The broken east gate of Huangpi was very ugly to the burning fire.

Under the concentrated bombardment of Huaidong's heavy stone-throwing crossbows, the city wall on the east side of Huangpi finally could not support it, and collapsed suddenly, opening a gap of several zhang and ten zhang in width.

The defenders had no way to defend the city wall, and Sun Jichang retreated into the city surrounded by his own guards.

"Withdraw, if you don't withdraw, it's too late, Baitahe and Xiongjiagang can't last longer?" Ji Shiben came over to meet Sun Jichang covered in blood, put aside the guards beside him, walked to Sun Jichang's side alone, and persuaded him in a suppressed voice.

"How to withdraw?" Sun Jichang didn't want to retreat, but retreating under the night would only cause the collapse of the whole army, and he didn't know the powerful relationship here, if he wanted to keep his troops, he must hold out until dawn tomorrow, and said, "Hold it up a little longer, as long as Meng Ancia sends cavalry to fight out from both wings, it should be able to suppress the Huaidong army......"

"The two wings of Baitahe and Xiongjiagang are in danger, I heard that Luwenzhuang has sent people to Xiaonan twice to urge Meng Ancian to send troops, but I haven't seen Meng Ancia pay attention, I'm afraid that Meng Ancia wants to escape first," Ji Shiben said, "If the two wings can't hold up first, if Meng Ancia escapes first, we have two legs, but we can't outrun them on four legs!" ”

"But ......" Sun Jichang still couldn't make up his mind.

"It's nothing," Ji Shiben said, "Could it be that Sun Shuai still wants to keep the soldiers and horses, thank God that you and I can escape with our lives......"

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The night was already dark, and the fighting on the battlefield seemed to have become solidified, and the pool of blood had become dim.

In front of the gap in the fence wall torn by the bed crossbow, scorpion crossbow, and rushing car, the trench bridge car and the folding ladder car set up the entry passage, and the Huaidong soldiers resolutely broke through the gap into the enemy camp with the capital team as a unit. Without exception, before the array of armor soldiers who first broke into the enemy camp, several armor-piercing wrestlers pushed away by the iron-covered wagons rampage towards the fragile defensive formations organized by the enemy troops in the camp.

The Huaidong Army's iron armor on the chariot was used to prevent the impact of the enemy's heavy armored cavalry, how could the enemy camp foot soldiers behind the fence wall withstand the impact of the iron-clad chariot? And after the iron-covered chariot, the Huaidong armor saw that the enemy's defensive position was scattered, so he decisively rushed out to fight.

The sharp blade sharpened by fine iron can be easily cut through even a few pieces of iron armor that are several millimeters thick; More than a dozen Mo knives slashed down from top to bottom, as if more than a dozen lightning strikes, even the iron armor defense array will be torn apart in an instant, not to mention the enemy soldiers who are scattered by the iron armor. Suddenly, the head was torn apart, the blood flowed like a river, and under the Mo knife array, more than a dozen enemy soldiers who were lucky enough to get rid of it ran away and retreated, but they threw their backs to the crossbow that broke through the air......

Tear a group of enemy pawns to pieces, kill the corpses in the wilderness, wait for the enemy pawns to organize an orderly array counterattack, and the Huaidong soldiers will shrink after the iron chariot, and wait for the follow-up friendly forces to continue to stand out, with repeated killing, shrinking and then killing tactical actions, the enemy's orderly counterattack on the north bank will be torn apart, and the position on the north bank will be continuously expanded......

The crossbow array had already approached the south bank of the Baita River, and according to the instructions of the order flag on the nest car, the arrows covered the enemy's counterattack array. The bed crossbow made of fine iron, the base is heavier, which means higher stability and accuracy, and at a close distance of one or two hundred paces, shooting the enemy formation is like a string of sugar gourds, and an arrow will often pierce the bodies of three or four enemy soldiers one after another.

Under the fire of the bed crossbow, any degree of fine iron armor is pale and weak, and only the Huaidong Army's covered iron chariot has an iron plate three points (ten inches) thick on the side, which can block the bed crossbow from shooting at close range.

The crossbow array effectively covered the flanks of the armor array that had broken through the enemy camp, while the scorpion crossbow threw thousands of canisters of fire oil into the depths of the enemy camp on the north bank in a short period of time.

The leaching residue left over from smoldering coal is mixed with fire oil to become a combustion product with excellent performance. The cans are broken, the fire is spilled, even on the sand, the fire can be burned, and the wooden fence walls, camp tents, and war tents are stained with this kind of drained oil, and they must be burned to ashes, otherwise it is difficult to extinguish.

The heavier the twilight, the more fierce the fire on the north bank became, and it also provided enough lighting for the Huaidong Army soldiers who broke through the camp at night.

Under the fierce attack of the Huaidong Army, the defenders' counterattack appeared steep and weak, unable to effectively kill the Huaidong Army that broke through, and had no ability to break up and retreat the rock-solid Huaidong Army formation, which was just meaninglessly accumulating casualties.

The corpses lying on the ground and the pools of blood accumulated in the low-lying ground were like small lakes, so that the guards could no longer suppress the fear and despair in their hearts, and could only look desolate at the grassy slope behind the camp. On the grassy slope behind the fence camp, the warlords carrying swords and axes were also like a chasm, cutting off their hope of escaping. As long as the defenders retreat to the guard range of the Warlords, they will be mercilessly slashed.

Rushing out is death, and retreating is death, countless defenders retreated to the narrow area on the north side of the camp, and there was a long shallow trench in front to provide them with a fragile protection, preventing the Huaidong army from rushing up like tigers and wolves. The defenders behind the trench looked at their leader with pity.

Their leader looked desperately at the dark night sky to the north, waiting for the ironclad riders to emerge from the night sky behind the grassy slope like a stream of iron.

In the face of the resolute advance of the Huaidong Army, in the face of the incomparably powerful weapons of the Huaidong Army, unless the cavalry deployed in the second line decisively rushed out, the defenders of the gate camp behind the Baita River would not be able to recover the defense line at all. Once the second long trench is broken through by the Huaidong Army, there will be no obstacle to the Huaidong Army from penetrating and killing in depth......

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Chen Yan stood in front of the nest car, holding the saber on his waist in his hand, looking at the battlefield on the north bank of the Baita River:

In the middle of the enemy's defense line on the Baita River, on a front more than ten miles long, he had already invested nine of his 30 battalions of soldiers, and had successfully broken through 11 gaps, defeated the enemy's three zha camps on the north bank of the Baita River, and formed 11 routes to attack deep in the northern line.

Chen Yan must grasp every detailed sign and sign on the battlefield at any time, although he has the conditions to attack in depth at present, he still has to be a little patient, and he has to wait for Yu Wencheng and Zhang Gou to cut into the enemy's defense line to complete before he can attack in depth, so that the enemy has no ability to counterattack at all, so as to avoid unnecessary casualties.

"The enemy of Huangpi is defeated, and the enemy of Huangpi is defeated......" Several horsemen galloped to summon the news of the retreat of the enemy army Chen Jichang in Huangpi.

Without Yu Wencheng sending someone to deliver the message, Chen Yan looked to the northeast, and he could see that the speed of Yu Wencheng's troops penetrating into Huangpi City suddenly accelerated, which was a sign of the defeat of the enemy army in Huangpi City.

"!" Chen Yan was very dissatisfied that he didn't defeat the enemy first, and spat at the night under the nest car, and ordered in an already hoarse voice, "Inform Li Baidao and ask him to kill Lao Tzu, he can't kill the enemy this time, tell him to peel him carefully!" ”

The war drums once again beat like rolling thunder, shaking the ground and shaking the mountains, and the soldiers of the ninth battalion of the second line on the south bank of the Baita River heard the sound of drums, and shouted together, crossed the Baita River to join the first line of soldiers, and launched a final assault on the defenders who had retreated to the narrow area on the north side of the camp......

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In the Xiongjiagang camp, Haowenzhuang looked at the Huaidong Army coming in the night like a black tide, and he was like an ordinary old man, holding on to the barricade with his thin hands, and there was no trace of strength in his body.

"Sun Jichang fled, and Meng Anchan's side also began to flee, and there was no cavalry to help, so this is really defeated...... "Sima Wen Chengyun, the former governor of Zhejiang and Fujian, walked up to the watchtower and said.

"Oh!" Luxury Wenzhuang was not surprised at all by such news, in his opinion, it should have been so, but he responded calmly, and seemed to have ignored the Huaidong Army that was pouring over.

"Let's go, if you don't leave, it'll be too late." Wen Chengyun said.

"I'm too old to run, so it's better to stay and watch the last night quietly than to die in the chaos and the corpses in the wilderness," said Yu Wenzhuang calmly, "You can go." ”

"If the governor doesn't leave, what will Cheng Yun do?" Wen Chengyun accompanied Hao Wenzhuang to stand on the watchtower and asked, "Does the Metropolitan Governor still want to see the eldest lady, Song Fu, and the East China Sea Fox?" ”

"Perhaps." Luxury said.

Wen Chengyun saw the Huaidong army surging up like a tide, turned his head to see that the defeated soldiers behind him were also like a tide, untied the saber from his waist, threw it aside, and ordered the soldiers who were still loyal and unabandoning the downstairs: "If you want to go, let's go, if you don't want to go, take off your armor!" ”

"Governor, stay in the green mountains, don't be afraid of no firewood!" Zhou Meishan, the captain of the cavalry, shouted unwillingly and unyieldingly towards the watchtower.

If you haven't heard of it, you stand on the watchtower, looking at the night with a dead heart.

Zhou Meishan lay on the ground and kowtowed a few times, turned over his horse, and fled with more than a dozen horsemen to the depths of the night in the north with him, and more horsemen put down their armor, and soon the armor of the Huaidong Army broke through the last fence and rushed over.

There are several wrestlers who carry big axes and slash at the handsome banner of King Min of Luxury. The high flag erected under the night, as if symbolizing the last line of defense in eastern Hubei and the last spiritual pillar of more than a dozen defenders, completely collapsed at the moment when the handsome flag was cut off, and the surrounding mountains and fields showed a thunderous shout.

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The shouts set off wave after wave and reached the camp of Zhaohu Mountain.

"The whole line has broken through!" Lin Jian put down the charcoal pen in his hand and looked at the battlefield in the distance through the camp gate with the curtain rolled up. The bursts of shouts made people's blood boil and make people so excited.

"It's a breakthrough on the whole front," Gao Zongting said, "Huangpi, Baitahe, and Xiongjiagang have all been defeated, and there is no news from Hanjin and Tiemen Mountain, so it will be about the same, Zhao Hu and Su Pinxiao have already led their troops to Hanjin......"

Lin Lian put down his sleeves and said to Zhou Pu behind him: "You can let the cavalry camp out, you don't want to go." Tell Zhao Bao that with Shicheng as the limit, the cavalry camp should not rush to the north to pursue, and ask them to tear up the enemy army that may be organized before Shicheng and Huangpi for me repeatedly......"

If you want to effectively defeat and chase the enemy, you have to go into battle with cavalry, although Zhou Pu said that his hands were also itchy, but he also knew that there were some combat exploits that he should not fight for the young generals below, and he sighed: "The further down, the more useless people like us are." ”

"How so?" Lin Lian laughed and said, "If the empire is going to rise, the battlefield fighting is only a small part; It's useless, cuddle the two girls to sleep, give birth to a few babies, it's also very interesting," and said to Gao Zongting, "I'll sleep first, and the rest of the things will be handed over to Canghai and you, Fu Ye, and Song Gong." I'll talk about leaving for Stone City when I wake up......"