Chapter 431 Battle of Anhui

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Cheng Pu led the main force to follow He Qi's vanguard march more than 20 miles away from the east bank of the Anhui River. In fact, there was no need for rocket warning. Shortly after the Jiangxia army launched an ambush, Cheng Pu got the news and immediately ordered the army to move forward quickly. He also ordered the fifty small boats accompanying him to quickly build a floating bridge and the army quickly supported the vanguard.

More than a dozen rockets soared into the air in the distance, and the night sky was particularly dazzling. A large group of Jiangdong troops ran rapidly in the darkness. The dark crowd rushed south along the river bank. A dozen beyond the south, fifty small boats were tied with iron chains and lined up together, and quickly built a floating bridge.

The ambush on the west bank of the Anhui River had been ongoing for a quarter of an hour. The Jiangdong Army was in chaos. More than half of the soldiers were killed or fled. Arrows flew everywhere, blood mist was filled with screams and cries resounded throughout the west bank of the Anhui River, and the ground was filled with corpses that were killed terriblely.

Only the two thousand spear troops led by He Qi were fighting to the death to resist the Jiangxia army's attacks, and they could hardly hold on. Veteran Huang Zhong led the way, waved his sword and opened a bloody road, breaking through the tight formation of the spear soldiers. The spear troops were split into two and were surrounded and annihilated by the Jiangxia army twice as much as they were.

After Huang Zhong led his army into the enemy, he discovered something strange. The enemy disguised himself as the main force, but in fact there were only 5,000 people, which was obviously bait. He knew that the main force of the enemy was either leaving another road or about to arrive, and the latter was extremely likely.

To this end, Huang Zhong led only 4,000 spearheaded soldiers, and the remaining 6,000 people formed a formation in the rear to prepare to fight against the main force of the enemy who was about to be killed.

Huang Zhong broke through He Qi's core formation several times to kill the enemy's chief general, but five hundred He Qi's personal soldiers fought to the death, causing Huang Zhong to fail several times. At this time, Huang Zhong became a little anxious.

Suddenly, a shocking shout of killing came from the north. Huang Zhong was surprised to stop his horse and looked north. A soldier stumbled and ran to report, "Report to the old general, the main force of the enemy came from the north, with a huge momentum, and the brothers were extremely struggling to resist. General Mo asked the old general to go to command quickly."

The main force of the enemy came from the north, which was expected by Huang Zhong, but the tenacious resistance of the enemy vanguard was beyond Huang Zhong's expectations. These two thousand spear soldiers were like an extremely hard stone that could not be broken, which made Huang Zhong a little worried. Maybe his army would be at risk of being attacked from both sides. At this time, Huang Zhong had no time to think about it and turned his horse and ran northward.

To the north is a wide open field about two miles wide. Tens of thousands of people fought desperately on this field. At this time, the sky had already turned white, darkness and dawn, flames were dotted, swords and spears were shaken, weapons were harshly impacted, bones were broken, screams before death, bloody and pungent on the battlefield, especially tragic.

Cheng Pu led the main force of the Jiangdong Army to push forward. The Jiangxia army was outnumbered and was killed and retreated step by step. At this time, more than a thousand spear troops and two thousand defeated soldiers in the south began to counterattack under the gathering of deputy general He Qi, attacking the Jiangxia army from behind, forming a front-and-back attack. The situation of the Jiangxia army became critical.

At this critical moment, the north was drumming again. Zhao Yun led 10,000 troops to come from the north. There was a chaos behind Cheng Pu's army. Zhao Yun's white horse and silver helmet, and his silver spear shone coldly, like a god of killing, he took the lead, rode his horse over the heads of dozens of enemy soldiers, and broke into the dense enemy group. The silver spear in his hand stabbed Jiangdong soldiers like a rainstorm, killing Jiangdong soldiers everywhere and wailing all over the ground.

Wherever Zhao Yun pointed his gun, the soldiers of Jiangdong fled in sight. Ten thousand soldiers behind him divided into twenty teams, followed him closely, and broke the defensive formation of the rear army. Thousands of Jiangdong troops ran back like a tide, causing the formation of the Jiangdong army to begin to become chaotic.

Cheng Pu was furious and swung his sword to kill the defeated soldiers. He killed dozens of people in a row and ordered: "If you dare to take another step back, you will kill them no matter how hard you are!"

Under Cheng Pu's command, the Jiangdong Army stabilized its position. Cheng Pu transferred another three thousand archers to shoot towards Zhao Yun. Zhao Yun's spear danced like falling flowers, digging dense arrows, but the enemy's arrows were too fierce. Hundreds of shield soldiers rushed forward and raised their shields to form a shield wall.

At this time, Zhao Yun found that his rush was too fierce, and the army was a little disconnected. The enemy's team had stabilized, so he stopped charging and turned around and ordered: "Staste the team and fight in a formation!"

‘Woo--’ A low trumpet sounded on the battlefield, and ten thousand Jiangxia troops began to reunite, divided into three wings in the east, middle and west to launch an attack on the enemy.

Huang Zhong, who was miles away, also heard the sound of trumpets. The first ray of sunlight had burst out from the east, illuminating the earth. In the blood-filled morning light, Huang Zhong saw Zhao Yun's banner from afar. He was overjoyed and shouted to the soldiers: "Brothers, our reinforcements have arrived. We will win this battle!"

He raised his knife again and shouted, "We will win!"

"It will win!"

Thousands of Jiangxia soldiers cheered, their morale was high, and they launched a massive counterattack on the Jiangdong army. The horns were sobbing in the wilderness on the west bank of the Anhui River, and tens of thousands of people on both sides broke out in a life-and-death battle for victory.

In the melee, the two armies are fighting for the number of troops, the command of the chief general, the bravery of the general, the training of the army, the combat experience, the strength of the soldiers, the rise of morale, the right time, place, and people, etc. A weak link will become the cause of defeat.

Although the number of troops in the Jiangdong Army was greater than that of the Jiangxia Army, the 20,000 Jiangxia Army was actually selected from the more than 100,000 Red Cliff surrendered troops, and had extremely strong combat power. Under the front and back attacks of Huang Zhong's army and Zhao Yun's army, the Jiangdong Army gradually became at a disadvantage. As time went by, the disadvantage of this combat power became more and more obvious. One hour later, the Jiangdong Army began to show signs of lack of support.

But at the same time, Huang Gai's army also faced the attack from He Qi's army from behind, and they gradually couldn't stand it. At this time, it was already bright and both armies were in a terrifying balance. It depends on who could not support it first and break the balance.

The fuse to break this balance appeared on the right wing of the Jiangdong Army. Since this Jiangdong Army was composed of 20,000 Kuaiji Army and 10,000 Eastern Wu Army, there were 3,000 Shanyue people in the Kuaiji Army. In normal times, they were no different from ordinary Jiangdong soldiers. However, at the time of life and death, the interests of the Shanyue tribe exceeded the interests of Jiangdong, and the Shanyue people were no longer willing to work hard for Jiangdong.

More than a thousand soldiers of Shanyue had been killed in the three thousand Shanyue tribes. Seeing that the situation was unfavorable, they lost their fighting spirit and led the rest of Shanyue tribes to leave the battlefield first. Thousands of people rushed to the floating bridge to retreat to the other side of the river.

The retreat of the Shanyue people made the right wing of the Jiangdong Army unbalanced, and eventually led to the collapse of the Jiangdong Army on its entire line, like an avalanche. More and more Jiangdong Army soldiers joined the ranks of escape, and their morale finally collapsed. Thousands of Jiangdong soldiers shouted and rushed to the floating bridge to escape.

The floating bridge was narrow and could only allow hundreds of people to pass through at the same time. In the chaos, countless people were squeezed down the Wan River, but more people took off their armor, threw away their weapons, and dived to escape.

Cheng Pu repeatedly called the soldiers to stabilize their positions, but his voice was drowned by the soldiers' fearful shouts. Seeing that the situation was over, Cheng Pu couldn't help but sigh, "It's not my fault!"

At this moment, Zhao Yun led more than a thousand soldiers to come like a storm, only a few dozen steps away from Cheng Pu. When Cheng Pu's hundreds of personal soldiers saw that the enemy's future was fierce and could not resist, they surrounded Cheng Pu and fled eastward.

The floating bridge was covered with hundreds of defeated soldiers, and everyone rushed to the front and trampled desperately, making the bridge crossing extremely slow. Seeing the critical situation, Cheng Pu's personal soldiers shouted and rushed forward, slashed the spear, and slashed countless Jiangdong soldiers down the river, opened a bloody road on the floating bridge, guarding Cheng Pu to rush across the floating bridge, and fled towards Wan County.

At the same time, He Qi, who was fighting in the south, also saw that the situation was not good, turned his horse and ran to the south.

The Jiangxia army chased and killed Jiangdong army, killing countless corpses everywhere, and surrendering countless people. In this battle, the Jiangdong army killed more than 8,000 enemies and captured 15,000 enemies. Although the Jiangxia army also lost nearly 2,000 people, it finally won the victory of the Battle of Anhui.

Cheng Pu ran for dozens of miles, and saw that there were no pursuers coming, he calmed down a little. Soon, a group of defeated soldiers began to flee one after another. Cheng Pu ordered his subordinates to gather the defeated soldiers. At this time, General Jiang Qin led hundreds of defeated soldiers to escape. He said hatefully: "Governor, today's defeat was caused by the Shanyue people evacuating the battlefield without authorization. We must report to the Marquis of Wu to severely punish!"

Cheng Pu was very confused. Although the Shanyue people fled the battlefield without authorization as an excuse for him to exempt him from punishment, he was even more worried about the consequences of the defeat of the battle. After a while, he sighed and said, "Let's talk about this matter! General Jiang led his army back to Wan County first and tried his best to protect the food in Wan County."

Half an hour later, fewer and fewer defeated soldiers fleeing. Cheng Pu ordered people to count them, and in the end he only obtained more than 2,800 people, which was much lower than his expectations. Cheng Pu felt helpless and had to lead his army to continue to retreat to Wan County.

Unexpectedly, there were still several miles away from Wan County. Jiang Qin escaped with arrow wounds. He brought more than 300 people, but there were only less than 200 people left. Cheng Pu was shocked and asked quickly, "What's going on?"

"Governor, the Jiangxia army has occupied Wan County, but it has opened the city gate to lure us into the city. I discovered it in time and was still attacked by bows and arrows."

Cheng Pu was confused. Wan County was lost. How could they withdraw back to Jiangdong without food? Could they let them loot Minzhuang along the way?

At this moment, a soldier pointed to the distance and shouted: "Governor, the pursuers are coming!"

Cheng Pu turned around and saw a Jiangxia army of thousands of people chasing him quickly several miles away from the other side of the river. He heard a shout from afar: "Don't leave Cheng Pu!"

Two miles ahead was a bridge. Cheng Pu was anxious and panicked. He didn't care about the issue of food anymore and urged his horse to run eastward. The three thousand Jiangdong Army followed him and fled eastward.

Five days later, Liu Jing's commendation order was passed to Wan County, and Huang Zhong was granted the title of General of the General of the Central Army, and Lou Fa was granted the title of General of Jiang Yong. The other generals participating in the battle were rewarded, and Zhao Yun and Lou Fa led their troops to continue the Eastern Expedition.

Zhao Yun immediately led 5,000 troops to continue to advance eastward, from Lujiang County to the east, and then traveled another 300 miles to enter Danyang County. Danyang County is already the core area of ​​Jiangdong, and the capital of Jiangdong Jingkou is located on the south bank of the Yangtze River in Danyang County.

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Chapter completed!