An Xiajiang led his troops out of the city to aid Wushanjian, and Qin Zitan also ventured out of the city, and under the escort of more than a dozen elite sentinels, he climbed a high ridge in the east of Yongjia City where he could see the battlefield of Wushanjian, so that he could observe the development of the Wushanjian battle at any time.

Qin Zitan had no way to persuade Wen Tingrui to give up Wushanjian, and the Yongjia defenders were so aggrieved that they needed a brutal field battle to vent during this time. Otherwise, the morale will be seriously bruised, which will be very unfavorable to stick to the walled city in the later stage.

Similarly, Qin Zitan was eager to strike a blow at the Huaidong Army's offensive spirit in southern Zhejiang in the field battle, and to regain some initiative for the sluggish southern Zhejiang battlefield. In addition, it is also extremely important to ensure the smooth land route between Tianshui Village and Yongjia City.

The two sides engaged in such a brutal battle in contact at the southwest foot of Wushanjian, and this kind of frame, except for defeating the other party first, did not leave a way for themselves to calmly withdraw from the battlefield.

All this in front of him was a bit unexpected by Qin Zitan.

An Xiajiang was extremely eager for the idea of field battle, Qin Zitan could understand, but he didn't expect that the Huaidong Army's will to fight would be so resolute.

In Qin Zitan's view, the Huaidong Army already has a strategic advantage in the battlefield in southern Zhejiang, and it should adopt the strategy of advancing cautiously step by step, layer by layer.

Soon, there were black-pressed Huaidong soldiers on the top of Tazi Mountain in front of the left.

Qin Zitan frowned painfully, he could understand the strategy chosen by the Huaidong Army at this time: the Huaidong Army was going to turn Wushanjian into a slaughter battlefield, and wanted to involve their defenders in Yongjia, and use the advantage in strength to carry out flesh and blood slaughter, competition and attrition.

Wushanjian is a hill between Tianshui, Yongjia and Yueqing, the road from Yueqing City to Wushanjian is a little farther, but it is only 189 miles away, which is conducive to the rapid and continuous investment of troops on the battlefield of Wushanjian.

In the past, the Huaidong Army rarely chose the strangulation battle on the frontal battlefield, and always liked to patiently find the opponent's weakness and deliver a fatal blow at the critical moment, so that Qin Zitan was very unaccustomed to the Huaidong Army's choice of strangulation at this time.

A moment later, Wen Tingrui sent someone to sneak in to ask for advice, and he wanted to immediately deal with the strangulation battlefield at the southwest foot of Wushanjian.

The battle was so fierce and cruel that it was impossible to get An Xiajiang to lead his troops to withdraw from the battlefield before the winner was decided.

The current situation is obvious, and the Huaidong Army is constantly sending infantry soldiers from Yueqing City to enter and control the area near Wushanjian, ready to put more troops into the battlefield at any time. If they don't deal with it, even if An Xiajiang can win the first battle, they will not be able to escape the fate of annihilating Huaidong's absolutely superior forces in the field battle. If they draw troops from Tianshui and Yongjia into the area near Wushanjian, the scale of the battle is likely to expand at any time and evolve into a full-scale battle.

Compared with the strategy of shrinking the defense, which is passive everywhere and easy to break through the Huaidong Army, an all-out battle may be more advantageous.

But in a full-scale battle, what is the confidence and chance of victory in defeating the Huaidong Army with fewer strikes and more battles?

Their elite on the north bank of the Yongjia River is too limited, plus the township soldiers, there are only more than 7,000 people, even if they immediately draw troops from Ouhai on the south bank to help, at most they can gather 10,000 people.

Although the strength is insufficient, the Huaidong Army is more likely to be bluffing - they have such a big strategic advantage that there is no need to fight it out in a hasty battle.

When Wen Tingrui put the decision in his hands, Qin Zitan hesitated and made up his mind.

In the face of a slight warplane, the commander of the army may need more decisiveness than the calculation beyond ordinary people.

Without waiting for Qin Zitan to make up his mind, the Tianshui Village guard made a decision for him.

Just when Qin Zitan hesitated, the lookout post at the head of the ridge in the north observed that Tianshui Village was acting without authorization, and a force of more than 1,000 soldiers and horses went out of the village to the west, approaching the Wushanjian battlefield from the east.

Soon, Wen Tingrui personally led two thousand elites out of Yongjia East City to join Qin Zitan.

Tianshui Zhai acted without authorization, leaving Qin Zitan and Wen Tingrui with no choice. There are too many troops invested in the Wushanjian battlefield, and they can't afford to lose 2,000 elites in Yongjia, so even if they don't fight, they have to send troops to pick up the troops that are invested in the Wushanjian battlefield.

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The string of towers behind the south gate of Yueqing is as high as more than six zhang.

Compared to the brick and wood structure of the enemy tower, the all-hardwood tandem tower is structurally stronger, and can withstand at least four consecutive blows from a large stone-throwing crossbow. Therefore, in the city controlled by Huaidong, for the convenience of watching posts and commanding battles in the city, the city tower was abandoned, and a higher and stronger string tower was built close to the city gate.

The sky is clear and the clouds are far away, and people stand on top of the string of towers, and they can see the peripheral situation of the Wushan Jianqian battlefield.

Lin Jian just stood in the string building and watched the situation on the battlefield, and did not interfere with Zhou Tong's command of the entire battle from beginning to end. In addition to coordination, sometimes it is more necessary for others to boost morale in Yueqing.

Lin Jian himself was extremely reluctant to carry out a strangulation war of "killing 10,000 enemies and losing 8,000 by himself", which was too cruel and the consumption of Huaidong's troops was too great. But there was too little time left for him to calmly translate Huaidong's advantage in southern Zhejiang into a final victory.

"The commander had the opportunity to completely defeat the luxury family, but after Yu Wangao captured Jian'an, the luxury family almost lost the depth of continuous warfare. Maybe it only takes one more battle to make the luxury family recover," Gao Zongting stood beside Lin Lian, recalling the past, and said, "The defeat of Chen Tangyi made Yanjing panic and hastily accepted the peace proposal of the luxury family, and even before the peace negotiation, he ordered to reduce the supply of the Eastern Fujian army. In the end, he lost the opportunity to defeat the luxury family in World War I, which is embarrassing. At this time, the luxury family has no possibility of taking the initiative on the eastern front, but the evil wolf of luxury Wenzhuang is very good at forbearance, and he obviously sees that once Yanhu breaks through the Hehuai defense line, it will directly threaten the possibility of the northeastern line of Huai - at present, the generals of the Zhejiang-Fujian rebels are impatient and eager to fight, maybe it is a good opportunity to break the stalemate of the war and make a breakthrough quickly! ”

Lin Lian nodded and said: "The more resolutely they invest their troops here, the more they will retreat and dare not fight, and if they can successfully eat the two elites of the Zhejiang and Fujian armies that have entered the vicinity of Wushanjian, the next battle will be much simpler," and said, "Since I have a word first, if I don't interfere with Zhou Tong's command this time, I can't lose my words...... Be patient. ”

Hu Zhiyong stood aside and smiled, the Huaidong Army will open up multiple battlefields in the future, and it needs to be proactive, able to think independently, and not a puppet-like outstanding general, and it is difficult for Lin to be able to restrain the impulse to point fingers in Yueqing.

The fighter plane was fleeting, and Lin Jian encouraged the generals who personally led the troops on the battlefield to take the initiative to capture the fighters.

Since Zuo Guangying, who led his troops into the battlefield first, resolutely launched a battle in front, Zhou Tong did not disappoint Lin Lian, and quickly discussed with Tang Fuguan and others to make a decision, and firmly invested more troops in the Wushanjian battlefield to make a momentum of battle, rather than letting the fighters lose in hesitation and hesitation.

Zhou Tong ordered the Chongcheng infantry battalion on the north shore of Yueqing Bay to shrink, so that it could draw troops to support the southern front at any time, and on the southern front, a part of the water battalion soldiers were transferred into Yueqing City to assist in the defense. In addition to the soldiers of the Chongcheng Infantry Battalion of the 1st Brigade who were retained as necessary reserves, Zhou Tong sent all the main forces of the Southern Zhejiang Army to control the terrain around Wushanjian and ensure that the Zhejiang-Fujian army that had been wrapped in the Wushanjian battlefield could not withdraw.

Wen Tingrui personally led the elite to snatch Tazishan from the Huaidong army.

Tazishan is a low mountain located between Yongjia City and Wushan Jianfeng Fire Pier, it is a pity that soon after the beginning of the Battle of Wushanjian, Tazishan was occupied by Su Wenfan, a battalion of soldiers led by Su Wenfan, a general of the southern Zhejiang army.

Wen Tingrui can only capture Tazi Mountain in order to have a support on the periphery of the Wushanjian battlefield, and to pick up the 1,000 elites of the Tianshui Village defenders who were wrapped in the battlefield by the Anxiajiang Department and the unauthorized actions in the later period.

If he bypasses Tazi Mountain and rushes eastward, Wen Tingrui will lead 2,000 elites, and he will probably be involved in the battlefield and will not be able to get out. If the 4,000 elites were annihilated by the Huaidong Army on the Wushanjian battlefield, it would mean that the situation in Yongjia was not far from a complete collapse, and Wen Tingrui would not dare to risk his life and his life.

Until the sun set in the west, Wen Tingrui failed to capture Tazi Mountain. However, the Huaidong Army put another battalion of soldiers in Tazi Mountain, and the more resolute defenders of Yongjia City were blocked outside the Wushanjian battlefield.

In the interior of the Wushanjian battlefield, An Xiajiang led his troops to temporarily get rid of the cruel fighting, retreated to the Wushan Jianshan, and relied on the beacon fire pier to rest and reorganize the formation.

At noon, An Xiajiang led more than 1,000 troops to aid Wushanjian, and then more than 1,000 elites from Tianshui Village came to help, and the total strength of the Zhejiang-Fujian army into the Wushanjian battlefield was more than 2,200 people, but at this time there were still more than 60% of the soldiers and horses left, and the exhausted temporarily withdrew to Wushanjian for a short rest.

It was precisely the two Zhejiang-Fujian armies that went out of the walled city to aid Wushanjian that were elite in a hundred battles, so they could hold on to it until this time without collapsing.

Wushanjian, Wushanjian Beacon Fire Pier Garrison is only a fifteen steps square, stone and soil mixed high platform, temporarily stationed in the capital team is already very crowded, it is impossible to let the remaining 14500 Zhejiang and Fujian soldiers avoid it, can only rely on the garrison, according to the mountain formation defense.

Standing on the hilltop platform, you can see the two directions of Yongjia City and Tianshui Village, the defenders are trying to go out of the city to receive reinforcements, but the Huaidong Army that enters the Wushanjian battlefield and the periphery is as dense as a freshly cut wheat field.

In addition to controlling the peripheral terrain and blocking the reinforcements, the Huaidong Army invested 6,000 men around Wushanjian to surround the beacon pier of Wushanjian, and took advantage of the advantage of its strength to launch attacks from all directions.

An Xiajiang's troops persisted in fighting for too long, their armor was broken, the number of shields was seriously insufficient, their ability to block the rain of arrows was reduced, and the arrows in their quivers were also exhausted.

Comparatively speaking, except for the heavy casualties of Li Baidao's troops who entered the brutal melee at the beginning, all the units that entered the battlefield later fought alternately. In addition to the limited physical consumption, in the later stage, even a large number of flying vehicles entered the battlefield, and they had to use shield cars and large shields to overcome the disadvantage of the terrain, and cover the Zhejiang and Fujian armies with dense arrows like torrential rain in batches.

The sun was shining behind him, and a pale crescent moon was bent in the eastern sky.

This means that An Xiajiang led his troops to break through at night The last opportunity to break through was also lost, Qin Zitan knew that the defeat of Wushanjian was an extremely serious blow to the strength and morale of the defenders in southern Zhejiang, but he had to admit that the cruel reality was like this.

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Although the counterattacks and breakthroughs again and again brought a lot of casualties to the Huaidong Army, the Zhejiang-Fujian army surrounded at Wushanjian finally failed to break through.

Because the generals of Zhejiang and Fujian were anxious to seek war, the battle at Wushanjian, which had changed from a war of reinforcements to chaos and a battle, was completely quelled in the early morning of 9 March. In this battle, the new southern Zhejiang army suffered more than 1,000 casualties, but it achieved the record of annihilating more than 2,000 elite Zhejiang and Fujian troops and capturing 200 people.

In addition to Zuo Guangying's troops, who suffered heavy casualties, withdrew to Yueqing City for rest and recuperation, and transferred Xiangyong from Wenqiao to replenish troops, Tang Fuguan led the main force of the Southern Zhejiang Army to control the area around Wushanjian, pushed the soldiers and horses all the way to the embankment on the north bank of the Yongjia River, completely cut off the land connection between Yongjia City and Tianshui Village, and formed a siege of Tianshui Village on the north bank of the Yongjia River on the afternoon of the 9th.