Chapter 423 The little girl is ruthless
Zhao Yulin felt heartbroken, thinking that he had made things difficult for the little girl. He squatted down to examine her carefully, unwrapped her clothes carefully, disinfected them again, applied medicine, and bandaged the wound.
He saw that there was a wound more than an inch long on Hulan's neck, and thought to himself that the little girl was really cruel and was serious about it. If she used more force, I don't know how much blood would be shed. I'm afraid she would have to lie in bed for ten days or half a month before she could recover.
Zhao Yulin carefully treated Hu Lan's wound, and took her little hand to the back hall of the central army tent. The little girl seemed to be fine, and said happily that she would never leave her brother again.
Zhao Yulin said to himself, what's so good about him that he should make such a difficult trip?
The little girl said: She doesn't care, she will just follow Ding Ge'er.
As soon as he sat down in the room, the guards brought him some tea. Zhao Yulin just took a sip when he saw Hu Lan waving his bandaged right hand and calling him to feed him.
The little girl pouted and said that he had no mercy on women and that they were hurt.
Zhao Yulin smiled, picked up Hu Lan's tea bowl, blew on it, tested the temperature, and carefully brought it to her lips. The little girl took a sip, raised her head and looked at him happily.
He asked, "Is it that exaggerated?" He continued to pass the tea bowl over and waited for Hulan to drink it before putting it down.
Before he put it down, the little girl said: I'm thirsty and I want to eat more.
Zhao Yulin picked up the tea bowl and continued to feed her. Hu Lan took another sip, raised her eyes and looked at him lovingly, looking like a delicate peony.
Zhao Yulin's heart was moved and his face was burning. He quickly put down the tea bowl and was about to leave, but Hulan pulled his sleeve with her left hand and told him not to leave, saying that she wanted more tea.
Zhao Yulin had no choice but to refill the teapot and serve the girl steadily. The distance between their hearts was rapidly closing...
The two were just being sweet when the guard captain Ke Zhenxie reported and hurriedly ran in from outside, just in time to see Zhao Yulin and Hu Lan being intimate.
The boy yelled and turned and ran away, muttering that he saw nothing.
Zhao Yulin was embarrassed.
Hu Lan, however, looked very happy, and told Ke Zhenxie to come in and shout "Sister-in-law, forgive him for being innocent." This guy actually shouted so weakly.
Hu Lan was very happy and even asked for a meal at Wu Gu Feng in the evening and the wine would be paid for by her.
Zhongmu County in the north has become a mess.
Mengge ordered Liu Yuzhou to lead 50,000 troops to attack Zhongmu, which was a big move. This guy had lost almost 50,000 troops in his previous defeat in Zhengzhou.
His eldest son led 10,000 vanguards and took the lead in engaging Gu Shan's troops who were preparing to march into Kaifeng. The Shenwei Army was defeated and retreated. The eldest son won the first battle, seized the ferry, occupied the village, and marched straight to the city of Zhongmu.
Liu Yuzhou was delighted at first when he learned that the vanguard army had defeated the Shenwei army and reached Zhongmou, but then he became worried that his eldest son had been deceived, so he immediately drove the main army to follow up quickly and respond to the vanguard from a distance.
Seeing that the enemy gathered the three columns of Li Dagui, Liu Qiangguang and Gu Shan and put them under the unified command of Gu Shan. Suddenly, they surrounded Liu Yuzhou's eldest son on Niutou Mountain. After a severe beating, the eldest son lost half of his men and fled to the main peak of Niutou Mountain to put up a desperate resistance. However, Lai Chuanfang decided not to surround but to take the eldest son to go fishing.
He quickly adjusted his deployment and dispatched troops to deal with Liu Yuzhou who came to rescue him.
This guy was just happy that his son had won a victory, but half a day later he received an urgent report that his son was surrounded and requested support. He desperately urged the army to rush to the rescue.
Liu Yuzhou wanted to rescue his eldest son, and Guandu was the only way to go. Lai Chuanfang served him a dish here and mobilized Li Dagui's entire column to fight this guy.
He said to Da Kui: Back then, Cao Mengde defeated Yuan Shao here with less than ten thousand men. It should be no problem for me, brother, to defeat Liu Bang with twenty thousand men, right?
Li Dagui's face turned red after hearing this, and he took off his military cap and was about to sign a military order.
Lai Chuanfang immediately took up his hat and asked him to put it on. He pointed to the south and said, "Brothers, we are all here to sign a military order. The third young master is watching us. Let's do our job well."
Miao Gui reminded his brothers that even though the person in front of them was that thief Liu, we were facing Brother Meng, and there were still 30,000 cavalry in Kaifeng, so we must not be careless.
Da Kui saluted and left immediately, leaving Lai Chuanfang to continue thinking.
Miao Gui said that to defeat Liu Yuzhou, we must fight against Mengge's cavalry, so should we transfer the newly formed Jinzhou Column over there?
Lai Chuanfang nodded and said thank you Brother Miao for his care, and asked the central army tent to send a message to Yang Xingyun, attacking Weizhou and threatening Yingtian Prefecture.
Yingtian is Shangqiu. When the capital of the Song Dynasty was still in Kaifeng, Yingtian Prefecture was a very prosperous place. These brothers dreamed of regaining it as soon as possible.
Miao Gui agreed with this strategy. This move could also attack Kaifeng from behind and form a double-team situation, which would be beneficial to the entire battle situation.
The war machine of the Eastern Group began to operate at a rapid speed.
Mengge laughed after receiving the report that Liu Yuzhou's eldest son's vanguard was surrounded and suffered heavy losses. He pointed to Guandu on the map and said that they would lose another battle here. He then ordered his cavalry to set off immediately, marching close to Liu Yuzhou's rear team, ready to join the battlefield at any time to counterattack the Shenwei Army.
It turns out that Comrade Mengge has his own clever plan.
He intended to use Liu Yuzhou's Haner Army to delay and consume the Shenwei Army and then annihilate it with his cavalry.
He was discussing the details with Subutai when Hubili's military report arrived, saying that the southern army had been defeated in Dachuan and had retreated to Suzhou. The Shenwei Army had occupied Suqian and was approaching the city of Suzhou.
Hubili requested to retreat.
Mengge's big hand passed across Xuzhou, Suqian, and Suzhou on the map. He felt that the war situation was changing too fast and he was a little out of control.
Once the southern front collapsed, it would be meaningless for him to continue defending Kaifeng. The army should quickly withdraw from the garrison along the Yellow River.
Brother Meng looked down on his brother Hubili. What kind of war was this? It had only just begun and there was already a crisis in all directions.
Subutai was also very unwilling. This time, they used Liu Yuzhou as bait and mobilized Lai Chuanfang's troops to attack , just to seize the opportunity to catch the Shenwei Army off guard.
Now the strategic situation has been formed. The Shenwei Army is confronting the Mongolian Army at Guandu. They can take advantage of the Shenwei Army's unstable foothold after crossing the river and strike hard.
However, now that the Shenwei Army has won a great victory in the south, they will surely advance in great strides. In this case, they will have no time to fight. Even if they win, it will be difficult for the team to withdraw from the battlefield. It will not be fun to be entangled by the Shenwei Army.
While they were still calculating, the Battle of Guandu in the northeast of Zhongmu had already begun. Li Dagui's Shenwei Army, supported by a large number of naval fleets, attacked the Mongolian army that was crossing the south. Liu Yuzhou was unable to resist after being hit by fierce firepower from land and water. Dagui's continuous attack like an overwhelming tidal wave annihilated the Mongolian army that had landed, and immediately crossed the river to counterattack.
After Liu Yuzhou retreated across the river, he looked up to the sky and sighed, and ordered his remaining troops to fight to the death to block the Shenwei Army from crossing the river. However, he had no choice but to force his way across the river without setting up defenses at the dock and on the mudflats. The Shenwei Army crossed the river and landed at full speed, and he was completely unprepared, so he could not stop them. The Mongolian army retreated step by step.
Seeing that the Mongolian army had lost a large beachhead three miles near the pier in one fell swoop, Mengge's military supervisor arrived from behind. After beheading dozens of deserters in succession, he shouted: Reinforcements have arrived, you are not allowed to retreat even a single step.
When Liu Yuzhou heard from the leading thousand-man tent that reinforcements had arrived and that they were his master Mengge's authentic cavalry, he was overjoyed. He quickly ordered the conch trumpets to be blown to counterattack, shouting, "Reinforcements are coming! Charge!"
Seeing that they had captured the wharf on the other side, Da Kui was so happy that he wanted to cross the river to pursue the enemy soldiers, but he was stopped by his chief military officer, who asked him if he had forgotten. Commander Lai called in the Jinzhou Column and ordered them to deploy on the wharf to prevent the enemy cavalry from robbing and killing them halfway across the river.
Da Kui pointed at the red flags waving in the distance and said, "Don't be afraid of birds. Liu's army has been defeated. Chase them."
Du Yuhou pulled him and said: The Third Young Master taught me: The commander of the column is brave and fearless, the best in the army, but you must prevent yourself from losing Jingzhou due to carelessness. Don't you remember this, brother?
Although victory seems within reach at this moment, it is actually extremely dangerous. If Brother Meng sends out cavalry to counterattack, we will be defeated just like Liu Ze.
When Da Kui heard Du Yuhou reading out Zhao Yulin's instructions, he immediately calmed down and quickly dispatched the Jinzhou Column to cross the river.
Not only that, the navy participating in the battle was also ordered to find the right position to cover the infantry to expand the landing area.
After everything was arranged, Da Kui took a boat to cross the river. As soon as he reached the dock, he saw the Mongolian army's strong counterattack, suppressing the Shenwei Army's momentum to advance in depth.
After the wounded were carried down, they reported: The Northern Barbarian military supervisor had come behind the Han army, and they also said that a large group of cavalry had arrived.
Da Kui and Liu Qiguang were both on the shore, killing happily. Where did the cavalry come from? It was clearly the Mongolian army trying to scare them. Li Da Kui got angry again and scolded the two captains under him and told them to open a gap and charge.
Liu Qiangguang acted cautiously and shouted at the Jinzhou Column to quickly follow up and deploy defenses.
Suddenly, there were flags waving and loud shouts ahead, and then the lookout on the dock reported that they had spotted the enemy and a large group of cavalry was attacking, with a number of at least 10,000 people.
Liu Qiangguang immediately ordered the cavalry to retreat and more urgently called for the artillery to be deployed.
Li Dagui was stunned at first, then he became ruthless and raised his sword to rush forward, but was stopped by his chief military officer, who asked him to stay and take command.
Da Kui was so angry that he didn't recognize any of his relatives.
He shook the ghost-head sword in his hand and said: Brother Liu is here to direct the troops. Let's go and kill the enemies on the front line with me.
Da Kui pushed Du Yuhou aside, jumped on the horse's back and ran forward. His personal guards followed him and rushed out. Du Yuhou and his left and right lieutenant generals also followed.
Although Li Dagui acted a bit recklessly, he knew that it was a critical moment of life and death and he had to resist the attack of the Mongolian cavalry, so he led his men to the front line without hesitation.
Liu Qiangguang shook his head and immediately ordered the artillery to launch an interception attack on the enemy. Then he saw the command flag on the watchtower waving and thousands of cannons roaring.
The mortars, catapults on the dock and the catapults on the ship attacked the Mongolian cavalry from near to far in accordance with the command flags, constantly adjusting the firing line, firmly curbing the momentum of the enemy cavalry's charge, and buying precious time for the infantry's retreat and construction of interception positions.
