Chapter 228: The Battle of Crossing the River

That night, a heavy fog suddenly began on the river, but it did not affect the crossing of the river, on the contrary, it provided cover for the crossing. The ten warships had been quietly docked on the shore at this time, because in addition to Feng Yi County and Jingzhao County bordering Hedong County, although the sailors needed to pass through Jingzhao County when they came to the Yellow River outside Hedong City, but Jingzhao County still had a difficult place, and Yang Jian didn't want to touch it for the time being, so the place to cross the river could only be placed in Feng Yi County.

"This time we will cross the river and we will probably be surrounded by heavy enemy troops, and we will have no backup, but we must hold out for two hours! In ancient times, there were more than 20,000 people of the overlord of Western Chu who broke the cauldron and destroyed the hundreds of thousands of troops of Qin, and there was even the Marquis of Huaiyin who fought against the water, and now we are going to fight against the water, will you be afraid? ! Cheng Yanjin looked at the 50,000 soldiers in front of him who were about to go to the battlefield of nine deaths by the faint light of the fire, and asked in a somewhat heavy tone!

"Don't be afraid, don't be afraid!" Although the voice was not loud, everyone shouted firmly.

"Okay, get on board!" Cheng Biting Jin waved his hand, and a group of soldiers walked towards the boat, at this moment, they still didn't know how much danger was waiting for them ahead, even Cheng Biting Jin didn't know, but he had prepared for the worst!

Ten ships sailed away from the east of the river and headed towards Feng Yijun, slowly disappearing into the night, although this section of the Yellow River is relatively wide, but it is estimated that it will not take long to cross to the opposite bank.

"Lord Wang, the enemy warship has been discovered!" At this moment, several lights were flashing in a military camp somewhere in Fengyi County, and the main account of the Chinese army was brightly lit.

"Where? How many people are there? "In addition to Li Jiancheng, who is known as the prince, there is also Li Xiaogong, the king of Hejian Yuan, Li Jiancheng will not be the commander of the front line, so only Li Xiaogong can sit here as a prince.

"The enemy is preparing to land on the river section near Chaoyi, there are probably more than a dozen ships, because of the fog, I can't see it clearly, and it is estimated that the number of enemy troops is about tens of thousands!"

"Chaoyi?" Li Xiaogong immediately looked at the simple military map, the section of the Chaoyi River is gentle, and the tidal flats extend to Hanoi, which is conducive to landing, but this is also one of the places where Li Xiaogong is heavily armed.

"Order the troops, wait for the enemy to disembark and seize the beach before launching an attack, I will let them have no return! Order the reserve troops to be ready at all times! Order the troops upstream and downstream to continue to be vigilant! After all, it was concluded from the news that the enemy only had tens of thousands of people crossing the river, but their intelligence was that the enemy had hundreds of thousands of troops on the other side of the river, and there were only tens of thousands of people here, so at least the enemy army still had tens of thousands of horses and horses did not know where to move, and Li Xiaogong had to prevent the enemy from crossing the river from elsewhere.

"Prepare to go ashore, and immediately occupy the tidal flats and fortify them! Order the shieldmen to be the first team, the pikemen to be the second, and the archers to be the third! Cheng Yanjin looked at the river bank that was getting closer and closer, and immediately ordered the people of the navy division to contact the soldiers on each ship and issue combat orders, and the flag language began to be used in the army after the Qin and Han dynasties, and of course, it was the preferred method of giving orders to the navy at this time.

The closer to the shore, the shallower the water, and the Qingzhou battleship is huge, so there is still a distance from the shore The warship can not get close, and the soldiers can only wade to the shore, but fortunately, this section of the river bank extends to the river, so the water is not deep and not urgent, which does not cause much obstacle to the soldiers in the north who are not very familiar with the nature of the water.

"Immediately take the river beach, and the shieldbearer will defend it!" Cheng Yanjin followed the shield soldiers to get off the boat, and he had to personally step forward to command. At this moment, countless torches suddenly lit up on the river bank, illuminating the nearby river surface transparently, and with the sound of breaking the air, the rain of arrows fell one after another, of course, this did not cause much damage to the soldiers who landed on the shore, after all, this team was full of shield soldiers, and the damage of arrows was very limited. However, even this caused some obstacles to the landing, and the speed was significantly slower.

"Bed crossbows and trebuchets will fire me back!" Cheng Yanjin yelled at the battleship behind him, the bed crossbow and catapult are the necessary weapons of the sailor, and they are just used to fight the defenders on the shore at this time.

With the power of catapults and bed crossbows, the rain of arrows of the defenders on the shore was obviously much thinner, and there were many screaming sounds! Cheng Yanjin seized the opportunity to command the troops to quickly advance to the shore, and when Cheng Yanjin led the people to board the beach, the enemy also rushed from the shore to the beach for hand-to-hand combat, and at this time the bed crossbow and catapult on the ship also lost their effect, otherwise one would accidentally hit his own people.

"Kill!" Cheng Yanjin brandished a long lance with the troops in front of the charge, and the troops behind continued to get down from the boat, because the first wave of Cheng Yanjin's troops landed on the shore were all shield soldiers, and each was heroic, so they soon gained the upper hand, the enemy was beaten and retreated, and after the pikemen came to support, the enemy retreated decisively, not entangled with Cheng Yanjin.

"Dig the fortifications now!" Cheng Biting Jin saw that the enemy was temporarily retreating, so he ordered the soldiers to immediately build fortifications, because of the river beach, it was easier to dig up, and soon an artificial river several meters wide and half a man deep was across in front of the two armies, and the place where Cheng Biting Jin was located became an isolated island!

"Interestingly, this group of enemies did not take the opportunity to attack, but this does not mean that the enemy's follow-up troops must have landed from here. Order the reserves to go up and take down this enemy for me! Li Xiaogong heard the report of his subordinates, and felt that Cheng Yanjin's enemy was responding to the follow-up troops, but he was not sure, maybe it was a decoy, he was not sure, this would not be known until the enemy had follow-up troops to cross the river one after another, but it was still necessary to destroy it.

"Shieldmen line up along the river, pikemen make up for it, and archers suppress enemy attacks!" Cheng Biting Jin issued orders one after another, and the shield soldiers immediately lined up along the isolation river that had just been dug into a wall, and the pikemen poked their spears out of the gap, like a thorny city wall, if the enemy only had infantry or cavalry, it was completely impossible to break through.

After the enemy retreated, he regrouped and continued to attack, but after seeing the defense of Cheng Yanjin's troops, there was no way for a while, and the attack stalled for a while, and the archers of the two armies shot at each other. Of course, this situation did not last long, and the enemy became more and more, and suddenly several logs were lifted from them, apparently freshly chopped down, for the defense of the Breaking Range-Biting Army.

The enemy also learned well, using shields to protect the soldiers carrying the wood, and the enemy soldiers carried the wood to the defensive shield wall, and it didn't matter if it hit it once or twice, but it couldn't withstand the continuous impact of dozens and wood, and the seemingly impregnable defense gradually showed signs of failure.

"Hold on! Archers give me a crush on the enemy! Cheng Biting Jin also realized that he had met a powerful character, otherwise the enemy would not, and he would have rushed forward in the dense rain of arrows, but he Cheng Biting Jin was not easy to deal with, and he didn't know who was afraid of whom?

"Bang!" With a bang, the defense was broken, and the enemy's follow-up troops immediately took out wooden planks and put them on the artificial river and rushed over, some jumped directly into the river and walked over, but the jumpers were basically immediately assassinated by the pikemen, but the enemy did not seem to be afraid, and rushed forward one after another.

"Kill!" Cheng Biting Jin roared and rushed directly towards the enemy, this is just the second short-handed encounter, not the most difficult time, the bravery of the Great Sui soldiers is far from being comparable to the enemy, the enemy's offensive was quickly disintegrated, Cheng Biting Jin led people to counterattack, when the enemy was driven away from the shore of the beach, he ordered the troops to return to defense, and built a shield wall again, more than an hour away from the time task that Yang Jun gave him to adhere to.

"Humph! Rush up to me all of them, I don't believe I can't take down tens of thousands of people! Li Xiaogong was very angry when he heard the report, and his own people were condescending and were beaten back again and again.

After Li Xiaogong got angry, the enemy's offensive became more fierce, it was simply a way to exchange human lives for human lives, and consumed Cheng Biting Jin's men and horses bit by bit, even if Cheng Biting Jin led the troops no matter how brave they were, it was difficult to repel the enemy, the battle directly entered a white-hot state, the weather in the autumn night was relatively cool, the Sui army swam ashore, and the whole body was soaked, and they kept fighting, which was a huge consumption of physical strength, Cheng Biting Jin knew that it would definitely not work to entangle with the enemy in this way, and his troops needed time to rest.

"Archer draws his sword! Kill! "Cheng Biting Jin ordered the archers who have not been in hand-to-hand combat to pull out their swords and come forward to help in the battle, and every archer under Yang Jian is equipped with a swords, in order not to suffer too much in close combat, with the support of this new force, the situation is gradually favorable to Cheng Biting Jin's side, and finally repels this wave of strong attacks from the enemy.

"Are you afraid that the enemy is more difficult to deal with than we think? Do you regret watching your brothers fall one by one? Maybe we'll never go back, do you regret it? But I have no regrets, because our compatriots are still living under the trampling of the enemy, and even if I take my life, I have no regrets! Cheng Yanjin looked at the soldiers in front of him who had just fought bloodily, although he couldn't bear it, but he still had to encourage their fighting spirit, otherwise the people who fought hard would not be able to support it.

"No regrets! For the sake of the people, kill and kill! At this moment, it seems that all the soldiers have rekindled their fighting spirit!

"It's all a bunch of rubbish, it seems that the king has to go out himself! Order the upstream troops to come to support, I don't believe I can't take this group of enemies! "There was no news from the enemy's large army, and the enemy's forward troops could not be eliminated for a long time, so Li Xiaogong had to be in a hurry, so he decided to go out in person.

"Outflank me from the left and right, attack me from behind, and the rest attack from the front!" With the participation of more men and horses, Li Xiaogong can outflank Cheng Biting Jin's troops, and this time he must destroy these tens of thousands of enemy troops.

"General, the enemy is coming!" Cheng Yanjin asked people to collect some wood fires and light the fire and wait for the enemy's next round of attack, but he didn't expect the enemy to attack again so soon, it seems that the enemy doesn't plan to let them rest.

"Meet the enemy with me!" Cheng Yanjin picked up the lance and ran forward, in the case of the enemy in front and no help, all they could fight was perseverance! In the face of the enemy's crazy attack, Cheng Biting Jinbu gradually lost the enemy, and under the trampling of nearly 100,000 people, the tidal flat exposed by the retreat of the river began to bubble up at night, mixed with mud, and the environment of the battlefield became more and more bad.

"General! There are enemy troops in the back! Li Henglie said when he came to Cheng Yanjin's side.

"What?!" Cheng Yanjin was very shocked when he heard this, he was outflanked in the back, and the situation became more and more unfavorable, and at this moment, an arrow feather shot towards Cheng Yanjin!

"General be careful!" Li Henglie found the flying arrow feathers, but it was too late, Cheng Biting Jin definitely couldn't dodge, he didn't even think about taking a step forward directly, and blocked this fatal arrow with his body!

"Heng Lie! You can't die! Cheng Yanjin shouted while holding Li Henglie, who was hit by an arrow in his chest, and the surrounding soldiers also discovered the situation here, and immediately killed him, making room for Cheng Yanjin.

"General! Henglie was a damned person, thanks to the general's rescue, he was able to live to this day, and now he can finally repay the general, but there is still an old mother at home, and the general is looking at the general's ......" Li Henglie closed his eyes without finishing speaking.

"Don't worry, I will definitely take care of your mother's and family, from this moment on, your family will be my Cheng Yanjin's family! I'll avenge you! Cheng Yanjin said in a trembling voice, and then his eyes became red, "Protect General Li, archers, suppress the enemy behind me, and kill the rest for me to avenge our brother!" "The ruthless Cheng Biting Jin is becoming more and more unstoppable, and there seems to be a tendency for ten thousand troops to take the head of the general from it, and kill directly towards the banner of the enemy!

"Alas, it's a pity that this person was not killed!" Li Xiaogong put down the bow and arrow in his hand, he saw that Cheng Yanjin was the enemy's main general and extremely brave, so he thought about killing him by sneak attack, but he didn't expect someone to help him block an arrow. "The shield soldier goes up and stops this man!" Seeing Cheng Biting Jin killing all the way, Li Xiaogong immediately asked people to stop him.

Seeing that the shield soldiers were blocked, Cheng Yanjin's way forward was blocked, there was no way he could only vent the anger in his heart to the enemy troops around him, and soon a vacuum appeared around him, where he went, the enemy soldiers fled in a hurry, but they couldn't move forward!

"Look, it's the reinforcements that have arrived, the reinforcements have arrived!" The archers who were suppressing the enemy's way back from the water suddenly saw several huge black shadows slowly coming on the river, and when they got closer and closer, it was obvious that they were battleships, which were the battleships that sent them over, and at this time the battleships were brightly lit, and they could see the neat rows of soldiers on the ships, and they knew that reinforcements had arrived!

This was actually arranged by Yang Yan, he told Cheng Yanjin that there were no reinforcements, but that was just to let Cheng Yanjin not have any hope, and to take out the most ruthless strength to defend it. But Yang Jian knew that it was not easy to hold the tidal flats with Cheng Biting Jin, and it was even more difficult to attract all the enemy troops, so he sent a sailor to transport 20,000 soldiers to support, and at the same time, it could also create a false impression to the enemy that they were going to land from here!

Twenty thousand reinforcements poured out from the battleship, and the enemy fled one after another, knowing that the raid had no effect.

Seeing that the enemy army was coming to reinforce the army, Li Xiaogong's heart sank, could it be that the enemy really wanted to break through from here? If this is really the case, it is obvious that this point of troops in front of you cannot be defended, should all the rest of the troops be transferred over to defend?

"Order all troops to rush to the rescue!" After some ideological struggle, Li Xiaogong decided to take a gamble, there are too many places to cross the river, and the enemy does not necessarily have to cross the river from this section, but he still sent a reconnaissance team to patrol along the river!