Chapter 320: Galloping Jianghan (2)
"Father has been eating little recently, and he is worried, but is it because Wu Hou has transferred elite soldiers?" Zhu Ran walked out of the cabin and put a big coat on Zhu Zhi.
The weather is actually not cold at the moment, but Zhu Zhi is a little old after all, and Zhu Ran is very filial, so he took out the big one.
Zhu Ran is Zhu Zhi's adopted son, his surname is Shi, and he is the son of Zhu Zhi's sister. In the early years, Zhu Zhi had no son, so he asked Sun Ce to call him as his adopted son with the gift of sheep wine.
This is on the genealogy, official, and the status is no different from that of the son-in-law.
Zhu Ran studied with Sun Quan when he was young, and he was quite emotional. When he grew up, he was brave and resourceful.
There are so many generals in Jiangdong.
"Yifeng is a matter of knowing his father's heart." Zhu Zhi showed a look of relief, patted Zhu Ran's hand, and then sighed: "In order to compete with the Guan family for Nanjun, Wu Hou has already dispatched 110,000 elite soldiers to Jingzhou. The grain road is extremely long. He also ordered me to lead my troops to escort the grain and grass westward. Now that Jiangdong is empty, the more I fear that the mountains move, the sky will fall apart. ”
"Zhou Yu's enterprising general, it's right to take Nanjun, but it's really a bit risky."
"I hope that this year's wind and rain will be smooth, and there will be enough food in the mountains, and Shanyue will not go down the mountains to plunder." Zhu Ran also knew about this, so he sighed.
The reason why Shanyue is a mountain people, the reason why they go south to rob is because they don't have enough food, and if the grain is harvested, they will naturally be safe.
Zhu Zhi nodded when he heard this, I hope so.
And Zhu Zhi's fleet let Wang Wei look at the beacon tower set up on the north bank.
A beacon tower was guarded by a team, and when the soldiers on the beacon saw the situation, they entered the beacon tower and reported to the chief.
When the chief heard the news, he said, "Immediately, according to the plan, ride two horses to the next beacon tower and deliver the news to General Wang's ears." ”
"No." The two soldiers in the beacon tower made a promise, each mounted his war horse, and headed west.
But in order to avoid startling the snake, the beacon fire was not lit. Instead, the news was delivered at a gallop on a fast horse, and the Jiangdong Navy marched westward, going against the water, and it was actually not fast.
And the beacon tower is ten miles away, and the news is passed one by one. When it comes to the next beacon, change people and horses, and the speed of the horse can be maintained.
When the news came, Wang Wei was eating wine in the big tent and enjoying delicious fish soup. Smelling the news, he immediately put down the wine bowl.
"Pass the news to General Huang, General Liao, and General Ding, and each order troops." Wang Wei said.
"No." The soldiers promised and were about to go down. Wang Wei called out to the soldiers again, "Wait, what is the wind direction today?" ”
"It's a west wind." The soldier replied.
"God help me, prepare quicklime, beans, sand." Wang Wei laughed and instructed.
"No." The soldiers understood what they were doing and promised to go down.
Soon after, there was a noise of drums in the water village. Huang Zhong, Ding Feng, and Liao Huaben were doing their own things, and after getting the news, they immediately ordered the soldiers to kill the merchant ships.
They prepared their armor and went to the bank of the river, where they saw the king in armor.
"General Wang." The three generals saluted in unison.
Even if it is Huang Zhong, he has no opinion on Wang Wei commanding the naval army, because Wang Wei is a famous general in Jingzhou and is very capable of fighting, and Huang Zhong was just a county general before, and Ding Feng and Liao Hua were juniors.
"The other party has a lot of warships, and the general who leads the troops is surnamed Zhu, and it is estimated that it is Zhu Zhi."
"Today was a tailwind. I prepared quicklime, beans, and sand, and first used lime to dazzle their eyes, beans, and sand to sway out so that they could not gain a foothold. Wang Wei first said the news, and then said.
"No." The three generals agreed together, and then all the generals boarded the ship, leaving only a small number of men and horses to guard the water village, opening the gate of the water village, and the warships were used one after another.
Downwind, go with the current to the east.
The veteran general Huang Zhong was the vanguard and led his men and horses in front.
"Whoa, whoa, whoa!!" The waves are rolling, and the sound of the water is non-stop. The flag is in the wind, and the hunt is sounding. Huang Zhong was wearing armor and standing on the bow of the ship with a sword.
The old general has a red face and a majestic face.
The water army goes down the river and rides the wind and waves. Soon after, Huang Zhong saw Zhu Zhi's countless warships, but Huang Zhong turned back instead.
"Ready for the Impact !!" Huang Zhong, together with the soldiers, grabbed the object and met the impact. The front end of the warship, which is generally mounted with a sharp object, is fixed with something similar to a spear.
The water army moves forward and rides the wind and waves. The two sides suddenly met, and whose ship was stronger.
Therefore, Huang Zu's warship fell into disrepair and was defeated repeatedly.
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On the Jiangdong naval side, of course, they also saw the oncoming Wang Wei naval army. The officer where the vanguard was located ordered the gong and drum to be sounded.
There was no need to give more orders, and the civilian ships transporting grain slowed down. Then the shouting man began to raise the canvas.
"Raise the sails, raise the sails."
The ship is against the current, against the wind, of course the canvas is lowered, and at this moment to escape, the civilian ship raises the canvas, and the wind blows the civilian ship backwards.
A boat sailing against the wind is as slow as a snail, but sailing downwind is as fast as lightning.
However, the naval warships of Jiangdong did not retreat, but set up a cone formation and met them.
In the rear, Zhu Zhi heard the sound of gongs and drums, so he asked his soldiers to give him leather armor and hang up his sword. The same goes for Zhu Ran. Zhu Zhi turned his head to Zhu Ran and said: "The others are unknown, but Wang Wei is a general in Jingzhou, and he is a capable fighter, and his command of the naval army cannot be underestimated." Be careful. ”
"No." Zhu Ran bowed down and promised, but he was not afraid.
Wang Wei and others wanted to rob the grain ship, while Zhu Zhi and others were guards, and the two sides were naturally going to meet good talents. Huang Zhong ordered the warship to speed up and rush past, and ordered the soldiers to throw lime from the holes on both sides of the cabin.
The Jiangdong Navy was immediately attacked, and the lime powder blew into the eyes through the hole in the front of the cabin.
The Jiangdong Navy soldiers couldn't open their eyes for a while, and a few even shed tears.
"Close your eyes, close your eyes." Experienced naval officers, shouted.
There was a "boom", and soon after, the warships of both sides collided. The warships were unstable and rocked, and some small boats were overturned. After the collision passed, Huang Zhong rushed out of the cabin with a ring-headed broadsword in one hand and a shield in the other.
The Jiangdong Navy on the warship in front of them also rushed to the deck. But Huang Zhong's corporal took the opportunity to throw beans and sand. The Jiangdong Navy was caught off guard, and a few of them fell to the ground.
The archers under Huang Zhong's command began to shoot. After a confrontation, Huang Zhong had a slight upper hand. After that, Huang Zhong jumped onto the opponent's warship, holding a knife in one hand and a shield in the other, and began to fight.
"Poof, poof." The old general is extremely brave, and his experience in water warfare is also extremely rich, although the warship under his feet is shaking, but the old general's foothold is very stable.
With a single sword, you can cut down one of the opponent's soldiers. At the same time, Huang Zhong's personal soldiers also followed, and the two sides clashed fiercely on the warships of the Jiangdong Navy.
There is no general on this warship, so naturally it can't stop Huang Zhong. Seeing that the situation was not right, the remaining soldiers said, "Quick, jump into the water and escape." ”
So many Jiangdong sailors turned over and jumped into the water, and then looked for the boats of the Jiangdong navy, and returned to the boats to fight.
The Jiangdong Navy is also strong and will never collapse because of a temporary setback.
Although Huang Zhong occupied an enemy ship, on the contrary, the Jiangdong Navy also occupied a lot of Huang Zhong's warships, and the two sides fought and won each other.
Soon after, Ding Feng and Liao Hua also joined the battle, and the warships on both sides were both warships, and the scene was extremely chaotic for a while.
Wang Wei's navy in the rear did not move, and Wang Wei stood at the bow of the ship to watch the situation. He saw that the two sides were entangled, but the other party's grain ship had already run away. He waved his hand and said, "Order the boat, go around, and go to pursue the opponent's grain ship." You can rush over as much as you can, mainly to burn the opponent's grain ship. ”
"No." Wang Wei's personal soldiers made a promise, and then there were ten soldiers, divided into more than 5,000 troops, and 100 small boats, separated from both sides of the front battle, and pursued the grain ships on the Jiangdong side.
The naval armies of both sides are fighting in front of them, and they have no time to take care of it. However, Zhu Zhi's experience in water warfare is also extremely rich, and when he saw this, he also let the boat intercept it.
The two sides fought again, but there were still some small boats of Wang Weijun that broke through Zhu Zhi's defenses and rushed to the grain ships.
Wang Wei, Huang Zhong, Ding Feng, Liao Hua and others combined, there are more people than Zhu Zhi.
If the two sides are at war, this difference in numbers is nothing, but Zhu Zhi is escorting food, which is a problem.
And the boat was extremely fast, as fast as an arrow, catching up with the slow-moving grain ship. The soldiers under Wang Wei boarded the ship with ropes very quickly and ordered the archers to shoot arrows.
Although the grain ship was a civilian ship, there were also some archers on board, and the two sides shot each other, but they also killed and wounded each other. The point is that there are a lot of small boats, biting a grain ship. Soon, the Jiangdong soldiers on the grain ship could not support it and abandoned the ship and fled, while Wang Weishui's soldiers began to board the ship, and without saying a word, set the entire grain ship on fire, and then jumped into the water and returned to the ship.
Wang Wei's navy burned more than a dozen grain ships in Jiangdong, and the grain of one grain ship was at least 10,000 catties, and at least 10,000 stone of grain was burned by the other party.
Then the two sides fought, and it was over. Because Wang Wei, Huang Zhong, Ding Feng, Liao Hua and others fought desperately, but the navy was not as elite as the Jiangdong navy, although the number of people had the upper hand, but they could not defeat Zhu Zhi, so the two sides each called off and left.
Zhu Zhi guarded the grain and did not dare to go west, so he ordered the ship to turn around and go to Jiangxia Exian to join the 10,000 sailors who stayed in Jiangxia.
And Wang Wei, Huang Zhong, Ding Feng, Liao Hua and others led the navy and warships to go back to Shuizhai. Although both sides suffered damage in this battle, they did not take advantage.
But burned more than a dozen grain ships of the opposing side and fulfilled the tactical purpose. From top to bottom, morale is quite high. After Wang Wei returned to Shuizhai, he ordered the officials to take the stored dried meat, bacon and other things, reward the soldiers, treat the wounded soldiers, and detain the prisoners.
After the operation, Wang Wei called Huang Zhong, Ding Feng, and Liao Hua and said, "Let's go, let's have a big meal and celebrate." ”
"No." Huang Zhong, Ding Feng, Liao Hua and others also smiled, promised to eat, and went to eat with Wang Wei.
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