Chapter 52: Sun Quanjun, Mutiny!
"Kill!" When Sun Quanjun's exhausted defeated army just climbed the shallows on the east bank of Poyang Lake, before they had time to climb in front of the barbed wire, Dong Zhuo's army and Ma Chao's troops poured out of the woods. The whistling sound of Suo Suo fell on the soldiers of Sun Quanjun, stabbing the soldiers of Sun Quanjun in thin armor into strings of human flesh candy gourds, and fell to the ground screaming and dying.
The special tactics of the Ma Chao legion came from the descendants of the Roman legions who were exiled to Liangzhou, born from the javelin tactics in the Roman legions, after the Spartan uprising, the ancient Roman legions were divided into Antony, Pompey and Crassus, and the first Crassus advanced eastward, trying to conquer the nomads in the east, and later Crati died in the melee of the Parthian steppe, the remnants of the second and third legions fled back to Rome, and the first legion had to flee eastward because of the broken retreat, and came to China, where it was accepted by the enlightened Han government, The Romanesque city of Lixuan was established on the Hexi Corridor, and the tactics of ancient Rome were brought to the Han army stationed in the Hexi Corridor at that time, and after nearly a hundred years of evolution, it gradually became the standard tactics of the Ma Jiajun. After Ma Chao returned to Kang Peng, he once suggested to Kang Peng to form such a legion, which was protected by a heavy shield of nearly two meters high, and threw to defeat the enemy with a long mark. However, Kang Peng considered that this army had weak mobility and a high dependence on logistics, and that such a corps would not be able to give full play to its strengths when it reached the jungles and mountains in the south, and that Dong Zhuojun had a horse production base like Liangzhou, so he rejected Ma Chao's request, and still built with the Xiliang Iron Cavalry, which had low requirements for logistics and was mobile and flexible, and only allowed Ma Chao to train javelinmen in the headquarters to enrich Dong Zhuojun's tactics. It's a pity that Ma Chao's luck is extremely poor, Dong Zhuojun's first target is Yizhou, which is dominated by mountain and jungle warfare, and his special tactics are useless, and there are many rivers in the south, Ma Chaojun's movement speed is limited, and it can only be Dong Zhuojun's navy who steals the limelight.
"The first team is down, the second team is up!" With Ma Chao's majestic order, the first team of Ma Chao legion soldiers who threw the long mark staggered and retreated, and the second team caught up and threw the nearly three-meter-long long mark in their hands. The poor Sun Quanjun soldiers had seen such tactics there, screaming and being nailed alive, blood staining the beach red, and corpses falling in strings, while Ma Chaojun was still throwing long marks, as if he wanted to nail Sun Quanjun to the beachhead.
"Up, get on me, go get close to the enemy!" Zhou Yu shouted loudly in the shallow water area that the long standard could not throw, and personally wielded a knife to kill the soldiers of Sun Quanjun who fled back, less than a day after escaping into Poyang Lake, Sun Quan and Zhou Yu found themselves surrounded by Dong Zhuojun, Ma Chaojun in the east of Poyang Lake, Gao Shun and Yan Yan in the west, Zhang Ren and Pang De in the south, the Ganjiang River was also blocked by Dong Zhuojun's iron locks, and Dong Zhuojun's fleet in the north was forced to come step by step, and Sun Quanjun's wings were difficult to fly. Sun Quan and Zhou Yu were forced to be helpless, so they had to choose the direction of Poyang City in the east as a breakthrough.
"Zhou Yu'er." Ma Chao saw Zhou Yu's ugliness in the telescope, scolded contemptuously, took a long mark, rode his horse to the barbed wire, and when he rushed to the barbed wire, Ma Chao's ape arm was lightly extended, and the long mark came out of his hand, drawing an arc in the sky with a roar, and flew to Zhou Yu dozens of feet away, Zhou Yu was slashing and killing the deserter without noticing, and was nailed through the left shoulder by the long mark that fell from the sky, and fell into the water on his back, Ma Chao's army immediately broke out with a burst of earth-shattering cheers, and Ma Chao triumphantly hugged his fist at the soldiers to repay the praise of the soldiers.
Zhou Yu struggled in the water for a long time, but there was no Sun Quanjun soldier to go up to help, when Zhou Yu finally got up from the water, the Sun Quanjun soldiers on the beachhead had basically fled back to the warship, no matter how the general drove him, he just didn't want to go to the beachhead to meet Ma Chaojun's long standard rain, Zhou Yu had no choice but to climb up to Sun Quan's flagship to bandage the wound, and he was greeted by Sun Jing's scolding with his head and face, "Waste, you didn't even hurt an enemy, you lost so many people, why weren't you nailed?" ”
"Dong Thief's tactics are too weird." Zhou Yu's face was full of shame, and he lowered his head and said: "There are not enough tools, those iron nets are difficult to break through, and the beachhead is open, there is no place to force us, we can't dodge the long mark thrown by the enemy, so we have suffered heavy casualties." ”
Sun Jing was about to scold again, but Sun Quan grabbed him and said softly to Zhou Yu: "Gongjin, since it is difficult to break through on the east coast, what should we do now?" Zhou Yu pondered for a moment, whispered something in Sun Quan's ear, Sun Quan nodded, and immediately called Chen Wu, the last general of Sun Quan's army, to give him some instructions.
In a moment, Chen Wu's shout sounded on Sun Quanjun's fleet, "Brothers, the enemy's fleet is coming, Dong Thief's policy of treating prisoners, I think you all know, but I also want to repeat, the prisoners captured by Dong Demon King must be skinned alive to make drums, bones are dismantled for firewood, meat is chopped up and dumplings, it is better to be a prisoner of Dong Zhuojun than to commit suicide!" If you don't want to be eaten by Demon King Dong, pick up your weapons and break through this enemy's defense line, so that we can live!" Brothers, fight hard, we have no choice! ”
Dong Boss's bad reputation, although after Kang Peng's countless times to make up, has been much better, but in the territory of Kang Peng's enemies, Dong Boss's name as the first demon king is still repeatedly emphasized by the rulers, especially Dong Boss's sworn enemies Sun Quan and Zhou Yu, and all kinds of rumors that are unfavorable to Dong Boss are deliberately amplified and exaggerated, and subtly, Sun Quanjun's soldiers are still very afraid of being Dong Zhuojun's prisoner. Therefore, after being instigated by Chen Wu, Sun Quanjun's soldiers doubled their courage in the face of death, and jumped off the warship with the determination to become a benevolent man if they did not succeed, and began to assemble in shallow water.
After the night battle on September 14, Sun Quan's army had only more than 30,000 people left, and after several interceptions and pursuits by Dong Zhuojun, the number of Sun Quan's army was sharply reduced to less than 20,000 people.
Ma Chao saw Sun Quanjun's actions in the rear, and sneered: "Dying and struggling, I will send you if you want to die!" When Sun Quanjun entered the throwing range of the long target, Ma Chao immediately shouted: "Take turns throwing!" Ma Chaojun roared in unison, and the long standard flew out of his hand, raining down on Sun Quanjun's head.
The long standard flew fluttering, Chen Wu, who took the lead, held his shield and couldn't help blocking, and the Sun Quanjun soldiers behind followed suit, almost everyone was injured Sun Quanjun's soldiers and some people fell, but the people behind immediately picked up their shields and planks, and strode forward with their corpses and blood, although their casualties were extremely heavy, but up to Chen Wu, whose body had been pierced by four long poles, down to ordinary soldiers, no one escaped, just kept advancing.
"Stop throwing!" Ma Chao saw that Sun Quanjun had rushed to the barbed wire, and immediately ordered: "The front team retreats, and the rear captain spearman must not let the enemy break through the barbed wire!" The front team of Ma Chaojun immediately retreated to rest, and the spearmen of the team quickly stepped forward and killed Sun Quanjun through the barbed wire, and the shouting of killing suddenly increased a lot.
In front of the barbed wire, the relatively short Sun Quanjun soldiers ignored the thorns on the wire that had been deeply trapped in their bodies, or kept squeezing forward, the dense wires were crushed a lot, and Ma Chaojun's spearmen couldn't stop stabbing them with spears, Chen Wu was stabbed by more than ten spears, and died on the spot, blood slowly flowed down the sloping beach into Poyang Lake, screaming and screaming endlessly, but no matter how Ma Chaojun's soldiers pushed, even if Sun Quanjun's soldiers had been stabbed to death, Their bodies were still being pushed forward by the soldiers behind them, the barbed wire was creaking, and the wires were constantly being torn alive, while Sun Quan's army was still pouring in.
"The back team is on the line." Ma Chao saw that his defense line was about to be broken through, so he had to use the last troops, Ma Tie and Ma Xiu each pounced with an army, lined up in front of the barbed wire, shoulder to shoulder, and stabbed Sun Quanjun's crowded team with long weapons such as guns, spears and logs, so as not to completely tear off the barbed wire by the enemy, but Sun Quanjun's soldiers had no other way to retreat, just kept squeezing, and in a blink of an eye, the barbed wire had been broken in three places, and Sun Quanjun's army behind began to melee with Ma Chaojun.
"Oops, I should have signaled earlier." Ma Chao complained to himself in his heart, when Sun Quanjun appeared in front of Ma Chao's defense line just now, the greedy Ma Chao did not immediately order to release a smoke signal, until the first wave of Sun Quanjun's attack was repulsed, Ma Chao let his subordinates light the smoke, and now the situation has changed abruptly, if Dong Zhuojun's brigade can't arrive in time, then Sun Quanjun is likely to break through his own defense line.
"Kill!" A burst of shouts erupted in Sun Quanjun's army, a barbed wire fence nearly 100 zhang long was completely torn off, a large number of Sun Quanjun soldiers rushed into Dong Zhuo's army formation with the corpses of their companions, and the two sides fought together, Ma Chao had no choice but to go into battle in person, join the fighting group, spears and thorns, Sun Quanjun's soldiers fell one after another, but Ma Chao also had to admire the courage of Sun Quanjun's soldiers, even if they fell to the ground, they would desperately hug Dong Zhuojun's soldiers' legs, so that their companions could start, Dong Zhuojun's victory was unwilling to fight hard, For a while, the momentum was completely overwhelmed by Sun Quanjun, and he was forced to retreat again and again.
Seeing that they could escape, Sun Quan and Zhou Yu secretly rejoiced on the boat, at this time, there was a sudden shouting of killing on the northern lake, more than twenty terrible five-tooth warships and a child and mother warship lined up, and they were approaching Sun Quan's fleet, Sun Quan was so frightened that his soul was scattered, and he shouted repeatedly: "Retreat, retreat!" The flagship of Sun Quan's army quickly turned around and fled quickly to the southwest, and at this moment, the commanders of the other Sun Quanjun warships were all Sun Quan or Sun Jing's descendants and henchmen, seeing that Sun Quan and Sun Jing took the lead in escaping, they hurriedly commanded the sailors to follow. And the soldiers of Sun Quanjun, who fought bloodily with Dong Zhuojun on the shore, were dumbfounded, almost unable to believe their eyes, Dong Zhuojun took the opportunity to counterattack, and gradually gained the upper hand on the battlefield.
"Brothers in Jiangdong, Sun Quan has done this to all of you, do you still have to work for Sun Quan?" After driving the Sun Quanjun soldiers on the shore back to the beach, Ma Chao ordered the soldiers to suspend the attack, and personally shouted at the remnants of Sun Quanjun's soldiers: "His Royal Highness King Kang has already ordered that as long as you surrender, you are not allowed to be killed, and you will be given food and travel expenses, so that you can go home to plow the fields and fish, and live a peaceful life, what are you still hesitating, surrender is your only way out." ”
"The general said that those who surrender to you will be eaten by the Dong Demon King." One of the soldiers of Sun Quanjun said boldly, and the other soldiers of Sun Quanjun echoed one after another, all of them hesitating.
Ma Chao had heard the rumors of Dong Boss eating people before, so he couldn't help but smile, turned his head and shouted to the rear team: "Among you, there are former Jiangdong soldiers who surrendered in Poyang, come out and say to them, are we going to arrest you and give them to eat?" ”
Hundreds of former Sun Quanjun, who surrendered to Dong Zhuojun in Poyang City and then joined Dong Zhuojun, rushed forward and shouted to Sun Quanjun's soldiers: "Brothers, don't believe those nonsense words of Sun Quan, after the king's army caught us, they didn't kill a single person, the old and the old, all the money and food were sent home, and we also took the initiative to join the king's army, because in the future, after we retire from the army, everyone can get ten acres of land to cultivate, brothers, surrender, don't be deceived by Sun Quan again, don't give him his life again!" Behind us, the king's army has prepared a hot meal for you, as well as Lang Zhong and medicine. ”
Sun Quanjun soldiers, you look at me, I look at you, unconsciously, the weapon in the hand of a Sun Quanjun soldier fell to the ground, as if infected by him, one after another Sun Quanjun soldiers threw down their weapons, and finally all knelt down in front of Dong Zhuojun, and after Dong Zhuojun disarmed them, he immediately brought them hot corn steamed buns and jerky, and the military doctors rushed to give them medicine and bandage their wounds......
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"Brothers, surrender, don't be deceived by Sun Quan anymore, don't sell his life anymore!"
In the middle of the night of the same day, the desperate Sun Quanjun was completely surrounded by Dong Zhuojun's navy on a small island in the middle of Poyang Lake, Sun Quanjun's big ships had all been loaded on the warship trebuchet and destroyed, leaving only some small boats hanging on the shore, and Sun Quanjun's army went up to Sun Quan Zhou Yu and down to ordinary soldiers, all of whom were surrounded on this isolated island.
The island in the middle of the lake is not big, only one mile in radius, the remaining three thousand of Sun Quanjun's remnants are crowded on the island, Dong Zhuojun can easily kill a piece of Sun Quanjun's soldiers with a rain of arrows or a stone bullet, but when the enemy is already tied, Kang Peng thought that he had been completely cold before he realized that he still couldn't bear to let these innocent soldiers accompany Sun Quan to death. Therefore, Kang Peng temporarily changed the plan of the attack, ordered the men to cook a large amount of food and put it in the bow of the ship, and ordered the soldiers who had already surrendered to go up and recruit the soldiers of Sun Quan's army to surrender.
"Brothers, I am the seriously injured person who was thrown into the water by the Sun Quan." A soldier of Sun Quan's army approached the island in a small boat, holding an iron horn and shouting to the island: "The king's army has saved me, healed my wounds, and fed me." Brothers, don't give your life to Sun Quan and Zhou Yu, who have lost their conscience, surrender, this is the king's kindness, otherwise you can only accompany Sun Quan to die. ”
"Sanhuzi, I'm your eldest brother." Another Sun Quanjun surrendered and shouted: "I have surrendered to the king, the king's army is very good to me, don't believe Sun Quan said that the king eats people, your second brother was thrown into the water by Sun Quan and drowned because of serious injuries, come over quickly, let's go home and fish together." ”
"Second brother." A soldier of Sun Quanjun ran down the island in the middle of the lake crying, and ran towards the surrendered soldier who shouted just now, and the supervising team led by Sun Jing immediately caught up, drew a knife and slashed at him, "Surrender to the enemy, damn it!" The soldier rolled on the ground, crying and shouting, "Second brother, second brother." One of the Overseers stepped on his shoulder and slashed at him with a sword, and the soldier shouted at the same time as the soldier who began to shout, but the Overseer's knife flew into the air, and an arrow flew from afar, hitting him in the chest, and Sun Jing's own soldier shook and turned over and fell to the ground.
"Brothers, Sun Quan doesn't treat us as human beings at all, let's surrender to the king." A soldier of Sun Quanjun, who was holding a horned bow in his hand, stood up and shouted, he had just shot Sun Jing's own soldier.
"Kill him!" Zhou Yu stepped forward, pointed at the bow-wielding soldier and shouted, Zhou Yu understood how serious the consequences of the army's shaking spirit were. Sun Jing's own soldiers surrounded the bow-wielding soldier, but beside the bow-wielding soldier, more Sun Quanjun soldiers stood up and shouted together, "Kill Sun Quan!" Kill Zhou Yu! Surrender to the King! ”
"Kill Sun Quan! Kill Zhou Yu, we have to surrender to the king! "Of the more than 3,000 remnants of Sun Quan's army, three adults are starting to shout at this moment! And more people directly cut the knife into the body of Sun Quan and Zhou Yu's personal soldiers!
"The king is wise!" Seeing the mutiny of Sun Quanjun's soldiers on the island, Dong Zhuojun, who was still dissatisfied with Kang Peng's behavior at first, praised Kang Peng together, but Kang Peng's ugly face was colorless, but he slowly said in his heart: "Self-inflicted, don't live!" ”