(Suddenly I discovered that I only took one day off this month and coded more than 200,000 words; I realized that I am so diligent, please give me a red ticket!)
Tian Chang and Tong Erdan broke through the siege from Guanyinjian and fled to Cao Chongzhai at the southwest foot of Shilongling. With the reinforcements from Gucheng, they immediately retreated to the south of Guanyinjian. Tian Chang was in the west and might not be able to go to work.
Try your best, but Zhou Fan in the east is an old turtle in a urn, and I'm afraid he won't accept his fate easily, and will struggle hard for a while, and the rest won't be so easy..."
"...The enemy soldiers can't react so quickly." Liang Shou was a little reluctant to see that the troops in Pogu were in retreat and that they had to shrink their troops at this time.
"It won't take a whole day to clean up these broken troops. Don't be verbose." Chen Zhi glared at Liang Shou, "Leave the two hundred people behind the mountain to practice equestrian skills. I will withdraw the surrounding troops and form formations in the south.
, I dug the trenches that needed to be dug, and erected the fences and walls that needed to be erected. If I couldn't guard Guanyin Point, or tighten the opening from Xiangyang to Gucheng, I would kill all the two or three thousand defeated soldiers in front of me.
, it’s all worthless!”
Snow particles were falling in the face, but the troops at the bottom of the mountain were routed and trampled by the pursuers, so no snow accumulated. Only the treetops in the mountains began to accumulate white. Luo Wenhu also stood on the top of Guanyin, looking around.
After the enemy troops were defeated, they fled in all directions. Even if there were no enemy troops approaching from the outside, they would not be able to clear them out for a while. At the moment, it is more important to defeat the more than 60,000 enemy troops including Zhou Fan, Tong Ruilin, Pu Jieshi and others.
They were all blocked to the east of Shilong Ridge and unable to escape westward - this was also the main purpose of the chokehold operation across the river.
Miaotan Ridge and Shilong Ridge are both remnants of the northern foothills of Jingshan Mountain. They form two canyons with the northern slope of Jingshan Mountain respectively. They are the only places to pass from Xiangyang to Gucheng. The width is only three or four miles, and the narrowness is only
Two or three hundred steps later, we reached a gap between the two mountains, forming a semi-basin near the water.
This gap was the choke point for more than 60,000 enemy soldiers still trapped in Xiangyang to flee westward. Chen Zhi led his troops to the south bank in order to change and seize this chokepoint so that the enemy soldiers in Xiangyang east of Shilongling could not escape westward.
Guanyinjian is located in the center of this gap. Standing on Guanyinjian and looking south, you can see the mountains on the northern slope of Jingshan Mountain at a glance, which is only six or seven miles away. The Xianggu Post Road is less than five miles away from Guanyinjian.
; There is an unknown stream hanging down from the north slope of Jingshan Mountain, flowing from the west side of Guanyinjian, and flowing into the Han River.
Under Chen Zhi's order, the soldiers on the periphery began to shrink into the open area south of Guanyinjian, and the soldiers of the Huaidong Army who were coming continuously on the trestle also bypassed the east side of Guanyinjian and entered the position on the east bank of Qianxi.
Although the iron wire rope suspension can withstand two to three thousand kilograms of weight at a time, it is always a lot of inconvenience to transport the shield carts, bed crossbows, scorpion crossbows and other war weapons made of fine iron to the south bank through the suspension ropes. This is
When the trestle was paved, and the enemy naval warships had not yet come to harass, bed crossbows, scorpion crossbows, shield cars and narrow carriages could directly use the trestle to come to the south bank in a steady stream to strengthen the defense south of Guanyin Point.
Royal position...
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When it was getting dark, the enemy's naval warships from Xiangyang finally arrived from the lower reaches, but a total of four thousand soldiers of the Huaidong Army had already crossed to the south bank by the suspension bridge.
Although the trestle would face direct attack from enemy warships, the crossing of the river by men and horses was forced to be interrupted.
The bed crossbows directly on the water surface on the cliff bank are also equipped with giant arrows in slots, and the strings are twisted "click", and behind the bed crossbow formation, there are dozens of heavy riprap crossbows and a larger number of scorpion crossbows, in the dragon claw
On the right side of the rock, upstream of the trestle, more than a thousand carriage soldiers were sweating profusely pushing tree trunks weighing more than a thousand kilograms, or even several thousand kilograms, onto the cliff bank.
Once an enemy ship approaches, these thick tree trunks will slide down the rapids like a galloping horse, and their destructive power to the enemy ship formation will not be weaker than a bed crossbow or a scorpion crossbow.
Sometimes traditional simple tactics are also very practical.
Obviously, the enemy also knew very well that as long as the trestle bridge was not destroyed, the Huaidong Army would continue to transport troops, horses and supplies to the south bank, so that the troops in Xiangyang would never be able to open a gap and escape westward.
Under the bombardment of bed crossbows, scorpion crossbows, rip-rap crossbows and giant trees on the north shore, dozens of enemy ships still risked their lives to swim upstream from the downstream and approach the trestle. The mast was not high enough, so they tied long poles to the mast and tied it to the trestle.
Imitate the fire oil cans made by the Huaidong Army and throw them at the trestle, or use iron hooks to hook the ropes of the trestle and send the boat down the river, which is bound to bring down the trestle!
It has to be said that the tactics used by the enemy were quite effective. The pallets on the suspension bridge were stained with kerosene and could not be extinguished by water splashing. At this time, the soldiers of the Huaidong Army were unable to get on the bridge to put out the fire and were immediately plunged into a sea of flames.
Although the strength of the iron wire rope is much higher than that of ordinary hemp rope, if the enemy ship is completely hooked on it, and several warships are linked together to pull it downstream, withstanding the drag force of tens of thousands of kilograms, there are still several iron wire ropes that can be used immediately.
After being pulled apart, large pieces of pallets fell apart and fell into the water.
Of course, the enemy army was not much better. Sixteen warships came upstream. Because they wanted to destroy the trestle bridge, they were forced to stop in front of Huaidong's crossbow formation for nearly a cup of tea. At that time, they called in the Huaidong Army's heavy catapult crossbows.
Three ships were sunk with stone bombs weighing more than a hundred kilograms. There was almost no ship that was not hit by Huaidong's fire oil tanks. Dozens of enemy ships lit up fires, illuminating the Han River under the twilight with a ferocious light.
terror.
The canopy and sides of the boat were riddled with holes from the crossbows fired by the crossbow array on the north bank. Hundreds of sailors ordered crossbows from both sides to kill them.
The enemy ships were all on fire and had to retreat downstream until the fires were extinguished before they could attack again.
Although the trestle was destroyed, only five of the thirteen suspension cables used to build the bridge were destroyed. Watching the enemy ships retreat, the dragon claw rock side quickly pushed the giant bed crossbow that shot the rope onto the dragon claw rock.
, shoot the rope to the other side, and quickly pull up several more wire rope suspension ropes between Longzhao Rock and Shanmen Rock to make up for the suspension ropes broken by the enemy ships.
Since a batch of pallets has also been transported from the south bank, the speed of laying pallets from both banks to the middle is faster at this time.
The Huaidong Army had long considered that they could not control the Han River for the time being and the suspension bridge might be destroyed by the enemy. They had already prepared a large amount of wire ropes and pallets to prepare for a war of attrition.
The Huaidong Army repaired the suspension bridge during the night with such speed that the enemy looked desperate. Before the enemy navy warships pounced again, after the Huaidong Army repaired the suspension bridge, they had already crossed half a battalion of armored soldiers to the south bank.
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The enemy soldiers in Xiangyang obviously did not want the Huaidong Army to gain a foothold on the south bank and completely block its way of escaping westward. From dusk, Zhou Fan and Ye Ji Luorong personally took charge and attacked from the west valley entrance of Miaotan Ridge and Shishi respectively.
At the Donggukou of Longling, they launched a frantic attack on Chen Zhi's troops who were deployed south of Guanyinjian, intending to open up the Xianggu Passage.
The enemy's attack was frantic and desperate, destroying the trestle three times during the night. However, by early morning, the trestle was once again fully repaired and hung between Longzhao Rock and Shanmen Rock, as if the battle last night had never happened.
The river valley downstream of Dragon Claw Rock and the mudflats are filled with broken shipwrecks and corpses that fell into the water and were shot with crossbows on both sides.
The enemy mobilized a total of more than fifty warships from the lower reaches of Xiangyang. About half of them were directly sunk in the Han River downstream of Longzhaoyan. The rest were also beaten to a half-damaged state, like remnants of soldiers, drowned for a breath.
There is no time left to attack the trestle that has been laid again upstream.
Fortunately, the Han River in the Longzhao Rock section is very deep and was not blocked by the sunken warships. Even so, the Han River channel in the Longzhao Rock section became even narrower, less than half its original width. This made the north bank of the Han River even narrower.
The Huaidong Chunnu blockade scope is more clear, and almost every Chunnu is aimed at the only way the enemy must pass; if the enemy ship approaches the trestle, it will pay a greater price.
The enemy's land attack on the Huaidong Army south of Guanyinjian at night was in vain. The enemy dropped nearly 3,000 corpses from both wings, but they were unable to make the Huaidong Army's infantry formation south of Guanyinjian move forward.
Shrink back half an inch.
On the contrary, during the interval between the enemy naval warships attacking the suspension bridge, the Huaidong Army sent nearly two thousand soldiers to the south bank, making the defensive formation south of Guanyinjian even more impenetrable. More than sixty thousand soldiers from Xiangyang were
The enemy was completely blocked east of Gucheng and could not escape to the west.
At this time, the suspension bridge was repaired again, and the naval warships had no spare power to launch another attack from the downstream. Watching the Huaidong Army seize every moment to transport troops, horses, and supplies to the south bank, Zhou Fan, who was supervising the battle at the top of the southwest foot of Miaotan Ridge,
My heart is filled with despair.
Rather than breaking through the Huaidong Army's blockade, Zhou Fan was more worried that Ye Ji Luo Rong and Tian Chang would abandon them and leave.
A message from the east of Xiangyang stated that Huaidong's navy at Longzui Mountain also weighed anchor and moved northward in the morning, intending to take advantage of the situation when Yang Xiong's navy guarding the Han River in Xiangyang lost troops and ships in front of Longzhao Rock.
They forcibly broke through the Evil Ghost Channel and entered the Han River west of Xiangyang.
Yang Xiong's navy destroyed thirty or forty warships at Longzhao Rock overnight, losing nearly 2,000 men. Zhou Fan doubted that his troops were still capable of resisting the entire Huaidong elite navy that came from downstream...