Chapter 70 The Battlefield of Annihilation (2) Blood-stained Zhangshui
Here, Wang Peng's nearly 100,000 soldiers and horses are also ready, and the vanguard army of 10,000 led by Lu Feng has also driven large and small warships into Zhangshui. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info
Wang Peng saw that it was Li Xin, so he said to him: "You don't command your soldiers and horses on the southern road to cross the river, what are you doing here?"
Li Xin said: "General, just as our army was about to cross the river, we found that the entire Zhangshui was blocked for hundreds of miles by iron cables, and there was a huge iron cone under the iron cables, and once the warships approached, they would face the danger of being stabbed and sunk."
After hearing this, Wang Peng's facial expression did not change, and he only walked out of the camp and looked at the misty river in front of him, at this time, a lieutenant under Lu Feng's account rowed a small boat to report: "There are many more iron cables on the river ahead, and there are huge iron cones in the water, and our warships dare not approach."
Wang Peng continued to look at the river and suddenly laughed: "Could this be the Zhao people who came up with a way to prevent our army from crossing the river, it is strange that they are so stupid and undefeated."
So he informed the captain of the plan in his heart, and after receiving the plan, the captain drove quickly to Jiangxin, and when he saw Lu Feng, he presented Wang Peng's plan.
After receiving the plan, Lu Feng immediately ordered all the warships to retreat thirty miles, and built dozens of large rafts, on which straw men were tied, each wearing armor and holding weapons, and ordered people to put these rafts down the river.
When the defenders of Zhao on both sides of the mountains saw it, they all thought that it was a living person and hurriedly evacuated, and many iron cones in the water were pierced into the raft and were carried out by the raft.
Immediately afterwards, Lu was ordered to load dozens of small boats with burning torches, and these boats sailed down the water to the iron cables, burning all the iron cables on the entire river.
Seeing this, Lu Feng stood on the bow of the ship, drew his sword and pointed straight ahead, and every warship beat the war drum and accelerated over, and for a time the drum sound on the entire river shook the sky.
At this time, Li Xin had already broken through the southern line of Zhangshui in the same way, and Wang Peng also ordered the whole army to board the warship and go to the east bank.
General Zhao Junbing of the defense line on the east bank of Zhangshui quickly learned the news that the Qin army had successfully crossed the river, and the atmosphere in the entire defense line instantly became tense.
The main general, Chen Bai, said to the deputy general Xu Fen: "I didn't expect the Qin army to break through the defense line in Jiangzhong, and the defensive equipment in our defense area has not yet been prepared."
Xu Fen slapped the table and pressed the hilt of the sword and said: "Brother Chen, if the Qin army completely breaks through the Zhangshui natural danger, the shore defense line will definitely be low and unstoppable, our army still has 800 sailors and 50 wooden boats, and the warships temporarily built by the Qin army will not be difficult to deal with, I will lead all the sailors to raid the Qin army's ship formation to buy time for the army."
Chen Bai listened to it and wanted to stop Xu Fen's fateful plan, but Xu Fen walked out of the camp without looking back and went straight to the water army camp.
After Xu Fen arrived at the naval barracks, he immediately gathered all the men and ships, but found that many of the warships had long been abandoned and did not need to be damaged and aged, and the officers and men of the navy may have not been trained for a long time, and their combat effectiveness is much weaker than that of the army.
Xu Fen stood in front of the officers and soldiers of the navy and raised his sword and shouted: "Although it is tantamount to hitting a stone with an egg to meet the Qin army today, we must let the Qin army know that the Zhao State has not yet perished, let us shed the last drop of blood for the Zhao State, and let our blood stain this surging river."
All the officers and men of the navy boarded the warships together, raised their weapons and shouted, and the twenty large warships of the Zhao army drove into the river first, and when they reached the rear mast for some distance, the lookout on the mast spotted the Qin fleet.
Commander Yang Fei ordered all the warships to line up and throw down the anvils, and the fifty archers in the middle of the ship rushed to launch rockets at the Qin warships, and the rest of the Zhao warships fired arrows at the Qin army.
At this time, the Qin army reacted, and many archers were shot to the ground before they had time to fight back, and the Qin soldiers hid behind their shields.
Lu Feng ordered a warship heavily armed with shields to rush to the front of the ship's formation to fight horizontally, and more than 80 soldiers on this warship fired arrows at the Zhao ship, and the remaining 40 or so foot soldiers all used heavy crossbows and catapults to aim at the Zhao ship.
With Lu Feng's order, crossbow arrows and flints flew towards the Zhao boat like raindrops, and the feather arrows shot by the Zhao boat were all nailed to the heavy shield.
Many of these Zhao ships have been aged and damaged, several warships have been shot through the board by heavy crossbow arrows, and the middle ship was hit by flint on the port side, causing the hull to tilt and catch fire.
Immediately after that, another flint was hit in the boathouse, and the entire warship was instantly engulfed in flames, Yang Fei hurriedly jumped into the water only to find that there were only eight of the twenty warships left under the Qin army's arrows and artillery.
At this time, Xu Fen led thirty warships to arrive, and several sailors rescued Yang Fei from the water, Xu Fen said to Yang Fei: "The Qin army is attacking too fiercely, our army is completely passive, Yang Fei, you lead the eight warships to rush to the Qin army ship formation."
After receiving the order, Yang Fei re-boarded his warship and led the eight warships to rush towards the Qin ship, and Xu Fen ordered twelve small clippers filled with fire oil to rush towards the enemy formation.
These clippers bypassed the flanks of Yang Fei's fleet and headed straight for the enemy position, lit a fire close to the Qin warships, and soon set several Qin warships on fire.
Lu Feng was shocked and hurriedly ordered the soldiers on the other warships to use Changge to resist the Zhao boat, while Yang Fei led more than 200 soldiers from eight warships desperately attacked the Qin army's ship array.
Ju Cheng, the second echelon of the Qin army, ordered five heavily armored assault boats to sail forward, ramming away all the Qin and Zhao ships that were stuck together, and the archers on the Qin army's warships fired arrows at the enemy ships like locusts.
More than 200 Zhao soldiers on the eight Zhao ships all died under the rain of arrows, Yang Fei was furious and set up a bridge to connect a warship of the Qin army, and rushed over with a shield in one hand and a knife in the other, several feather arrows shot by the Qin army were all nailed to the shield, and several Qin soldiers held weapons to lift the bridge board, Yang Fei slipped and fell into the water and was killed by Lu Feng with an arrow.
Xu Fen saw the scene ahead and shouted to the soldiers behind him, "Brothers, we should go up."
After saying that, he led all the warships and soldiers to rush to the enemy formation, Ju Cheng boarded the bow of the ship, raised the broken tilt, pointed directly at the Zhao army fleet and said: "There is another group of people who don't want to die, and the soldiers will send them on the road."
More than 50 large and small warships rushed towards the Zhao army's ship array, and some large warships carried catapults frantically threw flints, and the Zhao army's warships sank to the bottom of the river one after another, and the remaining warships were also heavily damaged and tilted.
The mast of Xu Fen's main ship was hit by flint and collapsed, and many soldiers fell into the water with a violent shake in the hull, and these soldiers were shot in the water by the Qin army.
Seeing this, Xu Fen grabbed the drummer's drumstick and beat the war drums vigorously, and all the soldiers of the Zhao army regained their courage to set up a boat and crash into the enemy position.
When approaching the Qin warship, the bridge was erected, and Lu Feng was about to order the archers to release the arrows but Ju Cheng stopped him, and Ju Cheng said: "Since they want to play, then we will accompany them to play well."
To find out what more tragic battles will take place on the river, please see the next breakdown.