Chapter 23: The Rock of the Sun
At sunset, Lin Jian sat on the stone, and didn't care about the knife, so he directly put the tip of the knife on the ground, and didn't look at the pirates who were forming a formation closer away, and looked at the lake in the distance.
Under the sunset, Jiyang Lake changes charming colors, cyan weeping willows and other miscellaneous trees such as elm poplars, log-colored ships swaying in the golden waves, farther water reflects the crimson sunset, faintly shrouded in a layer of mist, and the tasseled rice fields are also glowing with light golden colors.
The green armor worn by Lin Lian could no longer see the original cyan, and was covered with dull blood. The knife is a good knife, and the spine is not deformed at all, but the blade is stretched many times. Taking advantage of the fierce battle, Lin Tie took out a boning knife from his waist and cut off the dark red fine hemp rope wrapped around the long handle of the Mo knife and soaked in blood three times and twice, and there was no extra fine hemp rope at hand, so he carefully tore the hem of the cut cloth shirt under the armor and wrapped it around the long cloth strips.
"It must be tangled, otherwise the handle of the knife will be soaked in blood," Lin Jian wrapped strips of cloth while interfering with the soldiers sitting on the ground beside him, "I remember that you said that you have a partner and haven't married yet, right?" Kill a few pirates, save enough money to go back to your hometown to marry a daughter-in-law? ”
"Kill three, and kill two more......" The young man with a childish face next to him shyly answered Lin Bin's question, and spoke nervously in front of Lin Bin, it took a lot of effort to say two sentences, and his heart was also extremely excited, and others were eager to come close and listen to what they had to say.
"It's good to kill three," Lin Jian said with a smile, "I'm afraid I won't be able to go over to drink when you get married, I'll give you two heads as a gift, and I've killed a lot," instructed the scribe next to him who recorded military merits, and said, "You cross out two of the heads under my name and add ...... to him."
Since the young man was nervous and excited, he didn't know what to say, and the person sitting next to him in the mud with a weapon enviously beat his shoulders and said, "Dog/Mother, let you pick up the adult's cheapness, why don't you kowtow to the adult?" ”
"What prostration? When the pirates are repulsed, I will give you a big salute, and the Jiyang fathers should give you a big salute......" Lin Jian stopped the kneeling young man and prevented him from kowtowing.
At the beginning, the Donghai Kou wanted to eliminate the defenders who moved outside the city led by Lin Tie, and after the intention was frustrated, the two sides grabbed the key points of the West Stone Bridge. In order to win the strategic initiative, Lin Jian was bound to not let the key points of entering the North Gate area be in the hands of Donghai Kou, and in the past four days, countless battles have been held over the West Stone Bridge. Gain and loss, loss and gain, four days of bloody fighting, less than one-third of the guards and guards around Lin Tie, the casualties of the cavalry are even more heavy, the corpses of the dead and the seriously injured are pulled back to the city with hanging baskets, Yang Pu, who is exhausted from fighting with several arrows, also let Lin Tie forcibly tie the hanging basket and pull back to the city to heal his injuries, Ao Canghai led more than ten elite soldiers still stick to Lin Tie's side, no one is not wrapped in wounds, no color, and there are less than 100 cavalry remaining outside the city to fight, and most of the horses are also damaged, But Lin Jian was surrounded by more Jiyang defenders who volunteered to go out of the city to fight, as well as Minyong recruited in the city.
In the course of three days, Lin Jian not only prevented the Donghai Kou, which was several times his size, from organizing a direct attack on Jiyang County, but also prevented the Donghai Kou from establishing a solid defense at the strategic point of Xishiqiao.
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Extravagant Fei Xiong's face was pale, his expression was so gloomy that he could squeeze out the water, the scabbard was clenched to him and almost cracked, and his eagle-like sharp but bloodshot eyes stared viciously at the area between the West Stone Bridge and the moat bridge at the north gate of Jiyang City.
The first battle of Jiyang was lost, and more than 300 elites were lost, and Luxury Fei Xiong could still explain that the bold deployment of the Jiyang defenders was far beyond expectations, but the next bitter battle made him appreciate what the will of the rock was, that is, to fight with the elite of Chen Zhihu's division to which Li Zhuo belonged, and Luxury Fei Xiong did not feel that the bones were so difficult to gnaw.
The defenders who were guarding the area outside Jiyang City were sitting or lying down at this time, except for the guards, few of them still had the strength to stand there with their weapons behind the simple rejection horses and wooden fences that seemed to fall down with a push, and the blood on the ground was like a coagulated pain. However, his side attacked, and the defenders, who were so tired that they almost seemed to fall at any moment, were in high spirits like ghosts when they came up.
More than 300 paces away, Fei Fei Xiong could see a young man sitting knee-high in the middle of the defenders. He is Lin Bin, the Lin Tie that Qin Zitan has said countless times in his ear, maybe it should really be as Qin Zitan said, Xisha Island should be the priority target. There is a flagpole more than three zhang high next to the lake stone, and the flagpole is also tied together with a rope after being cut in two. Make Lin" and other five words completely visible to people.
Extravagant Fei Xiong looked around, and the distance of three hundred steps could make him clearly see that the armor on Lin Lian's body had changed from the original cyan to black, and under the light of the setting sun, it refracted a purple-red halo, so how much blood should have been soaked in Donghai Kou and himself?
That lake stone seems to be the Dinghai Divine Stone of the defenders outside Jiyang City, when the offensive on his side presses the defenders close to the lake stone, Lin Jian will personally pick up the knife and fight, any Ling will immediately collapse when he pounces there, as if the rock will hit the waves that rush over to pieces.
At the beginning, the luxury flying bear issued a reward of one hundred taels of silver for the first rank of one hundred taels of silver for the killing of Lin Tie and other defending generals outside Jiyang City, and there were countless Donghai Kou who were scrambling around him, and at this time, the bounty for killing Lin Tie on a single battlefield had been opened to one thousand taels of silver, and there were few people in the thirteen families of Donghai Kou who were still eager to try.
In the first battle on the north shore of Taihu Lake, after defeating the main force of the Ninghai Town Water Division, the thirteen Donghai Kou who led the attack on Jiyang led by Luxury Fei Xiong still had a complete combat strength of more than 3,000 people, and the defenders of Jiyang City were far less than more than 1,000 people even if they added Gu Wuchen's escort team.
Whether it is capturing Jiyang City, capturing or killing Gu Wuchen, Chen Xiyan and other bigwigs, or besieging Jiyang City and breaking the reinforcements that rushed in Pingjiang Mansion individually, the situation in Jiangdong County can be completely destroyed.
In such a situation, it can be said that the extravagant flying bear launched the Jiyang War can be said to have an advantage, who would have thought that the Jiyang defenders who moved outside the city led by Lin Tie would be so difficult to bite? He couldn't even block the West Stone Bridge where the defenders' cavalry entered and exited, and he couldn't divide his troops to wash and plunder the Jiyang countryside, let alone divide his troops to meet the reinforcements coming from elsewhere.
The thirteen East China Sea Kou of the Hui Alliance took turns to fight, perhaps saying that the other East Sea Kou still had the intention of preserving their strength and refused to fight to the death, but half of the people in the three East China Sea Kou directly controlled by the Hao family were all veterans brought by the Luxury Flying Bear directly from Jin'an, and the fierce offensive they exerted was all collapsed, and the casualties were extremely heavy, even the red-eyed Luxury Flying Bear was heartbroken.
He saw with his own eyes that the waves of offensives he had organized had also dealt heavy blows and casualties to the Jiyang defenders who had moved outside the city under Lin Lianqin's leadership, but what surprised him the most was that the soldiers and civilians of Pingjiang Prefecture, who had been as weak as sheep in the past two months and had been wantonly ruined and plundered by the Donghai Bandits, had inspired the defenders outside the city to fight to the death.
In the past four days, no matter how fierce and difficult the battle was, there were constantly defenders or civilians in the city who came out of the city to replenish Lin Tie's banner and join the ranks of the defenders outside the city, so that the number of soldiers under Lin Tie's command who could rise up and fight and forget life and death was never less than 300.
"Harrier, it's time to retreat," Extravagant Feixiong's cronies called him "Harrier Lord" in front of outsiders, he is the majestic East China Sea Harrier Yuan Tingdong in the East China Sea, "The remnants of the Ninghai Town Water Division are regrouped in the Waijiang River, and they will enter the Donglai River at any time; There are also forty-five boats in the Jiangning Water Camp close to the border of Baisha County, and it only takes half a day to reach the mouth of the Donglai River, and the garrison of Pingjiang Prefecture and the nearby Xiangyong are even more large-scale gathering......
Although Extravagant Fei Xiong said that he was killed, his reason was still there, but he was unwilling!
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"Master Gu, Chen Shangshu, Meng Zhixian, the pirates are going to retreat......" Yao Gu, the lieutenant of Jiyang County, rushed into the city gate building, tripped over the threshold, almost fell, and the knife in his hand fell out, almost hitting Chen Xiyan's feet, he didn't care about startling Chen Xiyan, and said in surprise and hesitation, "The pirates seem to be retreating." ”
Gu Wuchen, Chen Xiyan, and Meng Xinshi were all busy going out, leaning on the female wall of the city and looking over, although there were still a large number of Haikou gathered on the position outside the river beach, but the Haikou ships were no longer moored along the river, and there were ships sailing to the mouth of the lake where Jiyang Lake and the Donglai River meet, even the Donghai Kou, who was still assembled outside the river disaster, began to set up more obstacles to prevent the defenders from retreating from the river beach and boarding the boat.
At this time, the guards of the other three gates also sent people to report that the Donghai Kou who blocked the other three gates began to retreat, and the Donghai Kou was about to retreat.
The county lieutenant asked, "Do you want to go out of the city and pursue?" ”
"You can't cheap them, Lord Gu, you can order Lord Lin to lead the defenders outside the city to entangle the Donghai Kou so that they can't board the ship smoothly," Meng Xinshi of Jiyang Zhi County said, "Reinforcements from other counties in Pingjiang Prefecture have already gathered, and it will take half a day to rush over to help......"
"Meng Zhixian, do you see how many people in the defenders under the city still have the strength to stand up and pursue the enemy?" Yang Pu has never taken the initiative to interfere with Gu Wuchen's decision, but he unceremoniously questioned Meng Xinshi before Gu Wuchen's statement at this time, regardless of whether the enemy is ready to fight back when retreating, the defenders led by Lin Tie who moved outside the city have suffered a lot of casualties, and Lin Tie's injuries are also extremely serious, whether they can stand up is still a question, and they want them to forcibly drag the Donghai Kou and wait for reinforcements to come to exterminate these Donghai Kou, it may not be too cruel, and it is too greedy.
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