On the occasion of rebirth Zhou Sui

Chapter 221 Crossing the Yangtze River at Night

Cui Hongdu's big moves in Jiangbei could not be hidden from the rebel scouts on the south bank.

Although most of the generals in Jingkou City disagreed, they felt that this was another Jiangbei Sui army entertaining them.

However, Zhu Mowen, the governor of Southern Xuzhou who was canonized by Suzhou Emperor Shen Xuanzao, opposed all opinions.

The story of the boy who cried wolf has already deceived the soldiers and civilians of Jiangnan once. Zhu Mowen couldn't hide it from him this time.

Cui Che has been in Jiangbei for more than half a month, and it's time to take action.

Zhu Mowen was sure that Cui Che had made a lot of noise in the north of the river just to paralyze the defenders on the south bank and wait for this time to build a bridge to cross the river.

He personally led the main force eastward and confronted Cui Hongdu's troops across the river who were building a pontoon bridge.

Unlike the Jiangling Prefecture soldiers who were busy with engineering operations, the rest of the Sui army rested in the camp to recuperate in advance for the night's operations.

When night fell, the children's care department was the first to leave the camp. When they arrived at Yangzijin, it was still a short time before Yinshi.

The river was dark and empty. Not even a wooden plank could be seen, let alone a five-toothed warship.

A primary school student muttered:

"If the ship is delayed and fails to cross the river on time, Duke Yan will not anger us."

Laihu'er turned a deaf ear and kept looking upstream.

On the surface, he belongs to the prince's party and secretly befriends the king of Jin. Although his official career is smooth, it also makes Lai Huer walk on thin ice. He dare not show the slightest intimacy with the king of Jin and his party members in front of outsiders, for fear of being seen through and causing Gao Jiong

, the crazy revenge of He Ruobi and others.

When the time was about to reach Yin hour, a faint fire appeared in the thick fog upstream.

The fire got closer and brighter, and finally, seven large ships with five teeth came into view.

When the ship docked, Lai Huer ordered his soldiers to board the ship in an orderly manner. At this time, it happened to be the time when Shi Wansui's troops arrived at Yangzijin. Behind him, there were 65,000 Sui soldiers led by Cui Che himself.

Military officers.

Although the Yangtze River was shrouded in thick fog at night, the movements in the north of the river were still known to the scouts on the south bank. When they reported the matter to the generals who stayed at Jingkou, the people who stayed behind were shocked.

The main force had been taken away by Zhu Mowen, and he only had a few thousand men in his hands. While he sent people to report to Zhu Mowen, he summoned his soldiers to stop the Sui army from crossing the river.

But in the middle of the night, it took a lot of time just to wake up the soldiers and wait for them to dress. When the rebel general who stayed behind rushed to the river bank with a group of yawning soldiers, he came to protect his five thousand soldiers.

People have already gone ashore and formed formations.

The rebels launched several attacks, but could not break up the Sui army's formation. They saw light spots coming from the north again in the thick fog on the river. Those who stayed behind did not dare to fight anymore. He led the army back to Jingkou and waited for Zhu Mo.

Ask the teacher back.

When Zhu Mowen, who was thirty miles away, learned that the Sui army was crossing the Yangtze River, he finally came to his senses and did not bother to curse Cui Hongdu for his realistic acting. Zhu Mowen quickly led his troops to return for reinforcements.

But at this time, most of the Sui army had already established a foothold on the south bank of the Yangtze River.

During the day, Cui Hongdu sent someone to report back to the camp and informed the main force of the rebels to confront him on the south bank.

They came to protect their children when they crossed the river, but only thousands of rebels came to stop them. The main force must have not returned. Cui Che called Shi Wansui to come and protect his children, and ordered:

"Let you two go around Jingkou and intercept the return troops!"

"The general will obey the order!"

Shi Wansui and Lai Hu'er said in unison, and then led his tribe, a total of fifteen thousand people, and headed east.

The one who took over the defensive formation of the two was Yugura, who had two eyes.

Cui Che called Zhang Wu again:

"You lead the Boling cavalry and march east of Jingkou. If the rebels dare to go out of the city to join forces, attack them for me!"

Zhang Wu said confidently:

"If the enemy dares to come, the final general will definitely take his head!"

Cui Che nodded and watched as the three thousand cavalrymen rode away.

In this battle, Cui Che commanded an army of 100,000 to suppress the rebellion. However, since most of the sergeants were soldiers recruited from the east of Han and Huainan, and most of them were infantry, excluding the 3,000 Boling cavalry, Cui Che was in Jiangbei.

At that time, he gathered the cavalry from various departments and put them under his direct command. There were only five thousand cavalry.

When the Sui army's troops were crossing the river one after another, Cui Che summoned the navy general and ordered him to continue down the river for thirty miles to assist Cui Hongdu's troops in crossing the river.

He also asked Li Jing to board the ship and accompany him, and told Cui Hongdu that after crossing the river, he would head west and join Shi Wansui to protect Zhu Mowen and outflank Zhu Mowen's troops.

Cui Che asked Yang Guang to command the remaining infantry and advance to Jingkou, but instead of attacking, he led five thousand cavalry and galloped around to the east of Jingkou.

When Cui Che arrived at the battlefield, the Jingkou garrison that had left the city to meet them had been defeated by Zhang Wu's Boling cavalry, leaving only corpses on the ground and hurriedly fled back to the city.

Zhang Wu led his cavalry to join Cui Che. Cui Che had already gathered eight thousand cavalry under his command, and he continued to march eastward.

The arrival of eight thousand cavalry on the battlefield on the east side also made Zhu Mowen give up the idea of ​​bypassing Shi Wansui and others. Just as he was about to retreat, Cui Hongdu led 20,000 Jiangling Prefecture soldiers behind him to stop him.

In the dilemma of advance and retreat, with Cui Che's order, the Sui army turned from defense to offense. Shi Wansui came to protect his children and led an army of 15,000 people to approach from the west. Cui Hongdu led 20,000 soldiers from the east and Cui Che personally led 8,000 cavalry.

The soldiers charged from the south.

Zhu Mowen originally had 20,000 to 30,000 troops, but later he received 20,000 reinforcements from Shen Xuanzao. At this time, he had a total of 40,000 troops around him, but they were really mixed.

Being besieged on three sides by the Sui army, with the surging river to the north, and especially the deafening sound of horse hooves in the south, the Jiangnan rebels, who had never seen a large-scale cavalry charge, were frightened.

The people's hearts were shaken, and as soon as they made contact, the troops were scattered and the army was defeated like a mountain.

"Surrender! I surrender!"

More and more rebels are laying down their arms. Two months ago, they were just farmers plowing the fields. If they had not suffered from the "Five Religions" and were afraid of being moved to the north, they would not have participated in the rebellion.

Now that death is close at hand, I suddenly feel that reciting the "Five Teachings" is not unacceptable. As for the difficulty of moving to my homeland, I have forgotten it.

According to the words and deeds of some Nanchen veterans in the army, the Sui army would pass them by, only to dedicate some personnel to guard them, while the rest would continue to fight.

In the battle against Chen, at Yang Jian's request, all departments of the Sui army basically adhered to the policy of preferential treatment of prisoners. Not only did they not abuse them, they also gave them some food and released the prisoners to promote the Sui army as a benevolent and righteous army.

It was precisely because the image of the Sui army as a benevolent and righteous army was deeply rooted in the hearts of the people that the rebels easily gave up resistance.

However, this Sui army did not respect martial ethics and had clearly abandoned their weapons and surrendered. However, they did not stop wielding the weapons in their hands and wantonly harvested the lives of the soldiers.

I don’t know which rebel shouted in the middle of the night:

"The Sui army refused to surrender"

Screams pierced the night.

The rebels' activity space was continuously compressed. Except for a few defeated soldiers who escaped through the gaps between the formations, more and more people were crowded together. Behind them was the rolling Yangtze River.

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