Zhao Hao took a sip of tea made with fresh water, but felt that there was a bloody smell that could not be concealed. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ｂｉｑUｇE。 info He looked out of the cabin, the battle on the island was still raging at the moment, which was as he wished, and Yashan Island had become a meat grinder that devoured life at this moment......

After Han Zhen led the army to capture the Yuan army camp, Su Liuyi immediately led the army to the island, took advantage of the large number of people to quickly clean up the battlefield and build a new camp, and built the wall under the high platform, controlled the Qiao Ji Road in his hands, and then sent volunteers to drive the boat to the island to draw water and collect wood, and break the blockade of the enemy army. Of course, the Yuan army refused to stop there, and immediately sent troops to attack from both land and water at the same time, and Zhao Yu immediately ordered the dragon fleet to rush out to intercept the enemy attacking from the waterway, and sent rocket ships to launch rockets to support the defenders on the island.

So the two armies broke out the fiercest battle since the beginning of the war, and when the battle was fierce, Zhang Shijie also sent warships to help in the battle, and the Yuan army that tried to repel the island from the waterway, and Su Liuyi's forbidden army in front of the palace also had 10,000 people on the island to reinforce. The two sides fought fiercely, and until dark, the Yuan army, which suffered more than 1,000 casualties, was never able to break through the defense line of the Song army, and had no choice but to retreat.

Zhao Yu knew that the next day would be another fierce battle, so he dismantled more than 20 medium-sized ballistas from the gunboat overnight and sent them to the island to be erected on a high platform. Lu Xiufu organized thousands of people to evacuate the wounded to the sea, and cut down wood to strengthen the wall, dig trenches, expand the scope of defense, and more than half of the army in front of the palace went to the island, so that the Song army on the island had more than 20,000 troops, unified under the command of Su Liuyi, and Han Zhen led the troops to guard the Chinese army. In order to fill the shortage of troops in Shuizhai, Liu Shiyong led his troops to Shangcheng to take on the task of defending the north gate.

As Zhao Hao estimated before the war, Zhang Hongfan knew that the loss of the support point on Yashan Island would not only allow the Song army to regain valuable fresh water, but also threaten the naval warships anchored in Yamen, so it was necessary to recapture Yashan Island in order to encircle the Song army in the inland sea and ensure the safety of the naval army. The next day, he ordered his brother Zhang Hongzheng to lead a 5,000-strong army of Ma Bu to land from the east of the island to drive the Song army back into the sea, and at the same time ordered Li Heng to lead the army to continue to attack the waterway between Shuizhai and Yashan Island, so as to cut off the communication between the two sides and isolate the Song army on the island. Zhang Hongfan, on the other hand, led the water army to attack the Song army's water village, wanting to force the Song army to withdraw its troops from the island, or was unable to reinforce it.

For a while, a big battle broke out on the island and in the sea at the same time, which made Zhao Hao feel great pressure. Therefore, he still wanted to protect the waterway outside the village and maintain the connection between the two battlefields, but Zhang Shijie made an old mistake and was worried that the Yuan army would take advantage of the situation to attack the water village, so he was not allowed to open the gate of the village, nor was he allowed to leave the village by boat. This not only led to the isolation of the Song army on the island, but also made it impossible for the rocket ships to support the defenders on the island.

The enemy general Zhang Hongzheng knew that this battle also knew that whether he could recapture Yashan Road was also related to the outcome of the battle to destroy the Song Dynasty, and it was also related to the mourning glory of their Zhang clan, so he desperately waved his army to attack and personally led the army to charge several times. The Song army relied on the fortified camp to brave the rain of stone arrows to defend stubbornly, and several times crossed the trench to attack the front of the wall, but they were all repulsed. Han Zhen, who retreated to the Chinese army, guarded the high platform, and at the moment of crisis, he used ballista to fire flower shells to destroy the enemy's stone thrower, and inflicted heavy casualties on the enemy cavalry.

In the afternoon, Zhang Hongzheng still attacked without falling despite casualties, and the ballista that could not be replenished with ammunition could only fire the stones he had picked up, which greatly reduced the power of the ballista. It took the opportunity to launch a surprise attack, the Song army could not resist for a while, and actually broke through a wall, the Song army was suddenly in chaos, and Han Zhen also had a long face at the critical time, and personally led an elite army to fight with the enemy army who invaded the village, and Su Liuyi also led the pro-army to arrive, killed several officers who left without permission to stabilize the situation, and finally repelled the enemy troops who invaded the village.

Zhang Hongfan's side is also waving the army to attack, can't help but give people a kind of illusion, it is to take the opportunity to capture the Song army water village, when the fierce Zhao Yu even thought that he was being calculated by it, is to take advantage of the opportunity of the Song army to divide the army to launch a decisive battle, so that he once again moved the Sheji to the vicinity of the walled gate, with ballista bombardment of the enemy ship at the same time, ready to use his own ship to block once there is a vacancy. However, Zhang Hongfan immediately retreated as soon as he heard the ballista, which made Zhao Yu calm down and conclude that it was a feint attack rather than a decisive battle.

At dusk, the Yuan army left the corpse in vain, Zhao Yu suggested sending troops to pursue and annihilate the enemy on the beachhead, but the 'cautious' Zhang Shijie was afraid that it was the enemy's strategy to lure the enemy, so he still refused to send troops, and he could only helplessly watch the enemy retreat safely by boat. It wasn't until dark that Zhang Shijie ordered to open the gate of the village and send ships to replenish soldiers and supplies on the island, let the people go to the island to draw water and collect wood, and renovate the damaged camp.

On the third day, Zhang Hongfan did not send troops to attack the water village, but still blocked the waterway and increased troops on land to attack the Song army on the island. The offensive of the Yuan army was better than the previous two days, although the Song army on the island resisted desperately, the battle until the afternoon, the southern wall was broken by the enemy, Su Liu Yi saw that there was no hope of recapturing, so he withdrew all the defenders in the wall to the high platform to defend it, and sent a signal for help.

At this time, Zhang Shijie realized that the stronghold on the island was in danger of being lost and the defenders would be wiped out, and finally agreed to go out of the village for reinforcements. Zhao Hao ordered the Destroyer Army to cooperate with the Huai Army to recapture the waterway, and at the same time, rocket boats approached the coast and fired rockets to cover the enemy forces gathered in front of the high platform. The overwhelming rockets once again became a nightmare for the Yuan army, forcing them to vomit out the meat they had swallowed and retreat, while the enemy naval forces responsible for blocking the waterway also withdrew from the battlefield after losing more than two dozen warships.

After two days, the enemy army launched any more attacks, without even harassing them, and seemed to have accepted their fate. Zhao Yu was very puzzled by the abrupt attack of the Yuan army, but he did not dare to relax his vigilance, and sent people to reconnoitre, and ordered people to repair the walled city to prevent the enemy from using suspicious tactics to suddenly launch a sneak attack. According to the results of the battle in the past three days, the Yuan army suffered more than 6 or 7,000 casualties and lost more than 50 warships, which may not seem like much, but it also accounted for 20% of the total strength of the Yuan army.

However, Zhao Yu had to accept the combat effectiveness of the Yuan army, admitting that they were still the king of land warfare at this stage. The Song army was on the defensive in the battle, and occupied a favorable position, and also received favorable firearms support, but the casualties still amounted to more than 10,000 people, and the city was almost breached several times, which was not the case that the Yuan army was best at cavalry combat in the vast plain. This made Zhao Hao a little worried about whether he could hold the water village in the next battle and complete the goal of annihilating the last enemy naval army on the southeast coast...... (To be continued.) )