Chapter 373: March
As for how Zhang Wuji subdued the Eight Great Swordsmen, no one knows, and the eight people also chose to keep silent in their attitudes towards this matter, and Zhang Wuji has always smiled at this matter, and has never revealed the reason. When Zhang Wuji came to Tai Academy again, the eight great swordsmen followed Zhang Wuji respectfully, and they didn't dare to disobey the tasks arranged by Zhang Wuji.
Wanghe Mountain, the camp of the Liujia army, after three days of rectification, the Liujia army finally regained a trace of morale. The wounded soldier was properly treated, and Liu Fan also woke up from his coma. The banner of the Liu family fluttered in the wind again, even if the 100,000 army treated the wounded soldiers, only 90,000 troops could still fight now, and there were still up to 70,000 wounded soldiers lying in the barracks, of which the wounded soldiers of the Yangzhou army accounted for an absolute proportion.
What is unusual is that Wang Tong has an absolutely superior force of 250,000 troops in his hands, and he did not take the opportunity to attack. Now Wang Tong is also busy, and chose to withdraw the army under the situation of absolute superiority, which was originally difficult for the soldiers to accept, and more importantly, they were not able to bring their robed brothers down from the battlefield, and the morale of the army plummeted. The great battle exhausted a little of their strength, and they had no extra liliang to drag the robe off the battlefield.
In Liu Fan's camp, all the generals gathered together accepted their own military orders, the fallen officers were quickly replaced, and all the ashes of the fallen soldiers were cremated and canned, ready to be transported back to Jianye City. Liu Fan promised them, and when they reached the imperial capital, it would be the time for their souls to enter the Martyrs' Shrine, and now they can only be wronged to continue to stay in Jianye City.
"My lord, I just got the information. The two generals, Gao Chong and Lu Wenlong, had already been forced back with people by the army sent by Wang Tong. Now there were two and a half thousand cavalry left. "In the big tent. Liu Fan has fully recovered, and is frowning and looking at the information in his hand, Xiang Yu's army still has no news, and in order to force the defenders of Sanhe Town and Yangzhou City, they can only let Gao Chong and Lu Wenlong continue to cruise around with cavalry, and now the two have also been forced back.
Liu Fan put down the information in his hand, walked to the map and looked at it, which marked the marching speed of Xiang Yu's cavalry team in detail. and the theoretical time to arrive at the Lujiang River. Wang Jian and Guo Jia were also standing aside, all three of them were solemn, Xiang Yu did not have many troops in his hands, and they had been discovered when they passed through Sanhe Town, and now no one knows where they are, if they meet the Yangzhou army, then they have only one way to destroy.
"My lord, now we can only hope that they have not yet been discovered by General Xiang, and we should march immediately. To force the Yangzhou army, they must not be given any chance to wave the army to rescue. "The officers who were summoned to the big tent were all advocating the march and the first battle with the Yangzhou army. Although it didn't take much advantage, it made the generals full of confidence in fighting the Yangzhou army.
Liu Fan's fingers tapped rhythmically on the table. There is news from Huiji that the navies of Yizhou and Yangzhou are just besieging but not attacking, but this is so that Liu Fan doesn't need to worry, with Zhou Yu's water battle genius there, and two Eastern Wu warriors in charge, even if they can't win a big victory, at least they won't fail. However, Liu Fan is most worried about the 20,000 cavalry that appeared on the edge of Huiji City, if he chooses to march at this time, the 20,000 cavalry only need to be fast for two days to be able to copy Liu Fan's back road.
"The lord is worried about the 20,000 cavalry in Huiji City? The last general asked for his order and took his command to destroy the 20,000 cavalry, completely relieving the lord's worries. "Qin Qiong, as one of the twenty-four heroes of the Lingxiao Pavilion of the founding of the Tang Dynasty, he has not only the super high martial arts that charge into battle and take the head of the general from the army, but also the tactical vision that is difficult for people to match. Qin Qiong does not have Li Jing's super strategic vision, but he has his own understanding of tactics.
"Yes, now Huijicheng is suffering a loss in terms of troops, it is difficult to trap those 20,000 cavalry, if we are copied by the enemy when we march, and then cooperate with the Shangyang army we are attacked on both sides, we do not have so many liliang to resist the surprise attack of these two armies. ”
"Lord, we are not afraid of 400,000 troops, and we are not afraid of 250,000 troops. Give me 3,000 men and horses, and I will ask the lord to destroy the 20,000 cavalry behind. Cheng Biting Jin shouted the most happily, carrying a Xuanhua axe, he shouted that he would lead people to strangle the 20,000 cavalry in the rear.
"My lord, our 400,000 troops are not afraid of the 20,000 cavalry behind us, my lord, I am willing to go and destroy the enemy generals on the opposite side with 2,000 men and horses. "Wei Chi Gong was born to deal with Cheng Yanjin, and when he saw Cheng Yanjin standing up to grab the merit, he naturally jumped out shouting, and wanted to lead the troops to destroy Wang Tong on the other side, and what was even more murderous was that this guy was going to destroy the other party as long as he brought two thousand strange cavalry.
"Wei Chi Da Hei, what do you mean by this? Lord, give me 2,000 cavalry, and I will level the enemy camp opposite for the lord!" Cheng Yanjin was completely angry, he Cheng Yanjin didn't look at the 20,000 cavalry behind him, but he was not careless enough to take only 2,000 cavalry to level the enemy camp on the ground. The reason why Cheng Yanjin jumped out so impatiently was mainly because he was very unhappy when he watched Wei Chigong snatch merit with him. Liu Fan was also too lazy to argue with them, and the two of them were noisy like this, which also added more fun to the heavy battalion, and the generals saw the two of them fighting, and one was more happy than the other with fewer soldiers.
"You two shut up, even if there are all pigs on the other side, one of you has 500 troops and the other has 800 troops, and if you want to kill them all, you can't kill them all in a day or two. Qin Qiong stood up with a black face, and the two of them made Qin Qiong very faceless, and immediately came out to drink. Sure enough, as soon as Qin Qiong stood up, Cheng Yanjin and Wei Chigong immediately stood aside without speaking, Qin Qiong glanced at the two with a dark face, turned to Liu Fan and said, "Lord, the last general is willing to take five thousand brothers to block the twenty thousand cavalry in the rear for the lord." ”
"No, I don't. Liu Fan looked at the three of them with a smile and said with a smile: "Hearing you say this, I don't worry about the 20,000 cavalry at all now." The two generals Zhang Hu and Cai Mao in Huiji City are both generals who can fight well, and Zhou Yu, Gan Ning and Zhou Tai I sent are also veterans of the battlefield. ”
Liu Fan looked at everyone with a smile, picked up a pen from the table, quickly wrote a few lines on the paper, and said, "Someone, quickly send this letter to General Zhang and General Zhou in Huiji City." In addition, tell them that 100,000 is urgent, and I don't care what method they use, I must defend Huiji City for me. ”
"Okay, now the morale of the brothers is high, and we are waiting for the opportunity to march and completely pacify Yangzhou. Liu Fan slapped his hands on the case in front of him and said loudly: "The generals listen to the order, the battalion will be attacked by strong bows and arrows from now on, and tomorrow we will send troops to Yangzhou on the opposite side, so that they can know who is the real strongest soldier in Yangzhou." ”
"The last will be ordered. When the generals heard that they were going to take the initiative to send troops, they immediately became excited, and they all walked down excitedly. Liu Fan looked at the generals in the audience, and he was also happy in his heart, the generals had high morale, and if they didn't make good use of it, it would be easy to lower the morale that they had finally been inspired. This time, Liu Fan did not plan to really send troops to fight with the other party, but wanted to use the opportunity to support the opponent's troops, so as to take the opportunity to create an opportunity for Su Lie in Yangzhou City, if there is a chance to defeat Shouchun's Yangzhou army, the 250,000 army Liu Fan is absolutely confident that he will stay with this army, so as to create an opportunity for the unification of Yangzhou.
The army of the Liu family army moved again, the army of 100,000 moved quickly, and the entire camp was the neighing of men and horses. Wang Tong was also very nervous when he received the Liu family's army, compared to Liu Fan, Wang Tong's pressure was greater, and the three thousand cavalry disappeared in front of him and entered the hinterland, and no one would know where they were. Shouchun's army was even more facing Su Lie's attack, and Yan Baihu was not Su Lie's opponent at all, his pressure was even greater, as soon as Liu Fan's army moved, he suddenly became nervous, and hurriedly ordered to close the gate and prepare to defend it. (To be continued.) )