Han Xiang

Chapter 487 They Are Not Jiangdong Soldiers

In the early morning of the next day, there was heavy fog on both sides of Feishui River.

Li Dian continued to go south with his parts, and the fog had not dissipated by Chenshi.

When he was lamenting the bad weather, the scout who opened the way ahead brought back a man who was also a scout stationed at Jiangjun Ridge.

The scouts sent a new piece of information, namely, yesterday evening there were [-] large ships that stopped at the artificial canal at the southern foot of Jiangjun Ling to unload their cargo. They seemed to be grain transport ships from Jiangdong, and the grain guard army only had a few hundred people.

Li Dian hastily took out the map to check, and it was a straight line from the southern foot of Jiangjunling to Lu'an.

There are only a hundred miles between the two places, but the food transport team moves slowly, and it will take three or four days at the fastest.

Li Dian keenly spotted the opportunity, he thought that if he hurried to Zhengnan, he would be able to intercept this batch of food in time.

There are only a few hundred people guarding the food, so why don't you pinch it with your hands?

Tai Shici was besieging Lu'an at this time, and the Jiangdong people chose to transit by land, rather than bypassing Feishui and Shaopi via water, which not only saved time for food transportation, but also would not be noticed by the Shouchun defenders, which was completely in line with the way of using troops.

In the cold morning, Li Dian encountered a favorable opportunity.

Thinking of having a chance to cut off Taishi's merciful soldiers, and to resolve the danger of Liu'an in advance, the cold body in the early morning was ignited with excitement.

Li Dian then urged his troops to move quickly, intending to find a suitable place to cross the river first.

As the Feishui goes upstream, the water becomes more urgent, and the upstream is located in the extension of Jiangjunling, and the terrain gradually rises as it gets closer to the upstream.

Climbing up hills will consume more energy, and Li Dian will not do things that are thankless.

Coincidentally, the journey was less than five miles.

Li Dian found a crossing point.

The wide river channel has shared the upstream water, and in the dry season, the water level has dropped a lot, exposing part of the riverbed.

Standing on the shore, you can see the rocks under the water, so Li Dian sent someone to take a wooden stick into the water to measure, and found that the edge was only about five feet high, and guessed that the deepest part was seven or eight feet high, and at most it would not exceed one foot high.

Li Dian's trilogy comes from Yanzhou, with an average height of more than seven feet, much taller than southerners.

Even without the aid of tools to ford, they can cross the river on tiptoe, and even if they encounter deep water, they can cross it with a few pounces.

There are few natural resources in winter, and Li Dian thought of the speed of soldiers, so he couldn't wait to cut down trees to make rafts.

Li Dian selected a team of people to explore the way through the water, but everyone reached the other side smoothly.

Walking across the river saves time and effort, the only disadvantage is that it is cold.

Soldiers had to soak in ice water for a long time, and they might contract typhoid fever, but Li Dian didn't worry about it at all. He planned to find a place to make a fire to drive out the cold when he crossed the river.

As long as you act quickly, except for a small number of weak people, most people can control the cold syndrome.

Even if there is a little risk, compared with sending people to cut wood and make rafts, it will save time and energy, and if it is not done well, it will have to make a fire to keep out the cold.

Li Dian hesitated for a moment, and took the lead in crossing the river himself.

Ever since, the six thousand pieces are like ducks down the river.

The combat soldiers walked easily with light clothes, and the two thousand miscellaneous soldiers needed to carry grain carts across the river.

Fortunately, there is buoyancy in the water to help, but the longer the time soaked in the water, the greater the damage to the body.

As the saying goes, one general will be successful and his bones will be exhausted. Which of the generals who can leave a name in the Three Kingdoms era really loves soldiers like a son?
Especially the handymen transporting food like this, in the eyes of the chief general, they are not as good as cattle and horses, they are not treated as human beings at all, and they don't care about their life or death.

When Li Dian was leading his army across the water, he lay in ambush at Xu Chu on the other side of the river, and watched for a while with a binoculars.

He was waiting for Lu Su's order, but Lu Su just held up the mirror to observe, and had no intention of attacking at all.

Xu Chu couldn't help asking: "Mr. Zijing, when will we attack?"

"No hurry, no hurry, wait a little longer."

Seeing Lu Su waving his hands in a perfunctory way, Xu Chu continued to ask: "I heard that there is a strategy of attacking halfway through the water. Cao soldiers have already waded halfway through the water. If I order to shoot arrows or throw stones, they will be living targets in the water."

"Hehe, Zhongkang still knows the art of war?"

Lu Su put down the binoculars, turned around and looked at Xu Chu with a smile, and said, "Shooting at halfway can indeed win a big victory, but this move will definitely scare away some Cao soldiers. If we let them escape to the other side, how can we do it by chance?" Take Shouchun?"

"Oh"

Xu Chu nodded slightly and asked, "When can we attack?"

Lu Su stroked his beard, looked at Cao Bing crossing the river in the mist, and said meaningfully: "Let them soak in the water for a while, the river is freezing cold at this time, and they must take off their clothes and armor when they go ashore. Baking, at that time, if you lead an army to strike at it, are you afraid that you will not be able to win a complete victory?"

Regardless of the bravery of the soldiers, fighting with armor and without armor is crushing, not to mention that the opponent has soaked in ice water.

While Xu Chu was in deep thought, Lu Su reminded him again: "Today, the fog has been lingering for a long time. Although it is good for us to hide, it will also help the enemy escape when the battle starts. So once we attack, we have to bite the opponent. We can let go." They ran south, and they must not be allowed to escape back to Shouchun, especially those generals on horseback, who had their mounts to carry them across the river, so their bodies were not affected much."

Xu Chu glanced at the river in the distance, and clasped his fists and said, "Don't worry, sir, I will arrange people to guard one by one, and I won't let a single cavalry get away."

"Very good." Lu Su nodded slightly.

Li Dian led his troops across the river in mighty force, until it took more than an hour, when the last grain cart was carried ashore, all 6000 people crossed the Fei River.

After soaking in icy water for a long time, many soldiers began to wobble as soon as they landed, and it was still cold even though they were wrapped in spare clothes.

After Li Dian inspected, he found that the problem was not serious, at least all the staff had crossed the river and no one was left behind.

As long as the trilogy of collecting firewood returns, the soldiers can light a fire on the spot to cool off the cold air. At that time, the surrounding fog should also dissipate, and with the warm winter sun, it should be restored to its original state.

Li Dianzheng was puzzled that the firewood collectors were still not returning, when suddenly there was a burst of killing from both sides in the northwest, and the tiger guards split into two groups, shouting and killing towards the river.

How could there be an ambush here seventy or eighty miles away from Lu'an?Whether it is Tai Shici or .
Li Dian's eyes were as wide as copper bells, and a terrible idea flashed in his mind, is there something wrong with the scout just now?

He swallowed, and it was too late to think deeply, because the enemy was getting closer and closer, and he had to solve the immediate troubles first.

I don't know whether it's the cold or the timidity in the face of the enemy, many people are shivering.

"Don't panic, the miscellaneous soldiers push the grain cart to the front, and the rest of the people quickly put on armor and form an array, and the archers gather behind the grain cart."

At the critical moment, Li Dian still calmly gave orders.

It's just that this military order is very cruel, which is equivalent to using two thousand miscellaneous soldiers as cannon fodder to buy time for the rest of the combat troops.

However, the Tiger Guards were fully armed and moved quickly, with bows and arrows and stones raining down on their heads.

Before Li Dian's men finished forming, Xu Chu and Hao Meng rushed forward from east and west.

Then the swords intersected, and the two sides fought hand-to-hand.

As soon as they confronted each other, Li Dian realized that something was wrong.

The enemy's fighting power in front of him is too strong, and his steps are falling too fast.

Finally, a shocking conclusion was drawn: they were not Jiangdong's soldiers!

(End of this chapter)