The enemy army was led by Dai Luanxiang's son Dai Song, although the number of people increased compared with the previous two attacks, but it was only about 4,000 people, although the offensive was fierce, it still could not shake the defense of Zheng Xin's army. However, they are not in love with war, and after fighting with Zheng Xin, they quickly retreated, so that Zheng Xin's department, who wanted to fight, had all the strength but could not use it.

As soon as Dai Song retreated, another group of men and horses immediately attacked, and it was Dai Luanxiang himself who led the army.

Dai Luanxiang's use of troops was much more shrewd than his son's old age, and he did not choose to blindly rush to the front of the enemy, but looked at the weakness of the opponent who had just been impacted and the formation was slightly loose vertically, and ordered his soldiers to kill the enemy from the oblique stab. With this move, he broke through half of the large array of 20,000 people at once, and he was almost about to kill in front of Zheng Xin.

Zheng Xin was shocked when he saw this, and waved the order flag one after another, asking the guards to immediately shrink the formation and trap Dai Luanxiang in the formation.

How could Dai Luanxiang let Zheng Xin get his way?

Before Zheng Xin's flag order could be conveyed, Dai Luanxiang's whole army suddenly turned around, and rushed out the same way, leaving the stunned opponent stunned in place.

This kind of advance and retreat made Zheng Xin not react at all, and after a little hesitation, the army led by Dai Song rushed over again. This time, Dai Song didn't know whether he had become smarter, or he listened to his father's orders, and when the opponent's formation shrank to the middle and the width of the wings narrowed, he moved from the flanks at great speed, as if he wanted to spare the defense and kill Zheng Xin directly.

Zheng Xin had a bloody battle today, and he was about to succeed, so of course he was not willing to give his life like this. However, Dai Song's attack was fierce and fast, and it was too late to temporarily change the formation to meet the enemy, so in desperation, Zheng Xin could only retreat by himself, and quickly moved to the east under the personal protection of a dozen or so cronies.

The speed of Zheng Xin's transfer was not slow, so that Dai Song pounced, but left the Chinese army flag too late to take away, and Dai Song cut the rope of the flag-raising with a knife, and a seven-foot square flag swayed down from the top of the flagpole several feet high, and just fell into Dai Song's hands.

Winning the banner of the opponent's Chinese army is not inferior to the great merit of killing the enemy's commander in battle. Dai Song held this golden and bright banner in his arms, with indescribable joy and excitement in his heart, and was about to lead the army to find and kill Zheng Xin, but unexpectedly there was the sound of his father's withdrawal behind him.

Although Dai Song was on the rise, he did not dare to slack off in the slightest, and hurriedly led the army to retreat.

Qiu Yizhi saw Zheng Xin's banner of the Chinese army being captured from afar in the midst of the enemy's siege, and knew that it must be Dai Luanxiang's successful attack, which had shaken Zheng Xin's position. So he wanted to immediately pass on the order, asking the whole army to take advantage of Zheng Xin's temporary passivity, and the whole army to counterattack and regain the initiative on the battlefield.

But when he raised his eyes, he saw that the army under his command was still surrounded by the opponent's heavy troops, but the pressure of the siege had been slightly reduced, and if he wanted to fight back on the spot, there was no chance of winning at all.

So Qiu Yizhi temporarily changed his mind and ordered his subordinates: "Our reinforcements have arrived, the enemy army is bound to be chaotic, the army will stabilize its position first, and then counterattack!" ”

Zheng Xin ran away in a hurry for a while before he barely escaped Dai Song's pursuit, and when he saw that the banner of the Chinese army was taken away, he was extremely angry, and then he realized that Dai Luanxiang's reputation as the "No. 1 general in China" was not in vain. According to the situation at the time of the last attack, the number of soldiers and horses that Dai Luanxiang could mobilize now exceeded 10,000. Zheng Xin's ability to use troops is absolutely impossible to compete with Dai Luanxiang in the case of similar troops.

After thinking about it, Zheng Xin could only make a decision - to withdraw all the troops attacking Zhao Chengxiao from the left flank, gather 70,000 troops, and personally command them, and drive Dai Luanxiang into the Yangtze River with their numerical superiority, and then concentrate on dealing with Qiu Yizhi.

So under Zheng Xin's strict urging, the left-wing people finally withdrew to Zheng Xin's side after using a cup of tea and paying the price of losing hundreds of soldiers. Zhao Chengxiao still had to assist Qiu Yizhi in the battle, and he had no time to take the opportunity to counterattack, so he could only retreat from the team in front of him.

Dai Luanxiang's side, due to his lack of troops and the successive landing from the ship, he could not set up a position and put the whole army into battle at one time, so he used the method of wave attack, gradually invested troops, and successfully focused Zheng Xin's attention on himself.

After these attacks, Zheng Xin was really fooled, and gathered a large army in the front to deal with Dai Luanxiang.

Since it is a head-to-head duel, naturally there are not so many intrigues and tricks to use, and the opponent does not have so many flaws to exploit.

Although Dai Luanxiang's strategy is powerful, he is even better at facing off head-to-head between the two armies, so although he only has 20,000 horses in his hands, he may not have the slightest chance of winning in the face of the 70,000 tired army on the opposite side that has been fighting bloodily all day. Besides, what Dai Luanxiang has to do now is not necessarily to break Zheng Xin head-on, but as long as he contains the opponent, and then fights with Qiu Yi before and after.

Therefore, Dai Luanxiang calmed down, ordered the army to line up in formation, and was about to send his son Dai Song to lead a team to test it, but unexpectedly there was a rumbling sound of "knock, knock, knock" behind him.

Dai Luanxiang had already seen the power of Li Shengjie's artillery on the ship, and thought that although the artillery was only powerful, it might not have much power in reality. But now I see that Li Shengjie only used five of the ten artillery pieces on a ship, and in the blink of an eye, at least dozens or hundreds of casualties were caused, and in this process, Li Shengjie was in a safe place dozens of steps away from the enemy, and he did not have to risk the slightest danger.

What's more, it is also a long-range attack, bows and arrows can still rely on giant shields to block, but the power of artillery is extremely powerful, even if the city wall is built with a little cut corners, it will collapse under the shelling. Such a one-sided attack would inflict an incalculable blow to the morale of the enemy.

With such a strong power, it is no wonder that when Fang Cai Qiuyi was in a melee with the enemy army, Li Shengjie refused to bombard it with artillery - if this cannon goes down, won't it be burned regardless of the high and the low?

Dai Luanxiang has fought for half his life, although he has never tasted defeat on the battlefield, but this time and again, all of them were won under the fight to the death with the enemy, real swords and guns. And today, like this, he can win only by bombarding from a distance with artillery - such a cheap battle, he has never fought in his life!

Dai Luanxiang was thinking about it, when he heard the rumbling of artillery behind him, followed by the natural cries and howls of the enemy.

As a generation of famous generals, Dai Luanxiang certainly did not only focus on the victory or defeat in front of him, he also thought that although the artillery is cumbersome, it can only be erected on sea ships in order to have organic power and combat effectiveness, but as long as he chooses skilled craftsmen and tries to make ox carts and carriages that can carry artillery, he can carry such an invincible weapon to fight around.

The reason why the Turkic cavalry poses the greatest threat to the Han is that they are good at long-range cavalry shooting, but as long as they can have ten or twenty artillery pieces on the battlefield, they can still strike at the Turkic cavalry.

In this way, Dai Luanxiang thought about it, and at the same time strictly restrained the soldiers under his command, asking them to maintain their formation and not to go out without authorization. Behind him, Li Shengjie was still firing non-stop.

After about ten rounds of shelling, Li Shengjie on the ship sent a message that the gun chamber was overheated and that it should be cooled down before continuing to shoot, otherwise there would be a danger of exploding.

Although Dai Luanxiang didn't know the reason, he also understood that without artillery bombardment, it was time to confront Zheng Xin head-on, but looking at the formation that was bombarded by artillery on the opposite side and could only barely maintain, Dai Luanxiang naturally had a few chances of winning, and felt that with these men and horses under his command, he could not only share some of the pressure in front of Qiu Yizhi, but also turn the tide of the battle in one fell swoop.

Qiu Yizhi's side also heard the sound of explosions that continued to erupt in the distance, and saw the pillars of smoke rising from Zheng Xin's array, and knew that it must be Li Shengjie who used artillery to help the battle, which may have disrupted Zheng Xin's deployment.

Although he still didn't know Dai Luanxiang's actions, he learned from the near-stagnant attack of the opponent in front of him and the news that the enemy army had withdrawn from Zhao Chengxiao behind him that if he wanted to break Zheng Xin's troops, now was the best, and perhaps the only chance!

So he discussed with Zhao Chengxiao, and barely picked out two thousand uninjured soldiers from the whole army on the left and right, plus the bandit soldiers around Qiu Yizhi, led by Zhao Chengxiao himself, and stabbed at the enemy in front of him.

This is the last bargaining chip that Qiu Yi can take out in his hand, and his combat effectiveness must be different, and with just one charge, he will be slammed into the enemy formation like an awl. This time, Qiu Yi's ambition was inevitable, and regardless of whether the opponent had any countermeasures, he immediately ordered the whole army to follow the direction of the forward breakthrough and make an all-out assault on the enemy.

At this time, Zheng Xin had been completely blinded by Li Shengjie's artillery, and he only wanted to save his life under the fierce artillery attack, and he didn't know the movement of Tong Qiu Yizhi in front of him, so naturally he couldn't give orders to deal with his actions.

So Qiu Yizhi rushed this time, and with less than 50,000 tired horses with wounds in his hands, he actually smashed the formation of more than 100,000 people in front of him.

However, the soldiers and horses under the command of Qiu Yi are tired divisions after all, and such an impact seems to have reached the limit, and they are no longer able to pursue and sweep away the defeated army. Of course, Qiu Yizhi knows the truth of eliminating evil, but his soldiers are no longer able to fight, and no matter how hard he tries to urge, it will be useless.

At this moment, a knight ran in front of him, it was the warrior of the Bohai Kingdom Yelu, he stopped in front of the gate of Qiuyi, and he didn't have time to dismount and salute, so he immediately said to Qiuyizhi: "Your Highness Yi, the enemy army has retreated, do we want to take advantage of the victory to pursue?" ”

These words were said in Qiu Yizhi's heart, so he nodded hurriedly: "That's right, just as we are about to chase down the defeated army, we must capture Zheng Xin, the culprit of evil, on the spot." ”

"Good. However, how to chase the law, please ask His Highness Yi to make it clear! Ye Lu replied.

Qiu Yizhi pondered for a moment and said: "The south is the Yangtze River, and the north is blocked by our army. If you divide your army into two and pursue the river from the left and right, you will definitely be able to intercept the enemy's main force. Also, the Youyan cavalry is not slow to move, if it can't be surrounded, it can be made to retreat on its own, and it can't be greedy for merit and war, which will affect the overall situation. The rest of the rout soldiers are also elite soldiers of the Han Dynasty, and they cannot be slaughtered indiscriminately. ”