Chapter 12: The Battle of the Baiyang River (Part I)
"Sell vegetables, Chinese cabbage, fresh Chinese cabbage......" An old lady sat outside the barracks, holding a Chinese cabbage that had just been taken out of the cellar and selling it, lazily basking in the sun.
Suddenly, the gate of the barracks opened, and a group of officers and soldiers in iron armor came out of the camp led by several generals on horseback. These officers and soldiers, dressed in armor and armed with good swords, looked like four or five hundred men, and behind them were a group of officers and soldiers in ragged clothes, with no vegetable faces and disorganized blades in their hands.
The old aunt suddenly looked moved, and ran away quickly, not even those cabbages. After a while, the aunt ran into a shop.
When she came out, she had a few more pieces of silver in her hand.
A fast horse quickly left Ninghaizhou and quickly disappeared from sight.
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Wu Anbang rode on the horse in high spirits, and marched majestically with the 2,000 battalions of the Wendeng battalion, all of whom were like beggars, and the real elite was the 500 Jiading in his hands.
Most of these families were left by the former general soldiers, plus his original family members, reaching the level of 500 people, plus the family members of those partial generals under his command, Wu Anbang's elite reached more than 800 people.
The mighty 3,000 men and horses were rushing towards Zhaojiabao without hurry.
A small Zhao family is not a matter of being caught.
Wu Anbang has begun to imagine what he will look like after he gets rich, build a big palace for him, gather the beauty of the world, and live a happier life than the emperor.
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Wu Anbang's army had just moved, and in less than three hours, the spies of the Zhao family changed two horses in a row, and rushed back to Zhaojiabao at a speed of 800 miles.
When Zhao Yan received the news, he couldn't see any nervousness on his face. Immediately put the first battalion and the cavalry battalion into combat readiness, and in less than two hours, Zhao Yan had already led people out of Zhaojiabao secretly.
The first battalion led by Zhao Yong was replenished and regained its full strength, with 800 ordinary soldiers, and the musketeers were ready to go to the battlefield after a month of gun training.
Lin Yi's cavalry battalion sent 150 people to follow Wang Wenyue to Laizhou to suppress bandits, and with the temporary expansion of 200 people, the number reached 350.
Out of Zhaojiabao, Zhao Yan sent scouts to monitor Wu Anbang's movements all the way.
In the afternoon of the same day, Zhao Yan led people to cross the Huangshui River, marched forward all the way, and camped south of Longshan in the evening. The detective cavalry sent back the news that Wu Anbang had traveled to Fushan.
"In another day, Wu Anbang will travel to the big river, and then they will inevitably need to cross the river, and the lord can cross it halfway." Zhang Buyun pointed to the map and suggested to Zhao Yan.
"Nope." Zhao Yan shook his head, pointed to the map and said, "Wu Anbang doesn't even send scouts, it's just a straw bale." So this time can only be regarded as an exercise, an exercise of annihilation. Let them cross the river, and after crossing the river, we will attack again, Lin Yi, you take 200 people to cross the river first, and then hide, and after Wu Anbang leads people to cross the river, capture and rout the troops along the river. ”
"Yes."
"Lord, after this battle, I'm afraid it's ......," Zhang Buyun said worriedly.
"Have you ever heard the phrase 'killing officials and rebelling and recruiting peace'?" Zhao Yan asked with a smile.
"Murder and rebellion?" Zhang Buyun suddenly thought of the ...... in "Water Margin"
"It's okay if we rebel, but since Wu Anbang dares to fight our idea, let him have no return." Zhao Yan said coldly.
Zhang Buyun was a little hesitant this night, and he didn't know if he was on a thief ship.
Early in the morning of the second day, Zhao Yan immediately led people to pull out and marched all the way to the bank of the big river. This operation can only be described as an exercise, an exercise to test combat effectiveness.
On the afternoon of the second day, Zhao Yan had already led people to the Dahe ferry.
The river was called the Baiyang River in later generations, and the water level of the river in this era was much larger than that in later generations, and the water level had risen a lot at this moment, and the river water at the ferry could flood to the chest.
Zhao Yan led people to prepare on the west bank of the river early, but Wu Anbang stopped at Fushan and didn't leave.
Wu Anbang rushed to Fushan all the way, and suddenly his subordinates reported that there was no food. This made Wu Anbang a little angry, and scolded his subordinates.
"My lord, the army left in a hurry, and only brought two days' rations, and some officers and soldiers did not even have rations on them."
"Let someone go and fetch some food and come back." Wu Anbang waved his hand impatiently and said, and then impatiently took the beautiful woman he grabbed on the road into the barracks. After receiving the order, Wu Anbang's soldiers bravely dispersed into dozens of groups and began to plunder various villages in Fushan, called "Collect grain!"
For a time, many villages in Fukuyama suddenly became hell on earth, and everything was burned, killed, looted, and plundered. Piles of grain were gathered, but everywhere they passed, they were devastated.
After waiting for enough food, Wu Anbang took a large group of people and horses on the road with a swagger, and walked for most of the day to reach the east bank of the river.
Wu Anbang first crossed the river with his subordinates in a boat, then stopped on the riverside, and waited until everyone had crossed the river before continuing to move forward.
But after a quarter of an hour, his men ran over in a panic, "My lord, I found a troop of soldiers and horses ahead. ”
"What?" Wu Anbang couldn't believe it, in addition to the Wendeng camp led by him, there was only the half-dead Dengzhou camp left, where did the soldiers and horses come from? "Can you see clearly?"
"Adult, the villain can see clearly, they are under the banner of Zhao Zi."
Without waiting for the man to say, Wu Anbang had already seen a team of people appear in the distance, and a blue banner with the word 'Zhao' was fluttering in the wind.
I saw a team of thousands of people walking in a neat pace, slowly pressing towards them, with dozens of horsemen on each wing.
"Array, array." Wu Anbang yelled in a panic.
"My lord, there are only more than a thousand of them, and it is very easy to hit, and the villain is willing to be the striker." A staff officer said suddenly.
"Okay, you take a thousand people as the striker, and the others will rush with the officer." Wu Anbang immediately reacted, there were only more than 1,000 people on the other side, and what kind of formation was used. You can't just kill it.
"Kill!" The general, with his two hundred men and a thousand battalions of soldiers, rushed out of the camp with a roar and killed the group of men and horses in the distance.
In the distance, a loud shout came.
"First row, shoot~!"
"Bang Bang ......"
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