Qian Song

Chapter 77 Ambush (Please follow up!)
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After consummating the plan with Chen Kuutong and other army advisers, Li Cun left Han Bie and led a battalion of horsemen to monitor the peasants and prisoners and continued to build siege equipment such as ladders and wooden mantles. The illusion of the army.

After instructing Han Bie to let the war horse rest and be more alert, Li Cun led the front guard army and the rest of the guard horse army to withdraw towards Tianshuipu.

After Song Jun on the city wall discovered the movements of the Huben Army, he hurried to report to Tan Zhen.

Tan Zhen climbed up to the top of the city to have a look, and couldn't help becoming suspicious: "Is the ant thief withdrawing troops? Or are they using some kind of conspiracy?"

in fact--

Tan Zhen also thought of Fu Ling's heart: "Will the ant thief go to ambush Wang Ting?"

If he is a commander who is dedicated to Zhao Song and has no selfish intentions, Tan Zhen should send some sentries to remind Wang Jin not to fall for Li Cun, no matter whether there is such a possibility, or whether he can finally notify Wang Bin ambush.

But Tan Zhen hesitated again and again, and did not send out a sentry to remind Wang Tian.

First of all, and most importantly, Tan Zhen was very afraid that Wang Zhi would not return his aid.

If that was the case, even Liang Shicheng and Wang Fu would not be able to save him if he lost Tan Zhen in Zhenjiang, Jiangning Mansion and Yangzhou, and Gao Youjun.

And, again, if Wang Tianbu, who represented Tong Guan, was undefeated once, wouldn't it appear that Tan Zhen himself was incompetent?
Therefore, in Tan Zhen's view, Wang Zhi must suffer a defeat, so that Tan Zhen can tell people that it's not that I, Tan Zhen, are too incompetent, but that that thief Li Cun is too cunning. After a big defeat, Tan Zhen was able to shirk his guilt and not be punished by Zhao Ji and Tong Guan...

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The rapid march to Tianshuipu this time reflects the good quality of the front guard army and horse guard army that Li Cun selected from the 10,000+ Huben army.

From Shaobo Town to Gaoyou Army, they walked nearly a hundred miles a day. The former guards in the middle also attacked Shenju Mountain, and now they are moving towards Tianshuipu, which is more than 50 miles.

This strength is really not ordinary.

Some people may think that riding a horse is okay.

But the problem was that Li Cun didn't allow cavalry to ride horses except when fighting. At most, he would let the horses carry some equipment - Li Cun wanted to preserve the horse's physical strength, so that the horses would not have the strength to charge after they entered the battlefield.

Therefore, the cavalry guarding the horse army also followed the infantry on the road, and the marching intensity was not much less than that of the infantry.

After the former guards and the horse guards came to Tianshuipu, it was almost dawn, and all the soldiers were exhausted.

Li Cun ordered to rest quickly, eat, drink water, solve personal physiological problems, and feed the war horses with the grain he carried with him...

The ambush location Li Cun finally chose was Duan Valley. The middle of the valley was relatively flat, and there was a long passage leading to the exit of the Gaoyou Army. There were two small hills on both sides of this passage.

After the troops of the front guard army and the horse guard army had rested, Li Cun asked Kong Lianzi to lead the front guard army to ambush in a hill nearer to the valley, while Li Cun personally led the guard horse army to go further away. Ambush behind the hill on the gentle slope runway.

When it was almost time, Li Cun's careful and cautious observers found more than 8000 cavalry coming from a distance through binoculars, and hurriedly reported the matter to Li Cun.

The generals who guarded the horse army heard from the observers that the enemy really went to Tianshuipu, and they all asked Li Cun with surprise, "How did the governor know that the Song army would go to Tianshuipu?"

While observing every move of this horse army with a telescope, Li Cun replied casually: "There are a lot of things here. I will tell you in detail when I have time. Now I can only tell you that if I choose , I will definitely choose to return from Tianshuipu."

At the end, Li Cun's voice became smaller and smaller.

After a while, Li Cun suddenly ordered: "Give the order to Confucius."

The messenger asked, "Did you tell the former guards to prepare for battle?"

Li deposits the binoculars: "Tell the former guards to immediately withdraw from the ambush circle."

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Everyone thought there was something wrong with their ears, the enemy is coming, why don't they fight again?

Li Cun did not explain.

Seeing this, the messenger could only give Kong Lengzi an order according to Li Cun's order.

On the opposite side, Kong Lengzi, who was gearing up for a big fight, was very annoyed when he saw Li Cun's semaphore telling him to lead his people out of the ambush circle.

But all the soldiers of the Huben Army knew that Li Cun's military order could not be discounted in the slightest, not to mention that he hadn't fought yet, it was a real fight, even if his knife had already reached the enemy's throat, Li Cun's side He ordered the withdrawal of the army, and he had to take the knife back. What if Li Cun didn't want him to kill this person, if he was smart, after returning, not only would he be useless, but Li Cun would cut off his head.

There was no other way, Kong Lengzi could only reluctantly lead the soldiers of the former guards out of the ambush circle.

At the same time, Li Cun also withdrew from the ambush circle with his troops guarding the horse army.

Moreover, when they were evacuating, Li Cun deliberately asked people to clean up the place where they were ambush, and even asked people to pick up all the horse manure.

Soon after, a horse army suddenly entered the valley.

After the horse army entered the valley, it was immediately divided into two, and then went to check the places where the former guard army and the guard horse army were ambushed.

The soldiers of the Huben army who saw this scene from a long distance all secretly exclaimed luck: "Thanks to the superintendent's foresight, otherwise our army would have returned without success in this battle."

After all the horse troops confirmed that there was no ambush in this valley, they withdrew from the valley again.

Not long after, the [-] horse army was divided into [-] battalions, and passed through this not too long valley one by one.

Seeing General Song being so cautious, Li Cun couldn't help thinking: "If I have such a bold and careful general under my command, why should I personally lead the army to prevent the Song army from going south? I can even send him to lead a partial army." Find a way to cross the Huaihe defense line, harass Zhao Song's rear, and share the pressure of the Song army for myself."

Li Cun thought again: "I don't know who the following general is, can he be recruited by me?"

After all the [-] horse troops passed through this valley without any danger and walked far away, Li Cun returned to the previous ambush site with his guard horse army. At the same time, Kong Lengzi also led his guards forward The army returned to the ambush site of his department.

——The Huben Army is going to ambush the more than 1 Song Army infantry and their escorting supplies...

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(End of this chapter)