Chapter 9: The Death of the Righteous Person
The Puji land army occupied the high ground of the South Cliff, and the outpost water battalion did not have to worry about the rolling stones on the south cliff, and quickly came to the Pinghu Lake behind the north of the West Mountain through the turbulent bend of the water.
Most of the warships in the Gantang Water Camp were converted from captured two-masted sea ships (corrected here, not three-masted), although the ship type was less than that of the Puji Water Battalion, but it was equipped with sufficient boats and sailors, and it was more flexible than the Puji warships, and with the cooperation of nearly 100 sampans, it actually had the momentum of forcing the Puji Outpost Water Battalion back.
The Gantang Water Battalion forced Puji's outpost Water Battalion near the bend for two or three hours without advancing half a step, and the defenders on the north bank took advantage of this gap to cross a thousand soldiers to support the south bank.
Yang Shang gathered 1,500 soldiers and launched an offensive from the western slope to recapture the southern cliff.
Ling Shi, who made a fatal mistake in the Yueqing Massacre, commanded two hundred warships to break straight into the Gantang Water Camp ship formation, and hooked the left and right sides of the ship on which Li Yin was riding, and more than 400 sea bandits poured onto the ship, and the two sides engaged in hand-to-hand combat on the narrow deck, and Li Yin was also trapped on the ship.
As far as the Puji bandits are concerned, capturing the ships of the Gantang Water Camp will not only seriously damage the morale of the other side, but also paralyze the opponent's command system, making the warships of the Gantang Water Camp more self-defeating. However, the battleships of the Gantang Water Battalion were bent on saving the main general, and dozens of warships on both sides rushed towards the narrow water where the Gantang ship was.
The Gantang Water Battalion is a small warship, and when they huddle the ship, they lose the advantage of fast maneuvering, fortunately, there are more sailors and soldiers on the ship than the enemy ship, and the Puji Outpost Water Battalion is not equipped with heavy crossbows, and the two sides are entangled together for a while, and no one can help anyone.
Gongliang Xiaotian sent two 200 warships to support the outpost water battalion, but it took a lot of time for the outpost water battalion to completely solve the fleet blocked by the Gantang water battalion.
Looking up and seeing that the battle on the South Cliff had quickly extended to the middle of the mountain, Gongliang Xiaotian couldn't help but be secretly anxious in his heart. There were more than 1,000 people in the men and horses led by Yang Shang, and at this time, the Puji bandits in the south cliff had become tired after a day and a night of fierce fighting, and the fortifications on the south cliff were destroyed because of the fierce battle before.
In order to avoid the attack on the Gantang Fort built according to the danger of Qishan, the battle for the south cliff was launched, as long as the water camp successfully passed the sharp bend and arrived at Pinghu Lake behind the north of Qishan, the huge water camp formation was intended to be the same fortress that could move at will on the Zhangxi River.
Gongliang Xiaotian listened to the rustling of the cable as thick as a baby's arm grinding against the side of the ship, and the droplets stirred up by the turbulent water rushed to his face, only to feel the slightest coolness, but his heart became more and more nervous.
Suddenly, I heard the sound of running water in front of me, and the sound of rolling thunder running over me.
Gongliang Xiaotian was surprised, only thinking that he was hallucinating, but he saw that the generals on the left and right were all stunned, and then he listened to it, only to hear the rolling thunder that seemed to be close to the stone wall of the south cliff and exploded.
The blood on his face suddenly turned away with horror, and he turned white in an instant, and Gongliang Xiaotian rushed to the side of the ship, only to see clusters of dark shadows rising and falling on the water surface, driven by the turbulent current, rushing towards the Chinese water camp fleet.
The water at the bend was suddenly turbulent like a galloping horse, and countless huge trees hit the stone wall of the south cliff under the current, and turned to collide with the warships of the Chinese military camp and the outpost camp of the Puji water camp.
All the warships in the Chinese camp were in the most turbulent bend of the current, and they could avoid it, and they were suddenly in chaos. Several battleships were forced to change course, but the side side could not withstand the impact of the water in the curve, and capsized before the giant tree could collide.
Gongliang Xiaotian's ship, the largest ship, there is no possibility of avoiding in the bend, "rumble" a few times, I don't know how many giant trees hit the hull, only a few people on the deck can stand in the violent shock of the hull, many bandits leaning on the side of the ship to get off the ship.
There was a crisp sound of "pop", and the cable as thick as a baby's arm could not withstand the huge force generated by the violent shock, and it was broken. At this time, there was no way to control the sails, and the four hundred giant ships rushed sideways to the current for a while, and ate a few more blows of the giant wood, and the giant ship ran out of control and rushed towards the ships downstream, the sound was even more terrifying than the giant tree, and it hit several warships in an instant.
The battleships were all watertight cabin structures, and they were partially damaged but did not sink, even if they capsized, they were still floating on the water.
However, it was this state-of-the-art hull structure that plunged the Puji water battalion into complete destruction.
The out-of-control overturned or oblique warships had a greater destructive power on the warships downstream, and under such a chain reaction, the battleships in the five-mile waterway below the bend of the Puji Water Camp almost did not escape this catastrophe. The water situation did not slow down until it reached the estuary, but the Puji warships, which survived the disaster, found that there were more than a dozen sea boats and more than 100 sampans of the Gantang Water Camp parked at the estuary.
At the same time that the battleship of the Puji Water Battalion was destroyed and capsized, Yang Shang led 1,500 soldiers to launch an assault on the pirates entrenched in the South Cliff Heights. In the face of the sudden great change, the pirates on the south cliff had no intention of responding to the battle, and they fled to the eastern slope one after another.
Yang Shang pursed his lips, looked at the Puji rout army running suddenly under the mountain, and chuckled: "Look how you swim back to Puji Island." "Although it is already a public secret that Zongzheng Xunda and Gongliang Youqin colluded with each other, it was not necessary for Longyan's defenders to take in Puji's rout. Turning around and looking at the pirates fleeing from the water on the rocky beach under the cliff, they all went ashore, waved their hands and pointed directly, and said in a loud voice: "Catch Gongliang Xiaotian and avenge the tragedy of Zhangtai." ”
The soldiers behind him suddenly agreed, the South Cliff defenders were the most elite part of the Gantang defenders, and they were also the remnants of the family combat power in the Zhangtai tragedy.
Gongliang Xiaotian wanted to cry without tears, and in an instant, nearly 100 warships of the Puji Central Army, the rear outpost, and the left outpost water battalion were gone, and thousands of Puji generals and sailors were gone. Looking at the remnants of the remnants of less than a hundred soldiers on the left and right, they were overshadowed by the Qingyan Army, which was nearly ten times larger.
Yang Shangsan shouted, "Those who abandon weapons are born." But he didn't see the trapped Puji pirates hesitating, and sighed secretly: Most of these more than 100 pirates are the guards of the public and good Xiaotian, and they are extremely stubborn and fearless of life and death. Slowly raised his hand and was about to wave it down, but he saw Gongliang Xiaotian turn into a very faint figure and swept towards him.
Yang Shang waved his hand, only to feel a huge force directly invade the arm veins, until the Tianchi acupoint dissolved, the qi and blood floated, and he staggered back a few steps before the suffocation in his chest disappeared. And Gongliang Xiaotian only stagnated slightly, and then stabbed at Yang Shang with a short halberd, and before he reached Yang Shang, he attacked and caught the one who filled the vacant position on the left.
Yang Shang knew that Gongliang Xiaotian's cultivation was terrifyingly high, and even Jun Shushui might not be his opponent, so he urgently ordered two hundred soldiers to scatter around, so as not to forcibly break through Gongliang Xiaotian. He also ordered the rest of the men to attack the 100 Puji pirates who were in the encirclement.
Gongliang Xiaotian originally wanted to lock Yang Shang tightly, disrupt the opponent's position and then find an opportunity to break through, but he didn't expect Xu Ruyu to set up a master with the same strength as himself in Gantang.
Jun Shushui assisted in the training of the water camp in Gantang, his identity was originally confidential, how could Gongliang Xiaotian recognize it, and he thought more and more that Xu Ruyu had set up this trap in Gantang and waited for him to come in, in such a state of mind, his momentum was completely suppressed by Jun Shushui, who was still weaker than himself.
Yang Shang stood aside with a sword to prevent Gongliang Xiaotian from breaking through, and he was afraid that the king would pass away, so he could stand up for a while, and suddenly there was a commotion on the stream, and he was shocked, and he hurriedly looked over there, but saw Zhou Shilong running down from a sampan, almost without stopping, and didn't wait for himself to ask what was going on, but he saw him shoot Gongliang Xiaotian's back, but saw a gorgeous streamer not entering Gongliang Xiaotian's body.
Gongliang Xiaotian turned his head suddenly, but he didn't know why this one-armed man looked at him so coldly.
The first battle was frustrated, and Gongliang Xiaotian's mind was taken away, not only did he take the lead for Jun Shuishui, who was weaker than himself, but he also didn't notice Zhou Shilong's shot in the back, so he died in the hands of Zhou Shilong, who was weak and didn't know how to do it.
Yang Shang kept his face calm and said nothing, and asked the guards to properly dispose of Gongliang Xiaotian's body. In his plan, everyone besieged Gongliang Xiaotian and captured him alive when he was exhausted; If it doesn't work, let him break through and leave. Who knew that Zhou Shilong actually resisted the military order to cross the water, and he didn't expect Gongliang Xiaotian to block a shot in his back.
After the death of Gongliang Xiaotian, the cleanup of the remnants of the battlefield seemed extremely easy. The outpost water battalion surrendered all, that is, to make way for him, and he did not have the courage to return to Puji Island, but the other stragglers did not have such a chance.
In addition to the army of the Zhangtai family, most of the Gantang garrison were aborigines of Yueqing. In the Battle of Fuzhou, Yueqing was almost slaughtered by the Puji bandits, except for the surrender of the Puji outpost Shuiying, Gantang had no prisoners of war in the first battle.
Yang Shang looked at the cheering crowd, but his mood became heavier.
Zhou Shilong became the most eye-catching hero, but Yang Shang suspended all his military posts after his service, and he personally went to Jian'an Fort to submit the battle report.
Zhou Shilong met his brother Zhou Shizhong in Jian'an Fort.
Zhou Shizhong heard the details of the battle of Gantang, and was anxious and angry, and said: "Do you know that when the lord complained about the battle order, he especially emphasized that Gongliang Xiaotian can be captured and not killed. ”
Before that, Zhou Shilong still thought that Yang Shang's dismissal of his military post was to punish him for leaving his post without permission, and when he heard the eldest brother say this, it turned out that there was another reason.
Zhou Shizhong said: "Da Zhangxi leads directly to the hinterland of Zhangtai and even crosses the middle of Fujian to reach the Wuling area, Puji only after capturing Gantang Fort as a relay point, can dare to boldly leap to Zhangtai and interfere in the layout of our Southern Fujian Battle, so Gantang Fort occupies a very important part of the layout of the adults, as long as the Puji bandits in Gantang Fort have a heavy defeat, they can win a certain amount of time for the armies fighting in the hinterland of Southern Fujian." As soon as Gongliang Xiaotian died, it is no longer possible to predict how Gongliang Youqin would react, you, you should go to Minzhong Mountain to ask the adults for their guilt in person. ”
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