Li Xiu and Li Qi led their troops to cross the Chu River, and then directly bypassed the western foot of the Great Thorn Mountain, rushed to the mouth of the Wushou River into the Yangtze River, where they waited for the warships of the Xuzhou Water Camp to come, and then sent them to Shuzhou to meet the Huaixi Forbidden Army.

After Wei Zhen was kidnapped and escorted back to Jinling to punish the crime, the more than 1,000 Chuzhou officials and soldiers who followed Li Xiu and Li Zhen's cavalry to the foot of Tingzi Mountain were gathered in the simple camp temporarily built at the foot of the south side of Dazhai at the eastern foot of Tingzi Mountain to accept reorganization.

The defenders of Chuzhou City are mainly recruited from the soldiers of the family who rushed to the north bank to occupy the fields and plunder the slaves and maids in the early days, and the armor is quite sophisticated, and there are more than 1,000 war horses that are extremely rare.

In addition to the small-scale free-range breeding, there will also be a small number of Qiang horses and Yunnan horses imported through Shu or through Guizhou through the Ruanjiang River channel every year.

In recent years, Han Qian ruled Xuzhou, and also continued to buy short but strong endurance Yunnan horses from Qianzhong, Nanzhao and other places, and now there are tens of thousands of horses, but they are mainly used to supplement the shortage of animal power in farming and craftsman workshops.

As far as the cavalry is concerned, even counting the war horses captured during the Jinling Incident, the Xuzhou cavalry battalion finally only composed more than 500 soldiers, and they were all still the guard battalion to protect Han Qian's safety.

In addition to the extreme cost of cavalry maintenance, Xuzhou has many mountains and rivers, which is not conducive to cavalry combat.

Of course, Han Qian was able to requisition more horses from Xuzhou to serve as war horses during the war, but because it was extremely difficult to transport horses as large livestock, the early transportation capacity still had to be freed up to transport the most scarce materials such as generals and armor and weapons.

Therefore, Tangyi barely scraped together a thousand cavalry before, in addition to a part of the cavalry led by Xi Fa'er, Guo Ke and others to act as a reconnaissance cavalry, and a part of the cavalry led by Han Donghu to stay behind Han Qian as a guard cavalry, and some of the cavalry was taken away by Kong Xirong, and at this time they were stranded in the Wujian Mountains, together with the remnants of the water division and the people who Chuzhou withdrew into the Wujian Mountains.

In fact, at this time, the Tangyi soldiers no longer had a cavalry that could be used for assault or roundabout attacks.

Knowing that the evacuated defenders of Chuzhou City had more than 1,000 war horses, Zhao Wuji, who had only arrived in Tangyi by boat yesterday and planned to reorganize a cavalry battalion by him, rushed over with people at noon to monopolize these war horses.

Feng Xuanhe, who led his troops to camp at the mouth of the Wushou River, and Zhou and Tiancheng, who stayed in Puyang Daying and Tangyi, did not agree.

Feng Xuan was in charge of the Tingshan camp, and when Lin Haizheng, Tian Cheng, and Zhou heard the news, they also rushed over in advance in the name of deliberations and asked for a share of the pie from this batch of war horses.

On the basis of a small number of elite infantry battalions in Xuzhou, their units were incorporated into the old headquarters of the Zuoguang German Army and the vagabonds, and in a short period of time they were rapidly expanded to three or four thousand people.

It was also inconvenient for Han Qian to meddle in this kind of matter, and they would discuss the division by themselves.

In addition to the war horses, Han Qian also asked them to divide the more than 1,000 Chuzhou defenders into various battalions to dispose of them.

Everyone only thinks about war horses, but they are not very interested in the generals of the Chuzhou garrison who are mainly recruited from the family clan, and even regard it as trouble.

In the early days of the Tangyi army, in addition to the water camp led by Yang Qin and Lin Zongjing to reinforce them, they also expanded the Wudu Infantry Cavalry on the basis of more than 3,000 elite members of the elite congregations of Xuzhou and Chishan at the fastest speed.

In the early stage, it was mainly due to the comprehensive cooperation of Zhou Yi, who directly dismantled and incorporated the 3,000 Jiangzhou soldiers into Zhudu.

Later, Chen Jingzhou led more than 1,000 Guangde soldiers and 3,000 Guangde soldiers based on the old headquarters of the Zuo Guangde Army to cross the river, plus recruited thousands of brave people from the homeless, so that in a very short period of time, the Tangyi soldiers and Wudu cavalry started from scratch, and the strength of the army expanded sharply to more than 17,000 people.

Whether it is the elite of Xuzhou or the old department of the German army of Zuoguang, or the state soldiers brought by Zhou Yi from Jiangzhou, the quality of the soldiers is quite good.

In addition to the Jiangzhou soldiers and the brave people, there are more than 7,000 generals who can be said to have a deep relationship with Xuzhou and Han Qian.

And Lin Haizheng, Zhou Chu, Feng Xuan, Zhao Wuji, Guo Ke, Lin Zongjing, He Liufeng, Xiao Dahu, Dou Rong, Wei Xu and other generals are also very prestigious among these generals, and they are also quite familiar with the grassroots military attachés.

In addition, Xuzhou has always attached great importance to the training of grassroots military attachés.

Therefore, the reorganization speed of the Tangyi soldiers is extremely fast, and they already have considerable combat effectiveness after the reorganization is almost completed.

This is also the key to being able to directly enter the battlefield in such a short period of time, and the Shouzhou army will be caught off guard.

Of course, the hasty incorporation of six or seven thousand untrained homeless people will still have a relatively serious negative impact on the combat effectiveness of the various units.

Last night, Feng Xuan led his troops to storm the camp at the eastern foot of Tingzi Mountain, and the casualties were much heavier than those of the defenders, which is proof.

Although Han Qian's strategic intentions were very clear to many generals, when actually commanding the troops and horses to fight, too many new soldiers had to rush into battle to fight a war of attrition, and the generals who got along with the generals day and night were still more or less psychologically unacceptable.

At this time, Han Qian wanted to break up the Chuzhou defenders who were extremely resistant and distributed them to the various departments to receive, and everyone was eager to refuse directly, so it was better to recruit more untrained homeless people.

Zhao Wuji refused the most simply, and the reorganized cavalry battalion would have to serve as reconnaissance, escort and other tasks in the future, and the loyalty of the generals was high, and basically they could only be recruited from the old headquarters of the Zuoguang German Army and the innocent homeless young people.

Pushed back and forth, and in the end, more than 1,000 generals were forcibly given to Zhou Chu and Lin Haizheng, who would be the main attack of Liyang City in the future.

Liyang City, located at the southern foot of Qingcang Mountain and west of Chaohu Lake, although there are only more than 2,000 defenders at present, the city is highly dangerous, and it is definitely much more difficult to gnaw than the camp at the eastern foot of Tingzi Mountain, where the parapet wall is only five or six feet.

Liyang is located between Chuchao, and the importance of the strategic location is not even under Tangyi, when Li Zhihe led his troops to attack Chaozhou City, he was also stationed in Liyang with elites.

However, when withdrawing troops from Chaozhou City, Li Zhihe never expected Han Qian's military strength to develop so rapidly in Tangyi, and he directly abandoned Liyang City at that time and withdrew all his troops and horses to Shuzhou in the southwest of Chaozhou.

And just a month ago, Han Qian didn't know when the imperial court's attitude towards him would soften, and he didn't dare to easily disperse his limited forces, so he could only sit back and watch Wen Bo directly divide his troops from Chaozhou City and take over Liyang City without spending a single soldier.

The distance between Liyang City and Chaozhou City and Chuzhou City is less than 100 miles, once they launch an attack on Liyang City, it is difficult to fall suddenly, and the Shouzhou army can quickly reinforce from other directions.

In order to capture Liyang City, in addition to besieging the city, it is also necessary to consider attacking the enemy reinforcements from Chaozhou City and Chuzhou City from two directions.

Since there are more than 50,000 Shouzhou troops stationed in Chaozhou City and the surrounding fortresses, if they all come to reinforce Liyang, it is impossible for the Tangyi soldiers to block the enemy's troops, and at this time, Li Zhihe needs to send troops from Shuzhou to contain the Chaozhou defenders.

If it is possible, it is even necessary to send troops from Yangzhou from Wang Wenqian and Zhao Zhen to contain a part of the Shouzhou army from Chuzhou.

In short, this battle was much more complicated than the previous two camps, but Han Qian asked Feng Yi, Gao Shao and others to formulate a complete battle plan within twenty days, and asked all the troops to prepare for the arrival of troops under Liyang City at the same time.

After all, if they delay any longer, when the Shouzhou army transports a large number of war materials into Liyang City from the rear, they will be doubly difficult if they want to capture Liyang City again.

However, if Liyang City and Fucha Mountain to the north cannot be controlled, there is no way to cut off the connection between Chuzhou City and Chaozhou City from the east.

In order to ensure the combat mission of storming Liyang City, Lin Haizheng and the two divisions of Zhou will temporarily expand to 5,000 people, and Feng Xuan will expand the camp at the eastern foot of Tingzi Mountain to confuse the enemy army.

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One day of military discussion, near dusk, Han Qiancai and Xi Ying, Feng Yi, Guo Rong, Han Chengmeng, Chen Zhiyong and others returned to the South Bank camp to rest.

Although they haven't had a good rest for more than ten days in a row, and they can only squeeze out a small amount of time every day to squint for a while to replenish their energy, even if the war is over for the time being, and it is already dark when they return to the south bank, Han Qian, who is used to handling affairs at a strong pace, still has no sleep.

Han Qian thought that when Yin Peng left before noon, he said that Wang Wenqian had more than a dozen books for him to bring over this time, so he asked someone to bring those books.

A thick stack of books was wrapped in silk cloth, and Xi Ying helped unpack the package, and saw that more than a dozen books were actually an ancient book "Yue Jue Shu" that recorded the miscellaneous history before the Wu Yue Warring States Period.

"What is Wang Wenqian's purpose in sending me this set of miscellaneous histories?" Han Qian felt a little inexplicable, and took a book and flipped through it on Xi Ying's thigh, also as a rest.

Xi Yi also picked up a rather old book and looked through it for 100 yuan, but he didn't know what the intention was.

"Oh......" After a long time, Xi Ying thought that Han Qian was asleep with his pillow, but when he heard him let out an emotional voice, he looked down curiously and asked, "What did you see?" ”

"These books were sent by Wang Jun to Yin Peng, Yin Peng is inconvenient to say directly, this is why Wang Wenqian gave it to me, and I also said that Wang Wenqian and I have a friendship with books!" Han Qian said.

"What does Wang Jun mean by sending this set of books?" Xi Ying's beautiful eyes widened, and he asked puzzled.

Han Qian raised the book in his hand and pointed to a passage he had just flipped to show her: "...... The teaching of the current (water) army, the law of the Ling (land) army, can be used, the big wings should be the heavy car of the Ling army, and the small winged should be the light car of the Ling army; The raiders should be the chariots of the Ling army, the boat builders should be the chariots of the Ling army, and the bridge boaters should be the light hussars of the Ling army - this text is about the situation of the Wu State naval army in the Spring and Autumn Period. At that time, Wu and Vietnam competed for supremacy in the land of Jianghuai, and the naval army was not limited to fighting in inland rivers and streams, but also fought for control of the surrounding sea areas. And when the state of Wu was strong, the Northern Expedition to the state of Qi once used a partial division to attack the coastal fortress of the state of Qi by sea......"

"Wang Jun, does she think that Zhu Yu is preparing to build a naval camp in Haizhou, and it is possible to attack the Jianghuai coast from the sea?" Xi Ying asked in surprise.