transfer.

This is located in the connection area between the upper and middle reaches of the North and South Feishui River. The terrain is relatively high. There must be weirs and sluices on both sides of the Yongfeng Canal to ensure that the canal maintains stable water storage for boats to pass through.

It is not that the world did not have the ability to build weirs and ship locks.

Not to mention Xuzhou, there are several weirs and ship locks built on the Hangou, the core waterway connecting the Yangtze and Huaihe Rivers, to control the water level in the Hangou according to the rise and fall of the Yangtze River and Huaihe River tides.

It means that when the tide rises in the outer river, the gate is opened to receive water, and when the tide is low, the gate is closed to maintain the water level inside the Hangou.

Boats entering and exiting Hangou must pass through ship locks.

In the early stage, in order to solve the problem of slow efficiency of grain transporting ships passing through the locks, a segmented transportation method was adopted, that is, storage warehouses were built at the dams and locks, so that grain transporting ships from various places were responsible for the transportation of certain sections, that is, to the dams.

At the sluice, the grain is moved into the granary and handed over to the fleet in the next river section. This saves manpower and material resources and increases the scale of grain transported to Luoyang and Chang'an every year.

However, even building a weir, embankment and ship lock on a small river channel was definitely a large-scale project in this world. Once it was damaged, it might take three to five years to repair it.

The transportation of materials between Chaozhou and Shouzhou does not rely particularly heavily on the Anfeng Canal. However, after the Anfengzhai Weir and Locks were destroyed, the Shouzhou navy was unable to freely enter and exit the two major water systems of the Huaihe River and the Yangtze River.

If Xu Mingzhen and the Shouzhou generals believed that the core goal of the Tangyi soldiers' movement was to destroy the weirs, dikes and sluices in Anfeng Village, they would not dare to delay the fight.

What's more, both sides of the Feishui River in the north and south are key reclamation areas for the Shouzhou Army. Emperor Zhu Yu of the Liang Dynasty harassed Huaidong last year and focused on destroying river embankments, dams and other facilities, causing huge floods in Huaidong this year in the three prefectures of Chu, Yang and Tai. They can't help it.

Will be forgotten so quickly.

If they were not worried about this, if they postponed it for two or three days, they would be able to gather thousands more soldiers and horses, and the situation would be more favorable to them. Even if Anfeng Village is temporarily captured by then, they should be confident and calm.

to recapture Anfeng Village.

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The Nanfeishui River flows from the southwest and passes through a cliff - the cliff on the south side is the mountain that Han Qian and Wang Jun climbed after arriving at Anfengzhai - when the Huainan Jiedushi Mansion went to court, the cliff on the north side was

The mouth of the canal was dug in the east and water was diverted northward to connect with Beifeishui River.

This cliff is not high, but the terrain is quite dangerous, which means that the enemy cannot easily enter Anfeng Village directly from the south or west to join the defenders.

To the northeast of Anfeng Village, also to the east of Anfeng Canal, and to the north of Nanfeishui River, the terrain is relatively flat, but at this time it has been occupied by Tangyi soldiers who have gathered.

Further north, there are three hills that rise about several feet or more than ten feet. At this time, the Tangyi soldiers who came a day in advance set up simple camps on their behalf; this can also be said to be to cover the main force.

Ma attacked Anfeng Village and established a peripheral defense line to intercept the enemy.

When Guo Que initially reported, there were 3,000 enemy cavalry coming from the direction of Shouzhou along the Bei Feishui River and 2,000 infantry coming from Gaocheng. However, in the afternoon, when the enemy troops came from the northwest along both banks of the Anfeng Canal, it was confirmed that they were attacking.

There were also thousands of enemy cavalry arriving from the direction of Huozhou at about the same time.

"Xu Mingzhen hasn't figured out whether this is a major counterattack planned by the imperial court for a long time, so she directly dispatched cavalry from the west wing. It seems that she still attaches great importance to us!" Han Qian held a bronze telescope and observed the Anfeng Canal.

Enemy deployment on the west bank.

It was obvious that the enemy was worried about their manipulation on the river ice, and sent small groups of cavalry to repeatedly cross the banks of the Anfeng Canal. However, its outposts had already been built to the east bank of the Anfeng Canal. The forwards of the two armies were so close that an impact was inevitable.

, can throw the spear into the opponent's array.

"With the enemy's reinforcements and the defenders in Anfeng Village, the total strength they have gathered here has exceeded 7,000. No matter from which aspect, they have an absolute advantage in strength. And within three days, we divided

The road cuts through to Anfeng Village. In such severe cold weather, traveling and camping in enemy-controlled areas are very physically demanding. I believe that no matter how timid Xu Mingzhen is, he should launch an attack directly," Tian Cheng

He said with emotion, "This is much less troublesome than our night battle to the west bank of Anfeng Canal - the night battle still depends on God's face,"

They will not ask the Shouzhou Army to delay any longer. Before dusk, the main force of the Shouzhou Army on the west bank of the Anfeng Canal will not come over, so they will launch an offensive first.

The conditions for a night battle are even more stringent. Only on a clear night can the field of vision be slightly better, and the Tangyi soldiers can have an advantage.

"Looking at their deployment, they probably want to attack our center and left road in one go, and first seek to open up communication with Anfeng Village," Feng Xuan sat on a tall horse, and they burned hundreds of coals here.

It seems that the generals are seizing the time to cook and eat so that they have the strength to fight. In fact, they are creating clouds of mist in the cold air to block the enemy's sight. However, they can look at the enemy formation from the edge area without any obstruction. "

The general Chu Jia who climbed up the southern hillside surrounded by a dozen people should be Xu Mingzhen."

"Xu Mingzhen is as famous as Li Yu, Du Chongtao and others, but I don't know if he will do anything extraordinary this time. He came to scare us..." Han Qian said with a smile.

"My husband upholds the legacy of his late husband, but Xu Mingzhen regards her husband as a traitor. If there is such a big deviation in the way you look at people, it will be difficult to promote your strengths no matter how outstanding you are." Wang Jun said.

She gathered her fur clothes tightly to keep out the cold wind.

The battle was approaching, and there was an inexplicable emotion surging in her chest. She was expecting but not expecting, and couldn't help but move closer to Han Qian.

Xu Mingzhen, surrounded by her generals and guards, stood solemnly in front of a nunnery called Meishan Nunnery in Beiya.

To the north of Anfeng Village, the Tangyi Army's 3,000 horse and infantry troops were dismounted and divided into six positions. However, as the Tangyi Army was making fire for cooking, clouds of white mist billowed in the shallow valley to the north of Anfeng Village.

, making them unable to see the more detailed situation.

The Tangyi soldiers had nearly two thousand cavalry scattered on both wings, and their formation seemed quite orderly.

Of course, the messenger who sneaked out from Anfeng Village reported that the two battalions of Tangyi soldiers gathered in front of the village were still preparing to attack the village. They had cut down several giant trees to make simple siege vehicles. Anfeng Village

A thin protective wall may be breached after a few blows.

It can be seen that if they do not launch an attack and delay it until night, the Tangyi soldiers will most likely attack Anfeng Village overnight.

Xu Mingzhen looked up at the sky. It was cloudless and the wind was as cold as a knife.

The Tangyi soldiers, or the former Chishan Army, had better night fighting capabilities than other elites in the world. This was directly related to the larger and more mature group of military attachés in the Tangyi Army. It was useless for Xu Mingzhen to envy them.

Since the Tangyi soldiers were divided into eight or nine groups and passed through the Chaozhou defense line, for a period of time, the northern area of ​​Chaozhou was controlled by the Tangyi soldiers, and the scouts of the Shouzhou army could not pass through.

Therefore, except for the initial messenger sent from Chaozhou to report the news, they had not known the specific situation on the southern front for a day and a half, which made Xu Mingzhen worried.

Without enough intelligence, no matter how famous a general he was, he would still be blind; and he suspected that Han Qian, the Marquis of Qianyang, was probably in the opposite military formation.

With such a large-scale raid, it is hard to imagine that Han Qian can really stay in Liyang City and enter the bridal chamber with peace of mind, but unfortunately there is still no way to verify this speculation.

Several military counselors and various generals have discussed a specific combat plan, and the troops and horses that were approaching in the early stage were also deployed along both sides of the Anfeng Canal according to this plan.

Conventionally, the infantry is used for attack and the cavalry is used to cover the flanks. This is the orthodox strategy. However, their first batch of reinforcements are mainly cavalry, and they have to severely damage the Tangyi soldiers in the shortest time, so they can only adjust their tactics.

Many people advocate gathering the main force of the cavalry to the front and using the impact of the cavalry formation to penetrate the middle-left infantry defense line of the Tangyi soldiers approaching Anfeng Village as quickly as possible; at the same time, the two thousand infantrymen can be penetrated.

and a small number of cavalry were arranged on both wings to prevent the Tangyi soldiers from counterattacking.

Of course, they also knew that even if the Tangyi soldiers did not carry heavy weapons or heavy chariots, they still had a large number of strong crossbows, and the range of these crossbows was about 120 steps, which were even slightly stronger.

than an ordinary walking bow.

As the main force of the attack, the three lines of cavalry approached in a formation. Everyone also advocated placing the limited number of more than 200 armored cavalry at the front of the cavalry formation so that they could attack the front line of Tangyi soldiers faster with fewer casualties.

The crossbow array was defeated.

At this time, the defenders of Anfeng Village came out to attack. Even if they could not defeat the Tangyi soldiers in one fell swoop, they could still force them away from Anfeng Village.

"Fight!" Xu Mingzhen waved his hand and ordered the generals to prepare to lead his troops to attack. He still could not take the risk of Anfeng Village falling.

Even if Anfeng Village falls into the hands of the enemy for a day, the dams and sluices may be destroyed; and subsequent reinforcements will not be able to be assembled until the day after tomorrow at the earliest. This also means that after the Tangyi soldiers stormed Anfeng Village overnight,

There is still a chance to evacuate calmly.

I don't know what happened on the southern front, but Si Zhao didn't send elite soldiers and horses to chase them. Shou and Huo Zhou never thought that Tangyi soldiers would dare to penetrate so boldly. The standing elites that could be mobilized were limited, and even a large number of war horses were scattered.

Raise them in various villages to prevent and control horse plague and save the consumption of horse feed for winter.

Coupled with such severe cold weather, it was too slow for the generals, soldiers and horses to assemble and mobilize in various fortifications, fortifications, and cities.

Xu Mingzhen does not want to be able to severely damage the Tangyi soldiers now. As long as the security of Fengzhai is not lost, or the passage into Anfengzhai is opened to join the defenders, there will be a lot of opportunities in the future to kill this daring raider.
Chapter completed!