In mid-October, Guo Shao heard the news, Li Chuyun captured Tongling (northeast of Chizhou).
The situation is a bit complicated.
There are two Jiangxinzhou in the river near Chizhou, called Fengyi and Changxiang. The existence of Jiangxinzhou greatly shortens the distance across the Yangtze River, making it possible for Li Chuyun to build a floating bridge.
However, the river water here is relatively fast and the water surface is not narrow. The fragile pontoon bridge was destroyed in a few days.
Gao Yanqi's troops of the Jiannan Army were still in Jiangbei and were ordered to cross the river by boat, but failed to catch up with Li Chuyun's main force.
Li Chuyun rushed to Tongling, captured the base and water camp of the Southern Tang Army, and seized more than 200 warships... At this time, Gao Yanqi's men were still in Chizhou and did not completely cross the Yangtze River.
Li Chuyun was unstoppable all the way, and the general could not stop under such circumstances. After occupying Tongling, he continued to move northward to Wuhu.
It completely ignores the threat from the direction of Hukou (Poyang Lake) and Gao Yanfu's situation.
Guo Shao couldn't sit still and hurriedly ordered the headquarters of the Central Army to move to Hezhou (He County on the other side of Caishiji, Ma'anshan City) to pay attention to the battle situation in Jiangnan nearby.
He also sent someone to urge the Hu Ben Army of Luzhou to rush to Chizhou.
In the late month, the garrison of the Southern Tang Dynasty in Wuhu was empty and was defeated.
After Li Chuyun's army occupied this place with more than 10,000 troops, they continued to spy on Dangtu Town near the quarry ferry... When Guo Shao received the report, Li Chuyun had already headed towards Dangtu.
...In the lobby of Hezhou Government Office, all Guo Shao could do was to use a ruler to continuously measure the distance between places.
Wang Pu said from the side: Li Chuyun is faster than Shi Yanchao...
Shi Yanchao's expression was very awkward, and he could not reveal Li Chuyun's shortcomings at this time.
Guo Shao felt that he couldn't stop even when he stepped on the brakes. It was only a few dozen miles from Dangtu in Wuhu. Even if he sent someone to order Li Chuyun to stop the attack, it would be too late. Maybe Li Chuyun has arrived in Dangtu now... What's more, Guo Shao didn't want to stop Li Chuyun at all, otherwise he should have ordered it long ago.
Dangtu Town is Gushu, which is always mentioned in the history of military books. The place that is always mentioned in books is a very important strategic location. Because wars always occur in these place names will be mentioned many times.
This place controls the quarry and the upper reaches of Jiangning Prefecture, and is a very important place in the Jiangnan area... After this city is captured, the quarry ferry is the thing in the bag.
As long as we occupy this place, the war will directly burn to Jiangning Prefecture, the central central government of the Southern Tang Kingdom, and the dangerous blocking effect of ChangjingTiān is as if it has disappeared.
The central government breaks through, a very fast offensive route; compared to advancing from the upstream city to land, this path is a shortcut.
Li Chuyun is greedy for merit, and Guo Shao is also anxious.
There are really loopholes in the defense management of the Southern Tang Kingdom, and Guo Shao is unwilling to stop Li Chuyun. Otherwise, if he re-refers to this battle in the future, he may be questioned about being timid and afraid of missing out on the opportunity.
But at the same time, Guo Shao was also under great psychological pressure... The Southern Tang Kingdom is still very strong, and there are at least hundreds of thousands of troops everywhere, which is not an imaginary number.
Li Chuyun was threatened on all sides of the central part of his border. Without the support and insufficient preparation, he pulled the front line for hundreds of miles and went deep into the strategic important area of the Southern Tang Kingdom alone.
Guo Shao felt that Li Chuyun's approach was very risky and could not afford any accidents. Once he was defeated, the entire front from Dangtu to Chizhou, Chizhou to Jiangbei would be broken.
It was nearly November and the war had been going on for more than a month.Guo Shao pondered, the enemy troops in Nandu still remained unmoved, would they not come?
Wang Pu said: If Zhu Lingyun would come from Hukou, he would have come long ago.If Li Yu or Zhu Lingyun can delay the reinforcements in Hukou for more than a month, it will delay it for longer... He advised again that Li Chuyun must be a knowledgeable person who can thread needles and threads all the way through the river. He is eager to attack Dangtu, and he should have a chance of winning.
Guo Shao paced back and forth: Jiangning Prefecture (Nanjing) wants to reinforce Dangtu, and the journey is not long... I just hope that Li Yu will continue to make mistakes, and the court in the Southern Tang Kingdom is still as slow as before.
……
Dangtu Town, Li Chuyun took the lead in riding his horse to the south bank of Guxi River, and the army was still in the rear. They also had conflicts with the scouts of the Southern Tang Army.
The ancient city walls and towers looked across the river. Li Chuyun first observed the city within his sight. The city was not big, but the Southern Tang Kingdom had a place where the town was located. The brick walls and moat made it look different from other small cities.
The Guxi River in the south of the city has become a natural moat on the south side of Dangtu. There is also a water gate in the city wall, and a moat has been dug from the east and west sides... If this city is defended carefully, it will not be easy to attack.
There were scattered warships of the Southern Tang Army cruised on the Guxi River. Everyone on it could see clearly, but the warships did not come rashly to threaten Li Chuyun's team of men. They only watched from afar on the river.
Li Chuyun looked back at the surroundings, a flat open land was very suitable for the army to set up a battle formation.
The place where he stood was located, in the north, Guxi River and Dangtu Town were crossed across the Guxi River, to the east, the Qingshan River flowing north and south, and then flowed westward into the Yangtze River; there was an open land to the west of Li Chuyun Station and the west of Dangtu City.
The neighing of a horse came from behind. Li Chuyun turned his head and saw that several troops on the road had appeared in sight, and his men were advancing here.
There were also signs of the Southern Tang army in the west of Dangtu City and on the other side of Guxi River, and the Southern Tang army seemed to have deployed troops outside the western city.
Li Chuyun looked at the sun in the west and said: I ordered all the troops to choose places to camp.At night, I sent a memorial worker to cross the river to report on the situation of the Southern Tang army.
Get order!
Zhang Lingduo, the commander of the right wing of Long Jie Army, asked at this time: Mr. Li has a plan to take Dangtu?
No.Li Chuyun said frankly that the fortifications in this city are strict and there are too few people now, and it is difficult to achieve a strong attack.
Zhang Lingduo asked: Are you waiting for Gao Yanqi to reinforce?
Li Chuyun disagreed and said: The Shu people are not willing to work hard for us. They are not useful, don’t worry about it... Don’t wait. If our army does not attack the city, we will cross the Guxi River first and occupy Caishiji.
The defenders of Dangtu City have no strength to block our troops.First of all, their navy was very weak, and obviously no reinforcements came to strengthen their defense; secondly, the Southern Tang army was huddled on the north bank of Guxi River, showing signs of being detained, and only if the troops were insufficient could they be so conservative.
Li Chuyun rode his horse along the river westward and walked to the edge of the Yangtze River. The sun was almost setting.The soldiers advised him to return to the military camp, but he still sat on his horse and observed the situation around him with his own eyes.
Looking west, the Yangtze River surface is very narrow here, but the other side is not Jiangbei, but Jiangxinzhou. If the terrain had not been discovered in advance and when I walked here, I might have thought that the Yangtze River had narrowed here, and the opposite was Jiangbei land... In fact, this is not the case, just because this Jiangxinzhou is too large, the river water has divided into two streams.
Not far north is Caishiji, one of the most important ferry crossings in the lower reaches of the Yangtze River, but Li Chuyun can't see it with his eyes now.
His eyes looked at the horizon to the north, and he could imagine that place.
Opposite Caishiji is the north corner of Jiangxinzhou, and the other side is the territory of Jiangbei Hezhou.Li Chuyun had learned that Guo Shao had moved the Central Army to Hezhou, and the two were already very close.
Caishiji is a very important place and has always been a breakthrough for the north to attack Jiangnan. Judging from the strategy of attacking the Southern Tang Dynasty formulated by Guo Shao, the goal is also here, and this place will be the core of the entire battle.
Li Chuyun thought secretly: Take down the quarry, no other general's contribution is as great as me!
As long as Guo Shao ascends the throne in the future, I will build the Li family’s century-old fortune with the two most critical contributions of the Tokyo Mutiny last year and the Battle of Southern Tang this year!
Tomorrow, cross the river and sweep the Southern Tang army outside Dangtu City, and then attack Caishiji. The goal is to reach the goal of the quarry and open the big river floating bridge. At that time, reinforcements from the north of the Yangtze River cross the river and then visit Dangtu City.Li Chuyun said to his general.
...The next morning, just dawn, the main force of the Long Jie Army's right wing was set up on the south bank of Guxi River, setting up a formation on the river.
In the morning, the water started fighting first, and the Southern Tang army was quickly swept away.
The most important function of this place is to control the Yangtze River Ferry, but the Southern Tang Army had very few naval troops here, and they were no match for the more than 300 warships of the Zhou army.
When the sun rose, the Zhou army warships with shallow drafts had entered the Guxi River to move.
The southern Tang army on the north bank faced each other across the river, but this did not stop the Zhou army from crossing the narrow Guxi River.
The river bank was more than ten miles to the west of the city alone, and the Southern Tang army could not have scattered the originally small number of people on the riverside.
More than 200 members of the Zhou Navy took the lead in getting ashore in one place, and the Southern Tang Army mobilized cavalry there.
When Li Chuyun rode his horse to the place where he crossed the river, he saw that the Southern Tang cavalry had dispersed the phalanx of the navy's infantry. The sound of killing on the other side was shocking, and swords and guns were dancing in a mess.
More navy soldiers abandoned their boats and landed on the shore and assembled battle formations by the river.
Zhang Lingduo, the commander of the wing capital, was a little anxious. After looking at it for a while, he shouted: Look at the navy soldiers in the war and let me lead my troops on a boat!
Zhang Lingduo and Li Chuyun had little to do with each other. He could not control the military power of the Long Jie Army's right wing now.So Li Chuyun did not stop him.
Zhang Lingduo then took his personal soldiers to abandon his horse and board the boat and crossed the Guxi River.
The river surface is not wide, and you can probably see the battle there from the south bank.
Seeing Zhang Lingduo jumping off the boat, he rushed up with a spear, and instantly killed two people.
This guy is really good at martial arts... Zhang Lingduo has no one above, and being able to be the commander of the wing is basically based on military achievements. These generals are all brave.
Seeing that the Southern Tang Army could not defeat a group of people who landed on the shore, Li Chuyun judged that there was hope for crossing the river from here.He immediately ordered the elite soldiers of the guards who rushed over to cross the river by boat, and more and more Zhou soldiers were on the other side.
More landing sites showed Zhou soldiers. At this time, the warships began to transport horses, and some cavalrymen gathered in the west to form a horse team.
The Southern Tang army came from the east to reinforce, but the Zhou army had a cavalry of more than 100 cavalry, and rushed forward under the leadership of Zhang Lingduo.
The situation is a bit complicated.
There are two Jiangxinzhou in the river near Chizhou, called Fengyi and Changxiang. The existence of Jiangxinzhou greatly shortens the distance across the Yangtze River, making it possible for Li Chuyun to build a floating bridge.
However, the river water here is relatively fast and the water surface is not narrow. The fragile pontoon bridge was destroyed in a few days.
Gao Yanqi's troops of the Jiannan Army were still in Jiangbei and were ordered to cross the river by boat, but failed to catch up with Li Chuyun's main force.
Li Chuyun rushed to Tongling, captured the base and water camp of the Southern Tang Army, and seized more than 200 warships... At this time, Gao Yanqi's men were still in Chizhou and did not completely cross the Yangtze River.
Li Chuyun was unstoppable all the way, and the general could not stop under such circumstances. After occupying Tongling, he continued to move northward to Wuhu.
It completely ignores the threat from the direction of Hukou (Poyang Lake) and Gao Yanfu's situation.
Guo Shao couldn't sit still and hurriedly ordered the headquarters of the Central Army to move to Hezhou (He County on the other side of Caishiji, Ma'anshan City) to pay attention to the battle situation in Jiangnan nearby.
He also sent someone to urge the Hu Ben Army of Luzhou to rush to Chizhou.
In the late month, the garrison of the Southern Tang Dynasty in Wuhu was empty and was defeated.
After Li Chuyun's army occupied this place with more than 10,000 troops, they continued to spy on Dangtu Town near the quarry ferry... When Guo Shao received the report, Li Chuyun had already headed towards Dangtu.
...In the lobby of Hezhou Government Office, all Guo Shao could do was to use a ruler to continuously measure the distance between places.
Wang Pu said from the side: Li Chuyun is faster than Shi Yanchao...
Shi Yanchao's expression was very awkward, and he could not reveal Li Chuyun's shortcomings at this time.
Guo Shao felt that he couldn't stop even when he stepped on the brakes. It was only a few dozen miles from Dangtu in Wuhu. Even if he sent someone to order Li Chuyun to stop the attack, it would be too late. Maybe Li Chuyun has arrived in Dangtu now... What's more, Guo Shao didn't want to stop Li Chuyun at all, otherwise he should have ordered it long ago.
Dangtu Town is Gushu, which is always mentioned in the history of military books. The place that is always mentioned in books is a very important strategic location. Because wars always occur in these place names will be mentioned many times.
This place controls the quarry and the upper reaches of Jiangning Prefecture, and is a very important place in the Jiangnan area... After this city is captured, the quarry ferry is the thing in the bag.
As long as we occupy this place, the war will directly burn to Jiangning Prefecture, the central central government of the Southern Tang Kingdom, and the dangerous blocking effect of ChangjingTiān is as if it has disappeared.
The central government breaks through, a very fast offensive route; compared to advancing from the upstream city to land, this path is a shortcut.
Li Chuyun is greedy for merit, and Guo Shao is also anxious.
There are really loopholes in the defense management of the Southern Tang Kingdom, and Guo Shao is unwilling to stop Li Chuyun. Otherwise, if he re-refers to this battle in the future, he may be questioned about being timid and afraid of missing out on the opportunity.
But at the same time, Guo Shao was also under great psychological pressure... The Southern Tang Kingdom is still very strong, and there are at least hundreds of thousands of troops everywhere, which is not an imaginary number.
Li Chuyun was threatened on all sides of the central part of his border. Without the support and insufficient preparation, he pulled the front line for hundreds of miles and went deep into the strategic important area of the Southern Tang Kingdom alone.
Guo Shao felt that Li Chuyun's approach was very risky and could not afford any accidents. Once he was defeated, the entire front from Dangtu to Chizhou, Chizhou to Jiangbei would be broken.
It was nearly November and the war had been going on for more than a month.Guo Shao pondered, the enemy troops in Nandu still remained unmoved, would they not come?
Wang Pu said: If Zhu Lingyun would come from Hukou, he would have come long ago.If Li Yu or Zhu Lingyun can delay the reinforcements in Hukou for more than a month, it will delay it for longer... He advised again that Li Chuyun must be a knowledgeable person who can thread needles and threads all the way through the river. He is eager to attack Dangtu, and he should have a chance of winning.
Guo Shao paced back and forth: Jiangning Prefecture (Nanjing) wants to reinforce Dangtu, and the journey is not long... I just hope that Li Yu will continue to make mistakes, and the court in the Southern Tang Kingdom is still as slow as before.
……
Dangtu Town, Li Chuyun took the lead in riding his horse to the south bank of Guxi River, and the army was still in the rear. They also had conflicts with the scouts of the Southern Tang Army.
The ancient city walls and towers looked across the river. Li Chuyun first observed the city within his sight. The city was not big, but the Southern Tang Kingdom had a place where the town was located. The brick walls and moat made it look different from other small cities.
The Guxi River in the south of the city has become a natural moat on the south side of Dangtu. There is also a water gate in the city wall, and a moat has been dug from the east and west sides... If this city is defended carefully, it will not be easy to attack.
There were scattered warships of the Southern Tang Army cruised on the Guxi River. Everyone on it could see clearly, but the warships did not come rashly to threaten Li Chuyun's team of men. They only watched from afar on the river.
Li Chuyun looked back at the surroundings, a flat open land was very suitable for the army to set up a battle formation.
The place where he stood was located, in the north, Guxi River and Dangtu Town were crossed across the Guxi River, to the east, the Qingshan River flowing north and south, and then flowed westward into the Yangtze River; there was an open land to the west of Li Chuyun Station and the west of Dangtu City.
The neighing of a horse came from behind. Li Chuyun turned his head and saw that several troops on the road had appeared in sight, and his men were advancing here.
There were also signs of the Southern Tang army in the west of Dangtu City and on the other side of Guxi River, and the Southern Tang army seemed to have deployed troops outside the western city.
Li Chuyun looked at the sun in the west and said: I ordered all the troops to choose places to camp.At night, I sent a memorial worker to cross the river to report on the situation of the Southern Tang army.
Get order!
Zhang Lingduo, the commander of the right wing of Long Jie Army, asked at this time: Mr. Li has a plan to take Dangtu?
No.Li Chuyun said frankly that the fortifications in this city are strict and there are too few people now, and it is difficult to achieve a strong attack.
Zhang Lingduo asked: Are you waiting for Gao Yanqi to reinforce?
Li Chuyun disagreed and said: The Shu people are not willing to work hard for us. They are not useful, don’t worry about it... Don’t wait. If our army does not attack the city, we will cross the Guxi River first and occupy Caishiji.
The defenders of Dangtu City have no strength to block our troops.First of all, their navy was very weak, and obviously no reinforcements came to strengthen their defense; secondly, the Southern Tang army was huddled on the north bank of Guxi River, showing signs of being detained, and only if the troops were insufficient could they be so conservative.
Li Chuyun rode his horse along the river westward and walked to the edge of the Yangtze River. The sun was almost setting.The soldiers advised him to return to the military camp, but he still sat on his horse and observed the situation around him with his own eyes.
Looking west, the Yangtze River surface is very narrow here, but the other side is not Jiangbei, but Jiangxinzhou. If the terrain had not been discovered in advance and when I walked here, I might have thought that the Yangtze River had narrowed here, and the opposite was Jiangbei land... In fact, this is not the case, just because this Jiangxinzhou is too large, the river water has divided into two streams.
Not far north is Caishiji, one of the most important ferry crossings in the lower reaches of the Yangtze River, but Li Chuyun can't see it with his eyes now.
His eyes looked at the horizon to the north, and he could imagine that place.
Opposite Caishiji is the north corner of Jiangxinzhou, and the other side is the territory of Jiangbei Hezhou.Li Chuyun had learned that Guo Shao had moved the Central Army to Hezhou, and the two were already very close.
Caishiji is a very important place and has always been a breakthrough for the north to attack Jiangnan. Judging from the strategy of attacking the Southern Tang Dynasty formulated by Guo Shao, the goal is also here, and this place will be the core of the entire battle.
Li Chuyun thought secretly: Take down the quarry, no other general's contribution is as great as me!
As long as Guo Shao ascends the throne in the future, I will build the Li family’s century-old fortune with the two most critical contributions of the Tokyo Mutiny last year and the Battle of Southern Tang this year!
Tomorrow, cross the river and sweep the Southern Tang army outside Dangtu City, and then attack Caishiji. The goal is to reach the goal of the quarry and open the big river floating bridge. At that time, reinforcements from the north of the Yangtze River cross the river and then visit Dangtu City.Li Chuyun said to his general.
...The next morning, just dawn, the main force of the Long Jie Army's right wing was set up on the south bank of Guxi River, setting up a formation on the river.
In the morning, the water started fighting first, and the Southern Tang army was quickly swept away.
The most important function of this place is to control the Yangtze River Ferry, but the Southern Tang Army had very few naval troops here, and they were no match for the more than 300 warships of the Zhou army.
When the sun rose, the Zhou army warships with shallow drafts had entered the Guxi River to move.
The southern Tang army on the north bank faced each other across the river, but this did not stop the Zhou army from crossing the narrow Guxi River.
The river bank was more than ten miles to the west of the city alone, and the Southern Tang army could not have scattered the originally small number of people on the riverside.
More than 200 members of the Zhou Navy took the lead in getting ashore in one place, and the Southern Tang Army mobilized cavalry there.
When Li Chuyun rode his horse to the place where he crossed the river, he saw that the Southern Tang cavalry had dispersed the phalanx of the navy's infantry. The sound of killing on the other side was shocking, and swords and guns were dancing in a mess.
More navy soldiers abandoned their boats and landed on the shore and assembled battle formations by the river.
Zhang Lingduo, the commander of the wing capital, was a little anxious. After looking at it for a while, he shouted: Look at the navy soldiers in the war and let me lead my troops on a boat!
Zhang Lingduo and Li Chuyun had little to do with each other. He could not control the military power of the Long Jie Army's right wing now.So Li Chuyun did not stop him.
Zhang Lingduo then took his personal soldiers to abandon his horse and board the boat and crossed the Guxi River.
The river surface is not wide, and you can probably see the battle there from the south bank.
Seeing Zhang Lingduo jumping off the boat, he rushed up with a spear, and instantly killed two people.
This guy is really good at martial arts... Zhang Lingduo has no one above, and being able to be the commander of the wing is basically based on military achievements. These generals are all brave.
Seeing that the Southern Tang Army could not defeat a group of people who landed on the shore, Li Chuyun judged that there was hope for crossing the river from here.He immediately ordered the elite soldiers of the guards who rushed over to cross the river by boat, and more and more Zhou soldiers were on the other side.
More landing sites showed Zhou soldiers. At this time, the warships began to transport horses, and some cavalrymen gathered in the west to form a horse team.
The Southern Tang army came from the east to reinforce, but the Zhou army had a cavalry of more than 100 cavalry, and rushed forward under the leadership of Zhang Lingduo.
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