Night 7: The East China Sea is Disillusioned (1)

Returning to the power dream again, the troubles have just begun. After rushing into the defensive circle of the Lizhou army on Saturday night, it was not easy to come up with it.

After confirming that Zhao Meng and his garrison battalion had all been killed, even the people in the dream were a little demoralized, not to mention the ordinary soldiers of the cavalry battalion. At this time, the success of forcibly breaking through is not big in itself, and even if the breakthrough is successful, the person in the dream is also facing the dilemma of having to leave the dream realm of the force immediately.

The long night of twelve hours was not to let the cavalry battalion abandon the "night tent", the passage for people to enter and exit the world in their dreams, or did they give up the advantage of high mobility of the cavalry and stick to the same place. Either way, it's a dead end for the Tokai team.

Fortunately, after all, they are the head snakes of the East China Sea, and although they are now overwhelmed by the strong dragon of the army of the state capital, they always have a deeper understanding of the local horns of the East China Sea than the official army. After thinking about it for a while, everyone pulled the cavalry battalion and hid in the large Ya tropical jungle south of Donghai Town.

The area of this jungle is not large, and with the strength of the army from the state capital, one day is enough to sweep dàng. However, the time when the dreamer left was at night, and even if he had an absolute advantage in strength, the Lizhou army was reluctant to go deep into the dense forest at night, which gave the Donghai team room to turn around.

When the dreamer came out of the "night tent", the cavalry battalion was ready to break through under Du Ziteng's organization, while the Lizhou army occupying Donghai Town had not yet moved.

"We have two options to choose from, either we go back from the original road of Nancun Bridge, or we can take the southwest village and go out from the jungle trail between Genting Mountain and Chiling." Sima Fuqiang temporarily made a simple sand table, mainly to explain to Du Ziteng, after all, his familiarity with the East China Sea is not as good as others.

"But no matter how we choose, we will have to return to the official road in the end." Huang Zhi poured cold water on it, "If I am the army leaving the state capital, as long as I put heavy troops on the official road west of Nanshan, we will not be able to go south to Dongwei Pass." ”

"They're not that smart, are they?" Xiaofeng still has a bit of luck.

"I think they're not as stupid as you are." It wasn't Sima Fuqiang who hit him, that's the case. In the Tenth Army of Lizhou, there are always a few talents like Zhang Tong of the Duzhou Prefecture Army, who will not make such an inferior mistake.

It's not a breakthrough, and it's even worse if you don't break through, this time it's Du Ziteng's turn to be distressed, "In that case, what should we do?" ”

Then came the category of tactician Zhang Wei, "You still have to try to break through, but you have to be prepared with both hands." If we don't have time to bet on the Nanshan official road before the state capital army, then we naturally have to seize the opportunity to rush out. If the other party is really prepared, we can only go far and near. ”

"Seeking the near and far?" Du Ziteng looked up at Zhang Wei in confusion.

"Yes." Zhang Wei casually pointed to the sand table, and everyone suddenly realized.

The course of action has been agreed, and more than half an hour has passed, and if no action is taken, I am afraid that the East China Sea team and the cavalry battalion will be dumped by the army leaving the state capital. It will definitely not work to go directly out of the jungle to the south of the Nancun Bridge, no matter how stupid the generals of the state army are, they must have invested heavy troops here.

After deducting the remnants of Li Wei's army in the north of Yuwei County, and then deducting the other army that surrounded and suppressed the rebels in the northwest of Lizhou, as well as the two armies that stayed in the state capital, the Lizhou army that participated in the attack on the East China Sea had a total of six armies totaling 30,000 people. Regardless of whether the combat strength of these 30,000 people is comparable to that of the cavalry battalion of the Eastern Navy, the numerical superiority alone is enough to set up a net on any necessary way back to Dongwei Pass, waiting for the dreamer to come in.

Therefore, according to Zhang Wei's intentions, the East Navy, a force of only 500 men, went the opposite way, chose the road to Donghai Town in the north, and then suddenly crossed the Jiulong River westward five miles south of the town, and entered the southwest mountain road where the officials and troops were neglected to take precautions.

During this period, there were also battles with several small forces of the official army, but because the number of opponents was not large, under the leadership of the dream man, the cavalry battalion easily smashed the opponent's interception.

After more than ten miles along the southwest mountain road, before reaching the southwest village, a tropical jungle appeared on the south side of the mountain road. Eight months ago, Dongzhou time, the Dream Man led the Eastern Navy, which was originally called the Town Guard, to attack here with a single fire, burning countless bandits to death, and destroying this jungle to the point that it was not in shape. But the most important feature of the tropical jungle is its vigorous vitality, after more than half a year of recuperation, it has actually regained its vitality, and the low shrubs have reoccupied the valley, but also covered up the traces of past battles.

When the cavalry battalion of the Eastern Navy was thrown into this jungle, the cavalry that had been chasing closely behind the state capital did not dare to follow rashly, but stopped in place with some annoyance. At this time, they had to make a detour to the Nancun Bridge to inform the officers and troops to the south that it was too late, so they could only hope that the defense line on that side was tight enough.

Entering from the southwest mountain road to the pass at the southern foot of Genting Mountain, the length of this valley is no more than ten miles. Two hours later, the Dream Man came out of the southern pass and routed an army of only 100 men.

Next is the key to this breakthrough, from the pass to the southeast seven miles is the Nanshan official road, success or failure in this move, but the fate is in the hands of the state army.

The seven-mile journey was better than the valley just now, and everyone went all the way down the west bank of the Jiulong River, and after half an hour, they saw a corner of the official road, and there were no officers and soldiers

But this does not explain the problem, as far as the dreamers who are familiar with the terrain here, there is a bend in the official road ahead. After the official road descends from the Nancun Bridge, it turns west along the south bank of the Kowloon River and the northern foot of Nanshan until the western foot of Nanshan Mountain and then turns south. If the official army stationed heavy troops on the line of Nancun Bridge, then this is its big rear, on the official road, and the front is a smooth road.

But this is just wishful thinking on the part of the dreamer, in fact, the most suitable defense line on the official road of Nanshan is the section to the south, and the valley between Nanshan and Chiling is only one mile wide. In other words, only when the dream man passed through that valley could he be regarded as escaping from the tiger's mouth of the state army.

At this corner of the official road, seeing that there was no trace of the official army around, Sima Fuqiang let the cavalry battalion rest in place temporarily, and he himself took the dream man of the East China Sea team to explore the way forward. After traveling less than two miles south along the winding official road, we finally reached the life-and-death threshold that decided the fate of these more than 500 people.