Xia Cai, has been Yicheng lost ten hours, the sky is bright, the city gates on all sides are open almost at the same time, a group of people, from the south gate and the east gate, the west gate and the north gate, there are two teams of Cao army killed.
The commander of the 2,000 foot soldiers out of the city was Ren Jun, who had transported grain and grass from Ruyin to Xia Cai before the war, and he looked at the cluster of shrubs outside the city near Huaishui with a solemn face.
"I Pan Zhang, on the orders of the generals, have been waiting here for a long time."
The general who rode out of the forest with a long knife in hand was Pan Zhang, who was stationed on the south bank of Huaishui.
In a burst of indiscriminate shooting, nearly 100 people fell under Ren Jun's footmen, and he immediately ordered to abandon his baggage and send arrows to the north for help.
Pan Zhang's soldiers are several times larger than him, although most of them look like young people with immature faces, but in the military formation, their movements are all like the elite of a hundred battles.
Ren Jun personally commanded the battle in front of the formation, but in an instant, Pan Zhang led the army to kill through his military formation, he stepped forward, and Pan Zhang fought a few times, and was defeated and retreated, seeing that his sons and daughters fell one after another, his face was full of gloom, and he glanced at the north gate worriedly, if General Li Mancheng did not come, he two thousand foot soldiers, I am afraid that he will have to explain here.
The north gate of the city, after leaving the city, Li Dian looked at the flat ground a few miles away, there were many potholes, his eyebrows were slightly wrinkled, these potholes, if the horse galloped, it would definitely turn over on the horse's back, but if it slowed down the horse's hooves "Huh" "Huh" In the mountains and forests on the left and right, there were suddenly bows and crossbows with guns to kill.
"You Tu has been waiting here for a long time under the orders of the generals, Li Dian, dare to come forward to fight" Relying on the mountains and forests, although You Tu, who descended from Poyang Mountain, only had 3,000 generals, he was not worried at all.
"Prepare to charge."
When Li Dian raised his gun and reined in his horse, he glanced around, the low-lying pits near here were definitely done by the scouts who had come and gone very closely around Xia Cai in the past few days, as for the front of this mountain forest, there was no low-lying, but his cavalry was only a hundred steps away from the mountain, that is, a distance of a hundred steps, and he could not sprint.
Just as he was waiting for him to give the order, a sentry in the distance trampled on the dust and sand and came to the front, and the war horse was afraid of the terrain and stopped in front, and he anxiously shouted to Li Dian: "Report to the general, the west gate of the city is urgent." ” Li Dianru was granted amnesty, and immediately turned his horse and turned his head, "The whole army is in an arrow formation, galloping towards the west gate of the city to help." ” "Whoa."
"Driving" "Driving" The war horse flew on all fours, and the low-lying place was easily trampled by this group of light horses, You Tu saw Li Dian's three thousand elite horsemen quickly moving away, and his pupils contracted slightly, "Sure enough, it is not as expected by the military division." ” "General, will we immediately lead the army in pursuit," the little colonel, who was standing behind him, asked aloud.
"Pursuit" You Tu chuckled and shook his head, "The lord sent 20,000 soldiers and horses from the Huiji Tuntian soldiers to form the Huainan battalion and went north, just for today, we are tired of running for more than a month, crossing the mountains and mountains to reach the banks of the Yangtze River, and then from the Jiujiang River to the shore of the Huaishui. ” You Tu did not order the pursuit, but led the army to stay here, his mission was to bluff, ambush the soldiers in the mountains and forests on both sides, and set up more soldiers in the forest to run, in order to do the majority of the ambush soldiers, in fact, there were only 3,000 soldiers under his command, and he could not stop a charge of the 3,000 elite cavalry under Li Dian's command.
When Li Dian rushed to the battlefield with the cavalry trot, Ren Jun's troops had already suffered nearly half of the casualties.
"Pan Zhang" After Li Dian recognized the enemy general, he snorted coldly, "All the soldiers, follow me to kill the enemy." ” "Rush" The sound of the galloping war horses, on the plain, is like rolling river waves, and the sound is huge.
Pan Zhang, who was fighting in the distance, saw the incoming army, the corners of his mouth were slightly outlined, and he cut off the head of a Cao soldier with a knife, and suddenly reined in his horse and retreated, "The whole army retreats." ” "General Ren, it's okay."
Li Dian rushed to the front and asked twenty steps away.
"In front of you is a horse Pingchuan, General Mancheng, the Jiangdong Army has won Longkang, our army can only advance westward, enter Ruyin, and join Mantaishou."
"That's how it should be."
Li Dian glanced at Ren Jun, "I left a thousand elite cavalry to escort the general's heavy grain and grass, and I led the army to pursue first." ” Ren Jun's eyebrows frowned slightly, "Our army does not have much heavy grain and grass stationed in Xia Cai, and now our army has abandoned it on the march. ” "That's fine."
Li Dian answered, and then chased Pan Zhang, who was fleeing in the distance, with two thousand elite horses.
"This thief is not in the mountains and forests, if you think about it, there will be an ambush on the road ahead."
Li Dian pursued ten miles away, and immediately ordered a song of five hundred elite horsemen to step forward to investigate.
But he didn't want to, the five hundred elite cavalry had just stepped forward a hundred steps, and seeing that they had already cut down twenty or thirty defeated soldiers in the rear of the enemy's army, Pan Zhang, but suddenly stopped the defeated army from fleeing, and the army quickly turned around and formed a formation dozens of steps away.
"General, we can take advantage of this opportunity to rush forward and win a great victory."
Li Dian's side general saw that the valley in front of him was already narrow, and Pan Zhang's department still had four or five thousand foot soldiers, and at this moment the army's morale had been lost, as long as they swarmed up, they would definitely be able to win a big victory.
Li Dian set his horse hundreds of paces away, his eyes solemnly looked at the slopes on both sides, above the slopes, there were two steep cliffs, if he led the cavalry into this valley, and the ambush troops on both sides were killed, he would definitely be defeated.
"No, there should be fraud here, withdraw."
Li Dian was suddenly alerted, Pan Zhang counterattacked with thousands of foot soldiers in the narrow valley, obviously a deception, he couldn't enter the urn, and turned around sharply, "Retreat, retreat quickly." ” Not long after, more than 500 horsemen in front of them also walked back, but they didn't want to, on the cliffs on both sides, the sheng flag swayed, but there were a large number of sergeants from both sides of the mountain ridge to kill, rolling stones and trees rolled down the hillside together, and the five hundred elite horsemen who had already killed hundreds of steps in the valley immediately lost contact with Li Dian's department.
"It's not good, there are ambushes."
Li Dian's face was extremely ugly, and he watched a flag with the word "He" rising on the cliff, and the one who came to the cliff with a gun was not He Qi, the general of Eastern Wu, who was it "Withdraw, quickly."
Li Dian's face was a little ugly, he never thought that the Jiangdong Army had only captured Long Kang the day before yesterday, and his movements were so fast.
"In the past, the Huaiyin Marquis Han Xin's ambush plan on all sides, so that the overlord of Western Chu was cornered, today, I never thought that on the north bank of this Huaishui, I can only walk along the river" Li Dian led the army to rush up a slope, obviously no longer heard the sound of fighting in the valley, the five hundred elite cavalry that fell into the siege, obviously it was difficult to escape, on the other hand, the nearly 10,000 soldiers of He Qi's department, together with Pan Zhang, were actually chasing and killing, he could not have half a minute to stop, but he took into account the Ren Jun department behind him, if he led the army to retreat to the river bank, Ren Jun's brigade of foot soldiers, Wouldn't you have to give it up?