The burning ferries on the Gaoliang River are like small light boats set off on the fifteenth day of the first lunar month, blooming bright colors in the night. If they are just treated as a scenery, they can be pleasing to the eye, but for those who need to use these ferries, it is like a blow, exploding over their heads like a bolt from the blue.

Guo Yi suddenly stopped the horses and stared at the fire boats that were flowing downstream, with an extremely ugly face. The sound of hooves in his ears was so loud that Chen Bing rode his horse to Guo Yi. Under the fire, his face was bloodless.

"Why is this happening?" he murmured. "Have tens of thousands of soldiers stopped Jiang Shangyan for a day?"

This is a trap that has been planned for a long time and is extremely exquisitely designed. After Sun Chenglong arrived in Xiangzhou, the plan began to be implemented.

Sun Chenglong knew very well that if both sides clearly showed their chariots and horses and fought hard against each other, even if he used his strength and the three armies to use their lives, he would not be the opponent of the Ming army. Even if his army of more than 100,000 people were fighting to death in Xiangzhou, he would probably not be able to stop the Ming army for how long.

It is basically impossible to complete a task to defeat the Ming army, so Sun Chenglong can only go in a trait and strive to win a big victory in the local area.

The Ming army was indeed very elite, but they had one weakness, that is, under the policy of elite soldiers, their number of troops was not large, and there was still a considerable difference in quality between the headquarters of the Ming army and the army that later joined them.

The forwards of Suqian and Jiang Shangyan became Sun Chenglong's goal of planning.

All the series of actions in Xingzhou and the final desperate battles on the Gaoliang River were just for the final battle.

Sun Chenglong believed that if he could completely defeat the 20,000 infantry and 10,000 cavalry of Jiang Shangyan and Suqian in this battle, the Ming army led by the Ming emperor Qin Feng himself would be completely defeated. Once the Ming army was defeated, the court would have the remaining strength to deal with the left and right Ming army. Even if he could not defeat the opponent, he would still be sure to pull the battle into a quagmire.

Only in this way can Chu State have such a glimmer of vitality.

Sun Chenglong was just a little short of success.

The flood on Guaizi River destroyed the pier that led to Suqian to the other side, and Guo Yi's cavalry assaulted, destroying a large amount of supplies gathered by Suqian and the Yan of Jiangshang on the other side.

This is just the first step. Sun Chenglong knows that Suqian or Jiangshangyan are all long-term generals. As long as the other side fails, they will inevitably take decisive measures. Suqian infantry has no way to go, but Jiangshangyan's cavalry can have a variety of choices.

Therefore, Sun Chenglong arranged heavy troops to intercept the Jiang Shangyan on the road to the upstream. Sun Chenglong didn't care how many casualties and injuries these intercepted men would be. They just had to persevere until Guo Yi's return. At that time, Jiang Shangyan, who had been tired for a long time, would be attacked by these infantry and Guo Yi, and naturally could not escape the defeat.

This is an extremely exquisite chain of things. In the first half, it was completely based on the script designed by Sun Chenglong, but in the second half, deviations began to appear uncontrollably.

First of all, Guo Yi was not as easy as expected when attacking the Ming army's camp on the other side. Although he successfully burned the Ming army's camp and supplies in the end, the Ming army also entangled them tightly and consumed too much time.

Of course, the one who was most uncontrollable was Huo Guang's appearance. This was something that Sun Chenglong never expected. This unexpected point completely destroyed Sun Chenglong's extremely exquisite plan.

When Cao Yun met Qin Feng, he once said that the wisest general was not to complicate the war but to simplify the war as much as possible. The simpler the better, because too complex and exquisite design is often the most uncontrollable thing. A small deviation will lead to a loss.

Sun Chenglong's situation was destroyed by Huo Guang's small deviation.

Sun Chenglong never expected that Huo Guang could see the entire Xiangzhou army's logistics transfer from Yang Chuang. These things were simply impossible to see any clues for an ordinary person. However, Huo Guang had been the Minister of War in the Ming Dynasty for several years and was extremely sensitive to the allocation of these materials.

When Huo Guang discovered clues from the allocation and use of these logistics supplies, and then understood Sun Chenglong's intentions, the entire incident was no longer controlled by Sun Chenglong.

Now, Suqian and Jiangshangyan are indeed trapped in Gaoliang Henan, but it is not easy to annihilate them, because the main force of the Ming army is about to arrive, so it is easy for Suqian to say something. He can only hold his position and be beaten passively, but thousands of cavalrymen in Jiangshangyan escaped, which would be fatal.

More importantly, the 10,000 Fire Phoenix Army led by Guo Yi fell on the other side. This was an unbearable burden for Sun Chenglong. In Xiangzhou, the core of his battle was the 30,000 Fire Phoenix Army. Now, one-third of them lost their role before they met the main force of the Ming army.

Not only Guo Yi, but also nearly 10,000 soldiers under his command, were staring blankly at the fire boat floating on the river. Everyone knew that the road to go back was gone.

The torch Bibi sounded and everyone was silent.

"Drop off the horse, put out the fire, and rest!" Guo Yi turned over and dismounted and said coldly.

Countless torches were instantly extinguished. The cavalry of the Fire Phoenix Army turned over and dismounted. They first removed the saddle of the war horse, then began to clean the body and feed the war horse, and then took out beans from the skin of the body and fed the war horse. After all this, they began to sit cross-legged on the ground and began to eat and drink water.

Everyone understood that their next road was not easy to walk, because they were now in the enemy-occupied area and they had to find a way to cross the river, otherwise when the main force of the Ming army arrived, it would be the beginning of their disaster.

"General, what should we do next?" Chen Bing sat next to Guo Yi and asked while chewing dry food hard.

"I can't do anything tonight. Brothers are too tired." Guo Yi whispered: "After dawn tomorrow, we will go up the river to find a suitable place to cross the river, and then find enough things to cross the river. We must seize the time to cross the river."

"We should have three to four days left!" Chen Bing said: "Time is enough for us to find safe crossing the river, but the plan to annihilate the cavalry of Jiangshangyan is completely bankrupt. Next, I guess Jiangshangyan will definitely rush into the hinterland of Xiangzhou. General Sun does not have enough cavalry power at hand to encircle him."

Guo Yi was silent for a moment: "It's not that long. The main force of the Ming army must have known the situation of the battle here now. Their cavalry may be heading here day and night at this time. It would be a good thing for us to have one or two days."

"Fire Fire Death Camp?" Chen Bing's face changed slightly. In the middle army of the Ming army, in addition to the pure cavalry unit of Jiang Shangyan, there was another pure cavalry unit, that is, the Ming emperor's personal guard camp, the Lie Fire Death Camp. It was a unit that made people scared me.

"I hope we can cross the river smoothly before they arrive here, otherwise we will suffer if we are entangled by them." Guo Yi exhaled a breath of turbid air.

Chen Bing nodded silently.

Although they still have nearly 10,000 cavalry, he has no confidence in the face of the Fire Death Camp.

"Will the Emperor of Ming bring his troops here in person?" He asked anxiously: "Now he is the emperor, he will not be charging forward, right?"

"Who knows!" Guo Yi shook her head: "Stay and sleep for a while."

"General, let's have a rest. I can't sleep. Take someone to take charge of the guard!" Chen Bing stood up and said.

Guo Yi guessed that he had one to two days left, but in fact, he had no more time to do it. The problem still lies with Huo Guang. After he read all the logistics allocations from Yang Chuang to find the problem, he not only gathered all his subordinates to run towards Gaoliang River, but also began to warn Qin Feng at the first time.

Unfortunately, he could not warn Suqian in time because he had only one falcon eagle in his hand, and the final destination of this one was only in the middle army camp, Tian Kang, the commander of the Eagle Nest who had been following Qin Feng to fight.

When Huo Guang was still running all the way on the road, the warning eagle had already soared all the way and returned to Tian Kang. In other words, before the war on the Gaoliang River began, Qin Feng had already known what happened.

Therefore, under Qin Feng's personal leadership, the Liehuo Death Camp was running towards the Gaoliang River as fast as sparks. When Guo Yi was resting on the Gaoliang River, Qin Feng's Liehuo Death Camp was resting less than a hundred miles away. The Liehuo Death Camp, one man and two horses, was only half a day for them. At noon tomorrow, they will appear on the Gaoliang River, and the Canglang Camp and Ruijin Camp immediately accelerated the pace of the march and threw the entire army's logistics to Lufeng's miners' camp to guard and slowly advance.

The dance of the fireboat on the sorghum not only put Guo Yi in a dilemma, but also made the Chu army who blocked the Yan of Jiang finally lose their last courage. They fought to the death and suffered huge casualties and wanted to entangle the Yan of Jiang of Jiang, because Guo Yi came to support them. However, the fireboat on the sorghum made their hope completely destroyed.

Without hope, the combat power disappeared and they could no longer compete with Jiang Shangyan. After a brief counterattack won a little space, they began to escape.

Jiang Shangyan did not chase after him. He drove the cavalry to pursue him in the darkness, which was likely to be more cost-effective. What's more, he was also confused by the fire ships now, and he needed to figure out what was going on.
Chapter completed!