When the Huainan Army won a complete victory in Jiangxi and conquered the four prefectures of Ji, Yuan, Fu and Xin in one fell swoop, thus basically capturing the entire Jiangxi, the Northern Expedition personally led by Yang Wu in Suzhou did not go very well. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ｂｉｑUｇE。 ｉｎｆｏ

At the beginning of August, with the news that the allied forces of Wei Quanqi had sent troops to Jiangxi, Zhu Wen personally led the main force of the Liang army south to attack Yongcheng in order to contain the main force of Huainan.

Yongcheng is the northern gate of Suzhou, and the two sides have been fighting against each other here before; Before the main force of the Liang army moved south, Liu Jun, the general of the Liang army, and Li Jian, the general of Huainan, each led 20,000 troops to fight here.

Because of the equal strength of the troops, and the fact that the two armies each had their main forces in the rear as a backup, it was very difficult for either side to completely defeat the other, so the main purpose of the battles during that period was basically to train troops, and there were few real big battles.

However, as the main force of the Liang army moved south, Yang Wu also had to lead the main force of Huainan to Yongcheng north to engage the Liang army.

This is not only related to the gains and losses of the city of Yongcheng, but also related to the momentum of both sides, so Yang Wu cannot retreat, and must withstand the attack of the Liang army here.

Of course, Zhu Wen's main purpose in going south this time was to contain the strength of the Huainan Army, prevent the Huainan Army from transferring troops to Jiangxi, and buy a little time for Wei Quanwei to attack Hongzhou.

Now that the Huainan army had gone north to Yongcheng, Zhu Wen's goal had been achieved, so he set up camp twenty miles north of Yongcheng and did not attack Yongcheng.

The Huainan Army was camped ten miles northeast of Yongcheng, and also had no intention of going further north.

Whether it is Zhu Wen or Yang Wu, they both maintain their sanity, and they will not easily have a life-and-death battle with each other before they are absolutely sure.

So in the following time, as in the last Huainan Expedition, the Liang army and the Huainan army launched a long tug-of-war near Yongcheng.

In the initial stages of the war, both sides won and lost, and neither side took advantage.

However, in mid-August, Guo Chongtao suggested to Yang Wu that since Zhu Wen's purpose was to contain the main force of the Huainan Army, the Huainan Army could make arrangements for this.

At his suggestion, Yang Wu laid an ambush on the one hand, and quietly withdrew his troops back to Suzhou.

The reason why he had to withdraw quietly was because of Zhu Wen's cunning and suspicious character, if the Huainan Army withdrew with great fanfare, it would be too obvious, Zhu Wen would definitely be cautious, and it would be difficult to ambush him.

But now that the Huainan army has quietly withdrawn its troops, this can give Zhu Wen an illusion, making him feel that Yang Wu's real purpose is to take advantage of the unpreparedness of the Liang army to withdraw the army, so as to reduce his defense and induce him to lead his troops to chase.

Of course, it is also possible that the Liang army did not realize that the Huainan army had withdrawn at all, or they found out that the Liang army had withdrawn, but instead of pursuing, they began to attack Yongcheng.

Either way, it could frustrate the Huainan Army's plans.

However, at this moment, luck was obviously on the side of the Huainan army, the Liang army not only "successfully" probed the withdrawal of the Huainan army, but also Zhu Wen ordered the pursuit of 10,000 Yiwu troops as the vanguard as soon as he learned the news, but was ambushed and suffered heavy losses.

Of course, the loss of troops is more of the Yiwu Army under the command of Wang Chuzhi, who served as the vanguard, not Zhu Wen's direct troops, even if there are more losses, Zhu Wen will not feel distressed.

After this great victory, the morale of the Huainan army was greatly boosted, and it won many victories in the following period.

It's a pity that Zhu Wen's main force has not suffered losses; And as the war continued, the Liang army gradually got rid of its decline, and constantly launched counterattacks, and even defeated the Huainan army many times, thus gaining the upper hand.

On this day, another big war was unfolding, and this time it was the Zuo Tengxiang army led by Li Chengsi who entered the big battle, and the one who fought against him was Niu Cunjie, the general of the Liang army.

Yang Wu ordered Shi Yan and Hou Zan to lead the cavalry to cover the flanks, and he personally led the main force to suppress the formation; The Liang army also used the most elite cavalry to protect the flanks, and Zhu Wen led the main force to suppress the formation.

This kind of battle was already a matter of course for Yang Wu, so he didn't take this battle to heart, but just sat quietly on his horse and watched the battle between the two sides.

At this time, Yang Wu had not received the news of the victory at Ivory Pond, and he did not know that Zhou Ben not only successfully defeated the allied army as in history, but also defeated the Chu army besieging Gao'an, and achieved a complete victory.

For Yang Wu, the battle in front of him seems a little boring, the main purpose of this Northern Expedition is to lure Wei Quanyi to take the initiative to attack, now that his goal has been achieved, it is not meaningful to continue to stay here to fight with the Liang army, so Yang Wu has long had the intention to withdraw the army.

It is a pity that although Yang Wu was able to choose when to launch this Northern Expedition, it was not up to him to decide when to end this Northern Expedition, but to Zhu Wen.

"Zhu Wen wants to drag our army here, so that it is convenient for the danger to attack Jiangxi, but the north has not yet been pacified, and a big war may break out again at any time, in this case, presumably Zhu Wen cannot stay here for a long time."

"If Zhou Ben can defeat Wei Quanyi as soon as possible, when Zhu Wen knows that he is no longer able to prevent our army from capturing Jiangxi, he will probably stop his troops and go back, right?"

"After the return of the army this time, the matter of official statehood should be on the agenda. I remember that in history, Wang Jian was also established and called emperor in the year when Zhu Wen became emperor, and Li Maozhen, the king of Qi, also established the state of Qi in this year, set up hundreds of officials, and all etiquette was in accordance with the emperor's regulations; But now that it's the end of August, I wonder if Wang Jian and Li Maozhen have already started to act? ”

"There is also Li Keyong, before Wang Jian became the emperor in history, he also sent someone to send a letter to Li Keyong, persuading him to be the emperor with Wang Jian, one is called the East Emperor, and the other is called the West Emperor, but Li Keyong refused. I don't know what Wang Jian and Li Keyong will do now. Yang Wu thought very casually.

At this moment, the situation of the battle, which had been a stalemate ahead, began to change.

More than 5,000 troops on the Huainan army launched an attack on the Liang army but failed to break through, and when they were about to temporarily withdraw and rest, the Liang army suddenly launched a counterattack at this time.

This counterattack came very quickly and suddenly, and was launched by the Liang army's Long Xiang army.

Five thousand elite cavalry followed the orders of the leading generals, lined up in a neat queue to launch a surprise attack on the Huainan army, which was slowly retreating.

Seeing the opponent's actions, the retreating Huainan army was not afraid of danger and immediately stopped to sort out the formation in order to deal with the cavalry assault.

At the same time, the Huainan cavalry, which was responsible for guarding the flanks, quickly attacked under the leadership of Shi Yan and Hou Zhan, preparing to intercept the cavalry of the Liang army and buy time for the Huainan army's array.

All of this was as smooth as their peers, and without even Yang Wu's order, those experienced generals knew what to do, and each made a reasonable response.

However, this time the assault of the Liang cavalry, what surprised Yang Wu was the Liang general who took the lead, holding an iron spear, on horseback with a spear or stab, or hit, or sweep, there was not even a single enemy in front of him, and many Huainan cavalry were easily killed by him under the horse.

This brave Liang general rushed back and forth among the Huainan cavalry, and no one could stop him, which greatly boosted the morale of the Liang cavalry, and the Xiao cavalry army that was killed immediately retreated one after another, with great losses.

Seeing the enemy's general's might, the two cavalry generals of the Huainan Army, Shi Yan and Hou Zhan, were immediately furious and rushed over to fight with the Liang general.

However, what I didn't expect was that whether it was Shi Yan or Hou Zhan, these two were not the opponents of the Liang general, and they finally joined forces to barely block each other.

In the rear, Yang Wu saw that the cavalry had suffered a large loss, and he was immediately distressed.

Although the Huainan Army has now obtained Jeju Island to use to raise horses, the matter of raising horses is not yet on the right track, and it is not known when the horse farm can operate normally and send horses to the army.

And not only horses, but every Huainan cavalry that fell was the most precious treasure.

Most of these people were northerners who went south with Zhu Jin and Li Chengsi, and the Huainan Army did not cultivate much by itself.

Compared to the loss of horses, the losses of these soldiers, who were good at fighting on horseback, were even more severe.

"Who is Liang Jiang? Does anyone know each other? ”

Yang Wu looked at the generals Hou Zan and Shi Yan on the battlefield in the distance, and the generals Hou Zan and Shi Yan were pressing and fighting, and couldn't help but move in his heart and asked the people around him.

"That person seems to be Wang Yanzhang! The former Kaifeng Mansion is in charge, and now he should have just been promoted to the military envoy of Long Xiang! Someone recognized the enemy general and said to Yang Wu.

"No wonder he's so brave, it turned out to be him, and he really deserves his name!" Yang Wu immediately reacted and admired again and again.

This Liang general turned out to be the iron spear Wang Yanzhang, known as Wang Tiegun, is a famous fierce general in the Later Liang, it is said that even Li Cunqiao is afraid of his bravery, and his fame among the people can stop children crying at night.

By Wang Yanzhang's surprise attack, the Huainan cavalry suffered great losses, but fortunately, their purpose was only to stop the enemy for a moment and buy time for the infantry to respond, but now the goal has been achieved, so Shi Yan and the two led the cavalry to retreat quickly.

The impact of the cavalry of the Liang army was blocked and finally failed to make a contribution, and the two sides could only withdraw their troops and truce.