Li Chengdong led a large army to the Yangtze River Ferry and immediately began to arrange fortifications in the town.

He specifically asked Li Yuanyin to go ahead to delay Huang Degong's advance speed, and was preparing to fight two battles with Huang Degong from Yangzijin to Sanwan.

He knew that the combat power of the troops under his command was not as good as that of Huang Degong's troops, so he naturally had to rely on fortifications.

In this way, it was very beneficial for him to choose the town at the Yangtze Ferry.

Li Chengdong remembers that when he first led the cavalry to Yangzhou last year, the town was quite prosperous.

At this time, the town was extremely dilapidated, and the people had already escaped, but there were many animals such as wild dogs, wolves, crows, and other animals that feed on corpses.

Even the weeds grew out of the cracks in the stone slabs, and were deep in the ankles.

He has followed Gao Jie as a bandit since he was a teenager. He has seen such a dilapidated scene with no emotion at all.

After walking around the town by horse, he ordered: "Demolite everything that can be demolished, build a low wall based on the town, look at the building!"

"yes!"

Several commanders around him responded and rushed out to each department to convey the orders.

Soon, the soldiers and accompanying civil servants who had reached the town became busy - to be precise, the soldiers drove the civil servants to work.

When Li Chengdong saw this scene while inspecting, he immediately started to scold, "When is it? I'm still pretending to be a master?"

Don’t work together, build up the fortifications as soon as possible. Will you take your heads when the enemy comes?!"

Immediately, Li Chengdong issued a strict order to ask the soldiers of various departments to take action and establish defensive fortifications as quickly as possible.

With more than 30,000 soldiers and more than 20,000 civilians entering the town of Yangzijin, soon a large-scale fortification based on the town became a little bit.

However, Li Chengdong is still far from being satisfied.

At this time, a small group of whistle riders rushed from the south in a hurry with wounds.

The leader of the little flag found Li Chengdong and then got off the horse and reported: "The general town, Huang Degong's troops are less than three miles away from here!"

"What?" Li Chengdong was shocked, "Why did he come so quickly? Didn't I let Yuan Yin go and harass him?"

No one answered Li Chengdong.

"Useless stuff!"

After scolding Li Yuanyin, Li Chengdong rushed to the intersection of the south street of town.

This town was formed by Yangzijin, with only three streets: east, south and north.

Since we have to deal with the enemy from the south, Nanjiekou is naturally the focus of establishing defensive fortifications. At this time, several buildings at the intersection have been converted into simple arrow towers.

Li Chengdong climbed the arrow and looked south, and couldn't help but frown deeply.

I saw flags waving and dust flying. Huang Degong's troops were indeed less than three miles away.

So he said to the messenger: "Let the artillery team prepare, and when they approach two hundred steps, give them a round of ruthlessness!"

"yes!"

Unexpectedly, the commander responded, and he saw that Huang Degong's troops stopped leaving.

Li Chengdong was not surprised.

Both sides are so close, Huang Degong's former army must also know that his army is here, and it is impossible for him to come directly in a marching posture. He must change his formation and rest for a while before launching an attack.

Seeing that another horse was coming back, Li Chengdong called him over and asked, "At such a close distance, have you always seen the flag of the chief general of this army?"

Tanma said: "I saw it and I was so 'yellow' that I was holding the flag!"

"Huang? Then the former army must have been named Huang, the brother of Huang Degong, as the general."

Li Chengdong felt a little relieved.

If he had faced Huang Degong at the beginning, he would have been a little scared.

After all, Gao Jie was not Huang Degong's opponent in the past, and he was just a general under Gao Jie's command, so it was even worse.

Fortunately, he did not want to defeat Huang Degong in this time. He only needed to drag Huang Degong's troops here for an hour or two, and the Eight Banners army would come to help and defeat him.

As for the situation where the Eight Banners Army could not defeat Huang Degong, Li Chengdong had never considered it.

Although he was a thief, he had been a Ming Dynasty official army for many years with Gao Jie, but he knew how strong the Eight Banners Army was.

When the government army was able to chase bandits around a few years ago, they would be defeated and not defeated when they encountered the Eight Banners Army in the field, let alone now.

Although Huang Degong's troops were elite, they were still far behind the Ming border troops a few years ago. This time, there were at most 70,000 to 80,000 people. Once they were attacked by the Eight Banners Army in the battle, they would undoubtedly be defeated!

When Li Chengdong looked at Huang Degong's military formation, he did not notice that there were two strange birds hovering over the town...

Two or three miles south of the town, Huang Degong was huddling next to Wu Liangchen to look at his tablet computer.

Xu Lun and Meng Gan each controlled an ordinary micro drone and transmitted the entire town and the three or four miles around.

Even Li Chengdong's military deployment in the town can be clearly seen.

"All twenty tiger squat cannons are placed in the intersection of Nanjie? They are still hiding well. This kid wants to fool me." Huang Degong smiled at the aerial footage of Nanjiekou, "There are two sent by the state powerhouse. With an artillery whistle, how could I let his tiger squat cannon be shot out?

The person came, tell the two artillery posts of the Imperial Guards and aimed at the Nanjiekou and bombarded me with his mother!"

"Abide by the order!"

Wu Liangchen quickly found out the distance between the artillery post and the Nanjiekou, and then sent someone to inform the artillery post.

Huang Degong took out the walkie-talkie and issued an order to Huang Ming on the left and right wings.

"Chen Xianzi, Li Chengliang only arranged more than 3,000 people on the dock. After our cannons fired, you will lead the right-wing troops to immediately board the navy's ship and attack the town from the dock."

"Abide by the order!"

"Huang Ming, you immediately led the left-wing troops to the western edge of the town. The fortifications that Li Chengliang had built there were not as good as that, and only arranged more than 5,000 troops.

After the fight begins at the intersection of Nanjie, you will lead the elite troops to attack and strive to attack in one go!"

"Abide by the order!"

After Huang Ming and Chen Xiance received the order, Huang Degong said to Zhang Jie and other intermediate generals behind him: "With the magic weapon of the state supervision, we are now clearly in the arrangement of Li Chengliang's military strength.

There was also a whistle-running help from the governor who could destroy the enemy's artillery team in one fell swoop.

With such a great advantage, if we cannot destroy Li Chengliang's troops within two quarters of an hour, we will be the number one in the four towns in Jiangbei!"

After saying that, Huang Degong waved his hand again and shouted, "Get the wine!"

Huang Degong is not good at wealth, not lust, but only likes wine.

He would drink wine every battle, lead by example, and return home with his armor and clothes soaked in the enemy's blood.

This is naturally the case.

The personal soldiers quickly brought them to check the good wine, and Huang Degong immediately hugged them and drank them with pain.

Just at this moment, the two running watches also calibrated the target, and forty bright artillery guns were sent to the south street entrance together!

Boom boom boom...

Amid the sound of the deafening cannon, the wine was poured into Huang Degong's stomach.

More than 10,000 soldiers behind him were all wearing helmets and armor, with swords and guns in their hands!

"The enemy's tiger squat cannon was destroyed by our round of shells!" Wu Liangchen next to him reported excitedly.

Huang Degong threw a clean jar of wine on the ground, lifted the eight-edged nine-section iron whip in a diagonal manner, and said with a thunderous sound: "All the soldiers, follow me to defeat the enemy!"

"kill--"

···

The intersection of the town’s south street.

Li Chengdong did not hear the shouts of killing Huang Degong's troops - he was sitting on the ground, covered in dust and his ears were buzzing.

It turned out that a few shells just now happened to land under the arrow tower where he was standing, and directly blew up the simple arrow tower.

The Arrow Tower is not high, and Li Chengdong is also good at it. He was not injured when he fell down.

Unexpectedly, another flowering bullet fell nearby, which directly shocked his ears.

With the buzzing sound, he glanced around, and almost all the soldiers looked in panic, and some of them even fled directly behind.

Those who died suddenly, and those who were injured and screamed in pain were even more mysterious.

More importantly, all the fortifications of some scale had collapsed at this time, and even the artillery teams arranged behind were completely defeated.

When he came to his senses, a big question mark appeared in Li Chengdong's mind—

Judging from the power of the shelling just now, it must be at least thirty or forty red cannons, right?

However, how could Huang Degong have so many red cannons?

Not to mention that the attack just now was all the blooming bullets.

All this made Li Chengdong feel like he was dreaming.

But he was also a long-time general who had been fighting on the battlefield for more than ten years. He didn't think about it anymore, but jumped up and held up his sword and shouted fiercely: "Where is the supervisor team? All those who just escaped were killed! The rest immediately formed the team.

, meet the enemy!"
Chapter completed!