Chapter 179 defeated Cai Mao again and made meritorious contributions, and plotted to capture the water village in Fancheng

The above book mentions that the brothers Kuai Yue and Kuai Liang were attacked by Zhang Fei in Xiangyang, so they abandoned the city and fled in panic in the direction of Fancheng. Pen | fun | pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 infoFancheng is divided into two locations: the water village and the city, which are guarded by the Cai Mao brothers. However, Fancheng at this time was not peaceful. The sound of killing outside the water village has already shook the sky, the dead bodies floated on the surface of the Hanshui River, the blood has dyed the river red, and countless small boats are floating downstream along the river without control.

It turned out that when Zhang Fei ambushed Liu Biao, Gan Ning, the general of the Shu army, also launched a water attack.

At that time, Gan Ning sent the generals Li Li and Li Qiang to lead troops to Fancheng Water Village to fight. Cai Mao was on the lookout of the water village, and saw that the enemy would take more than ten small boats to fight in front of the village, so he ordered Zhang Hu and Chen Shenger to lead five boats to sail out in about the left and right.

Zhang Hu and Chen Sheng relied on their courage to fly off the boat and rushed straight to attack. The brothers Li Qiang and Li Li wore armor and shields, stood on the bow of the boat, and also greeted them on the left and right.

Zhang Hu led his troops to arrive first and ordered the sergeant to shoot arrows at Li Qiang's boat. Li Qiang led the sword and shield soldiers, and all raised their shields to protect the archers in the inner circle. After Zhang Hu's first round of random arrows were fired, the archers of the Shu army stood up from the boat, drew their bows and arrows, and looked at Zhang Hu's department to shoot them, and a batch of arrow rain returned to Zhang Hu's department. However, the soldiers had already intersected, and the arrows were shot at close range, which was obviously more violent than the long distance, and Zhang Hu's subordinates couldn't dodge, and several people fell into the water with arrows.

Zhang Hu approached Li Qiang at the bow of the ship and raised his gun to stab Li Qiang. Li Qiang raised his shield to block, flew and jumped to Zhang Hu's boat, raised his knife and fell, and slashed Zhang Hu on the boat. All the soldiers of the Shu army had swords in their hands, jumped on the enemy's boat, protected themselves with shields, and raised their swords against the enemy.

Chen Sheng then shouted to arrive, and Li Li crossed the boat. The two armies drew their bows and fired at each other until they were less than four or five feet apart. Li Li held a shield in one hand and a sword in the other, flew and jumped onto Chen Sheng's boat, and stood together with Chen Sheng. While the boat was trembling, Chen Sheng retreated four or five feet, avoiding the casual slashing when Li Li jumped over, and also avoided stepping into Zhang Hu's footsteps.

As Li Li's soldiers continued to attack, Chen Sheng's soldiers were either shot by archers or slashed and fell into the river.

The battle on the water is not more about who is strong in martial arts, but more often than not, who is more ruthless and who is more desperate. Often, a single knife is either a wound or a human life.

In this way, the Shu army actually had a great advantage. The reckless style of play and the idea of leaving their backs to their comrades made them take advantage of the water battlefield. It was also because of this that this battle soon showed the ferocity of the Shu army. In the confrontation of more than 200 people, the Shu army lost less than 30% of the casualties, and actually killed more than 200 enemy soldiers. It also includes the killing of one enemy general and the capture of one enemy general alive.

Cai Mao saw in the water village that his two members of the army were killed and captured, and he was very angry, and immediately ordered: "Cai Zhong, Cai He, stay in Dazhai; Bei Yu and Su Dai followed me to set up 20 large ships and more than 100 small boats to attack. ”

When he had finished speaking, the herald passed on the order.

In the water village, the drums of the attack war. Cai Mao personally went upstairs to the boat, followed by the generals Bei Yu and Su Dai.

Besides, Li Qiang and Li Li salvaged the bodies of the soldiers who died in the water, and when they saw the drums of the enemy water village in Fancheng shaking the sky, they knew that the enemy army was dispatched, so they hurriedly got up in a small boat and rushed to the main formation.

Gan Ning led a big boat to pick up the two Li Li brothers three miles away, and saw that Cai Mao really led the army out of the village to pursue as Huang Xu said. He ordered Huang Xu to take Su Fei and Su Yuantun troops at the entrance of Danshui, and wait for Cai Mao's troops to arrive and attack him.

Not long after, Cai Mao led a large army to arrive and confronted Gan Ning on the west side of the Danjiang Estuary.

"Jinfan thief, don't you think that you can return to the west and don't worry about it? General Ben will kill you here today! Cai Mao saw that Gan Ning was wearing armor at this time, with a double halberd on his back, and a spear in his hand, as if he was a general, and he was even more jealous.

"Cai Deqi, Hugh has to speak wildly. If you want to take me, you might as well come and try your skills. If you are not invincible, you can catch it. If you are invincible, how can my lord be worthy of discernment? Gan Ning fought back.

Cai Mao saw that he did not take advantage of the verb, waved the spear in his hand, and drove the boat to charge against the current. Behind him, the war drums sudden, and the sky shook with a "knock knock".

Dozens of small boats on the side of the building ship rushed towards the Ganning fleet in the wind and waves.

The fleet sailed into the firing range, Gan Ning waved his hand, and the drummer behind him also beat the drum, and the slow and rapid drum sound of "knock, knock, knock......" came out, and the archers on the big ship in front of them all drew their bows and arrows and shot towards the galloping boats.

The boat was under a rain of arrows, and the soldiers on it raised their shields to block, and although there were casualties, there were very few.

Seeing that the boat was approaching, Gan Ning gave the order again, and the drums changed immediately. "Knock knock knock ......" A rapid drum beat touched the heartstrings, and a sense of oppression arose in vain. The archers on the big ship suddenly stopped shooting, and dozens of small boats sailed out from behind the big boat, and dozens of swords, shields, spears and spearmen stood on the small boat.

Cai Mao saw that the soldiers on the small boat were already close to each other, so he ordered the big boat to attack.

Gan Ning saw that Cai Mao's fleet had passed the mouth of the Danjiang River on the ship, and hurriedly ordered the drummers to beat the big drum and send an order to Huang Xu to send troops. The big drum was silent in the rush of war drums, "Knock...... Boom...... Knock ......", after three sounds, Huang Xu led troops from Danjiangkou to attack.

There are two ships in the Shu military building and more than 50 large ships, far exceeding Cai Mao's fleet. Moreover, the battlefield is four or five miles away from Fancheng Water Village, even if Cai Zhong and Cai He raise troops to help, I am afraid it will be too late.

Gan Ning and Huang Xu each sent big ships to divide Cai Mao's fleet into independent units, and then concentrated three or two ships to besiege it. The disparity in strength and the difference in tactics made the Jingzhou army gradually fall behind.

Water warfare may be as important as tactics. But if there is a disparity in troops, the tactics will pale in comparison. Cai Mao kept swimming and circling on the boat, trying to avoid Gan Ning and Huang Xu's attack. However, his wishful thinking did pale in the middle of the two ships.

Gan Ning is a master of speedboat tactics, and at this time, he manipulated the building boat, and even applied the tactics of the speedboat's collision and docking to the building ship battle. Seeing Cai Mao constantly circling, he instructed the building boat to crash into the stern of Cai Mao's building boat with a tailwind momentum. With a "click", the stern of Cai Maolou's boat was cracked.

Cai Mao was shocked when she saw this, hurriedly made people drop the boat, rushed to the boat in a panic, and fled in a hurry.

Gan Ning saw Cai Mao escape, picked up his bow and arrows, and shot towards Cai Mao.

Under the cover of Bei Yu and Chen Sheng, Cai Mao escaped in a small boat, and how did he know that there was an arrow behind him chasing the stars and shooting towards him. A "pop" hit him in the arm, and he fell to the boat with an "oops".

Bei Yu and Chen Sheng took cover desperately, and Cai Mao was able to escape.

The Jingzhou soldiers found that the drumming of the building boat stopped suddenly, and they knew that the building boat was defeated, so they gave up their opponents and went down the river one after another, taking the road and fleeing for their lives.

Gan Ning and Huang Xu came from the top of the building ship and commanded the ships to fight with the sound of drums. Seeing the enemy fleeing, many of their own boats pursued. Gan Ning was afraid that it would go deep into the enemy's position, so he was busy collecting his troops and making the drummers of the building boat beat the gong and sound gold.

In this battle, Gan Ning destroyed one enemy building ship and five large ships; He won five large ships, countless small ships, 2,000 soldiers, and countless enemies. Three large ships were lost, and three thousand soldiers were lost.

Cai Mao fled back to the water village, and was lucky. Suddenly, a sergeant came to report: "Report to the general, the two generals Kuai Yue and Kuai Liang were defeated and returned to Fancheng." At this time, he was waiting for the general in the palace. ”

What the? Defeat?! Xiangyang City lost?

When Cai Mao heard this, she almost didn't fall down.

Hurriedly found Cai Zhong and Cai He, Cai Mao said: "This time the enemy army is overwhelming, and the Kuai Yue brothers have lost Xiangyang!" The two of you rushed back to Fancheng with me, and saw that the two of them were discussing. ”

Cai Mao handed over the matter of the water village to Bei Yu and Chen Sheng, and rushed back to Fancheng with his two younger brothers.

At this time, the sky in Fancheng is probably about to change in the eyes of Cai's Zhongkun and Kuai's Zhongkun.

Sure enough, as soon as the three Cai Mao brothers returned to Fancheng, Liu Bei's army was already overwhelmed. It's just that this plan is even more far-reaching. Tian Feng sent people to lurk outside the Fancheng Water Village, and only after seeing Cai Mao go away, he sent troops to generals.

Liu Bei's soldiers were divided into four routes, three ways to attack the water village, and all the way to cut off the traffic between Fancheng and the water village.

All the way was the 10th battalion of infantry under the command of Zhang Liao, disguised as Fancheng soldiers, and rushed to the water village first, falsely claiming that Fancheng soldiers came to help defend.

All the way, Zhang Fei led the ten battalions of cavalry, and after Zhang Liao opened the water village, he quickly attacked the water village and captured the water village with Zhang Liao.

All the way is the Ganning water division, when Zhang Fei and Zhang Liao led the crowd to attack the water village, they attacked the water village from the waterway. After taking the water village, occupy the water village and block the river.

The last way is that Liu Bei personally commanded the troops to guard the key points of communication and cut off the enemy's communications.

Zhang Liao led his troops to Fancheng Water Village, and Bei Yu and Chen Sheng inquired in the village. Yin Fang stepped forward and replied, "General Cai Mao ordered me to come and help with the defense. In case the enemy army attacks from the dry road, it will be difficult for you and others to deal with it. ”

Bei Yu and Chen Sheng saw that everyone was dressed in Jingzhou military uniforms, and what they said was very reasonable, and they did not suspect fraud, so they opened the gate of the village and let everyone enter the camp.

Zhang Liao brought a group of soldiers into the room, and made Liu Yi and Tuoba Yun stay behind.

Bei Yu and Chen Sheng saw Zhang Liao and others coming in, so they came down to meet them. When the person got closer to the front, he found that the person in front of him was very angry, so Bei Yu asked, "Who dare to ask the general?" Why is it so eye-catching? ”

As soon as he finished speaking, the sound of horses' hooves came from outside the camp.

Zhang Liao knew that this was the fifth general, Zhang Fei had arrived.

He suddenly lifted the halberd against Bei Yu's chest, and said with a smile: "I am Zhang Liao and Zhang Wenyuan, the general under the command of General Zhengxi, why don't you look at it?" ”

As soon as these words came out, they immediately frightened Bei Yu and Chen Sheng.

Without waiting for the two of them to take action, Zhang Liao shouted coldly: "Take it!" ”

A soldier had already stepped forward and took down Bei Yu.

Chen Sheng turned around and fled. How could Zhang Liao let him escape. Riding his horse in a hurry, he came behind Chen Sheng, Zhang Liao possessed him, and the halberd stabbed forward, stabbing Chen Sheng's shoulder fiercely.

At this time, Chen Sheng will run away again, but he won't be able to escape! If you run again, you won't be able to save this arm.

In an instant, the two generals of the water village were all captured.

At this time, Zhang Fei rushed in with 10,000 cavalry from outside the village. Seeing Zhang Liao standing at the entrance of the water village on horseback, with two generals in front of him, Zhang Fei couldn't help laughing: "Wen Yuan has already failed to pay tribute this time?" ”

"It's just that these two people have just been captured, and please send them down!" Zhang Liao hurriedly came over to greet him.

Zhang Fei waved his hand at Zhang Liao, rode his horse to Bei Yu and the others, and asked, "You two are the supreme generals of this water village?" ”

"So what?" Bei Yu asked rhetorically with a glare.

"Very tough! But I don't know if your heart is about Jingzhou or your subordinate soldiers and your life? Zhang Fei stared at Bei Yu with his eyes.

Under the eyes of each other, Bei Yu was frightened to take two steps back, and asked in a trembling voice, "What do you want?" ”

However, Chen Sheng, who was injured on the side, woke up in time and knelt down and kowtowed: "Dare to ask the general, could it be General Zhang Fei and Zhang Yide?" The young general Chen Sheng is willing to surrender! I also hope that the general will forgive Bei Yu for the crime of reckless collision! ”

On the one hand, he pleaded with Zhang Fei, and on the other hand, he pulled Bei Yu to kowtow and surrender.

Seeing this, Bei Yu knew that if he didn't surrender, he might be difficult to survive, so he knelt down and kowtowed to surrender at Chen Sheng's signal.

Seeing this, Zhang Fei laughed and said, "In that case, Chen Sheng, go down to heal!" Bei Yu, you immediately order all the soldiers in the water village to lay down their weapons and surrender. Then open who is in the gate and let our army's sailors enter the village. ”

As a result, Fancheng Water Village was captured by Zhang Fei, and Gan Ning led 20,000 water divisions into Fancheng Water Village, and organized 20,000 Jingzhou Water Troops in Fancheng Water Village.