Liu Xinda received the news that Liang Hansuo led the cavalry to cross the Yanzi River and defeat the Shengbao Division, and the Shengbao brothers were killed on the spot after noon. The defeated soldiers from the Shengbao Department finally sent the news to the Immortal Ridge.

The generals of the Southern Army in the entire Immortal Ridge were shocked in their hearts.

The Northern Tang army built a bridge over the Yanzi River overnight, allowing thousands of cavalry to cross the river, which made them feel incredible and terrified at the same time.

They really couldn't imagine how the people of the Northern Tang Dynasty could accomplish such a feat.

What worries them even more is that Liang Han's department is subordinate to Shi Zhuang's Right Weiwei, and according to their prior estimates, they should not have arrived in Guangshui so soon.

Now they had to reconsider the speed of the right guard's build-up to Guangshui.

"Where are General Xiang Zhen's soldiers and horses?" Liu Daxin stood in front of the map for a long time, and then turned around and replied.

"General, this morning's report, General Xiang's vanguard has arrived in Yingcheng, and the main force has just arrived in Ezhou, even if it is calculated according to the fastest speed, the speed at which the forward arrives in Guangshui is a day later, and the large army carrying the baggage will not arrive until three days later."

"Three days?" Liu Xinda took a deep breath, "In other words, we have to support ourselves for three days!" ”

Fu Xiaotian changed color slightly: "General, you mean?" ”

"I think that at this time, Shi Zhuang's right guard of tens of thousands of troops should be almost there." Liu Xinda said solemnly: "We miscalculated the speed of the other party's march. We forgot one thing, the road. The first thing officials of the Northern Tang Dynasty did after arriving in a place was to carry out large-scale infrastructure construction, roads, water conservancy, and so on. All over Xinyang, think about it. If Shi Zhuang had enough mules and horses, their advance would indeed be much faster than our reinforcements. ”

Speaking of this, he felt a little bitter in his heart.

Speaking of which, Eyue has actually been in their hands, but for more than a year, their energy has not been focused on these things.

Whether it is Xiang Zhen or him, they are constantly expanding their armaments, collecting grain and grass, and building ordnance, but they have forgotten to repair the road.

At that time, I never imagined that the road would one day become a rope around my neck.

"General, we have 50,000 men! It's not that it's not without the power of a fight. Fu Xiaotian said a little unconvinced.

Liu Xinda looked at Fu Xiaotian, shook his head and said, "There are no more than 50,000 people now." Katsuho has been wiped out, and guess where they will fight next? ”

"Xun Qi is the closest to them, once Xun Qi is taken, it can directly pose a threat to us!" Fu Xiaotian said.

Liu Xinda walked to the map, looked at it, but shook his head categorically and said: "Liang Han will not attack Xun Qi, Gongzhuling, where Xun Qi is stationed, even though it is not a dangerous place, but for the cavalry, attacking fortifications is still not a strong point, so they will definitely seek the near and far, and attack Xu Yong on both sides of Guangshui City." ”

"In this way, Xu Yongke is in danger." Fu Xiaotian's face changed color and said, "As soon as Xu Yong's five thousand men and horses go, we will only have 40,000 people left." ”

"It's not necessarily Xu Yong who is dangerous!" Liu Xinda pondered for a moment, and suddenly called an officer in: "Take my military order, go to Gongzhuling immediately, and tell General Xun Qi that not a single soldier is allowed to help Xu Yong." ”

Fu Xiaotian was stunned, but immediately reacted again: "General, are you saying that Liang Han may encircle the point and send reinforcements?" ”

Liu Xinda nodded: "Very likely." Taking the initiative to attack a strong camp like Gongzhuling, Liang Han would definitely not do it, but it was possible to lure Xun Qi out to attack him, and then defeat Xun Qi's reinforcements. Let's wait, if Xu Yong sends someone to ask for support in a while, then we can be sure of that. ”

Fu Xiaotian was stunned and said, "Why do you say that? ”

"Just count the time!" Liu Xinda said: "From Liang Han's crossing of the river to the defeat of Shengbao's department, it was only about an hour, and then Liang Han waved his troops and went straight to Guangshui. It can be said that before Xu Yong discovered Liang Han's department, he didn't have any psychological preparation, even if Xu Yong was experienced, he would definitely not be able to withstand the two-sided attack of Liang Han and Guangshui City. You have seen the combat effectiveness of the Northern Tang army. But if Xu Yong can still send a messenger to us to ask for reinforcements now, it can only show that Liang Han and Ren Xiaonian did not do their best to eat this turtle in Wengzhong, then tell me, what do they mean? ”

Fu Xiaotian was silent for a moment and said: "General, Xun Qi and Xu Yong are both from Lingnan, and the relationship between the two has always been good, but I am afraid that Xu Yong sent a messenger for help to us at this time, and he also sent someone to Xun Qi, and Gongzhuling is far from Guangshui, and it is much closer to Guangshui through us." ”

"Hopefully!"

But what to be afraid of, what to come!

Fu Xiaotian has the potential of a crow's mouth. It didn't take long for Xun Qi and Xu Yong's envoys to arrive at Xianrenling Ridge at the same time.

Xu Yong's envoy came to ask for help.

However, Xun Qi's envoy came to tell Liu Xinda that he had received Xu Yong's request for help, because the situation was urgent, so while he reported to Liu Xinda, he had already led half of his men to attack to rescue Xu Yong.

Fu Xiaotian was stunned.

Liu Xinda sighed and was speechless.

After carefully inquiring about the battle situation of Xu Yong's envoy, Liu Xinda basically confirmed the fact that his guess was basically accurate.

Xu Yong's response is indeed not wrong, in that case, even if he is there, he will not do better than the other party. But the problem is that after the first blow of the Northern Tang army was unsuccessful, the subsequent movements looked weird, and Xu Yong did not judge it, he thought that it was his stubborn resistance that carried the Tang army's three-plate axe, and if there were reinforcements, he would be able to retreat and even reverse the tide of the battle.

Liu Xinda doesn't think so.

In such a situation, with the thousands of men and horses of Ren Xiaonian in Guangshui City, under the vigorous containment of Liang Han's cavalry, it was enough to break through Xu Yong's defense.

seems to be a fierce battle, only at the beginning is a real sword and gun competition.

"General, what now?" Fu Xiaotian asked, "Do you want me to lead the cavalry of Immortal Ridge to rush to the aid now?" ”

"It's too late." Liu Xinda said: "If we dare to move, Li Dang will immediately press up." Moreover, under Shi Zhuang, since Liang Han is here, what about Luo Hongwei? Where is he? ”

Fu Xiaotian hurriedly said: "You can't just watch Xun Qi fall into the trap, right?" ”

"Now it's not a matter of rescuing Xun Qi, it's about ensuring the safety of the remaining troops in Gongzhuling. Someone came, immediately uploaded my military order, abandoned the departure of Gongzhuling, and all the troops immediately assembled to Xianrenling. ”

"Give up Princess Ridge? So we're alone? ”

"Leave them where they are, and there is a good chance that they will become the next Shengbao or Xu Yong!" Liu Xinda said coldly: "Now we need to gather more forces in order to support it for a longer time. ”

Hearing the conversation between Liu Xinda and Fu Xiaotian, the two envoys were dumbfounded.

Turning to look at them, Liu Xinda said: "You go back immediately, use your fastest speed, if you can find General Xun Qi, tell him to break through to the Immortal Ridge, don't go to the direction of Princess Ridge." ”

He didn't mention Xu Yong, because in his opinion, Xu Yong couldn't escape no matter what.

The two messengers turned and hurried away.

In the distance, drums rumbled and shouts erupted.

Liu Xinda took a long breath, glanced at Fu Xiaotian, walked out of the Chinese army's tent, and looked at the Tang army camp in the distance.

The stone-shaped banner has been raised in Li Kang's camp.

Shi Zhuang arrived.

"Get ready to fight!" Liu Xinda said: "Shi Zhuang will not give us a chance to breathe, let alone allow us to rescue Xun Qi, I hope that Gongzhuling has not been attacked by the Tang army." Did you see it, in the Tang army camp, there was no Luo Hongwei's general banner, he only had one direction to go, that is, to detour for dozens of miles, forcibly cross the Guangshui River, and then attack Gongzhuling! ”

Fu Xiaotian was silent.

It was originally a stalemate, but in the blink of an eye, they fell into a total passivity.

Beneath all the previous calm, there were rough seas.

"I'm not as good as Shi Zhuang!" Liu Xinda said faintly: "I was deceived by him so badly this time, if I can go back alive in this battle, the next time I bump into him, I will definitely not be fooled like this again." ”

The last ray of sunlight stayed on the top of the mountain in the distance for a while, and then sank under the top of the mountain, Liang Han stood on a hillside, looking at the southern army that was rushing forward in a long snake formation not far away, and said with a smile: "The general is amazing, he actually calculated a series of reactions of the enemy so accurately, haha, look at Lao Tzu today a tiger coming down the mountain." ”

Lifting the spear in his hand, the halberd pointed to the bottom of the mountain, and shouted angrily: "Attack!" ”

More than 2,000 cavalry, like a whirlwind and clouds, rushed down the slope and rushed towards the long snake-like Xun Qi in the distance.

Xunbu was suddenly in chaos.

In the blink of an eye, the long snake array was cut into several pieces that could not be taken care of.

In Guangshui City, the Tang army under the command of Ren Dagou once again launched an attack on Xu Yong's inner village, and on the other side, Shen Lizhi commanded his cavalry, and at the same time began to attack.

However, the intensity of their attacks was not very strong, and once the attack was frustrated, they immediately retreated.

In Xu Yong's opinion, his defense was successful. He just had to hold out for now until reinforcements arrived. The intensity of the enemy's attacks was not as good as one time at a time, and it was clear that after a day of fierce fighting, they were tired, and the Tang army was also tired.

At this time, on the Gongzhu Ridge, Xun Qi's deputy general Zhu Rong was stunned to look at the banner of the Northern Tang Army that appeared in the distance, and the Luo Zi general flag fluttered in the wind.

Xun Qi has been walking for half a day, and now there are only more than 5,000 people on Gongzhuling. And at this moment, the attacking Tang Army, no matter how you look at it, has exceeded the scale of 10,000 people.