(The second update, ask for a red ticket!) ）

Su Tingzhan was overjoyed with the red armor, like the scorching sun, surrounded by guards, and entered and exited along the south bank of the Yanhe River.

Lin Jian stood on the platform and looked out, pointed to Su Tingzhan in red armor, and said to Zhou Pu: "That person should be the butcher Xiucai Su Tingzhan, who is the most dependent person in the East China Sea, I can't imagine that Luxury Feixiong left him to preside over the northern ......."

"Let him retract the Hecheng military fortress, I'm afraid it will be difficult to recapture Hecheng suddenly, do you want to send someone to intercept it?"

"I'm afraid it's too late," Lin Jian shook his head and said, "Don't think about becoming fat in one bite, you can annihilate most of Cheng Yiqun and Shu Qingqiu, even if you complete the task, you will also be able to relieve the hatred of the slaughter of the two thousand soldiers and civilians on Xisha Island." ”

The garrison is only five miles away from the Hecheng Military Fortress, the river beach position of the Kou soldiers is closer to the Hecheng Division, and Su Tingzhan has dozens of guards accompanying him, so it is not so easy to intercept. The goal of this battle is not the Hecheng military fortress, and Lin Jian does not expect to be able to defeat the invaders of Hecheng in one fell swoop.

"The Kou soldiers on the enemy ship can reinforce the river beach position at any time, the flanks are strong, our army can only attack it from the front, it is extremely difficult, the casualties will not be small, you accompany me to supervise the battle, to win the victory, the morale can not be weak." Lin Jian said, no longer staying on the platform to watch the situation and go to the soldiers.

The west garrison of Hecheng is not large, and it cannot accommodate too many garrisons, so the army gathered in the west garrison of Hecheng encircled the garrison and set up camp. The Jiangdong Left Army fought in a civil war in Chongzhou, and it was much more convenient to obtain supplies than the Kou soldiers, and there was also a stockpile of materials in the garrison barracks, although it was also a hasty expansion of the camp in one day and one night, but it was much stronger than the wall built by the Kou soldiers in the river beach formation.

On the east side of the garrison and the south camp is the starting position, the Chongzhou infantry battalion has just been replaced to rest, and the Fengli infantry battalion is on top, where Ning Zechen organizes the third wave of offensives. In addition to the Fengli infantry battalion, there were still nearly 500 defeated soldiers and more than 600 people with weak morale, Ning Zechen organized a group of people from among them to contain the western flank of the Kou soldiers, prevent the Kou soldiers from attacking from the west flank formation, and threaten them to directly attack the array of soldiers on the river beach position.

Lin Jian came down from the platform, and the soldiers who were about to go into battle to kill the enemy were all excited, completely fearless of the difficulty of attacking the enemy formation from the front, and even the soldiers who were repelled in the first two strokes felt guilty for not taking the position in one go, and bowed their heads and did not dare to meet Lin Bin's inspection.

"The bones of this gang of soldiers are very hard, and they are difficult to gnaw - if the enemy is a soft-faced person who is easy to bully, it will not reflect the combat power of the Jiangdong Left Army! I've been watching you attack and attack, and you're playing well. Temporary retreat is nothing, we swing our fists out, we don't knock the enemy down all at once, and we take the fighter back in order to make the next strike more powerful and ferocious. You have nothing to be ashamed of, you are all good men of the Jiangdong Left Army, hold your chest up......" Lin Jian walked in front of the first two groups of soldiers who were repulsed, boosting their morale, and not letting a momentary setback affect their morale.

"This group of soldiers is from our Chongcheng infantry battalion, I ask that we continue to kill, the brothers of Fengli Battalion have just come over, they have walked all night, and they haven't rested yet, so they can't let them work hard!" A commander of the Chongzhou infantry battalion stood up and took the initiative to ask for battle, not wanting to be replaced, watching the Fengli infantry battalion go to the enemy formation, they repelled twice, if the Fengli infantry battalion was successful, wouldn't they have to bow their heads in front of the brothers of the Fengli battalion in the future?

"Ma Sanwa, I remember you, you fought very bravely and were a good soldier. I heard that you forced your mother to marry a widow, and you were so aggrieved that you screamed and hid in the barracks and didn't go back. What's so bad about a widow? looks handsome, can give birth to a baby, can warm the bed, will be intimate, you are fighting in front, she helps your family to be smooth, you don't need to be distracted, what's wrong? Lin Lianxiao looked at the captain who walked to the front, and when he talked about his family, he made the people on the side laugh, and said, "As for the battle, people have two fists, and they have to take turns to swing them out in the fight, and they can also hit the enemy more effectively - so now it's your turn to rest, rest enough, and you have to go up again, today's battle, some of you fight!" ”

After encouraging this, Lin Jian went to cheer up the soldiers of the Fengli battalion who set out to attack the enemy, he did not expect to break through the enemy formation from the front, so he took turns to send the generals to the top to maintain the offensive against the enemy position on the river beach, and it was possible to avoid too many casualties.

Then he went to boost the morale of Minyong and the Hecheng rout, in order to fully use the troops and avoid the formation of a tired army, Lin Jian used Minyong and the Hecheng rout that Wang Chengfu had gathered to assist the frontal attack armor to contain the enemy's flank.

Although the salt under the jurisdiction of the Salt and Iron Division is said to be scarce in combat training, because there is no shortage of money and salary in peacetime, the morale is acceptable.

For the lowest-level soldiers, the texture is simple, with the simple mind of "eating the emperor's grain and defending the territory", if it weren't for the officials and generals who were greedy for life and afraid of death and abandoned the city and fled first, the Donghai Kou wanted to capture the Hecheng military fortress, it would never be so simple - this is also the main reason why a weak army has been reborn since ancient times as long as it solves the problems of the officer corps and food.

Wang Chengfu gathered the defeated troops, about 500 people, Lin Jian arbitrarily took up several battalion officers at the rank of lieutenant and sent them to Chongzhou for detention, to be punished in the future, but made the eight commanders stay to make meritorious service for their crimes, and participated in the war as auxiliaries, mainly to contain the flanks of the enemy formation.

These routs were forcibly retracted, and in the process of retraction, there were even conflicts, and the difference in morale can be imagined, and it was also forced to go into battle to contain the enemy's flanks. Although the Minyong lacked training, they dared to fight, and even the armor of the Jiangdong Left Army was not weak, and it stimulated the Hecheng Defeated Army, which was mixed with the battle, and after two times, it also made them realize that it was not too dangerous to contain the flank of the enemy's formation.

Wang Chengfu watched the Jiangdong Left Army fight on Dayangshan Island, it was purely an elite male division attacking and capturing the fortress, even if he commanded the battle, he was presided over by the generals below, Wang Chengfu did not see that Lin Jian had the opportunity to directly show his military talent, and at this time he had a slight feeling: a successful general, the most important thing is to have the personality charm that can successfully make the soldiers willing to live and die for it, there is no doubt that Lin Jian has such a characteristic, which is the fundamental reason why no other excellent generals can replace his position in the Jiangdong Left Army.

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After Su Tingzhan left, Cheng Yiqun was still worried about the safety of the river beach position.

If you can't gain a foothold on the river beach, you can't achieve the goal of pinning down the main force of the Jiangdong Left Army's northern front in the west of Hecheng, Cheng Yiqun took 200 personal guards ashore to strengthen the defense of the river beach position, and he personally stood on the high place of the river embankment to supervise the battle.

Seeing the sudden burning of wolf smoke from the garrison, Cheng Yiqun was also suspicious in his heart, he was worried that Lin Jian would lay down his hands first. After the battle of King Qin of Yannan, Lin Tie was known for his good strategy, and Cheng Yiqun also suspected that the sudden release of wolf smoke from the garrison might be a suspicious tactic in itself, so they were suspicious and took the initiative to abandon the river beach position and withdraw to the Hecheng military fortress.

In any case, Cheng Yiqun's ability to become the head of the Taihu Lake thieves is by no means easy to match, not to be frightened. Even if the boat division of the Jiangdong Left Army copied Hecheng, the sky was clear, even if no scouts were sent, the range of observation posts was as far as ten and twenty miles, and this side was only four or five miles away from the Hecheng military fortress, and it was completely too late to shrink and retreat, although Cheng Yiqun hesitated in his heart, he was not particularly worried, and he only wanted to defend the wall first.

Until noon, there was no movement on the periphery, even though the Jiangdong Left Army had organized seven offensives without interruption, Cheng Yiqun also confirmed that the wolf smoke in the early morning was Lin Bin's suspicious plan, causing them to lose an extra hundred and ten people.

At noon, the offensive of the Jiangdong Left Army, which had seen that it was slowing down, suddenly became fierce again, and not only did the Jiangdong Left Army's advance position advance 100 paces to the east, but Cheng Yiqun also saw that the cavalry battalion of the Jiangdong Left Army, which had not been dispatched all morning, also entered the forward position. Judging from the deployment, the cavalry battalion is likely to directly attack the west flank of the river beach, and it will put in more than 200 cavalry at one time, and there are also four trebuchets assembled on the advance position of the Jiangdong Left Army, which is very close to the river bank, and can directly hit the ship formation on the west side by calculating the distance.

In the seven uninterrupted offensives of the Jiangdong Left Army, the west side of the wall of the river beach position almost completely collapsed, and there were some obstacles, but they were all low and could not stop the cavalry battalion from rushing over, and the trebuchets of the Jiangdong Left Army had a direct threat to the warships in the river, Cheng Yiqun secretly said that the Jiangdong Left Army was the last to exert its strength at this time.

Cheng Yijun sent someone to send an order to Shu Qingqiu, asking Shu Qingqiu to continue to disperse the west side of the ship formation to the west and move closer to the south bank, in addition to directly attacking the trebuchet position of the Jiangdong Left Army and preventing the trebuchet of the Jiangdong Left Army from playing a role, he also wanted him to send people directly to the south bank and directly form a flank position with the men on the west slipway, so as to prevent the cavalry of the Jiangdong Left Army from attacking the flank of the main position on the river beach from the west.

After waiting for a while, Cheng Yiqun could not see any movement in the ship formation on the west side, and neither sent the ships to move west to attack the trebuchets arranged by the Jiangdong Left Army on the river embankment, nor did he send troops ashore to strengthen the flank position.

Cheng Yiqun secretly scolded Shu Qingqiu, and seeing that the Jiangdong Left Army would delay for a while before launching an offensive, he hurriedly walked to the west and shouted at Shu Qingqiu at the bow of the boat: "General Shu, what's the matter with you?" I asked you to drive the ship westward, strike at the enemy's catapults, and send troops ashore to strengthen the flank guards, why did you delay for a moment and did not move? The next offensive of the Jiangdong Left Army will be fierce, and you need to block and intercept it on the western flank, and be sure to protect the flank of the river beach from attack......"

Shu Qingqiu was so anxious that he was sweating profusely, and shouted across more than 50 steps of the river: "Somehow, the river has suddenly become shallow, and the boat can't move on the bottom mud!" ”

"How is that possible!" Cheng Yiqun was frightened, his biggest reliance was to rely on the boat formation assembled in two places and free to roam to cover the flanks of the river beach position from attack, and to support the river beach position at any time, so he was not afraid to resist the impact of the Jiangdong Left Army one after another, he never expected that the boat in the middle of the river would suddenly be unable to move.

"Look at the embankment!" Shu Qingqiu shouted.

"......" Cheng Yiqun looked down at the inside of the embankment, the water marks were clearly visible, the water level of the Yunyan River had dropped by at least three feet in the whole morning, the water level of the Yunyan River was already shallow, and it had dropped three feet sharply.

At this moment, Cheng Yiqun only felt that the sky was dizzy, his throat was sweet, and he almost spurted out a mouthful of blood: "Lin Lian, this beast, is blocking the river upstream at night!" The non-stop dispatch of troops to attack from the front in the morning is to make us not pay attention to the changes in the river! ”

At this moment, the stone-throwing crossbows in the Taitung position rattled, and several rounded stone projectiles fell into the shallow water, causing a splash. This is just a stone bullet to calibrate the bearing and distance, for experienced soldiers to operate, after two or three dials, it will be more and more accurate, Shu Qingqiu shouted at the bow of the ship: "Big shield, big shield, take the big shield to carry, if there is no big shield to cover, go to ......the cabin first."

Cheng Yiqun didn't dare to stay on the west embankment, and hurriedly retreated to the river beach position.

Without a ship formation to cover the flanks, the river beach position is extremely weak, at this moment Cheng Yiqun also understands that he has fallen into a dead place, he wants to lead the river beach men and horses to take the initiative to retreat, not only will he be directly hit by the cavalry of the Jiangdong Left Army from the flank, but also will inevitably abandon the seventy or eighty boats, seventeen or eight hundred men and horses who are stuck in the river mud and cannot move - this is almost half of his family background, so how can he give up?

Su Tingzhan only had 800 soldiers and horses in the Hecheng military fortress, although it was only four or five miles apart, he couldn't spare manpower to support in a short time, and he had to be able to gather troops to the north, this battle was difficult to fight!

The catapult was fixed on the embankment, the boat was sunk in the mud of the riverbed, fixed on both sides, and several waves of stone bullets were fired more and more accurately, but the next fire was not stone bullets, but clay pots filled with fire oil......

Water warfare is the most important fire prevention, but the fleet, which is dominated by wooden ships, no matter how strong the fire prevention ability is, cannot dodge, and it cannot withstand pouring fire oil and then using rockets to shoot. Smelling the smell of fire oil, several horse archers galloped closer, holding rockets in their hands, approaching an arrow away, then throwing rockets into the air, watching the rockets attack, and the clay pots filled with fire oil kept throwing, Shu Qingqiu's heart was cold, and the only way to do this was to abandon the ship and land on the shore, join Cheng Yiqun, or stick to the river beach position, or retreat east to the Hecheng military fortress......

Shu Qingqiu forgot at this time, although the nearest ship from the shore is twenty or thirty steps away, but the Yunyan River has been in disrepair for a hundred years, and the bottom of the river is very deep. More people were pushed down in a crowd, stuck in the mud, no one to help them, and they couldn't move at all.

At this time, the eighth offensive of the Jiangdong Left Army was rapidly and fiercely launched, in addition to the armor soldiers in the front, the cavalry battalion was also dispatched, one team monitored the east flank, and the other team suddenly entered from the west flank......