Liuhe, Chushui.

Chen Ling led 8,000 soldiers and horses to camp near the river and build a fence.

At this time, his more than 20,000 soldiers and horses were stationed in Liyang, Wujiang, Quanjiao, and Qinghe counties, and there were 20,000 soldiers and horses.

"Chen Ling wants to borrow Jiang to stop me!"

Kan Ling looked at Sui Jundao on the other side.

Du Fuwei pointed to the Chuhe River, "Even such a shallow river, and you want to stop my army?" "He Sui Luocheng went to the east and west, crossed countless rivers, and even crossed the sea, the Yangtze River, the Yellow River, Jishui, the Liao River, Yalu Shui, Bohai Bay, which is not wider and deeper than this river.

"Under the festival, now in the dry season of winter, the water surface of the Chuhe River in front is about 20 zhang wide, and the depth is about one person deep."

"I didn't think this small river was quite deep." Hearing the return of the Tanma, Du Fuwei was a little surprised, and he was one person deep in the depths, that is, he could not cross the river directly.

"Jiexia, this is just a tributary of Chushui, we can go north along the river, or not far, the northern section of the river is narrower and the water is shallower, and we can cross the river directly."

The Chuhe River originates from the mountainous area east of Chaohu Lake, but the upstream water is shallow, especially in winter at this time, so when Du Fuwei and his troops came out of Liyang, they had already crossed the upper reaches of the Chuhe River, in fact, they were also on the north bank of the Chuhe River at this time.

It's just that in the land of Jianghuai, there are many rivers.

And now the place where Chen Ling is guarding is the east bank of a tributary of the Tu River.

This tributary is still deep at the mouth of the river that joins Chushui, and if it is in the spring and summer flood season, it can reach more than one zhang deep.

"Then go around to the north and cross the river."

Chen Ling was a little disappointed when he saw that Du Fuwei did not directly cross the river to attack.

But there is no choice but to continue to pull out the camp and follow across the river, which is also a shortcoming of the Jianghuai land, where there are many plains. Once Du Fuwei crosses the river, it will be difficult to stop, he wants to go to Jiangdu, so he can go anywhere, extending in all directions.

It is almost impossible to want to be like the north, guarding a pass valley and waiting for work.

A few days later.

Du Fuwei finally led his army to cross the river, where the water was only about ten zhang wide, and the water was less than knee-deep.

At the sound of the horn, Kan Ling held a strange knife, rode a horse and led a thousand light horsemen to cross the river first, and Chen Ling intercepted along the river.

The two armies fought fiercely, and Chen Ling personally sat on the front line of the riverbank.

His subordinates did show bravery, but Kan Ling was even more fierce.

Du's army launched more than ten fierce attacks in a row, and finally Chen Ling's army could not resist and had to retreat.

Fortunately, Chen Ling commanded the army in a good way, although he retreated, he did not break down, and he never let Kan Ling's cavalry find a breakthrough.

Du Fuwei's army successfully crossed the river with the whole army, and Chen Ling retreated ten miles, camped and went down to the village, refusing to defend it.

"This Chen Ling really has two hits, and he is defeated but not defeated, which is rare."

In the battle of crossing the river, the Du army only killed more than 500 levels of Chen Ling's department, and only about 300 prisoners.

"Damn, Lao Tzu doesn't believe it, and he can't destroy him Chen Ling!"

Du Fuwei ordered to storm Chen Ling's camp.

As a result, although Chen Ling's battalion was hurriedly erected after being defeated and retreated, its resistance was very tenacious, and it was not captured for three days.

At this time, a scout came to report that several Xiaoguo troops were already coming to reinforce Chen Ling from Jiangdu.

"Send Chen Ling a set of women's clothes."

So Ximen Junyi asked people to look for women's clothes, but only found a set of old woman's clothes, so he simply sent this set of clothes to the camp, and then called Chen Ling as Grandma Chen by the way.

Chen Ling is also a dignified Huainan Provincial pacification envoy, how can he suffer such a great humiliation, all the generals in the camp persuaded him to fight, but Chen Ling still had to wait for reinforcements to arrive before sending troops.

But at this time, the overseers in the army refused to do it.

Perhaps because the situation is too chaotic now, the emperor asked Chen Ling to crusade against Du Fuwei this time, gave him 8,000 elite soldiers, and at the same time, sent him a prison army.

This overseer was not a eunuch, but he was a civilian official with no experience in warfare.

At this time, he saw that all the generals were shouting to fight, and he felt that his morale was strong, so he also let Chen Ling fight.

Chen Ling had no choice but to raise troops and horses to go out of the camp to fight.

The two sides took up their positions on the plains.

Kan Ling took the lead and led the light cavalry to gallop around Chen Ling's army, but did not rush into battle.

And Du Fuwei led the Danyang sword and shield hand to hold the shield and slowly approached.

The battle formations of both sides were several miles long, and they were all thin and long military formations.

The two armies approached, first the bows and crossbows fired together, and you came and went.

Then engaged, spearmen stabbed each other, swords and axes slashed, and the cavalry on both sides was entangled on their flanks.

Chen Ling's army was still quite demoralized, but unfortunately there were only 7,000 men left, and although Du Fuwei's army was also damaged, there were still more than 18,000 at this time.

By the afternoon of the battle, the light cavalry led by Kan Ling had not yet decided the victory, but Du Fuwei's sword and shield men had already broken through the defense line of Chen Ling's army and were trapped in it.

The opening of Chen Lingjun's defense line was torn wider and wider, and it was finally torn in half.

Once the military formation is broken, they can only fight on their own, and at this time, the side with a small number can no longer withstand the offensive of the side with a large number.

Du Fuwei held the nine-ring broadsword, the more fierce the battle, and led the army to rush forward, not caring at all, only staring at Chen Ling's handsome banner.

At this time, Kan Ling also defeated Chen Lingjun's light cavalry and joined the battle group.

At this time, the prison army began to flee, and his run also led the people around him to run, and many soldiers who were still insisting on fighting thought that they had been defeated, so they also began to flee.

When the rout began, it was already powerless, and no matter how powerful the generals were, it was difficult to reorganize a rout.

Du Fuwei led the army to pursue all the way to only sixty miles west of Jiangdu, and finally Chen Ling fled back to Jiangdu with only more than ten personal horsemen, and the 8,000 army was wiped out.

Du Fuwei pursued for dozens of miles, beheaded more than 3,000 people, and captured 4,000 prisoners.

When the news reached Jiangdu, the whole city was shocked.

People are in a state of panic.

In the palace, when the emperor heard the news, the cup in his hand fell directly to the ground, and he was stunned for a long time, unable to say anything.

In the end, it was Yuan Chong who suggested that the emperor should quickly transfer the Xiaoguo army back to defend Jiangdu, and prepare to fight a battle to defend Jiangdu first.

For the defeated general Chen Ling, the emperor did not condemn him, but continued to let Chen Ling lead the defense of the periphery of Jiangdu, and then sent Shen Guang to assist in the defense.

And the city defense of Jiangdu was handed over to Sima Dekan, Yu Wenhua and the two of them, at this time, Yang Guang still refused to trust and reuse Li Yuan, but felt that Yu Wenshu's son Yu Wenhua was more credible.

Jiangdu City.

Will be the young eunuch Yu Wen Zhihe, Ying Yang Lang General Li Yuanji is in a house with a group of friends to discuss important matters, come to discuss the two of them are friends, there are Nei Shi Sheren Yuan Min, Hu Ya Lang General Zhao Xingshu, Ying Yang Lang General Meng Bing, Fu Xilang Niu Fangyu, Zhichang Xu Hongren, Xue Shiliang, Chengmen Lang Tang Fengyi, Yizheng Zhang Kai, Xun Shi Yang and other people.

These people include the generals of the Xiaoguo Army, the city gate lang who is responsible for guarding the city gate, and even Fu Xilang, who keeps the jade seal for the emperor, as well as the imperial doctor around the emperor, and the imperial guards.

"Jiangdu will definitely not be able to hold it, even if it is defended, there will be no food, it is still a dead end, let's run together and go back to Guanzhong!"

Li Yuanjidao, who is the leader.

"Right now, Sima Dekan and your eldest brother Yuwen Dalang are serving as the defense of Jiangdu City, so we can just take the opportunity to escape."

"Okay, I'll go talk to my eldest brother and ask him to help contact Sima Dekan." Yuwen Zhi and Dao.