In the big tent of the Chinese army of the Northern Expeditionary Army, Han Qian and his subordinate generals were discussing the matter of defending the city, and Hua An and several officers of the pro-military battalion were also among them.

"Report, general, the messenger of the Jingzhou Legion asks to see you outside the tent." A soldier suddenly broke into the tent.

Han Qian was stunned when he heard this, and then said loudly: "Invite him in." ”

At this time, all the generals in the account, including Hua An, were very curious about whether the Jingzhou Legion suddenly sent a letter to send a letter, whether it would be the news of reinforcements.

After a while, the messenger walked into the big tent quickly, knelt on one knee, held the letter in his hand with both hands, and said, "Meet General Han, the villain has come to deliver the letter on the order of Lord Yu." ”

After speaking, he held the letter in both hands and stretched out to Han Qian.

"Bring it up."

Hua An stepped forward, took the letter from the messenger's hand, and handed it to Han Qian.

"Okay, great."

Han Qian opened it and looked at it, and immediately showed joy on his face, and applauded repeatedly.

Seeing that Han Qian was so happy, it must be good news, and suddenly they looked at each other, as if they wanted to see the answer in the eyes of others.

"General, why are you so excited?" A subordinate general asked.

"It must have been the Jingzhou Legion that won the battle!" Another general guessed.

The excitement on Han Qian's face did not retreat for a long time, he raised the letter in his hand, and said loudly: "It's great news, my Great Jin Jingzhou Army has repelled the enemy in front of me, and I should have entered Shouchun City at this time, and I can enter between Dangtu and Yinling within two days, so as to block the enemy's retreat." ”

After Han Qian finished speaking, there was a slight murderous aura in his eyes, as if he was going to completely annihilate the Peach Leopard Legion in front of him.

"Good news, good news!" When the subordinate generals heard the news, they were all very excited.

Huaan also feels that the time for a counterattack should not be far away.

"Report, general, the messenger of the Yangzhou Legion asks to see you." Just when the generals of the Northern Expeditionary Army were immersed in excitement, the messenger of the Yangzhou Army had already arrived outside the tent.

"Quick, please." Han Qian shouted excitedly, and went directly to the outside of the tent.

He could almost guess that the messenger of the Yangzhou Legion must have brought good news, and the generals in the account also had this hunch, and Hua'an was certainly no exception.

The messenger was just about to pay a visit when he entered the tent, but Han Qian hurriedly helped him up and said politely: "You don't have to salute." ”

After speaking, without waiting for the messenger to reply, he directly took out the letter in the messenger's hand and read it carefully.

"Okay, it's really good news, the Yangzhou army has broken through the enemy in front of it, at this time, it should have reached Zhongli City, which is less than a hundred miles east of Dangtu City, and you can reach Yinling or Dangtu within a day."

After Han Qian finished speaking, he looked at the generals in the tent and said loudly: "Now, the shape is very good, and the generals must urge the soldiers to prepare and be ready to pursue the enemy army at any time." ”

"Yes, General." The generals in the tent immediately answered loudly.

The generals discussed in detail for a long time in front of the huge military map in the tent before they dispersed.

After the generals left, Hua'an suddenly discovered a detail, that is, the cavalry of the Northern Expeditionary Army was insufficient, originally only 3,000, after several major battles, now, the well-trained cavalry is less than 2,000, and the first choice to pursue the enemy is cavalry, and the infantry speed is too slow.

Although the cavalry of the Northern Expeditionary Army was insufficient, many horses were captured in the previous victories, and now, there are 3,000 infantry on horses, and it would be better to turn these mounted infantry into cavalry.

"Master, how long does it take to train an infantryman into a cavalryman." Hua An asked softly.

Han Qian frowned, and said suspiciously: "At least three or five months, excellent cavalry will be trained for three or five years, why do you ask this." ”

Seeing Han Qian's question, Hua An told Han Qian truthfully about his thoughts.

After hearing this, Han Qian felt that Hua'an's idea was good, but the decisive battle with the enemy army was only in the middle of the night, and in such a short period of time, not to mention excellent cavalry, even the most ordinary cavalry could not be trained.

Those infantry on horseback could only march on horseback, but could not fight on horseback, but they could greatly save the body of the infantry.

"Master, can you mix these infantry on horseback with real cavalry, so that in terms of the number of cavalry, it can cause a shock to the enemy army and make the enemy army even more panicked." Hua'an built yì road again.

When Han Qian heard this, he suddenly felt reasonable, but he definitely couldn't be completely mixed together, so that the well-trained cavalry would also become chaotic, which would not be conducive to destroying the enemy.

And letting the mounted infantry follow behind the 2,000 main cavalry, which can not only create the illusion of strong cavalry strength, but also do not affect the combat effectiveness of the main cavalry, which can be described as the best of both worlds.

Han Qian discussed with Hua'an for a while, then left the big tent of the Chinese army and personally went to the cavalry garrison to guide the coordination and cooperation of the main cavalry and the mounted infantry.

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The news that the main force of the Yangzhou Army of the Great Jin Dynasty entered Zhongli City, and the news that the main force of the Jingzhou Army entered Shouchun City soon reached the ears of Zhang Ju, who was stationed in Yinling City.

Zhang Ju was shocked when he heard this, and immediately convened his subordinates to discuss countermeasures.

In the big tent of the Chinese army, Zhang Ju informed his subordinate generals of this unfavorable news, and all the generals turned pale and frightened when they heard it.

"General Ma Qiu and General Zhixiong were defeated at the same time, when did the Jin army become so powerful."

"Yes! General Wang Lang, who was stationed outside Shouchun City, was defeated as soon as he confronted the Jin army and retreated to Dangtu City with the remnants. ”

"Shouchun is only two days away from Yinling, and Zhongli only needs one day, and the Jin army can cut off our army's retreat."

The generals immediately whispered.

"Dad, let's get out of here! If you don't go, the way back will be cut off by the Jin army. Zhang Liang said loudly.

Zhang raised his eyebrows and frowned, looked at the generals under the tent, and pretended to be worried: "General Tao's nearly 30,000 main force is still near Dongcheng, if our army withdraws at this time, the Jin army occupies Yinling, a full 30,000 army, I am afraid that it will be more auspicious." ”

When the generals in the tent heard this, they all nodded approvingly.

Zhang Liang listened to the great urgency, leaned on Zhang Ju's ear, and whispered: "Dad, when is it, you still care about the life and death of the peach leopard, have you forgotten how the peach leopard used to treat us." ”

Zhang Ju glanced at Zhang Liang, a sneer flashed at the corner of his mouth, and then he looked back at the generals under his tent, and said: "Soldiers, you were not originally the general's subordinates, but General Kui'an trusted the general, so for the time being, let the general lead the troops, at this time, our army is facing a dilemma!" If you immediately retreat to Dangtu City, Yinling is occupied by the Jin army, then General Tao's nearly 30,000 horses will lose their way to retreat, if you defend Yinling, it is possible to be surrounded with General Tao's nearly 30,000 main force, how to choose, please give more advice. ”

When Zhang Liang heard this, he immediately understood his father's high opinion, if he decided to retreat without authorization, and the army of Taobao would be destroyed, it would be difficult to explain the Heavenly King's investigation, and the opinion of the general would be much lighter, and there would even be many more unavoidable factors.

All the generals under the tent are Kui'an's henchmen, and they have no friendship with the peach leopard, so of course they are not willing to accompany the peach leopard army to be buried together.

"General Zhang, the last general thinks that when he immediately sends a scout to inform General Tao of the situation, let General Tao withdraw immediately, while our army retreats first and goes to Dangtu City to wait." A ministry general said.

"That's right, Yinling City is short of food and grass, once the 40,000 army is surrounded, the consequences are unimaginable, our army retreats to Dangtu, maybe we can lead the Jin army from behind and put some pressure on the Jin army."

"General Zhang, Yinling City must not stay for a long time, evacuate quickly!"

"The last general is also in favor of retreating to Dangtu, the general will give the order!"

The generals in the tent strongly demanded to retreat to Dangtu.

Seeing that the time was ripe, Zhang Ju glanced at Zhang Liang, and a subtle sneer appeared at the corner of his mouth.

"The order, the whole army immediately packed up, and after an hour, set off for Dangtu." Zhang Ju ordered loudly.

"Yes, General." The generals in the tent clasped their fists, turned around and withdrew from the tent.

After the generals left, Zhang Ju picked up a pen and paper and wrote a handwritten letter to Taobao, in which he first explained the current grim situation and reminded Taobao to withdraw immediately.

Then, he hypocritically said that he wanted to defend the Yin Tomb and wait for the return of the peach leopard, but the subordinate generals were all Kui'an's henchmen and were unwilling to obey the order, so he had no choice but to lead the troops to leave the Yin Tomb first, but he would definitely wait for the return of the peach leopard in Dangtu City.

After writing the letter, Zhang Ju handed the letter into Zhang Liang's hand and said softly: "Send a scout to send this letter to the Peach Leopard camp immediately." ”

"Yes." Zhang Liang took the letter, turned around and walked out of the big tent.

Because of his grudge against the peach leopard father and son, Zhang Liang did not directly hand over the letter to the scout, but took the letter around the camp for half an hour before handing the letter to the scout.

Twenty miles outside the north gate of Dongcheng, in the enemy's camp, Tao Leopard was discussing the military situation with his generals, and suddenly received Zhang Ju's letter, and was immediately shocked, he did not expect that the main force of the Jin army would defeat his left and right flanks almost overnight, and would soon cut off his retreat.

At this time, the peach leopard had no time to think about it, and immediately notified the generals of this state of emergency, and when the generals heard about it, they were all shocked and had expressions of disbelief.

"The main force of the Jin army has gone around to the rear of our army, General Zhang Ju gave up Yinling and ran to Dangtu City, it is estimated that in a few hours, Yinling City will be occupied by the Jin army, where should our army go, you have any high opinions, talk about it." At such an urgent moment, Peach Leopard put down his body and began to speak widely.

"General, our army should immediately retreat, bypass Yinling City from the small road and go straight to Dangtu."

"General, the last general thinks so too."

"General, retire!"

The generals did not have any good ideas in their hearts, that is, they would retreat as much as possible, open a bloody road from the periphery of Yinling City, retreat into Dangtu City, and then cross the Huaishui River from Dangtu City and return to the Central Plains.

Peach Leopard frowned, and said worriedly: "Our army's back road is cut off, Han Qian must know that at this time, as long as our army retreats, Han Qian will inevitably chase after him, this matter is quite tricky!" ”

Last time, in the battle of Yinling, because the whole army retreated, the army behind the palace was almost wiped out by the Northern Expeditionary Army, which made Taobao very heartbroken.

"General, our army can retreat first, lead the Jin army into an ambush, and then hit it hard, the Jin army is frightened, and will not dare to chase it again." A ministry will build a yì road.