The next battle was a bit intriguing, for a few days in a row, Ji Ling either closed the camp and couldn't come out, or the two sides simply collided, basically trying all the troops.

As a result, the external fortifications of the camp over there seemed to have been improved a lot in the past few days, and it was obvious that even Ji Ling realized that the odds of winning in a head-to-head battle against them were very low.

"Li Ming's corporal is all three-headed and six-armed? It's only been a few days, and five thousand soldiers have already been reduced! actually killed less than 200 people on the other side! Yuan Shu received the battle report, looked at the attrition numbers on it, and began to get angry without looking closely.

Yan Xiang also felt strange, picked it up and looked at it, and immediately understood, and hurriedly admonished: "Lord, less than 2,000 of the 5,000 soldiers were killed on the battlefield, and the other 3,000 or so were non-combat attrition. Among them, hundreds of people froze to death, frostbite and other factors such as wind chill, resulting in the inability to go to the battlefield is also serious, because the weather is getting colder and colder, the combat effectiveness of the soldiers is also declining, and our weapons are not as strong as the other side......"

"Excuses, all excuses!" Yuan Shu scolded twice, but Yan Xiang's exhortation still worked, making him calm down quickly, "Why doesn't Li Ming see this over there!?" ”

"The wild land where Li Ming is located is full of wild beasts, and I am afraid that I have hoarded a lot of furs. Didn't General Ji also report a few days ago? Most of the soldiers under Li Ming's command had a leather jacket as a base, which not only kept them warm, but also could be used as leather armor in battle, which made it more difficult to kill them. The key is that our army lacks enough firewood, and there is an urgent shortage of warm clothing, and the weapons have become very brittle because of the cold weather. Seeing this, Yan Xiang also knew that Yuan Shu could understand his advice, so he hurriedly added.

"Do you think Li Ming has money and nowhere to spend? Those group of mud legs actually take care of them so much...... You say, what now? All the skins we were able to collect had already been made into leather jackets and sent out, but there was still a gap of about 30,000 yuan. The Central Plains originally lacked fur, because of the war, we couldn't buy fur in Jiangdong, and the fur in the north is now expensive and can be ......" Yuan Shu was also heartbroken, even if each soldier only gave a set of leather jackets, it was an astronomical amount.

"Send more people to go out to chop firewood and provide firewood for the army to keep out the cold. Let Ji Ling continue to build the fortifications while avoiding being attacked by Li Ming at night. In terms of key points, I'm afraid it still has to be placed on Liyang's side! Yan Xiang thought about it, with the current conditions, it was indeed not good to have a hard time with Li Ming.

"What did Zhang Xun eat? I arrived in Liyang four days ago, and there is no movement yet! Yuan Shu suddenly had an object of anger.

"Lord, we entered Jiujiang County, there was no plan to go south, Zhang Xun has just arrived in Liyang, I am afraid that it will take a few days to collect the ships." Yan Xiang is helpless, there are also boats on the side of the Yangtze River, but in the end it is not as many as in later generations, so big, nearly three miles of the river, the slow flow of water in winter is suitable for crossing the river, the problem is that it is very difficult to let 20,000 people cross the river at the same time.

Yuan Shu also knew that what Yan Xiang said was the truth, but he felt that he couldn't swallow this breath, and finally suddenly became unhappy, so he could only follow what Yan Xiang said, and order Ji Ling to strengthen the defense line, as well as avoid further non-combat attrition of the soldiers.

At the same time, on the Liyang side, Zhang Xun has been here for four days, and during this time, he has already found all the ships that can be found around, and there is still a gap of tens of thousands of people. It's not that it can be overloaded, but it's very dangerous, even if the water flow is already very stable, Zhang Xun doesn't dare to take the risk.

Most of the soldiers are from the Central Plains, and they are not waterlogged, and if they are really transferred into the river, they will only end up drowning.

"General, if you continue to wait, I'm afraid that the lord will be blamed." Qiao Rui calculated the time and came forward to persuade him.

"I understand the situation, it's just that the situation on the other side is not normal, it's not good to act rashly! It's been so long since the scouts and there's no new news? Zhang Xun sighed, and then asked. Liyang's side kept collecting the ships, and it was said that it was impossible for the other side not to receive the news, but as a result, there was no normal garrison on the other side for so long, which made him quite suspicious.

"Our men have already arrived at the gate of Shicheng County, and they have not found any enemy troops, but they were still shot and killed by the defenders of Shicheng. I think that if we don't cross the river early, I'm afraid that we will have a lot of dreams at night! Qiao Rui further persuaded.

"Okay, immediately arrange manpower and cross the river in the afternoon!" Zhang Xun couldn't help gritting his teeth when he heard this, and announced that he had officially crossed the river.

The first group of 3,000 soldiers quickly boarded the ship, and then successively arrived at the southeast bank of the river, and at the same time immediately began to defend to cover the subsequent soldiers crossing the river. After the first batch of soldiers successfully crossed the river, Zhang Xun was also a little bolder and ordered 5,000 people to cross the river. The second group of people arrived one after another, and Zhang Xun ordered 10,000 people to board the ship, and the remaining 2,000 soldiers were the last to board the ship.

When the boat left the shore, Zhang Xun couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief, it seemed that the enemy really didn't know that they would go south, so he immediately clenched his fists and muttered in a low voice: "Wait for me to cross the river, and turn Danyang County upside down!" ”

I don't know if he made any strange FLAG, at this time, on the downstream river, a fleet of boats quickly moved towards them, and what made people speechless was that they were obviously going upstream, and their speed was not slow at all. After a while, it was already in sight and rushed towards them.

"Enemy attack, enemy attack!" Zhang Xun watched the fleet keep approaching, and immediately shouted, "Quickly cross the river!" ”

That being said, the temporary recruits were not able to speed up. In the end, he was forced to be in a hurry, so he simply jumped into the river with a "poof", and after a short time, he swam towards the shore behind, leaving this group of soldiers there in a daze.

"Yikes!" There was no one to drive the boat, and the soldiers immediately panicked, and some tried to drive, but they had no experience at all, and they kept spinning on the river with the boat, and even collided with friendly ships, so several soldiers suddenly fell into the water.

"Help me, save me!" The soldiers who fell into the water kept struggling, some of them were lucky enough to be pulled back by the oars handed over, while others were far away, fluttered a dozen times, and then sank. Some of them were in a hurry, and they actually overturned the boat, and even a boatload of several soldiers fell into the water.

"Shoot!" Zhou Tai's sailors had arrived, and more than twenty medium-sized warships were quickly connected in a row, and the bed crossbows on the ships quickly shot out crossbow arrows, and in the case of three consecutive shots, a net of arrows was quickly formed, covering the river.

The five ships were shot through, and the soldiers could only watch the ships sink, and even their lives were walking towards the end step by step. Some of the soldiers were shot through by the crossbow arrows, and even strung three or four of the soldiers' crossbow arrows before they stopped. Only five crossbows missed.

Suddenly, the medium-sized warship got out of the way, and a group of sterns came out, and the two rows of oarsmen rowed quickly, and the ships quickly crashed into the enemy, and by virtue of the collision angle of the bow, they slammed into a passage, and most of the small boats that approached were hit, and the soldiers on it were knocked off the river, and the ships were quickly overturned.

Zhou Tai's flagship, escorted by a medium-sized warship, slowly drove towards this torn opening. On both sides, soldiers fired with bows and arrows at the enemy on the sea. Wherever the fleet passed, Zhang Xunbu didn't even have room for resistance.

"Jump the gang, end this farce!" Zhou Tai spoke calmly, and a large number of small boats quickly rushed out, and the soldiers on it quickly jumped onto the enemy ships.

Almost instantly, because of the shaking of the ship, the opponent suddenly lost his center of gravity, and was killed by a knife the next moment.

"Who are they?" Zhang Xun only felt that his scalp was numb at the moment, and he kept urging his subordinates to send him to the shore. Looking at this one-sided battle, I only feel that this is not a water war at all, but a one-sided bullying.

"General, it is the navy army under Li Ming, and the general led by him is surnamed Zhou!" The soldiers looked at the flag on Zhou Tai's flagship and shouted.

"Damn, we've been tricked!" No matter how stupid Zhang Xun is, he can understand that he has been tricked, and the other party is waiting for him to cross the river, look at the speed of this march, even if he is half a day late, they can still intercept him quickly. He even suspected that among the boatmen he had recruited, there were their people! Only in this way can they know when the army will cross the river.

Yuan Shu has no naval army under his command at all, which is their biggest weakness. It would be good if he could successfully cross the river, but now he was attacked by the other party's half-crossing, and the 10,000 troops of Zhang Xun's headquarters have completely fallen into passivity, and the key is that the 2,000 defenders on the shore have no way to come to the rescue. Not to mention, the 8,000 foot soldiers who have already crossed the river.

Speaking of this, Zhang Xun looked towards the shore, and just now, there was a commotion over there.

As a result, when I looked back, a troop was now killing the bridge headquarters. Zhang Xun didn't need to doubt it at all, the troops that could appear now could only be the soldiers under Li Ming's command.

At the same time, in the direction of the shore, the new Danyang Commander Pang De was leading his headquarters towards the Qiaorui Division.

The soldiers of the bridge department had just crossed the river, and many of them didn't even have time to put on their armor and get back their weapons from the logistics officer, and they were directly rushed into the formation by Pang De, and Chen Heng was also transferred to Pang De's command to take Zu Lang's position, and at this moment he also covered up with Pang De.

"Surrender, surrender!" Qiao Rui didn't even have room to resist at all, so he stubbornly took Pound's two moves to attack, cried directly, and then took a few steps back, threw his weapon aside, and knelt on the ground to beg for mercy.

The main generals all surrendered, and the soldiers below naturally had no reason not to surrender, so they knelt on the ground and begged for mercy, for fear that it would be too late.

"Qiao Rui, I won't let you go!" Zhang Xun was on the rickety boat at the moment, and finally killed the two enemy soldiers who jumped up, and immediately roared when he saw this.

"You mind your own affairs first!" Zhou Tai burst into a shout, and suddenly jumped onto the boat with a steel ring head knife in his hand, and slashed towards Zhang Xun with a move of 'Force Splitting Huashan' with strong wind pressure.

Seeing this, Zhang Xun immediately drew his sword and faced each other, but he didn't want the iron sword in his hand, just collided with the other party, but there was a violent shaking below, and for a while Zhang Xun had nowhere to borrow his strength, and the strength in his hand couldn't be controlled.

Zhou Tai took advantage of the situation and burst into a loud shout, and the strength of his attack increased by two points, and he actually directly cut Zhang Xun's sword, cut it in two, and killed him on the spot.

"Zhang Xun is dead, those who descend will not die!" Seeing this, Pound immediately shouted. When Chen Heng heard this, he immediately ordered the soldiers to chant at the same time.

The remaining soldiers on the Yangtze River are about to collapse in spirit, and when they hear that they still take care of so much, they cry for their father and mother to surrender.

"Rescue the overboard, treat the wounded! Other sons, kill me on the shore! Zhou Tai shouted, in fact, since before, part of the fleet under his jurisdiction has transported 2,000 soldiers to the other side of the Yangtze River, dragging the soldiers left behind by the other party.

In the evening, the 20,000 Liyang defenders had been jointly eaten by Pang De and Zhou Tai. Immediately, with the help of Zhou Tai, Pang De quickly arrived on the north bank of the Yangtze River, used the rout to deceive the city gate, and entered Liyang, and beat down Liyang County before the sky was completely dark.