There were too many soldiers and horses crowded with the west base of Baihe Beach, and the cavalry could not pull the speed, but the defenders could not open the defensive formation, and the Huaidong cavalry that came after the rout of the river was divided into pieces.

The soldiers of the Huaidong cavalry battalion no longer pay attention to the queue and formation, but dozens of people pulled out, and when they saw that there were still enemy soldiers who had not put down their weapons, they pulled out the horse's head, assassinated the past, and danced the war knife to slash left and right, almost at will, and cut it down with a knife, which could bring up a puddle of blood and harvest a head......

The tent was on fire, and soon it was on fire, and the horses' hooves trampled on it and sparks flew everywhere; The soldiers and horses of Fancheng had also pushed the trench cart to the long trench outside the west base, set up several passages to directly attack the west base, and even sent a team of soldiers and horses to the north to make a detour to intercept the rout and flee in the direction of Xinye.

Sun Zhuang stopped at the high place of the beachhead on the east bank, and Tang Xitai was also surrounded by dozens of horsemen, rushing over from behind to join Sun Zhuang, looking at the situation on the west bank of the White River, he also knew that the victory was decided, and those enemy soldiers were just doing the last useless struggle and resistance; Huang Zuyu's side sent troops out of the city in a very timely manner, blocking the road for the enemy soldiers to flee to the west and north.

In the distance, the pontoon bridge on the Han River resembled a big fire dragon, and the enemy general in Xiangyang finally thought of burning the pontoon bridge at this time.

The entire Baihe Xitan camp itself is built on the sand slope of the river sand, and there is no precipitous terrain at all. Once the breakthrough is made from both the inner and outer sides, it is impossible for the enemy soldiers, who are cut in all directions, to resist stubbornly and delay time by relying on the steep and narrow terrain.

When twilight fell, the battle at Baihetan was coming to an end, except for a few enemy soldiers who rushed through the blockade line and fled north, the enemy navy's warships on the Han River failed to pick up many people.

Sun Zhuang, Huang Zuyu and the middle and lower-level generals all unintentionally took in too many prisoners, all of them were killed by arson, under the twilight, the remnants of the fire reflected the corpses all over the ground, and the blood continued to flow into the White River, dyeing the turbid White River into a river of blood. The mouth of the White River was full of drowned corpses, and the water flow was not smooth, and the water level rose quite a lot at dusk, lifting the pontoon bridge a foot or two high.

"Master Pole, this battle is very enjoyable!" Huang Zuyu pulled the horse's head, and crossed the river Sun Zhuang, Tang Xitai side by side, in other words, no one could suppress the excitement of the victory in front of him, this battle almost completely annihilated the enemy's soldiers and horses gathered in the east of Fancheng, completely shattered the enemy's delusion to recapture Fancheng.

"It's just a pity," Huang Zuyu said with emotion, "Zhou Bin took the iron pile pier and took the flying feather cape, but the enemy general Tong Ruilin did not have any martial spirit, closed the Xiangyang city gate early, and set fire to the pontoon bridge......"

Fancheng is two or three miles away from the north bank of the Han River, the north city wall of Xiangyang is built next to the cliff stone on the south bank of the Han River, and the floating bridge of Feiyu Cape is the north gate of Xiangyang - such a steep terrain, the north bank wants to take the north gate of Xiangyang by surprise attack, and then conquer Xiangyang City in one fell swoop, it is impossible.

Moreover, most of the sections of the pontoon bridge are floating on the water, and both wings are enemy water camp warships, Fancheng soldiers and horses want to seize Xiangyang through the pontoon bridge, how to cover the two wings from the attack of the enemy water camp?

Sun Zhuang looked up at the still burning pontoon bridge, which looked like a fire dragon floating on the Han River in the twilight.

It would be great to be able to take Xiangyang in one go, but the possibility is very small, Sun Zhuang didn't have any expectations before the war - Sun Zhuang asked Huang Zuyu: "What's the situation over there in Xinye?" ”

"There are 3,000 enemy reinforcements to avoid Xinye City, and the garrison of Xinye has increased to 5,000, I'm afraid it will be difficult to overcome suddenly!" Huang Zuyu said.

The reinforcements of Miyang were sent by Tu'an, mainly the infantry of the Xinfu Han Army, and they came to the aid of Fancheng at a faster pace. However, it was this slowness that allowed these 3,000 enemy reinforcements to escape, and also made Sun Zhuang lose the possibility of taking advantage of the situation to quickly cover Xinye.

Sun Zhuang waved his hand and said, "Forget it, this side of Baihe Beach will be handed over to you to clean up, and I ......will go to the city to sleep for a long time."

He led his troops to gallop from Lishan, walked 400 miles in two days, and took advantage of the last remaining strength to defeat the enemy base of Baihetan in one fell swoop. Although the casualties are not large, whether it is a pawn or a war horse, the physical strength is overdrawn to the limit, it can be said that it is the end of the strong crossbow, and it is very necessary to avoid Fancheng to rest and recuperate, and there is no spare strength to cover Fancheng a hundred miles away after the rout.

At this time, there were several horsemen galloping from the east, and it was Cao Ziang who sent a letter horse from Luodian this morning: "Dong Yuan took the time to go south to fight Luo in Xinyang, and Chen Zhihu is likely to have sent soldiers and horses directly from Queshan to cross Zhengyang to aid Xinye......"

",, mother!" Sun Zhuang spat viciously, really wanting to pull Dong Yuan to his eyes and fuck him.

They routed the enemy at Baihetan, and there were no more enemy forces on the outskirts of Fancheng that could threaten them. However, as soon as Dong Yuan gave way, Chen Zhihu's main force of soldiers and horses in Queshan became active, without restraint and containment.

The reinforcements sent by Chen Zhihu will arrive in Xinye City before tomorrow afternoon at the earliest, and in Xinye will once again form a military superiority over Fancheng.

Chen Zhihu's subordinates are mainly foot soldiers, but Chen Zhihu has been following Yan Hu for many years, and he has worked hard and has many war horses under his jurisdiction, so it is no problem to get together 8,000 or 10,000 reinforcements and cavalry to rush to Xinye first.

From the mountain, take the Tongbai Valley Road, and rush to Xinye only 300 miles.

The land passage from Fancheng to Wuguan is through Xinye and Xichuan, which is the official road opened up from the ancient road of the pre-Qin and Warring States periods, and it is also the land route from Jingxiang to directly enter the military pass. In contrast, the Danjiang River and Wuguan River have shallow water and small flow after winter, which is far less smooth than the land route.

Telling the enemy army to re-establish a troop advantage in Xinye and seal the passage of the two wings of Xinye deep into the hinterland of Nanyang, Sun Zhuang had no possibility of directly attacking Wuguan in Fancheng.

It is conceivable that Chen Zhihu sent the first troops into Xinye, and its main force would soon enter the Nanyang Basin without the containment of Huaidong soldiers and horses, and with the Tu'an Division, the enemy army would soon gather a total of more than 60,000 troops in the north of the Nanyang Basin.

Although Sun Zhuang was not afraid of the enemy army coming to capture Fancheng, even if he joined the main force of Chaishan soldiers and horses led by Cao Ziang, there was no way to take Xinye in a short time.

If you don't go to Xinye and Xichuan, and go west along the north bank of the Han River to hit Baiyang Pass and Danjiangkou, there are hills, mountains and ravines, and only the steep mountain roads can be passed by hundreds of soldiers and horses in batches. Although there are not many enemies in Baiyangguan and Danjiangkou, only three or five hundred people, they are on guard, close the door tightly, and only send hundreds of soldiers and horses along the north bank here, and there is no way to attack the two key passes of Danjiangkou and Baiyangguan.

"Leave a small opening for the enemy army in the Wuguan River and Danjiang River, and prevent them from being trapped in the west of the Han River!" Tang Xitai said. Although there is no chance to attack Wuguan in one go, this situation is not unconsidered before the war, but it is just a pity.

Before the war, the military intelligence establishment at the town and division level sent personnel to the military intelligence department to participate in the deduction of the war situation, and deduced the possible situation of the Jingxiang battle situation countless times, and compiled a large number of plans, which could greatly reduce the possibility of front-line generals making mistakes in wartime.

Although Sun Zhuang was a pity, he also knew that the situation was like this, and some things could not be forced.

Jingzhou City was in danger after the siege of Yeji Luorong, and once he was asked to capture Jingzhou City, about 100,000 elite enemy soldiers would be able to obtain relatively sufficient supplies on the west bank of the Han River and gain a complete foothold. Sun Zhuang and their complete closure of the passage between the west bank of the Han River and Guanzhong and Henan are likely to make Ye Ji Luorong have the heart to break the boat on the west bank of the Han River.

At this time, the soldiers and horses on the west bank of the Han River, including Ye Ji Luorong's headquarters, Zhou Fan's new annexed army, and Tian Chang and Han Li's two divisions, can all be said to be elite soldiers, with a total of more than 110,000. Among them, Zhou Fan, Tian Chang, Han Li and other newly attached Han troops all participated in the massacre, and it is estimated that they will not have any intention of surrendering. Once they have the heart to break the cauldron on the west bank of the Han River, a bloody battle will naturally be inevitable, which is not in the interests of Huaidong.

Leaving a small opening, so that Ye Ji Luorong saw that there was hope of escaping north into Guanzhong, even if they were given the opportunity to capture Jingzhou, he would immediately move his division north, and would not defend the west bank of the Han River, reducing the strength of resistance that the Huaidong Army could encounter when recovering the west bank of the Han River.

Tang Xitai's task was to immediately organize manpower and open up the passage from Fancheng West to Huanglongtan.

Huanglongtan is only more than 30 miles away from Fancheng, there is the narrowest channel of the Han River in the vicinity of Xiangfan, the cliffs and mountains on both sides of the river, the waterway is only two or three hundred steps wide, and the cliff bank is directly on the Han River.

As long as the heavy stone-throwing crossbow can be transported to the cliff bank of Huanglongtan, the Han River can be directly blocked.

The heavy bed crossbow made by Huaidong can shoot up to 800 paces, and the rope tied to the end of the crossbow arrow can also shoot 300 steps, and the giant crossbow with the rope can be shot directly into the cliff rock on the opposite bank.

Even if the time for the Shuiying warships to enter the Han River could not be too early, the Huaidong Army did not have more means to delay the enemy's northward escape on the west bank of the Han River.

This is a battle that will determine the overall situation of the strategic advantages and disadvantages of the north and the south, Yanhu soldiers and horses are rushing into Jingxiang to fight, wanting to take Jingzhou first, and the Huaidong army has been planning for many years, using unimaginable resources and manpower for outsiders.

At this time, Chen Daozi came over on a lame horse, and there was a person on the back of the horse who was still hunched and sturdy.

Looking at the man's armor, Sun Zhuang knew that Chen Daozi personally went into battle to catch a big fish and came over to invite merit, and he was about to pull the whip over, and scolded: "You are a worthless person, which one allows you to go into battle in person?" ”

"Master Pole, you don't have a chance to fight, but you can't complain. The lord clearly stipulates that the lord will not go to the front to fight, but I am leading the horse for you, the pole master, and I have had a good time in battle, but I have not violated military discipline," Chen Daozi brushed his head and threw Azig on horseback to the ground like a dead dog, and said, "Do you know who this thing is?" ”

"Nakh Azig!" Huang Zuyu pulled out Azig's messy hair, when Azig was the first soldier to seize Fancheng, Huang Zuyu was only a hundred steps away from him recently, and he had seen his face, but he didn't expect Baihetan to capture him alive.

"This little white face is really handsome, I can't wait to make people want to cut a knife or two on his face, I heard that his sister gave that dog Laozi Emperor of Heaven as a concubine, known as the first beauty in the north, if you catch it and dedicate it to the lord, the pole master, do you say that this beautiful thing will be famous through the ages?" Chen Daozi asked Sun Zhuang with a shy face.

Sun Zhuang was speechless, while Tang Xitai and Huang Zuyu laughed, completely ignoring Azige, who was tied up like a dead dog, and his face rose with anger.