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Chapter 511: Fierce Battle on the Tuojiang River

When Zeng Chong saw the fortification location chosen by Chen Zeyue, he secretly scolded his mother, but also had to admire these generals in Dingzhou really all had goods in their stomachs, Chen Zeyue had a good reputation in the Dingzhou army, and a large number of grassroots officers were taught by him, but externally, few people knew about him, he went on fewer expeditions, and there were no loud battles, but if the opponent looked down on him because of this, he was destined to suffer. Pen | fun | pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 ｉｎｆｏ

The Dingzhou army garrison site is a U-shaped terrain, the two ends are steep mountains, covered with forests, and the snow is several meters thick, Chen Zeyue will deploy his troops at the bottom of this U-shape, you want to cross the river from both sides to attack him, you can, but you have to go around a long way, over the steep ridge, in this season, in this weather, it is almost impossible to complete the task, on the contrary, because the Tuojiang River is frozen, the original wide water surface here has become a flat river.

Standing on the smooth ice, Zeng Chong stared at the defensive line made of ice and snow on the opposite side, and the hand shrunk in his sleeve clenched involuntarily, it looked difficult to fight, but at this time, he was ready to shoot and had to send it.

Zeng Yifei, the commander of the Jinghai Battalion, and Zeng Yiyang, the commander of the Zhenliao Battalion, stood by Zeng Chong's side, both of them were also generals over forty years old, they were both from the Zeng family, Zeng Yifei, Zeng Yiyang was the distant cousin of Zeng Yifan, the young marshal of the Zeng family, and Zeng Chong was Zeng Yifan's uncle.

"The prestige of the Dingzhou army is outside, and the guard general Chen Zeyue on the opposite side, although his reputation is not obvious, but when he sees Li Qing taking him with him, he knows that it is not an easy person, and looking at his choice of battlefield and layout of defense, although he can't see anything surprising, but it is also a disciplined battle, this battle is not easy to fight, are you mentally prepared?" Zeng Chong asked with a solemn face.

Zeng Yifei touched his beard, and said with some puzzlement: "There are many armies that the Dingzhou Army can fight, like the Tianlei Battalion is called the first in the Dingzhou Army, followed by the Violent Bear Battalion, the Horizontal Knife Battalion, the Whirlwind Battalion, and the Changsheng Battalion, all of which are prestigious, and they are the rock battalions that guard Dingzhou, although they have not been on the battlefield after the Pingman, but they are also famous, but this battalion in front of them does not even have a name, it should not be the main battalion of the Dingzhou Army, why did Li Qing take him with him?" ”

Zeng Yiyang also nodded and said: "Yes, Dingzhou military regulations, only the army that has made great achievements can be given to the camp gate, and even the rebellious Bai clan this time was originally given by Li Qing to defend the prestige and defend the military, what is the origin of this Chen Zeyue?" Can Li Qing value it so much? ”

Zeng Chong shook his head, "I don't know very well, but a good fighter has no outstanding merits, since Li Qing is relieved to take this person with him, then he definitely has his strengths, let's be careful." ”

Zeng Yifei nodded: "Uncle, don't worry, against the Dingzhou Army, it is a heavy army, we will not take it lightly, the lion fights the rabbit, and we also use all our strength, I think this is also the reason why the marshal transferred us, if we can't completely kill Li Qing this time, our Zeng clan will be in trouble!" ”

Zeng Chong sighed, "If I can choose, I really don't want to be an enemy of Li Qing and others!" I hope that Li Qing can be left in Shenzhou this time, otherwise the Zeng family's disaster will not be far away! Yifei, your Jinghai camp go first, carry more equipment, don't feel sorry for those things, we can buy and rebuild them when we run out, we can't afford to fail, or even delay. Yiyang, the war is together, we have to take it in one fell swoop, Yifei will attack during the day, and you will attack at night, take turns to fight, and do not give the opponent a chance to breathe. ”

"Yes!" Zeng Yiyang and Zeng Yifei bowed down to receive the order, and then turned around and returned to their station, Zeng Chong stood on the ice, stared at the opposite position for the last time, and suddenly turned around and returned to his command camp on a high ground, standing there, the battlefield in front of him was unobstructed.

Hundreds of war drums were beating, rows of foot soldiers went down to the ice, quickly assembled into a dense formation, a lifting trebuchet was carefully placed on the ice, followed by a dense scorpion cannon, the eight bull crossbows were also put on the ice, the ice surface was smooth, and the trebuchet that usually required dozens of people to move, now a dozen people can push it, and when these heavy equipment were pushed to the middle of the Tuojiang River, they were fixed in place, and the infantry crossed these instruments and began to advance.

The first stone bullet crossed the Tuojiang River, smashed on the river embankment with a bang, and the firing range was determined, and soon the grenadiers were busy adjusting the firing angle and carrying the stone projectile.

At the rear of Chen Zeyue's camp, more than a dozen trebuchets were also preparing to go at this time, looking at the trebuchets on the opposite side, Chen Zeyue's eyes twitched a few times, fuck, they are all produced in Dingzhou, in the past, Dingzhou competed with the other party for range and accuracy of catapults, and at this time there was no slightest advantage.

"Aim at the trebuchets for me first, and destroy them." Chen Zeyue said, the threat of this thing is too great, if one shot bounces down, if you are unlucky, you can kill and injure dozens of people.

"General, our trebuchets are set up behind the position, and they can't reach them!" A lieutenant said in annoyance.

"Fuck, it's calculated!" Chen Zeyue took a sip, the other party obviously calculated the range of the Dingzhou trebuchet, they could hit their own forward positions, but they couldn't suppress the firepower, "Son of a bitch, since that's the case, then *** our infantry, Lao Tzu still has cover here, but you are bareheaded." ”

Saying this in his mouth, he was so annoyed in his heart that the Dingzhou army was worse now, the difference was military strength and quantity, and the enemy was paying attention to fighting with them.

The war drums on both sides beat at the same time, and the drums gradually became excited, and the soldiers on both sides were also in the passionate drums, and their emotions were hooked up little by little, until the horns suddenly sounded, and the two sides of the strait almost broke out in unison with an earth-shattering roar, and the stone bullets immediately crossed the sky and fell to the opponent.

With a few rumblings, several bunkers were immediately smashed, and several soldiers were pressed underneath, but on the river, there was a bloody spray all the way, and the chest wall on the defensive position of the Dingzhou Army blocked the rolling of the stone bullets, but on the Tuojiang River, those falling stone bullets were like fish in water on the ice, and the lethality was several times greater than usual. In the first round of mutual shooting, it was Chen Zeyue who had the upper hand, Chen Zeyue screamed and laughed, "God help me!" ”

On the smooth ice, the blood flowed, and the red quickly spread on the white ice, and the attacking soldiers stepped on the blood of their comrades, red eyes, shouted, roared, carried simple wooden ladders, pushed simple building carts, and quickly advanced along the ice. This kind of building car was made on the spot after observing the opponent's defense line, only about three meters high, one side is a ramp, pushed over to the river embankment, the soldiers run up along the ramp, but can condescendingly slash the Dingzhou soldiers behind the defense line.

Zeng Chong was not worried about the military strength, he knew that at this time, opposite him, there were only more than 6,000 Dingzhou soldiers, and he himself, the main force of the army was close to 15,000 people, counting the auxiliary soldiers, it was more than 20,000, and behind him, there were other troops from Liaoshen and Shen who were rushing over in an endless stream, even if they could not be defeated, they could also exhaust the opponent's troops, even if they could not be broken, they could also let the enemy shed the last drop of blood behind the defense line, he was not worried about not being able to break this defense line, at this time, his attention was on the 3,000 personal guard battalion that Li Qing brought out.

Chen Zeyue deployed his troops here, it is true that he can not copy both sides, and can only attack head-on, but in the same way, Li Qing's personal guard battalion cannot go forward to support him after returning, in other words, Chen Zeyue has put himself in a dead place, except for a desperate battle, he has no other way, of course, he can retreat to the mountains behind him, but this season, entering the mountains, what is the difference between that and sending him to death? Will Chen Zeyue do this?

The only possibility is that after Li Qing returns, it is very likely that he will cross the frozen river and attack himself from behind, so even if the frontal battlefield is wide enough, Zeng Chong still only ordered the two battalions to attack in turn, and the remaining main force of one battalion was deployed behind him to prevent Li Qing from attacking from behind.

Carefully sail the ship of ten thousand years, and once filled the road. Li Qing is going, it must be to attack the elite of the Bai tribe before the sudden attack, to be honest, Zeng Chong does not have the slightest good impression of these barbarians, this stems from the hostility of Dachu to the barbarians for hundreds of years, how many barbarians Li Qing killed, Zeng Chong is not heartbroken, even if they are standing in the same boat now, Zeng Chong is more concerned about how much Li Qing will lose in this battle, although the barbarians are hateful, but their combat effectiveness is considerable, especially these Bai elites, it should not be underestimated.

It is best if Li Qing destroys all the barbarians and loses a lot of himself, then it will be the best of both worlds. Zeng Chong was a little obscene in his heart, but he also knew that this situation was extremely unlikely. Since Li Qing dared to attack at this time, he must have a certain degree of certainty, the biggest possibility is to eat a Bai elite, reflexively pounce back to deal with himself, for the situation of the right wing, Zeng Chong understands, whether it is Zeng Yifan, or Lu Fengchun, they have deliberately delayed the journey backwards for two days, the meaning of this is naturally self-evident, they want Li Qing and the Bai clan to fight first, and then come to pick up the cheap, for this choice of the two, Zeng Chong has no doubt, on the contrary, he thinks that it should be done, not in my clan, their hearts will be different, and the barbarian is now in the hands of that mad woman named Naf, and the more he dies, the better.

This woman even killed her own husband, and she shuddered.

The resistance on the opposite side was not surprising at all, the resistance was extremely stubborn and fierce, and after fighting for half a day, his troops rarely even attacked the river embankment, but there were more than 1,000 dead and wounded, but the enemy was sure that he would not be able to go there. Seeing the gradually darkening sky, Zeng Chong thought, even if you are tired, I will also be tired of you.

The Jinghai battalion began to retreat one after another, and the soldiers of Zhenliao, who had been nourished for half a day, began to step on the ice. The two battalions began to swap roles.

In the Dingzhou military defense area, Chen Zeyue sat on the felt with a knife, closed his eyes, and listened to a captain loudly report the battle damage.

"Tell the officers at the front that the enemy will not stop attacking, and they must resist at least until the second watch before they can abandon the embankment position and withdraw to the fortress." Chen Zeyue ordered loudly.

After this battle, how many people in his battalion will survive? Chen Zeyue didn't want to think about this problem, and even more unwilling to think about how to reverse the situation that he was still surrounded even if he won this battle? (To be continued.) If you like this work, you are welcome to ***(***.***) to vote for recommendation, ***, your support is my biggest motivation. )