Chapter 52: Fang Ba is ruthless

The archers of both sides fell behind the right side of their cavalry ranks, about fifty paces away, and they both wanted to wait for their cavalry to break up the opposing team, and pick up the lone ones to shoot.

Han Hucheng pulled the reins with his left hand, rode his horse diagonally and rushed towards the archers of Cao Guo, and the knights behind him also kept their formation and followed.

Cao Guo's archers didn't have time to find their targets, and all of them shot at Han Hucheng's team, and they only had time to shoot one round. Han Hucheng shook his spear and stopped all the arrows.

Although the speed of the horse was reduced, the distance was too short, and in a few breaths, Han Hucheng's team rushed into the ranks of Cao Guo's archers.

The cavalry of the second squadron had completely scattered the cavalry of Cao Guo at this time, and the archers of the third squadron desperately suppressed their horse speed, and some even jumped off their horses, half-squatting on the ground and shooting with their bows stretched.

The group of Shaodian country scouts who were being chased turned in a direction and took the pursuers away from the battlefield of the seventh brigade, they were archers, and they didn't need to fight hard with the enemy scouts, as long as they were contained.

It was just a charge, and at least a hundred people fell from the Cao army scouts, and less than ten people were killed or wounded on Han Hucheng's side, but another group of Shaodian army scouts were shot down by the pursuers with more than a dozen people.

At this time, the whistle of the captain of the scouts of Cao Guo was no longer a quick short tone, but a long sound, and the scouts of Cao Guo turned their horses' heads one after another and ran in the direction of Shuanglong City.

Han Hucheng gathered the cavalry of the second squadron, first adjusted the formation at low speed, and then chased the Cao State scout at full speed.

The archers of the third squadron waited for another group of Shaodian scouts to come over, merge together, and chase after their own cavalry team.

Although the Cao scouts were defeated, they did not panic, and slowly gathered together again, under the command of the captain, the archers continued to throw back in front to suppress the speed of the pursuers, and the cavalry constantly adjusted their formation in the rear, forming a thick phalanx behind the archers.

Under the interference of Cao's bows and arrows, the speed of the second squadron slowly slowed down, and finally brought all the remnants of Cao's army together.

Cao Jun's team of nearly 400 people calmly retreated to Shuanglong City, Han Hucheng chased for a while, found that he couldn't make a profit, and was worried that enemy reinforcements would arrive, so he stopped.

Han Hucheng inquired about the scout team of the Shaodian Kingdom, and learned that they were originally the scout team of the 11th Division of Xunyue's place, and they came to a place less than ten kilometers away from the wilderness before noon.

Xun Yue's 11th Division took the official road directly west of Shuanglong City, and Teng Yan's 12th Division took the official road to the northwest, so they would not go together.

As early as noon, Cao Guo landed on the camp and sent 50,000 troops to block the west gate of Shuanglong City, and built a new camp three kilometers away from the city gate. Cao Jun planned to build a company camp along the way, surround Shuanglong City and Shuizhai, and cut off Shuanglong City from the outside world.

Cao Guo released the scout ten kilometers away, trying to clearly detect the location of Shaodian's reinforcements.

Xun Yue's scout troops had already fought with the Cao State scouts many times, and knowing that the direction of the west gate of Shuanglong City had been blocked, they specially sent a scout team of 200 people to the north to find Teng Yan's 12th Division.

The scout team of the 11th Division had not yet found the people of the 12th Division, so they ran into the scouts of Cao Guo, because of the great disadvantage in numbers, and did not want to retreat to the camp and was discovered by the Cao army, the location of the 11th Division was discovered, so they could only fight with the Cao State scouts in the wilderness.

Han Hu Chengzheng was talking with the scouts of the 11th Division, Shui Song rushed over with the main force of the Seventh Brigade, and saw that most of his outpost was still there, Shui Song breathed a sigh of relief.

After receiving the news that the outpost had encountered enemy troops, Shui Song was very anxious, worried that his troops would be lost, after all, the enemy troops were more numerous, so he immediately rushed to the Chinese army at full speed.

After listening to Han Hucheng's report, Shui Song first asked people to cut off the nose of Cao Jun's corpse, and then sent his cronies to return the same way and report to Fuji Yan.

With more than 100 levels of decapitation, he injured less than ten people, which is definitely the first achievement, and Shui Song's goal this time has been completed for most of his purpose.

Xun Yue's 11th Division was stationed in Gushan Town, more than 30 kilometers west of Shuanglong City, and he asked the 12th Division to also move closer to the city so that they could carry out operations together.

Shui Song left a squadron of cavalry to monitor the wilderness, in case the Cao army scouts attracted a large army, and rushed to Gushan Town with the remaining subordinates with the scouts of the 11th Division.

Cao Guo landed in the camp marshal tent, Pingdong Marquis Fang Ba sat in the position of the commander with a blue face, and a scout captain kneeling in front of him, who was reporting to Fang Ba the information he had just discovered.

"Found a new local force of the Shaodian Kingdom?So, today there are two local troops of the Shaodian Kingdom with different numbers approaching Shuanglong City, where did they come from?" Fang Ba tightened his eyebrows.

Cao and Shaodian have been fighting for many years, and they can easily distinguish between the regular army and the local army of Shaodian State.

Chief of Staff Liu beside Fang Ba analyzed: "According to the situation reported by the scouts, it can be inferred that at least two divisions of local troops have arrived at the periphery of the west gate of Shuanglong City, and the local troops in Yangyuan Prefecture are at most based on the city, and it is impossible to organize 20,000 people to participate in the battle in such a short period of time."

Moreover, the scouts of these two forces are strong, obviously the elite local troops of the Shaodian Kingdom, and there must be the participation of the great nobles, and the most important thing for us now is to figure out how many Shaodian local troops are coming. ”

"The information given to me by the Supervision Department is that in the past month, the enemy's 14th Army Corps has intensified its patrols in the area near the Tongyuan River, and the whereabouts of all divisions and regiments are unknown.

Now there are five enemy divisions in the Shuanglong City and Shuizhai in front of us alone, and the banners of the enemy's 131st, 132nd, 133rd, 134th, and 137th divisions are assembled, and half of the enemy's 14th Army Corps is assembled in more than a day, which is very strange in itself.

Could it be that Shaodian Guo had already discovered the information that we were going to attack, or had he obtained the information of a joint attack from Qi Guo?" Fang Ba's expression was puzzled.

"Our country has also been very strict in its recent blockade of the border, and all the magic communication arrays in the country and the letter eagle in the border area have been strictly controlled, and it stands to reason that there will be no leaks, but it is difficult to say on the side of Qi State.

However, the local army of Shaodian Kingdom has always been at least requisitioned in the corps unit, and as long as they appear on the battlefield, they will have at least 100,000 troops.

If they had already been requisitioned to Yangyuan Prefecture in advance, I am afraid that their main force would not be far from us, and the current time would be very unfavorable to us, and if we did not capture Shuanglong City, we would have suffered from the enemy on our backs. Chief of Staff Liu looked worried.

"The Seventh Army will soon complete the landing, and the 50,000 men of the Eighth Army will be able to arrive at the landing camp early tomorrow morning. The two legions of the Qi State are expected to be able to take the Xijiang Water Village in these two days, even if there is one more legion in Yangyuanzhou, we still have an advantage in terms of troops.

If it really doesn't work, I can transfer the first army of Xishengzhou to cross the river, and use this Shuanglong City as a flesh and blood grinding plate, trap the five divisions in the city, and eat the troops who came to the rescue one by one. Our Cao Qi and the two countries have 500,000 troops in Yangyuan Prefecture, which is enough to catch Shaodian off guard in ten days. Fang Ba said that his face then turned into a ruthless expression.

Staff Officer Liu looked at the map carefully, nodded and said: "We are on the offensive, Xisheng Prefecture really does not need two legions to defend, but we need to grab all the grain in Qingshui County as soon as possible, and the water army of Xisheng Prefecture alone is unable to support the logistics supply of the three legions."

The naval vessels of Shanhe Prefecture will also be transferred, and the withdrawal will begin in ten days, and there will not be enough ships to delay the retreat. We must completely evacuate within three days, and any slower we will have a war of attrition, which is completely inconsistent with the purpose of our troops. ”

"Okay, you immediately draw up a military order, inform the First Army to assemble immediately and prepare to cross the river, and all the ships in Xiwangzhou and Shanhe Prefecture will be transferred to the Yingxia City camp.

The 61st and 65th Divisions of the Seventh Army Corps began to attack westward tomorrow morning, and after the 8th Army landed at noon, the 66th and 70th Divisions plundered the villages and towns near Shuanglong City and transported all the grain within a radius of 20 miles back to the camp. Fang Ba began to call the shots.

Before four o'clock in the afternoon, Teng Yan led the 12th Division of the Second Central Army Corps to arrive at Gushan Town.

Dozhongshan is the closest mountain to Shuanglong Castle, and the backing mountain town is at the foot of Daozhongshan, which is a castle built on the mountain, guarding the road from Shuanglong Castle to Qingshui County. There were originally more than 6,000 inhabitants in the town, and 500 castle guards, but at the beginning of the war, all the residents withdrew to Shuanglong City, and the remaining 500 guards swore to defend the town.

The 137th Division of the 14th Army Corps had left some ordnance behind when it passed through the town of Gushan in case it was attacked by a small force of Cao's army, and after the arrival of Xun Yue's 11th Division, the town was crowded with soldiers, and the 500 guards became miscellaneous soldiers.

Xun Yue took Teng Yan into the town office and summoned several brigade captains and staff officers of two divisions to study countermeasures.

"General Teng, when will the reinforcements of those four divisions arrive here?" Xun Yue had the highest status among the division commanders of the Second Central Army Corps, and sat on the main seat.

The Xun family is one of the top ten dukes, and the Teng family is only a second-rank marquis, although they have the same status in the army, Teng Yan is still very polite in front of Xun Yue.

Teng Yan sat on Xun Yue's right side, pointed to the map and said, "They are only less than half a day's journey behind me, and they will be able to reach Gushan Town tomorrow morning, what is General Xun's plan?"

"I observed that Cao's army was building a company camp outside Shuanglong City, and I should want to surround Shuanglong City, block the way for reinforcements to enter the city, and forcibly attack the city with superior forces.

If follow-up reinforcements arrive, we will have 60,000 men outside, and when Cao's army is attacking the city, we will attack their camp from behind, so that Cao's army will not be able to take care of everything.

If Cao's army ignores Shuanglong City and pounces out to attack us, we will build two large camps on both sides of the mountain town, and we will not want to eat us without twice the strength. Before Teng Yan arrived, Xun Yue had already thought of countermeasures.

"It's very good to deal with it in this way, it can be attacked and retreated, it is a safe policy, I think this backer town is not big, and there are not many people stationed. "As long as you don't have to be cannon fodder, Fuji Yan can agree to anything.

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