Chapter 482: Annihilation

The Jiangling Navy is like a dragon swimming in the middle of a big river, which stirs up the entire fleet of the Jin Army and is chaotic. In a chaotic battle, they overtook the entire enemy fleet and blocked the river in front of it, and the broken wood, broken corpses, pink water, and terrified Jin troops floating on the surface of the river were their masterpieces.

"How so?" Xu Wen seemed to have suddenly had a stroke, the muscles on his face kept twitching, and these enemy ships caught up like the wind, stalking his fleet into a half-crippled battle, and his plan basically failed.

"Du Shuai, is it to fight or to go?" The adjutant general of the echo worm still looked at the big man with adoring eyes, thinking that he would definitely be able to figure out a way.

"Fight, fight to the death!" Xu Wen gritted his back molars and said, he understood that he could not escape their pursuit at the speed of the Song army's warships, but would cause great confusion and be annihilated one by one.

"Obey the order......" The lieutenant general was a little vague, the marshal was in a hurry, ready to work hard!

"Led by the flagship, the rest of the warships will follow the commander and fight the enemy!" Xu Wen took his big knife from his own hand, stood on the bow of the ship, and raised his arms and shouted. Then the handsome flag was raised, the ship was full of sails, and all the troops echoed in unison and rushed towards the Song army blocking the front.

......Just as the two armies were preparing to engage the enemy, the wind and clouds suddenly changed, lightning and thunder roared, the waves were turbulent, and heavy rain poured down.

"Lowering the sails, wedge formation!" The Jin army's warships followed the wind and water momentum, and came on the waves with an indomitable momentum, wanting to break through the interception of the Song army, Du Feng saw that Xu Dadao was desperate. Now although the enemy army has suffered heavy losses. But it still has a numerical advantage, so it rushes down regardless of casualties. With their weak defense, it was really hard to stop. Therefore, Du Feng changed the long snake formation into a wedge-shaped front, forming an inclined plane with a large mouth and a small bottom on the river surface. This not only made it easier for the ships to develop their firepower, but also weakened the layers of resistance after the Jin army rushed in.

'Boom', the first ship opened fire, the bow of the oncoming enemy ship was instantly pierced, the sailors fell into the river, sinking and floating in the storm, and everyone knew that it was difficult to survive in such weather. The rest of the ships also fired their guns one after another, and then all the machine guns were fired, and everyone had the idea of seeking advantage and avoiding harm. I couldn't help but want to avoid the fatal damage, and I got into the fatal funnel laid by the Song army very obediently.

The heavy rain was majestic, drenching the firewood and rockets on the ships of the Jin army, and they lost their most powerful weapons, and the fierce strafing of the Song army also pressed them to raise their heads, so they could only lean down and paddle desperately to try their best to break out of the encirclement, their ambition to fight the enemy at this moment had already been smashed by the Jiangling naval army, and they wanted to get rid of these difficult opponents and escape as soon as possible.

And Xu Wen also lost control of the fleet at the moment. The command ship that commanded the flagship to rush towards Du Feng seemed to want to fight a duel between the main generals. He stood at the bow of the ship with his sword in both hands on his chest, his gray hair fluttering in the wind, unmoved by the whipping of the storm. The bullets fired by the Song army also seemed to be afraid of its might. The soldiers around him were also shot one after another and fell, but he was unscathed.

Xu Wen looked at the enemy ships that were getting closer and closer, and tightened the big knife in his hand. Twisting his face to look at the subordinates who had been following him for many years, a sad smile appeared on his face. His lieutenant general was also resolute in his own operation at the moment, and the oarsmen may have been infected by this tragic atmosphere. Roaring and swerving his oars, he rushed to the enemy's flagship and inflicted heavy damage, not hesitating to die with them.

"Kill ......" Seeing that the two ships were about to collide, the Song army warship suddenly stopped, and the Jin army warship brushed past, making a tooth-sour creaky sound, Xu Wen shouted and took advantage of the proximity of the two ships to take advantage of the opportunity to lift his knife and jump hard, wanting to jump into the Song boat to fight, and the soldiers who followed closely behind were also ready to jump into the gang to fight.

'Pap, pap, ......' just when the Jin soldiers crossed the ship, the Song boat soldiers who were lying behind the side of the ship suddenly got up and raised their guns and fired, Xu Wen, who was in the air, was transferred into the turbulent waves with several guns and knives, and the soldiers behind were also killed and wounded, and the soldiers on the Song boat took the opportunity to throw off the cable to tie it up, and they had already jumped onto the enemy ship without waiting to get closer, and stood together with guns and knives, wanting to capture the enemy flagship.

"Ahem...... Die at your own hand, happy! At this time, Xu Wen, who was seriously injured and fell into the water, had already been hooked and hooked, let the Song boat sailors drag him onto the boat, snatched the big knife he had not let go of and put it on his neck, Xu Wen coughed twice, and a stream of blood spurted out of his mouth, looking at Song Jun on the side and laughing.

"The general of the defeated army is not brave enough, what else can you say as a rebel general?" Du Feng stepped forward and looked down at the half-dead Xu Wen and asked.

"Hehe, if there was a master in the Great Song Dynasty in the past, and the sailor was as powerful as this, why should I invest in gold...... For the sake of the same Han people, send me home! Xu Wen had already seen that Du Feng was the leader of the final say here, and raised his finger with difficulty to point to Dongfang Dao.

"Alas, I knew why I had to do it today, I promised you!" Du Feng sighed and fulfilled his last wish, asking the soldier to remove the broadsword across his neck.

"Thank you, little brother, ......" Xu Wen showed a satisfied smile on his face, sat up and raised his hands to him, and suddenly jumped into the water with all his might, causing an exclamation.

"Don't shoot, he's dead!" Du Feng raised his hand to stop the soldiers who were about to shoot, and raised his hand to salute Xu Wen, who was floating on the surface of the water downstream, and his body would float down the river into Liaodong Bay, perhaps with the tide to the coast of Dengzhou, where he had defected to the Great Song Dynasty.

"Commander, it's a great achievement to sacrifice the head of the enemy chieftain, so let's just let him go?" An officer looked at the corpse that was gradually disappearing and was hidden in the rain and mist, and said with some unwillingness.

"Don't you still have his big knife in your hand, it's the same!" Du Feng glanced at the big knife in his hand and said, "Although this person rebelled against the Song Dynasty and lowered the gold, he still knew that he was a Han when he was dying, and if he wanted to return to his homeland, he could be regarded as a man. ”

While speaking, the flagship of the Jin Shui Army has been captured, the handsome flag was lowered and replaced with the battle flag of the Song Shui Army, and the remnants of the Jin Army who were still resisting saw that they had no heart to fight, and those who could escape fled, and those who could not escape gave up resistance to stop the ship and surrender. In the evening, the Jiangling Navy pressed the captured flagship and surrendered troops back to Sanjiangkou, and the battle here had long ended, and there was not even a trace of blood on the river. It seems that nothing has happened, but the once strong Jin State Navy also disappeared into the vast river.

A heavy rain fell for a day and a night. The river swelled, and warships were able to sail in and out freely. The Great Song Dynasty Navy reorganized its men and horses into the Liang River, and the complete destruction of the Jin Navy made the future unhindered, and the Ma Bu Army landed fifty miles outside Liaoyang City. Wan Yan Yong was shocked, and while going to the top of Beijing, he summoned all the troops to set up camp twenty miles outside the city to resist the attack of the Song army......

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Since the Ma Wei Corps set out to enter the Liaohe River, the news has been basically cut off, and Zhao Ta, who is stationed in Jinzhou, has not been able to know the situation of the battle, but he can see from the reaction of the Jinzhou side that there is no major battle in Liaoyang, otherwise Wan Yanliang would not stay in the city so calmly and be indifferent to the siege.

"陛xià. Li Cheng's corps suddenly accelerated its march in the past two days, headed in the direction of Jinzhou, and had already reached Haibei Prefecture this morning. The daily military briefing in the camp was presided over by Zhao Yong as usual, and he reported first.

"Hey, what is Li Cheng doing, he has been grinding on the road for so many days, will something happen if he is marching a hundred miles a day and night?" Zhao Lian marked Li Cheng's location on the map and said with some confusion.

"This person has always been treacherous and cunning, if he takes the Qianzhou Road, he can travel at least 300 miles, but he wants to detour to Haibei Zhou Road. Obviously, he knew that our army did not want to come here to die, and hoped that after we captured Jinzhou, he could quickly withdraw his troops, escape our blows, and save his own life. Dou Junyao said with a smile.

"Hmph. He must have received an urgent order from his emperor to rescue Jinzhou quickly, but Wan Yanliang was their emperor's celebrity waiting for him to come to his rescue, so he dared not to come under the strong order. Liu Biao's view is different.

"陛xià. What do you think? The crowd expressed their opinions, but the emperor was silent. Zhao Yong asked.

"Gao Pet, when can you capture Jinzhou?" Zhao Ta looked at Gao Chongdao with no question.

"陛xià. As long as you give an order, the minister promises to take Jinzhou within three days. Gao Pet got up and said.

"Well, there are two main tasks at the moment." Zhao Ta stood up and turned around in the tent, everyone understood that the emperor must have encountered trouble, so they all sat up straight and listened, "First, set up an ambush in Chaya Mountain and resolutely annihilate Li Chengbu; Second, immediately after the battle was launched there, the team launched a general attack on Jinzhou, and the battle must be ended within two days, and then the whole army should march to Liaoyang Mansion in a hurry. At the same time, he ordered Zhao Li's corps to end its rest and recuperate, and entered the Jin State from the grassland to threaten Huining City. ”

"Your Majesty, why is this no longer the implementation of our plan to besiege the city and send reinforcements?" Zhao Yong asked anxiously, after the departure of the Ma Wei Corps, the emperor wanted to use Jinzhou as a bait to attract the Jin army to come and gradually annihilate it, so as to consume the enemy's strength and reduce the pressure for the next battle, but now the emperor suddenly changed the established battle plan, and it seemed to be for no reason.

"Li Cheng's march was slow and he made a long detour, all because he was worried that our army would cut off his way back after capturing Liaoyang Mansion, and the gains and losses of Jinzhou were only part of his consideration. Now he suddenly accelerated the speed of the march, it must be because the attack of the Mawei Corps was blocked, or suffered heavy losses, and lost the ability to capture Liaoyang Mansion in a short time, so he was able to come to the rescue of Jinzhou with confidence and boldness, and we must quickly end the battle and gallop to the aid of the Mawei Corps. Zhao said.

"Did you think something had happened to the Ma Wei Corps? Isn't it too hasty to extrapolate from this alone! Zhao Lian said with a surprised face, now the strength of a general can fight independently, not to mention the troops of the two generals dispatched this time, as well as the warships of the Dengzhou Naval Division, even if the attack fails, there must be more than enough self-preservation, and it is really unbelievable that they can be frustrated.

"The battlefield is changing rapidly, anything can happen, and now that the news is cut off, the enemy army has suddenly become bold, maybe this qiē has nothing to do with the Ma Wei Corps, but we can only consider the problem from the worst perspective when the enemy situation is unknown, but we can't take it for granted to guess the consequences." Zhao Ta glanced at everyone and said, how he didn't understand the combat effectiveness of his army, but he couldn't be lucky, countless expeditions in history failed, all because of poor communication, one side lost, and the other was still fighting according to the established plan, and the result was a lone army that was taken advantage of by the enemy and suffered a crushing defeat.

"Your Majesty, the ministers understand, we will immediately prepare to attack the city and guarantee to take Jinzhou within two days." Gao Pet said.

"Your Majesty, your subordinates will immediately lead the army to set up an ambush in Chaya Mountain, and will never let the enemy reinforcements arrive at Jinzhou City one by one." The loyal army commanded Zhou Jun, and asked for battle.

"Your Majesty, ambushing is what our wolf general is best at, or we will do it, and we will definitely let Li Cheng's old boy come and go!" The wolf general Zhuge Hong also rushed to go.

"You wolves will be the main force in Jinzhou, let Zhou Jun go this time!" Zhao Ta said with a final word, and did not give them another chance to perform......

Jinzhou City is bordered by the Bohai Sea in the south, the Songling Mountains in the north, and is located at the eastern end of the Liaoning West Corridor, between the Xiaoling River and the Hara River. For Liao Taizu Abaoji to Han prisoners to build a state, the establishment of the state capital to manage the Central Plains good at weaving workshops and silkworm raising Han captives, the production of silk brocade for the royal use of silk brocade, so named Jinzhou. The city is about five miles in circumference, more than two zhang high, there is a moat outside one zhang two feet deep, three zhang five feet wide, and there are city gates on all sides.

In order to prevent the Song army from invading the north, Wushu ordered the construction of boundary moats at the same time, and also ordered the cities to repair the city, prepare the city defense, and store grain and grass. Jinzhou is the gateway to the eastern Liaodong region, and naturally it is a great deal of construction, adding the urn city, the sheep and horse city, and leading water into the moat. After learning of the Northern Expedition of the Song Army, Wan Yanliang mobilized the army and civilians to dig two deep trenches around the city one hundred and ten paces apart, and arranged foothills and pits.

After the Song army took Anchang, the two armies fought more than 20 times, and the Jin army was difficult to resist. Wan Yan Liang ordered the strong walls to clear the wilderness, and all the surrounding forts were withdrawn into the city, and the soldiers retreated to the trenches and camped according to the city. After the Song army cleared the periphery, the soldiers went to the city, and set up a walled city on all sides to besiege the city, and confronted it with a moat. Zhao Ta gave an order, and the three armies moved together. The loyal and brave army quietly left the camp that night, went north around the city and entered Chaya Mountain to set up an ambush for reinforcements, and moved to the village ten miles south of Jinzhou City.

At this time, under the city of Jinzhou, the Song army concentrated the four armies of the leopard general, the wolf general, the tiger wing army and the loyal and brave army, and besieged the city on all sides. Gao Pet chose the breakthrough in Xicheng, and the wolf will be the main force in the siege; At the same time, with the Leopard General and the Tiger Wing Army as assists, they attacked the West Gate and the North Gate respectively. After receiving the order, the baggage carried a large number of siege equipment to the front, and the artillery also built positions to provide fire support for the various departments. (To be continued......)