The Yuan army's sneak attack failed, and the warship turned into a fire ship. The frightened soldiers couldn't help but jump into the sea. Zhao Bingyan's soldiers opened their bows and fired arrows, and balls of blood quickly swayed in the sea.
Zhang Hongfan's concealed sneak attack failed. General Adou urged the warships behind to speed up and attack the Song army's water stronghold.
Because Zhao Bingyan was well prepared, he discovered the enemy's situation in advance and used fire attacks. He disrupted the Yuan army's offensive plan with one strike and firmly defended the city wall.
However, something unexpected happened in the eastern section of Zhang Shijie's defense.
Although Zhao Bingyan had warned him, his subordinates did not take it seriously, and even teased Zhao Bingyan for thinking he was a great immortal, and that a low-ranking young general would command a general if he gained power.
When Zhang Shijie's soldiers saw clearly that the enemy ships were approaching and rushed into battle, the battle situation was definitely developing in the Yuan army's favour.
Seeing that the eastern section of the Shuizhai city wall was shaken, the Yuan army immediately increased its troops in large numbers, and the war quickly became intense.
Zhao Bingyan walked back and forth on the city wall to kill enemies. While fighting, he taught his brothers who used 38 Dagai how to better utilize the superiority of firearms to kill accurately. Although he had firmly stabilized his position on this section of the city wall, But they were unable to mobilize troops to reinforce Zhang Shijie.
When he saw Wang Bao coming back, he asked sternly: "What are you doing here? If the cliff is lost, it will be a death sentence."
Wang Bao swore to him: "When the brothers saw the fighting in the water village having fun, they wanted to come down and kill the enemy and make meritorious deeds." He only brought fifty brothers back, and the rest stayed at the top of the cliff to ensure that nothing would be lost.
Zhao Bingyan thought that this guy had returned and that there was a serious shortage of manpower in the water village. He asked him to take a look at the battle situation in the eastern section. It was very dangerous. The wall of the water village could be breached by the Yuan army at any time.
Wang Bao asked him nervously: "What should we do?"
He said: "What else can we do? The general's order to our Guards is to defend the water stronghold. We must hold on."
He asked Wang Bao to ask Zhang Qi for 500 veterans, take his troops to find Wu Qingyuan, and immediately mobilized ships to form a row, always ready to plug any gaps that might appear in the eastern section.
Wang Bao immediately took the order and left.
The war drums of the Yuan army sounded and the flags waved. The warships adjusted their formations into seven lines, with the large chariots and ships at the front, and the large groups behind followed, like seven sharp swords piercing the water wall of the Song army.
Three groups of enemy ships came to the front of Zhao Bingyan's 7,000-man defense.
However, Zhao Bingyan was not afraid. His soldiers were very safe because they were protected by the high-precision killing power of modern guns. The soldiers of the Yuan army could only hide behind the parapet of the building ship and shoot arrows blindly, attacking those who boldly operated ordnance on the city wall. The Song army poses no actual threat.
No matter how many ships come, it is useless.
I saw the Song army's large rackets and trebuchets flying in turns, and rain-like artillery stones flying towards the enemy, forcibly blocking the Yuan army from outside.
Zhang Qi and Sun Huchen also organized a suicide squad to attack by boat. They used rockets to ignite the sails of the enemy's rear team to delay the advancement of the enemy ships, and used heavy racket poles to smash the enemy ships that entered the wall of the water village to pieces.
The enemy and we were locked in a stalemate in front of the water wall and fighting to the death.
However, Zhang Shijie's eastern section was demoralized because his row of ships had been robbed, and the battle became more and more dangerous. Yuan troops continued to climb the city wall and seize ships.
Zhao Bingyan even heard the shouting of killing and entered the water village.
He calculated the time and found that it was already ten minutes of low tide, and Zhang Shijie was expected to break out. After telling the generals to hold on all the way, they came to Sun Huchen's boat. He knocked down the ruthless guy on the opposite side with a few shots and said, "I have to go north. I must hold on."
Sun Huchen knew that at the critical moment of life and death, he held his hands tightly and said: "Take care."
As soon as Zhao Bingyan got off the command ship, he saw a speedboat leaning beside it, with two young men standing on the bow protecting a young girl.
Chen Qilin shouted to give way, and anyone who delayed military affairs would be beheaded.
The little girl shouted that they were here to help General Zhao and wanted to fight with him.
Zhao Bingyan jumped on the clipper, looked at the pretty little girl and asked which family the girl was from, so bold.
The little girl saluted without being humble or overbearing and said: "The Wu family in Lin'an, grandpa asked the slave family to guard General Zhao."
Zhao Bingyan looked at Chen Qilin and smiled, thinking that this was the private imperial city of the Song Dynasty, and he was afraid that he would escape alone.
He told Chen Qilin not to follow him, and took the people from the Imperial City Division to the city wall to supervise and encourage the soldiers. He blew the charge bugle for him, and the enemy was not allowed to stop until they retreated.
Zhao Bingyan boarded the Wu family's clipper with only one trumpeter and asked to find her grandfather quickly.
The clipper quickly turned around and came to the Wu family's command ship.
Zhao Bingyan bowed his hands and saluted and said: "Mr. Wu, the general is about to break out of the encirclement. I ordered you to defend the water village to the death. If you lend me a thousand men, I will swear to the death to keep the people safe."
Wu Qingyuan nodded decisively in agreement.
Zhao Bingyan asked him to send all the young and strong people to Beikou, because the Suliu rebels at Beikou were about to withdraw.
Wu Qingyuan asked nervously: "In this case, isn't the north entrance going to be attacked by Li Heng's guys?"
Zhao Bingyan said calmly: "With my general here, the north entrance is impregnable, and I will kill Li Heng."
Then he was called to set off.
The Miss Wu family wanted to follow him, but he said: "Be my guard and you will survive a narrow escape. I won't accept it without some effort."
Miss Wu and her two bodyguards said they were not afraid and would protect General Zhao to the death.
Seeing that he couldn't get rid of them, Zhao Bingyan said he wanted to try his skills. Suddenly, he slapped each of them on their buttocks like a whirlwind, and then kicked the boat hard, causing the clipper to shake violently.
He was very satisfied when he found that the three men did not panic in the face of the sudden attack and quickly took up defensive positions.
Miss Wu said angrily: "What are you doing, you rogue and a scoundrel?"
Only then did Zhao Bingyan remember that he had spanked her just now, but seeing that this girl looked like a certain modern star Xiaotong, he already felt very fond of her.
He laughed loudly, didn't answer, and yelled: "Let's go."
He turned around and said goodbye to Mr. Wu, shouting: "I'll leave it to Mr. Wu in the water village."
The clipper quickly sped north.
He turned around and asked the two guards what they called them. Miss Wu said they were her second and third senior brothers, and her name was Wu Xintong.
Zhao Bingyan was even happier looking at the beautiful girl. He murmured "Xiaotong" with a smile on his face.
Miss Wu said "Yes" in surprise, and said weakly, "Nujia Wu Xintong, what are your orders, Commander?"
Zhao Bingyan woke up immediately, patted Wu Xintong on the shoulder and said, "Follow me later. Don't lean forward. I also tore off the cloak and threw it away. It blocks the view and is too obstructive."
Soon, Zhao Bingyan came to the north entrance. Su Liuyi, the commander in front of the palace, was retreating. When he saw Zhao Bingyan coming alone, he asked with a little dissatisfaction: "Is it just General Zhao? That guy Li Heng is already attacking."
Zhao Bingyan said: "Reinforcements will arrive soon."
Su Liuyi called his deputy general Liu Shiyong over and told Liu Shiyong to obey Zhao Bingyan's military orders and defend the north entrance to buy time for the army.
Zhao Bingyan asked Su Liuyi to protect the Queen Mother and leave quickly. He had a way to delay the enemy.
He turned around and told Liu Shiyong to distribute the young men who were coming up to the entire front, with one veteran leading three young men to fight.
Liu Shiyong said dejectedly: "Li Heng will definitely attack with all his strength, but how can these young men defend the north entrance?"
Zhao Bingyan said domineeringly: "The general is still here."
He brought the trumpeter and Wu Xintong to the command ship, and said proudly: "Rocks pierced the sky, stormy waves crashed on the shore, and while we were talking and laughing, the boats and oars disappeared into ashes. Hmm, let's see how I will kill that guy Li Heng."
Everyone looked at him in astonishment.
Just as he was talking, the Yuan army came up.
Because the river at the north entrance was narrow and the water was too shallow for large ships, the attacking Yuan army ships were smaller than Zhang Hongfan's warships at the south entrance. However, the Yuan army's commander-in-chief, Li Heng, was from Xixia and was full of wolfish nature. He urged his two sons to be the vanguard and attack fiercely.
The two sides quickly engaged in a melee.
Zhao Bingyan shouted and blew the charge horn, and a majestic charge horn sounded immediately over the north entrance of Shuizhai. The new young men were used to hearing this, and they shouted and rushed towards the female wall to kill the Yuan army that appeared.
Liu Shiyong was overjoyed when he saw this scene. Just now he had doubted the fighting power of these young men, but he did not expect that they were as brave as regular soldiers and were not afraid of death.
Zhao Bingyan took off his 800 million gun to check and reload. He told Wu Xintong to stick to the command ship and blow the horn. Then he rushed to the bow of the ship and fired continuously, picking hard enemies to kill.
He jumped from one boat to another and kept shooting, shouting to boost morale. The front line at the north entrance was actually defended by a temporary army composed almost entirely of young men.
