"Click, click, click, ......" accompanied by the sound of mechanical winding, the five Suzhou guns quickly made all the preparations before launching, and put a stone bullet in the front leather pocket.

There is still a distance of nearly two miles from here to the river bank, and it is difficult to launch that far under normal circumstances, but at this time it is a tailwind, and the weight of the stone projectile fired is much lighter than under normal circumstances, so the range is barely enough.

At this extreme distance, aiming was meaningless at all, so just roughly aligned the bearings, and the five Suzhou guns were fired immediately.

"Boom!" With a loud sound, the rear of the Suzhou cannon fell heavily, throwing out the leather bag attached to the forearm, and when the leather bag rose to the highest point, the stone bullet inside shot out quickly, drawing a parabola in the sky, and flying far to the river bank.

As the officer said, the accuracy of the Suzhou guns at this distance was so poor that none of the five stone shells hit the ship, but all four of them landed on the water, making a huge splash, and the remaining stone projectile fell on the open ground on the shore, causing no casualties.

However, Yang Wu's goal was achieved, in the face of the bombardment of Suzhou artillery, no one could still maintain composure, especially those soldiers who had just boarded the ship, at this time they were even more frightened with their hands and feet, rowing hard, hoping to land on the north shore as soon as possible.

However, the more panicked you are, the easier it is to make mistakes.

These boats were already seriously overloaded, and many small boats, which normally could only carry more than ten people, were now crammed into thirty or forty people, and many of them did not even have a place to stay.

At this time, in a panic, the boat quickly shook, and as a result, a boat capsized in the river, and more than 30 soldiers immediately fell into the water.

Most of the soldiers of the Jin army were northerners who couldn't swim, not to mention that it was a cold winter, and the river was so cold that it was shivering, and these soldiers shouted for help on the water soon after falling into the water.

However, there was no one who cared for them at this time, and it was not long before the people who fell into the water disappeared from the water.

Not only were the soldiers who had boarded the boat on the river in chaos, but the Jin army on the river bank was also in a panic.

Before, everyone did not expect to be bombarded by Suzhou artillery, and in order to board the ship as soon as possible, they all tried to get closer to the river bank one by one, and as a result, a large number of soldiers were crowded together.

At this time, after discovering that the river had become the target of Suzhou artillery, they didn't even have a place to hide, and prayed in panic that they would not be hit.

However, at this time, the second round of stone bullets fired by the Suzhou artillery had already flown over, and this time four of the five stone bullets fell on the bank of the river, and one of them happened to fall in a crowded place, which immediately caused heavy casualties, at least six or seven people died on the spot, and more than ten others were seriously injured.

Those who died on the spot are better to say, there is no pain, and those who are seriously injured are miserable at this time, after being hit by a giant stone projectile, even if they are just rubbed, they will become bloody and blurred, and some people fall to the ground and do not die immediately, but they are also seriously injured and incurable, and can only lie there and scream loudly.

The soldiers next to him immediately scattered in fright, and many of them ran back to avoid the bombardment of Suzhou artillery, hoping to be farther away from the riverbank; At the same time, there are many people who want to board the boat as soon as possible, so they are crowded on the riverbank.

As a result, confusion inevitably arose, and spread rapidly, and it was difficult to stop it no matter how much the officers commanded; Even many low-level officers were in a panic and were at a loss to follow everyone around.

Fortunately, there are still many people in the Jin army who remain calm, such as Li Cunxuan, the king of Jin.

At this time, he was standing on a small slope on horseback with some guards, although he was anxious, he still calmly shouted loudly: "Don't panic, don't mess up, the enemy has not many Suzhou artillery, and the casualties caused to us are not large." As long as everyone does their duty, they will definitely be able to return to Hebei safely......"

Zhao Zaili and Shi Jingjiao were also not in chaos, they were also shouting loudly, constantly calming the hearts of the army, so that the soldiers on the front line insisted on resisting the attack of the Wu army.

Thanks to their efforts, the front remained stable, and the situation in the rear gradually stabilized.

At this time, the armies of the two sides were already fighting together, and although the offensive of the Wu army was fierce, it was not so easy to break through the defense line of the Jin army.

On the right, Zhao Zaili did not fight on the front line at this time, but sat in the rear to command.

The Silver Spear Army under his command was under great pressure at this time, they had already suffered a lot of casualties in the attack on the Wu army two days earlier, but they were worthy of being the most elite army established by Yang Shihou, even if they faced the strong attack of the Wu army at this time, they could still calmly block it.

On the left, Shi Jingjiao is another fighting style, he personally led the guards to fight fiercely with the Wu army on the front line, the long knife in his hand flew up and down, and from time to time the harvesters were killed one by one.

And beside him, a tall, majestic northern man, holding a snake spear in his hand, was fighting hard, desperately guarding Shi Jingjiao's flank, when Shi Jingjin encountered danger, he rushed up to block the danger for him.

These two people are both fierce generals on the battlefield, and they are desperate to kill, and they stand out on the entire battlefield, and they soon attract Yang Wu's attention.

"Looking at the banner of the general, it seems that Shi Jingjiao is personally fighting in battle? So who is the man next to him? It can't be Liu Zhiyuan, right? Yang Wu muttered in his heart.

If that person is Liu Zhiyuan, then the founding emperors of the two dynasties are fighting in battle, if you add Li Cunqiao and Yang Wu himself, there are several "true sons" on this battlefield alone.

Of course, the current history has long been messed up by Yang Wu, and now it seems that Shi Jingjiao and Liu Zhiyuan don't know if they have a chance to become emperors.

Even Yang Wu still thought evilly in his heart: "If I let the Suzhou artillery turn around and bombard the two of them now, then is there a chance to kill the two emperors at once?" ”

But this is just thinking about it in my heart, after all, now that the armies of the two sides have been entangled, with the kind of desperate accuracy of the Suzhou cannon, it may not have killed the enemy, but injured his own people by mistake.

At this moment, Yang Yan, who had excellent eyes, said loudly with an excited face: "Father, look there, look at that person, is it King Jin himself?" He shouted as he pointed his finger in one direction.

Yang Wu and the others hurriedly looked in the direction he pointed out, and saw that on a small hill there, there were indeed dozens of people standing there quietly on horseback at this time, but unfortunately because of the distance, and the other party did not hold any flags, it was difficult to determine the identity of the other party.

Yang Yan said: "Father, the child thinks that during the fierce battle two days ago, the father and king stood at the highest place and calmly commanded the army to fight; And the enemy there was also at a high place, and no matter how chaotic the battlefield was, the dozens of horsemen always remained calm, standing there quietly watching the battle. So the child guessed that the person at the front should be King Jin. ”

Yang Wu nodded when he heard this, feeling that Yang Yan's judgment made some sense.

At this moment two or three horsemen rushed to the hillside, and after a few moments at the front, they immediately departed as fast as they could.

This scene immediately aroused Yang Wu's great attention.

"Those three people just now may be the heralds of the Jin army?"

With a guess in his heart, Yang Wu felt that whether he guessed correctly or not, he should try it.

He immediately ordered the Suzhou artillery to adjust its direction and shoot at the dozens of horsemen on the hillside.

At the same time, Yang Wu sent orders to Li Decheng and other generals who commanded the battle in the front, asking them to pay attention to the rear, and if Yang Wu gave a signal, they would immediately let the soldiers shout the news that "the King of Jin has died in battle" to cause panic in the Jin army.

When everything was ready, the five Suzhou cannons were immediately fired, throwing stone projectiles into the distance.

This time, the target was much closer to the river bank, and the accuracy of the Suzhou cannon had also improved a lot, three of the five stone bullets landed on the small slope, and one of them smashed directly into the crowd, smashing the two or three soldiers and the war horses under them into a bloody blur.

Suddenly, the dozens of cavalrymen who were still standing there quietly just now were in chaos, and many people subconsciously gathered the one in front of them, and then quickly left the hillside.

Seeing this situation, Yang Wu was even more sure in his heart, there should be Li Cunqiao among those people just now.

He hurriedly sent a signal for Li Decheng and them to shout loudly together: "King Jin is dead, everyone run away!" ”

"What? King Jin is dead? The soldiers of the Jin army, who were fighting fiercely with the Wu army, were taken aback when they heard the shout, and many people subconsciously looked at the hillside before, only to see that there were indeed a few corpses lying there, and there were two or three dead war horses next to them, but the Jin King Li Cunqiao and others were gone.

At this moment, the Jin army was completely panicked.

Regardless of whether the King of Jin really died in battle, one thing is true, that is, the King of Jin has disappeared at this time, perhaps he has seen that the situation is not good, and he boarded the ship early and escaped.

The panicked Jin army was in chaos, while the Wu army took the opportunity to storm it.

The first to make a breakthrough was the left wing, Shi Jingjiao was fighting fiercely on the front line with his guards, and suddenly heard the news that King Jin was dead, he subconsciously felt that something was wrong, King Jin was in the rear, how could it be so easy to die? This must be a rumor released by Wu Jun.

He hurriedly shouted: "Don't panic, everyone, King Jin is not dead, he was just attacked by the enemy, temporarily dodge one or two, and he will appear soon." ”

However, he was in the midst of a fierce battlefield at this time, and there were shouts of killing everywhere, how many people could hear his voice alone?

It didn't take long for the Wu army to take advantage of the chaos of the Jin army to break through the defensive line, and Shi Jingjiao had to immediately lead his troops back and prepare to reorganize the defensive line.

On the right flank, Zhao Zaili was originally in command in the rear, and immediately released the news after getting the news to appease the army, so although the right flank was also chaotic, it was not broken through by the Wu army.

At this time, Li Decheng, who was leading his troops to attack the right flank, had a plan, and ordered his subordinates to shout again: "The Shatuo people have already fled for their lives, what are you still doing here?" ”

On the right wing, the main force was the people of the Silver Spear Xiaojiedu, while the left wing Shi Jingjiao was dominated by the Shatuo people.

In terms of combat effectiveness, the Silver Spear Army is definitely one of the strongest armies in the world, but in terms of loyalty, the Silver Spear Army perfectly inherits the "glorious tradition" of Wei Boya's soldiers, and there is no loyalty at all.

When the war can be maintained, they can definitely show great combat power, but once the battle is unfavorable, don't think that they can fight to the death.

Hearing the call at this time, the soldiers of the Silver Spear Jie Army turned their heads and saw that the Jin army on the left flank was really retreating, and there was a great chaos, and no one was willing to continue to resist.

A large number of officers and men turned their heads and ran, ignoring the orders of the generals, and many officers were either passively coerced or actively fled, and they were all running for their lives.

When the Wu army in the back saw it, they immediately launched a fierce attack, which immediately stirred up the battle situation on the right flank.

On the left flank, Shi Jingjiao had only retreated a little so that the soldiers could regroup and continue to resist, but he didn't expect that the right flank had completely collapsed.

In this situation, even Shi Jingjiao could no longer stabilize the line, and soon the defense line on the left flank completely collapsed.

Zhao Zaili also fled for his life in the chaos at this time, he saw that the army had completely collapsed, and knew that continuing to stay would also be sent to death, so he immediately went to find Li Cunqing, the king of Jin, and at this time, it was safest only to follow Li Cunqing.

Previously, Wu Jun's Suzhou cannon did hit Li Cunqing's guards, but he himself was unharmed, only a little frightened, and then he was surrounded by the guards and left the hillside, but he did not expect it to cause such a big consequence.

When Li Cunqiao was found again, Zhao Zaili cried and said: "The king, the battle situation is unfavorable, please board the boat and cross the river immediately!" ”

Where is Li Cunmiao willing to cross the river at this time, he has made an oath, saying that he will stick to the end with the soldiers.

Now that at most half of the Jin army has crossed the Yellow River, and most of the soldiers are still on the south bank, if he flees for his life at this time, won't his oath become a joke? What is his prestige as the king of Jin?

After Yan Yu rejected Zhao Zaili's proposal, Li Cunqiao said loudly: "We haven't lost yet, we still have a chance to turn defeat into victory." As long as you concentrate all the cavalry of our army and launch a counterattack, you will definitely be able to defeat the enemy army! ”

The Jin army had a large number of cavalry, and if they could concentrate and launch a counter-charge, even if they could not turn defeat into victory, there was still hope for stabilizing the defensive line.

However, at this time, the entire Jin army camp was in chaos, the soldiers were panicked, and they fled for their lives, Li Cunqiao could not even effectively command the army, how could he concentrate the cavalry to launch a counterattack?

In fact, Shi Jingjiao and the others were already doing this at this time.

When he was defending the line, he lined up his cavalry behind the line, ready to launch a counterattack with cavalry at any time.

However, under the chaos at this time, even the cavalry officers and soldiers did not have much fighting spirit, and the counterattack launched in a hurry did not even have any coordination, and it could not cause much trouble to the Wu army.

Soon, the cavalry counterattack was routed by the Wu army.