His body was knocked around and he almost fell to the ground.

Urgent footsteps sounded behind him, getting closer and closer.

He drew his sword and cut down the man in front of him, then ran wildly and rushed to the river bank with all his strength.

A faint light lit up in the reed marsh. It flickered on and off amid the wind and rain, and seemed to be extinguished soon.

He laughed nervously.

He grabbed the clothes on his body with one hand, wiped the rain off his face, opened his eyes wide, and ran towards the reed swamp.

The rain was getting heavier and heavier, hitting the river hard and making a crisp sound.

But no matter how dense the sound of rain was, it seemed that it could not cover up the violent shout that resounded throughout the world: "Kill!"

"Wow!" One foot had already stepped into the muddy water. Lei Ming was overjoyed and finally escaped.

"Crash!" The sound of wood pulp churning the river water sounded, and the boat slowly left the river bank and drifted into the distance.

The slanting wind came and the rain became more intense.

The lights on the boat were extinguished, and nothing could be seen in the rain. Only deep darkness remained, just like his state of mind.

More people rushed to the shore, rushed into the reed marsh, and cried in the direction of the ship.

It's useless, no one will look back, no one will come to rescue them.

Lei Ming was so angry that he struck the water with his knife.

"Kill!" A high-pitched roar sounded from the shore.

The sound of "Puff" was heard continuously, and corpses were thrown into the river one after another, and there was no sound again.

Lei Ming threw away everything he could, plunged into the water, and quickly disappeared under the rain.

Almost instantly, dense arrows were shot out.

Among the reeds, there were screams one after another, and more splashing sounds in the water.

Fortunately, the rain is getting heavier and heavier.

Arrows were no longer shot, killing sounds were no longer heard, and the whole world was shrouded in the power of nature.

The battle is over.

****

It rained all night and didn't stop during the day on the 11th.

Shan Xia walked on the creaking wooden boards in the water village.

The big flag of "Supervise the Military Mountains in Yangzhou Jiangbei" was soaked through, and it was wrapped dejectedly on the flagpole, just like his state of mind at this time.

In a night attack yesterday, a total of 3,000 land and sea soldiers were dispatched, 1,500 each from the west and south of the city.

They came back one after another in the middle of the night, and the results were not very good.

At 1 o'clock in the morning, less than 500 soldiers came back from the west of the city, most of them were naval troops. More than 100 people swam to the other side and were not picked up until dawn.

The fighting in the south of the city was not good either, but the retreat was fairly orderly, with a total of a thousand people returning.

After listening to the battle, he was silent for a long time.

The Liang people had just arrived and were not familiar with the terrain and their fighting style. They were suddenly attacked and were a little confused at first, but they quickly organized a counterattack and drove all the Jin soldiers who came ashore to sneak attack into the river.

This reaction and this fighting power frightened him quite a bit.

There is no other choice but to stick to it.

After the camp tour was over, Shan Xia met Lu Wan. The two looked at each other and both smiled bitterly.

"Sit for a while." Shan Ya asked his soldiers to bring two couches and place them in a corner of the camp.

Amidst the continuous rain, the forest of masts was faintly visible.

In the water pool, there are hundreds of boats, large and small, moored, one after another, crowded together.

Occasionally, a few ships would sail out to patrol and explore along the river.

Most of them were parked there lifelessly, as if waiting for the order to withdraw.

"There's no need to be anxious, Governor." Lu Wan said, "It's such a heavy rain, but I don't know how many days it will rain.

I just went to Luzhai to take a look and found that the trench was full of water. By night, both sides of the trench would be flooded. In this situation, the battle was impossible. Even if the rain stopped, the Liang people would not be able to attack in a while.

Come."

Shanya nodded silently.

There is about a mile of depression between Luzhai and the city wall, which will be flooded sooner or later. Even if the water recedes, it will still be muddy, and Liang's army will only become a living target if it attacks.

Even if the sun comes out later and dries up the muddy ground, it's just a deep ditch and a high fort to defend the camp.

Even if Liang Jun fights ten in a field battle, under the flank attack of the navy, they will break through this amphibious company.

It is impossible without paying heavy casualties.

Of course, it can be seen from this plan that Shan Xia has officially admitted that the land division of the Jin Dynasty could not defeat the Liang army in the field, and now they can only rely on fortifications, city defenses, and navy sneak attacks to survive.

That's it for this battle.

"Grand Governor, please don't think that you won nothing from this battle." Lu Wan added: "The more than 30,000 land and sea soldiers we brought here have been trained a lot. Next time if tens of thousands of people go out to fight, there will be chaos.

There will be less. Jianye Wentian and Wuxi have not fought this kind of battle seriously for many years.

Come on. Shao Thief is helping you train your troops. Why do you want to do so much? No matter how many bad battles you fight, you won’t be able to train them. If you fight too many battles like this, even if you lose, as long as you don’t break your muscles and bones, you can take away most of the generals.

Go back, recruit new recruits, practice hard, and you will definitely be able to play better next time."

"The most fearful thing is the kind of person who loses all his skills in one battle. Not only does he fail to become a soldier, but he loses all his capital. He can only recruit new soldiers and train them all over again. Before they are fully trained, he goes to the battlefield again and is defeated miserably.

, more than half of them were killed or injured. For the current plan, we should take all the people from Jiangdong back and leave all the extra resources to Hefei.

"The native soldiers in Lujiang, Huainan, Anfeng, Guangling and other counties are actually not bad. To put it bluntly, they may be better than the imperial troops brought by the governor. The successive governors of Jiangbei will recruit these native soldiers to go north to fight with the Yuzhou Shao soldiers

Many fights, maybe a field battle

No, but the defense of the city is competent. Shao's silver spears and Hei Shao's elite soldiers are famous all over the world, but how long can they be used to attack the city? There are tens of thousands of native soldiers, and they have prepared food and grass for half a year. The city of Hefei is high and the pond is deep.

It’s not difficult. What I’m most afraid of is actually the battle between waves.”

"!" Shan Ya suddenly stood up, looked at the floating duckweeds in the pond, and said with a bitter smile: "If Shi Yao had said this before the war, I would not have listened. Perhaps, now I can only stick to it and wait for a turn."

What is the turning point? He couldn't explain clearly. He only had a vague idea: to accumulate war experience through defense, train new troops, clarify the military system, and gradually close the gap with Shao Bing. As long as the Lu Division

It no longer collapses in a single battle and has a certain field combat ability. Then, by cooperating with the navy, it is possible to defend half of the country.

According to Shao Thief's soldier book, the fastest improvement stage is from new recruits to veterans, with combat power soaring, but it is much slower to go from veteran soldiers to strong soldiers. He does not expect to become a very strong soldier, but now he has these rabble-rousers.

, there is indeed a great possibility of improvement. Even if you change the military system and practice seriously for more than a year, you can make a lot of progress.

No one is born to fight, and no one is born to be powerful. Practice slowly and fight slowly, and you may be able to get through the stage when Shao Thief is at his most powerful.

"I'm afraid there will be a big dispute in the court after we go back." Shan Ya said again.

Lu Wan didn't say much this time.

He didn't want to get involved in the dispute between Zhuge Hui and Shan Ya. He just hoped that the two would not fight to the death and ruin the overall situation.

"Shi Yao, tomorrow you will lead a navy south to Yangyuan." Shan Ya said, "Take the eight thousand newly arrived soldiers back to Fei."

"Yes." Lu Wan responded.

Starting from the 12th, it rained intermittently, almost cloudy and rainy every day.

Water levels in rivers and lakes near low-lying Chengde County have surged across the board.

The Jin army even withdrew part of Luzhai, and the Liang army also moved its camp to a higher place, but far away from the front line battlefield.

On the 15th, Shan Xia received good news: a section of the Liang cavalry was discovered in the northeast of Hefei City. The section was plagued by diseases and hungry, and many horses died on the road. Moreover, due to continuous rain, it was difficult to gallop.

They are plundering food and grass from the villages.

The defenders advanced by land and water and defeated them. The generals who cut off Liang defeated Yiyu, and the rest of the army dispersed.

But Shan Xia no longer wanted to fight, because there was also an epidemic in his army.

He believed that the situation in the Liang Army camp opposite was not much better, because the northerners had a harder time adapting to the weather in Huainan than they did.

On the 20th, the rain finally stopped.

At this time, news came from the north: the navy had pulled out the wooden piles set up by the Liang people in Feikou Wai, destroyed one pontoon bridge, and was preparing to go all out to remove the second obstacle and completely destroy the two pontoon bridges between Ershishan and let Liang Liang

The army ran out of food and looked for opportunities to annihilate its navy.

This news made Shan Xia a little shaken, because it seemed that there was an opportunity to completely wipe out Liang Jun's soldiers and Silver Spear Army.

Disease, food shortage, rain...

If the families of Xuzhou's Zuyue tribe officers and soldiers are brought here to stage a drama of "embarrassment on all sides", it seems to be a better chance.

But almost at the same time, news came that Shao thieves had conquered Liangzhou.

Xu, a lieutenant in charge of the army, fell ill and died within a few days. The epidemic in the army became more and more serious. If we wait any longer, the army may be wiped out.
Chapter completed!