Chapter 220: The Battle of Fuchun River

"But if the Hui'an Mansion turns to the Tang Kingdom, I'm afraid it won't be so easy to fight." Qian Hongyu frowned.

"Why should you worry, now that the Tang Dynasty is worried about internal and external troubles, it is a good time for us to attack them, Hui'an Mansion is connected to my Wu Yue Kingdom by water, and my Wu Yue Kingdom's warships are better than the Tang Kingdom, and they can be defeated on the water."

Qian Hongyu is a cautious monarch, it's okay to make trouble for the Tang State, but if he really wants him to start a full-scale war with the Tang State, he is unwilling.

After pondering for a moment, he said: "Let's rescue Muzhou first, annihilate the invading Hui'an army, and let me think about it." ”

"Yes." Dai Mu also knew that his monarch only wanted to hold the territory, and he lacked enterprising spirit, which was not easy to convince.

So the Wuyue court issued an edict, ordering the Yijin army to march to Muzhou immediately to destroy the invading Hui'an army, and then garrison Muzhou, waiting for orders.

Chen Bin thought that the imperial court edict was to let him attack Hui'an Mansion, but who knew that Hui'an Mansion was so fat that he took the initiative to hit Muzhou.

However, it is the same to go to Muzhou by water, and after the invasion of Hui'an Mansion is wiped out, they can still be attacked, according to the edict, this invading force is only more than 2,000 people, so the Yijin army from the Jiedu envoy Chen Bin, down to the ordinary soldiers, no one took them seriously.

They used the largest warship of Wu Yueguo, one ship could carry nearly a thousand soldiers, so a fleet of more than 50 large ships headed along the Fuchun River towards Muzhou.

Due to the southwesterly winds that have been blowing in recent days, the fleet has been moving at full speed, but at a slower pace than expected.

On the sixth day of the siege of Muzhou City, the fleet of the Yijin Army was finally less than fifty miles away from Muzhou City, and the team was about to continue moving forward, when suddenly, a small fleet appeared in front of it.

From a distance, this fleet of about seven or eight boats, judging from the type of ships and the clothing of the soldiers on board, it seems that the soldiers of Muzhou Prefecture came to greet them.

Jiedu made Chen Bin very puzzled, wasn't the Muzhou army surrounded, how could it come to greet him?

At this moment, the opposing fleet approached this side, and since they were traveling with the wind and extremely fast, on the deck of the ship in front, a person waved a flag and shouted, I don't know what he was talking about?

"What is he talking about?" Chen Bin asked the people around him.

The two sides were so far apart that they naturally couldn't hear the sound, and the flags on both sides were incomprehensible, and an officer said, "Marshal, do you want to send someone over to ask?" ”

Chen Bin didn't speak, his years of experience in leading troops made him faintly aware of his uneasiness, and he said in a deep voice: "Send a small boat over, ask about the situation, and at the same time order them to stay where they are." ”

"Yes." A general took the order and left.

A small boat went up to meet him, and the big boat threw down its ropes, and the people in the small boat went up and communicated with the big boat on the opposite side, and after a while, the other boats stopped and did not come any closer.

Soon after, the general on the boat came back and reported: "Jie Shuai, the other party is from the third battalion of the Muzhou Mansion Army, and the one who shouted is the battalion commander, he said that Muzhou City has been captured by the Hui'an army, let us not go to Muzhou City again, in case we are ambushed!" ”

Chen Bin was taken aback, Muzhou City was actually defeated? Could it be that the more than 2,000 people in the front were just the front army, and there was a large army behind them?

"Are you identified?" Out of caution, Chen Bin asked.

"It's confirmed, it's indeed a soldier of the Muzhou Mansion."

Chen Bin nodded, and just as his thoughts were running, a general beside him said, "Jie Shuai, they leaned over again." ”

Chen Bin looked up, and sure enough, he saw that the other team's fleet was approaching again, and the person on the deck who had just shouted began to shout again, while constantly making flags, pointing the flag to the back from time to time.

"The marshal, his banner language, seems to say that the enemy army in the rear is chasing after him." A general beside Chen Bin said.

Chen Bin didn't speak, he looked into the distance, and after a while, behind this Muzhou fleet, a strange fleet really appeared, the bow was a terrifying giant ship that was bigger than their ship, and there were many Muzhou warships around, it seemed that they had indeed captured Muzhou City, and these ships were the spoils of war.

Judging from the size of the fleet, the number of opponents is at least more than 10,000 people, and his guess seems to be correct, the enemy does have backup.

No wonder they were able to take Muzhou City, Chen Bin's heart became heavier and heavier, and he said loudly: "Order, spread the wings, get out of the way, let the Muzhou army pass, and then set up a formation and prepare to fight." ”

"Yes." The herald took the order and departed.

Soon, the Yijin Army fleet got out of the way from the middle, but just as the Muzhou fleet entered the interior of the Yijin Army fleet, the eight ships suddenly turned and collided with the Yijin Army ships on all sides.

After the two ships collided, the ships of the Muzhou Army suddenly exploded one after another and caught fire, and after a rumbling sound, many large ships in the Yijin Army fleet caught fire, and many ships were affected by the explosion and began to change direction, colliding with other ships, and the entire fleet began to be chaotic.

Taking advantage of the wind, the fire also began to spread.

Although Chen Bin's big ship was lucky not to be affected, he was completely stunned when he saw his army being engulfed in flames.

In just a split second, he didn't have time to react.

"Disperse!" All he had to do now was keep the ship on fire away from the burning ship, he yelled.

His bannermen immediately waved the flag to convey his orders.

At this moment, the fleet of Hui'an Mansion on the opposite side approached, shooting rockets from afar, as if they felt that there was something to be gained.

"Hurry up, Jie Shuai, many of their ships are empty!" One of the generals said loudly.

Chen Bin took a closer look, and sure enough, he found that the other party only had people on the front boats, and most of the boats behind were empty boats, which were just pulled by the front ships with ropes.

In other words, they did not have reinforcements, and from beginning to end, the other party relied on more than 2,000 people! Chen Bin's eyes were red, and he glared fiercely at the big ship led by the other party, eager to tear the enemy commander apart.

Even though they suffered heavy losses, they were still far superior to each other, and he decided to destroy them to comfort the fallen soldiers this time!

"Attack!" Chen Bin no longer cared about the chaos in other places, and rushed towards the other party after gathering more than a dozen ships, the other party didn't seem to expect Chen Bin to be so brave, and began to retreat in a panic, due to the impact of pulling the empty boat, they even cut the rope of the empty boat.

Chen Bin was even more angry in his heart, their cowardly behavior was ridiculous, but such a ridiculous team wiped out at least more than 10,000 of his soldiers, he hated it so much, hated himself for being too careless, and being taken advantage of by these rats.

Just as his fleet passed by the empty ships, he suddenly heard a boom, and one of the empty ships suddenly exploded, and the nearby large ships were immediately engulfed in flames, and then the sound of explosions also sounded in his ears.

The flames rushed over in an instant, his ship was also on fire, Chen Bin stood stunned in place, or the surrounding generals dragged him to a place where there was no fire, but the fire was too big, the soldiers couldn't extinguish the fire at all, the whole big ship was in chaos, screams, falling water sounds came and went, the surrounding generals kept saying something to Chen Bin, and everyone's faces looked extremely red under the firelight.

Chen Bin couldn't say a word, as if he had lost his soul, and soon he was surrounded by firelight, and in the face of the flames that kept devouring, the last thing that came to his mind was the faces of his wife and children at home.

Chen Bin was killed in battle, and most of the dozen or so large ships he led were engulfed in flames, and the few ships that were not on fire quickly turned around and returned the way they came.

The fleet of the Yijin Army in the rear was already very chaotic, and seeing that the main general's big ships were on fire, it became even more chaotic, and there were countless people who fell into the water and were burned to death, and everyone just wanted to escape from here.

The Hui'an army fleet is slowly driving in the rear, the soldiers on the ship are still ruthlessly shooting rockets at the Yijin army, although the number of the Yijin army is still several times the number of the Hui'an army, but at this moment, no big ship is attacking them again, the commander on the ship has completely unable to control his soldiers, they are all crazy to control the big ship to escape the way they came.

Many large ships did not control the direction well, but crashed into their own ships, and some even crashed into the burning ships.

In this battle, the Hui'an army wiped out more than 20,000 people of the Yijin army, most of them were burned to death, and more than 3,000 people were captured, more than their own number, and countless people disappeared and fled from the Yijin army.

In the end, Wu Yueguo's famous Yijin army, with less than 10,000 remnants left, returned to Hangzhou.

This battle, known as the Battle of Fuchun River by all forces, after this battle, Hui'an Mansion was re-recognized by all forces, and no longer dared to ignore it, and Yu Xun's name also spread throughout the south of the Yangtze River, especially in Wu Yue Kingdom, up to the king of Wu Yue, down to the people, everyone heard it and changed color, but this is all a later story.

On the Fuchun River, the battle is over.

On the Yunhu giant ship, Xiao Shilang asked Yu Xun, "General, what about these captives?" ”

"Only the first 2,000 who were willing to surrender were left, and the rest were thrown into the sea." Yu Xun said coldly.

For Yu Xun's every word, Xiao Shilang will now think about it carefully, and he replied, thinking that the general did this because he was afraid that there would be too many prisoners and an accident would occur because he couldn't control it.

Subsequently, the fleet returned to Muzhou, compared with the coldness of the battle, Yu Xun showed another side, showing no mercy to the soldiers who violated the law and disturbed the people, and comforted the people, so as to eliminate the wounds of the war on the people as soon as possible.