The Liang army led by Kang Huaizhen marched westward for only one day, and was forced to stop after walking less than forty miles. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 info

What made them stop was the sudden appearance of a large number of Huainan cavalry.

Although the Liang army has more cavalry, this is only relative, and when it comes to Kang Huaizhen's department, the cavalry under his command is far from being comparable to the cavalry of almost the entire Huainan.

So when the scouts found out that nearly 4,000 cavalry were chasing after him, Kang Huaizhen knew that it would be difficult for him to get rid of the enemy army.

Because in addition to marching with a large number of infantry, the Liang army also needed to carry their logistical baggage, and those carriages loaded with food, forage, supplies, booty and wounded greatly slowed down the advance of the army.

However, the Huainan army could get supplies nearby, so their infantry could go into battle lightly, and the marching speed was much faster.

What's more, the enemy cavalry is more, and they use their speed advantage to constantly detour to the front to launch attacks, and even use various methods such as destroying bridges and blocking roads to slow down the march of the Liang army.

Therefore, after judging that he could not get rid of the pursuit of the Huainan army, Kang Huaizhen quickly changed his strategy, rather than being caught up by the enemy army without defense tomorrow or the day after tomorrow, and then fighting a general battle, it is better to find a place that is easy to defend and camp before the enemy army catches up, which can not only recuperate and wait for work, but also occupy the convenience of the location.

It didn't take long for him to find a place with relatively good terrain. As before, this time the Liang army still laid out two camps, two miles away from each other, so that they could support each other in wartime.

Although it only stopped after walking more than 30 miles to the west, more than 30 miles is also a considerable distance, and even if it is a rapid march, it will take almost two hours to complete, which is likely to determine the outcome of the war at a critical moment.

When they set up camp, the cavalry of the Huainan army obviously had no intention of coming forward to engage them, but only monitored them from a short distance, so the Liang army easily set up the wall, and then began to dig trenches against the cavalry, arrange to resist horses, etc.

"Next, it depends on when the main force of the Huainan Army can arrive, and when the king's reinforcements can arrive!"

Although he was about to engage the enemy army with absolute superiority in strength, Kang Huaizhen was not too worried about the battle situation, after all, he still had 50,000 troops in hand, plus he had a geographical advantage, when Zhu Quanzhong's main force could come at any time, it would be difficult for the Huainan army to destroy him in one fell swoop.

The next day, the good news came, Zhu Quanzhong sent someone to tell him that his vanguard force, a total of 10,000 people, had set out from Shouzhou, and that it would take three days at most to arrive here to join him; As for the rest of the army, it will come as fast as possible, no more than five days at most, so he must hold on to these five days.

"Five days! If he couldn't hold on for even five days, he didn't need the king's order, and Ben would have committed suicide to apologize! Receiving this news, Kang Huaizhen immediately breathed a sigh of relief.

Although I don't know how many troops the Huainan army has, but at most it is about 100,000 people, if in the case of a favorable location, 50,000 people for defense and the enemy army is completely defeated within five days, then he is really shameless.

"It seems that the news reached the king on time, and the king did not hesitate to send troops to help." Like Kang Huaizhen, Li Si'an was also greatly relieved after getting the news.

He knew that the more than 100,000 Liang troops in Shouzhou were likely to be distributed in different places, so he needed a little time to gather and then drive over together to avoid being broken by the Huainan army.

In this case, it will only take five days at most to arrive, which means that Zhu Quanzhong has made up his mind without the slightest hesitation.

Ten miles away, more than 60,000 soldiers led by Yang Wu finally converged with Zhang Xun's 30,000 army here after continuous marching.

In this way, the strength of the Huainan Army has also reached an unprecedented 90,000 troops, except for the 100,000 troops invested in the siege of Hangzhou last year, which is the largest number of troops used this time.

Of course, only 50,000 of last year's 100,000 were elite troops, and the remaining 50,000 were state soldiers mobilized from various states, and their combat strength was limited.

And this time, the 90,000 people, in addition to the right Wu Xiang army, the right Teng Xiang army, the Zhenguo army, the Zhenwu army, and the Xiao cavalry army, there are more than 80,000 people in the five armies, there are also 5,000 people from the left Wu Xiang army, and more than 4,000 state soldiers in Haozhou.

In addition, in addition to these more than 90,000 soldiers, Yang Wu also brought 3,000 of his crane control army as personal soldiers.

In this way, the total strength of the Huainan Army was actually as high as 95,000 men, which was twice as high as the Liang Army in person.

After several days of travel, the soldiers were a little tired, but when they heard that the Liang army was ahead, both Yang Wu and Huainan soldiers were in good spirits.

Of course, everyone also knows that although the enemy army is in front of them, under the condition that the other party has already occupied the geographical advantage, the Huainan army must plan well to have any hope of breaking through the enemy camp in one fell swoop.

At this moment, the first thing Yang Wu had to do was to meet with several generals of the Right Wu Xiang Army.

"The last general, Zhang Xun, meet His Royal Highness!"

As soon as they met, Zhang Xun saluted Yang Wu very formally.

"The last general, Wang Juan, meet His Royal Highness the Prince!"

"The Last General ......"

After Zhang Xun, other generals that Yang Wu had not seen before also saluted him.

Yang Wu sat on the head of his horse and let the generals bow to him.

This is not Yang Wu's arrogance, but the first time we meet, we must confirm the dignity and humility.

Of course, Yang Wu would not be stupid enough to sit on the horse all the time, he waited for Zhang Xun and the others to finish saluting, then he jumped off the horse and personally stepped forward to help Zhang Xun up.

"The general has worked hard, and I heard my father say that the general led the troops to fight in the past, and often took the lead and won the three armies; During the Battle of Qingkou, it was the general who personally led his troops to attack the enemy camp and kill Pang Shigu, which led to the great victory of Qingkou! It's just that I didn't expect the general to be as brave as he was back then! Yang Wu said with a smile.

Hearing Yang Wu mention his glorious deeds back then, Zhang Xun immediately laughed: "Your Royal Highness has won the award, the great victory of Qingkou back then was not the credit of the last general, it was all the victory achieved by the king himself leading the troops!" ”

Yang Wu smiled slightly, and then helped Zhang Xun's subordinates Wang Xuan, Wang An, Liu Xin and others up one by one, and naturally they inevitably mentioned their exploits back then.

Seeing that Yang Wu has always been humble and polite, and his attitude towards them is also extremely kind, and he even mentioned their merits one by one, and the generals were moved.

They have been stationed in Chuzhou and Haizhou for a long time, and they have not returned to Guangling for a long time, and they were originally suspicious of Yang Wu taking over, but now seeing him so kind, they said that they would never forget their merits, and their previous doubts naturally disappeared.

Seeing that Yang Wu had gained the loyalty of these veterans in just a few words, Zhu Jin, who was a staff officer who accompanied Yang Wu on the expedition, couldn't help nodding secretly, feeling in his heart that Yang Wu's methods of attracting people were becoming more and more skilled.

After meeting Yang Wu, the generals' expressions were much more relaxed, and they began to inquire about Yang Xingmi's physical condition.

Yang Wu explained to them and said: "All the generals are veterans who follow my father, and my father also remembers you. When Zhu Quanzhong is defeated this time, he will not dare to go south again in a short time, and when the time comes, all the generals may as well go to Guangling and meet my father in person, presumably my father will also be very happy! ”

Listening to Yang Wu's proposal, the generals couldn't help but be moved, and at this time, Gao Miao, who was also in charge of logistics with the army, interrupted everyone's reminiscences and said: "Your Highness, generals, let's wait until after defeating Zhu Quanzhong!" Let's talk about how to defeat the enemy now! ”

Interrupted by Gao Miao, the generals also came to their senses and began to discuss official business, but their attitude towards Yang Wu became more friendly.

"Your Highness, now that Kang Huaizhen is leading his troops to stick to the camp, and Zhu Quanzhong may rush over to reinforce at any time, there is not much time left for our army! I wonder if Your Highness has any clever plan to quickly break through the enemy's camp? Zhang Xun asked in a deep voice.

Speaking of military affairs, Zhang Xun became extremely serious, but Zhou Ben, who went out with Yang Wu, Qin Pei and the others still looked relatively relaxed.

If there was no new grenade, Yang Wu would not have a good way to break through the enemy camp in a short time, but with this kind of sharp weapon, he would have a lot more certainty.

He did not directly answer Zhang Xun's words, but led the generals up a high slope to look at the enemy camp.

"The enemy has built two camps, who is in command of the other camp?" As soon as he glanced at it, Yang Wu asked.

Although the two camps are relatively close to each other, it is impossible for Kang Huaizhen to command two places at the same time, so there must be another person in charge.

"It's Li Si'an, the general appointed by Zhu Quanzhong!" Zhang Xun said.

"Is it the Li Si'an who started the battle with either a big victory or a big defeat?" Yang Wu couldn't help but laugh when he heard this.

This Li Si'an is very interesting, he is extremely brave in battle, and his ability to lead troops to fight is not bad, but he is lacking in resourcefulness, every time he fights, he either wins a big victory, or he is defeated and flees in turn, and he is more famous among the Liang army.

Even Zhu Quanzhong was helpless about this, and once said that after seeing Li Si'an, he believed that a general like Li Guang of the Han Dynasty who was not lacking in ability, but often defeated battles, was even considered to be "strange", which was indeed not fiction.

"Yes, it's this person, I didn't expect His Highness to have heard of this person's reputation." Zhang Xun also smiled and said, "What, is Your Highness going to attack his camp first?" ”

"I have this idea, but I have to look at the situation to confirm it!" Yang Wu said.

Then, he carefully observed the terrain around the Liang military camp.

Kang Huaizhen is indeed worthy of being a famous general of the Liang army, this camp is built very reasonably, built along the mountains and rivers, not only taking into account all kinds of defensive convenience, but even the Huainan army may use water attack, fire means have been taken into account.

His camp is not far from a small river, but it is much more than the river, so that he can calmly deal with it regardless of the Huainan army's water attack or fire skills.

However, he naturally couldn't imagine that this time the Huainan Army was preparing an attack method that they had never seen before.