Xizhou Prefecture governs Song Ping, the city gate is closed, the guard is tight, the enemy soldiers are under the city, the defenders intend to hold on to wait for reinforcements, the main force of the imperial army is now attacking the hanging gourd, about 160 miles away from Song Ping, the reinforcements sent can arrive within six days.

Thirty or forty miles a day, that is the speed at which the brigade of men and horses march under normal circumstances, if the cavalry is lightly armed, two days is more than enough, so the Song Ping defenders are not worried about being isolated at all, and they are not worried at all about the enemy troops who appear outside the city.

The enemy army from Guangcheng camped in the eastern suburbs of Songping, and it seemed that they were going to attack the city, but the defenders knew that there were strong reinforcements in the north, and the other party would have to withdraw sooner or later, so they were very relieved about the safety of the city, and they were now mainly concerned about when the war would end and when they would be able to return to their hometown.

Song Ping was successfully attacked by the enemy before, but later the imperial army went south, and the enemy army occupying Song Ping knew that he could not resist alone, so he abandoned the city and retreated to Gwangju Prefecture to govern Gwangseong.

The state soldiers and many people in the city were coerced south by it, so most of the soldiers defending the city at this time were not locals, but soldiers from Hebei and the prefectures and counties along the Yellow River who went south with the imperial army.

Some of them were soldiers, and some of them were civilians who had been conscripted for military service, and they had been away from home for several months, and seeing that the end of the year was approaching, their homesickness was getting stronger and stronger, and they were very concerned about the development of the next war, but they were a little disappointed.

Originally, everyone thought that the official army would soon be able to recover the Hanging Gourd and drive the traitors who invaded Yuzhou back to Shannan, and then those who were conscripted for military service would be able to go home, but the Hanging Gourd could not be attacked for a long time, and there was chaos on the Huainan side, and the battle still had to be fought.

If you want to go home, you don't know if it will be the Year of the Monkey.

"Now, don't be homesick all day, I'll give you a good idea first, so that you don't come home empty-handed and can't even afford a sheep."

"What's in it for me, dude?"

"Look, look south, do you see the mountain across the river? That mountain is called Fuguang Mountain, and there are treasures on the mountain! ”

"What treasures are there on the mountain? Dude, come and hear it! ”

Several soldiers were whispering, they were people who had been conscripted for military service, and they had come from their hometown in Yingzhou, on the south bank of the Yellow River, to Xizhou, more than 600 miles away, to fight.

They are ordinary people, and the wilderness wave war is useless, so they are arranged to do chores, and they can be arranged to defend the city, which is the blessing of the Bodhisattva, and the smoke of their ancestral tombs is green, and if they can get some treasures to go home, of course, it is the best.

There was an elderly man who was working for a large family in his hometown for a short time, and he heard the lord of Lang and the visitors show off, saying that the chess pieces used in chess were made of jade produced on Fuguang Mountain in Xizhou, and the price was very expensive and very valuable.

Xizhou Prefecture Song Ping, located on the north bank of Huaishui, and the south bank across the river, there is a mountain called Fuguang Mountain, which is the mountain that everyone sees when they look south now.

From Yingzhou to the south through Yuzhou to Xizhou, it is basically a plain area, and the Fuguang Mountain outside Song Ping City is very abrupt in a plain area, which makes the soldiers who have just arrived in Song Ping amazed, and when they heard about the jade produced on the mountain, their minds began to liven up.

Everyone has a tight life, if you can get something valuable to go home, then it is not in vain to risk your life to follow the official army to go out, as the so-called relying on the mountains to eat the mountains, it is good to take the opportunity to make a small fortune, but the problem is not nothing.

"What does jade look like, we don't know?"

"You haven't seen jade?"

"Nope."

"It's really uninsightful! Let's find a chance to go around the Fuguang Mountain on the opposite side, and I'll check it when the time comes! ”

"That's a good idea!"

When several soldiers were dancing with their eyebrows, the governor who patrolled the city watched from a distance and shouted: "What do you want to do together?" A herd of lazy donkeys, itchy skin..."

Before he finished speaking, he heard the sound of a horn on the city tower, and the soldiers at the head of the city were nervous when they heard this, and hurriedly looked around, and then found that the enemy camp on the outskirts of the eastern part of the city seemed to be moving.

Soon the news came: the enemy forces outside the city had retreated.

Just when the soldiers were worried and afraid that they would be killed by a stray arrow on the way out of the city to pursue, new news came: Shangguan had ordered that no one should go out of the city to pursue in case of ambush.

When the soldiers heard this, they were overjoyed, and felt that after the war had subsided, they had nothing to do, and they just found a free time to go out of the city and go to Fuguang Mountain on the south bank to look for jade, but just after the afternoon, the northern suburbs of the city were dusty, and a large number of cavalry were surging.

。。。。。。

"Where have the enemy gone now?"

"Prime Minister Qi, the enemy army crossed the Huaishui, retreated to the south, and under the attack of our cavalry, he only walked twenty miles in two days, and now he has arrived here...."

"How many troops do they have?"

"Prime Minister Qi, the enemy army has more than 10,000 troops, mainly infantry, and there are about two or three thousand cavalry."

"What about other places? And are there any enemy cavalry in ambush? ”

"The rangers have already searched around, and there will be results tomorrow."

"Fuguang Mountain on the other side of Song Ping, we must send people to search it, so that there are no enemy soldiers lurking under our noses without knowing it."

"Yes!"

Song Pingzhou Bureau, Prime Minister Chi Dian was listening to the report of the generals, trying to attack Song Ping's enemy army, heard the wind and grass retreated south, trying to withdraw to Guangcheng, but Song Ping is not a latrine, come when you want, and leave if you want.

Wei Chidun renegotiated the strategy with the generals in the camp outside the city, and personally led 20,000 cavalry to the south to destroy the enemy army that was harassing Song Ping, and the many cavalry he sent had been outflanked and were about to cut off the opponent's retreat.

Song Ping and Guangcheng, the distance is about 80 miles, and a normal march can be reached in two or three days, but under the attack and harassment of the official cavalry, the enemy troops retreating south have no chance to go back after traveling ten miles a day.

There is Huaishui between Song Ping and Guangcheng, but Huaishui is actually the south moat of Song Ping, and there is also a river on the official road between the two places, which is just near the middle line of the two places.

This river is called Chaishui, originates from the Dabie Mountains, flows from southwest to northeast, and finally flows into Huaishui, is a tributary of Huaishui, continues to flow all year round, goes back and forth to Songping and Guangcheng, must pass through Chaishui.

Under Wei Chidun's arrangement, the enemy army that retreated south was no longer able to cross the firewood and water south.

With 20,000 cavalry in hand and fighting in the plains, Wei Chi Tun had absolute superiority and confidence at this time, and won the final victory in the battle that was about to break out at the junction of Xiju and Gwangju.

If it weren't for the fact that he would have been able to bring almost 30,000 cavalry south, even if he only brought 20,000 cavalry, it was already a decisive force that could easily crush the Yuwen clan's conspiracy.

Wei Chidun judged that the enemy army attacking Song Ping should be a feint, and there was still the main force in ambush somewhere, just waiting for the main force of the official army to crash into the trap.

And this feint army, the tiger head flag fluttering in its army, shows that the core of this decoy is the Tiger Forest Army, which is an army that is good at foot combat, and it is said that it is not afraid of cavalry.

Wei Chi Dian judged that his commander, Xiyang Wang Yuwen Wenwen, had fled from the Hanging Gourd and joined the Hulin Army, so no matter what, this army must be annihilated.

There is also the main force of the enemy army that uses it as bait and hides in ambush somewhere.

Wei Chidun did not have any definite information on the existence of the main force of the enemy army, but he expected the enemy to be lenient and decided to annihilate the opponent's field forces in one fell swoop with the momentum of a tiger fighting a rabbit.

At that time, Yu Wenwen will not be in this army, and Wei Chi Dun thinks it is something worth looking forward to.

He has already figured it out, no matter how much Yu Wenwen can fight, he must have an army that can fight as a thug, as long as he destroys the other party's army, then Yu Wenwen can only run away like a leper dog.

When the official army invades Shannan and Xiyang, you will be a lost dog who has fled in the wilderness!