As noon approached, the hills and water siege behind the snow were mottled everywhere. Two side troops that met began a "vegetable chickens pecking" battle on the narrow and fragmented land.

Hou Jing's army attacked with a small number of elite troops, and relied on the slightest advantage in the military strength, and rushed towards the marching Liang army.

However, due to the terrain, the troops on both sides were unable to concentrate on the assault, and they were forced to divide into countless squads to fight scattered on land between the narrow and long zes.

However, the Liang army, led by Li Li, still fought with the Yuanyang formation.

The former soldiers of the Crossbow Camp fought seven or eight battles in less than half a month. Although the battle was not large and the opponent was not very powerful, they had already developed their courage and skills.

Li sat in the rear and commanded the various teams through flags and rosters. The soldiers fought with the Mandarin Duck Formation, and now they fought as if they were decent.

The two wolves on the left and right sides of the team, like two large claws of a crab, blocked the enemy. Then, the spearmen sprinted and stabbed the enemy to death.

If the enemy breaks through and intercepts, the iron fork will be blocked by the iron fork, and the other soldiers will have a chance to finish the attack.

Moreover, when the enemy approaches, they have to pass the crossbow soldiers first. Five or six teams gather together to cooperate with each other, and they can "kill as much as they can" the rushing enemy on the narrow land between the water and the water.

When Cheng Jun, the chief general of Hou Jing's army, saw that these Liang troops were defeated by strange tactics, they frowned and planned to make a plan: to defraud and lure the other party to pursue him. So, before they knew it, the formation was scattered and disconnected from the front and back.

Then, he was killed in the middle by the ambush he set up...

He quickly arranged the arrangements. After a while, Hou Jing's army began to be defeated and turned around and ran eastward. However, the Liang army soldiers still maintained their formation and pursued them slowly.

Hou Jingjun's soldiers "retreated" for a while. Seeing that the Liang army was not deceived, they reorganized their formation and rushed over again.

However, hundreds of Liang army crossbowmen walked and detoured to the mound on the edge, and shot arrows at Hou Jing's army from a high place.

Hou Jing's archers immediately launched a counterattack, but the Liang army's crossbowmen used the large shield they carried as cover to shoot against the enemy.

After shooting for a while, Hou Jing's army suffered a lot of casualties, and the Liang army's infantry had already arrived, swept the wolf's wolves and began to advance.

Faced with such strange formations and tactics, Cheng Jun did not have a good response. When he followed Hou Jing to fight in Henan, he had never seen such tactics of divided into small teams and each team used big bamboo to open the way.

There are many hills and waters in the south of the Yangtze River. They are often restricted by terrain during combat. Sometimes there are too many soldiers and cannot be used calmly, and even cavalry is not easy to circumvent.

But Cheng Jun, who had fought for many years, still had some solutions.

He asked his subordinates to retreat and retreat to a flat open space.

In the distance, there was a water storage dam in Yundu. Before the war started, Cheng Jun sent troops to the dam to dig the dam thin.

If necessary, you can break the dam and release water with just one order, and carry out water attack on the open space not far downstream.

Now, Cheng Jun successfully led the Liang army into the water attack site, and was extremely excited to make people sound the trumpet. He had to let the dam release water, and secondly, he had to let his troops retreat to the nearby higher mounds.

In this area, only these mounds are tall enough to escape from the flood. As long as they get on the mound, the Liang army will have no place to hide.

However, the man retreated to the mound, but the flood did not come. Cheng Jun thought that there was no signal on the dam, so he kept blowing the trumpet.

The flood still did not come, but Liang Jun rushed up.

Although the Liang army attacked from above, the mound was not steep, and Hou Jing's soldiers did not care about the formation when they retreated to the mound. Therefore, when facing the assault Liang army, they barely resisted for a moment and were defeated.

The upstream dam, with the elite Huang, who was taking the dam, listened to the tide of cheers coming from not far away, making people seize the time to clean up the battlefield, at least take away the armor and weapons.

He looked at the dejected prisoners and smiled: "Breaking the dam and letting the water go? Beware of this!"

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As the sun sets, in the wilderness, a large swath of mud reflects the sunset, and this former plain has turned into water.

In order to block the Liang army, which had been traveling eastward, Hou Jing's army, who had been entrenching small roads, broke the dike and released water, and flooded the road to Qu'a.

This Liang army is the "Strong Crossbow Camp" under Li Li's army. As a partial division, it raided the outer area of ​​Qu'a. Now facing this large area of ​​mud, it has to stop.

The ground soaked in water cannot be sailing deep, and cannot pass by carriages and horses shallow, and can only pass by walking. However, Hou Jing's army is stationed in the high ground in the east, and the Liang army must attack this mud, so they can only rely on the lives of people to accumulate.

Li Li did not intend to do this, because forcing soldiers to cross the mud to die would directly lead to mutiny.

Although most of his soldiers were recruits and his family was hostage in Jiankang, people were always angry. If they were forced to die, they would die anyway. These desperate soldiers would rather mutiny.

However, if you wait here for the water to fade and the sun drys the ground, it may take more than ten days to pass.

The emperor had an order to ask Xiao Yuanzao, the Marquis of Xichang, to attack Xia Qu'a as soon as possible, so that Hou Jing, who retreated to Jingkou, could not join forces with other rebels who had attacked the Three Wus, and then they could defeat them one by one.

If time delays too long, the rebels who invaded the Three Wus will draw troops back to Jingkou or reinforce Qu'a, the battle will be difficult to fight at that time.

In this way, the battle will probably be fought until next year.

If this is the case, the Sanwu area will become ruined. Not only will the court's tax revenue be sharply reduced, but it will have to clean up the mess, with endless troubles.

Li Li retracted his thoughts and looked at the busy trestle building site in front of him.

Just like attacking Zhongli at the beginning of the year, Li Li asked the soldiers to build a pier and cross the mud.

The soldiers used local materials and made many bamboo or wooden rafts according to the uniform size, and then built trestles in the mud.

From early morning to now, the trestle has reached the center of the mud and will slowly extend eastward until it passes through the mud.

However, the rebels guarding higher ground in the east will not stand by and wait until the trestle approaches the dry land in the east, the other party will find ways to stop it.

At that time, a bloody battle will still break out. The Liang soldiers who attacked east through the narrow pier would not be able to expand their troops at all. They would attack one by one and be killed one by one like the gourd kid who went to save his grandfather.

The afterglow of the sun disappeared behind the rolling hills. When night fell, the soldiers who built the pier lighted torches and continued to work.

The firelight was very conspicuous in the gradually dark wilderness, and countless figures passing back and forth seemed particularly busy under the reflection of the firelight.

Li Li raised his telescope and checked the enemy camp in the east, but saw many soldiers burning fires to keep warm.

It is winter now, the north wind is howling, mixed with some snowflakes, and the weather is cold, so it is very pleasant to be able to sit around the bonfire and cook the fire.

The soldiers who were building a pier were rolling up their pants and working barefoot in the cold mud, which would definitely not feel good.

But it's all worth it.

The sky was completely dark. Li Li, who used the telescope to observe the enemy's situation, soon saw the flames blooming in the enemy's camp in his field of vision.

Then, an explosion came.

"boom!"

Because the speed of light is faster than the speed of sound, when the distance reaches a certain level, people first see the fire light generated during the explosion, and later hear the sound generated during the explosion.

The sudden thunder that exploded in the enemy camp surprised the soldiers who were building the pier and looked at the place where the sound came.

But I saw the fire flashing in the enemy camp, and the noise became louder and louder. Gradually, the sound of fighting came, as if someone had attacked the camp.

The soldiers would only think that the sound was thunder at the beginning, so Li Li put away his telescope and ordered the sound of the suona.

In this way, the soldiers guarding the trestle were informed to go straight through the mud and attack the enemy camp with their comrades who were circumventing the enemy.

This is the tactic arranged by Li Li.

Li Li couldn't use this method of fighting that was equivalent to giving away heads to the mud and attacking the enemy's strong camp from the front.

Last night, he sent elite troops to go around the northeast of the rebel camp, and then lurked for the whole day.

According to the agreement, when this night comes, this surprise soldier will launch a night attack. He takes advantage of the main force to build the pier to attract the attention of the rebels and give the rebels a "back stab".

Because Li Li's troops were fighting alone, he asked the surprise soldiers to use several "thunderstorm" to knock on the enemy, not afraid that this movement would arouse suspicion from friendly forces.

The soldiers were stoking and advancing along the trestle, and stepped directly into the mud and continued to march eastward with the enemy's camp at this moment.

With Qi Zheng combined, Li Li's team of mainly new recruits has finally become decent when he started fighting.

Even though this was a croaker pecking between the partial divisions, it was a serious battle. Li Li looked at half of the night sky gradually dyed red by the fire and looked forward to it: "Military merits, military merits, come to me quickly!"
Chapter completed!