Rumble! Rumble! Rumble!

Huge cannonstones continued to fall into the city, and the roar was deafening, and the entire city of Huiluo was shrouded in a large cloud of smoke and dust, and it was impossible to see what was already in the city.

In the southern city of Heyang not far away, the defenders at the head of the city couldn't help but break out in a cold sweat when they saw this scene. The reputation of the Heyang Cannon was loud before, but not many people who have really seen its power may have seen it, but now they are finally fortunate to see it.

The attacking Western Wei army was particularly vicious, relying on the super range of the Heyang artillery, the artillery directly crossed the city wall to smash the houses and buildings in the city. As a result, the defenders of the city could only rest in the narrow space under the city walls, and did not dare to walk and stay in the city at all.

With such a fierce and ferocious offensive, anyone who sees it will inevitably be terrified. The enemy has already uprooted several fortifications around Heyang through such an offensive, and when they return to Los Angeles and then be conquered, then the southern city of Heyang will become an isolated city on the south bank, and there will be no other strongholds in the left near except for Zhongyu City, which is connected by the river bridge.

These Northern Qi soldiers who retreated to Heyang also understood the truth of the cold lips and teeth, and after seeing that Huiluo City suffered such a ferocious attack, when the main general Ke Zhu Hunyuan mobilized and organized elite troops to go out of the city to fight and rescue back to Los Angeles, they no longer blindly shirked and avoided the battle, and basically accepted the arrangement.

However, the situation has developed to this point, and it is no longer possible to reverse it simply by relying on the persistence of resistance with these forces at the moment.

As they refuted Zhu Hunyuan before, the best time to reverse the tide of the battle has passed, and now the Western Wei people and horses are no longer weak compared to them, the supply of grain and grass is also very sufficient, and the morale is far higher than theirs.

Not surprisingly, Heyang Nancheng organized several attacks against the enemy's camp, but it failed to shake the enemy's camp in the slightest, only throwing hundreds of corpses outside the city, and even failed to slow down the enemy's pace of breaking through and returning to Los Angeles.

Li Tai did not go to the front line in person this time, but sat in the camp. Although he had previously taken the cities of Baiting and Kim Yong Yong, because Li Tai had no intention of garrisoning them for a long time, he did not divide his troops to defend them, but led the army to continue to advance to the vicinity of the southern city of Heyang.

Now the men and horses under his command are not only the 5,000 horsemen brought from Jingzhou, but Han Xiong, Wei Xuan and other Heluo Yishi rushed to converge with more than 4,000 people.

Although more than half of the barbarian troops instigated by Li Renjie and others left one after another after the distribution of the spoils in Baiting City, there were still nearly 5,000 people left.

Compared with those who left, these who left behind were undoubtedly more obedient and more willing to obey Li Tai's military orders, even if they couldn't be the main elite of the fortifications, but they were still competent to fight on the battlefield and in the camp and carry out some auxiliary tasks.

In addition, after various battles, there were five or six thousand Northern Qi soldiers captured before and after. Among them, the biggest gain is Baiting City, in the case of the Lin family and his son taking the initiative to surrender and cooperate, thousands of defenders in Baiting City were almost taken down.

Although these captives did not have time to make more detailed reorganizations and go into battle at the moment, not all of them were fiercely loyal to the Northern Qi. Li Tai ordered the Lin father and son to select more than 1,000 available disciples from the middle and also incorporated them into the battle sequence.

Therefore, Li Tai currently has 10,000 thousands of men and horses, and in terms of troops, he is not inferior to the personnel who can be put into battle in Northern Qi, and he naturally does not have to blask and opportunistic as before, and can be more unrestrained.

When the return to Los Angeles was almost smashed, Li Tai ordered the Heyang artillery to be suspended. With no new artillery bombardment, the smoke and dust that had shrouded the city of Huiluo gradually dissipated, and before that, hundreds of surviving defenders had fled from the city.

Li Tai did not stop this, and even sent a ranger to drive the Qi soldiers who fled to other directions in the direction of Heyang South City, of course, not to help these people find their way home, but to let them pass on greater panic to Heyang South City through personal encounters.

After waiting for a while and seeing no more people fleeing, Li Taicai sent Gao Le and 500 heavily armored soldiers into Huiluo City to clear the field, attack and drive away those defenders who were still stubborn in the city. When the soldiers saw the familiar style of armor, which should have been the elite of their army, but now they had become a tool to slaughter them, they could not help but cry out with grief and indignation, and their fighting spirit was completely lost.

After nearly an hour of purging, under the noses of more than 10,000 defenders in the southern city of Heyang, the Wei army successfully and completely recaptured Huiluocheng. It went so smoothly that it seemed like everything was taken for granted.

Huiluo City was already very close to the southern city of Heyang, and after taking this city, Li Tai was no longer polite and ordered the camp to be transferred to this city. Although the buildings in the city have been destroyed by the bombardment, the city walls are still intact, and they are still stronger than the temporary barracks outside.

At the head of the southern city of Heqiao, Zhu Hun Yuan and the soldiers saw the actions of the Wei army, and their mood was extremely bitter, and a strong sense of powerlessness enveloped their hearts. Faced with such a situation, it is completely unknown where to reverse it in order to save the defeat.

Finally, there was good news from the north side of the river bridge: after the new monarch Gao Yang arrived in Jinyang, even if he sent the new king of Hedong, Pan Le, to lead his troops south to reinforce Heyang, and now Pan Le has finally arrived in the middle city of Heyang Bei.

After learning the news, Zhu Hunyuan and all the soldiers were overjoyed. Since the Western Thieves entered Heluo, they have gone from an absolutely dominant position to now being completely pressed and beaten by the enemy, and they know their bitterness and bitterness, and they really need reinforcements to strengthen their momentum and boost their morale.

But Zhu Hunyuan ordered his troops to strictly guard the city, and he personally went north through the river bridge to meet Pan Le, and discussed how to carry out a counterattack next.

After the two met, they didn't say more greetings, although they were ashamed in their hearts, but Zhu Hunyuan still told the situation between Heluo first. And Pan Le couldn't help but sigh after listening to Zhu Hunyuan's story: "This thief Li Boshan is really a particularly fierce person among thieves!" Murong Shaozong was superior in resourcefulness, and Liu Fengsheng was loyal and brave, but they were inevitably killed. Wang Jin can still resist the south of the bridge, and he is already better than the predecessors who defended the river bridge. ”

Of course, this kind of comfort can't make Zhu Hunyuan's mood happy, and he turned to a face full of hope and said with apprehension: "Pan Situ has a lot of people coming south this time? Does Your Majesty know the difficulty of guarding the throne here, and is there any renewed decree? The southern cities have lost themselves, and now that the reinforcements have arrived, I should be the vanguard of the division, enter the thief army, and strengthen my river defense! Even if the main army of the Western Thieves is here, they will never let it cross the river defense! ”

Hearing Zhu Hunyuan's statement, Pan Le sighed, and then said: "Your Majesty has made me here, and the intention is to stick to the river defense, and at the same time, you need to take into account the need not to be taken by thieves. However, the men and horses led by him are only more than 3,000 people in the headquarters, and I am afraid that it is not enough to go south against the bandit army. ”

"Only three thousand? This, this, the thieves have gathered the Yiluo group of barbarians, and the number of divisions has already exceeded 10,000, and they are carrying siege weapons like Heyang artillery, not to mention that there are successor divisions, and they are definitely not enemies that can be easily defeated! ”

When Zhu Hunyuan heard that Pan Le had only a few thousand people in his headquarters, his face changed suddenly, and he couldn't help but say again: "Once the thieves break through the river defense, the erosion of Hebei can be seen." Now it is a new era of revolution, the people's hearts are undecided, and it is a top priority to resist the enemy in Henan! Your Majesty may not be in charge of the heavy brigade in the past, and he will miss the measure of the matter, and he wants to consolidate the fundamentals, but now he ......"

"Be careful, king!"

Hearing that Zhu Hunyuan bluntly said that Xinjun was dealing with the imbalance because of his lack of experience, Pan Le's face sank, and he said with a straight face: "Because the king is trapped in the battle situation in Heluo, he doesn't know that the army of Western thieves has stopped at Hongnong and built a pontoon bridge, and wants to cross the river from there to the north, so he has no intention of turning to Heluo. ”

"Actually, how can this be?"

But after Zhu Hunyuan heard this, his face was immediately incredulous, and the whole person was stunned on the spot as if he had been struck by lightning, and after a while, he suddenly beat his chest and exclaimed: "The vertical son is treacherous, treacherous!" The old man had tens of thousands of teachers, but he was ......"

Before he could pour out all his words of grief and indignation, suddenly another soldier came to tell the thief army that the heavy artillery had been transferred and bombarded directly on the river bridge. Because of the loss of Huiluo City, its army is closer to the river bridge, and the ultra-long range of the Heyang cannon can directly attack the river bridge itself!

"What should I do? Pan Situ had fought with thieves on the bridge before, how should such a situation be controlled? ”

But after Zhu Hunyuan heard this, he didn't care about expressing his feelings about being deceived for a long time, and looked at Pan Le with a nervous face.

After Pan Le heard this, his expression also became unnatural, but now that the situation is in crisis, he can only say in a deep voice: "Before the battle, Hu Lugong once said that it is better to fight in the river bridge than to consolidate in Heyang. Today, our division is invincible, and we have to take care of the pass, only by temporarily living in the south, can we take care of both in between. ”

But when Zhu Hunyuan heard this, his face suddenly darkened. The previous capture of the two cities of Heyang by this Li Boshan was the defeat of Hu Lujin, Pan Le, and Xue Guyan, but he was the one who supported him. Now that he is sitting here, he has to defeat this state by himself?

Even though he was unwilling in his heart, even Pan Le, who was a reinforcement from the back road, did not approve of continuing to fight the enemy south of the river, but Zhu Hunyuan also understood that if he continued to persevere, he was afraid that the situation would not improve.

Especially now that it is known that the main force of the thief army intends to cross the river from the upstream Hongnong to the north, the gains and losses of the Yiguan and the safety of Jinyang are even more worrying, even if he can attack Li Boshan in Heluo, the overall reversal of the war is not big.

At present, there is still a fig leaf for the overall situation to lead the troops to retreat, if the situation continues to be stubborn and the situation does not develop for the better, it will inevitably be difficult to advance and retreat at that time, and there is no way to regret it, so Zhu Hunyuan can only order his subordinates to continue to retreat.

As the defenders of the Northern Qi retreated along the river bridge to the north bank and once again achieved the achievement of advancing Heyang, Li Tai did not slacken on this, and arranged for Han Xiong and others to enter the southern city of Heyang to block the road for the thief army to come south.

He led the rest of the men and horses to the south again, and attacked Yiyang, which was still holding on. Of course, the results of the battle here must also be passed on to Hongnong quickly. He has already played very well here, and it depends on the next performance of the main team in Guanzhong.