Xu Sheng left a few fighting ships to clean up the battlefield and watch over the prisoners, while the rest of the warships continued to chase downstream, and I heard that there were many men and horses of the Kwantung Coalition Army on those civilian ships.

Guo Jia and others saw the final outcome of the Jizhou Navy from a distance on the retreating civilian boat.

Feeling a deep fear of the combat effectiveness of the Central Army's naval warships, Lu Bu's army is not only good at fighting on land, but also so powerful on rivers, lakes and seas, is it really destiny?

Seeing that those Mengchong warships, after breaking through the formation of the Jizhou naval army, rushed downstream.

These civilian ships were already not fast, and they carried a lot of Kwantung coalition troops, so they ran even slower.

While they were struggling to flee for their lives, several warships of the Jizhou Navy that were the first to escape suddenly stopped, as if they had hit something.

The boat bosses on the civilian boats are very puzzled, there are no reefs in this section of the Yellow River waterway!

Someone on the ship shouted in despair: "Iron cable, there is a iron cable in the river!" ”

It turned out that Lü Bu had already placed six barrage cables in each of the two sections of the Yellow River waterway, Dayang and Quanjiuli.

Usually it sinks to the bottom of the river, and when necessary, it is twisted high with a huge winch.

Now Guo Jia and their people are stopped by the six iron cables of the Dayang River, and there have long been people from the Central Army who have been ambushing on both sides of the river, and when their fleet passes, they will raise the iron cables.

Although the method of blocking the river is very stupid, it is very practical, and without preparation, it cannot be broken in a short time.

Just when the civilian boats were crowded in a chaotic manner, the Mengchong warships of the Central Army and Navy had already rushed up, each crashing into the target they had chosen.

Naturally, the production requirements of civilian ships are not as strict as those of warships, and the materials and processes used are also very different.

Meng Chong collided with the civilian boat, and the civilian ship was directly torn apart, and the sailors, cavalry and horses of the Kwantung coalition army fell into the Yellow River one after another.

Most of the soldiers of the Kwantung Coalition Army are northerners, and they don't know the nature of water, so it's better to be able to struggle a few times on a war horse!

Guo Jia looked at it and immediately decided, "All the ships are docked, everyone goes ashore, quickly, go ashore, the boat is gone." ”

Guo Jia's choice and judgment are of course very wise and decisive, but unfortunately it backfired!

Civilian ships are not like naval warships, organized and disciplined, and crowded together one after another.

Guo Jia sent a soldier who knew how to inform the boats, and then ordered his ship to dock first.

Fortunately, Zhao Fu had let these civilian boats wait on the north bank of the Yellow River before, and it was not far from the shore when they fled.

Under the coercion and temptation of the Kwantung coalition army, these civilian ships docked one after another, and many of them even ran aground on the beach, and Guo Jia rushed to the shore under the protection of Xiahou Yuan, Cao Ren, Lu Yi and others.

Immediately ordered someone to blow the rallying horn, so that all the officers and soldiers of the Kwantung Coalition on the civilian ship knew what to do!

All the civilian ships rushed to the shore, and the Meng Chong of the Central Army fired at the enemy with their crossbows while ramming the ships that had not yet docked.

The fighting ships and building ships behind also gradually chased after them, and the shore was shallow, and they did not dare to get too close to the shore, so they used repeaters, ballistas and even trebuchets to start bombarding the Kwantung coalition forces that had already landed or were going ashore.

On the other side, the boat was lowered, and the soldiers carrying the assault brigade began to board the civilian boat to clear the enemy above.

Because Meng Chong was also mixed in the pile of civilian boats, the trebuchets only bombarded the enemy on the shore.

Xu Sheng ordered all Meng Chong to withdraw from the battle, the enemy was already close to the shore, and it didn't matter much whether he hit or sink.

The cavalry of the Kwantung Coalition Army, which had not yet had time to go ashore, engaged the soldiers of the assault brigade on the ship, and suffered a great loss.

They used the weapons of their horses and could not use them, and the undulating deck also made them unstable on their feet, and the central army, which was agile and handy, had an absolute advantage. One by one, the Kwantung Army was killed by swords and arrows.

Guo Jia saw that the trebuchets and ballistae of the Central Army's naval division were too fierce, so he retreated inland, not daring to assemble on the shore again.

When the remnants of the Kwantung Coalition Army were gone, Xu Sheng ordered the long-range attack to be stopped, and all the sailors and shipowners on the civilian ships, including the soldiers of the Kwantung Coalition Army, were wiped out either dead or surrendered.

Xu Sheng also didn't let the assault brigade go ashore to chase after him, after all, when it came to land, everyone was cavalry, and it would be unwise to fight hard.

He sent a report to Lü Bu about today's battle, and sent scouts to track the whereabouts of the rest of the Kwantung Coalition Army.

Guo Jia was under the escort of the generals, but he was in danger and unharmed, but the Kwantung Coalition Army that went with him suffered heavy losses.

After waiting for a long time and confirming that no one came to return to the team, the casualties began to be counted, and the final result was very painful.

Of the 15,000 Kwantung Coalition Army at the time of departure, only 2,000 cavalry members of the Cao Army remained, some of whom had no horses.

Yuan Shaojun's cavalry was only 2,000 left, but there were still 3,000 people left in the first camp of Liyi, and there were not all horses.

Many people in Koyi's first camp knew a little about water, but many people survived.

There were only 7,000 people left, and on the north bank of the Yellow River, it was impossible for Chang'an to go.

How to safely return to the territory controlled by the Kwantung Coalition is the top priority in front of us!

This is the territory of Hedong County, and the entire Sili School Captain Department is under the control of the Central Army, and it is necessary to travel thousands of miles to return to Jizhou through the counties controlled by the Central Army.

After discussing with several generals, Guo Jia felt that it was better to stay away from the banks of the Yellow River, after all, after the defeat of the water division, the entire Yellow River waterway was under the control of the water division of the Central Army.

Guo Jia decided to march at the foot of Wangwu Mountain and Taihang Mountain.

In this way, all the way to the east, the direction will not be wrong, and it is far away from the riverbank, which is very safe.

Because they are all cavalry, they still move very quickly, and although they are controlled by the Central Army, the soldiers and horses have been transferred to the front line of Tiger Pass, and even the local garrison brigades have been transferred.

Therefore, the cavalry of the Kwantung Coalition Army was unimpeded along the way, and even after entering the jurisdiction of Hanoi County, it was still safe and sound.

Everyone was even more sure that the rear of the Central Army was empty, and if it were not for the Yellow River blocking, it would not be impossible to hit Chang'an.

Guo Jia's mind has also been put on thinking about what to do next after returning to the coalition army.

The naval army failed, and the idea of attacking Chang'an was also shattered, is it really exhausted?

Seeing the tremendous power of the three-story building ships of the Central Army, especially the huge power of the trebuchets on the building ships, he had no confidence in the siege weapons such as thunderbolts and wells that the Kwantung Coalition Army was building.

He didn't think that the power of the Thunderbolt was as great as the trebuchet of the Central Army, and the storming of the Tiger Prison Pass might still be empty in the end, maybe it was time to plan for the future earlier, such as...

After Shanyang County first, and then Xiuwu County, as long as you pass the Chaoge in front of you, you can return to Jizhou.

Liyang is Yuan Shao's naval army, and there are always warships that can send his group back to the south bank of the Yellow River.

When the Kwantung Coalition Army was galloping all the way, it suddenly heard the sound of horns in front of it, and many cavalrymen in the uniform of the Central Army appeared on the hillsides on both sides of the road.

Immediately afterward, a horn sounded in the rear, and many cavalry of the Central Army rushed out from the dense forest they had just passed.

The front and rear combined were 16,700 cavalry, twice as many as the Kwantung coalition army.

Including Guo Jia, all the generals of the Eastern Coalition Army were speculating about where such a large-scale cavalry came from? Shouldn't Hanoi County be the same rear emptiness?