The fighting on the west road is fierce, and Chang Yu in Tongling City on the east bank is also convening the generals to discuss how to break through Bai Wang's blockade, although he doesn't know the dilemma that Gao Jie and the three of them are facing, but they are encountering the same dilemma, and they are all the same, unless there is no other way than a hard attack.

The east is Shanxi for the river, the mountains are dangerous, the river is turbulent, and there are thieves stationed in the middle road, the middle road is dug by the thief army, digging several deep ditches, and the officers and soldiers and cavalry are in a pile in troubled times.

The road ahead is difficult and dangerous, but the generals are in high spirits and ask for battle, but Chang Yu has a little Jiujiu in his heart, and after discussing with Li Muxian and Wu Sangui Ma Ke, he decided to let Wang Tizhong be the vanguard and lead his 6,000 to open the way with the surrender army, but if only the intention of opening the way with the surrender army is too obvious, and Jin Shenghuan's more than 1,000 cavalry and Lu Daqi, Xu Hongji's more than 1,000 foot soldiers participated in the battle, these are Nanjing soldiers and horses to make him participate in the war, one to block the mouth of the king's body, to make him feel that he is cannon fodder, and second, to exercise his combat effectiveness.

However, this is only a deployment of combat preparations, Chang Yu will not immediately order an attack, first, he has to repair his troops and horses, and secondly, wait for God to appreciate the rain and the battle report of the West Road.

If the rain does not stop, Bai Wang's men and horses will definitely support him and will soon retreat without a fight, and if the West Road comes to report that tens of thousands of troops will besiege Anqing City, Bai Wang will also be absolutely disturbed and unable to confront him here.

It's just that the sky is not beautiful, it has always been a drizzle that has been floating and intermittently stopped, and the half-immortal Li Muxian pinched his fingers and said that there was no heavy rain recently, which made Chang Yu slightly regretful and pinned his hopes on the news of the siege of the West Road.

It's just that the weight of his hope is extremely heavy, so heavy that Gao Jie and the three of them are out of breath, and when they send the troops, they are full of confidence and fighting spirit, and they have the potential to break the enemy in one fell swoop.

But if you face each other with a knife and a gun, you can earn a lot of money with your ability, but the thief army has all kinds of indiscriminate methods, and it is the big ditch in front of them that makes them anxious.

The water flow of the ditch is turbulent, although it is only more than two zhang wide, but there is the momentum of ten thousand horses galloping, as if the moat, the officers and soldiers are mostly washed away by the rapids when they swim in the water, that is, after the four tree bridges enter the water, they are also washed horizontally and vertically, and they do not hold long and are washed down the river to the east, which makes the thieves on the other side laugh.

However, the officers and soldiers were finally forced to find a way, no longer directly building a bridge over the ditch, but throwing the remaining tree bridge into the lake to the west and rushing down the water to the break, and sure enough, it was easily stuck, and the officers and soldiers cheered.

It's done! Gao Jie, who was watching the battle, couldn't help shouting, waving his knife and shouting: "Rush over, kill a thief and reward ten ......taels of silver," the soldiers under his command were pressed by the thieves and beat the fire in their hearts, and when they heard the heavy reward, they suddenly rushed along the tree bridge, but because the bridge was less than two meters wide, there were thieves in front of them who were desperately blocked, and the ones behind could not rush over and swam directly into the water, but this time they learned to be smart and no longer jumped directly into the ditch but swam from the lake in the west.

Seeing that the officers and soldiers actually built a bridge and rushed over like crazy, Cheng Niandong was a little surprised, and said that Gao Jie was a mad dog, and it was true when he saw it today.

However, at this time, the officers and men had already started the offensive, and they braved the rain of arrows on the main road to go forward from the tree bridge to kill one after another, and rushed to the opposite bank to fight with the thief army, and the two wings even came from the Shitang Lake and the Yangtze River, and before they could go ashore, they fought with the blocking thief army, and the scene was extremely bloody and tragic.

"Kill, kill, kill Lao Tzu, the archers cover them......" Gao Jie's voice was almost hoarse, but Liu Zeqing next to him rarely spoke, staring at the battle situation intently, his face was gloomy and uncertain, although at this time hundreds of officers and soldiers had rushed to the other side of the ditch, but the situation was still extremely unfavorable, because the thief army built a stone wall about one meter long more than 20 meters away from the ditch, and the thief army used the stone wall as a cover to ambush the officers and soldiers who rushed over with archers to shoot fast, and blocked the enemy with hundreds of soldiers in hand-to-hand combat, For a time, the officers and men were blocked in the square inch between the stone wall and the ditch, unable to advance or retreat, and the troops behind were still blocked and could not come up.

Gao Jie, who went crazy, also saw this predicament, but he could only scold and scold non-stop for a while, or Liu Zeqing had a plan to break the situation with his old spicy eyes, and then ordered the archers to suppress the opponent's close fire to relieve pressure in the middle lane, and at the same time send additional troops to the two wings, the middle lane is only for containment, and the two wings are the key to breaking the game!

Sure enough, as more and more officers and soldiers swam ashore on both wings, Cheng Niandong had to allocate more troops to block, and the middle defense was much empty.

The sky was getting dark, the drizzle did not fall but stopped unconsciously, the sound of fighting on the narrow battlefield between the rivers and lakes became lower and lower, the two armies fought for nearly an hour and did not distinguish the winner or loser, but they were all tired and tired and could not move, and they stopped attacking at the same time with a tacit understanding, and faced each other only more than ten meters apart from each other through a stone wall.

The twenty or thirty meters of open space from the north side of the stone wall to the ditch was crowded with nearly a thousand panting officers and men from east to west, who were either slumped on the ground or panting with knives, and there were thousands of officers and soldiers ready to go across the ditch behind them, but there was no place to settle in front of them.

More than a thousand thieves in the south of the wall are also out of breath, and the thief general Cheng Niandong's face has lost his earlier ease, this is the strongest officer and soldier he has become more and more in the past few years, in previous years, it was rare to encounter this kind of hard-hitting officers and soldiers, most of them were scattered and crushed with a blow, this Gao Jie, let him be impressed!

Gao Jie was not surprised by the combat effectiveness of the thief army, from last night's more than 2,000 troops, there is still half of the remaining and no new troops have been invested, but he can also resist him to the death, although it is a lot of indiscriminate means, but its combat power is also shocking.

"The thief army is exhausted, there are only more than 1,000 people left, our troops are superior to him, just need to repair for a while, fill the manpower, and then another charging thief army will be defeated!" Gao Jie and Liu Zeqing whispered, turned their heads to look northwest, there was no sound of killing in the fire, and the spies came to report that there was also a confrontation over there!

"Huama Liu looks at Hang'er Langdang on weekdays, but he is not ambiguous at the critical moment!" Liu Zeqing smiled slightly, and Gao Jie snorted: "Now they are all grasshoppers on a rope, can he not work hard!" ”

"Report, general, the thief army has retreated!" At this moment, the soldiers in front began to cheer, Gao Jie and Liu Zeqing were startled, and they turned their heads forward to the ditch, and they were confused when they saw the thief army going south.

"To chase or not to chase?" Gao Jie hesitated.

"Don't chase!" Liu Zeqing's tone was very resolute, and he suddenly withdrew when it was difficult to distinguish and it was already dark, so he knew if the thief army was digging a pit in front of him.

Gao Jie also figured out this joint and gave up chasing the enemy, ordered the soldiers to save the dead, help the wounded, repair the life, and sent Ma Nan to reconnoiter the movements of the thief army.

From the mid-noon killing to the present, after several bloody battles, the soldiers were tired and seriously injured, and Liu Zeqing's soldiers and horses went to one of them, covering his chest and frowning in distress.

As soon as the thief army in front retreated, the thief army that confronted Liu Liangzuo in the rear also disappeared into the darkness without a trace, but Liu Liangzuo did not dare to relax, and still maintained a fighting state.