Chapter 173: The Battle of Runzhou (1)

The water surface seemed to be boiling, and the river water added fuel to the waves, so that all the ships on the river shook violently up and down, left and right, and the masts of several ships were broken, and several small boats were quickly sunk, and the soldiers who were standing unsteadily on those small boats were suddenly hit, and in order to avoid accidents, most of them fell into the icy and biting water.

The water upstream flowed rapidly, and in an instant only the two hands of the soldiers were left struggling desperately on the river. A wave of attacks hit their heads, and in the end they still couldn't escape being swallowed by the river, and they couldn't even see the corpses.

Zhu Lingyun was standing on top of the boat at this moment, the shaking of the river made his stomach juice flip in his chest, looking at all this, he almost threw up.

Although the building ship he was riding on was majestic and majestic in appearance, and the ships were lined with spears, tree flags, heavily guarded, and effective in attack and defense, like a water fortress, Zhu Lingyun was still a little uneasy in his heart.

Looking at the other side, although the warships of the Runzhou Navy are relatively simple, he feels that the other party's ships are small and narrow, with eighty oars on each side, and there are almost 160 oars on and off the whole ship, and the maneuverability is much stronger than that of the Lou ship. Compared to this, the building ship seems to be underpowered, and the bow is square, so the speed and maneuverability are poor.

Now the situation is a little incomprehensible, and the killing machine doesn't know when it will appear, not to mention that the water army of the Song State is coming from the north of the river, and the Runzhou water army is the water army of Runzhou in the south, Zhu Lingyun does not know the purpose of the Song State water army on the other side, so he did not order any measures to be taken against the Song State water army.

Zhu Lingyun looked at the lost ships, a little annoyed, and at this moment, some of the ships on the eastern water had scattered in all directions, some of the hulls had been crashed, the wood was broken, and they were floating around, and some were still smoking and going east along the river.

Zhu Lingyun ordered to abandon the damaged ships and let the river go east, he looked at the ships in the distance, and glared viciously at the Runzhou navy above the river.

"Zhu Lingyun, how have you thought about it, do you want to surrender to my Runzhou Army?" On the Runzhou Army warship, the general raised his voice and waved the flag in his hand, "If you don't surrender again, don't blame me for not remembering the friendship of the robe." ”

After Zhu Lingyun heard this, he felt ridiculous in his heart, he wanted to surrender with such a small number of people in the Runzhou Army, he felt that this was the funniest joke in the world, although he lost some ships on his side, but the strength was above the Runzhou Army, what he was afraid of was that if the Song State suddenly took advantage of the defeat of both sides, swept all the way, then it would be over, but at this time, the Song State Navy was actually in the north of the river, staying in the Song State's sphere of influence, and did not come.

A northwest wind blew, and ice and fire intertwined on the river, and the flames burned wantonly.

"Zhu Yuhou, the Runzhou Navy is so arrogant, what is Yu Hou doing, or should he order an attack immediately!" Qi Cheng, the supervisor of the ship, can't stand it, if he doesn't act on his side, it is estimated that the arrogance of the Runzhou Navy will become more and more arrogant, and he is under Li Congqing's order, and he has the responsibility of supervising the Shenwei Navy Army, to be honest, he was sent by Li Congqing to monitor Zhu Lingyun, he looked at some of the ships that had broken and ignited a fire, he immediately said, "Zhu Yuhou, this time His Majesty specially asked the last general to supervise the army, but not to see Yu Hou's jokes, how can I let others laugh." ”

Zhu Lingyun had some scruples, the people on both sides were from the Tang Kingdom, he said: "It's just that the Song State Navy is on the side, it's better to be careful, this time Your Majesty sent us to Runzhou, but it was to delay Lin Renzhao, not to attack his own people." ”

"Your own people?" The overseer Qi Cheng glanced at the smoking boat, then turned his head and said, "My own people will give such a heavy hand, you must know that this Lin Renzhao has long been opposed, I heard that I don't know where the news came out, saying that the lord of the country is still alive in the world, and then pretending to be the news that the lord of the country is not dead, forged a letter from the lord of the country, and then let himself sit on the throne of the generalissimo of the world's soldiers and horses, and attack Jinling City." All in all, he wants to ascend to the throne justifiably, and he is coveting my Tang Dynasty? ”

Zhu Lingyun bowed his head and said nothing, and the Runzhou Navy did not move. The supervising army Qicheng can't stand it anymore, he is the supervising army in the army, so he has to fulfill the responsibility of supervising the army, and he is not a general, but a rich child, his own share is also because of his father in the army, if he makes a contribution this time, he can enter Li Congqing's eyes. He snorted coldly, then turned around and headed for the stern.

When there is no chaos, but the chaos, the prison army Qicheng came directly to the stern of the ship, where there were already several generals, and they were all complaining at the moment.

"Lao Tzu is a dignified god guard, but now he is being bullied by the Runzhou Water Army, which is really a shame to say."

"It's also your Marquis Yu."

Zheng Bin, the head of the Divine Guard Army, said: "My Divine Guard Water Army is omnipotent, how can I be bullied." After speaking, he directly took off the helmet on his head, threw it on the river, and then disappeared into the rolling eastward river.

One of the other generals of the Divine Guard Army glanced at his eyes at this moment, took a quick look at the distance, and then glanced at the prison army Qicheng, and then said: "The Runzhou Navy is vulnerable, or my Hukou Navy is the most elite Navy in the world, or the Prison Army will lead us to make contributions." ”

"How's that okay?" The prison army Qicheng's heart has already blossomed, and this credit is his own, which can also make Li Congqing pay more attention to himself, he then pretended to say, "By the way, what about our casualties?" ”

At this time, a soldier in the Shenwei Water Army hurried over, and just then he saw Du Yu waiting for Zhu Lingyun pondering on the side, knowing his temper, he did not rush over to report, but went directly to the prison army Qicheng here, "Tell the Qi Prison Army, our warships have lost more than ten small boats and two large ships. Seventy people were killed, and the remaining thirty-five are unaccounted for. ”

One hundred and five people, which is only one-tenth, this time the Hukou Shenwei Water Army went to Runzhou with a total of about 1,500 people, Qi Cheng thought.

The Runzhou Navy is still indomitable, at this moment their ships have approached the south river outside the three zhang of the Shenwei Navy, and they look ready to fight, and they have just given the Shenwei Navy a frontal blow to the Shenwei Navy under the total of the Runzhou Navy, which is called the first to seize people, although the combat effectiveness of the Shenwei Navy is the strongest among the Tang Army, but the generals and soldiers of the Runzhou Navy believe that under the leadership of General Lin Renzhao, their combat effectiveness will not be weaker than that of the Shenwei Navy.

The Divine Guard Navy is the most elite Navy in the world, this is their proud past, and it is also a resume to prove themselves, and it is also imprinted in the bones of their proud soldiers.

The overseer Qi Cheng stood up from the deck and walked to Zhu Lingyun's side, "Marquis Yu is a little worried, how can he be indecisive at this time?" ”

Zhu Lingyun turned his head and saw that the prison army Qi Cheng looked worried, but he felt very disgusted, he was still familiar with the naval army combat, and it was the turn of others to point fingers, and this person still didn't know anything about military affairs, "The affairs in the army are still dealt with in the future, please restrain my subordinates, they are all temperamental people, and the prison army should also monitor them, maybe they will be the ones who will make trouble later." ”

After hearing this, he felt that his face was a little unbearable, but he was holding back a fire in his heart, and he didn't know where to send it, but the Runzhou Navy in front of him was tightly pressing, and it seemed to be a place to vent.

"Hmph, wait and see." Qi Cheng gambled, put down his words and left.

At present, the two armies are far apart, and Zhu Lingyun is only ordered to defend, and as for the rest, he has to rely on the horse infantry army on land to deal with Lin Renzhao's army.

At this moment, on the river in the north, in the icy and biting cold wind, a general of the Song Kingdom stood at the bow of the boat, holding a clairvoyant mirror in his hand, and shouted to the Shenwei Naval Army at the mouth of the Tang Lake on the western water: "Are you waiting for Zhu Lingyun?" ”

The wind was very loud, and the ships of the Song State had already quickly sailed to the side of the Shenwei Navy of the Tang Kingdom, and Zhu Lingyun of the Shenwei Navy was waiting for Zhu Lingyun to see the ships of the Song Army coming this way, and he vigilantly ordered the ships on both wings of the Navy to come closer, ready to fight at any time.

"Are you waiting for Zhu Lingyun in the Divine Guard?" The generals of the Song navy emphasized again, but they were far apart, and it was useless for Rao to use the "megaphone" invented by King Wei, and the ships of the Song State were quickly approached towards the side of the Shenwei naval army, and the two naval armies were already five zhang away at this moment.

The sound of the river surging was particularly loud, and Zhu Lingyun raised his head and looked at the Song army in the distance, his expression was tight, he didn't know how to deal with it, and he didn't know if the Song army would take advantage of the fire to rob today.

"I don't know if the other party is the Song Army?" Zhu Lingyun was a little unsure, but he still ordered a small soldier of the navy to shout in the air, if he accidentally offended the Song army, not only would he not be able to complete the military order, but he might also become a target attacked by the Song army, and the consequences would be ...... Then Li Congqing will be angry with himself.

The Song army's ships were already very close to the Tang Guoshenwei Water Army, and the Song army general had a smile on his face, in order to dispel Zhu Lingyun's concerns, and then he stroked his beard and said: "Our army is just a routine patrol of the river, Yu Hou can rest assured." "And today he didn't directly attack Zhu Lingyun and them, but took advantage of the fire to rob them.

In the next moment, the Runzhou Navy had long been impatient and had to fight a battle on the river.

"Throwing stones-" The Runzhou army here saw that the Song army had already come, and they didn't think that the Song army would interfere greatly, this matter was an internal affair of their Tang Kingdom. And I heard that the lord of the country, Li Yu, is resting in Yangzhou at the moment, maybe these Song troops were sent by Li Yu to help him.

"Dutou, this, do we want to ...... It's better not to do it for the time being......" asked the bow of the Runzhou Navy Ship, a deputy head.

For the Shenwei Water Army, the Runzhou Water Army still attaches great importance to it, "It is still the Shenwei Water Army, this time Li Congqing mobilized the Water Army from Hukou to come, it must be the result of a dead fish." This time, our Runzhou Army must extinguish the breeze of the Divine Guard, and you will order it to go down and let the whole army continue to fight. ”

"Yes."

The Runzhou Navy began a second wave of offensive.

Qicheng, the capital of the Shenwei Water Army, was extremely excited when he saw the Runzhou Water Army attacking again, the battle finally came again, and he also had the capital to fight, and the next moment his side seemed to be victorious.