It's definitely a big deal, not only Xie Shang and the princes of the court think so, but also Chu Bao, the national ruler of Xincai, found that a large number of Han troops from Chenjun were heading south, so they should know that the war was going to start.
"How much" Chu Li looked very calm, all because he didn't know that the fleet of the small imperial court of the Eastern Jin Dynasty in Jingkou had suffered heavy losses, and he didn't know that Huan Wen had taken a huge fleet west to Yuzhou.
He asked his adjutant Li Mai: "How many infantry troops, how many cavalry troops" Of course, Li Mai's background is a family of the small court of the Eastern Jin Dynasty, and one of the small courts of the Eastern Jin Dynasty is from a family, otherwise it is unlikely that he will have an official body, and he will usually be a nobleman, with the largest number of village marquises.
The news he received was rather vague, and he said in a speculative tone: "There should be sixty or seventy thousand, the lead is the cavalry can be confirmed, and the rear is how many foot cavalry needs to wait for the scouts to take a closer step." ” The environment north of Xincai County and Ruyin County is definitely the same as that of Huainan, and the larger water systems are Yingshui and Rushui, and there is no dense water network, and the terrain is flat and plain.
In the melee of the princes in the late Eastern Han Dynasty, Cao Cao used to use cavalry as the lead, almost like a wrecked building, to defeat Yuan Shu's defenders, all the way to the city of Runan.
Dealing with Zhang Xiu, who was entrenched in Runan, Cao Cao also took the cavalry as the lead, and he also easily attacked the city of Runan.
Chu Li had more or less consulted some geographical chronicles, and when he heard Li Mai say that the leader of the Han army was cavalry, he was still very nervous in his heart for a moment.
"The strange finding is that the color of the Han military uniforms that come here is not as uniform as before."
Li Mai didn't know that the Han State had reorganized an army of nearly 200,000 servants, and he said with a skeptical but expectant expression: "Could it be that the Han army is not coming at all, but some rioting civilian forces?"
Chu Li was not stupid, he was looking at Li Mai with the eyes of a fool, he groaned deeply, and said: "No matter who comes, be cautious." ” "The last general will personally lead the army to Liyang" Li Mai looked at Chu Li and hesitated slightly: "It's just how much should I bring?"
Chu Li continued to groan, he felt that the most important thing was to ask for help from the Jiankang Center, and the second thing was to find out how many Han troops were coming, so don't act rashly at this stage.
The real situation is that the vanguard was 5,000 servant cavalry and 300 Han cavalry, all of whom were light cavalry, and they were ordered to advance and establish a bridgehead at the intersection of Xincai County and Ruyin County.
Because of Chu Li's carefulness, the leading Han cavalry only went through a small battle, that is, temporarily built a ladder for the servant army to dismount and attack the city, and paid about 600 casualties to overcome Gushi, which was only defended by 300 people.
Gushi is about 100 miles away from Xincai, 60 miles away from Liyang, and more than 110 miles away from Ruyin, which is equivalent to taking Gushi and establishing an offensive forward base for the Han army, and it will be very convenient to fight wherever it is next.
"Convenience is convenience, but Gushi is a place of four wars."
Li Kuang led the headquarters of the 10,000 Han army to restrain the 100,000 servant army from Xuchang to the south, and of course his orders to Huan Wen would be carried out, but it did not mean that there was no confusion, but he would not show the confusion: "According to the order of the main general, we should attack frequently everywhere in the future."
Huan Wen's order was very direct, that is, to catch the subordinates of the abbot and beat them fiercely until the abbot made some effective counterattacks or defenses, or Li Kuang's subordinates would have been in an offensive posture.
Hopefully, as the Lord said, Chu Li is a very slow person to react.
While Li Kuang was writing the military order, he thought: Before Chu Li reacted, maybe he should try to capture Ruyin and cut off the connection between the Jin army and Shouchun.
Chu Li's current reputation is still quite good.
He is considered to be a knowledgeable person, and he is also humble and polite enough, and seems to be a literati who knows the soldiers Looking at the deployment of Chu Li when he was stationed in the three counties, and the stability he showed over the past few months, Li Kuang would actually look arrogant if he didn't feel jealous.
However, although Li Kuang had doubts in his heart, he had to implement Huan Wen's orders meticulously, and even do better.
The loss of Gushi did not make Chu Li feel so nervous, it should be said that he would not feel sorry for any loss in those arrangements at the front, what would be nervous was that there were too many Hu people in the Han army. "110,000, 10,000 Han troops and 100,000 Hulu" Chu Li, like many southern literati, had a fear of Hulu that seemed to come from the depths of his heart.
He looked at Li Mai and said, "How many cavalry should there be 100,000 Hulu?"
Li Mai said: "The Han people will not allow Hu Lu to have too many cavalry. ” That's right, the waste wood Sima family, who used to fight inwards and outsiders, they armed the Hu people in order to fight inwardly, but they were counterattacked, whether it was Liu Yan or anyone in the Han Kingdom, they should learn a lesson, at least Chu Li and Li Mai thought so.
The next situation made Chu Li unable to react, and the Han army that captured Gushi attacked everywhere without pause, resulting in a request for help and a warning letter "floating" to Xin Cai like snowflakes, and he had worked very hard to find out the main attack direction of the Han army, but he couldn't figure out an idea that he felt credible.
It was not until the Jin army waited to report to Xin Cai that there were about 50,000 Han troops heading southeast from Gugu, that Chu Li and Li Mai determined the direction of the Han army's main attack, and further speculated that the Han army was going to attack Ruyin City.
"It's obvious" Chu Li looked very happy after figuring out the main direction of the Han army, and said to Li Mai: "Ruyin is located on the edge of Yingshui, I have asked Jiankang for help, and soon there will be reinforcements in the direction of Shouchun." ” Shouchun is one of the important military towns of the small imperial court of the Eastern Jin Dynasty, with more than 30,000 Jin troops stationed for a long time, and there are a relatively large number of boats.
As the small court of the Eastern Jin Dynasty was about to assume the posture of being attacked, Shouchun's garrison was increased to 60,000, and a large number of private armies of the family were also located along the Yangtze River.
Chu Li's idea is very simple, there is no shortage of people south of the Yangtze River who can operate boats, he and Xie Shang have become the leaders of the family south of the Yangtze River, not only can mobilize the defenders of Shouchun, but also can transfer the private soldiers of the family along the Yangtze River.
In this way, they may be able to flank the advancing Han army in the direction of Xincai and Shouchun.
With a good idea, Chu Li and Li Mai began to prepare for the attack.
To be serious, Chu Li's performance this time can be regarded as a "breakthrough in himself", and one thing must be clearly understood that in the original history, he was famous for his "static braking" as the commander of the Northern Expedition.
Chu Li's original history of "static braking" is that no matter what the enemy army does, I don't do anything anyway.
Embarrassment The distance on the plane map from Gushi to Ruyin is more than 110 li, but it is impossible to walk in a straight line in practice, considering the need to detour and avoid some terrain that is not suitable for marching, the distance that Li Kuang's unit has to walk is definitely more than 170 li.
According to the normal marching speed, if the infantry and cavalry advance in harmony, walking 50 miles a day can be regarded as ensuring that there is still combat effectiveness to deal with emergencies, and rushing to travel 100 miles a day will reduce the fatigue and combat effectiveness of the soldiers.
Li Kuang decided to believe Huan Wen's evaluation of Chu Li, that is, Chu Li is a person who is slow to respond to everything.
He resolutely came on a day and night journey, and set out in the early morning to arrive at the city of Ruyin that night.
Ruyin City is the capital of Ruyin County, the city was the frontier of the confrontation between Shijie Zhao and the Eastern Jin Dynasty, and it should be a rare city in Shijie Zhao to build city defense.
"The walls are about four feet high, and you can't see the fortifications floating on the surface, and you can see that there are no obvious openings in the walls."
Li Kuang arrogantly came to Ruyin City in person outside the range of arrows, and was at the head of the city, the defenders in white robes pointed and pointed at the city.
Behind him was the camp where the camp had begun to be encamped, and around him there were armies of servants cutting down trees endlessly.
It was against this background that he said: "Build a siege ladder overnight and try an attack tomorrow afternoon." ” Wang Biao Wang Luan Yizi nodded and said with a smile: "Judging from the appearance of the guards hurriedly lighting up their torches, they are surprised by our arrival, and they should indeed launch an attack as soon as possible. ” Li Kuang doesn't like Wang Biao very much, the reason is that Wang Luan ran to Yecheng after the loss of Xuzhou, Wang Biao is relatively sleek, to put it simply, he thinks Wang Biao is very fake.
From Li Kuang's capture of Gushi, to the Han army's attack in all directions, until the Han army approached Ruyin City, only seven days had passed.
In seven days, Li Kuang should be said to have achieved the speed of the soldiers, and there were only more than 10,000 original defenders stationed in Ruyin City, but it was not clear whether the residents of the city would stand on the side of the small court of the Eastern Jin Dynasty to help the Jin army defend the city.
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Huan Wen, who was about to land from Runan County by the Yangtze River waterway, received a report from the battlefield that the fleet was not far from Shouchun.
The navy of the small court of the Eastern Jin Dynasty suffered heavy losses in Jingkou, and the Han fleet that went west through the Yangtze River waterway encountered some Jin warships sporadically.
"General Li Bi marched into Ruyin City, and after the first attempt to attack, he was unsuccessful, leaving a false army."
Huan Wen handed the information in his hand to his old buddy Yuan Qiao, and said with full appreciation: "He took the army to the southwest, and went straight to the 20,000 Jin army and the private army of the family who set out from Yuanlu to rush to Ruyin City, and fought an ambush battle. ” Yuan Qiao has already seen the battle report about the back, Li Kuang is a more typical encirclement and reinforcement, although there is no 20,000 Jin troops who can completely annihilate from Yuanlu, but more than 3,000 beheadings and nearly 10,000 prisoners can be called a commendable example.
"There are so many talents in the Han Dynasty" Huan Wen is actually still a little high-spirited, as the main general of the Southern Expedition this time, the number of troops under his command is nearly 230,000, although there are 200,000 Hu servant troops, but he feels that if he is in the Eastern Jin Dynasty, he may not have the opportunity to command more than 200,000 troops in his life.
He commented: "Li Kuang was born in Weimo, followed the king to fight everywhere early, served as a county governor, and was the last Jiang Du Ling.
As long as he performs well in this battle, the future will be limitless. ” Yuan Qiao nodded approvingly, and then said: "That Guozhang sent reinforcements but was ambushed, and the next step is to continue to lead the army to hold on to Xincai City, and Ang or lead the army to retreat to Runan."
"He can't afford to lose his city and land, and he won't run away for the sake of fame."
Huan Wen and Chu Li are actually not familiar with each other, but the family circle south of the Yangtze River is so small, they will more or less study each other, and they will roughly know what kind of character someone is.
He judged: "It should be that we will gather the army as much as possible and stick to Xincai and Ruyin with all our might."
He stayed in Xincai by himself, and Li Mai went to defend Ruyin. ” Yuan Qiao immediately smiled, he looked at Shouchun's location, and said in a deep tone: "It has been ambushed once, Shouchun's rear reinforcements will not go north, and Chu Li will no longer support Ruyin City from his own troops." ” Shouchun is definitely a big city, in addition to the Jin army in the city a large number of troops, in the northeast of the Bagong Mountain also set up a camp.
Huan Wen's fleet had actually passed the location of Bagong Mountain, and before it could see the situation by the river, it was the Jin army that was panicked and wanted to deploy defenses.
Now, they can see Shouchun City with the naked eye, where yellow and red wolf smoke rises, they can hear the sound of drums, and they can also see the banner at the head of the city.
"Leave three hundred ships to block this section of the river" Yuan Qiao had estimated for a long time, and for the sake of safety, he had to suggest: "After the Spring Festival, we will directly insert Yingshui and go to meet Li Kuang's department by water."
Huan Wen wanted to land directly from Runan, and he wanted to use the 10,000 Han Army headquarters carried by the fleet to land directly, and use a surprise posture to directly take Xinxi, which is the capital of Runan.
The reason why he wanted to do this was not because he underestimated Chu Li, nor did he think that Xinxi was easy to attack, but simply because he couldn't wait to complete the task, and then go to participate in the great battle in Puyang.
After thinking about it again, Huan Wen decided to follow his previous thoughts and said to Yuan Qiao: "Chu Qi didn't expect that we would land from the rear.
In order to resist Li Kuang's subordinates, Chu Li will inevitably transfer troops from the rear to the north, and Xinxi will form an absolute emptiness, which is a good opportunity to take Xinxi and form a three-sided encirclement of Chu Li's line. ” Yuan Qiao nodded silently and stopped talking, he knew very well that once Huan Wen decided what he wanted to do, it would not be easy to change at all.
In Xincai City, Li Mai kept persuading Chu Li, saying that he could no longer passively meet the blows of the Han army, otherwise the outlying strongholds would be lost one after another, and Xincai City and Ruyin City would soon become two isolated isolated cities.
In the face of Li Mai, who was constantly persuading, he maintained a silent posture, and only after a long time did he turn around and say with a wry smile: "I have been brewing for a long time, but I can't even brew poetry, it seems that my heart is in chaos." ” At that moment, the stunned expression on Li Mai's face was very obvious, and he didn't know whether to admire Chu Bi's composure or say something
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