The fighting continued for more than ten days. The Huaidong Army threw more than 10,000 stone bullets, clay pellets, and kerosene tanks. The city walls in the south and on both wings were almost burnt black.
In the later stage, the Huaidong Army moved their heavy catapult crossbows forward, pushed them behind the trench, and threw stone bullets weighing more than a hundred kilograms, directly hitting the front of the wall. Every time the stone bullets hit the city wall, the entire section
The top of the city will tremble like an earthquake, and the city will be like a tortoise shell, covered with cracks.
In traditional city building, you need to dig out the floating soil first, lay large bluestones as the base, ram the earth on top as the core, then wrap the two sides with bricks and stones, and apply mortar. Whether the wall foundation is stable depends on the amount of bricks and mortar used.
All determine the strength of the city wall.
In the majestic Yanjing City, if you use a heavy catapult crossbow to throw stones at the front, it may take ten days and a half to knock down even a corner of the city wall.
It's just that the Jiahe defense blockade was strengthened on the basis of the civilian village. Although She Feixiong considered using catapult crossbows to attack Huaidong, the time left for him was extremely tight. From the time Huaidong officially decided to dig the Guanxi Ridge Road,
It only took more than three months for the main force of the Changshan Army to be stationed at the western foot of Guanxiling Road. Even if Shefei Xiong had no shortage of resources, how strong a fortress could he build?
When the front of the fortress began to be bombarded by heavy stone bombs one after another, and the fighting continued until the sixth day of April, the fortress walls on the south side and both wings of the Jiahe Fortress had collapsed on a large scale, and the battlements at the head of the city were almost broken.
Hundreds of defenders and civilians were unable to evacuate in time, fell into the collapse, and were buried under earth and rocks, causing heavy casualties.
Although the Huaidong Army had no intention of launching a bloody siege immediately, and the garrison at the top of the fortified city did not need to be deployed at all times, the casualties accumulated from projectiles and arrows over the past ten days were also terrifying.
Although the collapsed gap was promptly blocked with a wooden palisade wall and then filled with earth and rocks to temporarily repair it, the solidity was much worse than at the beginning.
At first, the generals of the Zhejiang and Fujian armies were still taking chances, thinking that the water released from the hanging lake upstream would be absorbed by the river valley upstream, and the impact would be weakened, which might not have a direct impact on the Jiahe River defenses.
At this time, under the bombardment of the Huaidong Army day and night, the front and two wings of the entire Jiahe Fortress were scarred, giving the impression that it would fall down like a frail old man with a gentle push.
Not to mention facing the impact of the flood head-on, if it is soaked in flood water for several days, large sections of the wall may collapse.
Several successive counterattacks put pressure on the north of the trench, making it difficult to cross the trench. Not only could they not destroy the war equipment deployed by the Huaidong Army behind the trench, the counterattacks also caused greater casualties to the defenders.
Shanxi River has completely stopped flowing, and the black and ugly river bed has been exposed. Fish, shrimps, turtles and crabs are still struggling to survive in the puddles. More than a dozen awning boats that were not evacuated in time were stranded on the river bed.
Unable to move.
The news that the Huaidong Army built a dam and lake in the upper reaches and used floods to flood the defenses had already spread among the army. Although there was not much rain in the south of Hengshan from late March to early April, the Huaidong Army built a hanging lake in the south.
There is not enough water for a while, but how can ordinary generals guard the city with peace of mind?
In the past ten days, if She Feixiong had not strengthened the blockade between Jiahe Fortress and Hengshan City and used strict laws and punishments to restrain military discipline, the number of soldiers and civilians who had fled to the rear would probably have been far more than thirty or fifty people.
At the same time, the Huaidong Army began to build camps on Guanxi Ridge, southeast of the Jiahe Defense Fortress, toward Meihua Mountain, a branch of Shanxi, and on Chenjialing, southwest of the Jiahe Defense Fortress. The main force of the front formation was built along the river.
, the front base camps that may be impacted by the Xuanhu Lake were moved to Meihua Mountain and Chenjialing respectively. The Huaidong Army's offensive against the Jiahe defense blockade also gradually moved from the Nancheng on the front to the higher ground farther away from the river bank.
On the two wings, two generals, Tang Fuguan and Zhang Gou, were in charge of attacking the city on both wings.
The adjustment of the Huaidong Army's attack direction made the defenders increasingly aware that the hanging lake created by the Huaidong Army's damming upstream and intercepting the river would be flooded by water at any time.
After confirming that the heavy war equipment guarding the fort had been almost exhausted in the fierce confrontation for more than ten days, Tang Fuguan and Zhang Gou began to build siege roads from both wings.
The fortress walls are built very high and are easy to be hit by slingshots and collapse.
The Huaidong Army made good use of stone-throwing crossbows. She Feixiong could only build the city wall along the river in a "thick and low" direction. At the same time, the problem was that the wall was low and seemed to be invaded by ants, and the Huaidong Army built
It will also save a lot of effort when directly connected to the siege road at the head of the defensive city.
The amount of earth and stone consumed to build a road connecting a two-foot-high city wall is several times that of a road more than ten feet high to attack a city.
The defenders lacked heavy long-range weapons, so the Huaidong Army began to push the chariots and floor trucks to the inside of the trench, two to three hundred paces closer to the wall, and used dense crossbows and crossbows to suppress the defenders at the top of the city and cover the supplies.
, civilians transported earth and rocks to fill the road.
Under the cover of a large shield, She Fei Xiong was almost incomplete, like a wall built by the teeth of a seventy or eighty-year-old man. He could see that the Huaidong Army was filling the road very fast, as if a hill was growing towards the top of the city.
Come. Moreover, the Huaidong Army built three Yuan Roads at the same time on the east wing, and two Yuan Roads on the west wing. Maybe it doesn't need to be delayed until the day after tomorrow, and the Huaidong Army can directly use the Yuan Road to attack the city.
The Yuan Road is a slope, varying in width from several feet to the top of the city. It is not afraid of being destroyed by the defenders. It can even directly drive chariots and armored cavalry to the top of the city to fight. If you have plenty of time and sufficient supplies, you can build a Yuan Road to attack the city.
the best choice.
In order to cope with the direct attack from Huaidong soldiers and horses from Yuandao, the defenders built several string towers more than six feet high behind the city wall so that when the Huaidong soldiers and horses attacked, the defenders could still rely on the string towers.
Condescending archery suppression.
The crenellations at the top of the city had long been crippled by the Huaidong Army's stone-throwing crossbows, but She Feixiong had built many creneling carts in the city, and at this time they were all pushed up to the top of the city.
The creneling cart is made of thick wood into the shape of a crenellated wall. It is placed on the front of a wheelbarrow and pushed up the city wall. It can be used as a temporary crenel to form a blockade against enemy soldiers attacking the city to facilitate defense.
Of course, the biggest headache is the suppression of the city head by the Huaidong Army's dense crossbows and catapult crossbows - after all, the wall trucks cannot be compared with the wall made of mortar and plaster. Even the wall built of bricks and stones often collapses.
A section of it collapsed after being hit by a stone bullet.
"Young Marshal, it's time to make up your mind!" Deng Yu lowered his voice and said, "Young Marshal, please return to Shangrao first. I will hold on in Jiahe for a few more days!"
Several counterattacks failed to disrupt the Huaidong Army's position, and they could not reach the Huaidong Army's front base camp. They would have no way out if they were trapped in the Jiahe fort. At the moment, they could only trade space for time.
As long as they can preserve their strength, they will not hesitate to abandon Shangrao City, and instead use the deep hinterland from Shangrao to Ganzhou to delay the Huaidong Army's advance into Jiangxi, and support it until the Beiyan Army captures Guan Shaannan. The overall situation may not turn around.
!
After ten years of fierce fighting with the Eastern Fujian Army, the Zhejiang and Fujian Army finally had only Jin'an intact. Didn't they survive it at the last moment?
There is no way we can spend all the remaining capital of Ba Min with the Huaidong Army in Hengshan!
Shewenzhuang is in Jiangzhou and is also very aware of the situation in Shangrao - the situation in Shangrao is not due to the war, but also the drastic changes in the situation in the hinterland of Jiangxi are all due to the comprehensive counterattack organized by Huaidong a year ago.
Too fast.
After the Jiangning War, the Zhejiang-Fujian Army lost its foundation in Eastern Fujian and was severely weakened. It had no time to recuperate in Jiangxi and faced a full-scale reaction by the Huaidong organization. In the outskirts of Shangrao, Jiangzhou, and Yuanzhou, Huaidong, and Chizhou
, Jinghu, Tanzhou and other towns in Jiangxi have a total of nearly 300,000 troops, but the hinterland of Jiangxi is still in chaos. Faced with this situation, no one can turn the tide.
The current goal of the She family is very clear, which is to preserve their strength and maintain the situation until the moment when the Beiyan soldiers and horses move south. Only then can they possibly welcome the reversal of the situation. If the elites of the Eight Mins are exhausted in Shangrao, even if the Beiyan cavalry moves south in the future,
In this world, there will be nothing wrong with the She family.
She Feixiong knew in his heart that there was no way to hold on, but the Huaidong Army was pressing so hard, and it would not be easy to retreat. But after the Huaidong Army had built a road to attack the city, it would be even harder to retreat. To leave,
We must leave in batches today.
"No, General Deng, you go back to Shangrao. I'll stay here," She Feixiong said resolutely. "Shangrao can't hold on. Even if Shangrao's troops follow the plan they made before, they will immediately go to Hengfeng, Kuexi, Yujiang, etc.
The local branch retreated, and Fuzhou soldiers and horses were ordered to retreat southward and retreat to Shangguan to protect central Fujian..."
She Feixiong was afraid that if he left first, the troops and horses in the rear would immediately collapse if he stayed. Only if he stayed could he control the situation. He called Deng Yu and Wang Hui led his troops to leave first, so that he could retain more combat power and not give it to Huai.
The Eastern Army was entangled.
Neither Hengshan nor Shangrao can defend it anymore.
Shanxi is the most important tributary in the upper reaches of Xinjiang River. After Huaidong cut off Shanxi, the water level of Xinjiang also dropped sharply, making it difficult for large warships to sail in. If they retreated the main force to Shangrao to defend it, they would soon give way to Huaidong soldiers.
The soldiers and horses tightly surrounded them. In Shangrao, the food and grass they had accumulated could not even support the 40,000 to 50,000 soldiers and horses for a month.
In addition, although Shangrao is considered the eastern gateway of Jiangxi, in the early days of the East-Fujian War, Shangrao city was once surrounded and crippled by Zhejiang and Fujian troops, and it has not been completely consolidated for more than ten years. Deng Yu, She Feixiong, etc. successively reorganized Shangrao.
The defense line has limited resources and can only be built from the outside first and then in. The strength of Shangrao City is not even as strong as the Jiahe Defense Fortress and the Changshan City in the eastern section, so it is not a fortified place.
"Young Marshal!" Deng Yu choked with sobs.
It was a matter of life and death for the seven surnames, and personal life and death could not be ignored. Deng Yu was afraid that She Fei Xiong had a death wish and fought hard with the Huaidong Army. She Fei Xiong was going to die in Hengshan, and the blow to the soldiers and horses on the eastern front would be
It is destructive. He has no confidence in leading the remaining troops to use Shangrao to go deep into the hinterland of Ganzhou to delay the Huaidong Army's occupation of the entire Jiangxi——
"I know it well," She Feixiong said, "Don't expect to be able to bring back the supplies accumulated here. If you want to evacuate, you must be quick. You can only take people away, and you can't let Huaidong soldiers and horses have a chance to swarm them. The time is right, I
You know what to do! She is still very anxious, and staying here will only cause trouble for me, so I asked him to go ahead with General Deng."
Deng Yu's face was full of tears. He didn't care about his seniority, so he immediately prostrated himself and went to the city in tears to prepare for the evacuation.g@.