In the direction of Hancundu, the first person responsible for the attack was the Liang Shousuo Division of the 3rd Brigade of the Denghai Town Division

Because the beachhead on the west bank was occupied by our troops first, the position was expanded to a depth of more than 300 steps, and the bed crossbows, scorpion crossbows and other weapons on the crossbow platform along the east bank could not be used

Although the lethality of the shotguns is still quite good at a distance of 400 meters, when the shotshots are fired at a distance of 400 meters, the range of the cone-shaped barrage will cause serious accidental damage to the own generals on the west bank, and it will also give the 80 light and heavy artillery pieces that were deployed before the battle at the artillery positions on the east bank of Hancundu, which are not required to shoot solid shells at an oblique angle to the enemy's charging array

The muzzle of the cannon spewed out a strange flamelight, and the cannonballs swept over the Fenghe River, swept the low altitude that gave cover to the night, and whistled sharply, tearing apart the enemy charging array from the flanks and front flanks......

In Dengzhou, Tong Huacheng only saw Huaidong shelling the warships of the Dengzhou Navy Division and the city walls, arrow towers and other buildings of the Dengzhou Walled City, but did not personally observe the Huaidong Army's shelling of the charging array in the field battle

Before the war, the test firing of the heavy artillery that first entered the east bank of the Fenghe River was actually under the control of the soldiers and horses of the Northern Yan on the west bank, and it was impossible to send scouts to penetrate too deeply, so the distance on the west bank could only be estimated by throwing solid bullets, so as to determine the reference of the firing range

The sound of the galloping horses' hooves was like a violent shower in the ears, and the dirt pulled by the horses' hooves hit the face, and Tong turned into a pain that rushed forward with the left wing forward, mainly wearing armor and light horses, and the blade of the knife was stabbed horizontally to the chest, shining like a river

The sound was so loud that it seemed that only his own breathing could be heard, but the whistling cannonballs were so obvious - they passed by, and the scorching wind burned them, and Tong turned his head to look back to the side in shock, and saw that from the rest of the side, he fell down seven or eight horses......

Tong Huacheng was shocked, flicked his horse's head, left the charging array, galloped diagonally to a high ground on the flank, grabbed the reins and looked diagonally behind, and saw that on the battlefield covered by the Huaidong artillery just now, nearly 100 horsemen were killed or disabled and dismounted, losing their combat strength

Tong Huacheng's hand holding the reins trembled slightly, although the interval between the shelling was not short, enough for the cavalry to charge to the front of the Huaidong Army's battle line, and dodge the second shelling of the Huaidong Army with close combat, but the first wave of the cavalry array that sprinted killed nearly one-tenth of the Huaidong Army's artillery from the left and right front flanks at one time, and this lethality may not be too amazing

In fact, before the war, Tong Huacheng reminded Nahe Wugu that when he sent a cavalry to charge, he would start with a scattered array and sprint to the front of the enemy formation to gather to enhance the impact, the purpose was to prevent the lethality of Huaidong artillery against the dense array, and when it came to the war, he still underestimated the power of seventy or eighty artillery salvos......

In the daytime, such a large casualty will be caused by an artillery bombardment, which will seriously affect the determination of other generals to attack the enemy formation, but the night will cover up a lot of blood, and the cavalry who charged from the shelling coverage area did not carefully observe the casualties behind them, and with the momentum of the angry arrows off the string, and like the raging waves, fiercely pounced on the Huaidong army array that entered the west bank of the Feng River, and suddenly the knife and shield, arrow and gun, blood and flesh were bursting, roaring, although people kept falling from their horses, but the blood of the enemy and us was boiling, Caught in a bloody battle that never ends......

The soldiers and horses of the Northern Yan had predicted the cruelty of this battle before the war, and they also knew that only a battle formation made of blood and flesh could block the pace of the Huaidong Army's westward advance

did not wait for the first cavalry to divide the victory; The second wave of the Yan army's charging array composed of more than 1,800 cavalry in three formations came in the dust; The faintly visible cold armor, shiny blades, shiny eyes, and slightly open teeth floated in the night like faintly visible waves

Tong Huacheng dragged Hu Qi off the horse, pressed to the ground, listened to the whistling sound of the cannonball overhead, searched for the soul, and looked up to see the solid bullet whistling in, with an unstoppable momentum, piercing a flesh-and-blood body

Tong Huacheng watched as a cannonball shot from the front left corner of the charging array, and shot out from the rear right corner, with an irresistible force, a giant tree was shattered, and there were thirteen or fourteen flesh and blood bodies in the middle to shoot this cannonball; Sometimes I saw those shells hit the ground, but they followed the magic of a second bounce and continued to rampage through the array

Fortunately, on the sprint battlefield two or three miles from the river bank, the entire forward cavalry formation was relatively scattered, and there were a considerable number of shells at an angle that was not very ideal: high and skimming; Even if it hit the ground low or in advance, there was no ricochet formed, but this was the case, and on the battlefield covered by the Huaidong artillery, another 145 horsemen and horses were added to the fallen horses or dead or disabled......

Night, there are pros and cons; Tong Huacheng had to be grateful for the benefits of the night at this time

Most of the cavalry who had already charged from the Huaidong artillery coverage area could not see the heavy casualties left behind them in the night, they approached the beachhead of the Huaidong Army into the west bank, and took advantage of the Huaidong Army's position on the west bank to be unprepared, and at close range, they lifted their horses again and again, and attacked the Huaidong Army's temporary defense line on the west bank with a desperate attitude

Yan Hu one by one to the famous martial arts of the cavalry generals, with horse lances, riding spears as blades, left and right swinging, weighing more than hundreds of pounds of cast iron shield carts, spear carts in front of them are also easily knocked down, and even to roll over these Yan Hu generals who are not afraid of life and death, in the face of the spears and spears assassinated by the Huaidong Army, even if the body is pierced with more than a dozen blood holes, they still do not forget to clash forward when they are dying, and want to make a big gap for the latecomers, and the roar is as loud as thunder......

Although the infantry brigade of the Huaidong Army was known for its tight defense, it only entered the temporary front on the west bank after midnight, and after all, it was not well guarded, and Hu Cai, regardless of casualties, desperately urged the horses at close range, and the desperate sprint still caused strong pressure and casualties to the Huaidong Army entering the west bank

Hu Cai's goal was very clear, that is, to break through the Huaidong Army's defensive position on the west bank, destroy the trestle bridge, and then encircle and annihilate the Huaidong Army generals on the west bank, and then retreat, waiting for the Huaidong Army to build a bridge and cross the river for the second time......

Beiyan intends to use this kind of bloody battle of exchanging flesh and blood for flesh to weaken the westward advance of the Huaidong Army, and achieve the purpose of preserving Yanjing City, protecting the whole nation, and saving the country's fortunes

The tactics of the Yanhu cavalry were also very simple and crude, because attacking from the flank would be threatened by the artillery and heavy crossbows on the east bank, they could only choose to attack the Huaidong army's defense line on the west bank again and again with the simplest chiseling tactics from the front

The depth of the Huaidong army's defense line on the west bank is less than 300 steps wide, although the resistance is also unusually tenacious, the battle line has spears and crossbows, and there is a blockade of chariots, but it can not withstand the Hu cavalry's repeated chisel attacks, Yan Hu regardless of casualties, also called the Huaidong army generals to die or die under the iron hooves, and even many wounded soldiers did not have time to withdraw to the two wings, so they watched the defense line be chiseled through by Hu Cai, so that the trestle was exposed under Hu Cai's iron hooves......

The Yanhu cavalry unloaded the bundles of greased firewood and grass prepared in advance, threw them at the head of the trestle, and ignited them, so that the light on both sides of the Fenghe River was brighter, but in the next moment, they were exposed to the firelight, not the pontoon trestle as Yan Bing imagined, but three black iron girder bridges

The iron girder bridge is composed of a section of the box cage type bridge body, lying horizontally on the Fenghe River, under the bridge with the bridge erection car as a temporary support, standing in the turbulence at this time, someone only then understood a little, why before nightfall saw the Huaidong Army has a few trench bridge cars look particularly tall wheels? Originally, it was to be pushed into the middle of the river and used as bridge piles

General Yanhu couldn't imagine how these three iron girder bridges were built for a while, but the bridge body was mainly composed of I-shaped or ruler-shaped iron beams - those Yanhu Lux who were holding huge axes and preparing to split the iron cables, looking at the thick iron beams reflected in the firelight, no matter how sharp the giant axes that could cut the iron cables, they could not destroy the bridge with the iron beams in a clumsy splitting method in a short time......

Seeing that the bridge could not be destroyed, Yan Qi wanted to rush to attack the east bank and kill the Huaidong Army's main position on the east bank, but they had to face the scattered blockade of the Huaidong Army's eight guns deployed on the river bank at this time

The lead shot hit the iron beam, and found the sound of metal roaring, but many lead pellets ruthlessly penetrated into the **, rolling in the **, and breaking the flesh and blood through the big holes of erosion

Solid bullets or linear shooting, the possibility of the angle deviation of the shell is also very high, the scattered bullet in the close range is directly covering a side, the enemy cavalry shot in pieces on the west bank of the ground to gouge through the defense line of the Huaidong Army, did not collapse, but before the crazy impact of the enemy cavalry, deliberately retreated to the two wings, in order to reduce the huge pressure on the defense line, reduce unnecessary casualties, and then lose no time in counterattacking from both wings......

This tactic has been repeatedly practiced by the Denghai Town Division more than a dozen times, seizing the opportunity of the enemy's cavalry to shoot scattered bullets to kill Dameng, and cut off more than 1,000 enemy cavalry from the flank in one fell swoop......

In the face of the slaughter on the west bank, the Yan cavalry army did not retreat, and the third group of cavalry passed through the artillery coverage area at a rapid pace, and in the face of such a fierce attack of the Yanhu cavalry, Chen Yan had to send the second brigade to the west bank in advance, so that the third brigade, which suffered great casualties, was scattered on both flanks......

Compared with the bloody battle on the battlefield of Hancundu, the fierceness of the fighting in the other three places was much more relaxed, and in order to avoid the generals' defense line entering the west bank from being cut through and killed, the pressure was so great that the defense line would be blocked with crossbows, and the soldiers and horses on the west bank would withdraw from the pontoon bridge, giving the enemy cavalry the opportunity to rush to the front and set fire to the pontoon trestle

Once the pontoon trestle is on fire, or the iron cable is cut off by a giant axe, the enemy cavalry will quickly gallop away from the riverbank, and the battle will be interrupted for a period of time without giving the Huaidong artillery more chance to shoot, giving both sides a chance to rest

Only the bloody battle on the battlefield of Hancundu was so fierce that the main generals of both sides predicted in advance

The existence of the Tieliang Bridge made it possible for the Huaidong Army to enter the west bank from Hancundu without being interrupted by the charge of the enemy cavalry; The interval between the enemy's cavalry charges was a good opportunity for the Huaidong Army to reorganize and strengthen the defense line on the western front

It's just that the enemy army also realized that it could not defeat the Huaidong Army that entered the west bank of Hancundu, and could not prevent the Huaidong Army that entered the west bank of Hancundu from continuing to expand in depth, and eventually their defense line on the west bank of the Fenghe River would no longer exist, and from the west of the Fenghe River to the bottom of Yanjing City, they would not have a terrain that was more advantageous than the Fenghe River to hinder the westward advance of the Huaidong Army, which meant that the emperor capital of Northern Yan could not be preserved in front of them......

General Hu Yan was also like crazy, manic and furious constantly Hancundu battlefield to fill the elite combat power, regardless of casualties, to use flesh and blood to block the pace of the Huaidong Army's westward advance

Gao Zongting, Yang Yihang, Song Shixing and others had to make a temporary decision to transfer an elite brigade from Han Caizhi and Hu Qiaoguan's headquarters to strengthen the front in the direction of Hancundu, and at the same time ordered Han Caizhi and Hu Qiaoguan to break through to the west bank of the Fenghe River with a firm posture from both flanks......