(The second update, ask for a red ticket)

In the clear morning light, at the moment when the fresh morning sun like salted egg yolk jumped out of the woods on the south bank of the Huai River, the water camp fleet came against the current.

After the arrows rained down the beachhead defenders back to the humble chest-high ramparts, the bed crossbow and scorpion crossbow were the standard equipment of the warships above the cloud level.

From a distance, the walls shook by the giant arrows of the bed crossbows, and it was clear that the Wandering Army had built a fortification on the White Beach in such a hurry that only one of the rushing carts could open the gap in these humble chests.

Compared with the rushing car, which needs to be landed to exert its strength, the scorpion crossbow on the aft deck is not weak in the power of falling rocks three hundred paces away.

The water flow is fast, the boat is shaking, the calibration is quite difficult, and the wall is only chest-high, and the striking surface for the scorpion crossbow to throw stones is very narrow, but ten scorpion crossbows fired a salvo in succession, and fired hundreds of stone bullets weighing twenty or thirty pounds in a row, and also smashed six or seven gaps in this simple beachhead chest.

The soldiers who broke into the Baitan camp in the early morning were still resisting stubbornly at this time, and in the camp, they contained the homeless army several times their size, and relieved the pressure on the Jinghai battalion to send soldiers to land on the beach......

The 100 people who raided the Baitan camp were not all the dead soldiers who had sneaked in advance, in addition, there were more than 100 dead soldiers led by Tao Chun who were lightly dressed and armored, pretending to be ordinary homeless, hiding in an unnoticed corner, waiting to help Liu Tingzhou seize Feixiaji at a critical moment.

These people are also really dead soldiers, and their landing operations failed, and their whereabouts were exposed, and it was difficult for them to escape the search and arrest of the displaced people's army.

When Lin Tie and Liu Tingzhou met for the first time in Shukou, Liu Tingzhou's evaluation of the bandit pioneer Qu Shuai Sun Gongzi showed that Liu Tingzhou himself also liked to choose sharp soldiers to attack fortifications.

Compared with other civilian officials, Liu Tingzhou's military literacy is quite good.

It is quite a good idea to send a small number of elite dead soldiers to sneak across and launch a surprise attack before a large-scale landing, so as to disrupt the enemy's deployment and confuse the enemy's line of sight.

It's a pity that Liu Tingzhou can use too few generals, Tao Chun is a brave general who can lead the army to fight and defend himself, but he has to personally lead the dead to sneak to the north shore.

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At that time, the fleet of the Duhuai Army also arrived close to Feixiaji, but compared with the orderly reorganization of the Jinghai Battalion, the fleet of the Duhuai Army was much more chaotic.

When the soldiers of the Jinghai Battalion broke through the beachhead barrier of Baitan and advanced to the shore, determined to take the entire Baitan barracks, Ma Lantou, who was watching from the Siyang Ferry, finally concluded that Baitan was the entrance that the officers and men really wanted to break through.

Even if the officers and men crowded to Baitan and the ferry was the same size as Feixiaji, and even if the officers and men in front of Feixiaji began to rush to the beach, the officers and men on the Baitan side behaved much more aggressively.

If the defense on the Baitan side is not strengthened, a large gap will be opened in the defense of the entire coastline on the Baitan side, and the officers and men will be able to drive straight into and attack Siyang Village from the Baitan side.

Baitan, Feixiaji and Siyang ferries are located on the east and west lines of the north bank of Huaishui, and form Huaisi Jiao with a circumference of more than 100 miles with Siyang Village located on the west bank of Surabaya.

The officers and men kept cutting in from Baitan and went directly north to surround Siyang Village, and the displaced troops guarding the Feixiaji and Siyang ferry ports were actually trapped in the narrow corner area and could not get out.

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When the exile army entered the Huaisi area, although in the early stage it was quite restrained and focused on forcibly requisitioning grain from large households and powerful people, there were no effective measures to appease ordinary villagers, and it failed to stop the emergence of mass exile.

After the war, the entire Huaisi area was empty, and the whole village could not see a few families drinking tobacco rising when they were eating, and the fields were also largely barren.

After the summer, the wild grass in the field grows wildly, and no one pulls out the farming, Tao Chun cat lies among the weeds, watching a large group of soldiers and horses pull out from Siyang Village, and rush to Baitan to help.

Tao Chun quietly retreated, there was a forest in the north, they sneaked over the night before, and he took a hundred and ten people to hide in this forest, hiding for a day and a night. Although the first batch of reinforcements from Siyang Village was attracted to Baitan.

When Liu Tingzhou's offensive in Feixiaji became fierce, naturally there would be reinforcements to Feixiaji, and Tao Chun's task was to lead more than 100 dead soldiers to drag the reinforcements as long as possible between the two rivers.

Of course, in addition to more than 100 dead soldiers, Liu Tingzhou asked Tao Chun to be in Huaisi, and it was not that there were no other soldiers and horses available.

The number of the exile army is very large, and it is overwhelming in Huaibei, but there are nearly ten counties in the entire Huaisi region, including the Haozhou Prefecture controlled by the Exile Army, and the prefectures and counties on both sides of the Bianshui River, there is still a big gap for the local private army to survive.

The private soldiers raised by the local big families and the wealthy families are naturally opposed to the homeless army. Since the exiled army marched eastward into Huaisi, many stockades have been breached, and many small groups of local armed forces have been destroyed, but there are also some strong stockades that have held on, and they have been hoping that the officers and soldiers can cross north to help.

Since Liu Tingzhou defended Huai, he also sent spies to sneak to the north bank to secretly contact these private soldiers, asking them to do everything possible to hold on to the village and contain the displaced people's army. Liu Tingzhou's crossing of Huai to aid Xu naturally would not miss the contact with the private soldiers who fell into Huaisi, and they were also the biggest help after Tao Chun led the dead soldiers to sneak into the north bank.

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Lin Jian stood on the deck and saw a large group of displaced soldiers coming to Baitan to help, so he asked Ge Cunxiong to give an order to make the more than 600 soldiers who landed on the shore withdraw from the Baitan camp of the displaced people's army.

The soldiers of the brigade all calmly boarded the boat, and more than 40 dead soldiers of the beach-crossing army who raided the enemy base in the early morning survived, and they also boarded the ship for repairs, leaving only 200 soldiers to guard the beachhead, using the broken beachhead wall to build a beachhead position, and using more bows and crossbows and shield carts, the homeless troops in the Baitan area were contained here, so that they could not support Feixiaji.

The sun is getting higher, the sun is in the sky, and on the river, there is a cool breeze blowing, and I feel better, but those displaced soldiers who rushed from Siyang Village are dry and angry.

Those who are in slightly worse health, armed and armor-wearing, wearing heavy military uniforms, running for more than ten miles in small steps under the scorching sun, I am afraid that they will be able to pass out on the spot.

It's already half dead when you run over, and if you have to keep killing with weapons, it's really going to kill you.

The Jiangdong Left Army took the initiative to retreat to the beachhead, but the displaced troops who rushed to the aid breathed a sigh of relief, and they were not in a hurry to attack, thinking that it would not be too late to wait for the sun to set in the afternoon and the weather to be a little cooler, and then drive the officers and men down the Huai River.

When Ma Lanlong thought that Baitan was the focus of the breakthrough of the officers and soldiers, and transferred a large group of soldiers and horses to help, the battle in Feixiaji suddenly became fierce. Feixia Rock is a small stone mountain on the north bank of Huaishui, less than 20 zhang high, about two miles around, the high cliff of the rock head stretches into the water and is 17 or 8 zhang away, but also seems that the situation is dangerous, it is an important place to guard Huai and grab the shore.

The camp of the wandering army is built on the back of Feixia Rock, and there is a shore beach to climb, but it is also steep.

Liu Tingzhou wants to fight for a foothold on the north bank, and there is no more suitable place than Feixiaji for hundreds of miles around, but it is more difficult to land and attack than to attack Baitan, after all, the more than 1,000 wandering troops here can be regarded as defending the danger.

More than a dozen ships braved the rockfall arrows of the high cliff of the rock, blocked it with a high shield, forcibly landed on the shore, and attacked the rockhead.

Liu Tingzhou made the boat in front, sweating like pulp, or the energetic drums to encourage the soldiers to rush to the shore and kill.

Liu Tingzhou's boat was too far ahead, and the wandering army also had a simple catapult on the high cliff of Jitou, and they also saw that Liu Tingzhou was the main general, and the falling rocks kept falling on the left and right, splashing pieces of water.

Both left and right persuaded Liu Tingzhou to stand back, but Liu Tingzhou just didn't follow. With his physique, he personally beat the drum to command the battle from the beginning of the crossing, and his physical strength was exhausted, but nearly two hours passed, and he rested for a while when he crossed the Huai, and the time was holding his breath and standing still.

The first to send was the Shanyang County soldiers.

When Liu Tingzhou was appointed as the general judge of Huai'an, he had long guided the city defense and military preparation in Shanyang County, and when Chen Hansan rebelled, he directly served as the guard general of Shanyang County. Liu Tingzhou's prestige in the Shanyang County soldiers is very high, he is not afraid of arrows and falling stones to supervise the battle, the morale of the soldiers in Shanyang County is also high, falling stones and arrows hit, the slightest unwillingness to die of blurred flesh and blood, still brave the arrows and fierce attack.

Liu Tingzhou also likes to use sharp and fierce generals, in Huai'an, he promoted many generals from poor backgrounds, and Xiao Kuian, who had served as the captain of the right battalion in Huai'an, was the representative.

When the battle was in full swing, seeing that the defenders of the cliff head had consumed a lot of physical strength, and the reinforcements of Siyang Village were also drawn to this side, and he was not sure how long Tao Chun could delay, Xiao Kui'an put on the armor, armor, and heart goggles, picked up the shield, and the straight spine knife that was three points longer than usual, and saluted Liu Tingzhou: "Kui'an went ashore!" ”

Liu Tingzhou was also so tired that his throat was sweet, and there was blood oozing out of his mouth, so he drank a cup of warm tea and said proudly: "You listen to me beat the war drums for you!" ”

Xiao Kuian got off the boat and went to the shallows, wading through the shallow water, and walked to the narrow advance position, where more than 100 dead soldiers were gathered, and he wanted to take these people to occupy the high cliff of Jitou in one fell swoop, otherwise no matter how many soldiers and horses from Shanyang County behind him were, they would not be able to show it.

Ma Fu was also on the boat, staring at the beachhead quite nervously, very conflicted.

Capture Feixiaji, so as to take the most critical step to cross Huai to aid Xu, solve the danger of Xuzhou, and the Ma family can also rely on the power of the Chu Wangfu to get back from the swineherd Lin Bin; But if you can't beat Feixiaji, you don't have to worry that the soldiers of Shanyang County will be consumed on the way north.

Ma Fu was stunned and thought, Xiao Kuian had already led the dead soldiers to attack the cliff, and the knife he used was longer, thicker, heavier, and much sharper than ordinary straight ridge knives.

Huaisi produces coal and iron, not only Xuzhou is famous for iron smelting, Huai'an out of the knife is also famous in the world, Xiao Kuian's knife is a gift from Liu Tingzhou, weighing 30 catties, no strong people, one hand really can't swing a few times.

This heavy weapon, Xiao Kuian held it in his hand, but he was like a fish in water, with the cooperation of the sword and shield, more than 100 dead soldiers, he took the lead, and he fought a bloody way from the steep slope between the shore beach and the high cliff, and rushed to the rock......

Although there is a wall on the back of Feixia Rock Stone, and after the wall is the camp of the Wandering Army, Xiao Kuian occupies the high cliff and leads the elite soldiers to hold a step, and Liu Tingzhou can command the ferry to stick directly to the bottom of the high cliff and send people up with rope ladders.

When a rushing car was hoisted up the high cliff, there were already more than 400 elite soldiers forming a fish-scale array at the rock, which was only dozens of feet deep.

The fish scale array is the general is located in the middle of the formation, the main forces are assembled in the center, divided into a number of small phalanxes in the shape of fish scales, layer by layer according to the echelon configuration, the front end is protruding, is a very sharp offensive formation.

Although the speed of the fish scale array is slightly slower, it is more conducive to assault than the cone formation, and it has the disadvantage of extremely weak defense behind it, but at this time, these more than 400 elite soldiers are dependent on Huaishui, and if they can't break through in front, they have to be driven down Huaishui, and they don't have to worry about the problem of abdomen and back.

Xiao Kuian took a short rest, planning to break through the fortress wall in front of him and open a gap in the camp of the Wandering Army. Once the wall in front of them becomes their fortification against the camp, they will be able to pick up more people immediately, and even if the bandit reinforcements arrive, they will not have to worry about being driven into the water.

At this time, there was movement on the rope ladder behind him, Xiao Kuian also wanted to tell the water that at this time, the head of the rock was too crowded to swing too many troops, and he could send more strong crossbows up, but when he looked back, he saw Liu Tingzhou climbing up from behind the rope ladder, with tears in his eyes......

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Knowing that the reinforcements had attacked the high cliff of Feixiaji, Lin Jian asked Ge Cunxiong to withdraw his troops from Baitan.

There are only 200 soldiers on the beachhead, and there are bed crossbows and scorpion crossbows on the ship to help suppress the entangled wandering army, and it is very easy for these 200 soldiers to withdraw.

Only some of the warships were left on guard in the upper reaches of the Huaishui, and Lin Jian and Ge Cunxiong led the main force of the Jinghai Third Water Battalion to join Liu Tingzhou.

Seeing Liu Tingzhou climb the high cliff from the boat from a distance, Lin Jian sighed and shook his head.

Although Liu Tingzhou was increasingly wary of him and had been against him everywhere during this time, Lin Jian had to admit that in the world, Liu Tingzhou's style was really incomparable to those mediocre officials.

Although there are three or four hundred elite soldiers on the high cliff, the place is very narrow, once it can't stop the counterattack of the exile army, it is extremely difficult for Liu Tingzhou to save his life - if the soldiers of Shanyang County can be led by Liu Tingzhou, they can also be regarded as a strong army.

Lin Jian didn't wait for the results of the first battle of Feixiaji, so he went east by boat and rushed to Shukou.

Liu Tingzhou is really desperate.

If Feixiaji can't be conquered in one fell swoop, Liu Tingzhou, who kissed the cliff, will most likely be defeated and killed.

The remnants of the Duhuai army were naturally coerced by Teng Xingyuan, Ma Rucong, Ma Fu and others to return to Shanyang. Du Huai's aid to Xu became a bubble, no one would mention it, and Lin Jian would not go deep alone, pressing Chongzhou's net worth to save Yue Lengqiu, the great enemy.

If the Duhuai army could gain a foothold in Siyang, Lin Jian thought that he should also make some moves to Chen Hansan's camp in Narrow Bridge, and he couldn't let Liu Tingzhou be in the limelight, and the Jiangdong Left Army did nothing.