Yu Wenshan led the reinforcements to rush to the Daoxubu, the generals were weak and tired, and even the bows were weak, and the defenders of the first battalion of the Duxubu had been defeated at that time, and they were in a very disadvantageous position. However, most of the Huaidong Army, which had already landed on the beachhead, failed to deploy in time and decisively, seized the advantageous terrain, and reorganized the formation on the beachhead that was extremely narrow to the steep slope on the west side, so that Yu Wenshan could see the opportunity to take advantage of it.

However, victory on the battlefield cannot reverse the development of the entire war situation.

The reinforcements that went to Hutangtou were unstoppable and retreated to the Huaidong Army, and the main flanks of the Zhejiang-Fujian Army gathered in Laotangpu and exposed to the field were still in danger of being flanked.

In addition to the beachhead under Laotangpu suddenly launched and launched a counteroffensive, the Huaidong Army chose a fourth beach-grabbing site between Laotangpu and Hutangtou to transport troops and horses to force the Cao'e River!

The old Tangpu defense wall is only 50 steps square, and it is not realistic for more than 10,000 soldiers to retreat to defend the defense wall.

More than 10,000 people have withdrawn into the village, and four or five people will be stuffed in one step; People are so crowded that it's hard to even turn around; Once the Huaidong Army seals the gate of the walled city, and a few catapults are transferred over at will, it will be difficult to escape the fate of the annihilation of the whole army.

"Du Du," Su Tingzhan strode up to the head of the village, at this time the sun hanging on his head was fierce and fierce, Su Tingzhan supervised the battle in front, wearing thick armor, and rushed to the head of the village, sweating profusely, while scooping water and drinking, while persuading the luxury Feihu, "The last general led his troops to hold the position, and the Du Du led the main force to withdraw to Shanyin - the terrain of Laotangpu is too narrow, once the Huai thief forms a flanking battle, it will be very disadvantageous to me......"

The road to Huiji City is blocked by Jinghu Lake, although the remnants of the East Zhejiang Water Division have dozens of warships gathered on the east side of Jinghu, but they cannot carry a large army on the ship in a short time, and there are only two narrow roads, the flanks are within the direct attack range of the Huaidong Army that landed from the head of the lake, and the main force must withdraw from Laotangpu, only to withdraw to Shanyin County at the foot of Huiji Mountain.

Luxury Feihu's face was pale and expressionless.

He was anxious to win, and drew too many troops from Shanyin and Huiji, and under the offensive of the Huaidong Army in many places, he had become a top-heavy clumsy situation. The defenders of Huiji City were less than a battalion, and could only guard against a sneak attack, he led the main force to retreat to Shanyin, Su Tingzhan guarded Laotangpu, and the main force of the Huaidong Army crossing the river was very likely to take advantage of the situation to turn to attack Huiji City - what should I do?

When the Huaidong army continuously crossed the Cao'e River and entered the west bank, Huiji City only relied on a battalion of soldiers, could it support Fuyang or Linshui reinforcements to relieve the siege?

The situation on the battlefield is changing rapidly, and the generals sometimes make decisions, which are actually no different from gambling.

In the face of Su Tingzhan's advice, Yu Feihu ignored it, and only ordered left and right: "Take my armor and hang it!" ”

The extravagant flying tigers all had plans to put on armor and go into battle, Su Tingzhan knew that it was useless to persuade again, and said: "The last general can't take down the beachhead in front of the slope, and only the head of the head is used to repay the favor of the governor!" ”

Only by defeating the Huaidong Army in front of Laotangpu Slope can the heart be free from threat and containment, and can we calmly intercept the main force of the Huaidong Army from the north.

At the Laotangpu beachhead, the Huaidong Army only put in three battalions of soldiers, but after the Huaidong Army gained a firm foothold in Hutangtou in the north, in addition to the eight battalions of soldiers who landed in advance, there were also dense warships coming to the west bank, and they wanted to send a large number of soldiers to land and fight......

Fortunately, Yu Wenshan defeated the Huaidong Army in the south, otherwise not only would the passage to Shanyin be cut off, but also face the encirclement of three roads, while the west is the mirror lake with open waters.

"The situation on the Eastern Front is tied to this battle, if we lose, you and I will have no place to be buried!" Extravagant Feihu stretched out his hand and pressed it on Su Tingzhan's shoulder, and said in a strangely depressed and heavy tone.

According to the strategy previously set by the Metropolitan Governor's Office, the current situation should be mainly delayed; It is precisely the situation in Huaidong that forces the northern front, and is eager to arrive at the situation in eastern Zhejiang as soon as possible - but Luxury Feihu is determined to fight to the death at this time, and Su Tingzhan has nothing to say, after all, letting Luxury Feihu lead the main force to withdraw into Shanyin is also likely to lead to the fall of Huiji City.

Once Huiji City fell, the situation on the eastern front would be too bad for the Zhejiang-Fujian army.

This victory is a big victory, and defeat is a crushing defeat - it is said that the brave man wins when he meets on a narrow road, but how much hope is there for victory in this battle?

With such a question, Su Tingzhan led Hu from the village to the front to supervise the battle.

The Huaidong Army on the beachhead was dismantling the car formation, and a team of armor soldiers each held two or three shield carts to support them.

Behind the formation is a pontoon bridge, once the Huaidong Army stretches the beachhead, it can quickly transport more troops through the pontoon bridge. Su Tingzhan did not dare to let more Huaidong troops enter the beachhead at this time, and pointed out two fierce generals with the courage of centurions, asking them to put on armor and go into battle, lead the elite to counterattack from two directions, and do everything possible to suppress the Huaidong army on the beachhead.

Su Tingzhan also ordered the four catapults urgently transferred from Shanyin City to be carried to the front of the battle for assembly, intending to use the catapults to cooperate with the armor guards to defeat the beachhead array of the Huaidong Army at one time.

These four catapults were all pulled and fired by manpower. Thirty or fifty people operate a catapult, which requires a depth of 100 steps of operating space. At this time, at the narrow slope, only four stone-throwing crossbows could be put down to attack the Huaidong army, and any more, it would occupy the space for the infantry to line up.

In addition, in order to hit the Huaidong Army and the Zhejiang-Fujian Army's catapults, it is necessary to arrange a front formation within three or four hundred steps of the Huaidong Army; But it was too close to the front, and it was easy to destroy the counteroffensive of the Huaidong Army.

Therefore, the Zhejiang-Fujian army could not use the stone-throwing crossbow alone in front of the battle; Historically, the catapult has been used more in siege warfare, and only when the enemy army is blocked in the walled city and cannot fight back, the catapult will give full play to its greatest advantage.

At this moment, Su Tingzhan ordered his troops to rush forward with elite foot soldiers, and resist the Huaidong Army's vehicle formation and never retreat, so that the stone-throwing crossbow could be placed in front of the formation for use. And the soldiers who arrived at the front could not retreat, so they naturally had to suffer extremely heavy casualties.

If you want to win, you can only fill it with human lives, and if you hesitate for a moment, you may invite a crushing defeat.

Recalling the war with the Huaidong Army over the years, Su Tingzhan felt a sense of powerlessness in his heart, and the Huaidong Army was too far ahead in armaments. Not to mention the warship, the scorpion crossbow made by the Huaidong Army is a small stone-throwing crossbow, which uses a twisted string to exert force, does not need to be pulled by manpower, and can even be placed on the deck of the warship to radiate stone bullets. In conjunction with the bed crossbow, the Huaidong Army warships were able to provide a blockade of about 300 paces deep for the beach-grabbing infantry.

In order to attack the flank of the Huaidong Army in front of the beachhead, the Zhejiang-Fujian Army had to bear extremely heavy casualties in order to approach the flanks of the Huaidong Army's vehicle formations hugging the river at both ends. Moreover, the scorpion crossbow produced by the Huaidong Army weighs only more than 300 catties, and four or five of them can carry it strongly, so they can advance and retreat with the assault department, which is very useful. It was within the chariot array with a depth of more than 100 paces, in addition to the three battalions of armor, the Huaidong Army also had to place several scorpion crossbows to cooperate with the defense, which made the Zhejiang and Fujian troops suffer a lot.

The Goryeo navy had seized this kind of catapult from the Huaidong water camp, and Xu Feihu and Qin Zitan had also taken great pains to obtain a warship and two catapults from the Goryeo people and sent them to Jin'an to find craftsmen to imitate.

Not to mention the high cost of imitation, the twisted string used in the scorpion crossbow is extremely difficult to imitate, and Jin'an has tried to produce twenty or thirty scorpion crossbows, and the projection distance is far from the standard of three hundred steps made by the Huaidong Army, so it can only be abandoned.

At this time, Su Tingzhan was even willing to exchange a few scorpion crossbows for thousands of soldiers to advance and retreat with the army - no matter how solid the shield car was, after all, it was not a city wall, and it would be difficult to withstand the bombardment of thirty or fifty catties of stone bullets. However, the armament is poor, and if you want to defeat the beachhead of the Huaidong Army, you can only fill it with the lives of brave soldiers.

The counteroffensive of the Zhejiang-Fujian army this time was particularly fierce, and the array of armored generals was as dense as a wall, and the murderous spirit came; Behind the formation, hundreds of people carried their arms on their shoulders, dragging huge catapults to move forward. If you let the stone-throwing crossbow place the stone-throwing projectile in front of the formation, it is likely that a stone-throwing projectile will directly kill several people in the crowded array......

Tang Fu looked at Fu Qinghe and said: "The enemy army is already desperate, and if our next counterattack can't be effective, it will inevitably suffer heavy casualties - please guard and move to the ship to fight for the last general!" ”

"The generals on the left and right are looking at you and me, I am not the one who crossed the river to boost morale and shrink back when he saw danger," Fu Qinghe squinted and smiled with one arm behind him, and said, "Since the enemy general is desperate, can our army open the gap, can we contain the main force of the garrison in Laotangpu and prevent them from withdrawing, and this is the same move!" I think I can use all the grenadiers this time! ”

The oil tank was used for ship warfare by the Huaidong Army earlier, and was used for infantry warfare on a large scale, but it was the first to be created by Zhou Tong during the attack on Yongjia.

When Wen Tingrui led the remnants to withdraw from Yongjia City, Zhou Tong decisively made the foot soldiers carry a large number of oil canisters to climb up to the city to open the road, like a bamboo, from the southeast corner of Yongjia City to open the gap first, and once took the east gate tower of Yongjia City from the hands of Zhejiang and Fujian soldiers. Then he burned the trestle bridge connecting the east and west banks of the Nanxi River at that time, and blocked an enemy army on the east bank and failed to withdraw.

Wen Tingrui and Qin Zitan led the remnants to retreat into the Nanxiyuan River valley and suffered a surprise attack, the generals suffered countless casualties, although there were three or five hundred remnants fled to Xianju, but no one could remind Hao Feihu and others that the tactics used by the Huaidong army in the final battle of storming Yongjia City were very different.

The dense throwing of fire and oil bombs is the most effective against the dense infantry array - it can cause chaos in the enemy's dense array in a very short time, and with the counterattack, it can easily crush the enemy formation and collapse it in one fell swoop.

Although more than 1,000 oil canisters have been prepared here, and more than 100 people have been selected as fire-throwing bombers and included in the formation, because Tang Fuguan led his troops to hold the beachhead in the early stage, which was to attract the main force of the garrison to Laotangpu as much as possible, rather than driving the defenders into the walled city to defend, so from yesterday's fierce battle to the present, the oil canisters are only used sporadically when defending.

The use of fire for offense and defense is a conventional tactic, and as long as the Huaidong military fire oil tank and the Zhejiang-Fujian army launch rockets, as long as they are not burned to the point of flammable equipment, armor and beard, it is easy to extinguish, and it is difficult to attract special attention.

When Su Tingzhan issued a death order that Xu Jin was not allowed to retreat, so that the two thousand armored soldiers were divided into two teams and rushed to the beachhead, it was doomed to a bleak ending......

The soldiers of Fujian came in close prominence, protected their heads and faces with a big shield, and pushed forward against the already loose shield cart. Or dozens of people rushed to the chariot, ignoring the arrows and stones, knocking the shield cart to the ground, knocking open the gap, and more soldiers poured into the gap—after the rock-solid armor of the Huaidong army, the grenadiers lit the clay pots sealed with cork and threw them at the enemy line.

Although it was only thirty or forty paces away, within the range of thirty or forty paces, there were no less than three or five hundred soldiers of the Zhejiang and Fujian army. The can shatters when it touches the iron armor, and the special viscous fire oil spills out, sticking to the pocket, armor, sword and shield, and cannot be shaken off.

The front of the car formation suddenly burned into a sea of fire.

Although the more than 2,000 soldiers selected by Su Tingzhan to fight to the death were not afraid of death, they fell into the sea of fire, burned into fire, and also fell into panic. The wailing and sorrow instantly filled the battlefield, and the heart trembled when I heard it; The rear formation was even more hesitant, not having to retreat, and not daring to rush forward into the sea of fire......

Tang Fuguan ordered the drums to attack at this moment, and two thousand armor soldiers rushed left and right with the shield cart, trampling the remnants of the beachhead to advance.

The soldiers of the Zhejiang and Fujian armies in the front line of the armor were like fire men, as long as there was still a breath left, they couldn't stand the pain of burning their hearts with fire poison, and howled in pain. There were fierce people who rushed up and hugged the soldiers of the Huaidong Army and wanted to die together, but more people, or abandoned their troops and abandoned their armor, rolled on the spot, wanting to extinguish the fire on their bodies and give the Huaidong Army a counterattack impact, but they couldn't hold down the position and retreated in a hurry.

Suddenly, more than 2,000 Zhejiang-Fujian troops who entered the battlefield and hundreds of people who advanced with stone-throwing crossbows were in a mess and were defeated. However, the terrain in front of Laotangpu Village was narrow, and in the end, a large number of routs were forced to directly attack the main force of the Huiji defenders assembled on the north side of Laotangpu Village......

Extravagant Feihu straddled the horseback, and was supposed to personally lead the main force to the north to meet the main force of the Huaidong Army that landed and attacked from the head of the lake, where did he ever think that the flank would suddenly collapse?

"Governor, run away, if you don't escape, you won't be able to escape!" Su Tingzhan fled in embarrassment, dismounted and knelt down in front of the extravagant Feihu's horse and kowtowed to ask for guilt.

"Good things you did!" The extravagant flying tiger whipped out with hatred, pulled Su Tingzhan's face out with a bloody whip print, and ordered more than 100 armored horsemen on the left and right, "Follow me and rush down, no matter who is in front, they will all rush to death!" Don't hesitate! ”

"Governor, it's too late!" Su Tingzhan stepped forward and grabbed the reins of the Flying Tiger's mount, "After today, I will take my head, and I will never complain, but if I don't escape, all the horses will be confessed here!" ”

A large number of routs poured in like a wave, and more than 2,000 soldiers of the Huaidong Army pursued and killed them.

With only more than 100 cavalry in his hands, he had to disperse the rout before he could contain the offensive of the Huaidong Army - and the soldiers and horses of the Huaidong Army on the east bank had already moved, and the two teams of armor soldiers were rushing to the west bank through the pontoon bridge.

When the main force was wrapped in a rout, how could it stop the offensive of thousands of soldiers of the Huaidong Army with only more than 100 cavalry. To the north, the main force of the Huaidong Army, which had already landed on the west bank, was three or four miles away.

At the last moment, there was no time to withdraw the brigade into Laotangpu Village for temporary refuge.

Today's plan is to lead the horses to flee first, so that most of the soldiers and horses spread their feet and then open the passage and opening to Shanyin City, which is the only feasible strategy to preserve as many troops as possible at the moment.

Once the main force is involved in complete chaos, it will only be killed separately by the Huaidong army, and it is impossible for the Feihu to organize the troops and horses to hold one or two cities and wait for reinforcements to come to the rescue.

The extravagant flying tiger flung the whip and wanted to whip Su Tingzhan again, and the left and right generals also hugged together, forcibly holding the reins, and fled west.

In an instant, the defeat was like a mountain.