Of course, according to the normal development of history, after Timur led the army to Bianliang, the first to attack was not Wuyang's side, but Han Yan'er, who was guarding Shangcai. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. ｂiquge。 ｉｎfo

Because of the current Han Yan'er, he not only guards this Shangcai Town, but even Nanton, Shangshui and Xiangcheng in Chenzhou under the rule of Bianliang Road are under the vacant range of Han Yan'er. And now Han Yan'er is still sharpening his knife, and Huo Huo turned his attention to Wanqiu, the seat of governance in Chenzhou.

Therefore, the attraction of his Han Yan'er to the Yuanmeng court is indeed much greater than that of Zhang Shihua, who is only tossing in Nanyang.

Of course, this doesn't mean that Zhang Shihua can sit back and relax, don't worry, after all, he and Han Yan'er are both Red Turban Army, and they both belong to the target of this guy's conquest. Even if the main target of the next attack is not him, it is very likely that with the current strength of the first one, it is very likely that a partial division will be sent here to conquer him.

And this, in fact, is why Zhang Shihua went south to conquer Nanyang Mansion at this juncture. Because Zhang Shihua must first send a partial division to attack him, and give priority to solving his worries.

After all, although it is said that the soldiers under Zhang Shihua's command are all elite soldiers who can fight with one enemy and five soldiers. However, no matter how elite these soldiers are, there is one thing that cannot be changed, and that is the number of their troops.

You must know that Zhang Shihua only has 5,000 people now, that is to say, it is impossible for him to divide the 5,000 people into two, one to resist Yexian, and the other to resist the sneak attack of Nanyang. After all, 5,000 people are enough to be few, 5,000 people are dividing the troops, and there are really no people left under Zhang Shihua.

Therefore, in the next step, he must use the momentum of thunder to go south to Nanyang Mansion City in one fell swoop. In this way, while solving his worries, Zhang Shihua can also resist Yexian's attack with the power of a big victory.

Outside the south gate of Fangcheng, all the troops in Fangcheng have been gathered here, a full of 4,500 people, although there are no more than 10,000 people, but it still looks like a sea of people.

There were 4,500 red turban sergeants, all of whom were fully armoured. Although there are only more than 800 soldiers in iron armor, the rest of the soldiers in leather armor look imposing. Where these people stand quietly, it doesn't give people a sense of oppression that chooses people to eat.

What's more, what's even more terrifying is that among the four thousand five hundred men, including the scout camp, they have nearly seven hundred horsemen. Looking at these 700 tall horses and 700 imposing cavalry soldiers, one can imagine how terrible these 700 men would be if they charged.

However, the trump card in Zhang Shihua's hand is not only these cavalry, because in addition to these large number of cavalry, Zhang Shihua also has two special troops under him. One of the teams is only a hundred people, but these 100 people are the elite of the elite selected by Zhang Shihua.

These people are the newly formed plate armor troops under Zhang Shihua, or heavy armor soldiers. These people were Zhang Shihua's personal guards, who only obeyed Zhang Shihua's orders alone, and were led by Li Wuqin, a fierce general under Zhang Shihui.

And in addition to these people, the other force is naturally a crossbow army that everyone wants to form. As you can tell from the name, the "Divine Crossbow Force" is a force composed of the best Divine Arm Crossbowmen in the army. Of course, there were not too many of them, only three hundred. However, the combat power they can burst out is absolutely amazing.

And from these points, it can be seen that Zhang Shihua has taken out all his hole cards this time. And doing this, naturally, is to break through Nanyang Mansion City in the shortest possible time and solve their worries.

For this battle, Zhang Shihua naturally can be said to be very sure, because he is confident that the remnants of Nanyang City will definitely not be able to resist such a group of men and horses as himself. Therefore, after the men and horses were assembled, Zhang Shihua, who was surrounded by the generals in front of the army, pulled out the war knife at his waist, raised the knife and shouted: "Pass my military order, and the whole army will march." ”

"The general has an order, and the whole army is marching! The general has an order, and the whole army marches! When a herald in the army heard Zhang Shihua's roar, he immediately passed Zhang Shihua's military order to the ears of everyone in the army, and then this tiger and wolf-like army went straight to Nanyang City, which was located in the southwest.

At the same time, when Zhang Shihua led his army south, Ye Xian, who was appointed by Emperor Yuanmeng as the Privy Councillor and the Marshal of the Thief, finally led the vanguard under his command to cross the Yellow River.

To be honest, the fatigue of the march on this road really made those who had been pampered since childhood have a feeling of being reincarnated. Starting from the capital of Yuanda, it took nearly a month to finally walk more than 1,000 miles, cross the Yellow River, and come to Bianliang.

After all, he also led troops to the south to fight the thieves this time, coupled with the rebellion of Xuzhou Sesame Lee, so it was impossible for him to take a boat from the canal first, so he could only take the land route. But everyone also knows that there were no roads and high-speed railways in the Yuan Dynasty.

I also brought troops to Runing to beg for thieves first, so I could only take the official road, but this official road was not even used to sitting in a carriage and was only used to making eight sedan chairs, which was equivalent to a road to learn scriptures from the west. The wind and food on the road and all kinds of bumps in the road really made Yexian feel like he wanted to die.

Therefore, when the two guys felt Bianliang City with Brother Wei Wang Kuanche, they said that they were unwilling to continue to go. After all, it is really not fucking worth it to suffer so much for the emperor to reward them with a thousand ingots (Note 1).

Besides, the two of them were in too much of a hurry to show their loyalty to the emperor. So much so that only the more than 20,000 vanguard troops that were assembled first were brought by them, and most of the remaining follow-up troops from the state capitals were still hanging here hundreds of miles away.

After all, in this era, it is not easy to gather an army of 100,000 at once, and Na Nima is not an easy task. Rise...... Of course, according to the urine nature of the generals in various places who eat empty salaries, the 100,000 people on the surface can really be implemented, and there can be 70,000 people, then it can be regarded as the generals and officials in various places have a conscience.

But the more this happens, the more they naturally have to wait here. Otherwise, once they lose the battle because of the rash advance of the light soldiers, the group of reinforcements behind them probably don't know what moths to come up with.

However, what Ling Yexian and the two of them didn't expect was that it was because of the waste of time on their side, but it laid the groundwork for their future defeat.

Because just when they were wasting time here, the soldiers under Zhang Shihua's command were already a few miles northwest of Nanyang Mansion after a day of driving.

Nanyang Mansion City, there is no doubt that this is a big city, but also an ancient famous city. Liu Xiu, Emperor Guangwu of the Han Dynasty, rebelled in this place.

In the Three Kingdoms period, Nanyang City also became the place where Cao Cao and Zhang Xiu competed, and the tiger general Dian Wei was on the battlefield here; Zhuge Wuhou is also the first song of the young phoenix.

It can be said that this thousand-year-old city has seen too many wars, and there are too many famous generals and heroes buried in its underground. However, there is no way, there will be war where there are people, and the war outside Nanyang City seems to never come to an end.

Because just today, Zhang Shihua also led his soldiers to the outside of Nanyang City. Obviously, he is also about to start a battle of Nanyang that belongs to him.

You must know that in ancient times, the ancients were particular about building cities. The place where the city was built must be next to the river. After all, water is the source of all things, and without water, people cannot live, so from ancient times to the present, all human gathering places must be next to the river.

And many place names are actually related to local rivers. For example, Wuyang City under Zhang Shihua's rule, it is in the Yang of the Flowing Water, in the north of the Flowing Water, so it is called the Dancing Yang, and there are also Ruyang, Jinan, Jiyang, etc., and so on.

And Nanyang Mansion is naturally even more so in an ancient famous city, but Nanyang Mansion is not like his name, in what Nanshui Yang. There is no south water in Nanyang, and the river in this place is called Shuishui.

It is also equivalent to the mother river of Nanyang City, but it does not flow from west to east like other rivers, and it flows from north to south because of Funiu Mountain, and his geographical location is also located in the east of Nanyang City.

It is precisely because of this that the water has become a natural barrier in Nanyang City.

Therefore, if Zhang Shihua wants to lead the army to attack Nanyang, the river of Shuishui will be the first pass that hinders his path.

And what is even more troublesome is that compared with Rushui, the river is wider, and the river surface is as wide as 100 zhang, which makes the trebuchet on Zhang Shihua's side have no effect at all, on the contrary, the enemy's trebuchet can come in handy.

That is to say, in the future, Zhang Shihua's soldiers under his command not only had to forcibly cross the river, but also had to forcibly cross the river under the attack of Nanyang Mansion, and the difficulty of crossing the river was conceivable.

However, fortunately, because the population of Nanyang Mansion City is not as good as that of Runing and the preparation time is insufficient, there are not many defenders in Nanyang Mansion City. The total number of guards in the entire Nanyang Mansion City is about 6,000 people, and their trebuchets are only fifty, so the threat to the nearly 5,000 Red Turban Army is not very great.

Moreover, Zhang Shihua wants to attack Nanyang Mansion City for a day or two, and Zhang Shihua naturally has his own plan on how to cross the water.

On the east side of the river, Zhang Shihua led more than 3,000 soldiers, riding horses and standing on a high hill, looking at the defenders on the opposite bank. I couldn't help but secretly think in my heart, "I hope that Ah Jiu and Shihui, the two of them can find a way from the hills north of Nanyang as soon as possible to bypass the water." Otherwise, Nanyang City is really hard to fight. ”

Yes, this is Zhang Shihua's strategy to cross the river, a day ago, not long after leaving Fangcheng, Zhang Shihua asked Zhao Jiu and his brother Zhang Shihui to lead the most elite 800 soldiers under his command, and let them go straight to the west, into the remnants of Funiu Mountain in the north of Nanyang Mansion City.

After all, the water is hundreds of miles long, and it is impossible for the defenders of Nanyang Mansion City to take care of such a long river. They could only station their troops at the most important official road crossings, as they did now, and use them to guard against the attack of the Red Turban Army.

But this does not mean that the defenders of Nanyang Mansion must be in a passive position. You must know that the north of Nanyang Mansion is full of barren mountains and mountains, so in such a place, the chances of finding a road that can be passed by the army are extremely slim.

Moreover, marching in such a wilderness is an extremely dangerous affair. The poisoned snake mountain rain and boulder cliffs in the barren mountains and mountains, the one that can't ask for people's lives. It's also a shame that this is late autumn, not the rainy season and summer, otherwise even if Zhang Shihua sends twice as many people, it is estimated that there will only be no return.

But even so, in the middle of the barren mountains and mountains, the march was extremely difficult. Because in the barren mountains and mountains, the most common danger is to get lost, once the army loses its way in the barren mountains and mountains, the result can be imagined.

But fortunately, under Zhang Shihua's teaching, Zhao Jiu and Zhang Shihui both knew how to distinguish the direction by the stars in the sky and the annual rings of trees in the barren mountains. Therefore, Zhang Shihua is not worried about this kind of thing.

However, although Zhang Shihua said that he didn't have to worry about Zhao Jiu and Zhang Shihui, they would get lost. However, their supply remains an unavoidable problem. After all, Zhao Jiu and they were marching in the barren mountains and mountains, and in this case, it was impossible for them to obtain supplies from the outside world.

And because they had to march and fight, it was impossible for them to bring much supplies with them. Three days of dry food per person is already the limit. And this means that if Zhao Jiu and the others can't cross the mountains and rivers within three days, then they will only be greeted by the path of failure.

So Zhang Shihua's heart is really worried about Zhao Jiu and Zhang Shihui now. After all, the two of them are his brothers, and they are one of the few relatives in this world, Zhang Shihua would rather not be able to take Nanyang Mansion City than have an accident in the barren mountains and mountains.

However, Zhang Shihua is the coach after all, so no matter how worried he is in his heart, Zhang Shihua will never wait to show it. Because he is the leader of these people, and the heavy burden on his shoulders carries him, he must not let himself be disturbed.

So after pretending to look at the defensive formation of the Nanyang defenders on the other side, Zhang Shihua said calmly to Guo Yu, Zhang Mingtong and others beside him: "Pass the order, let Master Yang bring a thousand soldiers to build a river crossing raft for me, make the momentum bigger for me, and be sure to give me a tough face with the Tartar defenders of Nanyang City." Attract their attention and buy time for Ah Jiu and Shihui to grasp their surprise attack. ”

"The last general obeys!" Hearing Zhang Shihua's words, Guo Yu and the others immediately said the same.