Lord of the House

Ao Canghai organized a team at the front base to advance the confronting front line to the front of the Zhejiang-Fujian army Jiahe Shuangsai city wall, and made final preparations for directly attacking the city base. There was no trick.

On the 17th, a long trench fence was built in front of the east and west plugs of the Jiahe River of the Zhejiang and Fujian Army, and the Shanxi River, which was more than 300 steps wide, was blocked with iron cables and wooden stakes. More than a dozen bed crossbows and stone-throwing crossbows were used to prevent the warships of the Zhejiang and Fujian navy from forcibly rushing up to break the Kaifeng River iron cables. At a position slightly upstream, a pontoon bridge was set up to connect the two sides of the river, completely cutting off the passage for the Zhejiang and Fujian troops to enter the upper reaches of the valley.

The tighter the battle, the louder the drums, and the Zhejiang and Fujian troops were also nervously strengthening the fortifications at the Jiahe two fortifications.

The cascading buildings are made of hardwood, and both the ceiling and the wings are directly nailed with double-layer logs, which are several times stronger than ordinary brick and wood enemy buildings. Under the blow of the heavy catapult, the front of the traditional brick and wood enemy building was hit by a stone bullet weighing more than 40 to 50 pounds, and it was very likely to collapse at once, while the new type of towers could be sustained for four or five consecutive times. Down without breaking down.

The method of building tandem buildings was first used in the Battle of Jinhai. After the fall of Jinhai, the Huaidong Army used many defense techniques in Jinhai to spread.

War is always the direct driving force to promote technological progress on both sides of the enemy.

The Zhejiang-Fujian Army and the Huaidong Army have been entangled in these years, and many of the tactics used are directly learned from Huaidong. In the wars of Yongjia, Jin'an, Dongyang, etc., Huaidong's intensive use of catapults and oil tanks also forced the Zhejiang and Fujian troops to come up with more countermeasures. But no matter what, the intensive use of catapults in this world is still an effective means.

In order to prevent the city wall from collapsing during the brutal siege battle, the heavy catapults of the Huaidong Army may collapse, She Feixiong built a large number of wooden fences in the city, so that after the wall collapses, the wooden fences can be used at any time to collapse. The mouth was closed, preventing the Huaidong Army from pouring in from the collapsed mouth on a large scale.

Including the inner side of the city wall, She Feixiong drove the people to dig the inner wall and build the inner wall. He also learned Lin Tie's tactics of guarding Yangxin, leaving a secret door on the inner side of the city wall, so that he could counterattack unexpectedly...

She Feixiong is famous for attacking cities and looting land, but that doesn't mean he has weaknesses in defending the city.

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From the front line of the confrontation between the two armies to the south, in a mountain pass, the Huaidong Army is organizing hundreds of craftsmen to split bamboo cages. Reserve on the beach at the mouth.

The boulders are difficult to chisel, and the gravel is easy to take.

On the firewood paving stone, if it is burnt and exposed to rain, the rock will crack, and if a heavy hammer is applied, a large basket of gravel can be obtained. Previously, the Huaidong Army excavated Guanxi Ridge Road, and the accumulated gravel was also innumerable. As long as it was transported across the ridge, it could be used to build a dam.

When the spring water rises, heavy objects are needed to build the dam. The gravel sinking into the river is easy to be washed away by the water flow, and it is difficult to form a stable foundation. It needs to be restrained by bamboo baskets to form a whole weighing more than 1000 kilograms, so that it can sink in the river and not be washed away.

The dam pass chosen by Ge Siyu, at this time, the river with water was less than 200 paces wide, but the river beaches on both sides stretched for more than three miles each to connect to the slopes on both sides. When dams are built to cut off water and accumulate to impact the large lake that is blocked downstream, it is necessary to fill in all the passes.

Ao Canghai used nearly 20,000 soldiers and civilians at the front base to dig trenches and build walls in front of the Zhejiang-Fujian Army Jiahe fortification. All the manpower assembled in Guanxiling was used up.

The dam was built by falling rocks from the river, and the river beach was built with soil as a dike. The Huaidong Army began to build a dam on the upper reaches of Shanxi River from mid-March.

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The siege of the city was getting more and more urgent. On March 23, the Huaidong Army began to place heavy catapults into the front line. After two days of calibrating the range, all kinds of stone bullets began to hit the front wall of Jiahe.

The initial firing and accuracy were not calibrated, and most of them were mainly small and medium-sized burning mud bombs. Occasionally, they landed on the battle shed, causing the roof to tremble and the mud to fly.

Even so, it was difficult for the guards to stay safe at night. The Huaidong Army was only digging trenches and building fortifications in the direction of the jaws and Litang. The real **** battle must be in the direction of Hengshan, and the Huaidong Army had been poised for so long, and there would never be loud thunder or little rain.

Today, almost one-third of the Ba Fujian soldiers stationed on the Hengshan Line of Defense have experience in fighting against the Huaidong Army.

She Feixiong's heart was also under great pressure, and he couldn't sleep at night.

The news that Lin Fu went to Quzhou to supervise the battle is not a secret. Since the battle in Jiyang, She Feixiong has never fought against Lin Fu head-on.

Although Feihu defeated the Huaidong Army on the eastern front and lost his helmet and armor, he could not escape his death by the Yangjiang River, but it was not because Feihu was not good at fighting; Qin Zitan, who assisted Feihu in his early years, was also regarded as a young generation in Eastern Fujian. The best, but they can't escape the end of death.

Lin Fuzhi's ability to fight is not just a fluke, nor is it just an excellent strategy. The Huaidong Army's current advantages are all-round. It is precisely because of this that She Feixiong feels the pressure on his body is like an airtight cage, making it difficult for him to struggle.

Deng Yu, Wang Hui and other generals in Hengshan also bear a lot of pressure on their shoulders.

There was military information from Fuliang, Wang Hui couldn't see She Feixiong at the head of the city, and only after asking his squires did he find out that She Feixiong and Deng Yu had gone to the beach.

The anti-blockage stands on the river, and the Huaidong Army is strictly blocked to the south, but the river beach on the inside is still under control here. The warships of the Zhejiang and Fujian navy are moored, and the east and west bases are usually connected by pontoon bridges.

Seeing that the Huaidong Army had no sign of a major attack today, Wang Hui personally went out to the beach to find She Feixiong and Deng Yu. As soon as they left the west gate, they saw She Feixiong and Deng Yu walking back surrounded by all the cavalry.

Wang Hui greeted him and said, "There is a military situation in Fuliang..."

"Oh..." She Feixiong didn't answer the letter, and only listened to Wang Hui's dictation.

"Han Li was besieged in the east of Qimen, and he retreated to the Changhe River to form a defensive formation. For the time being, he had no worries. However, between the Beidai Mountains in Fuliang, he found an ambush in Huaidong, about a thousand people, across the Fuliang. Between Qimen and Qimen, to stop Fuliang from going to help Han Li by land. Su Tingzhan wants to enter from the Suchang River and bring Han Li back!" Wang Hui said.

"That's it!" She Feixiong sighed, it's not good news, it's bad news.

Although Han Li was able to keep the remnants from being eaten up by Huaidong's troops who had sneaked into Gandong, Su Tingzhan and Han Li were unable to stop the situation in Fuliang from deteriorating, which meant that the She family could only give their last hope. It is pinned on the ability of Beiyan soldiers and horses to penetrate the western front and go south within this year!

In order to maintain the combat readiness of Shangrao and Jiangzhou, the Zhejiang-Fujian Army has requisitioned various materials in Jiangxi, and has no longer considered the people's ability to bear.

More importantly, with the turbulent civil unrest in various places, it has become difficult for the Zhejiang and Fujian troops to mobilize materials from Jiangxi. Even if the offensive of the Huaidong Army can be repelled, and the troops can suppress the civil unrest in the hinterland, Jiangxi Shao said Half disabled, it is difficult for them to rest here.

Deng Yu was speechless about the military situation in Fuliang, and Su Tingzhan did his best in Fuliang. In such a situation, not everyone can stand up and turn the tide!

Wang Hui saw that She Feixiong and Deng Yu had kicked the mud on their boots, and asked, "Young Marshal is still worried that the Huaidong Army will move on Shanshui?"

She Feixiong nodded and said: "Today, the soldiers guarding the river beach found that the stream has become turbid for a while, which makes people feel uneasy..."

Water storage and siege is not a miracle. When Liu An'er was besieging Xuzhou, he also dug embankments to release floodwaters to flood Xuzhou, and Yue Lengqiu almost didn't survive.

She Feixiong built a defensive line on the lower reaches of the Shanxi River, and it was not that he had not considered that the Huaidong Army might use the advantage of occupying the upper reaches of the Shanxi River to conduct a water attack; if he hadn't noticed this, he wouldn't be a veteran general.

However, in the face of the superior strength of the Huaidong Army, She Feixiong had very limited choices.

Before She Feixiong came to Shangrao to supervise the battle, Deng Yu was the leader here.

At that time, Deng Yu mainly guarded against the Huaidong Army approaching Shangrao from the jaws and Litang passes. In the early stage, he mainly concentrated manpower and material resources to strengthen the Changshan defense line, and overhauled the anti-blockage at the jaws and Litang, so as to form a solid situation.

Deng Yu also considered that the mountain of Guanxi Ridge is relatively thin, and there is no natural danger that birds cannot overcome. For the control of the river valley, only three simple beacon fire piers were able to be built in Guanxiling at that time.

Tang Fuguan's troops attacked Guanxiling, and then assembled a large-scale digging channel from Fenglinbu to Guanxiling. She Feixiong had only arrived in Shangrao at this time to supervise the battle. Seeing that it was too difficult to retake Guanxi Ridge, he was forced to build a defense line in front of Hengshan and at the mouth of the Shanxi River.

Even considering that building a fort in the Linshui River Valley downstream of the Xihe River is a taboo in the military, She Feixiong has no other choice.

First, when he built the Hengshan line of defense, the south was already threatened by the Huaidong Army garrisoned at Guanxi Ridge; on the other hand, time was extremely limited, She Feixiong had to rush before the Huaidong Army opened up Guanxi Ridge with a large group of troops. Before the horse passed through Guanxi ~www.wuxiaspot.com~ to build a defense line on the front of Hengshan, we could only use the Shanyuan Village that had been requisitioned and strengthened earlier to build Jiahe anti-blockage.

More importantly, in front of the superior forces of the Huaidong Army, in the open Shanxi River Valley, which was easily divided and encircled by the superior forces of the Huaidong Army, She Feixiong could only use the Shanxi River waterway to block the Jiahe River from the back. Hengshan City was integrated into one, preventing the Huaidong Army from dividing and encircling the three main fortresses of the Hengshan Line of Defense.

However, after the Jiahe anti-blocking was completed, Huaidong occupying the upper reaches of the river had the possibility of building a dam to store water and directly impacting the anti-blocking. It was always a sharp sword hanging in She Feixiong's heart, making him feel uneasy at night.

With the advance of Huaidong troops and horses, the scouts of the Zhejiang and Fujian troops could no longer infiltrate the upper source of the Shanxi River. She Feixiong could only send his cronies to keep an eye on the changes in the water of the Shanxi River. Today, the water of Shanxi suddenly became turbid for a period of time, and She Feixiong almost split his bile. He couldn't wait to inform Wang Hui, so he went to see the water conditions with Deng Yu who was by his side at the time.

Wang Hui disagreed with She Feixiong's concerns, and said, "The Huaidong Army spent a lot of manpower and materials to build the front line trenches under the city. Before the Jiahe River is blocked, the terrain is open and it is a water storage place. The army really wants to build a dam in the upper reaches to store water and build a hanging lake. Once the lake is discharged, the first attack will be Huaidong's forward base. If I were to lead Huaidong's troops, there is no need to spend so much trouble, just keep the forward base. , wantonly build a dam in the back, at that time we will have no other good plan except bite the bullet..."

Deng Yu shook his head and said, "Is it easy for the Huaidong Army to hit the front base in the south? If you can't hit the front base, you can't talk about destroying its dam-building. If that's the case, we still have a choice..."

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