Chapter 355: Military Parade on the River
Seeing that the warships under his command were washed away by the Jin army's sailors, the new commander of the Zhao army's sailors, Zhixiong, hurriedly ordered his warships to retreat to the north bank of the ferry.
The Zhao army's naval division retreated in a hurry, while the Jin army's naval division seized the fighter plane to pursue with all its might, and some slow Zhao army warships were surrounded by many warships of the Jin army, and the Zhao army soldiers, who had no way to escape, had to engage the Jin army sailors.
Hand-to-hand combat is what the Zhao army is best at, but it is on land, on the turbulent water, the Zhao soldiers can't even stand on their feet, and their combat effectiveness is naturally greatly reduced, while the Jin army sailors who are familiar with water warfare are not, they walk on the warship swaying from side to side, and their combat effectiveness can be greatly exerted.
When the two warships approached, the brave Jin sailors armed with short knives skillfully jumped from the deck of their own warship to the deck of the Zhao warship, and then fought with the Zhao soldiers on the deck of the Zhao warship.
The Zhao soldiers were unsteady on the deck, and they were very incapable of fighting the Jin sailors, and they were soon killed and wounded, and the bodies were still in the river by the Jin sailors, and the warship was captured by the Jin soldiers.
The Zhao Army's naval division retreated all the way, and the Jin Army's naval division pursued all the way, until the Zhao Army's naval division retreated to the ferry water village, and the Jin Army's naval division stopped pursuing.
Because in the water village of the ferry, the soldiers of the Zhao army waded into the water to build many tall arrow towers, and thousands of crossbowmen arranged on them were waiting for them, and even some large towers were installed on the thunderbolt carts that could throw boulders, as long as the Jin army's water division was close to the water village of the Zhao army, they would be attacked by these bows and bolts, and the loss would not be small.
In order to deter the Zhao army and show the strength of the Great Jin Water Division, the chief general of the Jin army did not order to return to the south bank of the ferry immediately, but let the large and small warships under his command line up in several rows and patrol around the periphery of the Zhao army's water village in an extremely neat formation.
Among these large and small warships, including the dozen or so Zhao warships that had just been captured, due to the rush of time, the flags flying on these warships did not have time to be replaced, and they were still the flags of the Zhao army.
The Jin Army's naval division launched a large-scale military parade outside the Zhao Army's water village, and the Zhao soldiers in the camp were all dumbfounded, and all the soldiers were deeply worried about the strength of the Jin Army's naval division, and even the generals of the Zhao Army felt that the Jin Army's naval division was difficult to defeat, and it was better to retreat to the north.
Dressed in a yellow robe, Shi Hu, standing on the high platform, also witnessed the parade of the Jin Army's water division, seeing that the Jin Army's water division was in a neat formation and changed quickly, Shi Hu also had to admit that the water division that he had worked hard to build for more than half a month was still not the opponent of the Jin army, and if he wanted to defeat the Jin army's water division, he still needed to continue to enhance the strength of the water army.
However, Shi Hu really felt very shameless about the provocative behavior of the Jin army's sailors, especially those captured warships flying the banner of the Zhao army, which greatly hurt Shi Hu's self-esteem.
In order to save some face, Shi Hu ordered the bows and crossbows and thunderbolts on the water village to shoot at the Jin army fleet with all their might, even if the range was not enough, at least it could show the tough attitude of the Zhao army.
"Whoosh, whirsh, whirring......" A rapid rain of arrows and stone bullets shot in the direction of the Jin warship, and fell into the river not far from the Jin warship, stirring up countless splashes.
Seeing that the Zhao army fired a rain of arrows and stone bullets but could not hit him, the soldiers of the Jin army on the warship immediately laughed, and even coaxed loudly, which had the meaning of laughing at the Zhao army's sailors for not daring to fight.
Seeing that the Jin army sailors were coaxing loudly, as if they meant to laugh at themselves, Shi Hu was furious and loudly ordered the Zhixiong beside him to immediately lead the warship to attack and teach the Jin army sailors a hard lesson.
Zhixiong naturally knew that Shi Hu was talking angrily, in order to maintain his dignity as a king, he, as a general, naturally had to sacrifice his face to maintain Shi Hu's dignity, so he thought he was incompetent and asked Shi Hu to withdraw the order, and the rest of the generals beside him also spoke one after another to prevent Shi Hu from giving wrong orders.
At this time, the chief general of the Jin army saw that the purpose of the demonstration had been achieved, so he led the Jin army's naval division to the camp on the south bank.
Seeing that the Jin army's naval division had withdrawn, Shi Hu's anger in his heart decreased slightly, so he withdrew the order for the warship to attack, but he asked the generals to step up the training of soldiers, and do their best to familiarize the soldiers who are good at land warfare with water warfare, and at the same time order the craftsmen to step up the construction of warships, build more large ships and building ships, try to offset the disadvantage of the soldiers who are not good at water warfare with the advantage of numbers, and finally obtain a comprehensive advantage over the Jin army's naval division.
On the way back to the south bank of the Jin army's naval division, the 5,000 men and horses led by Wang Liu arrived at the Wujiang River ferry, and set up thousands of tents close to the naval camp, and the 7,000 cavalry of the thunderstorm and Wang Liu's 5,000 men and horses were all stationed in it, and a simple temporary camp of the Northern Expeditionary Army was built.
After the Jin army returned to the south bank, the main general led most of the men to go ashore and began to clean up the unrecognizable camp destroyed by Yao Gezhong.
The damage to the Wujiang camp is extremely severe, there are thousands of camp tents that were burned by the fire alone, and the rest of the various materials are even more, the most urgent thing is that the grain and grass warehouse in the camp was burned down, and the rations of nearly 30,000 sailors of the Jin army were gone, which was the most headache for its main general.
It can be said that Yao Gezhong's sneak attack, although there were not many Jin army sailors killed, but the losses caused to the Jin army's naval camp were really not small, and it could be regarded as a successful sneak attack, besides, if it were not for the timely arrival of the 7,000 cavalry of the thunderstorm, the Wujiang ferry was likely to be lost because of Yao Gezhong's sneak attack, and the entire Jin Dynasty would also be in danger.
The commander of the naval army at the Wujiang ferry arranged for his subordinates to clean up the battalion, and immediately walked to the direction of the temporary camp of the Northern Expeditionary Army, and the reason why he was able to hold the ferry was thanks to the timely reinforcement of the cavalry of the Thunderstorm Division, so he wanted to go to the battalion of the Northern Expeditionary Army and personally express his gratitude to the reinforcements.
At this time, Thunderstorm and Wang Liu were discussing the form of the enemy and us in the big tent of the Chinese army, and a herald soldier reported the arrival of the general of the navy.
Thunderstorm and Wang Liu's positions were both below each other, so they hurriedly got up and greeted them outside the big tent.
The two sides met for a while, and the commander of the navy expressed his gratitude for the timely reinforcements of the thunderstorm department, and the thunderstorm and Wang Liu even said that they did not dare to be, and said that they were both the army of the Great Jin, and it was appropriate to reinforce the friendly army in time.
Then, the commander of the navy shook his head and sighed, told Thunderstorm and Wang Liuduo of the losses suffered by his troops, and said that his battalion had run out of food and wanted to borrow some military rations from the Northern Expeditionary Army temporarily.
Thunderstorm and Wang Liuer didn't say a word, and hurriedly ordered the soldiers to fund all the military rations carried on this trip to the officers and soldiers of the navy, so as to relieve the urgent need of the naval camp, and at the same time, Wang Liu sent 2,000 soldiers back to the granary of the Northern Expeditionary Army to continue to carry grain and grass.