The county seat is in the south of Jiyang Lake, there is a ditch in the northwest corner to connect Jiyang Lake with the moat, there is a stone arch bridge on the ditch, the loach boat taken by the East China Sea Kou is all five or six zhang high ship masts, can not pass through the stone arch bridge hole, can only land on the river beach in the north of the stone bridge and the southwest of Jiyang Lake. There is a flat land here, which can be advanced to the north gate of Jiyang City.

Lin Tie held the reins and let the horse's head close to him, and a fire had already burned in the direction of the Ninghai garrison in the distance, and several sailor warships that had escaped into Jiyang Lake by mistake in a panic sealed the mouth of the lake, and it was difficult to dodge on the narrow Jiyang Lake to be bitten by the pirate ship.

"It is beneficial for us to stay in the lake with those boats in Ninghai Town, we can't let the Donghai Kou be destroyed, we can do it here." Lin Jian put on the vermilion helmet, gestured with Ao Canghai a little farther away, and then turned over and got on the horse.

Ao Canghai led more than 40 soldiers to the Donghai Kou who landed on the southwest river beach of Jiyang Lake to rush away, although there was a cover of night, but the horse's hooves rushed up like drumsticks hitting the ground, and the people's hearts were banging and blood boiling.

More than 100 Donghai Kou quickly set up obstacles on the periphery of the lake embankment of the landing beach after landing on the shore after landing on the shore, and everything seemed to be well-trained, at this time they heard the cavalry attack, and more Donghai Kou rushed ashore from the beach to strengthen the defense of the periphery, just to see clearly that a vague figure flashed in the night, and the sound of bows and arrows on this side sounded frequently.

The sound of arrows hitting the iron armor and burrowing into the flesh and the neighing of war horses came one after another, and dozens of featherless crossbow arrows were shot in the dark, and after a few short breaths, the Donghai Kou on the lake embankment had time to draw the second arrow and put it on the bowstring, and the horizontal knife that flashed with cold light and the horse's head that spewed hot air appeared in front of him as if it suddenly brightened out of the blurred night.

The simple obstacle can not stop the high-speed impact of the horse and the man leading the soldiers more than 1,000 catties, the current simple defense array was torn apart at the moment of contact, and the East China Sea Kou rushed to the people to suppress the horse, and the leading pirate shouted loudly: "Stab the spear, whoever the spear comes to the front, one is not enough, a group of four, the one with the shield is on the back and retreats to the top, and the one with the big knife is ...... from both sides" I want to control the chaotic situation and prevent the cavalry from breaking into the depth.

Although the formation of the East China Sea Kou in the river beach is more chaotic, Ao Canghai knows that these soldiers behind him are hard-won elites, and they can't be consumed in vain by fighting to the death in the river beach. When he saw that the defensive formation on the periphery of the river beach was broken, he grabbed the reins with his hand, and used a long lance to beat the current two East China Sea Kou to the point that his brains were bursting, and he led the soldiers to miss the edge of the lake embankment and pass diagonally through the gap; Wait a little farther and then turn back and shoot the chaotic East China Sea Kou on the lake embankment with a bow and arrow.

The Donghai Kou who landed first were all elite, but there was no effective way to disturb the attack of the elite cavalry on the road of Ao Canghai, so they could only make the people who landed first break out in formation, and use the elite foot soldiers to cover the big shield and intersperse them in the depth, restricting the activity space of the elite cavalry on this road of Ao Canghai. As long as the large-scale Donghai Kou had a firm foothold in the open field outside the lake embankment, the disturbance of thirty or forty elite cavalry was not a big threat.

Seeing that there were almost five or six hundred Donghai Kou who landed on the shore, Lin Jian gestured to Yang Pu, pulled out his saber, threw the scabbard far away, turned around and said to the cavalry generals behind him: "The first battle needs to frustrate the enemy's sharp spirit, and Jiyang City can be protected.......

The soldiers who came to Jiyang with Lin Tie all had long weapons, and the horses were all high-grade war horses weighing more than six or seven hundred catties, which could be said to be the strongest group of people in the martial arts.

Although Gu Wuchen's guards and horsemen have been trained by Yang Pu for nearly a year, and have experienced some sporadic battles, they are no longer useless, but after all, the foundation is weak, and out of the requirements of the honor guard, all they wear is a straight-waisted knife that is only three feet long, lacks long weapons, and the horses under the crotch are also ordinary. Lin Jian could only make Ao Canghai lead the soldiers to repeatedly harass the formation of the Donghai Kou who landed on the shore and opened the gap in the defense on its flank, so he and Yang Pu led more than 400 cavalry to cover the attack from the side......

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Chen Xiyan, Gu Wuchen and Jiyang County officials stood on the north gate tower to watch the fierce battle in the distance.

Seeing that Lin Tie divided the cavalry he brought out into three groups, first confusing the Donghai Kou with a small group of rangers' continuous attacks, and then pulling away the formation of the Donghai Kou who landed on the shore, he personally led the main force of the cavalry to suddenly press up, and immediately tore apart the Donghai Kou array that landed first in Hetan City, Chen Xiyan understood why the more than 1,000 lake pirates colluded by the Qu family would be so easily defeated in the battle at the mouth of the river.

Lin Jian was the first to pierce the enemy's formation, and without waiting for the distance to be widened, he shouted loudly to make the horse dismount. There had been a detailed tactical explanation before, Yang Pu and all the horsemen abandoned their horses and fought on foot, leaving only a few people to restrain the horses and lead them to a distance. Ao Canghai led the armored soldiers to dismount nearby and turned back to fight.

Previously, the formation of the East China Sea Kou who landed on the shore was dispersed, so that the cavalry could rush forward; At this time, it is necessary to suppress the Donghai Kou who have landed on the shore to the narrow river beach, so that the chaotic formation will become more and more chaotic, and there will be no opportunity to adjust, and the follow-up Donghai Kou will not be able to land to support.

Looking at the dense figures of the campfire on the river beach, staggered and fighting, Xuan Feixiong's face was grim, he didn't expect that Jiyang City would divide his troops outside the city, and take advantage of the half-crossing here to kill the river beach into chaos.

Half of the first wave of people to land were the elite of the luxury family brought out by the luxury flying bear directly from Jin'an, but under the fierce and undelayed interspersing and encirclement of the Jiyang defenders, once they were disrupted, they were unable to organize a powerful counterattack, and fell into the dilemma of fighting their own battles, even if the elite combat power was difficult to achieve.

Looking at the familiar faces twisted under the firelight to surround and kill the Jiyang defenders, the extravagant flying bear's eyelids trembled, but there was no good plan, on the one hand, the boat connected the people and horses on the river beach as much as possible to relieve the congestion of the river beach, on the other hand, the archers on the boat threw arrows to the tail of the Jiyang defenders, and on the other hand, sent the elite to grab the beach from other places and land, support from the side, and reduce the pressure on the river beach.

Ao Canghai led all the soldiers to get closer to Lin Lian, and Lin Lian led them to fight in the depths of the river beach, until they reached the water's edge, and shot back a burst of sharp arrows. Lin Tie was hit by several arrows in his body, the arrows could not penetrate the armor on his body, but the calves that could not be covered by the armor were caught by two arrows, and the arrows did not hurt when they got into the flesh, he bit the knife in his mouth, bent down and broke the shaft of the arrow, and surrounded the soldiers and then interspersed with the sideways to fight.

Lin Jian can be sure that there are the backbone of the thirteen families of the Donghai Kou in the Shengsi Islands Alliance, and he can even be sure that the first to rush to the shore must be the elite directly controlled by the luxury family, and the first to defeat their sharp spirits will not only win more time and kill and injure as many enemies as possible, but also reduce the pressure on Changshan Island and Xisha Island in the future. It wasn't until more and more Donghai Kou rushed to the shore from the flanks, and Yang Pu led the cavalry to bear the pressure on the two wings and gradually felt overwhelmed, that Lin Lian led the crowd to slowly retreat to the north city of Jiyang, and rested in a formation next to the moat in the city.

The Donghai Kou who landed on the shore disrupted their positions and suffered heavy casualties, so they naturally did not dare to rush to the city to pursue, but only formed a tighter defense along the perimeter of the lake embankment, and also gathered the men and horses scattered elsewhere in Jiyang Lake here, intending to deal with the Jiyang defenders at the north gate with all their might.

Lin Jian sat on the mud bank and pulled out the two arrowheads and iron tongs that Lieutenant General Sui Junlang had left in his calf, and he didn't feel it at first, but now he inhaled in pain.

Yang Pu sat on the mud ground beside Lin Bin, although he was not seriously injured, but his physical strength was overdrawn, and he was sweating all over his body. As soon as he is close to fifty, no matter how strong his martial arts are, his physical strength still retreats greatly.

Yang Pu didn't expect that there were forty or fifty guards and soldiers around Lin Tie and a special medical officer with him, watching Lin Tie send the medical officer away to treat other injured people, he got closer and asked, "How to fight next?" ”

"Before dawn, Donghai Kou will not act easily. After dawn, they will try to drive us out of the narrow area between Beicheng and Jiyang Lake," Lin Jian poured half a bottle of medicinal powder on the copper-sized wound on his calf, tied it with a bandage, and beckoned Ao Canghai and the lieutenant lieutenant and junior colonel in the cavalry to also come over and sit down and talk, saying, "There will be a fierce battle next, we can't withdraw from the stone bridge in the east, in the narrow strip between Beicheng and Jiyang Lake, the advantage that the cavalry can play is very limited......"

Yang Pu looked up at the shadow of the stone bridge not far to the east, once they were driven to the east of the stone bridge, the Donghai Kou only needed a small number of troops to build a defense on the narrow stone bridge, and blockade them with warships under the bridge, they could be blocked out of the North City Gate area, and then the Donghai Kou would be able to attack the north gate of Jiyang City without interference.

To maneuver in the narrow area west of the stone bridge, south of Jiyang Lake, and north of the North Gate with the Donghai Kou, which was several times his size, he really had to fight a vicious battle, and fortunately, the first battle was fought so smoothly that the morale of the cavalry team who had no experience in big battles and vicious battles was aroused.

Morale is sometimes very weak, sometimes it is very real, Yang Pu knows what the foundation of these horsemen is, there are old pawns of the luxury family in the East China Sea Kouli, if you catch and fight, it is difficult for anyone in the horse to be the opponent of the old pawns of the luxury family, but once the leader can take the lead and kill the enemy bravely, the weak as a sheep can also arouse a little bit of fierceness that does not care about life and death. Yang Pu is old, his physical strength is overdrawn, generally speaking, young people in their twenties and thirties are fighting so fiercely, and there should not be much physical strength left, and then all the horsemen stand in a formation left and right, full of energy, and have no fear in the face of the Donghai Kou who are several times their own when they land on the river beach.

Lin Tie and Yang Pu, Ao Canghai discussed the next tactics and the defensive points of the surrounding terrain, the cavalry rarely has long weapons, and the combat advantage on the horse is not large, and the area is too narrow, there is no superb horsemanship and tacit understanding, the cavalry is too restricted against the foot soldiers, Lin Tie makes two-thirds of the cavalry dismount to prepare for foot combat, although the bows taken from Jiyang Lake are mostly soft bows, fortunately, everyone is wearing armor, morale is available, and it may not be impossible to hold on until the reinforcements arrive.

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"Lin Si Prison is really a tiger general in front of Lord Gu's seat, ......" Meng Xinshi of Jiyang Zhi County watched Lin Jian lead his soldiers and horses to kill almost a number of landing pirates in the dark and unknown night, and he was so nervous that his palms were sweating, and he even forgot that Lin Jian was also a Wenchen. The defenders on the north gate tower also saw that the blood was boiling, and they couldn't wait to open the city gate and fight with Lin Lian.

Gu Wuchen smiled and didn't say anything, he saw that Donghai Kou had no intention of retreating, once he lost the suddenness of the cover, the next battle would be ten or a hundred times more difficult than just now.

Chen Xiyan was silent, but he had to admit in his heart Lin Lian's bravery and his outstanding ability to lead troops in battle, thinking that this person's scheming and practical talents are far beyond ordinary people.

On the one hand, he was looking forward to Lin Tie killing Donghai Kou under the city, and on the other hand, he was worried that if Lin Tie was killed, Jiyang would lose the strongest barrier at this time, and his mind was also very conflicted.

After gaining a firm foothold outside the lake embankment, the Donghai Kou did not rush to attack the cavalry who were arrayed in the city, but first carried the casualties on the river beach onto the boat, cleaned up the battlefield in an orderly manner, and made preparations before the attack.

There is no need for Gu Wuchen to order, there are special personnel counting in the gate building of Jiyang North City, and they will ask for credit for Lin Tie and all the horsemen in the future. Lin Lian's cover-up attack just now and the subsequent resolute suppression and siege completely disabled the first batch of Donghai Kou who landed on the shore, and the casualties of the Donghai Kou carried on the ship amounted to more than 300, so it is no wonder that the Donghai Kou did not dare to take advantage of the night to launch a rush attack.

On the side of the city gate building, a large bamboo basket was also tied with a rope and put down, and the city took a long hook gun to pull the bamboo basket to the moat, put the seriously injured into it, and let the defenders of the city pull the seriously injured back to the city for treatment.

In this way, the stalemate lasted until dawn, and the Donghai Kou, who gathered on the southwest beach of Jiyang Lake, completely saw the defensive situation of Jiyang City. In the morning light, a group of Donghai Kou came out of the lake embankment position one after another, taking advantage of the advantage in numbers, controlling the surrounding favorable terrain in batches, restricting the activity area of the defenders under the city, and began to launch a strong attack on the group of defenders under the city who had inflicted heavy casualties on them last night, vowing to wipe out these people and regain their morale.