Tian Yan's assault came very suddenly and very fiercely, even Yang Wu, Tai Meng and others did not expect him to choose to launch it at such a time, and the result was a little unprepared. Pen | fun | pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 ｉｎｆｏ

Fortunately, there is a small river between Huainan Daying and Xuanzhou City, more than 30 steps wide, and there is only one stone bridge on the river that can be passed.

At the beginning, due to lack of preparation, Chen Fan was very confused in the face of the swarming enemy army, and he could only choose to retreat in a hurry.

But he knew that the Huainan army in the large camp behind him was not prepared, and if he retreated all the way to the camp like this, he was afraid that the friendly army, which was already a little chaotic, would become even more panicked, and the entire army would be in danger of collapsing; Therefore, when he retreated across the river, he made up his mind to rely on this bridge to block the enemy's offensive and buy time for the Huainan camp behind.

"Stop, don't go back! Whoever dares to retreat again will be punished as a deserter......" Chen Fan roared with all his strength as he waved the big knife in his hand to stop the officers who fled in a hurry.

Thanks to his efforts, the Huainan army, which had fled, finally stopped, relying on the stone bridge to resist the attack of Wuyongdu.

"Assault, continue to assault ......" in the rear, Xu Zaisi took the lead and rushed to the front. The generals under his command forgot to die, and led the soldiers who had become crazy to attack bravely, constantly impacting Chen Fan's defense line. It's a pity that the stone bridge is narrow after all, and it can't accommodate too many soldiers, and the strength advantage of the Xuanzhou Army can't be brought into play, and it is temporarily blocked here by Chen Fan's 3,000 soldiers.

Later, Tian Yan personally led the army to follow, and the Xuanzhou Army soldiers burst out with their last courage at this time, they stared at the bloody battlefield, ready to go up to support at any time.

"Kill, kill, kill, kill......" The earth-shattering sound of fighting resounded throughout the battlefield, whether it was the Xuanzhou army left behind in the city or the Huainan army in the big camp were shaken by this shouting of killing.

However, the soldiers of Wu Yongdu are fierce after all, and although Chen Fan's subordinates temporarily blocked them, they were only struggling to support them, and they were afraid that it would not be long before they would be broken through the defense line.

"Their assault was so fierce that we couldn't stop it." Chen Fan turned his head abruptly and shouted at the heralds: "Go and report to the prince urgently, and ask him to send reinforcements over quickly, otherwise our army's defense line will not be able to resist for long!" ”

Outside the camp, relying on the time won by Chen Fan's hard support under the impact of Wu Yongdu, the various departments of the Huainan Army gradually adjusted and began to line up in the camp.

Hearing Chen Fan's request for help, Yang Wu did not immediately agree, but turned his head to look at Cheng Xun and said, "Bomb under the stone bridge. Is the medicine in place? Diao Yan can stay there all the time, right? ”

Black powder is the secret weapon of the Huainan Army, and such an important thing should naturally be kept secret as much as possible, so this time Yang Wu originally planned to hand over the task of blowing up the stone bridge to Cheng Xun, but he didn't expect that his other cronie guard, who was only fourteen years old, had volunteered to take on this task, and he had been guarding under the stone bridge these days.

"Don't worry, Diao Yanneng is a serious kid who will not have problems." Cheng Xun nodded.

Only then did Yang Wu turn to the herald and said, "You go back and tell Chen Fan, let him hold on as much as possible, if he feels that he can't resist, he can retreat, but he will not send reinforcements." ”

Soon after, Chen Fan listened to the reply brought by the herald, and immediately understood what Yang Wu meant, and knew that the Huainan army in the camp was almost ready.

After resisting for a while, Chen Fan's defense line was finally broken through, and a large number of Huainan troops could no longer control the panic in their hearts, and their share retreated.

"Chase!" Tian Yan tightened the reins of his horse and shouted, "Blow the trumpet, continue the pursuit, and don't let the enemy have a chance to breathe......"

The old and weak under his command were also excited by the victory of successfully breaking through the enemy's defensive line, and the depression of being pressed and beaten by the Suzhou artillery of the Huainan Army for many days was also swept away, and the soldiers continued to advance through the stone bridge with great excitement following the pace of Wu Yongdu.

"Liu Ding, you take a thousand people to stay here, and you must hold the stone bridge as a retreat for our army!"

After crossing the bridge, Tian Yan looked at the bloodstains and corpses all over the ground, and after a slight hesitation, he gave an order to Liu Ding. Although he also wanted to launch a surprise attack on the Huainan army camp with all his troops, reason told him that the Huainan army may not have been prepared at first, but after Chen Fan's obstruction just now, the Huainan army may have been prepared, which made him have to be cautious.

"The last general obeys!" Liu Ding replied in a deep voice. After the defeat in the last battle, he also knew that the Huainan army's delay in opening the situation under his resistance was just to lure the enemy, and they were not as easy to deal with as he thought.

And this assault operation had many surprises from the last one, and it was also extremely smooth at the beginning, the enemy army quickly retreated under the surprise attack of Wu Yongdu, but Liu Ding had a bad premonition in his heart. So after hearing that Tian Yan asked him to stay and defend the retreat, he was relieved, and immediately sent scouts to the surrounding area to inquire about the situation, in case the Huainan army left an ambush.

Under the stone bridge, Diao Yanneng hid in the bridge hole, nervously listening to the movement on the bridge.

He had been following Yang Wu for a year, and although he was still young, he was tall and large, about the same size as an adult, and it was completely hard to believe that he was only fourteen years old at first glance.

At this time, even though there were thousands of enemy troops on the bridge, they could be found at any time, but Diao Yanneng was always calm. He sat quietly on the ground, leaning against the stone wall to hide his form; A large bag of black powder next to him was wrapped in silk and tied tightly under the bridge, and a fuse that was not too long was tightly grasped in his hand, ready to ignite at any moment.

Listening to the shouts and killings on the bridge gradually moving away, Diao Yanneng knew that this was the Xuanzhou Army that had broken through the defense line of the Huainan Army and was raiding in the direction of the big camp.

"Hurry across the bridge and don't stop......," he whispered to himself.

After a while, the shouting and killing were far away, and the footsteps on the bridge gradually subsided, although there were still the sound of officers shouting loudly from time to time, but Diao Yan could know that the main force of the Xuanzhou Army had crossed the bridge, but Tian Yan obviously left some people here to guard the bridge.

"Well, it's not impossible to blow up the bridge now, but Tian Yan will quickly learn the news and make adjustments; So the best thing to do is to continue to wait, and when Tian Yan finds that he can't defeat Shizi and retreats here with his army, I will suddenly blow up the stone bridge, and then he will not have time to make adjustments, and he can only be wiped out by Shizi. ”

Diao Yan is not a big person, but he is not small, and he can calm down when he may be discovered at any time. Fortunately, the sun had not risen at this time, the sky had not yet brightened, and Liu Ding and the others did not expect that someone would hide in the bridge cave, so no one found him.