Three Kingdoms: I help Liu Bei grow thousands of miles

Chapter 324 Infantry vs Cavalry
After the Chibi War, Liu Bei became the shepherd of Jingzhou. The Cai and Kuai families of the four great families in Jingzhou moved to the Central Plains with Cao Cao. The interests of Cai Kuai, Pang Huang, the original Jingzhou wealthy family were re-divided. .

Xi Zhen was born in the Xi family, a prominent family in Jingxiang. Among the same family, Xi Zhen was inferior to Pang Tong in talent name and surpassed Ma Liang.

After Lantian took charge of Lingling, he carried out drastic reforms. He set up schools, promoted agriculture and industry, paid attention to the interests of the people, and appointed military and political officials to use talents without names. These measures greatly stimulated the local gentry, because Lantian was not only Liu Bei's wife , still has an elite army in the hands of the army, and there is basically no voice of opposition to the reform.

The gentry of Lingling saw that Lantian did not use the gentry, so they could only secretly seek help from the top gentry in Nanjun. Pang Tong, who represented the Pang family, was recommended by Lantian to Liu Bei, and Zhuge Liang, who represented the Huang family, had a close relationship with Lantian. He didn't want to interfere with Jing Nan.

Finally, under the coordination of Pan Jun, who worked in Jingzhou, Xi Zhen of the Xi family was transferred to Lingling as the northern captain.

Knowing that Xi Zhen has a reputation for loyalty, Lan Tian saw that the gentry in Jingzhou wanted to reach out to Jingnan, but under Lingling's rule, the gentry did not allow them to be kidnapped by the gentry, so he planned to make an example of Xi Zhen.

After Xi Zhen took office in Lingling, she knew what the people wanted and what an elite teacher was, and she soon became a fan of Lantian.

Out of respect for Lantian, Xi Zhen is willing to cooperate with Lantian in a play.

Later, Xi Zhen was demoted from Lingling by Lantian and assigned to Changsha because of his "poor management of the army". Liao Li, the prefect of Changsha, placed him in Linxiang as a city defense school lieutenant at Lantian's suggestion.

Seeing Lantian Lei Ting's methods, the Lingling gentry could only keep their tails between their legs and dare not make mistakes. The gentry in Jingnan all seek advantages and avoid disadvantages. If they want to climb up, they squeeze their scalps into Jiangling. Go to Lingling.

On the surface, Xi Zhen was relegated by Lantian, but before he went to Changsha to take up his post, he received special training from Gao Shun for [-] plays, and Lantian left him a secret order: If anyone surrenders from the city, he will be killed regardless of his official position.

Xi Zhen had no scruples when killing Dong Dang Liwei because of the support of the big brother Lan Tian. He was Lan Tian's second hand in Changsha.

Ling Tong's trainee Zhenzhen was awe-inspiring, he thought that Linxiang might not be able to gnaw it down, so should he go south along the Xiangshui River to meet Cheng Pu?This time should have entered Jingnan territory.

Looking back at the boat stop on the east bank of the Xiangshui River, except for a dense reed fluttering in the wind, there is no one moving as far as the eye can see, and there is no sentry at all.

Ling Tong frowned. Although the vanguard had hundreds of warships, they only carried less than twenty horses. Except for a few main generals who had horses, the rest were used by scouts for scouting and passing news.

Apprentice Ling Tong guarded tenaciously, and he was already thinking of retreating. At this time, he found something unusual on the east bank of the Xiangshui River, so he immediately ordered the siege to be suspended, and the entire army was gathered to retreat to the warship.

After two days of siege, Ling Tong's troops were less than [-]. They followed behind a few generals, and walked towards the place where the boat was parked.

The so-called exhaustion and failure, although it took less than two hours to attack the city in the morning, after hearing Ling Tong's order to retreat, everything was like a deflated ball.

The reeds made a rustling sound, and the warship somehow stopped on the west bank of the Xiangshui River.

The Xiangshui River began to swell in spring, and the river has become very wide. It is unrealistic for thousands of people to swim across. Ling Tong selected hundreds of soldiers with good water skills and asked them to take off their armor and swim to operate the boat.

These white bodies screamed again and again as soon as the reeds were pushed aside, and the screams stopped abruptly after a while, and the rest was only the sound of the river flowing.

"General. Is there any... filth?" The general beside Ling Tong asked in horror.

Ling Tong stared: "In broad daylight, where did the filth come from? Don't confuse the soldiers."

"But the warship shifted for no reason, and there were those screams just now." General Pi timidly took two steps back.

Ling Tong squeezed his chin. He suspected that there were ambushes among the reeds, but judging by the length of the river bank, even if there were ambushes, there were only a few hundred soldiers.

"The whole army forms a square formation, run over with me, I want to see if there are people or ghosts in the reeds." Ling Tong shouted sharply.

The Jiangdong navy marched lazily, and immediately formed a square formation to advance forward. Ling Tong also reined in and slowed down, because it was only a few feet away from the reeds.

Sanzhang
two feet
one foot

When approaching, whizzing, fine arrows rained down among the reeds.

Although the front row of Ling Tong's army was cautious, many soldiers were shot in the face by thin arrows. They covered their foreheads and fell to the ground in pain. The soldiers in the back row really thought there were ghosts, so they started running around in panic.

The formation that had been assembled just now collapsed in an instant, and Ling Tong's troops fell into a panic.

It was obvious that he had encountered an ambush, and Ling Tong's horse was also spun around in fright. He grabbed the rein with one hand to control the horse, and shouted: "Don't panic, prepare to meet the enemy."

The rear army was in chaos now, and the shouts of the panicked soldiers covered up Ling Tong's orders. Just as he was about to kill the general to stand up, the ambushes in the reeds shouted and rushed out.

The reeds were like a portal, and people kept coming out of it. Ling Tong didn't know how many people were ambushing here, so he had to drive his horses and lead his troops to fight and leave.

Gan Ning took the lead and rushed into the crowd, he saw that he was holding a pair of halberds and slashing left and right. The thousand-man team behind him had no horses, but their morale was as high as a tiger.

The former Jinfan bandits reappeared, and the battle turned to the direction of Jiangdong's defeat.

The runners hacked and killed less than a mile away. Ling Tong looked back at the reeds and there was no follow-up ambush. Although nearly a thousand people were lost in the hasty fight, from the comparison of the total strength of the opponent, Jiangdong was still more than twice that of the opponent. There are more than a dozen war horses on our side.

"I was almost deceived by them, and ordered the whole army to turn around and fight back."

Ling Tong's voice was like an old bell. After he gave the order, all the officers, big and small, immediately gathered their troops to fight back, but they were already scattered during the running of the soldiers, and it was too difficult to purge the troops during the war.

When Ling Tong was purging the troops, a trace of excitement suddenly appeared on his face. He found his enemy Gan Ning in the crowd, and he was still without a horse at the moment.

God helped me, Ling Tong felt his blood was burning, he ignored the brigade's flattery and charged back at the enemy, only to see a dozen of athletes standing in the way beheaded with a big knife.

"Whoever stands in my way will die." Ling Tong shouted as he ran.

A few officers on horseback didn't know why the general had a fit, so they could only follow behind to cover up the attack. The cavalry must form a group to be powerful in combat. A single rider like Ling Tong is easy to get hit by a cold arrow.

"General, it's Ling Tong." General Pi reminded Gan Ning.

Gan Ning looked disdainful, could he be arrogant with a horse?He pushed aside the crowd and shouted angrily: "Get out of the way, he is my prey."

Ling Tong and Gan Ning locked onto each other respectively, and the soldiers along the way unconsciously gave way to the passage.

The sword and the two halberds clashed violently, Gan Ning held the two halberds to meet Ling Tong's sword, and was shocked back two steps by the horse's impact.

Although Gan Ning was taken two steps back by the shock, Ling Tong felt a huge wave in his heart.

Infantry fighting cavalry, is this guy still human?
(End of this chapter)