(Okay, there's not a few chapters left, and "The Lord" is about to say goodbye to the brothers; The new book will probably be uploaded as soon as July, although it has not yet been written; Tearful eyes)

Looking at the corpses crisscrossing the battlefield, those war horses whose masters were killed in battle and frightened by Huaidong's artillery fire were rampage on the battlefield...... Tong Huacheng, who was hiding behind an unknown low mountain, wanted to cry without tears, looked at Nahe Wugu, who was blue in face, and under the cover of Hu Qi, rode to the back of the low mountain, dragging his crying voice and persuading: "The casualties are too heavy, we can't fight like this anymore......"

"If you want to retreat, where do you retreat?" Nahewu's lonely beard was like a needle, and his tiger eyes were bloodshot, and the bloody battle of the past day made him look like a gambler with red eyes, and in the face of Tong Huacheng's advice, he rebuked sharply.

Hearing Nahe Wugu's sharp reprimand, Tong Huacheng sat on the mountain rock, and was speechless: the facts are just as Nahe Wugu said, once the battle of Fenghe begins, it is difficult to have the possibility of stopping.

Yanjing City is eighty miles northwest of the Fenghe River, and from the Fenghe River to the northwest, there is no dangerous terrain that can slow down the pace of the Huaidong Army's westward advance. Behind them is Anxu City, and Anxu City, which is only four or five miles around and is located in the hinterland of the Eastern Hebei Plain, is obviously definitely not a good place for tens of thousands of cavalry to retreat and defend.

Due to the existence of elite infantry brigades of the Huaidong Army on the flanks of the Chaobai River and the Vortex River, even if they retreated, there was no way for them to pull out enough battlefield gaps and detour through the gaps, including the flanks and rear flanks of the Huaidong Army's middle lane.

Without the spirit of blood and bravery, he could not face the advance of the Huaidong Army and counterattack again and again, so he could only retreat to Yanjing City.

They withdrew to Yanjing City, and the Huaidong Army would also advance to Yanjing City in the shortest possible time, and the timing would be delayed to this point, and they would not even have time to abandon the capital and flee westward.

The Northern Yan cavalry, which was clumsy in defending the city, withdrew to Yanjing City, and faced the Huaidong Army, which was better at siege warfare, and may not be able to play better than the Fenghe battlefield.

It seems that their casualties are extremely heavy in front of them, but the Huaidong Army is not without casualties, and even the defense line has repeatedly killed them, but the three iron beam bridges are lying on the Fenghe River, which is that kind of dazzling.

Originally, every time they killed the Huaidong Army's battle line on the west bank, as long as they could destroy the bridge in time, they would have the opportunity to encircle and annihilate the remnants of the west bank, and they would be able to severely defeat the Huaidong Army's spirit of advancing to the west bank again and again, thus giving their own side a rare opportunity to rest and recuperate in the gap between the battlefield......

However, it was the existence of the three iron beam bridges in the Hancun crossing section that made the pace of the Huaidong Army's generals advancing to the west bank not once interrupted by the strong attack and charge from this side; On the contrary, every time the charge was intervened, it was a good opportunity for the Huaidong Army to enter the west bank of Hancundu to reorganize the troops and horses and strengthen and extend the defensive line.

The wounded were ferried to the east coast by small boats, and the weapons and armor were continuously replenished from the Tieliang Bridge to the west coast.

At the beginning, the Huaidong Army's battle line on the west bank of Hancundu was only two or three hundred meters deep, and the bloody battle lasted for nearly a day and one night, and by the evening of 17 July, the Huaidong Army's front on the west bank of Hancundu had been spread out to the west bank with a width of more than 1,000 meters, and a large number of weapons, including dozens of artillery pieces, had also been transported to the west bank to strengthen the combat effectiveness of the front.

At this time, he wanted to tear through Huaidong's defense line on the west bank of Hancundu again, and kill it near the river embankment, and the price paid was several times more. Although in the fierce battle, they also sent troops and horses to kill the artillery positions hastily deployed by the Huaidong Army on the west bank, and set fire to blow up several artillery pieces, but the price paid was so heavy that Tong Huacheng, who called for the bloody incident, could not bear to look at it directly.

In less than a day and a night, the accumulated casualties on the battlefields on the west bank of the Fenghe River were nearly 20,000.

Thinking of this, Tong Huacheng hardened his heart again, stood up, stopped Na Hewugu, and persuaded bitterly: "A hard battle, what the result is, it is in front of you." Even if the remaining 40,000 sons were wiped out, it failed to severely dampen the vitality of the Huaidong Army. On the contrary, we can no longer gather more reinforcements near Yanjing, and the Huaidong Army occupies Jinhai and does not retreat, so we can continuously transport troops and horses from the sea, and we will fight all our troops in the first battle, so do we need to look for it next......"

In the past Hancundu battle, Nahe Wugu's two grandsons under the age of sixteen were killed on the battlefield, and even the body could not be recovered, Nahe Wugu was like a gambler with a red eye, Tong Huacheng's words just made him hesitate for a moment, his face softened slightly, but after a while, he shook his head resolutely and said: "I came out of the imperial capital to the east, and I didn't plan to return alive." And since the founding of the country, Dayan has experienced such dangers and I don't know how many times, which time has he been a shrinking egg? When was it not a flesh and blood body to block a strong enemy? Your father, uncle, and your two brothers all died on the battlefield, and the Tong family has achieved not a thousand, but eight hundred heroic souls on the battlefield, have they ever thought of retreating, have they ever thought of avoiding the edge of a strong enemy? ”

Tong Huacheng was speechless, Dayan established the clan with martial arts and established the country by force, although he was defeated in Huaidong by Jingxiang in the first battle, but at this time, it was absolutely difficult for the vast majority of generals to accept it if Dayan gave up the national capital and fled westward.

Since he didn't have the idea of abandoning the capital, he retreated to defend Yanjing City, or stayed in the Fenghe West battlefield to fight to the death, the difference was actually not big - but at this time, Tong Huacheng didn't have the ability to make Nahe Wugu and the other generals change their minds, but he couldn't see any hope for the road ahead, so he could only stand there in vain and despair, watching the blood flow on the battlefield strewn with corpses in the distance......

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On the east bank of the Fenghe River, the main battalion of the front line of the soldiers and horses in the middle of the Huaidong Army, the combat staff officers are nervously marking the latest directions of the enemy's infantry and cavalry units on the map.

Lin Jian also gave Gao Zongting, Yang Yihang, Song Shixing and others, who were in charge of the command of the forward front, to repeatedly study the current battle situation by taking advantage of the gap time on the battlefield to ensure that there was not a trace of omission.

So far, the First Cavalry has not had the opportunity to be sent to the battlefield, Zhou Puhe has not slept all night, although he is dissatisfied, but he is also sitting in the command tent and waiting for the fighters, refraining from interfering with Gao Zongting, Yang Yihang, and Song Shixing with their old qualifications in their command and dispatch of the entire forward front.

Galloping fast, galloping straight into the camp from the east, listening to the footsteps, Gao Zongting looked up and saw Zhao Mengxiong beside Lin Jian walking in with the curtain lifted, and asked, "What is the latest instruction of the lord?" ”

Zhao Mengxiong handed over the letter of order issued by Lin Tie from Jinhai, in order to save time, Zhao Mengxiong briefly described the content of the letter to the crowd: "Jinhai knows the latest battle situation of Fenghe, and knows that the enemy army is attracted to the line from Luohedian and Zhangjiawan to Sandunqiao on the west bank of the Fenghe River, and there is no sign of withdrawal tonight. Is it possible to annihilate it all on the west bank of the Feng River? ”

Hearing Lin Jian ask in Jinhai if there was a possibility of transferring the first jockey out of a roundabout way, Zhou Pu suddenly came to his senses.

At this time, the soldiers and horses of the Huaidong Army landing from Jinhai actually far exceeded the strength intercepted by Yanhu west of the Fenghe River, and the elite soldiers of the Mabu Army reached 90,000 people, excluding the naval division and the newly formed brigade, the reserve brigade and the engineering battalion......

In addition to leaving 15,000 elite soldiers and horses in Jinhai as reserves, more than 70,000 soldiers were pushed to the banks and flanks of the Fenghe River on the 17th, and there were as many as 20,000 new brigades and reserve brigades that could enter the battlefield as second-line soldiers and horses. The total number of soldiers and horses of the Huaidong Army on the battlefield on both sides of the Fenghe River has been twice the number of enemy soldiers intercepted west of the Fenghe River, and it already has the conditions to outflank and encircle and annihilate it.

The most important thing is that the Yanhu soldiers and horses west of the Fenghe River who are responsible for intercepting the westward advance of the Huaidong Army are not vigilant enough, and their tactical actions are hesitant and blunt, which also provides the best opportunity for the Huaidong Army to encircle and annihilate this enemy army......

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On the night of the 17th, the weather was still fine, and the First Cavalry Division, which had never had a chance to enter the battlefield, went north from the area east of the Fenghe River, passed through the right-wing battlefield controlled by Chu Zheng's department, and traveled west overnight.

On the 12th, Chu Zheng and Zhang Gou, who had contracted and stagnated on both sides of the Chaobai River and the Vortex River, also spread out westward overnight, and formed a bloody mouth with the soldiers and horses on the middle road on both sides of the Fenghe River, and the first cavalry who was heading west at night was like the tip of the tongue that was rolled out, and all the enemy soldiers who might flee west were involved in the belly......

Although the west bank of the Fenghe River is dominated by plain terrain, there are also several small mounds that can shelter the shelling.

And on the night of the 17th, the Northern Yan generals, who had just realized that even a small low mountain could be extremely good at blocking the artillery bombardment of the Huaidong fire crossbow, were planning to transfer the cavalry to a few small mounds closer to the western front of the Huaidong Army, so that they could launch an attack on the flank of the Huaidong Army's battle line at a closer distance.

The advantage of the cavalry is always on the flanks, and the Huaidong artillery is obviously not dense enough to cover the battlefields on the flanks, even if it is to use the terrain such as ponds and small ditches to cut the battle line of the Huaidong Army, it is still possible to find many gaps for the cavalry to attack.

At the time of the battlefield of the corpses of nearly 20,000 generals in one day and one night, the soldiers and horses of the Northern Yan west of the Fenghe River did not collapse, but under the pressure of life and death, they pondered the strength and weakness of the Huaidong front and made targeted tactical arrangements, intending to create conditions for attacking the Huaidong army's front from the flank as much as possible with a more dispersed cavalry force after the night of the 17th.

From the night of 16 to the 17th, the Huaidong Army entered the troops and horses on the west bank of the Fenghe River, with the aim of expanding the front on the west bank, and deliberately used the artillery positions on the east bank to cover and cut down more enemy troops.

By the night of the 17th, the soldiers and horses of the Huaidong Army, which had entered the west bank of the Fenghe River, showed their fierce and ferocious fangs with the cooperation of the soldiers and horses on the two wings of the north and south sides to the middle, and took the battalion and brigade as a unit to the Beiyan soldiers and horses in Luohedian, Zhangjiawan, Weiqiao, and the Changziying camp overnight......

In the battle the night before, the 2nd and 3rd Brigades of the Denghai Town Division suffered heavy casualties and stayed on the east bank as a reserve, and Chen Yanqin led the 1st, 4th, and 5th Brigades of the Denghai Town Division, as well as a newly formed brigade and a reserve brigade, as the main force of more than 15,000 elites, mainly attacking the enemy stationed in Zhangjiawan, which was just on the battlefield of Hancundu, and was also one of the main garrisons of Yanqi on the west bank of the Fenghe River.

In line with the main offensive action of Chen Yan's headquarters, nearly 10,000 soldiers and horses of the 1st and 3rd brigades of Han Caizhi's headquarters and a newly formed brigade attacked the enemy's flank in Zhangjiawan from the southeast.

On the east bank of the Feng River, due to the large section of the embankment, it was very difficult for the heavy artillery carts to travel and could not be deployed at will in the field. After entering the west bank, the four-pound light artillery weighed no more than 400 catties, and the eight-pound artillery was no more than 700 catties.

The Huaidong Army only crossed the Fengqiao on the night of the 16th, and after nearly a day and a night of bloody battles, the soldiers and horses crossing the river completed the adjustment of the fierce offensive to the west on the night of the 17th, and its speed was so fast that the Northern Yan generals such as Nahe Wugu and Tong Huacheng in Zhangjiawan were dumbfounded......

The soldiers and horses gathered in the west of the Fenghe River in the Northern Yan were not afraid of sacrifice and death on the battlefield, and they were able to rush into the well-defended Huaidong Army battle formation in the face of fierce artillery fire.

Similarly, since the establishment of the Huaidong Army, from the general to the pawn, it has high morale and a desire for victory, how can there be fear in the face of the dying and struggling Hulu?

Surprise is surprise, but Nahe Wugu and other Northern Yan generals regarded the Huaidong Army's initiative as a rare opportunity for them to defeat the Huaidong Army, at least in the movement warfare, the use of artillery and heavy crossbows and other weapons would be more severely restricted, and immediately formulated a plan to concentrate their forces to overcome the road.

However, after nightfall, after receiving the news that the Huaidong Army on both flanks of the Chaobai River and the Whirlpool River were simultaneously moving westward, and the Huaidong Army even had a cavalry showing signs of outflanking their rear route, Tong Huacheng realized that the Huaidong Army was likely to have more troops than they thought, and intended to encircle and annihilate them in the area west of the Fenghe River.

Tong Huacheng persuaded Nahe Wugu to take the last opportunity to break through and retreat westward, but Nahe Wugu ignored himself, thinking that there was an opportunity to lead the 15,000 elites stationed in Zhangjiawan to defeat the enemy soldiers from the east and southeast.

In fact, as long as the Huaidong Army is defeated all the way, the current battle situation can be greatly improved, and the situation cannot tolerate Nahewu not gambling on this hand.

Tong Huacheng, who has been in charge of spying on the Huaidong military situation for a long time, was desperate, even when the Huaidong Army was first established, Lin Jian led the Jiangdong Left Army at that time, and he was still able to use less than twice the force of foot soldiers in Jinhai to annihilate the 4,000 elite cavalry led by Nahe Xiongqi that year; At least until this time, the Huaidong Army had not yet suffered a defeat on the brigade-level front - in the two directions of Zhangjiawan, it was the soldiers and horses of the two towns and divisions, and Tong Huacheng did not think that Nahe Wugu's attack could create any miracles......