Chapter 292: Miscellaneous
Smart people always like to think more when they encounter problems, and it just so happens that Xu Chen is also a smart person, so it is difficult for Song Yongping to think that everything at present is actually caused by Xu Chen's mistakes.
Song Yongping, who lingered in front of the truth for a long time but turned away, didn't feel pity at the moment, but just smiled bitterly a few times when he suddenly realized it one day in the future.
Xu Chen in the mountain is recuperating, but the world outside the mountain has changed a little because of his previous arrangement.
The change reached Yang Ziyun's ears with the arrival of the black-faced boy Xiaosi.
"What? The official army and sailors have crossed the Yangtze River and are heading south?" Yang Ziyun's face changed dramatically when she heard the sudden change, and she asked anxiously: "When did this happen?"
"The news from three days ago!" Xiao Si said awe-inspiringly: "I've been here a few times this month, and I went back again without seeing Miss!"
Yang Ziyun was startled again, and hurriedly asked, "What's going on with my father?"
If nothing happened, Xiao Si would never come to the mountains to look for her several times.
Xiao Si looked solemn and said, "The situation there is not good, my lord! After Wang Zhongji in the south got the help of the naval army, he has successfully landed several times in a row, and the stronghold in the north of Zhangzhou has almost been cleared. ”
"The most difficult thing is that we are already seriously short of manpower! The battle in the south was very fierce, and the brothers suffered heavy casualties, so the military division had to transfer the manpower from the north, and now there are not many mobile men and horses in the north of the Minjiang River, except for the 5,000 men and horses in Xianxialing, there are not many mobile men and horses in various places!"
"How did it come to this?" Although his heart was wavering, after all, he was a brother of the same clan and clan, and now that he had died on the battlefield, Yang Ziyun was still sad in his heart.
But the sadness is only for a moment, after all, it is a person who has led the troops, and his heart is firm, and after a while, he frowned and said: "The troops in the north are empty, and the Xianxia Ridge is hanging alone, which is extremely dangerous, how can the military division make such an arrangement? Since the south cannot be defended, the north is retreated, why do you have to stick to the line of the Jiulong River?"
"Lord...... The lord is very angry, and he is unwilling to surrender in front of Wang Zhonghe......" Xiao Si stared at Yang Ziyun for a few moments, and said thoughtfully: "And...... And we haven't taken Fuzhou City yet......"
The contradiction turned to the point of choice, looking back at Xu Chen, who was sleeping in the house, Yang Ziyun laughed miserably and asked, "Wang Zhonghei's sailor there is his person, right?"
Xiao Si nodded silently.
"Also, under He Yun, the only one who can get a bargain is his people! I'm afraid that the sailors of the official army are also ...... by him."
Yang Ziyun guessed correctly, Xu Chen sent a letter to Xu Fan when he asked Lu Zhi to go north to Chang'an, in which in addition to detailing the recent situation, he also tried to express his views on the chaos in the south, and asked the teacher to send Wu Qi's sailor back to the south.
Originally, when the war was stalemate, Xu Fan wrote several times to ask Xu Chen's opinion, especially after the rebel sailors came to Luoyang City, they quickly sent people to find it, but at that time, Xu Chen was nowhere to be found, and the letters were all pressed by the teenagers, as for the messenger...... It has long become a dry bone in the mountains.
Although Xu Chen's letter to Xu Fan this time couldn't explain what he did during the time he disappeared, his analysis of the situation still moved Xu Fan.
Xu Fan, a teacher, never doubted the knowledge of his own students, especially the eagerness to quell the rebellion in his words, which made Xu Fan breathe a sigh of relief, and the promise to go to Chang'an after the rebellion made Xu Fan put his heart into his stomach.
Although this student still has a lot of secrets, as long as he is under his nose, Xu Fan is not afraid of what tricks he will come up with!
Xu Fan, who was determined in his heart, began to show his energy as a prime minister, and the decision to transfer the sailor to Caozhou was a ridiculous decision made by the seven sects and five surnames to take advantage of the panic of hundreds of officials. Afterwards, there was no shortage of people of insight who questioned it, but it was only because of the obstruction behind the seven sects and five surnames that it did not happen, and now with Xu Fan's urging, it was natural that the decision was quickly reconsidered in the court.
And the seven clans and five surnames have already used the time of the past few months to attract a lot of officers and soldiers of the naval division from Wu Qi's command.
Although at the time of the establishment of the naval army, Jiangmen also sent a few children who were not valued by him out of consideration for monopolizing the military, and the military department also sent a group of subordinate officers over, but Wu Qi's naval division was a private army drawn from various families by the Southeast Maritime Business Group to put it bluntly, and the composition was extremely complicated!
In addition, there are hardly any officers and soldiers who are really capable of water warfare in these years who are not unruly and restless elements with desire and restlessness flowing in their blood, and the control of these people by the maritime merchants in the southeast is mostly to lure them.
Even if you take money to work, you can follow whoever pays the higher price, not to mention that the origin of the seven sects and five surnames is not small, even if you change jobs, you don't have to worry about the retaliation of the southeast giants, how can these rebellious people have a heart of loyalty?
After the goal was achieved, the seven sects and five surnames did not have the intention of forcing the water division to stay in Caozhou, and with the promotion of Xu Fan, the prime minister, Wu Qi soon drove the shrunken water division to the south, and fought with the rebel water division in the waters of the Yangtze River one after another, taking advantage of the opportunity when the rebel water division was hesitant and uneasy due to high-level changes, and completely suppressed the power of the rebel water division south of the Yangtze River.
In the south, Xu Chen overestimated Zheng Tai's ability, or he did not really recognize the true level of Wang Zhonghe's generation of famous generals.
Due to the shortage of troops, Wang Zhongsi, a famous general, had all his skills but was trapped by the rebels in the tidal flats of the Jiulong River like a dragon swimming in the shallows.
Although the number of Zheng Tai and others is small, and the equipment on the turtle boat has been eliminated by the teenagers, the learning ability and execution ability of Wang Zhongsi's generation of famous generals are moving.
The shape of the turtle boat is not very technical, and the simple version of the turtle boat only needs to add four boards and a roof to the ordinary boat. With a strong manpower advantage, it took almost no time for Wang Zhongsi to build a large fleet of ships when Zheng Tai was caught off guard.
Originally, it was useless to have a boat, and Wang Zhonghei had no shortage of boats before, but he was still defeated by the rebel sailors. However, after Zheng Tai's arrival, the few tricks of the sailor tactics that he used at will were learned by Wang Zhongsi at a glance!
In these years, the water warfare was hindered by the limitations of thinking and equipment, and the basic routine was to use arrows and crossbows from a distance, and when they got close, they would get on the pole and hit the pillar, and finally let the crew engage in broadside combat.
And the so-called advanced tactics taught by Xu Chen to the teenagers, in fact, are not advanced to put it bluntly, it is nothing more than to use the advantage of the ship's performance to use speed entanglement, and then rely on powerful long-range weapons to maximize long-range attacks.
At a time when technology has not made a revolutionary leap, the so-called tactics have really not advanced to the point where people cannot understand them.
After Wang Zhongsi took a look, he was like an initiation, and quickly came up with a solution!
He first had most of the warships connected together with iron cables, and then installed a large number of strong crossbows on them, and went straight down the river from the upstream, but did not directly fight against the rebel ships that came and went, but relied on the strong crossbows to ignite the fire and attack the rebel water village on the beach.
At the same time, in order to prevent Cao Mengde from following in the footsteps, the iron cables of each train of ships were far apart, and they chose to start when the wind was smooth, so that the rebel sailors could not find a chance to follow the old things of Chibi.
The use of magic is in one mind, although the trick of the iron rope crossing boat was dragged into the haze of failure by Cao Mengde, but the so-called famous generals are unconventional people. Even in the original Battle of Chibi, if the Wushu coalition army did not have a lot of means such as Jiang Gan's book theft before and Zhou Yu's subsequent fight against Huang Gai, it is really impossible to say whether the fire of Chibi can be burned!
Coincidentally, Wang Zhongsi was such a bold and careful person, using the same trick to encroach on the rebels' strongholds on the tidal flats of the Jiulong River little by little, relying on sufficient manpower and strong logistical supplies to drag the rebels into a bitter battle.
Then, Wang Zhongsi handed over another part of the ships with relatively good performance and long-trained personnel to Zheng Tai's command.
In this way, Zheng Tai will be completely tragic! The original practice of playing soy sauce and watching can no longer be maintained, and the combat power of the rebel sailors has soared after He Yun's return, if they don't show some real skills, let alone sitting on the mountain and watching the tiger fight, even their lives will be in danger.
Although due to the gap in equipment and manpower, Zheng Tai was unable to achieve the same significant advantage as he had on the Yangtze River before, but he also barely managed to maintain a tie with wins and losses.
After the rebels' superiority in the naval division was cut away, Wang Zhonghe, a famous general of a generation, could be regarded as a real dragon swimming into the sea. After gaining a foothold on the tidal flats, they began to rapidly expand the results of the battle, and the superiority of the officers and troops in the number of personnel, the quality of equipment, and the combat experience began to exert their due might at this time.
The battle for the tidal stronghold was very fierce, but the rebels were weak and overstretched, and the cage that Li Yi had painstakingly built for the official army was finally broken through by the official army because of the loss of the strong advantage of the naval division.
However, the official army led by Wu Qi went south again, and the situation became more and more unfavorable for the rebels.
After listening to Xiao Si's story, Yang Ziyun didn't say anything for a long time, and finally looked back at Xu Chen who was asleep, Yang Ziyun said to Xiao Si: "Let's go!"
Xiao Si nodded, unable to hide his happy look.
When he left, he only said a word to Zhou Kang, and Zhou Kang didn't say anything, just glanced at Xiao Si.
Out of the stockade, Yang Ziyun and the others went southwest.
Xiao Si's strength has increased greatly after taking the pills given by Yang Zihua these days, and he can keep up with Yang Zihua's speed when he runs in the mountains.
"Miss, where are we going?"
"Go to Fuzhou!"
"Huh?"
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Xu Chen's time in the remnant domain this time was neither long nor short, he arranged it in the lost space, and after he came out, he waited for Biancheng to clean up the mess, and it took more than a month.
When I went in, the autumn was still there, and when I came out, it was already in the depths of winter, and the mountains were still green, but the mountains were already covered in silver.
There are no people in the snow, and there are occasionally birds and beasts looking for food, but when they see two figures stepping on the snow, they scatter in all directions, and when they reappear after a long time, they see that there is no trace on the snow......