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Chapter 651

On October 13, when Jiujiang received the order from the Shen Luoyan Army, Chen Dang, Jiang Yanchao and others hurriedly gathered and combined all the five subordinates of 22,000 troops, without any pause. The five generals of the Wu army did not leave one soldier and one soldier to defend the city. After leaving five empty cities, they led their troops to quickly go south to Jian'an County.

Jian'an lives on the southeast coast and is a traditional junction between Lingnan and Jiangdong. It is no more prosperous than Yuhang and Kuaiji. Jian'an is a barren land with a vast but sparse population. The huge Jian'an county has only three counties. Feng Huan and Feng Ang's local soldiers attacked Jian'an from Lingnan and entered Kuaiji, leaving no soldiers or soldiers at all.

From small villages to small towns and county towns, the local soldiers are like locusts entering the country. Everything on their marching line is plundered by the team. Villages that have turned into ashes, towns that have been deserted, and county towns that have been looted. In addition to ashes and ruins, there are many headless bodies at the entrance of each town, and the heads piled up high on the side.

Judging from the clothes of the corpses, most of the people killed by the local soldiers were the strong people in various cities who resisted and refused to surrender, as well as some of the aristocratic families in various cities. After being captured, they were looted by the local soldiers and killed here, and their heads were cut off and displayed.

All the way from Nan'an, Longxi, Chang'an, Jian'an, Jian'an, Jian'an, and Jian'an along the way. All the local cities were robbed, and many towns were empty. However, when Chen Dang and others entered Kuaiji and rushed to the Zhejiang River, everything was nothing.

The scene within a radius of dozens of miles on the north bank of Zhejiang is what really shocked them.

The vast plain on the north bank of the river. Within the eyes, there were corpses of broken armor everywhere. The broken Wu army battle flag, broken spears and swords, broken white feather arrows, and the boundless corpses were exposed to the wilderness. Whether it was for demonstration or show-off, the winners on the north bank of the river were not kind enough to bury the wreckage of the losers. A few miles away, the strong smell of rotten corpses in the air made it unbearable. Most of the corpses had no heads, and on a plain dozens of miles away from Zhejiang, there was a huge head of Jingguan. Tens of thousands of heads stacked together, which was indescribable to scare people.

The dense ridges of broken guns spread to the horizon. In the distance, there were broken flags standing obliquely in the sunset. The evening breeze "flies" and rolls up the flag. The words "Wu" can be seen faintly. The flag is still here, and the soldiers holding the flag have long since turned into broken corpses.

Large groups of vultures and crows were rushing over the sky, rising and falling, screaming strangely as if celebrating their good fortune. A terrifying scene, more than 20,000 Wu soldiers all looked pale, as if they had fallen to the Nine Nether Hell at once. They were all soldiers, and they had experienced many battle formations, murders and murders. However, this was the first time they had seen a battlefield like this before them. The cruel scene made many soldiers even vomit.

Chen Dang and others had to order more than 20,000 soldiers to stop and bury the bodies of friendly troops and clean up the battlefield.

After cleaning the battlefield, more than 20,000 Wu troops turned north and set out towards Jiankang. However, the speed of the Wu army was significantly slower. Chen Dang and other generals clearly saw all this, but they could not urge the soldiers to speed up. The battlefield before was too tragic. Before the soldiers and horses came, the soldiers were unwilling to rush to Jiankang. Everyone knew that there was a barbaric and vicious army there, and no one was willing to fight them.

Just as they slowed down the marching speed, Jiankang City was already in a state of war.

The ancient capital of the Six Dynasties of Jiankang, but the previous Stone City of Jinling was destroyed after the Sui Dynasty destroyed Chen. Later, the Southern Chen was re-established, and Chen Faxing spent countless manpower and financial resources to rebuild Jiankang City. However, this Jiankang City was no longer on the original site. However, although it was not an ancient city, this new Jiankang City was even better than the past.

In terms of area alone, this newly Jiankang City is the highest today, surpassing Chang'an and Luoyang. The single city wall has three levels, which can be said to be tightly defended. The nine gates of the imperial city, the thirteen gates of the inner city, the eighteen gates of the outer city, and the entire Jiankang City has forty gates.

However, although Jiankang is indeed the best in Jiangnan and extremely majestic, it is incomparable to Luoyang, which has a comprehensive and three-dimensional defense system. Even the Liaoyang City that Chen Pojun and others attacked back then, Jiankang City is prosperous and magnificent, but less solid and ferocious.

Jiankang City has eighteen outer city gates, but in the eyes of Hu Hai, Xu Shiji and others who were attacking, the more city gates, the more flaws it means. The Wu army must score troops to guard the eighteen city gates. There are only 20,000 old and weak soldiers in the Wu army. Even if the people are temporarily recruited to the city to defend, they are divided into eighteen parts, there will be not many people.

As the attacking side, Hu Hai had sufficient mobility. He did not have to divide his troops to attack the eighteen city gates. He just had to bluff the flag and dispatch the Wu army to divide the troops to guard the city gates. Then he would just concentrate on attacking.

The outer city of Jiankang City is also known as Tucheng. It is different from the brick and stone walls of the inner city. The outer wall is made of loess and glutinous rice and other materials. The three-meter-high exterior wall is extraordinary. However, in front of Chen Jun, who is known to be invincible, no matter how strong the wall is, it is just a matter of persistence for a while.

Hu Hai's more than 30,000 troops and horses were feinted for attacking for one day during the day, which caused panic in the city and mobilized troops everywhere. Hu Hai divided more than 30,000 troops into dozens of small troops, bluffed his flags, and took turns feinting attacking the city gates. Even the navy's squadron also feinted the attacks from the mountain gates, attracting the defenders in the city to rush east and west, and there was no time to rest for a whole day.

In the evening, Chen Jun almost broke through the city gate several times. Chen Fasheng, who was left behind, was captured. The temporary defense in Jiankang City was Chen Fasheng's other younger brother, Chen Fachang. Another son of the Shen family, Chen Faxing's brother, Chen Fachang. Chen Fachang was not a general in the army. He was just a Jiangdong clan, fighting for wealth and honor, and was jealous of him. However, he was not his good commander. Faced with Chen Jun's tentative attack, he was completely panicked. If it weren't for the help of a few good generals below, he would have surrendered directly. If Chen Jun hadn't regarded all the eighteen city gates as targets of attack during the feint attack, Chen Fachang would have opened the city and fled.

After a day of hard work, when the strongest attack in the evening finally passed, Chen Fachang had already collapsed as if he had just died once. He collapsed on the soft couch with weak sighs, wiped the sweat from his forehead, and said weakly: "I will send a rescue letter to the Regent immediately, saying that today I led the soldiers to repel Chen's army's dozens of fierce attacks, but our army was short of troops and could not compete with Chen's army. Please ask Your Highness to return to Jiankang quickly. In addition, I will issue an order to Jingkou. Let Wu Xiong from Jingkou immediately lead his troops back to Jiangdu. If it does not arrive before sunrise tomorrow, I will use him to ask for a blow!"

Dozens of Wu army messengers sneaked out of various city gates and rushed towards Jingkou and Jiangxia City. Hu Hai, who was under Jiankang City, received news. He smiled slightly and smiled extremely treacherously: "I am worried that the Wu army in Jingkou will not leave the cave. Now, as long as the Jingkou defenders come out to help, we will be wiped out halfway. As long as the reinforcements in Jingkou are destroyed, there will be no reinforcements in Jiankang City. Moreover, once the defenders in Jingkou are destroyed, the governor of Jiangdu can send troops to reinforce us immediately. As long as Caishi and Jingkou are controlled, the Jiankang City will be completely our Dachen."

As he was speaking, another messenger arrived hurriedly: "Report to the Governor, Guangxi Governor Feng Ang, and Hainan Governor Feng Huan led 20,000 reinforcements to Lishui, only a few dozen miles away from Jiankang City."

Hu Haiwenxin, brothers Li Chengyi, Xu Shiji, Su Dingfang and others laughed at each other. He laughed loudly and said, "If you are really sleepy, come to the pillow. The two governors came too timely. Originally, I was worried that if Shiji led 10,000 troops to ambush Jingkou, the reinforcements would be weak, but now it is just right. Dingfang, you will immediately take our 3,000 troops to Lishui to welcome the two governors and take them to the Jiangshan area east of Jiankang City to set up an ambush. As long as the reinforcements in Jingkou arrive, stop them immediately. Remember, no one is allowed to be released back to Jingkou, and they will be destroyed!"

"The last general will receive the order!" Su Dingfang immediately took the order and ordered three thousand subordinates to go straight to Lishui.

Seeing Su Dingfang leaving, Hu Hai said excitedly: "I really want to thank the two Governor Feng this time. Unexpectedly, I just sent a letter to them, and they actually came up with 20,000 troops. It's really God's help. With these 20,000 local soldiers, it's not better to win Jiankang."

Xu Shiji grinned from the side: "Then Governor Feng Hua is not an ordinary person. I heard that he has a close relationship with His Majesty. I heard from friends in the capital that after this Turkic battle, I will enter the palace. In the future, I will be a little master."

The brothers Hu Hai and Li Chengyi also grinned and laughed, feeling extremely relaxed for a while.

That day and night, Wu Xiong, the Jingkou general who received nine urgent military orders from Shen Fachang, could no longer resist. As a major city to prevent the Jiangdu army from crossing the river, Jingkou has always had heavy troops and generals as the garrison general. Since Shen Faxing started his army, Wu Xiong has been in charge of Jingkou and has confronted Jiangdu City across the river for several years. He has worked hard and made great contributions.

No matter how Shen Fachang was just a clan scholar who did not understand military affairs, Wu Xiong knew about military affairs. Previously, Shen Fasheng drew 20,000 troops from Caishi, and Jiankang and Jingkou each drew 10,000 troops. The fact was as he expected, when the enemy was unknown, he attacked rashly and ended up being wiped out by annihilation. Not only did he not hurt the enemy's hair, but he reduced the strength of the defenders of the three cities by a huge margin.

There were originally 30,000 defenders in Jingkou, but if this 10,000 people were missing, it would be only 20,000, which was reduced by one third. Now there are 20,000 people left to guard the important town of Jingkou, and there are still 10,000 miscellaneous old and weak. It is already a bit insufficient to defend the city. Fachang fled and issued nine military orders to send troops to rescue Jiankang.

Wu Xiong wanted to refuse, but when he thought that if Jiankang was really broken, he would be unable to hear the enemy. What's more, if Jiankang was not broken in the end, Shen Fachang would not be able to help him. After thinking about it, Wu Xiong had to draw 10,000 troops from Jingkou City, including 5,000 elite soldiers and 5,000 elderly and weak. In addition, he recruited 20,000 women and children from Jingkou City, and asked them to follow the reinforcements to beat flags and drums, sweep the dust and tread the earth, and bluff the flag to boost their momentum.

The night is silent, and the sky is clear and illuminated in the sky, sprinkling countless lights on the great man.

Under the bright moonlight, ten thousand soldiers and twenty thousand people formed a huge team, and rushed to Jiankang City from Jingkou to the east. A bright moon in the sky just gave great convenience to the army. Even with such a bright moonlight, you can avoid worrying about marching. You don’t have to worry too much about ambushing when marching like this night.

It was not Wu Xiong who commanded the reinforcements. Wu Xiong was worried that the Chen army in Jiangdu would take the opportunity to attack, stay and stay in Jingkou and guard the Guazhou Ferry. The reinforcements were led by Liu Wei, the deputy general of the army.

The army entered Jiangshan and there was nothing wrong along the way. The generals couldn't help but relax their vigilance. After a huge team of 30,000 people passed through Jiangshan, there was an endless plain in front of them. In the cold moonlight, there was a vast black and gray on the huge plain in front, like a huge shadow.

The panting soldier in front looked at him in confusion and said in surprise: "What is that? Why does the black and black pieces still move?"

The former military captain with good eyesight rode his horse and looked around carefully. He looked confused first, then became heavy, and finally became panic.

"That's a huge army, they are rushing towards us!"

Sure enough, in the panic sound of the captain, the shadow in front was getting bigger and bigger, and countless rustling footsteps could be heard, like silkworms gnawing on mulberry leaves, or like the sound of waves rising tides, endless, dense, constantly approaching.

The Wu army began to stir up, and some soldiers said in panic: "It's Chen Jun who intercepted us. We were ambushed by him. What should we do?"

The old women with flags behind were even more frightened for a moment. Many people had begun to discard the flags in their hands and turned around and left. Some women even made whimpering sounds, and in a blink of an eye, there were many cries. The commotion became increasingly louder and more people threw down the wooden sticks and flags in their hands, and turned around to escape.

The Wu army officers who were escorting behind the formation were shouting and scolding, and they were beaten and scolding at the escaped people. "You! Why are you panic? Let's stand back in the queue!" The punches and kicks drove them back to their original place. In front of the officers' scolding and the soldiers' horizontal swords that were unsheathed, the team gradually calmed down.

At this time, Su Dingfang and Feng Hua had been waiting here for a long time, and 20,000 people blocked the reinforcements like an ocean.

At this moment, another sound came from behind the reinforcements. Many Wu soldiers looked back in panic and saw that from when there was a soldier surrounded behind them.

Just below Jiangshan not far behind them, the army was already spreading like white cranes spreading their wings.

A huge and neat steel array was formed in an instant, covering the entire plain at the foot of Jiangshan.

Commander Su Dingfang rode his horse and ran between the various square formations, shouting: "Prepare!"

Two thousand five hundred Jiangxi infantrymen who fought from Jiujiang all the way up here were neatly raised their spears, and a cold steel flash above the square formation. Five hundred cavalrymen boarded their horses one after another, and on both wings as reserves for counterattacks, rows of high Liaodong horse sabers were as bright as snow, like a dazzling light belt, and the moonlight quietly sprinkled on the warriors' helmets, and their shoulders seemed to have a layer of silver glory on them.!~!
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