At the beginning of February, when Liu Yu's fleet turned west along the Surabaya waterway, tens of thousands of Yan cavalry galloped from the north until they reached the shore of Surabaya.

Seeing the arrival of the enemy, Liu Yu immediately ordered the army to stop advancing.

Since the Jin army was going against the water, each warship was dragged forward by soldiers on the south bank with reins more than a hundred zhang long.

Sometimes, when encountering a place where the water is turbulent, or a strong wind suddenly blows in the sky, the reins that tug the battleship are suddenly broken, and the battleship loses its gravitational pull and often goes with the current.

One of the boats unfortunately drifted to the opposite shore, and the Jin soldiers on board were suddenly killed by the Houyan forward cavalry.

What made the Jin army even more angry was that those Xianbei people still carried the corpses of the Jin army to show off their might on the shore.

Seeing that the Yan army was so arrogant, it angered Xiang Jing, the general of the Jin army.

He immediately led twelve of his followers to take a small boat and rowed straight to the north bank, and the five or six hundred cavalry of the Yan army all looked at each other and laughed when they saw this.

Xiang Jing has always been good at shooting, and after landing on the north bank, he opened his bow and arrows, and shot more than a dozen Xianbei cavalry in a row, and the rest of the Xianbei cavalry retreated in a hurry.

After some temptation, the war officially began.

Yingyang general Liu Yuling led 700 warriors and 100 chariots to the bank of Surabaya, more than 100 steps away from the river, and built a moon formation.

But the two ends of the moon array stretched out to the riverbank, and there were seven armor soldiers on each chariot.

After the deployment was completed, Liu Yu ordered his own banner to be erected in the Crescent Moon Formation to show that he would live and die with all the soldiers.

After the construction of the Yueyue Array was completed, the commander's banner in the formation was also erected, and I saw that he gave an order, and Liu Huaisu led more than 2,000 people to fly into the position, and they carried more than 100 mechanical crossbows (this is to absorb the advantages of the Hexi Army after following Suo Chengming's advice).

At the same time, twenty more men were added to each chariot, and a large defensive shield was erected on the chariots.

At the beginning, Murong Long saw hundreds of Jin troops pulling chariots ashore, and he didn't understand what the Jin army was going to do.

Therefore, he did not immediately attack.

It wasn't until he saw that the Jin army had established a beachhead in an instant that he hurriedly launched an attack.

Liu Huaisu ordered to shoot with a weak bow and small arrows first to lure the enemy into being fooled.

Sure enough, when Murong Long saw this situation, he thought that the Jin army had few soldiers and the weapons and equipment were not good, so he ordered the army to rush towards the Crescent Moon position from all directions.

As a result, the 20,000 Houyan army launched a full-scale offensive against the Jin camp.

When the Yan army approached the Jin army camp, Liu Huaisu suddenly ordered the soldiers to take out the mechanical crossbows that were fired in bursts and began to shoot a large number of enemies.

However, the number of enemies was too large, and even those hundred crossbows could not suppress the swarming enemy.

However, Liu Yu had expected this before, so he prepared more than a thousand spears in advance.

At that moment, Liu Huaisu ordered the spear to be loaded on the big crossbow, and it was shot away, piercing three or four Xianbei people in an instant.

In this way, the Xianbei people were greatly deterred, and finally withstood the crazy attack of the Houyan people.

Although the number of the Jin army was far inferior to that of Houyan, and they were all newly recruited soldiers, because of their well-trained training and under the continuous encouragement of Liu Yu, all the soldiers fought bloodily and relied on the Yueyue array to kill and injure a large number of enemy troops.

Liu Yu saw that the time had come to break the enemy, and immediately shouted: "Ben will be ordered to rescue Xuzhou, and he has made an oath to do his best." ”

"Fellow gentlemen, or with a certain hardship, or deeply favored by His Majesty, at this time to retreat, what face do you have to see Your Majesty and your father and fellow villagers again?"

After speaking, Liu Yu personally led the elite of his headquarters ashore and killed the northwest of the Yan army's position.

Liu Yu placed hundreds of people in the Yan army's 20,000 army, which was undoubtedly a drop in the ocean, and it had nothing to do with the overall situation.

However, it was under the impact of Liu Yu's death squad that the Yan army's position loosened slightly.

This loosening soon spread to the whole army like a plague, and suddenly the entire Yan army was loosened for a while.

At this moment, the entire Jin army was pressed up, and the Houyan army as a whole retreated backwards, and finally formed a major rout.

Liu Yu relied on the "Moon Array" to defeat tens of thousands of Houyan Iron Cavalry with thousands of people, and the battle became famous.

Even the names of Xiang Jing, Liu Huaisu, Liu Jingxuan and others also made the Houyan people frightened.

This battle can be said to have reversed the decline of Xuzhou, stopped the situation from continuing to collapse, and forced Houyan to temporarily retreat.

Later, Liu Yu sent Liu Jingxuan to lead 3,000 men north to relieve the siege of Pengcheng.

At this time, Murong Long had already been frightened, and when he heard that the Jin army was coming, he didn't dare to meet the battle and fled without a fight.

After the war, Liu Zhong, the chief secretary of Pengcheng, said to Liu Yuxin: "The general hits the crowd with less, although the famous generals of the ancients can't compare with it!" ”

And Liu Yu also admired Liu Zhong who was guarding the city alone, and deliberately pulled him to serve under his command, so he deliberately intersected with him.

I have to say that the appeal of the Jin room is really great, when the Haoqiang in the Qingyan Fallen Area learned the news of Liu Yu's victory, they surrendered to the Eastern Jin Dynasty again, and even the people fled to Xuzhou.

Murong Trai saw that the situation in the newly occupied territory was unstable, so he sent soldiers and horses to patrol the four directions and intercept the fleeing people.

Unexpectedly, Liu Yu grabbed the fighter again, and a group of hundreds of cavalry who crossed the Yanxu border was surrounded and attacked by the Jin army, and all the troops were killed.

Then Murong Trai learned a lesson and did not dare to send a small force of cavalry to move close to Xuzhou, so he could only let Murong Nong personally lead the army to sit on the border to prevent Liu Yu.

I have to say that the new army that Liu Yu has cultivated now is no longer what it used to be.

After this bloody battle with the Xianbei people in the north, this new army has gradually become an iron army with a large number of outstanding generals, who dare to fight hard, and who are brave and tenacious.

In the face of Murong Trai himself, Liu Yu did not show a trace of timidity, but frequently took the initiative to attack, and defeated the two thousand Yan army iron cavalry who came to try to cut off the grain route above Surabaya, so that Murong Trai could learn his strengths.

Due to the successive victories, the morale of the Jin army was high, and when the Yan army was shrinking the front, it recovered a lot of lost ground.

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When the news of Murong Long's defeat came back to Yecheng, Murong was so angry that he almost didn't come up, and shouted again and again: "Murong Long is misleading the country, Murong Long is misleading the country." ”

He never imagined that this large-scale southern expedition would carry such a big heel at the end of the day.

Knowing this, when he captured the Qingyan Prefecture, he should have returned to the court, but with a single thought, tens of thousands of soldiers were buried.

Murong sent generals to attack Xuzhou, in addition to further expanding the territory to the south and plundering the population, he also wanted to completely inflict heavy losses on the Beifu soldiers.

In the future, when he went north to attack Wei, the Jin people were doing things in the south.

It's just that he underestimated his opponent, but he didn't expect that after Xie Xuan, Beifu Bing would still have such a fierce man as Liu Yu.

Now that Murong Long of the Middle Route Army has lost his division and humiliated the country, the Murong Agricultural Department of the Right Route Army is deeply trapped in the battlefield of Yuzhou, and although the Murong De Department of the Left Route Army is progressing smoothly, it lacks the echo of the other two Route Army, and will face the fierce enemy Liu Yu, and the future is uncertain.

Therefore, Murong Chui immediately made a decision and ordered someone to inform Murong Nong and Murong De to suspend their southward movement and return to Yecheng to discuss matters.

When Murong Nong and Murong De rushed back to Yecheng, they happened to see Murong Chui reprimanding Murong Long.

If it were the past, I am afraid that at this moment, Murong Nong and Murong De would have pleaded for mercy in the morning.

But this time, both of them were annoyed that Murong Long did not act according to military orders, so that the good situation was ruined.

As a result, the two of them just stood silent, not caring about Murong Long, who was trained bloody.

After a long while, Murong Chui finally calmed down, and then turned around to greet Murong Nong and Murong De.

"Although the Jin people are strong and do not want to forge ahead, there is nothing to worry about!"

"And I gathered heavy troops and swept the two states of Yanqing with lightning speed, not to swallow up the Eastern Jin Dynasty."

"In fact, one is to expand the space of the southern front, and the other is to loot grain, grass and population, all of which are to conquer the Northern Wei Dynasty and the Western Yan Dynasty."

"Therefore, it is the best policy to deter the Jin army and make it acquiesce in the land occupied by our army, and not dare to harass our country's border land."

"Originally, everything was going well, but unexpectedly, Surabaya was defeated, and the good situation fell short."

"At present, our army is newly defeated and its morale is low, but on the contrary, the Jin army is booming."

"Once it is caught in a dispute between the north and the south for a long time, the Northern Wei is bound to take advantage of the situation to attack Hebei, so it is necessary to repel the Jin army as soon as possible and deter the Southern Dynasties."

"Liu Yu is the new general of the Southern Dynasty, and he is also the confidant of Sima Yao, the son of heaven.

"If we don't try to stop him, Liu Yu will definitely lead his army north, and in this way, the southern front line will probably never be at peace."

"Now that the people in the country are hungry, if the Northern Wei Dynasty harasses us in the south, we will not be able to face the enemy on both sides."

"I have made up my mind, and I am ready to meet Liu Yu in person, it is best to make him retreat."