Chapter 317: There is a wolf in front and a tiger in the back
Since receiving Li Yu's order to blockade the Licheng River, intercept and kill all the Silla troops who tried to cross the Jiangdong. Chen Keju, the www.biquge.info of Pen, Qu and Ge, led the Yellow Sea Fleet to set out from the occupied Silla River Huadao, and sent Monchong warships to patrol the lower reaches of the Licheng River day and night.
As soon as the morning dawned, the remnants of the Silla army on the west bank of the Yeseong River were hurriedly cutting wood and building rafts to cross the river, all of which happened to be discovered by a Monchong warship of the Yellow Sea Fleet patrolling there, and after observing it, they quickly left.
Looking at the departing Mengchong warship, Pin Ri frowned, and the bad premonition became stronger and stronger, in order to prevent changes, he urged the soldiers to speed up the raft and cross the river as soon as possible.
In order to lead the fleet to the crossing point as soon as possible to intercept the river, Chen Keju led the fleet to cruise at the mouth of the Licheng River every morning, which was only more than 14 miles away from the Pinri crossing point.
The patrol boat that had just been dispatched came back in only two quarters of an hour, and Chen Keju pondered, is there a situation?
"Commander, there is a large Silla army on the west bank of the Licheng River, fourteen miles away from here, is cutting wood and building rafts to prepare to cross the river......"
As soon as he boarded the command ship, the captain of the rushing warship, who had discovered the situation, was impatient to tell Chen Keju when he saw it.
"It should be the Silla South Route Army." As soon as Chen Keju heard this, he thought of the way this Silla army came from. After all, there were 30,000 Silla troops who had been reinforced to the north, and they took the road of going north along the Yeseong River, crossing the river at Dogu Fortress upstream, and then entering Seoul in the west, which was more than 100 miles from north to south. The upper reaches of the Licheng River were not navigable at all, and the Silla reinforcements wanted to cross the river and retreat, but Chen Keju could not intercept them.
"How many people are there in the Silla army?"
"The subordinates estimated that there were only five or six thousand men, and the subordinates also found that the Silla army was not in good clothes and armor, and the banner was unknown, as if they had just lost the battle and were in a hurry to escape......
Chen Keju was relieved when he thought about it, "The Silla Southern Route Army retreated after learning of Jin Yuanshu's defeat, and it must have been pursued by Li Shangdan and other troops who intercepted him. ”
"A group of defeated troops want to cross the river on a raft?" Chen Keju chuckled, "This is really a battle feat sent to the door!" ”
"Send an order to the whole army, you can set off and intercept and kill the Silla army!"
"......"
With the raising of the battle flag on the flagship where Chen Keju was sitting, all 50 warships of the Yellow Sea Fleet cruising at the mouth of the Licheng River were dispatched and traced up the river along the Licheng River.
Under Pinri's repeated urging, the soldiers finally drove out a raft that was enough for the whole army to cross the river.
Pinri's heart is slightly relaxed, and the right eyelid jumps straight, as the saying goes, the left eye jumps wealth, the right eye jumps disaster, there must be a catastrophe coming.
What to expect? It must be the crossing of the river today! The worried Pinri did not care about the tired bodies of the soldiers after cutting wood and building rafts, did not give them the slightest time to rest, and ordered the whole army to push the raft into the river and cross the river immediately.
The soldiers grumbled and pushed the rafts into the panting river, each with ten small rafts and more than twenty large rafts, waving shoddy oars and paddling slowly towards the east bank.
Only one-third of the soldiers pushed the raft into the river, and in the stunned eyes of the Silla soldiers, dozens of large ships with the flag of the Tang Army appeared majestically on the Yeesung River, and were rushing to the raft of the Silla Army.
Pin Ri looked at the Tang Army warship in the river that was gradually approaching the raft of his soldiers, and his whole face was suddenly bloodless. Seeing this, Wen Zhong hurriedly ordered the soldiers who had not yet pushed the raft into the river to stop, and at this time crossed the river under the nose of the Tang army's sailors, with no intention of sending sheep to the tiger's mouth.
As for the soldiers who entered the river through the meridians, more than half of them went to the center of the river, and it was no longer necessary to order them to return at this time, and as for whether they could pass the interception and killing of the Tang army's naval division, it could only depend on their luck.
As the commander of the Yellow Sea Fleet, Chen Keju was fortunate enough to be issued a telescope, holding the telescope to observe the Silla army crossing the river, and the smile on the corner of his mouth never stopped.
When he put down the binoculars, Chen Keju ordered: "Order all warships, don't take prisoners, and leave no one behind." ”
Although the warships of the Tang Army were going upstream, but at this time the summer was blowing on the Korean Peninsula and the southwest was blowing, and a large number of warships driven by sails were downwind, coupled with the stern of the boat, the speed was not slow at all, and more than ten Mengchong warships quickly rushed to the front of the raft of the Silla Army going east, blocking its way.
Make a simple raft, on which the Silla soldiers are not accustomed to water warfare and have no water warfare weapons, only poor bows and arrows, where is the opponent of the Tang army's sailors.
In one shot, the Tang Army's Mengchong warships did not use the water warfare equipment on board, and directly collided with the rafts of the Silla Army, overturning dozens of rafts in a row, and the Silla soldiers on the rafts fell into the water one after another. Those who could swim in the water quickly untied their clothes and armor, paddled their hands and tried to swim to the opposite shore, and those who could not swim shouted loudly in horror in the water, begging the Tang army to spare their lives and surrender.
It's a pity that none of the officers and soldiers of the Tang Army understand the Silla language, not to mention that Chen Keju gave an order and left no one behind. The Tang soldiers held spears and crossbows one after another, stabbing and shooting arrows at the Silla soldiers who fell into the water, and bewitching red flowers instantly appeared in the river, and the tragic howls of the Silla soldiers before their deaths were endless.
At this time, the big ships in the Yellow Sea Fleet also rushed over and joined this water hunting feast.
Chen Keju commanded the 500-ton building ship to rampage through the rafts of the Silla army, and many rafts often overturned at the slightest touch, and the Silla soldiers who overturned into the water were aimed at the crossbows of the Tang soldiers on the Chenglou ship as soon as they surfaced, and one after another the arrows were shot at the Silla soldiers who were fluttering in the river as if they did not need money.
When the generals came to ask whether to use the fierce fire oil tank, Chen Keju waved his hand and said with a smile: "Even the Mengchong warship can torture and kill this group of Silla Yi, and the use of fierce fire oil tanks is really a knife to kill chickens." ”
Under the interception and killing of the Tang army, more than 200 Silla rafts rushed to the river were wiped out in less than a quarter of an hour, and the subsequent Silla army was frightened by the souls of the dead, desperately rowing wooden oars, rowing back to the shore before the Tang warships rushed towards them. As for crossing the river? Let's go ashore and ask the generals what to do!
There were more than 2,700 Silla troops who first entered the river on a raft, and less than 1,000 successfully escaped back to shore.
Pinri looked at the river and sighed, today is not able to cross the river.
It happened to be a rainy day, and the sentinel in charge of the guard came to report that more than 2,000 Tang cavalry would arrive at their camp in another quarter of an hour, and asked the general to make a quick decision.
Wen Zhong covered his broken arm, anxiously asking what should Pin Ri do now?
There were wolves in front and tigers in the back, and the Silla army on the shore was in a panic, and many soldiers threw away their armor and rushed to the mountains and forests to the south.
Wen Zhong suggested: "Should our army go to the mountain in the south first and hold on first, and then send an envoy to ask for reinforcements?" ”
"No." Pin Ri vetoed: "Ah Fan Datu is still in Duogu City, our army is only more than 3,000 left, and he can't send troops to help, but now it is a plan, so the whole army can only quickly go north along the river to find a shallow place to cross the river." ”