It is said that Wang Yien calculated that before the attack, the officers and soldiers would use artillery to plow the ground, and in order to reduce casualties, they would move the defense line back 100 paces and withdraw from the range of firepower, but the officers and soldiers did the opposite, and did not suppress it with firepower, and directly let the soldiers swim across the river, which caught him off guard.

But at this time, hundreds of artillery with a rain of arrows poured into the thief army's formation, for a time screaming, in the blink of an eye, the thief army was bombarded, if on weekdays may have collapsed, but at this time the thief army knew that there was no way to survive when taking a step back, so they could only grit their teeth and rush forward in the rain of bullets.

Wang Zamao's three hundred soldiers felt bad as soon as they entered the water, although the water surface of the Qingtong River was not wide, but because of the heavy rain in the east, the lake water in the east swelled and the water was deep and rapid, and one was not careful to be directly from the west of the river, fortunately, there were artillery remote suppression in the rear to buy them time, hundreds of people rushed forward as soon as they docked with knives, Wang Zamao was the first soldier to wave his knife and shout, capture and kill Bai Wang to make a lot of money!

The cannon sound of the officers and soldiers was incessant, and the archers continued to fire, although the night was dark and the casualties of the other party could not be seen clearly, but Chang Yu expected that the thief army would suffer heavy losses, Li Muxian even frowned and puzzled, how could Bai Wang's caution leave us such a big gap.

You must know that when the officers and men swam across the river, the thief army was 100 paces away, and when they found that something was wrong and rushed over, they were severely injured by artillery and suffered heavy casualties, and at this time, the officers and men who crossed the water had already gone ashore to directly cover up and kill the past, so it can be said that the thief army made a serious tactical mistake from the beginning.

There are only thousands of thieves on the other side, indicating that the main force has gone south and stayed here are all sent to death by the queen of the palace, according to Wang Tizhong, Bai Wang still has two generals under Bai Wang, a brave and belligerent Hades Wang Yien, a resourceful Yuan Sanzhong, if he is definitely not going to make such a low-level mistake, if it is expected that the other side is Wang Yien, Chang Yu smiled, Ben Du once told him, let him see the real Hades, tonight is his dream moment.

In the dark night, Wang Zamao's hundreds of soldiers took the lead in landing to fight with the thief army, and also attracted all the firepower and attention, at the same time, Wang Tizhong and Jin Shenghuan also landed from the front and rear feet of the two wings and started a fierce battle with the thief army that had just been hit hard by the shells.

It was too dark and the other side was too far away, and Chang Yu, who was watching the battle, couldn't see the battle situation clearly, but the corners of his mouth rose slightly in the sound of killing, and Li Muxian asked in a low voice: "Do you need to let Lu Daqi send people to cross the river again?" ”

Chang Yu shook his head: "Thousands of defeated soldiers can't compare with our army in terms of physical strength, morale, or fighting spirit, not to mention that we still have the advantage of strength and they have been severely damaged by artillery, and if they can carry it for more than half an hour, they will win!" ”

Chang Yu's words are right, in this situation, the two armies are fighting with strength rather than lip service, and even the so-called fighting spirit of breaking the cauldron is not good, Wang Yien personally entered the battle formation on the other side of the river and led his troops to fight in an attempt to beat the officers and soldiers back to the other side, but he lost the opportunity at the beginning to let the officers and soldiers rush ashore, plus the morale of the artillery was completely lost, and the people who could fight were only more than a thousand to meet four or five times the officers and soldiers.

Wang Zamao made meritorious contributions, and after going ashore, he entered the enemy formation to attract firepower, and was surrounded by the thief army, and the pressure was huge, and the loss was great, but after the officers and soldiers on both wings followed up, he moved his mind as soon as the pressure was relaxed, even if the battle was a big victory, he atonement for his sins with the most vanguard merit, but if he captured the opponent's enemy generals......

At first, when he was on the other side, he thought that Bai Wang was still here, but after rushing through the fight for a while, he felt that the thief army was only two or three thousand people, so he also reacted and knew that it was the army of the palace, Bai Wang would not be here, but Wang Yien and Yuan Sanzhong were possible. Sure enough, he caught a thief on the battlefield and asked the wounded soldiers, and after learning that it was Wang Yien, he became excited, and took hundreds of his soldiers to stare at the big fish, and after a while, he found out where Wang Yien was, so he shouted and rushed over.

Unlike Wang Zamao's slippery head, the Nanjing soldiers on the west wing fought the toughest battle since they went south after crossing the river under the leadership of Jin Shenghuan.

And the east wing of the king in the body unexpectedly fought a psychological warfare, after his command went ashore while fighting while shouting: "Surrender and don't kill, we are brothers and sisters, why don't we come to surrender and build a meritorious cause...... "You must know that the thief army is newly defeated and exhausted, and the morale is extremely low at this time, and many people don't want to fight anymore, but they are blinded by Wang Yien's words that the officers and soldiers do not accept surrender, so they have to face the battle hard, at this time, some people who heard these words directly threw their knives and hugged their heads and squatted down to surrender, surrendered without killing, The four words actually produced great magic at this time, making the eastern flank of the thief army almost lose resistance, which was also one of the reasons why Wang Yien was defeated so quickly.

The sound of killing faded away, and the bonfires on the other side lit up one after another, and the smile on the corner of Chang Yu's mouth became stronger: "It's a little faster than expected" Lu Daqi and the others all cheered, even fools knew that the thief army was defeated.

Sure enough, it didn't take long for Jin Shenghuan to send someone to report, more than half of the thieves were killed and wounded and fled, Wang Tizhong and Wang Zamao were chasing the enemy, but Chang Yu was most concerned: "What about the ship?" ”

"Report to the Governor, I can't find a boat on the other side, according to the prisoner's confession, some of them were taken away by Bai Wang in an instant, and some were burned by them!"

Grass fucking! Chang Yu couldn't help but scold.

It is not easy for the army to cross the river without a boat, and the soldiers can still swim in the water but carry heavy baggage, such as the grain and grass for the artillery logistics of the Shenji battalion, but almost all the boats at hand were given to Bai Wang by Wang Zamao, and when he heard that it was burned, how could he not be angry.

However, the matter has come to this point, and he can't solve the problem, so he can only recruit fishing boats or let the soldiers cut down the forest to build rafts later, but that is also tomorrow's business, and now he wants the whole army to rest and recuperate, and reward the whole army!

Then Chang Yu assigned tasks to Lu Daqi and others, first counted the casualties of the officers and soldiers and the spoils obtained, this day the officers and soldiers fought from noon to now the soldiers were tired but also suffered heavy losses, but the harvest was also huge, first broke through the checkpoints carefully arranged by Bai Wang in one go, and captured a lot of mules, horses, cattle, sheep, grain and grass and other trophies, of course, the two red-coated cannons did not run.

At the same time, he also ordered the logistics to slaughter the cattle and sheep of those wounded war horses and the thieves, and the life stewed meat and boiled soup, and he wanted the soldiers of the whole army to open the meat and eat a good meal, and this was just an appetizer, and he took out 100,000 taels of silver to reward the participating troops, which made the whole army cheer for a long time.

If you win a battle, you should be rewarded with silver, and you should also remember your merits, so you will order a list of meritorious soldiers, but all the soldiers who have participated in the war will be listed on it, and they will be reported to the court for mention in the future.

Although the night is deep, but the ten-mile mountain road is very lively, the soldiers eat meat and drink soup in a big gulp, touch their waists to appreciate the silver, boasting about the bravery on the battlefield in the daytime, some people say that they fall asleep when they say it, they are really too tired.

The south bank of the Qingtong River is also noisy and abnormal, I thought it was a tough battle, but it was easy to defeat the thief army and make a great achievement, and the soldiers were very happy. The logisticians had already sent the wounded soldiers back to the city on rafts and brought food over, and although most of them were surrendered, there was no difference in treatment from those on the other side.

Tonight's big rest, tomorrow the army will cross the river and advance to Chizhou City, Chang Yu looked up at the starry sky, and repeatedly planned in his heart, the best possibility is to directly defeat Bai Wang outside the city, the worst is possible...... Then it's time to attack the city!

Chang Yu didn't want to attack the city, thinking that no matter who attacked the city, whether it was attacked or not, the price of the attacking side would be very heavy.

"The overseer is overjoyed, the overseer is overjoyed......" At this moment, there was a cry on the riverbank, a group of people were crossing the river on a raft, Chang Yu raised his eyebrows, and Wu Sangui and others next to him were also confused, what else could there be like when this was ordered?