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"Look at what this small stone town can do to me." Liu Wang watched his soldiers attack the tidal flats and climb the city wall one after another, and said to Shi Fei with a proud face, "So it seems that a celebration banquet will be held in this Jieshi City tonight." ”

Shi Fei was silent, she only quietly watched as the sea falcons and ships gradually gathered under Jieshi City, and the city's counterattack against the sea became more and more sparse. It took a long time for the tall Xiangyang cannon to release two fireballs, and although they hit the two ships respectively, they had almost no effect on the entire battle situation.

However, all of a sudden, Shi Fei felt that something was not quite right, the battleship that should have sunk immediately was still adrift at sea, and the fire on the hull was burning more and more. Looking at the sporadic counterattacks on the city walls, they were all projected to the rear of the ship formation with fiery bows and crossbows. She suddenly realized Mo Huan's strategy, so she hurriedly said to Liu Wang: "General, quickly stop the strong attack on Dongcheng, first disperse the fleet to land on the tidal flats outside Daonan City, and then attack it is not too late." ”

But how could Liu Wang, who was on the momentum, listen to Shi Fei's words, "What do you mean, didn't you see that my people had already climbed to the top of the city?" Now you want me to scatter my forces to fight the southern city gate, are you afraid that my victory will be too simple? ”

"Don't get me wrong, General. I see that the fleet is dense at the moment, and if you attack ...... with fire."

Shi Fei was explaining, and suddenly caught a glimpse of a fire flashing at the head of the city. When I turned around, I saw huge fireballs rolling down from the fracture of the stone city wall, and the tidal flat was instantly covered with black smoke.

"Look at the general, let the fleet disperse."

"No, if you give the order to disperse at this time, it will definitely cause chaos on the beachhead." Liu Wang said and ordered: "Quick, all the buildings and ships are put in, and use the stone cannon to press back the counterattack on the opposite side!" ”

At this moment, on Jieshi City, Mo Huan saw that all the Beifeng fleet except for the big ships was engaged in battle, and he knew that this plan had been accomplished. "Stone cannons, bed crossbows, and chain bullets, aimed at the mast of the ship. The crossbowmen threw their fire bolts and set all the ships on fire! ”

Beifeng's blue-white armor was still pouring up the tidal flats one by one, and the black smoke shrouded it, and no one could know how many people were attacking the head of Jieshi City at this moment. At the gap at the head of the city, the shield armor soldiers of the Red Dragon Army pushed forward in a row, and from time to time stray arrows flew to shoot through a column of people, but immediately someone picked up the shield and continued to top it.

The 300 stone fire bombs were soon all thrown through the gap, and the mudflats were full of traces of stone bullets. The ships on the shore were already burning, and the deep blue water boiled white smoke, mixed with black and gray smoke, and shrouded the city as if it were night.

Another gust of wind howled from the northwest, and the flames that had been burning slowly were instantly stirred up by the wind, and the tongues of fire licked up to the height of the city wall, forming a scarlet wall of flames on the sea. The unignited ship wanted to turn around and retreat, but the stern and the boat in the back row were still throwing ammunition vigorously. With just shouting, the fire spread from the tidal flats to the middle of the fleet at the speed of the wind.

At this moment, Liu Wang knew that something was wrong, and hurriedly ordered Mingjin to retreat, but at this time, the masts of many ships and ships had been entangled or broken by chain bullets, and the huge fleet was paralyzed on the sea like a pot of porridge for a while.

"Spread out and land on both sides!" Shi Fei shouted to Liu Wang, but Liu Wang was completely panicked at this time.

"How is that possible? This is impossible, I am a fleet of two hundred ships and fifteen thousand men, impossible, impossible, absolutely ......"

Just as he was repeating his words, a flash of fire suddenly flew from the thick smoke in the sky, and in the blink of an eye he was in front of the ship. Shi Fei hurriedly dodged to the side, and when he turned around, he saw a fireball running through the high platform of the building to the bottom of the ship, and Liu Wang disappeared in an instant.

The sea water gushed into the ship, the building boat swayed and began to sink, Shi Fei saw that Shuai Qi was still there in a panic, and hurriedly used the last time to give the command of "landing on the south shore of the big ship", and then jumped into the icy sea under the pressure of the fire on the ship.

The fire in the sky turned the fleet of 10,000 people to ashes in an instant, and the soldiers who had originally landed on the beachhead instantly lost the assistance from the rear. Seeing this, Mo Huan raised the general flag and ordered the whole army to launch a counterattack on the enemy troops on the beachhead. Unable to fight again, the vanguard of the Northern Front soon surrendered.

"General, win, win!"

Seeing that the Beifeng Army under the city put down their weapons one after another, the shout of "General Mo Huan" gradually sounded in Jieshi Dongcheng. Mo Huan listened to his name fluttering above the city, watching the banner of the Red Dragon Army still standing on the city wall, and something hot suddenly rolled down on his face covered in blood and ashes. "Zhong Min, I did it! General Yuan, I'll hold it! She thought silently in her heart, but suddenly she felt that it was dark in front of her, and she almost fell to the head of the city.

"General!" The soldiers nearby saw Mo Huan's strange appearance.

"It doesn't matter." Mo Huan knew that although he had won a big victory at this moment, he couldn't fall yet. "Five hundred men were left in the city to count the damage of the battle and heal the wounded. Five hundred cavalry were sent to patrol the coast and clear the remnants of the waves. The rest of the men quickly followed me to the beachhead south of the city to prevent the remnants from landing. ”

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The deep and icy waters are bottomless, and the undercurrent waves are like the hem of death's clothes, rolling countless people who have thrown themselves into death. Shi Fei is not good at water, and after jumping into the sea, she can only let the sea push her around. The sea water in October was so cold that Shi Fei soon felt that the strength of his whole body was about to be sucked away. Until she was about to freeze in the water, a rope tied her by the waist and dragged her away from the sea full of corpses.

"Quick, land on the beachhead in the north of the city, and go to the north of the city ......" As soon as she was rescued, she spoke weakly. Originally, the kind-hearted soldier wanted to hand her a blanket, but as soon as he heard her speak, he instantly put the blanket away.

"Who are you?" When an officer-like man heard her words, he came out of the crowd of sailors and inquired.

"General Shi Fei of Zhengxi. The latter general Liu Wang was killed, and I saw with my own eyes that he was killed by a single cannon from Xiangyang. Now I am the highest-ranking officer in this army, and I should lead the whole army according to the law. ”

"Although I have heard the name of Shi Fei, the general of Zhengxi, I have never seen your Excellency, how do I know if Your Excellency is true or false?"

Shi Fei groped for his waist card, but the waist card had already been swept into the sea. "At this moment, my physical evidence has been lost, but it can be verified after landing and merging with our department."

"In that case, Your Excellency has no right to command our army at this moment. What's more, the order to land on the south bank was clearly issued on the flagship just now, but at this moment you are talking about the north shore, how can this not be suspicious? ”

"That's what I ordered in a hurry. The flagship was hit by a stone fire bomb and was about to sink. However, I thought and thought in the sea, and if I had judged in a hurry to land in such an open place on the south shore, I would have thought that the defenders of the city would have thought of it. If they seize the beachhead before us, our army is afraid that it will be completely annihilated. ”

When the officer heard the truth, he said, "However, the north shore is farther away than the rocks, and the beachhead is narrow, so it is difficult to quickly deploy troops. ”

"At present, the morale of the defenders is high, and the siege of the city is to hit the stone with eggs, not to mention that our army is not here to take down the stone, but to rely on the stone to jam the opponent's supplies. Just when I saw that the city used Xiangyang artillery to attack our ship, I knew that the supply team had arrived in Jieshi City at this moment. At this moment, if you attack the city from the south, even if you are lucky enough to take the Jieshi, it is likely that the supplies will be released. If Yuan Xian has enough supplies to capture Tuhe, then it will be in vain for our army to occupy Jieshi. ”

The officer carefully tasted Shi Fei's words, and sighed: "Originally, at this moment, our rear army should be in the stone city, but General Liu was in a hurry and forgot the sky, resulting in the defeat of our army, and at this moment I have to listen to the advice of you, who is unknown." Anyway, I'll believe you once and land the whole army north. ”

By the time it was upright, the sky in western Liaoning had been completely dimmed, and the fire on the sea was still unstopping, as if it was the sunset competing for glory.

Mo Huan pulled the 3,000 men who were still able to fight to the beachhead south of the city, and prepared to block the landing of the remnants of the Beifeng fleet with bed crossbows, stone cannons, and antlers. But there was nothing to wait for but the never-ending northwest wind, the ashes that fell from the sky, and the corpses that did not wash ashore. Later, the scouts from the north of the city came to report that the Beifeng army was found on the beachhead twenty miles north of the city, numbering about thousands, and at this moment Mo Huan realized that the battle of Jieshi was just the beginning.

At the same time, on the beachhead in the north of the city, as soon as Shi Fei and the others came ashore, they bumped into the remnants of Shi Fei who came to respond.

"It's the general who is back!" Seeing Shi Fei, her lieutenant was the first to lead people down the beachhead to greet her, but she saw Shi Fei holding her hand high.

"Don't move, take my seal!"

The adjutant seemed to understand Shi Fei's intentions for a while, so he asked the whole army to stand by on the beachhead, and presented the seal to Shi Fei himself.

After Shi Fei got the seal, he did not look at the officers on the big ship of Fangcai, but directly held it up and shouted to everyone: "I am Shi Fei, the general of the expedition to the west, and now the general Liu Wang has been killed in the battle of Fangcai, and the whole army should be handed over to the jurisdiction of the supreme commander of this place according to the law." Let's ask, is there anyone with a higher position than my general in the west? ”

The whole army was silent for a while, so Shi Fei said again: "In this way, until the end of this battle or the arrival of more senior generals, I will be under the command of my Shi Fei Department for the time being, and I should regard you as my own brothers, and please also treat me as my own generals." See our military flag, and the order is forbidden. ”

Because the Shi family has always been on the edge of Beifeng's power, many officers listened to Shi Fei's speech with disgust at this moment, but the military discipline was in front of them, and Shi Fei's men and horses were also standing on the shore, so none of them dared to say a word.

Shi Fei ordered everyone to camp on the spot and guard the road leading to the Tu River. and ordered the original men and horses to come closer and set up a partial camp on the north side. By night, the Beifeng soldiers who had drifted from the sea were basically the only dead left, and she ordered the number of people to be counted and ordered. By night, she had organized the remaining 6,000 men and her remnants of less than 2,000 into eight brigades, five infantry, one cavalry, and two baggage brigades, to form a line for interception and supply.

The wind at night was much calmer than during the day, but it was colder, and the billowing smoke finally faded away, revealing a gray-red crescent. The ashes of the burning wood were still falling like snow, staining everyone's hair gray. Shi Fei walked outside the tent, looked at the large camp stretching out, listened to the rolling of the waves, and the throbbing of excitement like a battle surged to his heart.

"Yuan Xian, like this, I want to see how you clean up!"