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Huang Chong led the people of the East Road, sent troops from Xiapi in Xuzhou, all the way to the south, and attacked Huaiyin, an important town in Xuzhong.

The Han army set up a pontoon bridge on the Huai River, although in the process of building the pontoon bridge, it was counterattacked by the Wu army, but Huang Chong responded calmly, mobilized a large number of archers, concentrated firepower, and carried out arrow attacks on the enemy on the south bank, shot and killed a lot of Wu soldiers, and cleared the obstacles to the construction of the pontoon bridge.

After the pontoon bridge was completed, the Han army continued to march to the south bank of the Huai River through the pontoon bridge, besieged Huaiyin City, and then launched a strong attack on Huaiyin City.

Although the Huaiyin defenders were desperately resisting, but after all, they were still outnumbered, and after holding on for five or six days, the West Gate was the first to be broken by the Han army, and the Han army entered the city from the West Gate, and soon controlled the whole city, most of the defenders were annihilated, and the defenders were also captured.

After taking Huaiyin, Huang Chong led his army to the south and attacked Guangling, an important town in Jiangbei.

In addition to Huang Chong's troops, Jiang Bin, who attacked Shouchun, Xian Hong, who attacked Yiyang, and Wang Qi, who attacked Jiangxia, all had to face the problem of rushing to cross the Huai River.

The Huai River is not wide, it is not narrow, if you use a boat to cross, the four people and horses cross the river at the same time, the number of boats required is extremely amazing, so between the preparation of the action, the Huai River is designed to use the pontoon bridge, plan each road of people, at least three pontoon bridges should be erected, then the four people and horses, you need to erect twelve pontoon bridges at the same time.

Therefore, in the previous preparations, the pontoon bridge was a prerequisite, and the first was fully prepared, and by the time the river was crossed, all the objects for the construction of the pontoon bridge were ready to stop, and the speed of the pontoon bridge construction was also quite fast.

Even if it was blocked by the Wu army like Huang Chong on the East Road, this situation also occurred in the Shouchun and Yiyang River sections, but the Han army had made an emergency plan in advance, and carried out many exercises for this purpose, in order to cover the smooth construction of the pontoon bridge, the Han army coordinated with all arms and made a decisive attack, successfully repelled the obstruction of the Wu army, and successfully completed the task of crossing the river.

After crossing the Huai River, several Han armies marched together, Jiang Bin besieged Shouchun on a large scale, and Lianhong attacked Yiyang on this road, only Wang Qi received the least resistance on this way, and they drove south all the way to attack Jiangxia.

Yiyang in these roads, is the most difficult to bite the hard bone, as the governor of Yiyang is the general of Wu Zhang Xian, Zhang Xian followed the Lu Kang campaign for many years, participated in the western expedition to Yizhou and Luoyang battles, when Lu Kang was dying, the defense of Yiyang Town, handed over to Zhang Xian's hands.

Yiyang is a fortress-level city that Lu Kang has operated for nearly ten years when he was alive, it is the advance base of the Northern Expedition of Wu State to the Central Plains, and it is also an important link in the Jianghuai defense line.

This time, the Han army attacked Wu, and the primary target of the third road was to remove the nail of Yiyang and clear the obstacles for the Han army to sweep Jianghuai.

When the pontoon bridge was built on the Huai River, Zhang Xian sent men and horses to try to interfere with the Han army's movements, but the Han army seemed to have been prepared, and before the Wu army could approach, a random arrow was fired, forcing the Wu army to be unable to get close to the shore, so that the Wu army's plan to destroy the pontoon bridge went bankrupt.

Zhang Xian had no choice but to shrink his forces and retreat to Yiyang, preparing to hold the city.

After the Han army successfully crossed the river, it soon launched a strong attack on Yiyang.

Although none of these people were equipped with firearms, other large siege equipment such as catapults, bed crossbows, crossbow cars, siege vehicles, and rushing vehicles were readily available. After the siege action began, the stone bullets thrown by the catapult flew out and smashed into the city wall of Yiyang, even if it was a strong city wall, it was inevitable that it would shake and be damaged, the Han army smashed it with stone bullets repeatedly, the city wall of Yiyang City was full of holes, and the pedal arrows shot by the bed crossbow were firmly nailed to the city wall, providing a lot of convenience for the siege troops.

Zhang Xian did not dare to slack off in the slightest, and personally supervised the battle on the city tower, there were cracks in the city wall, and there was some collapse, Zhang Xian would go to the danger place in person and command the Wu soldiers to block and repair.

After the Han army launched an attack, Zhang Xian personally commanded the battle on the head of the city day and night, fought bloodily, and launched a fierce tug-of-war with the Han army.

Under the encouragement of Zhang Xian, the soldiers of the Wu army all fought bravely, everyone took the lead, and they all forgot to die, fought desperately, and resisted the attacks of the Han army again and again.

On the side of the Han army, due to the failure to take Yiyang after several days of strong attacks, Xian Hong was also a little anxious, personally went into battle to supervise the battle, and strengthened the intensity of the attack.

The offensive and defensive battle of the city is equivalent to a war of attrition, and the longer it drags on, the greater the consumption of the battle, which is not only the consumption of personnel, but also the consumption of weapons and materials.

Ji Han for this offensive, prepared for a full five years, strong national strength, so that its preparation is extremely perfect, and on the other hand, Wu State, due to the country is poor and weak, limited resources, the investment in the Yiyang front line is naturally limited, after the outbreak of this battle, it was only more than ten days, Yiyang's accumulation over the years was exhausted, and the gap caused by casualties could not be replenished.

It's not that Zhang Xian doesn't want to replenish, but the entire Jianghuai defense line is extremely tight, and now the rear of Wu State can hardly send a single soldier to reinforce the front line, and now Zhang Xian has no other way than to rely on himself.

But Zhang Xian's blood is there, and he is absolutely not afraid of death, but his confidence in holding Yiyang has been worn out little by little in the daily war of attrition.

As the number of casualties increased, Zhang Xian's defensive forces became less and less, and many sections of the city wall were short of manpower and could no longer cope with the strong attack of the Han army.

It seems to smell the situation that the Wu army is unable to support, the attack of the Han army is becoming more and more fierce and crazy, and finally this torrent has turned into a terrible flood, breaking the last line of defense of the Wu army, Zhang Xian also fell in this monstrous wave, and Yiyang fell.

Immediately afterwards, Shouchun was lost, Lu'an was lost, Hefei was lost, and the urgent documents flew to Jianye like snowflakes.

At the same time as the victory of the East Road, Wang Ji led the men and horses in the middle of the road, and drove southward, the attack of this road was only the junction of Jingzhou and Yangzhou in Wu State, the weakest, Wang Ji almost never encountered any decent resistance, all the way south, Kejiangxia, and reached the north bank of the Yangtze River.