On October 13, Chen Dang, Jiang Yanchao, and others, who received Shen Luoyan's military order, hurriedly gathered 22,000 soldiers and horses under the five subordinates, and did not pause for half a minute.

Jian'an lives in the southeast coast, belongs to the traditional junction of Lingnan and Jiangdong, not as prosperous as Yuhang and Huiji, Jian'an is a vast but sparsely populated barren land. There are only three counties in the huge Jian'an County, and the native soldiers of Feng Wan and Feng Ang attacked Jian'an all the way from Lingnan and entered Huiji, leaving not a single soldier at all.

From small villages to small towns and county seats, the native soldiers were like a stream of locusts entering the country, and everything on their marching line was looted by the troops. Villages reduced to ashes, deserted towns, looted county seats. In addition to the ashes and ruins, there are many headless corpses lying horizontally at the entrance of each town, and human heads piled high on the side.

Judging from the clothes of the corpses, most of the people killed by the native soldiers were the people who resisted in the cities, as well as the big families in the cities. After the town was breached, they were plundered by the native soldiers and killed here, cutting off their heads for public display.

Along the way, from Nan'an, Longxi, Chang'an, Jian'an, Jianyang Zhucheng, all the same. All the cities were plundered, and many towns were deserted. However, when Chen Dang and the others entered Huiji and rushed to the Zheshui River, everything was nothing.

A scene within a radius of dozens of miles on the north bank of Zhejiang. It's what really blew them away.

A vast plain on the north bank of the river. As far as the eye could see, there were corpses of broken armor everywhere. The broken battle flags of the Wu army, the broken spears and horizontal knives, the broken white feathered arrows, and the boundless corpses were exposed to the wilderness. I don't know whether it was for demonstration or show-off, but the victors on the north bank of the river were not kind enough to bury the remains of the losers, and the strong smell of rotting corpses in the air was unbearable for miles. Most of the corpses did not even have heads, and on a plain dozens of miles away from Zhejiang, there was a huge human head piled up. Tens of thousands of heads are stacked on top of each other, and the indescribable horror is terrifying.

The dense remnants of broken guns have spread to the horizon, and in the distance, remnant flags stand obliquely in the setting sun, and the evening breeze "hunts" and rolls up the flags. The word "Wu" can still be faintly seen, the flag is still here, and the soldiers holding the flag have already turned into broken corpses.

Flocks of vultures and crows swooped down one after another, screaming as if to celebrate their good fortune. A terrifying scene, more than 20,000 Wu soldiers all turned pale, as if they had fallen into the Nine Hells at once, they were all soldiers, they had experienced many battle formations, and they had seen a lot of killings and being killed. But it's a battlefield like this. It was the first time they had seen it, and the sight was so brutal that many of them even vomited.

Chen Dang and others had to order more than 20,000 soldiers to stop and bury the bodies of friendly soldiers and clean up the battlefield.

After cleaning up the battlefield, more than 20,000 Wu troops turned north and set off in the direction of Jiankang. However, the speed of the Wu army was obviously much slower, and Chen Dang and other generals obviously saw all this, but they couldn't urge the soldiers to speed up. The previous battlefield was too tragic, and the soldiers were not willing to rush to Jiankang before the soldiers and horses behind them caught up. Everybody knows. There was a savage and murderous Turkish army there, and no one wanted to fight them.

While they were slowing down their march, Jiankang City was already in the midst of a war.

The ancient capital of the Six Dynasties of Jiankang, but the previous Jinling Stone City had already been destroyed by the Sui Dynasty. Rushed. After the restoration of Nanchen, Shen Faxing spent countless manpower and financial resources to rebuild Jiankang City. However, this Jiankang City is no longer on the original site. However, although it is not an ancient city, this new Jiankang City is better than the past. …,

In terms of area alone, this newly built Kangcheng is the largest today, surpassing Chang'an and Luoyang. The walls alone have a triple layer, which can be described as a tight defense. There are nine gates of the imperial city, thirteen gates of the inner city, eighteen gates of the outer city, and there are forty gates in the whole Jiankang City.

However, although Jiankang is indeed second to none and majestic in Jiangnan, it is incomparable with a capital city like Luoyang, which has an all-round and three-dimensional comprehensive defense system. Even compared with the Liaoyang City that Chen Pojun attacked back then, Jiankang City was prosperous and rich, but it was less solid and hideous.

There are eighteen outer gates in Jiankang City, but in the eyes of Hu Hai and Xu Shiji and others who attacked, the more city gates there are, the more flaws there are. The Wu army must divide troops to guard the eighteen city gates, and the Wu army has only 20,000 old and weak soldiers in the city, even if the people are temporarily conscripted to defend the city and divided into eighteen parts, there are not many people.

As the attacking side, Hu Hai has sufficient mobility, he does not have to divide his troops to attack the eighteen city gates, he only needs to bluff the banner, and the Wu army is divided into troops to guard the city gates, and then he concentrates on one place to attack.

The outer city of Jiankang City is also called the earth city, which is different from the brick and stone wall of the inner city, but the outer wall is made of materials such as loess and glutinous rice, and the outer wall of three zhang high is extraordinary. But in front of the supposedly invincible Chen Jun, no matter how strong the wall is, it is just a little longer.

Hu Hai's more than 30,000 soldiers and horses made a feint during the day for a day, causing panic in the city and mobilizing troops and horses everywhere. Hu Hai divided more than 30,000 soldiers and horses into dozens of small troops, bluffed the flag, and took turns to feint and attack various city gates. Even the detachment of the naval division made a feint attack from the mountain gate, causing the defenders of the city to rush in all directions, and there was no rest for a whole day.

In the evening, even Chen's army almost broke through the city gate several times, and Shen Fasheng, who stayed behind, was captured, but it was Shen Fasheng's other younger brother, Shen Fachang, who was temporarily responsible for the defense of Jiankang City. Another son of the Shen family, the same ancestor brother of Shen Faxing. Shen Fachang is not a general in the army, he is just a Jiangdong family, fighting for wealth and wealth, fighting for wind and jealousy, but this command and fighting is not what he is good at. In the face of Chen Jun's tentative attack, he was already completely panicked, and if it weren't for the help of a few good generals below, it is estimated that he would have surrendered directly. If it weren't for the fact that Chen Jun made a feint, he regarded all the eighteen city gates as the target of the attack. Shen Fachang was about to open the city and escape.

It's been a hard day. By the time the strongest wave of attacks in the evening had finally passed, Shen Fachang had already died as if he had just died. Collapsed weakly on the soft couch, Shen Fachang sighed, wiped the sweat on his forehead, and said weakly: "Send a rescue letter to the regent immediately, just say that today I led my soldiers to repel dozens of fierce attacks by the Chen army, but our army is not enough soldiers and horses to resist the Chen army, please Your Highness quickly return to Jiankang." In addition, another order will be issued to Kyoguchi. Let Wu Xiong of Jingkou immediately lead his troops back to aid Jiangdu, if he doesn't arrive before sunrise tomorrow, he will be beheaded! ”

Dozens of Wu army messengers quietly sneaked out of the various city gates and rushed towards Jingkou and Jiangxia City. Hu Hai under Jiankang City got the news. smiled slightly, and smiled extremely treacherously: "I'm worried that the Wu army in Jingkou won't come out of the cave, now it's okay." As long as the defenders of Jingkou come to help, we will be annihilated halfway. As long as the reinforcements from Jingkou are destroyed, there will be no more reinforcements in this Jiankang City. Moreover, as soon as the defenders of Jingkou are destroyed, Governor Chen Feng of Jiangdu can also immediately send troops to reinforce us. As long as we control Quarry and Jingkou, this Jiankang City will already belong to our Da Chen. ”

As he was talking, another herald hurriedly arrived: "Report to the governor, Feng An, the governor of Guangxi, and Feng Wan, the governor of Hainan, have led 20,000 reinforcements to Lishui, which is only dozens of miles away from Jiankang City. ”

Hu Hai Wenxin and Li Chengyi's brothers, Xu Shiji, Su Dingfang and others all smiled at each other. Haha laughed and said, "I'm really sleepy and come to the pillow, the two governors came too timely." Originally, I was worried that if I let Shiji lead 10,000 soldiers and horses to ambush the soldiers coming to Jingkou, the troops would be a little weak, but now it is just right. Dingfang, you immediately take our 3,000 men and horses to Lishui to meet the two governors, and take them to the Jiangshan area east of Jiankang City to set up an ambush. As soon as the reinforcements from Jingkou arrive, intercept them immediately. Remember, not a single one is allowed to return to Jingkou, and they must be completely destroyed! ”…,

"The last will be ordered!" Su Dingfang immediately took the order and ordered 3,000 subordinates to go straight to Lishui.

Watching Su Dingfang leave, Hu Hai said excitedly: "I really want to thank the two Governors Feng this time." I didn't expect that I just sent a letter to them, and they actually came up with an army of 20,000. God really helps me, there are 20,000 local soldiers, and it is not a shame to take Jiankang. ”

Xu Shiji grinned on the side: "That Governor Feng Wan is not an ordinary person, I heard that he has a lot to do with His Majesty." I heard friends in Beijing talk about it, after this Turkic war. But he wants to enter the palace. In the future, he will be a little master. ”

The brothers Hu Hai and Li Chengyi also grinned and laughed on the side, and their mood was extremely relaxed for a while.

That day and night, Wu Xiong, the Jingkou guard general who had received Shen Fachang's Jiudao urgent military order, couldn't resist. Jingkou is an important town to prevent the Jiangdu army from crossing the river, and it has always been a heavy army stationed there, and a general serves as the general of the town guard. Wu Xiong has been sitting in Jingkou since Shen Fa raised his troops, and he has been facing the Jiangdu City on the other side of the river for several years, which can be described as a high degree of hard work.

is not like Shen Fachang, who is just a scribe of the clan who does not understand military affairs, but this Wu Xiong really knows soldiers. Previously, when Shen Fasheng drew 20,000 troops from quarrying and 10,000 soldiers from Jiankang and Jingkou, he was a little disapproving. As he expected, when the enemy situation was unknown, he attacked rashly, and in the end he only ended up with the annihilation of the whole army. Not only did it not hurt the enemy, but it also reduced the strength of the defenders of the three cities by a large margin.

There were originally 30,000 defenders in Jingkou, but without this 10,000, there were only 20,000 at once, a reduction of one-third. Now there are 20,000 people left to guard the important town of Jingkou, and there are 10,000 miscellaneous old and weak, and the defense of the city is already a little insufficient.

Wu Xiong thought about it, but when he thought that if Jiankang was really broken, he was afraid that he would be alone. What's more, if Jiankang is not broken in the end, when Shen Fachang does not save him when he sees death, he will not be able to please him. After thinking about it, in the end, Wu Xiong had to transfer another 10,000 soldiers and horses from Jingkou City, including 5,000 elite soldiers and 5,000 old and weak, and another 20,000 people, women and children from Jingkou City, so that they could also follow behind the reinforcements, beat flags and drums, sweep dust and tread soil, bluff banners, and strengthen their momentum.

The night is silent, and the sky is clear and shining, sprinkling countless brilliance on Dadang.

Under the bright moonlight, 10,000 soldiers and horses, and 20,000 people formed a huge team, all the way from Jingkou in the east to Jiankang City. A bright moon in the sky just gave great convenience to the march of the army, and even with such a bright moonlight, the march can be a little less worried, and such a night march does not have to worry too much about ambushes.

It was not Wu Xiong who commanded the reinforcements, and Wu Xiong was worried that the Chen army in Jiangdu would take the opportunity to attack, so he stayed in Jingkou and guarded the Guazhou ferry. The reinforcements were led by Liu Wei, the deputy general in the army.

The army entered Jiangshan without incident, and the generals couldn't help but relax their vigilance. After a huge procession of 30,000 people passed through Jiang Mountain, there was an endless plain in front of them. In the cold moonlight, there was a vast black and gray on the huge plain in front of him, like a huge shadow.

The panting soldier in front of him looked at him suspiciously, and said in surprise: "What is that?" How can a piece of black and black still move? ”

The former cadet with good eyesight looked earnestly on his horse, first with a puzzled expression, then with a heavy look, and finally with panic and fear.

"That's an army, and they're coming at us!"

Sure enough, in the captain's panicked voice, the shadows in front of him were getting bigger and bigger, and even countless rustling footsteps could be heard, like silkworms gnawing mulberry leaves, and like the sound of rising waves, boundless, dense, and constantly approaching. …,

The Wu army began to stir, and some soldiers said in panic: "It was the Chen army who intercepted us, and we were ambushed by him, what should we do?" ”

The old men and women who were bluffing the flags behind them were even more frightened for a while, and many people had already begun to throw away the flags in their hands and turn away. Some of the women had even let out a whining cry, and in the blink of an eye, a series of cries had been heard. The commotion grew, and the crowd threw down their sticks and flags and turned to flee.

The officers of the Wu army who were escorting the formation behind them shouted and cursed, and they beat and scolded those who fled. "You! What are you panicking about? Get back in line! "Punching and kicking drove them back to where they were. In front of the shouts of the officers and the unsheathed swords of the soldiers, the ranks gradually fell silent.

On the opposite side of the hundreds of meters in front of them, at this time, Su Dingfang and Feng Wan's two groups of men and horses had been waiting here for a long time, and 20,000 horses blocked the road of reinforcements like an ocean.

At this moment, there was another sound behind the reinforcements, and many Wu soldiers looked back in panic, only to see that they didn't know when they had been, and there was actually a team of soldiers and horses outflanking them behind.

At the foot of Jiang Mountain, not far behind them, the army had already stretched out like a white crane spreading its wings.

A huge and neat steel phalanx was formed in an instant, covering the entire plain at the foot of Jiang Mountain.

Commander Su Dingfang rode a horse and galloped between the phalanxes, shouting: "Ready! ”

The 2,500 Jiangxi infantrymen who had fought all the way from Jiujiang to this place raised their spears in unison, and the top of the phalanx was covered with a cold flash of steel. Five hundred cavalrymen mounted their horses one after another, serving as a reserve for counter-attack on both wings, and the rows of Liaodong sabers raised were as bright as snow, like a dazzling ribbon of light, and the moonlight quietly fell on the soldiers' helmets and shoulders, as if gilding them with a layer of silver brilliance. (To be continued.) If you like this work, you are welcome to vote for recommendation and monthly passes, and your support is my biggest motivation. )