Of course, Qiao Rui's nephew Qiao Wei and countless Chaisang soldiers did not sacrifice in vain, and Qiao Rui, Yang Zheng and others certainly did not bother in vain, risking the annihilation of the whole army, dragging more than half of the main force of Jingzhou on the battlefield of Xiaotianchi Mountain at all costs, let's take a look at the situation on the side of the Jingzhou Naval Division.

In order to facilitate the development of troops to attack the city, 80,000 Jingzhou troops have 60,000 stationed in the open area ten miles west of Chaisang, leaving 20,000 troops to guard the ships in the water village, the team is led by Zhang Yun, the deputy governor of the Jingzhou Naval Division, in the nearly three months of siege warfare, Liu Qi only mobilized Zhang Yun's team to participate in the attack on the city twice, and only arranged auxiliary tasks, and did not let Zhang Yun's team participate too much in the siege of attrition, in order to save these sailors, helmsmen, sailors and oarsmen and other technical forces in water warfare, to prevent the Xuzhou Navy Division from coming to the aid from downstreamTherefore, in the past three months of fighting, the consumption of Zhang Yun's troops has not been large, and as of the evening of February 24, the total number of troops consumed is less than 1,000.

It was only as of the evening of February 24, that night, because the Jingzhou general Liu Hu successfully attacked the west gate of Chaisang, seeing that the city of Chaisang was about to be broken, Zhang Yun immediately sent Cai Zhong to lead an army of 3,000 to attack, attacking the north gate of Chaisang to grab credit, the result was that Zhang Yun and the Cai brothers were ecstatic, a little Chaisang defenders may have found that the city was about to break, and even opened the north gate of Chaisang to flee for their lives, Cai Zhong's team attacked the city and looted, Zhang Yun heard the news and personally led the army of 6,000 to grab the credit, Recklessly entered the city, robbing and making merit, desperately going deep into the interior of Chaisang City. The speed of the advance was simply faster than Liu Hu's team that entered the city first.

In this way, Zhang Yun and Cai Zhong's actions were of course cheap for the Chaisang defenders, when the Chaisang defenders lit a fire in the southeast corner of the city, the cold southeast wind blew the fire to the northwest of Chaisang, the first to bear the brunt of the unlucky Liu Hu and Zhang Yun, Cai Zhong's team, in the raging fire and billowing smoke, Zhang Yun and Cai Zhong's command of those most difficult to train sailors and technical soldiers cried wolf, there was no way to go to the sky, there was no door to the ground, and they trampled on each other. Mountains of dead bodies. Countless soldiers were burned to death by the flames, and there were not a few who died by drawing knives to kill each other in order to win their lives, and at the same time, because Zhang Yun and Cai Zhong's team prioritized the task of burglary, the number of soldiers who were burned alive in the room was blocked by the flames. In fact, it is far above the other Jingzhou teams.

By the way. In fact, the Jingzhou team that knocked Jingzhou general Liu Hu off his horse and trampled to death. It happened to be the defeated army under Cai Zhong's command, even though they knew that the horse rider must be a general of the army in the thick smoke, but in order to grab the fleeing team. But he still didn't hesitate to take Liu Hu off his horse, and dozens of big feet took turns to trample on it, trampling Liu Hu to death in the chaos.

As a result, when Zhang Yun and Cai Zhong finally escaped from the north gate of Chaisang, the 9,000 soldiers they brought into the city were less than 5,000, and most of them were wounded and many casualties, and Cai Zhong was also burned by the fire in the chaos. Because Zhang Yun and Cai Zhong, who were greedy for merit and caused a big disaster, suffered losses and were deceived, they were afraid that Liu Qi would take the opportunity to make a big fuss again, and use this excuse to ask for their heads - Liu Qi could also do this, so he didn't dare to report the losses of his own army to Liu Qi, but quickly collected his troops and returned to the camp, hoping that some more troops would escape from other city gates and return to the camp, so as to alleviate some of his own sins.

At noon on the 25th day, when Kuai Yue sent people to inquire about the losses of Zhang Yun's team, Zhang Yun and the Cai brothers also did not dare to immediately explain the truth to the Kuai Yue envoy under the pretext that the casualties had not yet had time to be counted, and only said that they would wait until the separated soldiers had collected the accurate statistics, and then report the situation to the Chinese army camp, resulting in Liu Qi and Kuai Yue were not clear about the situation of the water division camp and failed to mobilize the army in time to strengthen the water village.

Because they were distracted by this incident, Zhang Yun and the Cai brothers ignored a more important military situation, that is, the fifteen scout boats they sent to the Yangtze River to reconnoiter the enemy's situation, but none of them have returned to Shuizhai to report the downstream situation! However, it was okay for Zhang Yun and the Cai brothers, they soon received the news that Liu Qi transferred troops from the camp to Lushan for reinforcements, seeing that it was about to be evening, in order to cover up the huge casualties in Chaisang City, Zhang Yun and the Cai brothers hurriedly sent people to Kuai Yue to ask for orders, and took the initiative to ask Ying to lead troops to reinforce Liu Qi to attack Xiaotianchi Mountain, wanting to lie about some casualties by attacking the mountain and flatten the casualty figures in Chaisang City.

Kuai Yue did not accept Zhang Yun and the Cai brothers' request in a daze, but only ordered Zhang Yun and the Cai brothers to continue to guard the water village and closely monitor the movements in the lower reaches of the Yangtze River.

After discussing it for nearly two minutes, I didn't come up with a clue, and I heard that Liu Qi had successfully attacked the mountain and had successfully attacked the top of Xiaotianchi Mountain, Zhang Yun and the Cai family brothers had no choice, so they had to hold the mind of taking one step at a time, and they had to sleep together. However, just as Zhang Yun returned to his sleeping tent to rest, a Jingzhou soldier stumbled in front of his sleeping tent, and Zhang Yun's guards quickly stopped him and shouted, "Who is coming?" Trespassing into the governor's resting tent, aren't you afraid of killing your head? ”

The Jingzhou soldier stopped, panted, and shouted in a voice that was so terrible that it was not like a human voice: "Dudu! The sailor of the Xuzhou thief army is here! The main force of the sailor division of the Xuzhou thief army is here! I have entered Poyang Lake, which is less than thirty miles away from our water village! At the mouth of Poyang Lake, there are densely packed with the sailors and warships of the Xuzhou thief army, and you can't see the end at a glance! ”

With a "bell", the helmet that Zhang Yungang took off from his head fell to the ground, and his handsome little face suddenly became whiter than a dead man.

After two pillars of incense, Zhang Yunxin rushed into the main camp of the Jingzhou Army at a speed sufficient to run a dead horse, and reported the bad news to Kuai Yue, who was waiting for the news of the attack on the mountain in the camp tent of the Chinese army, and the brush in Kuai Yue's hand suddenly fell on the desk. Painted a piece of fine white silk into a large area of pitch black, Kuai Yue and Deng Yi next to him and other Jingzhou civil and military officials, but their faces were three points darker than that piece of ink.

After another half an hour, the Kuai Yue messenger's war horse broke the horse's leg because of galloping on the mountain road, and the Kuai Yue messenger also fell off the war horse and broke his head, causing the Jingzhou soldiers on both sides of the mountain road to laugh, but the Kuai Yue messenger didn't even have time to wipe the blood off his face, struggled to get up, and stumbled towards Liu Qi's handsome banner. See the appearance of the Kuai Messenger. The laughter of the Jingzhou soldiers on both sides gradually disappeared, and an ominous premonition suddenly enveloped the hearts of every Jingzhou soldier present, "What's wrong?" ”

Another moment passed. The Kuai Yue messenger rushed to Liu Qi with a bloody face. With a crying voice, he reported the news that the main force of Xuzhou had come to help. After receiving this bad news, Liu Qi, who was triumphant that he had captured Xiaotianchi Mountain, his face suddenly turned gray. The dead man is as gray as the dead, and the generals of Jingzhou next to him are also like dead ashes. After a full five minutes, Liu Qi said in despair: "Didn't Yang Zheng say that the main force of the Xuzhou thief army will not arrive at the Chaisang battlefield until tomorrow evening at the earliest?" Why is it here now? ”

Then something happened that my friends knew, in the case that the Chaisang defenders had been completely defeated, in the case that there was only the last time left from the total annihilation of the Chaisang defenders, and when Huang Zhong's team was only a dozen steps away from Qiaorui, the Jingzhou army team frantically sounded the golden gong, desperately shouted out the order to retreat, and all the Jingzhou teams assembled at the foot of the mountain immediately rushed to the rescue of the sailor camp more than 30 miles away. Liu Qi stood alone under his handsome flag, letting the mountain breeze blow his robe, blowing his scattered hair, his expression was dazed, and he muttered, "Could it be that he is lying to me again?" ”

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Now let's take a look at the situation of the main force of the Xuzhou Naval Division, after entering Poyang Lake, because there was no interception by the Jingzhou Naval Division, Lu Su, who was cautious, once suspected that the Jingzhou Naval Division had an ambush in Poyang Lake, and also sent a large number of scout boats to reconnoiter the situation, until Jiang Qin, who served as the vanguard, sent someone to send the news, saying that it was found that the main fleet of the Jingzhou Naval Division was assembled near Chaisang Wharf, and the Jingzhou Naval Division team was also hurriedly boarding the ship to prepare for battle, Lu Su realized that his luck had come, The opportunity to hit the Jingzhou Sailor has arrived.

Although he didn't understand why his luck was so good, he would encounter the almost unprepared situation of the Jingzhou Navy Division when he arrived at the Chaisang battlefield, Lu Su immediately seized this opportunity and ordered the whole army to immediately assault the Jingzhou Navy Division's fleet, and also ordered the forward Jiang Qin's team to attack the Jingzhou Water Village at any cost, not giving the Jingzhou Navy Division formation a chance to leave the port! After issuing these two orders, Lu Su finally remembered a big thing and muttered: "Could it be that Qiao Rui and Yang Zheng's kid asked me to inform them of the exact time of the arrival of reinforcements, just to create this opportunity for me?" But in the direction of Chaisang City, I didn't see the light of the fire during the siege? ”

Jiang Qin, who served as the striker, was also suspicious of the fact that there was no movement in the direction of Chaisang, but the fighter plane was fleeting, and Jiang Qin couldn't think about it so much, and without waiting for Lu Su's order to send, Jiang Qin, who was extremely familiar with this generation of hydrological waterways, had already ordered the team to attack at full speed, Zhang Fan swayed, and rushed to Jingzhou Water Village at a flying speed by taking advantage of the cold southeast wind, poor Zhang Yun and the Cai brothers only organized seventy or eighty warships and hundreds of small boats to meet the battle, and Zhang Yun personally led the water gate to open the water gate and go out of the village to face the battle. wanted to temporarily stop the Xuzhou Navy Division and buy time for the rear army to assemble and board the ship to go out of the war.

As mentioned earlier, the Poyang Lake Naval Division under the command of Jiang Qin has nearly 1,200 large and small warships, and this time as the vanguard, he naturally commanded most of the troops of the headquarters, so when the two armies met, Jiang Qin's team, which was originally in absolute inferiority, suddenly became an absolute upper hand in strength, almost in the blink of an eye, engulfing Zhang Yun's team who was in a hurry, and then the Xuzhou army, which occupied the advantage of the wind, naturally immediately launched a rocket salvo, and thousands of rockets shrouded the Jingzhou Naval Division ship like a swarm of locusts. In an instant, the sails of many Jingzhou sailors were ignited, but the Jingzhou sailors who were in a hurry only shot a few rockets, which were almost no threat to the Xuzhou sailors, and even the number of ordinary bows and crossbows was far less than the number of bows and crossbows of the Xuzhou sailors.

In this era, the water war was based on bows and crossbows, and Jiang Qin, who did not know the enemy's situation, did not dare to immediately launch a close-quarters battle when he was outnumbered, but only ordered the warships to line up in a line, and shot at Zhang Yun's fleet with strong bows and crossbows. But shooting and shooting, Jiang Qin, who was holding the primitive telescope in his hand, found that the situation was wrong, because Jiang Qin clearly saw that in the enemy fleet opposite, it was obviously waving the handsome flag of the main general Zhang Yun, and the flagship that Zhang Yun was riding had also been ignited by the rockets of the own army, but there was no warship in the Jingzhou Water Village not far upstream.

"What the hell is going on? If we don't send heavy troops to intercept us, why did even Zhang Yun go into battle in person? Or only take such a small warship to the battle in person? Isn't this the water warfare style that Jingzhou sailors like to overwhelm people with numbers? ”

Jiang Qin was puzzled in his heart, and after a little calculation, Jiang Qin took a closer look at the Jingzhou Water Village, which was still silent. There is also the messy torch glow on the Chaisan pier. Jiang Qin gritted his teeth and shouted: "Fight the flag, the left flank Heqi, and assault the enemy's water village!" Right-wing Liu Cun and Liu Jin brothers. Raid the enemy on the opposite side. Fight a melee battle! ”

The flag is out. The Xuzhou fleets on both wings immediately followed the order, and He Qi, the general of the Xuzhou Navy Division on the south bank of the Yangtze River, immediately led more than 200 large and small warships to rush to the Jingzhou Water Village in front of him - of course. He Qi's fleet charged and charged, and the fleet was still a little worried, because the Jingzhou water village on the opposite side was arranged very strictly, with the big ship of the ship as the city wall arranged outside, and set up twelve water gates to hide the fast boat boat, He Qi's fleet rushed up, if the Jingzhou ship listed as the city just deliberately did not light the torch, in fact, it was full of ambushes and strong bows and crossbows, and when the He Qi team rushed to the near place and then suddenly fired arrows, then the He Qi team had a lot of fun.

The Xuzhou fierce generals on the right flank, Liu Cun and Liu Jin, did not hesitate to rush to the enemy on the opposite side, but what they didn't expect was that seeing the Liu brothers launch a surprise attack and try to start a melee battle, Zhang Yun's fleet actually played a flag and ordered the warships to collect the stone (ancient anchor) together, and detour to the north to fight a guerrilla war with the Liu brothers. Seeing this scene, Jiang Qin inevitably became even more dumbfounded, and wondered: "Liu Cun and Liu Jin's ships and troops do not have the upper hand, why does the enemy dare not fight a close battle?" Do you think that the enemy is deliberately luring, but even if this is the enemy's trick to lure the enemy, it should be the main force of my flagship? Is there a use for seducing my right-wing stray? ”

"Could it be that Zhang Yunpifu, the deputy governor of Jingzhou Navy, is really on that boat? That's why you don't dare to take risks and fight in a close-quarters battle?! ”

Jiang Qin suddenly had a thought that made his whole body tremble with excitement, and at this time, the left and right were already cheering, "General, look, General He rushed close to the enemy's water village and set it on fire!" ”

"Really? It's so easy?! Jiang Qin hurriedly raised the primitive telescope to look around, but saw that He Qi's fleet had indeed rushed to the vicinity of Jingzhou Water Village, and threw the rocket onto the stern team of the Jingzhou Naval Division, which was listed as the outer Guo, and the Jingzhou fleet that was stabilized by the stone was sparsely lit, and there was no sign of counterattack, allowing the rockets of the Xuzhou army to fall on the ship and ignite the deck sails. Jiang Qin's mouth was suddenly open enough to fit three eggs, and he yelled after a while: "Empty boat!" It's all empty ships! How is this possible? The enemy's army is not on the ship at all! ”

"Raise the flag, the whole army raids Jingzhou Water Village! Set fire to the ship! On a small boat, chop the stone! Don't give the enemy a chance to board the ship! ”

The flag and the order were conveyed, the forward fleet led by Jiang Qin went crazy like chicken blood, the large and small warships opened their sails and rocked their oars together, desperately rushed to the Jingzhou Water Village, and the small boats rushed to the side of the peripheral ships of the Jingzhou Water Village, wielding knives and axes to cut the stone ties, and the unmanned driving of the Jingzhou peripheral fleet was also suddenly chaotic, and the expensive building ships were pushed by the current, drifting aimlessly downstream, and occasionally some Jingzhou big ships were fired back by arrows, It was also quickly suppressed by the bows and arrows of the Xuzhou warship, and ignited by the rockets, torches and flamethrowers of the Xuzhou army, igniting a sky-high fire.

At this time, the main force of the Xuzhou Navy Division led by Lu Su has also arrived at the scene, seeing that the vanguard led by Jiang Qin has easily broken through the Jingzhou Water Village, Lu Su and the Xuzhou generals have not spoken for three minutes, and finally came back to their senses, Lu Su immediately ordered the drum attack, so that Xu Sheng, Zhou Tai, Deng Dang and Wu Dun each led a fleet to rush into the Jingzhou Water Village, set fire to kill, cut and seize the ship, Lu Su divided a small fleet to grab the unmanned Jingzhou Navy warship.

In the earth-shattering war drums, the four Xuzhou Navy fleets rode the wind and waves, drove straight in, and unstoppably entered the Jingzhou Navy Division camp, and the small boats were responsible for cutting the enemy's stone cables. The big ship is responsible for the bow and arrow suppression, and along the waterway in the camp to get the Chaisang wharf, the Jingzhou sailors who hurriedly got on the boat sent dozens of warships to meet them, but they were also outnumbered, not at all the opponents of the Xuzhou sailors who poured out the nest, and the Jingzhou water village was also quickly chaotic, and countless ownerless ships were cut down the gravel and drifted and collided, and the downstream became the best trophies of the Xuzhou sailors. The ships of the lord were led to burn one after another, and the Jingzhou soldiers on the boat hurriedly put out the fire and became a mess, and those who fell into the water with arrows one after another.

In such a situation. The Xuzhou Navy Division lacked experience in the Great War. It is difficult to win this water war, no matter how experienced and familiar the Jingzhou sailors are, it is impossible to win this water war, because no matter how many troops they have. No matter how many ships there are. There is no way to board the warship together and set sail for the battle in the blink of an eye. The only way to do this was to drive the ship to the dock first, let the soldiers who had hurried from the camp board the warship, and then paddle into the open water. Zhang Fan ascended to meet the Xuzhou Naval Division, fighting a battle that was taboo for the soldiers.

As a result, the situation of the small ships of the Jingzhou army was slightly better, and they were able to quickly board the ship and leave the port to meet the battle, but the main combat force of the warships could not be more miserable, colliding with each other constantly, either breaking the side of the ship, or crashing the tail rudder, the panic sound of shouting on the dock was endless, Liu Qi, who had just rushed back from Xiaotianchi Mountain, was so anxious that he jumped to his feet, but he was helpless and helpless. At the same time, the small boats of the Jingzhou Naval Division who went out of the port to meet the battle also did not play any role, either they were swallowed and submerged by the Xuzhou Naval Boats, or they were knocked over and sunk by the warships of the Xuzhou Naval Division, and even many Jingzhou boats were overturned and ridden by their own large boats that were uncontrolled, and countless people fell into the water and died, and the dead bodies overlapped on the river, and the Jingzhou soldiers who struggled for help floated all over the river.

At this time, the Jingzhou water village is already a bright fire, Xu Sheng and Zhou Tai and other four Xuzhou sailors galloped back and forth on the surface, and the arrows were pressed to fight the Jingzhou sailors who were in a hurry, and the Jingzhou sailors were completely chaotic, and the ownerless ships that were cut down the stingstones floated all over the river, and the large and small ships that hurriedly attacked could not be arrayed, but they could only fight with the Xuzhou sailors in their own battles, and the water village was completely chaotic into a pot of porridge, and the Xuzhou sailors were marching forward, but the Jingzhou sailors were in chaos, and the defeat became a foregone conclusion.

Seeing such a scene at the height next to the wharf, Liu Qi of course wanted to cry without tears and gritted his silver teeth, but the Wenwu people in Jingzhou looked stupid, and they almost couldn't believe that the scene in front of them came from reality, not to mention that they couldn't imagine that the invincible self-army sailors across the Han River and the Yangtze River would be defeated so miserably and wrongedly, and they would be defeated miserably when they couldn't fight back at all. Unwillingly, Jingzhou General Wen Ping drew his sword and cut the stone, the fire burst out, the sword fell and the stone opened, and then Wen Ping also roared wildly, "Yang Zheng Pifu!" I have spent thirteen years in Jingzhou and worked so hard to build an invincible sailor, but I can't imagine that it will be destroyed by the hands of one of you! You erector! Vertical ————! ”

Wen Ping scolded who else in this sentence, everyone knew it, but no one opened their mouths to accuse this person, one was because he didn't dare, and the other was because when Yang Zheng was cheating and deceiving in Chaisang and Xiaotianchi Mountain, no one in Jingzhou Wenwu who was present at the time thought that Yang Zheng would actually take the entire Chaisang City to cheat, and when he was surrounded by regiments, he would dare to use himself and the remnants of the Chaisang garrison as bait to deceive and induce the Jingzhou army to attack the mountain with all his might. In front of such a treacherous and ruthless enemy, Jingzhou Wenwu who was present asked himself, feeling that if he was the commander of the whole army, he might not be able to do better than Liu Qi.

At this time, a new blow came, the Jingzhou camp suddenly sounded shouts and fires, and the herald rushed to report, saying that Yuan Neng took advantage of the opportunity that the main force of the Jingzhou army was attracted to the surface battlefield, and took advantage of the last dark cover before dawn to suddenly send troops to attack the Jingzhou camp, robbed Yuan Yin, who was held hostage by the Jingzhou army, and killed many old and weak soldiers in the Jingzhou camp. Hearing this news, the generals of Jingzhou were both indignant and helpless, so they could only turn their eyes to Liu Qi for advice, and Liu Qi, who was at a loss for advice, could only consult Kuai Yue.

"Eldest son, there's no way." Kuai Yue said with a depressed expression: "Return to the pheasant, the ship is gone, it can be rebuilt, the soldiers are dead, there is no way to come back to life, how many troops can be withdrawn, how many troops can be withdrawn." ”

Liu Qi nodded blankly, and ordered the whole army to retreat to the pheasant, and the generals of Jingzhou sang a promise in frustration, and weakly ordered the army to stop boarding the ship, and assembled on the spot at the dock to retreat westward by land, and ordered the soldiers who had already boarded the boat to retreat to the upper reaches of the Yangtze River. Liu Qi looked at the generals' movements with a dull expression, was silent for a long time, and didn't know how much time had passed, Liu Qi's eyes suddenly oozed two tears, and he muttered and choked: "Teacher, you taught me, why did you give birth to such a son to restrain me?" ”

"If you are born Qi, what is the certificate?" After sighing these words, Liu Qi's eyes were dark, his throat was itchy, and he opened his mouth and spurted out a mouthful of blood. (To be continued......)