Chapter Seventy-Nine: The First Blockade

Just when the dark fire spread in the three states of the Later Zhou Dynasty, under the city of Wuxi in Changzhou in the Southern Tang Dynasty, after Li Jingda, the king of E, the Southern Tang Dynasty and Jiangyin Jiedu, burned most of the ships, Wu Yuezhong and Wu Jiedu made Qian Wenfeng urgently order the whole army to shrink, and the remaining twelve large and small ships were moored on the shore to protect each other with the western battalion, and the major battalions were closed.

The strange thing is that Li Jingda, who won the first game, did not attack, except for ordering his own fleet to besiege Wu Yue's ships from afar, the other armies still continued the previous style of "closing the door and thanking guests" and continued to stay. In the entire Wuxi battlefield, the only thing that has a little movement is that the movement on the hills west of the city has not stopped. However, Wu Yuebing had long been "immune" to these tricks from top to bottom, and the two sides invariably entered a truce.

Compared with the unfavorable division on the northern front, the army of the Wu Vietnamese line located on the Fu'an confrontation line was a fierce tiger out of the gate.

Early in the morning of September 30, Wu Yue Jinghai Jiedu made Qian Hongyu personally lead a group of personal guards to supervise the battle, and 80,000 troops were forced under the pressure of steel swords, driving improvised rafts and small boats to storm the south bank of Changxi.

Zheng Yanhua, the deputy general of the Southern Tang Dynasty, commanded Ruoding, and led 3,000 soldiers to form a three-dimensional human life harvesting net with small trebuchets, bows and arrows, and simple javelins behind the wooden array and blocking wall.

The first attack of Wu Yue's army did not make any progress after the cost of more than a thousand soldiers. Qian Hongyu, who was standing on the high platform on the north bank, found that there did not seem to be many defenders in the Southern Tang Dynasty, so he immediately changed his offensive strategy and ordered all the large troops to divide into seven routes and choose suitable places from the upstream and downstream to attack with all their might.

After discovering that the enemy's troop movement was abnormal, Zheng Yanhua had to separate the originally small forces again and block them everywhere, but clearly stated that the various units would retreat in time.

After paying more than 2,000 soldiers' lives again, Wu Yue's army successfully built three pontoon bridges in the upper and lower reaches of Changxi, and a steady stream of Wu Yue soldiers rushed across the pontoon bridges with shields, following the retreat route of a small number of Southern Tang defenders, outflanking the main position of the Southern Tang Jianzhou Army from the east and west.

Zheng Yanhua made a quick decision and issued an order for the whole army to retreat south when the first group of assault soldiers of Wu Yue's army came ashore.

At present, the remaining defenders of the Southern Tang Dynasty are all the elite of Jianzhou selected by Zheng Yanhua, and they quickly unloaded their unnecessary equipment, put on their personal weapons and turned around and ran, and soon disappeared into the southern mountains.

Qian Hongyu Shi Ran crossed Changxi and immediately attacked the south with the whole army. However, when Wu Yue's army reached the mountain pass, they found that the passage into the mountain had been blocked by a high wall composed of stones and trees. Above the green of the walled wall and the rolling hills, the black-clothed military uniforms of the Southern Tang defenders can be seen everywhere.

Qian Hongyu ordered the front army to try to attack, but was mercilessly killed by the rolling stones, bamboo and wood javelins, bows and arrows on the walled wall and the mountain, so he had to order the army to stop, set up a shield array outside the arrow range of the walled wall, and urgently made siege equipment behind the battle.

At the end of the day, a huge bamboo bed made of wood and bamboo poles rushed out, and 300 Wuyue soldiers rushed to the wall with the bamboo bed that was still dripping water under the protection of dozens of large shields. This time, the stones, javelins, and rockets of the Southern Tang defenders could not cause substantial damage to this behemoth, so they had to watch the bamboo bed cross a safe distance and run all the way to the front of the wall.

At this time, the big shields in front of the bamboo bed rushed forward more than ten steps, stopped, and then formed a thick shield array, and the people on the wall could only see the figures shaking from time to time under the shield array. After a while, the shield array spread back, revealing a trench in the ground that had been left behind the removal of stones.

Zheng Yanhua frowned and looked at this trench, and immediately ordered the defenders to retreat, leaving only five hundred elites by his side, and urgently ordered to cut down long bamboo poles with arm thickness.

A drum sounded, three hundred Wu Yue soldiers drank in unison, ran with all their might, and then violently inserted the lower part of the bamboo bed into the trench, and then pushed up with all their strength, and the Wu Yue soldiers in the rear grabbed the long bamboo pole hanging down from the bamboo bed in groups of three, and pushed the bamboo bed forward with all their might.

"Resist with all your might! Bow and arrow ready! Zheng Yanhua roared wildly and took the lead in pushing the bamboo pole in his hand to the slowly erected bamboo bed. More than 20 elites of the Southern Tang Dynasty who got long bamboo poles also made efforts to support the bamboo bed forward.

The bamboo bed on both sides made an unpleasant creaking sound, and it staggered and remained upright.

In the void of the wrestling between the two sides, six large shields appeared above the bamboo bed, and the large shield slightly poked out of the bamboo bed.

"Shoot them off!" Zheng Yanhua shouted urgently.

For a time, the arrows above the walled wall struck like rain. However, the vast majority of the arrows were blocked by the shield array that was arc-shaped as a whole!

At this time, several long knives poked out from under the big shield and cut off the defenders' bamboo poles within the range of the sword light one by one.

"Afterburner!" A loud roar came from behind the shield. The morale of the Wu Yue soldiers suddenly exerted their strength, and under the strength of the two sides, the huge bamboo bed suddenly fell down in the direction of the wall, and the Wu Yue warriors behind the six big shields also roared, and the group of people smashed in the direction of the wall behind the shield.

Zheng Yanhua snorted coldly, first slammed the big shield in his left hand with a big shield rushing forward, and quickly stabbed the Wu Yue warrior who exposed his body with his right hand, and then slammed the big shield to the side, and the knife in his right hand stabbed over again!

"Steady!" Zheng Yanhua roared violently, bent down and picked up a big shield on the ground, and smashed it towards the Wu Yue soldiers who were frantically attacking along the bamboo bed, and immediately knocked down several soldiers, rolling down like a rolling gourd, and at the same time bringing down several soldiers as he slid down.

However, Zheng Yanhua's personal bravery only blocked Wu Yue's offensive tide for a moment. Soon, a steady stream of Wu Yue elites rushed up the wall along the bamboo bed, and immediately gained a firm foothold on the not wide wall.

Seeing that the situation was unstoppable, Zheng Yanhua and his subordinates fought and retreated again and again, until they retreated to the top of the mountain, and then dragged the shield and turned around and ran.

The Wu Yue soldiers in the rear chased very vigorously at first, but soon some people fell into all kinds of traps and traps, coupled with arrows shot from all directions from time to time, they were seriously damaged, and the pace of the pursuit slowed down.

When Qian Hongyu happily walked up to the wall, he saw the mountain passage in front of him, and couldn't help scolding! It turned out that the entire mountain road had already been destroyed by the defenders of the Southern Tang Dynasty, one moment it was a trench dug, another was a mess of trees, and from time to time, the entire tree was cut down and fell sideways in the middle of the road.

Scolding and scolding, you have to continue to attack! Qian Hongyu had no choice, so Yicheng sent an elite to search and advance in front and around, while sending large troops to take turns to clear the road. The speed of Wu Yue's army suddenly slowed down.

Also on September 30, the Southern Han army launched an attack in unison.

At that time, under the cover of the mist in the early morning, 70,000 troops suddenly appeared under the city of Chaozhou, surrounding the southwest and east sides of the city of Chaozhou. Then, 40,000 troops left to besiege the city, and 30,000 troops spread along the east and west of the Han River, attacking the whole line, attacking the pitiful Southern Tang defenders on the north bank in many ways.

Zhang Yunkai, the deputy general of the Southern Tang Dynasty stationed in Chaozhou, was the nephew of Zhang Hansi, the training envoy of the Zhangzhou regiment.

However, just when Zhang Yunkai was urgently inspecting the defense of Chaozhou City, Chaozhou went west for 300 miles, and 80,000 Southern Han troops suddenly appeared at the southern end of the Meiling Ancient Road, followed the trend of the ancient road, and rushed towards the border boundary between the Southern Tang Dynasty and the Southern Han Dynasty.