Chaohu Lake is also known as Chaohu Lake, Jiaohu Lake, located in the southwest of Huainan, extending more than 130 miles from east to west, more than 50 miles wide from north to south, the lake area is wide, second only to Hongzepu between Jianghuai and Huai, above Fanliang Lake.

The Chaohu Lake water system extends to the entire Huaixi region, forming the Huaixi water network, connecting the Huai River and the Yangtze River.

Occupy Chaohu Lake, can pose a threat to the middle and lower reaches of the Yangtze River, can be described as "peeking into the moat, Jinling is in danger", so it has always been one of the important passages for the northern soldiers and horses to go south, and it is also the place where the soldiers of the Jianghuai River must win in the past dynasties.

Because the terrain around Chaohu Lake is low mountains and shallow hills, the upstream gathers the streams and rivers of the surrounding mountains, and the downstream flows into the Yangtze River from between the Weixu Mountain and Qibao Mountain in the west of Liyang County, through the Yuxi River, and winds for more than 60 miles.

The Yuxi River is also the only waterway that leads to Chaohu Lake in the world.

As the mouth of the south of Chaohu Lake, the two mountains confront each other, the Yuxi River flows through, and the upstream is the deep and wide Chaohu Lake Bay, and the terrain is very dangerous.

At the end of the Han Dynasty, the coast of Chaohu Lake was the focus of contention between Wu and Wei.

Zhuge Liang later called Cao Wei "four times over Chaohu Lake is not successful", which means that Wu and Wei launched four large-scale wars in the Chaohu area in just eight years.

Sun Wu in order to reject Cao Wei, in the east bank of the Yuxi River in the Xuxu Mountain to build a fortress, called the Xuwu, as the land stronghold of the Wu State Naval Army, and because it is located on the east bank of the Yuxi River, called Dongguan, all dynasties have to be repaired, has been preserved to this day.

The sediment accumulation along the Chaohu Lake, and the depth of thirty or forty miles from the south of the Weixu Mountain, and the silt beach on the north bank of the Yangtze River is mainly the mudflat, which makes the Yuxi River not only seriously silted, but also changed many times in the past hundred years, and the navigation conditions are extremely poor.

In particular, the terrain between the Mt. Wet and the Mt. Qibao is high, blocking the water of the mighty Chaohu Lake to the north, and the water level is lower in the dry season in autumn and winter, and it is common for the flow to be cut off in previous years.

Although the Yuxi River has not been interrupted in the autumn and winter in the past two years, there is no way for small and medium-sized ships with a load of about 100 stones to directly enter Chaohu Lake through the mouth of the water.

Even so, Li Zhihe led his troops to seize the two states of Chaozhou, and when the army advanced into the territory of Chaozhou, he was still on the east bank of the Yuxi River for the first time, in the position of Guwei Xuwu, to further strengthen the construction of Dongguan Village.

Of course, after the withdrawal of the Huaixi Forbidden Army, Dongguan Village fell into the hands of the Shouzhou Army.

On the twentieth day of the first month of the third year of Yanyou, dozens of winged boats set off from Fanchang City on the south bank, crossed the Yangtze River, and entered the Yuxi River through the mouth of Yuxi to the north.

Even if the navigation conditions of Yuxi River are extremely poor, as the only waterway through Chaohu Lake in the world, the strategic value of Dongguan Village cannot be ignored.

The Shouzhou Army has two battalions of more than 600 elite soldiers and horses stationed in Dongguan Village.

For Han Qian, Dongguan Village, located at the foot of the southern foot of the Misu Mountain, is not only the only way to cut off the enemy on the southwest shore of Chaohu Lake to reinforce Liyang City through the south bank of Chaohu Lake, but also after the capture of Dongguan Village, even if it is a winch, even if it is to requisition thousands of slender men, a group of small and medium-sized warships can be dragged through the mouth of Chaohu Lake into Chaohu Lake.

At this time, the streams and rivers north of Chaohu Lake are still frozen, and there are no warships of the Lou Boat Army in Chaohu Lake, who can send the warships into Chaohu Lake first, will definitely be able to take the lead, and even force the enemy to strengthen the defense along the north and west banks of Chaohu Lake.

Hence the Liyang War

The first battle took place at the southern foot of the Wet Sushan without warning - Han Qian chose the first battle in Dongguan Village, and more importantly, this could directly interfere with the judgment of the enemy generals on their combat intentions.

The Shouzhou army entered the territory of Chuzhou, and hastily built the camp at the eastern foot of Tingzi Mountain, which was only built on top of the village, and the parapet wall was only more than two feet thick, and it could not withstand the violent impact of the car several times, and it collapsed out of the gap, but Dongguan Village was a standard military dock fort very early.

Dongguan Village has been strengthened in the hands of the Huaixi Forbidden Army, and the city wall is more than one zhang and three feet thick, and the inner and outer sides are covered with bricks and stones.

The city wall of Dongguan Village, there are corner towers at the four corners, the city wall that is only more than 300 steps wide on one side, but there are three rectangular piers that protrude from the city wall and are commonly known as horse faces.

This not only further strengthened the structure of the wall, but also suppressed the attacking side directly from the side.

Even if the roads between the hills and mudflats are inconvenient, it only takes two or three days for the enemy troops on the left and right to reinforce them.

At this time, the Tangyi soldiers had not been able to penetrate in a roundabout way, and they could not effectively block the reinforcements of the enemy.

At this time, in addition to the follow-up from the Yuxi estuary to continuously mobilize new troops and horses, directly landing on both sides of the Yuxi River, along the Weixu Mountain, Qibao Mountain to the two flanks of Dongguan Village, intercepting the enemy troops coming to help, the attack on Dongguan Village is very rough and direct.

Thousands of barrels of tung oil or oil extracted from other crops were transported to the offensive positions.

After more than a dozen cyclone cannons were erected, they did not throw stone shells.

Attacking such a strong fortress, even if two or three hundred pounds of stone bullets could accurately hit its front, it would be impossible to collapse the city wall into a large gap in three or five days; Not to mention that the soldiers and civilians in the village will move bricks, wood, stone and soil to fill the gap at any time.

As long as the fire is ignited, hundreds of tung oil and other oils will be thrown into Dongguan Village at any cost, and even molten iron juice will be poured into the city, directly and brutally destroying the city wall defense facilities and buildings in the city at the same time, killing and injuring the defenders as much as possible.

Dozens of building cars and nest cars were assembled, and more than 100 generals were armed with strong crossbows to suppress the guards at the head of the city, covering Han Bao and other soldiers wearing heavy armor, and killing the head of the city with the help of battle weapons such as climbing vehicles.

The guards are all veterans who have grown up in bloody battles, and the counterattacks are extremely brave and fierce, and the Tangyi soldiers don't know how many weapons have been destroyed.

However, no matter how limited the role that can be played by weapons in the era of cold weapons, it also has a huge advantage that is difficult to reverse for the side that is fully prepared; The 600 defenders held out for two days before they were completely annihilated.

The fighting did not stop when the defenders of Dongguan Village were completely annihilated.

As the only waterway that controls Chaohu Lake, Dongguan Village has a strategic position.

The Tangyi soldiers stormed Dongguan Village at any cost, and there were enough reasons to believe that Han Qian had the determination to send the warships into Chaohu Lake to compete for the first opportunity, and no matter how bad the Lou Boat Army entered Chaohu Lake in the future, it would be blocked in Chaohu Lake, and it would be difficult to enter the Yangtze River.

The enemy army on the west bank of Chaohu Lake was restrained by the Huaixi Forbidden Army and did not send troops and horses to help, but after the Tangyi soldiers captured the camp at the eastern foot of Tingzi Mountain and built a fortress at the mouth of the Wushou River, the Shouzhou Army also strengthened the defense in Liyang County west of the Wushou River and west of the Chuhe River; The Liyang garrison increased from 2,000 at the beginning to more than 4,000.

The Tangyi soldiers launched a surprise attack on Dongguan Village, and it was impossible for the Liyang guards to sit idly by and watch the Dongguan Village fall to their own Dongguan Village.

Liyang Shou

On the one hand, he sent people to Chaozhou City and Chuzhou City to ask for reinforcements, and on the other hand, he personally led 3,000 soldiers and horses to reinforce Dongguan Village from the southern foot of Misu Mountain.

From Liyang City to Dongguan Village, but more than 80 miles.

At noon on the second day of the first battle of Dongguan Village, Xiao Dahu led the soldiers and horses that entered the southern foot of the Xuxu Mountain, and they were entangled and fought with the Liyang defenders who went out of the city to reinforce Dongguan Village.

At this time, Zhou Chu, Lin Haizheng, Zhao Qi, Su Lie and others led more than 10,000 soldiers and horses gathered in Tingzi Mountain, Wushou River and other places, and then they brazenly dispatched and advanced westward along both banks of the Chu River as quickly as possible.

Zhou went straight to Liyang City, he wanted to take advantage of the fact that a large number of defenders were lured out of Liyang City by the tiger from the mountain, to complete the siege of Liyang City, which only had more than 1,000 defenders left, and capture Liyang City as quickly as possible.

Lin Haizheng and Zhao Qi led their troops to enter the upper reaches of the Chuhe River with the cooperation of the Shuiying warships, and intercepted the reinforcements from Chuzhou City and Chaozhou City to cross the shallow and narrow Chuhe River upstream to reinforce Liyang......

Even if you don't consider that Xu Mingzhen can mobilize a large number of soldiers and horses from Shouzhou, Huozhou, and Zhongli in the future, even if the enemy troops west of Chaohu Lake are entangled by Li Zhihe, Xu Mingzhen has more than 30,000 soldiers and horses in Chuzhou and Chaozhou that can be mobilized.

In comparison, the strength of the Tangyi soldiers is still at a disadvantage.

Even if you don't consider that the new soldiers who have been trained for less than a month account for more than half of the total strength, the total number of Tangyi soldiers that Han Qian can call on is only more than 24,000 people.

The only favorable factor was that the Tangyi soldiers used the Chuhe River and the Yangtze River to transport materials, war equipment, and soldiers and horses, which was much more convenient and faster than the enemy's army.

Of course, the accumulation of several years in Xuzhou has made the Tangyi soldiers have an advantage in armor and weapons far stronger than the Shouzhou army, which has just been supplied with sufficient materials.

This also made the Tangyi soldiers rely on weapons and the command of the mature military attache system in Xuzhou, and showed stronger combat effectiveness than the Shouzhou Army in field battles.

Therefore, Han Qian dared to order Lin Haizheng, Zhao Qi, Su Lie and others to lead their troops directly on the north bank of the Chuhe River, relying on the terrain such as the mountain passes and passes of Fucha and other mountains to form formations to intercept the enemy troops who were going south for reinforcements.

Killing the enemy army to the greatest extent possible in the field battle and severely damaging the morale of the enemy army was also Han Qian's operational intention.

After all, the subsequent fierce military confrontation will not end because they capture Liyang City.

At this time, in addition to capturing Liyang City as quickly as possible, they also had to consider suppressing the enemy army north of Fucha Mountain on the north bank of the Chuhe River.

Otherwise, even if they capture Liyang City, but let the enemy control Fucha Mountain to establish a stronghold, as long as Xu Mingzhen transfers enough troops and horses from Huozhou, Shouzhou, and Zhongli, he can cross the shallow and narrow river in the upper reaches of the Chuhe River at any time and launch a counterattack on Liyang City.

In that case, after Han Qian conquered Liyang, the strategic intention of the Tangyi soldiers to be able to rest and recuperate calmly would not be realized.

Once the follow-up war evolves into a situation in which the main force of the Liang army removes the strategic focus from the eastern front to the western front, the Tangyi soldiers will most likely face a protracted and tragic war until they are completely disabled, and there is probably no chance to rest and recuperate halfway.

You must know that the adjustment speed of the main force of the cavalry of the Liang army is extremely fast, and Zhu Yu, the emperor of Liang, transferred 20,000 or 30,000 cavalry of the Liang army from the eastern front to the western front, and the fastest speed may only take five or six days.

For a time, the war broke out in and around Liyang, and the interception battle at the western foot of Fucha Mountain was the most tragic......

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