The battle of Mud Dun Lake lasted from early morning to nightfall, when the enemy army retreated.

Looking at the burning warships on the lake, looking at the corpses floating on the lake, Gao Chengyuan wanted to cry without tears.

The 26 main warships of the Left Fifth Tooth Army are all carrying more than 1,000 stones, and the hull adopts a watertight cabin structure, with 12 to 16 compartments inside, and the hull adopts a large number of fine iron components, which can be said to be extremely strong.

Several boats were burned through the fire and barely floated on the surface of the lake without sinking to the bottom.

The roof of the cabin is equipped with a number of scorpion cannons, which can throw 30 catties of standard fire oil canisters and stone bullets to 200 paces away, and the bed crossbow can shoot through the two-inch thick ship board within 100 steps, not to mention that the main warship is composed of one to two hundred soldiers, and the proportion of strong bows and arm crossbows is also much higher than that of the horse infantry army.

It is only in the open waters that these warships can give full play to their combat effectiveness.

However, trapped in the deep waters of the center of Nidun Lake, surrounded by their own dense small and medium-sized warships, the main warships of the Left Fifth Tooth Army were more like clumsy targets at this time, and became the target of the enemy's constant fire attacks from all directions.

At this time, like wolves, they are attacking their ships distributed on the periphery, looking for gaps to attack, and what makes Gao Chengyuan even more headache is that any enemy ship full of hay and watered with fire oil is ignited and floats from the downwind direction, which can make them jump for a while in the middle of the lake.

It was also at this time that Gao Chengyuan profoundly realized how stupid it was to concentrate the main force of a naval division and forcibly attack Zhongli City from the eastern lake region to the plan proposed by Li Pu, the Duke of Changguo.

Even if he could stick to his own opinion, divide the Left Wuya Army Naval Division into five divisions of the Left Wuya Army according to the most traditional battle, and control the surrounding waters, instead of being self-righteous and vainly trying to win a blow into the mudun lake east of Zhongli City, he would definitely not end up in such an embarrassing and tragic end.

In the water battle that lasted for a day, almost sixty percent of the warning ships and liaison ships that were originally less than 400 stone were still preserved at this time, but only eight of the main warships of more than 1,000 stone were not burned by the fire.

Even if all the people who fell into the water were rescued as much as possible, more than 13,000 sailors, including sailors and sailors, were burned on the surface of the lake or trapped in the warship, and there were still more than 4,000 people.

The most elite naval army in Dachu killed more than thirty percent in one day.

The reason why the fighting spirit of the rest of the people did not collapse was that they were trapped in the mud mound lake, and the water level of the reeds on all sides was even shallower, and only the smaller fishing boats could pass through, not to mention the reeds after winter, which could burn a large area with the wind when lit, and did not give them a chance to scatter and escape at all.

Gao Chengyuan, he himself was also desperately covering the guards, and changed two command ships.

Although the enemy retreated before nightfall, Gao Chengyuan knew that it was not that the enemy army was tired, but that he didn't want them to find a chance to turn defeat into victory in the night.

No matter how stupid Gao Chengyuan was, at this time he also understood that everything in front of him was a trap, and the remnants of the Lou Ship Army were extremely well prepared, mainly attacking the dense ship formation where they could not advance or retreat with all kinds of ignitions, and they suffered heavy casualties, but the casualties of the remnants of the Lou Boat Army were extremely limited.

Their smallest sentinel ship also had a load of 200 stones, and compared with the light boats and stern boats used by the remnants of the Lou Boat Army in this battle, it was also inconvenient to advance and retreat in the shallow lake, and for a whole day, they were unable to organize a decent counterattack, and they were always in a situation of being passively beaten.

Gao Chengyuan stared at the dark lake in the distance with some numbness, thinking that the enemy army would retreat before night, or that the formation of the fleet was chaotic and the morale of the generals was low when the night broke through at night, and he only had the idea of escape in his heart, so it would be more convenient for them to attack from the flank, right?

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Feng Yi stood in the woods on the south bank of Hongzepu, even if there were special telescopes, but the distance was too far, and he could only see the smoke column at dusk and the little remnants of the fire after nightfall, judging that the Zuo Wuya Army Naval Division was not annihilated after a day of fighting, but it was obviously still stuck in the mud dun lake.

"Is it possible for Gao Chengyuan to lead the remnants out of the encirclement?" Han Donghu stood behind Feng Yi and couldn't help but ask.

Gao Chengyuan said that he was a close confidant of Emperor Yanyou, but he, Guo Liang and others had a good relationship with Xuzhou, after all, they had fought side by side many times in the past.

As for the Wuya Army, a considerable number of generals were drawn from the Dragon Bird Army and the Zuoguang German Army.

Seeing that the Left Wuya Army was in a desperate situation, not only could they not come to the rescue, but they could not even remind the warning, which was extremely torturous for Han Donghu and others.

Feng Yi listened to Han Donghu's words, and just smiled in his heart, secretly thinking that if Gao Chengyuan could survive after the war, after knowing many details, he didn't know what kind of resentment he would have in his heart towards Xuzhou who didn't report it, but since Han Qian wanted to be a traitor, he had the consciousness and ruthlessness that he would rather lose the world than let the world bear it.

"Liang Jun's plan is very big, if Gao Chengyuan can lead his troops to break through to the west bank and abandon the ship and land in Zhongli County, he can more or less save a little fire for the Great Chu Sailors, right?" Su Lie said at this time.

Feng Yi turned his head and glanced at Su Lie, thinking that this Su Lie's martial arts might not be as good as Han Donghu, but the overall situation and eyesight were really not bad, and said: "The news of the destruction of the main force of the Great Chu Water Division will soon reach Yangzhou, and we will go back, so we should be ready to withdraw from Baihogang at any time." ”

"I don't know the situation of the water division of the Right Fifth Tooth Army, do you want to send someone to bypass Zhongli County?" Han Donghu asked.

Now that the water war in Hongzepu has been completely fought, it is much easier to infiltrate from the territory of Zhongli County.

"There's nothing to see," Feng Yi said, "The original plan of the Zuo Wuya Army Naval Division was to cover the flank of Gao Chengyuan's department and keep an eye on the movements of the Liang army in Xuzhou, the Liang army naturally had already deployed a net in the waters north of Hongzepu and waited for them to get in, this naval army may die worse than Gao Chengyuan, and in the end they may be able to escape a part of it, so it's cheap to believe in the king!" ”

Although Feng Yu is not as good as Han Qian, Li Yu, and Zhu Yu, he is still confident in confirming how the situation will evolve when it develops to this point.

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Gao Chengyuan was ambushed, and it was impossible to pass through the lake area with complicated water conditions in Hongzepu in a short period of time, send people to fight his way out of the encirclement, and rushed to Zhuyu Bay, where Li Pu, the Duke of Changguo, led the 3,000 cavalry of the Right Shenwu Army to report for help.

Even the soldiers and horses stationed in Huaidong on the west bank of Hongzepu dragged on until dusk the next day, when they saw a large number of corpses of the Great Chu Sailors drifting from the upper reaches of the Huai River (west of Hongzepu), and realized that the situation was wrong, but they did not know the details, so they could only strengthen the defense of the walled cities along the coast.

Around this time, Li Chong was in the field west of Zhongli County when he encountered Gao Chengyuan's messenger who broke through from the west bank to ask for help.

Li Chong intercepted the 2,000 rebel infantry soldiers advancing east of Haozhou City yesterday afternoon, and he only had 1,000 cavalry under his command, so he did not dare to attack directly, but forced the 2,000 rebel infantry to the foot of Jianxiling Mountain on the west side of Zhongli City.

Before noon today, Li Chong joined Gao Long, the commander of the Youshenwu army, who had arrived with 4,000 horse infantry first, and launched a siege on this rebel army.

After a fierce battle that lasted for half a day, they annihilated two thousand rebels.

After Li Chong gathered his generals, he had just counted the results of the battle, and he was hesitant to send someone to inform Chen Mingsheng, urging Chen Mingsheng to lead the 7,000 horse infantry of the Right Shenwu Army to increase the speed of the march, so that they could directly attack Zhongli City, which had less than 1,000 defenders left, before tomorrow.

He never thought that he would encounter a letter sent by Gao Chengyuan at this time, saying that the main force of the Great Chu Water Division had fallen into an ambush circle laid by the rebels in Hongzepu, and suffered heavy casualties?

"How is that possible?" Li Chong waved his knife to cut off a poplar tree with a thick bowl mouth, and asked with a low roar.

If it weren't for the fact that the person who came was Gao Chengyuan's descendant guard, Li Chong had seen this person before, and this person also carried Gao Chengyuan's seal, how could he not believe that the rebels had already laid a net in Hongzepu and waited for the main force of the Great Chu Water Division to enter the city.

"Most of the rebels noticed the change in the main force of the naval division, and sent the remnants of the Lou Boat Army out to fight this battle desperately......" Gao Long arranged for scouts to rush to the west coast of Hongzepu to reconnoiter the enemy's situation, and said with a frown.

There were only more than 1,000 remnants in Zhongli City, and there was no change in Haozhou City, which was more than 70 miles away.

In the direction of Shouzhou, there was a cavalry located in the southwest of Haozhou, but it was closer to Chaozhou City, and it should have been to take the defenders of Chaozhou to retreat north from the west side of the Wujian Mountains.

What's more, it is a full two hundred and twenty or thirty miles away from Jianxi Ridge, and it is always under the surveillance of the scout of the staff department.

On the north bank of the Huai River, there is no sign of a large Liang army gathering, and the current situation is more likely to be as judged by Gao Long, everything should be that the rebels are desperate to escort the remnants of the Lou Boat Army up, use their familiarity with the water situation of Hongzepu, and fight hard with the main force of the Dachu Water Division, and then withdraw into the Huai River.

This can more or less change the situation in which the rebels have been passively beaten for a long time.

"Anyway, we should try to storm Zhongli City tonight, and Gao Chengyuan's troops also need us to deal with it, so that they can abandon the ship and land on the east side of Zhongli City to fight their way out of the siege - if something really is wrong, we will go southeast through Shiliang County, and it will be too late to rush to meet Grandpa Guo!" Xu Jing asserted

Li Chong also knew that from beginning to end, the Changguo Mansion was the main force of the Changguo Mansion to attack Hongzepu as a partial division, if he was timid and cowardly, he would flee back like this, and the main force of the Navy Division would eventually suffer heavy losses, and the spittle spewed out by the government and the opposition could drown his father.

According to Xu Jing and Gao Long's suggestion, they had nearly 5,000 living combat forces, and it was also the right choice to storm Zhongli City, which had only more than 1,000 defenders, and to receive the remnants of the naval division to abandon ships and land on the west bank of Hongzepu to break through......