The battle on the east bank of Bishui lasted from noon to dusk, and because of Feng Long's desperate fighting, Liu Ji's troops were repelled dozens of steps. Liu Cang was furious, and he waited to personally go into battle to support, but when he heard that Liu Ya on the left wing was a little unbearable.

After all, Liu Ya waded east last night, and this morning to help the construction of the pontoon bridge, which consumed a lot of mental and physical strength, and he was the one who was good at using soldiers, Li Ju, who was good at using soldiers, and the number of soldiers was far more than his own. Liu Cang was forced to send troops to aid Liu Ya and force Li Ju back, and Zu Ti took this opportunity to also order Zi Zuji to help stabilize the camp of Fan Ya on the left wing.

Fight until dusk, regardless of victory or defeat, they have to retreat. Counting casualties, the Jin army was slightly higher than the Hu army—more than half of the 800 beggars were lost—but in proportion to the total number of soldiers, it was Yuzhou that had the upper hand. After Liu Cang returned to the camp, he frowned, and he immediately got the news that Gongxian had fallen......

I thought that Gong County could hold for three or five days, and the Yanshi should be able to hold for a longer time, enough for him to destroy the enemy in front of him first, and then rush back to rescue, who would have thought that the information came, Gong County could not hold even a day. The messenger came from the Yanshi fast horse, and the letter was prepared to say that the defeated army of Gongxian County said that the enemy army was no less than 10,000, and attacked the city with three huge ladders, and the ladder was very strange, more than five zhang long, and it was placed diagonally on the city, and the soldiers did not need to climb, but they could climb the city with those who ran!

After all, the number of guards in Gongxian County is very small, and the quality is also low, and the defense against the wall can barely be supported, once the brave enemy soldiers kill the city, and then want to block people back, it is quite difficult. When the garrison Hu General was in the first round of the opponent's charge, he was killed at the head of the city, and the rest of the defenders scattered in a hurry, and the Xuzhou army successfully took Gongxian with less than 50 casualties.

Liu Cang was shocked when he heard the report, and was forced to be helpless, so he had to write a letter to Liu Fu of Mengjin on the one hand, ordering him to retreat to Yanshi quickly, and at the same time secretly pulled out the camp overnight, crossed back to Bixi through the pontoon bridge, and then rushed to Yanshou City. Zu Ti was also vigilant, and before waiting for dawn, he found that the Hu army had retreated, and he sent Wei Gai to lead his troops to pursue, but the Hu army ambushed the soldiers and horses and burned the pontoon bridge.

It was not until the dawn that the Yuzhou army finally crossed the river and took the Wushi and Yanshou City directly. The next day, when he arrived at the second city, Zu ordered Fan Ya to attack the Yan clan, and Wei should attack Yanshou, and he sent the main force of 20,000 to the north - because it was obvious that Liu Cang did not stay in Yanshou City for long, and then set off to return to Yanshi.

Liu Cang fled back to Yanshi in one go, and also ordered the pontoon bridge on Yishui to be burned to prevent Zu from tiptoeing in. After entering the city, he inquired about the battle situation, and Liu Fuyu, who arrived the day earlier, reported that the Xuzhou army had already come, and sure enough, it attacked the city with a cloud ladder, but fortunately, the city defense of the Yanshi division was tighter than that of Gongxian, and the number of defenders was also larger. Immediately, Liu Fu led 3,000 elites from Mengjin to help, and fought a battle with the Xuzhou army outside the city, although he successfully broke through the enemy position and rushed into the city, but his own losses were also very serious-

"The Xuzhou army is a black-bottomed eagle flag, although there are many foot soldiers, but the array is neat, and it is extremely elite, brave, and there are many arrows, although the younger brother has to enter the city, the loss is no less than three stops - if it is not for the return of the elder brother, I am afraid that this Yanshi will not be able to defend!"

Liu Cang was shocked: "How can the Jin people be as elite as Xu?!" ”

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Pei Gai led more than 10,000 Xuzhou troops to Gongxian with a drum, and after a night's rest, he came to attack Yanshi. Tao Kan suggested that the pontoon bridge built by the Hu army on Yishui could be burned first to prevent Liu Cang from returning to help, but Pei Gai shook his head: "Now Liu Cang will hold on to the Yuzhou army near Yanshou City, if the pontoon bridge is burned and its back road is cut off, I am afraid that it will be a fight for trapped beasts." I was in Chenggao before, I broke my promise and stopped for two days, if I let the ancestor be the only one, how can I see each other in the future? ”

He waved a bamboo cane on horseback and asked the generals for their opinions: "If Liu Cangdu is released and returned, will Qing and the others dare to confront him under Yanshi City?" ”

Xuzhou has won battles in a row, morale is booming, and the generals are all above the top, extremely arrogant, and immediately expressed their attitudes: "Liu Cang wants to return and return, and we should take his head under the city - how can we be weak, and make Yuzhou strong?!" ”

All the generals are eager to collide with Liu Can's main force. Since the army entered Henan, the first soldiers did not go down to Chenggao Pass and Chenggao City, and made the auxiliary soldiers defend Chenggao and become Liu Xun, and destroyed it with the momentum of Mount Tai in the battle of Qixingbao, and then went down to Gongxian County with a drum...... The battle went well, but it was a little boring - the enemy was too weak! If I keep picking soft persimmons, how can I see that my Xuzhou soldiers are strong and strong, and they are the strongest army in the world? The governor repeatedly showed weakness, and Hu Bing despised us a lot, so he took this opportunity to let Liu Cang see what the real Xuzhou Army was like!

Besides, fortunately Zhen is not there with that barbarian, no one is robbing the merit, so if you don't take advantage of this time to be a strong enemy and show your prestige in the universe, when will you stay?

Only Tao Shi was victorious and not arrogant, and still persuaded Pei Gai: "Even if you don't burn the pontoon bridge, you can also send troops to the north bank of Yishui, and when Liu Cang returns, he will attack it halfway, and he will win a big victory." ”

Pei Gai himself was not proud of the victory, and even lost his mind, the main thing is that his thinking is different from that of the generals, and the pursuit is not a bloody victory, but a soldier who does not surrender to the people - to be able to win the victory with the least casualties is what a qualified commander needs to pursue. After all, the Xuzhou auxiliary soldiers are just that, the regular soldiers are all trained by his hard work, just in Xuzhou when he inspected the battalions, preached the concept of "Jin Rong does not stand side by side", engaged in brainwashing projects, spit Xingzi I don't know how many cylinders it cost, how can I be willing to throw it easily?

The reason why he refused to burn the pontoon bridge on Yishui was because, as he himself said, he was afraid that Liu Cang would have no way to retreat, and would desperately attack the Yuzhou army that came after him, even if Zu Ti could win, he would inevitably suffer heavy losses. For those troops in Yuzhou, which are mostly composed of Wubao armed forces, and they are not their own industry, to be honest, Pei Gai is not painful, even if he fights it all, he doesn't care; But he cares about Zu Li, if he really throws all the hard bones to the other party to gnaw, how can he have the face to meet Zu Shizhi in the future?

No matter how painful it is, "friendly troops are in trouble, and they don't move like a mountain", Pei Wenyue still can't do it.

Therefore, Tao Kan suggested that he attack half-crossing, and Pei Gai immediately accepted it, and immediately ordered the "Pengshan Battalion" to camp in the south of the city and guard the pontoon bridge. The "Lifeng Battalion" was stationed in the north of Yanshi in case the Hu army from the Mengjin side came to reinforce it. Pei Gaizi led the rest of his troops to stand on the east side of the Yanshi, dragging the ladder and preparing to attack the city.

The best development of the battle situation is that he can be like attacking Gongxian here, with one drum, and then he can pull all the main forces to the north bank of Yishui, wait for Liu Cang to escape across the pontoon bridge, or find out where the main force of the Yuzhou army and the Hu army are facing each other, and then rush over and copy the enemy's rear road. But unexpectedly, the first day of the siege failed to succeed, and the three ladders were burned.

The main reason is that Gong County had sporadically fled to Yanshi before, and reported the battle situation to Liu Xun, who had just taken over the defense of the city. As soon as the ladder was erected on the fortress, Liu Xun ordered the brave soldiers to brave the rain of arrows, pile firewood and grass at the end of the ladder, and then set fire to it. Although the tip of the ladder is inlaid with an iron hook, the main body is still wooden after all, and it is quickly burned off. And the first batch of Xuzhou soldiers who rushed up the ladder and wanted to leap to the city were also blocked by the fire and were forced to retreat.

In this first day of battle, the defenders were injured a lot by arrows released from the city, and only the three ladders of the Jin army were burned, which greatly boosted morale. The damage of the Xuzhou side was very limited, but it failed to achieve the slightest result, which is tantamount to a complete failure.

The huge ladder is not so easy to cause, even if Xu Yu and the craftsmen have enough experience to rebuild, the speed will inevitably be faster than the first batch, even if the three ladders are only the first section of the ladder body is burned, it can still be used for repair, but cutting down trees and cutting materials is not an instant effort. Pei Gai had no choice but to temporarily withdraw his troops, and ordered Xu Yu to repair the first batch of ladders within two days, and build six more to come out - when the time comes, I will attack from three sides and see if you can burn them all?!

Then on the second day, Liu Fu led 3,000 elite Hu cavalry to kill from Mengjin.

Liu Yetang commanded the three battalions of "Lifeng" to intercept Liu Fu in the north of the city, knife to knife, gun to gun, and killed equally. If it weren't for Liu Fu's eagerness to enter the city, and he was afraid that Pei should reinforce the "Lifeng Battalion" from the east of the city, it is estimated that it would be an undefeated situation in the end. However, Liu Fu first ignored the casualties, rushed into the Jin formation, but saw that it could not be broken, and was forced to go to the west, go around in a big circle, and enter the Yanshi from the west gate, but after the war, the casualties were counted, and the Hu army suffered no less than 700 casualties, and the Jin army lost less than half of it.

Xuzhou held a meeting to summarize the lessons learned, and Pei Cai asked Liu Yetang: "How is Hu Qi encountered by Qing today?" Liu Yetang replied honestly: "Very strong......"

In terms of the quality of soldiers and weapons and equipment, Liu Xun's 3,000 troops were actually not much different from Liu Xun's 3,000 troops in the Seven Star Fort that day. But the problem was that the enemy Liu Xun launched a surprise attack when he was arrogant, and the Hu cavalry was divided into seven fortresses, which was difficult to echo, and also lost the strength of cavalry mobility; Today's opponent Liu Fu, but on the Great Plains, he is facing Hu Qi, and the pressure is completely different.

Pei Gai listened to Liu Yetang's detailed description, and couldn't help but laugh at the generals: "Liu Cang's department, all of them are like this, and there are no less than 10,000 horsemen - do Qing and the others still have the heart to win?" ”

In fact, although Yun "ten thousand horsemen", the big guys also know that not all of the Hu army are cavalry. When they were still on the grassland desert, the Huns rode out on hundreds of thousands of horses at every turn, and everyone had mounts, and even one person had more than one horse, but once they had penetrated into China and settled in Bingzhou for several generations, the number of war horses would definitely plummet. Moreover, when the Southern Xiongnu were still under the control of the Central Dynasty, the Central Dynasty was afraid that it would be big, and the second was that it also needed war horses, and a large number of good horses would be levied from various ministries every year; Although Liu Yuan established the foundation and Hu Han established the country, after all, the time was not very long, and it was impossible to restore to the heyday.

Therefore, the 20,000 troops that Liu Cang brought across the Yellow River were still mixed infantry and cavalry, and it was estimated that the number of cavalry accounted for about forty percent of the total - that would already be considerable, overall, five to ten times that of the Jin army. Now if Liu Cang's main force returns, it is estimated that there will be more than 10,000 people, including 4,000 horse troops, if they are assembled, Pei should ask: Everyone, can you bear it?

It is estimated that if Zhen Sui is here, he will definitely say: Master, I can get off the horse, and I can capture the horseman, what is so terrible? But the other generals were not as manic and wanton as him, and when they heard Pei Gai's inquiry, they couldn't help but bow their heads and groan. Pei Gai immediately smacked the table with a bamboo cane, and said to the generals: "Our army has been invincible and invincible since the bank of the gutter, and the army is arrogant. Proud soldiers have always been defeated, but are you careless? Hu Ziqiang is strong, and when he sees it today, he knows that he must not be careless. What can I boast of if I should devise a plan so that the Emperor and the others may be able to defeat the weak with the strong and the weak? ”

first knocked on the generals, and then said: "Therefore, I went from Tao Sima to plan for the enemy, and I wanted to wait for the enemy to come, and I attacked halfway." You don't have to be afraid of Hu, but you can't be rash, think big, start small, don't be in a hurry, and respond flexibly to security. Specially took care of Lu Yan: "Guarding the pontoon bridge is a very heavy responsibility, so you must be cautious." ”

But when Liu Cang really led the troops back from Yanshou City, Pei Gai hurriedly ordered Lu Yan to lead the "Pengshan Battalion" to retreat and make way for him to open the way, so that Liu Cang could smoothly enter the Yanshi, why is this?

Pei should have temporarily retreated, not because he was really afraid of Liu Cang, but because the sentinel came to report that Hu Jun's Huyan army was surging from the direction of Hongnong, and the forward was already approaching Luoyang.

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