In mid-October, Guo Shao heard that Li Chuyun had captured Tongling (northeast of Chizhou).

The situation is a bit more complicated. There are two Jiangxinzhou in the river near Chizhou, called Fengyi and Changxiang, and the existence of Jiangxinzhou greatly shortens the distance across the Yangtze River, making it possible for Li Chuyun to build a pontoon bridge. However, the river is fast and the water surface is not narrow, and the fragile pontoon bridge was destroyed within a few days.

The Gao Yanyu Department of the Jiannan Army was still in Jiangbei, and was ordered to cross the river by boat, but did not catch up with Li Chuyun's main force. Li Chuyun marched into Tongling in a hurry, captured the garrison and water village of Nan**, and captured more than 200 warships...... At this time, Gao Yanyan's men and horses were still in Chizhou and had not completely crossed the Yangtze River.

Li Chuyun was like a bamboo, and the generals couldn't stop it in this situation, and he continued to go north into Wuhu after occupying Tongling. Completely ignoring the threat in the direction of Hukou (Poyang Lake) and Gao Yanyan's situation.

Guo Shao couldn't sit still, and hurriedly ordered the Chinese army to move to Hezhou (Hexian on the other side of the quarry rock in Ma'anshan City) to pay attention to the battle situation in the south of the Yangtze River. He also sent people to urge the Luzhou Tiger Army to rush to Chizhou.

In the second half of the year, the southern Tang garrison of Wuhu was empty and defeated. After Li Chuyun's army of more than 10,000 people occupied this place, he left a small number of soldiers and horses to continue to spy on the town of Dangtu near the quarrying ferry...... When Guo Shao got the report, Li Chuyun had already marched towards Dangtu.

…… In the lobby of the state government, all Guo Shao could do was to use a ruler to constantly measure the distance between places.

Wang Pu said beside him: "Li Chuyun is faster than Shi Yanchao......"

Shi Yanchao's expression was very embarrassed, and he couldn't reveal Li Chuyun's shortcomings at this time.

Guo Shao had a feeling that he couldn't stop when he stepped on the brakes, Wuhu couldn't reach Dangtu for dozens of miles, even if he sent someone to order Li Chuyun to stop the attack now, it would be too late, maybe Li Chuyun had already arrived at Dangtu now...... What's more, Guo Shao didn't want to stop Li Chuyun at all, otherwise he would have given the order a long time ago.

When Tu Zhen is always mentioned in the annals of military history, the place that is always mentioned in the book is a very important strategic place, because it is always in these place names that wars, it will be mentioned many times. This place controls quarrying, the upper reaches of Jiangning Mansion, and is a very important place in the Jiangnan area...... Conquer this city, and the quarrying ferry is in the bag.

As long as this place is occupied, the flames of war will burn directly to Jiangning Mansion, the center of the Southern Tang Kingdom, and the blocking effect of the Yangtze River will seem to be gone. a central breakthrough, a very fast offensive line; Compared to advancing from the upstream city to city, this road is a shortcut. Li Chuyun is greedy for merit, and Guo Shao is also anxious.

There are really loopholes in the national defense management of the Southern Tang Kingdom, and Guo Shao is unwilling to stop Li Chuyun, otherwise he may be questioned for being timid and afraid of neglecting the fighter in the future.

But at the same time, Guo Shao is also under great psychological pressure...... The strength of the Southern Tang Kingdom is still very strong, and there are hundreds of thousands of troops in various places, which is not an imaginary number. And Li Chuyun's tens of thousands of people in the middle of his border, there were threats on all sides, and he also stretched the battle line hundreds of miles long without backup and insufficient preparation, and his lone army went deep into the strategic place of the Southern Tang Kingdom.

Guo Shao felt that Li Chuyun's approach was very risky and could not afford any accident, once defeated, from Dangtu to Chizhou, Chizhou to Jiangbei, the entire front would be broken.

"It's almost November, and it's been more than a month since the war began." Guo Shao groaned, "The enemy army in the southern capital is still standing still, and they are not coming?" ”

Wang Pu said: "If Zhu Lingyun would come from Hukou, he should have come a long time ago." Li Yu or Zhu Lingyun can delay the reinforcements at Hukou for more than a month, and they will delay even longer......," he persuaded again, "Li Chuyun can thread the needle all the way through the river, he must be a knowledgeable person, he is in a hurry to attack and be Tu, he should have a chance of winning." ”

Guo Shao paced back and forth: "Jiangning Mansion (Nanjing) wants reinforcements from Dangtu, and the distance is not far...... I only hope that Li Yu will continue to make mistakes, and the court of the Southern Tang Kingdom is still as slow to react as before. ”

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When Tu Town, Li Chuyun took the lead in riding his horse to the south bank of the Guxi River, and the army was still in the rear, and they clashed with the Nan** scouts all the way.

The old city wall towers across the river, Li Chuyun Lema first observed the city in the line of sight, this city is not big, but the Southern Tang Kingdom disposed of a section of the town Xiongyuan army on the ground; The brick-clad walls and moat make it look different from other small towns. The Guxi River in the south of the city has become a natural moat in the south of Dangtu, and there is a water gate in the city wall, and the moat has also been dug on the east, west and north sides...... If this city is defended with all its heart, it will not be easy to attack.

There are sporadic warships cruising on the Guxi River, and the people on it can see it clearly, but the warships did not rush over to threaten Li Chuyun's team, they only watched from afar on the river.

Li Chuyun looked around, a flat open field, very suitable for the army to set up a battle formation. The place where he stood was crossed by the Guxi River and Dangtu Town to the north, and the Qingshan River, which flows north-south to the east, joins the Guxi River, and then flows into the Yangtze River to the west; The west side of Li Chuyun Station and the west side of Dangtu City are all open fields.

The neighing of horses was heard in the distance behind him, and Li Chuyun turned his head, only to see that the troops on several major roads had appeared in sight, and his men and horses were advancing towards this side.

And when the west of Tucheng and the other side of the Guxi River also faintly showed signs of Nan**, Nan** seemed to have deployed troops outside the city in the west.

Li Chuyun looked sideways at the sun in the west, and said, "Order all departments to choose a place to camp." In the evening, he sent a fine work to cross the river and report the situation of the south. ”

"Order!"

Zhang Lingduo, the commander of the right wing of Long Jiejun, asked at this time: "Does Gong Li have a strategy?" ”

"Nope." Li Chuyun said calmly, "The fortifications of this city are well organized, and we have too few people now, and it is difficult to make a strong attack effective." ”

Zhang Lingduo asked, "Do you want to wait for Gao Yanyu to send reinforcements?" ”

Li Chuyun said disapplausively: "How can the people of Shu be willing to work for us, it's not very useful, don't worry about it...... There is no need to wait, our army will not attack the city, but first cross the Guxi River and seize the quarry rock.

When the defenders of Tucheng did not have the strength to stop our troops. First of all, their naval army was weak, and apparently there were no reinforcements to strengthen the defenses; Secondly, the south ** turtle cowered on the north bank of the Guxi River, with a sign of stubborn defense, only the lack of troops would be so conservative. ”

Li Chuyun rode along the river to the west, until he reached the edge of the Yangtze River, and the sun was about to set. The soldiers advised him to return to the barracks, but he still sat on his horse and observed the situation with his own eyes.

Looking to the west, the Yangtze River is very narrow here, but the opposite bank is not Jiangbei, but Jiangxinzhou; If you hadn't figured out the terrain in advance, you might have thought that the Yangtze River had narrowed here, and the land north of the river was on the opposite side...... In fact, it is not, just because this Jiangxinzhou is too big, the river water is divided into two streams.

Not far to the north is one of the most important ferries in the lower reaches of the Yangtze River, but now Li Chuyun can't see it with his eyes. His eyes looked at the northern horizon and he could imagine the place.

The opposite side of the quarry rock is the north corner of Jiangxinzhou, and the opposite bank is the territory of Jiangbei and Zhou. Li Chuyun had learned that Guo Shao had moved the Chinese army to Hezhou, and the two were already very close at this time.

This place is very important, and it has always been a breakthrough point for the north to attack the south of the Yangtze River; Judging from Guo Shao's strategy for attacking the Southern Tang Dynasty, the goal is also here, and this place will be the core of the overall campaign.

Li Chuyun secretly pondered: Take the quarry, no one has as much credit as me for other generals! As long as Guo Shao ascends the throne in the future, the old man will lay the luck of the Li family for a hundred years by virtue of the two most critical contributions of the Tokyo Mutiny last year and the battle against the Southern Tang Dynasty this year!

"Tomorrow cross the river to clean the south outside the city of Tu, and then attack the quarry rock, to achieve the goal is to quarry the bridge through the river, when the Jiangbei reinforcements cross the river, and then try to be Tu City." Li Chuyun said to the general.

…… The next morning, as soon as the sky was bright, the elite main force of the right wing of the Long Jie Army was on the south bank of the Guxi River, and the formation was set up by the river. In the morning, the water was fought first, and the south ** water was quickly swept away. The most important role here is to control the Yangtze River ferry, but there are very few sailors here in Nan**, and they are not at all the opponents of the more than 300 warships of the Zhou army.

When the sun rose, the warships of the Zhou army, with a shallow draft, had entered the Guxi River for activities.

A large number of men and horses on the north bank and the Zhou army battle array across the river, but this could not prevent the Zhou army from crossing the narrow Guxi River. To the west of the city alone, there are more than ten miles of land on the riverbank, and it is impossible for the south to scatter the originally small number of people and horses on the riverside.

More than 200 people from the Zhou Army's Naval Division took the lead in going ashore in one place, and Nan** moved cavalry over there. When Li Chuyun rode his horse to the place where he crossed the river, he saw that the cavalry of the Southern Tang Dynasty had broken up the phalanx of the infantry of the naval division, and the sound of killing on the opposite bank was shocking, and the swords and guns were dancing wildly and were fighting. More sailors abandoned their boats and landed on the shore and assembled battle formations by the river.

Zhang Lingduo's temperament was a little anxious, and after watching it for a while, he shouted: "Look at those sailors fighting, let me lead the troops by boat!" ”

Zhang Lingduo has little to do with Li Chuyun, and he is the commander of all the wings, and now he can't control the right wing of the Long Jie Army. So Li Chuyun didn't stop him.

Zhang Lingduo then abandoned his horse with his own soldiers and crossed the Guxi River. The river is not wide, and you can see the fighting there from the south bank. Seeing Zhang Lingduo jumping off the boat, he pounced with a spear, and killed the two with his own hands in an instant. This martial arts is really good...... Zhang Lingduo has no one on top, and he can command the commander of the chamber and basically rely on his military exploits, and these generals are all brave and brave.

Seeing that Nan** could not defeat a group of people who landed on the shore, Li Chuyun judged that there was hope for crossing the river from here. At that moment, he ordered the elite soldiers of the guard division to cross the river by boat, and there were more and more soldiers of the Zhou army on the other side.

More landing sites appeared Zhou soldiers, and at this time the warships began to transport horses, and some cavalry got warhorses and were gathering in the west to form a horse team. Nan** came from the east to reinforce the second cavalry, but a horse team of more than 100 horsemen of the nearby Zhou army had already become a momentum, and it immediately rushed straight over under the personal leadership of Zhang Lingduo.