Chapter 204: The Battle of the Moon

The grasshopper shakes the tree, which is ridiculous! ---------Tang Dynasty. Han Yu "Tune Zhang"

It is said that Huang Zu was suspicious and hesitant, and he could not make up his mind to make peace. Although Bu Fei did not disgrace his mission, Huang Zu was still noncommittal, saying that he was not afraid of Chen Long and invited Bu Fei back.

Before the eagle moved, suddenly a person in the lobby was annoyed and scolded loudly, it was You Heng You Zhengping who was standing. I only heard You Heng shouting to Huang Zu: "Dead old man! Wake up! Zishan's kind words and persuasion are meant to point you to a way to live! Chen Longnai is a popular person around the Queen Mother, conquering the fertile field for thousands of miles in a few years, and many scholars such as the Yingchuan Chen clan and the Xiangyang Pang clan to help, how can his ambition be comparable to you as a Jiangxia head snake? If you resist, it will be like an egg against a stone, and you will be stupid! It's okay if you're a dead old man, do you still want to die with you? ”

Huang Zu didn't expect You Heng to be furious, the scolded dog was bloody, and in a fit of rage, he pulled out his saber and was about to cut You Heng, but fortunately, Huang shot and hugged it, so You Heng brushed his sleeves and left, packing himself back to the plain without mentioning it.

After You Heng stirred up like this, Huang Zu was so angry that he was even exempted from sending off guests, so Bu Fei had no choice but to leave a letter written by Chen Long himself, return to the barracks by the city gate, and lead the servants to leave.

Huang Jie was beside his father, constantly comforting him, and when his father's anger subsided, Fang tried to persuade: "You Heng has always been arrogant, and my father should not be as knowledgeable as a junior." However, there is some truth in Youheng's words, then Chen Long's strength, I'm afraid that his father can't resist, why not take this opportunity to surrender, he can also be regarded as Chen Long's veteran of the world's hegemony, and he will be a general in the future. ”

Huang Zu only has this one son, ten minutes of love, and when he heard this, he sat down and sighed: "Son, I don't know this truth, but you heard it, Chen Long asked me to move out of this castle, if I agree like this, Jiangxia will no longer be our Huang family." ”

Huang Jian frowned and said: "Father, in my opinion, Jiangxia is targeted by Chen Long, and Liu Biao has abandoned us again, and Jiangxia is probably no longer ours." ”

Huang Zu showed a scheming expression and said: "Only by making the opponent more headache can there be bargaining chips." If our father and son want to continue to sit firmly in this castle, we need to fight and win. ”

Huang Jian gradually understood his father's intentions, but he always felt that something was wrong, and said in a deep voice: "Father, Chen Long has always been known for his propaganda of seeking happiness for the people, so he has won the hearts of the people of Lingling. If you can really cooperate with him and conspire with the world, it is better than this castle! ”

Huang Zu didn't expect Huang Jie to say this, and muttered: "Shot'er, are you sure that Chen Long is regarded as the master who can assist?" You've never thought of dominating a side and maybe taking a county? Or even become the king of a country?"

Huang Jie was dumbfounded when he heard this, and stuttered: "Father, father, father....... Dear, since your ambitions are so ambitious, how should you deal with the fact that Long Chen's Blue Dragon Army is attacking? If you resist, you may be defeated, and then everything will be a pillow of yellow sorghum! ”

Huang Zu waved his hand impatiently: "So, don't think so far. I have made up my mind, we must fight the first battle, Chen Long fights on two fronts, and it is estimated that the troops will be scattered, and I have never heard of how strong Chen Long's naval army is. Once we win, maybe we will get a few more years of development. Huang Jie had to reluctantly agree.

After Huang shot away, Huang Zu came to the top of the castle and looked down on the entire majestic castle. Looking at the Qiyue Castle that he had built with his own hands, he had mixed feelings in his heart, and he was even more reluctant to think that this castle was about to be handed over from his hands to others.

Bu Fei returned, Huang Zhong, Xi Zhicai, Yang Huai, and Gao Pei listened to Bu Ou's report together, at this time, the Navy Army soldiers mixed with the Third Army and Yang Huai's Water Army had been training together on Dongting Lake for more than a month, and their morale was high.

With the completion of the oath of the mixed warships, Huang Zhong gave an order, and the huge naval fleet consisting of 10 giant warships, 20 medium-sized warships, and more than 50 small warships went out of Dongting for the first time to fight, and went straight to the exit of the Yangtze River along the Xiangjiang River. The mouth of the Xiangjiang River had already been chained by Huang Zu, and Huang Zhong ordered the naval boats to be cleared one by one, and the speed of the entire fleet slowed down.

Huang Zu's reconnaissance ship had been swimming in the waters of this area for a long time, and on this day, he suddenly saw a huge sailor coming from all over the sky, and he was so frightened that he hurriedly returned. After hearing about it, Huang Zu hurriedly ordered all the naval forces to go out to block the mouth of the Xiangjiang River, so that Huang Zhong's warships could not break through the estuary, so as not to be fully launched by Chen Long's naval army on the Yangtze River.

I have to say that Huang Zu's strategy is absolutely correct, Huang Zhong's large naval division, only a few ships can be lined up at the mouth of the Xiangjiang River, both sides each shot a few rounds of arrows, Huang Zhong relied on the big ship, a slight breakthrough, but was greeted by the enemy's oil rockets, a big ship unfortunately caught fire, fortunately extinguished in time, but Huang Zhong did not dare to rashly attack again, had to temporarily withdraw the army, only fortified at the mouth of the Xiangjiang River, the first contact battle ended hastily.

After the first battle, Huang Zu couldn't help but increase his confidence, although these seemingly huge warships were terrifying, but the narrow estuary just limited its play, without the speed of the ship, there was no collision force, but it was his own warship, flexibly shuttling and turning around, greeting the oil rocket to the big ship, and almost burned Huang Zhong's big ship in the first battle.

Of course, Xi Zhicai was also aware of this problem, and found a tributary of the Xiangjiang River overnight, which could enter the Yangtze River against the current, but the water was very shallow and only allowed small boats to pass through. Xi Zhicai ordered the big ships to retreat more than ten miles, the medium-sized warships in front, and the small boats all entered the upper reaches of the Yangtze River along the tributaries. After a night of formation, Huang Zhong's naval division had formed a two-sided encirclement posture at the mouth of the Xiangjiang River, and Huang Zujun's army was immersed in yesterday's victory and was unaware.

It was early in the morning, the river was slightly misty, the medium-sized warships of the Qinglong Navy were in front, and the large warships were behind, after more than ten miles of acceleration, they were already advancing at full speed, and the deck was full of archers and crossbowmen.

The Huang Zu warship has been monitoring the outlet of the Xiangjiang River, and naturally has been prepared, and for a time the warship quickly swinged away, straightening the iron lock between the two ships, the rockets flew sideways, and several sails caught fire. Huang Zhong's warship had a rush this time, and suddenly wedged into Huang Zu's navy, and the huge advantage of the ship's size was reflected, not only knocked over several small boats, but also the archers were condescending, shooting the enemy sailors in the field of vision at close range, and gradually arching out of the Yangtze River as a whole.

Huang Zu's navy tried his best to intercept, seeing that the enemy's ship speed slowed down, suddenly a large number of small warships appeared in the mist in the upper reaches of the Yangtze River, and rushed into the naval array horizontally, wrapped in iron's sharp bow, and wedged into the weak side of Huang Zu's warship, the river bubbled into the boat, and the soldiers jumped into the water to escape, and the flanks of Huang Zu's navy quickly fell into chaos, and the other ships were at a loss, not knowing whether to continue to deal with the impact of the big guy in the front, or turn around to resist the small boat that suddenly rushed upstream. In the midst of his indecision, several more ships caught fire.

Huang Zu's army gradually suffered heavy losses, and seeing that it could not resist the enemy, it had to abandon the mouth of the Xiangjiang River and sound the horn of retreat. The big ships of the Qinglong Navy were all able to sail out of the water mouth, and they were all over the Yangtze River for a time. Xi Zhicai ordered to march at full speed, pursue at the tail end, and follow Huang Zu's defeated ship directly to the water village on the north bank of the Yangtze River.

The water village is around the city of Qiyue, Huang Zu set up a lot of large crossbows and temporary barracks along the shore of the water village, and even a few catapults. However, the warships did not stop just by saying that they could stop, and many of the ships were attacked by stones and were seriously injured.

The Qinglong Naval Army was the first full-scale attack, and Xi Zhicai gradually gained some experience in water warfare. Yang Huai and Gao Pei have been training the navy, and this time they were also entrusted with important tasks, although the Qinglong navy was a fledgling, but still with a powerful warship, the long-standing Huangzu navy was forced back to the water village, which can be described as a victory in the first battle.

After forcing Huang Zu's warship back, the warships of Huang Zhong's Third Army Army quickly landed on the north bank of the Yangtze River according to the predetermined landing site. The army of 30,000 took a whole day to finally assemble, and under the personal leadership of Huang Zhong, Wei Yan, and Xi Zhicai, they slaughtered to the edge of Qiyue City in one fell swoop, and first wiped out the temporary military camps along the Yangtze River, and captured a lot of bows and arrows, crossbows, and even a few catapults.

The barrier of Shuizhai was lost, and the main force of Huangzu's naval army was completely surrounded by Huang Zhong's army and navy in Shuizhai, and there was nowhere to escape.

Huang Zu was already in the castle, learned that the water village was besieged, and sat in the Taishi chair, but he didn't expect that in just a few days, the proud Jiangxia Navy had been besieged in the water village and couldn't move. Huang Zu personally led the troops, and went out of Yuecheng with the intention of opening the passage between the water village and the city, but happened to encounter the troops of Huang Zhong and Wei Yan, who had already been ambushed, and lost their troops and returned defeated.

Huang Zhong did not attack the city, but besieged the east of the moon city, blocking the traffic between the water village and the city, the water army held on in the water village for more than ten days, has long run out of ammunition and food, and finally surrendered, Huang Zhong got countless ships, and the prisoners of war were as many as 10,000 people.

Huang Zu knew that the general trend of the naval army was gone, and the enemy was only surrounding the east, obviously hoping that he would lead his troops to escape from the other city gates as soon as possible to avoid heavy losses in the siege battle. Huang Zu ordered people to hoard grain and grass, set up tens of thousands of soldiers and civilians in the city, and issued an announcement saying that he would live and die together with Qiyue City, but it caused an uproar among the people of the city sergeant clan. After all, Huang Zu's power is in danger, and the city is only ruined, and Chen Long has always worked for the benefit of the people, who wants to die at this time?

How many wealthy families, Mingli persuaded Huang Zu to fail, and secretly instigated various forces, wanting to kill Huang Zu, and then sacrifice the city. Huang Jian saw it in his eyes, anxious in his heart, remembering that You Heng scolded his father on the day he left, but he had already seen through today's ending. Huang Jian then made up his mind to surrender to Long Chen, and decided to help his father solve the scourge of killing and exterminating the clan in front of him.

On the ninth day after Huang Zhong's army besieged the city, Huang Zu returned from his inspection of the city, and when he saw that his morale was low, he returned to the castle study and sat down. Suddenly, the door creaked open, and Aiko Huang shot in and bowed down. When Huang Zu saw his son, his mood improved, and he was about to ask what was going on, when he suddenly saw several tall and powerful soldiers behind his son, and instantly understood his son's intentions, his hands couldn't help shaking, and he fell into the Taishi's chair.

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