The broken east city gate of Huangpi looked very ugly due to the fire.
Under the concentrated bombardment of Huaidong's heavy catapult crossbows, the city wall on the east side of Huangpi finally failed to hold up and collapsed suddenly, opening up gaps ranging from several feet to more than ten feet wide.
The defenders could no longer defend the city wall, so Sun Jichang, surrounded by his personal guards, retreated into the city.
"Withdraw, it will be too late if we don't withdraw. Baita River and Xiongjiagang can't hold on for much longer?" Ji Shiben, covered in blood, came over to join Sun Jichang, put aside the guards around him, walked to Sun Jichang alone, and persuaded in a low voice.
he.
"How to withdraw?" It's not that Sun Jichang doesn't want to withdraw, but retreating under darkness will only cause the collapse of the entire army. He is not clear about the serious relationship here. If he wants to keep his troops, he must hold on until dawn tomorrow, and said,
"If you hold on a little longer, as long as Meng Anchan sends his cavalry out from both wings, we should be able to suppress the Huaidong Army..."
"On both sides of the Baita River, Xiongjiagang is in danger. I heard that Shewenzhuang sent people to Xiaonan twice to urge Meng Anchan to send troops, but Meng Anchan ignored them. He was afraid that Meng Anchan wanted to escape first," Ji Shiben said,
"If the two wings fail to hold on first, and if Meng Anchan escapes first, we can't outrun their four legs with two legs!"
"But..." Sun Jichang still couldn't make up his mind.
"It's nothing more," Ji Shiben said, "Does Sun Shuai still want to save his troops? Thank God that you and I can escape with our lives..."
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The night has grown dark, and the fighting on the battlefield seems to have solidified, and the pool of blood has become dim.
In front of the gap in the fence torn open by bed crossbows, scorpion crossbows, and charging vehicles, trench bridge vehicles, and folding ladder vehicles set up the entry channel. Huaidong Jia soldiers took the capital team as a unit and resolutely broke into the enemy camp through the gap. There was no one.
Exceptionally, before the armored soldiers were the first to break into the enemy's camp, there were several iron-covered carriages driven by armor-piercing warriors that rushed towards the fragile defensive formation organized by the enemy in the camp.
The Huaidong Army covered the carriage with iron armor to prevent the enemy's heavy armored cavalry from attacking. How could the enemy infantry behind the fence withstand the impact of the carriage with iron? And after covering the carriage with iron, Huai's army
When the Dongjia soldiers saw that the enemy's defensive formation was scattered, they rushed out decisively to fight.
The sharp blade sharpened by fine iron can easily cut through even the armor pieces that are several millimeters thick; dozens of Mo knives are slashing hard from top to bottom, as if dozens of lightnings are striking, which is the armor defense array.
It would be torn apart in an instant, not to mention the enemy soldiers who were scattered by the iron armor. Suddenly their heads were broken and their flesh was torn, and blood flowed into rivers. Under the Modao formation, a dozen enemy soldiers who were lucky enough to escape ran away in piss and retreat.
But he threw his back to the powerful crossbow that came through the air...
The enemy soldiers were torn apart and scattered, leaving corpses lying in the field. When the enemy soldiers organized an orderly array to counterattack, the Huaidong soldiers retreated after overturning the iron wagons, waiting for the subsequent friendly forces to continue to stand out.
Come, use the tactical action of repeatedly killing, shrinking and killing again, tearing apart the enemy's orderly counterattack on the north bank, and constantly expanding the position on the north bank...
The crossbow array has reached the south bank of the Baita River. According to the instructions of the flag on the nest cart, arrows are fired to cover the enemy's counterattack array. The bed crossbow made of fine iron has a heavier base, which means higher stability and accuracy.
, within a short range of one or two hundred steps, shooting at the enemy formation is like skewering sugar-coated haws. One arrow will often pierce the bodies of three or four enemy soldiers in succession.
Under the heavy fire of the bed crossbow, any level of sophisticated iron armor is pale and powerless. Only the Huaidong Army's iron-clad carriage has three-thirds (tenths of an inch) thick iron plates on the sides, which can possibly block the bed crossbow at close range.
of shooting.
The crossbow array effectively covered the flanks of the armored soldiers' array that broke into the enemy camp, and the scorpion crossbows threw thousands of fire oil cans deep into the enemy camp on the north bank in a short period of time.
The residue left over from smoldering coal is mixed with kerosene, and becomes an excellent burning material. When the can is broken, the kerosene is spread out, and the fire can burn blazingly even on sandy soil, while wooden palisade walls, tents,
If the war tent is stained with this kind of grease, it must be burned to ashes, otherwise it will be difficult to extinguish.
As the twilight grew darker, the fires burning on the north bank became more and more fierce, providing enough lighting for the soldiers of the Huaidong Army who broke into camp at night.
Under the fierce attack of the Huaidong Army, the defenders' counterattack seemed sudden and weak. They were unable to effectively kill the Huaidong Army that broke through, and they were even less able to break up the rock-solid Huaidong Army's formation and push it back.
, it’s just a meaningless accumulation of casualties.
The corpses lying on the ground and the pool of blood accumulated in the low-lying land were like small lakes. The guard could no longer suppress the fear and despair in his heart. He could only look desolately at the grassy slope behind the camp. On the grassy slope behind the camp
, those supervisors carrying swords and axes were also like a chasm, cutting off their hope of escaping to safety. As long as any defenders retreated within the warning range of the supervisors, they would be mercilessly hacked to death.
If you rush out, you will die, and if you retreat, you will die. Countless defenders retreated to the narrow area on the north side of the camp, and a long and shallow trench provided them with a fragile protection in front, preventing the Huaidong Army from rushing up like tigers and wolves.
The defenders behind the trench looked at their leader pitifully.
Their leader looked desperately at the dark night sky to the north, waiting for the armored cavalry to flow out from the night sky behind the grassy slope like an iron stream.
Faced with the resolute intrusion of the Huaidong Army and the extremely powerful war equipment of the Huaidong Army, unless the cavalry deployed on the second line decisively rushes out, the defenders behind the Baita River alone will not be able to recover at all.
Line of defense. Once the second long trench is broken through by the Huaidong Army, there will no longer be any obstacle to prevent the Huaidong Army from penetrating in depth...
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Chen Zhi stood in front of the chariot, holding the saber on his waist, looking at the battlefield on the north bank of the Baita River:
In the middle section of the enemy's Baita River defense line, on a front that is more than ten miles long, he has deployed nine battalions of armored soldiers out of the thirty battalions in his hands, and has successfully broken through eleven gaps and defeated the enemy's defense line in Baita River.
The three barracks on the north bank of the Tahe River formed eleven troop dispatching channels for deep attacks on the northern line.
Chen Zhi had to keep abreast of every detailed sign and sign on the battlefield. Although he now had the conditions to attack in depth, he still had to be a little patient and wait for Yu Wencheng and Zhang Gou to complete their moves to penetrate the enemy's defense line.
, can we attack in depth, so that the enemy has no ability to counterattack, and this way we can avoid unnecessary casualties.
"The enemy at Huangpi has collapsed, the enemy at Huangpi has collapsed..." Several riders galloped over to deliver the news, reporting the news that Chen Jichang, the enemy at Huangpi, had retreated.
There was no need for Yu Wencheng to send someone to deliver the message. Chen Zhi looked to the northeast and could see that the speed of Yu Wencheng's troops penetrating into Huangpi City suddenly accelerated. This was a sign that the enemy forces in Huangpi City were defeated.
"Fuck!" Chen Zhi was very dissatisfied that he was not the first to defeat the enemy. He spat into the night under the chariot and ordered in a hoarse voice, "Inform Li Baidao and tell him to kill me. He is like this
If you can't kill the enemy to pieces, tell him to be careful and I'll skin him!"
The war drums beat like rolling thunder again, shaking the earth and the mountains. Hearing the sound of the drums, the soldiers of the second line of the nine battalions on the south bank of the Baita River shouted together with all their strength, and crossed the Baita River to join the soldiers of the first line.
, launched the final attack on the defenders who had retreated to the narrow area on the north side of the camp...
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Shewenzhuang, Xiongjiagang Camp, looked at the Huaidong Army coming in like a black tide at night. He looked like an ordinary old man, holding on to the railing with his skinny hands and without any strength left in his body.
"Sun Jichang fled, and Meng Anchan's side also began to flee. There is no cavalry to come to the rescue. This is a real defeat..." Ma Wen Chengyun, the former chief of the Zhejiang and Fujian Governor's Office, walked up to the watchtower and said.
"Oh!" She Wenzhuang was not surprised at all by the news. In his opinion, it should be like this. He just responded calmly, seemingly turning a blind eye to the Huaidong Army coming like a tidal wave.
"Commander, please leave. If you don't leave, it will be too late." Wen Chengyun said.
"I'm old and can't run anymore. Rather than die in the chaos and leave my body in the wilderness, it's better to stay and watch the last night quietly," She Wenzhuang said calmly, "Let's go.
"
"If the Governor doesn't leave, what will Cheng Yun do if he does?" Wen Chengyun stood on the watchtower with She Wenzhuang and asked, "Does the Governor still want to see the eldest lady, Song Fu, and the East China Sea Fox?"
"Maybe." She Wenzhuang said.
Wen Chengyun saw the Huaidong Army coming up like a tide, and turned around to see the defeated troops behind him like a tide. He took off the saber from his waist and threw it aside. Looking downstairs at the still loyal and unyielding guard, Wen Chengyun ordered: "
If you want to leave, just leave; if you don’t want to leave, just take off your armor!”
"Grand Governor, please keep the green hills here, don't worry about running out of firewood!" Zhou Meishan, the captain of the cavalry school, was unwilling to give in and shouted unyieldingly towards the watchtower.
As if she had never heard of Shewenzhuang, she stood on the watchtower, staring at the dark night sky in the distance with a dead heart.
Zhou Meishan lay on the ground and kowtowed several times, got on his horse, and followed him with a dozen cavalrymen to escape into the darkness of the north. More cavalrymen put down their armor, and soon the armored soldiers of the Huaidong Army broke through and finally
A barrier wall rushed over.
Several strong men carried big axes and struck at the flag of the King of Fujian in Shewenzhuang. The high flag erected under the night seemed to symbolize the last line of defense in eastern Hubei and the last spiritual pillar of the dozens of defenders.
The moment the flag was cut off, it collapsed completely, and the surrounding mountains roared with roars like thunder.
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The shouts set off waves of sound one after another, reaching directly into the camp at Zhaohu Mountain.
"The whole line has been broken through!" Lin Fu put down the charcoal in his hand, and looked at the battlefield in the distance through the rolled-up camp gate. The bursts of shouts made people's blood boil, it was so exciting.
So excited.
"We have broken through all fronts," Gao Zongting said. "All the enemies in Huangpi, Baitahe, and Xiongjiagang have been defeated. There is no news from Hanjin and Tiemen Mountain yet, and I think it will be about the same. Zhao Hu and Su Pinxiao have led their troops there.
Leaving Hanjin..."
Lin Fu put down his rolled-up sleeves and said to Zhou Pu behind him: "You can let the cavalry camp out, but you don't want to go. Tell Zhao Bao and the others that within the limits of Shicheng, the cavalry camp should not rush to pursue northward.
, asking them to repeatedly tear into pieces the enemy forces that may have been organized in front of Shicheng and Huangpi..."
In order to effectively defeat and pursue the enemy, the cavalry must be put into battle. Although Zhou Pu's hands were itchy, he also knew that there were certain military achievements that he should not compete with the young generals below him. He spread his hands and sighed: "The further down we go, the worse people like us get."
It’s useless.”
"How could it be?" Lin Fu laughed and said, "When an empire is about to rise, fighting on the battlefield will only be a small part of it; it is useless anymore. It is also very interesting to sleep with two women and give birth to a few babies.
"He then said to Gao Zongting, "I'll get some sleep first, and leave the rest to Canghai, you, Master Fu, and Duke Song. We'll talk about leaving for Shicheng after I wake up..."