Night 7: The East China Sea (2)

Turning the last corner, the hearts of all the dreamers fell to the bottom at once. In this valley, which was still empty yesterday, at this time it was already full of flags, and Sima Fuqiang did not give up to launch the skill of "climbing high and overlooking", and saw no less than two numbers of Lizhou troops in the valley. This means that the officers and soldiers have hoarded at least 10,000 troops here, and it seems that they are not ready to spare even a fly.

Five hundred against ten thousand

In such a battle with a huge disparity in strength, unless there can be conditions for a roundabout battle, even if Xiang Yu personally leads the army, there is no possibility of victory. What's even worse is that the person in the dream is facing a question of right and wrong, not a multiple-choice question, and they can only choose between fighting or not.

This valley is more than ten miles long, and even if no one stops it, it will take more than ten minutes to gallop from one end to the other, not to mention the need to fight all the way through. If you insist on fighting, with the personal combat strength of the dream man, it may be possible to rush out a few, but casualties are inevitable, and the cavalry battalion will inevitably be wiped out.

The garrison battalion and the second battalion of recruits have been lost, not counting the battalions in the northern plains of Storm County that are not yet fully controlled, the Eastern Navy only has five battalions at this time, of which Chen Chuang's second battalion is still far away from the storm pass. The Eastern Navy, which has lost its foundation, really can't afford to lose any troops, let alone the cavalry battalion with the highest combat effectiveness.

Without the cavalry, the East Navy of the pure infantry army can really only be trapped in the two passes of Weidong and Dongwei, and the end can only be to sit and eat empty, waiting to be wiped out by the officers and troops who have left and exchanged for two weeks.

The importance of cavalry cannot be ignored, in fact, since the beginning of the Northern and Southern Dynasties, when cavalry warfare began to prevail, peasant uprisings have rarely won final victories, and the rotation of power has been concentrated between the wealthy and powerful nobles or the generals with heavy troops. A large part of this was due to the fact that the peasant rebel army lacked the powerful and highly mobile combat power of cavalry, and it was difficult to control the rich plains, and it was finally exterminated by the official army.

As a person who studies the history of war, it is impossible for Sima Fuqiang not to understand this, the East China Sea team has been forced into a desperate situation by the dream world, if he doesn't add a little bit of bargaining chips for himself, it will really be impossible to escape death, so he did not hesitate to choose the second set of plans provided by Zhang Wei.

"If we can't go south, then we will go north" Zhang Wei's crazy second plan couldn't even be imagined by his own people at first, let alone the army leaving the state capital.

I am afraid that it will be too slow to return to the southwest mountain road and will be intercepted by the pursuers who were originally following behind, which is really not a good choice. Therefore, if you want to go north before the official army reacts, you must take the official road faster.

A total of 30,000 troops from the state government came to the East China Sea this time, and now it has been determined that 10,000 horses are stationed in the Nanshan section of the official road, and nearly 10,000 troops are conducting a carpet search in the Ya tropical jungle north of Nanfang Village. In addition, it is estimated that some of the officers and soldiers will leak south and go in the direction of Dongweiguan, and then a part of the army will be stationed in Donghai Town and the fortress near the salt field, so even if there are officers and troops stationed on the front line of Nancun Bridge, the number should not be large.

So the man in the dream immediately turned back, beckoned the cavalry battalion that had rested for a while, and went north again along the official road, and passed the Nancun Bridge for the second time in two days.

Not much different from what the three stinkers expected, the Lizhou army simply gave up the defense of the first line of the Nancun Bridge in order to make the dreamer throw himself into the net, and still let the infantry barracks that was disabled yesterday continue to guard here. And these guys who were frightened by the Eastern Navy only cared about the north, but they never thought that the cavalry battalion of the Eastern Navy would fight from the south again, so they were easily interspersed with the defense line again. Fortunately, the dreamer was in a hurry and had no intention of expanding the results here, which allowed them to escape the catastrophe.

However, the rest of the road will not be smooth sailing, and the troops who surrounded the jungle in the morning should have received the news that the Eastern Navy is breaking through in the direction of the southwest mountain road, and must be mobilizing. Depending on the distance, some may have crossed the Jiulong River and entered the southwest mountain road, some have just returned to the official road, and some are simply moving out of the jungle.

What the dreamer has to do is to intersperse the joints between these officers and soldiers with different numbers and try to avoid fighting with them, which requires relying on Sima Fuqiang's exclusive skills to guide the cavalry battalion's course of action.

Sima Fuqiang's unique "climbing high and looking far away" made the Eastern Navy the only unit with a "telescope" on this battlefield, and combined with the unique high speed of cavalry, when the officers and soldiers noticed this unit, they had already passed through the space next to them, like walking a tightrope.

The journey of more than 20 miles from Nanfang Village to the north made the Eastern Navy walk twice the distance, but it also allowed them to pass this difficult road unscathed, and smoothly turned to the east of Donghai Town.

The good fortune of the dreamers finally came to an end again at this time, or rather, they had not had good luck in recent days.

A large number of officers and troops were stationed along the Jiulong River to the east of Donghai Town, and this was the only way for Zhang Wei to go north, and they planned to take the eastern mountain road to Dongdong Village. In the eastern village, they found the boat used by Zhu Gui of the Donghai Commercial Company to transport salt, and then took a boat along the Jiulong River to the north.

"It's me who owes it to consideration." Zhang Wei explained to his teammates apologetically, "The army must have a water source to go down to the village, and the Jiulong River is the water source of Donghai Town. ”

Faced with this situation, Sima Fuqiang, who usually focuses on the strategic category, also had no idea, "What now?" ”

This time the method was Huang Zhi's idea, "It is estimated that because of the different division of labor, the troops stationed here did not participate in today's action to encircle and annihilate us, from the perspective of human psychology, this should belong to the rear of the official army, no one would have thought that we would come here in the opposite way, so these officers and soldiers are definitely not ready to fight at any time." We could have continued with the same method we had just done, using our vision and speed to intersperse and avoid engaging them. ”

A word woke up the person in the dream, and Zhang Wei and Sima Fuqiang agreed one after another. As long as they can pass through this military camp, even if they can't find a ship in the eastern village in the end, they can continue to follow the mountain road to the original bandit camp, temporarily get rid of the encirclement of the Lizhou army, and then slowly look for the mountain trail to go north, as long as there is no mistake along the general direction of the Jiulong River, there is always a chance to get out of the predicament.

After another two hours of roundabouts, the cavalry of the Eastern Navy, which looked weak, successfully passed through the camp of the official army under the noses of the army leaving the state capital. Although some officers and soldiers noticed them, it was really difficult to catch up with a cavalry unit with high speed and mobility when they were unprepared, and they could only watch them leave the battlefield in the end.