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After Zhao Wanhai died, his power was quickly wiped out by the Sui army, and all the counties and counties in Hejian were recovered.
At the same time, the West Route Army led by Li Jing also won the Battle of Boling.
Li Jing went south and faced Wang Ziying who occupied Boling County. Wang Ziying followed Lu Mingyue to raise troops in Shanggu County. Later, Lu Mingyue defeated three passes and went south to the Central Plains. However, Wang Ziying's strength had expanded and she did not want to stay under others for a long time, so she parted ways with Lu Mingyue and led part of Lu Mingyue's old troops to continue in Bo. Ling, Hengshan and other places to fight.
Wang Ziying was courageous and full of clever ideas, so his troops soon grew to tens of thousands, and they captured Xianyu (now Dingzhou City, Hebei Province), the seat of Boling County. Even Yang Kuo, the prefect of Boling County, died there. In the midst of chaos.
After Wang Ziying occupied Xianyu, he used it as a stronghold to strengthen the city walls, accumulate grain reserves, dig deep trenches, and build Xianyu City into a military fortress.
When the Sui army moved south, Wang Ziying knew that he was outnumbered and did not dare to fight, so he retracted all his troops into Xianyu City.
In order to resist the Sui army, Wang Ziying also asked Zhai Songbai, who was entrenched in Hengshan County, for help. The core of Zhai Songbai's unit are Northland horse bandits, who are flexible and have strong combat effectiveness.
The Sui army went south and surrounded Xianyu City.
Faced with the siege of the Sui army, Wang Ziying did not surrender or retreat, but chose to hold on.
At this time, Li Jing's army also carried a large number of thunder cannons, but Xianyu City, as an important town in the north, was more solid, easy to defend and difficult to attack.
" Moreover, Wang Ziying uses his brothers and confidants as generals, so the stability of the army is much higher.
But even so, if Li Jing concentrated his forces and attacked with all his strength, Xianyu City still wouldn't be able to defend it for long. The gap in strength between the two sides is huge and difficult to bridge.
However, Li Jing heard that Zhai Songbai, who was entrenched in Hengshan County, was coming to rescue Wang Ziying, so he decided to encircle the point for reinforcements. He first defeated the flexible Zhai Songbai, and then attacked Xianyu City.
Having missed this good opportunity, when Zhai Songbai fled again, he didn¡¯t know when he would be able to defeat Duofang.
Li Jing cherishes the opportunity to lead the army independently. After all, he was only the executor in the previous battle in Heng'an Town. Someone else might not be able to do it, so he made up his mind to fight another beautiful battle to show Huang Mingyuan.
So Li Jing ordered Huang Mingpu to continue the siege, while he stayed at the camp and waited for the arrival of Zhai Songbai's army.
Zhai Songbai was indeed good at using troops. Considering that the Sui army came from the north and would have difficulty in transportation, he prepared to use cavalry to attack the Sui army's transportation roads.
The grain and grass of the Sui army traveled through the Hengshui River (today's Tanghe River in Hebei Province), which is a tributary of the Daqing River. The food and fodder of the Sui army departed from Tianjin Port and followed the river to the foot of Xianyu City.
Zhai Songbai ordered his horse bandits to be divided into several waves, taking turns to attack the Sui army's food road and attack the lone Sui army.
Although the Sui army had rivers to rely on, the long river banks could not be protected everywhere, so their grain and grass were repeatedly intercepted. Seeing that this plan was feasible, Zhai Songbai intensified his efforts and sent troops to attack the Sui army in turns every day. Sometimes he could attack dozens of times a day and night.
In order to protect the grain road, the Sui army had to fight with Zhai Songbai's troops on the river bank.
The generals are all worried about the food supply. Everyone even requested orders one after another to protect the grain road, but Li Jing refused.
Of course, the Sui army's cavalry was more elite than Zhai Songbai's, but as a horse bandit, Zhai Songbai was the best at plundering. The Sui army took the initiative to attack, using its own shortcomings to counter the enemy's strength. , quite unwise.
After waiting for several days, Li Jing made no move, and Zhai Songbai also relaxed his guard against the Sui army. He felt that the Sui army sounded capable of fighting, but it was just a reputation, nothing more.
On this day, the sentries sent by Zhai Songbai came to report again. Dozens of large ships of the Sui army were coming from the lower reaches. They had a very deep draft and contained about more than 100,000 shi of grain.
Zhai Songbai was overjoyed when he heard that it was probably not because the Sui army had brought all the food.
The food of the Sui army was not brought by strong winds. If they lost this batch of food, they would definitely retreat with no food.
However, the Sui army had a lot of guards, and the dozens of ships together probably contained thousands of people.
So Zhai Songbai ordered the cavalry in the army to be gathered for a surprise attack.
Zhai Songbai led his troops all the way east to the coast of Hengshui River. The Sui army's grain transport team stopped at Shilipu Ferry at night. This is a large ferry, and all the goods transported from the lower reaches to Boling County pass through here.
At night, the lights are on, the breeze is swaying, and it is a quiet and peaceful scene. The Sui army's large ships anchored near the shore and set up tents on the dock.
Zhai Songbai was overjoyed. After hearing the inquiry, he immediately led his troops to rush to Shilipu Ferry.
He has four to five thousand cavalrymen, twoThe horses' hooves galloped back and forth, making the whole earth tremble.
A group of bandits rushed into the dock and rushed towards the ships docked on the shore. Before the Sui army could react, they burned these warships, which was a victory.
But who would have thought that as soon as everyone entered the pier, the big boats that seemed to be asleep suddenly moved towards the river. In an instant, there were no docked ships on the pier.
Zhai Songbai was shocked, but he didn't give up.
The pier is full of small boats. As long as these small boats are set alight and they rush towards the big ships, the river will be narrow and the big ships will still be unable to escape.
A group of bandits came to the shore, and hundreds of small boats were moored neatly on the pier.
Zhai Songbai ordered people to dismount and board the boat. At this moment, Hu suddenly lit torches on the small boats, illuminating the entire dock as bright as day.
All the bandits were stunned.
But only a sharp whistle was heard, and a group of people rushed out from a small boat, all holding powerful crossbows and shooting at the horse bandits.
Suddenly arrows rained down, and all the thieves near the river bank were shot dead.
"There is an ambush!"
Zhai Songbai hurriedly ordered all the troops to retreat quickly, but it was already too late.
At this time, to the north of Shilipu, Li Jing led a large army to attack, while to the south, Huang Mingxu also led his troops to surround him. The Sui army had surrounded Zhai Songbai's three or four thousand cavalry.
Zhai Songbai was about to break out of the encirclement, and then he realized that the battlefield chosen by the Sui army was really good.
They rushed into the Shilipu pier, and a market had already been formed around the pier. Therefore, thousands of cavalry were actually restrained by the terrain and could not attack with full force in any direction.
I didn¡¯t realize it when I entered before, but now I attack with all my strength, only to find that the horses can¡¯t run.
At this time, Zhai Songbai also felt regretful that he had been tricked to this extent by the other party.
"However, Li Jing did not directly attack Zhai Songbai's tribe, but ordered people to go and recruit them to surrender. Zhai Songbai's three to four thousand elite cavalry were a large force. It was impossible for the two armies of Ying Yang and Bao Tao to gather such a large and combat-effective cavalry.
Li Jing is really greedy.
And if the other side braves the ruthlessness of annihilating half of its troops and breaks out from all sides, the Sui army may not be able to keep all the cavalry of Zhai Songbai's tribe.
So Li Jing reached out in time and gave the other party a life-saving straw when he was most desperate. (Remember the website address: www.hlnovel.com - Didn't finish reading? Add this book to your favoritesI'm a member and bookmarked this chapterCopy the address of this book and recommend it to your friends for pointsChapter error? Click here to report
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