Chapter 1211: Successful Landing
The world is unpredictable, Sun Quan set fire to the Tang Army Water Village and lit the sky lantern, only thinking that the victory was undoubted, but who knew that it was only some empty shell boats that were ignited. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 info
When the Datang Navy fleet was dispatched, the Soochow Navy couldn't run away at all because it was chained together by iron cables, but it was really lit with sky lanterns.
Needless to say, the tragic situation on the river was full of flags, sawdust, and fragments. If it weren't for the constant flow of the river, the pools of corpses and blood would scare people to death.
In these two fires, the Tang army only burned some wood, while more than 1,000 warships on the Dongwu side were burned, and tens of thousands of people died on the spot. Countless people drowned and fled from the river. In short, the more than 100,000 soldiers and horses of Eastern Wu in Niuzhu were almost wiped out.
However, this was not the end of the night, and the third fire of the night continued.
When thousands of Tang military ships rushed into the Dongwu Water Village, the flames once again illuminated the entire Niuzhu River.
The fireboat is like a fire snake that swims across the river, looking for prey, and only one can burn down a water platform trebuchet position. Soochow launched trebuchets on the water platform, or slapped the flames on his body, screaming and jumping into the water; Or the moment before the fireship was about to collide, he screamed and fled into the water.
On the shore, Sun Quan's appearance could no longer be expressed in words, gloomy, heavy, angry, and fearful...... In the end, all these emotions turned into helplessness, such a heavy blow, as if Sun Quan instantly passed middle age and entered the twilight, he was at a loss, and asked Lu Xun blankly: "Bo Yan, I ...... I...... What to do? ”
The light of the fire reflected Lu Xun's pale face, and he spoke: "Your Majesty, you first return to Jianye to organize soldiers and horses to defend the city." Then send scouts to inquire about the movements of the Tang army. Judging from Weichen, Li Yi must be using troops everywhere. Let's concentrate our forces, deploy defenses in Jianye and Wu County, and garrison the southeast of Jiangdong......"
Most of the soldiers and horses of Eastern Wu were folded in the river, and Sun Quan no longer had enough troops to garrison the entire Wu State. All he can do now is give up most of it and compress his defense.
There was no way, the assault location chosen by Li Yi was too terrible, and he almost cut off Dongwu from the middle. Even, after this defeat, it is good that Soochow can hold the Jiangsu and Zhejiang regions, but the area west of Danyang is basically not guaranteed.
Sun Quan barely cheered up and said to Lu Xun: "Metropolitan Governor, this place will be handed over to you, and I will return to Jianye and arrange defenses." ...... driving"
Sun Quan led 10,000 remnants of the army to the east under the protection of Ding Feng, Sun Jiao and other generals. And Lu Xun, who stayed behind, only had 5,000 soldiers and horses left, and these 5,000 soldiers and horses were all slingers.
Lu Xun watched Sun Quan disappear into the night, and when he turned around, his pale face turned iron-blue, he was very angry, pulled out his sword, and pointed to the blazing water village and said: "There is only this place along the river and flat beach, the warships of the Tang Army will definitely enter to send the troops ashore, and order the trebuchet troops on the shore to smash them hard, smash them hard for the governor of this capital, and smash all the stones out!" ”
Seeing that a major defeat was inevitable, the Soochow trebuchet troops also went crazy, and the launch efficiency was more than double that of usual. The sound of "buzzing" leather strings, the boulder whistling "whining", flew across the black sky, and smashed into the river under the light of the fire.
Lu Su and four generals, Huang Gai, Ling Tong, Dong Xi, and Sun Shao, led 2,000 men to defend along the river.
The veteran Huang Gai saw that Lu Xun was mad, and said: "Dadu Governor, the trebuchet of our army's water village has been destroyed, and the Tang army ...... The Don warships have not yet come within range of coastal trebuchets......"
Lu Xun didn't answer for a while. He stood on the beach, looking out at the riverbank. From time to time, a wave can rush up dozens of corpses, including living soldiers of their own side.
Therefore, Lu Xun suspended the offensive of the trebuchets in the rear and ordered the soldiers along the coast to rescue the soldiers of his own side who had come ashore, so that he could gather some more people.
The shore guards of Soochow went to rescue the soldiers who had fallen into the water and returned to the shore, and the tragic situation of these soldiers and the fire still burning in the river made all the rescuers tremble.
"Fire ......"
"I'm not dead!"
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Most of the Soochow soldiers who managed to escape ashore were hit hard by the war.
The soldiers of Soochow were busy rescuing people when they heard someone say, "Look, a lot of corpses are about to be washed over!" ”
Everyone looked, and sure enough, they saw a large number of floating corpses more than ten steps away from the river bank.
The next moment, under the stunned eyes of the Eastern Wu soldiers, these floating corpses stood up in the water.
"Wow, it's not a corpse, save them......" Many Eastern Wu soldiers only thought that they were their own soldiers who had fled back.
These soldiers who got up from the water only made the sound of treading water, and did not make any other sound at all. I saw them quickly pull out small crossbows from behind, and some of them raised their arms in the firelight, making gestures that the Eastern Wu soldiers could not understand at all.
"It's not good, it's the enemy, the enemy attack!" Lu Xun was shocked, "Formation, formation!" ”
However, it was too late, and the cold eyes of the soldiers of the Datang Special Forces showed no emotion, and they just pinpointed the crossbow arrows to their own targets. In the sound of the "Xiuxiu" hand crossbow fired, it was just a salvo, and more than 1,000 Eastern Wu soldiers along the coast fell, and they fell without any resistance.
More than a thousand people fell at the same time, which was extremely shocking, and even Lu Xun was stunned for a while.
Elite!
Absolute elite!
"It's the special forces of the Tang Army, it's Li Yi's criminal hand!" Huang Gai exclaimed.
Eastern Wu also has its own intelligence, and legend has it that Emperor Wude has a special forces, which is very mysterious. It played a huge role in the battle of exterminating Shu two years ago, conquering the dangerous pass Sword Pavilion and Fushui. In the jungle of the Southern Barbarians, Liu Bei and Bafan Ninety-three Dian were killed.
They were called the Great Tang Sword by the people of the Tang Dynasty, and they were called the hands of sin by their enemies.
"Shoot back, shoot back!" While Lu Xun shouted, he personally picked up a longbow and opened the bow and released arrows. He reluctantly deployed 2,000 people along the coast, and to deal with the Tang army that was about to land, it was naturally a bow and arrow in each person.
The special combat members of the Tang Dynasty lined up in a neat wave shape along the coast, like the special forces of later generations, their pace was not fast at all but very firm, they moved quickly, dodged the enemy's arrows very quickly, they focused on their crossbows, harvesting all the lives that could be seen on the opposite side.
In just a dozen steps on the shore, Datang's special combat team members used their hand crossbows to wipe out eighty percent of the enemy's coastal forces.
"They're not people!"
"Run!" Facing the Datang special combat forces approaching step by step as if they were fierce and vicious, the remaining Dongwu soldiers were already frightened, and they threw down their weapons and turned around and ran into the darkness.
Seeing all this, Lu Xun was almost mad, he threw away the longbow in his hand, pulled out his sword and was about to take the lead in launching a counter-charge.
Lu Su grabbed Lu Xun, who was about to rush up to his death, and shouted: "Governor, the general trend has gone, and it is necessary to gather the catapult troops to retreat." General Huang Gai and General Ling Tong are going! ”
So, Huang Gai and Ling Tong went to gather troops, while Sun Shao and Dong Xi left with Lu Xun.
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The Datang special combat team members hung up their crossbows and pulled out their military thorns.
"Each squad has completed your mission!" When Luo Cheng's raised fist suddenly opened, the three thousand special combat members quickly dispersed into the darkness.
After a while, there were screams in the darkness. Immediately after, the fire broke out in the Soochow military camp on the shore.
Li Yi, who was on the flagship of the river, was overjoyed when he saw it.
Guo Jia on the side said with a smile: "Your Majesty, it seems that the special forces have succeeded and can land with their troops!" ”
Li Yi nodded and said loudly: "Order the three armies to land, attack Danyang first, and attack Jianye directly." ”
With Li Yi's order, the Tang warships marched forward with drums and advanced into the water village, avoiding the fire point and landing on the shore. Sure enough, not a single boulder appeared, and it was obvious that the Datang special forces had already succeeded.
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In fact, at this time, Luo Cheng, Qin Qiong and Wei Chigong had already led a team of special combat team members to enter the interior of the Dongwu military village, and while eliminating the Dongwu stone throwers, they were looking for Lu Xun and others.
At this moment, Lu Xun had lost his heart to die, and he was dragged away by Lu Su and others in the chaos. There were shouts and screams everywhere, and the corpses of the Eastern Wu soldiers who walked through the trebuchet position were full of fresh blood, but the Tang army did not have one, which made Lu Su and others frightened.
"Hurry up and find the horses, we will escort the Metropolitan Governor back to Jianye!" Lu Su said anxiously.
Before the words fell, a shout came: "Lu Xun'er is leaving!" ”
Lu Xun came back to his senses in surprise at this time, and saw that it was Luo Cheng chasing him, and he was so shocked that he finally had the strength to walk on his own.
Lu Su and Dong Xun hurriedly grabbed Lu Xunwangdong, who was unable to hold his legs and feet, and fled.
"Don't panic, Sun Shao is broken!" Sun Shao dragged the big knife upside down, ran five steps angrily, and when he was a foot away from Luo Cheng, he suddenly jumped up, and the big knife in his back hand crossed an arc, and cut off his head, "Take your life!" ”
Luo Cheng sneered, the enemy general in front of him couldn't make him feel threatened at all. In fact, although Sun Shao is also brave, his force value is only eighty, which can be regarded as barely entering the ranks of third-rate generals, compared with him with a force value of 100, it is not the same at all. Luo Chengdu was too lazy to use his weapon, so he directly used a move to enter the white blade empty-handed, snatched Sun Shao's weapon, and then lightly relaxed the ape arm, and captured Sun Shao alive.
In fact, if Li Yi hadn't specially instructed them before leaving, if they could capture the generals of Eastern Wu alive, try not to kill people, Luo Cheng would definitely kill the enemy general in front of him with one shot.
However, the enemy general in front of him was the person whom the emperor had named, because he was Sun Ce's righteous son.
It turned out that Sun Shao's uncle Sun He, whose surname was Yu, was very fond of him, so he gave him the surname Sun and listed him in the Sun family.
In the ninth year of Jian'an (204), Sun He was killed, and Sun Shao was accepted by Sun Ce as his righteous son, and at the same time, he was also appointed as the captain of Chenglie. , commanding Sun He's army.
When Li Yi went south from Jicheng, Sun Ce had privately looked for him, hoping that Li Yi could save Sun Shao's life as much as possible on the battlefield. Because of this Sun Shao, although the force value is not too good, his ability in all aspects is good, especially in terms of commander, his five-dimensional values are 85 for commander, 80 for force, 80 for resourcefulness, 74 for politics, and 80 for charisma. If he can be subdued, he will also be able to become a backbone general in command of an army in the future. It's easy to even train it to become a legion commander.