Smoke rose outside the city of Jiangling, and the loquat temple fifteen miles away from the city in the east was crowded with people, and Chen Shuling, the commander of the Chen army, jumped like thunder, and in front of him was a large open space, according to the traces in the meantime, there were more than 1,000 troops camped here last night.

"Waste, Lone was going to chase after him last night, and he didn't dare to accompany him for fear of death." Chen Shuling pointed to the generals in front of him and scolded, "If you want to attack early this morning, you must be careful, and you will delay the time along the way to let these people escape!" ”

Chen Shuling, who was injured in the attack last night, decided to attack this morning to settle accounts with the enemy troops who attacked Jiangjinshu, because all the sentry strongholds in the north of Jiangjinshu had been pulled out, and the cavalry that had rushed from Jiangling to reinforce last night was also attacked, so the generals were cautious during this march.

There are many woods in this area, and there are good places to set up ambushes everywhere, and I can't help but be careful, when the Chen army marched, a large number of small troops were sent to investigate everywhere, and only after confirming that it was safe did they continue to advance, so the journey of more than ten miles did not come to the vicinity of the loquat temple until noon.

After the sentinel came to report that there were traces of camping outside the loquat temple, Chen Shuling led people to investigate in a puff, and then there was the above scene, last night he calmed down and analyzed, and determined that the enemy army attacking Jiangjin Shu must have landed on the shore of Changhu Lake in the north of the loquat temple, and now it is indeed correct.

Seeing that Chen Shuling was furious, the generals did not dare to say anything, and they were more cautious when marching, but there was nothing wrong with this, but in front of them, the cheek was injured, and no one dared to refute it, and there seemed to be a commotion in the north between the foreheads, and Chen Shuling became more and more anxious when he heard the voice, and sent someone to investigate.

Walking through the woods, they came to a reedy lake, there were several boats moored in the distance on the lake, and people dressed as soldiers stood on the side shouting something in unison, Chen Shuling motioned to his entourage to hold their breath, and then a gust of wind blew, and he clearly heard the words of the other party:

"Chen Shuling, Chen Shuling, Chen Jun lost the battle and died in Jiangling!"

"Shoot the arrows, release the arrows!" Chen Shuling's eyes were so excited by this slip that he howled and asked the archers to shoot arrows at the boats in the lake. But the distance of hundreds of paces between the two sides had exceeded the range of the bow and arrow, and the arrows that were shot fell on the lake in a flickering manner, far away from the ships, and there was no threat at all.

"The king is angry, it seems that the enemy army is from Hanjin in the northeast of the lake, and the enemy is going south along the ancient canal to land here, and then attack our army." One of the generals whispered, "I'm afraid they're going to go elsewhere by boat." ”

Chen Shuling looked at him with a smile and burst out of his mouth: "So what? ”

"The opinion of the generals of the Gangneung camp last night was that they would fight hard to take Gangneung within one day today, and now it seems that the enemy army is afraid that they will not only go all the way south."

"Getting to the point!" Chen Shuling is not in the mood to think so much now.

The general directly expressed his worries: since the enemy army could land at the Loquat Temple from the ancient canal and attack Jiangjinshu, it was also possible to bring a large army into Changhu and then march all the way west to land in the northeast of Jiangling. In case the other party takes advantage of the Chen army's all-out siege of the city to come to the side, it will be troublesome, and besides, the enemy army here may also move to the west by boat.

"King, King!" A herald hurriedly came and sent bad news to Chen Shuling and the generals present: when the main force of the Chen army was attacking Jiangling, a large number of enemy troops suddenly appeared in the north, and now the Chen army could not take the siege of the city, and the enemy army in the north was struggling to support it, and it was not good to wear it out.

"General Fan ordered us to ask the king for help, and ask the king to send reinforcements to support quickly!"

Last night, Fan Meng, the deputy commander of the Chen army camp outside Jiangling, sent people to Jiangjin Shu to inform the commander Chen Shuling of the results of a series of deliberations, and one of the final decisions was that when attacking Jiangling, once the enemy suddenly appeared, then Chen Shuling would send troops from Jiangjin to support.

"Prepare your horses at once, and march westward!" Chen Shuling didn't talk nonsense and immediately returned to the Loquat Temple. This time, he went north to search for the enemy, and he brought 4,000 men from Jiangjin, and the rest of the troops remained in the camp.

The grain and grass in Jiangjin were burned to the ground last night, but Jiangjin is still an important place, and it must be defended, in case it is attacked again and the back road and grain road of the main force of the Chen army are cut off, then everything will be closed.

After some hustle and bustle, the Chen army of the loquat temple under the supervision of the commander Chen Shuling drove westward violently, and the Jiangling City in the loquat temple was about fifteen miles away, and the soldiers could also fight vigorously after the arrival of the rapid march.

Originally, some generals wanted to remind them to pay attention to the vigilance along the way, so as not to have an ambush, but thinking about it, the commander still didn't dare to say anything, plus the herald also came from this road, and it seemed that he didn't find anything abnormal along the way, so no one mentioned it.

After walking for a few miles, suddenly the troops in front stopped, causing the whole army to be blocked on the official road, unable to advance, Chen Shuling was about to send someone to the front to spur, but saw a rider in front of him and told him that there was an abnormality in the trees on the side of the road.

"Don't care about the trees, keep going!" Chen Shuling suppressed the urge to whip people with a horsewhip, "If you miss the military intelligence, can you afford it?" ”

He rode his horse and followed the army, and after walking a distance of dozens of paces, he saw that the trunks of the big trees on both sides of the road in front of him had been stripped of their bark, and there were some blood-red characters written on them. When I looked closely, I saw that one side was written 'God has eyes, and the sky punished Chen Fang', while the other side was written, 'Chen Shuling died under this tree.' ’

After reading it, Chen Shuling was suddenly startled and looked up to look around, and he found that the official road here was lined with trees, and during the period, there were colorful lights and shadows, and he couldn't see whether there were ambushes.

"Quick. Attention!"

Before the words fell, several feathered arrows shot straight at Chen Shuling, and one of the arrows hit him right in front of the door, knocking him off the horse!

"Enemy attack, enemy attack!" Seeing this, the generals of the Chen army were shocked and commanded their subordinates to prepare to meet the enemy.

"Kill, kill!" Thunderous shouts rang out on both sides of the woods, and countless soldiers rushed out to attack the Chen army in the middle of the official road, with archers on the outermost side. They bent their bows and arrows, and only roughly aimed, and then quickly released their arrows, shooting Chen Jun on his back.

Under the cover of the archers, the long knife soldiers who continued to rush forward were holding a sword in one hand and a rattan card in the other, and they rushed to the front with the rattan card to protect them, and then threw them away, and then screamed and brandished their long knives and smashed into the ranks of Chen's army.

The soldiers of the Chen army were suddenly attacked during the march and were caught off guard, listening to the ambushes everywhere shouting "Chen Shuling is dead", and there were swords and soldiers wearing terrifying masks pasted up, where could they still stabilize their minds.

Chen Jun, who was not afraid of death, had the courage to meet the attack, but was cut down one after another, and behind the long knife hand were groups of pikemen of the same size, each of which was a few steps away from each other, and charged quickly in a column formation. Taking advantage of the long knife hand, when the opponent's formation was chaotic, it pierced like a long needle.

Each of them had one or two soldiers with axes and halberds rushing to the front, and they danced axes and halberds to chop down the heads of Chen Jun who were blocking the front, and together with their shields, they smashed the yellow and white things and splashed them on the ground, while the pikemen behind them shot quickly, accurately, and ruthlessly to make up for the leaks.

Because of the large number of Chen troops, the archers marched in formation, so they did not aim carefully, so they struggled to draw their bows and release arrows, and two rounds of arrows rained down, and Chen Jun shot people on their backs, and the long knife men who arrived later screamed and waved their long knives into the queue.

They were followed by groups of pikemen advancing in size, each of which charged in a column several paces from each other, piercing them like long needles as they disrupted the opponent's formation.

In the woods, Shi Wansui jumped down from a tree and handed the strong bow in his hand to others, and Yuwen Wenwen, who was draped all over his body, approached and asked: "Lord Shi is good at archery!" ”

Early this morning, Yu Wenwen led the new army under his command to move to this woodland a few miles to the west to set up an ambush, according to the plan drawn up in advance, they were going to ambush the Chen army reinforcements who rushed to Jiangling in the direction of Jiangjin Garrison, and the Chen army under Jiangling City was dealt with by Yu Wenming, the commander of the 'Anti-Chen Aid Liang' who went south this time.

Shi Wansui and a few soldiers with superb archery skills climbed on the trees near the roadside and waited for the rabbit, Yuwen Wen had already explained the appearance of Chen Shuling in detail, and would never let Shi Wansui and others make mistakes, with the clairlight mirror, Yu Wenwen saw the process of their sniping Chen Jun's commander Chen Shuling clearly, and saw Shi Wansui shoot that guy over with an arrow, and he was overjoyed.

"To be a man is to be trustworthy, if you let him die here, then let him die here!"

His archery skills have not yet reached the level of a hundred steps through Yang, and the cavalry combat skills are loose and ordinary, so now he sits firmly in the military tent and commands his subordinates to kill the enemy, seeing the successful decapitation, the ambushed Chen army is in chaos, he ordered Yuwen Fifteen to lead the cavalry under his command to attack and 'grab people's heads'.

The greatest gain of the cavalry in ancient warfare was not when the two sides handed over short troops, but after the defeat of one side, the rout of the cavalry with no fighting spirit to resist was the large number of 'crops' waiting for the cavalry to harvest.

I thought that the dust had settled, but I didn't expect that a corpse was strewn all over the official road, and suddenly a person got up and pulled a startled horse, rode up, and struggled to flee westward.

"Commander of the army, that guy is not dead!" The sharp-eyed soldier shouted, Yuwen Wen saw this, he was about to lead the horse to chase and kill, but was desperately stopped by the people around him, last night he rode his horse to the camp, and was almost picked off the horse, and now everyone no longer dares to take it lightly.

This horseman's riding battle is not unusual, if there is another accident, how can it be good!

The cool breeze was blowing, Yu Wenwen came back to his senses, and knew that now was not the time to be reckless, he hurriedly ordered Shi Wansui to lead people to chase and kill, Shi Wansui was also wondering why an arrow hit the front door, and the other party was not dead, and immediately went on the horse to pursue and make up for it.

In the woods, a group of Chen army routed and ran lifelessly, as a generation of military households who couldn't even get a full salary and didn't even have training, they wouldn't be stupid enough to do anything 'loyal to the country', and the old and young in the family were still waiting for themselves to make money and buy food, but they couldn't die here.

Every time the army goes on a northern expedition, it is anticlimactic, and how many states and counties have been conquered has nothing to do with them, and it is the most important thing to save a life and go home, and when he was fleeing, a man suddenly rolled out of the grass next to him, the man was dressed in civilian clothes, and his head was scattered, and there were some blood stains on his body, and the routs saw that they thought it was their comrades, so they fled together.

It is normal for ordinary soldiers to have no armor, and even the rotten military robes can no longer be rotten, and it is common to change into civilian clothes, and they think that this man is also a hard-working soldier who has run away from others, so they carry forward the friendship of comrades.

"No, no, I'm not"

"If you are defeated, run away quickly, where is Shangguan in charge!"

The man was interrupted before he could finish speaking, and the kind old soldier said that he should not have a plague, because there was a river of blood flowing over there and ran back, and he did not hurry away while the pursuers were cutting and running slowly.

"Wu Fei" What did the man want to say, looking at the soldiers of the Chen army beside him, he still shut up, and countless routs behind him rushed to surround him and run to the southeast. (To be continued.) )