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In the night, the horses trotted up, and the hooves of thousands of war horses and horses gathered together, like a tide surging from the riverside.

Zhao Bao rode his horse to Chen Zhen and said: "Zhao Bao, the cavalry of the forbidden camp, was ordered by Ao to ask General Chen for battle and pursuit of the enemy......

"You turtle son, it's a pleasure to chase and kill with cavalry," Chen Yan looked at Zhao Bao with some envy, waved the horse whip in his hand, and said, "There is Li Baidao in front, you send someone to contact him, don't cut off all the heads......"

Because from Huangpi to the north, there are more than 100,000 defeated enemies, these enemy soldiers are clustered one by one, all over the mountains and wilderness, not at all without the power of counterattack, nor to completely disperse, and from Huangpi to the north, the terrain is relatively complicated, if the pursuing Huaidong Army infantry is too scattered, it will bring many unnecessary casualties, and there is no way to maintain the lethality of sharp knives and penetration.

After completely defeating the enemy's defensive line, Ao Canghai ordered all the troops to organize troops to pursue in depth with battalion sentry units, but the speed of the infantry in the pursuit of the in-depth sentry was naturally not as fast as that of the scattered and fleeing enemy soldiers.

Moreover, once the enemy soldiers are ordered to retreat to the reserve defense line to collect the routed troops, they can in turn further suppress and block the pursuit of the Huaidong Army - this is also the fundamental reason why the infantry battalion can defeat the enemy in field battles and destroy the enemy is often not ideal.

In the predetermined plan, the Chaishan ambush troops would intercept the enemy's rout on the front line of Fancheng and Zaoyang, but the defeated enemy would flee to Shicheng on a large scale along the terrain. If the enemy is defeated to defend Shicheng, and then retreat from Shicheng to the west bank of the Han River, it will not be conducive to the Huaidong Army's large-scale annihilation of the enemy army on the east bank of the Han River, nor will it be conducive to the later war.

That's where the riding camp comes into play.

There were four battalions of cavalry that attacked and pursued, which were cast in three directions, respectively controlled by Chen Yan, Yu Wencheng, and Zhang Gou, and the cavalry mainly included the flank of the pursuing infantry battalion, and cooperated with the infantry battalion to disperse the fleeing enemies who might be organized along the way, and quickly interspersed until the detour to escape before the rout, blocking the passage for the enemy to flee to Shicheng and Xiaochang, so as to ensure that more rout and escape were captured or killed in eastern Hubei without losing the opportunity to flee to Shicheng......

The other two battalions of cavalry were restrained by Yu Wencheng and Zhang Gou, and mainly repeatedly covered up the enemy's rout behind them; Zhao Bao will lead two battalions of elite cavalry and a brigade of horse infantry under Chen Yansuo to quickly intersperse in the direction of Shicheng, even if he can't take advantage of the chaos to capture Shicheng, he must intercept the rout as much as possible at the southwest foot of Dahong Mountain, before the passage into Shicheng on the east bank of the Han River.

Because the generals who were engaged in the battle at dusk had to stop and rest for a while; The generals on the top of the second line broke through to the north bank of the Baita River to a depth of more than ten miles, and Zhao Bao led more than 1,000 light horsemen to soon pass through the periphery of the Huaidong control front.

Surrounded by dozens of horsemen, Zhao Bao galloped up a gentle slope and looked north.

The sky was shrouded in light clouds, but the night was not dark, and under the night, between the mountains and fields, those defeated enemies among the artemisia grass seemed to be like a herd of locusts fleeing north, and there was no edge in sight.

"Hahaha......" Thinking of the impending indulgent killing, Zhao Bao and the surrounding generals were full of blood, roaring and shaking the forest, as if issuing a final warning to the fleeing prey in front.

Li Baidao rode over, and saw Zhao Bao excitedly patting the saddle with a war knife, and said very unhappily: "Rush Ming'er to the lord to tell him, the battle exploits of the cavalry camp, ten heads, can only be worth one of us, it is reasonable......" Although his troops rode horses, they still had to dismount and fight when they encountered the enemy, and they couldn't catch up with the light cavalry wielding the war knife to cover the enemy from behind.

"It's true that Li Baidao is cautious," Zhao Bao laughed, pointed at Li Baidao and smiled, "When we open the way for you, before the enemy is defeated, are you still afraid that your war knives and war spears will not be able to drink the blood of the enemy?" ”

Li Baidao said: "Count your kid as knowledgeable and interesting, let's attack!" ”

Zhao Bao made the cavalry around him blow the trumpet, and the dark horn sound spread along the grassy slope, and the cavalry scattered on both sides of the grassy slope formed two conical arrays, and stabbed the enemy between the artemisia grass in front.

Some of the defeated enemies were still a little clever and set fire to the artemisia grass in the field, but as soon as the fire started, the fire was not big, and it was impossible to stop the Huaidong armored light cavalry from covering and killing from the rear.

When chasing and killing, Huaidong's standard saber has a better killing effect, with a narrow and light blade and a sharp blade, covering it from the side and back, and slashing it with a swing, it can bring out a rain of blood and cut a fleeing enemy to the ground.

Watching the enemy defeat one after another, group after group of armored light cavalry covering and slashing from the rear, it is no wonder that Li Baidao and them are "jealous" and hateful.

It is really necessary to calculate the severed heads, and the four battalions of light cavalry cover the past along the way, I am afraid that they will have to kill more than tens of thousands of heads, and the efficiency of chasing and killing the enemy is not comparable to that of foot soldiers.

Of course, the purpose of the two battalions of armored light cavalry led by Zhao Bao was not to cut down more defeated enemies, but to cooperate with the three thousand elites of Li Baidao's department to quickly kill a passage between the defeated soldiers and quickly intersperse with Shicheng.

Although Li Baidao's department is an infantry battalion, it is equipped with riding horses when chasing the enemy, that is, it is a horse infantry army. As long as Zhao Bao led the cavalry to cover the flanks, they could quickly pass through the routs together and directly kill Shicheng, which was three hundred miles away......

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Xiongjiagang, the main camp of the Eastern Hubei military horses, was completely a sea of Huaidong soldiers at this time.

Yu Pijiang hid in the crevice of the cliff behind the grass in a panic, but the Huaidong soldiers who searched the mountains were unexpectedly careful, almost searching inch by inch. Yu Pijiang held a protective knife in his hand, his teeth trembled, his strands trembled like a sieve, watching the two Huaidong soldiers touch it, after all, he didn't dare to resist, threw away the saber, and shouted: "I surrender!" The two Huaidong soldiers who touched it were pressed to the ground, gnawing on the grassy smell of dirt in their mouths, struggling and shouting: "I am Yu Bijiang, the son of Yu Xinyuan, the deputy minister of the Political Affairs Hall, and I have captured the enemy, and I want to see the privy envoy......"

Zhang Gou galloped up Xiongjiagang surrounded by dozens of horsemen, looking at the mountains and fields northwest of Xiongjiagang, the mountains were full of routs, and according to the plan, it was necessary to advance one step faster from the front of the Baita River than here, so as to cut off more channels for the enemy to flee along the Hanshui River.

The Huaidong army on the side of Changxuanling also began to pursue in depth, forming several black iron streams in the night, like sharp knives, stabbing in the direction of Xiaonan.

Xiongjiagang, once the main camp of Yanhu and Eastern military horses, and the big tent of Yanhu pseudo-Fu Wenzhuang, the king of Fujian, was completely occupied by the second town division of the Changshan Army at this time, but there were still some scattered remnants of the enemy hiding in the ravine.

Although Xiongjiagang is not absolutely safe, standing on Xiongjiagang, he can overlook the mountains and fields in the direction of Xiaonan in an unobstructed manner, and can better command the soldiers and horses to chase and annihilate the defeated soldiers in the night, Zhang Gou naturally moved his command post forward to Xiongjiagang. This is also the reason why the Huaidong Army searched the mountains so carefully.

More than a dozen soldiers came over with one person tied up and said, "Report to the army, this person claims to be the son of Vice Minister Yu Xinyuan......

"Bring it on." Zhang Gou said.

Zhang Gou knew that Yu Xinyuan had a son who disappeared during the war in Huinan, and it was estimated that he was taken captive by the Zhejiang-Fujian army at that time, and when Emperor Yongxing returned to Jiangning, the ministers pushed Wang Xueshan out as a substitute for the dead ghost, so that Yu Xinyuan also escaped the responsibility of the defeat in Huinan, but he didn't expect to catch Yu Xinyuan's son at this time, which is really interesting.

Zhang Gou didn't recognize Yu Bijiang either, but asked people to pull Yu Bijiang up, seeing that he was wearing the official uniform of the Zhejiang and Fujian Governor's Mansion, he pouted and smiled, and said, "It turns out that Yu Gongzi has surrendered to the enemy, then don't blame the villain for being polite," his voice was cold, and he ordered left and right, and said, "Escort Yu Gongzi who surrendered to the enemy, and escort him to the camp with those big fish." Tell the Hushan camp to screen carefully, don't let people have the opportunity to pretend to be Yu Xianggongzi, and don't let Yu Xianggongzi suffer too much grievance......"

As long as Yu Bijiang didn't die in the chaos, he didn't have too much to worry about, and bowed to Zhang Gou again and again: "Thank you for the general's grace of not killing!" Thank you for the general's grace of not killing! "How can you have the slightest child's integrity when you were in Jiangning?

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After Chen Yan, Yu Wencheng, and Zhang Gou broke through the defense line, they pursued and annihilated the enemy in the depths, while Zhao Hu and Su Pinxiao led their troops to march west along the south bank of the Baita River to capture Hanjin City.

When they arrived to the east of Hanjin City, the defenders of the Zha Camp on the west wing of the Baitahe defense line had already abandoned the camp and fled north, while Yang Xiong in Hanjin City fled first, leaving behind a wolf.

In the later period, Yang Xiong led 25,000 soldiers and horses to defend Hanjin City and the west wing of the camp, of which 8,000 were naval troops, which were used to block Hanshuikou.

However, Yang Xiong led his troops out of Dongting Lake to join the luxury family, and led 20,000 water thieves and similar numbers of family members. After the luxury family abandoned Jiangzhou and retreated north, Yang Xiong also crossed the river with his family and fled to the north bank. Luxury Wenzhuang made Yang Xiong guard Hanjin, and Yang Xiong placed his family in Hanjin City.

In the later period, Haowenzhuang continued to draw sailors and warships from Yang Xiong to Shicheng in the upper reaches of the Han River and Xiangyang and the navy in the upper reaches, reducing the size of the Hanjin naval army to about 8,000. In the later period, Yang Xiong could only use shipwrecks and hidden piles to blockade the Hanshui Estuary, losing the ability to enter the Yangtze River from the Hanshui Estuary to fight the Huaidong Water Battalion, and the total number of warships in Hanjin was reduced to less than 200.

When Yang Xiong got the news of the Chaishan ambush attack on Suizhou at dusk, he knew that the general trend had gone, so he decided to abandon Hanjin and flee north along the Han River. At that time, the defenders in Hanjin and the west wing of the Baita River, plus the generals in Hanjin City, had a total of nearly 60,000 people.

Yang Xiong only had 200 ships in his hands, and the last 20 or so large ships of more than 200 stone were all transferred to Luwenzhuang two days ago, how could these remaining small boats be loaded onto the ships in the middle of the night and transported away?

In the end, Yang Xiong only had time to load the families of his relatives and main cronies and generals on the boat, and led 8,000 soldiers and horses to escape from the waterway, while the remaining 16,700 soldiers and horses and a total of about 30,000 families, Yang Xiong had completely ignored them, and let them flee north from Hanjin.

A hasty retreat without a law soon turned into a rout. Even Yang Xiong's military horses, who fled north in a hurry by waterway, were also overly frightened and panicked, and when they boarded the ship, there were countless people who fell into the water in a panic because of the scramble to be the first, and even several boats collided and sank.

Yang Xiong blockaded the Hanshui Kou, mainly using sunken ships and hidden piles. However, shipwrecks and hidden piles cannot block the Han River waterway.

In fact, there are still a lot of gaps in the Hanshui Koukou, so that some small boats can only shuttle through it.

It's just that in the upper reaches of the blockade zone, the enemy water battalion is heavily guarded, and the Huaidong army water battalion sends a small group of warships to infiltrate it, which will not have any effect, and will also be eaten by the enemy army scattered, increasing unnecessary casualties. At this time, the enemy army broke away, abandoned the Hanjin open space, and the enemy water village behind the blockade zone was also caught in a raging fire when the enemy retreated.

There was no blockade of enemy warships in the upper reaches, and the large warships above the Jiyun level of the Huaidong Army could not get in from the blockade zone at the mouth of the Hanshui River, but there were seven or eight small and medium-sized warships such as warships and oars warships, and before the early hours of the morning, seven or eight of them passed through the blockade zone and docked at the dock outside the western city of Hanjin.

It is a pity that only these few warships and five or six hundred water battalion soldiers entered the Han River waterway, and they could not form combat effectiveness.

Zhao Hu asked Su Pinxiao to immediately organize the army and civilians to clear a channel for Jiyun-class warships to sail into the Han River.

The sooner the main force of the water battalion enters the Han River, the more enemy troops on the west bank of the Han River can be intercepted and annihilated, so as to avenge the monstrous blood feud accumulated since the fall of the Central Plains.

The west bank of the Han River in Hanjin is located at the mouth of the Han River into the Yangtze River, and a large area of land belongs to the Han River alluvial plain. Large lakes and swamps are formed. The water potential of the upper reaches of the Yangtze River to the west is very urgent, making the northwest corner of the Yangtze River and the Han River a famous flooding area in history, and it is also the northwest area of Wuhan in later generations, which is not a good place for the infantry to march north.

The main force of the Huaidong Army had to cross the Han River and enter the west bank of the Han River to pursue the enemy on the west bank, and it was necessary to avoid the Huze area at the northwest angle between the Han River and the Yangtze River.

As the first soldiers and horses to enter the west bank to pursue the enemy, Zhao Hu's troops had to go northwest first, enter the territory of Changlin, and wait for the water camp warships to enter the Hanshui waterway, but at this time it was just right to pursue the rout of the enemy who fled north from Hanjin.

Zhao Hu led Su Pin to stay in Hanjin and waited for Ge Cunxiong to lead the main force of the water camp to Hui, and when he led his troops to bypass Hanjin and go north, it was already the early morning of the 22nd.

The sky was white, shining, and the mountains were full of abandoned families and desperate and nearly collapsed enemies......