Chapter 719

However, although Xu Rong is strong, Zhao Yun is not bad either. They are rivals and will meet good talents. Often, when Xu Ronggang found a defensive flaw and sent out his soldiers, Zhao Yun had already made up for his successors and strengthened his defense in this position.

In this respect, Zhao Yun is still a little less experienced than Xu Rong because of his lack of war experience. However, Huangfu Chaobo was full of confidence in Zhao Yun. He believed that with Zhao Yun's ability, only in time, he would be a more powerful general than Xu Rong. After all, Xu Rong still has a short board on the force, but Zhao Yun's force value is the top three of the whole Great Han.

Just this time, let Xu Ronglai honed his life. Zhao Yun and Huangfu Chaobo believe that with Pang Tong on the side, there must be no problem.

After the one-day war, although it was quite fierce, there was no danger. Several times the Hedong army attacked the village wall, which was easily resolved by Zhao Yun.

However, the loss of the army was not small. There were thousands of soldiers and 2000 injured. The Hedong army didn't get any good either. There were as many as 5000 corpses left under the wall of the stronghold, and thousands of wounded soldiers who had returned to Anyi.

Xu Rong and Jiang Pei didn't see such casualties at all. After discussing and arranging the next day's war, they ordered the army to rest. Of course, Xu Rong arranged to harass soldiers and horses in Sizhou army camp at night. As for how useful they could be, Xu Rong didn't care much.

For Huangfu Chaobo, apart from the loss of troops and horses, there are two good news. One is that Su Zhibu's soldiers who broke through the encirclement have been successfully taken back, with a total of 6000 soldiers and 1000 prisoners, which greatly relieved the general of Si Zhou.

Another good news is that in the afternoon, Yang Feng finally came back with good news. That is to say, he has found a suitable place to cross the river. Geng Township, a small town on the South Bank of the Fenhe River, is chosen here mainly because the water potential of Fenshui here is relatively slow, and the water surface is several feet narrower than that of other places around 20 Li. If it is to cross the river from this floating bridge, it should be the best.

Besides, this is also a small town level territory called Donghuang town. More than 20 miles west of Fenshui, Donghuang town is Pishi county. If you want to evacuate from the river, you must occupy Pishi and Hejin port. Therefore, after crossing Fenhe River, we must occupy Pishi and Hejin as soon as possible, so that Sizhou water army can come to meet them.

After discussing with Pang Tong, Huangfu Chaobo decided to send a group of soldiers from longxiangying and a thousand craftsmen from minzhuang to occupy Geng Village. Then he was ready to cross the river. When the army arrived, he could set up a floating bridge to cross the river.

After the discussion, Huangfu Chaobo ordered Yang Feng to get ready all night and start early tomorrow. In order to get there as soon as possible, Huangfu Chaobo also decided to send 1000 cavalry to send them to Geng township. After occupying Geng Township, the cavalry would bring the horses to the camp. After all, there are too few horses in the army.

The war continued the next day without a word. However, at noon, Jiang Pei suddenly received a news that Sizhou army was forcibly purchasing a large amount of grain and grass around Wenxi. At the same time, he was doing his best to strengthen Wenxi's defense, and seemed to be ready to defend himself.

Not only that, Wenxi garrison also prepared to build a bridge on the Sushui river. A lot of materials have been piled up by the river, and many people are building floating bridges from the river to the middle of the river with rafts.

Seeing two pieces of information, Jiang Pei was stunned and asked Xu Rong how to act. After looking at it, Xu Rong said with a light smile, "general Pingdong is making preparations. He is raising food and grass while preparing to attack LENGKOU."

"What shall we do?"

"Don't worry about him, continue to attack the camp, attack the camp at all costs." With a wave of his hand, Xu Rong said,

"but, when Wen Xi was around, did the soldiers of Sizhou not care about him?"

"How to manage, send cavalry?" Xu Rong sneered: "our army only has more than 20000 cavalry, but the Sizhou army has 10000 cavalry. If we send more cavalry, the Sizhou cavalry in the camp will rush out of the barracks to harass our siege army. If we send less cavalry, when we get to Wenxi, does it mean that the sheep will enter the tiger's mouth? "

All the generals nodded their heads. The attack in the afternoon is more intense, but in the face of Xu Rong's attack, Zhao Yun's response is more and more skilled. However, even so, at the end of the day, the casualties of soldiers continue to increase.

At night, when we counted the casualties, we found that the casualties today were almost twice as high as yesterday, but the casualties of the Hedong army were even greater.

During the military discussion, it was suddenly mentioned that the cavalry of the Xiliang army did not have any signs of division. On the contrary, it increased the strength of the attack on the camp. It seems that Xu Rong is determined to break the camp.

Pang Tong was reminded by his old words. He quickly got up and said, "general, since Xu Rong does not want to send troops to hear the news, we should take advantage of this. General Yang should have occupied Geng township. In this case, we can use the surplus horses in the camp to send some injured soldiers to Geng Township overnight, so that we can retreat more quickly without worrying about the injured soldiers It will drag down the army's journey. "The biggest headache for Huangfu Chaobo all the time was the speed of the troops when they retreated. By then, there must be a large number of wounded soldiers and craftsmen. The speed of these people must not catch up with the ordinary soldiers. If these people are caught up by Jiang Peijun and Dong Zhuo Jun, they will be captured except killed.

It's more than a hundred Li from Wenxi to Geng Township beside Fenshui. The fastest way for the soldiers to march is one day and one night. If we add the wounded soldiers, we may not be able to reach Geng Township in two or three days. Once it is found that the main army has retreated, Xu Rong's cavalry can catch up with the main army in more than two hours. At that time, fighting with most of the cavalry in the field will be like looking for death.

Now that Xu Rong doesn't want to take Wenxi's side into consideration, as Pang Tong said, he just takes this opportunity to transfer the wounded soldiers and craftsmen to Geng township. When the time comes, he will have enough time to get to Geng Township, even if he has 20000 cavalry How can I get there?

"It's true that Shiyuan's strategy is feasible. Chen Jing sent the 7000 wounded soldiers to Wenxi overnight. Then he discussed with Su Zhi. In the past few days, he sent away the 15000 wounded soldiers and more than 20000 people in Wenxi City, leaving only one school to guard the city. The rest of the soldiers were sent to the camp. It seems that the camp needs a few more days."