Lord of the House

Seeing the Huaidong fleet abandon Hengshan City, treating them as nothing, and heading northwest along the river, She Feixiong's hands and feet were icy cold.

The generals looked at each other silently, and their eyes showed almost despair. Who would have thought that the Huaidong Army would turn into a huge water camp in the upper reaches of Shanxi?

There are as many as 16 Jiyun-class warships, as many as 40 or 50 small and medium-sized warships such as squatters, fighting boats, and car-wing clippers, and as many as five large-bellied-wing ships used for troop transport in inland rivers. More than ten ships.

Such a large-scale fleet can send tens of thousands of Huaidong Army's elite soldiers and horses directly into the hinterland west of Shangrao along the river, and the cities west of Shangrao, including Deng Yu and Wang Hui who are retreating westward along both sides of the Xinjiang River, have no such thing. Be prepared.

There were no warships blocking or hindering the river in the front. At this time, it was spring, late and early summer. The river was rising and the current was fast. It caught up with the southeast wind. The Huaidong fleet sailed and sailed down the river. Fast as a galloping horse.

Even if they sent Kuai Ma Xi to warn them, it would be very difficult to get ahead of them, giving too much warning time to Zhucheng and Deng Yu and Wang Hui's department on the western front!

By this time, She Feixiong could also guess that these warships must have been secretly built by the Huaidong Army at the west foot of Guanxi Ridge—it's a shame, they faced off in the Shanxi River Valley at the west foot of Guanxi Ridge for four months. , the Huaidong Army secretly built such a large-scale warship in the depths of the Shanxi River Valley, and he didn't even notice it.

The confidence built up in the past battles collapsed at this moment. She Feixiong only felt that her throat was sweet, and her mouth was full of blood. And stand.

"Young Master, Young Master!" Shi Hejin called softly.

She Feixiong came back to his senses and looked at Shi Hejin who called him, his face full of bitterness, but he also knew that if he couldn't hold on and collapsed immediately, the soldiers and horses in Shangrao would not escape the disaster.

She Feixiong swallowed the blood from his mouth into the heartland, heaving out his breath, with an extremely ugly smile on the corner of his mouth, and said with the generals: "Huaidong wants to scare you and me with these empty boats, If you really deceive the Ba Min children, they are all cowardly..."

When the generals heard She Feixiong speak, they recovered a little from the shock.

Even though they knew that the Huaidong fleet had bypassed them and moved westward, their ambitions were even greater, and they wanted to outflank the tens of thousands of Zhejiang and Fujian troops near Shangrao in the upper reaches of the Xinjiang River. The disaster has not yet been pressed down urgently, and they have regained some composure...

"Immediately drive along Jiangxi to give a warning, order Deng Yu, Wang Hui, Tian Zhengming to avoid entering the fortress nearby, form an array and stick to it, and don't mess around..." She Feixiong ordered in a deep voice, but no matter how calm he was , the uncontrollable absoluteness and frustration can still be heard in the voice, but no matter what, it is always necessary to send a fast cavalry to Xichi to report the news, even if it can get an extra stick of incense warning time for the cities on the western front and the troops and horses withdrawing from the west, It may also make the development of the war situation less desperate!

It was useless to light the beacon at this time. If they didn't send people over, Wang Hui, Deng Yu and other generals retreating to the west saw the smoke rising from here.

"How am I supposed to march?" Shi Hejin asked.

They still have more than 10,000 elites in Hengshan, but the grain and grass stored in Hengshan City can only last for three or five days, and Hengshan City is no longer a place to guard.

The remnants of the navy in Shangrao couldn't even delay the Huaidong fleet's westward travel, and they were defeated and defeated.

Although they were only 20 to 30 miles away from Shangrao City, they were separated by the fast-flowing Xinjiang River, and Huaidong's warships were still guarding and monitoring the Xinjiang River.

But how to withdraw westward?

Going west to the territory of Guixi County, there is a trail to go south to Shaowu and withdraw into northern Fujian. It's just that the mountains on the south bank of the Xinjiang River meet the river, and the road is narrow and rugged. From Hengshan to Guixi, it takes nearly 200 miles to march. These two hundred miles of road are close to the south bank of the Xinjiang River. Once they start their troops and horses in a hurry, they will call Huaidong soldiers and horses to launch a strong attack from the Xinjiang River at any time...

"Immediately pull out the camp and head west!" She Feixiong said with a stern expression on his face, "Abandon all the baggage, tell every general, the situation is urgent, and only when you reach Guixi within two days will there be a chance of life! "

To walk the rough road of 200 li on the south bank in two days, the troops and horses must be fully deployed and forced to march, no doubt to call the Huaidong Army to attack them!

However, Shi and Jin also instantly understood She Feixiong's intention. By doing so, they wanted to induce the Huaidong fleet to stop and fight them. In this way, Deng Yu and Wang Hui, who had already withdrawn westward a day earlier, would be able to More time to withdraw into Fuzhou without worrying about being intercepted in the upper reaches of the Xinjiang River.

In fact, as long as the tribes of Deng Yu and Wang Hui can reach Huating Village in the west of Hengfeng County earlier, there will be a road that can leave the north bank of the Xinjiang River, pass through the Yumailing Valley Road at the west foot of Huaiyu Mountain, and quickly withdraw into Fuliang. In the territory, join forces with Su Tingzhan.

If the Huaidong Army was not tempted by the enemy and was determined to intercept the main force of Deng Yu, Wang Hui and other troops on the north bank, it would not be able to allocate too many troops to attack the south bank. One step ahead to enter the territory of Guixi.

At that time, even if the road to withdraw from Fuzhou to the west is blocked, it is still possible to cross the western foothills of Wuyi Mountain and head south to Shanguan and Shaowu, and stick to northern Fujian.

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The dozens of warships of the Zhejiang and Fujian navy in the Xinjiang River were crushed and defeated, and it was difficult to curb the speed of the advance fleet. In just an hour, Shangrao City on the north bank was looking forward to it.

There is no need to stop the Zhejiang-Fujian army in Hengshan on the south bank to report the news. The guards at the head of Shangrao saw a fleet of such a size above the Xinjiang attacking, and they naturally knew what happened. At that moment, the alarm bell rang.

Wang Hui retreated west from Shangrao yesterday afternoon, and camped at Qingxi about 30 miles west of Shangrao. At this time, he should pull out the camp and continue to retreat west to Hengfeng. Wang Hui led his troops to retreat westward, leaving Shangrao City, waiting for She Feixiong to lead his troops to fill in. At this time, there were less than a thousand guards left behind in Shangrao.

In the face of the surging Huaidong fleet, the Shangrao defender naturally did not dare to send troops out of the city to intercept the Jiang'an pier at the southern end of the city. Apart from sending a quick ride to Xichi to report the news, he could only guard the city gate.

The south of Shangrao is the most important land and water wharf in the middle reaches of the Xinjiang River. The stone-built quay along the coast reaches several kilometers, and the port has excellent berthing conditions. Shangrao City is also built next to the river, and the Nancheng Gate is less than a thousand steps away from the Jiangan Pier.

Such a short distance from the river bank is an excellent place to fight against the city, but there are too few defenders in Shangrao, and the bed crossbows, scorpion crossbows and other weapons exposed between the stern cabins of the Huaidong War have a very deep coverage. This made Shangrao's defenders dare not enter the Jiang'an wharf in a deadly battle to prevent Huaidong's soldiers from landing from the wharf.

The impact of the two water discharges in the upper reaches of Shanxi is also small, but the water plants and twigs hang on the Shian pier, which does not affect the approach of large warships. First, two Jiyun-class warships approached, and the arrows rained down. Two giant crossbow arrows shot into the defense, and five light-armored soldiers were pinned together and howled to death. The hundreds of defenders on the pier scattered like birds and beasts, retreating into the southern city, and guarding Caimen.

There was no need to set up a trestle, the warship directly docked on the barge, put down the bulwark, and more than 200 lightly armored soldiers rushed to the pier with bows and blades to form an array to cover the large-bellied troop transport from behind.

The defender Tian Zhong stood at the front of the city, watching the four Huaidong military ships coming to the shore, nearly a thousand soldiers came ashore and rushed to the south gate, and then saw that the entire Huaidong fleet had this kind of use. More than fifty large-bellied wing ships came to transport troops, and the thighs could not help trembling!

Seeing that four more large-bellied winged ships landed on the shore, one of the ships opened the hatch on the broadside and set up the trestle. After the rushing car, the crossbow, the scorpion crossbow, and the half-divided ladder were pushed down one after another, Tian Zhong Confidence in wanting to hold on to the stronghold also began to shake.

Although he was frightened in his heart, as a child of the Bamintian family, Tian Zhong was not completely scared.

The eldest son's subordinates were blocked on the south bank and could not cross the river, but in Qingxi, Wang Hui led his troops to travel at most forty or fifty miles. Tian Zhong thought that as long as he defended the city and Wang Hui led his troops to help, it would not take half a day at the fastest!

What Tian Zhong thought was not bad, but how could the Huaidong Army give him a chance?

At this time, there was a black smoke rising from the direction of Laohuai Street in Xicheng, where the poor in the city lived.

At first, Tian Zhong thought that there was a fire on Laohuai Street, and then the camp where the soldiers and civilians lived in Beicheng also caught fire in several places, and the fire spread rapidly.

Zhejiang and Fujian built a fortress to confront the Huaidong Army. Except for the generals, they all had to recruit a large number of Ding Zhuang from the local area to follow the army, or assist in defending the city, or build war weapons, or build a fortress. When the fortifications such as the jaws, Litang, and Jiahe were at their maximum, as many as 60,000 or 70,000 craftsmen and civilians were filled in with the army, more than the garrison.

She Feixiong decided to give up the front line of defense and take advantage of the speed of the Huaidong Army in the hinterland along the Xinjiang River to extend the Huaidong Army to occupy Jiangxi.

In addition to some of the people's husbands who led their troops to retreat westward to Deng Yu and Wang Hui, there were nearly 20,000 civilians in Shangrao.

The luxury family in Jiangxi itself is not popular with the people. Most of these people are local farmers who were forcibly coerced into the army. Whether they were forcibly coerced into the army or forced to leave their hometowns and retreat to the west with the army, they all have deep resistance and resentment.

Even under the brutal repression of the Zhejiang-Fujian Army, there were countless escapees, but there were no conditions to form a large-scale protest and resistance.

Twenty or thirty people infiltrated among these civilian husbands in the three batches of secret rooms that Huaidong had entered Jiangxi earlier. Previously, in addition to passing information and thinking that they should respond internally, they also secretly communicated and developed resistance forces that accompanied the army and the people.

At this time, most of Shangrao's defenders attracted Huaidong ships from the periphery to the city head. There were less than 100 soldiers guarding in the private sector.

First, arson caused large-scale riots in the private camp. When the guards and guards were attracting the attention of the rioting people, more than 600 people were organized in the Huaidong secret room, either with bamboo guns and wooden spears, or with bare hands, attacking from both wings, almost In the blink of an eye, more than a hundred guards outside the gate of the private camp were slaughtered to the point of losing their helmets and armors.

The rioting Minzhuang, without being pressed by the defenders, broke out of the camp, that is, rampaged in the city. When Shangrao’s supplies were most in short supply, Minzhuang received less than five taels of food a day and was hungry. Some people pointed out that the Zhejiang-Fujian Army was in the direction of the granary in Shangrao City, and nearly 20,000 people were like locust swarms, rushing towards Shangrao’s camp and military warehouse. go.

And Huaidong Mijian seized the bow, sword and armor, that is, organized an armed force of more than 300 people~www.wuxiaspot.com~ directly attacked Beicheng, the weakest defense and the farthest from the river bank...

Tian Zhong knew that the situation was over, and unless he died in battle, he could change it, so he could only lead the remnants of three to five hundred people to abandon the city and flee to the west.

At this time, it was only an hour before the Huaidong warship appeared and docked under Shangrao City, and the two thousand soldiers from Huaidong who were the first to land did not form a formation and swarmed under Nancheng...

Chen Zhi licked his lips, his eyes were full of greed and fierce light, he called his subordinate Hu Jinxiong and said, "You son of a turtle, I will give you three thousand troops, do you have the confidence to protect Shangrao City for Laozi!"

The main force of the Zhejiang-Fujian Army is nearly 30,000 soldiers, and there are 60,000 to 70,000 soldiers, who have left Shangrao City since the day before yesterday. Now these 60,000 or 70,000 soldiers are scattered in Qingxi to the west of Shangrao City to Hengfeng County. In the narrow strip of about 150 miles between the West Flower Pavilion—Chen Zui spared more than ten thousand elites after She Feixiong personally led the breakup and did not fight, and naturally he would not just take this almost empty Shangrao City.

Hu Jinxiong said: "The last commander knows that if he can't keep Shangrao, the last commander must burn down Shangrao City before he escapes, and he won't miss the master's plan to destroy the enemy!"

"Fuck you, motherfucker, I'm going to lose my face, go back and peel your skin off!" Chen Zhe's teeth were itchy with hatred, and he drove Hu Jinxiong ashore without saying much.

What Hu Jinxiong said was a strategy formulated by Lin Fu himself. Once Chen Zhuo led the main force to land at Huating and intercepted the main force of the Zhejiang and Fujian troops in the upper reaches of the Xinjiang River, they could not retreat westward, and the Zhejiang and Fujian troops were likely to turn around and capture Shangrao City Stick to it.

At this time, burning the materials in Shangrao City and leaving them an empty city will not affect the development of the entire battle situation, but will be more conducive to the siege and surrender in the later stage - but Chen Zhuo's style is inconsistent with this, I always feel that if Shangrao City is in his hands What is gained and what is lost can't be considered glorious! My QT room is open! More vulgar official QT room number [9167] Click to enter