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Although the Jiangling Navy Division burned the Yang Wulou ship, although it achieved great results, it also paid the corresponding price, and the hundred fighting ships and the thousands of boats were real consumption. In addition, the sailors and soldiers who drove the fighting ships and the boats to rush into the large array of the Yang Wu Sailor Building, especially the soldiers who rushed into the rear of the middle formation, could survive very few.

However, in any case, compared to the losses of Wu Guoshuishi, these are not worth looking at. The heaviest losses of Wu's naval division were the soldiers transferred from Langzhou. In order to ensure the victory of this battle, Xu Zhihe transferred back no less than 30,000 Langzhou soldiers, and more than half of them were explained at the bottom of the lake at this time.

Of the more than 3,000 Wu Guolou ships, most of them were damaged, and only a few hundred ships remained, and the Jiangling Navy Division successfully retreated and left the messy Dongting Lake battlefield.

Compared with the Wu State Naval Division, the strength of the Jiangling Naval Division itself is much weaker, and after paying the price of many Mengchong fighting ships and boats, the remaining strength is no longer enough to support the large army to attack Yuezhou, and at this time they all retreated to Jiangling. But from this moment on, the strength of the two armies and sailors is comparative, and it is difficult to say who is strong and who is weak.

On the northwest shore of Dongting Lake, across the lake from Yuezhou City, Li Congrong, who only took the guards, witnessed the whole process of the battlefield, and until he left, the fire in Dongting Lake had not been extinguished, and countless wrecks of buildings and boats were scattered on the water, and the smell of burnt paste washed away the fishy smell.

After this battle, the Wu State Water Division, which had suffered huge losses, was no longer enough to support the offensive of Chudi, and could only take care of Yuezhou at most.

Bian Hao witnessed the battle of Dongting Lake with Li Congrong, he vomited blood and fainted once, after all, this was the pit he dug for Wu Guoshui with his own hands, after waking up, he grabbed Li Congrong's saber to kill himself, and was stopped by Li Congrong's guards in time. After that, this Jinling genius became a lost soul, completely devoid of energy, and looked like a walking corpse.

On the day of the Battle of Dongting Lake, the early Jiangling sailors left Jiangling's Fu Xi in one step, led more than 30,000 soldiers and soldiers in front of the palace, and nearly 10,000 soldiers and horses from Shannan Dongdao Jiedu envoys, Weisheng Jiedu envoys, and Anyuan Jiedu envoys, passed through Lizhou to the boundary of Langzhou.

Langzhou is located in the north of Chu State, west of Dongting Lake, and north of Yuanshui. This position is in the Yuanshui River Valley, the area of the valley plain is very large, the north and southwest are mountains on three sides, the mountains are not high and not steep, there is a huge lake in the northeast, almost extending from the east of the city to the northern mountains, and Langzhou City is built on the north bank of Yuanshui, so from the big picture, the terrain here is not dangerous, it is a place that is easy to defend and difficult to attack.

After Ma Xisheng, the king of Chu, retreated to this place, he knew that if he retreated, he could only retreat to Lizhou, and Lizhou was located in a mountainous and hilly area, but there was a small plain in the middle of the mountains and hills, and a city was built, which was a Jedi in the eyes of the soldiers, and it was impossible to go. So Ma Xisheng made up his mind and stayed in Langzhou, waiting for the arrival of reinforcements from the Tang Dynasty.

After the Wu army chased to Langzhou from the east, the arrangement of troops was very restricted, because the north of the city could not reach, and the south of the city was backed by Yuanshui was not conducive to the formation, and there were some small hills in the west of the city, which was not conducive to the deployment of troops, so in the end, Wu could only put the main force in the east of the city and storm the east gate.

It is the east of the city, and outside of that big lake, there are also many swampy and small lakes, whether it is camping or arranging troops, it is inconvenient. Therefore, after this battle, many days passed, and the Wu army failed to capture Langzhou with a great victory. On the contrary, when the Chu army learned that the Tang army was coming, their morale rebounded.

Xu Zhihe transferred back 30,000 troops to attack Langzhou to participate in the Battle of Dongting Lake, also because it was useless for the army to crowd in Langzhou. Therefore, he wanted to defeat the Tang army in one fell swoop at Dongting Lake, so as to achieve the goal of deterring the Chu army in Langzhou, and finally force the Chu army to make a move in favor of the Wu state when waiting for reinforcements was hopeless.

Fu Xi led the army from Lizhou to Langzhou, taking the route west of the north of the city, and the march was relatively hidden.

After approaching Langzhou, Fu Xi sent elite scouts to check the battle situation in Langzhou.

After reporting that there were not many troops in the west and south of Langzhou, Fu Xi convened a meeting of the generals.

"The Wu army in the west of Langzhou City is not much, but there are about 1,000 people, if our army rushes to attack it, it is easy to defeat its army. And there is a dirt mountain as a cover here, if you take the elite cavalry as the vanguard, a surprise attack can achieve miraculous results, and you can defeat the enemy thief in a moment. Generals, who wants to go and defeat the enemy who stands in the way? "Fu Xi is a veteran, he has a lot of experience in the battlefield, and his style of marching and arranging is also very steady.

When the generals heard this, they all wanted to attack him, so they asked for their lives.

Fu Xi pondered for a moment, and said to Gao Congzhou: "General Gao's department, known as the rampage, the soldiers are brave, the general has heard of it, this time it is better to use the general's elite cavalry as the vanguard to open the way for my army, how about it?" ”

Gao Congzhou's face was overjoyed and immediately received the order.

Fu Xi said to the generals again: "After General Gao attacked, we will follow, if the action is fast, we can sweep the west and south of Langzhou City, and then directly take the main force of the thief army in the east of the city. ”

The army was already on the march, it was ready to fight at any time, and after the plan was decided, it didn't take much time to transfer troops, and it didn't take long for Gao Congzhou to personally lead three thousand elite cavalry, and set off first.

To the west of Langzhou City, sure enough, I saw scattered earth mountains, the whole terrain is high and low, undulating, but the highest place is only a few zhang, the forest is quite dense, there is a passage in the low place, and one of the avenues is an official road.

Gao Xingzhou led the elite cavalry to rush over directly, and not far away, he saw the Wu army in the same place.

Although the Wu army did not take special precautions, it was also notified by the scouts at this time, knowing that the Tang army was coming, and its master would send people to the east of the city to report the news, and then they would defend in the same place. Their main task was to intercept and kill the messenger from the west of Langzhou City, but they never thought that the Tang army would suddenly kill them, although they were surprised, but they were not afraid.

Gao Xingzhou didn't ask much, just ordered his troops to attack.

This Wu army was well-trained, although there were only more than 1,000 people, they were not in a panic, and after the three arrows were in battle, they held a shield and raised their guns to resist the Tang army.

However, the rampage army was gathering momentum, where would the Wu army be favored, and the galloping war horses galloped past and entered the Wu army's formation.

As soon as the two armies engaged, there was not a moment of fighting, and the officers and men of the Wu army were all shocked.

Since they entered Chu, they have won many battles, often beating the Chu army into a collapsed army, and it is inevitable that they will feel proud and complacent, thinking that the elite of the world can not compete with them, so they can stand up and defend it, and they are confident that even if they are not victorious, they can block the Tang army and hold on until the reinforcements arrive.

After this hand-to-hand fight, they found that the Tang army was brave and good at fighting, far better than any Chu army they had encountered.

But at this moment, it is too late to retreat.

The Rampage Army has been fighting for many years, how elite it is, it is not an exaggeration to say that it is one of the best armies in the Tang Dynasty, where is the Wu Army, which has not been tempered by a major war for many years, can be compared? This time he entered the formation of the Wu army, and in less than two moments, the Wu army suffered heavy casualties and was unstable.

Gao Congzhou also had some doubts in his heart, the Wu army in front of him was only more than a thousand people, but his combat power was not weak, much stronger than he had expected. But this thought was just a flash, he didn't have time to think too much, at this moment, the only thing he thought about was to defeat this Wu army as soon as possible.

In just half an hour, the Rampage Army completely destroyed the combat strength of the Wu army, and at this time, the reinforcements of the Wu Army had not yet been dispatched, and the army of 3,000 cavalry following the Rampage Army had already appeared behind them.

Their battle here quickly attracted the attention of Langzhou City. The soldiers of the Chu army on the city, seeing the arrival of the Tang reinforcements, all shouted excitedly, and the city of Langzhou was quite lively for a while.

After Gao Congzhou defeated the Wu army in front of him, he did not stop and killed from the south of the city to the east of the city.

In the not wide area in the south of the city, the Hengchong army met the Wu army who came to support, and the two met each other, and they did not say much, and immediately fought in one place.

It's just that by this time, the Tang Army Brigade had arrived in the west of the city one after another, and one by one, as a follow-up force, pressed onto the battlefield.

The Chu army in Langzhou City, seeing that the Tang reinforcements had arrived, cheered, and soon went out of the city to cooperate with the battle.

At the head of the city, Ma Xi, the king of Chu, was excited, "I never thought that the Tang army would come so quickly, with the help of the Tang army, Langzhou can be defended, and the Wu army can be defeated, and my Chu country is hopeful!" ”

The Wu army in the south of the city was attacked from both sides by the Tang army and the Chu army, but could not gain a firm foothold, and the main general saw that the battle was unfavorable, so he had to retreat to the east of the city.

The Tang army passed through the south of the city and slaughtered to the east of the city. There were also a lot of Chu troops in Langzhou City, and at this time, under the order of the King of Chu, they also opened the city gate to launch a counterattack against the Wu army.

Ordered to attack the commander of the Wu army in Langzhou, called Zhou Ben, a descendant of Zhou Yu, is a veteran of wisdom and bravery, it is rumored that he killed the tiger with his bare hands when he was young, and bravely crowned the three armies after joining the army, and had many military exploits in his early years, Huainan was famous, and he was an early town festival envoy, after Zhuang Zong entered Luo, he heard his prestige, although he could not recruit the service, he was also named the king of Xiping.

He saw such a change in the battle situation on the watchtower, especially after seeing the endless Tang Army, he stomped his feet with regret, "The prime minister misunderstood me!" ”

Earlier, Xu Zhihe sent a military order, saying that the Tang army was moving to Yuezhou in a big way, so he transferred many of his troops to participate in the war. Of course, Zhou Ben would not doubt Xu Zhihe's military order, so he didn't think that the Tang army would come to Langzhou. If he had the intention to prevent the Tang army from coming to aid Langzhou, he would not have only put a thousand men and horses in the west of the city.

At present, the Tang army defeated the Wu army in the west of the city, and defeated the Wu army in the south of the city, and the offensive was successful, on the other hand, the Wu army was not good for attacking the city for several days, and the morale was not very high.

Although the defeat of the west and south of the city was only a drop in the bucket for the Wu army attacking Langzhou, the impact on the situation was huge.

On that day, the Tang army and the Chu army joined forces to fight the Wu army in the east of Langzhou.

Fierce battles were fought until sunset, and the Wu army was defeated.

Zhou Ben, the commander of the Wu army, retreated eastward from Langzhou.

The Tang army pursued all the way to the east and returned in the afternoon of the next day.

In this battle, the Wu army lost more than 10,000 soldiers.

Yuezhou.

During the day, Xu Zhihe saw the beginning and end of the Battle of Dongting Lake, and his heart was so painful that he could hardly speak. After the Jiangling Naval Division retreated west from the mouth of the Jingjiang River, he quickly realized that he was afraid that the main force of the Tang Army had gone straight to Langzhou.

At this time, although Xu Zhihe didn't know whether Bian Hao had committed treason or been deceived, he knew very well that the situation in Langzhou must be very critical.

Xu Zhihe stayed awake all night until the next day, when he received a military report from Langzhou.

Holding the military report, Xu Zhihe was stunned for a long time, his face turned pale, and then he coughed violently.

Lin Renzhao hurriedly sent the silk handkerchief, and when Xu Zhihe finished coughing, Lin Renzhao looked down and saw that the silk handkerchief was full of blood.