Chapter 42: After the Break
At night, the rain ceases completely, and the dark clouds disperse, revealing a leaden blue night and a bright moon as round as a jade plate.
Taking advantage of the good moonlight, Deng Yu and Wang Hui of the Zhejiang-Fujian army withdrew from the Jiahe defense, and at the same time, the Zhejiang-Fujian Shi and Jin troops withdrew from Hengshan City in the north.
The broken cedar stream is illuminated by the moonlight, revealing the ugly riverbed. It has been nearly 20 days since the flow stopped, but it has rained a few times intermittently, and the riverbed is still full of mud and pits, making it impossible for people to set foot in it.
Thousands of generals went north along the East Bank Avenue, and the eldest prince's parting speech made many generals feel enthusiastic. Although some people can realize that the extravagant flying bear's remarks are suspected of "bullying each other", they can withdraw from the Jiahe River first, and they must always complain less.
In the eastern woods, there is a constant sound of "chirping", as if a flock of birds is closely watching the night marching military camp below the hillside. Seeing the Zhejiang-Fujian army in charge of marching and spying on the sentry dragnet-like walking, the three Huaidong Army scouts lurking in the mountains and forests quietly moved to the depths of the mountains and forests, and the three exchanged glances with each other in a forest gap: It was indeed the generals of the Zhejiang-Fujian army who withdrew to the north, not the people.
The two scouts continued to keep an eye on the camp retreating north at the bottom of the hillside, and one went to the deep mountains and dense forests to the south, and went around to the camp in front of Guanxi Ridge to report the news......
As soon as Deng Yu and Wang Hui's troops left, the garrison of Jiahe would be reduced by half.
The bright color is good, and he can see the lookout post set up by the Huaidong Army on the top of Meihua Mountain, and he thinks to himself: Since he can see that side, most of them can also see the withdrawal of Deng Yu and Wang Hui's troops from Beisaimen, such as the stormy offensive should be coming, right?
Although the Huaidong Army will soon press up the 30,000 elite troops in front of the defense blockade, although there are only more than 12,000 soldiers and horses left behind, the predicament facing them in front of them makes the blood of the Flying Bear boil that is about to burn.
Yu Feixiong held the saber on his waist, stood under the battle tent, looked around at the generals who followed him left and right, and asked: "How many catties and taels do you still have to fight for, do you have the courage to call the Huaidong Army die with me without a place to bury?" ”
"The Huaidong Army will die without a place to be buried!" The generals agreed with a bang.
Under the moonlight, these generals standing under the tent of war were young, old, weathered, or slightly immature, but there was no fear on their faces at this time.
During the ten-year war in Eastern Fujian, they followed the side of the eldest prince, no matter how difficult the situation was, they never gave in, they believed that the eldest prince could still lead everyone out of the predicament, and the eyes were just another twist and turn for the children of Fujian - for the sake of Fujian, what is there to fear of death!
Extravagant Fei Xiong was very satisfied, pulled out the blade on his waist, pointed obliquely at the full moon, the blade flashed in the moonlight, and shouted in a gloomy tone: "For the survival of Fujian, why be afraid of death!" ”
"For the survival of Fujian, why be afraid of death!" The generals corresponded, and the guards at the head of the city also echoed, and in the night, which was a little too quiet compared to before, these shouts were spreading, as if the waves were terrifying, and they were spreading in the defense of the fortress!
After the siege of the city was built, in order to prevent the Zhejiang-Fujian army from destroying it at night, the Huaidong army camped at the other end of the road, used shield carts, filled with bed crossbow weapons, and stationed the elite, suppressed the defenders of the city near the road, so that they did not dare to approach the road, and could not free up their hands to destroy the road that had been connected to the city.
The reaction of the defenders at the head of the fortress was the first to alarm the Huaidong soldiers who were always alarmed at the other end of the road, and soon several campfires were lit on the distant hills, and there were herald cavalry with torches galloping in the river valley to the south, and their figures loomed in the firelight - the sound of the golden horn ordering the troops soon resounded on the battlefield.
It was absolutely impossible for the Huaidong Army to delay the timing of the battle until after dawn, and it was almost the moment when the quietest, darkest, and round moon like a jade disk before dawn was also covered by dark clouds.
The generals of the Huaidong army came to the city to fight hand-to-hand, but it would limit the use of weapons - watching the Huaidong advance men and horses attack from the road, the luxury flying bear took a shield from the left hand of the soldier, held the knife in hand, and strode over
The battlement wall separating the head of the city from the wall is temporarily spliced together with the battlement wall car, which is about the height of the chest. The original battlement walls were almost interrupted and disabled by Huaidong's stone-throwing crossbows.
Looking at the Huaidong generals who came up to raise long weapons such as Mo knives and bayonet guns, and behind the crowd, there were Huaidong soldiers holding oil cans in their hands, and they were about to use flint to ignite them - of course, they couldn't set Huaidong soldiers on fire and throw the oil cans into chaos, and the extravagant bear kicked out the current wall car, and directly squeezed in front of the road to kill more than a dozen Huaidong soldiers.
Luxury Fei Bear has divine power, the buttress wall car is made of thick wood to act as a battlement wall, the pressure hand is extremely heavy, a car has more than 300 catties, called the luxury Fei Bear kicked out sideways, more shocking than the stone rolling wood, seven or eight Huaidong generals in front of the road suddenly knocked down seven feet and eight crooked, and two people rolled down from both sides of the road.
Extravagant Fei Xiong shouted: "Huai Dong'er is not a tiger wolf, what is there to fear?" At that moment, he rushed out of the city, stepped on the road, and slashed out with a horizontal knife, splitting the helmet face of the current Huai Dong pawn, and blood spattered.
Huaidong generals all wear iron helmets, and the luxury flying bear force is good, and the iron helmet can be split and the human face can be split, but the blade will be destroyed, and the next step will be the next phase, and the knife will inevitably break. Extravagant Fei Xiong was fearless and shouted, "Bring the knife!" He didn't stop in his hand, a knife slashed away, killing on the shoulder armor of a Huaidong pawn, the knife broke in response, but the Huaidong pawn seemed to be broken by the shoulder bone, howling and rolling down, at this time there was a servant next to him for a knife.
Extravagant Flying Bear has been fighting for nearly ten years, and there is no chance to take the lead, so that others forget that Extravagant Flying Bear is the first brave general in Eastern Fujian - this knife is split, and the blood is splashed, so that the elite servants who rushed down the road with him are also enthusiastic, and they no longer force the Luxury Flying Bear to return to the city, but scream and scream to go down with the fight from the pier, all of which arouse the blood courage of the usual twelve points.
On the road, Huaidong lacked brave generals who could fight with the extravagant bear, and the sudden attack of the extravagant bear caught the generals of the Huaidong annexed city off guard. How could the first team of Huaidong soldiers to climb the road be able to resist the wolf-like pounce of the soldiers led by the extravagant flying bear? One after another, the two teams of armor soldiers killed the extravagant bear so much that they lost their armor, and even the dozens of cans of fire oil they were carrying were not ignited, and they rolled down the tunnel, broken or broken.
Extravagant Fei Xiong shouted eleven times in a row, "Bring the knife", and also destroyed eleven narrow-ridged war knives one after another, and his people had already hit the bottom of the road, and the trench was in front of him. The Huaidong army was not in a hurry to come over to besiege, but surrounded the bottom of the road from both wings, held the position, and fired at each other with bows and crossbows.
The bears were each hit with one arrow on their shoulders and backs, and more arrows were shot off the scales, and even the two arrows that hit them were not considered heavy damage. Seeing that the position of the Huaidong Army was still as stable as gold, he could not defeat the entire position of the Huaidong Army by defeating a group of Huaidong soldiers, so he could only fight and retreat.
Extravagant Fei Xiong killed more than a dozen Huaidong pawns in a row, captured the entire siege road and retreated safely, and also asked the archers to shoot rockets to ignite the broken oil canisters in the corners of the pier, so that more than a dozen Huaidong pawns were on fire, and they rolled to the ground in embarrassment to extinguish the fire. The fighting spirit of the defenders at the head of the city also quickly recovered, and they even decisively shot the panicked Huaidong soldiers under the city.
In the world, in the brutal bloody battle, the morale of the brave generals is immediate, not to mention that the identity of the extravagant flying bear is by no means ordinary, in their minds, the eldest prince has not tasted defeat!
Before the early morning to fight for the head of the city, after dawn, Huaidong will throw stone crossbows and other weapons also launched, even if the oil tank in the past 20 days or so a large amount of consumption, the intensity of projection is not as good as the beginning, but also make it difficult for the defenders to gain a foothold in the city.
After dawn, the luxury flying bear led the rear soldiers and horses, withdrew from the city, and used the prior deployment to lure the Huaidong soldiers and horses into the fortress, and used their familiar terrain to retreat and counterattack with the Huaidong army in the fortress.
The west gate and the south gate have long been blocked by people with bricks and stones for the luxury flying bear, and they can be opened up in a short time, and they can go up to the city by borrowing the road, but the road to the city is destroyed or damaged, and the weapons cannot be transported into the city.
The soldiers and horses scattered into the fortress, the casualties were extremely heavy, Ao Canghai ordered the stone-throwing crossbow to be transferred, erected against the outer city wall, and fired stone bullets into the city, so as to limit the counterattack of the soldiers and horses of the Zhejiang and Fujian army on the Huaidong army after the break.
The battle lasted until dusk, and the defenders of the Jiahe Fortress were concentrated and withdrawn to the north and outside of the city and the west flank. Although he paid a lot of casualties, he successfully blocked the Huaidong soldiers and horses outside the northern city, which also made the Huaidong soldiers and horses unable to bypass the outer city from the two wings and penetrate behind the fortress.
"Let's light the fire!" Extravagant Fei Xiong looked at the river to prevent congestion
There was a horizontal alley in front of Beicheng, and the extravagant flying bear asked people to pile firewood and grass in every yard and pour fire oil; At this time, a large number of materials that could not be taken away in a hurry by Jiahe Anti-Saili were also concentrated here and burned.
At this time, an order was given, and his own generals set fire along the alley, and soon thick smoke rose up, and the flames in the smoke were like poisonous tongues spit out by demons forming a fire belt in the middle of the Xisai River.
The fire was burning, and Xu Feixiong decisively led his troops to withdraw from the city, and also called the soldiers and horses on the west flank to retreat alternately, sealing the flank passage outside the west city, so as not to give the Huaidong army a chance to catch up.
Extravagant Fei Xiong took the lead three times today, fighting fiercely in front of the battle with knives and guns. Although the success of inspiring the courage of the generals to fight to the death and strengthening the will of the generals to fight, they were also wounded a lot.
When the final withdrawal, many generals jumped out to stay behind the surveillance, and the luxury flying bear led the main force to run in front with all his strength, in the moonlight, ran out of more than ten miles, and the remaining three or five hundred defenders of Hengshan City were also far away.
Shanxi is cut off, but there are still warships of the Zhejiang-Fujian Navy in the Xinjiang River, as long as they run to the north of Hengshan City and the bank of the Xinjiang River, at that time, the water and land depend on each other, it will be easier to get rid of the entanglement of the Huaidong pursuers!
"Young marshal," the sentry galloping horse, who stayed behind to monitor the movements of the Huaidong army, caught up with the report, "After the young marshal left, the Huaidong army not only sent people to extinguish the fire in Saizhong, but the Huaidong army in the city was rapidly retreating; There was a passage on the west flank, but the Huaidong army had no intention of pursuing, but shrank to its highland camps......"
"What!" Extravagant Fei Xiong fought extremely happily and happily today, leaving more than 1,000 casualties to the Huaidong Army. However, he would not believe that the Huaidong Army would give up pursuing them just because of today's more than 1,000 casualties.
If the Huaidong Army does not chase, there must be something strange, and the extravagant flying bear is worried, and he doesn't know what he has missed in the past!
At this time, there seemed to be a hidden mine rolling in the distance. It sounds weird, but you can't see far under the moon at night! I heard several horses rushing from the south, and before they came closer, they shouted loudly: "Huaidong'er lagoon releases water, and the army avoids the water!" ”
Yu Feixiong's face was shocked, he couldn't imagine that the Huaidong Army would release water into the lagoon after they retreated from the west - what good would this do for the Huaidong Army? Of course, after the Huaidong army counted on the flood to resist its front camp and the defense of the river, could it still roll down the more than 10,000 soldiers and horses that broke off with him?
The generals hurried their troops to the western end of the hill, so as not to be swept away by the great water that would chase them at any moment. Although the battalion was scattered, there were no chasing soldiers coming behind, and Luxury Feixiong was not too worried about anything, of course, he also sent troops to various departments to urge men and horses to temporarily camp on the high ground, and guard their positions, so as not to hide a small number of sharp soldiers in the forest of the Huaidong Army to sneak attack-
What does the Huaidong Army or the East China Sea Fox want to do? Extravagant Bear is still puzzled.
Although the flood is likely to destroy the road along the river, making it more difficult for them to retreat to the south bank of the Xinjiang River, it is also more likely that the road that the Huaidong army catches up from behind will not be in the water, so why should Lin Tie block the road they are pursuing?