"If you keep the green hills, you won't have to worry about running out of firewood!" Yu Wenshan and his generals hurriedly supported She Feihu and pulled the reins, asking him not to fall into Huaidong's plan.
Although the pontoon bridge was there, with Huaidong soldiers capturing Yijiang City and establishing a position on the other side of the river, a direct attack was extremely disadvantageous. They immediately went south, looking for shoals from the upper reaches of the Yiyang River and even along the Qingshan River to cross.
It is far more beneficial than forcing a crossing at this time.
The number of soldiers and horses intercepted by Huaidong entering the west bank of the Yiyang River was only about ten thousand. It would take two to three days for the main force from the rear of Huaidong to arrive. In two to three days, there were more than ten thousand soldiers and horses in Huaidong.
Soldiers and horses are still unable to lay a dragnet on the west bank of the Yiyang River.
However, the situation is also obvious. If there are no soldiers and horses coming from the direction of Qingyang and Qiupu to respond, and Huaidong occupies the terrain advantage on the west bank of Yiyang, it would be impossible for the six or seven thousand of them to successfully withdraw into Jiuzishan. Something must be done.
give up……
"..." She Feihu turned around and looked at the exhausted generals who were retreating westward with him. His eyes were filled with blood and he said sadly, "They are all descendants of Zhejiang and Fujian. I abandoned them. How can I see only Zhejiang and Fujian?"
Father?"
"There is a small fort in Dongyi, which can be temporarily guarded..." Luo Wenhu said.
They defended the fortress. As long as an elite force came from the Qingyang direction to help suppress the Huaidong Army in Yijiang City, they could safely cross the Yiyang River and withdraw to the west.
"..." She Feihu shook his head. As for the soldiers and horses that had withdrawn to Qingyang in the west, they went east again. When they arrived at the mouth of the Yiyang River, it was just when the main force from the back road of Huaidong arrived; Huaidong Water
Even if the battalion sails against the tide, it can reach the mouth of the Yiyang River in two days. Abandoning Jiangning City without taking it is to avoid a decisive battle with the Huaidong Army. Zheng Mingjing cut off the rear with half of his troops and horses, but also to preserve his strength. So what at this time?
Maybe there will be another battle with Huaidong under unfavorable conditions for the six or seven thousand people here?
Yue Lengqiu led his troops to stay in Chizhou. The main force of the Huaidong Army had not yet arrived, so he did not dare to risk his life to fight against the Zhejiang and Fujian Army. Both sides would suffer losses. If the main force of the Huaidong Army had arrived in time, Yue Lengqiu could have done great damage to Zhejiang without damaging the foundation.
How could he show mercy to the Fujian Army again?
"You don't need to persuade me. If you don't dare to fight, just stay behind and guard the formation for me!" She Feihu asked his subordinates to fetch his armor, and put it on the river embankment and put on the black armor under the sunset...
Staying at the end of the formation meant that he could not rush through in the end and had to surrender to the Huaidong Army to save his life; Luo Wenhu glanced at Yu Wenshan with a guilty conscience.
Yu Wenshan remained silent, took off the sword from his waist, and said to She Wenhu: "Second Young Master, think twice..." He looked at She Wenhu as he spoke, but suddenly he stabbed Luo Wenhu's body from the side with the sword.
Inside, hot blood splattered all over his face.
Luo Wenhu died without even having time to struggle.
Yu Wenshan pulled out his sword, knelt down in front of She Wenhu, raised the bleeding saber above his head, and said, "Please allow Wenshan to clear the way for the second young master..."
The imperial camp surrendered all the soldiers. Luo Wenhu's death or his survival was not a serious problem. She Feihu didn't care that Yu Wenshan was killing the general in front of him. He pointed his sword forward and shouted at the general behind him: "Advance, survive, retreat, retreat."
, the only way to fight today is to fight a bloody path!"
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Seeing that the Zhejiang and Fujian troops were indeed organizing soldiers on the other side to prepare for a strong attack, Zhou Pu stretched out his hand and raised his nose, lowering his voice and said to Zhao Bao: "This old guy named Song will not be messed with in the future!" Zhao Bao grinned and then
He and Zhou Pu led the cavalry to spread out from both wings and let the infantry under the river embankment enter the river embankment position...
The Zhejiang and Fujian troops left more than 300 defenders in Yijiang City. When the infantry camp captured the city, they had enough time to destroy the iron cable pontoon bridge at the southern foot of Zhangziling southeast of Yijiang City.
But if we really want to cut off the iron cable, She Feihu will lead his remnants to find a way to cross the river south. Zhou Pu led the cavalry camp and Zhang Jiheng's troops, with less than 10,000 people, were unable to cross the more than 200 miles of twists and turns between Nanling and Yijiang.
The west bank of Yiyang River is sealed and watertight...
Although the Yiyang River is the main river between Jiangning and Chizhou, after winter, the river in some parts of the river is narrower than a hundred paces and shallow enough not to flood a person's head. She Feihu escaped from Jiangning City and kidnapped him from Jiangning City.
There are a large number of horses and they are very maneuverable. It is not difficult to cross the river from the shallow beach on horseback.
In addition, there are endless hills and mountains on the west bank of the Yiyang River. It is only sixty or seventy miles away from the deep mountains and dense forests of Jiuzi Mountain. Once She Feihu disperses the remaining six or seven thousand people and flees across the Yangtze River, Zhou Pu wants to have a complete victory.
, is very difficult. Moreover, if the troops are dispersed, they are afraid that the Zhejiang and Fujian armies will have troops to fight out from the direction of Qingyang and Nanling, which will only increase unnecessary risks.
Keep the pontoon bridge and stimulate She Feihu to lead his troops to cross the Yiyang River estuary, so that they can rely on the terrain advantages of the river beach and river embankment to fight the battle of annihilation!
The cavalry on the river embankment spread out to the two wings, and Zhang Jiheng immediately led the soldiers hidden under the river embankment to mount the river embankment and form formation.
The embankment at the lower mouth of the Yiyang River is a stone pond. From the embankment to the beach with dry reeds, it is about four feet deep. This means that the remnants of the Zhejiang and Fujian troops came from the pontoon and had to climb the four-foot-high embankment before they could survive.
Consider establishing a foothold on the West Bank.
The only advantage is that the slope on the outside of the river embankment is gentler, far less steep than the city wall. When building the stone pond, the stones were stacked on top of each other, and the layers were tightened toward the middle, leaving layers of stones inside and outside.
There are steps for climbing - on the stone pond about thirteen or four steps wide, in front of the two pontoon bridges, in a narrow area of two hundred steps wide, the Huaidong Army can only ask the Huaidong Army to deploy a battalion of armored soldiers, and fly one by one.
The carts were pulled up and lined up on the outside of the stone pond, forming a crenellated shield wall.
The Zhejiang and Fujian Army first came with more than 300 soldiers on the pontoon bridge, and more than 200 cavalrymen braved the severe cold and waded directly across the river from the shallow beaches on both sides of the pontoon bridge. The Huaidong Army left the pontoon bridge intact, and they were also afraid that the pontoon bridge would be destroyed.
What kind of manipulation was done? After seeing that there was no problem with the pontoon bridge, more soldiers were sent over and arrayed on the river beach...
After winter, the Yiyang River becomes extremely narrow, and the water surface at the mouth of the river is only more than a hundred feet, but the river beach is wide. From the stone pond to the water's edge, it is almost five or six hundred steps wide.
The She family built a pontoon here earlier because the water here was shallow and slow, and the river beach was solid and easy to stand on. The surrounding reeds had long been burned down, leaving a large open river beach at the southern foot of Zhangziling.
The scorched river beach revealed a ferocious face like hell...
Zhang Jiheng looked at the scorpion crossbows and ballistae that were densely packed like venomous snake teeth under the river embankment behind him, and thought to himself: If it weren't for these, it would be too much to let the enemy soldiers cross the river without destroying the pontoon bridge and stand firm on the river beach before attacking.
After almost two thousand generals had crossed the pontoon, She Feihu ordered Yu Wenshan to take the lead in armor and lead the troops to attack Shitang. Under the cover of the large shield, the generals of the Zhejiang and Fujian troops who broke out and attacked again wore strong armor.
, the former even wore an extra layer of leather armor on top of their iron armor. In order to protect against Huaidong's special kerosene, they also wrapped wet robes on top of their armor. They were crowded together and attacked step by step.
The arrows shot down by the Huaidong Army infantry from the Shitang could not penetrate the shields; and time was short, so there was no way to prepare enough rolling stones and wood on the Shitang; the most lethal thing was the arrows fired from the embankment after the offensive and defensive battle began.
Then it was thrown out, over the river embankment, and thrown into the middle of the enemy's line with stone bullets and giant crossbows.
The scorpion crossbow fires round stone bullets, each weighing ten to twenty kilograms. They are thrown diagonally into the air and then fall under the acceleration of gravity. No matter how thick the iron armor is, it cannot withstand such a powerful blunt blow.
, you can watch the iron armor and a certain part of your body collapse instantly when you hit it. Less than one out of ten people can survive after being hit...
The crossbow made by Huaidong is similar to the traditional bed crossbow, but the firing mechanism is the same as the scorpion crossbow. It uses the torque of the special crossbow cable to launch giant arrows, which can easily hit targets three hundred steps away. The crossbow is more conducive to deployment in
In the rear formation, huge arrows are thrown to directly hit the depths of the enemy formation. The arrows fired are as huge as spears. Under the acceleration of gravity, they can easily break through thick armor and pierce the human body.
The scorpion crossbows and crossbows including ballistae carried by Zhang Jiheng's troops were not dragged across by the forced march, and only about 40 of them could continue to be used on the battlefield.
However, if the Zhejiang and Fujian troops wanted to attack Shitang, which is nearly four feet high, they must attack from the rear in a dense formation.
The enemy soldiers came up layer by layer. The armored soldiers of the Huaidong Army pressed the enemy soldiers under the stone pond. Each round of volleys of scorpion crossbows and bed crossbows could create a large gap in the dense enemy formation.
The dying cries of the Zhejiang and Fujian soldiers who were shot through by giant arrows and stuck on the river beach, unable to struggle, were mixed in the river wind, like a blazing fire, burning the remaining soldiers of the Zhejiang and Fujian soldiers.
heart of.
The dusk is closing, the cold moon is like a hook, and the stars floating above the night seem to be stained with blood.
Yu Wenshan's left hip was hit by a stone bullet and was already submerged when he was lifted down. He opened his mouth to speak to She Feihu, but what came out was blood foam - She Feihu's eyes turned red, and he left the pontoon where he was supervising the battle, wearing armor and holding a gun.
The halberd walked forward to the formation, roaring like thunder, like a beast trapped in the fire, and said: "Huaidong boy, who dares to fight with me?" What greeted him was a rain of arrows as dense as a swarm of locusts...
Zhang Jiheng saw that the enemy's morale had reached the extreme. It looked very strong but was actually extremely weak. He immediately ordered his generals and soldiers to attack the river beach from the flank. Zhao Bao, who had previously retreated to the west beach of Zhangziling, did not care about the softness of the river beach.
In danger of falling, he lost no time in taking advantage of the opportunity. Dozens of armored cavalry came from the north and charged into the northern flank of the Zhejiang and Fujian army's river beach position.
The flanking infantry of the Zhejiang and Fujian Army struggled to resist for a moment and then retreated. The river beach seemed open, but as the two wings continued to retreat, the front formation was always pressed under the stone pond and could not attack, and the center of the formation gradually became weak.
Crowding makes it more chaotic.
Under the lingering fire of the cold moon, the positions of the Zhejiang and Fujian troops on the river beach on the west bank finally collapsed.
She Feihu swung his halberd wildly, trying to block the retreating soldiers, but more and more people in front were pushed back. Even if the soldiers in the center of the formation knew that behind them were the swords of the supervising team and the cold river, they could only
Involuntarily, he was wrapped up and stepped back.
Zhou Pu stood on horseback on the river bank at the edge of the battlefield, staring at the center of the enemy's formation. Under the dusk, the remaining fire was dim, and the faces of the enemy soldiers could not be seen clearly, but the figure of She Feihu was not difficult to identify. She Fei
Tiger was at the center of the formation, the formation had collapsed, and the two pontoon bridges were narrow. Even though there were loyal guards around him, he could not squeeze through the collapse to the back of the formation and escape from the pontoon bridge. Zhou Pu soon saw that there was also a collapse there.
The soldiers were overwhelmed and submerged, leaving only two to three thousand remnants of the Zhejiang and Fujian troops on the other side of the river, desperate to escape and courageous to fight...