Chen pre-60,000 troops, 30,000 stationed in Beiying, 10,000 stationed in Qingchi City, and 20,000 stationed in Nanying at the southern foot of Fangshan Mountain.

Jiangning was the first to enter the territory of Qingchi, the two roads of troops about 80,000, more than 40,000 Hangzhou troops pressed to the north camp, Xu Ruyu personally led the other line of troops and horses, and stopped at Qingzhuyan more than ten miles south of the south camp barrier. A total of 130,000 troops in Jiangning entered the northern part of Baishifu, but the 30,000 Qingwei Army and the 20,000 Zhongli Army had to lead the East China Sea garrisons in Dingyuan, Xinzi, Longyou and other places.

More than 40,000 Hang troops rushed to the territory of Qingchi, and after only a little rectification, they launched an offensive against the North Camp set up in the East China Sea at the northwest foot of Fangshan.

Fan Wenlong ordered Xu Haofei to lead 10,000 soldiers and horses to monitor the main camp of the North Camp, 5,000 soldiers and horses occupied the Yang Castle more than 20 miles away as the main camp, and the remaining 25,000 soldiers and horses were divided into six roads to launch an offensive against the six outpost camps on the periphery of the North Camp in the East China Sea.

The first month was the time when the cold in the East China Sea was at its heaviest, and Chen Yu had practiced the Dan Breath technique since he was a child, so he would not be afraid of the cold, but when he saw Jiang Ning's fierce offensive, he felt a chill in his bones.

Fan Wenlong despised Chen's main force to defend the main camp of the northern camp, and divided his troops to attack the outer camp, which can be said to be a taboo for soldiers. However, Fan Wenlong divided the 40,000 soldiers and horses into eight places, controlling an area of nearly 30 miles in the northeast and north of Fangshan Mountain. In the northeast of Fangshan, the land is flat and forested, and maybe Xu Ruyu will hide all the way in it.

The main force of the East China Sea cavalry camp let Zhang Jidao firmly control it, although Chen Yu was the governor of the East China Sea, but he could not be mobilized, and among the three camps in Fangshan, there were only 2,000 elite cavalry. Zhang Jidao sent a letter, saying that the 40,000 troops led by Xu Ruyu were very likely to be vulnerable to the surrender of Wuzhou. Chen Yu is well versed in Xu Ruyu's surname, and also thinks that such a possibility is very great. Xu Ruyu led his troops to cross Xia'axi, and Chen Yu hid 2,000 elite cavalry in the southern camp, so as to use the cavalry to sprint to test the reality while Xu Ruyu's troops were not firmly established.

When Xu Ruyu crossed the river, he took the military chariot as the array, and then sent Wu Cheng to lead 2,000 foot soldiers to conquer Qingzhuyan, set up a village in Qingzhuyan, and divided his troops into the Qingzhuyan position.

Not to mention Xu Ruyu, Shao Haitang, Zhang Zhongdao, Fang Su, Zhao Jingyun and others in the army with Xu Ruyu are all good at using soldiers, Chen Yu did not dare to use the main force to confront head-on, and wanted to test the truth by the division, but it was delusional.

To really shake Chen Pre's camp near Fangshan, the only way to hope is to rely on Fan Wenlong, Xu Ruyu's combat power is very limited, from the north bank of Xia Axi to Qingzhu, the marching and camping laws are strict, and the East China Sea is not given a chance, but the edge is not fierce, the fighting spirit is not strong, and the harassment of the South East China Sea camp is limited to the scale of more than 1,000 people.

Chen Yu didn't dare to be careless, knowing that with Xu Ruyu present, unexpected things might happen. However, it was Fan Wenlong's wanton offensive in the northeast of Fangshan that surprised Chen Pre.

Xu Ruyu and Fan Wenlong were one south and one north, one static and one moving, which made Chen Yu have many doubts in his heart. Although Chen Yu foresaw that Xu Ruyu might hide the cavalry camp in Fan Wenlong's army, he could not send troops, so he sent Captain Chen Yi to lead 3,000 spear infantry from the main camp of Beiying, bypassing Xu Haofei, who was monitoring Beiying, and occupying Xiagou. Unfolds on the river beach on the east bank of the lower ditch.

The lower ditch is separated by Yang Castle, and Chen Yu thought that the Jiangning Cavalry Camp was really in the north, and most of them would advance to Yang Castle. The lower ditch winds around Fangshan and flows south into Xia'a Creek, at this time the water is extremely shallow, and the river beach is open, which is convenient for launching a cavalry battle. However, the battle of crossing the river was not good for the cavalry, and Chen Yu wanted Chen Yi's 3,000 soldiers and horses to block the Jiangning cavalry camp and prevent him from crossing the river.

Ling Chang Shulin led 10,000 foot soldiers to camp on the northern slope of Fang, and occupied the high ground south of Xu Hao's non-army. The northern slope of Fangshan Mountain is steep, the terrain is narrow, and the trees are luxuriant, so Uncle Chang does not need to worry about the flanks being threatened.

The black wolf smoke rose from Xu Hao's non-army, and the horn blew the trumpet, gradually spreading far away, not waiting for the eldest uncle to attack, he set up camp and left, and the direction was the Xiagou River Beach.

Liu Zhaoyu said: "Xu Haofei divided his troops to block Chang Shulin, and defeated Chen Yi's army stationed on the Xiagou River Beach with the main force, so that the Jiangning cavalry could cross the Xiagou. ”

If Liu Zhaoyu's judgment was in line with the truth, he would send two thousand elite horsemen to rush to the front of Xu Haofei's department first, intercept him, and defeat him together with Changshu Lian. But Xu Hao didn't dare to lead 10,000 foot soldiers to provoke here, and he had some fear. If it can't be defeated in a short time, the Yuhang soldiers who are attacking the six outpost camps will surround it.

Chen Yu said: "The Jiangning cavalry will not be in Yang Castle, so Chen Yi will stick to the position on the river beach, and I will personally lead two thousand cavalry to cooperate with Chang Shulin to attack Xu Haofei from the flank." ”

Fan Wenlong was leading his troops to attack the camping in Laohugou in the East China Sea, and when he saw the wolf smoke rising from the northeast, he knew that the main force of the East China Sea had left the north camp.

It's just that this side is attacking urgently, not that it can be withdrawn, and 2,000 soldiers and horses were divided to continue to attack Laohugou, leading the most elite 5,000 soldiers and horses in the Yuhang army to the north along the east bank of Xiagou.

Laohugou is on the east side of Fangshan Mountain, and there are eleven or twelve miles away from the river beach of Xiagou. Fan Wenlong ordered Xu Haofei to lead an army of 10,000 to monitor the main camp of the North Camp in the East China Sea, which was originally intended to provoke. Chen Yu will not sit back and watch the outpost camp on the periphery and let Fan Wenlong break through it together, and if he makes a move, he will definitely seize the Xiagou River beach. Fan Wenlong's 40,000-strong army was divided into two sides of the lower ditch, although it is said that the lower ditch is shallow and narrow, but if the East China Sea sends troops to occupy the beachhead on the east coast, it will be a little difficult to rush to cross.

Chen presupposedly that Xu Haofei would first defeat the array guarding the beachhead of the lower ditch in the East China Sea, so that it would be convenient for the soldiers and horses on the west coast to cross the lower ditch. led the cavalry to storm the rear of Xu Haofei's department. He wanted to join forces with Shu Lin to defeat Xu Haofei's troops before Fan Wenlong led the main force to arrive.

When Xu Haofei saw Chen Pre-personally leading the cavalry out of the camp, he knew that he could not fight on both sides, so he stopped marching and formed a formation to greet each other.

Xu Hao did not form a formation to wait for reinforcements, and did not rush to attack the river beach, so he knew that the Jiangning cavalry was not here. Chen Yu shouted that he was deceived, and at this time he understood that Fan Wenlong's soldiers were divided into six ways to attack the outpost camp, although the offensive was fierce, but there must be a way to be ready to withdraw from the battlefield at any time.

Although Fan Wenlong has 40,000 soldiers and horses, but Jiangning's cavalry is not here, Chen Yu is not afraid in his heart, thinking: Zhang Jidao will hide the fine cavalry, Xu Ruyu does not dare to be careless, and the Qingfeng cavalry and Qingfeng Wei are guarding against the Yuqi cavalry camp. handed over the cavalry camp to the eldest uncle, rushed to the north camp, and ordered Liu Zhaoyu to go to the south camp to see Xu Ruyu. He led 5,000 soldiers and horses out of the camp, wanting to defeat Xu Maofei's troops before Fan Wenlong's main force rushed to the battlefield.

When the enemy line was scattered, it was very convenient for the cavalry to rush forward, and the bow and crossbow could also be used to shoot at the enemy line.

Chen Yu cherished these two thousand cavalry very much, naturally could not be used for frontal charge, and wanted to disturb the attack from both wings, Xu Hao was not strictly arrayed, and deployed the limited machine crossbow in the two wing arrays, the machine crossbow was very slow to load the arrows, but the range was far greater than the longbow, and the strength was great, and the two thousand East China Sea cavalry were useless.

Xu Haofei was not afraid of the 2,000 cavalry battalion, and in the face of the attack of the 10,000 foot soldiers led by the chief Shu Lin in the front, he seemed to be at ease, and constantly sent small elite troops from his own formation to trap the East China Sea array, disrupting its attack steps. It was not until Chen Yu led 5,000 soldiers and horses to arrive and spread out the attack surface that the East China Sea gained the upper hand.

Liu Zhaoyu led more than 100 horsemen, crossed the long valley of Yuefang Mountain, and rushed to the southern camp, but outside the southern camp was densely packed with Jiangning's soldiers and horses.

Although he guessed that the 40,000 soldiers and horses led by Xu Ruyu were very likely to be the Wuzhou army with weak combat strength, but the soldiers and horses in the southern camp were less than half of them, and in the situation of the battlefield in the northern camp, Liu Zhaoyu naturally did not dare to lead the troops out of the camp. But seeing Jiang Ning's soldiers erecting stone-throwing crossbows in front of the camp, Liu Zhaoyu had to send troops to attack that place.

Huannanying is a one-person high stone barrier, the stone barrier is bound with wood for the wall, and the two wooden walls are filled with soil for the platform. The fortification of the rammed earth wall is far from being compared with the rammed earth wall of masonry, and it will not take long for the rammed earth wall to collapse after the stone-throwing crossbow is erected.

Compared with the battlefield in a radius of dozens of miles to the north, the battle in the south was controlled within a certain range of the front of the south camp at the beginning, and the number of troops invested was also small, but as time went by, Xu Ruyu invested more and more troops in the battlefield before the main camp of the south camp, not only wrapped the East China Sea that was fighting out of the camp from the south camp base, but also sent two lines of soldiers and horses to directly attack the south camp at night.

The Fan clan was attached to Jiangning, and Fan Wenlong led the surrendered soldiers and horses, went out from Yuhang, and attacked Wuzhou, Lanling and other places in the north, but he never had the opportunity to make military achievements for Jiangning. Yu Hang will gain a foothold in Jiangning, only to accumulate military merits, Xu Ruyu did not let the stronger Qing Wei Army to attack the northern camp, is to see Yu Hang's army full of fighting spirit. Fan Wenlong led the troops to the territory of Qingchi, and divided the troops into six ways to attack the outpost camps, Chen Pre, Liu Zhaoyu, and Chang Shulin all thought that Fan Wenlong was eager to seek merit.

When Liu Zhao saw Nanying like this, he realized that Yu Hang's actions in the north were all due to Xu Ruyu's instructions. Send someone to see Chen Yu at the moment and ask him to beware of Xu Ruyu's hidden tricks.

In fact, there is no need for Liu Zhaoyu to remind him, Chen Yu is also aware of it. Fan Wenlong can be regarded as a powerful and powerful person in Jiangning, and the people who are really eager to fight are the generals of Yuhang under him.

Since leading the troops into the northern part of Baishi and camping in the north and south of Fangshan, Chen Wei was not careful enough, and sometimes only hated himself for being too careful and missed many opportunities to thwart the Jiangning army.

Soon after nightfall, Fan Wenlong led 5,000 soldiers and horses to the Xiagou River Beach, and attacked the 3,000 Donghai soldiers stationed on the river beach from the south side. Under the continuous attacks of the East China Sea army, Xu Haofei's troops showed a declining momentum, no longer stuck to the same position, and personally led 3,000 elite soldiers to break off, and the other soldiers and horses went in the direction of the Xiagou River Beach.

"Do you want to fight a decisive battle on the Xiagou River Beach?" A hint of doubt flashed in Chen Yu's eyes.

"The main forces of the Yuhang army are heading towards the river beach, but Fan Wenlong may not be able to fight a decisive battle. Fan Wenlong divided his troops to attack our six outpost camps, but he couldn't overcome them, but he was pinned down by nearly 10,000 troops; There are 5,000 soldiers and horses in the north of the Yang Castle, the Yang Castle is 30 miles away from the Xiagou River Beach, to cross the Quxi and Xiagou to rush, it takes until after the early morning of the Ming Dynasty. Fan Wenlong can only assemble 25,000 troops in Xiahetan, while the main force of our northern camp has 27,000 soldiers and horses here, and some troops can also be transferred from Qingchi City. ”

The stars and moon hung high, and the night was unshaped, as if preparing for a decisive battle at night. The eldest uncle looked at the shadows in the distance, and thought: If you want to crush Xu Ruyu's ambitions for the East China Sea, you need to defeat him all the way. Xu Ruyu has not tasted defeat since his debut, but it does not mean that the generals under his command will not suffer defeat.

Chen Yu lowered his head and fell into contemplation: Jiangning Zhang Xu, Ding Mianchen, Xu Zhaorong, Mei Liting, Shen Yi and other troops are beyond the reach of the war in this place, but Xu Ruyu put the elite soldiers and strong generals on the outer line, and only let the second-line combat power enter Fangshan Qingchi, although there are 80,000 people, the overall combat power is not as good as the 60,000 East China Sea army, which is really a little incomprehensible.

However, in the afternoon, Xu Hao Fei single-handedly blocked the two offensives of Chen Yu and Chang Shulin, which made Chen foresee that the combat power of Yuhang's army was a little stronger than the East China Sea soldiers here.

The Yuhang army has been fighting against the Puji bandits for a long time, and it is considered an elite division with extremely strong combat power among various forces, but it is only attached to Jiangning with the Fan clan, and its morale is low.

Since October last year, more than 40,000 Hangzhou troops have captured Wuzhou, Lanling, and other places for Jiangning under the leadership of Fan Wenlong, and their morale has been restored.

Even so, Chen Yu still believed that the victory wedge of the decisive battle on the river beach was in his own hands.

Fan Wenlong's soldiers divided into six ways to attack the outpost camp, and at this time they were also scattered to help, coming from a distance, and distributed on both sides of the lower ditch; Not only are their own troops outnumbered by the Yuhang army, but the soldiers are full of physical strength, and the Qingchi garrison can also rush to this battlefield at midnight, and the Nanying garrison can quickly cross the valley and arrive here before tomorrow morning.

His own side has a clear advantage, and Fan Wenlong can't rush into a decisive battle, unless Xu Ruyu intends to consume the strength of Yu Hang's army. Fan Wenlong would most likely have routed the defenders of the river beach and withdrawn the main force to the west bank of Xiagou.

Thinking of this, Chen Yu resolutely said: "Even if Fan Wenlong doesn't want to fight a decisive battle, let him lose his troops on the Xiagou River Beach." "Immediately order Huang Mai to lead 5,000 infantry, leave aside the Xu Haofei troops in front, go to the aid of Chen Yi, and stick to the river beach, don't block Xu Haofei's troops from the river beach. Ling Chang Shulian led 10,000 infantry to pursue Xu Haofei's department, and ordered the battalion captain Chen Jingyuan to lead 2,000 cavalry to harass Xu Haofei's department from the flank, and returned to the main camp himself, leading 5,000 of the 7,000 soldiers and horses out of the camp to Xu Haofei's left flank to detour, and then spread to Qingchi City, and ordered Qingchi Guard Wang Baiquan to order 5,000 troops to rush here.

Chen Yu raised his eyes, looked at the stars and moon above Qingchi, and said secretly: If Fan Wenlong can't categorically abandon the 10,000 soldiers and horses under Xu Haofei's department, then let's fight a decisive battle on the Xiagou River Beach. I made up my mind that as long as a decisive battle was formed on the Xiagou River Beach, some troops would be divided from the southern camp. I thought: Although Xu Ruyu's attack on the southern camp was fierce, as long as the southern camp left 10,000 soldiers and horses, it was enough to hold out until the end of the war in the north.

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