For more than ten days in a row, fierce battles were endless, and there would be more than 10,000 stone bullets and mud pellets thrown by the Huaidong army, and the oil tanks were not below this number, and the south and the city heads on both wings were almost burned black.

In the later period, the Huaidong Army moved the heavy stone-throwing crossbow forward, advanced to the back of the trench, threw stone bullets weighing more than 100 catties, and directly smashed the front of the wall. Every time a stone bullet hit the city wall, the entire section of the city shook like an earthquake, and the city surface was like a turtle shell, full of cracks that had been shaken.

In the traditional city building, the floating soil should be dug up first, the bluestone should be paved as the base, the rammed earth should be the center, and then the two sides should be wrapped in bricks and stones, and plastered with mortar. Whether the foundation of the wall is stable or not, the amount of masonry and mortar used determines the strength of the wall.

Towering Yanjing City, with a heavy stone-throwing crossbow to throw stones in the front, maybe ten days and half a month can not collapse a corner of the city wall.

It's just that the defense of the river is strengthened on the basis of the people's village, although the luxury Fei Xiong takes into account the Huaidong siege and makes good use of the stone-throwing crossbow, but the time left for him is extremely tight. From Huaidong's official decision to dig Guanxiling Road, to the main force of the Changshan Army stationed at the western foot of Guanxiling Road, it was only more than three months.

When the front of the fortress began to be bombarded by heavy stone shells one after another, and the battle lasted until the sixth day of the first month of April, the walls on the south side of the fortress and on both sides of the Jiahe defense fortress had collapsed on a large scale, and the battlements at the head of the city were almost all broken. Hundreds of garrisons and civilians did not have time to withdraw, and fell into the collapse, burying earth and rocks, and suffered heavy casualties.

Although the Huaidong Army had no intention of launching a bloody siege immediately, and the defenders at the head of the city did not need to be full all the time, the casualties accumulated under the projectiles and arrows in the past ten days were also terrifying.

Although the collapsed gap was sealed with a wooden fence wall in time, and then filled with earth and stones, and repaired temporarily, the degree of solidity was much worse than at the beginning.

At first, the generals of the Zhejiang-Fujian army still had a fluke mentality, believing that the upstream hanging lake was released and rushed in, and after absorbing the upstream river valley, the impact force would be weakened, and it might not be able to directly cause much impact on the prevention of the Jiahe River.

At this time, under the bombardment of the Huaidong Army day and night, the entire front of the Jiahe anti-fortress and the plug walls on both wings were scarred, giving people the feeling of being like an old man in the last years of the wind and candles, and he fell down with a gentle push.

Not to mention facing the impact of the flood head-on, if you soak in the water for a few days, the wall may collapse in large sections.

Several successive counterattacks put pressure on the north of the trench, and it was difficult to cross the trench, not only could not destroy the weapons deployed by the Huaidong Army behind the trench, but the counterattack also brought greater casualties to the defenders.

The Shanxi River has been completely cut off, the black and ugly riverbed has been exposed, fish, shrimp, turtles and crabs are still struggling to survive in the puddles, and more than a dozen canopy boats that have not been withdrawn in time have run aground on the riverbed, unable to move.

The news that the Huaidong Army was building a dam and building a lake in the upper reaches of the army and wanted to use large water to attack the blockade had already spread among the army. Although it did not rain much in the south of Hengshan from late March to early April, and the hanging lake built by the Huaidong Army in the south was still insufficient for a while, how could ordinary generals be able to hold the city with peace of mind?

In the past ten days, if it had not been for the fact that Yu Feixiong had not strengthened the blockade between the Jiahe Fortress and Hengshan City, and restrained military discipline with harsh laws and punishments, the number of soldiers and civilians fleeing to the rear would probably be far more than thirty or fifty.

At the same time, the Huaidong Army began to build camps on Meihua Mountain, a branch of Guanxi Ridge to Shanxi in the southeast of Jiahe Fortress, and Chenjialing in the southwest direction of Jiahe Fortress. The main forces of the front were moved from the front forts built along the river and possibly affected by the Hanging Lake to Meihua Mountain and Chenjialing respectively. The Huaidong Army's offensive against the Jiahe River defense gradually shifted from the southern city in front to the two wings that were far away from the river bank but on higher ground, and the two generals Tang Fuguan and Zhang Gou were in charge of the siege of the two wings.

The adjustment of the direction of the Huaidong Army's attack made the defenders feel more and more that the hanging lake created by the Huaidong Army in the upstream dam and interception of the river would be flooded at any time.

After determining that the heavy weapons of the defenders in the defense were almost exhausted in the fierce confrontation of the previous ten days, Tang Fuguan and Zhang Gou began to build siege roads from both flanks.

The wall is built high, and it is easy to be hit by the throwing crossbow, and it is also easy to collapse.

The Huaidong army made good use of the throwing crossbow, and the extravagant flying bear could only build the city wall of the river defense in the direction of "thick and short", and the problem at the same time was that the wall was low, as if it was attached to the ants, and the Huaidong army would save a lot of effort when it was directly connected to the siege road at the head of the city.

To build a wall road connected to the two-zhang high city wall, the amount of soil and stone consumed is several times that of the high siege wall of Zhangyu.

The defenders lacked heavy long-range combat weapons, so the Huaidong army began to advance the nest carts and building carts to the inside of the trench, approaching the wall two or three hundred steps, and suppressing the defenders at the head of the city with dense bed crossbows and kicking crossbows, covering the baggage soldiers and people to carry earth and stones to fill the road.

Under the cover of the big shield, the extravagant flying bear approached the incomplete battlement wall that looked like the teeth of an old man in his seventies and eighties, and he could see that the Huaidong army was filling in the road extremely fast, as if a hill was constantly growing towards the city. Moreover, the Huaidong Army is built together with three roads on the east wing, and the west wing is also built at the same time with two roads.

The road is a slope, the width is several zhang, built to the head of the city, not afraid of the destruction of the guards, and can even directly drive the chariots, armor and cavalry to rush to the head of the city to fight. With plenty of time and materials, it is always the best choice to build a wall to attack the city.

In order to deal with the direct attack of Huaidong soldiers and horses from the road, the defenders stepped up to build several string towers up to more than six zhang behind the city wall, so that when the Huaidong soldiers and horses attacked, the defenders could also suppress the archery according to the condescending archery of the string towers.

The battlements at the head of the city had already been disabled by the stone-throwing crossbows of the Huaidong Army, but the extravagant flying bear built many battlement wall carts in the city, and they were all pushed up to the city at this time.

The wall battlement car is made of thick wood to make the shape of the battlement wall, placed on the wheelbarrow head, pushed up the city wall, can be temporarily used as a battlement, forming a blockade of the enemy soldiers attacking the head of the city, in order to facilitate defense.

Of course, the most headache is the suppression of the city head by the Huaidong Army's dense bed crossbows and stone-throwing crossbows - after all, the battlement car cannot be compared with the battlement wall made of mortar plastering. Even brick and stone walls often collapse with a single stone bullet.

"Young marshal, it's time to make up your mind!" Deng Yu lowered his voice and said, "Please go back to Shangrao first, and I will stick to Jiahe for a few more days!" ”

Several counterattacks could not disrupt the position of the Huaidong Army, and they could not hit the front base of the Huaidong Army at all, and they would not have a way out if they were trapped in the Jiahe River and defended the blockade, and at the moment they could only exchange space for time.

As long as you can preserve your strength, you will not hesitate to give up Shangrao City, and instead use the deep hinterland from Shangrao to Ganzhou to delay the speed of the Huaidong Army's march into Jiangxi, and support until the Northern Yan Army captures Guannan and Shaanxi, the overall situation may not be without a turnaround!

After ten years of fierce war with the Eastern Fujian Army, the Zhejiang-Fujian Army was left with Jin'an in the end, and it didn't survive at the last moment?

How can you not use the last bit of capital in Fujian to fight with the Huaidong Army in Hengshan!

Haowenzhuang is in Jiangzhou, and he is also very clear about the situation in Shangrao - Shangrao is fighting like this, and it is not the fault of the war, including the drastic changes and turbulence of the situation in the hinterland of Jiangxi, all because the all-out counteroffensive organized by Huaidong a year ago was too fast.

After the Jiangning War, the Zhejiang-Fujian army lost the foundation of Mindong, and it was already a great loss of vitality, and it did not have time to recuperate in Jiangxi at all, and faced a full-scale reaction of the Huaidong organization. In the periphery of Shangrao, Jiangzhou, and Yuanzhou, Huaidong, Chizhou, Jinghu, Tanzhou, and other towns in Jiangxi have a total of nearly 300,000 troops, and the hinterland of Jiangxi is still chaotic.

The current goal of the luxury family is very clear, that is, to preserve the strength and maintain the situation until the moment when the Northern Yan soldiers and horses move south, and it is possible to welcome back the reversal of the situation. If the elite of Fujian is exhausted in Shangrao, even if the Northern Yan Iron Horse goes south in the future, there will be nothing extravagant in the overall situation of the world.

Extravagant Feixiong knew in his heart that there was no way to defend it, but the Huaidong Army was pressed so tightly that it was not easy to withdraw, but when the Huaidong Army built the siege road, it would be even more difficult to withdraw.

"No, General Deng, you go back to Shangrao, I'll stay here," Yu Feixiong said resolutely, "Shangrao can't hold on, that is, order the Shangrao army to follow the plan drawn up before, and immediately retreat to Hengfeng, Wuxi, Yujiang and other places, and order the Fuzhou soldiers and horses to retreat south, retreat to Shanguan, and keep Fujian without losing ......"

Hao Feixiong was afraid that he would go first, and the soldiers and horses that stayed behind would collapse immediately, and only if he stayed could he calm the scene, so that Deng Yu and Wang Hui would lead their troops to go first, so as to retain more combat power and not entangle the Huaidong army.

Hengshan and Shangrao have no way to defend it.

Shanxi is the most important tributary of the upper reaches of the Xinjiang River, and after the Huaidong cut off the Shanxi, the water level of the Xinjiang River also dropped sharply, making it difficult for large warships to enter. If they retreat the main force to Shangrao to hold on, they will soon be besieged by the Huaidong soldiers and horses. In Shangrao, the grain and grass they have accumulated cannot even support 40,000 or 50,000 soldiers and horses for a month.

In addition, although Shangrao is regarded as the eastern gateway of Jiangxi, from the early stage of the Dongmin War, Shangrao City was once surrounded and disabled by the Zhejiang-Fujian army, and it has not been completely consolidated for more than ten years. And Deng Yu and Luxury Feixiong have successively rectified the Shangrao defense line, the resources are limited, and they can only go outside and then inside, and the solidity of Shangrao City is even inferior to the Jiahe defense fortress and the Changshan City in the eastern section, which is not a place to be fortified.

"Young marshal!" Deng Yu choked up.

It is a matter of the survival of the seven surnames, and the life and death of individuals can be put aside, Deng Yu is afraid that the extravagant flying bear will die and fight hard with the Huaidong Army. If he wants to die in the battle in Hengshan, the blow to the soldiers and horses on the Eastern Front will be devastating, and he has no confidence to lead the remnants to use the hinterland of Shangrao to Ganzhou to delay the rhythm of the Huaidong Army occupying the entire Jiangxi-

"I know in my heart," said Fei Xiong, "Don't think that the materials accumulated here can be brought back, and if you want to withdraw quickly, you can only take people away, and you can't give Huaidong soldiers and horses a chance to rush up." The timing is right, I know what to do! The extravagance is still very tender, and staying will cause me trouble, so I asked him to go first with General Deng. ”

Deng Yu's old face was full of tears, and he didn't care about his seniority, he wanted to be better than a luxury flying bear, so he immediately bowed down and went down to the city to prepare for the evacuation with tears.