guang.
After Yang Guang whispered a few words in his ear, Shen Guang followed the order and left.
With the rapid sound of drums and trumpets, a large number of warships moved towards the east bank.
The Sui troops boarded the east bank of Ru River one after another.
The first to come ashore were the scouts and reconnaissance cavalry.
The first thing they did was to search the mountains and forests at the foot of Funiu Mountain a few miles away from the river bank to see if there was an ambush of the Wagang Army.
The Sui army began to form military formations in formations.
The mountain pikemen formed three pike phalanxes spaced more than ten battles apart, and behind them were the royal court's heavy cavalry in a line up to two miles long.
At the rear are rows of longbowmen.
There is also a military formation of a thousand Xiaoguo Imperial Guards on each side to protect the flanks and prevent small groups of soldiers from the other side from infiltrating from the mountains and forests to attack our military formation from the rear.
In Rushui, more than fifty Viking ships were mobilized and sailed to the front of the fleet.
They are all carried by the Xiaoguo Army's crossbowmen and sword shieldmen, and each ship also carries a light crossbow
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