Watching the Huaidong fleet abandon Hengshan City, treating them as nothing, and marching northwest along the river, the extravagant bears are cold.

The generals were speechless, their eyes showing almost despair, who would have thought that the Huaidong Army would conjure up a huge water battalion in the upper reaches of Shanxi?

There are as many as 16 Jiyun-class warships, as many as 40 or 50 small and medium-sized warships such as shipwreckers, bucket boats, and car-wing clippers, and as many as 50 pot-bellied ships used to transport troops on inland rivers.

With such a large fleet, tens of thousands of elite soldiers and horses of the Huaidong Army could be sent directly into the hinterland west of Shangrao along the river, and the cities west of Shangrao, including Deng Yu and Wang Hui, who were retreating west along both sides of the Xinjiang River, were unprepared for this.

There are no warships in the river in front of the interception, delay, and at this time it is the beginning of spring and summer, the river is rising, the water is turbulent, and catch up with the southeast wind, the Huaidong fleet sails and goes down the river, as fast as a galloping horse.

Even if they sent Kuaima Xi to warn, it would be difficult to catch up with the front, giving too much warning time to the cities on the western front and Deng Yu and Wang Hui's subordinates!

At this time, Yu Feixiong could also guess that these warships must have been secretly built by the Huaidong Army at the western foot of Guanxi Ridge - hateful, the confrontation in the Shanxi River Valley at the western foot of Guanxi Ridge lasted for four months, and the Huaidong Army secretly built warships on such a large scale in the depths of the Shanxi River Valley, and he didn't realize it at all, so how could he be embarrassed?

The confidence built up in the past battles collapsed at this moment, and the Flying Bear only felt that his throat was sweet, his mouth was full of blood, and he was about to fall down, but he barely removed the saber from his waist and stood on the ground.

"Young marshal, young marshal!" Shi Hejin called softly.

Extravagant Fei Xiong came back to his senses and looked at Shi Hejin, his face full of bitterness, but he also knew that if he couldn't hold on, he would collapse at the moment, and the soldiers and horses in Shangrao would not be able to escape the catastrophe.

Extravagant Fei Xiong swallowed the blood in his mouth into the hinterland, lifted his breath, grinned an ugly smile at the corner of his mouth, and said to the generals: "Huaidong wants to bluff you and me with these empty frame ships, and the children of Fujian are all cowardly......

The generals heard the extravagant flying bear speak, and only then did they recover from the shock slightly.

Even if they knew that the Huaidong fleet had left them and advanced westward, and they had greater ambitions, and wanted to outflank tens of thousands of Zhejiang and Fujian troops near Shangrao in the upper reaches of the Xinjiang River, but the Huaidong soldiers and horses did not immediately land on the shore to attack them, at least the disaster had not been pressed over, and they had somewhat regained some composure......

"Immediately drive along the Jiangxi to warn, and order Deng Yu, Wang Hui, and Tian Zhengming to avoid the nearest fortress, form a formation, and don't mess up the formation......" Extravagant Feixiong ordered in a deep voice, but no matter how calm he was, people could still hear the irrepressible absolute and frustration in his voice, but no matter what, he always had to send a fast horse to the west to report the news, even if he could buy more early warning time for the cities on the western front and the troops withdrawing from the west, it might also make the development of the battle situation not so desperate!

At this time, it is useless to light the beacon smoke, do not send people over, Wang Hui, Deng Yu and other generals who retreated west saw the wolf smoke vacating here, it must be difficult to guess that the pursuers of the Huaidong Army came by water.

"How are we going to get in?" Shi Hejin asked.

They still have more than 10,000 elites in Hengshan, but the grain and grass stored in Hengshan City can only last for three or five days, and Hengshan City is no longer a place to defend for a long time.

The remnants of the naval army in Shangrao could not even delay the westward movement of the Huaidong fleet, and they were defeated and collapsed.

Although they were only twenty or thirty miles away from Shangrao City, they were separated by the fast-flowing Xinjiang River, and there were still Huaidong warships on the Xinjiang River on guard and monitoring, so they had no ability to cross the river to the north at all, so they could only retreat west along the south bank of the river.

But how to withdraw from the west?

Traveling west to the territory of Guixi County, there is a trail to go south to Shaowu and withdraw into northern Fujian. It's just that the mountains on the south bank of the Xinjiang River are connected to the river, and the road is narrow and rugged, and from Hengshan to Guixi, it is necessary to forcibly march for nearly 200 miles. The two hundred miles of road are attached to the south bank of the Xinjiang River, and once they start a rapid march of soldiers and horses, they will summon Huaidong soldiers and horses to launch a strong attack from the Xinjiang River at any time......

"Immediately pull out the camp and go west!" Extravagant Fei Xiong said with a calm face, "All baggage will be abandoned, tell every general, the situation is urgent, only when you walk to Guixi within two days, will there be a glimmer of life!" ”

To complete the 200 miles of rugged roads on the south bank in two days, it is necessary to completely deploy the soldiers and horses to force the march, and there is no doubt that the Huaidong army will be called to fight them!

However, Shi Hejin also instantly understood the intention of the extravagant flying bear, and in doing so, it was to lure the Huaidong fleet to stop and fight them - in this way, Deng Yu and Wang Hui, who had already withdrawn west a day earlier, would have more time to withdraw into Fuzhou without worrying about being intercepted in the upper reaches of the Xinjiang River.

In fact, as long as Deng Yu and Wang Hui can reach Huating Village west of Hengfeng County one step earlier, there will be roads that can leave the north bank of the Xinjiang River and pass through the Yumeling Valley at the western foot of Huaiyu Mountain, and they can quickly withdraw into the territory of Fuliang and join Su Tingzhan.

If the Huaidong Army was not tempted by the enemy's tactics and was bent on intercepting the main forces of Deng Yu, Wang Hui and other troops on the north bank, they would not be able to allocate too many forces to attack the south bank, then they would have taken the opportunity to make a quick westward move, and they might have entered the territory of Guixi one step ahead of schedule.

At that time, even if the road to Fuzhou in the west is intercepted, it can still go south from the western foot of Wuyi Mountain, withdraw into Shanguan and Shaowu, and stick to northern Fujian.

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More than a dozen warships of the Zhejiang-Fujian Navy in the Xinjiang River were devastated, and it was difficult to curb the speed of the advance fleet.

There is no need to stop at the Zhejiang-Fujian army in Hengshan on the south bank to report the news, the defenders of Shangrao City saw such a large fleet on the Xinjiang River rushing in, and naturally knew what was happening, and at that moment, the alarm bell rang for a long time.

Wang Hui withdrew from Shangrao to the west yesterday afternoon, and camped in Qingxi, about 30 miles west of Shangrao. Wang Hui led his troops to retreat westward, leaving Shangrao City, to wait for the luxury Fei Xiong to lead the troops to fill in, and at this time there were less than 1,000 guards left in Shangrao.

In the face of the surging Huaidong fleet, the Shangrao guard naturally did not dare to send troops out of the city to intercept the riverbank wharf in the south of the city.

The south of Shangrao City is the most important land and water wharf in the middle reaches of the Xinjiang River, and the stone revetment wharf along the coast reaches several miles, and the berthing conditions of the port are excellent. Shangrao City is also built near the river, and the south city gate is less than 1,000 steps away from the riverbank wharf.

Such a short distance from the river bank was an excellent place to fight according to the city, but there were too few Shangrao guards, and the bed crossbows, scorpion crossbows and other weapons exposed between the stern cabins of the Huaidong war ships covered the strike range very deeply, so that the Shangrao guards did not dare to enter the wharf on the river bank to prevent the Huaidong soldiers from landing from the wharf.

This side is also less affected by the two water discharges in the upper reaches of Shanxi, but the stone shore wharf is hung with aquatic weeds and stumps, which does not affect the approach of large warships. First, two Jiyun-class warships approached, and the arrows rained down. Two giant crossbow arrows were shot into the defensive formation, and the five lightly armored soldiers were nailed together, howling and dying, and more than 100 guards on the pier scattered like birds and beasts, retreating into the southern city and defending the gate.

There was no need to even erect a trestle, the warship directly leaned on the revetment, put the gangway down, and more than 200 armored soldiers rushed to the dock with bows and blades to form a formation to cover the back-bellied troop transports to dock.

The guard Tian Zhong stood at the head of the city, watching the four Huaidong warships dock immediately after that, and nearly a thousand armor soldiers boarded the shore and pressed towards the south city gate, and then looked at the entire Huaidong fleet There were more than 50 such pot-bellied wing ships used to transport troops, and his thighs couldn't help but tremble!

Seeing that four more pot-bellied boats docked, and after one of them opened the hatch on the side side and erected a trestle, the fighting weapons such as the rushing car, the bed crossbow, the scorpion crossbow, and the cloud ladder divided into half were pushed off the ship one after another, and Tian Zhong's confidence in defending the fortified city also began to waver.

Although he was frightened in his heart, as a child of the Ba Min Tian family, Tian Zhong was not completely frightened.

The eldest prince's troops were blocked on the south bank and could not cross the river, but Wang Hui led his troops in Qingxi to walk out of forty or fifty miles at most, Tian Zhong thought that as long as he held the city, Wang Hui led his troops to help, and it would not take half a day at the earliest!

Tian Zhong's thoughts are not bad, but how could Huai Dongjun give him a chance?

At this time, a black smoke rose from the direction of Laohuai Street in Xicheng, where the poor people lived in the city.

At first, Tian Zhong thought that there was a fire on the side of Laohuai Street, and then the camp in Beicheng where the soldiers and civilians lived also burned several fires, and the fire spread rapidly, and Tian Zhong knew that the situation was much more complicated than he imagined.

Zhejiang and Fujian built fortifications to confront the Huaidong Army, in addition to the generals, it was indispensable to recruit a large number of Ding Zhuang troops from the local area, or to assist in defending the city, or to build war weapons, or to build the city. When the fortifications such as jaws, Litang, and Jiahe were at their maximum, there were as many as 60,000 or 70,000 craftsmen and people who filled in with the army, which was more than the garrison.

Xuan Feixiong decided to give up the front fortifications and use the hinterland along the Xinjiang River to extend the speed of the Huaidong Army's entry into Jiangxi, so naturally he would not call the Huaidong Army to increase the strength of the army.

In addition to some of the people who led Deng Yu and Wang Hui to lead their troops to retreat westward, there were nearly 20,000 private enterprises in Shangrao.

The luxury family itself is unpopular in Jiangxi, and most of these people are local farmers who have been forcibly enlisted in the army, whether they are forcibly enlisted in the army, or forced to leave their hometowns and withdraw with the army to the west, they have deep resistance and resentment.

Even under the brutal suppression of the Zhejiang-Fujian army, there were countless deserters, but there were no conditions to form large-scale riots and rebellions.

Huaidong entered the secret room of Jiangxi in the first three batches, and there were twenty or thirty people mixed in with these people. In the past, in addition to transmitting information and thinking that it was an internal response, it also secretly contacted and developed resistance forces with the army and the people.

At this time, the Shangrao guards attracted more Huaidong warships close to the periphery to the city, and there were less than 100 soldiers guarding the private camp.

First of all, arson induced a large-scale riot in the private sector, and while the prison guards were attracting the attention of the rioters, more than 600 rioters were organized in the Huaidong secret room, or armed with bamboo guns and wooden spears, or with bare hands, from both wings, almost in the blink of an eye, killing more than 100 guards outside the gate of the private sector to the point of abandoning their armor.

The rioters did not have the bullet pressure of the defenders, broke out of the camp, that is, they rampaged through the city. When Shangrao's materials were in short supply, the people had less than five taels of grain a day, and they were hungry, and some people pointed out that the Zhejiang-Fujian army was in the direction of the granary in Shangrao City, and nearly 20,000 people rushed to the Shangrao garrison camp and the direction of the military warehouse like a swarm of locusts.

And Huaidong secretly seized the bow, sword and armor, that is, organized more than 300 people to arm, and directly attacked the weakest defense and the farthest from the river bank Beicheng......

Tian Zhong knew that the general trend had gone, and if he died in battle, he could only lead the remnants of three to five hundred people to abandon the city and flee west.

At this time, it was only an hour before the Huaidong warship appeared and docked under Shangrao City, and the two thousand Huaidong soldiers who landed first landed formed a formation and flocked to the south city......

Chen Yan licked his lips, his eyes were full of greedy and fierce light, and he called his subordinate Hu Jinxiong and said: "You turtle son, give you 3,000 men and horses, do you have the confidence to defend Shangrao City to Lao Tzu!" ”

The main force of the Zhejiang-Fujian army of nearly 30,000 soldiers coerced tens of thousands of people, a total of 670,000 people, since the day before yesterday, they left Shangrao City and retreated westward one after another, and now these 670,000 horses are scattered in the narrow strip of about 150 miles between Qingxi to the west of Hengfeng County from Qingxi to Hengfeng County - Chen Yan let go of more than 10,000 elites after the break of the Xiong Qiang, and naturally he will not just take this almost empty Shangrao City.

Hu Jinxiong said: "The last general knows that if he can't hold Shangrao, he will definitely burn Shangrao City before escaping, and he won't miss the lord's plan to annihilate the enemy!" ”

",, I'm going to lose Lao Tzu's face, turn around and peel off your skin!" Chen Yan hated so much that his teeth itched, and he drove Hu Jinxiong ashore without saying anything.

What Hu Jinxiong said was a strategy drawn up by Lin Lian himself, once Chen Yan led the main force to land at Huating, intercepting the main force of the Zhejiang-Fujian army in the upper reaches of the Xinjiang River and unable to retreat westward, the Zhejiang-Fujian army was likely to turn around and recapture Shangraocheng to defend it.

At this time, burning the materials in Shangrao City and leaving them an empty city will not affect the development of the entire battle situation, but will be more conducive to the siege and surrender in the later stage - but the stale style does not fit with this, and I always feel that if Shangrao City is gained and lost in his hands, it will not be considered glorious!