Chapter 856 Good News

When the battle at the bridgehead finally ended, the county city of Wuguo, more than ten miles to the south, was already in chaos. The military camp in the city sounded urgent trumpets and drums, and all the soldiers inside rushed out of the camp and headed for the parade ground to assemble.

Half an hour ago, several fast horses opened the city gate and rushed straight to Le Jue's residence in the city. After receiving the news that the Anton Army had crossed the river in large numbers, Le Jue immediately ordered the army to gather.

After spending half an hour, Le Jue finally assembled 5,000 soldiers from the war camp, and then ordered the city gate to be opened, leading the army to rush towards the floating bridge in the north. Along the way, Le Jue kept urging the soldiers to speed up, but when he arrived at the garrison camp, the floating bridge had been lost, and only dozens of the 1,000 soldiers who supported it escaped back to the camp, while thousands of Anton soldiers had gathered at the bridgehead, and the number was still increasing.

Upon hearing the news of the loss of the floating bridge, Le sighed, and then led the remaining soldiers in the camp and his own 5,000 soldiers back to the county of Weiguo. At the same time, he sent dozens of messengers to warn the emperor of the surrounding cities and Shouchun.

When the first ray of sunlight fell on the earth, Huang Zhong and a group of generals finally set foot on the land of Huainan. Looking at the soldiers crossing the river behind him, Huang Zhong finally breathed a sigh of relief. It has been nearly three hours since the beginning of the crossing. The army finally completely controlled the floating bridge on the river island, and the casualties paid were less than a thousand people. It can be said that it was completely beyond the expectations of the generals of the An Dong army.

After 10,000 troops crossed the river, Huang Zhong sent messengers to report the victory to Huangfu Chaobo at full speed, and at the same time asked the army to advance westward along the Huai River to Xinxi and cross the Huai River from here.

Although there are more than 10,000 troops crossing the river, Huang Zhong did not rush to send troops to attack the county town of Weiguo in the south. Instead, he ordered the original camp of Yuan Shu on the south bank to be expanded into a large camp that can accommodate 100,000 people. He would wait until most of the troops crossed the river before starting the attack on the cities in Huainan.

Even if this would give Yuan Shu's army more time to prepare, it would not be a waste, because Huangfu Chaobo thought he still did not have the ability to fight Yuan Shu alone, or wait for himself and Yuan Shu's army to fight to the death, and then Cao Cao and Sun Ce would come up to pick up the dead fish.

So for the Andong Army, attacking Huainan is one aspect, but after attacking Huainan, they did not directly turn to Shouchun, but first took control of Jiujiang. You know, Yuzhou is now under the jurisdiction of the Andong Army, so there is no such thing as an enclave.

On April 1st, in the Ru'nan camp of the An Dong army, Huangfu Chaobo got up at dawn and sat restlessly in the big tent, because if everything went well, Huang Zhong and Zhou Tai of Xinxi would have started the battle of crossing the river, but when it was dawn, there was still no news, which made Huangfu Chaobo a little anxious.

Watching Huangfu Chaobo walking back and forth there, fidgeting, Pang Tong and Guo Jia sat there calmly, as if they didn't take the war to heart.

As time passed slowly, just when Huangfu Chaobo was about to send someone to Xinxi to inquire about the progress, the guards outside the door came to report that Zongheng Tianxia led several foreign lords to pay a visit.

Originally, Huangfu Chaobo didn't want to see these players at this time, but he changed his mind and thought that since they had already come to the outside of his camp with Zongheng Tianxia, ​​he might as well meet them, so he returned to his main seat and sat down, and then ordered the guards to lead them into the big tent.

As soon as they entered the big tent, they greeted each other and sat down in the big tent. As soon as they sat down, Huangjin Wudi couldn't wait to ask: "Boss Chaobo, the army has been in Huaibei for several days now, and the navy has all arrived. When do we start crossing the river?"

Huangfu Chaobo looked at everyone present one by one and saw that they were all looking at him eagerly. Last year's war made the Yuzhou players who participated in the war gain a lot, so this year, as soon as they received the letter of dispatching troops from the Yuzhou Governor's Mansion, a group of players quickly gathered at the preset camp on the north bank of the Huai River.

But what everyone didn't expect was that the army had gathered for several days, but Huangfu Chaobo still had no signs of sending troops to cross the river. The impatient players went to Zongheng Tianxia's camp, and then everyone decided to come to Huangfu Chaobo to inquire about the news.

Faced with Huangjin Wudi's question, Huangfu Chaobo did not answer him immediately, but walked to the door of the big tent, lifted the curtain and looked outside the big tent. It was almost noon now.

Just as Huangfu Chaobo was about to return to the tent to explain to Zongheng Tianxia and his group, there was a sudden sound of hurried horse hooves outside the camp, and then Huangfu Chaobo saw a team of cavalry running from the west. They urged their horses to run wildly, and shouted to the soldiers outside the camp gate: "New news is urgent, open the camp gate, new news is urgent!"

Most of the cavalry stopped their horses at the camp gate, only one of them held a letter of urgent news in his hand, rushed directly into the camp, and ran wildly towards Huangfu Chaobo's tent. The warhorse did not stop until it was a hundred steps in front of the big tent. The knight turned over and dismounted, holding up the urgent news in his hand high, and shouted: "Where is the general, General Huang sent an urgent news from Xinxi!"

The guards immediately led him towards the big tent, and several people quickly ran outside the big tent, just in time to see Huangfu Chaobo standing at the door of the big tent. Seeing this, the messenger immediately knelt down and performed a military salute and said: "I'm sorry." General, General Huang ordered his subordinates to report! The army successfully captured Yuan Shu's navy camp and pontoon at 10 o'clock today. By the time the general set out, 10,000 troops had successfully crossed the Huai River. General Huang asked the general to act according to the original plan. "

"Ha... OK, OK..." Huangfu Chaobo laughed while stroking his hands, and asked quickly: "How are the casualties of the army?"

"Back to General, the casualties of the army are very small. According to preliminary estimates, there are only less than a thousand casualties."

After Huangfu Chaobo asked some more details about crossing the river, he took Huang Zhong's victory document from the courier. After opening it, he read it carefully, then handed the document to Pang Tong and Guo Jia, and then handed it over to Pang Tong and Guo Jia. He looked at the Zongheng Tianxia group and said, "I believe everyone has guessed that the real place where we are crossing the river is not here, but in Xinxi City upstream. In the early hours of this morning, Huang Zhong and Zhou Tai have led the army to cross the Huaihe River. Water, now the Anton Army has completely controlled the pontoon bridge and water surface on the Huai River south of Xinxi, so please return to camp quickly, and the army quickly breaks out of camp and heads to Xinxi to cross the river. "

At this time, all the players knew that Huang Zhong had led the army to invade Huainan. Now everyone left Huangfu Chaobo's tent with a smile and rushed back to their camp to prepare to break camp and march westward.