Chapter 1: Longbow Shooting
The sea water poured in through the gap in the rocky bank that had been opened, and in an instant, dozens of nearby soldiers were swept into the water.
Zheng Cangsheng didn't know what the reason was, but he also knew that the opportunity could not be missed, and shouted: "God is obviously spiritual, help us drown these sea robbers." "Lead a group of people to kill first. Let him shout, and the Blue Flame Army inside the parapet came back to their senses together, bravely climbed out of the parapet, and killed those panicked Kou soldiers.
At this point, only half of the defenders on the island remained, and the stone embankment did not collapse, and Wei Yu was ready to order a retreat behind the second defensive wall. The Kou soldiers could take turns to attack, and except for the five hundred elites of the Blue Flame Army in case of contingency, the rest of the soldiers were pressed on the side of the parapet to fight fiercely with the Kou soldiers. At first glance, I heard Zheng Cangsheng exclaim, like a new force, rushing down from the steep danger, like a wolf and a tiger.
There was a loud noise, the rocks collapsed and the ground cracked, and the sea tide surged, and for a while, the soldiers were shocked, and before they came to their senses, they let the Qingyan Army enter the formation, unable to resist, and retreated down the slope one after another. In order to avoid the rushing tide, the soldiers in the low depression surged up the ramp, and the two groups of soldiers mixed together, and the confusion seemed to have forgotten to resist the slashing blades.
Ding Mianchen walked over quickly, his face was surprised and happy, and there was also a hint of melancholy, and said: "The formation of the Kou soldiers is chaotic, but the place there is narrow, and the retreat road is intercepted by the tide, but it is the backwater death place that the soldiers talk about. Seeing Wei Yu nodding slightly, he knew and saw the hidden dangers, and said, "When the soldiers understand that there is no way to retreat, they will be on the verge of death, and our department will be entangled with it, and they will be invincible." ”
Wei Yu pointed to the five hundred elites behind him and said: "This team of elite soldiers has practiced several formations in Dayan, and they will go down to kill, and the formation will be scattered but not chaotic, and when the soldiers come to their senses, they can quickly retract the formation and retreat." ”
During the Battle of the East China Sea, the combat power of the Wanling army increased rapidly, and the world knows that it was Xu Ruyu who taught the military formation. Ding Mianchen had also heard of the Qinghe Chong Formation and the Dayan Several Formation. However, the speed of Jiangning's army expansion is very fast, the Qingjiang water camp was only more than 1,000 people at the beginning, and now it has been renamed the Wing Tiger Army, there are 70,000 people, and the veterans are mixed with the new Ding.
Zheng Cangsheng led nearly 1,000 people who rushed into the Kou soldier array, and they were more than soldiers of the garrison, and their morale was greatly boosted, but they were entangled with Kou, and they couldn't distinguish between friend and foe at this time. Although the number of Kou soldiers on the ramp was several times that of the Blue Flame Army, they had not yet come to their senses, and they were only instinctively blocking the slashing blades. As soon as they come back to their senses, the Blue Flame Army, which is inferior in numbers, will suffer a big loss.
Ding Mianchen divided several teams from 500 people, took advantage of the chaos of the Kou soldiers, gathered the soldiers of the garrison, and led the remaining elite to wedge into the chaos from a corner.
Lin Ji calmed down, only to see that there was chaos on the ramp, knowing that if this chaos continued for a while, the five thousand people on the other side would be slaughtered cleanly. Seeing that there were only a dozen Jingwei who followed him in the chaos, Lin Ji waved the knife in his hand and shouted: "There is only one way to retreat, if you want to live, rush up with me." "The sound was like thunder, suppressing the roaring tide of the sea.
Lin Ji rushed up a few steps, and the formation was even more crowded, even if it was a short blade, it couldn't be used. Lin Ji's forehead was bruised, his eyes were bloodshot and red, and he slashed down the Puji sergeant who was squeezing towards him with a knife, and shouted to Jingwei behind him: "Raise the gun and halberd in your hand, whoever wants to retreat, no wonder the blade is ruthless." "At this time, there is no time to reorganize the formation, only by rushing up the ramp and opening up a certain gap in the chaotic formation can there be a chance to breathe. As he spoke, Lin Ji swung his knife and slashed over a Puji sergeant.
The bright iron halberd spear was against the back and abdomen, but the people above squeezed down together, in the blink of an eye, several people could not avoid it, so that the iron halberd stabbed a square, but could not squeeze down again, the soldiers below slowed down, gradually came back to their senses, looked at the surging tide under the mountain, and understood together, and then retreated only a dead end, and rushed to the ramp with a shout.
The chaos lasted for about a moment, and the ramp was filled with the remains of the Puji bandits.
Lin Ji led the elite of more than 100 soldiers to rush to the top of the chaotic formation, and when he saw that the one on his side was about to go down to kill again, he shouted: "Leave the green flame thieves around you to the people behind, you just rush up." ”
Wei Yu looked at the situation under the mountain coldly, Lin Ji's shouting was naturally in his ears, and he couldn't help but sigh in his heart: Lin Ji does have some skills in leading the troops. In the chaos, there were many casualties, and the number of soldiers was still much higher than that of the Blue Flame Army, although most of the soldiers came to their senses, but the formation was still crowded and chaotic, in this case, only by pulling the formation apart, would there be a chance to turn defeat into victory.
Wei Yu said to Zheng Cangsheng: "Pass the order down and let Ding Mianchen pull people back." ”
Zheng Cangsheng asked Wei Yu to recall him soon after rushing down, thinking that the steel knife had not yet been curled, and he was quite dissatisfied, but no one in the army dared to show his dissatisfaction with Wei Yu on his face. At this time, when he saw the situation on the ramp, he was worried in his heart, and secretly said: It is not easy to take back the people who were fighting with the Kou soldiers.
The golden horn sounded, Ding Mianchen twisted and looked up, and suddenly found that hundreds of soldiers had broken away from the chaos and rushed to the upper end of the ramp, with only more than 20 soldiers left around him, and the soldiers and the four small commanders were there, and he knew in his heart that this group of people had not been killed from beginning to end.
Among the armies of Jiangning, the cavalry battalion set up a small order, a total of six people, and a scattered formation of six snowflakes. The infantry battalion, set up a team, a total of twelve people, is the positive shape of the Dayan array. The navy usually fights in a narrow hull, and the large number of formations has six people as a reading unit, and the long and short bows and shields cooperate with each other; The terrain is more open, it is a team of 12 people, one small commander is the team leader, one is the deputy, rushing into the enemy formation, the second to third teams are required to cooperate with each other, even if they are trapped in the enemy formation, they can support a long time to wait for rescue. When engaged, the remnants of the formation will be added to other arrays, and there will be a deformation of the seven-person array and the eight-person array.
Ding Mianchen led more than 20 people, tore apart the entanglement of the Kou soldiers, gathered the men and horses of each team in their own formations, and killed them back on the slope together.
The Kou soldiers had not yet been organized in an orderly manner, and they could not intercept the Blue Flame Army in formation. Lin Ji led hundreds of soldiers without looking back to intercept them, and went straight to the parapet to kill.
Zheng Cangsheng stood on the parapet wall, feeling strange in his heart, only when Lin Ji was crazy, he ordered the soldiers of the parapet to shoot with bows.
Wei Yu knew in his heart that Lin Ji was worthy of being battle-hardened for a long time, and his judgment was quite good. At this time, he led hundreds of Kou soldiers to intercept Ding Mianchen's hundreds of elites, not only were they flanked on both sides of the back and abdomen, but if Ding Mianchen led people to rush behind the parapet wall, the remaining 3,000 or so Kou soldiers were all huddled on the not very open slope, and the situation would be even more dangerous. The tide of the sea has submerged all the low depressions hundreds of paces deep, and the waves are surging four or five hundred steps below the parapet wall, and the front of the Kou soldiers is only two or three hundred steps away from the parapet wall, where three or four thousand pirates gather on the narrow ground, and they can shoot and kill the Puji pirates with hard-angled longbows and crossbows at will, and tear down the parapet wall, and just roll down the steep slope with a boulder to hit a few Puji pirates.
Lin Ji didn't have time to calculate how much damage he suffered from the chaos of Shicai, but he knew that between the ships outside the sea polder coming in to rescue, he couldn't distance himself from the parapet, and only with all the Blue Flame Army melee would he have a way to survive and have a chance to turn defeat into victory. Once you get away, the rolling stones, arrows, and torches overhead will rain down.
Zheng Cangsheng led nearly a thousand Qingyan behind the parapet, Lin Ji led hundreds of soldiers to frantically towards the parapet, and then Ding Mianchen led more than 400 elites to retreat towards the parapet, while more Kou soldiers followed behind Ding Mianchen and rushed above the ramp.
Although taking advantage of that chaos, the water rushed and slashed and annihilated more than 2,000 soldiers, but there were still 2,4500 soldiers left, and only 1,4500 people were left on their side.
Wei Yu untied the standard saber from his waist and stood in the queue.
The fire burned the rocks on the shore, the tide poured in, and the forces of heat and cold intensified, and a huge gap opened in the rocky bank, but the rocks on the inner slope also collapsed and piled up near the gap. Although the Puji pirates still had three or four thousand people left behind in the warships outside the Haiwei, they were unable to sail their small warships into the Haiwei at this time to assist the Kou soldiers on the island, and they could only wait and see the changes in the fierce battle on the ramp, and they did not notice that the hundreds of warships led by Li Yin and six or seven thousand people were approaching here.
The fierce battle over the parapet lasted for two hours, and hundreds of Winged Tiger warships rushed into the Puji ship formation at the sea polder. Although the warships of the Wing Tiger Army were small and light, they had a great advantage in numbers, and they were unprepared for the attack, taking the lead. Before Li Yin gave the order to attack, he did not know that Wei Yu was safe and sound, so he issued a death order to annihilate all the Kou soldiers, three or four warships hooked an enemy ship with hooks, and as soon as the gangplank caught the enemy ship, two or three hundred soldiers of the Winged Tiger Army braved the arrows and stones to hug the enemy ship together, and engaged in hand-to-hand combat with the Puji pirates in the narrow hull.
Lin Jizheng led a group of soldiers to break through the gap in the parapet; The Qingyan Army gradually couldn't resist, and slowly retreated to the second parapet, but when they saw that Li Yin led the reinforcements to arrive in time, the declining ambition was lifted again, as if the fatigue was thrown off from the body, and it turned into a tiger and wolf division again, killing the Kou soldiers back from the gap. At this time, Ding Mianchen had already led the crowd to kill behind the parapet, but less than half of the soldiers who returned to the parapet with him remained.
Ding Mianchen approached Wei Yu's side, and his voice became hoarse: "Lin Ji has been defeated, can he be allowed to surrender?" ”
Wei Yu looked left and right, and there were less than six hundred soldiers left behind the parapet, standing proudly on the parapet, staring coldly at the Puji bandits who were less than a thousand people a hundred steps away from the parapet, and said coldly: "The battle is not over, shoot them with a longbow." ”
Lin Ji shouted: "Hengzhi is dead, kill the Wei thief, and be famous for eternity." Wielding his sword, he swept away the arrows and swept towards Wei Yu, but the Kou soldiers were frightened, threw away their armor and fled down the slope, and the sharp arrows shot at the "whoosh" and nailed the dozens of people at the back to the slope rock.
Wei Yu raised the knife and chopped down, the knife light flowed like a silver waterfall, and directly split Lin Ji's knife body, Lin Ji's strength was insufficient, so that this knife split down the parapet wall, without waiting for the change of moves, and saw the knife light flowing and splitting, barely raising the knife, a huge force surged, the hand holding the knife couldn't help the huge force, and sank violently, Lin Ji was still waiting to slash his wrist with the rotating blade, forcing him to withdraw the move, but he felt a line of heat gushing out of his forehead, and the strength of the whole body instantly drained with the gushing blood, his knees were weak, he knelt down, his head knocked to the ground, his body fell to one side, and he rolled downhill.
Ding Mianchen stood behind the side, and saw Wei Yu take Lin Ji's surname in two moves, and his heart was horrified, the first move split Lin Ji off the parapet, and the second move was domineering, dominating the world, although Lin Ji blocked the move, but he couldn't help the domineering courage and killing power in the knife move, and the blade split his forehead.
Wei Yuru walked slowly, got off the parapet, picked up the scabbard on the ground, put the blade back into the sheath, tied it around his waist, and said to Zheng Cangsheng indifferently: "Although there is enough grain and grass on the island, you don't raise soldiers, you can lead people to chase down." He also said to Ding Mianchen: "Gu Changhuai is good at water work, he has seen the Gantang waterway, and once said: The cliff is so steep that it cannot be chiseled, but it can be burned with salary." Although the stone bank here is thick and hard, the fire burns, and the water irrigates it, and the stones are cracked, and the power of the tide surges, the stone cracks and the bank collapses, all of which are the power of nature. ”
Ding Mianchen suddenly realized that if it weren't for such a clever plan, Lin Ji's offensive here would inevitably be so fierce, but the reinforcements led by Li Yin would have to annihilate all the Kou soldiers, and he was afraid that he would have to pay nearly twice the price.
It wasn't until the early morning of the next morning that all the soldiers were slaughtered. The 10,000 Puji pirates led by Lin Ji escaped on sentinel boats, and most of them died at the bottom of the sea. However, the Shuiying and Longquan garrisons also paid nearly 5,000 casualties.
Zheng Cangzi commanded people to throw the corpses of the island's Kou into the sea, and told Shao Xiaoqi about the situation during the fierce battle. Shao Xiaoqi and Mo Nian led the rest of the warships and soldiers to arrive here at dawn, only to catch up with the end of this fierce battle, and they regretted it in their hearts, so they begged Zheng Cangzi to tell him the details.
The military order that Wei Yu asked Shao Qi to bring to Li Yin was to ask him to fill the other two supply points and assemble here together. Li Yin directly led the troops to help, and missed Shao Xiaoqi, but he also transferred most of the troops. At this time, Mo Nian was commanding the small sampan to transport the supplies from the island to the battleship. The rocky shore collapsed, and the warships of the water camp could not approach the island, so they had to use small sampans to transfer personnel and supplies back and forth to the warship. Mo Nian thought to himself: The three supply points are going to be abandoned, and it seems that he can go home.
When Li Yin led the reinforcements to fight against the Puji pirates parked outside the sea polder, he directly drove the warships to fight with them, although the price paid was higher, annihilating 3,05 Kou soldiers with twice the force, and paying more than 2,000 casualties. However, the captured enemy ships were relatively intact. It's just that the current number of troops here is only more than 7,000 people, but the warships here can fit more than 20,000 soldiers when they are fully loaded.
Li Yin calculated in his heart the results of the more than three battles in which he went to sea: nearly 20,000 enemies were destroyed, more than 400 enemy ships were damaged, more than 1 million stone of enemy rations were sunk, more than 200 warships were captured, including 26 large ships, and less than 500 small and medium-sized warships were lost on this side, and 9,000 people were wounded. Secretly said: When I go back this time, I don't need to look at Yang Shang's face.
Wei Yu glanced at Li Yin and said, "Send two sentinel water battalions to transport the bodies of the fallen soldiers to Dongyang for burial." ”
Li Yin and Ding Mianchen glanced at each other, and they both saw the surprise in each other's eyes: the three supply points had to be abandoned, indicating that the sea wolf battle had ended, but Wei Yu had no intention of returning to land.
Wei Yu glanced at Li Yin and Ding Mianchen, and said in a flat voice: "Before this battle, I have asked the dead soldiers to mobilize all the water battalions in Yongyang and Dongyang, as well as the military orders of the Gantang infantry battalion of the Xiaowei Army to all places. ”
Ding Mianchen said in surprise: "If all the garrisons of Gantang are withdrawn, Dongyang will not have the troops to prevent the invasion of the Puji bandits." Tens of thousands of displaced people have just moved in to the coastal area there, and there are nearly 10,000 military households, and if they are attacked by the Kou, the losses will be incalculable. ”
Wei Yu's voice was still calm, not worried about Ding Mianchen's questioning, and said: "The war will inevitably have some losses, this fierce battle, our army suffered nearly 5,000 casualties, and the losses are huge. If Dongyang has any losses, I will explain it to Jiang Ning. He said to himself, "Lin Ji is defeated, Gongliang Youqin no longer has the courage to seek land hegemony, and the remnants of Wenling only need to retreat to Puji." Remember my military order: Tell the general of Xiaowei, Feng Yuanzhi, that since receiving this order, the subordinate must overcome all difficulties and launch a fierce offensive against the remnants of Wenling. ”
The troops stationed in Puji City in Wenling City were all foot soldiers, and they wanted to retreat to Puji, and only Gongliang Youqin sent troops from Puji to pick them up. The grain route between Puji and Wenling was cut off for several months, and the pirates of Lin Ji's department were annihilated. No matter how bold Gongliang Youqin is, the number of warships sent to Wenling to pick up the 20,000 infantry battalion there will not be too small.
Thinking of this, Li Yin's heart was moved, and he said secretly: If Gongliang Youqin sends troops to pick up the remnants of Wenling, then the defenders who stay in Puji will be limited. If Gongliang Youqin abandons the remnants of Wenling and ignores them, then Feng Yuanyuan will annihilate them, and we will join forces to attack Puji, and last time Wei Yu burned and plundered in Puji, and the adults seemed to turn a blind eye.
Thinking of this, Li Yin couldn't help but pull the corners of his mouth up, and laughed weirdly.
Ding Mianchen looked at Li Yin's strange expression, felt very strange in his heart, worried about Dongyang's banditry, and said: "Dongyang's small bandits have not been broken, please let the general order Li Gonglin of Longyan to help defend Dongyang." ”
Wei Yu glanced at Ding Mianchen and said, "Then write down this military order." ”
Li Yin said: "Gongliang Youqin must be reluctant to let the 20,000 troops of Wenling, if Gongliang Youqin leads the troops over, then Wenling will not be able to attack, is it for Feng Yuanyuan to step up?" ”
Wenling has a big river that communicates with the sea, and the Yueqing army could not besiege Wenling, and blocked the water camp reinforcements of Gongliang Youqin outside Wenling City.
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