Chapter 1228: Grab the lead

Sun Datong and the other two were determined to fight this battle, and they also determined the movements of the enemy after the attack. When choosing the interception location, the three people also looked at Liuzi Town at the same time. The transportation of the city is an important condition for the exhibition of towns and towns. The powerful transportation function of the Grand Canal of the Sui and Tang Dynasties drove the rise and exhibition of towns, stations, and villages on both sides of the Taiwan Strait. Liuzi Town was built in the Eastern Han Dynasty and belonged to Suzhou, located a hundred miles northwest of Fuli.

Liuzi Town was the location of Huanbei County during the Southern and Northern Dynasties. The Tongji Canal section of the Grand Canal excavated by Emperor Yang of Sui passed through the town and gradually flourished. The still-lost and unknown Liuzi Town took advantage of the convenience of water conservancy and transportation. The transit terminal "sequentially" made a busy canal transportation map of "half the world's wealth, all of them all come from this road". The population also gathered from gathering to town, from town to town, from town to village, and from Jiangdu. A Ligong was built here when it was in the Yangtze River.

After the Song Dynasty established its capital Kaifeng, the supplies supplied to the Central Plains from the southeast basically depended on the transportation of the Grand Canal of the Sui and Tang Dynasties, becoming the golden waterway of the canal transport, transporting merchants and traveling endlessly. After the exhibition of the Sui and Tang Dynasties, Liuzi Town also became a political, economic, military and cultural center in the Huaibei region. However, after the Song Dynasty crossed the south, the Jin people occupied the Yellow River Basin and the canal transport was interrupted. Later, Suzhou and Linhuan were owned by the Jin Dynasty, but Liuzi Town still existed as a town.

Due to the wars in Suzhou many times in the Song and Jin dynasties, the Grand Canal was neglected for a long time, and the rivers gradually became obscured and the navigation was cut off. By the fifth year of Guangzong, the Yellow River flooded, floods seized the Huai River and entered the sea, and the Tongji Canal was silted from then on. The prosperous commercial economy of the towns along the route was severely damaged. The towns relying on the benefits of the canal also lost their prosperity, and Liuzi Town also declined. However, Liuzi Town is located in the hinterland of the Central Plains and the Bian River is bound to rush, and it has always been a place that military strategists must fight for.

After the uprising of Chen Sheng and Wu Guang, they once fought in the city of Jicheng and Liuzi. Cao Cao also recruited troops here and stationed grain. In the tenth year of Xiantong in the Tang Dynasty, the Xuzhou camp recruited the envoy Kang Chengxun led 70,000 Tang troops to force Liuzi Town, and fought fiercely with Yao Zhou, the general of the leader of the garrison rebel army, Pang Xun. Huang Chao also made an uprising here. In the tenth year of Shaoxing in the Song Dynasty, Yang Yizhong, deputy envoy of Huaibei Xuanfu, led 500 cavalry to attack Liuzi Town at night. In the sixth year of Xingding, the Red Jacket Army drove Liuzi Town and fought a desperate battle with the Jin army to control Zhang Yu's troops. At this time, they were selected as the battlefield...

In the early morning, the Mongol Yuan Qincha Guards and the Five Han Army Guards who came out of Yingtian Prefecture had been silted out. Since the Bian River had long been silted, the wide river channel had become a major road. The Qincha Guards, as the vanguards, had already left the brigade before the brigade; the central army was composed of the right guards of the Han army, the central guards, the firearm guards and some local garrison troops, and several columns were arranged to advance in the river channel; the rear army was composed of the Han army's rear guards and the Aolu army, and the guards were protected by the supplies, food and grass.

Tens of thousands of troops marched, and the team was winding for more than ten miles. Although Suzhou was a battlefield at this time, there was no Song army invasion here. In addition, the marching was safe in the past few days, and there was no sign of Song army infiltrating. Moreover, it was only a hundred miles away, and the future was broad, and there was no dangerous place, making it even more difficult to hide troops. Therefore, except for routinely sending sentry cavalry, each unit did not strengthen the search along the way, nor did it expand the search scope.

"Report to the commander, the enemy's front and central troops have left Liuzi Town, and the rear troops are preparing to leave. No enemy whistle cavalry appears around them!" A scout came to report.

"Tong Fang, Tong Zhang, we are going to prepare for a battle!" The three of them discussed the day before yesterday and made a decision, so they started to prepare for a battle. After hearing this, Sun Datong stood up and said with a smile.

"Okay, let's go out immediately and attack the enemy's rear army first, disrupt their formation, and create a fighter opportunity for your troops to take the opportunity to occupy Liuzi Town!" Fang Sheng also stood up and said.

"Zhang Dutong, whether we can defend Liuzi Town depends on your artillery. You can't hold back!" Sun Datong looked at Zhang Pingyan and said.

"Don't worry, we will follow up and set up positions before the enemy brigade returns, so as to discipline them without going back!" Zhang Ping also promised.

"Let's take action separately!" Sun Datong nodded and said, "Tong Fang, don't fight after you succeed in one blow. You must quickly move to the flank to ensure the safety of our left wing and do not let the enemy detour to our rear, otherwise you will face two battles, which will be very difficult!"

"I can't forget it!" Fang Sheng cursed with a smile. The three of them said that their personal relationships were good, and they all understood that the blocking battle must be based on the Fifth Brigade, and they all held a supporting position. Therefore, even if the three of them had similar positions, he and Zhang Ping were better than Sun Datong in terms of qualifications, but they did not care and cooperated very consciously.

"Okay, see you in Liuzi Town!" Sun Datong punched Fang Sheng on the shoulder and said with a smile.

The three of them bowed their hands and returned to their troops to mobilize their troops. Sun Datong also began to mobilize troops and generals to pounce on Liuzi Town. He stood on a high slope and watched countless soldiers gather or separate from the intertwined dry ditch to the battlefield. He couldn't help but feel a little moved. At the beginning of the Xining period of Emperor Shenzong, it was during the reform of Wang Anshi that the famous minister Jiang Zhiqi moved to Huaidong to transfer the canal. Because of the year of the people's flow, he recruited envoys to repair water conservancy and feed the flow. He worked over one million and built the Biantong Huan irrigation project with the "Hengxi Sangou" as the main body, which was able to irrigate 9,000 hectares of fields and 114,000 living people.

Now who would have thought that this project that once benefited the country and the people would be silted a hundred years later due to natural disasters and wars, and the water conservancy projects were abandoned, and thousands of hectares of fertile fields became a barren land. The remains as dense as palm lines became a path for later generations to marches and hide soldiers, and a natural barrier that blocked the smooth road. The countless fertile fields of living people also became a battlefield for thousands of troops to kill, and a place for battle between the two countries to compete for power.

Sun Datong raised his telescope a little higher and looked at Liuzi Town further away. Although this was not his first time to observe, he was still shocked by its scale. It was said that it was a town, but in fact it was comparable to the size of a lower-class state city. Houses were built with the Bian River. Wharfs, granaries, shops, temples, and residential areas were scattered within a radius of twenty miles, especially a pagoda that looked particularly eye-catching. Even if the scene of the past was no longer full of masts and bustling traffic, it could make people imagine the prosperity of the past.

It was precisely because of this that they decided to wait until the enemy left the town and raid and rob Liuzi Town. Otherwise, not to mention that the troops could not be surrounded, even if they surrounded them, the enemy could rely on the houses in the town to fight with them, and they would inevitably pay a huge price. On the contrary, if they occupied the town, they could defend accordingly and cut off the enemy's retreat.

"Call cannon, start attacking!" At this time, the enemy 6 continued to leave, and the rear army was at the end. Because they wanted to escort the entire army's baggage, the horse and carriage were slowly loading, and gradually distanced from the central army in front. And because they were at the end, the front army opened the way, they were not very vigilant. Sun Datong seized the rare opportunity and ordered.

‘Boom, boom, boom!’ Three cannons, the cavalry brigade took the lead in attacking. They divided into several teams and rushed out of several dry ditches and rushed straight to the enemy rear troops marching in the river. After a series of shooting, they rode their horses through the enemy's ranks, slashed the unprepared enemy troops, and kept throwing grenades into the enemy group. The enemy rear troops who were suddenly attacked were in chaos for a while, and they fled and evaded in all directions.

"Order the first regiment, the second regiment quickly capture Liuzi Town, immediately occupy the commanding heights, and launch a detachment of the enemy. The third regiment escorts the artillery brigade into the position, and the baggage follows!" Seeing that the enemy's marching line was disrupted and was restrained by the cavalry brigade, Sun Datong ordered again.

After receiving the offensive order, the units of the Fifth Brigade attacked from each hidden place. The first and the second regiments rushed from the north and south directions respectively, and entered the town. A rush to defeat and expel the enemy troops who had not left the town, and then turned to the defensive and blocked the enemy troops who tried to return to the town. A little stable, Sun Datong also led the brigade's direct team into the town, and the third regiment also escorted the artillery brigade through the open area, and dragged the artillery into the town with horses.

When Sun Datong entered the town, he immediately found a commanding height and looked outside the town. He couldn't tell what he was feeling at the moment. He felt very excited, excited, and a little panicked, so that his hands holding the telescope were trembling. He started from an ordinary soldier and grew into a famous officer step by step, fantasizing that one day he could command thousands of troops across the battlefield.

However, Sun Datong did not have such an opportunity. At most, he was just a commander to command local battles. He only had to act according to the commander's orders. When he was rising, he could still use a gun to fight with the enemy. But this time he had to preside over a battle in one aspect, organize and coordinate various departments, bear all the consequences, and no longer acted spontaneously, but saw the overall situation.

"I inform the cavalry brigade that the enemy's central army has returned to the army to respond, and ordered them to quickly escape from the battle and retreat north as planned!" After receiving the report of the enemy's return to aid on the high tower, Sun Datong looked at the battlefield again. The enemy's rear troops, who were initially raided, gradually stabilized their positions from the initial panic, and began to use vehicles to block the cavalry's impact road and fight with them. Seeing that there was a danger of being attacked by the enemy, he ordered.

"After all the cavalry brigades withdraw, let the artillery cover and shoot the enemy in the river!" Sun Datong looked left and right. The artillery brigade and the artillery regiment directly under the 5th Brigade had entered the town and were building positions. He ordered. In fact, he was greedy for the vehicles scattered in the river that were filled with food and supplies of the enemy. Although many of the supplies were not very useful to the Song army, he was still very envious. At least so much food was enough for them to eat for a while. But there was no time to collect them. Since he could not get them, he might as well destroy them all and could not let the enemy use them anymore.

"Signal, order the engineering battalion to detonate!" After the cavalry brigade in sight had completed its mission, it had withdrawn from the battle and turned toward the ward. The artillery also began to conduct test firing to correct the shooting of the generals. Sun Datong issued another order, and after the messenger conveyed it in flag words, three red signal flares rose from the tower and floated to the sky...
Chapter completed!