The Huainan Army officially launched an attack on Liyang, more than two days earlier than the field battle outside Huatai City.

As the most important defense area in Hebei, Liyang is also composed of a large and small stronghold. Although the Yedi army stationed here has reached tens of thousands, nearly ten thousand elite soldiers have been transferred away in a short period of time, which has brought great pressure to the defense.

This battle is actually quite similar to the battle in Huai Shang several years ago, and it is just a transfer of offense and defense. Of course, in terms of military strength, the Huai Nan army is still inferior to the southern expedition army led by Shi Hu, but their control over the army is incomparable. The Huai Nan army only exists and implements one will.

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

Liyang boats were not enough to use, and after being transferred away a large number of them, they were completely unable to stop the Huainan army's attack on the river. Therefore, at the beginning of the battle, the front-line battlefield was directly advanced to his doorstep.

This is like if the Huainan army was directly blocked by the slave army in Shouchun City at the beginning of the Battle of Huai Shang earlier, and if no major changes occurred in the future, they would be doomed to be defeated.

The entire Liyang defense system, including Liyang City on the north bank of the Yellow River, several acropolis, three ferries, and several rivers near the river bank. The tens of thousands of Ye troops in Liyang were distributed among these strongholds, and they did not gather to trap Liyang City.

Among these strongholds, a river continent called Wuwei became the focus of the initial battle. This river continent is not small in size, narrow and long, curved like an oxtail, located several miles away from the river bank on the southwest side of Liyangjin.

There is not much vegetation in the entire river. The surface is covered with a thick layer of rock crust. The area has been expanded due to the recent reduction in water levels. In the past, the river transportation was a docking and transit station before the boat arrived in Liyangjin. During the war, it became an important supply area that both sides must obtain.

The huge water army in Huainan was scattered on this section of the river, and it took quite a while to gather completely. Therefore, only nearly 7,000 water army was involved in the attack on the first wave of offensives.

The enemy arranged a total of 5,000 troops on the river, and was equipped with a large number of fortifications, strong crossbows, strong bows, water discharge barriers, and many large-scale weapons such as batting rods and trenchers fixedly located at Jinkou. It can be seen that they attach importance to this river, which is the southern gate of Liyang.

At the beginning, the Huainan Army's offensive did not make much progress, and dozens of warships could not even approach this Hezhou. After all, this Hezhou had a foundation for many years of operation, and is now inherited by Yedi Shikan and has been renovated to a greater extent.

Moreover, the initial attack of the Huainan Army was not very capable of carrying out a long-term continuous attack and needed to be reinstateed. The exchanges were several hours, which was enough for the enemy to recuperate and replenish nearshore.

However, as the navy gathered one after another, more than 200 boats of all sizes were ships, and the navy supervised Lu Yong, Xu Mao and others personally went to the battle to supervise the battle. On the one hand, they surrounded the four sides of the river in Wei River, and on the other hand, they divided the fleets to cruise in the waters between Hezhou and Liyangjin to blockade them.

As for the supplementary use of machinery, it was completely handed over to several large ships of Chang'an-scale transportation. After a day and night of hard work, the Hezhou was finally attacked. As for the thousands of defenders on the Hezhou, except for more than a thousand people who died in battle, the rest directly abandoned the weapons and surrendered.

The acquisition of the Weihezhou means that the Huainan Army directly pushed the advance base into a river that was only a few miles away from Liyangjin. The next step was to quickly increase troops, and a large amount of goods were transported to the Hezhou.

Within one day after taking Hezhou, the Huainan Army gathered nearly 30,000 soldiers here, and more than 300 boats, even directly surpassing the enemy troops gathered in the direction of Liyangjin. If it weren't for the fact that there were several Hezhou directly connected to the land on both sides of Liyangjin, they were still defending, and they could even launch an attack on Liyangjin directly!

As the Huainan army exerted such an aggressive force, Shi Kan naturally did not dare to neglect it. The army gathered near Liyangjin. Looking from the river bank, there were dark heads and camps of varying heights everywhere, and there was almost no land.

In the narrow area between Liyangjin and Weihezhou, the total number of soldiers gathered by both sides reached 70,000! The shortest distance between the front lines was even less than ten feet, and they could clearly hear each other's words.

As for the subsequent collision, it became tragic. Although the enemy's boats were useless, compared with the overall military strength, nearly 200 small and medium-sized warships were still anchored on several ferry terminals such as Liyang. If those simple and easy-to-built rafts were added, this number would be even greater.

With such a close battle line distance between the two sides, many flexible tactics of moving forward and backward have no place to use their skills. Although the enemy fleet is far less than the Huainan Army, it is even blocked at the ferry during frontal operations and cannot counterattack at all.

But at this time, Shi Kan also showed his cruelty to fight for his life with his life. He directly organized dozens of speedboats to rush to the fleet of the Huainan Army blockade of the ferry, and then launched a fire attack with suicide-like determination, which caused considerable casualties to the Huainan Army. Nearly twenty warships and more than two thousand soldiers died in battle, including a large Chang'an ship.

Although the enemy's crazy counterattack was curbed due to the subsequent timely organization of resistance, Lu Yong and others, as the general in front of the Huainan Army, regarded it as a great humiliation.

In this battle, Shen Zhezi remained in the back of the Sour Zaoze formation and handed over the battle command to Lu Yong, Mao Bao and other generals. Several generals experienced and discussed it, and then decided to return.

So, the thousands of prisoners who were imprisoned on Hezhou were collected earlier, including Jiehu and slaughtered a total of more than 1,500 people. They were all selected and transported to the position opposite Liyangjin by warships, and killed them on the side, and none of them were spared. For a moment, the river water flowed red, and blood rushed straight to the shore, and even the corpses of the Hu soldiers were thrown into the enemy camp with equipment.

The Huainan Army's bloody methods brought great shock to the Yedi army opposite, and also caused great riots. In addition, it directly launched an attack on a nearest river in Liyangjin, and invested nearly a hundred warships at one time, with flags covering the sky and sun.

As soon as the warship, which was painted red with blood, sailed to the near bank of Hezhou, the enemy troops in the camp on Hezhou were frightened and collapsed directly, and the entire battalion fled. If it were not for the most critical moment, Shi Kan personally led his personal soldiers to hold the ground, the riots might even spread to the entire army!

However, even if it stabilized temporarily, the situation in Li Yang became precarious. The two rivers on the coast were successively lost, and the Huainan army stood directly under their noses, almost reaching the level of face veneer.

In the Liyang camp, the situation has reached an extremely fragile point. A large number of soldiers have completely contracted in the extremely narrow area from Liyang City to the ferry. The entire camp is crowded. The soldiers are bound by severe military orders and are strictly prohibited from going out in their own barracks. Even water needs special troops to deliver it every day.

If the water transport team comes late, the soldiers will have to endure hunger and thirst in this hot weather. Even if the river is near, if they dare to go out of the camp to get water without authorization, they will be shot and killed on the spot by the soldiers patrolling the camp!

Such a high-pressure atmosphere has instead caused unprecedented unity among the generals of Yedi, because they have been forced into a dead end and the current situation is about to break out. If they are really defeated, it will definitely be a great defeat that will be a thousand miles away.

Even those leaders of the great military leaders with high autonomy, most of their soldiers are trapped in this circle. Once the army is defeated as a whole, their respective troops will definitely disperse. In the current severe situation, if their respective troops are dispersed, what capital will there be to survive?

Moreover, even if it is too late to surrender to the enemy in the last battle, although the Huainan Army is close, due to the cruel murderous intentions of the Huainan Army expose to Jiehu and Tu, the soldiers of these two tribes are now arranged on the front line. They are definitely unstoppable with the Huainan Army, and they will not sit idly by and watch the Jin people surrender to the enemy under their own eyes.

Therefore, the only hope for these people is the killer move that Shi Kan has prepared before. After all, more than ten thousand soldiers and nearly half of the physical dispatch have long been known to the entire army. Shi Kan has also vowed to promise that this move will work and will definitely make a comeback.

So now, in addition to doing their best to stabilize their own forces, these generals frequently go to the Shikan tent. When they meet, they will ask when the turning point will come?

"It's soon, it's soon! Don't see the Southern thieves being rampant for a moment, but General Han had already led nearly 10,000 cavalry deep into the enemy's back and directly attacked the southern thieves' rear constellation. The bandit army collapsed only in an instant!"

Faced with the repeated questioning of the generals, Shi Kan did not dare to avoid it with a tough attitude, and simply revealed this killer move.

He still underestimated the strength of the Southern Thief, or looked up to his own strength. He originally thought that even if more than 10,000 troops were transferred, Li Yang's current military strength could at least maintain the situation for ten days. When the Southern Thief could not take into account both the head and tail, he collapsed.

But now it seems that the Southern Thief was still conservative and did not do his best. Once he made full efforts, it would be difficult for him to resist for too long with the already unfavorable situation.

Of course, he also understood that the reason why the Southern thieves were still accumulating momentum was actually nothing to do with him, but because they were worried that Shi Hu in the rear might interfere in the war. Once his army was launched completely, the collapse would only take an instant based on the current situation of his army.

Therefore, Shi Kan's current vitality only depends on Han Yong's part of his army. If Han Yong cannot cause great riots on the south bank of the Yellow River, then he will be dead and alive!

At present, the two armies are not far apart. The abominable Southern thieves organized prisoners to shout manifestos on the front line over and over again, day and night, and the sound could be vaguely heard in the central army's tent.

As for the content of the call, it was nothing more than the massacre of Jihu. The two rebellious clans of Jiehu lived in Jin territory and retaliated against the Jin people. They were unforgivable. However, Shi Kan turned his back on his ancestors and recognized the thief as his father, which was even more of a crime.

The huge pressure made Shi Kan's hair and beard turn gray almost at a speed visible to the naked eye, and the wrinkles on his face added countless times. As for the words shouted by the prisoners, Shi Kan was very embarrassed and angry at first, but now he was gradually becoming numb, and he became full of bitterness and grievances.

"Recognize the thief as his father? A lowly dog ​​will not betray the family, and the soldiers will not change their sacrifices. If there are any choices, who will be willing to betray the ancestors and recognize the thief as his father?"

Shi Kan couldn't sleep all night long, and recently there were frequent illusions in front of him, constantly flashing through all the experiences of his past half of his life, and then he felt even more aggrieved.

Sometimes, he was full of resentment and really wanted to rush to the southern thief raccoon Chen Weizhou and asked a few questions. If he was a gangster and was born in this turbulent world, he could die in the wilderness at any time. What would he do? He just wanted to survive. Was it a mistake to seek survival? So who is innocent in this world?

As time goes by, the generals come to inquire more and more frequently, and their tone becomes more and more anxious. In order to deal with these people, Shi Kan could only order Yecheng to reinforce some more troops. At present, Yecheng still has more than 20,000 troops left behind. Shi Kan plans to draw another 10,000 to come south to stabilize Li Yang's morale first.

Although in this way, Yecheng's defense has become extremely fragile, and even the people around Yecheng will not be able to suppress them if there is a riot. If Shi Hu divided his troops to the south at this time, he could even take down Yecheng without any effort.

"Ji Long probably wants to come south..."

Although Shi Hu may not take Shi Kan seriously, Shi Kan has regarded Shi Hu as a goal to win for a long time, so he has also studied Shi Hu's military behavior and has a good understanding of his temperament.

Although Shi Hu's main target is Xiangguo, Xiangguo has been oppressed so that only an isolated city is left to guard, which is not enough to contain all Shi Hu's troops.

The man had previously voluntarily gave up Qingzhou and reduced his troops to Hebei, which must have been the idea of ​​reaping the benefits of the fisherman. In particular, Yecheng was regarded as a base of achievements by him. If it were not for the orthodox existence of the orthodox lord represented by Shi Daya, Shi Hu's primary target would still be Yecheng.

Shi Kan believed that no matter how fierce the war in Xiangguo was, Shi Hu would definitely stare at Yecheng with one eye. He was like an experienced hunter, sometimes looking violent and cruel, sometimes being able to endure for a long time, waiting for the moment when the target reached its weakest moment before he would rush out and receive the richest results with the least cost at the lightning moment.

"Perhaps such people are the heroes who can truly win the world..."

Shi Kanku sat on the bank along the river bank, looking at the dark river surface under the night wind, a self-deprecating smile appeared on the corner of his mouth, and his gray-white hair and hair rose with the night wind, which made him look even more depressed.

In order to avoid the frequent inquiries from the generals, he simply used the excuse of patrol patroling to leave the tent and avoided the riverside. Looking at the outline of the Huainan military boats moored not far away, his brows frowned tightly.

It has been more than ten days since Han Yong went south. At first, Shi Kan was still full of expectations, but gradually this anxious expectation faded, and what followed was despair.

Han Yong is the only old general left under his command. He must be aware of the importance of this trip and also knows Li Yang's current situation. Therefore, after crossing the river, he will definitely launch an attack on the Huainan Army as soon as possible.

However, until now, there is still no sound in the south, and the Huainan army still maintains high pressure on Liyang, and continues to increase troops in an orderly manner, with no sign of uneasiness in the rear.

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

When facing the questioning of the military leaders, he was actually full of ridicule. These dog thieves were all self-reliant on the rural capital and wanted to be able to do everything, but they did not know that in the eyes of truly powerful people, their self-deserving tricks were really clumsy. A group of dog thieves kept in the dark did not know that death was coming.

Han Yong's killer move was no longer enough to count on, and Li Yang's situation was not enough to resist the final attack of the Huainan Army. Even if he retreated, there was still a Shi Hu who was eyeing him. At present, whether it was a war or a retreat, Shi Kan was already dead.

After understanding that his destiny was destined, Shi Kan gained a little bit of tranquility, and even looked at the two people from the north and south who forced him to death with a playful look.

It was obvious that both sides had regarded him as a person who was bound to die, but now they were very tacitly in control and did not cut the last slash.

Shi Kan is now watching himself with an open-minded vision. Perhaps Shi Hu hopes that he can counterattack before his death and cause severe damage to the Huainan army, so that he can take Yecheng more easily. The little raccoon in the south should also hope to force him back to Yecheng with great momentum, and then attack him with a large army, using a way to consume the lives of his troops to defeat Shi Hu's subsequent attack on Yecheng.

Two people who have completely different backgrounds, backgrounds and experiences have reached a subtle tacit understanding at such a delicate moment because of the heroic spirit they each have. This tacit understanding can probably be called a heroic spirit. The core of it is nothing more than that, that is, to use the lives of Shi Kan and the lives of these tens of thousands of tribes to gain as much advantage as possible for themselves.

"I don't know which side will take action in advance..."

Shi Kan looked at the dark river surface and the cloudless starry sky in the north, and then he felt a wonderful feeling in his heart, as if at this moment, the one who could dominate the world became the one who was doomed to be defeated and died. He even had the illusion that if he leaned towards one side, which side could become the only king who ruled the world.

"It's really a bad fate. I'm working hard for half a lifetime, but I can't die in the end!"

He raised his hand and twisted his dry and messy beard under his jaw, his eyes full of self-deprecation. Both sides were helping with him, and who should he be interested in?

Rationally speaking, he should use his spare energy to help Shi Hu, counterattack and severely damage the Huainan Army before his death, so that Shi Hu could easily take Yecheng. After all, they were all the way. Even though they were a little unfamiliar with each other, he spent most of his life in Jie Kingdom.

However, perhaps because of the death of a person, he felt that he should help the Huainan Army. He took advantage of the fact that the army had not yet collapsed and pounced on Shi Hu, or just needed to retreat slightly, the Huainan Army would naturally pounce on him and drive the soldiers to defeat the troops sent by Shi Hu to seize Yecheng.

But he didn't want to help either side. Shi Hu was too domineering and bullied him repeatedly, even treated him as a slave. The little raccoon in the south was even more hateful, and he kept calling him a sinister, because he scolded him, and he was probably the most famous sinister in this world.

But, he had no third choice, either stayed and fought to the end, or fled and defeated the people to disrupt the North. 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, but his situation was not as good as his childhood. At that time, he made a choice. At least he felt happy at that time and brought him decades of glory. But now, no matter how he chooses, he will die!

But soon, Shi Kan didn't have to worry about it because he found that he had no choice at all.

"Yecheng has been lost? Who took it away?"

At dawn, nearly a hundred ragged soldiers rushed into the camp and were quickly waited in front of the river bank, reporting to Shi Kan a major news that Ye City had been broken!

After all, the evil tiger will be the first to be successful?

Although he asked a question, Shi Kan knew that most of the Huainan army was gathered in Liyang and confronted each other. At this moment, Shi Hu was the most likely to be able to capture Yecheng.

But the defeated soldiers had not had time to answer, and the Jiehu soldiers beside them were already pointing at the river and exclaiming. Shi Kan turned his head and looked at it, and his face suddenly became gloomy. He saw that the Huainan military boats were spread out on the river and thousands of sails competed for it, obviously to launch the final decisive battle!

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

"Calling? Are there any qualifications to cope?"

The Huainan military boats were very close to Li Yangjin. As soon as they spread out, the ferocious and iron-blooded pressure rushed towards us. The Jiehu and the soldiers who were defending the river bank were originally filled with righteous indignation, saying that they wanted to fight to the death with the Huainan army and thought that they would take revenge on their own, but now, they were the ones who fled, and they threw away their armored soldiers and ran backwards.

But soon, the Hu soldiers were no longer lonely. A large Huainan ship was dragged into Liyangjin under several bucket ships. The bow of the ship was stacked with high heads. In front of the pile of people, a man was tied to the deck with his hands and kneeling in his backslicing. It was Han Yong, who had previously led the cavalry to attack the Huainan army in the south!

"Then, that's Han Yong? How did he be captured by the Huainan Army?"

Thanks to Shi Kan's frequent indoctrination in the past period of time, the generals of Ye have already agreed to a consensus that Han Yong is the key to winning this battle, and is the killing weapon that can severely damage the Huainan Army. But now, they hope that the killing weapon is kneeling on the Huainan Army's warship without any slightest slightest tide!

"King, King..."

There were many chaotic roars beside him, but Shi Kan seemed to have not heard of them. He looked at the void in confusion and let the soldiers pull him back. What really made him desperate was that until the moment before his defeat, he realized that he was still overestimating himself. The illusion that he could determine the general trend was indeed an illusion.

Liyang Camp was already a large bow full of strength, either exerting a strong arrow or breaking the bow. The current situation is obvious that the string is broken.

Shi Kan was swept back by his personal soldiers, and some of the war generals ran back under the protection of their troops. However, some of them quickly took out the simple robe prepared in the morning and wrapped them around them. They rushed to the open-minded area to kowtow to the warships that were gradually approaching in the Huainan Army and shouted: "Surrender, surrender! Welcome the royal army to cross the river..."

This chapter is not easy to separate, so I posted it together... There are too many big chapters, and as expected, I am destined to be a loser on the wireless...
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