Chapter 396: The enemy general Zhou Tai is killed
After defeating Zhang Ying, Lu Su and Tian Yubing split into two ways at dawn, and they killed Huaipu non-stop at the same time.
Among them, Tian Yu took the land route to change into the clothes and flags of the Yangzhou army, and then disguised himself and blended into Huaipu City.
At this time, the guard will be Fan Neng, Fan Neng knows that Zhang Ying will return to Huaipu, and at this time he is concentrating on building wooden piles and water villages to strengthen the water surface interception, and he will inspect everywhere, but there is no city at all.
So Tian Yu came to Huaipu City and used Zhang Ying's token to successfully deceive the city defense and get in.
"General! General Zhang Ying's troops retreated into the city. ”
Soon one of his subordinates found Fan Neng and came to tell him.
Fan Neng frowned slightly, and his mood was suddenly bad.
Zhang Ying is back, and the command of the town guarding here is going to be handed over to Zhang Ying again, so he replied in a bad mood: "If you come back, you will come back, Ben will know, wait a minute!" ”
The messenger wanted to say something, but was sent away by Fan Neng with a wave of his hand, and in the end there were only less than 2,000 soldiers who did not remind Fan Neng to come back, and they were all a little bit raw, Zhang Ying did not return in the first place.
But who let Fan Neng take office as a new official, this guy is not a small official, so don't mess with it.
Soon Lu Su's sailors arrived.
Seeing Donglai's naval warship coming, Fan Neng didn't know why he was a little excited.
The enemy is coming, okay, you can finally fight with the Donglai army, it's time to show your hand and show everyone what you can do.
So he immediately gathered all the water ships and prepared to fight the Donglai naval army.
There are geographical advantages, water villages and wooden stakes, and they can be afraid of the Donglai army.
It's just that he just put on a posture, only to hear the shouting of killing from the rear, and the Yangzhou army flag hanging at the head of the city fell.
"What's going on?" Fan Neng didn't know anything about this, and his subordinates were completely confused.
"Zhang Ying is dead, below Huaipu City, Yangzhou is broken by my Donglai army, Liu Miao is besieged in Guangling County, and the thief Fan Neng is not surrendered!"
At this time, such a sentence came from the city, and all of Fan Neng's subordinates were shocked.
Zhang Ying is dead!
Huaipu City was also captured by the Donglai army, even Yangzhou was broken by people, and the lord Liu Miao was also besieged, what is going on.
There was a sound of discussion all around, and people's hearts panicked all of a sudden.
Fan Neng's face was cloudy, his eyes flickered, and he seemed to be thinking about something.
But in the end, he gritted his teeth and shouted: "Hugh has to listen to their nonsense, this is the enemy's trick, stabilize me." ”
"Attack!"
At this time, Lu Su ordered the naval warship to charge at the water village of the thief Fan Neng and others, and the improved bed crossbow on the ship shot out long sharp arrows, and countless crossbowmen on the deck began to throw arrows.
In the cabin, the porters pedal hard, and the boat slammed into the stakes standing in the water.
Fan Neng tried to counterattack, but the bow and crossbow were inferior to the Donglai Naval Army, so he could only defend passively.
"Boom!"
I heard that the Donglai warship, which was covered with steel plates, slammed into it, knocking and crushing the wooden stakes standing in the water.
These water piles dealing with ordinary wooden boats and boats were easily broken without achieving any effect, and Fan Neng and others were shocked.
What's going on, how did Donglai's warships do it.
Then the warship continued to rush ferociously, crashing into the fence of the water village, and then also crashing into the fence of the water village, and the momentum was unabated, and it was still fierce.
How could the ship still have such a strong power.
There are no boatmen on the deck of the Donglai Army's ship to support the oars, this ship must have ghosts, and it can move forward by itself.
He didn't know that the ships of the Donglai Army were powered from below, so that they could provide sufficient and lasting power for the shipwrights in the event of battle, so that the ships could keep ramming and trampling like cavalry on land.
Therefore, the warships of the Donglai Army are covered with iron sheets, so that even if you don't have to jump to fight in close combat, you can break and destroy the enemy.
"Discharge the crossbow!"
After breaking through the enemy's water wall, Lu Su asked the soldiers with crossbow machines to move to the strings of the ships on both sides and launch close fire.
"Woo Woo ......"
"Puff ......"
"Withdraw! Abandon the village and retreat to the shore! ”
Obviously, the battle on the surface of the water is not the opponent of the Donglai army at all, the opponent's weapons are too sophisticated, especially the warships that can move on their own, they are simply beasts.
At this time, the gate of Huaipu City opened, and Tian Yu also led people to kill it, killing Fan Neng and other routed soldiers who had just run ashore, and they were also defeated, with heavy casualties.
"Jump into the gang and capture the ships and enemy soldiers." Lu Su decided the overall situation, and did not let the warship rush forward, but let the soldiers jump off the big ship to collect Fan Neng's ship, and now these are all trophies, which are damaged and wasted.
The battle with no suspense ended quickly, Fan Neng was captured alive by Tian Yu, and his troops were reduced to 5,000, and Huaipu City was taken.
On the other side, after Liu Miao returned from the south of the city with an army of 30,000, Zhou Tai and Jiang Qin immediately set up ships to attack Huaiyin after receiving the news.
At this time, there were not many soldiers and horses guarding Huaiyin, seeing Zhou Tai, Jiang Qin and others attacking, the Bujia in the city responded to attack and seize the city gate, and Zhou Tai and Jiang Qin took this place at no cost.
"Gongyi is handed over to you here, I'll chase Liu Xuan!"
Zhou Tai left Jiang Qin to chase south with the main force, and after Lu Su and Tian Yu of Huaipu on this side received the news, Lu Su stayed to defend the city and asked Tian Yu to pursue Liu Xuan.
Liu Xuan's 30,000 troops went south, successively passing through the two cities of Ping'an and Gaoyou, and these two cities heard that Liu Xiang was besieged, and the 100,000 Yangzhou army cut off the way to retreat, so they all closed the city to support Zhao Yu.
Liu Miao had no choice but to go around the city to the south, the 30,000 army had no food and grass, and the morale was even lower.
"How many people are left in our army?" As soon as he came out of Gaoyou, Liu Miao asked with some regret.
At this time, he understood what Liu Ye said, why there was no need to fight this battle.
Because there was no more faith, the soldiers had no idea of fighting.
The general Yu Lu reported: "My lord, there are still 24,000 men and horses!" ”
Six thousand ran at once!
It was like a sharp arrow piercing Liu Xuan's chest.
Before it was hit, there was no second floor.
"Report! The lord's big business is not good, and the enemy general Zhou Tai led the troops to chase after him! ”
This was another arrow inserted into Liu Xuan's heart.
Why did Zhou Tai run like this, this is chasing him.
"What now?" Liu Miao was completely panicked at this time, and he didn't ask Zhou Tai how many soldiers and horses he brought, all the way from Huaiyin, and he didn't even have a place to go into the city to rest, where did he still have the confidence to fight.
Yu Lu said: "Does the lord give the last general 6,000 people, I will stop Zhou Tai." ”
Liu Miao wanted to say something, but in the end he could only pat Yu Lu heavily: "General Yu is really loyal and courageous, if you want to return to Yangzhou, you will be the commander of the three armies and the governor of land and water for me." ”
So Yu Lu led 6,000 men and horses to intercept Zhou Tai, and Liu Miao continued to Guangling City with 18,000.
"Kill!"
Soon Zhou Tai chased after him, and Yu Yu led 6,000 elk to fight with him.
"The enemy general Zhou Tai is killed!" Yu Mo rode a brown war horse and rushed towards Zhou Tai with a sword.
Zhou Tai held an arc knife in his hand, and when he saw the enemy general rushing towards him, his expression did not move, and he waited for the master to slash first, and then he raised the knife and slashed.
The two horses missed, only to see the moose fall off the horse, Zhou Tai didn't care about him, and went straight into the enemy's army, and then slashed left and right.
Yu Elk died in battle, and the 6,000 Yangzhou troops suddenly had no intention of fighting, and fled one after another, and Zhou Tai slashed and killed for a while, and began to pursue and capture the Yangzhou soldiers.
At this time, a team passed by from the east, and this team was also carrying the flag of Donglai, and there was also a flag of Tianzi.
Zhou Tai was originally very happy, and a friendly army arrived, but he just ran a few horses to report to him: "General Zhou Tai, my captain said that you can rest assured to catch prisoners here, and we will help you catch up with Liu Xuan, and we will never let that guy run away." ”
"I ......" Zhou Tai wanted to swing a knife and slash people.
I want to be more important than a Yu Elk, how can there be Liu Xuan, this damn Yu Elk, you didn't have any force to pretend to be a big-tailed wolf to intercept Lao Tzu, now it's okay, but let the later Tian Yu this kid rush to the front.