Lord of the House

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Tian Chang and Tong Erdan escaped from Guanyinjian to Caochongzhai at the southwestern foot of Shilongling, and when they joined Ye Jiluorong who came to aid from Gucheng, there were only four or five hundred cavalry around, and they were still in shock.

"Where's the people of Hu Zongguo!" Ye Jiluo Rongqiang held down the uncontrollable anger in his heart, stared at Tian Chang and Tong Erdan with ashen faces, and asked where the people of Hu Zongguo were.

Tian Chang and Tong Erdan looked at each other and were speechless.

When breaking through the siege from Guanyinjian to the southwest, the carriage that Hu Zongguo was riding fell into the pit and overturned, and Hu Zongguo and his people were detained on the carriage; there were not many personal guards around Hu Zongguo. , Before Hu Zongguo struggled out of the carriage, the Huaidong Army had already caught up from behind, Tian Chang and Tong Erdan could only leave Hu Zongguo behind and break through to the southwest.

What matters now is not the life and death of Hu Zongguo, but the battle of Guanyinjian was so bleak. From the south of Guanyinjian to the north **** of Jingshan, the Huaidong Army was called to take it. If Guanyinjian could not be recaptured, Gucheng and the Xiangyang's passage was cut off.

A full 5,000 soldiers and horses called the Huaidong Army, which had scrambled to the south bank, and the Huaidong army, which was less than 2,000, was defeated. Only a few hundred remnants fled back to Caochongzhai. They also killed generals such as Wuya, Lin, and Hu Zongguo on the battlefield. If it weren't for the fact that most of the troops to the west of Gucheng were Tian Chang's subordinates, Ye Jiluorong would have dragged Tian Chang to the front and chopped off his head to strengthen the army...

Ye Jiluorong had a livid face, and tried to contain his anger. He climbed the Hengfeng at the southern foot of Shilongling, and from Caochongzhai to the east, all the troops were defeated, and the Huaidong Army was killed behind him.

Since the valley from Caochongzhai to the east is sandwiched between the northern foot of Jingshan Mountain and Shilongling, it is quite narrow. At this time, it was filled with the collapsed troops, and Ye Jiluorong personally led the reinforcements to Caochongzhai, and there was no way to cross the Nanhe. To intercept the Huaidong Army, the only way is to pack up the defeated troops at Caochongzhai first, stabilize their position, and then fight westward.

The Huaidong Army did not rush to the east bank of the Nanhe River, but stopped the pursuit at the east entrance of the canyon and retreated, but there were a large number of routed soldiers near Guanyinjian that were not killed.

The suspension bridge erected between Longclaw Rock and Shanmen Rock is only one-way to transport men, horses, armor and other supplies to the south bank. There is simply no space to send the prisoners of war to the north bank; and the south bank will face the madness of the enemy. The counterattack, the troops and horses were still in short supply, and it was impossible to spend manpower for guarding the prisoners of war.

The enemy generals Wu Ya and Lin dismounted their horses to fight, but they concentrated their war horses in a valley on the south side of Shanmenyan, and they did not have time to withdraw. The soldiers killed the defeated soldiers on the south of Guanyinjian.

Chen Kui stood on the huge rock on the top of Guanyinjian Mountain and said to Liang Shou: "Tell these tortoise sons to hang around, and I will immediately retract to the south of Guanyinjian. Tian Chang is in the west, and he may not be able to work hard, but the surrounding area in the east will not work. Fan, it's the old turtle in the urn, I'm afraid I won't accept my fate easily, I'll struggle hard, and then it won't be so easy..."

"...The enemy soldiers didn't react so quickly." Seeing that Pogu's troops were all defeated, Liang Shou was a little unwilling to shrink his troops at this time.

"These fallen soldiers haven't been cleaned up all day, don't be too long-winded," Chen Zhe glared at Liang Shou, "Leave those two hundred people to practice equestrianism at the back of the mountain, and all the men and horses on the outside will be withdrawn for me to form a formation in the south. The trenches that should be dug should be dug by Lao Tzu, the fences should be erected by Lao Tzu, and the Guanyin tip cannot be guarded, and the opening from Xiangyang to Gucheng will not be closed, and the two or three thousand defeated soldiers in front of him will be completely killed. , it's not worth it!"

Snow particles fell on the face, but the foot of the mountain was trampled by the defeated soldiers and the pursuers, and no snow could be accumulated. Only the treetops between the mountains began to whiten; Luo Wenhu also stood on the tip of Guanyin and looked left and right.

After the enemy soldiers were defeated, they fled everywhere. Even if there were no enemy soldiers approaching from the periphery, they would not be able to clear them for a while. Right now, it is more important to block over 60,000 enemy troops from Zhou Fan, Tong Ruilin, Pu Jieshi and other troops to the east of Shilongling and cannot escape to the west - this is also the main purpose of crossing the river for the throat-locking operation. .

Miaotan Ridge and Shilong Ridge are both the remnants of the northern foothills of Jingshan Mountain. They form two canyons with the northern **** of Jingshan Mountain respectively. They are the necessary places for Xiangyang to go to Gucheng. Two or three hundred steps, but to the gap between the two mountains to form a water-facing half-basin terrain.

This gap was the throat for the more than 60,000 enemy soldiers still stranded in Xiangyang to flee westward. Chen Zhui led his troops to the south bank to change the throat and prevent the enemy soldiers in Xiangyang east of Shilongling from fleeing westward.

Guanyinjian is located in the center of this gap. Standing on Guanyinjian and looking to the south, you can see the lofty mountains and mountains on the north **** of Jingshan Mountain, just six or seven miles away, and Xianggu Post Road is less than five miles away from Guanyinjian. There is an unnamed creek hanging down from the north **** of Jingshan Mountain, flowing from the west side of Guanyinjian, and flowing into the Han River.

Under Chen Zui's order, the soldiers on the periphery began to shrink towards the open area south of Guanyinjian, while the Huaidong army soldiers who kept walking over the trestle also bypassed the east side of Guanyinjian and entered the position on the east bank of Qianxi.

Although the wire rope suspension rope can also bear two or three thousand kilograms of heavy objects at one time, it is always inconvenient to transport the shield carts, bed crossbows, scorpion crossbows and other weapons made of fine iron to the south bank through the suspension rope. At this time, the trestle was paved, and the enemy navy warships had not been able to come to harass. The bed crossbows, scorpion crossbows, shield vehicles and narrow carriages could directly walk the trestle to the south bank, strengthening the south of Guanyin Point. defensive position...

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When the sky was about to get dark, the enemy Xiangyang and the navy's warships finally came from the lower reaches, but a total of 4,000 soldiers of the Huaidong Army had crossed the suspension bridge to the south bank.

Although Yu Zhanqiao would face a direct attack from enemy warships, the crossing of the river was interrupted.

The bed crossbow directly on the water surface of the cliff bank is also a slot for giant arrows, and the strings are twisted "Ka Ka Ka", and behind the bed crossbow array, dozens of heavy catapults and a larger number of scorpion crossbows are in the dragon claw. On the right flank of the rock, upstream of the trestle, more than a thousand soldiers were sweating profusely, pushing sections of tree trunks weighing more than 1,000 catties, or even thousands of catties, onto the cliff bank.

Once the enemy ships approach, these thick tree trunks will follow the galloping turbulence, and the destructive power to the enemy ship formation will not be weaker than that of bed crossbows and scorpion crossbows.

Sometimes the traditional simple tactics are also very practical.

Obviously, the enemy also understands that the trestle will not be destroyed in one day.

Under the bombardment of bed crossbows, scorpion crossbows, catapults and giant trees on the north bank, more than a dozen enemy ships still risked their lives to go upstream from the downstream, approaching the trestle; Following the example of the kerosene tank made by the Huaidong Army, throw it at the trestle, or hook the rope of the trestle with iron hooks, and let the boat go down the river, which will drag the trestle down!

It must be said that the tactics used by the enemy were quite effective. The pallets on the suspension bridge were stained with kerosene, and the water would not extinguish it. At this time, the Huaidong soldiers could not go on the bridge to put out the fire, and immediately fell into a sea of ​​fire.

Although the strength of the wire rope is much higher than that of ordinary hemp ropes, but the entire enemy ship is hooked on it, and several warships are connected and pulled downstream together, withstanding the drag force of tens of thousands of kilograms, there are still several wire ropes immediately It was pulled and broken, and large pieces of pallets fell apart and poured into the water one after another.

Of course, the enemy army was not much better. Sixteen warships came against the water. Because they wanted to destroy the trestle, they were forced to stop for nearly a cup of tea in front of the crossbow array in Huaidong. Three ships were sunk with stone bombs weighing more than 100 kilograms. Almost none of the ships failed to hit Huaidong's kerosene tanks. More than a dozen enemy ships were set on fire, illuminating the Han River under the twilight. terror.

The canopy and broadside of the boat were riddled with holes in the crossbow formation on the north bank, and hundreds of navy troops called on both sides of the strait to shoot with crossbows.

The enemy ships were all set on fire, and had to retreat downstream until the fire was extinguished before they could attack again.

Although the trestle bridge was destroyed, only five of the thirteen suspension cables used to build the bridge were destroyed. Watching the enemy ship recede, the dragon claw rock quickly pushed the rope-shooting giant crossbow onto the dragon claw rock, shot the rope to the opposite bank, and quickly pulled up a few more wire ropes between the dragon claw rock and the mountain gate rock. Suspension cable, which will make up for the suspension cable torn off by the enemy ship.

Since the south bank also shipped a batch of pallets, it was faster to lay pallets from both sides to the middle at this time.

The Huaidong Army had long considered that they could not control the Han River for the time being, and the suspension bridge might be destroyed by the enemy. They had prepared a large number of iron wire ropes and pallets to prepare for a war of attrition.

The speed at which the Huaidong Army repaired the suspension bridge at night only made the enemy see despair. Before the enemy navy warships came over again, after the Huaidong Army repaired the suspension bridge, they had already crossed half a battalion of soldiers to the south bank. ...

The enemy soldiers in Xiangyang obviously did not want to ask the Huaidong Army to stand firm on the south bank and completely block their escape route to the west. At the Donggukou of Longling, they launched a frantic attack on Chen Zuo's troops who were arrayed to the south of Guanyinjian, intending to open up the Xianggu channel.

The attack of the enemy soldiers was frantic and desperate. The trestle was destroyed three times at night, but in the early morning, the trestle was repaired in good condition again, hanging between Longclaw Rock and Shanmen Rock, as if the war never happened last night.

On the river valleys and mudflats downstream of Longclaw Rock, there are smashed shipwrecks and corpses that fell into the water with bows and crossbows.

The enemy army dispatched more than fifty warships from downstream Xiangyang, about half of them were directly sunk in the Han River downstream of Longzhaoyan~www.wuxiaspot.com~ The rest were also half-crippled, like remnants of soldiers. , submerged in a breath. For a while, there was no spare energy to storm the trestle that was laid again upstream.

Fortunately, the Hanshui in the Longclaw Rock section is very deep, and there is no direct blockage of the sunken warships. That is why the Hanshui waterway, also called the Longclaw Rock section, has become narrower, less than half the width of the early days. This makes the blockade of Huaidong bed crossbows on the north bank clearer, and almost every bed crossbow is aimed at the only way for the enemy to go; if the enemy ship approaches the trestle, it will cost more.

The enemy army attacked the Huaidong Army south of Guanyinjian by Ye Cong from the land, but it was futile. The enemy army dropped nearly 3,000 corpses from the two flanks, but failed to call the Huaidong army south of Guanyinjian to march. Shrink by half an inch.

On the contrary, during the interval when the enemy naval warships attacked the suspension bridge, the Huaidong Army had nearly 2,000 soldiers replenished to the south bank, making the defense formation south of Guanyinjian even more indestructible, and over 60,000 soldiers in Xiangyang were swept away. The enemy was completely blocked in the east of Gucheng and could not escape to the west.

At this time, the suspension bridge was repaired again, and the naval warships did not have the energy to launch another attack from the downstream. Watching the Huaidong Army seize every moment to transport troops, horses and materials to the south bank, Zhou Fan, who was supervising the battle at the southwest foothills of Miaotan Ridge, I was filled with despair.

Zhou Fan was more worried that Ye Jiluorong and Tian Chang would abandon them and leave rather than breaking the Huaidong Army's blockade.

A letter from the east of Xiangyang said that Huaidong's navy in Longzuishan also set anchor in the morning and moved northward, intending to take advantage of Yang Xiong's navy, who was guarding the Hanshui in Xiangyang, losing their troops and breaking their ships in front of Longzhaoyan. Forcibly break through the Devil's Turning Channel and enter the Han River to the west of Xiangyang.

Yang Xiong's navy destroyed 30 or 40 warships at Longzhaoyan overnight, and lost nearly 2,000 men. Zhou Fan doubted that his navy would still be able to withstand the entire Huaidong elite navy that came from downstream... ...my QT room is open! More vulgar official QT room number [9167] Click to enter