The distance of just a few hundred steps has now become an obstacle that the Qi army cannot break through. The hundreds of righteous soldiers formed a dam that hindered the attack of the Qi army.

The armor on the bodies of these soldiers has changed from the original black gray to black and brown, and in the light of the setting sun, it reflects a purple-red halo, so how much blood must have been soaked in the blood of their own soldiers?

That area seemed to be the Dinghai Divine Stone of Quantang City, and when the offensive on his side was approaching, it was like a wave encountering a and being blocked. It is also because of this collapsed embankment that the people in the city reacted more and more, and the voices cheering for the Jieyi army became louder and louder.

Liu Qinghan, the admiral of the Qi Army, rubbed his face vigorously, calming his barely restless mind. The counterattack of the Jieyi army made him angry, and the heavy losses of his own side made her feel frightened. More than 1,300 elite soldiers died here like this. He believed that if he had fought at sea, he would never have fought like this. If the dock area had been cleared in the past or in the future, and the ships could have been close to the coast, this would never have happened.

It stands to reason that in this case, he should have retreated with his army before, but with nearly 1,000 dead and wounded, he was really unwilling. And there are not many righteous soldiers in this section, let him give up, how is he willing?

"How many soldiers are there on our landing?" Gritting his teeth, Liu Qinghan looked back and asked the officers beside him.

"General Hui, more than 1,500 people have landed now, and more than 800 have not yet landed! The number of our assault boats is small, and the number of people that can land at one time is limited. The officers around him also knew the mood of their generals at the moment, and replied urgently.

"We can't wait any longer, it's been almost an hour and a half since the landing, and if we go on like this, reinforcements from the Jieyi Army will inevitably arrive. In that case, not only would the siege be impossible, but even the landed soldiers would be extremely dangerous. Liu Qinghan looked at the soldiers around him and the city wall opposite, and said in a muffled voice.

After thinking about it, Liu Qinghan commanded again. "Give the order to the warships, let the assault boats suspend the landing of the transport soldiers, and wait on the bank of the river to receive them! If these more than 1,000 soldiers can't break the enemy, it's useless to have 800 more soldiers. ”

"The general is worried...... Hearing Liu Qinghan let the assault boat meet on the bank of the river, the adjutant general beside him frowned and said suspiciously, "The general is preparing to retreat?" ”

"No, not to retreat, but just in case! Ben will be worried about the reinforcements of the Jieyi Army, if there is really nothing in case, the assault boat can also meet the soldiers and retreat quickly, so as not to ......," Liu Qinghan said with a worried face.

The adjutant general was eager to ask why he didn't evacuate now, but instead took the risk of continuing to prepare for the attack here, but seeing the corpses all over the ground and the purpose of this battle, the adjutant general couldn't help but ask.

"Kill ......" Qi army began to attack again, this time, Liu Qinghan waved the army, and the whole army attacked, from three sides. Although the left and right sides were not conducive to the expansion of the army, because the Jieyi army had retreated under the city wall, the small rivers and paddy fields that had originally become obstacles on the left and right sides of the Qi army were now also left behind by the Qi army. In other words, as long as the Qi army approached within a certain distance of the city wall, the Qi army could attack the Jieyi army from three sides.

"Fight!" Lin Hei got up and waved his knife and roared sharply. The soldiers and soldiers of Jieyi who were originally sitting on the ground to rest also turned over, picked up weapons, and faced the Qi army who were killing, without the slightest fear or fear because of the large number of Qi soldiers.

"Die!" Lin Hei shouted violently, and the Hundred Refining Horizontal Knife, which had already been replaced for the third time in his hand, slashed through a cold arc in the air, and slashed towards the neck of a Qi army officer. The officer was not afraid, and raised his sword to meet him with a tiger roar.

"Dang!" Qingyue's golden and iron resonant resounded in the sky, the long sword of the Qi officer army could not withstand such a violent impact and folded in unison, the horizontal knife in Lin Hei's hand was still in motion, coldly swept over the shoulders of the official army, the blood was splashing, and one of the heads of the official army had already flown up in the air, although the head of the body was different, but it was still hideous, staring at Ma Yue stubbornly.

"Idiot! I dare to fight with a long sword in close combat, and I really think that the long sword in my hand is a magic weapon? Looking at the head of the Qi army officer who rolled to the ground, Lin Hei couldn't help but secretly despise the other party in his heart.

Most of the officers who hold the long sword in their hands are officers, but this long sword is definitely not the most suitable weapon on the warship. Not to mention the horizontal knife in Lin Hei's hand, but it is a good weapon specially created for officers by the craftsman battalion.

"Damn it!" Seeing that another former military captain on his side was killed by the Jieyi Army, Liu Qinghan's face in the rear became even more ugly. Of course, because of the approaching city wall, the losses of the Qi army also began to increase, and the officers who were killed were not one or two. Moreover, it seems that the young archers of the Jieyi army on the city walls have also begun to selectively attack their own officers. This greatly increases the death rate of your own officers, and some affects the morale of your own soldiers.

"Kill me! Dare to retreat, slash! You are all soldiers and warriors of my army, how can you be defeated by these rebels? Liu Qinghan roared fiercely in the rear.

As the Qi army continued to attack, the Jieyi army began to be somewhat overwhelmed. After all, there are too few Jieyi soldiers outside the city, and they have been fighting hard for almost two hours, and the soldiers are exhausted, and some of the Qi soldiers are still fresh troops.

"Keep it up! The rebel army is about to be defeated! Kill them, conquer the city, and avenge the brethren. After the city is broken, everything in the city will be the generals. Money, beauty, what you want, kill! Once again, the Qi officers began to encourage the soldiers and let them fight the enemy.

"If the reinforcements still don't come, this whole Tang City will be in danger!" Lin Hei looked at the soldiers who kept falling around him, and couldn't help but be secretly anxious. The number of soldiers increased to 500 for the third time, and now again there are less than 300. On the other side, there were still nearly a thousand Qi soldiers.

"Rumble...... Rumbling......" A faint sound like waves crashing against a reef came from afar. It gives the impression that the waves are starting to spread over.

"What's going on? Is the tide rising? Liu Qinghan couldn't help but be stunned, and immediately looked around, wanting to see if the sea was rippling. But looking back, the sea is still as calm as a mirror, and there is nothing abnormal. However, it seemed that the remaining naval sergeant on the warship was conveying some message to himself, and desperately waved the command flag in his hand.

Because of the distance, Liu Qinghan couldn't see clearly what the meaning of the warship was, but judging from the speed of the flag, it was definitely not a good thing. Immediately, he looked back and finally found some anomalies. Bypassing the northeast corner of Quantang City, he saw a thin black line approaching here in the distance. And, as time went on, the black line on the horizon became thicker and thicker, and the speed at which it squirmed forward became faster and faster.

And the originally faint rumbling sound, the county began to gradually become louder, and began to come from the sky like a faint thunder, in addition, the ground under his feet also had a slight trembling feeling.

"Not good!" The face of Liu Qinghan, the admiral of the Qi Army, suddenly changed, and the face of the deputy general beside him changed. They finally knew what the rumbling sound was all about, and what was going on with the ships at sea behind them. Because there are some clairvoyants on the navy warships, they can naturally see farther. As for the situation that was blocked by the city wall, it was clearly seen by the people on the warship.

Judging by the situation and the sound, it was a cavalry, a cavalry approaching. However, it seems that there are not many people. Otherwise, they wouldn't have seen it so closely, and they wouldn't have been drowned out by the shouts of killing under the walls.

"General, withdraw!" Because they were in the rear, Liu Qinghan and his lieutenant could clearly see the scene behind the northeast corner of the city wall, but the two sides of the fierce battle under the city wall did not notice it at all.

"Withdraw? It's too late now! Although these cavalry only numbered about 300 people, the harm they brought to us was more than 3,000 foot soldiers. Now that the army is withdrawn, it can only be pursued and killed here by the cavalry reinforcements of the Jieyi Army, and there are only more than 100 people who can escape. After all, there are too few people that an assault boat can transport at one time. Liu Qinghan said in a trembling voice. Now he really regretted that he had not withdrawn his troops in time, if he had withdrawn in time after knowing that this battle was unfavorable. It would not have been the case now, three hundred cavalry rushed to kill, and they simply could not resist. What's more, he didn't know exactly how many rebel soldiers there were after that.

"You can't escape, now let the soldiers withdraw at once and form a formation here. As long as the cavalry reinforcements of the 300-odd rebels are blocked and repulsed, we can completely retreat from here. Liu Qinghan said in a condensed voice, "The cavalry of the righteous army galloped to the rescue in this section, and I think I will definitely not be able to fight for a long time. As long as you can block their first charge, it should be no problem to knock them back. ”

Looking at the long sword crossing banner of the righteous army still fluttering above Quantang City, and seeing the Qi soldiers and soldiers still outside the city and the Qi naval warships floating on the sea from the wall of Quantang City in the southwest, Li Qingping couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief.

"It's good to be in time! A good Qi army, if it doesn't move, if it moves, it will be the navy of all parts of the eastern coast of Yangzhou! Li Qingping's eyes suddenly showed murderous intent, and after a break, he and the three hundred cavalry behind him all drew out the horizontal knives in their hands.

Li Qingping was a light cavalry captain who came to the eastern part of Yangzhou with Gu Shan and others, and now he is also one of the four captains of the Jieyi Army. Originally, he would not be in Jiaxing County, but after the Shulu Righteous Army merged into the Jieyi Army, Jinshan County, which became the rear of the Jieyi Army, was also attacked by the Qi Navy and was defeated by Li Qingping, who was in charge of trading materials with some maritime merchants at that time. Through the capture of the Qi navy, Li Qingping learned of the Qi navy's actions in the waters east of Yangzhou. Moreover, he also learned that the eastern sea area of Jiaxing County was also one of the targets of the Qi army.

Therefore, Li Qingping hurriedly rushed to Wang Jiaxing County with his personal guards, and just happened to join the cavalry sent by Lin Hei to Jiaxing County. For this reason, Li Qingping summoned the only 200 cavalry in Jiaxing County, as well as his own personal guards and dozens of cavalry scouts in Jiaxing County, to take the lead in Quantang City, and the foot soldiers followed.

Because he didn't know the situation in Quantang City, Li Qingping and the cavalry rested a little ten miles west of Quantang City, and then they came quickly. Now seeing that Quantang City has not yet fallen, it is naturally very happy. After all, if the whole Tang City was not lost, they could still directly rescue and defeat the Qi army. If Quantang City was already occupied by the Qi army, they would have to wait for the foot soldiers to arrive, and they would need to spend a greater price to attack the city.

And the Qi army that occupies Quantang City can continue to transport soldiers here and expand outward. The comparison between the advantages and disadvantages of the two sides is obvious.

"Huh? The Qi army retreated? Why did you quit so quickly? It stands to reason that we are out of support, and they should continue to attack! "Under Quantang City, the Jieyi soldiers, who were gradually defeated, suddenly found that the Qi soldiers who were still fighting with themselves just now had begun to retreat.

"It's reinforcements! Ha ha...... Our reinforcements have arrived! Brethren, our reinforcements have arrived! "The defenders on the city walls finally spotted their cavalry coming from the northwest.

"It's good to be here! All right! On the city wall, Wen Lan and those squires also breathed a sigh of relief at this moment. Of course, the squires were also secretly glad that they had not made a wrong choice before. Quantang City was defended, and they were naturally meritorious heroes. And the whole Tang City was defended, and they were not worried that the Qi army would massacre the city and loot after breaking the city.

"Reinforcements are finally here! I'm tired of Lao Tzu! When Lin Hei heard the news, he suddenly felt weak, and immediately collapsed to the ground, lying on the ground, with no energy at all. Now, he just wants to get some rest. This battle really exhausted him. Similarly, most of the Jieyi soldiers who were still slaughtering before were now sitting on the ground, celebrating the arrival of reinforcements and saving their lives, while cursing loudly at the Qi army opposite.

"Quick! In formation, the soldiers who got the armor and armor from the hands of the Jieyi army are in the front, and the rest are behind, as long as we stop this charge of the cavalry of the Jieyi army, we can repel it! ”

"Don't panic, although they are cavalry, they are coming from dozens of miles away, they are exhausted, we will definitely be able to defeat them!" The mournful military orders of the Qi army officers came out among the Qi soldiers.

Maybe it's because of the failure of the connection between the two hours of the war, or maybe it's because they haven't experienced the war of cavalry charge, in short, at this moment, these Qi army and navy soldiers are indeed very flustered. This time, more than 300 cavalry of the righteous army brought more momentum than in the early morning, and the fifty cavalry in this city did not know how many times stronger.

"Brothers, kill me!" The speed of the cavalry was very fast, and when he approached the Qi army and navy non-commissioned officers, looking at the messy Qi army formation and those Qi soldiers with shocked faces, Li Qingping couldn't help but sneer in his heart. Immediately roared, raised the horizontal knife in his hand, and rushed straight to the center of the Qi army's military formation. In the absence of a huge shield and armor defense, without a large number of crossbowmen to suppress the formation, and without a spear to resist the horses, he was not afraid of these Qi army formations.

"Kill!" More than 300 elite cavalry responded violently, the sound was like thunder, and more than 1,000 iron hooves stirred up the smoke and dust in the sky, like a rolling iron stream in an instant. The surging momentum is like a monstrous wave sweeping in.

The formation of the Qi army began to stir, and the soldiers standing in the front row began to look around in horror, and the timid ones had begun to retreat. Even though these Qi soldiers are Qi soldiers, all of them are the same for fear. Although they were soldiers of the Qi army, they had no experience of dealing with cavalry charges, just like ordinary soldiers and even recruits. Therefore, in the face of the cavalry of the Jieyi Army, they began to panic at this moment, just like new soldiers.

This is not to say that these soldiers are useless, but they have never been trained in such combat responses. Of course, they don't know what to do at the moment.

And Liu Qinghan, the general of the Qi army, appeared in front in person at this moment, running back and forth in the formation, shouting and scolding, trying to control the decline, but his efforts were in vain, with the approach of the cavalry of the Jieyi Army, that momentum made the Qi soldiers even more flustered. Because during the previous siege, many middle and low-level officers in the Qi army were killed, so that more people had no effective command and began to retreat, and the soldiers who could stay in place were becoming fewer and fewer.

"Damn! Previously, the assault boat should have been allowed to transport the bed crossbow on the ship. Looking at the scene in front of him, Liu Qinghan couldn't help but sigh, and suddenly felt a sense of despair.

"It's all my fault! My bad! Liu Qinghan muttered bitterly.

It was originally a mistake to let the navy soldiers land and fight, but the situation was not good, and he still let the soldiers fight to the death, which was the responsibility of him, the commander-in-chief. If the troops had been withdrawn in time, why did they do this?

"Don't quit! No refund! Liu Qinghan is still making the last effort, you must know that on the open plain, when the infantry encounters the cavalry, only by lining up in a dense formation and fighting to the death can there be a glimmer of life, turning around and running away can only kill oneself, two legs can never be faster than four legs. In addition, even if there are many of them who can escape, they will not all be able to escape from the land and escape back to the warship.

And now, except for their own territory above the sea, all other places are under the jurisdiction of the Jieyi Army, how can they run away from the pursuit of the cavalry of the Jieyi Army?

However, no matter how hard Liu Qinghan tried, he couldn't give the soldiers a better way to deal with it. Especially when the cavalry of the Jieyi Army, under the leadership of Li Qingping, directly knocked the Qi soldiers in front of them into the air, and after killing dozens of soldiers in a row, the rest of the Qi soldiers could no longer resist the charge of the cavalry of the Jieyi Army.

"General, withdraw! The soldiers have collapsed, and we can't recover the defeat......" Liu Qinghan killed several retreating soldiers in a row, but he couldn't win back the soldiers' resistance.

His lieutenant also began to persuade him to prepare for evacuation. Now that they are evacuated, they can still use the assault boat to leave, as long as they board the warship, these Jieyi troops will naturally have no way to take them.