Lord of the House - v12 Chapter 80

Anxu (now Langfang) is located in the southeast of Yanjing. It is one of the twelve counties of Zhili in Gyeonggi. Unlike the mountainous counties in the northwest and northeast, Anxu is full of flat rivers and thousands of acres of fertile land.

After Yanhu invaded south, almost half of the land in Anxu County was occupied and distributed to the military households who moved south.

In the past seven or eight years, hundreds of farms have sprung up on this land.

Most of the new owners of the farmhouses were Hu people’s military households, and there were also a small number of newly-affiliated Han military households who were rewarded for military merit. And the people who were forcibly removed the land were forced to live in these farms because of their lust, powerless to struggle, and the pressure of survival. They were called tenant farmers, but they were actually serfs.

There are hundreds of acres of small fields, hundreds of acres, and thousands of acres of large fields. Hu people with a little power or military merit have built their houses as strong as fortresses and are scattered on both sides of the Fenghe River.

The Eddy River, Chaobai River, and Wei River flow through the edge of Anxu County. Fenghe River is a main river that traverses from the middle of Anxu County, and connects with Eddy River and Chaobai River at both ends. Although the Fenghe River was 150 to 60 meters wide and 34 meters deep when the water was at its peak, after the river embankments and large tracts of soil were pushed into the river, the Fenghe River was only a long trench that split the battlefield. It cannot be easily entered by large warships.

More than thirty cavalry horses trotted fast in the dark night, wading through the puddles on the east bank of the Fenghe River, the hooves of the horses squeaked with the sound of water; on both sides of the Fenghe River, the cavalry outposts on both sides were so dense that they could not be seen at night. You need to deliberately hide your traces.

Hugouzi set fire to two pontoon bridges on the Fenghe River at night. The fire was not yet extinguished. From a distance, it looked like two fire dragons squatting in the night.

A large number of captives and cavalry assembled in the area west of Fenghe, intending to use Fenghe as an outer trench to intercept the troops and horses of the Huaidong Army from the west. However, many military households and small families failed to withdraw in time and became the target of local farmers venting their anger. , Countless fires started in the night, and rape, fornication, and other things happened from time to time.

The sentinel horses could not prevent this kind of chaos. Since Yanji moved into a large number of Liaodong Han households loyal to Beiyan, the Huaidong Army could not even distinguish between Liaodong Han households and local Han households in a short period of time, and could only remove the people from the battlefield across the board. The core area is temporarily expelled.

I could vaguely hear the neighing of the war horses on the other side of the river. The first jockey’s sentry ignored the threat on the other side, and patiently touched the shallow muddy ground submerged by the river, making sure that Hugouzi didn’t do anything on the Fenghe River. other hands and feet.

Looking back, the phoenix river that was hidden in the night was sparkling. The front rider took off the flame tube from the saddle, raised his hand and raised it to light it. Send the news of the safety of Fengli East Coast to the rear.

About half an hour passed after the firework communication, several horses and infantry troops appeared on the land on the east bank of the Fenghe River as if they had emerged from the darkness.

The opening of the estuary caused a large area of ​​land in the eastern section of the Fenghe River to be submerged in shallow water and turned into depressions, which indeed caused great problems for the Huaidong Army to advance westward, but it did not make it difficult for the Huaidong Army to move a single step.

Chen Zhu accompanied Yang Yihang to personally inspect the terrain on the east bank of the Fenghe River. He took off his stinking riding boots, rolled up his trouser legs, waded through a stagnant pond, and stood on the remnant on the east bank of the Fenghe River. In order not to cause unnecessary alertness to the enemy cavalry on the other side, Chen Zhu and Yang Yihang had only seven or eight stalwarts beside them, and the other cavalry were hidden in the distant night.

Yang Yihang squatted down, stretched out his hand and touched the wet soil on the embankment, and said to Chen Zui, “Hugouzi tried to build a dam in the upper reaches of the Eddy River to store water, although the possibility of them building a dam in a short period of time is not high, But we still need to solve the war before the rainstorm season comes, otherwise several torrential rains will further destroy the dams in Yandong, and the siltation problem will become more serious…”

“Damn Hugouzi, they all withdrew their cavalry to the west of Fenghe River, but Panju is to the east of Yanjing, so they probably wanted to beat us halfway while we were crossing the Fenghe River!” I asked Yang Yihang, “How fast is the construction of the bridge at the labor camp? If it is fast enough, we can wait patiently for two days in the east of Fenghe River. After all the materials for the trestle have been shipped, we will work overnight to build the bridge in the first half of the night, and then travel on foot in the second half of the night. Push past…”

The Fenghe River is smaller than the Guoshui River and the Chaobai River. The narrowest point is only 30 to 50 meters wide. It is not impossible to build a trestle bridge in front of the enemy. As long as they crossed the Fenghe River, the soldiers and horses in the middle route went westward, and there were no major terrain obstacles until they reached Yanjing City.

Chen Zhu and Yang Yihang personally touched the terrain, and the labor battalion also sent construction officials to conduct a detailed survey of the Fenghe River. They worked out a plan overnight to build a trestle and make a strong breakthrough to enter the west bank of the Fenghe River. They sent fast horses to Jinhai to Xiang Linfu. please.

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The intention of the enemy soldiers to use Fenghe to fight Anxu to intercept the battle was obvious, and the Huaidong Army naturally couldn’t stop the momentum of the attack for Xiao Fenghe.

“If the enemy doesn’t retreat, the battle should start on the west bank of Fenghe River, right?” Lin Fu read the battle plan sent by Gao Zongting and the others, picked up a charcoal pen, and carefully circled several points on the map on the west bank of Fenghe River. Apart from the Fenghe River, Anxu has no other dangerous terrain to defend. For the enemy army, it is the several large villages built after the Hu people’s households occupied the grain fields of Anxu that can be garrisoned. We happily crossed the Fenghe River and then fought again, I think when our troops crossed the river, the battle kicked off…”

“Then call Zong Ting and the others, make the plan more detailed, and make more preparations.” Song Fu said.

Wu Qi said: “Sun Huai has sent people to ask for help. Although we have equipped the heavy artillery crew with six horses, the enemy’s rampant dykes have caused serious silting in Xiqing, Heqiao and other places, making it difficult for artillery carts to pass. It is a long way behind the infantry brigade, and if it forces the west bank of the Fenghe River within two days, the artillery brigade may not be able to keep up with the trip! Did the jockeys temporarily dispatch a thousand horses?”

“At this time, a thousand horses are drawn from the jockeys, and Zhou Pu can turn against me,” Lin Fu said. “If you don’t have enough horses, then use people to pull them and send a reserve brigade to Sun Huai to command. Tell Sun Huai, if three The artillery cannot be dragged to the east bank of the Fenghe River within the day, tell him to stop the brigade commander!” After thinking about it, he added: “The previous announcement pointed out that the artillery can only be deployed on the east bank in the early stage, and the troops and horses entering the west bank in the early stage must be There is a psychological preparation for the prisoners to penetrate through the defense line. The core trestle bridge must be an iron bridge, and you don’t have to ignore the enemy’s determination to break in and destroy the bridge… Where is the iron bridge battalion?”

The Iron Bridge Battalion is a part of the workers’ battalion. The battalion carries a large number of iron bridges, which are extremely heavy. Although a large number of carriages and heavy-loaded carriages accompany the battalion, the speed of advancement is very slow. The only advantage is that the cast iron components are spread over more heavy-duty carriages, and the propulsion speed of the heavier gun carriage is slightly faster.

Hearing Lin Fu’s question, Song Fu leaned over and marked the exact location of Iron Bridge Camp on the map.

Lin Bie nodded, satisfied with the advance speed of the Iron Bridge Battalion, and said, “Then let the front finger change the plan again, and delay the implementation of crossing the river until three days later…”

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Three days passed in a blink of an eye. Tong Huacheng ventured to the embankment on the west bank of the Fenghe River to see the deployment of the Huaidong Army on the east bank. Without the support of the Emperor of Heaven, Han Chen, Fan Wenlan, was severely ostracized, especially Fan Wenlan’s defensive strategy. The conflict with Na Hewugu was too deep, and he had no intention of staying in the camp to get angry. Regardless of the danger of fighting at any time on both sides of the Fenghe River, he still came to the front base with Tong Huacheng.

As more and more Huaidong troops entered the east bank of the Fenghe River, all the people with the appearance of the Hu people were detained as prisoners of war, while the rest of the people were temporarily expelled from the east bank of the Fenghe River, making Beiyan soldiers and horses blind to the east bank. Eyes, completely unable to understand the specific progress of the Huaidong Army’s troops and horses in the middle road.

“Master Fan thinks how the Huaidong Army will cross the river?” Tong Huacheng asked Fan Wenlan.

Fan Wenlan and Tong Huacheng are standing on the river at a distance of 156 meters, but they are still within the range of the Huaidong Army’s strong crossbow, not to mention those fire crossbows that can shoot objects three or four miles away. Now, Fan Wenlan was apprehensive, and only after listening to Tong Huacheng’s question did she seriously think about this question.

The Fenghe River was destroyed like this. Even if the Huaidong Army controlled the estuary on both sides, its large warships could not enter. The Huaidong Army came across the sea, and it was impossible to have a large number of small boats and boats accompanying it. In a short period of time, the army had to cross the Fenghe River, enter the west bank, and continue to approach Yanjing, either by building a trestle bridge, or directly transporting earth to fill in several dam roads.

Fan Wenlan said: “The embankment on the east side of the Fenghe River has opened dozens of gaps. If the Huaidong Army sends people to carry soil and fill the dam to cross the river~www.mtlnovel.com~ it will only exacerbate the flooding on the east bank. If it is fortunate to have a heavy rainstorm, the area east of the Fenghe River is likely to become a flooded country due to the lack of water flow… The Huaidong Army attaches great importance to construction and will not fail to consider this situation. It should be construction The trestle bridge is attacking!”

Tong Huacheng knew that Fan Wenlan was a man with great knowledge in military affairs and politics, and he was able to be reused by the emperor, but it was a pity that the emperor was unconscious, and Yanjing City couldn’t wait to reveal his distrust of Han ministers. , No matter how capable Fan Wenlan is, there is no way to play a role at this time. Even if he was born in the Tong family, because of his different policies, he called Na He Wu Gu who didn’t give a good look for three or four days.

Hearing Fan Wenlan’s judgment that the Huaidong Army would build a trestle bridge to cross the river, Tong Huacheng nodded. The strongest point of the Huaidong Army was not how strong the soldiers were, and their craftsmanship was unparalleled in the world.

The Huaidong Army only used one or two days to quickly build a dozen trestle bridges over the Fenghe River, so that its horse infantry could forcefully come to the west bank—for the past seven or eight years, Tong Huacheng, who has been studying Huaidong at close range, is right. There is not much doubt about this.

The widest part of the Fenghe River is no more than one or two hundred paces, and the narrowest part is no more than twenty or thirty paces. Although Dayan’s troops and horses control the west bank of the Fenghe River, the Huaidong Army is on the east bank and can block two or three hundred paces with a crossbow. In the space of time, the range of Fu Fire Crossbow blockade is farther to an astonishing level.

Dayan soldiers and horses wanted to prevent the Huaidong Army’s workers and soldiers from building a trestle on the Fenghe River. The soldiers could only be shot and killed by the Huaidong Army’s crossbow array, and they approached the river embankment on the west bank to destroy the bridge – perhaps not to stop the Huaidong Army. To build the bridge, ask a few troops of the Huaidong Army to cross the river, and then use the elite cavalry to rush to kill its formation, and use the cover of the Huaidong Army soldiers to approach the trestle and destroy it; this repetition will definitely consume the Huaidong Army’s aggressiveness!

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