Chapter 23: The Battle of Hangzhou (Part II)
Xu Guanzhong shouted at the soldiers.
"Come, get the wounded brother for treatment!"
"The rest of the people continue to attack!"
"Continue to attack, and the enemy must not be given a chance to breathe!"
When the Liangshan army stepped up its attack on Hangzhou City, nearly 100 swordfish warships crossed the Qiantang River.
A large part of these swordfish battles were captured by attacking Dengzhou, and some were made by themselves and transferred from Liangshan Shuibo.
The Qiantang River is narrower and narrower the upstream of the river, and the tide is turbulent, the water level is not deep, and there is more sediment. Large ships can't get through, only small ships can be navigated.
Because of this, Xu Guanzhong and they could not take a sea ship to directly attack Hangzhou City, and could only go ashore in Qiantang County.
After the navy sent the 6th Corps of Liangshan and a part of the 9th Corps ashore with sea ships and swordfish warfare.
In addition to leaving 300 people to take care of those precious ships, nearly 600 sailors took these swordfish battles and sailed towards the city of Hangzhou.
Li Jun, who had just arrived in Jiangnan two days ago and was in charge of commanding the navy to attack Hangzhou City, sat on a swordfish battle pole and looked at the water anxiously.
Just as he was fidgeting a little while waiting, Jiang Li suddenly poked out his head.
The man came out of the river, grabbed the plank with both hands, and with a strong grip, the whole person turned over on the battlefield.
Seeing him, Li Jun was immediately overjoyed.
Zhang Shun, who jumped on the boat, shouted at Li Jun: "Xu Junshi's side has already done it!" ”
When Li Jun heard this, he immediately shouted:
"Brothers, since the establishment of our navy, we have always been treated as a sea transport carriage, but it is only responsible for transportation, and it is not taken seriously by anyone in the first place. Today, it is rare for military advisors to value and entrust such a heavy task to our navy. Today we must not lose the face of our Navy. As soon as the military order sounded, the whole army rushed desperately and captured the city of Hangzhou in one fell swoop. Take the city of Hangzhou, I will give credit to the brothers! Sail and besiege the city! ”
"Yes!"
The swordfish battle sailed for more than an hour, entered the waterway from the Qiantang River, and saw the water gate of Hangzhou City from a distance.
Because the thieves attacked fiercely on the side of Chongxinmen, there were only more than 500 Song soldiers on the side of Hangzhou City's security guard Watergate.
A soldier at the Water Gate was anxious when he was anxious to hear all kinds of news from Chongxinmen, and he looked up and saw a large number of boats suddenly appearing on the waterway. He shouted in horror: "My lord, there is an unknown ship ahead!" ”
"My lord, the ship is approaching us!"
"They're fast!"
The shouts of his subordinates immediately attracted the attention of Ma Tie, the battalion commander guarding the water gate.
Ma Tie hurriedly ran to the side of the women's wall and looked at the waterway.
He saw countless boats speeding towards this direction on the three-zhang wide waterway.
"Damn it, it must be an accomplice of such a thief. Close the floodgates and send someone to inform the general! Ma Tie let out an exclamation.
With Ma Tie's shout, Song Bing immediately untied the thick rope.
With a "bump", the iron gate of the water gate was suddenly lowered and the water gate was closed.
Seeing that the water gate was closed, Ma Tie hurriedly shouted: "Prepare for battle, you must not let this gang of thieves rush into the city"
The Liangshan soldiers rowed desperately with the oars, and with the blessing of the wind, the swordfish battle was like an arrow from the string and rushed straight to the water gate!
Seeing that the thief's ship was very fast, Ma Tie shouted.
"Open the arrows, don't let them come close!"
Suddenly, the arrows on the head of the city were like locusts, enveloping the ships of the Liangshan Navy.
The water gate was closed, but the arrows on the head of the city were constantly harvesting the lives of their sailors.
But Zhang Heng, who rushed to the forefront, pulled out a horizontal knife specially made for water warfare, and while resisting the arrows, he hissed and roared: "Lao Tzu put his words here, whoever fucking retreats at this time, don't blame Lao Tzu for not being emotional." Don't wait for the military judge, Lao Tzu will feed their Shenjiang fish first! Keep going, fight to the death! ”
The Liangshan soldiers rowed desperately, cheering themselves up with their roars.
"Quick, full speed ahead, approach Watergate!"
Li Jun, who was in charge of commanding the navy, also roared: "The archers suppress the Song soldiers for me!" ”
The two sides fired arrows at each other, and the sharp arrows continued to harvest the lives of the soldiers on both sides, and many soldiers were hit by arrows and plunged into the waterways, staining the river red.
Although it was a confrontational shot, the undulating water surface made the Liangshan archers have a worse hit rate and suffered more casualties.
But even so, they continued to shoot at the head of the Water Gate, as long as they could give Song Bing a little more threat, it was equivalent to buying their companions an extra moment.
In order not to waste the desperate efforts of their archers, they fought back and provided themselves with support.
Zhang Shun's roar, "Brothers, rush forward at all costs!" ”
All the brothers on the boat were desperately, desperately rowing the boat, and under the efforts of the sailors, the swordfish battle was like the same wind approaching the security water gate!
Seeing this gang of thieves rushing straight to the water gate regardless of it, Ma Tie at the head of the city was very puzzled.
What are these thieves trying to do?
The floodgates of the Water Gate were closed, and they were made of iron bars as thick as goose eggs. The slashing continued, and the ship could not be destroyed.
These thieves rushed under the water gate, and they were only blocked by iron bars in front of the water gate. At that time, the defenders at the head of the city took the opportunity to throw down their torches, and not only the ships, but also the thieves who carried them were burned to death.
Seeing the thieves attacking the water gate regardless of it, Ma Tie thought to himself: These thieves are not used to water warfare at all, so they stupidly think that they can rely on these small boats to break through the water gate and rush into the city!
"A bunch of idiots!" Ma Tie said sarcastically: "Prepare torches, and then use the sea of fire to send them on their way!" ”
Just as Ma Tie asked his subordinates to prepare torches, he heard the exclamation of his subordinates: "My lord, you see that a ship has rushed out!" ”
When he was only more than twenty steps away from the water gate, the other swordfish warriors stopped rowing, and only the three swordfish warriors that had been guarded before rushed out and rushed straight to the water gate.
Tong Wei and Tong Meng are good at driving boats, Tong Wei and Tong Meng's hands of the boat pulp rowed hard, they drove the swordfish war boat like a swordfish from the three swordfish wars, and rushed out and went straight to the gate of the water gate.
Ma Tie was startled, and hurriedly looked at the swordfish war.
He saw that the swordfish battle was filled with barrels bound in cowhide.
Although Ma Tie didn't know what exactly was in these barrels, he knew that the three swordfish battle swords, which were carefully protected and covered by other ships, would definitely not be a good thing.
Ma Tie shouted, "Stop it!" Stop it! ”
The Song soldiers at the head of Watergate City also became panicked, and they shot as many arrows as they could at the three swordfish wars, doing everything possible to block the approach of the clippers.
Not only is the swordfish battle fast approaching, but the ship is also reinforced with shields and cowhides, which makes the arrows much less threatening to the rowing Liangshan soldiers.
These three sailors of the swordfish war, everyone gritted their teeth, their faces were swollen, and they just waved the boat pulp in their hands desperately.
Completely ignoring the threat of arrows, they have only one goal in mind: to rush to Watergate!
"Brothers, rush forward!"
As Zhang Shun roared, all the brothers burst out with full strength and roared.
Seeing that the swordfish battle was about to hit the water gate, Zhang Shun suddenly shouted, "Ignition!" Jump ship! ”
With this roar, the sailors knocked over the marquee and the ship was set on fire.
As soon as the sailors of the swordfish battle saw the fire, they immediately jumped into the water and swam back desperately in the water.
Under the blowing of the wind and the inertia, the swordfish warlord continued to rush towards the water gate at a rapid pace.
Touch!
The swordfish battle slammed into the water gate one after another, and then it took less than a few breaths.
When the open flame on the ship encountered flammable materials, the fire suddenly burst into the sky, and then there was a loud bang.
The water gate was as if the axe of the giant spirit god had been smashed down, and the water gate city wall suddenly burst, and a column of water burst out on the water surface, and then the huge stones were lifted into the sky with the sound of whirring wind, and fell from the sky with an unstoppable momentum. The waterway also rolled up a violent wave, pushing the swordfish war up the wave and falling again, rippling and chaotic.
Under this deafening explosion, even the Liang Shan army, who was a little far away, was a little dizzy, not to mention the Song soldiers who were at the center of the explosion.
Nearly 200 Song soldiers were directly killed in the explosion, blown up, broken limbs, and even smashed their heads with blood and brains stained on those rubble, and many fell into the waterways, red and white, and even more terrifying and disgusting.
There were also more than 100 Song soldiers, although the surface of their bodies was intact, but they were bleeding from all five holes, and they were lying on the ground motionless. They were all directly shocked to death by the shock wave caused by the explosion.
The Song soldiers, who were far away, turned from stunned to frightened, and they were lucky not to be killed by the explosion, and they screamed and fled from the water gate with their heads in their hands.
The Liangshan Navy was also frightened by the explosion at first, and only then did they come back to their senses when they heard Song Bing's frightened screams.
Seeing the water gate blown up, the Song soldiers fell into fear and confusion.
Li Jun stood up suddenly, and pointed forward with the horizontal knife in his hand:
"Siege!"
Zhang Heng held his horizontal knife high and said sharply: "Brothers, follow me!" ”
The sailors rowed hard again, and the swordfish battle sword immediately rushed towards the water gate that had been blown up and there was a gap in the avenue.
The battalion commander in charge of guarding the water gate has been killed, and no one is coming to stop the continued assault of the Liangshan navy.
"Come ashore and kill!" Zhang Heng hurriedly shouted loudly.
As soon as the sailors of the Liangshan Navy rushed through the water gate, they immediately approached the shore with the swordfish battle sword, and they jumped ashore with their weapons and rushed towards the Song soldiers.
As soon as he landed ashore, Zhang Heng roared and shouted loudly, commanding the navy to continue to advance!
The Liangshan soldiers jumped onto the shore one after another, and the Song soldiers' geographical advantage of occupying the head of the city was completely lost.
Not only did the Liangshan soldiers have the upper hand in numbers, but their brave and fierce fighting made the Song soldiers unable to resist at all.
Under such a ferocious attack, the Song soldiers were frightened and fled.
Li Zhong and Zhou Tong, who were originally staying at the last swordfish battle, heard that the water gate had been blown up, and they immediately told the two thousand Liangshan troops to rush through the water gate and go ashore.
But when they came ashore, they found that after the Liangshan soldiers conquered the water gate, they killed the city.
Li Zhong and Zhou Tong suddenly stomped their feet and shouted, "Hey, wait for us." Okay, you are responsible for blowing up the water gate, and we are responsible for cooperating with the military division to seize the city of Hangzhou! ”
Li Jun and Zhang Heng listened there, pretended not to hear, and continued to kill towards the city, killing towards Chongxinmen, so as to cooperate with Xu Guanzhong and them to conquer Hangzhou City.
Li Zhong and Zhou Tong saw that Li Jun and Zhang Heng had no intention of stopping at all, and immediately shouted loudly: "Brothers, don't let those guys in the navy rob us of our credit, otherwise we will let other corps know." Where will our Ninth Corps still have face in the future? Hurry up for Lao Tzu and rush ahead of them! ”
Hearing the general's order, the Ninth Corps immediately spread their steps and ran forward vigorously.
Li Jun and Zhang Heng saw Li Zhong and Zhou Tong behind them catching up, and they also shouted again and again: "Run faster, the credit we have won cannot be snatched away by others!" Even if you run away, you will die in the city! ”
For a time, the sailors of the Liangshan Navy and the soldiers of the Ninth Corps of Liangshan desperately competed, and they all wanted to run to Chongxinmen as soon as possible, attack the Song army from behind, and then take the city gate and make the first contribution.
They all wanted to run to Chongxinmen and turn a blind eye to the Song soldiers who fled along the road.
Zhe Kecun is still fighting at Chongxinmen to resist the Liangshan army, but he doesn't know that the security water gate has been captured.
However, Yang Jian knew it for the first time.
The guard warrior he supported rushed into the main hall and shouted: "My lord, it's not good, the thieves have conquered the water gate and have already entered the city!" ”
Yang Jian jumped up and shouted when he heard the startle, "What did you say?" The Water Gate has been breached, and the thieves are entering the city! ”
The Guardian shouted, "Yes, my lord. Let's run away, Hangzhou can't hold it! ”
Yang Jian stomped his feet and scolded: "Damn it, I swore to the official that I could defend Hangzhou City, but I didn't expect that I didn't even hold it for half a day, and it was conquered by thieves!" The official is going to impeach him! ”
The Guardian Warrior shouted anxiously, "My lord, now is not the time to talk about this, run away while the thieves haven't noticed us yet!" ”
Yang Jian also came back to his senses and hurriedly shouted: "Yes, quickly protect this official out of the city!" ”
"Yes, sir!"
The guards hurriedly escorted Yang Jian out of Qianhu Gate and ran towards Anji Prefecture.
Chongxinmen, although the Liangshan army attacked very fiercely, but the strong city wall, coupled with the city defense equipment and materials of Hangzhou City, are also quite complete and sufficient.
It is precisely because of this that it can withstand the fierce attack of the Liangshan army.
When Zhe Kecun was struggling to resist Liangshan's attack, he suddenly heard a commotion from the city behind him, and then he heard it. "Oh no, the thieves are coming up from behind!"
Hearing this, his face was full of astonishment, and he hurriedly turned around and looked behind him, only to see that thousands of thieves were quickly killing from the city, from the stone steps to the city.
A Song soldier who had just run down from the city was slashed by Zhang Heng, screamed and fell down the stone steps, and couldn't get up again.
Zhang Heng hacked a Song soldier to death with a knife, and continued to kill the city without hesitation.
Zhang Heng held a knife majestic. Blood splattered as the knife slashed.
"Kill!"
More and more Liangshan soldiers came up, and the Song soldiers could only throw themselves into the battle in embarrassment.
Zhe Kecun's heart was full of doubts: "Where did these thieves come from?" ”()
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