"The Divine Beacon Army has also been defeated......"

"In the end, under the response of the horse team excluded by this formation, only less than 1,000 people fled to ......"

"In order to cover these remnants, the horse team also lost more than 100 horsemen in the feint attack and harassment......"

"It's good ......"

Zhang Dekun, who was already the coach of the Eastern Front, nodded and sighed slightly with his hands behind his back, looking at the logo on the large leather map in front of him.

"So you can give an account to the dynasty......

In the part of the province of Kannai, the stronghold representing the Northern Dynasty from the east of Vanadium County has been completely occupied by the blue of the enemy army; And the small flags representing the men and horses under his command have also shrunk by more than half in the distribution of the map.

Although most of them were locally deployed to his subordinates, or temporarily recruited guards, regimental training, and even Tutuan Township Warriors, the rout and the speed in advance still made him a little painful.

Now that the Divine Beacon Army has also been defeated, it is not a good thing for him; Although it is still possible to be reprimanded and punished by the Luodu side for losing ground due to defeat.

However, with the experience of the Divine Standard Army as an endorsement and comparison, the possibility of Luodu wanting to change generals in the battle has been postponed indefinitely, and he is in the overall situation as a major branch, and he must continue to strengthen and support his strength in this regard.

You must know that from east to west, there are all kinds of battles that take place on the vast battlefield of Duqian Dao, and only the line of Bishui Pass, where he is located, and the front line of Bishui where Yang Keshi is located, can retreat and preserve the formation under the enemy's pressing offensive step by step;

And in several other points of contention and battlefields, other people's troops have been scattered and defeated, and how many times they have been reorganized and reorganized.

However, this moment.

In front of him, there was a proud and heroic face, and the kind of resolute decision to choose who I am, it is really a pity that these young and strong men who have just emerged in the army and have risen one after another.

Although this kind of result and fact is actually the product and repercussion of his guidance and promotion......

At the same time, in the valley under Longmen Mountain,

The exquisite and magnificent Longmen Grottoes in the past have now become a flesh-and-blood Shura field. The broken Yangzi banner was also trampled on the ground

From Fengxian Temple, the largest temple in the west, to the caves of Qianxi Temple in the east, groups of soldiers and horses of the Southern Dynasty are cleaning up the possible remnants of the northern soldiers along the caves, and more enemy corpses are thrown into the river from the shore.

And in the upper reaches of the river near Luodu, the battle with Yang Keshi's troops continued.

The retreating troops, while sending additional personnel to repair and consolidate the new defensive line along the river, watched as the enemy troops on the opposite bank moved more than a dozen swarm crossbows to the river, and laid them out one by one, and fired arrows fiercely at the northern soldiers on the other side of the ferry.

The bee crossbow is a kind of large-scale equipment that uses machinery to launch, each bed needs more than ten skilled hands to serve it, once the bow is injected, the crossbowmen step hard, dozens of five or six feet long, a single arrow has a pound of heavy iron arrows at the same time to fly out,

Up to a thousand paces at the farthest. Iron armor, shields, baffles, and cowhide tents could not block its edge, even if it was two or three feet thick earthen walls, it was indeed an effective weapon for long-range attacks in the war at that time.

It's really not a critical moment of battle, so I don't want to take it out and use it casually. Because it has a significant drawback, this swarming crossbow is really bulky and difficult to move. And in the hand-to-hand combat where the two armies intersect and meet each other, I am afraid that I will accidentally injure my own people,

On the position on the riverside, crossbow bolts were fired like a shower. The northern army on the other side of the river, whether on the ground or in the carriages and horses, was crucified to the ground like a string of thorns, so they had to disperse one after another, and the bold ones prostrated themselves on the spot, waiting for an opportunity to attack.

And those southern troops took advantage of this opportunity to fire crossbow arrows, under the leadership of a tall army general with a helmet and armor, with a shout, they rushed to board the pontoon bridge formed by wooden platoons, and went straight to the ferry on the other side. This is really a critical juncture.

Although the northern soldiers could not block the crossbow arrows, they hid in the hidden places where the crossbow arrows could not shoot and fired arrows to attack the southern army on the pontoon bridge. The closer the Southern Army is to the middle stream, the more dense and powerful the arrows become, and the greater the probability of being hit.

I saw that the soldiers of the Southern Army shook their bodies, and they were shot down on the pontoon bridge or fell into the river with blood. The rafts that formed the pontoon bridge kept swinging from side to side, causing great difficulties for their advance.

"Ouch!"

Multiple voices chanted at the same time. They suddenly found that not far from the pontoon bridge upstream, there were more than a dozen wooden boats that had been on fire, following the water momentum and approaching the pontoon bridge.

The steamboat was loaded with grease, dried dried, sulfur, straw, and other things that could easily catch fire, and in the wind it suddenly burned very hot, and sailed to the pontoon, and crashed, scattered, and burned the raft. It blocked the way of the Southern Army on the pontoon bridge like a fiery dragon.

There was also an inevitable rush of chaos on the pontoon.

Some people see that they can't move forward, some people are afraid that the fire will spread to their bodies, and some people are blinded by the smoke and want to go back. The raft shook with a greater amplitude. This chaotic situation, if left unchecked, could lead to a total rout.

Zhu Shigao, the leading general of Jiaozhou and the commander of the plagiarism army, saw that the situation was not good, and hurriedly swayed along the raft, swinging his heavy body from side to side, and then stood firm, and shouted:

"Now that we have come to this place, there is no life or death, the sword mountain can go up, and the sea of fire can break through. What's the matter with a few fireboats? Which brother jumped into the river to subdue it?"

As if in answer to his words, a dense stream of arrows from the northern soldiers on the other side of the river came at him. One of his soldiers jumped up in front of him and used his body to block the arrows, and although most of them were pierced in the armor of his soldiers, one of them hit him right in the throat and slipped on the raft, but he raised his shield with trembling hands and tried to cover his commander.

And another pro-soldier standing on the left side of Zhu Shigao, rubbed his feet, made a bang, and immediately poured into the river. He didn't seem to have thought about how to subdue the fireship before he answered the general's call and jumped into the rapids.

At this time, as if courage was more important than wisdom, he threw himself into the turbid water vortex, pushed away the layers of evil waves, and swam straight in the direction of the fire dragon, trying to subdue the fire dragon with his empty hands. The soldiers on the raft shouted loudly, coming up with ideas for him, thinking of a way.

Then five or six more soldiers, one by one, jumped into the waves, and they tried to catch a long wooden pillar that was floating on the water, and threw themselves into the fire, trying to hold the fireboat with the wooden pillar and prevent it from coming to the pontoon. This was the only effective way they could think of to subdue the fire dragon under the prevailing conditions.

By this time the foul waters of the river had been burned hot, and the flames of the river, by the force of the wind, rushed upon their heads and bodies, so that they could not get close to the boat. The Liao army on the north shore was aimed at them again, and arrows were frequent. They went up several times,

Several times I was forced to go back. The soldiers on the raft shouted loudly and cheered them on. They were forced to retreat, and then they pounced again, and they retreated again and again. They set a good example, and then more than a dozen of their own soldiers jumped into the river, and several of them carried a wooden pillar, which floated from the scattered raft, and was the thickness of a large bowl, four or five feet long.

They grabbed the wooden pillars, divided into several teams, and pounced desperately. With the wooden pillar and the **** body, they didn't care about the random arrows shot from the north shore and rolled in the sea of fire. The scorching water, the blazing flames, the burning wood and reeds, and the burning bubbles on their bodies could not stop their pounce. Inch by inch, they marched through the sea of fire.

They succeeded, and when they approached the fireboat and held it on a wooden post, they cheered. They drove the fireboats on both sides, far away, and let them burn themselves to ashes, and suddenly there was an unimpeded area in between.

And the floating shackles, which were on fire and scattered, had long been extinguished by the Southern Army on the raft and were firmly bound. The southern army of the brigade, which was blocked on the pontoon bridge, took the opportunity to shout and pass through this wall of fire that was blocked in the middle of the river and across the road of their success, and went straight to the river beach.

They didn't have time to rub their eyes that were fascinated by the smoke, and they were intercepted and killed by the northern soldiers who were hugging the river beach. This group of northern soldiers, who were forced to disperse by the bee crossbows on the south bank, jumped out of their hiding places at this time, and engaged in hand-to-hand combat with the southern army

People who have overcome the greatest danger have the right to despise the lesser danger. These warriors of the Southern army had just crawled out of the river with mud and mud, many of them were burned to the ground, many of them had their hair and beards burned, many of them had lost their weapons and horses in the battle with water and fire, and now they were going to battle with the northern soldiers, who were outnumbered by them.

They only have a 1% chance of survival, but being able to engage the Liao army on the ground is their chance of survival. Now there is nothing to stop their successful landing, and no matter how strong the northern soldiers are, they can't be stronger than the fire dragon.

The fire dragon can still be subdued, so why care about the enemy army that is also flesh and blood! A strong belief sustains them that they must land, that all obstacles must be removed, and that they can be removed. At this moment, their courage and divine power suddenly increased several times.

A soldier with his bare hands, as soon as he climbed the river beach, was targeted by the northern soldier hiding on the slope, and he was sure to stab him down with a strong shot. The soldier grabbed the barrel of his gun suddenly. The northern soldiers on the slope were afraid that their weapons would be taken away, so they instinctively pulled upwards with force, and the pro-soldiers who grabbed the barrel of their guns followed the momentum and shrugged off the slope more than a foot high.

Before his feet could stand firmly, he shouted shriekly:

"I'm the first to climb the hill, brothers, follow up!"

All the soldiers who fought on the river beach and rushed across the pontoon bridge saw this thrilling glimpse, not only with the naked eye, but also with the mental vision. This thrilling glimpse played a great role in encouraging the southern army that was engaged in the battle at that time.

Like the first soldiers to jump into the river and throw themselves into the sea of fire, although they were all just soldiers, they had lived and fought thousands of miles away in the hot and humid forests, or between the sea and the mountains, and they might not be able to complete the task themselves.

But they have set an example for everyone by their heroic deeds, changing the psychological state of the soldiers in the face of battle, making possible things that seemed impossible in advance.

Therefore, the whole battle quickly turned to the next level. By the time Yang Keshi, who had received reinforcements, rushed back, the troops that had been broken off along the river bank had already shown a trend of collapse and uncontrollable.