Chapter Twenty-Eight
Dong Fatzi won, and a fire burned down Sun Jian's five connected water villages, and the fire that burned on the river even made the people in Fuling City see clearly.
Sun Jian is in Fuling.
Overnight, half of the water village was uprooted by Dong Zhuo, and the oil flowing down the river mottled the oil stains of the Hanshui River, and more than 5,000 soldiers Sun Jian jumped into the river and drowned, and the warships on the river were also burned clean. When the flames ignited on the surface of the river, the soldiers of Jiangdong, who had never seen such a thing, jumped into the river one after another, and were either roasted alive or suffocated underwater. The lucky sergeant fled to the shore and was surrounded by the burning camp with machetes by the fierce soldiers of the Liang Kingdom who rushed into the camp, waiting for the final fate.
Dong Zhuo never believed in fate, and he didn't even believe in retribution. In the past, people often said that Dong Zhongying killed good people when she was young, so she didn't have a son. Dong Fat scoffed at this, where is the damn good in a place like the northwest border of the empire? Don't say that those Qiang people who have a hard bow in their hands, which one of them doesn't have a few lives in the hands of Han'er?
When you get old, isn't Lao Tzu still a little fat man?
Just like this battle, the fire stretched and burned on the river for more than ten miles, and the horse team of the Liang Kingdom galloped on the east bank of the Han River for more than ten miles, and anyone who saw it was killed, and the land was covered with blood for more than ten miles overnight, and the most elite soldiers of the Liang Kingdom stepped on one corpse at a time, and pushed the battle line forward twenty-five miles in one night.
In this battle, Zhang Ji's nephew Zhang Xiuzhen beheaded the general of the Sanzhai Naval Army in Jiangdong, Cheng Pu, although Sun Jian's tiger walked the world's Youzhou veteran in the first half of his life, he did not continue to be invincible, and wanted to rescue the burning warship but was burned on the riverside, and then led his subordinates to escape from the camp and was cut by the iron tufts on the ground and injured the horse, and Zhang Xiu, who did not hear a one, led a vote of arrogant soldiers at this time to give up the horses that the Liangzhou people were closer to than their wives, and galloped with spears in iron shoes, and a spear drew an end to the life of this Jiangdong old minister.
There are many unlucky people in this battle, some time ago, the sea thief leader Xue Zhou, who killed Dong Zhuo's warship and was hollowed out, was captured alive on land, and the grain governor said that he died in the rebellion, and Sun He, the general of the clan department, died in battle.
Overnight, Dong Laoer's prestige spread all over Yizhou, burning down four and uprooting two, frightening the soldiers of the other two water villages to take warships from north to south overnight, retreat into the Lujiang River, and retreat towards Fuling.
However, this is not the end, it is the beginning of the war on land.
Although the capable general Li Guo and the two were responsible for guarding Tongguan, Hua Xiong, who rushed from Bingzhou to hear the news, took the most ferocious trap camp under Lu Bu and Gao Shun Chenglian, and Lu Feng first reported the favor of the old boss, and even Liu Bao, the king of Zuoxian of the Southern Xiongnu, also went out with the army. After Dong Zhuo left Bingzhou, Lu Bu became a veritable No. 1 military general in Bingzhou, and lived smoothly under Jia Xu. In addition to the men and horses of the state system, Liangzhou contributed not less, the younger generation of Zhang Xiu, Li Li, and Ma Yue's Peng Shi became the leader of the Liangguo Southern Expedition, and Chen Bu warships were on the Lu River overnight to prepare for the Yangtze River estuary.
As early as Dong Zhuozi launched an offensive against Jiangdong Water Village, the most elite horse infantry army of Liang State was divided into three towns, Liu Bao, the king of Zuoxian of the Southern Xiongnu, personally led the army, with traps and bows and arrows, Chen rode over the mountains and mountains with two thousand steps, and took the Yizhou Zhitu mountain people to take a shortcut to the territory of Pingxian where the Lujiang River joins the Yangtze River, and spread traps on the traffic arteries.
Liu Bao watched the Southern Huns rummaging and picking up on the ground, and in a moment, the flat avenue was overwhelmed, and he shook his head in unison. He is familiar with the history of the Han family, this road is still the Qin Emperor built a wide official road, after 400 years without destruction, I don't know how many people were used back then, and I don't know how many people died under this road in order to build the road, but now because of themselves, all destroyed.
Who cares if the road is destroyed or not, if Sun Jian can be allowed to walk into the encirclement announced by Dong Xuan, it is worth destroying all the traffic arteries in Yizhou.
Liu Bao untied the water bladder hanging from the horse's neck and took two sips, rubbing the horse's mane and thinking so.
The road is gone, it can be repaired, Sun Jian is gone, what to make up for it?
This place is actually very dangerous, it is separated from Ba County, where the Yizhou army is mainly garrisoned, by a Hanshui and a hundred and ten miles away, and it is even more than one hundred and fifty miles away from the Liangguo camp garrisoned by Dong Gong. Fifty miles at most.
It can be said that they are peeing in front of the tiger! If you are not careful, you will end up with the fate of dying on the spot, but Sun Jian, a tiger, has stationed more than 20,000 troops along the Fuling line.
This is something that can't be helped, the Han River is still a little narrow after all, and it can't accommodate the warships of the Sun family that covers the Yangtze River, the men in Liangzhou live on horses, and the sons of Jiangdong naturally live on the boats, which is nothing to worry about.
Liu Bao received Dong Zhuo's general order, and led the sergeants to quickly destroy the road, set traps, and spread suspicions, some roads have traps, and some roads leave traces of large groups of soldiers and horses, and then leave a big pit between the roads, and some roads hide hidden tripwires, covered with floating earth and iron tufts...... There was only one road, a road hidden in the woods that had not been destroyed, and the trails that had been carefully cleared led to the winding Broken Wall Gorge.
The other roads were deliberately discovered, and although numerous traps were laid and the roads were destroyed, only a small number of soldiers and horses were stationed at the end of the roads...... But in Broken Wall Gorge? On the canyon, there are 3,000 men with the best archery skills of the Southern Xiongnu, among which there are even 600 guards of the virtuous king. In addition, at the end of the canyon are also stationed General Cheng Lian and his 2,000 knights from Bingzhou, as well as the most terrifying camp in the entire Bingzhou and the commander who wields his arms at them, Gao Shun.
The ambush in the Broken Wall Gorge was all in charge of the soldiers and horses of the state.
There are two roads from Fuling to Ba County that can be used by large armies, one is composed of several official roads not far apart, and the other is from the Broken Wall Gorge to the south bank of the Han River.
At the end of the official road, Dong Zhuo personally deployed troops and horses to fortify along the line, and countless ambushes were set up on the two roads, just waiting for Sun Jian's army to come to help.
Moreover, Dong Zhuo was not at all worried about Jiangdong's warships heading from the river to Ba County. The river flows from west to east, and if the warships in the east of the river want to go upstream, it will take a lot of effort, not to mention the slow speed, not to mention the west wind blowing tonight...... In the fleet led by Peng Shi, the large warships of the Liang Kingdom were disassembling the ballistas, and the warships were anchored and stationed on the river, allowing the great sons of the Liang Kingdom to fill the small remaining fierce fire oil in the cabin.
The ships in Jiangdong are smaller, and they are less resisted by the river, but the warships of Liangguo are large and heavy, and they can receive more thrust from the river, and going down the river will not be slower than going upstream.
With warships facing off on the river, the Liangguo Navy is indeed not the opponent of the Jiangdong Clipper, but if the large warship costing nearly 1,000 gold is regarded as a consumable by the ruthless Liangzhou people, the Jiangdong people can only die on the water!
Although Dong Zhuo was reluctant to fight like that, the previous battle had already caused him to burn warships worth more than 15,000 gold, which was equivalent to a year's tax for six counties in one night...... He didn't want to do it unless he had to.
It was really Sun Jian who forced Dong Pang to a dead end, and the 30,000 soldiers and horses were completely cut off by the elusive walking of the water village on the river, and he had nothing else to do.
In particular, Xue Zhou's subordinates are used to doing such things, intercepting the military grain and not even transporting it, directly hollowing out the bottom of the ship and letting the grain and grass worth 100 gold sink to the bottom of the river.
Therefore, Dong Zhuo prefers Sun Jian to compete with him in land warfare, and only land warfare can make Dong Zhuo have a bit of a fair fighting mentality.
In the overnight Hanshui fire, four water villages were burned, and the loss of soldiers alone exceeded 8,000, not to mention those warships moored in the wall, Sun Jian's losses were much more than the fifteen warships of the Liang Kingdom. What's more, the fleeing soldiers were also subjected to a lot of interceptions on the road, and the fugitives who ran to Fuling looked so miserable and miserable, either burned or smashed by the gravel cannons, and even many warships fled back with black smoke, and the fire on the ship had not been extinguished.
It was not Sun Jian who was stationed in the Fuling camp, but the veteran Huang Gai. As the commander in charge of the all-out operation in Yizhou and Jingzhou, Sun Jian's battalion was not set up on the front line, but was located in the White Emperor City at the junction of Yizhou and Jingzhou. This Ziyang Mountain City, which was established by Gongsun Shu, the White Emperor of the early Han Dynasty, guarded several transportation arteries, and it was really good to coordinate the war between the two states as a strategic center of gravity.
In other words, Sun Jian still did not know that the eight water villages under his subordinates at the front were all uprooted by Dong Zhuo overnight.
And the general Huang Gai stationed in Fuling almost fainted when he heard that Cheng Pu was in the array, and the four great ministers of the Sun family were the same, Han Dang died under the Huaxiong knife when he fought with Ma Yue, and now Cheng Pu also died in the hands of Ma Yue, which made the veteran Huang Gai angry, and immediately lit up the soldiers and horses to send a message to Sun Jian, who was located in the White Emperor, led the army out of battle.
The warship must not be moved lightly, as Dong Zhuo thought, going upriver and the wind direction is not good at this time, Huang Gai is angry, but his mind still leaves a little clear, Cheng Pu has been overturned, if there is any accident in these more than 1,000 warships, there is no need to go on the road to the west!
Immediately, Huang Gai made a decision to send troops by land and fight all the way back to Ba County.
As the saying goes, anger does not raise soldiers, because anger will make it difficult for people to find the most obvious flaws, and it is easier to fall into the trap of others.
Fifty miles all the way, it was dawn in the morning, there were more traps and horse pits on the road, so that Huang Gai was secretly frightened, and sent scouts all the way to strictly inspect the main roads in various places, and found the traps of the enemy's subordinates, and there were traps that usually meant that there were ambushes, which was common sense.
There is no other way, and it is like a joke to remove traps in the mountains, Huang Gai recruited Yizhou mountain people who knew the way, and found a broken wall gorge without traps in the barren mountain trails.
"King Zuo Xian, the soldiers and horses in Jiangdong are taking our road!"
On the cliff, Liu Bao looked at the canyon below with a deflated face, and waved his hand to order his subordinates to carry the rolling stones and trees to the cliffs.
"Order all departments, as long as the enemy vanguard walks out of the Broken Wall Gorge and fights with General Gao's subordinates, his grandmother's will be smashed by Lao Tzu!"