Tomorrow is 515, the anniversary of the starting point, and the day with the most benefits. In addition to the gift bag and school bag, this time's "515 Red Envelope Flip" must be seen, how can there be a reason not to grab the red envelope, set the alarm clock high~

Sima Xiangru has already taken the lead, set up a pontoon bridge, 100,000 troops are crossing the river in an orderly manner, looking around, the south bank is already a banner, Wang Daoxun and others have negotiated many times, have not obtained the consent of the middle route army, and the east route army has no pontoon bridge to use for the time being, can only do a wait-and-see on the north bank.

Li Zhaofeng was so angry that the Eastern Route Army had no choice but to set up camp in Jiangbei, and as soon as the camp was built, he summoned the generals to lead the discussion.

Everyone sat down in the prince's tent, and King Ye's face had turned earthy gray, obviously very displeased. He did not hide the anger in his heart at all, and said, "This king led the generals to conquer the thieves in the south, and broke through more than ten large and small cities, and now it is a critical battle, you are so uncompromising, and Sima Xiangru that kid has taken the lead, if Huang Chao is captured by him, wouldn't our battles these days be meaningless, you waste, you brag about how powerful you are in fighting on weekdays, how wise you are to win a step, and now you have become so passive, who will talk to this king, how is it good now!".

Although King Ye is a prince, he is far from being favored like King Li Zhaorun, and this time he has only one purpose in the south, to capture Huangchao alive, consolidate his position, and further gain the favor of the saint.

Ke Xu Cheng smiled slightly, and said, "Don't be angry, your subordinates have ordered people to build a pontoon bridge downstream, and you can cross the river at dusk!"

Li Zhaofeng's face finally recovered, and he continued, "This time to attack Jiankang City, we must capture Huangchao alive. After crossing the river, the troops did not rest. direct siege".

Xie Tong was very dissatisfied with the prince's words, and the East Route Army marched for two days and nights. Just in the construction of the pontoon bridge can rest a bit, if the direct siege of the city, I am afraid that the loss is incalculable, this King Ye in order to get the first credit, regardless of the life and death of the soldiers, he is very cold. He thought for a while and said, "Lord Wang, should you let the soldiers rest and attack the city rashly?" I'm afraid it's backfire!".

King Ye Li Zhaofeng glared, and snorted coldly, "General Xie, this king has made meritorious contributions to your southern expedition, so he doesn't care about your ignoring military orders, and now he is bewitching the public, and this king will immediately behead you to show the public, and give me a retreat."

Xie Tong touched his nose, his heart was very displeased, and he was about to retreat. King Ye's voice sounded in his ears again, and King Ye said, "Xie Tong listens to the order, and immediately leads the troops to attack the city after crossing the river, without a moment's delay!"

Xie Tong replied reluctantly. Retreated.

The pontoon bridge was being built, and Xie Tong was sitting by the river, faintly able to hear the sound of fighting on the opposite side. Sima Xiangru also worked hard in order to get the first credit. The siege lasted all night, and the spies from the front came to report. The whole scene was extremely bloody, the city changed hands several times, and finally Zhu Wen guarded it, and Sima Xiangru's losses can only be described as heavy.

After dawn, the pontoon bridge has been built, and the remaining 90,000 horses of the East Route Army began to cross the river one after another, Xie Tong can already see the bloody picture outside Jiankang City, almost everywhere are corpses, the corpses under the city wall have been gathered more than a foot, the air is filled with a smell of blood, and the whole outside of the city is like hell.

Li Zhaofeng crossed the river with his troops, and when he saw this bloody scene, he almost vomited, so he hurriedly hid in the carriage and ordered the troops to speed up their advance and attack from the east.

Xie Tong had already heard from the scout that Sima Xiangru only attacked from the north last night, and at present, the east and south of the city were still in the hands of Zhu Wen, and more than 50,000 horses were stationed outside the city, forming horns with Jiankang City.

The Eastern Route Army had not yet attacked the city, and had already met the army that Zhu Wen had arranged outside the city.

Xie Tong sat on a tall horse with Yi Wuxing, Lai Kezhong and others, this time they did not take the lead, this kind of large-scale military battle, tens of thousands of casualties at every turn, their brothers are really useless, it is difficult to play an obvious role.

The Tang army held a spear and formed a phalanx of 1,000 people, and they rose up densely. This formation has almost no weaknesses in the face of pure infantry, but it needs to have an absolute advantage in numbers, and at present, there is no shortage of people in the Tang army, what is lacking is only time, to see which army can defeat the defending enemy first and attack Jiankang City.

After several rounds of arrow rain from the enemy, the Tang army's thousand-man phalanx fell in large areas, but the follow-up men and horses ignored the enemy's arrow rain, and they quickly filled the gap, and the phalanx was still advancing. Finally, after paying a huge price, he approached the enemy's position and fought with the enemy.

The phalanx of the Tang army is like a tank, directly running through the enemy's defense line, the advantage of this phalanx is gradually reflected, no matter how the enemy rushes and fights, the Tang army always maintains this formation, as long as it does not disperse, the enemy has no other way than to retreat, otherwise it will be broken one by one.

The enemy army gradually lost its strength, the formation became loose, and the position was retreated twenty miles after being rushed and killed by the Tang army, and there was no longer the ability to defend on the flanks.

At this time, Zhu Wen could not draw any troops to support, so he could only watch the soldiers withdraw from their positions.

Before noon, the spies came to report that they had taken the enemy's position, and the remnants of the enemy army retreated south, and did not return to Jiankang City. However, this kind of frontal and hard charge formation had great losses, and Xie Tong conservatively estimated that there were more than 10,000 casualties, more than twice as many as the enemy army. His heart ached, but there was nothing he could do, he was not the one in charge, and he did not have the slightest right to interfere with orders from above.

Li Zhaofeng, the king of Ye, was very satisfied with the East Route Army's repulsion of the defenders outside the city in three hours, and immediately deployed the next task, ordering Lord Liao to lead troops to acropolize the south of the city to prevent the enemy from counterattacking, and Xie Tong immediately led the army to attack the city.

Xie Tong led the army to attack the city non-stop, and at this moment the Tang army was extremely tired, and its actions were slowed down compared to before.

The drums of war sounded, the Tang army of 30,000 people slowly attacked the east city gate, under the cover of the catapult, the Tang army soon approached the city wall, but the enemy army did not rush to shoot arrows to attack, but let the Tang army charge, after the inverted cloud ladder was erected, dense arrows shot down from the city wall chaotically, the Tang soldiers who climbed the cloud ladder were all shot into a sieve in an instant, and the corpses fell down from the cloud ladder, fell to the ground fiercely, and became a pile of meat when they landed.

The archers of the Tang army fought back, but the firepower was far from the enemy, and the quasi-head was also much worse, and was completely suppressed by the enemy.

The Tang army retreated in confusion, throwing down thousands of corpses, and this wave of attacks lasted only two pillars of incense, with heavy losses and no gains, and they did not even touch the city walls.

Xie Tong looked at the three-zhang high city wall, and couldn't think of any good way for a while.

King Ye's herald suddenly arrived and scolded, "The prince has an order, ordering General Xie to hurry up the siege and not delay the warplane."

Xie Tong looked at this herald, his teeth itched with hatred, and there was nothing he could do!

The second round of attacks came again, and Xie Tong ordered the soldiers to throw away their spears, replace them with short swords and shields, and attack the city wall again.

The enemy continued to use the same method as before, waiting for the Don army to approach before launching an attack. Xie Tong had slowly mastered the enemy's strategy in his heart, if it weren't for the sufficiency of troops, Zhu Wen would not have taken this risk, otherwise if the Tang army attacked the city wall, the general trend would have gone. What surprised Xie Tong was that the enemy army did not use anything like black oil and gunpowder to strengthen the defense, otherwise the losses of the Tang army would be even more incalculable.

The Tang army approached the city wall again, climbed up the ladder, and the enemy's arrow rain came again sharply, and like the previous time, the corpses of the Tang army fell from the ladder one after another, and before they reached the city, they had already fallen.

Xie Tong was furious, he was afraid that the horse would gallop out, and together with Lao Lai, he shot towards the city wall, and several enemy soldiers were hit by arrows and fell down from the city wall, but it still did nothing for the overall situation. The enemy relied on the geographical advantage of defense, and could kill the Tang army as he wanted, Xie Tong and the two of them each shot dozens of arrows, until the bamboo arrows in the quiver were shot out, although both of them were not missing arrows, but the offensive did not ease.

Seeing the soldiers who kept falling from the city wall, Xie Tong's heart ached, at this moment he knew why Sima Xiangru attacked 100,000 troops overnight, and he didn't make any achievements, Jiankang City, a strong city is far from being comparable to the kind of city wall that is Changtian, if you change the way, surround but not fight, the enemy army will definitely not be able to afford it, but all the armies are counting on winning the first credit, and no one in power will take care of the casualties of the soldiers.

Relying on the superiority in numbers and huge casualties, the Tang army successfully attacked the wall and carried out hand-to-hand combat. And the ladders were also erected one by one, and the Tang army rushed up like a tide.

The hand-to-hand combat on the city wall is very dangerous, from time to time someone is stabbed or shot, falling from the wall, the corpses under the wall are stacked with bamboo arrows, the air is full of the smell of blood, even the ground under the feet has been stained red with blood, and the fight is very tragic.

But as more and more of the Don army rushed to the city walls, the situation improved, and the balance of victory began to tilt.

Until dusk, the battle at the head of the city continued, and the city walls changed hands several times, and both sides refused to let go of every inch of land. Xie Tong threw all the 30,000 troops into it, but failed to take the city wall, he took out Huo Zixin's Mufeng Sword, and said, "Two big brothers, there is no reserve anymore, after a stick of incense, it's time for us to attack."

The two smiled and nodded.

At this time, King Ye and the others rode over, and when they saw Xie Tong, they scolded with their heads and faces, "It's a shame that the king trusts you so much, but you can't even take a city." When you take the city, it is estimated that the other two armies are celebrating. General Ke, lead your troops to me, be sure to hurry!" After saying that, he glared at Xie Tong fiercely.

Ke Xu Cheng glanced at Xie Tong contemptuously, and said, "Brothers, rush me, capture Huang Chao alive, kill it!"

The new force brought by Kexu City was obviously full of combat effectiveness, and it didn't take long to gain the upper hand.

Xie Tong couldn't say the bitterness in his heart, the results he had worked so hard to achieve, seeing that this was stolen by Ke Xu Cheng.

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