Chapter Twelve: The Battle of Baiyanghe (Part 1)
"Selling vegetables, cabbage, fresh cabbage..." An old lady was sitting outside the military camp, holding a cabbage that had just been taken out of the cellar, and was basking in the sun lazily.
Suddenly the gate of the military camp opened, and a group of officials in iron armor led by several generals on horseback. These officials in armor and holding good weapons looked like four or five hundred, and behind them were a group of officials in ragged clothes, scattered faces, and messy weapons in their hands.
The old lady suddenly looked moved and ran away quickly, not even the cabbage. After a while, the old lady ran into a shop.
When she came out, she had already had a few more coins in her hand.
A fast horse quickly left Ninghaizhou and quickly disappeared from sight.
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Wu Anbang rode on the horse with great enthusiasm and majestic leadership of the two thousand battalions of Wendeng Camp. The two thousand battalions were all like beggars, and the real elite was the five hundred knights in his hands.
Most of these servants were left by the former general, and his former servants reached 500 people. In addition to the servants who were under his command, Wu Anbang had more than 800 elite troops.
The vast three thousand men were running towards Zhaojiabao in a swagger.
It’s not a small Zhao family that can be easily captured.
Wu Anbang had already begun to imagine what he looked like after he became rich, and built a big palace to gather beautiful ladies from all over the world, and lived a happy day than the emperor.
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Wu Anbang's army had just moved. In less than three hours, the Zhao family's spies changed two horses and rushed back to Zhao's Fort with 800 miles of urgent reports.
When Zhao Yan received the news, he looked no nervous. He immediately let the First Battalion and the Cavalry Battalion enter a state of combat readiness. In less than two hours, Zhao Yan had already brought people out of Zhaojia Fort secretly.
After personnel replenishment, the first battalion led by Zhao Yong was restored to full capacity, with 800 ordinary soldiers. After a month of gun-touching training, musketeers were able to enter the battlefield.
Lin Yi's cavalry battalion sent 150 people to follow Wang Wenyue to Laizhou to suppress bandits. In addition to the 200 temporary expansion, the number reached 350.
After leaving Zhaojiabao, Zhao Yan sent a scout to monitor Wu Anbang's movements.
In the afternoon of the same day, Zhao Yan brought people across the Huangshui River and walked forward rapidly. In the evening, camping south of Longshan was set up. The detective cavalry sent back the news that Wu Anbang had already reached Fushan.
"In another day, Wu Anbang will reach the river. At that time, they will definitely need to cross the river. The lord can hit him halfway through it." Zhang Buyun pointed to the map and suggested to Zhao Yan.
"No." Zhao Yan shook his head and pointed to the map and said, "Wu Anbang doesn't even send a scout cavalry, it's just a fool. So this time can only be considered an exercise, an exercise of an annihilation war. Let them cross the river, and after crossing the river, we will launch an attack. Lin Yi, you will lead 200 people to cross the river first, and then hide it. After Wu Anbang leads people to cross the river, they will capture the defeated soldiers along the coast."
"yes."
"Lord, after this battle, I'm afraid..." Zhang Buyun said worriedly.
"Have Wenlong heard the saying "killing officials and rebelling, etc. to recruit people"?" Zhao Yan asked with a smile.
"Kill the official and rebel?" Zhang Buyun suddenly thought of the "Water Margin"...
"Let's just let's rebel, but since Wu Anbang dares to make a decision, he will never come back." Zhao Yan said coldly.
That night, Zhang Buyun was a little confused, wondering if he had boarded the pirate ship.
The second morning, Zhao Yan immediately led his men to set off and marched all the way to the banks of the Dahe River. This operation can only be said to be an exercise, an exercise to test combat effectiveness.
In the afternoon of the second day, Zhao Yan had already led his men to the Dahe Ferry.
The Dahe River was called Baiyang River in the later generations. The water level of the river in this era is much larger than that in later generations. In addition, it is already spring now, and the water level has risen a lot, and the river water at the ferry can flood the chest.
Zhao Yan brought people to prepare on the west bank of the river early, but Wu Anbang actually stopped in Fushan and refused to leave.
Wu Anbang rushed to Fushan slowly, and suddenly his subordinates reported that they had no food. This made Wu Anbang a little angry and scolded his subordinates.
"Sir, the army was in a hurry and only brought food for two days. Some officers and soldiers didn't even have food for them."
"Let me get some food back." Wu Anbang waved impatiently, and then hurriedly brought the beautiful woman he had grabbed on the road into the barracks. After receiving the order, Wu Anbang's soldiers scattered into dozens of groups and began to plunder in various villages in Fushan, called "grain harvesting!"
For a time, many villages in Fushan suddenly became hell on earth, burning, killing, looting and doing everything. Piles of food were concentrated, but wherever they passed, they became devastated.
After enough food, Wu Anbang took a large group of people to the road, and it took him half a day to reach the east bank of the river.
Wu Anbang first took a boat and his servants across the river, then stopped by the river, and waited until everyone crossed the river before continuing.
After walking for a quarter of an hour, his subordinates ran over in panic, "Sir, I found a soldier in front of me."
"What?" Wu Anbang was unbelievable. Apart from the Wendeng Camp he led, there were only half-dead Dengzhou Camp left. Where did the troops come from? "Do you see clearly?"
"Sir, the villain has seen it clearly. They are under the banner of Zhao."
Without waiting for the man to say that Wu Anbang had already seen a group of people appear in the distance, and a blue "Zhao" flag was floating in the wind.
I saw a team of thousands of people stepping slowly towards them, with dozens of cavalry guards on each wing.
"Deploy the formation, set up the formation." Wu Anbang shouted in panic.
"Sir, they only have more than a thousand people, and they are very easy to attack. The villain is willing to be the striker." A sergeant suddenly said.
"Okay, you bring a thousand people as the striker, and the others follow me to fight." Wu Anbang immediately reacted. There were only more than one thousand people on the other side, so why do you use the formation? Just kill them directly.
"Kill!" The gang general led a thousand battalions of soldiers with his two hundred servants, roared out of the camp, and rushed directly towards the team of people in the distance.
A loud shout came from afar.
"First row, shoot~!"
"Bang bang..."
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Chapter completed!