Late Tang

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Under the city of Chuzhou, the Qin army took advantage of the victory to besiege Shanyang after the great victory.

Under the city, Li Jing was listening to the statistics of the battle.

Supervisor Sun Lan personally reported the results of the battle to Li Jing, and her crisp voice resounded through the big tent, with excitement and joy in her tone.

The result of this battle is indeed worthy of joy. Before the war, many generals of the Qin army thought that this battle plan was too risky, but right now, the result of the battle is even more gratifying than Li Jing expected.From last night to this afternoon, the battle lasted for nearly a day and a night, and the soldiers fought in the rain, exhausted and exhausted.But the results of the battle were extremely rich. The Gaoyu Camp in Huaiyin had 1 infantry, 3 cavalry and [-] sailors, plus [-] civilians.It was first raided by the Marine Corps with [-] horses in the rainy night, and then Li Jing led [-] horses to attack halfway across the east bank of the canal.First cut off half of the Huai army that surrounded the crossing river, broke through the formation of the Huai army with heavy cavalry, and then charged with light cavalry, the infantry covered them, and the Huai army was defeated.

Afterwards, Li Jing sent cavalry to continue to pursue the defeated soldiers crossing the river, and led the main force to cross the canal by himself to attack the Huai army that had not crossed the river.

The battle ended in the afternoon, and the Huai army that finally fled into Shanyang City had only about [-] cavalry and about [-] infantry, and less than [-] people fled into the city.

In this battle, nearly 3 people were killed by the Qin army, and more than [-] Huai soldiers were captured and surrendered. In Zhaizhong, the result was ended in one pot.

In this battle, 4 Huai troops were wiped out and 2000 were captured.Although the Qin army failed to use firearms in this battle, and the power of the bow and crossbow was greatly reduced, the final casualties were not worth mentioning compared with the results of the battle.The entire army of [-] horses participated in the battle, and no more than [-] were killed, which is almost a ratio of ten to one.However, the Black Banner Army had [-] heavy cavalry, but they directly lost [-] cavalry and [-]% casualties in this battle, which made Li Jing heartbroken.

Fortunately, generally speaking, the Qin army won this battle, and the victory was brilliant.

Except some soldiers and horses continued to sweep the battlefield and search for missing and defeated soldiers, the rest of the soldiers and horses had already arrived at the foot of Shanyang City and joined the besieging team.

In the previous battle, the main force of the Huai army going north had been wiped out.The Qin army crossed the Huaihe River smoothly, and is currently in an active and favorable position.

Gai Yu pointed to the three-foot-high outer wall of Shanyang City, frowned and said to Li Jing: "Chuzhou is not easy to fight. The city of Chuzhou is sixteen miles long, and it has two cities inside and outside. Moreover, there were five high-ranking tyrants in the city of Chuzhou. Thousands of garrisons, and now there are 30 soldiers and horses defeated by Gao Yu in the city, adding up to [-] soldiers. What's more, there is a big city in Chuzhou, with more than [-] households and [-] people in the city. Gao Yu can expropriate at any time A large number of young and strong people helped to defend the city, and what's more important is that Chuzhou has always been the gateway of Huaidong, a military center, and has a large amount of money and food hoarded, and this time it is Gao Yu's logistics base, there is sufficient food and grass in the city."

To besiege and take down a city guarded by more than 1 elite Huai troops, and the city has high walls and strong walls, and there is no shortage of food or water in the city. Such a city is not easy to fight.

Li Jing now only has more than 3 horses, and three times as many troops are attacking the city, which is difficult to capture in a short time.

And if the time dragged on for a long time, Gao Pian would definitely mobilize troops to help.On the other hand, Li Jing couldn't stay in Huainan for a long time. The soldiers and horses in the Sixu area behind were all taken south by Li Jing.

"I mean, the Huai army was defeated this time, and it will be difficult for the Huai army to send troops across Huaibei in a short time. We might as well withdraw to Huaibei and take down Xuzhou in Shipu first. As long as Xu Si is occupied and defended according to the Huaihe River, Then we can control Gao Pian to the south of the Huaihe River. Our greatest threat is still in the north, we should first concentrate our forces in Hebei and fight the four towns of Hebei."

Jing Xiang's proposal has been agreed by many generals.This is a safe proposal. Although the Huai army has just been defeated, the death of [-] people is not enough to truly defeat the Huai army.The generals under Gao Pian are all there, as are all the prefectures and counties. Huainan is a wealthy town, and Gao Pian has been serving as the Jianghuai salt and iron transport envoy for the past few years, and he is very rich.

In the spring and summer season, fighting Gao Pian in Huainan, this is not a good choice.If you want to fight, it should be the most suitable time to fight in autumn and winter.

However, Li Jing was a little unwilling, and finally defeated the Huai army.

The main force of the Huai army has been defeated, and the counties and states in Huainan are like a piece of dessert in front of them, how can Li Jing leave without taking a bite.And right now, it is also an excellent opportunity for Li Jing.

The main force of the Huai army has been defeated. As long as Li Jing can quickly take Chuzhou Shanyang, then Li Jing can lead his troops along the canal, take a warship to Yangzhou, and go straight to Yangzhou, Gao Pian's old nest.

Capture the thief and capture the king, go straight to Huanglong, and break through Yangzhou in the first battle. As long as Huangchao is caught, then Huainan Town will be over, and Gao Pian will be over directly.

This is a huge temptation, even if Gao Pian wants to mobilize the soldiers and horses of the eight states in Huainan Town, it will be too late.

Evacuate at this time, let Gao Pian go, then give Gao Pian time, with Huainan's wealth, Gao Pian will be able to recover in less than two years.This is where Li Jing is not reconciled.

"Is there really no way to take Chuzhou in a short time?" Li Jing pinched his chin and asked: "If we can take Shanyang, not only will we be able to open the gate of Huaidong, but there are more than 1 elite Huai troops in the city, especially the Huai army. The generals of the army. I don't want to let them go for nothing."

Chuzhou cannot attack by force, and it will be difficult to attack for a while, and it will cause great casualties to the Qin army.The key point is that an important town like Sanyang is difficult to capture even if it is stormed for a while.Li Jing didn't have much time to transport large catapults, firearms and other weapons to attack the city.

You can't attack by force, you can only outsmart.However, it is not easy to come up with a way to capture Chuzhou in a short time.

Yangzhou, Guangling.

Gao Pian was reviewing his newly formed Left and Right Moxie Army. This newly recruited army has a strength of 2 soldiers, but the left and right Moxie Army's military envoys are not served by generals such as Liang Yan and Yu Gongchu, but by the three generals around him. Among the warlocks, Lu Yongzhi and Zhang Shouyi served as the left and right envoys of this new army with the surname of Yajun.Mo Xie's armor is sharp, his clothes are clean, and his food and salary far exceed those of other armies.Lu Yongzhi and Zhang Shouyi, the two quack warlocks, also became the hottest real power figures under Gao Pian's subordinates.

However, although Lu Yongzhi and Zhang Shouyi are charlatans, they are still very good at superficial skills.The new troops they recruited were all tall and strong men. At a glance, they looked extraordinary, and Gao Pian was very satisfied.

Just after inspecting the new army, the commander of the yamen of the commander-in-chief hurried over and reported a shocking news to him.

Gao Yu was defeated by Li Jing's army in Huaiyin yesterday. The whole army died 8000 and captured [-]. The remaining [-] troops retreated into Chuzhou City.

Gao Pian, who was dressed in Taoist robes, shook and almost fainted to the ground.

[-] new troops have just been recruited here, but [-] were killed and [-] were captured over there. If you include the army that Liang Yan lost, Gao Pian's family fortune was almost wiped out up.

"Li Jing led an army of tens of thousands to besiege Chuzhou!"

Gao Pian took a deep breath. On the front line of Huaidong, there are still more than [-] soldiers in Chuzhou.If Chuzhou is lost, then Li Jing will go straight to Yangzhou along the magazine ditch.Gao Pian, who was always calm, felt a chill in his heart at this moment, and he became really scared.

He is a famous general, and Li Jing is not a good stubble. He has broken through Shatuo, defeated Khitan, defeated Bohai, and destroyed Goguryeo.He has fought no fewer battles than him. Although Li Jing's soldiers are not many at present, only [-], but he is now in Yangzhou City, and with the newly recruited [-] new troops, it is only about [-].

Li Jing really came to fight, but he was confident that he could defend it.But what matters is that if Li Jing really kills the city of Yangzhou, the one-eyed Zhou Bao, who can't keep Jiangnan in check, will come to take advantage of the fire and rob him.

Gao Pian immediately made up his mind that no matter what, he had to keep Chuzhou and block Li Jing from Huaihe North.

"Call all the ministries immediately, and send troops tomorrow morning." Gao Pian issued the military order loudly.

Fortunately, Gao Pian originally planned to hand over 8 troops to Gao Yu, but because Zhou Bao suddenly sent troops to defeat Liang Yan's troops, Gao Pian kept the follow-up 3 troops.Right now, those 3 people are still in Gaoyou.Otherwise, Gao Pian estimated that even if the 3 people had arrived at Gao Yu's hands earlier, they would have delivered food together.

"Send someone to Gaoyou immediately, and ask Shen Ji and Han Shide to wait for me in Gaoyou."

It is 360 miles from Yangzhou to Chuzhou, and 150 miles from Yangzhou to Gaoyou.

Although Gao Pian chose to travel by land and water, even if he went down the river from Hangou to Chuzhou by boat, it would take three days at the fastest.

Early the next morning, Gao Pian personally led the troops to Chuzhou for rescue, and arrived at Gaoyou by boat all day and night.

As soon as he disembarked, the two generals Shen Ji and Han Shide who were waiting for him in Gaoyou told Gao Pian the bad news.

Although Gao Pian came to help immediately, it was still too late.

Just three days later, Li Jing had broken through Chuzhou.

"How is this possible?" Gao Pian's beard and hair stood on end, "Chuzhou is the gateway to Huaidong, an important military town, with two cities, and there are more than 1 soldiers and horses guarding the city at this time. And Li Jing only has 4 to [-] troops. It’s just people, how could it be possible to take Chuzhou in three days?”

You know, although Gao Yu is newly defeated, Gao Yu is not the kind of guy who talks about military affairs on paper. What's more, he has many veterans of the Huai Army under his command, so how could he be defeated again and again.After hearing the details of the defeat in Huaiyin, he could already see that the defeat that day was a result of Li Jing's plan to annihilate him.But now guarding Chuzhou City, why can't it be defended for three days?

Shen Ji sighed in a deep voice: "Li Jing is extremely cunning. He ordered people to block the Hangou Canal, built a dike, and flooded the city of Chuzhou directly by storing water. Li Jing directly led troops and rowed boats to attack Chuzhou at night. Chuzhou, the generals in the city could not hold it, and Chuzhou fell into the hands of Li Jing."

When Gao Pian heard that Li Jing had flooded the city with water, he was so angry that he cut the desk table in half with his sword.

Li Jing is too cunning, this is simply scheming.

"Forty Lang and the others?"

Han Shide said helplessly: "The [-] soldiers and horses in the city are almost gone. According to reports, only a few hundred escaped. I heard that Sisi Lang and generals Yao, Yu, Chen, and Feng fled in chaos, but right now there are not a few of them. The news of their whereabouts, the bad news is that their whereabouts cannot be found, and the good news is that Li Jing did not capture them."

"Then where is Li Jing's army now?" Gao Pian's heart was bleeding, once Chuzhou was lost, the gate of Huaidong was opened.

"After Li Jing captured Chuzhou, the troops are currently divided into three groups. Zeng Yuanyu led the left army with 1 troops to attack Xuyi, another important town in Huaidong. He is leading the army to Gaoyou. In addition, Lin Wei will lead the right army and divide 5000 troops to attack Yancheng, and then Zhao Ji will lead [-] troops to stay in Chuzhou."

Gao Chu felt dizzy for a while. Although Li Jing's soldiers were divided, the target was very clear, which was to point directly at Yangzhou.Attack Xuyi and Tianchang on the left, Yancheng and Hailing on the right, Anyi and Gaoyou on the middle, and finally Yangzhou.The Third Route Army will attack Yangzhou directly after sweeping the periphery of Yangzhou.

Li Jing now has only 4 people in Huainan, but since Li Jing has won Chuzhou, then the empty Xuyi may also fall.Li Jing now has a great advantage over Huainan, and if he fails to keep it all together, Li Jing will mobilize an army to go south and prepare to swallow the eight states of Huainan town in one go.

Perhaps he should have endured more at the beginning, Gao Pian couldn't help thinking that if Li Jing and Li Keyong had fought with the Four Towns of Hebei, Khitan and others first, then they would have fought, perhaps the situation would not have been as bad as it is today.But now, Gao Pian has no way out.

If you go back to Yangzhou, you will be driven into the Yangtze River by Li Jing to feed the fish.

Anger surged into his heart, and Gao Pian thrust his sword fiercely into the ground.

Come on, let's fight to the death here! (To be continued.)