Vol 2 Chapter 685: Only to win, not to lose

"Yes!" The courier led away.
"Master, make a decision early." The waiting ministry will urge.
Wu Qunlie raised his hand and stopped, walking back and forth without saying a word.
It was really a situation that made it difficult for him to make a decision for a while. Meng Shanming would actually launch an offensive at this time. How could there be a large number of Yan troops in the Song National Defense Line? It is logically impossible! If there are a large number of people crossing the river, it is impossible to find nothing here. The main force of the Yan Army has been staring at this side, and they are all on the other side.
The situation for him was a little complicated for a while.
Although the main force of the Hukou defense area is only 300,000 horses, there are about 600,000 people on the Zhang Hu side plus the Yan Kingdom court. The Hukou defense area is in a weak position, but this is not a ground war. It is land to water surface, and the Hukou defense zone occupies favorable conditions.
And the prerequisites occupied here are more than a little. Zhang Hu wanted to break the defense line of the 300,000 defenders in the Hukou defense area with a simple cross-river raft in this big night, which is logically impossible. First, The raft's ease of operation on the river and the ship are not far behind.
Behind the Hukou defense area, a large number of Yan Jun came out, which is what worried him.
Now he desperately needs to know the movements of Xu Jingyue and other people on the other side of the river. Don't play with the other side of the Hukou defense area.
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Xu Jingyue, after receiving Meng Shanming's military order, was being mobilized by the riverside, manipulating the raft, and the movement was vigorous.
Although the rain is small, it is still drizzle, still mixed with wind and rain, the riverside fire is melting, and there are moving torches everywhere.
Xu Jingyue stood on the embankment in the rain, holding a sword in his waist with one hand, looking out to the distant lights.
The ministry came quickly, "Sir, you are ready to attack at any time."
Xu Jingyue wiped the rain on his face with one hand, "Did I say offensive? Don't stop, continue to show the attack, make the movement, make it big! The wooden discharge goes out and strokes, then comes back, repeats several times . "
The general stunned: "Feint?"
Xu Jingyue: "Don't ask me, I don't know what's going on. Since Mengshuai made this order, he must have a deep meaning and nothing to lose. It is right to let everyone practice the skills of rafting on the river."
He really didn't know what was going on. Zhang Hubu's actions were top secret from the beginning. Except for some direct participants, the decision makers knew that all others were concealing and it was impossible for too many people to know.
At this time, not only Xu Jingyue, but also An Xianzhao, Su Qitong, and Shi Xinmao were all doing activities on the riverside.
Yan Jun opened up a comprehensive attack.
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Meng Shanming was also on the bank of the river, leaving a tent to watch the situation of the army crossing the river in person.
Under the fire at night, a monk held a large umbrella to protect the people in the wheelchair from rain. Gong Lince also stood by the wheelchair and watched. The scene of hundreds of thousands of people crossing the river was spectacular.
There are countless large and small wooden platoons. The largest wooden platoon is large enough to accommodate hundreds of sergeants at the same time.
"Report! News from the spies, 300,000 horses in Qingqu are moving towards Hukou quickly." One will come to Meng Shanming to report urgently.
Meng Shanming nodded, indicating that he knew.
When that was about to retreat, Gong Lince tried to ask, "Is Meng Shuai not worried at all when the reinforcements come?"
Meng Shanming: "It's half a day at the earliest for the clearing of the direction of the men and women. If we can't break through the Hukou defense zone before dawn, there is no need to fight again. It's no longer important for the other party's reinforcements to come."
Gong Lince: "Once the Song State's follow-up reinforcements arrive, can our fellow crossing the river be able to cope?"
"The rest of the Song Army's Jiang Fang Marriage has been fixed, and they dare not act rashly, but dare to come to the rescue. Although the Song Jiang Jiang Fang Marriage has the advantage, the defense itself is a disadvantage. The attacking side can attack any point at any time, and can find its weak links To launch an attack, you only need to break it a bit, and its defense line does not attack itself, so blindly defense is not the best defense, and both offensive and defensive is the best defense. "Meng Shanming said, turning his head to look at Luo Daan, It doesn't seem to explain Gong Lince, but rather to Luo Daan.
Everyone looked at Luo Daan, and Luo Daan nodded thoughtfully.
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"Almost, reinforcements are almost here, withdraw!"
The right commander Sun Gaotian, who commanded 5,000 men and horses to attack the land of Tunliang, ordered the attack, and immediately stopped and quickly retreated.
This sudden evacuation was a surprise to the defenders in the land of food.
"Poor Kou Mo chasing!"
The master who guarded the granary would see his subordinates to lead people to pursue, and immediately stopped drinking.
He has his worries, how to chase this dark night? What if I am ambushed?
His main duty here is not to kill the enemy, but to guard the food chewed by the army.
When the guardian horse reconstructed and rectified the defense, a fire dragon rushed in the distance, and the 100,000 reinforcements sent by Xu Laiping, the commander of the Hukou section defense area, arrived.
When the two sides met, they realized that the enemy attack had retreated.
After evacuating the night raid, he found that more than 500 people had been lost on the way. Sun Gaotian's mood was very heavy, but he was somewhat relieved. Fortunately, the other party couldn't dare to take the initiative to attack, otherwise 500 lives might be difficult. fill.
After withdrawing for a period of time, Zhang Hu, who received the news here, once again issued an order to order here to lay an ambush on the repatriation road of the granary reinforcements to prevent the 100,000 horses from retreating. Block, and fight for the main army to break through the Song army's defense line to gain time.
Sun Gaotian then led an urgent march, and rushed to the location designated by Zhang Hu, a narrow mountainous area, and a road in the middle was the only way for the granary reinforcements to withdraw.
Regardless of tiredness and fatigue, Sun Gaotian destined to construct obstacles immediately, and the reinforcements that might appear such as cutting down trees or pushing down mountains and rocks passed by.
Although I do n’t know if the reinforcements in the granary will be withdrawn, I still need to make a full preparation here. I need to know that it is a 100,000 army. Thousands of people cannot rely on them. They must build enough. Obstacles come and rely on favorable obstacles to delay enemy reinforcements as much as possible.
Fortunately, there are still a lot of monks here. This group of monks volunteered to take the initiative to quickly build obstacles that are conducive to blocking here under the guidance of Sun Gaotian.
As for the thousands of people, Sun Gao destined them to eat and rest quickly.
On this dark rainy night, on this muddy ground, thousands of people sat down and rested like this. Their muddy hands drew out the dried food that was soaked in water. One by one has not become a human kind, no matter what is dirty or not, some are good to eat.
Zhang Hu has stood the battlefield, and his precautions are not unreasonable.
Xu Laiping, the commander of the Hukou defense zone, soon realized that he was wrong, and suspected that he had won the trick. As soon as the opponent on the other side started the attack, he immediately judged the importance.
Once this line of defense is lost, the door to the Song Kingdom can be opened, and then he will become the ancient sinner of the Song Kingdom.
He decisively abandoned the grain silo, or the loss of the grain silo is no longer important. At this time, the defense line is the top priority. If the grain is lost, you can think of ways. Once the defense line is broken, the consequences will be unimaginable.
He ordered urgently, and ordered 100,000 people to help the granary withdraw quickly.
Afterwards, I received a summons from the Governor of Jiangphong, Wu Qunlie, which proved that his judgment was correct. Wu Qunlie also meant that he immediately withdrew the granary reinforcements and concentrated his efforts to protect the Hukou line. Hundreds of thousands of troops came to aid, and in case of any accident, we had to wait until the Qingqu reinforcements arrived.
In short, keeping the Hukou line at all costs, the granary is not important!
Xu Laiping's movements were done ahead, and the 100,000 reinforcements sent out quickly withdrew.
The offensive and defensive battle on the surface of the river started, and the two sides screamed loudly, densely packed wooden platoons diagonally inserted toward the opposite bank by the flow velocity.
Fireballs across the shore skimmed the night sky under the drizzle.
When it hits the river, it floats like a flame lantern, and something like a cage continues to float on the river and burn.
Smashed on the wooden row, the oil pot and crock in the cage was smashed immediately, the fire of the fireball immediately exploded, and the person who was splashed by the fire oil uttered a terrible scream, and jumped into the water regardless of whether it was waterborne Go on.
Some people pounced on the fire, some people put water on the board to put out the fire.
The east coast of the black-painted river face is full of fire instantly, and if there is no killing sound and screaming, it may be a beautiful scenery.
The stone thrown by the stone thrower whistled from the bank of the river and smashed into the dense wooden rows on the surface of the river. The screams, the cracking movements of the wooden rows, and the rumbling colossus that fell down resounded through the night sky.
"Let the arrow!" Jiang Panshou shook his sword and roared. A group of archers bowed and volleyed. The dark shadow of the arrow roared away in the night sky. Some people on the river surface screamed.
Jiang Xin sporadicly paused some wooden platoons, all relying on a group of monks to cast spells to maintain the floating, standing on the wooden platoons were the generals responsible for the command of the ministries.
Zhang Hu came to the frontline of the attack, stood on a wooden platoon, and drew his sword and shouted: "Attack! The retreat will kill!"
He was forcing the court's men to strike forward. Someone who jumped into the middle of the river and went back to the river was immediately stained by the blood of the dense arrows, or a monk slashed a sword and executed the law. In short, he was forced to force The army rushed forward.
Meng Shanming said, this battle is about Dayan's life and death, only victory is allowed, not defeated, so he is taking his life to pile up!
Jiangfen's offensive is too fierce ~ EbookFREE.me ~ The people here are difficult to dock, and those who sporadically rushed ashore cannot withstand the slashing of a large number of enemy forces.
The two sides of the war were stuck together.
In another place, the 100,000 repatriated reinforcements finally encountered obstacles in the necessary places. More than 4,000 soldiers faced the impact of 100,000 horses and were killed by blood in the layers of obstacles set up. Described, even the military monks all battled with the enemy.
During the attack on the river bank, after a period of intensive consumption, the arrow attack on the bank was slightly fatigued, and Zhang Hu ordered a large number of monks in the country to start rushing towards the river bank.
The monks from the Song Kingdom flew out in groups at once, facing the invading monks of the Yan Kingdom. The two sides fought desperately above the big river and entered the water.
Seeing that a large number of monks from the Kingdom of Song had been entangled, the fierce Zhang Hu under the fire suddenly turned back and said sharply: "The order was given to the left commander Guo Xianfu, and the ambush attacked immediately!"
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