Chapter 821: Making a Feint to the East and Attacking in the West

On the 27th, Zhang He led two armies of nearly 100,000 troops and began to besiege Ruyin City. When the army arrived at Ruyin, they set up two large camps in the north and west of the city. Then Zhang He ordered the army to start filling the river, and sent people to make a large number of siege equipment, and began to prepare various siege materials in an orderly manner.

But at this time, neither Yuan Shujun nor the coalition players knew that there were more than 20,000 elite Anton Army soldiers hidden in a place called Songjia Town, next to the official road more than a hundred miles west of Ruyin City. .

On the morning of the 28th, Huang Yi's army, which had been well prepared, left Xincai County with great fanfare and headed towards Ruyin along the official road. In addition to the 25,000 Yulin troops, there were also 5,000 Xincai guards and 10,000 civilians in this dispatch.

Soon the movements of Yuan Shu's army in Xincai City were reported by the scouts to Huangfu Chaobo in Songjia Town. Huangfu Chaobo was stunned when he received the news that Huang Yi had led troops to support Ruyin. Did Huang Yi really want to go? Do you support Ruyin? Then forget about whether his army ambushed him directly between Songjia Town and Runhe.

Just when Huangfu Chaobo felt that Huang Yi's actions were too strange, Pang Tong's eyes lit up when the news came back from the scouts again. The speed of Huang Yi's army was so strange. According to common sense, if Huang Yi wanted to rescue If it was Ruyin, the army should move quickly and rush to Ruyin as soon as possible. However, Huang Yi's army took half a day to march less than fifteen miles, which was far lower than the normal marching speed of the army.

You must know that Huang Yi is commanding the most elite Yulin army in Yuan Shu's hands, not ordinary newly trained soldiers. Pang Tong put his hands on his hands and laughed loudly: "My lord, Huang Yi has other motives for doing this!"

Huangfu Chaobo was stunned for a moment, but he quickly came to his senses and said with a smile: "Huang Yi is trying to play tricks on us, Shi Yuan!"

Pang Tong smiled and said: "Isn't that good? I brought it to my mouth myself, hehe!"

Huangfu Chaobo frowned slightly and said, "Is that okay? You must know that they are also an army of 25,000, which is comparable to our strength. Moreover, they are all elites who have fought in hundreds of battles. Can we eat them?"

Pang Tong smiled and shook his head and said: "Although the army led by Huang Yi is known as Yuan Shu's imperial army, and although its combat power is strong, the general who leads the army is a relative of his. If the leader is someone of Ji Ling's generation, The battle between the two armies is still uncertain, but if Huang Yi leads the army now, the army of more than 20,000 will be like a chicken and a dog. "

At this point, he paused again and said: "The four thousand cavalry under General Huang have not arrived yet. If the lord is worried, he can send one thousand cavalry, one man and two horses, to go around to meet him. Please ask General Huang to send a school." The Huben army comes. One school of Huben army plus five thousand cavalry, ten thousand troops come out from behind Huang Yi. How long do you think Huang Yi can hold out? "

Huangfu Chaobo thought about it, and if he sent a thousand cavalry, he would still have 13,000 Guards, plus Chen Dao's 2,000 white soldiers and Dong Fang's 5,000 Leopard Tao camp, there would be a total of 20,000 people. , except for Dong Fang's Baotao camp, the rest of these soldiers and horses are all special units, and their combat power is definitely stronger than Huang Yi's so-called Royal Forest Army, not to mention there are five thousand cavalry in it.

The 20,000 troops only need to block the way of Huang Yi's army. If Huang Zhong's 10,000 troops suddenly come out from behind him, they will definitely be able to defeat Huang Yi's army, or at least defeat it. As long as the army is defeated, on this plain Go up, his 25,000 imperial guardsmen will definitely not be able to escape the pursuit of his 10,000 cavalry.

Thinking of this, Huangfu Chaobo immediately ordered to implement Pang Tong's idea. He originally thought of running an ambush between Ancheng and Xincai, but he didn't expect Huang Yi to come to the door himself. This would save a lot of work.

After nightfall, at the north gate of Songjia Town, a thousand cavalrymen of the Andong Army, one man and two horses, took advantage of the cover of night to leave the town and headed north. They would cross the river from Geling, about fifty miles north of Xincai, to Ancheng. After joining Huang Zhong's army, he returned to catch Huang Yi's tail.

From Ancheng to Songjia Town, even if it takes a detour to Ge Ling, it is only more than 150 miles. A round trip is 300 miles, and the cavalry only needs more than a day's journey.

In the Anton Army, except for the infantry riding skills of the Guards, which have reached the intermediate level or above, there are one or two schools of infantry in each battalion of the other armies who have learned riding skills. The purpose is to use them for rapid marching, like the earliest adult soldiers. The army's Huben Camp and Longxiang Camp require all soldiers in the battalion to learn riding skills, so there is no problem in transferring soldiers from the Huben Camp from Huang Zhong's army to participate in the battle.

After a thousand cavalry arrived in Ancheng, after a short rest, Huang Zhong immediately gathered all the cavalry, and then Wang Ran led the army of 10,000 to the east. At this time, even Le in the city discovered the presence of Huang Zhong's army. It was too late to notify Huang Yi of any unusual movement.

On the afternoon of the 29th, Huang Yi's 25,000-strong army had arrived ten miles west of Songjia Town. By now, the army was already seventy or eighty miles away from Xincai. Huang Yi believed that his high-profile action was enough. The Anton Army was confused, because his army had encountered several waves of Anton Army scouts since today.

In fact, what he didn't know was that these waves of scouts were specially arranged by Pang Tong to confuse him.

That night, after setting up camp, Huang Yi summoned the army generals for discussion and announced to them that after the army rested for the night tonight, the main force of the army would quickly return to Ancheng to aid tomorrow. Of course, the 5,000 defenders and 10,000 civilians would continue to march eastward. , continue to support Ruyin.

And these 5,000 troops and 10,000 civilians will not really cross the Run River. Huang Yi and his staff also saw the stone bridge over the Run River. When the army arrived at the west of the stone bridge, they would set up camp there to delay the reinforcements that might come from the Anton Army.

They didn't know that in the ten miles east and west of the camp, there were tens of thousands of Anton Army troops hiding, staring at them.

Yes, Wang Ran's 10,000 troops had hurriedly rushed to the back of Huang Yi's army, cutting off their retreat. As long as the army launched an attack on them, they could attack from the front and back and defeat Huang Yi's army.

On the 30th, as soon as the sky was slightly bright, the Huang Yi army camp began to get busy. Tens of thousands of troops were packing up. The Imperial Guards were about to rush nearly a hundred miles to Ancheng to attack Huang Zhong's army. The Xincai defenders would go to the Run River to set up camp to defend against the Anton Army.

The first to eat were the army scouts. Three hundred cavalry scouts would set out first to report the scattered An Dong army scouts west of Runhe River and the news of the return of the Pingbi army.

As the three hundred scouts left the camp, the soldiers and civilians in the Huangyi army camp immediately began to get busy.