Chapter 598: Reinforcements Descend from Heaven
Whether the soldiers of the Song army who were fighting hard against the enemy at the foot of the mountain heard his shout, Yu Yunwen didn't know, and after shouting a few times, his attention was attracted by the big boat coming against the river in the river.
I saw that more than a dozen large ships in front of me quickly rushed into the enemy ships and directly rammed the enemy ships with their huge hulls, and the ships that were hit capsized in an instant, and more than a dozen enemy ships were damaged and sunk in an instant, and several hundred enemy soldiers fell into the rolling Yangtze River.
In a very short period of time, the formation of hundreds of enemy boats was cut in half from the middle, and the front team could not retreat, but could only row desperately to land as soon as possible, and the rear team was stopped and could not advance, so they only circled in the river.
Just when more than a dozen ships in the enemy's front team were desperately trying to dock, several large ships with apricot yellow flags that followed followed first approached the river bank and rushed directly over, blocking the river bank and the enemy ships, and smashing the enemy ship's attempt to land.
Subsequently, the large ships flying the apricot yellow flag passed left and right, and soon completely surrounded the dozen or so ships in the enemy's front team, not allowing them to advance or retreat.
After the encirclement, the bows and crossbows are all up, condescending, and they shoot and kill.
During the encirclement, hundreds of unsheltered enemy soldiers on the enemy ship were quickly shot and killed in the boat, or jumped into the water and drowned in the river.
At the same time, more big ships flying the apricot yellow flag came against the current, rushed into the river in the dilemma of hundreds of enemy ships, rampage, unhindered, unhindered, the enemy ships in front of the big ships are too small to fight back, in the rolling Yangtze River can not withstand the collision of the big ships, either hit in the wrong direction, or between the left and right shakes, directly capsized and sank.
In less than a cup of tea, hundreds of enemy ships were forcibly interrupted in their journey across the river, the front team was destroyed, the central part was in the middle of the river, in a dilemma, waiting for them sooner or later, it was also the result of annihilation, the rear team saw that the Song army's big ship appeared, the crossing of the river was blocked, and they could not parry, so they wanted to turn the bow of the ship and flee back to the other side.
As more large ships flying the apricot yellow flag went upstream, the enemy ships in the river were divided into five or six pieces, not giving them the slightest chance to jointly counterattack or escape.
The enemy ship swayed from side to side, and even if the enemy soldiers wanted to resist, they did not have a second hand to grab the bow and arrow, because they were afraid of falling into the water, and their hands were tightly clung to the boat.
Therefore, the enemy troops in the river, surrounded by large ships, did not resist in the slightest, and either managed to escape, or were shot in the boats.
But once surrounded, escape became an impossible option, and after the ship was bumped, what they held in their hands was no longer wood pulp, so only death awaited them.
Seeing that the ships in front of them could not resist at all, dozens of boats in the rear team turned around and fled.
However, in the midst of the panic, the enemy soldiers who were not very familiar with the water nature, even if they rowed desperately, where could they easily turn the boat over, so the whole rear team was in chaos, some boats were spinning in the river, some turned around and went east, some turned west, some went south, and some went north, colliding with each other, unable to advance or retreat, anxiously, scolding each other, and the scene was even more chaotic.
However, after a while, the enemy soldiers surrounded in the river were completely wiped out by dozens of large ships flying apricot yellow flags, and then they quickly turned their bows and rushed towards the rear line of enemy ships that were still in chaos and colliding with each other.
In an instant, the enemy formation was torn apart, nearly ten enemy ships were destroyed, and people died.
In the same way, rampage, division and encirclement, in a very short period of time, dozens of boats were surrounded, only the last dozen or so boats in the formation, seeing that the situation was wrong, turned the bow of the boat, and rowed desperately, so that they barely escaped from the encirclement of the big ships.
The enemy ships and enemy troops who were divided and surrounded could not escape the result of annihilation, and under the strong suppression of the one-sided, they were all reimbursed in the rolling Yangtze River without a single cup of effort.
The broken ships slowly sank into the river, and there was not a single living person on the enemy ships still floating in the river.
The big boat flying the apricot yellow flag quickly turned its bow and sailed to the riverbank of Taiping Ferry.
Seeing a big battle in the middle of the river and hundreds of enemy ships destroyed, Yu Yunwen stood on the top of the mountain where the river breeze was blowing, and was very excited, the Great Song Dynasty was saved!
When he turned his eyes and looked down the mountain, he saw that the Song army, which had been fighting with the enemy for several hours, could no longer resist, and was defeated and retreated more than a mile, and the defensive line they formed was about to be breached, so he immediately went down the mountain and ran towards the ferry.
In the chaotic battle group, the exhausted Song army was still holding on, and although some people fell from time to time, no one wanted to take the initiative to retreat.
"Brothers, the Great Song reinforcements have arrived, hold on! It's all for Lao Tzu to resist! "The commander of the horses had blood on his face, blood on his body, and blood on his hands, both other people's and his own.
He had to win this battle, because hundreds of miles away was his home, and if it was gone, even if he lived, it would have no meaning.
The speed of the Song army's soldiers wielding their knives slowed down, and the enemy army was the same, it was impossible to dodge in the past, because they no longer had the strength to dodge.
How long this desperate battle will last, no one on either side knows.
The Song army knew that the reinforcements were coming, held hope, and waited for rescue, but the enemy also found that the rear army could not land on the shore, and the support was cut off.
So the two sides fought desperately less than two miles away from the ferry, either killing each other or being killed by the other party, and no one knew how long they could hold out.
Yu Yunwen ran from the top of the mountain to the river beach ferry in one go, just as a big ship flying the apricot yellow flag docked.
Immediately shouted loudly: "Are you reinforcements from Jiankang?" There are thousands of enemy troops two miles away, and the defenders are almost unable to resist! ”
As soon as his words fell, a general on the bow deck raised his hand and said, "We are from Zhenjiang!" ”
The general then waved his hand and said, "Brothers, land ashore and destroy the invading enemy!" ”
After saying that, when he ran down the deck first, he didn't have time to take a closer look at the red-clothed officials on the shore, so he ran along the ferry road, and the soldiers on the ship followed closely, and dozens of people rushed to support as soon as possible.
At the same time, the second large ship was docked beside it, and as soon as the bridge was lowered, the soldiers rushed off the boat, followed the figure of the front team, and went straight to the battlefield.
In a short time, seven or eight ships docked, and they did not waste time in greeting the red-clothed officials on the shore, almost all of them rushed to the battlefield two miles away as fast as they could.
"Kill!"
"Kill!"
"Kill!"
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With the high-pitched, sky-piercing shouts of killing sounded outside the chaotic battle group, the enemy and us in the chaotic battle were even more panicked, whose reinforcements? Anyone at the center of the melee has questions.
But soon, both sides found out that it was the Song army.
"Brothers, reinforcements have arrived! Kill! ”
In an instant, the enemy army fell into the Great Song Dynasty soldiers, surrounded by the front and back, and only the fate of destruction awaited them.
The vigorous reinforcements of the Great Song Dynasty continued to join the battle group, and the exhausted enemy army was the opponent, and lay down on the ground as soon as he saw it, and the situation on the battlefield quickly reversed.
A quarter of an hour later, the entire battlefield was completely controlled by reinforcements, and nothing but annihilation awaited the enemy.
At Taiping Ferry, Yu Yunwen stood awkwardly on the shore for nearly two quarters of an hour, and finally waited for someone who was willing to talk to him.
"The last general, the commander of the Jingwu Army and the commander of the reinforcements on the Jiangxi Road in Zhenjiang, Yang Congyi, has seen my lord!" The one who came to Yu Yunwen to greet him was Yang Congyi, the elite army after the fierce battle in Jiangzhong.
Yu Yunwen couldn't hide the joy of the rest of his life after the catastrophe, and hurriedly stepped forward, holding Yang Congyi who was clasping his fists and saluting with both hands, and said excitedly: "You came too timely!" If it is half an hour late, or a quarter of an hour, Taiping Ferry and Taiping Prefecture will be lost, and the consequences will be unimaginable! You have just annihilated hundreds of enemy ships and thousands of people in the river, I can see it clearly when I go up the mountain, you are the heroes of the Great Song Dynasty, without you, Taiping Prefecture would be lost today! It's so timely, so timely! On behalf of the Song Dynasty court and the people, I thank you! ”
As he spoke, the corners of his eyes moistened.
Yang Congyi hurriedly excused himself and said: "Adults don't have to be like this, as a soldier, it is my duty to protect my family and defend the country." It's a pity that we hurried and hurried, or we were one step late, and let the enemy go ashore! ”
"It's not too late, it's not too late, the enemy army crossing the river is only more than a thousand people, and they haven't been able to rush into Taiping City, and the general is leading reinforcements at the right time!" Yu Yunwen hurriedly relieved.
"My lord, how many defenders are there in Taiping Prefecture? How did you get more than a thousand enemy troops ashore? Yang Congyi was shocked when he heard this.
Yu Yunwen shook his head and sighed: "The city is full of stragglers who have withdrawn from Luzhou and Hezhou, and there is no food and no one to lead it, so it is a mess. I also arrived at Taiping City at noon yesterday, and seeing that the situation was in crisis, I temporarily pulled a group of stragglers to the ferry to set up defenses, not wanting the enemy to cross the river early this morning. Now I am afraid that if the ferry is undefended, then more than 1,000 enemy troops will directly enter Taiping City, and this ferry will also be lost. When the general asked how many defenders there were, I could only say that there were three or four thousand stragglers, and only more than 1,000 were willing to go out of the city to fight. Now that you have come, I am relieved! ”
"The lord can fortify the riverside in time to resist the enemy army, and the last general will admire! If there were no adults and the crossing was occupied by the enemy, even if we arrived, we would have to go around in the river, and when we found a suitable crossing, the enemy's army would have landed, and our thousands of men would not be able to stop the enemy's army. If there are no available soldiers in the city, it will be difficult for adults! ”
Yang Congyi didn't know what to say, Wan Yanliang was stationed in Hezhou with hundreds of thousands of soldiers, and the Taiping Prefecture on the opposite side didn't even have a complete defender, how could there be a reason to be undefeated, if it was to get to the bottom of it, it was still a problem caused by the lords and surrenderers of the DPRK and China who tried their best to suppress the army and generals, but at this moment, it was not the time to find out the reason with the red-clothed officials and look for the problem.
"Let's not talk about these for a while, the enemy on the opposite side has hundreds of thousands of soldiers, and he has been preparing for a long time, and if he encounters obstacles in crossing the river today, he will definitely not give up, and General Yang will have a way to retreat from the enemy?"
Although the enemy is temporarily blocked from crossing the river for the first time, the crisis in Taiping Prefecture is still there, and Yu Yunwen does not dare to take it lightly.