The mountains to the east of Tongling are vast and deep. I don’t know how deep they are or whether there is a road. However, even if there is a road, it will be blocked by the big lake in the south of the mountain. Therefore, it is not impossible to send troops from the mountains to Chizhou, but it is too difficult, especially Walking into the mountains and forests in summer is absolutely inhuman torture, whether the sun is blazing or the rain is pouring.
Therefore, taking the official road is still the first choice. However, this long and narrow path close to the cliff and the Yangtze River has been heavily guarded by Bai Wang and has layers of obstacles. It is not easy to get through.
Seeing Chang Yu's frown, Ma Ke coughed lightly and said, "More than a hundred thousand Tatars and hundreds of thousands of intruders can't stop the governor. The white thieves in front of him are like mantises blocking the car. The governor only needs to give an order. You can easily grind it into mincemeat!"
Chang Yu turned his head and smiled half-heartedly: "Does Mr. Ma really think so?"
Marco looked slightly embarrassed and coughed lightly: "The general made a mistake and made the governor laugh." At this time, he was shocked to realize that this little eunuch didn't seem to like other people's flattery very much!
"To open the road, we need to rely more on General Ma!" Chang Yu smiled slightly, and Ma Ke quickly said: "I will go through fire and water without hesitation." As he spoke, he looked to the south and couldn't help but raise his eyebrows. It turned out that there were hundreds of thieves. They had reached nearly a hundred meters away, but they stopped because Tu Yuan and Kuang Ren had defeated the thieves and reached behind Chang Yu!
Chang Yu whispered a few words to Ma Ke and then they clapped their horses forward. Tu Yuan exclaimed from behind but Chang Yu raised his hand to stop him. The two riders reined in their horses half a hundred times. As expected, there was a reaction from the rebel army. The three riders Slowly coming and stopping ten meters away was the King of Hell, Wang Yi'en. He frowned and yelled: "You idiot, please tell me your name!"
Ma Ke was furious: "I just killed you yesterday and you lost your shit so quickly that you no longer recognize me!" The King of Hell narrowed his eyes: "Are you Wu Sangui or Ma Ke?"
"It's you, Uncle Ma!" Marco sneered, touching the handle of the knife: "Name the leader of the thieves!"
"The King of Hell who took your dog's life!" Wang Yi'en cursed loudly: "You come here to ask for mercy, so why don't you kneel down and kowtow three times and call me grandpa, and I will spare your life..."
Childish, so damn childish! Chang Yu listened to Ma Ke and Wang Yi'en's scolding, shook his head with a wry smile, and then raised his hand to interrupt the two of them: "King of Hell Wang Yi'en, one of the five tigers under Bai Wang's command, is a bloodthirsty man who likes to kill. I heard that there are many people who have lost their lives at your hands. Is three hundred real?"
"It seems that the bastard in the king's body sold me cleanly." Wang Yi'en chuckled slyly, and suddenly raised his hand to point at Chang Yu: "Who are you, this young man?" He wondered in his heart that there was no one who could stand shoulder to shoulder with Ma Ke. General.
"It doesn't matter who I am, I'm just here to ask you a question." Chang Yu smiled slightly: "Are you willing to surrender?"
As soon as he finished speaking, Wang Yi'en was furious. He raised his knife and pointed it: "Shut your mouth. Do you think I am a treacherous and shameless person like the bastard in the king's body? How can I surrender to you..." All kinds of filth The obscene words kept coming, and Ma Ke was furious when he heard it, and was about to lead his troops into a fight, but Chang Yu stopped him with his eyes. Although Wang Yien was stubborn and vulgar, he was still a man, so he interrupted him: "You have killed countless people and gained a bad reputation as the King of Hell. Even if I am not talented, there will be people who are not very good at killing people. If you don't surrender, you will be judged. Let's see if you, the King of Hell, accept me, or if someone will send you to see the real King of Hell." He said with a sneer and left. .
Wang Yi'en didn't react for a while. He was reminded by people around him and suddenly realized that the young man was actually the eunuch of Dongchang! That's right, that Dongchang eunuch was notorious for being murderous, aggressive and fond of killing people in Beijing, but he didn't expect that he would turn out to be such a spirited young man!
By the time he came to his senses, Chang Yu and his entourage had gone away, and his subordinates encouraged him to pursue him. Capturing the eunuch would be a great achievement, but it was obvious that Wang Yi'en still had some sense. How could the eunuch earn such a great reputation? Yi Yi's generation, and the fact that dozens of his cavalry were able to penetrate deep into the position without being stopped, shows how strong their combat power is, not to mention that their cavalry was extremely powerful and fast like the wind, making it difficult to stop and chase them, so they gave up and went back to report the news. Baiwang.
At this time, Bai Wang was frowning and looking into the distance by the river. Wang Yi'en stood behind him and chattered a lot. Bai Wang only shook his brows when he heard that the little eunuch was coming in person. He was otherwise indifferent. When Wang Yi'en was wondering, Bai Wang raised his hand and looked towards the other side. Pointing: "Look, here comes the man who is going to die!"
The drizzle made it difficult to see clearly. Wang Yi'en didn't pay attention to Bai Wang's words at first, so he squinted his eyes and took a closer look at the other side. He was shocked when he could vaguely see human figures stretching for more than ten miles: "Officers and soldiers? He, they are going to Anqing?" "
"No!" Bai Wang sneered at the corner of his mouth: "The dog eunuch thought of a two-pronged approach, but he didn't know that I had already asked Cheng Niandong to sharpen his sword and kill as many as he came."
Wang Yi'en's face looked a little better, and he laughed a few times: "It's not much, I estimate there are more than ten thousand people, and they look like cavalry, but the cavalry is of no use to Anqing... Hey, where did the imperial court come from so many cavalry? ?”
"Maybe the Dog Emperor has transferred all the cavalry from the north, but...hehehehe" Bai Wang laughed: "The cavalry here is not as useful as the pig riding the head!"
People around him laughed, and Bai Wang looked up at the sky: "As long as it doesn't rain too hard, the officers and soldiers will have nothing to do with us." Everyone echoed.
The soldiers and horses Bai Wang saw were naturally not Gao Jie and others, but the Shenji Battalion and the Guard Battalion sent by Li Yan to Anqing for reinforcements. The two marches were not covered at all. They happened to reach the other side of Tongling and could only stick to the other side because they were avoiding mountains and lakes. While walking along the river, Bai Wang happened to catch a glimpse of him, but he thought he was the vanguard of officers and soldiers, but he didn't know that the real vanguard, Gao Jie, was fighting with Cheng Niandong.
As soon as Chang Yu's military order arrived last night, Gao Jie was impatient and wanted to attack overnight, but Liu Zeqing dissuaded him because fighting at night was extremely disadvantageous to them. After all, the geographical location here is very complicated. The gap between the Yangtze River and Shitang Lake is less than 100 meters wide. However, we must be fully prepared to fight with the bandit army on the nearly twenty-mile swamp road.
The most basic preparation is to allow the soldiers to have enough food, drink, and rest, and to conduct sufficient pre-war mobilization. As veteran veterans Gao Jie and the others understand that this is the most basic but also the most important step.
So they did not launch an attack that night, but allowed the soldiers to have a good sleep before they began to gather for attack preparations at midnight. At this time, the sky was drizzling and very cool. It was really a good day for fighting. Gao Jie chuckled, and Liu Zeqing frowned. He frowned and narrowed his eyes into a thin line as he looked at the road between the rivers and lakes in the distance.
The three of them have already discussed that Huama Liu will be stationed in Sturgeon Town to take charge of the rear, while Liu Zeqing and Gao Jie will concentrate their forces to seize the twenty-mile river and lake road. They will take steps step by step and never advance rashly.
When it was almost noon, Liu Ze counted 500 cavalry and 500 infantry, totaling more than a thousand, as the vanguard. Gao Jie led the same force and then marched southward along Jianghu Road in a mighty manner.
"Remember not to advance rashly, even if you advance mile by mile!" Liu Zeqing warned, but Gao Jie disagreed: "You are the vanguard and the first to defeat the enemy is the best."
Liu Zeqing let out a laugh: "Since I am a pioneer, I should be the first to make the first contribution. Just watch it!"
Gao Jie laughed: "If you defeat the enemy, I will be credited with your first achievement."
The two of them deliberately joked and joked to relieve the pressure. Unknowingly, they walked for several miles and came close to the position where the rebels were trying to dig ditches to divert water and block the enemy. At this time, the rebels on the opposite side also gathered thousands of soldiers and horses sharpening their swords. Huo Huo was waiting. Fight.
While the two were observing, a scout from the front came to report: To prevent the officers, soldiers and cavalry, the rebels marched straight in to take rubble from the river beach and covered the road for two or three miles!
grass! Gao Jie's eyes widened with anger and he couldn't help but yell: "What a shame, you thieves! You've even done this kind of trick."
Liu Zeqing also smiled bitterly and shook his head: "Use all possible means, this method seems familiar." Gao Jie turned to look at him: "Are you talking about my brother?"
Liu Zeqing shrugged: "Stop talking about it, how can we fight in front of you?"
Gao Jie sneered: "Is it possible that we can't defeat him without cavalry?" Liu Zeqing nodded. Without Zhang Butcher, we still have to eat pork. As he said this, he turned to look northwest and couldn't help but coldly snorted: "As long as the flower horse If Liu doesn't hold back, we two brothers won't suffer a big loss."
When Gao Jie heard the news, he could vaguely see the figures on the Shitang Lake in the northwest. He knew that the rebels were out there, and they obviously wanted to outflank them from the back.
"The intersection where the village is located is very wide. Huama Liu can use cavalry to defend against the enemy. There is no need to worry over there. Let's just do our jobs well." Gao Jie withdrew his gaze and Liu Zeqing nodded: "It's getting late. Let's do a battle first. "Immediately he ordered an attack. More than a thousand officers and soldiers dismounted and rushed towards the opposite side on foot. Gao Jie immediately ordered his men to follow suit. The bandit army did not show any weakness and faced them with swords. In the blink of an eye, they were fighting together.
Cheng Niandong maximized the use of the terrain to restrain the cavalry of the officers and soldiers. In this way, the officers and soldiers lost the advantage of horse fighting and could only abandon their horses and fight, which was exactly what he wanted. As ruthless bandits, their combat effectiveness was not inferior to that of the officers and soldiers, and sometimes even higher due to the influence of morale. The officers and soldiers have an advantage. After all, in the past many years, the officers and soldiers have not fought any significant victories, otherwise they would not have allowed the rebel army to grow.
With the sound of killing, the two armies charged forward one after another bravely. In the shadow of swords and swords, there were constant shouts and curses. Looking around, there were fighting figures everywhere in Lixu. There were everywhere in the mud on river beaches and lakes. Some people were lost among the rocks. The weapons used stones to kill the opponent, and some even entered the water, pushing the opponent into the water in an attempt to drown...
Gao Jie was eager to fight. Seeing the fierce fighting, he couldn't help but want to rush into the formation for a good time. However, the terrain was really unbearable, with rocks and mud everywhere. Once the war horses entered, they would only be hacked, so he had to Stop watching, cheer and cheer!
The fighting on Jianghu Road was fierce, and a battle had begun in Sturgeon Town ten miles behind them. As Liu Zeqing expected, as long as they attacked, the bandit army ambushing in the west would definitely come to attack, but this time Huama Liu was ready When the rebels were still several miles apart, they had already assembled cavalry to block the intersection. When they got close, they gave an order and the cavalry rushed over. Although the rebels were brave, they used infantry when they did not have the upper hand. The cavalry were completely unstoppable and were dispersed in an instant.
However, they were indeed fierce bandits. Although they were scattered, they did not retreat. They also deliberately led the battle group to the waterside swamp, making the officers and soldiers' horses stuck in the mud, unable to move or with difficulty in maneuvering.
The officers and soldiers were indeed a little panicked at first, but Liu Liangzuo was also a long-time veteran and had rich experience fighting against the rebels for several years in Luzhou. He immediately adjusted his tactics and ordered some soldiers to abandon their horses and fight on foot. The cavalry charged the enemy and the infantry fought. In this way, the rebel army Even though he was in a difficult situation, he still persisted and he really lived up to his reputation as a tough bandit.
