Time continues to stand still on the twenty-first day.

Under the light of the setting sun, Huangpi City, which had been fought over many times by both sides, although it did not collapse as a whole, it appeared to be extra dilapidated, with a dull color soaked in blood everywhere and dazzling dendritic traces smashed open by Huaidong's heavy stone-throwing crossbow.

Although the news of the Baihetan fiasco has not yet come out, the news that Luo Xianyi led his troops and horses to aid Lishan and attacked the main force of the Chai Mountain ambush at Luodian Zhangjiawan, 70 miles east of Suizhou City, early this morning, had already entered Huangpi City at dusk.

Lishan and Luodian are located less than 200 miles due north of Huangpi, separated by Xiaochang County.

Xiaochang City is located between the two majestic mountain systems of Dahong Mountain and Shuangfeng Mountain.

In Ye Ji Luorong's plan, once the defense line in eastern Hubei could not be supported, the troops and horses could disperse to Xiaochang and Shicheng to retreat, forming a second line of defense to resist the Huaidong army entering the hinterland of Jingxiang, so Luo Xiancheng stationed nearly 10,000 soldiers and horses in Xiaochang.

However, there was a lack of sufficient material support, and the reserve defense lines of Shicheng and Xiaochang were far from being as strong as Huaidong's Shanyang, Siyang, Sikou, and Yuntiguan to support the periphery of Xusi.

Xiaochang City is not even seventy miles away from Lishan City.

On the night of the 19th, Sun Zhuang led his troops from the south of Lishan City to Fancheng, and news reached Xiaochang. The general of Xiaochang did not arouse sufficient vigilance, and although he sent detectives to contact Suizhou overnight on the 20th, it was too late.

The scout cavalry returned before noon, bringing back the news that Luo Xianyi's department had been defeated in Luodian, and the Xiaochang guard general knew that Chaishan and Lishan had all surrendered, and Huaidong had entered the hinterland of Jingxiang with more soldiers and horses than imagined, and the five thousand soldiers and horses who had attacked Fancheng before were only a small part of the Chaishan ambush.

The relatively accurate news about the Ambush in Chaishan was sent by the Xiaochang guard general at noon to report to Fengshan, Tiemen, Shicheng and Huangpi, and Huangpi was dusk to learn the exact news.

Although the Huangpi defenders did not collapse immediately, Sun Ji often stood at the head of the city, looking at the Huaidong army on the periphery of Huangpi City, slowly surging like a tide in the sunset, and the fear in his heart also poured out like a tide, and he couldn't press it down......

Sun Jichang was not a fool, he knew that the Huaidong Army chose this opportunity to launch a general attack, which was to defeat their more than 110,000 soldiers and horses on the front line of Baitahe, Huangpi, and Xiongjiagang tonight. The night will intensify the collapse and confusion of the defenders, in the collapse of the retreat, they are not possible to form an orderly interception force, will help the Huaidong Army to use the cover of night to penetrate the depths, once the main force of the Huaidong Army is called to the north in the early morning of tomorrow to intersperse forty miles, interspersed with the line of Xiaonan, then the last resistance force they may have on the west flank of the eastern Hubei defense line will be completely strangled and crushed.

If they want to fight for a glimmer of life and the opportunity to retreat to Shicheng, they must withstand this strong attack of the Huaidong Army. After all, with Meng Ancian leading 20,000 cavalry, the pursuit of the Huaidong Army could not be unscrupulous.

But under the darkness of night, Meng Anchan's cavalry will be involved in chaos for the retreating soldiers and horses, and the slightest mistake in judgment may divide and encircle the Huaidong army, thus completely losing the initiative on the battlefield.

The Huaidong Army's night combat capability was fully reflected as early as the Yannan Wars......

If you want to survive, you must hold up the offensive of the Huaidong Army, which may last until tomorrow morning......

But, is this possible?

Sun Ji often couldn't suppress the fear in his heart, and all the generals around him were also like ashes.

When the news of the fall of Fancheng came, although the army's heart was shaken, after all, they were still looking forward to good news.

The news that Huaidong had ambushed his troops in Chaishan and cut off the retreat route was sent by the Xiaochang guard, and the messenger galloped to the camp and shouted out the earth-shattering news as if it had collapsed.

Although the messenger asked Hao Wenzhuang to cut off his head in the name of disturbing the morale of the army, such a major and bad news, even if the messenger of Xiaochang shouted it in public, it could not be covered up. At present, not only the generals of the whole army know about it, but also among the ordinary soldiers, and the fear brought by this news has spread like a plague.

When the overall battle situation did not collapse, the generals had the will to fight, and they did not dare to retreat easily, in addition to the expectation of victory, but also because there was a stern military law behind them to keep an eye on everyone. Whoever does not obey the military order and retreats without authorization, the machete of the military court team has never recognized the head.

And now that the whole battle situation is about to collapse, it is unknown whether Ye Ji Luorong can escape or not, who the hell would think about military law?

The psychology of the generals on the defense line is extremely fragile at this time, maybe ordinary soldiers are blind, but the middle and lower-level generals can already understand how serious and desperate the consequences of cutting off tens of thousands of Huaidong elites from the back road will be - if one person can't hold it, even one of them can't hold it, and lead the troops to flee first, it may cause the collapse of the entire defense line!

There is another one, even if it lasts until tomorrow, who can be sure that Meng Ancian is really willing to lead the cavalry to give everyone the palace soldiers?

What they have to face is nothing else, but a total of more than 100,000 Huaidong elites pounced like tigers and wolves, and there are more than 30,000 Chizhou troops on the eastern front.

Is Meng Ancian such a person? Will Zhong Rong escape first in Tiemen Mountain? Will Yang Xiong survive to the end in Hanjinjian? Will Ma Dekui bring some seeds? Has the old fox of Luwenzhuang already arranged a way out for himself?

At this moment, Sun Jichang's mind was hovering: Run, if you don't escape, it's too late......

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The sunset was still hanging above the treetops, and there was still an hour before it got dark, and nearly 100,000 soldiers spread out from the lake and mountain to the front base of the battle, and the armor and blades reflected the sunset, making people think that they were facing an ocean that could not be seen.

Although Zuo Chengmu didn't know whether Hu Wenmu had a firm hold in Jingzhou, and at this time he had already thoroughly understood that Jingzhou was the bait to lure Yanhu Hu to go deeper, but at this time, standing on top of Zhaohu Mountain, watching the Huaidong Army rush towards the enemy's defense line in Baitahe-Huangpi-Xiongjiagang like an iron stream, he was also deeply shocked and bloody: This is the torrent of the Iron Army that is qualified to sweep the world.

Only the deeper the understanding of military affairs, the more you will be confused and shocked by the absolute power displayed by the torrent of the iron army in front of you.

It was not that Lin Jian did not have the ability to tear through the enemy's defense line before this, but he had to wait until the enemy army was most vulnerable to save this fatal blow, which would make the enemy not even have a chance to struggle.

The strategy of luring the enemy deep, hiding from the sky and crossing the sea, and secretly crossing Chen Cang all made Lin Jian use it to the extreme, who in the world can match him? Thinking that the homeland of the Central Plains is expected to return in this life, Zuo Chengmu was also so excited that he burst into tears.

Although Zuo Chengmu has sincerity, he has also refined his iron heart, and understands that compared to the great cause of driving out Hu Lu and recovering the Central Plains, Jingzhou is helpless to be used as bait. If this had not been done and the war dragged on, we don't know how many thousands of people would have died in the chaos of the war.

At this moment, Zuo Chengmu was deeply impressed by the military strength displayed by Huaidong.

The people who can create and master this powerful military force are undoubtedly one of the few heroes in the ages, and in comparison, the incompetent descendants of the Yuan imperial family seem funny and ridiculous......

Fu Qinghe stood beside Zuo Chengmu, and was not very surprised by Zuo Chengmu's tears at this time. For a minister as sincere as Zuo Chengmu, you can kill him, but don't think that you can convince him with simple intrigue and trickery, what can break his heart is equivalent to the heroic cause of recovering rivers and mountains and rebuilding the empire.

Watching the 100,000 iron army launch the final general attack on the enemy's defense line together, Fu Qinghe, Song Fu, Gao Zongting, Ao Canghai and others could not suppress the excitement in their hearts: recovering Jingxiang is the first step, but taking this step means that Huaidong has completely grasped the initiative in the northern and southern wars, and it will be a matter of time before the Central Plains is recovered.

The general trend has been achieved, and any Xiaoxiao who stands in the way of this great cause will be ruthlessly crushed sooner or later.

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"Hulu invaded the south, the mountains and rivers were scattered, how many homelands became barren graves, how many wives were scattered, how many white bones were left in the wilderness, how many Wanghe mountains were broken and white-headed," Lin Jian stood on the high platform of the point general, stood against the railing, and shouted to the generals in front of the stage, "How many people are willing to drive into lackeys in front of Hulu horses and kill their compatriots?" The generals of the whole army know that the hatred of the country and the family can only be repaid today, and the generals need to work hard to kill the enemy......"

Lin Jian pounded the horizontal bar with his hands again, and repeated word by word: "The hatred of the country and the family can only be repaid today, and the generals need to fight hard to kill the enemy!" ”

"The hatred of the country and the family can only be repaid today, and the generals need to fight hard to kill the enemy......" was like a wave of sound, quickly spreading from Zhaohu Mountain to Baitahe, Changxuanling and other front-line troops.

"Beat the drums, attack." Lin Jian waved his hand and gave the order for a general attack.

Before the general's platform, dozens of war drums immediately sounded when they heard the order, and the drumming generals were all naked and naked, and they had to use all their strength to make the generals come out, and the war drums were beaten like spring thunder rolling on the earth.

Dozens of guards carried the scarlet battle flag on their shoulders and galloped towards the various armies that had already entered the battlefield, conveying the military order for the general attack.

At this moment, Chen Yan couldn't help but have a dry mouth, spit on his hand and moisten his palm, and when the guards rode close to him, he waved the order flag and shouted hoarsely: "Pass the order of the privy envoy, and your troops will attack immediately and kill the enemy!" The hatred of the country and the family will be repaid today, and the generals need to fight hard to kill the enemy! ”

"Attack!" Chen Yan pulled out the saber at his waist and swung it forward, giving the command to attack.

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The chief of Changxuanling will be Zhang Gou.

The main commander on the front of Huangpi City is Yu Wencheng.

The main character on the front of the Baita River will be stale.

The Baita River is located between Huangpi and Hanjin, as long as you cut into the defensive line, you can cut off most of the enemy forces in Huangpi on the right flank, prevent them from fleeing to Hanshui, and it is also the fastest advance position to take Shicheng directly.

On the front of the Baita River defense line, Chen Yan was the main force of the first wave of attack, and in addition, Zhao Hu led 20,000 soldiers and horses from the Jiangning Forbidden Camp and the Water Camp to line up behind.

After Chen Yan's headquarters tore apart the defense line of the Baita River, Zhao Hu led his troops to attack in the depths behind him.

The First Brigade of the Cavalry Battalion led by Zhang Jiheng and Zhou Pu was left in Zhaohu by Lin Jian as a strategic general reserve.

Only by tearing the enemy army on the east bank of the Han River to pieces at the fastest speed, the main force of the Huaidong Army in eastern Hubei led by Lin Tie had the opportunity to pursue and annihilate the Yanhu soldiers and horses on the west bank of the Han River. The Yanhu soldiers and horses on the west bank of the Han River were the real main force on its western front, and they were also the main culprits who really slaughtered and owed monstrous blood debts in the Central Plains.

When Luo Wenhu sighed for the thirty bed crossbows cast in fine iron, I don't know how he would feel when he saw that after the Huaidong Army's infantry formation in front of the Baita River was unfolded at this time, there were six hundred bed crossbows cast of fine iron being dragged by mules and horses into the front formation and into the open space in front of the Baita River? And how would the enemy troops in the zha camp behind the Baita River defense line feel when they saw these 600 bed crossbows made of fine iron shining with a terrifying light in the setting sun?

The bed crossbow base frame is cast with fine iron, which has a stronger structure and higher stability and accuracy in firing crossbow arrows. Restrained by mules and horses, the wheels made of fine iron can be followed by foot soldiers in the wilderness to force their march in pursuit of the enemy. Even if the crossbow body is damaged in the battle, as long as there are accessories, it is easy and fast to repair, and it can be easily transformed into a small cart to haul the wounded and materials.

There are so many benefits to the iron casting bed crossbow, but the only disadvantage is that the amount of refined iron consumed is amazing. The foundation of a bed crossbow weighs more than 400 catties, and 600 sets of fine iron bed crossbows will consume 200,000 catties of refined iron. Not to mention the difficulty of the overall casting, that is, two or three hundred thousand catties of refined iron is the total output of the Jiangning Ministry of Industry Iron Works in a year before the war.

The sound of twisting strings clicked loudly, and it was as dense as a drizzle after spring.

The 600 bed crossbows were staggered in two columns, concentrated on a narrow front of less than 400 paces, and the Huaidong Army had never put so many bed crossbows into a local battlefield so densely before.

Six hundred crossbowheads, cast of fine iron, glowing with a deadly light, were loaded into the crossbow troughs.

The defenders in the defensive line seemed to smell the mortal threat, and deliberately made a final struggle, lowering the drawbridge from the fence camp in order to counterattack the crossbow array. Seeing the command flag waved down in the hands of the military commander on the flank of the crossbow array, the sound of six hundred giant crossbows breaking through the air almost tore the eardrums for a while, and the howling cold wind was filled with the sharp stinging sound of ghosts crying and wolf howls, and went towards the enemy camp wall in front of them.

The guards in front of the fence wall watched the giant crossbow break through the air, as if covered by a huge dark cloud, they all forgot to turn around and fled, and watched their bodies break a big hole in the giant crossbow. The force of the giant crossbow shooting through the air was so great that dozens, hundreds of giant crossbows were fired at the same time, and a section of the fence collapsed with a bang.

The nearly 200 defenders who were hiding behind the crossbow bolts were wiped out in the blink of an eye.

Some of them did not die instantly, or their shoulders, or thighs, or chests and abdomen were pierced by a giant crossbow, or the whole person was twitching and struggling against the nail fence wall, and the desperate howl hit the hearts of the defenders around them, and exacerbated the fear in their hearts. The defenders who were about to be sent to counterattack the crossbow array of the Huaidong Army were even more frightened, and looked at the general behind them in fear, hoping that he would take back his life and lead everyone to escape from the death zone in front of them.

The bed crossbow was quickly reloaded with arrows, forming a second attack on the defensive line in front of the Baita River, which was designed to block the long trench drawbridge where the defenders were about to counterattack.

There were more than 1,000 defenders who were crowded in front of the drawbridge and ready to attack, and after covering them with crossbow arrows, it was like a large horn would collapse, and nearly 400 people were directly nailed to death in the open space behind the drawbridge. What's more, three or four people pierced a crossbow arrow at the same time, and such a cruel fight suddenly caused the rest to collapse, completely ignoring the suppression of the military law team and fled backwards to avoid the death zone where the crossbow arrows were fired.

There were more than one counterattack channels for the enemy, but the two enemy forces that crossed the Baita River to launch a counterattack against the Huaidong army looked so thin and pitiful.

Chen Yan stood on top of the nest car watching the entire battlefield, ignoring the enemy troops who came out of the camp to counterattack, and only the brigade general Li Baidao sent a pawn to intercept it and resolutely defeat it.

Chen Yan should command the 20,000 Huaidong elites that were deployed in front of the Baita River as a whole, and move forward in an orderly and gentle manner. Use bed crossbows and scorpion crossbows to suppress the defenders on the fence on the other side of the river, and use iron-armored carts to cover your own crossbowmen before they approach the Baita River, and shoot a denser and wider rain of arrows into the enemy camp. Push dozens of trench bridge cars down the Baita River to form a passage directly approaching the front of the fence wall, and then follow the cave house car and the rushing car to break the fence wall, or directly put the folding ladder truck directly from the south bank of the Baita River to the north bank of the fence wall, forming a gap in the march directly into the north bank of the Baita River, and tearing the defense line in front of the Baita River with resolute and unshakable determination......