Warrior in Turbulent Han Dynasty Chapter 431: Dangtu

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In mid-October, Guo Shao heard that Li Chuyun had captured Tongling (Northeast Chizhou). ;.

The situation is a bit complicated. There are two Jiangxinzhou in the river near Chizhou, called Fengyi and Changxiang. The existence of Jiangxinzhou has greatly shortened the distance across the Yangtze River, making it possible for Li Chuyun to build a floating bridge. However, the river is very urgent and the water surface is not narrow. The fragile pontoon bridge was destroyed in a few days.

The Jiannan Army's Gao Yanjian was still in Jiangbei, and was ordered to cross the river by boat, but did not catch up with Li Chuyun's main force. Li Chuyun hurriedly marched into Tongling, captured the garrison and water village of the Southern Tang Army, and seized more than 200 warships... At this time, Gao Yanjian's men and horses were still in Chizhou and had not fully crossed the Yangtze River.

Li Chuyun was like a broken bamboo along the way, and the military commander couldn't stop it at all under this situation. After occupying Tongling, he kept running and continued northward into Wuhu. He completely ignored the threat of the direction of Hukou (Poyang Lake) and Gao Yanqi's situation.

Guo Shao couldn't sit still, and hurriedly sent an order to relocate the Chinese Army Xingyuan to Hezhou (He County on the opposite bank of Caishiji, Ma'anshan), and pay close attention to the situation in Jiangnan. They also sent people to urge the Luzhou Tiger Army to rush to Chizhou.

In the last ten days, Wuhu Nantang garrison was empty and defeated. After more than 10,000 people occupied the place, Li Chuyun stayed a small number of soldiers and horses to continue to look at Dangtu Town near the ferry for quarrying... When Guo Shao got the report, Li Chuyun had already set off to Dangtu.

...and in the lobby of the prefectural government, what Guo Shao can do is to use a ruler to continuously measure the distance between different places.

Wang Pu said next to him: "Li Chuyun is faster than Shi Yanchao..."

Shi Yanchao's expression is very embarrassing, and it is impossible to reveal Li Chuyun's shortness at this time.

Guo Shao has the feeling that he can’t stop even after stepping on the brakes. Wuhu can’t reach Dangtu for dozens of miles. Even if he sends someone to order Li Chuyun to stop the attack, it’s too late. Maybe now Li Chuyun has reached Dangtu...not to mention. Guo Shao didn't want to stop Li Chuyun at all, otherwise he would have ordered it long ago.

Dangtu Town is the "aunt" that is always mentioned in the historical annals of war books. The place always mentioned in the book is a very important strategic place, because it is always mentioned many times when there are wars in these names. This place controls quarrying, the upper reaches of Jiangning Mansion, the very important place in the south of the Yangtze River...the quarrying ferry is what is in the bag to lay down this city.

As long as this place is occupied, the flames of war will be directly burned to Jiangning Mansion, the center of the Southern Tang State, and the blocking effect of the Yangtze River's natural dangers is as if nothing exists. The central breakthrough, a very fast offensive route; compared to advancing from the upstream city by city, this road is a shortcut. Li Chuyun is greedy for merit, and Guo Shao is equally impatient.

There are loopholes in the defense management of the Southern Tang State, and Guo Shao is unwilling to stop Li Chuyun, otherwise he may be questioned if he is timid and fearful of neglecting the opportunity in the future.

But at the same time, Guo Shao is also under great psychological pressure... The strength of the Southern Tang State is still very strong, and there are hundreds of thousands of troops in various places, which is not an imaginary number. And Li Chuyun tens of thousands of people in the middle of his border, there are threats on all sides. He has not yet arrived and is insufficiently prepared, and he has stretched the front for hundreds of miles, lonely and deep into the strategic center of Southern Tang.

Guo Shao felt that Li Chuyun's approach was very risky and could not bear any accident. Once defeated, the entire front line from Dangtu to Chizhou, Chizhou to Jiangbei would be broken.

"It's almost November, and it's been more than a month since the war began." Guo Shao muttered, "The enemy troops in the southern capital are still standing still. They are not coming?"

Wang Pu said: "If Zhu Lingyun would come from Hukou, he would have come long ago. Li Yu or Zhu Lingyun could delay Hukou reinforcements for more than a month, and it would delay even longer..." He then persuaded, "Li Chuyun He must be an insightful person who can thread needles and threads all the way in Dajiang. He is anxious to attack Dangtu and should have a chance of winning."

Guo Shao paced back and forth: "Jiangning Mansion (Nanjing) wants to reinforce Dangtu, and the journey is not far... I only hope that Li Yu will continue to make mistakes, and the Southern Tang Guochaotang will still be as slow as before."

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In Dangtu Town, Li Chuyun took the lead and ran to the south bank of the Guxi River. The army was still behind. They came along and clashed with the Southern Tang Army scouts.

The ancient city walls and towers are facing each other across the river. Li Chuyun took a look at the city in his line of sight. This city is not big, but the southern Tang Dynasty has a strong army; a brick wall , And the moat, which makes it look different from other small cities. The Guxi River in the south of the city has become a natural moat to the south of Dangtu. There are water gates in the city wall, and moats have been dug on the east, west and north sides... If this city is guarded carefully, it is not easy to attack.

There were sporadic warships of the Southern Tang Army cruising on the Guxi River. Everyone on them could see clearly, but the warships did not rush over to threaten Li Chuyun's team. They only watched from a distance on the river.

Li Chuyun looked back at his surroundings. A flat open area was very suitable for the army to start a battle. The place where he is standing is across the Guxi River and Dangtu Town in the north of the front, and to the east is the Qingshan River flowing from north to south into the Guxi River, and then into the Yangtze River to the west; the west of Li Chuyun Station and the west of Dangtu City are open areas. .

The neigh of a horse came from far behind. Li Chuyun turned his head, and saw that the army on several roads had appeared in sight, and his troops were advancing here.

There are also faint signs of Southern Tang Army on the west side of Dangtu City and across the Guxi River. The Southern Tang Army seems to have deployed troops outside the western city.

Li Chuyun looked sideways at the sun to the west, and said: "Order the ministries to choose a place to camp. At night, they will send me to cross the river to report the situation of the Southern Tang Army."

"Take Ling!"

Zhang Lingduo, the commander of the right side of the Long Jiejun army, asked at this time: "Gong Li has taken a plan?"

"No." Li Chuyun said frankly, "The fortifications in this city are strict. We have too few people now, and it is difficult to attack by force."

Zhang Lingduo asked: "Are you waiting for Gao Yanjian's reinforcement?"

Li Chuyun disapproved and said: "The people of Shu are not willing to work for us. Don't worry about it... Don't wait, our army will not attack the city, first cross the Guxi River and seize the Caishiji.

Dangtucheng's defenders did not have the strength to block our department. First of all, their navy was very weak, and obviously no reinforcements came to strengthen the defense; secondly, the Southern Tang Army was huddled on the north bank of the Guxi River, a sign of defensiveness. Only when the troops were insufficient would it be so conservative. "

Li Chuyun rode westward along the river until he reached the edge of the Yangtze River. The sun was about to set. The soldiers advised him to return to the barracks, but he still sat on the horse to observe the surrounding situation with his own eyes.

Looking west, the Yangtze River is very narrow here, but the opposite bank is not Jiangbei, but Jiangxinzhou. If you didn’t find out the topography in advance and walked here, you might think that the Yangtze River is narrowing here, on the opposite side. It's the Jiangbei land... Actually it's not, just because this Jiangxinzhou is too big, the river water has been split.

Not far to the north is Caishiji, one of the most important ferry crossings on the lower reaches of the Yangtze River, but now Li Chuyun can't see it with his eyes. He looked at the northern horizon, imagining that place.

The opposite side of Caishiji is the north corner of Jiangxinzhou, and the other side is the Jiangbei Hezhou site. Li Chuyun had learned that Guo Shao had moved the Chinese Army Xingyuan to Hezhou, and at this time the two were very close.

Caishiji is a very important place. It has always been the breakthrough point for the north to attack Jiangnan. Judging from the strategy of attacking the southern Tang Dynasty formulated by Guo Shao, the goal is also here, and this place will be the core of the overall battle.

Li Chuyun pondered secretly: If you take the quarry, no one else has done as much credit as me! As long as Guo Shao ascends the throne in the future, the old man will rely on the two most crucial contributions of the Tokyo Mutiny last year and the Battle of the Southern Tang Dynasty this year, which will establish the Li family's fortune for a century!

"Tomorrow, crossing the river to sweep the Southern Tang Army outside Dangtu City, and then attack Caishiji. To achieve the goal, the quarry will lead to the Dajiang Floating Bridge. At that time, the Jiangbei reinforcements will cross the river and try to become Tucheng." Said.

...... The next morning, just after the weather, the main force of the elite right side of the Long Jie Army was on the south bank of the Guxi River, laying out against the river. Fighting on the water first started in the morning, and the Nantang Army's water was quickly swept away. The most important role here is to control the Yangtze River ferry, but the Southern Tang Army has very few navy here, and it is not the opponent of the Zhou army's more than 300 warships.

When the sun rises, the Zhou army warship with a shallow draft has entered the Guxi River for activities.

The large number of soldiers and horses of the Southern Tang Army on the north bank face the Zhou Army across the river, but this does not stop the Zhou Army from crossing the narrow Guxi River. Just to the west of the city, the river bank has more than ten miles, and it is impossible for the Southern Tang Army to disperse the few troops on the river bank.

More than two hundred men from the First Division of the Zhou Jun Navy first landed in one place, and the Southern Tang Army mobilized cavalry over there. When Li Chuyun rode his horse to the place where he crossed the river, he saw that the Southern Tang Cavalry had broken up the navy infantry's phalanx, the killing sound shook the sky on the opposite side, and the sword and spear dancing were in a melee. More navy soldiers abandoned their boats and landed on the waterfront to assemble the battlefield.

The commander of Xiangdu made Zhang Lingduo a bit anxious. After watching it for a while, he yelled: "Looking at the naval forces fighting, let me take the soldiers by ship!"

Zhang Lingduo and Li Chuyun have nothing to do with each other. He can't control the right side of the Long Jie Army now. So Li Chuyun did not stop him.

Zhang Lingduo led his soldiers to abandon the horse and cross the Guxi River. The river is not wide, and the fighting over there can probably be seen from the south bank. Seeing Zhang Lingduo jumped off the boat, he took a long spear and rushed up, killing the two in an instant. This martial arts is really good... Zhang Lingduo has no one on top, and he can basically rely on combat exploits to be able to command and envoy. These generals are all brave.

Li Chuyun saw that the Southern Tang Army was unable to attack the group of people who had landed, and judged that there was hope for crossing the river from here. At the moment, the elite guards who came here were ordered to cross the river by boat, and there were more and more Zhou army soldiers on the other side.

In more landing sites, there were Zhou army soldiers. At this time, the warship began to transport horses. Some cavalry got the horses and gathered in the west to form a horse team. The Southern Tang Army came from the east with a second cavalry reinforcements, but a cavalry team of more than a hundred horses in the Zhou Army had already become a trend, and immediately under the leadership of Zhang Lingduo, he rushed forward.