Chapter 125: The Governor of Luzhou Resentment (Part II)
The night sky is like ink, revealing a little clear light. The stars that were once in the sky could not be found at this time. Only the flames of the same name inside and outside Luzhou City are still reminding that under the dark night, it is a tragic battlefield that has swallowed countless lives.
Compared with the torches of the Mongol and Song armies inside and outside Luzhou, the flames that lit up a corner of the sky in the distance made people feel uneasy. Thinking about it, the Jinghu Water Division and the Yushui Water Division were also in a stalemate, otherwise they should have sent someone to pass it over as soon as possible.
Even though it was the height of summer, the wind on the river was still cool, and there was even a thick smell of smoke and blood. This breath can also be perceived, I don't know if it comes from the battlefield of the east gate of Luzhou, and many of it comes from the river.
When Zhang Shijie was leaving, he gave death orders to the few Song warships left behind, so several warships were still moored in the dark, if it weren't for the sporadic flames on the ship, I am afraid that they would have merged with the darkness and could not be distinguished. Thanks to the timely support of these warships, the Mongol army that feintted to attack the other two gates of Luzhou did not play a big role in restraining it, after all, someone released arrows from behind, and it was impossible for anyone to attack the city with all their might.
Ye Yingwu stood on the Shenjian Gate in the southwest corner of Luzhou, compared with the open terrain outside the east gate and the vast river outside the south gate, the Shenjian Gate is indeed the easiest and most difficult place to defend and attack in the entire Luzhou City, otherwise it would be impossible to name this city gate and Luzhou City with the same name.
The Shenjian Mountain, where the entire Luzhou City is located, is like an arm stretched into the river, and this Shenjian Gate is the hardest place of the whole arm. Even if Luzhou City is breached, the Divine Arm Gate can be turned into a closed city to continue to defend.
It's just that Ye Yingwu, as a modern person, always thinks of "Qilin Arm" inexplicably when he hears the word "divine arm", but this kind of funny idea is to use it to adjust himself in his free time after the war.
And at this time, it is not the time to adjust.
Behind Ye Yingwu, there were already thousands of Song soldiers waiting under the city gate, swords like a forest. And everyone died down, after all, the red battle flag of the Song army was still a little conspicuous even in the dark sky.
Gundam had a tired look on his face, although the veteran had always refused to accept old age, but the weakening of his body was indeed something he had to face, perhaps this is why Gundam felt heartfelt joy when he saw the rise of a new group of young people led by Ye Yingwu.
It's a joy for someone to follow.
"Ready?" Gundam looked at Ye Yingwu intently, this young man who actually had no martial arts had an incomparable influence and appeal, so that Gundam also had to sigh secretly in his heart, it was good to be young.
"Always ready." Ye Yingwu's voice showed relaxation, but his words that were familiar to later generations were quite novel in the eyes of the ancients.
Gundam nodded: "Young man, be steady, be careful." Now that you're ready, you're ready to go, and you're ready to answer in the city. ”
Ye Yingwu arched his hand at Gundam, turned around and walked down the Divine Arm Gate. The Mongolian army led by Liu Quan of Tongchuan Prefecture suffered heavy casualties after the bloody battle of Luzhou siege, coupled with the destruction of several ladder trucks and the repulsion of several strong attacks by the Song army, morale was naturally low, and the Mongolian army of Chengdu Prefecture was not stable in its footing, and it rarely fought side by side with the army of Tongchuan Prefecture, so there must be a lack of tacit understanding between the two sides.
If the two sides are almost run-in in a few days, I am afraid that there will be no chance to sneak attack. So although Zhang Jue's reinforcements didn't know where to go, Gundam and Ye Yingwu didn't intend to let go of this once-in-a-lifetime opportunity.
Of course, if Liu Quan and Liu Yuanzhen, the two Mongolian generals, are not aware of their own problems and are defenseless, then it is unreasonable.
Ye Yingwu swore and walked down the city gate, but there was no bottom in his heart.
This night attack was carried out with 300 cavalry of the Hundred Battles as the blade, 2,000 Luzhou soldiers as the backbone, and finally Wang Shichang personally led more than 1,000 people to suppress the formation. And the more than 3,000 soldiers who participated in the night attack, needless to say, the other more than 3,000 people are also the elite of Luzhou City, and most of them did not participate in the defense of the city at dusk, the Pao Ze brothers fought in the city with blood and sweat, but they could only stare at the city until the end before they had the opportunity to rush up, and anyone was also holding back their stomachs, since they were killed out of the city, they had to chop off the heads of a few Tartars to show the brothers in the city, and the heads of the Mongolian Han soldiers were not counted, they had to be real Mongolian Tartars!
Therefore, Ye Yingwu's three thousand sons and daughters are really high morale.
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On the river, the warships that once crisscrossed the world and the mountains and rivers could only float helplessly in the raging fire, and the river water slapped on the hull of the ship, and then shattered into countless white foam, dissipating completely. On the river beaches on both sides, between the craggy and strange rocks, there were already a lot of broken ship components and all kinds of blades and weapons scattered.
The flames illuminate the river, and the river is red.
Zhang Shijie held on to the railing of the building boat and held his breath. The air was filled with the smell of blood and charred corpses, the flames and black smoke on the river surface were too great to see the situation of friend and foe at all, just beside Zhang Shijie, a large section of the railing of the building ship was broken, and a bed crossbow that was originally there had no whereabouts.
It was in the building where Zhang Shijie was just now and a Mongolian warship met in a narrow way, because this Mongolian warship was also a former Luzhou naval warship that Liu Chuan brought to the north, so the shape and style were no different from the Song army warships, so that the two sides did not recognize each other when they arrived at the face, until a sharp-eyed Mongolian soldier saw the red flag on the mast of the building ship on one side, and then woke up.
The incident happened suddenly, and the two sides could only desperately release their firepower to the enemy who was close at hand, but although the Mongolian warship was slightly larger than the ordinary warship, it was much smaller than the building ship, so in addition to being caught off guard at the beginning and being forced to knock out a bed crossbow, the Song Junlou ship was almost hanging the Mongolian warship.
In the end, the commander of the Song army's warship, who was furious, glanced at Zhang Shijie, who was frowning, and ordered to shoot the Mongolian soldiers who shouted for help in the water one by one. His flagship was burned by the flagship of the Yushui Naval Division, and it was just a matter of being burned through one life for another, but it almost capsized in the hands of a much smaller Mongolian warship, and no one would smile.
What's more, he went down the river, attacked more and attacked less, and the Chongqing Mansion Sailor followed from behind and stabbed the knife, but he couldn't eat a single Yushui Sailor, and even three of the Lou ships were sunk, if he said it, wouldn't he become the laughing stock of the world, and he Zhang Shijie would also be labeled as incompetent, and Jia Nidao, who was worried about not being able to catch his handle, would naturally attack desperately.
The hard work of this generation is over, and his visible loyalty to the Great Song Dynasty will only end up in a gloomy end.
This is not the fate that Zhang Shijie wants!
Slapping the railing of the warship fiercely, Zhang Shijie Huo Ran stood up straight and looked ahead: "Gather all the warships around and pull the cages downstream on the river to attack, there can't be a Tartar warship that slips away from under our noses!" There are also a few Mongolian ships sent back to Luzhou to strictly prevent fish from slipping through the net, and by the way, report the battle situation here. ”
Seeing that Du Tong, who was originally a little depressed, stood up all of a sudden, the generals of the Song army, who had been waiting for a long time, were overjoyed, and hurriedly answered and walked away quickly. Looking up at the mast, his own flag and the red flag of the Great Song Dynasty reflected each other, Zhang Shijie clenched his fists, Yushui Water Master, since a certain person has already made a bloody investment, he can't let you get away safely!
Soon the Song army warships began to assemble, after all, it was the strongest sailor division across the Jianghuai River at this time, and if there was no ability to cope with changes in the melee, it would be impossible to say. Zhang Shijie's building ship rushed to the front, followed by another building ship that had just extinguished the fire, and poured rockets and crossbows at the Mongolian warships on both sides that had not yet reacted.
The flames in front were still bright, and several burning Mengsong warships were slammed away by the huge Lou ship, Zhang Shijie looked at the melee in front of him and breathed a sigh of relief. I have to say that the Chongqing Naval Division fought very fiercely, they were driven all the way to Kuizhou by the Chongqing Water Division, and they were naturally aggrieved, and now they were directly stabbed in from behind, relying on the loss of more than half of the main force of the Chongqing Water Division and their own cutting-edge divisions, it was difficult to solve.
I'm afraid that the Chongqing Sailor is also very depressed, and the Chongqing Sailor, who was once scared by himself, really didn't spare his hand at all when he beat the water dog at this time, but in desperation, he could only fight with his spirit.
The two sides are so glued together, no wonder no one has come to trouble Zhang Shijie.
After all, the strength of the Chongqing Navy Division was weak, and they had the upper hand by sneak attack, but they were quickly broken back, and the warships of the Chongqing Navy Division, who were unwilling to be humiliated, turned around and rushed towards them, and the fireboats that had not been used were released without hesitation, and even set off a raging fire on the river. It's just that before the Yushui Sailor laughed, the remnants of the Jinghu Sailor led by Zhang Shijie suddenly came out of the sea of fire.
"Put!" Zhang Shijie used all his strength and shouted loudly.
"Put!" More generals of the Song Army's naval divisions held swords in their hands and went to the front!
"Put!" Countless soldiers of the Song Army desperately pulled the trigger in their hands and released the tightly tightened bowstring!
The dense arrows plunged into the darkness and reappeared in the glow of the flames. Once again, the Yushui sailors suffered heavy casualties, and most of the ships were no longer standing on the decks. Without Zhang Shijie's orders, the Song army warships swarmed up.
On the vast river, in the bright flames, thousands of sails are competing!
And Zhang Shijie clenched his fists tightly, and his eyes didn't blink. No matter what happened to Luzhou behind him, no matter how many people were still struggling in the sea of fire behind him, and no matter how many boats there were in front of the Yushui Naval Division that could continue to drift on the river.
What you can do has already been done.
The water battle outside Luzhou City finally came to an end in the dark night.
The Jinghu Naval Division and the Chongqing Naval Division of the Song Army won a crushing victory, and the Mongolian Yushui Naval Division was completely annihilated.
Subconsciously looking back, at the other end of the sea of fire that burned and lit up the sky, was the most critical place in the entire battle of Luzhou - Luzhou City. Luzhou City did not receive news from the water division, and the water division did not receive the news from Luzhou City. Zhang Shijie still doesn't know what happened to Luzhou, although he believes that with Luzhou City, Ye Yingwu, and Gundam, even if Liu Cheng has great skills, it is impossible for him to break through the city in just half a day.
But after all, the uncertainty of life and death is always the most worrying.
Yuanlie, my brother-in-law will help you clean up what should be beaten on the river, and it will be up to you on the land.
Not only did Zhang Shijie not know, but even Gao Gao in Luzhou City and Ye Yingwu, who had already led his subordinates to advance rapidly, did not know that just more than ten miles away from the north bank of Zhang Shijie's water battle, an army that was also dead was almost integrated with the darkness.
Zhang Jue's army, whose whereabouts have been unknown, appeared with Yan.
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The long march stretched far as several generals rode up the mound beside the road. The flames on the river more than ten miles away have already lit up half of the sky, and the sentinels sent out have also contacted the Chongqing Navy, and now there is a one-sided slaughter on the river.
Several generals of the Song army were like stars and moons, and the man among them was only middle-aged, but he was sitting on horseback like this, with a tall posture, black eyebrows like swords, and a look of non-anger and self-authority in his eyes. And the generals of the Song Army looked at him, and they were also seven points of admiration and admiration, and three points of enthusiasm. Follow the general to fight and die without regrets.
Looking at the whole Sichuan and Shu, there is only one person with such charm and temperament.
The armies of the Great Song Xingyuan Mansion were all under control, and the Lizhou East Road was pacified and merged with the governor of Hezhou, Zhang Jue.
It's just that in the hearts of more Sichuan and Shu generals, Zhang Jue is the successor of famous generals such as Wang Jian and Yu Jue, and he is the commander who leads them to an invincible position. At the last moment of the fall of the Southern Song Dynasty, he almost reversed the situation in Sichuan and Shu by himself, making the Sichuan and Shu Yuan army in chaos for a while.
But after all, in the face of a country, the power of several state capitals is too small. Zhang Jue was also defeated and died in the end, but this does not mean that his strength has not been recognized.
"The sailor won the battle." Zhang Jue said softly, "On the contrary, it is Luzhou City, but I don't know the news for a long time, and Liu Quan and Liu Yuanzhen are locked down." ”
"Then how should we attack?" A young and vigorous young general of the Song Army was already a little unable to hold back. The sailor has a big victory, so they can't be ashamed of these infantry generals, and they have to rush up and kill them if they say anything!
Zhang Jue looked in the direction of Luzhou City in the distance and frowned.
However, at this moment, several figures flashed from the darkness, and the army slowly advancing from one side did not notice that there was anyone walking near the left before. Dozens of cavalry of the Song army hurriedly surrounded it, and their own Zhang Yuanjun was on the side, they didn't know whether they were friends or enemies in the night, but they were definitely not good people, if they let them collide with Zhang Yuanjun, it would be really a shame.
However, the few people who emerged from the darkness did not resist, but only took a few steps forward, and the golden arrows in their hands flickered in the faint moonlight. Yu Hou, the cavalry of the Song army who led the team, couldn't help but take a light breath.
Luzhou, Chongqing, and Hezhou were originally interdependent, and these Song cavalry, who often served as scouts and heralds, were not uncommon with this kind of arrow.
Zhang Jue, who got the news, had already come on horseback. Twenty or thirty guards also dispersed on the spot, surrounding several black-clothed men who suddenly appeared in it, if they dared to do anything against Zhang Yuanjun, these guards would not hesitate to pounce on them and break them into pieces.
The two sides didn't even say a word, and the leading man in black looked at Zhang Jue, took out a letter from his arms and handed it over. Zhang Jue was slightly stunned, but he still hurriedly took it, because the letter was written in a hurry, so the font can be said to be a dragon flying and phoenix dancing, and it was urgent, and it was folded up without drying, resulting in some blurred words, but fortunately, it did not affect the reading.
At the foot of the letter, the seal used was the three words "Ye Yuanlie" in the ancient seal style.
A smile appeared on the corner of Zhang Jue's mouth, and he nodded at the black-clothed man: "I already know it in my heart, and thank you General Ye for reminding me." It's just that a certain is still quite curious, a few people are so agile and have heavy responsibilities, I think they are the elite in the army, and Luzhou, Hezhou, and Chongqing are also quite familiar, why haven't they seen it before. ”
The black-clothed man was stunned for a moment, and then smiled and said: "Don't hide it from General Zhang, a few of us and a few others are sons and daughters of Ye Yuanjun, naturally General Zhang has not seen it." ”
Hearing the explanation of the man in black, Zhang Jue nodded: "That's hard, a few strong men hurry up and go back to recover their lives." ”
Looking at the figure that disappeared into the darkness again, even a few generals under Zhang Jue, who had always been arrogant, couldn't help but secretly speak, this Ye Yingwu has a lot of elites. And Zhang Jue said softly: "I heard that General Ye has several strong teams under his command in addition to a hundred battles, but I don't know if what I saw today is or not." ”
Without waiting for the people around him to answer, Zhang Jue turned to say: "That's it, now is not the time to talk about this, hurry forward and hurry to Luzhou City!" ”
"Obey!" The generals replied with a bang.