South of Xuzhou, rivers and lakes are crisscrossing, waterways run through, and there are many blocking hills...

It is both a place that is easy to escape the pursuers and an ambush for the enemy. Fu Gongyou, who has been growing up in the Jianghuai River for a long time, naturally knew about this. In his eyes, the Zhao army would set up ambush in his own wandering place to the south.

Now for Fu Gongyou, a little better news came, that is, the rear army had already escaped from contact with the Zhao army's pursuers and maintained a relatively safe distance. The Zhao army was all from northerners and could gallop across the plains, but the speed of propulsion in the hills and mountains would decrease a lot.

The subordinates all believed that the Jianghuai River and the Huai River were natural barriers that could prevent the Zhao army from moving south.

However, Fu Gongyou didn't think much. The Zhao army pursuers retreated a little, but instead ordered his subordinates to be cautious. The soldiers needed to lift the arrows and unsheathed the knife. After a while, they ordered the soldiers to feed the war horses and raise their horses. Because Fu Gongyou understood that if the Zhao army pursuers escaped, the ambush ahead would inevitably be close.

Knowing that the war was about to come, Fu Gongyou summoned the generals to discuss. Except for a few generals who were leading troops, the generals of the Shangzu camp and the Danyang Army gathered together. Half of them were trusted by Fu Gongyouxin after Du Fuwei's death to maintain control of the two most combat-effective troops of the Jianghuai Army.

Fu Gongyou said with a hand: "The pursuers behind have been temporarily dumped by us. You are not in a hurry to be happy. The Zhao army attacked Xuzhou this time, with at least 60,000 troops. Yesterday, the city of Xuzhou was at least 30,000. Some of the troops in Xiapi and Pei County were deducted. I guess the Zhao army had nearly 20,000 troops, waiting for us on the way forward."

After hearing what Fu Gongyou said, the generals looked around. At this time, a young general stood up and said.

"Entertainment Father, although our army is trapped and exhausted, there are also many people and horses removed from Xuzhou City. If they are head-on, they are not afraid of them. Entertainment Father, tell me, how should we fight?"

Like Du Fuwei, Fu Gongyou also accepted more than a dozen adopted sons. This adopted son named Gao Xiang is the most capable of fighting, and is the most brave on weekdays. The most rare thing is that he is optimistic in any dangerous situation, so he is deeply loved by Fu Gongyou.

Fu Gongyou smiled and said, "How else can I fight? The brave ones win when they meet on a narrow road. Zhao Jun set up a net of heaven and earth in front. I, Fu Gongyou, don't believe in evil. He has ambush on all sides, and I only have one bad life. If I fight hard, I will win."

As a thief who has experienced many battles, Fu Gongyou has never seen any kind of formation. He knew that Zhao army was ahead and set up many ambushes. But he had the courage to go to Tiger Mountain even though he knew there was a tiger in the mountain.

"After killing the Zhao army, don't bother with each other, just walk south, and entering the deep mountains and sap will be our territory."

Seven miles ahead of Fu Gongyou's central army, there is a wide lake, with a green sky covering the lake, and water birds flying from time to time.

A road runs through Huze, and the soldiers of the Jianghuai Army who retreated from Xuzhou are rushing on the road.

The road winds like a long snake to a hill. The hills are covered with dense forests and lush trees. The vegetation is dense, and the lake wind blows through it. The road is filled with rice fields that have just been pulled out, with platycodon and wheels standing next to it. The paddy fields here are low-lying places for the lake to surround the lake to build fields. There are farmland here, and there should be people nearby, but there is no one at present, and there is not even a farmhouse. However, this is normal. At the moment, the war in the Jianghuai River is in chaos, and the people must have moved to the mountains long ago.

The former general of the Jianghuai Army arrived in front of the lake and felt that the terrain was very unfavorable. Why did the road lead to the forest strangely? It was not even smoother to walk from the field and the land beside the forest. The former general immediately called the guide and asked, "What's going on this road? Why do I see it a little strange?"

After hearing this, the guide looked at it for a while and replied: "The general's road was originally built by the field, but there is also a small path leading to the mountain. As for why the road by the field was erased, I don't remember it. I wonder if it would be filled in when the lake was built."

The former general said, "No, I think someone deliberately erased the avenue and built the road onto the mountain, leading our army to drill into the dense forest."

The former general was vigilant and ordered his soldiers to stop and rest and sent troops to spy on the military situation in the front. With the order to rest, the tired and hungry soldiers of the Jianghuai Army who had been running all night were now limp on both sides of the road, stretching their legs casually, and many people even sat in the muddy rice fields.

From last night to the present, the soldiers of the Jianghuai Army have been exhausted.

Shortly after the general sent troops to investigate, another team of soldiers from the Jianghuai Army arrived in a mess. Their troops were obviously in a hurry to go on the road, and saw that the front troops were resting on the edge of the ridge of the field like a pool of mud, and they were blocking there at the moment.

Seeing this, the team of Jianghuai generals were very unhappy at the moment. They got off the horse and went to the rice field to kick a few soldiers who were lying on the ground and resting, and asked, "Who told you to rest by the field and stop moving forward? Do you know that the Zhao army is still chasing us?"

The soldiers hurriedly said that it was the general of the front army, saying that the terrain ahead was unfavorable, and there was a possible ambush in the forest, so people had to be sent to search the forest before moving forward. The general looked at the terrain and immediately found the general of the front army and said, "Searching for dense forests is not enough for a moment or two. The Zhao army is behind our army, and there is ambush in front. If every area stops and investigates, it will take soon to catch up with the Zhao army behind us."

When the former general saw that the other party was not polite, he was also angry. This person was an old general of Du Fuwei of the Jianghuai Army, and he was just promoted by Fu Gongyou, and there was always a disagreement between the two sides.

The former general said at the moment: "Speak lightly. Mr. Fu said that Zhao's army would set up ambush on the road ahead, be careful and there would be no mistakes."

"I have been fighting for a lifetime. I have never seen any ambush before, and I am cautious. I think I am a timid mouse!" The man cursed disdainfully.

The soldiers of the front army were all angry and drew their swords to their waists. Although this man was furious, he was not reckless. He knew that Fu Gongyou had issued strict orders and told his own group not to provoke these veterans of the Jianghuai Army for the time being.

At this moment, the former general held back his anger and asked his subordinates not to act rashly and sneered: "Okay, I know you are a veteran. Since that's the case, why don't you volunteer to be the former army?"

The general said angrily: "Don't use words to provoke me. When I was a general, you didn't know where to wear open-crotch pants."

Speaking of this, the general ordered his subordinates to say, "There may be an accident in the soldiers entering the dense forest. We bypassed the hills and walked from the low-lying rice fields on the side. But it was a little difficult to walk. Be careful, what are you afraid of?"

The former general nodded and said, "This person is not reckless."

At that moment, the general led 500 soldiers to explore the way. All of the five hundred soldiers were wearing armor or half of the armor, holding their shields in their hands and walking towards the dense forests of the hills.

The soldiers were exploring the way, staring at the dense forest beside the mountain, and they were not concerned about the mud on the lakeside. Five hundred soldiers passed by the rice fields, and all the rice seedlings were flattened, but there was nothing unusual from the hills.

After all the five hundred soldiers passed by, the soldiers of the Jianghuai Army felt relieved. The soldiers from the rear immediately followed the front army and also took a detour from the dense forest and advanced from the low-lying areas on the side.

Just as the soldiers of the Jianghuai Army passed by, the cavalry from the rear came to report: "General, the wooden bridge behind suddenly broke, and more than a dozen soldiers fell into the water. The subsequent people were blocked by the river and could not pass."

"What?" the general said angrily, "Why did the rear army break as soon as they got on the bridge?"

The soldier lowered his head and replied, "General, there were no cars passing through the bridge, and there were no war horses, so he was inexplicably cut off. I don't know the situation!"

When the general heard this, he smelled a conspiracy and suddenly said, "There must be a fraud!"

As soon as the words fell, a sudden clamor sound came from the hill that had just passed.

At this time, thousands of soldiers from the Jianghuai Army had passed by here, and now about a thousand soldiers were walking deep and shallow in the muddy rice fields, with their tangled and straw sandals wet.

After the clapper sounded, a burst of arrows shot from the forest on the hills. The soldiers of the Jianghuai Army who were marching in the rice fields were caught off guard and were shot. Only experienced veterans rolled in time and jumped into the mud and water that had less than half of their calf.

After the first wave of arrows, the soldiers of the Jianghuai Army blocked their chests to resist the arrows shot from the mountain.

The arrow just fired in a hurry and stopped. The dense sound of snare drums came immediately. Countless figures appeared in the sparse and dense forest. A battle flag with the character Song was raised high. The Jianghuai Army is not unfamiliar with this battle flag. This general is Song Jingang, the general of the Zhao army who had fought with them in Langya County before.

At this moment, the general of the Zhao army, Song Jingang, was standing on the forest wearing a mountain armor. The soldiers of the Zhao army left and right crossed the ridge and rushed towards the bottom of the mountain.

Song Jingang said to his beloved general Gao Tao, "I only have five thousand men and ambush the Jianghuai Army in the first round. My old Song doesn't have that great ability to fight a war of immortals. Five thousand men can wipe out 20,000 men and women. But killing the Jianghuai Army for a while and slashing its spirit can still be done."

Gao Tao said: "This battle will bring out the might of our Imperial Guards. We cannot let the Wu Guards and Yi Guards look down upon them."

Song Jingang nodded and said, "That's exactly what it is."

After saying that, the Imperial Guards rushed down the mountain and started fighting with the Jianghuai soldiers.

At this time, Fu Gongyou was in the central army. As the soldiers rode their horses forward, a soldier came to report: "The front army was ambushed by the Zhao army, and it should be the troops of Song Jingang, the general of the Imperial Guard!"

After hearing this, Fu Gongyou sneered: "Okay, Li Chongjiu really intercepted me on the way forward."

The generals said one after another: "Mr. Fu, should you rush up to fight with the Zhao army and break through the siege?"

Fu Gongyou pondered after hearing this, and said, "No! Let's go away and let's go around, don't get entangled with the Zhao army! Everything is to fight out of Xuzhou first!"
Chapter completed!