The summer rains poured down, making it impossible to see what lay ahead. Pen | fun | pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 It had been raining heavily for more than an hour, leaving Helian Qing's cavalry team to move slowly in the mud. In this muddy land, there is no place to stay. Originally, he could have rushed to the outside of Jiangcheng City before dark, but now it was dark, and there was still some distance from Jiangcheng.

The scout braved the heavy rain to come to report that he had almost reached the hilly area more than twenty miles outside the west gate of Jiangcheng, which made Helian Qing's mood slightly better. Helian Qing immediately ordered the whole army to speed up its advance, and set up camp on the hills at night. It was said to be a hill, but it was only a small hill slightly higher than the plain, and 70,000 cavalry rumbled up the hilly area, each finding a place to camp.

In this rainstorm night, even the bonfire could not be raised, so the gang leader could only burn some ginger soup. Eating a few mouthfuls of dry food and drinking ginger soup can also warm up and remove the moisture from your body by the way. The Huns had no way to make a fire to bake their clothes, so they had to remove their armor and hang it in a cowhide tent to dry. Except for the teams responsible for patrolling and guarding the horse battalions, almost all of them were shirtless, and they spread oilcloths on the ground at will, and they lay down and were too lazy to get up.

Not long after lying down, outside the barracks on a rainy night, the rumbling sound of horses' hooves sounded. The 30,000 cavalry of the Heavenly Dynasty, divided into three teams, rushed straight through the Hun camp before the Hun soldiers could react. When the Huns rushed out of the tent and were ready, the cavalry of the Celestial Empire had long since disappeared. The whole camp was in shambles, and there was no way to count the casualties and losses in this rainy night. The Hun cavalry who chased out of the camp could not see the situation in all directions at all, so they had to make a circle at will and turn back to the camp. The chaotic camp gradually quieted down until the ugly hour passed, and the torrential rain began to slowly stop.

In the moment of darkness before dawn, more than 200,000 cavalry of the Heavenly Dynasty had already tightly surrounded the Xiongnu camp, and the deafening sound of horses' hooves sounded at the same time, rushing into the Xiongnu camp from the east, west, and north. When the Huns, who had been tossing all night, woke up from their sleep, they rushed out of the cowhide tent before they even put on their armor. But seeing that countless iron hooves had already rushed up the hills, he could only instinctively open his legs and run towards the south where there were no cavalry of the Celestial Empire.

The horse camp, which had long been figured out, was surrounded by the cavalry of the Celestial Empire in a very short time, and the Huns, who had no horses, were forced to retreat down the hills and rush into the muddy flat land to the south. With the contraction of the encirclement of the Celestial Empire's army, more than 60,000 Hun soldiers were so shot by the rain of arrows in the sky that they could only continue to retreat southward, and their feet were already stepping on the tidal flats by the lake.

He Lianqing, who was under the protection of his own soldiers, his eyes were full of despair, and he didn't know why there were suddenly so many cavalry in the Celestial Empire. In the news that Helian Qing obtained, the cavalry of the Celestial Empire was only sixty or seventy thousand, and with almost the same number of troops, Helian Qing was not worried at all. What Helian Qing didn't know was that Xuan Qi had already ordered a blockade within a hundred miles west of Jiangcheng, and everyone was allowed to enter but not leave, and those who could get out of this area were all disciples of the Beggar Gang and people in the rivers and lakes after disguise.

The cavalry of the Celestial Empire had already begun to slow down their horses, but forced the Huns to continue southward. The muddy tidal flats, washed away by heavy rain for several hours, could not stand at all. Even if you stand still, you will involuntarily be squeezed to the ground by the crowd of Hun soldiers. Slowly, there were no more people standing on the tidal flats, and the Huns began to dumpling down and were squeezed into the lake.

The cavalry of the Celestial Empire, which is like an iron wall, can't rush out at all, and even if they are not killed by random arrows, they will be trampled into meat sauce by countless horses' hooves. There are more and more Hun soldiers entering the water, but most of them can only flutter on the surface of the lake a few times, and then they will sink into the lake. Countless Hun soldiers began to surrender on their knees, but these 200,000 cavalry firmly remembered Xuan Qi's words: leave no room alive! They will only serve these Hun soldiers with ruthless arrows and sabers, and they don't care whether you are standing or kneeling.

A whole hour has passed, and there are only a few Hun soldiers who can still stand on the tidal flats and be shot mercilessly. The cavalry of the Celestial Empire was not in a hurry, they had already stopped advancing, waiting for the Hun soldiers to crawl out of the lake, and every time they climbed up, there would be several long arrows waiting for him.

Countless small boats began to appear on the lake, densely approaching the Hun soldiers who were still fluttering, and the spears in their hands ruthlessly pierced the chests of the Huns. In this battle, none of Helianqing's 70,000 cavalry, including himself, escaped, but five or six of them drowned in the lake, which became food for many fish in the lake.

When the news of Helian Qing's annihilation returned to Jingzhou, the old Helian Yinshan screamed in pain, a mouthful of blood spurted out, and he had already fainted. When he woke up, Helian Yinshan, who was already building ships and preparing to cross the river, ignored the dissuasion, leaving only 30,000 soldiers and horses to guard Jingzhou, and he rushed to Jiangcheng with an army of more than 200,000 to avenge his son.

At this time, Xuanqi only left 20,000 defenders, with nearly 400,000 troops, down the river, and had already surrounded Huangzhou, which had only more than 10,000 troops. With the help of the people from the rivers and lakes who had already infiltrated the city of Huangzhou, Xuanqi captured Huangzhou with almost no effort, and more than 10,000 Hun soldiers survived.

After that, Xuanqi quickly advanced eastward, successively taking Xishui, Qizhou, Huangmei, and Susong counties, and began to build a defensive line at the southern foot of Dabie Mountain. At the same time, Xuanqi's soldiers divided into two routes, and he personally led 200,000 cavalry to the north, and after capturing Macheng, he abandoned the city and went north, crossed the Dabie Mountain, and began to enter Henan. On the other hand, nearly 100,000 cavalry, led by Gao Xingshu, continued to march eastward and entered Jianghuai to support Li Xing, who lacked major generals.

When Helian Yinshan arrived in Jiangcheng, Xuanqi had already sent all the military and civilian ships to the south bank, leaving only an empty city for Helian Yinshan. Looking south at the surging river, Helian Yinshan can only cry out in vain. Hearing that Xuanqi had turned north, Helian Yinshan, who had calmed down, simply stopped pursuing, and began to go down the river to attack Huangzhou. The defenders of Huangzhou did not love war, and after a false shot, they withdrew from Huangzhou City.

Helian Yinshan continued to advance eastward, and finally encountered stubborn resistance at Xishui. Tens of thousands of defenders of Xishui, under the leadership of Yuwen Hu, were stunned to block the 200,000 troops of Helian Yinshan west of Xishui for more than ten days, and then retreated to Qizhou. The stretching Dabie Mountain began to make the cavalry army of Helian Yinshan suffer. On every hill, you will encounter archers numbering no more than a few dozen. After three rounds of fire, the archers either disappeared into the mountains, or simply pushed down the rocks, blocking the path of Helian Yinshan's army. In a short distance, it was hard for the cavalry team of Helian Yinshan to work hard for half a month before the soldiers came to the city of Qizhou.