Han Zuo Gaomen

Chapter 924
The Huainan Army formally launched an attack on Li Yang, more than two days earlier than the field battle outside Huatai City.

As the most important defensive location in Hebei, Liyang is also composed of a large and small stronghold.Although there are tens of thousands of Yedi troops stationed here, after dispatching nearly tens of thousands of elite soldiers in a short period of time, it still brings great pressure to the defense.

This battle is actually quite similar to the Huaishang battle a few years ago, except that the offense and defense were switched.Of course, in terms of military strength, the Huainan Army is still inferior to the Southern Expedition Army led by Shi Hu, but their control over the army is not the same. The Huainan Army only exists and implements one will.

Moreover, Shi Kan's biggest disadvantage is that he was passive from the very beginning. Not only did he fail to make enough arrangements on the opposite bank before the Huainan Army officially arrived, but even the most basic control of the Yellow River waterway was at a disadvantage, so that The geographical advantage of the natural moat of the Yellow River was used by the Huainan Army instead.

The Li Yang boats were not enough at all, and after being dispatched in large numbers, they were completely powerless to stop the Huainan army's attack on the river.Therefore, at the beginning of the battle, the frontline battlefield advanced directly to his doorstep.

This is like if the Huainan Army had been directly blocked in Shouchun City by the slave army at the beginning of the Huai Shang Battle earlier, if there were no major changes in the follow-up, it would be doomed to lose.

The entire Liyang defense system includes Liyang City on the north bank of the Yellow River, several acropolises, three ferry crossings, and several river islands near the river bank.Liyang's tens of thousands of troops from Ye were distributed in these strongholds, but they were not completely assembled to defend Liyang City.

Among these strongholds, a river island called Qiaowei became the focus of the initial battle.The scale of this river island is not small. It is long and narrow like an oxtail. It is located on the southwest side of Liyangjin a few miles away from the river bank.

There is not much vegetation on the entire river island, and the surface is covered with a thick layer of rock crust, which has expanded due to the recent decrease in water level.In the previous river transportation, it was a stop and transfer station before the boats arrived in Liyangjin. During the war, it became an important supply place that both sides must take.

Huainan's huge navy is scattered on this section of the river, and it will take a long time to fully assemble. Therefore, only nearly [-] naval forces near the bank participated in the first wave of offensive.

The enemy army has arranged a total of [-] troops on the river, and equipped with a large number of fortifications, strong bows, water drainage fences, including many large ordnance such as poles and trebuchets fixed at the mouth of the river. The importance of this river island as the south gate of Liyang.

At the beginning, the Huainan Army's offensive did not make much progress, and dozens of warships could not even approach the river island.After all, this river island has been in business for many years, and now it is inherited by Yedi Shikan and has been rebuilt to a greater extent.

Moreover, the Huainan army's capacity for the initial attack was not too high. If it could not carry out a long-term continuous attack, it needed to retreat and replenish.

However, as the water army gathered here one after another, there were more than 200 boats, large and small, and the water army supervisors Lu Yong, Xu Mao and others went to the battle line to supervise the battle.On the one hand, it besieged Qiaowei Hezhou on all sides, and on the other hand, it sent a fleet to cruise in the waters between Hezhou and Liyangjin to block it.

As for the replenishment of machinery, it is completely handed over to several large ships of the size of Chang'an for transportation.After a day and night of fighting, the river island was finally captured.As for the thousands of defenders on Hezhou, apart from the death of more than a thousand people, the rest directly surrendered.

The acquisition of Qiaowei River Island meant that the Huainan Army directly pushed its advance base to the river, which was only a few miles away from Liyangjin.Then there was a rapid increase in troops, and a large amount of supplies were also transported to the river island.

Within a day of taking Hezhou, the Huainan Army assembled nearly 3 soldiers and more than [-] boats, even directly surpassing the enemy troops assembled in the direction of Liyangjin.If it weren't for the fact that there are still a few river islands directly connected to the land on both sides of Liyangjin that are still standing firm, they could even launch an attack directly on Liyangjin!
And as the Huainan army put on such an aggressive posture, Shi Kan naturally did not dare to neglect, and the army gathered near Liyangjin.Looking from the river island to the shore, there are black heads and camps of different heights everywhere, and almost no land can be seen.

In the narrow area from Liyangjin to Qiaoweihezhou, the total number of soldiers assembled by both sides reached 7!The shortest distance between the battle lines is even less than ten feet, and each other's words can be heard clearly.

As for the next collision, it became tragic.Although the enemy's boats are useless, they are still relative to the overall military strength. There are still nearly two hundred small and medium-sized warships moored at Liyang and other ferry piers. If you add those simple and easy-to-build rafts , this number will be much higher.

With such a close front line distance between the two sides, many flexible tactics of moving forward and retreating are useless.Although the enemy's fleet was far smaller than that of the Huainan Army, even if they were directly blocked at the ferry in frontal combat, they could not counterattack at all.

But at this time, Shi Kan also showed the ruthlessness of risking his life. He directly organized dozens of speedboats full of fuel oil to rush towards the Huainan Army's blockade of the ferry fleet, and then launched a fire attack with suicidal determination. It caused a lot of casualties to the Huainan Army. Nearly [-] warships and more than [-] soldiers were killed in battle, including a large Chang'an warship.

Although the enemy's frenzied counterattack was curbed due to the timely organization of resistance in the follow-up, Lu Yong and others, who were the former generals of the Huainan Army, regarded it as a great shame and humiliation.

In this battle, Shen Zhezi still stayed in the rear of Suanzao, and handed over the command of the battle to Lu Yong, Mao Bao and other generals.Several generals discussed it, and then decided to fight back.

As a result, the thousands of captives who were imprisoned on Hezhou earlier, among them Jiehu Bingtu, a total of more than [-] people, were all selected, transported by warships to the position facing Liyangjin, rowed and cut Kill, no one is spared.For a moment, the river was red, and blood rushed to the bank. Even the bones of the Hu soldiers were thrown into the enemy camp with utensils.

The Huainan army's bloody methods shocked the Yedi army on the opposite side, and at the same time caused great commotion.And the follow-up even launched an attack directly on the nearest river island in Liyangjin, investing nearly a hundred warships at one time, and the flags and banners covered the sky and the sun.

As soon as the blood-smeared warship sailed near the river island, the enemy army in the camp on the river island was frightened and collapsed, and the whole battalion fled.If it weren't for Shi Kan personally leading his own soldiers to hold the position at the most critical moment, the riot might even spread to the whole army!
However, even if it was temporarily stabilized, Li Yang's situation became precarious. The two river islands near the bank fell one after another, and the Huainan army was directly under the nose, almost to the point of face to face.

In the Liyang Camp, the situation has reached an extremely fragile point. A large number of soldiers are completely shrunk in the extremely narrow area from Liyang City to the ferry. The entire camp is overcrowded. Going out and walking, even water needs special troops to deliver it every day.

If the team carrying water arrives late, the soldiers will have to endure hunger and thirst in this scorching weather, even if the big river is nearby, if they dare to go out of the camp to fetch water without authorization, they will be caught on the spot by the soldiers patrolling the camp. shoot!

Such a high-pressure atmosphere has instead created an unprecedented unity among the generals in Yedi, because they have been driven to a dead end, and the current situation is imminent. If they are really defeated, it will definitely be a catastrophic defeat.

Even for those powerful military leaders with high autonomy, the vast majority of their soldiers are trapped in this area. Once the army is defeated as a whole, their respective parts will definitely disperse. .And in the current severe situation, if they all dispersed, what capital would they have to survive?
And now, it's too late even to surrender to the enemy. Although the Huainan army is close at hand, due to the cruel killing intent shown by the Huainan army against Jiehu and Tuge before, the two tribes are now all lined up at the front line. Soldiers.They are absolutely immortal with the Huainan army, and they will not sit back and watch the Jin people surrender to the enemy under their noses.

Therefore, the only hope for these people lies in the killing move that Shi Kan had prepared before. After all, more than ten thousand soldiers and nearly half of the material deployment have already been known to the entire army.And Shi Kan had also vowed before that this move would definitely work, and he would definitely be able to turn the tables.

So right now these generals, apart from doing their best to stabilize their movements, are frequently going to the Shikan big tent, and when they meet, they must ask when the turning point will come?
"Hurry up, hurry up! Everyone, please don't see that the southern bandits are rampant for a while, but General Han led nearly [-] cavalry deep into the enemy's rear, directly attacking the southern bandits' rear, and the bandit army collapsed in an instant!"

Faced with repeated questioning by the generals, Shi Kan did not dare to avoid telling the truth with a tough attitude at this moment, and simply revealed the ultimate move.

He still underestimated the strength of the southern bandits, or overestimated his own strength. He originally thought that even if more than [-] soldiers were dispatched, with Li Yang's current military strength, he could at least maintain the situation for ten days. And crash.

But now it seems that the Southern Bandit was conservative before and did not try his best. Once he fully exerted his strength, it would be difficult for him to resist for too long given the unfavorable situation.

Of course, he also understood that the reason why the southern bandits were still gaining momentum had nothing to do with him, but because they were worried that the Shihu behind might intervene in the battle situation.And once its army is fully mobilized, depending on the current situation of its army, its collapse will only happen in an instant.

Therefore, Shi Kan's current vitality is only tied to Han Yong's part of the teacher.If Han Yong can't cause great disturbance on the south bank of the Yellow River, then he will die here!
Right now, the distance between the two armies is not far away. Those nasty southern thieves organized captives and yelled at the front line over and over again, day and night. The voice could even be faintly heard by Shi Kan in the tent of the Chinese army.

As for the content of the chanting, it is nothing more than that the two rebellious tribes, Tuge and Jiehu, lived in the land of Jin and turned against the people of Jin. He committed heinous crimes, while Shi Kan, who betrayed his ancestors and accepted a thief as his father, was even more heinous.

The enormous pressure caused Shi Kan's beard and hair to turn gray almost at a speed visible to the naked eye, and countless wrinkles on his face.As for the words those prisoners shouted, Shi Kan was very ashamed and angry at first, but now he has gradually become numb, and turned full of bitterness and grievance.

"Accept a thief as your father? A lowly dog ​​will not betray his family, and a pawn will not change his sacrifice. If there is a choice, who will betray his ancestors and recognize a thief as his father?"

Shi Kan can't sleep all night, and recently, he has frequent hallucinations in front of his eyes, constantly flashing all kinds of things he has experienced in the past half of his life, and then he feels even more wronged.

Sometimes, he was full of hostility in his heart, and really wanted to rush to Shen Weizhou, the southern thief and raccoon, and ask him a few times. If he was a pawn born in this turbulent world, he might die in the wilderness at any time. What will be done?He just wanted to survive. Could it be a fault to seek to survive?So in this world, who is innocent?
As time went by, the generals came to ask more and more frequently, and their tone became more and more anxious.In order to deal with these people, Shi Kan could only order Yecheng to reinforce some troops. Right now there are more than [-] soldiers left in Yecheng, and Shi Kan plans to send another [-] soldiers to stabilize Li Yang's army.

Even in this way, the defense of Yecheng has become extremely fragile, even if the people around Yecheng riot, they will not be able to suppress it.If Shi Hu divides his troops to the south at this time, he can even take Yecheng without any effort.

"Ji Long will probably come to the south..."

Although Shi Hu does not necessarily put Shi Kan in his eyes, Shi Kan has regarded Shi Hu as a goal for victory for a long time, so there is no shortage of research on Shi Hu's use of troops, and his temper can be said to be quite understanding.

Although Shi Hu's main target is still Xiangguo, Xiangguo has been oppressed to the point where there is only one isolated city left, which is not enough to contain all of Shihu's troops.

He had voluntarily abandoned Qingzhou before and shrunk his troops to Hebei, which must have been his idea of ​​reaping the benefits of the fisherman.In particular, Yecheng was regarded as a base of achievements by his people. If Xiangguo and Shi Daya had not existed for the orthodox existence of the First Lord, Shi Hu's primary target would still be Yecheng.

Shi Kan believed that no matter how fierce the battle in Xiangguo was, Shi Hu would definitely keep one eye on Yecheng.He is like an experienced hunter, sometimes he looks violent and cruel, and sometimes he can endure for a long time. He only waits for the target to reach the weakest moment, and then he will pounce, using the smallest force with lightning speed to cover his ears. The price is to receive the most lucrative results.

"Perhaps such a person is the real hero who can win the world..."

Shi Kanku sat on the embankment along the river, looking at the rippling dark river surface under the night wind, a self-deprecating smile appeared on the corner of his mouth, his gray beard and hair were blown up by the night wind, and his description was even more desolate.

In order to avoid the frequent questioning by the generals, he simply used the excuse of patrolling the camp to leave the big tent and avoid by the river.Looking at the outline of the Huainan military boat moored not far away, his brows were tightly frowned.

It has been more than ten days since Han Yongnan left. At first, Shi Kan was still full of expectations, but gradually this anxious expectation dimmed, followed by despair.

Han Yong is the few remaining generals under his command, so he must know the importance of this trip and Li Yang's current situation, so after crossing the river, he will definitely launch an attack against the Huainan Army as soon as possible.

But until now, there is still no sound in the south, the Huainan Army still maintains a high pressure on Li Yang, and continues to increase troops in an orderly manner, without any sign of instability in the rear.

No sign is also a sign.Although Shi Kan is still using Han Yong as an excuse to appease the generals, but in fact, he himself is completely desperate.

When faced with the questioning of those military chiefs, he was actually full of ridicule. These thieves relied on their own resources and wanted to have their own way, but they didn't know that in the eyes of truly powerful people, their self-important tricks were really full of sarcasm. is clumsy.A group of dog thieves who were kept in the dark didn't know that their death was coming.

Han Yong's ultimate move is no longer enough to count on, and Li Yang's current situation is not enough to resist the Huainan Army's final attack. Even if he retreats, there is still a stone tiger watching.Whether it is fighting or retreating, Shi Kan is already a dead end.

After realizing that his fate was doomed, Shi Kan gained a rare peace, and even looked at the two people who drove him to his death with a playful look.

Obviously the two sides have already regarded him as a person who must die, but right now they both kept restraint in an extremely tacit understanding and did not cut the last knife.

Shi Kan was looking at himself with an open-minded vision. Probably Shi Hu hoped that he could counterattack at the end of his life and inflict heavy damage on the Huainan army, so that it would be easier for him to take Yecheng.And the little raccoon in the south should also hope to force him back to Yecheng with a big force, and then attack with a large army, using the method of consuming the lives of his men, in order to overwhelm Shihu's subsequent attack on Yecheng.

Two people with completely different origins, backgrounds and experiences, because of their heroic spirit, unexpectedly reached a subtle tacit understanding at such a delicate moment.And this tacit understanding can probably be called a strong character, and its core is nothing more than one point, that is, to use the lives of tens of thousands of people in Shi Kan to gain as much advantage as possible for himself.

"I don't know which side will make an early move..."

Shi Kan glanced at the dark river surface, then at the cloudless starry sky in the north, and then he felt a strange feeling in his heart, as if the one who could dominate the world at this moment was him, the one who was destined to be defeated and die.There is even an illusion that if he leans towards one side, that side will become the only king in charge of the world.

"It's such a wicked life, to work half your life, it's better to die at the end!"

He raised his hand to twist the dry and messy beard under his jaw, his eyes were full of self-mockery.Both parties are using him to accomplish things, but which side should he be interested in?
Rationally speaking, he should use his spare heat to help Shihu, counterattack and severely injure the Huainan army when he is dying, so that Shihu can take Yecheng more easily. The meritorious deeds are all in the country of Jie.

However, it was probably because people were about to die, so kind thoughts emerged, and he felt that he should help the Huainan army. Before the army collapsed, he would rush back to the stone tiger, or if he only needed to retreat a little, the Huainan army would naturally rush forward. Drive those soldiers to overwhelm the army sent by Shihu to capture Yecheng.

But he didn't want to help both parties, Shi Hu was too domineering, he repeatedly bullied him, and even treated him like a slave.And the little raccoon in the south is even more hateful, he keeps calling him a villain, because his people scold him, he is probably the most famous villain in this world.

However, he didn't have a third choice, either to stay and fight to the end, or to flee and disrupt the Northland.Just like when he was weak in his early years, he either recognized the thief as his father, or died on the spot.

But he struggled for half his life, and the situation was not as good as when he was a child. At that time, he made a choice, at least he felt happy at that time, and it also brought him decades of glory.But now, no matter what you choose, you are dead!
But soon, Shi Kan didn't have to worry about it anymore, because he found that he had no choice at all.

"The city of Ye is lost? Who took it?"

At dawn, nearly a hundred soldiers in ragged clothes rushed into the camp, were quickly waited in front of the river embankment, and reported to Shi Kan the important news that Yecheng had been breached!
In the end, the evil tiger came out on top?
Although he asked a question, Shi Kan knew that most of the Huainan army was currently gathering in Liyang, facing each other tit for tat. At this moment, Shi Hu was most likely to be able to capture Yecheng.

But before those defeated soldiers had time to answer, the Jiehu soldiers on the side had already pointed to the river and exclaimed. Shi Kan turned his head to look, and his face suddenly became gloomy.I saw the Huainan army boats spread out on the river in a big way, with thousands of sails competing to spread, obviously it was going to launch the final decisive battle!

The turmoil spread to the entire camp in a very short period of time, and a large number of soldiers and generals flocked to the embankment, asking Shi Kan how to deal with it.

"Coping? Still have the qualifications to deal with it?"

The Huainan military boats were already very close to Liyangjin, and once the bunks were opened, the ferocious pressure of iron and blood rushed towards them.The Jiehu and Tuge soldiers guarding the river bank were filled with righteous indignation at first, saying that they would fight to the death with the Huainan army as revenge for their own clan, but now, they were the first to flee, throwing away their armored soldiers one by one, and hugging their heads backwards. scatter in all directions.

But soon, those Hu soldiers were no longer lonely. A large Huainan ship sailed into Liyangjin under the tow of several fighting ships. Kneeling with his hands cut behind his back and bound on the protruding deck, it was Han Yong who had led the cavalry to attack the Huainan Army in the south!
"Then, is that Han Yong? Why was he captured by the Huainan army?"

Thanks to Shi Kan's frequent indoctrination in the past, all the generals in Yedi have tacitly agreed that Han Yong is the key to victory in this battle, and he is a big killer that can severely damage the Huainan Army.But now, the big killer they had hoped for was kneeling on the warship of the Huainan Army without a trace and in disgrace!
"Your Majesty, Your Majesty..."

There were many chaotic roars around him, but Shi Kan didn't seem to hear it. He looked at the void with confused eyes, and let the soldiers pull him back.What really made him despair was that it wasn't until this moment before his defeat that he realized that he still overestimated himself. The illusion that he could determine the general situation was indeed an illusion.

The Liyang camp was already a big bow that was fully charged, and it would either be fired with anger, or the string would break and the bow would be destroyed.In the current situation, it is obvious that the string is broken.

Shi Kan was surrounded by the soldiers and fled backwards, and some of the warriors also ran backwards under the protection of the trilogy, but some people swiftly took out the plain onyx and linen robes that they had prepared earlier in the morning to wrap around them. On his body, he rushed to a place with a wide view and kowtowed to the approaching warships of the Huainan Army and shouted: "Surrender, surrender! Greet the king and cross the river..."

　This chapter is not easy to divide, and it is published together. . .There are too many chapters, as expected, I am destined to be a smuggler on the wireless. . .

　　
　
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