The black dots that erupted from the white smoke mixed with the firelight suddenly magnified in the field of vision-Su Tingzhan was completely shocked by the situation of the first shelling, and watched the dense projectiles shoot towards the crossbow platform in despair, and he didn't know how to react, or the guards around him were loyal, and quickly pushed him behind the crossbow frame.

When Su Tingzhan stumbled and fell, he watched as the upper body of the guard who pushed him away in time was hit by a solid iron bullet, and the flesh and blood were splashed like rain by hooves, and half of his body was blown up in the flesh foam in Su Tingzhan's field of vision. Before Su Tingzhan could sit on the ground, other projectiles came one after another, and the heavy crossbow that stood in front of Su Tingzhan, nearly three feet high, also instantly hit an iron bullet, falling apart in the loud bang, and countless iron and wood fragments smashed into Su Tingzhan's body with his head and face, making Su Tingzhan buried in the ruins and unable to move.

The solid iron projectile, which was slightly larger than a hand, pierced through the heavy crossbow and smashed down on Su Tingzhan's left hand, with burning marks, Su Tingzhan stretched out his finger to touch it, but it was slightly cold.

The terrain of the South Cliff crossbow platform is steep, standing near the water, and there are more than 20 crossbows, which is one of the most core crossbow platforms in Huangcheng Island. In this salvo, more than 20 heavy crossbows were directly destroyed, and nearly 20 seriously mutilated pawn corpses fell sideways on the crossbow platform, and the crossbow platform paved with bricks and plastered was also cracked vertically and horizontally, and as long as the mouth of the battlement wall was wiped with iron bullets, there was no break, and a large piece of the southwest corner of the crossbow platform collapsed as a whole......

This is Huaidong's fire crossbow!

Looking at the shelling of the warships outside the south entrance, it is one thing to feel panic in my heart; The crossbow platform in which he was under fire was shelled, and the shock he felt in his heart was another matter.

Some generals scattered and fled for their lives, but the loyal guards desperately tried to dig Su Tingzhan out of the ruins of the heavy crossbow rack, regardless of the next shelling that would come at any time.

Su Tingzhan was especially able to deeply feel at this time, why Wenzhuang Gong, who saw the collapse of the situation in Jingxiang, gave up the opportunity to flee alone and was captured and killed, why did he want to go to the northwest and no longer participate in the Central Plains war, and why did he want the Yu people in northern Fujian to give up resistance and surrender, it is really because Wenzhuang has seen an irreparable defeat since the Battle of Jingxiang......

Su Tingzhan sat up from the fragments of the heavy crossbow, and felt that his body was extremely cold.

Seeing that the guard who rescued him was full of sadness, Su Tingzhan looked down at his left waist, the half-disconnected heavy crossbow bracket, the fracture was as sharp as a giant spear, and the armor was pierced directly from his left waist and crotch, and the blood had already dyed the armor red - he felt some pain at this time, feeling that life was passing from his body.

Su Tingzhan propped up his body, looked at it, the Huaidong warship in the sea area in front of him once again gave him the feeling of being frustrated in an instant, and the third shelling was launched under his gaze, and the iron bullet fell like a huge hail, collapsing the southeast corner of the crossbow platform again, and more than a dozen generals rolled down the cliff with two heavy crossbows, listening to the impact under the cliff, it seemed that a warship stopped under the cliff and smashed the collapsed crossbow platform.

Seeing that the South Cliff Ballista was no longer a threat, the gunboats in the center began to adjust their orientation, and at the south entrance of the water village on Huangcheng Island, it seemed that they were going to block the more Dengzhou naval division warships on the inside for artillery bombardment, while the Huaidong warships on both wings broke away from the main ship camp and sailed forward, wanting to eliminate the Dengzhou warships that were out of the water village before the war or expelled before the war......

Su Tingzhan lowered his eyes weakly when he saw this, and he could faintly hear helpless shouts such as "General Admiral is gone" in his ears......

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After destroying the South Cliff Ballista, Sun Zhun, the deputy brigade general of the Second Task Force, was responsible for leading the First Fleet. He commanded two frigates to seal the south entrance of the water village on Huangcheng Island from the flanks, and confirmed that the main force of the enemy's naval force on Huangcheng Island was blocked in the water wall, so he sent the detachment and the only Lin Zhengjun-class battleship of the second task force to support the naval battle of Miaoshan Island.

With one Jinhai-class battleship as the main force, four frigates, more than 20 old-style warships, and a total of 100 light and heavy artillery pieces, Sun Huai carried out an artillery bombardment that lasted for two hours from the south entrance of the water village on Huangcheng Island and the hinterland waters between the north and south of Huangcheng Island, and used nearly 2,000 solid iron bullets to destroy and maim nearly 50 enemy ships trapped in the water village on Huangcheng Island.

After confirming that the naval forces of the Dengzhou Navy Division on Huangcheng Island had no attack power, Sun Zhun, who was born as a boy in Chongzhou, led the rest of the battleships of the Second Task Force and set sail to the east.

Luo Wenhu and Cui He went north with the first batch of rushing fleets, and at this time, Zhao Huaidong's headquarters temporarily stayed with the second brigade of the Jinghai Second Town Division.

From the mouths of the prisoners of war who fell into the water, it was learned that Su Tingzhan, the commander of the enemy naval division, had shot Lu in the shelling just now, but the commander of the island guarding the island, Changzhi, was still there, and although the shelling dealt a devastating blow to the enemy's crossbow platform and warships, and also killed a large number of enemy naval soldiers who were guarding the warships and preparing to fight, there were still more than 5,000 enemy soldiers on Huangcheng Island who had not been annihilated.

The Second Brigade of the Second Town Division of Jinghai could only stop at the outer waters to blockade Huangcheng Island and wait for the arrival of the First Task Force of the First Task Force that had attacked Jinzhou Tieshanzhai before it could consider removing the wreckage of the warships in the inner waters and clearing out the remnants of the enemy on the island.

However, at dusk, the warships of the Haidong Camp Army escorted the headquarters of Li Baidao of the First Brigade of the Denghai Town Division to Huangcheng Island, and joined forces with Zhao Huaidong's headquarters to attack Huangcheng Island.

The 1st Brigade of the Denghai Town Division had a crossbow battalion, equipped with a total of 60 light guns of 4 and 8 catties, and set up on the deck to bombard the defense of the west flank of Huangcheng Island, which was defended by the remnants, and before it was about to dark, it made a strong breakthrough from the steep bank of the west flank of Huangcheng Island.

After gaining a foothold, they took advantage of the narrow terrain of the West Island to line up the light artillery from the flanks and extend it inch by inch......

Dengzhou and Jinzhou, backed by the inland hinterland, are suddenly attacked, and may also face the crazy counterattack of the enemy's horse infantry army from the land, and the Northern Expeditionary Army will next jump to the Jinhai, and need to use Huangcheng Island and Miaoshan Island as a springboard to break the point, and it is necessary to destroy the remnants of the enemy on the island as soon as possible.

A little later, He Zongliang's unit, which was ordered to be transferred from the Haidong Battalion to strengthen the combat strength of the Northern Expedition Infantry Brigade, also arrived in the waters of Huangcheng Island, and under the cover of Xingyue, he did not care whether the warship would be damaged, and directly broke into the inner waters between the east and west islands of Huangcheng between the wreckage of the enemy ships that had not been cleared, and attacked the East Island of the beach, and cooperated with Li Baidao's department to clear the remnants of the island overnight.

This kind of night battle of clearing and suppression also took place on the small and small Qinshan islands, Heishan Islands, and the Changshan islands in the north and south between Dengzhou and Jinzhou. In particular, Nanchangdao, the main island of the Miaoshan Islands, is about 15 miles long from north to south because of its large depth, and the terrain of the mountain island is complicated, and there are many blind spots that cannot be attacked by gunwales.

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Between Jinzhou and Dengzhou, there are more than 30 islands and reefs such as Huangcheng Island, Heishan Island, Xiaoqinshan Island, and Changshan Island in the north and south, which are distributed in the two hundred miles of sea area, guarding the gateway to the Bohai Bay. It's just that the difference in weapons between the two sides is more than an era, and the terrain advantage will be wiped out in an instant.

When the shelling of the Daoyu Village stopped, it was already close to the time, Nahe Xiongqi and Fan Wenlan, surrounded by Hu soldiers, climbed down the western wall of the Daoyu Village, which was still complete, and looked at the wreckage of warships and the floating corpses of generals in the inner lake of Daoyu Village, and wanted to cry without tears.

Except for a few warships that broke through to the north, the Dengzhou Naval Division could not support it for even a day, and the entire army was almost wiped out, and even the life and death of Su Tingzhan, the commander of the Naval Division, were not known......

Na He Xiongqi had illusions that Ye Ji Baishi had exaggerated the power of the Huaidong Fu Fire Crossbow, but the cruel truth ruthlessly shattered his illusions.

At first, the Jinghai Division hit the naval artillery to attack the naval division of Dengzhou stationed in the water village on the island, but left the Daoyu Village without fighting, and at first only sent the main warships of the Second Town Division to forcibly block the warships of the Dengzhou Navy Division in the Daoyu Village from the outer sea areas to prevent them from breaking through.

It was not until the night that the main force of the First Task Force came out from elsewhere and collapsed the eastern wall of the Daoyu Village, which isolated the inner lake and the open sea, and then calmly shelled the inner lake of the Daoyu Village; When the main force of the second task force escapes, at most one salvo will be fired at the inner lake of the swordfish village, with as many as 300 artillery pieces.

Under the fire of up to 300 artillery pieces, the 400 large and small warships of the Dengzhou Navy Division parked in the inner lake of Daoyu Village were destroyed into a wreckage, making the inner lake of more than ten miles around Daoyu Village look like the grave of the ship.

Looking at the Huaidong battleship under the starry sky, gradually heading towards Xiaoqinshan Island, Na He Xiongqi was cold, almost collapsed to the ground, staring at the black shadows of the sea beasts in the night with a knife, his hands and feet trembled, and his back couldn't stop breaking cold sweat.

Nahe Xiongqi has not suffered defeats, and he has also planted big heels in the hands of the Huaidong Army, but the more he is frustrated, the more courageous he becomes, and he has never had such despair and frustration at this time - Tong turned into a face like ashes, and he couldn't bear to see the tragic situation in the inner lake of Daoyu Village.

Fan Wenlan was also desperate and depressed, but he could still grit his teeth and hold on, hugged Nahe Xiongqi, and said in a low voice: "General Nahe, you need to send someone to Jinan immediately to find the three princes to jointly protect the ......."

Na He Xiongqi looked at Fan Wenlan suspiciously and sluggishly, from the time they received Ye Ji Baishi's letter, they would send fast horses to Jinan and Yanjing to report the latest battle situation almost every hour. The demise of the Dengzhou Sailor is a foregone conclusion, he can't go back to Yanjing to ask for self-determination, what do they want to find Ye Ji Duodi to co-brand? What else is there to play or something?

"Yanjing can't defend it!" Fan Wenlan saw that Na He Xiongqi didn't understand, so he lowered his voice and said in Na He Xiongqi's ear, like thunder.

Na He Xiongqi trembled as if he had been hit by thunder, and stared at Fan Wenlan in a daze-Tong Huacheng understood first, and responded in despair: "Yanjing can't guard!" Guarding the danger of the dead! ”

Nahe Xiongqi only understood at this time: at this time, the total number of troops stationed between Yanjing, Jinhai, and Changli was only 50,000, and the main force of the Dengzhou Naval Division was defeated within one day, and the Huaidong Army would be able to organize an attack on Jinhai or Changli within three or five days at the earliest, and they simply did not have the ability to organize more troops to hold Jinhai or Changli.

As long as one of the two coastal towns of Jinhai and Changli is lost, the Huaidong Army can obtain a land base to attack Yanjing - it seems that the entire southeastern Hebei region is a flat river, which is a plain terrain suitable for cavalry combat, but these plain terrain is also more suitable for the field battle of the Huaidong Fuhuo crossbow infantry brigade.

Almost no one of the cavalry generals of the Northern Yan was familiar with the characteristics of the Huaidong Fire Crossbow, and if they rashly organized a cavalry formation to attack the Huaidong Army's Fire Crossbow Formation in the plain area of southeast Hebei, the casualties would be unimaginable.

The Huaidong army has more than 1,000 ambush fire crossbows, which is actually doomed to the possibility that Dayan has no possibility of defending Yanjing, so he can only abandon Yanjing City, retreat westward, and withdraw to Jinzhong, where the mountains gather, and maybe there is a possibility of respending......

This decision must not be slow, there are only three or five days to turn around for Northern Yan, once Huaidong is called to land in Jinhai or Changli, even if you want to give up Yanjing and retreat west, it will become extremely difficult - however, Yanjing is the capital of the Great Yan Kingdom, even if the Emperor of the Mandate of Heaven can understand his painstaking efforts and insist on going his own way, it is impossible to give up if he gives up......