Chapter 221: Battle of Changzhou (1)

"Driving~"

Outside Yunlong City, a cavalryman quickly galloped towards a large army camp 3 miles away from the city.

From a distance, this camp has just been built, and many people on the periphery of the camp are busy building wooden fences on the periphery.

There is a recruiting point in the open space not far from the front of the camp, which is a temporary wooden platform, 1 meter high, about 100 square meters in size, hundreds of young men in cloth clothes are surrounding the stage, on the platform are placed spears, broadswords, bows and arrows, and stone piers and other equipment, three young men are testing several tools next to each other on the platform, in front of them, an official in cloth robes is registering their test data.

After the lively recruitment point, through the camp to the center, a huge tent was erected next to a flag, with blue edges on a black background, and the two big characters "Murong" were engraved on it with ancient seals.

In the battle of Yunwu Mountain, Murong Han, the original county lieutenant of Fangxian County, relied on his extraordinary courage to drag 100,000 Ba troops in the mountains for several days and made great contributions.

After the end of the war, under the strong recommendation of Hu Luguang, Sima Yu named Murong Han as the general of Zhengsi Pin Anyuan, and ordered him to recruit 10,000 troops on the spot in Yunlong County, consisting of 2,000 heavy armored cavalry and 8,000 heavy infantry.

After more than half a month of recruitment, with Murong Han's prestige among the Xianbei clan, the two thousand heavy armored cavalry have all been recruited, and they have been pulled out by Murong Han's deputy general Wu Buli for training, and the six thousand heavy infantry have only recruited less than half, and it may take more than a month to become an army.

"General Murong, your lord has an order, let you set off immediately to the camp of Baofeng Mountain"

The herald lifted the curtain, hurriedly stepped into the account, and said respectfully to Murong Han.

"Immediately recruit them and return to the camp!"

Looking at the red edict in the herald's hand, Murong Han's face changed, and he immediately gave an order to the soldiers outside the tent.

In the Southern Royal Army, whether it is intelligence or edicts, they are divided into three levels: white, yellow, and red, white is general matters, yellow is important matters, and red represents urgent matters that need to be dealt with immediately.

Half an hour later, after explaining the affairs of the army to Wu Buli, Murong Han immediately led dozens of guards to Sima Yu's Baofeng Mountain camp.

At the same time, Murong Han generally received an urgent edict from the three counties of Yunlong, Chen Shi, and Jinsha, as well as the more than 10,000 infantry soldiers of the Northern Army who were originally scattered in various cities in Chen Shi County.

Drain~

When Murong Han and the others arrived, it was already evening, and the autumn rain quietly descended on the earth, and the rain curtain covered the entire land.

"General Murong?"

When Murong Han hurried to the Chinese army camp with a few entourages, an officer with a rain coat was already waiting there, and when he saw Murong Han, he hurriedly stepped forward and asked.

"Exactly below, I don't know Your Excellency?"

Murong Han turned over and dismounted, looked up at the unfamiliar officer in front of him, and said with a puzzled look on his face.

"Guo Huai, the lieutenant of the right guard of the lower official, all the adults have arrived, and they are waiting for the general"

The young officer saluted Murong Han respectfully.

After the Battle of Jinzhou, the Left Guard Army stayed in Wangcheng to repair, and it was the Right Guard Army that followed Sima Yu to the north.

The Left Guard Army and the Right Guard Army are Sima Yu's own army, responsible for guarding the safety of Wangcheng and Sima Yu all the year round, with 15,000 people per army, with two commanders and deputies, and five battalions, 3,000 people per battalion, and a captain.

The commander of the Right Guard, the vulture, was the deputy third-rank military attaché, the deputy general Honda Tadashi was the fourth-rank military attaché, and the five battalion captains below were all fifth-rank.

Guo Huai, whose name is Boji, is Guo Huai, the general of Wei during the Three Kingdoms period, who has sniped Zhuge Liang and Jiang Wei's Northern Expedition many times in history, and his official position is a chariot general, second only to the general and the hussar general.

However, at this time, Guo Huai was still young and did not have the ability to stand alone.

"There's Captain Lao Guo!"

Murong Han hurriedly returned the salute and said politely, and he was also a little surprised by Guo Huai's politeness.

Judging from the official rank, although his official position as General Anyuan is higher than Guo Huai, the Right Guard is Sima Yu's pro-army, representing Sima Yu, who dares to despise it.

Under the guidance of Guo Huai, he walked through the camp hundreds of meters to a tall camp tent.

This tent covers an area of 1,000 square meters, the highest point is as high as seven meters, and a huge southern king flag stands on the left side of the tent in the rain, and the tents in the camp are spread out in all directions with it as the center.

The moment he lifted the camp curtain and stepped into the camp, Murong Han realized that this urgent summons was probably extraordinary.

As far as the eye can see, the two sides of the tent are already full, and the six battalions of the Northern Army, the Southern Army, the Central Army, the Right Guard, the generals of each army, and the captains of the military cadets are all gathered in the tent.

In the seat on the right, Murong Han also saw Chen Shijun Commander Gao Chong, Yunlong County Keeper Luo Chengxiang, and Jinsha County Keeper Wu Shidao, the three of them had their upper bodies and shoulders wet a lot from the rain, and they had obviously just arrived.

Luo Chengxiang and Wu Shidao were both inquired by Sima Yu when he was conquering the remnants of the Daxi forces in Yongzhou, and they were recruited by Guo Yuan, Xiang Lang and others.

Both of them are champions in history, Wu Shidao is from the Tang Dynasty, and the other is from the Qing Dynasty.

Murong Han nodded and greeted Hu Luguang and the others, who were familiar with him in the camp, and walked briskly to the seat in the center of the left.

The atmosphere in the tent was calm, and no one spoke.

"You've arrived!"

Only a few minutes after Murong Han took his seat, a roll call sounded in the battalion commander.

With the roll call, Sima Yu walked out from the left side of the front back tent and slowly sat on the main seat, dressed in a well-cut black brocade dress with dragon pattern trimming, which set off the supreme majesty of the king.

"Meet Your Majesty!"

After Sima Yu sat down, a group of civil and military officers below collectively got up to salute.

"Gentlemen, please get up!"

"This time we are urgently recruiting everyone to come here to discuss important matters"

After raising his hand to help everyone, in the eager, confused, and excited eyes of everyone below, Sima Yu said slowly.

As soon as Sima Yu's voice fell, the expressions of the generals suddenly became excited, the army had been idle for more than half a month, and it was finally time to act.

"Yesterday, Dingguo came to the news, the Nanyi army under Ren Gui has captured Shangfeng and Shidao counties, burning, killing and looting, more than 100,000 people were slaughtered, and hundreds of thousands of people in the two counties were displaced.

Now that the passage to the seven counties of Changzhou has been opened, our goal has been achieved, and continuing to let Nanyi rebel will only make the whole of Changzhou a ruin, and in the north of Shangfeng County, they have also encountered a small Qin army, and the other party is probably also interested in Changzhou.

Therefore, the matter of Changzhou should be resolved quickly, and Dingguo invited himself to send troops to Shidao County to open the way for the army."

The reason why Sima Yu let more than 100,000 troops stay in Baofeng Mountain for half a month was to let the Nanyi army cholera Changzhou, which could not only weaken the strength of Chengjiaguo militarily, but also allow the actions of the southern royal army to occupy the moral commanding heights, so as to reduce the resistance to enter Changzhou.

It's a pity that with the intervention of the Qin army, it can't wait any longer.