The tribes camped outside Hengshan City to rest, and at dusk, surrounded by the generals such as Luxury Fei Xiong and Shi Hejin, they rode their horses onto the cliff bank and looked at the Xinjiang River in the north.

In addition to the embankment on the north bank of the Shanxi River that was directly washed away, the two banks of the Xinjiang River were also completely unrecognizable by the size of the sudden overflow, and the river beach was full of broken trees and branches washed down from the upper reaches and the wreckage of warships, as well as a large number of drowning corpses of soldiers washed up on the river beach.

The remnants of the broken halberd and the corpses that were swollen and white from the river water were shocking.

Although the back road was washed away by the flood, it couldn't delay the Huaidong Army for a few days, and the extravagant Fei Xiong was powerless to collect the bodies of these drowned generals, so he only said to Shi Hejin and other generals: "You have worshiped with me, and now it can only be like this......

Shi Hejin's heart was dripping blood, although he did not punish him, but the more than 2,000 elite sailors who were submerged under the water were almost the last bit of his Shi family's old capital.

Shi He Jinben is the general of Nantai Island, the main general of the Mindong Naval Army, and guards the Minjiang River gateway at the east entrance of Jinjiang Mansion all the year round.

Huaidong's strategy of harassing and attacking in the early years completely suppressed the ability of the Mindong Navy to go to sea in the later period, and Shi Hejin was under great pressure and intermittently bled endlessly.

Before the war in eastern Mindong, hundreds of Shi family children died in the war. Until the abandonment of Fujian and the relocation of the east and west, and the Shihe Jinsuo Department abandoned the water and landed on the shore, there were less than 4,000 soldiers and horses left.

After the luxury family occupied the whole territory of Jiangxi, they set up naval armies in Jiangzhou and Yuzhang. The Jiangzhou Navy took Yang Xiong and Su Tingzhan as generals and had the responsibility of guarding the gateway of Poyang Lake, so the Navy had more than 25,000 people, and it was the largest water army controlled by the luxury family after retreating into Jiangxi.

Yuzhang is located on the inner line of Jiangxi, and the naval army mainly controls the Ganjiang River, Xinjiang River and other water systems, so there is really no chance of a big battle with the enemy.

Luwenzhuang arranged this way, so that the Shi and Jin Suobu, who were born in Fujian, could get more opportunities to rest and recuperate - who would have thought that in this way, the Huaidong army would swallow nearly half of the soldiers and horses of the Yuzhang Navy with flood discharge? It accounts for almost seventy percent of the soldiers and horses in Shangrao.

The loss of the water army, Xu Fei Xiong was also very distressed, but he did not expect that the Huaidong army would release water in two upstream parts. With the destruction of the Shangrao Water Army, Luxury Fei Xiong will not hold Shi Hejin accountable.

If the non-Zhejiang and Fujian armies are not effective, they are really too cunning in the East China Sea!

"The roads on the north bank have also been washed away, and the Huaidong Army can't take a detour from the jaws and Litang directions to attack Shangrao in a short time, can we leave a group of soldiers and horses to temporarily guard Hengshan?" Shi Hejin asked.

Hengshan City is located west of Shanxi and south of the Xinjiang River, and it was worried that it would be surrounded by the Huaidong Army in the south, and the Huaidong Army could bypass Hengshan from the north bank of the Xinjiang River and attack Shangrao directly, so in the original plan, Hengshan City was to be directly abandoned.

Now that the road south of Hengshan has been destroyed, and the road on the north bank of the Xinjiang River has also been destroyed, leaving a number of soldiers and horses in Hengshan at this time does not expect to be able to intercept the pursuing soldiers of the Huaidong Army, but what the soldiers pointed out can also delay the time for the Huaidong Army to open these passages.

The soldiers and horses left behind in Hengshan only need to withdraw before the Huaidong Army surrounds them.

"How many supplies can be transferred over there in Shangrao?" Extravagant Bear asked.

At this time, Luxury Flying Bear considered guarding Hengshan City for the time being, and there was another important factor.

The north bank of the Xinjiang River is open, and the mountains on the south bank are forced to force the river, and the road is narrow. If you want to go west quickly, you can only cross the river and go north, taking the avenue on the north bank. In that case, the Xinjiang waterway could also be used to block the Huaidong Army pursuing from the direction of Guanxiling.

However, with the sinking of a large number of warships, including the flooding of a large area of beach along the river on the north bank, it is no longer suitable to cross the river directly from the north of Hengshan City to the opposite bank, and it may be necessary to land on the river bank south of Shangrao City by boat.

Fewer ferries and longer river crossing routes made it slower to cross the river, and Deng Yu and Wang Hui needed to recruit more fishing boats from the lower reaches of the Xinjiang River.

Maybe it will drag on for ten days or eight days, and then Hengshan City needs to be divided into troops to defend it.

There was no plan to defend Hengshan before, and the luxury flying bear left three or five hundred soldiers in Hengshan to defend the city, and the grain and grass left behind were only enough to cross the road. If you want to divide your troops and stay in Hengshan for a long time, you need to transfer grain and grass from Shangrao.

Deng Yu and Wang Hui retreated all the way west, and Shangrao was almost an empty city, with less than 1,000 defenders. However, in the plan, the luxury flying bear has to lead the department to fill in Shangrao for the time being, so Shangrao's food reserves are still sufficient.

Shangrao City is only twenty miles west of Hengshan, on the north bank of the Xinjiang River.

Shi Hejin's remnants still have more than a dozen warships converted from fishing boats in the north of Hengshan City, which can only carry more than 1,000 people each time they cross the river, but they can transport grain and grass from Shangrao, and they can transport two or three thousand stones at a time, which is enough for two or three thousand guards for a month.

After thinking for a while, Fei Fei Xiong decided that he would lead his troops to Shangrao first, and divide two or three thousand elites to Shi Hejin to stay in Hengshan temporarily. However, all these arrangements will have to wait until after dawn tomorrow, and then send people to chase Deng Yu and Wang Hui by light boat.

is very different from what was expected, the current situation has changed, and the Huaidong Army released water to rush the shore at the Shangyuan of Shanxi was not expected before, so the previous retreat plan had to be adjusted.

Extravagant Feixiong returned to the barracks and discussed with Shi Hejin and other generals for a long time, always worried that something was wrong. In the middle of the night, the extravagant bear dragged his tired body and insisted on patrolling the injured camp, hoping to boost the morale of the extravagant family when it was in difficulty.

The extravagant bear slept very lightly, and woke up with the slightest sound of footsteps outside the tent.

At this time, the sky was already bright, and the candle flame in the tent had not stopped, and the extravagant flying bear habitually touched the pillow knife and asked, "Who is outside?" ”

"Young Marshal, is it me?" Shi Hejin didn't wait for the extravagant flying bear to agree, and hurriedly opened the curtain and came in, with a look of horror hidden in his eyes!

When most of the navy army was washed away by the Huaidong army, Shi and Jin were not so frightened, uneasy, or frightened - at this moment, the chill in the heart of the extravagant bear rushed from the tail spine to the heart of the top of his head, and he got up and asked, "Where did the enemy come from?" ”

"Shanxi!" Shi Hejin failed to recover from the shock, and when he spit out two words, his tongue was a little knotted, and there was no way to report everything clearly at once.

"Shanxi is coming to the enemy, why be surprised? Even if the Huaidong Army was logging and building ships upstream, how many people could chase after it? Fei Fei Xiong pursed his lips and sneered, thinking that Shi and Jin were afraid that they would be discouraged.

Prior to this, it was not that he had not considered the possibility of building ships after the Huaidong Army controlled the upper reaches of Shanxi, but shipbuilding could not be promoted overnight. Naturally, the Huaidong Army will not lack shipbuilding craftsmen, but the giant wood needed for large warships needs to be cut down from the deep mountains and old forests.

The Huaidong Army showed no signs of cutting down giant trees in the deep mountains and old forests in the upper reaches of Shanxi, and even if they did build ships on the land in the upper reaches of Shanxi, they were more only used to build some small wooden boats and use the ferries or pontoon bridges used upstream.

The small wooden boats built by the Huaidong Army in the upper reaches have also been seen by the Flying Bear, so they don't think it's strange. These small wooden boats are used by the Huaidong Army to build pontoon bridges or carry more than ten or twenty people to ferry, but if you want to carry the generals and fight on the river, the extravagant flying bear has a letter to make the Huaidong Army suffer a big loss!

The Xinjiang River is dangerous and the boat is difficult to cross.

In water battles, warships can take advantage of them to the maximum. Isn't it because the luxury family can't build a large warship that can compete with Huaidong?

Although the navy of the Zhejiang-Fujian army in Shangrao suffered a heavy setback, the loss of strength will be seventy percent, but there are still 1,000 elite sailors parked in the north of Hengshan City, and there are as many as 12 warships of more than 400 stones. Even if the Huaidong army is called to chase after them with a large number of small wooden boats carrying three or five thousand elite soldiers, they have the advantage of warships, and the water battle will not necessarily be at a disadvantage, no wonder they are still afraid that the Huaidong army will land on the shore to fight?

In fact, since the confrontation between the two sides around the Jiahe River blockade, the Huaidong Army has been doing everything possible to block the river. Luxury Fei Xiong also recognized that the Huaidong Army's second digging of the lake and releasing water was a conspiracy against the Zhejiang-Fujian army - Luxury Feixiong believed that the Huaidong Army's naval strength in the upper reaches of Shanxi was extremely weak, so he would go to great lengths to block the river, and did everything possible to weaken the naval strength of the Zhejiang-Fujian Army in Shangrao before the pursuit.

Of course, the extravagant flying bear did not think that Huaidong had the possibility of sending a small group of elites to land and steal the camp in a small boat at night, so when camping, he also strengthened the supervision and defense of the riverbank - at this time, the sky was already bright, and he was afraid that Huaidong would not be able to send a small group of elites to steal the camp?

Shi Hejin was anxious, and when he saw the extravagant flying bear standing there, he was anxious. Shi Hejin was also dizzy at this time, and didn't think about the face of the extravagant flying bear, grabbed his arm out of shape, and said, "Young marshal, you go out with the last general to have a look......"

Extravagant Fei Xiong frowned slightly, but he didn't have a seizure, so he walked out with Shi and Jin lifting the curtain.

When he saw the shadow of the sail boat at the mouth of the river, the heart of the extravagant flying bear suddenly became cold, as if a basin of ice water had been poured on his head, and it was cold from the top of his head to the soles of his feet, and he instantly understood why Shi Hejin was so frightened.

Shi Hejin's reaction was not wrong, no matter who thought that when the Huaidong Army's water battalion fleet of such a scale descended from the upper reaches of Shanxi, they were full of horror and couldn't struggle.

No matter how experienced and calm the bear was, when he pointed to the Huaidong warship in the middle of the river, he couldn't help but tremble, and the sound of sorrow seemed to be squeezed out of his overwhelmed bones, and he muttered to himself in a deep voice: "How is this possible, how is this possible?" ”

yes, how is that possible?

How could the Jiyun-class battleships of the Huaidong Water Camp appear in the upper reaches of Shanxi? How could so many warships appear in the upper reaches of Shanxi?

The bow and sides of the ship were clad in new copper, and the armor of the armor, the spear heads made of fine iron, the knives and spears, the knives and knives, and the giant crossbows filled with arrow slots on the stern tower, all shimmered with metallic luster in the morning sun, and they almost pierced the eyes.

Six Jiyun-class warships are the front wings, and there are more than a dozen inland river warships such as ships and fighting boats that are good at fighting in narrow waters, guarding the front wings.

The mouth of the river where Shanxi flows into the Xinjiang River is extremely open, and at this time it is the time of spring and early summer, and the water potential is also in full swing, and the water surface of the estuary is less than three times wider than in autumn and winter, and it is afraid that there are three or four miles from the east bank to the west bank.

When the water opened up, warships rushed forward from the flanks, led by two Jiyun-class warships, and six winged clippers were formed into a team to strengthen the defense of the front two flanks of the entire fleet.

In the middle and rear sections of the entire fleet, there are more than fifty pot-bellied wing ships. This kind of ship is shaped like a warehouse ship, with a bulging belly and a wide belly, a high hull, and a multi-layer cabin in the middle, and at a rough glance, the body size is two or three times larger than the Jiyun-class Thousand Stone warship. This is exactly the warship of the Huaidong Water Battalion transporting troops on the inland river - although there are only thirty or forty stubborn soldiers standing on the deck, it must be hidden in the bed compartment that is about to bulge out is really the main force of Huaidong's surprise attack!

Looking at the Huaidong fleet, there are only about 3,000 sailors, most of whom are standing on the deck and lined up in formation, the key is how many troops are hidden in the belly of more than 50 troop transport ships in this fleet, and it is impossible to accurately judge that there will be no less than seven or eight thousand people in short.

"Oh my God!" Seeing such a huge fleet of warships of the Huaidong Army suddenly appear at the mouth of the river, the generals of the soldiers and horses after the Zhejiang and Fujian army broke off all let out a desperate cry in their hearts.

After the Zhejiang-Fujian army was broken, the soldiers and horses were stationed outside Hengshan City, and there were soldiers along the river. It's just that the generals are in a hurry, the arrow rain is messy, and there are very few arrows that can shoot the boats in the river, and there is little damage to the Huaidong fleet in the middle of the river.

The command ship where Chen Yan and Su Pinxiao were located was located in the middle of the river, far away from the west bank, and could not be shot even with a bed crossbow.

Su Pinxiao commanded the entire fleet to enter the Xinjiang waterway and continue to go downstream, their task was not to land on the shore to bite the broken soldiers and horses led by the luxury Fei Xiong, which could not satisfy the appetite of the forest, they had to further penetrate to the west, so that more Zhejiang and Fujian troops could not be intercepted in the upper reaches of the Xinjiang River and could not retreat westward, so that the main force behind could catch up and encircle and annihilate it.

The Zhejiang-Fujian army was not completely devoid of water power on the Xinjiang River, and several small warships of the Zhejiang-Fujian army hastily withdrew westward. There were two warships converted from fishing boats, desperately launching a suicidal assault on the Huaidong forward flank fleet.

Covered in a rain of arrows, the two enemy ships slammed into the flanks of the Yun-class warship in front. That was the weak point of the warship, but the Huaidong warship was covered with angle iron plates on the front wing to enhance the collision ability in water battles. Under the collision, the ridges of the two enemy ships were broken, and it was difficult to damage the Huaidong Jiyun-class warships in the slightest, and the upper deck was covered with oil canisters thrown into by the Huaidong naval soldiers, and they were covered in raging flames in the morning sun, which only caused a slight chaos in the forward wing ship formation.

Su Pinxiao calmly assigned the warships to pursue the enemy ships fleeing westward, and on the other hand, he ordered the left flank ship formation not to entangle with the Zhejiang-Fujian army on the south bank, so as not to waste arrows, and urged the fleet to continue westward.

The Zhejiang-Fujian army on the south bank has not yet begun to march out of camp, and has not dispersed when gathered. At this time, it is easy for the enemy troops on the shore to gather and counterattack. However, as they continued to pursue westward, the Zhejiang-Fujian army had less than 1,000 defenders in Shangrao City, and enemy generals such as Deng Yu and Wang Hui should also set out after dawn.

Deng Yu, Wang Hui and other enemy generals would not have thought that the Huaidong army would pursue from the waterway, in order to facilitate the march, their ranks would be extremely long, and once attacked, they would not be able to quickly gather to form a counterattack. If you take them by surprise and kill them, the effect of the surprise attack will be doubly useful.

Chen Yan couldn't bear the loneliness, and taught the guards around him: "You shout to Lao Tzu on the shore in unison: Fly the bear slowly, your Lao Tzu Chen Yan will take the first step, and meet you in Shangrao!" ”

The guards on the bow of the boat shouted together: "Flying bear go slowly, your Lao Tzu Chen Yan will take the first step, and we will meet again in Shangrao!" ”

Chen Yan laughed, and the extravagant flying bear listened to the darkness on the shore: There are less than 1,000 defenders in Shangrao City, how can they withstand the surprise attack of this Huaidong army? At this time, even if they sent someone Pegasus to report the news, it was too late, not to mention that they were separated on the south bank, Shangrao City, Deng Yu, Wang Hui and other departments were on the north bank of the Xinjiang River!