Chapter 192: The Battle of the Red Fire River
After listening to Fuyue's words, the generals were silent, and secretly praised Fuyue's strategy in their hearts. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. biquge。 info But Sun Fen disagreed: "What King Rui said is very reasonable, but it's just your speculation, how can it be convincing if there is a lack of evidence." ”
"Actually, it's not that there is no corroboration," Fuyue looked at Sun Fen and said lightly, "As far as I know, the military power of the Weiguo before the war was not divided in this way, but after our army took Huaiyang lightly, Liu Hao wrote to Weiwen and the Queen Mother overnight, asking for more troops in Guze City." ”
At first, Wei Wen and the Queen Mother did not agree, and at his strong request, they gave him some troops of the Fu brothers in the north, west and south, but this also aggravated the distrust between the Fu brothers and Liu Hao.
"The reason why Liu Hao did this is probably because he knows that once our army attacks the eastern front, it will be difficult for him to get support......
Zhao Yuan looked at Fuyue standing in front of the generals, his expression was calm, he talked eloquently, and said secretly in his heart: "It's a pity that I look like myself when I was young, high-spirited and resourceful...... It's not a son-in-law. ”
A few days later, Sun Chushan went to the Shuai tent to report that the construction of the big ship had been completed and stopped at the Huaihe wharf. Zhao Yuan discussed with the generals, and during the days of entering Huaiyang to recuperate, the three pillar states had already made preparations, so it was better to attack the front line of Guze City as soon as possible.
So that night, Zhao Yuan ordered Sun Chushan to lead the army to set off quietly on the Huai River, go down the river, and enter the Tuan River for half a day. The Tuan River was originally a tributary of the Chihuo River, although it went upstream, but because the river channel was hidden, it was not obstructed by the patriotic army.
The naval army of Qi entered the Chihuo River along the Tuanhe River, Sun Chushan boarded the deck and looked at it, only to see that the river was wide, as if it could not be seen at a glance, the river was full of small whirlpools, the river water was turbid, mixed with a large amount of sediment, and there was no precipitation because of the rushing water.
After reading this, Sun Chushan couldn't help but gasp: "No wonder our navy moved, the reaction of the defense of the country was very flat, it turned out that there was such a natural danger, they had a large number of Qi navy troops and they couldn't attack it in a few months, so they let us go to the riverside without blocking." ”
At this time, it was getting late, and Sun Chushan ordered the team to camp on the shore, bury the pot for cooking, and force the Chihuo River tomorrow.
At night, he was thinking about it with the map, judging from the current location, Guze City is located in the southeast of the Qi State Water Army, and it can go down the river tomorrow, and judging from the rapid flow of the Chihuo River, Guze City will soon be reached......
He was thinking that a scout horse came in to report, and a sentry took a red horse boat to the front waters to investigate, and found that Wei Guo had set up a barrage iron cable on the line from the Chihuo River to Guze City, cut off the river road, and laid many iron cones under the water to block the Qi warships from going down the river. In addition, the sentinels found a faint fire in the dense forest on the other side of the Chihuo River, and speculated that the defense had sent troops to guard the way.
After listening to this, Sun Chushan thought to himself: Liu Hao doesn't seem to be giving in vain, the riverside and the riverside are all arranged, just waiting for me to take the bait. Since this is the case, I will follow Liu Hao's wishes, launch an attack tomorrow, and come to a tough battle to see how many catties and taels the victorious general of the country is.
When his mind was decided, he gave an order to all the soldiers to go to the river to fetch sand, and each of them set off with ten catties of river sand at dawn tomorrow. Then he ordered the generals of the ships to be summoned to the big tent, and consulted with them overnight about the strategy of tomorrow's battle.
Before dawn broke the next day, more than 20 rafts made of logs quietly floated out of the Qi camp, and some Daqi soldiers with good water quality stood on the raft, dragging an iron chain in their hands, and the other end of the iron chain sank into the river along the edge of the raft.
At the beginning, the rafts were still ten in a row, lined up in two rows, across the river, down the river, with the turbulent flow of the Chihuo River, the speed of the raft also accelerated, the formation also became messy, and there seemed to be something at the bottom of the river constantly colliding with these rafts.
Every time there was a collision, the soldiers on the raft tightened the chains, and something seemed to be pulled up in the turbulent river, and the raft, which had been slowing down, once again mustered up enough momentum to rush downstream.
It turns out that there are many live buckle chains hanging under these rafts, and when they pass through the iron cone at the bottom of the river, they will be entangled with it, and the soldiers on the raft will tighten the iron chain at this time, and the iron cone will be twisted with the iron chain at the bottom of the raft.
Soon after the first batch of rafts departed, the second batch of more than 20 red horse boats also swung out of the Qi army fleet.
This time there is no iron chain on the boat, but there is a large torch of more than ten zhang, placed in front of the ship, the torch is filled with sesame oil, the fire is lit by candlelight, the boat team goes down the river, when encountering the barrage iron cable, several red horse boats gather together, several torches burn against a point, and soon the iron cable is burned and broken.
At first, the patriotic troops lying in ambush on the other side of the river did not know until the torch was lit. Tang Yang, the general who led the team, urgently summoned the soldiers, pushed out the sentry ship hidden in the reeds, and lined up and sailed towards the Chihuo River.
After releasing two groups of advance teams, the barrage iron cable in the Chihuo River and the iron cone at the bottom of the river had almost been cleared, and the main warships of the Qi State quietly sailed out of the water camp and headed in the direction of Guze City.
At this time, the Patriotic Navy drove more than 200 sentry ships with flexible movements, floated out of the water and grass bushes by the river, and discharged a group of wolves and tigers to surround the warships of the Qi State.
When they were still more than ten zhang away from the Qi warship, the guards on the sentry ship put down their oars, stood up and cooperated with each other, one of them lit an arrow wrapped in sesame cloth with a fire fold, and one took out a big bow from behind him, pulled the bowstring and shot the rocket at the Qi army's big ship.
Sun Chushan stood at the bow of the boat and saw clearly, and ordered the soldiers not to move, and to stand by with the wet river sandbags prepared yesterday. Because the hull on both sides of the Qi warship was very thick, reinforced with rivets and iron bars, the rockets could not penetrate at all, and they fell into the water one after another after being hit.
Seeing this situation, Tang Yang, the general of the patriotic war, was anxious, and ordered the sentry ship to continue to approach the main ship of the Qi State, and the archers adjusted the angle to shoot towards the building and sail of the big ship.
Seeing that the Weiguo Sentinel was already very close to the big ship, Sun Chushan ordered someone to tear off the canvas covering the front and back of the big ship, revealing the eight slap rods inside. The so-called slapping rod is a wooden mast that is more than 50 feet high, the top of the wooden mast is tied to a boulder, and there are four rollers under it, and four sets are placed before and after the big ship, and each slapping rod is controlled by 50 soldiers.
At this time, the patriotic sentry ship has entered the firing range, Sun Chushan gave an order, and the soldiers quickly put down the boulder with a wheel, and for a time "eight-pronged", the guards who had just shot the rocket had not come back to their senses, and they saw the boulder falling from the sky, and the sentry ship was smashed to pieces in an instant.
When Tang Yang saw this, he knew that the big thing was not good, so he hurriedly waved the flag and commanded the guards, but how could the Qi army give them such an opportunity.
Although the boulder slapping rod was very heavy, it was very convenient to control, and I saw that the Qi army finished its blow, quickly put it away and smashed it again, and smashed it again, smashing it so that the guards cried out and wailed.
At this time, although the range of the rockets was reached, no one in the guards had to draw their bows and arrows, and they all jumped into the river to flee for their lives. Occasionally, a rocket was fired onto the deck, and the wet river sand that the Qi army had prepared long ago was completely extinguished.
In less than an hour, the sentry ship of the defense of the country had been sunk by eight or nine tenths, and the remaining eight hundred soldiers all surrendered, and Tang Yang, who led the troops, disappeared after this battle.