The Song army at the east gate stronghold was about to withdraw, and Zhao Ming, the left wing army at the east gate, couldn't help but be secretly anxious. Li Congyi's fighting, of course, was different from those confused generals who hid their military plans in this era, and the officers above the battalion command level had already learned about the battle plan and their respective tasks in several meetings.

Li Congyi did not put forward higher requirements for Zhao Ming, but only asked Zhao Ming to strictly guard the east gate, and at the same time, if there was any change in the Song army camp outside the east gate, he would need to report it as soon as possible.

Liu Cheng originally piled up 5,000 people on the left side of the east gate, and the garrison at the east gate naturally couldn't be presided over by Zhao Ming. But according to Li Congyi's plan, Zhao Ming was given 2,000 people at this time. Seeing that the Song army was tidying up the military base and seeing that the situation was about to leave, Zhao Ming asked Liu Jingming to fight with the commander of the left wing.

In the past, Liu Jingming naturally ignored it. Joke, 2,000 Tang soldiers, even want to pick up the tiger whiskers of 5,000 Song soldiers? However, this time is different from the past, Liu Jingming was pressed and beaten by the Song soldiers from the beginning, and at this time, he fought back and forth, and his courage became stronger. After thinking about it for a while, he drew 1,000 people from the reserve to Zhao Ming, and at the same time ordered Zhao Ming to send up to 2,000 people out of the city and fight according to the city.

Seeing the Tang army at the East Gate leaving the city, Jiang Feiyu sneered at the right wing of the Song soldiers guarding the East Gate camp, and he was going to lead his troops to meet the attack. There was a deputy general to dissuade him, Jiang Feiyu said categorically: "When did my Song army ever be afraid of the Tang army?" Just these two thousand Tang soldiers came to send the head, let's eat him, and then go to the north gate! ”

The Song army marched out of the stronghold with 3,000 men to meet the battle.

Zhao Ming knew that he was a little bit. The Tang army went out of the city gate, lined up the formation, and crossed the moat with two battalions, and the rest of the troops held the stone bridge and no longer rushed forward to attack.

Seeing the appearance of the Tang army, the adjutant general of the Song army suggested again that it is important to leave this Tang army alone, or the whole army to the north gate. Jiang Feiyu led the team to kill at this time, and at this time he also understood that Tang Jun had the intention of dragging himself, but if he didn't fight, he would turn around and leave again, and his morale might fall. At this time, the battle situation is already delicate, and if your own morale is insufficient, the battle may be even more difficult to fight. Jiang Feiyu could only grit his teeth and order the Song army to attack.

Seeing that the Song army was coming, Zhao Ming immediately crossed the river in person, stood on a stone on the side of the stone bridge foundation, commanded the Tang army to arrange the rejection of horses, and learned from Ning Guojun to find a few carriages and carriages, and pushed them across the bridge to pile them in front of the battle as a barrier.

Hundreds of people from a battalion of the Song army rushed up, and several bed crossbows at the head of the city were launched, several Song soldiers were knocked down and injured, and a crossbow arrow was not at the right angle, and it was nailed directly to the open space outside the city, but the three-foot-long arrow shaft was still trembling, which made people feel frightened.

However, the morale of the Song sergeants was high, and they were not afraid, and the charging formation was completely unaffected, and the soldiers in the front row rushed forward with a shield in one hand and a sword and gun in the other.

The Tang army also faced outward with a shield, molesting into a hollow semicircular array. As soon as the two sides came into contact, flesh and blood flew sideways, with shields on one side and stabbing each other with knives and guns on the other. The Tang army's archers and crossbowmen in the moat attacked the Song army behind the palace with all their might, and blocked the Song army reinforcements.

The Song army tried it for a while, and when he saw that he couldn't move the Tang army's position, he retreated like a tide. Both sides lost dozens of soldiers on the battle line, and dozens of soldiers were wounded, but some Song soldiers were injured and could not retreat, so they could only be taken prisoners of the Tang army.

Jiang Feiyu was also shocked when he saw the appearance of the Tang army. More than ten days ago, the Song army fought with a small force of Lu Jiang's troops outside the east gate, and the Runzhou army on the city wall of the east gate did not fire a single arrow. I never thought that at this time, the Tang Army was also high-spirited, and the exchange ratio between the two sides was comparable.

In the era of cold weapons, infantry battles were inherently difficult to play the exchange ratio. It's just that Song Jun has always had a huge psychological advantage before, and he always feels that he is much stronger than Tang Bing. On the whole, the Song soldiers did surpass the Tang army much in terms of armor ratio and the number of crossbowmen for long-range strikes. The elite Song army's armor rate can reach 30% or even 40%, while the Tang army's armor rate is far inferior. In terms of crossbowmen, the Song army widely used the crossbow, which had a long range, a high rate of fire, and a high proportion of crossbowmen, and could have three percent of soldiers holding crossbows. And the Don army still relied mainly on bows and arrows. But when it comes to a specific battlefield, it is difficult for the advantages of the Song army to be so good-looking on paper, after all, the Tang army also has elite troops.

Zhao Ming's department was the guard army brought by Liu Cheng from Jinling, and he was ordered to guard the east gate, and when he was opposite the Song army, he was naturally also elite. The equipment and training are not much worse than the Song army, but the generals before had no will to fight, and even feared the Song soldiers like rats, so the soldiers below naturally had no spirit. At this time, the Tang and Song armies in Beicheng were fighting hotly, and the soldiers guarding the east gate also wanted to make war achievements.

Jiang Feiyu watched the Tang army send the wounded across the river, and also beheaded the dead bodies abandoned by the Song army on the battlefield, and took away the heads, so occasionally the wounded of the Song army did not die, and the Tang soldiers cut off their heads mercilessly. Jiang Feiyu could only grit his teeth and attack again! At the very least, this Tang army must be beaten across the river, so that the Song soldiers can restore their morale to victory against the Tang soldiers.

Jiang Feiyu threw in a thousand people at a time, and half of them were crossbowmen, holding the bed crossbow on the city wall, rushing within 200 steps, and then pouring arrow rain on the Tang army outside the moat. In just two salvos, Zhao Ming's two battalions outside the river suffered nearly half of the casualties, that is, although Zhao Ming had a wooden shield to defend himself, he did not want to be shot in the toe by a crossbow arrow. Zhao Ming endured the great pain, but just stood still and made a battalion in Hanoi cross the river and counterattack.

The sword and shield soldiers who engaged in the battle on the front line were haunted by big shields, but the casualties were slightly better, and at this time, they also gritted their teeth against the battle line and fought to the death with the Song soldiers. A battalion of soldiers crossed the river, and was covered by a rain of crossbowmen and arrows of the Song army, and at the moment it lost more than one team. However, a new force joined, and although the Tang army was killed locally and retreated, the front was safe for a while.

At this time, the Tang army's concentrated bed crossbows at the head of the city also exceeded ten, and the Song army's crossbow array was fired. The Song crossbow team was separated from the battle line by more than 100 paces and the city wall by 5 or 600 steps, which was within the best range of the bed crossbow. A salvo of the Tang army's bed crossbow will take the lives of twenty or thirty Song army crossbowmen. And if the crossbowmen wanted to hit the Tang crossbowmen on the other side of the river, they had to enter the range of the Tang crossbowmen. At this time, the sword and shield soldiers of the two sides were already together, and the crossbowmen of the Song army could not support it and retreated.

Zhao Ming prepared an ironclad warrior of the capital team at hand, and when there was a danger in that place, he sent the armor soldier to counterattack, so that the battle was a pillar of incense for a long time, and the Song army could only return in vain.

In this battle, both sides suffered more than 300 casualties. Although the Song army had the advantage, it did not achieve its tactical objectives. In addition, Ma Zhong sent a herald to urge later, Jiang Feiyu could only give up his attempt to continue the attack at this time, and prepared to go to the north gate with the whole army.

At this time, I saw a probe horse flying and rushed over: "The Tang Army Brigade has 10,000 people, crossing the river from the canal wharf and coming to the east gate!" ”

At this time, Zhao Ming also received information that the main force of the Zhining National Army was already crossing the river, and it was only four miles away from here. At this time, Liu Liangjun, the deputy commander of the left wing of the Runzhou Army, also rushed to the east gate with 1,000 men, and then he also went out of the city and informed Zhao Ming's troops to expand the position outside the moat for more soldiers to cross the river. At the same time, the Tang army out of the city also launched trench cars, and wanted to drive out the troop passage on the moat.

At this time, the Tang army was able to draw troops and horses from the city to attack, which also showed that the battle in Beicheng was extremely unoptimistic. Under the circumstance that the Taohuadu Water Village and the Beigushan camp were both breached, if the Tang army had the combat power of the Tang soldiers just now, the fate of the Yangzhou army would have been obvious.

Regarding the fact that he couldn't return to the north gate in time for the battle at the East Gate, Jiang Feiyu didn't regret it. These 5,000 people entered Runzhou City, that is, they held out in the city for a few more days or more than ten days. Unless Cao Bin, who attacked Jinling, sent tens of thousands of troops, the Yangzhou army would be in danger.

Du Yu waited for Sun Yongwang to make several suggestions before, but Jiang Feiyu did not accept them, but this meeting was entrusted to him: "Leave me a thousand soldiers, and you take the rest away, and apologize for helping me and Ma Du deploy." ”

Sun Yongwang knew that the situation was urgent, so he didn't say much, but said: "Take care, general!" So he gathered his men and horses, and immediately pulled out the camp and went to the northwest.

The Song soldiers left behind were pressed by Jiang Feiyu's personal bullets, the banner was awe-inspiring, and the advance and retreat were orderly, Liu Liangjun and Zhao Ming did not dare to hold it up, but only after crossing the river with more than 2,000 soldiers and horses, they attacked tentatively, losing dozens of people, and then watched the Song soldiers who stayed behind retreat into the camp.

However, when encountering the first division of the Ning Guo Army, Jiang Feiyu wanted to block the pursuers with a military base, which was of course impossible. Knowing that there were only 1,000 people left in the Song army camp at the east gate, and the rest was heading towards the north gate, Cui Feihu only blocked the north of the Song army base with a group of 1,000 people, so the main force continued to attack eastward.

Jiang Feiyu didn't want to sit still, so he went out of the camp with thousands of people to attack.

A regiment of the Ningguo Army here was reinforced from the Third Division. However, the Third Division was not all Xinding, the remnants of the Mingzhou Naval Division of the Wu Yue Army and some pirates on Yangshan Island who were captured in the last naval battle were all enriched, not only that, but Li Congyi also drew a few people from the First Division to join the Third Division, so that as soon as the Third Division was established, it was by no means a fish belly.

After Zhao Kai was transferred to the Third Division, he soon became the brigade commander. In fact, Zhao Kai was reluctant to go, but Zhao Kai went to the East China Sea for a walk, and when he came back, he found that the pits of the first division were occupied by others. Then the headquarters was pulled by Wang Damu to engage in the training of the garrison, and later was directly arranged into the third division. Although it is said that when it comes to the third division, this position is rising, but it is not as good as the first division, and the first division is the trump card in the hands of Jiang Guogong.

When the 3rd Division arrived in Changzhou, it soon received an order to send three regiments to reinforce the 1st Division and enter Runzhou to participate in the battle. Zhao Kaizhan was familiar with Jiang Guogong, so he begged himself to be the head of the regiment in vain, and he also followed. He became the head of the regiment, and Shi Deping, the real head of the regiment, could only be the deputy commander. However, Shi Deping was also a scoundrel, so he demoted the first battalion commander to the deputy battalion commander, and he had to be the battalion commander. Zhao Kai opened his own head, so he couldn't clean up Shi Deping, so he could only admit it with a wry smile.

Seeing the Song soldiers out of the camp, Shi Deping was full of excitement, and the fierce light in his eyes was bright, and he immediately ordered the first battalion to attack and advance!