(The fourth watch is coming, a new day, how powerful can the red ticket be?) ）

A round of red sun jumps out from the sea level, as if washing the clear sea water, bright red, the sea water and floating clouds on the occasion of the sea and sky are reflected in a magnificent and colorful way, red dyeing and paving.

Wearing Mingguang armor, he stood on the cliff head of the headland of the southwest beach of Changshan Island with a knife, and the north wall of the headland guarding the mouth of Nantan Bay behind him collapsed, revealing mottled blood stains and uncleaned stumps and broken arms, which made people think of the bloodshed and cruelty of the battle at dusk yesterday.

Yesterday, at the time of sunset, the main force of the northern front arrived at the southwest beach of Changshan Island, and on the one hand, he pretended to surrender, and on the other hand, bypassed the blockade of the headland, sent small boats to clear the obstacles on the southwest beach, and landed on the southwest beach in a roundabout way, so as to cut off the connection between the headland camp fort and the main island with absolutely superior forces.

Originally, it was thought that the enemy on Changshan Island would withdraw the warship, and the will of the remnants of the enemy who stayed on the island would not be too firm, and the previous several surrenders were fruitless, so that the Luxury Feihu had no intention of doing any more water milling work to persuade him to surrender. Besides, according to the reconnaissance of Changshan Island in the past, although the enemy on Changshan Island was unruly, there were only five or six hundred soldiers capable of fighting. After clearing the obstacles on the southwest beach, the luxury flying tiger directly transferred 2,000 elites ashore to start the attack on the cape camp fort of the southwest beach.

Changshan Island has two forts on the south cliff and the southwest beach headland.

The south cliff camp fort faces the sea on one side, faces the cliff on both sides, although the cliff is not steep, but the surrounding is dense primeval forest, only a trail is opened up to communicate with the southwest beach, and the luxury flying tiger does not dare to trade and send troops in.

While sending scouts to search the whole island, the Flying Tiger sent a team of soldiers to form a formation outside the forest to prevent the surprise attack on the island, and in addition, he concentrated his forces to attack the southwest beach headland fort first.

Extravagant Feihu landed with an absolute superiority of troops, and the island soldiers in the South Cliff Camp Fort did not dare to fight, but the solidity of the southwest beach headland fort made the island soldiers suffer enough.

The southwest beach headland is a long and narrow peninsula that stretches into the shallow sea about 400 steps deep, and is near the sea on three sides, except for the west side of the beach where the depth can directly bring the warship over, the other two sides are shallow water beaches lined with reefs, and only the northeast side is connected with the island and land, forming a narrow and long channel.

The land access channel is about 3670 steps deep, but it is not more than 350 steps wide, and it also artificially creates obstacles such as pits, trenches, etc., which brings great trouble to the dispatch of troops from the land connection channel to attack.

Extravagant Feihu also brought several catapults out to sea, but the lever-type catapult made by the luxury family required twenty or thirty people to pull up the piso and exert force together to hit the target three or four hundred steps away.

The northeastern wall of the headland had been hit head-on by dozens of stone bullets over the course of two hours, and all six catapults had been used up, leaving only a few branch-like cracks in the wall.

Extravagant Feihu did not have the patience and time to cut down the wood and rebuild the catapult, and sent soldiers to force the attack with arrows, fill in the traps, protect the trenches, and push the giant wood to the bottom of the fort, and continuously hit the fort wall at close range despite huge casualties.

After nearly 300 casualties, the northern wall of the headland was knocked down after midnight, forcing the remnants of the fort to abandon the fort and take the rope ladder down to the sea and take the reef beach to the east.

Although the casualties were greater than expected, and the soldiers of Cape Fort Island were not wiped out, they were still relatively smooth. The next step is to clear the outer obstacles and try to advance to the South Cliff Camp Fort before it gets dark.

Standing in the morning light, he silently estimated in his heart that he could end the war here before sunset tomorrow, and it was not too late in time.

After all, the garrison of Daheng Island is a little empty, and it is uncertain when the Jiangdong Left Army will go to sea again to peek at the reality of Daheng Island, and it is necessary to draw troops to prevent the Jiangdong Left Army from interfering in the war in eastern Zhejiang.

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Qin Zitan walked to the broken wall of the headland and stopped.

The north wall of the cape fort collapsed in half, but the whole did not collapse, thinking of the hard work of attacking the fort last night, Qin Zitan also felt that this fort was too strong, and picked up a piece of broken wall on the ground and twisted it.

Last night, he was by the side of the Luxury Flying Tiger, but the Luxury Flying Tiger was very sudden when he was directing the battle, Qin Zitan accidentally scratched his cheek with a sharp arrow, and he was shot at the front door by half an inch, and he was scared into a cold sweat at that time.

After losing a lot of blood, and the people were very tired, after capturing the cape fort late at night, Qin Zitan went to rest first, and only then did he wake up and rush over to discuss the details of the attack on the South Cliff Camp Fort during the day.

"What are you doing?" Seeing that Qin Zitan was stunned at the broken wall, he raised his voice and asked.

"There are trees, rocky mountains, and sand on this Changshan Island, but it does not produce lime and charcoal," Qin Zitan spread out the fragments of the cape fort to show Yu Feihu, and said, "When we came over, we saw that the cape stone camp fort was made of rammed earth, but when we attacked, we had suffered enough. Look at this, we didn't suffer for nothing! ”

"......" Fei Feihu's brows also furrowed, he became famous for his good fighting when he was a teenager, and he was by no means a stupid person.

Although there was negligence last night, after Qin Zitan's reminder, he also saw that this headland was full of suspicions.

"Look at this slag, look at this color, it is not mixed with fine sand, it is charcoal slag, as well as lime, walnut vine juice and glutinous rice juice......" Qin Zitan only felt a chill on his back, and the more he thought about it, the more frightened he became, "Fortunately, the limited space on this headland makes the rammed earth wall not thick enough, if the wall is twice as thick, it will take us three or four times more time, and we may not be able to collapse this wall!" ”

"Second son, I'm afraid Changshan Island is a trap!" Qin Zitan said.

"Do you suspect that Changshan Island has long been secretly attached to the Jiangdong Left Army?" Fei Fei Hu asked.

"Before I came here, I thought that this possibility was very small," Qin Zitan said, "but this explanation doesn't make sense!" ”

For the general pirates, occupying the island as a stronghold and building a nest, the vast majority of people will adapt measures to local conditions, use local materials, and build as strong as possible, how can it be possible to take great pains to transport a large amount of lime and charcoal slag from the land mixed with rammed earth to build a fort?

Why was the headland in Qingshi Bay on Daheng Island easily destroyed by the Jiangdong Left Army? The main thing is that although it is convenient to build a fort with local materials, it is not strong enough, and it can block the bow and crossbow, but it cannot resist the catapult.

It is not surprising that the rammed earth fort or the fort is built with stone on Changshan Island - lime, charcoal slag, and glutinous rice are easier to get their hands on, but walnut vines are more difficult to collect. Walnut vines are usually only used to build bridges and palaces and temples in Jiangdong, but it is by no means easy for ordinary pirates to get their hands on.

In addition, how can ordinary pirates know the ratio of materials that are only used to build bridges, mausoleums, and palaces?

Even if it hasn't been confirmed yet, but thinking that this possibility is not weak, Yu Feihu's heart is also tingling, and his whole body is cold, he is not willing to admit that he is weaker than that swineherd.

Qin Zitan was still calm, and ordered the guards around him: "Go and inform General Cheng quickly, let him be careful of the enemy coming from the west!" ”

The Flying Tiger stood there like a statue for dozens of breaths without moving, and then violently slammed the knife in his palm into the wall, stirring up pieces like gravel, and with his huge strength, he only smashed out a shallow pit, which shows the solidity of the headland. Fei Fei Hu said hatefully: "Even if it is a trap set by the swineherd, I will violently blast this trap into powder!" Spread the word that the generals will come over to discuss it! ”

Seeing the look of the extravagant flying tiger, it seemed that he still insisted on attacking Changshan Island, Qin Zitan was shocked and advised: "I haven't seen the Jiangdong Left Army Boat Division attacking from the west, it will definitely attack Daheng Island to defend itself empty and rush, the top priority is to return to Daheng Island!" ”

"If it's a trap, last night's north wind, the Jiangdong Left Army Boat Division should also rush to Daheng Island before dawn, at this time the wind direction is not favorable to our division, it will take day and night to reach," Yu Feihu gritted his teeth and said, "Su Tingzhan can hold on for a day and night, and he can still suffer for three or five more days, if he can't hold it, we will rush back, but it will give the Jiangdong Left Army Boat Division a head-on blow!" ”

"Daheng Island is related to the overall situation of eastern Zhejiang, and there is no room for mistakes," Qin Zitan persuaded, "Daheng Island is more than 20 miles horizontal, and the Jiangdong Left Army hastily attacked the island, and it is impossible to deploy defenders on the whole island in time, as long as our army can land and gain a firm foothold in one place, we can drag the Jiangdong Left Army on Daheng Island, and wait for the eldest prince to withdraw from the battle situation in eastern Zhejiang, and raise his division to the north to fight a decisive battle with the Jiangdong Left Army......"

"That's three or two days away from letting me take Changshan Island!" Fei Fei Hu said categorically.

"Since the second prince can't let go of the northern front in his heart, then please ask the second son to lead his division to attack Hecheng, converge with the defenders of Hecheng, and go straight to the lair of the Jiangdong Left Army!" Qin Zitan suggested. There were seven or eight thousand elites in the convergence with the Hecheng defenders, which was enough to sweep through Chongzhou and force Lin Jian to lead the main force back to the division to defend the base camp.

"Lin Tie is building a fortification outside Hecheng, and he is stationed in an elite infantry battalion, and there is a cavalry battalion peeping on one side, can he get it suddenly?" Yu Feihu asked, "Do you suspect that Lin Tie has an elite hidden on Changshan Island?" If this is the case, after Lin Jian led the main force to attack our flank, he joined forces with the ambush troops on Changshan Island to attack our division, and won a great victory, but did not worry about Chongzhou's loss, wouldn't it be better than rushing to Daheng Island? ”

With the strength of the Jiangdong Left Army, it is impossible to deploy real troops in three places: the attack on Daheng Island must be real, and one of Chongzhou and Changshan Island must be virtual, which place is virtual?

Qin Zitan asked Hao Feihu, but he was also stunned, unable to answer for a while.

If there is really an ambush on Changshan Island, Lin Jian led the main force of the Jiangdong Left Army Boat Division to attack it last night, and at the same time, the ambush troops on the island are exhausted, they will definitely be defeated!

Although Qin Zitan had a hunch that Lin Tie was very likely to have a large number of elites hidden on Changshan Island, who would give up a great victory in defeating five or six thousand enemies while exposing the empty base camp under the eyes and nose of the enemy? He suddenly felt that he had never looked through the forest bindings!

Although Luxury Feihu advocated continuing to attack Changshan Island, Qin Zitan had lingering palpitations and insisted that Luxury Feihu summon all the generals to discuss together and do his duty as a strategist and admonishing the master. If the attack on the island is unfavorable, then changing the strategy will make the situation even more unfavorable, and even if it is delayed for a day, it may snatch all the initiative away from the Jiangdong Left Army.