Chapter Eighty-Seven: The Plan Begins
Li Shimin's army had just retreated to the mouth of the Sanjiang River, and everything seemed to have remained unchanged as a few days ago, but neither Cai Mao's squadron nor the Chinese army knew that at the junction of the Han River and the Yangtze River, a squadron of about 200 ships quietly turned around and slowly advanced towards Xiakou Port. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. biquge。 info
Cai Mao's army did not know the changes, and was dispatching the Chinese army to march to Xiakou Port, ten miles away, intending to stop there, which would also facilitate the supply of resources.
Cai Mao held the edge of the boat with both hands and waved to the flag soldiers around him: "Let's go." ”
The banner soldiers were ordered to pass on the orders one by one, and after a while, the army raised anchor and launched, heading towards Xiakou Port.
The scouts on the shore were intensively monitoring the movements of Cai Mao's army.
"The enemy has entered the range, immediately notify the vanguard." The first team of scouts lit the dead grass and spread it on top with linen cloth to rhythmically block out the black smoke.
"What's that?" Cai Mao squinted at the north shore, the clusters of black smoke dazzling under the clear sky.
Kuai Yue glanced at it and exclaimed: "It's not good, it's wolf smoke, quickly turn the bow of the ship, there is an ambush." "But the draft of the building ship is too deep, and it is impossible to easily turn around.
There were more than a dozen muffled "bangs," and the advance unit's building ships were suddenly stopped from advancing, stuck on the surface of the river, unable to retreat or advance, as if something was blocking them underwater.
Cai Mao was shocked: "Quickly dodge, let the building boat in front of you dodge." ”
The panic of the main general is the most likely to cause the fear of the army, so that the flag soldiers hurriedly give orders, but the row of buildings in front of them does not know what is stuck by the owner, and they cannot enter an inch, so they can only watch more and more buildings and ships crash into each other, and even the main ship of the flag cannot escape the doom.
Three miles and one wolf smoke, the news quickly spread to Wei Chi Jingde's vanguard army.
"The whole army obeys the order and accelerates the charge!"
Wei Chi Jingde carried the eight-sided exquisite lance on his back, and drove the handsome boat to rush up first, and the enemy ships were clustered together, embarrassed.
"The front army is covered by rockets, and the rear army is on standby."
Wei Chi Jingde gave another order, and the first to ignite the arrow and shoot at the enemy's ship.
The building ships are all wooden structures, which are extremely flammable, and at this time, they are connected from end to end, directly affecting most of the building ships.
The fire was ruthless, there was no need to use the wind at all, with the assistance of dense rockets, dozens of buildings and boats clustered together ignited a raging fire, and some soldiers saw that the fighting was ineffective, and jumped off the Yangtze River in fear, regardless of the fact that the river water was still cold and cold on a February day.
Time passed slowly, and there were nearly thirty buildings and ships that successfully broke away from each other and escaped the spread of the fire, but because of the impact, they naturally had some scars, and the mobility was greatly reduced at this time.
"Brothers, the enemy commander is on the main ship of the handsome flag, and he will follow me on board."
Wei Chi Jingde ordered the whole army to attack, forced to board the ship, at this time the enemy army was frustrated, naturally to take advantage of the victory to pursue, even if the number of enemy troops is multiple of our army vanguard, but the morale of the other army is low, but their own side has thrown away the depression of the past few days, the morale is definitely high, its heart is available, at this time do not pursue when.
Qin Qiong on the bank of the river looked cold and resolute, and his eyes were sharp like a knife: "General Wen, Cai Dudu's army is now at the end of the crossbow, and our army must rescue as soon as possible, otherwise Cai Dudu will hate the Yangtze River, and the first to bear the brunt is my Jiangxia City and your Xiakou Port." ”
Wen Ping knew this truth, but yesterday he confronted Wei Chi Jingde, and the warship had lost less than 100 ships, and at this time, rash rescue was afraid that it would backfire and plunge himself into a quagmire.
Qin Qiong's face was expressionless: "Cai Mao's move is inconsiderate, and he will move the Chinese army in vain and cause trouble, but as the governor of the navy, if this battle overthrows our Jingzhou navy, the control of the Yangtze River will change hands in an instant, directly affecting Changsha, Wuling and other counties on the south bank of the Yangtze River, and it will be too late to regret it." ”
Wen Ping fought between heaven and man in his mind, and finally made up his mind: "General Qin is so young, and he is still willing to give up a hundred and ten catties of skin, how can I, Wen Someone, look ahead and backward, delay the fighter plane, and come...... Gather the remaining ships, and I will work with General Qin to rescue Cai Dudu. ”
In February, the beacon fire was in the sky, the rivers and mountains looked south, shaking thousands of miles, and Xiakou was stained with blood.
A battle is being staged, but Xiakou, who is adjacent to Chibi, is one step ahead of him to compose a sad song, which makes the world sigh.
The three floors of an ordinary building ship are already the limit, but the body is a little clumsy, and the maneuverability of the warship is very good, and the stability is naturally not bad.
Wei Chi Jingde was the first to set up a rope ladder and board the enemy ship, occupying an advantageous position, an ordinary building ship can accommodate 500 to 2,000 people, while a stern can only accommodate a few dozen people, which caused trouble to the Jiangdong army that boarded the ship, and only seven or eight building ships were boarded by the Jiangdong army.
At this time, Gan Ning led the remaining more than 300 ships, plus the cover of several fighting ships, and killed the pursuing Cai Mao's team, the blood-stained robe was cut, and the silver armor was covered with scratches, and Gan Ning was only alone, and he killed the soldiers of seven or eight warships.
Li Shimin personally led the building ship to follow behind, and when the enemy army was slightly encircled, he commanded the archers to strike a blow and separate the enemy troops that had finally gathered again.
At this time, Gan Ning jumped on a ship under the cover of the soldiers, but this one was a little different, and the handsome flags hanging on it were the big Deng characters, which were Deng Yi's handsome ships.
Deng Yi has a typical Chinese face, his hair is neat and clean, and he is a person who attaches great importance to his image at first glance, and at this time he saw an enemy general jumping on the ship, and more than a dozen soldiers could not help him, but were killed by him on the spot.
"The name will be known, and the nameless person will not be killed."
Gan Ning heard the sound and looked, only to see Deng Yi wearing armor, knowing that he was a character, and secretly liked a merit in his heart, so he hurriedly raised his sword and forced the enemy to retreat, leaving the remaining soldiers behind him to deal with it, and he went straight to Deng Yi.
"Your grandfather Gan Xingba, the thief will die."
Gan Ning's hideous face and huge ring knife expanded in his eyes, Deng Yi was so frightened that he forgot to raise the knife for a while, and was cut in half by Gan Ning's knife, and his sliding head stared at Dou Da's eyes, looking ahead in disbelief.
Gan Ning put away Deng Yi's head and handed it to the soldiers behind him: "Keep it for me, and when I finish cleaning up the enemy army, I will ask for credit." ”
More and more ships were captured, and unowned ships with corpses could be seen floating with the current.
Gan Ning seemed to have endless strength, jumped on a ship again, but saw a pawn shoot a person who looked like a general away, and landed right at Gan Ning's feet, Gan Ning did not hesitate, fell with one foot, and stepped on the person's chest, and died thoroughly, and he didn't even have time to scream.
"Who is this person?"
The soldiers behind Gan Ning glanced at the corpse on the ground and said, "Looking at the flag and appearance, it should be Cai Mao's confidant Wang Wei." ”
"Wang Wei?" Gan Ning remembered that this person had a certain status in Jingzhou.
"Hey, how can you rob me of my merits, do you want to be ashamed?"
Gan Ning frowned, was interrupted by a childish voice, and looked up, it was the pawn, Gan Ning, who had a good impression of the general, smiled: "Don't worry, if this person is really Wang Wei, then a lot of this merit is yours, I don't know what your name is, where is the person." ”
Hearing that the merits couldn't run, the pawn grinned and said: "I am Danyang Zhu Ran, I was conscripted into the army last year, and I went out with Li Dudu to Jingnan." ”
Zhu Ran was only twelve or thirteen years old at this time, and he was drafted into the army, which was really unpopular in troubled times: "Then how about you follow me to be my personal guard for the time being, and when this is over, I will promote you to Li Dudu for reuse." ”
Zhu Ran hesitated, not knowing this person at all.
The soldiers behind Gan Ning hurriedly went up and pulled him: "You thief, don't thank you for your life, this person is Gan Ning, a general under General Sun." ”
"Gan Ning?" Zhu Ran was stunned in his heart, and said with a happy face: "The kid doesn't know that it's General Gan in person, don't blame him, if General Gan doesn't give up, the kid is willing to be by the general's side, before and after the saddle, all by command." ”