Chapter 121: Old Memories
Qianhu Zhuo Su was almost dizzy, and he grabbed the female wall of the boat on one side, and then he barely stood up, not letting his body shake.
That's right, that's the White Tiger Supervisor Flag of the Jingxiang Army.
Once upon a time, this white tiger flag made him restless and woke him up from his sleep from time to time.
Yes, during the Battle of Ruying, he was also stationed in Bianliang as the deputy general of Wanhubage.
Initially, Bianliang was the first to capture the troops of the Pingyanzong Prince's Mansion. The king's tent decided to support the pseudo-Chu State, and the Pingyanzong Prince's Mansion sent troops to guard the garrison.
After the Battle of Ruying, Yang Jingchen's troops performed too unsatisfactory. After that, with the development of the war, the Chihu army conquered the entire territory of Dangxiang one after another. There was no need to support the puppet court in Hehuai. They directly merged Bianliang with Xiang, Huai, Wei and other prefectures in the north, and set up a special military and horse management office, which was included in the jurisdiction of Zhennanzong Prince's Mansion.
Afterwards, Qianhu Zhuo Su was transferred to Xuzhou with his army and horses.
Five or six years have passed in a flash, but he will not, and he will not forget the scene of the flag on the Nanxun Gate Tower, which was embroidered with a hideous white tiger, and the blue bottom is inlaid with black...
With the military system of the Southern Dynasty, only the president of the military capital and the commander-in-chief who fought on the throne were qualified to use the White Tiger Banner as the commander's flag. The White Tiger Banner at that time was given by Emperor Jianji of the Southern Dynasty. The White Tiger Map was embroidered with gold and silver threads, shining brightly under the brilliance of the sun.
This white tiger flag not only represents the highest command power of the Jingxiang (Chushan) Army, but also is the exclusive logo of the Jingshenghou, the Jingxiang Road Commander Xu Huai, the commander of the Tianxiong Army and the Selected Front Army.
On the west bank of Caofan River, the Marquis of Jingsheng, Xu Huai, led 500 elite soldiers to come here in person?!
In other cases, Zhuo Su would not have thought that Xu Huai was on the west bank of Caoba River just because a white tiger flag was raised. He thought that Xu Huai had come from the upper reaches of the Yangtze River this morning. The five hundred elite elites from Jingxiang who were on the west bank of Caoba River were personally arrived at Xu Huai.
Because he experienced an unforgettable nightmare in Bianliang, Zhuo Su was transferred to Xuzhou to station and carefully studied the rise of the people of Jingsheng Hou Xu Huai and the Chushan people. He knew that in addition to being able to fight, Jingsheng Hou Xu Huai was also very tricky. He had the name of "Chushan Fox" in Tongbai Mountain in his early years.
If you only see the White Tiger Banner Banner, it may be that the Marquis of Jingsheng Xu Huai came in person, or it may be that the Marquis of Jingsheng Xu Huai found a person of similar appearance to come to Jianye with the banner.
If Jingxiang really does this, it is not difficult to guess its intention. It is nothing more than inspiring the will of the military and civilians of Jianye and disrupting their mentality.
However, he could still say that the White Tiger Banner appeared on the banks of the Caoban River. It was purely because of the trick of the Marquis of Jingsheng Xu Huai. In fact, he did not come to Jianye?
Except for the lineup of the personal guards of the Marquis of Jingsheng, who has such a terrifying and violent combat power?
Zhuo Su called out the guards and ordered him to take the wardrobe to leave after a few words. He rushed back to the camp immediately to report all this before them and his speculation.
Soon the military and civilians of Jianye knew that the Marquis of Jingsheng Xu Huai had arrived in Jianye.
The situation is troublesome, the situation is complicated!
However, who could imagine that Xu Huai, the Marquis of Jingsheng, who was already in charge of the country at this time, was the most important commander of the Southern Dynasty, and had 200,000 to 300,000 soldiers and horses, would lead five or six hundred personal guards to Jianye?
Is the plan of the camp and even the entire sect and prince’s mansion going to be empty?
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"Encourt, how do we fight next?"
Zhou Shan deliberately did not wipe the blood on the scabbard, and held the knife tremblingly, walked quickly to meet Xu Huai, and asked Zhensheng.
"Commander Zhou, are you afraid of death?" Xu Huai stared at Zhou Shan and asked.
"Zhou Shan is not afraid of death, he is afraid of death being too cowardly!" Zhou Shan said.
Xu Huai waved and called out to the leaders and military officials of Yuelong Village, and asked, "Where are you?"
"Junhou said?" An old military official licked the blood that had fallen on his lips. He didn't know if it was his own blood or the enemy's blood. He was slightly fishy and sweet. He grinned and showed his big teeth with his open mouth. He smiled, "It's the most worth selling his life to Junhou. But Junhou said how to fight. The men, women, young and old in Yuelong Village all followed!"
"I have shown the flag and predicted that the enemy soldiers would not easily cross the Caoban River to test my blade before gathering enough troops, but they would likely transfer more cavalry to intersect between Niushou Mountain and Yuelong Village, making us unable to move calmly,"
Even though Zhou Shan and others could only be considered middle and lower-level military officials, Xu Huai was still used to explaining the tactical arrangements in detail, which was the key to ideological mobilization and firmly fighting spirit of the generals. Xu Huai never felt that lower-level military officials and soldiers should not be educated. On the contrary, if they wanted to use their lives, they had to let them know why they were fighting.
Xu Huai called everyone to squat over, took dead branches on the ground to draw a topographic map, and said,
"Considering that the bandit navy will block the mouth of Poyang Lake, the 4,000 cavalry I drawn from Jingxiang need to cross the Ganjiang River from the upper reaches of Poyang Lake and come to Jianye from Raozhou. Of course, if the Jingnan and Jingbei navy are willing to cooperate, the king-supporting troops may also compete for control of the Poyang Lake mouth first to facilitate the rapid advance of the infantry and cavalry, but we still have to calculate according to a month. Within this month, the enemy soldiers may withdraw directly, or they may do their best to attack Yuelong Army Village. Because in such a short time, the enemy soldiers have no way to join forces to encircle and suppress Niushou Mountain, so they can only use Yuelong Village as a point of exaggeration for anger, and even use this to lure me from Niushou Mountain to fight them with decisive battle!"
Therefore, the enemy cavalry could not easily withdraw from the west of Caoshan River, so they could not safely transfer thousands of elderly, weak women and children from Yuelong Village, so they could only arrange for people to guard it with their teeth.
Xu Huaihui personally led his troops into Niushou Mountain, relying on Niushou Mountain, Xiankuling, Yuanzi Mountain and other continuous mountains. While guerrilla warriors with the enemy soldiers, he also called on nearby prefectures and counties to gather more rebels in the military camps.
Although Xu Huai would do everything possible to restrain the enemy's troops, he would not easily fight against the superior enemy's troops for the gains and losses of the camp until the elite reinforcements arrived.
Currently, Yuelong Military Village has 800 Qingshang Village soldiers. In addition to Xu Huaihui's transfer of 100 elite Bourgeois armor to participate in defense, he can also recruit more than a thousand young and strong soldiers from surrounding military villages.
The defense force is basically enough, but considering that the Yuelong military camp is small, the entire camp is basically within the coverage of heavy stone-capping crossbows. Even if it is held in the upper-class soldiers by the superior soldiers and passive defense, the casualties will be extremely terrifying, and it is not even ruled out that they will be captured by the enemy.
Of course, this is also something that only happens in extreme circumstances. After all, more than 20,000 guards and tens of thousands of government troops gathered in Jianye City, the rebels could not sit idly by and ignore the enemy soldiers. It was just that they lack fighting spirit at the moment.
At the same time, the Chihu people could not transfer too much troops to Jiangnan. This involved a series of complex issues, including food and fodder, supply of military weapons, and strategic adventures of the enemy soldiers.
The cities of Lujiang, Shouchun, Shucheng and other cities have not been trapped, and the Huaixi passage of the enemy troops has not been completely opened. The more than 20,000 naval troops currently have an absolute advantage. However, with the further assembly and expansion of Jingnan, Jingbei and Jingxiang Navy, will the enemy troops still dare to disperse the navy like a big cake and spread it across the Thousand Mile River Road from Jiangzhou to Jianye?
Not to mention that Liangzhe, Jiangdong, Huaidong and other places can also gather naval forces to raid and attack and cut off the estuary of the Yangtze River.
The advantage of the navy of the enemy soldiers on the Yangtze River is only temporary. With limited troops deployed south of the Yangtze River, when the main force of the Guards' Imperial Army has not suffered major losses, it can only be said that some of the enemy soldiers may attack Yuelong Military Village forcing force, and even the possibility is not too high.
But Xu Huai now hopes that Zhou Shan and the others will guard Yuelong Military Village, so he has to analyze and explain some possibilities clearly and thoroughly.
"Apart from Zhou Shan's death here, the enemy soldiers would have to stop at the Yuelong Village wall," Zhou Shan said in confusion, "However, why didn't the envoy go to Jianye City? The envoy should not be able to completely block Jianye City at this time. The envoy should have the opportunity to enter the city, but if there is an envoy to command the imperial guards, is it still worried that the envoys will not defeat the enemy?"
Xu Huai smiled.
He gathered a sufficiently large rebel army outside the city and waited for the elected army to arrive, and he might still gain the control of the Guards' Imperial Army. But if he would enter Jianye City now, Emperor Shaolong, Wang Boqian, Yang Maoyan and others would go crazy and hand over the Guards' Imperial Army to him to command?
At most, like Liu Yan, he assisted Wang and Yang Maoyan in defending the capital.
This was not what he wanted to take the risk to come to Jianye.
Xu Huai said: "I will enter Jianye City at this time, and the enemy soldiers will probably decisively retreat northward, focusing on attacking Shucheng, Lujiang and Shouchun. In that case, they will have enough time to build a complete line of defense on the periphery of Shucheng, Lujiang and other places, waiting for our king-supporting troops to collide, which is very unfavorable for our army. If possible, I am still willing to temporarily attract some of the main forces of the enemy soldiers to the south bank. In this way, when we gather enough king-supporting troops, not only can the siege of Jianye be resolved, but also can lift the siege of Zhucheng in Huaixi in one fell swoop!"
At this time, Zhu Han and Zhu Tong rushed over from Yuelong Village. They just heard the conversation between Xu Huai and Zhou Shan from afar. They knew in their hearts that Xu Huai would not be able to go to Beijing to see Emperor Shaolong at this time, and said, "I plan to go back to the capital tonight and tell Your Majesty that you don't have to worry about Jianye."
"Although the enemy soldiers are not enough to complete the encirclement of Jianye, we can't break through the outer blockade at will," Xu Huai shook his head and refused, "At this critical moment, I can't escort Mr. Zhu in part. Mr. Zhu should follow us to enter Niushou Mountain first. Maybe in three or five days, the situation near Jianye will change greatly, and even turn around - I think the people of Chihu don't particularly like to get stuck in the sharp corners! Besides, if we make a big move, your Majesty and the ministers will naturally know that I have arrived in Jianye, so there is no need to bother Mr. Zhu to take the risk of taking this trip..." [(Horror, vote for some monthly votes)]
Chapter completed!