The Huainan Army did not disappoint the peach leopard, and after forcing back the enemy on the embankment and the survivors were swept away, they even launched a breakthrough against the embankment itself.

The large ship, which had given a lot of pressure, slowly retreated under the tow of the fighting ship, and then more small and medium-sized warships filled the vacancy. Because the slave army had been killed before, and the front was withdrawn under deterrence, only Taobao and hundreds of soldiers beside him were still staying on the left, and they were all far away from the riverbank, so the Huainan Army's adjustment of the boat front at this time was not hindered at all.

Next, the Huainan army did not send people to wait for the embankment to excavate and destroy as Taobao thought, but directly set up more than a dozen small boats, each of which carried more than ten people, with earth and stone ballast inside, and sharp giant wood punches outside. When the formation is open, the bow of the ship is aimed at the embankment. Then the men rowed hard, and soon the boats were moving up and down the river, and the further they went, the faster they became, until the speed of the boats soared to a certain extent, and they abandoned the boats and jumped into the river, and swam backwards.

Almost instantaneously after the boat had been abandoned, the boats, which were as swift as arrows, slammed into the embankment, and suddenly there was a sound of drums, and it traveled a great distance along the river. The boats were shattered by the impact, and the levees were hardly kept intact by the heavy blows, and the large chunks of earth and rock were shaken apart and swept into the river by the turbulent currents.

"Retreat, Retreat......"

When Peach Leopard saw this scene, he knew that this embankment, which had been built with great manpower, could no longer be stopped, and under such a violent collision of the southerners, it could be maintained for very little time. He finally saw the strength of the Nanren naval army, which was as stable as a hill if it didn't move, and as fast as thunder when it moved.

The heavy casualties and failure to defend the levee have already caused panic among the soldiers. The peach leopard also needs to hurry up and personally sit in the latter part of the water to make adjustments, so as to avoid being driven straight by the southerners.

After three or four collisions, the entire embankment has collapsed, and the water that can be penetrated suddenly not only broke the embankment that has already been full of cracks, but even the ballast stone of the base and the wooden fence of the side defense have been uprooted, and they were soon swept away by the rolling river.

In the process of breaking through the embankment, although more than 30 shippers were lost, this did not affect the overall combat effectiveness of the Huainan Army, but it gained precious time. When the Rushui was able to flow, the successor naval warships led by Xu Mao had also arrived here.

The soldiers in front of the battle, Qingzhou, stepped forward to report the battle situation, and learned that the war was still smooth until now, and there were no twists and turns, and Xu Mao was also in a good mood. He and Lu Yong were responsible for the task of taking over the military and civilians in Runan this time, but in addition to other missions, they were in a restless and apprehensive mood in the past few days of confrontation.

"The slave army ignores the courage of the southern army, and in this night's battle, it will be shown to be strong with swords, and I know that Huainan can not be insulted!"

Xu Mao stood on the bow of the ship, waved his arms and sounded the drum of attack, and for a while, the boats and boats competed, and all the Huainan troops roared in response, heading towards the waterway further north of Rushui!

Although the embankment between you and Shen is heavily defended by the slave army, it does not mean that the back road is unimpeded after the breakthrough. There are still more than 30 miles of water distance from the place of the hanging gourd, and the Huainan army does not know much about the specific defense arrangements of the back road of the slave army, so the first to attack in the front are all light and fast light boats such as ships and red horses that are less restricted by water conditions, and medium-sized fighting ships are behind.

As for the large ships that had previously brought great deterrent to the slave army, they did not join in this attack, and when the levee was completely broken, it was dragged back and returned to the position where it had anchored during the day. After all, this kind of large ship can only play the greatest battle when the water is open, but Rushui obviously does not have such combat conditions, and even turning and retreating on the river can only be completed with the help of other ships.

At this time, the peach leopard had withdrawn into the follow-up water village, and the soldiers who had withdrawn from near the embankment had also joined up with the successor division, and there was a little chaos in the Jiahe camp, but at this time, after all, in the night, although there was a fire, the field of vision was not broad, so the defeat of the front did not cause much panic in the army. Most of the confusion in the rear division was caused by the rapid adjustment of defense, but under the strict orders of the commanders, the situation was still within the controllable range.

In the latter part of the Rushui water, although there is no solid defense like the embankment that has just been destroyed, it is not completely unobstructed, and several floating water villages are uneven on both sides and protrude into the river. But the peach leopard was still a little hesitant about whether to send more soldiers to press, after all, the amazing destructive power shown by the Lianfang ship also caused a lot of shadows to him, and he was worried that those water villages built of bamboo and wood would also suffer the same fate.

However, the swiftness of the southerners' offensive did not leave much time for Taobao to react, and when he returned to camp, the southerners' boats had already rushed north from the where it no longer existed. In the face of the generals' instructions, Peach Leopard could only order the defense according to the original plan. It was not easy to dispatch at night, and he didn't come up with a better interception strategy at the moment, so it was useless to mess up his position.

However, he did not gain nothing from the previous raiding formation, and after hoping that the front formation could be slightly blocked, he continued to go to the rear camp, and dispatched more than 2,000 soldiers to order them to form an array along the river, and at the same time, many crockpots and grease prepared before were ordered to be transported to the riverside. The previous fire attack and blocking had little effect, not because the southerners were not afraid of fire attacks, on the contrary, it was precisely because they were too afraid that they had enough prevention. The method of piling up salaries and igniting fires is too rigid, and it can't deal with the thoughtful arrangements of the southerners at all.

Peach Leopard is dispatching in the rear camp, and the front line has already started a confrontation.

The Huainan military boats soon encountered the first obstacle, which was a floating water village that jutted out of the river for nearly 20 zhang. There are more than 1,000 slave soldiers arrayed on the water wall, divided into two columns before and after, and the people in the front are squatting on the floating board, and between the arms and knees are set up a sharpened bamboo spear that is more than two zhang long. More than 500 soldiers in the back row each pulled a strong bow, and once the Huainan army rushed into the range of waters, even if the bow was drawn and fired frequently.

The huge shield on the Huainan Army's warship was obliquely supported, blocking most of the flying arrows. But this also limited their vision, and they did not see the bamboo spears held by the slaves and buried in the river at one end suddenly raised from the water and pointed ahead. So the boat that rushed to the front crashed directly into the long bamboo spear.

The great impact force erupted between the sharp stabbing of the bamboo spear and the shield surface, and some of the huge shields were pierced, and at the same time, the body of the soldiers behind the shield was also pierced by the bamboo spear! Even if the shield was not broken, even the body was blown into the water by the bamboo spear held by the slave soldiers.

Of course, those slave soldiers with guns are not having a good time, the huge shock force increases along the body of the gun, some slave soldiers crack the tiger's mouth, the bamboo gun can not hold and suddenly fall into the water, and some hold on to the body of the gun, but this force falls directly along the body on the floating board at the foot, and the floating board is cracked because of this!

Half of the dozen or so warships in the front were blocked by this kind of attack, and their rushing speed was sluggish, and casualties began to appear. However, the Huainan army responded quickly, and the soldiers were equipped with rattan armor that was more suitable for water warfare, and the buoyancy was increased in addition to protection.

At the same time, the rest of the unintercepted warships rushed through this place, and immediately turned to the side to attack the enemy on the floating board, and could only send out one arrow at extreme speed, whether they hit or missed, they immediately abandoned their bows and crossbows and replaced them with knives and guns, and when the hull hit the floating board, even if they roared, they went directly to the enemies on the floating board! The enemies on the floating board also greeted with knives, and the two sides quickly fought in one place.

In hand-to-hand combat, the bravery of the slave army was displayed, and for a time it was able to stop the enemy who boarded the floating board, and even killed several squads directly and forced them into the water. However, the Huainan army still took the initiative on the river, and the battle did not last long, and even if they found that the surrounding areas were blocked by boats, more Huainan soldiers jumped on the floating board. Because of the steep increase in load-bearing, the floating planks became undulating, and even the beams that supported the riverbed swayed.

Many warships of the Huainan army gathered and dispersed on the river, and the speed of the soldiers was much faster than that of the slave army, and soon the same number or even more soldiers jumped on the floating board and surrounded the enemy on the floating board. Before the Zuo Jinnu army had time to reinforce, one end of the floating board connected to the river bank had been split and cut off by the Huainan army. So in this very short period of time, the Huainan army outflanked and intercepted, besieged and killed, and did everything possible.

The slave army may have an advantage in hand-to-hand combat, but when a large number of Huainan military boats and ships gather here, several times the enemy to participate in the battle, it is like a group of ferocious vultures pounced on a few carrion corpses. After nearly a quarter of an hour of fighting, the slave army began to break up, and many slave soldiers no longer had the heart to resist, but dragged their swords, guns and blades and fled into the river.

However, there are not many of them who know the nature of water, and the blades of the clothes are heavy, and there are many people who sink straight after falling into the water. Even if there are smart and agile people who strip off their clothes and toss on the river for a while, they are all chased by the Huainan army cruising here, and they are generally killed by one shot when fishing.

When the soldiers of the Huainan Army returned to their respective boats and continued to rush north, this area of water was already full of floating corpses, the river was rendered red, and more than 1,000 slave soldiers were swarmed by several times the enemy on the floating board of the river, which was not conducive to playing, and they were killed cleanly, and there was no living mouth!

The southern ships and the northern horses, the southerners have their own boats, and the combat advantage on the water is like the cavalry on the land, although there is no horsepower to borrow in the real battle, it still has to fight with hard knives and guns, but it can gather superior forces in a very short time, and inflict great superiority on the slave army that is already outnumbered and menacing from the south!

Similar floating board water village, the slave army also arranged many places in this section of the water, the Huainan army warship is like a pack of wolves, staring at a target and rushing up on the water, first cut off the slave's aid and retreat, and then the soldiers drove the slave army into the water, and then drove the boat around the water to harvest human lives! Such a fierce tactic destroyed several slave army water villages in a row!

Of course, the slave army's counterattack was not weak, once the boat could not destroy the connection between the floating board and the shore in time, the slave soldiers flew back, and then shook the iron hook connected by the long rope and threw it to the Huainan army boat, once the boat was hooked, there were hundreds of people working together, desperately pulling the rope to pull the boat to the shore. When the boat is pulled to the shallow tidal flats, if the soldiers cannot abandon the ship in time to move, they will be swarmed by the slaves and slashed into a ball of blood, and few can be spared.

After losing more than a dozen warships and hundreds of armor soldiers, the Huainan army found a way to deal with this kind of fighting at the cost of human lives.

Although Mo Zhong is now the owner of the Huainan army and a member of the middle-level commanders and generals, he still charges forward whenever he is in battle, after breaking through several slave camps one after another. On the way to the next slave camp, the bottom of the friendly boat on the side suddenly shook and hit the hidden stake buried by the slave soldiers in the water, so the momentum was slightly paused, and then the wind sounded in the ears, and several iron hooks were thrown into the boat, hooking the side of the ship, and then the hull of the ship was dragged to the shore uncontrollably.

Seeing this, Mo Zhong quickly ordered the soldiers on the boat to jump into the river and abandon the ship, but there were still several men who moved a little slowly, and when they fell into the water, they were less than a few feet away from the slave army formation on the beach. Mo Zhong ordered the ship to turn to meet the crowd in the water, but he didn't prevent his own warship from being hooked and pulled.

At this time, there were not too many friendly troops nearby, and the slave soldiers had already discovered the existence of Mo Zhong, the commander of the Huainan Army, who was extremely active in the chaotic battle, so they had been planning for a long time, and more than 300 people were waiting here, desperately pulling the boat ashore, to catch this battle feat, which was much greater than the decapitation of ordinary soldiers.

Mo Zhong's warship was a few points larger than the ordinary warship, carrying more than 100 soldiers, and also had bows and knives needed to supplement the left melee combat, and when the hull was hooked and pulled, more than a dozen soldiers had jumped into the water in a hurry. However, after all, Mo Zhong came out of a small family, and he could not bear to abandon the ship, nor could he bear to throw away the weapons loaded on the ship, and after a little hesitation, he made a decision in his heart, and when he stopped the action that the soldiers were about to fall into the water, he grabbed a pole with his own hands, and stroked with both arms.

When the rest of the soldiers saw this, they immediately came to their senses, so they all followed suit and helped the husband. It's just that the direction of their boats is not to flee from the shore, but to go straight in the direction of the slave soldiers. The two sides of the enemy and the enemy exerted force in the same direction, and the speed of the ship soared sharply by more than double, and it rushed straight to the slave army on the shore like an arrow off the string.

When the slaves saw the big fish fall into the hook, they were still laughing with joy at first, and there was no lack of hideous colors, but when they saw the boat rushing straight towards them, the cruel smile had turned into panic, and they could no longer care about encircling and suppressing any big fish, so they turned around and fled. The one that moves a little slower is directly hit by the bow of the ship!

"Kill!"

Before the hull of the ship ran aground and hit the mud on the shore, Mo Zhong had already held the long-handled combat knife, and jumped up with the momentum of the ship, the long knife was already swung violently in mid-air, and those slave soldiers who fled with their backs only heard the wind rising suddenly behind their ears, and even if several people were directly cut down on the beach!

The remaining more than 50 Huainan soldiers on the ship jumped ashore to chase the slave soldiers who had fled back and fled because of the example of the commander, and when they returned, there were several bloody slave heads hanging in each hand!

At this time, a boat on the river had already discovered that Mo Zhongza's ship was stranded on the shore, so they divided two ships to help tow it, and more than 20 men worked at the same time to pull the warship that had almost washed to the shore back into the current. By the time the slave soldiers came back from the counterattack, Mo Zhong had already led the soldiers with more than 100 beheadings to calmly board the ship and leave.

With such an example, this scene is frequently staged next. The slaves could not be stopped on the floating boards on the water, but they were in danger of dying, and it was no longer safe to stand on the shore to catch fishing boats, and they had to be rushed to the front by the enemy.

Therefore, after killing seven or eight miles of water, the resistance encountered by the Huainan army was slightly weaker, and it was able to advance to the hanging place at high speed.

At this time, the eastern sky has gradually revealed the fish white, the morning light is meager, and the Huainan army has more than 200 large and small boats and boats in this section of the river, and the boats and sails are racing, and the scene can be described as spectacular. Even the hanging gourd in the distance seemed to have glimpsed the grandeur of the army, and from time to time cheers could be heard from afar. And the soldiers of the Huainan Army also kept advancing, while shouting loudly "The king is killed, the army and the people are saved" and other cries in response.

Hearing the roars of the two soldiers, the peach leopard's face couldn't help but become even more ugly. Originally, he thought that more than 20,000 troops Chen Yu on this section of the water would be enough to intercept the Huainan army, but the Rushen embankment was broken faster than he imagined, and the battle in the second half of the night was so urgent that he had to transfer some reinforcements from the troops surrounding the Hanging Fortress to this point. Since then, the original plan to preemptively encircle and obstruct his army and civilians for many days will not be implemented because too many troops have been withdrawn.

The boats and boats of the Huainan Army have rushed to the Rushui River section that is only ten miles away from the hanging gourd, and the waterway that goes further has been dug and dredged by the soldiers and civilians of Runan, and has been guarded as a way of retreat. Once the Huainan army rushed into this section of the waterway, then the peach leopard, which was already short of boats, would be even more difficult to intercept the Huainan army with simple bamboo rafts and floating boards.

Although he has already restrained and blocked the main force of the Huainan Navy at night, if the King of Zhongshan reacts in time to rush to the crossing at night, it should have been a great success at this time, and the peach leopard can be regarded as having completed the task of containment. However, this night's containment, due to the previous abandonment of the advantageous position, the Peach Leopard Division has been at a disadvantage, and the casualties can be described as extremely heavy. Paying such a big price, but only reaping the benefits, this result is unbearable for Peach Leopard.

Therefore, he wants to inflict heavy losses on the Huainan army in the last section of the water, and even the tens of thousands of soldiers and civilians in Runan do not intend to let go, and he wants to completely kill and collect his own merits!

Seeing that the Huainan Navy was approaching the last section of the water journey, Peach Leopard finally gave an order and put the last killing move that had been prepared for a short half of the night into the battlefield.

Located in the last section of the Rushui waterway, there are more than 2,000 slave soldiers on each side of the river array, waiting for battle by the water. When the drum and trumpet sounded, the slaves and soldiers near the river all roared, and each lit the clay pot filled with ointment and other things in front of him with fire, and then picked it up with an iron hook and suddenly threw it into the Huainan military boat in the river.

Dozens of Huainan military boats rushed to the front, because the target was in sight, and the enemy was weak and powerless to block the attack, so it was inevitable that they would slack off for a while. When those blazing crockpots were thrown over, more than a dozen warships were directly hit! The crockpots were filled with ointment, and they were already spraying in the air, until they fell into the ship, and the ointment lay on its side, and the sparks were raging. If it was only burned on the deck, it could still be extinguished, but there was no lack of ointment flames poured directly on the person, and soon ignited the rattan armor on the body.

For a time, the dozen or so boats that were hit were shrouded in firelight, especially the rattan armor on the armor was not lacking in oiliness, once it was ignited, it was difficult to extinguish it, and they jumped into the river to suppress the fire with water. Fortunately, the river was gradually opening up in this place, and the boats did not get too close, and the rest of the warships stopped moving forward, turned their bows, and rescued their comrades who had fallen into the water.

The slave soldiers were pressed and beaten for half the night, and now when they saw that the Huainan army finally showed an embarrassed posture, they couldn't help laughing wildly. Seeing that he had finally sniped the advancing momentum of the Huainan Army, Tao Leopard finally breathed a sigh of relief in his heart, and was ready to hand over this battlefield to his generals, and he had to take part to personally command the final battle of the siege and killing of the soldiers and civilians of Runan.

However, as soon as he finished his order, before he was far away from the battlefield here, he saw that the battle formation of the Huainan army ships had changed again, and the warships full of armor soldiers had all shrunk their flanks, while some of the ships that had been unloaded were transferred to the front.

"Those empty ships should be ready to meet those gangsters in Runan. At present, the southern thieves are trapped, and they want to use these empty ships to consume the materials of our army's attack......"

Tao Leopard watched the battle for a while, and quickly guessed the intention of the Huainan army, these civilian ships, there are not too many soldiers on board, if the fire attack is burned, the loss is not more than empty ships, but if it is not attacked, then the civilian ships will smoothly approach the hanging gourd, then those Runan soldiers and civilians will naturally rush up, will escape.

After understanding Nanren's plan, the peach leopard's bearded old face suddenly appeared with anger. These southern thieves are just tyrannical creatures, and they actually want to use boats to consume his fire attack things! In his opinion, this is undoubtedly a waste to the extreme! After he came south, he was trapped in the boats for a long time, and in the past half of the night, he was even more disgusted by the southerners' boats, and he would rather exchange his life for these boats!

Very well, you don't want these boats, then I want them!

Seeing that behind this scene, Taobao temporarily gave up the plan to encircle and suppress the soldiers and civilians of Runan, returned to the front again, signaled the soldiers on both sides of the strait to move forward, and while maintaining the momentum of fire attack, the southerners warships were forced back farther again, and at the same time urgently organized soldiers who were familiar with the water to prepare to go down the river on the floating board to rob those civilian ships, and at the same time ordered: "If you can capture a ship of southerners, you will be killed!" ”

Hearing such a generous reward, the soldiers all reacted fiercely and enthusiastically joined in one after another. You must know that in the current world, when the generals are about to fight, they are protected by the guards of the descendants and cronies, even in the fierce battle, it is difficult for ordinary pawns to have the great honor of directly killing the enemy general. At present, such a heavy promise, of course, makes people happy.

Therefore, when the order of the peach leopard was issued, whether the army was familiar with the water or not, with a wooden plank in his arms, he dared to jump down the river and swim straight to the boats of the southerners who did not carry troops.

There was more than one riot, and at this time the sky was getting brighter and the horizon had broadened. The soldiers and civilians gathered in the Hanging Fortress also discovered that the king was intercepted by slave fire, and saw that many boats were still sailing here, but on the way, slaves went into the water to intercept them.

For a while, everyone was afraid that this last way of life would be taken by the slave army, so many people jumped into the river and swam desperately in the direction of the boat.

Mao Bao had already seen at this time that the reinforcement generals should not be satisfied with the results of the battle, so they made such an arrangement, first moving forward with civilian ships, if the slave army was unmoved, then they could only complete the task and give up. But if the slave army can't resist the temptation and robs, they can attract the slave army to the water and annihilate their opponents on a battlefield they are not familiar with!

With such intentions of the Huainan Army, Mao Bao naturally found it inconvenient to explain to the people in detail, and repeatedly dissuaded the people from acting rashly. But now the vitality is in front of us, there are many people who have been blind, and there are still many people who have thrown themselves into the river without hesitation, bursting out of the last life energy to swim to the boat, to chase the vitality that seems to be close at hand, but is out of reach.

When the front waterway had begun to coax the boats, the formation of the Huainan Navy continued to adjust, and the soldiers in the front who were responsible for the charge and kill were all withdrawn due to exhaustion. The middle and rear formations that have been recuperating were quickly pushed up, and their soldiers were no longer just wearing rattan armor soaked in tung oil, but Senhan iron armor, and at the same time, in addition to many weapons on the ship, there was no shortage of wet felt and other fire-fighting things.

When some of the slaves had successfully boarded the ship to show their successors, the cheers from the ship were even more encouraging, and more slaves threw themselves into such a great operation. Peach Leopard begged for the ship before, but he didn't expect the soldiers to be so enthusiastic, and even destroyed the original tactical arrangement, and when he saw that the southerners were more successful, he hurriedly ordered to stop such behavior, but this situation was not something that could be stopped for a while.

"Attack! All the slaves who have fallen into the water are fattened with fish and shrimp in Rushui today! ”

With Xu Mao's order, the Huainan military boats and boats raced out again, although there were still a large number of slave army fire attack crockpots thrown from the left and right, but there were wide shields on the side of the ship, even if one or two leaked nets fell on the deck, they were immediately extinguished by wet felt, and they were not hindered at all!