The Most Romantic of the Three Kingdoms

Liu Deng and Pan Zhang led more than 1,000 troops to be the vanguards of Xu Zhong and Le Jin. Climb up, cut down the defenders of Huailing again, and break the city in one fell swoop.

After the city was broken, Liu Deng quickly stabilized the situation in the city with the cooperation of some local gentry headed by Que Xuan.

At the same time, the remnants of Huailing who escaped from the city encountered the Guangling cavalry who had been waiting for a long time. Under the leadership of the Qu Jun Hou Chen Ji of the Guangling cavalry, the Guangling cavalry chased from east to west and killed them. These remnants of Huailing had no way to escape, or Be beheaded on the spot, or surrender.

The first battle to attack Xuzhou has come to a successful conclusion.

While Liu Deng and Pan Zhang slaughtered the remaining enemies and appeased the city, they waited for the arrival of the main forces such as Xu Zhong and Le Jin, which need not be mentioned for now.

But it is said that on the same day that Liu Deng and Pan Zhang attacked Huailing, Xun Cheng and Xu Rong of the northern theater also launched an attack on Xiapi.

Similar to Xu Zhong and Yue Jin's tactics of "not attacking mountains and hills", Xun Cheng and Xu Rong's "first battle" was also "avoiding the real and attacking the virtual".

They first took the Pinglu Colonel Chen Wu as the vanguard, led more than 1,000 troops, set out from Ping'an County, entered the territory of Xiapi with great momentum, feigned to attack "Huaiyin County" on the south bank of the Huai River, and then successfully mobilized the enemy's defenders. After paying full attention, he dispatched Sima Wenpin from another department and led more than a thousand troops to dive across the Huai River to cover the "Huaipu County" on the north bank of the Huai River.

The mountains in the south and the north in the water are called "yin".

"Huaiyin" means "on the south bank of the Huai River".

"Pu" means "by the water", as the name suggests, "Huaipu" means "by the Huai River".

Huaiyin and Huaipu counties are both on the banks of the Huai River, located in the north and south, and face each other obliquely across a Huai River.

The distance between the two counties is not far, only about ten miles apart.

Because Huaiyin is on the south bank of Huai River, there is no landscape between Huaiyin and Guangling, so on this defensive line, Zhe Rong placed the main force of the defending army in Huaiyin. If they attacked Huaiyin directly, it would be difficult to obtain. Therefore, Xun Cheng and Xu Rong chose the same tactics as Xu Zhong and Yue Jin, which was also "avoiding the real and attacking the virtual", feigning to attack Huaiyin and actually attacking Huaipu.

As long as "Huaipu" is clicked, it is equivalent to cutting off the support of "Huaiyin". In other words, "Huaiyin" has become a dangerous city hanging in isolation. There are no reinforcements outside, and there are strong enemies nearby. This is a taboo for defending the city. Under such circumstances, even if there were more defenders in Huaiyin City, they would definitely have no fighting spirit.

It is similar to Liu Deng and Pan Zhang who dared not to attack the mountains and Xutai, and entered the southern hinterland of Xiapi and first attacked "Huailing". The main reason for leading the troops to dive across the Huai River and attack Huaipu first is also because there is an internal response in "Huaipu County".

"Huailing" should belong to the powerful Que Xuan in the south of Xiapi County, and "Huaipu" should belong to the first-class gentry Chen clan in Xiapi.

This "Chen family" is the family of Chen Dengchen/Yuanlong.

Chen Deng is from Huaipu, and his family is very famous in the state, let alone in his hometown of Huaipu.

Compared with the battle of Liu Deng and Pan Zhang's night attack on Huailing, the battle process of Wenpin's attack on Huaipu can be said to be simpler and easier.

First, when diving across the Huai Shui, the Chen family gave Wenpin great help.

Since he knew that the "Huaishui" was the biggest "natural danger" in Xiapi, it was impossible for Cheng Rong to ignore the defenses against the "Huaishui". His ships patrolled on the Huaishui River day and night. , and there are foot soldiers and civilians patrolling along the river, and soldiers are guarding each ferry port. It can be said that Zherong's defense and defense of Huai River must be called "strict".

Under such a "tightly guarded" background, without the cooperation of the Chen family, Wenpin would never have been able to sneak across the river with thousands of soldiers.

But it is said: Although the Chen family is the crown clan of the state and county, they do not have the military power to defend Huaipu, so how did they help Wenpin to make it safe without disturbing the defenders of Huaipu? Dive across the river with thousands of soldiers?

It's simple to say.

Although the Chen family did not have the military power to defend Huaipu, they had a great influence on the local people in Huaipu. Due to the lack of troops, the Huaipu defenders could not do everything themselves. Therefore, including in Huaipu. Most of the boats cruising on the water, the soldiers and civilians patrolling the north bank of the Huai River, and even the manpower guarding the ferry port were dispatched from Huaipu County, and some were simply drawn from Huaipu County residents. , which gave the Chen family an opportunity to exert its strong influence in Huaipu.

It is precisely because of this that Wenpin was able to easily cross the river.

After crossing the Huai River, the next step is to attack Huaipu County.

When Liu Deng and Pan Zhang attacked Huailing, they had internal support, but no matter what, they went through a fierce battle, while Wenpin attacked Huaipu, but almost did not use any guns.

The reason for the obvious difference between the two is of course not because the civil servants are better at fighting, but obviously because the influence of Que Xuan in Huailing is far less than the influence of the Chen family in Huaipu.

No matter how famous Que Xuan is, no matter how many party members, no matter how many diners and disciples under his family, he is only a tyrannical man and has little influence on the scholars.

The Chen family is different. The Chen family is a noble family, with two thousand stones for generations. Some members of the family have held noble "public" positions such as "taiwei", and they have a great influence on the local scholars. According to the usual practice~www.wuxiaspot.com~, like the county government, the Cao officials and subordinates in the county and temple are mostly from local scholar families. Before the war, the officials in the county and temple, including the county magistrate, had actually been persuaded by the Chen family to favor Xun Zhen.

The general of Huaipu County was sent by Zhe Rong, but when all the scholars in the county had already "secretly promised Xunzhen", how much role could he play even if he had soldiers and horses under his command? ——Don’t forget, although the gentry are “aristocrats”, big clans like the Chen clan are not just “farming and reading”. , This is also an armed force that cannot be underestimated, especially when the defender is completely unprepared and suddenly cooperates with Wenpin to launch an attack. .

That's exactly what happened.

After receiving an urgent report from the trilogy, I heard that the county sergeant and person "turned on the side" and applied for the civil service to attack the city. After the troops in ambush were repelled, he made a decisive decision and chose to surrender.

After Huaipu was overcome, Huaiyin held on for two more days and then surrendered.

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