At this time, this embankment has completely become a Shura slaughterhouse!

The whole embankment is not too thick, not too wide, only the place where the arrow tower stands is still open. At this time, on the embankment, there were some large crossbow arrows that were several feet long and deeply penetrated into the earth, and these crossbow arrows more or less penetrated the corpses of some slaves. There were already a lot of corpses piling up on the entire embankment, and most of the soldiers died from the arrows, and arrows of different lengths were stuck in these corpses crookedly.

This is not only the case with the dike, but also in the waters on both sides of the dike. At this time, the only people who could survive on the embankment were the soldiers on the arrow towers, and they were also suppressed by the arrows on the big ship and the new fighting ship that they didn't dare to probe at all.

At this time, only a little more than a quarter of an hour had passed since the official start of the war, and because he was worried that it would be more difficult to contain the Nanren boat once it broke through here, Peach Leopard had previously ordered to hold on. Then another scout came to report, and he diverted his attention to arrange many military affairs. It was in this very short period of time that the war on the embankment was already like this, and it could not be called war at all, it was simply a massacre!

In this extremely short period of time, this embankment that directly blocked the river swallowed the lives of nearly 3,000 slave soldiers! Those ruthless southerners, taking advantage of the complex battlefield environment, shot a wave of soldiers and then stopped, waiting for the follow-up reinforcements to fill the battle formation again, and then another round of arrows rained down!

At this time, the light of the fire had gradually faded, and the slaves in the distance could not see the tragedy of the battle, but the soldiers who were on call for reinforcements had already been killed, and no matter how much the commander drove them, they did not dare to approach the embankment again. And some of the slave soldiers who survived in the arrow tower were also heartbroken at this time, and they didn't dare to face such a ferocious attack of the Huainan army at all, so they could only pray to the sky to escape.

On the other hand, on the side of the southerners, Lian Fang Hengchen has occupied half of the river, there are fighting ships and wings on the left and right, and the soldiers stand on the deck to line up to shoot, and there are almost no casualties, and the battle situation is completely tilted!

Seeing this scene, the peach leopard was already gasping, not to mention those ordinary soldiers. These soldiers may have repeatedly broken their opponents in the Central Plains and were invincible, but in the real water battle, they did not experience much. Including the peach leopard, although they were already trying to imagine that the combat effectiveness of the Nanren Naval Army was not weak, they didn't expect it to be so strong!

The casualties of more than 2,000 lives made them realize the fact that the combat effectiveness of the Nanren naval army was still beyond their imagination. And the real water war is not as simple as putting the board on the river and then hedging and fighting. The long-range armaments equipped with the Nanren ships are not inferior to some fortified forts on land, and the ships themselves are surrounded by currents, and the defensive ability of the ships themselves is much stronger than that of fortified forts. The slave army was already short of boats and ships, and it could not pose a direct threat to the Huainan army itself at all.

"Get out of here ......"

The peach leopard's face changed in the light, which was even weaker, and he was silent for a moment before he squeezed out the sentence between his teeth. He had said similar words during the day, but his mood was completely different, during the day, he was trapped in the conservative fighting style of the southerners, and wanted to lure his army deeper through false defense. But now they are fighting hard to no avail, and they are forced to evacuate.

It wasn't until this moment that Peach Leopard realized that many of his previous ideas were still too underestimated. At the moment, the combat effectiveness of the Nanren naval army was revealed, even if he resisted with all his strength, he was a little unable to resist, and the previous idea of showing the enemy to be weak and thus luring him to annihilate now is really a bit ridiculous. Weak is really weak, and there is no need to act at all. The southerners were conservative before, and now they are attacking fiercely, and they are by no means tempted by them, and most of them are actively chosen tactical arrangements.

During the day, the southerners marched slowly, and only launched a fierce attack at night, and after seeing the current battle situation, the peach leopard gradually gained insight.

Although the Rushui waterway is in disrepair, the upstream terrain is higher than that of Huaidi, so the water still flows into Huaishui. Previously, Taobao dug more ditches near Rukou to divide the flow of Rushui, which caused the Huaishui backflow at the intersection of Ru and Huai. The two currents are offset by the Rushui River near Huai, because the current can only spread to both banks, forming a large tidal flat.

At the same time, most of the sediment carried in the upstream Rushui flow has accumulated in the river channel close to the Rushui because of the lack of the current rolling, making the river bottom even higher, the water flow shallower, and the navigation condition has become extremely poor.

Yesterday, Huainan sent out the army, did not advance rapidly, but stopped in this section of the water flow, slightly repaired and desilted, so that Rushui became a smooth stream, although the time was not long, but the water situation finally improved. This was not done out of cowardice, but to clear the waterway for more ships to enter the waterway.

Although Peach Leopard is a general, his understanding of water warfare and the use of river networks are not as good as those of the Nanren, so he did not realize the intention of the Nanren until this moment. In fact, the dispatch of the southerners' boats to remove the dredging was already a signal that a major attack was about to be launched, but the ridiculous peach leopard was also worried that the blocking force would be too strong and would discourage the southerners' attack, so he actually continued to withdraw the defense without strengthening the interception!

After realizing this, Peach Leopard's mood can be described as complicated, he seems to have exhausted the mechanism this time, but he is still led by the nose of the southerners, and the arrangement he thinks is to lure the enemy is actually exactly what the southerners want. If the waterway of Rukou is firmly guarded and the southerners are not given the opportunity to dredge, although the southerners are prosperous, they will not dare to go deep after all.

But it's too late to think about these now, although the combat effectiveness of the Nanren naval army is beyond his imagination, it has finally penetrated into Rushui and weakened the ability to respond to the main stream of Huaishui. I only hope that the king of Zhongshan can rush to the ferry smoothly, once a large number of Chinese troops land on the south bank of Huaishui, it will directly threaten the Nanren Spring Formation. At that time, this water army will be in a dilemma, and it will be impossible to maintain the current sharpness.

However, the peach leopard is still a little apprehensive after all, the performance of the southerners before and after the combat effectiveness is different, it is obvious that they are also preserving their strength in the confrontation in the past few days, and it is obvious that they are not in a hurry to rescue the hanging place, and it seems to have more deep meaning. Thinking about it this way, a large number of boats left the town, as if they were inducing the king of Zhongshan to attack south.

The initiative has always been in the hands of the southerners, and if they don't choose to go deep into Rushui, the king of Zhongshan will not dare to act rashly. Now that the attack is suddenly launched, could it be that some important arrangements have been arranged?

Thinking about it this way, it is difficult for Peach Leopard to remain optimistic about the war on Shi Hu's side. When even if he summoned his own soldiers, he ordered to report the news quickly, so that the king of Zhongshan would not underestimate the enemy. As for the speculation about the intentions of the Nanren, he didn't explain too much, worried that it would dispel the fighting spirit of the King of Zhongshan. If the King of Zhongshan does not launch it, then the southerners who advance this time will be completely borne by his troops, and there will be a stubborn army in the hanging place.

The embankment here is already difficult to defend. Such a powerful display of combat effectiveness of the southerners directly disintegrated the fighting spirit of the soldiers on the nearby side, and if it were not for the dim light in the middle of the night at this time, the psychological impact on the army would undoubtedly be even greater.

Therefore, when the peach leopard gave the order, the three thousand soldiers who were still gathering and waiting nearby withdrew from this place in an instant, and their movements were several times faster than when they were assembled. For a time, there were almost no slave soldiers on the left side of the embankment. No, there are still some who are trapped in the arrow towers on the embankment, crying for mercy and calling for help. But soon, Peach Leopard no longer needs to worry about the lives of these soldiers.

When the slaves withdrew from here, the huge ship in Jiang's heart moved again. Several of the ships tugged and towed, turning the ship around, and in the process, the Nanren fighters continued to fire at the levee, blocking reinforcements and restricting the movement of the surviving people on the tower.

When the big ship turned around, it also solved a puzzle in Taobao's heart, that is, there were more offensive weapons on one side of this big ship, and there were many soldiers standing, why didn't the hull tilt? Now that the big ship turned around, Peach Leopard noticed that the hull on the other side was also loaded with many offensive weapons to balance the weight. The most conspicuous of these ordnance were a few long logs that were originally suspended from the hull of the ship and submerged in the current.

At this time, the big ship turned around, and this side of the ship rushed directly to the embankment, and the long wooden clubs were pulled up by the rope pulleys, as if the arms of giants were raised high in the river.

Seeing this scene, the peach leopard couldn't help but let out a low roar, but the fact was not shifted by his will, these long logs were pulled almost vertically, and then in the peach leopard's frightened gaze, they suddenly slapped towards the surviving arrow towers on the embankment!

Rumble......

The loud noise was so loud that the riverbank was shaken. The arrow tower that was originally standing on the embankment was hit hard by this blow, and it has suddenly cracked! And the survivors of the slave soldiers who gathered in the arrow tower were directly smashed and slapped into a pool of plasma in panic, and with those cracked and agitated bamboo and wood fragments splashed in all directions, the bones were gone!

The clapping rod is the use of simple mechanical principles, the greater the use of the machine, the greater the power. The battering rods of a warship of this size such as the Lianfang Ship would be destroyed even if a fighting ship moving on the river was hit by it, not to mention the arrow towers on the embankment that were not capable of evading.

So in this continuous roar, those remaining arrow towers were smashed one by one, and there was no longer a single slave soldier on the embankment!

"The southern thief is hateful!"

When the peach leopard saw this scene, he was even more angry, and his temples on both sides were jumping frequently, almost splitting his eyes. These elite soldiers under his command are all brave soldiers who have been in battle for a long time, but now they have not even touched the corner of the enemy's clothes, and they have been slaughtered to the extreme! Even if they are extremely ferocious slaves, they have to slash with a sword if they want to kill someone, but these southerners are powerful with boats and weapons, and one kill is a nest, which is simply tyrannical to the extreme!

At this time, the peach leopard's breathing became more and more rapid, although there were pro-soldiers pulling back, but his feet were still rooted and did not move, as if he did not give up, and wanted to see how this big ship should pass through this embankment.

And seeing with his own eyes the strength of many southerners' boats, the peach leopard was not only frightened, but also determined to seize the opportunity, he would kill many ships at any cost and take these water weapons into his own hands. Although the fighting power of the southerners is irresistible at present, there are still many arrangements behind the embankment, and the slave army still has the power to intercept them.