Under Han Dong's command, the Shuozhou army was not afraid of danger and formed more than ten round formations of varying sizes to fight to the death. However, the casualties were huge in the fight with the official army.
Duan Shiheng's troops also boosted their morale and launched wave after wave of offensives against the rebels!
At the same time, Zhao Huaiying sent Liang Hongyu a secret letter, saying that he had led 30,000 Xuanliao troops and carried a large number of siege equipment, and quickly marched southwest along the southern foot of the Yàn Mountain. He has now arrived at Xihe Village outside the east gate of Huaian County to camp and immediately launched a siege war.
Liang Hongyu immediately ordered Lai Wanzhi to divide 20,000 troops from the camp of Luoji Town, and led by a decent general to advance to the west gate of Huaian County to closely cooperate with the Xuanliao army's siege.
Lai Wanzhi's main force must stay in Daying, Luoji Town to restrain Tuoba Wei's army in Shunsheng County to ensure the safety of the army's rear, so she dare not move for the time being.
Lai Wanzhi received the order, so he sent deputy general Ding Han to lead 20,000 troops to set off immediately. In a day, he arrived at Huaian City and camped outside the west gate.
After Ding Han contacted Zhao Huaiying, he launched a fierce attack on Huai'an Fortress in the afternoon of the same day!
Liang Hongyu was very pleased. According to the current situation, it would be only a matter of time before Han Dong's army retreated. The siege between Zhao Huaiying and Ding Han was in full swing, and the battle situation was extremely fierce!
However, the large amount of food and supplies stored in Huaian City by the army had been taken away by the Xuande army, and the only two logistics supply lines were cut off. The grain storage in the major camps of the official army could not last long. Whether it was the mobile war in Qingling Town or the tough battle in Huaian Fortress, she had to fight quickly!
The reason is obvious. If these two battles fall into a stalemate, the food stored in her army will be quickly exhausted and will collapse without a fight!
Relatively speaking, it is much easier to attack Handong's camp, which has no strong city to defend, than to capture Huaian Fortress, which is a force that forms a horn with Shunsheng County, with only 50,000 troops.
So she gritted her teeth and sent the remaining reserve team of more than 10,000 Mengzhou Army under her command to the front line of Qingling Town, trying to destroy Han Dong's army in one fell swoop!
She was already desperate, and now there was only a female cavalry guard left in her base camp, with only about 500 troops!
In the next few days, these two main battlefields are in full swing
Under the auspices of Deputy Commander Duan Shiheng, the Battle of Qingling Town has compressed the Han Dong army's camp to become smaller and smaller, and has almost been divided into three large pieces. However, the Han Dong army fought to the death and has not been completely defeated yet, so there is no need for Liang Hongyu to worry more.
However, after Shi Guoliang's vigorous management, the city defense was extremely strong, and the city had sufficient reserves of food, grass and weapons. Zhan Hailiang had no worries. The soldiers under his command were extremely brave and tenacious, and they did not give up any inch of land on the head of the city, and fought the battle to defend the city vividly.
Zhan Hailiang would open the city gate every day, either leading his army out of the west gate to take the initiative to fight Ding Han, or going out of the east gate to fight Zhao Huaiying's Xuan Liao army.
Although he was at ease in dealing with Ding Han, even if he had a fight with Zhao Huaiying, although Zhan Hailiang was a little undermined after the two battles, he only had to withdraw back to the city to defend. With the brave spirit of sacrifice and the tall and strong city walls of his soldiers, Zhao Huaiying had no choice but to make up his mind to take down this strong city at any cost!
On the sixth day of the offensive and defensive battle in Huaian City, the iron-blooded warriors under Zhao Huaiying paid the heavy casualties of more than 4,000 people, defended their Iron Army honors again, and finally broke through the East Gate in one fell swoop and drove the East Gate defenders off the city!
Liang Hongyu was very happy at the Tiancheng County base camp. She pulled Duan Xiáng's hands several times, praising the iron army under the eldest princess for extraordinaryness after all!
He screamed in excitement: Xianger, Auntie is so happy. I really want to find someone to hug you. Can you please?
After saying that, she wanted to pounce on his shoulder and lean on him, so as to exude her extremely excited emotions. After experiencing the moment when Huaiancheng was broken, she suddenly received this unexpected good news. No wonder she was so happy!
Duan Xiáng said to the female guard standing outside the door, and said seriously: Some of the male guards are female guards, so let's hug one of them. Although the child is your guard, he is also a man. Don't forget to let men and women give in and not kiss each other?
Having said that, there was no lack of joy in his words, not for the sake of the situation of danger and improvement, but because the general had been frowning for many days, and it was rare to be so excited, and he couldn't help but feel happy for her.
Liang Hongyu held her body forward and pouted her red lips and said: What a young pedantic old master! Could it be that if the aunt is so proud that she will die!
Then even she was surprised. Her expression and tone of speaking were exactly the same as when she threw herself into her elder brother's arms and acted coquettishly in her childhood!
But it's really strange. If you look psychologically, the steady and stubborn Xiár is indeed very similar to the elder brother back then, giving her a feeling of trustworthy and dependence.
At present, her attention to the Huaian siege battle is far more important than that of the Qingling Town battlefield. After all, once the strategic fortress stuck behind the army is recovered, under the control of the iron-blooded warriors under Zhao Huaiying, she will never have any worries. After the army has a steady stream of logistical support, she is sure to set up another trap and eventually force the rebel thieves, Zhan Tianying Monk Bigan, into a desperate situation!
However, after Zhao Huaiying's troops broke through the east gate of Huaian Fortress, they were facing the Xuande army's ant soldiers who fought desperately and became more and more brave and tenacious. Bloody and fierce street fighting was launched vigorously on the front line of the East Gate. In each house, there were more than a dozen to dozens of Xuande soldiers from each house to resist. Unless they were killed, the Xuande army warriors would not be able to move forward!
The two sides fought for each other, from morning to night, and there were such a small but extremely bloody and fierce battle everywhere in the East Gate area. The remaining limbs and broken arms were everywhere, and there were a sea of corpses and blood!
Zhao Huaiying commanded the Iron Army warriors to hit the iron wall in order to expand the results of the war. The fierce street fighting has lasted for almost four days and four nights, but the progress has become slower and slower.
He was deeply shocked by the fierce battle situation in front of him who led his army to expedition to the northern desert grasslands many times. In terms of individual combat capabilities, these Xuande soldiers were far from the opponent of the warriors under his command, but their spirit of almost madness that was ready to die made him respect him!
He walked out of the central army tent located in Xihe Village outside Dongmen, followed by more than a dozen deputy generals, generals and staff members, and staff members.
There was a busy scene around the Central Army's tent, and wounded people were constantly being carried off from the battlefield where the city was fiercely fighting, and sent to various battlefield medical tents in the base camp according to the severity of the injuries.
According to the consistent tradition of the Xuanliao Army, the minor injuries of their families were treated and could return to the front line to fight in one or two days. The bodies and serious injuries of the soldiers were sent back to the Xuanfu base for proper placement.
The battle has been carried out so hard and arduous. There are more than 5,000 people sent back to Xuanfu base. He had to draw 5,000 troops from the base at one time to support the troops. At present, the reinforcements, led by a general under his command, have arrived in time and lined up outside his central army tent.
Zhao Huaiying made an passionate pre-war mobilization to the soldiers, and basically the same meaning: Don’t let down His Highness the Iron Army title of His Highness!
Then he walked into medical tents, condolences to the minor and serious wounded people who had just been lifted down today, and paid silence to the bodies of the dead warriors.
The experience of one of the wounded being severely damaged is ridiculous. More than half an hour ago, he cut over more than a dozen enemy soldiers in a house in Liuchen Lane, inside the East Gate. He was not injured by the enemy. It was just because he used too much force when slashing people with his sword, which caused his right arm to be broken!
Hearing the wounded, when he was pulled onto a stretcher by the ambulance team and forced to be carried away, he was severely injured by him, but as long as he could move, the enemy soldiers still fought stubbornly in that house and fought to the death. Perhaps they were both warriors, and they felt a little sympathetic. Finally, he sighed: General Zhao, his subordinates have never been on the front line of the Liaohe River, and I don’t know what those Jurchen warriors are like, but at present, these opponents who are so desperate are rarely encountered on the Mobei grassland! The Battle of the Sky Eagle Rebellion is so difficult to pacify!
Zhao Huaiying also had a deep feeling, but it was useless to just sigh. He also had the third Feige letter sent by His Highness the Princess within ten days in his pocket. The content was similar to each other: at any cost, he must take down the Huaian Fortress as soon as possible!
He knew that he had always been in command and could be as stable as Mount Tai in the face of any crisis. Why was he so anxious this time? It was because the towering strategic fortress that was firmly stuck on his way forward was too important and might determine the final fate of the court's more than 300,000 troops!
At present, both him and his heroic soldiers have done their best. As the saying goes, "Planning is in people and success is in heaven." When it reaches this point, facing the solid and united enemy officers and soldiers, no strategy seems to be impossible to perform. He can only pray to God for blessing. For him, this feeling of powerlessness has appeared for the first time!
Liang Hongyu in Tiancheng County General's Mansion cared for the street battle between Huaian Fortress East Gate than the eldest princess. Seeing that the Xuanliao army still couldn't capture the city for a long time after breaking through the city, the battle situation was in a stalemate. It has always been a taboo for military strategists to station troops under the city. She couldn't help but feel a little worried about Zhao Huaiying and Ding Han, the two siege troops.
Sure enough, early the next morning, she received an urgent report from Lai Wanzhi:
Early last night, Zhan Hailiang led his army out of the west gate and joined forces with the reinforcements of Tuoba Wei, who was entrenched in Shunsheng County. He attacked the Dinghan army camp from the east and south at night. Dinghan led his troops to resist, and suffered heavy casualties and losses. With the support of the Xuanliao army's fierce attack on Dongcheng District, he was spared from defeat.
After the successful night attack, Zhan Hailiang led his army to retreat to the city to continue defending. Tuoba Wei's troops headed south toward Luoji Town, attacking his camp. At present, he is fighting fiercely with the enemy with a strong foundation in the deep groove!
Liang Hongyu was afraid that Lai Wanzhi's camp in Luoji Town would be in trouble and follow Shi Guoliang's afterwards. In that case, her army's back would be completely open.
In addition, Zhao Huaiying and Ding Han led the army from both sides of the east and west to attack the city, which was closely related to the lack of coordination and cooperation between the two main generals. She led the army to be stationed on the Liaohe front for a long time. In recent years, she has fought side by side with the generals of the Xuanliao Army many times. She went to coordinate and command, which is more conducive to taking down this indestructible strategic fortress as soon as possible!
So she ordered the captain of the guard to gather the only five hundred female cavalry guards beside her and prepare to set off immediately and rush to the camp of Luoji Town. The most urgent task is to help Lai Wan stabilize the morale of the army, and to guide him to arrange troops reasonably and to resist the enemy from outside the camp.
When the battle situation in Luoji Town stabilized slightly, she had to focus on the battle of Huaian Fortress, which was the top priority of this war!
When necessary, she even pulled Zhou Chuzhi's cavalry from the front line of Qingling Town, which was fighting fiercely, and personally led the troops to Huaian City, and at all costs she had to bite this harder than iron!
Duan Shiheng's troops also boosted their morale and launched wave after wave of offensives against the rebels!
At the same time, Zhao Huaiying sent Liang Hongyu a secret letter, saying that he had led 30,000 Xuanliao troops and carried a large number of siege equipment, and quickly marched southwest along the southern foot of the Yàn Mountain. He has now arrived at Xihe Village outside the east gate of Huaian County to camp and immediately launched a siege war.
Liang Hongyu immediately ordered Lai Wanzhi to divide 20,000 troops from the camp of Luoji Town, and led by a decent general to advance to the west gate of Huaian County to closely cooperate with the Xuanliao army's siege.
Lai Wanzhi's main force must stay in Daying, Luoji Town to restrain Tuoba Wei's army in Shunsheng County to ensure the safety of the army's rear, so she dare not move for the time being.
Lai Wanzhi received the order, so he sent deputy general Ding Han to lead 20,000 troops to set off immediately. In a day, he arrived at Huaian City and camped outside the west gate.
After Ding Han contacted Zhao Huaiying, he launched a fierce attack on Huai'an Fortress in the afternoon of the same day!
Liang Hongyu was very pleased. According to the current situation, it would be only a matter of time before Han Dong's army retreated. The siege between Zhao Huaiying and Ding Han was in full swing, and the battle situation was extremely fierce!
However, the large amount of food and supplies stored in Huaian City by the army had been taken away by the Xuande army, and the only two logistics supply lines were cut off. The grain storage in the major camps of the official army could not last long. Whether it was the mobile war in Qingling Town or the tough battle in Huaian Fortress, she had to fight quickly!
The reason is obvious. If these two battles fall into a stalemate, the food stored in her army will be quickly exhausted and will collapse without a fight!
Relatively speaking, it is much easier to attack Handong's camp, which has no strong city to defend, than to capture Huaian Fortress, which is a force that forms a horn with Shunsheng County, with only 50,000 troops.
So she gritted her teeth and sent the remaining reserve team of more than 10,000 Mengzhou Army under her command to the front line of Qingling Town, trying to destroy Han Dong's army in one fell swoop!
She was already desperate, and now there was only a female cavalry guard left in her base camp, with only about 500 troops!
In the next few days, these two main battlefields are in full swing
Under the auspices of Deputy Commander Duan Shiheng, the Battle of Qingling Town has compressed the Han Dong army's camp to become smaller and smaller, and has almost been divided into three large pieces. However, the Han Dong army fought to the death and has not been completely defeated yet, so there is no need for Liang Hongyu to worry more.
However, after Shi Guoliang's vigorous management, the city defense was extremely strong, and the city had sufficient reserves of food, grass and weapons. Zhan Hailiang had no worries. The soldiers under his command were extremely brave and tenacious, and they did not give up any inch of land on the head of the city, and fought the battle to defend the city vividly.
Zhan Hailiang would open the city gate every day, either leading his army out of the west gate to take the initiative to fight Ding Han, or going out of the east gate to fight Zhao Huaiying's Xuan Liao army.
Although he was at ease in dealing with Ding Han, even if he had a fight with Zhao Huaiying, although Zhan Hailiang was a little undermined after the two battles, he only had to withdraw back to the city to defend. With the brave spirit of sacrifice and the tall and strong city walls of his soldiers, Zhao Huaiying had no choice but to make up his mind to take down this strong city at any cost!
On the sixth day of the offensive and defensive battle in Huaian City, the iron-blooded warriors under Zhao Huaiying paid the heavy casualties of more than 4,000 people, defended their Iron Army honors again, and finally broke through the East Gate in one fell swoop and drove the East Gate defenders off the city!
Liang Hongyu was very happy at the Tiancheng County base camp. She pulled Duan Xiáng's hands several times, praising the iron army under the eldest princess for extraordinaryness after all!
He screamed in excitement: Xianger, Auntie is so happy. I really want to find someone to hug you. Can you please?
After saying that, she wanted to pounce on his shoulder and lean on him, so as to exude her extremely excited emotions. After experiencing the moment when Huaiancheng was broken, she suddenly received this unexpected good news. No wonder she was so happy!
Duan Xiáng said to the female guard standing outside the door, and said seriously: Some of the male guards are female guards, so let's hug one of them. Although the child is your guard, he is also a man. Don't forget to let men and women give in and not kiss each other?
Having said that, there was no lack of joy in his words, not for the sake of the situation of danger and improvement, but because the general had been frowning for many days, and it was rare to be so excited, and he couldn't help but feel happy for her.
Liang Hongyu held her body forward and pouted her red lips and said: What a young pedantic old master! Could it be that if the aunt is so proud that she will die!
Then even she was surprised. Her expression and tone of speaking were exactly the same as when she threw herself into her elder brother's arms and acted coquettishly in her childhood!
But it's really strange. If you look psychologically, the steady and stubborn Xiár is indeed very similar to the elder brother back then, giving her a feeling of trustworthy and dependence.
At present, her attention to the Huaian siege battle is far more important than that of the Qingling Town battlefield. After all, once the strategic fortress stuck behind the army is recovered, under the control of the iron-blooded warriors under Zhao Huaiying, she will never have any worries. After the army has a steady stream of logistical support, she is sure to set up another trap and eventually force the rebel thieves, Zhan Tianying Monk Bigan, into a desperate situation!
However, after Zhao Huaiying's troops broke through the east gate of Huaian Fortress, they were facing the Xuande army's ant soldiers who fought desperately and became more and more brave and tenacious. Bloody and fierce street fighting was launched vigorously on the front line of the East Gate. In each house, there were more than a dozen to dozens of Xuande soldiers from each house to resist. Unless they were killed, the Xuande army warriors would not be able to move forward!
The two sides fought for each other, from morning to night, and there were such a small but extremely bloody and fierce battle everywhere in the East Gate area. The remaining limbs and broken arms were everywhere, and there were a sea of corpses and blood!
Zhao Huaiying commanded the Iron Army warriors to hit the iron wall in order to expand the results of the war. The fierce street fighting has lasted for almost four days and four nights, but the progress has become slower and slower.
He was deeply shocked by the fierce battle situation in front of him who led his army to expedition to the northern desert grasslands many times. In terms of individual combat capabilities, these Xuande soldiers were far from the opponent of the warriors under his command, but their spirit of almost madness that was ready to die made him respect him!
He walked out of the central army tent located in Xihe Village outside Dongmen, followed by more than a dozen deputy generals, generals and staff members, and staff members.
There was a busy scene around the Central Army's tent, and wounded people were constantly being carried off from the battlefield where the city was fiercely fighting, and sent to various battlefield medical tents in the base camp according to the severity of the injuries.
According to the consistent tradition of the Xuanliao Army, the minor injuries of their families were treated and could return to the front line to fight in one or two days. The bodies and serious injuries of the soldiers were sent back to the Xuanfu base for proper placement.
The battle has been carried out so hard and arduous. There are more than 5,000 people sent back to Xuanfu base. He had to draw 5,000 troops from the base at one time to support the troops. At present, the reinforcements, led by a general under his command, have arrived in time and lined up outside his central army tent.
Zhao Huaiying made an passionate pre-war mobilization to the soldiers, and basically the same meaning: Don’t let down His Highness the Iron Army title of His Highness!
Then he walked into medical tents, condolences to the minor and serious wounded people who had just been lifted down today, and paid silence to the bodies of the dead warriors.
The experience of one of the wounded being severely damaged is ridiculous. More than half an hour ago, he cut over more than a dozen enemy soldiers in a house in Liuchen Lane, inside the East Gate. He was not injured by the enemy. It was just because he used too much force when slashing people with his sword, which caused his right arm to be broken!
Hearing the wounded, when he was pulled onto a stretcher by the ambulance team and forced to be carried away, he was severely injured by him, but as long as he could move, the enemy soldiers still fought stubbornly in that house and fought to the death. Perhaps they were both warriors, and they felt a little sympathetic. Finally, he sighed: General Zhao, his subordinates have never been on the front line of the Liaohe River, and I don’t know what those Jurchen warriors are like, but at present, these opponents who are so desperate are rarely encountered on the Mobei grassland! The Battle of the Sky Eagle Rebellion is so difficult to pacify!
Zhao Huaiying also had a deep feeling, but it was useless to just sigh. He also had the third Feige letter sent by His Highness the Princess within ten days in his pocket. The content was similar to each other: at any cost, he must take down the Huaian Fortress as soon as possible!
He knew that he had always been in command and could be as stable as Mount Tai in the face of any crisis. Why was he so anxious this time? It was because the towering strategic fortress that was firmly stuck on his way forward was too important and might determine the final fate of the court's more than 300,000 troops!
At present, both him and his heroic soldiers have done their best. As the saying goes, "Planning is in people and success is in heaven." When it reaches this point, facing the solid and united enemy officers and soldiers, no strategy seems to be impossible to perform. He can only pray to God for blessing. For him, this feeling of powerlessness has appeared for the first time!
Liang Hongyu in Tiancheng County General's Mansion cared for the street battle between Huaian Fortress East Gate than the eldest princess. Seeing that the Xuanliao army still couldn't capture the city for a long time after breaking through the city, the battle situation was in a stalemate. It has always been a taboo for military strategists to station troops under the city. She couldn't help but feel a little worried about Zhao Huaiying and Ding Han, the two siege troops.
Sure enough, early the next morning, she received an urgent report from Lai Wanzhi:
Early last night, Zhan Hailiang led his army out of the west gate and joined forces with the reinforcements of Tuoba Wei, who was entrenched in Shunsheng County. He attacked the Dinghan army camp from the east and south at night. Dinghan led his troops to resist, and suffered heavy casualties and losses. With the support of the Xuanliao army's fierce attack on Dongcheng District, he was spared from defeat.
After the successful night attack, Zhan Hailiang led his army to retreat to the city to continue defending. Tuoba Wei's troops headed south toward Luoji Town, attacking his camp. At present, he is fighting fiercely with the enemy with a strong foundation in the deep groove!
Liang Hongyu was afraid that Lai Wanzhi's camp in Luoji Town would be in trouble and follow Shi Guoliang's afterwards. In that case, her army's back would be completely open.
In addition, Zhao Huaiying and Ding Han led the army from both sides of the east and west to attack the city, which was closely related to the lack of coordination and cooperation between the two main generals. She led the army to be stationed on the Liaohe front for a long time. In recent years, she has fought side by side with the generals of the Xuanliao Army many times. She went to coordinate and command, which is more conducive to taking down this indestructible strategic fortress as soon as possible!
So she ordered the captain of the guard to gather the only five hundred female cavalry guards beside her and prepare to set off immediately and rush to the camp of Luoji Town. The most urgent task is to help Lai Wan stabilize the morale of the army, and to guide him to arrange troops reasonably and to resist the enemy from outside the camp.
When the battle situation in Luoji Town stabilized slightly, she had to focus on the battle of Huaian Fortress, which was the top priority of this war!
When necessary, she even pulled Zhou Chuzhi's cavalry from the front line of Qingling Town, which was fighting fiercely, and personally led the troops to Huaian City, and at all costs she had to bite this harder than iron!