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Chapter 415: Beachbreaking

Baimadu, the Tuojiang River came here with a sharp turn, the wide river surface was suddenly tightened, and the river water bound by the mountains roared and rushed down, making a rumbling sound of water. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ｂｉｑUｇE。 info slammed to the shore, splashed high, and the protruding beach protruded into the Tuojiang River, like a sharp cone. Along the river beach up, is a gentle slope, Baima Du Fort is built on this gentle slope, although the fort is not big, can only accommodate about 3,000 defenders, but because of the dangerous terrain, the fort has a built-in trebuchet, can completely cover the entire river, any ship wants to go up the Tuojiang River, have to forcibly capture the Baima Du Fort to pass through unharmed.

In the past year, Zeng's sailors have twice tried to storm Baimadu, along the Tuojiang River, to copy the grain route and back road of the northern army of the Lu clan, but dozens of sailor ships have been damaged and sunk here, and the soldiers who forced the crossing ashore suffered heavy casualties, most of them were driven down the river, drowning countless times, after two successive defeats, Zeng's sailors were no longer able to organize an attack, and were basically abolished.

After the heavy damage to Zeng's naval division, Lu Fengchun will also be stationed in Baimadu, and a large number of elites from Baliji will be transferred to the frontal battlefield, leaving only thousands of northern troops, supplemented by the local Ding Zhuang who was forcibly recruited in the local area and the surrendered annex army, a total of 10,000 people to defend it. In Lu Fengchun's view, these horses were enough to ensure the safety of Tuojiang, but with the entry of the Dingzhou Navy Division into Tuojiang, Lu Fengchun felt an imminent crisis, although the siege of Zhucheng and the march into Shenzhou required a large number of men and horses, but he still dispatched thousands of elites, personally commanded by his son Lu Zhaoting, to support Baimadu.

A few days ago, he was informed that Lu Zhaoting would lead five thousand elites to support, which made him greatly relieved, to tell the truth, in the face of the famous Dingzhou army, with this miscellaneous army in his hand, he was really worried, although he had the advantage of time and place, but the reputation of the Dingzhou army was invincible still made him feel a little uneasy, and there was no vanity under the fame, this army that came down from the barbarian war was by no means comparable to the Zeng clan.

As the weather warmed day by day, Lu Jiawen's desire for reinforcements became stronger day by day, and he knew that when the weather became warmer, Ling Xun passed, which meant that the Dingzhou Navy Division could appear on the river at any time.

Lu Jiawen is like a wangfu stone every day, standing on the stockade of Baima Mountain, looking at the direction of Shenzhou.

On March 10, Lu Jiawen's infatuation did not move the heavens, and what appeared in front of him was not Lu Zhaoting's reinforcements, but the warships that were densely packed on the river and stretched for more than ten miles, and the Dingzhou Navy Division came.

Baimadu, the alarm bell on Baimadu sounded, Lu Jiawen rushed from the stockade to Baimadu, Baimadu was limited by the terrain, unable to deploy more troops, 3,000 people is the limit, the defenders in the mountain stockade can only be in a wait-and-see state during wartime, and reinforce Baimadu at any time.

Zheng Zhiyuan stood on the ship, frowning and looking at the terrain of Baimadu, although he had a general understanding of the terrain here from the Zeng Clan's navy, but when he really arrived here, he found that the situation was worse than he imagined. The terrain of Baimadu determined that they could only force a landing from the east side, and if they wanted to go around to the west side, they would inevitably be hit by the long-range weapons in the stockade.

However, the area in the east is limited, and the first landing can carry out an attack force of up to 1,000 people, and this attack force not only has to resist the opponent's anti-landing attack, but also needs to expand the battlefield and provide a landing site and space for the subsequent landing force, which is extremely difficult, because the other side not only has the advantage of being condescending, but also has a lot of silt on the river bank, which is unobstructed and extremely vulnerable to enemy attacks.

Seeing that the situation was so bad, Zheng Zhiyuan couldn't help but gasp, no wonder Zeng's sailors were still defeated again and again despite their mortal intentions.

Now there are not only Dingzhou sailors in the fleet, but also dozens of collected civilian ships, carrying 10,000 soldiers of the Zeng clan, Zheng Zhiyuan, who originally wanted these Zeng soldiers to take the lead, changed his attention, the advance landing battle is destined to be a treacherous battle, and if he wins, he can successfully open the situation, and if he loses, this attack will be fruitless, and the hope of the soldiers who took the lead in withdrawing is extremely slim.

Such a vicious battle, pinning hopes on the hands of the Zeng army, which has been repeatedly defeated under the Northern Army, is undoubtedly a fool's dream, and it is necessary to let his own marines go up, but this casualty is afraid that it will make Commander Deng Peng jump to his feet.

"Strong!" Zheng Zhiyuan called.

Baimadu Fort, Lu Jia asked well, whether he could stop the enemy's attack, just in the first wave of attacks, if he succeeded in driving the enemy down the river, then everything would be worry-free, such an important link, he was not worried about the new annex army and those Ding Zhuang who had not been picking up arms for a long time to complete, but directly gathered the elite of the 1,500 northern army in Baimadu.

"Drive them down the river again!" On the top of the fortress, Lu Jiawen pointed to the dense and approaching ships on the river, and said loudly.

In the middle of the river, Zheng Zhiyuan's flagship sent a signal, and the fleet dropped its iron anchor outside the range of the Baimadu trebuchet, and anchored.

The ship-borne trebuchet above the flagship fired a stone projectile, and as the stone projectile landed on the gentle slope in the distance, the range of the stone projectile had been measured, and at the same time, the trebuchet on the white horse ferry also began to drag the rope, because of the high terrain, their stone projectile range could be directly hit into the river.

Zheng Zhiyuan took a deep breath, snatched the drumstick from the drummer's hand, and shouted, "Attack!" As he shouted, the drumstick in his hand landed heavily on the cowhide drum surface.

"Knock knock!"

The ships of the Dingzhou Naval Division all used bilge rotation technology, and the ships of the Dingzhou Naval Division were extremely fast, and the ships of the first wave of attack carried more than 1,000 marines of the Naval Division, 200 chariots with 100-round crossbows, and a small number of scorpion cannons. Zheng Zhiqiang served as the commander of the commando team.

The speed of the Dingzhou Sailor ship was completely unexpected by Lu Jiawen, and in a blink of an eye, the ship rushed forward dozens of meters, "Release!" He shouted.

The trebuchet, which had been calibrated a long time ago, roared, and countless stone bullets drew arcs from the fort to the river, but the effect of the first wave of shooting was unsatisfactory, the speed of the opposing ships was too fast, except for the two ships that were slightly dragged behind and suffered several stone bullets each, the rest continued to advance unharmed.

Several stone bullets hit the ship's plank, and the powerful impact force directly penetrated the ship's deck, falling into the bilge, knocking down several Dingzhou soldiers who were stepping on the wheels, and blood splattered everywhere.

Another stone bullet hit the side of the ship, and the sawdust that exploded flew around like sharp arrows, and several soldiers who were operating the ship on the board fell without saying a word, some fell on the deck, and some fell directly into the river, and a wave rushed in, and then disappeared without a trace.

The marines on the ship preparing to land are useless at this time, they can only raise the shield in their hands, more than a dozen shields are interlocked, once there is a stone projectile on the shield surface, the power of the blow can be dispersed to the greatest extent, of course, even so, the soldiers under the bullet point of the broken muscles and muscles can not be avoided, it depends on their luck.

"Ten meters near the shore, shoot!" Lu Jia asked and yelled. The trebuchets in the fort are all pulled by manpower, and a trebuchet requires dozens of people to pull, and the launch speed is really unsatisfactory.

With a bang, dozens of stone projectiles flew out again, but this time they all hit the target. The stone bullet fell on the ship, not afraid that he would directly penetrate the ship's board, so that the striking surface was limited, the most afraid was that the stone bullet rolled on the deck, which caused a lot of losses, seeing the screams on the ship in front of him, from time to time there were soldiers who were knocked into the air, Zheng Zhiyuan's heart was extremely painful, but the drumstick in his hand never stopped.

Ten meters from the shore, a ship was sunk, and more than 100 soldiers on board, dozens of sailors, and chariots, sank into the river.

"Search and rescue!" Zheng Zhiyuan kept beating the drum and commanded. More than a dozen dinghys shot forward like arrows, small and fast, and the trebuchets were basically no threat to them.

On the front ship, Zheng Zhiqiang held a shield in one hand and a war knife in the other, his eyes were red, and as the ship rested heavily on the river, he shouted: "Landing!" ”

The marines on the ships in front of them stood up, shields in one hand and planks in the other, and jumped from the boats to throw the planks on the mudflats, for it was safer for the first to go ashore, for the third wave of slings was falling overhead.

Blood splattered and screams raged, and waves of soldiers jumped from the boat, threw the planks in their hands, and then ran forward in great stride, behind them, their comrades pushing their chariots along the paved passage of the planks, following closely.

At this time, the ship's ship-borne trebuchet began to fire stone projectiles towards the Baimadu Fort for suppressive shooting, and the Dingzhou trebuchet used a twisted string to fire, but the launch speed was much faster than that of the other party. At this time, the ship-borne trebuchet was already able to shoot stone projectiles directly out of the fort.

The 1,000 commandos led by Zheng Zhiqiang took the lead in landing and rushed forward hundreds of steps, and the figure of the Northern Army was already pouring out of the opposite fort, and the feather arrows began to whizz down.

"Cloth car array, cloth car array!" Zheng Zhiqiang hissed and shouted. The chariot was quickly pushed up, and an arc-shaped chariot formation with a depth of 200 paces and a width of about 100 paces was laid out, and the middle section was protruding, like a crescent moon, which was the famous crescent moon array.

"Yipingong!" Zheng Zhiqiang ordered again, after the car formation, the marines took off the Yipin bow they carried, bent the bow and arrows, and threw them upward, the armor-piercing arrows used in the Yipin bow were extremely sharp, and the northern army on the opposite side began to appear casualties, but relying on the terrain, the northern army was still surging towards the car formation like a tide.

"Hundred-round crossbow!"

The buzzing sound is endless, and the short crossbows like flying locusts shoot out like lightning, although the northern army has long known the power of the Dingzhou Sailor Hundred Crossbows, the first two rows of soldiers are holding large shields, but in the high-speed running, it is impossible to keep the shield tight, countless short crossbows drilled into the gaps in the shield, fell from the air, and shot the charging formation out of a blank section.

In the middle of the river, the first batch of ships that had completed the transportation of the wounded began to fire slings while avoiding the rear, and the second wave of beach-grabbing ships was ready to go.