Yang Jingchen stood on the wall of Nandaying, and this moment was like returning to the nightmare of being on the Suzaku City Tower of Bianliang Imperial City a few years ago looking at the battlefield of Zangjin Bridge—

In the early morning, when he received a letter from Jingsheng's army to set sail from the Longshu River, Yang Jingchen and Qin Buhei concluded that the front-superior army deployed by Jingxiang in the northern foothills of Huoshan must have been raided north along the Qingshui River at night.

Although they had not received any news from Huoshan before, they believed that the Jingxiang Frontier Army was advancing too fast and there were many elite cavalry that plundered like the wind, which made them scattered in the upper reaches of the water, and they had no time to rush back to deliver the letter, either being cleared, surrounded, or cut off the road.

They expected that the main force of Jingxiang Jingsheng Army would be delayed until today's dusk before they could reach the mouth of the Qingshui River; and even if the left and right Xiaosheng Army was in harmony with Jingxiang, the distance was farther and would be delayed until three days before they could reach the mouth of the Qingshui River, they decided to first solve the elite of Jingxiang Army who was the current front-strike.

Not only did they send 8,000 infantry to form a formation on the front of Fudu to meet the enemy, they also instructed Du Yuhou, who was supervising the battle in front of the formation to resist if he could resist, and if he could not, he could???????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????, they could retreat in advance, without even preparing for the retreat.

To put it bluntly, the troops who formed a formation on the front of Fudu were just baits for them to lure the enemy into deep so as to encircle them.

Of course, ordinary soldiers were kept in the dark, but Du Yuhou and the commanders who supervised the battle in front of the formation knew it well, and they were optimistic about the retreat route early, and even gathered all the elite troops around them.

Those miscellaneous soldiers will die if they die, and they can be replenished at will, but they are afraid that the elite subordinates will suffer too much loss and will lose their foundation in the army.

With such arrangement of troops and formations, the generals supervising the battle have this mentality. How can we resist the pace of the most elite armored heavy cavalry and heavy armored infantry in Jingxiang just rely on the narrow trenches with shallow water and the scattered horses left after the autumn in front of the formation?

Not to mention the armored heavy cavalry, heavy armored infantry, after the harassing cavalry they sent were suppressed and expelled from the battlefield and had to temporarily avoid the edge in the depths of the camp, thousands of archers and cavalrymen in the Jingxiang Army divided into dozens of teams, crossing the ditch and forcing them. The war cavalry galloped constantly, and their soft bows spread out and continued to shoot quickly, which made them unable to help but loosen their positions.

The archers and cavalrymen of the Jingxiang Army wore simple plate armor on their upper bodies, similar to Liangdang armor, which mainly covers the chest and back, but are forged all over.

Although this simple plate armor is called a archer and cavalry, it is not as comprehensive as the armored heavy cavalry, it can effectively protect the vital points when shooting in front of the formation. If the legs and arms are hit by arrows, retreat in time, and you will not harm your life.

The mounts of these archers who were moving in front of the formation were covered with a layer of mesh armor similar to chain mail.

The war horses have a stronger bearing capacity than people. They use lightweight net armor to cover the chest and abdomen and other areas on a large scale. The skilled archers and cavalrymen advance to the front of the formation and sprint, greatly reducing the possibility that the war horses will be injured by stray arrows.

On the battlefield, the foreman soldiers were mainly large shields, long swords and spears, and the archers were located in the formation to shoot arrows - generals or war horses with complete armor protection. On such a battlefield, the probability of survival was much higher; especially the Xiongzhou Han army, which was arranged in front of the gap, had weak fighting spirit and had no intention of counterattacking from the rectified array, which was basically passively endured.

Thousands of archers attacked in turn.

In this way, the heavily armored infantry and cavalry of the Selected Front Army successfully passed through several simple obstacles and rushed to the front of the Han army in Xiongzhou. They were like pouring snow on their bodies, and they used their extremely powerful combat power to freely exert their strength. In almost the blink of an eye, several gaps were torn open.

Du Yuhou, who was supervising the battle in front of the Han army in Xiongzhou, and the commanders were unintentionally organized elite troops to block the gap. Yang Jingchen stood on the arrow tower on the village wall, looking at the defensive front of Fudu, which could be said to have quickly collapsed at a speed visible to the naked eye.

It was only then that he fully confirmed that the North Bank sent a message to speculate that Jingxiang had received reinforcements from large Khitan cavalry.

Whether it is a light cavalry archer or a heavy cavalry who is rushing into the formation, it is definitely not like Jingxiang who uses ordinary horse and infantry to scare him. It can be confirmed that Jingxiang has 15,600 elite cavalry that can be called in the Huaixi battlefield at this time.

The question is how did the seven or eight thousand Khitan cavalry that had been exposed to their suspicion and entered the Huaixi battlefield?

Didn’t it mean that the remnants of the Khitan have always stayed in the depths of the Tubo Highlands?

Isn’t it said that the remnants of the Khitans did not show any further transfer to Dali???????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????

The defense line on the front of Fudu was torn apart, and countless soldiers fled to the two wing camps.

The casualties of the soldiers of the Han army in Xiongzhou will not be very heavy at this time.

After all, the two major camps before Fudu were all arranged around several small camps, and there were multiple roads connected to the gap on Fudu front. In addition to teams of crossbowmen standing on the wall and waiting for battle, the camp also deployed a large number of combat equipment. The Jingxiang Army did not dare to approach and chase the defeated soldiers without restraint.

However, seeing the Jingxiang Army split an elite force and killing the Fuduzha camp through the gap, Yang Jingchen dared to order the elite troops on standby in the camp to break out and cut off his retreat?

Yang Jingchen looked at the Dongdaying, which was in charge of fear and disgrace. He had not seen a wolf smoke signal of "sending troops to cut off the rear" in the Dongdaying for a long time.

After tearing open the defense line on Fudu, the heavy armored infantry and cavalry of the Jingxiang Army did not directly fight to the Fudu direction, but turned to the two wings of the camp and retracted the solid formation on the front of the south camp in the east and south camp. The archers who had been cruising on both wings before were divided into thousands of people and horses to go straight to the camp outside Fudu.

Seeing the deployment of the Jingxiang Army, Yang Jingchen knew that the Jingxiang Army was prepared to dispatch elite troops to cut off his retreat. At this time, he knew very well that even if they were mobilizing troops out of the camp, they would be more likely to fall into a stalemate in front of the camp. If they cut off their retreat, they should not think about it.

On the one hand, the Jingxiang Frontier Army was too close to them, so they could not spread their superior forces, and the safety of the flanks of the troops leaving the camp was not guaranteed, and it was very likely that the opponent's cavalry would be fiercely pounced and bitten.

On the other hand, it was even more worrying about Yang Jingchen. Since the outside battlefield was completely controlled by the Jingxiang cavalry, this means that the main force of the Jingsheng Army could abandon any defensive array and advance at full speed, which means that the main force of the Jingxiang Jingsheng Army would arrive at the mouth of the Qingshui River earlier than they had predicted.

What they have to do now is not to send troops to cut off their retreat, but to consider how their soldiers behind the temple can successfully withdraw from the south bank after the pontoon bridge and the dock near the pontoon bridge are destroyed.

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According to Zhong Changqing's idea, he hopes to pacify the king of Yan

Brother Tu could make a quick decision and dispatch the navy to transport reinforcements to the south bank.

Due to the limitation of the land-based terrain of the estuary of the Pure Water River, the ferry terminals in the entire Hekou Camp are actually mainly concentrated near the south end of the floating bridge. Relying on the stone cliff filling and dikes, multiple plank roads have been built to extend into the Huai River, which can be used for multiple warships to dock at the same time.

The river beach near the main business in the east and south is a large swamp, and only a dirt road can be filled out to extend to the water. It was destroyed during the flood season because the river water flooded.

Considering that the main force of Jingxiang Jingsheng Army in Jing will arrive at the mouth of the Qingshui River before nightfall today, at that time, the south bank will be difficult to regain control of the Fudu area with the only way to rely on the Xiongzhou Han army and the cavalry of the Qiebuhei army behind the palace, so it will take time to urgently build a new plank road pier in the east and south daying near the river area.

In that case, new unpredictable variables are likely to occur.

However, when the sun was noon, I saw that the camp at the south end of the pontoon bridge was broken by the Jingxiang Army. The only thousand defenders in the camp were killed and abandoned their armor. Countless soldiers were forced to dive into the water and escape. Seeing that the south end of the pontoon bridge had been set on fire, Zhong Changqing did not see the north bank. There were signs of gathering naval warships and sending reinforcements to cross the river. So he and Moli rushed to the tent of King Tu Ge of Pingyan.

Only then did Zhong Changqing learn that the Huaidong Water Camp had entered Hongzepu in the early morning.

"What? Huaidong Shuiying has two iron-armored warships with ships of not smaller size than ordinary building ships?"

When Zhong Changqing heard this news, he was stunned for a long time before he came to his senses. In front of Prince Tu of Pingyan, he couldn't help but slap in shock.

"It must be that Deng Gui had already secretly communicated with Jingxiang. During the Tongbai Mountain Bandits Rebellion, Deng Gui worked with the people of Chushan. Why do we take it for granted that he really defected to the Southern Dynasty's secret residence for power? It must be that Deng Gui persuaded or threatened Gu Fan to cooperate with Jingxiang!"

Since the Huaidong Water Camp had already organized two super-large iron-armored warships, they were almost the same as the Jingxiang Jingsheng Army at the time of dispatch, and the selection of the front army was almost the same. This directly confirmed that Gu Fan and Deng Gui's Huaidong Army had chosen to advance and retreat with Jingxiang, which was definitely not what they had previously identified. The Huaidong Army was also one of the backbone forces of the Qiandi System.

This wrong judgment had a great impact, so great that after a long time, Zhong Changqing felt a buzzing sound in his mind.

The turn of the Huaidong Army and the dispatch of water camps to Hongzepu at the same time directly meant that the troops behind the palace who remained on the south bank became even more precarious.

The news I have received is that the Huaidong Water Camp has brought two super-armored warships into Hongzepu, but has not yet fought with the navy troops they left at the west entrance of Hongzepu.

It is difficult for them to evaluate how powerful these two super armored warships will be, but the King of Pingyan no longer dares to send reinforcements to the south bank at this time, for fear that the Huaidong Water Camp will come straight up and they will have no way to resist, which means that they will even lose their new troops and horses that have been reinforced in the south bank.

Of course, this is just the most direct consequence.

What made Zhong Changqing even more stingy was that Deng Gui and Gu Fan had already chosen to stand with Jingxiang, which actually meant that the Southern Dynasties had actually fallen into the control of Jingxiang. Even if the Qiandi faction successfully rescued Han Shiliang, Ge Yu's troops would no longer be able to compete with the Jingxiang faction.

Moreover, Deng Gui and Gu Fan stood together with Jingxiang, Emperor Shaolong of the Southern Dynasty and Qiandi clan, could he still believe any of his former lords and old ministers?
Chapter completed!