In the lower reaches of the Lianghe estuary more than 40 miles northeast of Fancheng, nearly 20,000 defenders stationed in the Hexi camp set up by the Anzhou army to guard the pontoon bridge withstood the siege of 50,000 people of the imperial court's southern army, and waited for the main force of the Anzhou army to return to the division at the cost of 7,000 casualties in the afternoon.

The new army led by Yu Wenwen performed well, and the spear phalanx that was originally deployed on the right flank fought bravely, moved to the Chinese army, firmly protected Zhongzhai, and made great contributions to the whole army carrying down the opponent's tide-like wheel warfare.

But this was only the beginning, because the main force of the Anzhou Army and the Imperial Court outside the camp was about to break out in the confrontation between the north and the south, so the Anzhou defenders who had been fighting all afternoon were afraid that they would only have one night's rest.

I wonder if there will be a blood-boiling night attack tonight, and I don't have to!

This is Yu Wenwen's fleeting thought, of course, he can't be so brain-dead as to take more than 2,000 foot soldiers to attack the military camp of more than 100,000 people at night, not only the other party must be on guard, but also he has no cavalry to attack the tent group that stretches for more than ten miles to retreat.

He was worried that the enemy would attack the Hexi camp where he was at night, and the defenders of Anzhou carried it all afternoon, and when the main force came back to help, he was in a desperate situation, and he couldn't help but relax, for fear that the other side would take advantage of it.

Sima Zheng Wanqing, the guard and manager of the Hexi camp, also prevented the other party from coming, so he made corresponding arrangements, and the soldiers who did not go into battle today were on duty at night to let the soldiers who had been fighting all afternoon rest.

After dinner, Yuwen Wen and the military lord Chen Wudi and the owners of each building inspected the camp of the soldiers under their command, and the auxiliary soldiers who did not participate in the battle today helped to make sundries for their comrades, and the expedition Yuwen Wen recruited more than 200 people to transport the baggage, and the original auxiliary soldiers were always used as substitutes to participate in the battle.

The auxiliaries still have to train on weekdays, and their training intensity is much stronger than that of ordinary army soldiers, so they are a useful supplement to the war-damaged posts of the new army.

Yu Wenwen's new army was originally scheduled to train troops in half a year to become an army, that is to say, from February, it should not be until July to complete the drill plan, and now it will be pulled out in four months, and the effect is good, it seems that he has spent so much money and food, and he has not wasted it, and the intensity of training for three days and one day off is really not in vain.

The owner of the building, Xu Shao, reported to Yuwen Wen about the casualties of this battle, because of the blood washing of Tongbai Mountain, the new army performed well this time, relying on the spear phalanx, not only caused heavy casualties to the enemy, but also suffered slight losses, and died on the spot during the battle, together with a total of forty people who died of serious injuries.

"Just follow the previous rules, take good care of their families, and copy the names and the reasons for their deaths for a copy." Yuwen Wen sighed, no matter how powerful the army is, it is inevitable that people will die on the battlefield, and together with the seventy-seven people lost when pacifying Tongbai Mountain, there are now one hundred and seventeen people.

He asked Xu Shao to be in charge of logistics, so in today's bloody battle, Xu Shao led the auxiliary soldiers to stand by in the main village, this son of Xu Faguang, the one-year-old Yuezhou assassin of Xiaoyu Wenwen, has now been integrated into the new army and has become an indispensable member.

Yu Wenwen also asked Xu Shao to count the causes of death, such as casualties caused by arrows, hand-to-hand combat, or other weapons, and also to record in detail the injured parts of the seriously injured soldiers and the parts of minor injuries.

In addition, the team leaders should pay attention to collecting all kinds of opinions from the soldiers, such as where the military uniform is easy to wear, what opinions are on the satisfaction of the food, logistics support, and so on.

Especially if you have any experience on weekdays, you also have to give your opinions, but let the foot-picking men themselves say that they may not be able to say a reason for a long time, so Yu Wenwen likes to come to the 'questionnaire'.

The boring ones include "what do you think about the development of the situation in the Great Zhou", the normal ones include "what do you want to do most after a day of marching", "what do you want to do most before you prepare to go into battle", and the general ones include "what do you want to buy most after receiving military salaries" and "how long can you hold back if you are in a hurry during the battle".

Xu Shao and more than a dozen soldiers who can write are responsible for recording and summarizing these opinions, and preparing 'reports' in the format provided by Yu Wenwen every month for future reference.

As a 'cultural person' who is familiar with the subset of scriptures and history, Xu Shao is very puzzled by these strange practices of Yu Wenwen, and he feels that these things seem to be of little use to the march and war, why bother with such trouble.

Whenever the other party raised questions, Yu Wenwen always smiled and said that he would know in the future, so now Xu Shao privately 'asked' him for advice, and when the main army of Anzhou 'turned out' to return in time to help, Yu Wenwen was still ready to 'laugh but not speak'.

Xu Shao felt that this matter was very strange, it was said that even if the Anzhou army had powerful siege equipment, it would be impossible to conquer Fancheng so quickly, and then rush back non-stop to meet the main force of the southern army.

He thinks that it has only been three days for the army to conquer Fancheng and return to the division, could it be that there is something more powerful?

Yu Wenliang, the governor of Anzhou, and his henchmen and generals must know the inside story, but Xu Shao is not qualified to ask, and ordinary soldiers probably understand, but if they ask around in the army, they are afraid that they will violate military discipline and be arrested as spies, so Xu Shao remembered Gongyu Wenwen of Xiyang County, who has always been out of tune.

He thought about it for a long time while having dinner, and finally decided that Yu Wenwen had made some shocking powerful weapon, so he asked the inside information with a shy face.

"Since you call yourself the last general, you have to shout the military position, the commander of the army, it is Yuwen to unify the army!" Yu Wenwen knew that the fire of the other party's gossip was burning, and his idea of trying to 'leak secrets' was almost unbearable.

However, he still forcibly held back what he was about to say, and only revealed a few words: "We will see in the future!" ”

Xu Shao didn't find out anything, he was impatient, he retreated first, and Yu Wenwen fell into deep thought, the reason was not the next 'Armageddon', but about the nearly 100 'expensive Dading first year trial type hair pulling oil bombs' that he had prepared with all his heart, and 60 of them had been used up today, and the remaining 40 could only be pressed to the bottom of the box.

There are not a lot of stone resin water (oil) that I got from the bad profiteer Wang Yue, and now I have all used up, and I don't know when the next batch of goods will arrive, so Yu Wenwen has no choice but to play on the battlefield a few more times recently.

But at present, he is struggling with the credibility of the bad profiteer Wang Yue: that bastard dares to release his pigeon and not come to receive it!

Liu Caiyun, who was previously in charge of the sales affairs of the 'glass mirror', sent a message saying that Wang Yue, who had made the mirror at the beginning of last month, had not come to pay until now, and now Wang Yue has not even heard a word for more than a month.

If this dealer does not come to buy or pay, then Yuwenwen's finances will be in short supply, although it is no problem to cope with the money accumulated in the first half of the year, but this still makes him very unhappy.

Yu Wenwen didn't worry about the sales of the mirror, but he felt very strange, he couldn't figure out whether Wang Yue was killed by someone or touched the production process of the 'glass mirror', so he 'broke the contract'.

"If someone sees through the process, it will be troublesome, and you have to find another way to make money," Yu Wenwen muttered to himself as he looked at the night sky......

In the camp of the Southern Army, the Chinese military tent.

The lights in the account were bright, and the marching marshal Liang Shiyan and the marching marshal Shi Zhengyi were discussing military affairs with the marching commanders, the core content of which was what happened to Fancheng by the Anzhou army.

In July last year, Xiangyang was besieged by the Anzhou army and fell within a few days, and the imperial court summed up the lessons and remodeled Fancheng opposite Xiangyang: the city wall was strengthened and the rammed earth on the outside was thickened, and a large number of arrow towers of similar height were built behind the city wall.

In order to weaken the powerful catapults of the Anzhou army, they had to move the battle line defending the city behind the city wall, and when the enemy army attacked the city wall, that was the beginning of the big battle: street fighting.

The houses in the city have been transformed into small fortresses, with walls outside to resist the sight of the catapults, these small fortresses will not be attacked, and if the Anzhou army wants to take it, they can only fill it with human lives one by one.

The families of the defenders of Fancheng and the soldiers of the navy were forcibly evacuated to other places before the battle, and the beautiful name of 'refuge' was actually to be hostages, so that the soldiers and the Anzhou army besieging the city were killed.

When Xiangyang fell, more than half of the veterans of the navy fled to Fancheng, so no matter how much the Anzhou army that occupied Xiangyang later, no matter how much they trained the new navy, it was impossible to compete with the Fancheng navy within a year, and unless the land army broke through Fancheng, their soldiers and horses should not be able to cross the river.

The goal is to allow Fancheng to be defended for a month, and the city is in the water army then to block the water grain route from Xiangyang to the north across the river.

At this time, the southern army cut off the only land grain route of the main force of the Anzhou army on the west side of the two estuaries and met the defenders of Fancheng.

This is a plan set by Prime Minister Yang Cheng himself, all the details look so flawless and the water attack directly destroyed the Lianghekou pontoon bridge, but now there are two accidents: the defender camp on the west bank of the pontoon bridge failed to take it, and the main force of the Anzhou army turned around from Fancheng in time to confront his own side.

Victory or defeat is a common thing in soldiers, so it doesn't matter if the defender camp on the west bank is not taken down today, it doesn't matter if it will attack again tomorrow, but there is a problem as to why the main force of the Anzhou army suddenly turned around and came back from Fancheng.

Either Fancheng is still in their own hands, then the Fancheng naval army can control the Han River, and the main force of the Anzhou army cannot get grain and grass replenishment from the waterway, then the southern army will have to fight around the downstream river of the two estuaries to prevent the other party from building a pontoon bridge to transport grain and grass.

If Fancheng is breached, then the strategy of cutting off food cannot be implemented, so that it can only be attacked with real swords and guns on the battlefield, and the next two questions are: confrontation or immediate decisive battle?

If it is excluded that some defenders of Fancheng rebelled and surrendered the city, there was only one possibility that the Anzhou army could take Fancheng in less than three days: they invested even more powerful weapons.

Can that thing be used in field battles, and how will you deal with it if the Anzhou Army is put into the battlefield when the two armies face each other?

Now that the news from the south is cut off, the Anzhou army has sent a large number of rangers to intercept its southbound sentinels, so the situation on the Fancheng side is darkened, and the marching marshal Liang Shiyan and the head of the march are inclined to seek stability: confrontation.

They have smooth food routes, sufficient materials, it doesn't matter, it takes ten days and a half more, first find out the situation in Fancheng, and then formulate countermeasures, if they are in a hurry to fight, then the Anzhou rebels will succeed, the other party is waiting to defeat the Zhengnan army, and then rush to Luoyang before the end of the war to sweep the Jingzhou governor's mansion.

But Zheng Yi, who is named Marshal Changshi as the supervisor of the army, does not agree to these generals to procrastinate, he has something to say.