The war horse crawled out of the mud with difficulty, and couldn't help but shiver, and the mud was everywhere, causing the soldiers to curse one by one. Pen fun and pavilion www.biquge.info

Most of the places on both sides of the Yingshui are shallow mud swamps, and the muddy land is drier, and the terrain is too high for the cavalry to cross, so it is not easy to choose a location.

Fortunately, in the winter, there was no one in the wilderness, and the soldiers took off their armor and coats one after another, but even this was extremely difficult.

Finally crossed the river, but the cavalry became embarrassed.

In Huaibei in December, it was already cold, and there were already some fine ice cubes on the river, especially on the riverbank.

The reeds along the river seem to have been beaten by frost and lose their vitality, the withered yellow reed poles and reed leaves stand on the bank of the river, a gust of wind blows, a few jackdaws sweep through the cold wind, and let out a few cold and penetrating screams.

This was the reason why Yuan Wuxing felt that this raid would definitely succeed.

No one would have imagined that his army would dare to break northeast from Shenqiu into the territory of Chenzhou, connect the two rivers of Xiaorushui and Yingshui, and then come from behind to give this Chengde army a knife.

You must know that Chenzhou and Yingzhou are both within the enemy's territory, and an army of this size marches hundreds of miles, and has to cross two rivers in such a season, and in the absence of response, not just that army can do it.

But the Caizhou cavalry can.

Over the years, the fight to the death with the Great Liang and the unremitting training have allowed this army to meet any challenge in the most difficult environment.

Yuan Wuxing and the others have tried their best to choose a shallow place to cross the river, but this is because of the drought this year, whether it is Xiaorushui or Yingshui, the amount of water has been greatly reduced, so they can cross the river smoothly.

Xiaorushui was better, and Yuan Wuxing and Yuan Wenliang led the cavalry to the north along Xiaorushui, until they entered the territory of Chenzhou for twenty miles, before finding a suitable place to cross the river.

If it weren't for the fear that if they went deeper, they would be detected by the Liang army scouts stationed in Nanchenzhou, and the two Yuan would have hoped to go further north, so as to avoid being detected by the Heshuo army to the greatest extent.

The scouts have already reported back the news, and the Heshuo Army, which is heading south, has about 4,000 people from the Chengde Army, who have crossed Bozhou and entered the territory of Yingzhou.

As expected, the Cheng German army chose to move west to Yingshui and move south along the east bank of Yingshui, but the speed of the march slowed down significantly, and it is estimated that the long journey in the early stage was too tiring and a little unbearable.

Yuan Wuxing admired this Chengde army a little, not just that army could still maintain the discipline of action in the formation after traveling thousands of miles, and the information transmitted from the scouts also proved that this army still maintained considerable morale, which means that they still have considerable combat effectiveness.

Against such an army, you can't expect to be defeated in one fell swoop, but you must give it maximum damage at the first time, and use your own cavalry advantage to eat away at the opponent.

As long as he grabbed the position that was still a certain distance away from Ruyin City and devoured this army, with Ryazan's guts, Yuan Wuxing believed that the other party would not dare to come out and respond.

Field battle, that is exactly where the advantage of the Caizhou cavalry lies.

The Yingshui in front of you is much larger than the Xiaoru Shui, and the river is much wider, so it is impossible to cross the river without boats in summer and autumn.

Fortunately, it was winter, and there was a drought this year, and Caizhou's meticulous scouts were dedicated enough, and they had already thoroughly touched the situation of the rivers and mountains around Caizhou, and after learning that the Caizhou cavalry was going to cross Xiaorushui and Yingshui, several cavalry scouts carried out field exploration on several river crossing points according to the characteristics of the cavalry, and only then did they determine this river crossing point.

Even so, crossing Yingshui exhausted these thousands of cavalry.

In order to avoid the danger of the quagmire as much as possible, the choice of crossing the river is already in the territory of Xiangcheng in Chenzhou, which is familiar enough for Caizhou's army, after all, this place has fallen into the hands of Caizhou for several years, and the He family is Xiangcheng's surname.

"Seventh brother, I'm afraid we need to take a break, we still need some time to catch up with the Cheng German army, the horses and soldiers have to roast a fire, keep out the cold, and also have to feed some forage. Yuan Wenliang drove his horse over.

In this raid, in the end, Yuan Huaihe still determined that Yuan Wuxing was the main player, Yuan Wenliang was the deputy, and Yuan Huaiqing was in charge of Shenqiu.

Five thousand elite cavalry accounted for almost two-thirds of the cavalry of the northern front army this time, and it was also a big deal for the Caizhou army, which did not have too many cavalry.

Yuan Wuxing nodded expressionlessly, "Well, let them hurry up, they can make a fire, so that the soldiers can add another half a bag of wine, and the scouts can double it and release it, so that they can grasp the whereabouts of the Cheng German army at any time, and I estimate that the victory or defeat will be in these two days." ”

Drinking alcohol is a taboo in the army, but it can never be stopped, and at the same time, when necessary, strong alcohol is a must, especially when crossing a river like this, the soldiers must drink in advance to warm up, and warm up with strong wine afterwards, otherwise many people simply can't afford it.

"Well, if there are no accidents, tomorrow we can catch up with the German army. Yuan Wenliang's eyes flashed with a bloodthirsty light, and he couldn't help licking his lips, "I have long heard that the combat strength of the Heshuo army is not weak, and it has always had the opportunity to see and understand, but this time I have to take a test to see if it is in vain." ”

For Yuan Wenliang's belligerence, Yuan Wuxing was not disgusted, and even appreciated it a little.

If a young person doesn't have a little blood, then it will be difficult for this person to become a big thing, and of course blood alone is not enough.

For example, Yuan Wenliang is known as the number one person in the Eight Pillars of Ruyang, and he is famous before Zhao Lan died, but his martial arts level should be slightly stronger than Zhao Lan, but his thinking ability is slightly inferior.

It's a pity that Zhao Lan died before he got out of school, which is also the most painful thing for Yuan Wuxing, Jiang Feng strangled the best junior outside the Yuan clan in Caizhou, and the loss was greater than many people imagined, although the eight pillars of Ruyang quickly made up, but until now Yuan Wuxing has not found that other young people can catch up with Zhao Lan.

"The number of cavalry of this Chengde army is not large, and it is estimated that this should have a lot to do with its lack of war horses, but its infantry strength is not weak, and the infantry army that can fight with the Jin army in Hedong is worth paying attention to. ”

Yuan Wuxing didn't say much, his relationship with Yuan Wenliang was very ordinary, and he had no intention of pleasing anyone.

"Seventh brother, it's only three or four thousand people, and it's mainly an infantry army, no matter how strong we are, we have the initiative, even if we can't sneak attack, we can annihilate them all, we should have this confidence, right?"

Regarding Yuan Wuxing's prudence, Yuan Wenliang was a little unimpressed.

Of course, he also understood that Yuan Wuxing's identity was different from his current position, but Yuan Wenliang still felt that Yuan Wuxing was a little too cautious in his heart, lacking the courage and courage of Yuan Wuwei and Yuan Wuving.

Ignoring the hidden meaning in Yuan Wenliang's words, Yuan Wuxing said lightly: "Our purpose is to destroy its living force and make it lose its combat effectiveness. ”

Yuan Wenliang's face was slightly gloomy, but he didn't speak again.

Zhao Wenshan did not realize that the crisis was coming, and at this time he was striding south in great strides.

Thinking that only more than a hundred miles can reach Ruyin City, and Ruyin City has prepared enough logistical supplies for this army, compared to the supplies in Luyi and even Songzhou, because there is a wharf available here in Ruyin, the fleet of Shouzhou can easily transport a large number of materials to the Ruyin wharf, so Zhao Wenshan's army will get most of the supplies here.

And what made Zhao Wenshan even happier was that the speed of the first army of the Huaiyou Water Army going north was unprecedentedly fast, far beyond his imagination, and now it has passed Ruyin and is continuing to go north, and it is expected to be connected at a river bay called Jiepai.

The reason why I chose there was because the terrain was high and flat, and the fleet could almost get to the high ground, and some soldiers like some who were a little overwhelmed could get on the ship first and take the boat back to Ruyin first.

Although he knew that there was only one last section of the road, Zhao Wenshan still did not relax his vigilance, he was an old army leader, and he knew very well the possible consequences of laxity and paralysis, there were too many lessons for this kind of lesson.

However, inertial thinking made him still arrange more scouts on the west bank of Yingshui, if the Caizhou army really attacked, it would still be separated by a Yingshui, and this river would be used as an obstacle, which was enough for the Chengde army to prepare for response.

Of course, Zhao Wenshan also sent scouts backwards and to the right, but this strength and density were far less than those on the west bank of Yingshui.

The two horsemen walked up the Yingshui with some laziness, the terrain along the Yingshui was tortuous, and the quagmire still looked a little soft despite the winter frost, and the two riders did not dare to get too close to the river bank, if they broke the horse's hooves, it would be troublesome.

The war horses under the crotch are constantly snorting, it seems to be a little uneasy, the two scouts don't care too much, this trip out is a bit redundant, from Bozhou down, the speed is not slow, and every day comes out, this road is familiar to everyone.

The area that had been ravaged by ant thieves was extremely deserted, and the few homes that were left were in ruins.

The situation of white bones exposed in the wild and no rooster crow for thousands of miles is definitely not an exaggeration in Yingzhou, even Zhao Wenshan feels that this Yingzhou looks worse than Heshuo, if it is not for Wang Miao's absolute trust, Zhao Wenshan has to worry about whether it is wise for him to leave his hometown this time.

The ground trembled slightly, and the two scouts raised their eyes in surprise and glanced at each other, as if to determine whether they were delusional, but they saw surprise in each other's eyes, and then they both lowered their heads at the same time to focus on the sedge on the ground.

All the sedges on the ground trembled slightly, not in the wind, but in a fine trembling.