At dusk, in the wilderness, there were many corpses standing upside down, and some broken wheels were scattered around the neighborhood. From time to time, birds fell on the car and chirped non-stop.

The sound of horse hooves started, and birds flew away. More than 60 cavalry slowly approached the mess, but the cavalry did not rush forward to investigate, but looked around with great vigilance, guarding against ambush.

After confirming that there was no one around, the cavalry were divided into two groups, one was on the periphery, and the other was dismounted to check the scene to see if there were any survivors.

However, there were no living people at the scene. The dead were all wearing military uniforms, covered in blood and blood, and were in a miserable state of death. There were not many weapons seen, and it seemed that they had been taken away by the attackers.

Some of the dead have fatal injuries on the front, which can be seen as being killed during a fight; some of the dead have fatal injuries on the back, which means that they are being chased by someone while running away, hacked to death or hit seriously injured.

Peng Jun, who was temporarily serving as a scout and inquiring about the enemy's situation, looked at the corpses all over the ground and sighed: "It's so miserable. Why isn't there a single team of more than 300 people alive?"

Huang, who was walking with him, shrugged: "It's so miserable for infantry to encounter cavalry in the open ground. Moreover, the enemy rangers may have great ability, just like a group of old cats ambushing a group of mice, but it's so miserable."

Peng Jun asked again: "Then you have encountered such a powerful racist in Jiangnan?"

Huang? shook his head: "To be honest, no, we either follow the brigade of troops and fight, and others come to shelter from the wind and rain. Even if we attack alone, we will walk in hills and places with more water, and we will not be able to touch a powerful ranger."

"To put it bluntly, the tough battles we fought were either decisive battles or night attacks. As for the cavalry, we have never fought against the battles we had."

Peng Jun was a little worried: "If we marched and fought in the future, if the scouts we sent were destroyed by the enemy's rangers, wouldn't we become deaf and blind?"

"Yes, otherwise you think Li Lang is trying hard to buy horses and get together?"

Huang? As he spoke, he sighed: "Look, there is not enough horses, it is just bullied by Mado's opponents. They dispersed the cavalry and attacked them everywhere. We were at our doorstep and were frightened when we went out."

"The team of more than 300 people cannot be said to be small, right? When encountering an enemy cavalry, there is not even a person running out to report the news."

Peng Jun looked at the 'corpse everywhere' in front of him, feeling that it was not easy to suffer.

Half a month ago, the rebels captured the city of Feng, and the governor of Jiangzhou urgently ordered troops from all over the country to reinforce Xunyang.

As a result, most of the reinforcements from all over the country who rushed to Xunyang were attacked by the enemy cavalry halfway, some teams were wiped out, and although some teams repelled the attacking enemy, they also suffered heavy casualties.

The enemy cavalry was very bold, not limited to the area around Xunyang, but went deep into the west coast of Pengli Lake, and even arrived in the remote suburbs of Nanchang, constantly attacking sporadic teams and business travelers.

In less than half a month, business travel disappeared along the way in Shangcheng, Yuning, Jianchang and Nanchang, and the people did not dare to travel easily. Only the brigade of officials and troops dared to march together.

The enemy's cavalry was quite large, so it was so rampant that the government was so ignorant about the enemy's situation.

I don’t know how many enemy troops are, how many enemy cavalry are, but I know that Xunyang has not been captured and the rebels occupied the city of Shun, and have not yet gone to Jiankang downstream.

However, the situation in Jiangzhou is getting worse and worse, because most of the reinforcements sent from various places have suffered heavy casualties, so it is difficult to protect themselves and defend the city now, let alone sending reinforcements to search for the Yang.

However, Poyang is an exception because Li Li sent reinforcements to take water routes and avoided the enemy cavalry.

However, because the enemy's boat troops occupied the waters of Hukou, the reinforcements from Poyang County were unable to enter the river and turn to Xunyang, and they could not take the risk of landing on the west bank of the lake area, so they had to withdraw.

The traitor was not idle either, and seemed to have mobilized his troops to Nanchang. Because Yuning and Jianchang had fallen, the enemy would come outside Nanchang City.

Nowadays, enemy cavalry is rampant and frequently appears in the suburbs of Nanchang, so the whole city of Nanchang is on guard. Although the connection with the outside world has not been interrupted, it is becoming increasingly difficult.

Poyang County is adjacent to Yuzhang County. Poyang's inner historian Li Li sent cavalry to operate in the eastern suburbs of Nanchang. First, to observe the enemy situation, and second, to maintain contact with Nanchang as much as possible.

Peng Jun volunteered to serve as a scout with his troops, and attacked with his wife and brother Huang to meet these arrogant enemies.

After a few days, I only saw the team that was attacked and wiped out by the entire army, but did not encounter the elusive enemy cavalry.

But it is certain that the enemy ranger is moving near Nanchang.

This feeling is very bad. Peng Jun felt uneasy. He claimed that he had seen Huang who had seen big scenes. He also felt uneasy.

Here, in the Pengli Lake District, where the water network is crisscrossed, he was actually attacked by enemy cavalry and even was frightened when he walked around the county next door. What is this?

It is also a blessing that the Poyang area is not suitable for cavalry to run around. Otherwise, would you be frightened when you travel between Poyang and Pokou?

In Jiangzhou, it is so embarrassing to encounter opponents with more cavalry. If you encounter similar opponents in open areas in the future, how can you fight?

Peng Jun looked around and said with some concern: "It seems that the enemy is going to attack Nanchang, so what should we do? You can't just stop saving me, right?"

"If Nanchang is lost, they will come to attack Poyang."

Huang? Thinking about it, he smiled bitterly: "It's impossible not to save it, but if we come to save it, they will wait for us to rescue it, and then come to besiege the city and fight for help."

"They have many cavalry and are very capable of fighting. If we are not careful, we will be in trouble. Don't talk about saving Nanchang at that time, even Poyang will be in danger."

Peng Jun widened his eyes: "What should I do? It's not to save it, nor is it not to save it?"

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In Poyang, the county party committee, Li Li was talking to Liu Xiaoyi, the haggard inner historian of Yuzhang. Liu Xiaoyi was nearly 70 years old and had gray hair. At Li Li's age, he was considered Liu Xiaoyi's grandchild.

The day before yesterday, Nanchang fell, Liu Xiaoyi and some county generals broke through hard and were caught by the enemy several miles away in the suburbs. If it weren't for the troops sent by Li Li, they would have been imprisoned at this moment.

The loss of Nanchang is a big deal. Li Li first stated: "Nanchang is close to you, but Poyang cannot rescue it, so the palace king cannot support it and the city falls. I will apologize later."

"No, no, it was someone in the city who responded to the situation in Nanchang that reversed overnight, and had nothing to do with Li Fujun." Liu Xiaoyi said sadly.

He survived death, exhausted too much energy, and looked quite haggard.

Liu Xiaoyi served as the Insider of Yuzhang for several years and was about to step down. Unexpectedly, the enemy attacked and occupied the city of Shun. The situation suddenly changed.

Now that he lost the county seat Nanchang, Liu Xiaoyi knew that he could not escape the blame. Li Li has not been watching the wall for more than half a month. In the future, he will hold Nanchang accountable for the loss. Li Li will not take the main responsibility.

Seeing that Liu Xiaoyi was not in good spirits, Li Li took the initiative to say:

"The Poyang Boat Army confronted the rebels in Zuoli. After Nanchang fell, the rebels would inevitably attack Poyang by land."

Li Li used the map to explain the current situation and his arrangements to Liu Xiaoyi.

"I have made preparations for the battle and will never let Poyang lose money. The Duke can rest with peace of mind and wait until the future can be regained Nanchang, and the Duke will also comfort the place."

Liu Xiaoyi is a scholar and doesn't know much about fighting. Seeing that Li Li, who had made great achievements in his military, was so calm, he calmed down and nodded: "Oh, I'm powerless, I'm helpless, I'm sorry."

Liu Xiaoyi couldn't help but sigh. Seeing that he was really ineffective, Li Li said something more, so he ended the conversation and asked someone to send him back to the house to rest.

After a moment, Li Li turned into the back hall, looked at the map, and began to think about it.

It was less than a month before the Yueyang King Xiao Xun captured the city and the fall of Nanchang the day before yesterday.

This shows how fierce the combat power of the thug Xiao borrowed is.

The low combat effectiveness of the Jiangzhou official army (most of them) also opened Li Li's eyes.

As expected, the development of the battle situation was as he expected. After Xiao Feng occupied the city of Feng, he did not continue to attack eastward, but instead nailed the city of Feng and came to siege the city to attack the aid.

First, we clean up the reinforcements from various places to Xunyang one by one, then "block the battlefield" and attack Nanchang.

The battlefield blocking refers to sending a large-scale cavalry to spy on military information and intercepting the Liang army's scouts, which made the defenders from various places panic between Fengcheng and Nanchang and could not find out their specific situation.

Therefore, the main force of the enemy was approaching Nanchang calmly. At the same time, Xiao Xu used his identity to incite wealthy families from all over the country to "abandon the dark and turn to the light" and follow the "son of the Prince Zhaoming" to help him regain the imperial throne that should belong to the Prince Zhaoming.

The effect is good. Nanchang City, which should have been guarded for several months, opened the city gate in the middle of the night because of an insider, so that the enemy troops could easily enter the city.

This cannot be blamed on Liu Xiaoyi for being incompetent, he is really powerless.

In the first year of Taiqing, when Hou Jing began to cause rebellion, Liu Xiaoyi dispatched thousands of troops from the county and followed Wei Can, the governor of Hengzhou who passed by Nanchang and went to Beijing to serve the king.

With Wei Can's death, these Yuzhang County soldiers who were serving the king also disappeared on the banks of the Qinhuai River.

Even though the troops of the Yuzhang County Military Office were restored a few years later, the number of people recovered was only restored, and the combat power was not restored so quickly.

Moreover, not only ordinary soldiers died in Jiankang, but also many loyal grassroots generals.

As a result, Liu Xiaoyi's control over the county soldiers decreased, and he could not effectively intimidate all kinds of ambitious people in the city. When the enemy troops came to the city, he naturally could not prevent the insider from appearing in the city and being cooperated with the inside and outside.

Li Li knew that the enemy attacked Nanchang to siege the city and attack aid. After weighing the pros and cons, he decided not to save him.

This is not his ulterior motives, but it is really difficult to rescue Nanchang: the enemy has the advantage of cavalry and the total number of troops is also large. Considering that the Wei army may have rich experience in assisting the war, it is not an easy opponent to deal with.

Li Li had a team that could fight, but once there were too many casualties outside Nanchang City, Poyang would be over. The foundation he laid after working hard for a year after taking office will also become vanished.

The enemy cavalry was very fierce and cunning. Li Li felt that he wanted to save Nanchang and would only bring in Poyang.

Xiao Xu was also very cautious and did not send a naval army into Pengli Lake and went south to attack Poyang. He probably feared that Li Li was familiar with Pengli Lake and could mobilize a large number of ships in the lake area, and fishermen participated in the war, so he was afraid that he would lose the decisive battle on the water.

It can be seen from this that the thugs invited by Xiao Xu are not only capable of fighting, but also have great intelligence.

I don’t know which famous general from Wei State came here to play wildly?

Li Li thought so, looking at the map, looking forward to it.

Poyang is his "home court", so he expects the enemy to attack Poyang and then use the "home court advantage" to make the advantage of the invading enemy no longer an advantage.

Is that true?

Li Li fell into deep thought. Since the enemy did not take the water to attack Poyang, he was worried that he was a Poyang native, familiar with the situation in the lake area, and had great military achievements to prove his strength.

So, if you don’t attack Poyang by water, will you attack Poyang by land?

Li Li looked at the map and frowned: If it were me, I wouldn't be so anxious.

Instead, using Nanchang as a base, inciting the powerful people from all over the country to uprising, enthrone officials and make wishes, and win people's hearts. In a short period of time, tens of thousands or even more than 100,000 mobs were gathered.

Come and attack Poyang again!
Chapter completed!