The Southern Tang army was defeated and was not about to collapse at once, but it did not go through any difficult tug-of-war.
In the wilderness, there were people everywhere, like disaster victims who had encountered floods.
By noon, the Zhou army's infantry and cavalry chased Dangtu City, and the ambush troops waiting to be launched from the north were also rushed over... But the city gate was closed, and neither the defeated soldiers of the Southern Tang Kingdom nor the Zhou army could enter.
So the people outside the Southern Tang army had nowhere to go or rely on, and most of them had not yet surrendered knelt down and begged for mercy.
Li Chuyun rode his horse to the city and watched the situation. Although the result was a great victory, the war did not develop in the direction he foreseeable, and did not achieve the goal of taking the opportunity to seize Dangtu City.
Li Chuyun shook his head and said: It is really unreasonable to use troops to the commander Tu Yang Shou!Since he had mobilized his troops out of the city, why did he defend the city to the death?Now the Southern Tang army lost most of its troops in vain. Dangtu City's troops were empty and could not threaten me with counterattack when leaving the city. What's the use of defending the city?
Zhang Lingduo echoed: Dangtu City has no effect, so we can just go straight to quarrying.
It's just what I want.Li Chuyun said decisively, leaving a thousand cavalry camping on the west side to monitor the movements of Dangtu City, and the army went straight to quarry!
There was still a chaotic group near Dangtu City, and the scattered Zhou soldiers and the defeated soldiers who surrendered were not rectified well. Li Chuyun ordered the vanguard to go north directly in the afternoon.He himself rode his horse northward.
The Zhou army's advance was very fast, and Li Chuyun's approach in this battle was also very radical.
...It was still dozens of miles from Dangtu to Caishi. Li Chuyun and his vans moved quickly and arrived near Caishi in the afternoon.
Without a large-scale resistance, I only saw some sporadic scouts, which dispersed them.
(Caishi, on the west side of Ma'anshan City, today, there was no Ma'anshan City at this time, and there was not even a city. The capital of this area is Dangtu City.)
There is a military camp near Caishi, but no one is stationed at this time.
The Southern Tang army retreated to Caishiji Military Village... a mountain suddenly in the middle of the river (because of impacting the sand, Caishiji at this time was slightly different from that in modern times).
A small river Li Chuyun faced by riding a horse is Suoxi River. This river is narrower and shallower than the moat in Dangtu City. The water is shallow in winter and it seems that you can directly wader across the river.
Standing by the river and looking west, you can see lush mountains and lush mountains. Even in winter, you can see large areas of woods. There is a famous building on the top of the mountain: Taibai Building.
There is a port and a low hill on the northeast side of the Shandong Province, and there is a ferry.
Li Chuyun rode his horse along the Suoxi River and continued to go deeper northward to see the Yangtze River.
The large area of land opposite the Yangtze River is Jiangxinzhou. From the naked eye, it is easy to mistakenly think that the other side is the river bank; according to the terrain controlled by the Zhou army, if you continue to walk north, you can see the north end of Jiangxinzhou.
The main quarry is covered with jungles, and there is no road to see it; but there is a Taibai Building on the top of the mountain, and there is probably a small road to the top.
The Southern Tang Army's headquarters was at Caishiji Port. There were a small number of warships and naval forces on the shore. There were flags inside and outside the village, and there were many people.
This place is not difficult to capture.Li Chuyun observed for a long time and turned around and said to his staff that the Suoxi River and the river were shallow, and the Southern Tang Navy could not enter; the fortifications of the military camp were low and not strong, and the mountains here were not dangerous.The attack from Jiangdong land was attacked, and the Southern Tang army had no danger to take over.
As for the Southern Tang Dynasty defenders, Li Chuyun had already ignored their combat power and only considered whether they had any dangers.
……
Li Chuyun didn't know that Guo Shao was facing him across the river, but he could not see each other between the wide Yangtze River and Jiangxinzhou.
There is Luzhou here, and the river surface is not wide; but looking north and looking across the Yangtze River at the north end of the Yangtze River, there is a vast wave of smoke, as if standing by the sea.
The navy of Li Chuyun's army controlled the Yangtze River and reported to cross the river directly to convey the Hezhou Central Army. Guo Shao already knew that Li Chuyun had defeated the Southern Tang army outside Dangtu City, and Li Chuyun's army was constantly pushing forward to quarry.
Guo Shao is on the Yangtze River opposite Caishi, but he cannot see the legendary famous ferry now. Although it is only separated by an Yangtze River, the distance is too far away, and it is out of sight... The two land continents in the middle of the river are formed in a font.
Now Guo Shao is looking to the east of the river. In the past, it was a beach... It was bare and looked like land. The sand may be too soft and often swelling, making it unsuitable for building houses and planting trees, so it looks so empty; otherwise, the land in such a good location would have been used by the people.
That beach is of no value to the people, but it is very useful in military terms.
You can pull the boat into the beach at the north end to establish a borrowing point in the middle of the river; the boat can gain a foothold on the beach and then rely on pile driving and other means, which is always more stable than in the water... It can be used when building a floating bridge.
The beach cannot block the view. Looking at it, there is another piece of river water; because it is blocked by the beach, the second river water is not wide.
Continue to look into the distance, you can faintly see the hillsides, trees and even villages, which is Jiangxinzhou.
Jiangxinzhou, whose terrain is not very flat, is very deep and cannot see further distance... But the inspection map here is recorded. There is still a river in Jiangxinzhou in the past, and Caishiji is the other side.
The slowly flowing river water is because the entire river surface of this place is very wide; but it is divided into three waterways, resulting in a narrow local river surface... The river surface is narrow, the river water is slow, and there are deep water ports; all these factors are complete, and it is difficult to find such an appropriate place in the lower reaches of the Yangtze River. No wonder Caishi always crosses the river war.
In fact, it doesn’t take Guo Shao to think about it. He can also be sure that this place is convenient for communication between the two sides of the Yangtze River. After all, there is always a reason for so many people from ancient times to cross the river from here.
Two riders rushed towards Hezhou, with the sound of horse hooves coming from far to near, but Guo Shao was still looking at the Yangtze River for a long time.
At this time, Zuo You reminded: Lord, there is a report from Hezhou.
Guo Shao came to his senses and ordered someone to answer the report and opened it to take a look.Guo Shao immediately smiled and looked relieved: Wuchang good news!
Wuchang reported that the Zhou army's western route troops captured Wuchang and continued to advance towards Jiangzhou (Jiujiang) according to the intention of the Central Army's deployment.
Guo Shao gave the report to Zuo You and his generals, and the atmosphere suddenly became warmer and everyone congratulated him.
In the Jiangzhou city, the water is in the hands of the Southern Tang Army, and the troops of the Xiangzhou Jiedushi cannot capture this place; Hukou is separated by Poyang Lake, and it is impossible to threaten Hukou without controlling the waterway... Guo Shao said, but these are not important. Jiangzhou and Hukou are across the lake, and they are very close, which will inevitably make Zhu Lingyun (the Southern Tang Army governor) feel great pressure and create worries for him to reinforce downstream.
Zuo You echoed: There were two other formations in front of Zhu Lingyun, Ankou and Chizhou, and they thought it was not easy for Caishiji to come.
It depends on how determined Zhu Lingyun is.Guo Shao said that the two defenses ahead were not solid. If the Southern Tang army was determined to fight, the two lines of defense could only serve as intimidation, delay, and early warning.Hukou is a frontier and important place on the Yangtze River defense line of the Southern Tang Dynasty. The main force of the Southern Tang Army Navy is in Poyang Lake; while the materials used for newly built warships in Ankou are not in compliance with specifications, the hull is not solid enough, and the navy lacks training, making it difficult to compete with the main force of the Southern Tang Army Navy... Chizhou is even worse, and most of the navy was transferred to Caishiji by Li Chuyun, and the water surface could not resist the Southern Tang Army.
However, it was difficult for the Hukou army to raid and quarry; and as Wang Pu said, Zhu Lingyun probably did not have the determination and ability.
At this moment, another commissar came on the road to Hezhou.
The military newspapers of generals from all over the country reported to the Hezhou Central Army Office first; because the messengers from other places came over, they did not know where Guo Shao was, but the military office was stationed in a fixed position.
Wang Pu, who stayed in the central army, knew where Guo Shao was going at any time.
Hezhou is on the west side of the river. At this time, the sun was already hanging on the west horizon. Guo Shao faced that direction, the sun was dazzling, and he narrowed his eyes and looked at the man and horse, waiting for them to come.
Guo Shao is the commander of the entire army, and the people around him are all paying attention to him, and he also follows the people who reported the news when he sees this.But people don’t know whether what is reported is joy or sorrow.
After Guo Shao got the stuff, he looked at it.It was not the war situation, but the military situation was actually Gao Yanqiu's letter.
Gao Yanqi's main force finally crossed the Yangtze River and marched towards Tongling. After the floating bridge in Chizhou was easily damaged, the Jiannan Army took a boat to transport troops across the river... At this time, Li Chuyun had fought from Chizhou to Tongling, from Tongling to Wuhu, and then advanced to Dangtu. The vanguard had already arrived at Caishiji on the other side!
Gao Yanqiu really couldn't catch up with the previous battles.
In addition to reporting his itinerary, Gao Yanqi mainly asked for his order: he wanted to seize more than 200 Southern Tang army warships in Tongling Water Village.
The reason is that most of the soldiers of the Jiannan Army under him have worked in the navy and understand water nature and water warfare; the captured Southern Tang Army warships were idle and was wasted in Tongling.
Guo Shao sent the letter to Zuo You and others and said: The warships are not idle. Now the east and west ends of Hukou and Jingkou are blocked, and it is very difficult to transfer warships to the central government. I am planning to transfer soldiers from Han Tong to increase the strength of the quarrying naval army.
After seeing it, Zuo You smiled and said: In the battle of attacking the Southern Tang Dynasty, water battles are particularly important. Moreover, Gao Yanqi has never been valued by Li Chuyun on the land. He is thinking about the opportunity to make contributions... But he wondered whether the soldiers of the Shu army are really good at water battles as Gao Yanqi said?
Guo Shao thought for a while: If you want to make contributions and be ambitious, we should give him a chance; let alone if Gao Yanqi can mobilize some of the troops to expand the Quarry Navy, it will save Han Tong's troops.Immediately wrote a letter to Gao Yanqiu and sent it overnight, agreeing to his request.
At this time, the sun was about to set. Guo Shao turned around and looked at the other side of the Yangtze River, greeted the people around him to get on the horse, leave the riverside, and return to Hezhou.
Li Chuyun's troops in quarry are still the key to the whole business. Guo Shao has been thinking about it. This feeling is like a person who is engaged in a high-risk business and is thinking about whether he will lose money or not. This continuous psychological pressure makes people feel that his heart is hanging in the air.
The key to Caishiji is not whether Li Chuyun takes the dock; Jiangning Prefecture, the capital of the Southern Tang Dynasty, must have responded after being attacked in this important place. The key is how the main force of the Southern Tang army is to reinforce and deploy... After all, the Zhou army on the other side is relatively weak.
If I wanted to get up a sleep, someone told him that he had won.
In the wilderness, there were people everywhere, like disaster victims who had encountered floods.
By noon, the Zhou army's infantry and cavalry chased Dangtu City, and the ambush troops waiting to be launched from the north were also rushed over... But the city gate was closed, and neither the defeated soldiers of the Southern Tang Kingdom nor the Zhou army could enter.
So the people outside the Southern Tang army had nowhere to go or rely on, and most of them had not yet surrendered knelt down and begged for mercy.
Li Chuyun rode his horse to the city and watched the situation. Although the result was a great victory, the war did not develop in the direction he foreseeable, and did not achieve the goal of taking the opportunity to seize Dangtu City.
Li Chuyun shook his head and said: It is really unreasonable to use troops to the commander Tu Yang Shou!Since he had mobilized his troops out of the city, why did he defend the city to the death?Now the Southern Tang army lost most of its troops in vain. Dangtu City's troops were empty and could not threaten me with counterattack when leaving the city. What's the use of defending the city?
Zhang Lingduo echoed: Dangtu City has no effect, so we can just go straight to quarrying.
It's just what I want.Li Chuyun said decisively, leaving a thousand cavalry camping on the west side to monitor the movements of Dangtu City, and the army went straight to quarry!
There was still a chaotic group near Dangtu City, and the scattered Zhou soldiers and the defeated soldiers who surrendered were not rectified well. Li Chuyun ordered the vanguard to go north directly in the afternoon.He himself rode his horse northward.
The Zhou army's advance was very fast, and Li Chuyun's approach in this battle was also very radical.
...It was still dozens of miles from Dangtu to Caishi. Li Chuyun and his vans moved quickly and arrived near Caishi in the afternoon.
Without a large-scale resistance, I only saw some sporadic scouts, which dispersed them.
(Caishi, on the west side of Ma'anshan City, today, there was no Ma'anshan City at this time, and there was not even a city. The capital of this area is Dangtu City.)
There is a military camp near Caishi, but no one is stationed at this time.
The Southern Tang army retreated to Caishiji Military Village... a mountain suddenly in the middle of the river (because of impacting the sand, Caishiji at this time was slightly different from that in modern times).
A small river Li Chuyun faced by riding a horse is Suoxi River. This river is narrower and shallower than the moat in Dangtu City. The water is shallow in winter and it seems that you can directly wader across the river.
Standing by the river and looking west, you can see lush mountains and lush mountains. Even in winter, you can see large areas of woods. There is a famous building on the top of the mountain: Taibai Building.
There is a port and a low hill on the northeast side of the Shandong Province, and there is a ferry.
Li Chuyun rode his horse along the Suoxi River and continued to go deeper northward to see the Yangtze River.
The large area of land opposite the Yangtze River is Jiangxinzhou. From the naked eye, it is easy to mistakenly think that the other side is the river bank; according to the terrain controlled by the Zhou army, if you continue to walk north, you can see the north end of Jiangxinzhou.
The main quarry is covered with jungles, and there is no road to see it; but there is a Taibai Building on the top of the mountain, and there is probably a small road to the top.
The Southern Tang Army's headquarters was at Caishiji Port. There were a small number of warships and naval forces on the shore. There were flags inside and outside the village, and there were many people.
This place is not difficult to capture.Li Chuyun observed for a long time and turned around and said to his staff that the Suoxi River and the river were shallow, and the Southern Tang Navy could not enter; the fortifications of the military camp were low and not strong, and the mountains here were not dangerous.The attack from Jiangdong land was attacked, and the Southern Tang army had no danger to take over.
As for the Southern Tang Dynasty defenders, Li Chuyun had already ignored their combat power and only considered whether they had any dangers.
……
Li Chuyun didn't know that Guo Shao was facing him across the river, but he could not see each other between the wide Yangtze River and Jiangxinzhou.
There is Luzhou here, and the river surface is not wide; but looking north and looking across the Yangtze River at the north end of the Yangtze River, there is a vast wave of smoke, as if standing by the sea.
The navy of Li Chuyun's army controlled the Yangtze River and reported to cross the river directly to convey the Hezhou Central Army. Guo Shao already knew that Li Chuyun had defeated the Southern Tang army outside Dangtu City, and Li Chuyun's army was constantly pushing forward to quarry.
Guo Shao is on the Yangtze River opposite Caishi, but he cannot see the legendary famous ferry now. Although it is only separated by an Yangtze River, the distance is too far away, and it is out of sight... The two land continents in the middle of the river are formed in a font.
Now Guo Shao is looking to the east of the river. In the past, it was a beach... It was bare and looked like land. The sand may be too soft and often swelling, making it unsuitable for building houses and planting trees, so it looks so empty; otherwise, the land in such a good location would have been used by the people.
That beach is of no value to the people, but it is very useful in military terms.
You can pull the boat into the beach at the north end to establish a borrowing point in the middle of the river; the boat can gain a foothold on the beach and then rely on pile driving and other means, which is always more stable than in the water... It can be used when building a floating bridge.
The beach cannot block the view. Looking at it, there is another piece of river water; because it is blocked by the beach, the second river water is not wide.
Continue to look into the distance, you can faintly see the hillsides, trees and even villages, which is Jiangxinzhou.
Jiangxinzhou, whose terrain is not very flat, is very deep and cannot see further distance... But the inspection map here is recorded. There is still a river in Jiangxinzhou in the past, and Caishiji is the other side.
The slowly flowing river water is because the entire river surface of this place is very wide; but it is divided into three waterways, resulting in a narrow local river surface... The river surface is narrow, the river water is slow, and there are deep water ports; all these factors are complete, and it is difficult to find such an appropriate place in the lower reaches of the Yangtze River. No wonder Caishi always crosses the river war.
In fact, it doesn’t take Guo Shao to think about it. He can also be sure that this place is convenient for communication between the two sides of the Yangtze River. After all, there is always a reason for so many people from ancient times to cross the river from here.
Two riders rushed towards Hezhou, with the sound of horse hooves coming from far to near, but Guo Shao was still looking at the Yangtze River for a long time.
At this time, Zuo You reminded: Lord, there is a report from Hezhou.
Guo Shao came to his senses and ordered someone to answer the report and opened it to take a look.Guo Shao immediately smiled and looked relieved: Wuchang good news!
Wuchang reported that the Zhou army's western route troops captured Wuchang and continued to advance towards Jiangzhou (Jiujiang) according to the intention of the Central Army's deployment.
Guo Shao gave the report to Zuo You and his generals, and the atmosphere suddenly became warmer and everyone congratulated him.
In the Jiangzhou city, the water is in the hands of the Southern Tang Army, and the troops of the Xiangzhou Jiedushi cannot capture this place; Hukou is separated by Poyang Lake, and it is impossible to threaten Hukou without controlling the waterway... Guo Shao said, but these are not important. Jiangzhou and Hukou are across the lake, and they are very close, which will inevitably make Zhu Lingyun (the Southern Tang Army governor) feel great pressure and create worries for him to reinforce downstream.
Zuo You echoed: There were two other formations in front of Zhu Lingyun, Ankou and Chizhou, and they thought it was not easy for Caishiji to come.
It depends on how determined Zhu Lingyun is.Guo Shao said that the two defenses ahead were not solid. If the Southern Tang army was determined to fight, the two lines of defense could only serve as intimidation, delay, and early warning.Hukou is a frontier and important place on the Yangtze River defense line of the Southern Tang Dynasty. The main force of the Southern Tang Army Navy is in Poyang Lake; while the materials used for newly built warships in Ankou are not in compliance with specifications, the hull is not solid enough, and the navy lacks training, making it difficult to compete with the main force of the Southern Tang Army Navy... Chizhou is even worse, and most of the navy was transferred to Caishiji by Li Chuyun, and the water surface could not resist the Southern Tang Army.
However, it was difficult for the Hukou army to raid and quarry; and as Wang Pu said, Zhu Lingyun probably did not have the determination and ability.
At this moment, another commissar came on the road to Hezhou.
The military newspapers of generals from all over the country reported to the Hezhou Central Army Office first; because the messengers from other places came over, they did not know where Guo Shao was, but the military office was stationed in a fixed position.
Wang Pu, who stayed in the central army, knew where Guo Shao was going at any time.
Hezhou is on the west side of the river. At this time, the sun was already hanging on the west horizon. Guo Shao faced that direction, the sun was dazzling, and he narrowed his eyes and looked at the man and horse, waiting for them to come.
Guo Shao is the commander of the entire army, and the people around him are all paying attention to him, and he also follows the people who reported the news when he sees this.But people don’t know whether what is reported is joy or sorrow.
After Guo Shao got the stuff, he looked at it.It was not the war situation, but the military situation was actually Gao Yanqiu's letter.
Gao Yanqi's main force finally crossed the Yangtze River and marched towards Tongling. After the floating bridge in Chizhou was easily damaged, the Jiannan Army took a boat to transport troops across the river... At this time, Li Chuyun had fought from Chizhou to Tongling, from Tongling to Wuhu, and then advanced to Dangtu. The vanguard had already arrived at Caishiji on the other side!
Gao Yanqiu really couldn't catch up with the previous battles.
In addition to reporting his itinerary, Gao Yanqi mainly asked for his order: he wanted to seize more than 200 Southern Tang army warships in Tongling Water Village.
The reason is that most of the soldiers of the Jiannan Army under him have worked in the navy and understand water nature and water warfare; the captured Southern Tang Army warships were idle and was wasted in Tongling.
Guo Shao sent the letter to Zuo You and others and said: The warships are not idle. Now the east and west ends of Hukou and Jingkou are blocked, and it is very difficult to transfer warships to the central government. I am planning to transfer soldiers from Han Tong to increase the strength of the quarrying naval army.
After seeing it, Zuo You smiled and said: In the battle of attacking the Southern Tang Dynasty, water battles are particularly important. Moreover, Gao Yanqi has never been valued by Li Chuyun on the land. He is thinking about the opportunity to make contributions... But he wondered whether the soldiers of the Shu army are really good at water battles as Gao Yanqi said?
Guo Shao thought for a while: If you want to make contributions and be ambitious, we should give him a chance; let alone if Gao Yanqi can mobilize some of the troops to expand the Quarry Navy, it will save Han Tong's troops.Immediately wrote a letter to Gao Yanqiu and sent it overnight, agreeing to his request.
At this time, the sun was about to set. Guo Shao turned around and looked at the other side of the Yangtze River, greeted the people around him to get on the horse, leave the riverside, and return to Hezhou.
Li Chuyun's troops in quarry are still the key to the whole business. Guo Shao has been thinking about it. This feeling is like a person who is engaged in a high-risk business and is thinking about whether he will lose money or not. This continuous psychological pressure makes people feel that his heart is hanging in the air.
The key to Caishiji is not whether Li Chuyun takes the dock; Jiangning Prefecture, the capital of the Southern Tang Dynasty, must have responded after being attacked in this important place. The key is how the main force of the Southern Tang army is to reinforce and deploy... After all, the Zhou army on the other side is relatively weak.
If I wanted to get up a sleep, someone told him that he had won.
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