Chapter 719: The Battle of Guazhou

In 598 AD, after the battle led by the Sui army to destroy Chen, Emperor Wen of Sui ordered that all the palaces, cemeteries and city walls of Jiankang City, the capital of the Chen Dynasty, be leveled. The Great Sui dominated the world, and the hometown of Jiankang was deliberately degraded.

After Jiankang was leveled, but the place near Jiankang is still the center of the south of the Yangtze River, where the west passes Bashu and Jingxiang, the east connects Sanwu, and the north connects the two Huai, which is the place of the world's shape and victory.

And Jiankang also has the river as a barrier, so after Du Fuwei seced, he did not choose the water 6 confluence, located on the north bank of the Yangtze River Jiangdu to establish a base camp, but changed to Danyang, which is only a few dozen miles away from Jiankang on the south bank. This is also Du Fuwei's precautions, if one day Li Tang or Da Zhao's iron cavalry goes south, he is guarding Danyang and there is a danger of the Yangtze River, so he is not afraid of the iron cavalry of the two countries.

However, Du Fuwei did not expect that Zhao Guo's attack on Danyang did not come from 6, but from the water. And it does not come from the upper reaches of the Yangtze River, but from the sea into the mouth of the Yangtze River, and then from the lower reaches of the Yangtze River.

In order to attack Du Fuwei's lair, Du Fuwei's rebel general Zuo Xianyou also brought 2,000 soldiers and 30 warships to join up with the 8,000 naval army of Silla Baekje to form a multinational combined fleet. More than 150 warships marched from Jiangdu to the south bank.

Zuo Xianyou walked onto the side of the ship, but saw that the combined fleet had been moving on the north bank of the Yangtze River, and the river wind was mighty, and it seemed to be floating with a layer of mist in the distance. The vast Yangtze River is so wide, looking from the north bank to the south bank, the width of it is difficult to measure.

If it weren't for the rolling water on the river, I would almost have thought it was a wide lake.

Zuo Xianyou said to the left and right with a calm face: "Let the Silla Baekje fleet follow us, the water flow here is complicated, in case of accidental grounding, it is still a trivial matter, I am afraid that the ship will be destroyed and people will die, and I don't know if the fish and shrimp of the Yangtze River can eat these Dongyi people." ”

Speaking of this, Zuo Xianyou couldn't help but laugh, and his subordinates also smiled at the occasion, for Silla. The country of Baekje Dongyi, they have always looked down on it.

However, Zuo Xianyou thought of what Li Chongjiu had explained, and he was solemn at the moment. At present, he has betrayed both Du Fuwei and Fu Gongyou, and if he can't help Zhao Jun capture Danyang and let Du Fuwei escape from the south bank this time, then his future future will be in jeopardy.

"Is the other side of the strait Jingkou?" Zuo Xianyou asked his subordinates.

"Returning to the town. Just three miles ahead is Guazhoudu. ”

Zuo Xianyou nodded, back then, Huan Wen, the powerful minister of the Southern Jin Dynasty, said that Jingkou wine could be drunk and soldiers could be used. The soldiers refer to the Beifu soldiers of the Eastern Jin Dynasty stationed in Jingkou.

From the Eastern Wu Sun Quan based on the south of the Yangtze River to defend Jiankang, there are two ferries to be guarded, one is the quarry ferry upstream of Jiankang. The second is the Guazhou ferry downstream of Jiankang. The two ferries are opposite to Liyang and Jingkou, both of which are the key points of Jiankang, and the Southern Dynasties must use heavy troops to suppress them, so that Jiankang can sit back and relax.

Historically, whenever the north expedition to the south and the crossing of the Yangtze River had to take these two ferries. When the Sui destroyed Chen, Emperor Wen of Sui ordered the two bravest generals of the Sui Dynasty, He Ruobi to cross Guazhou, and Han to capture Hudu to quarry, and succeeded in a battle. In later generations, the lord of Jin Guoxiong was full of Yan Liang, and was based on the Song general Yu Yunwen, who failed to cross the quarrying first, and was killed by his subordinates when he crossed Guazhou.

Now Liyang. Jingkou is also the place where the Jianghuai army started, when Du Fuwei raised the army, he called himself the governor of Liyang, and then captured the Jiangdu, before moving the base camp to Danyang, which is closer to the canal.

The general on the side said to Zuo Xianyou: "Guard, after King Wu left Danyang, he deployed all the heavy troops in Jingkou, and now the river has changed." Jingkou will get the news, our army will attack suddenly, I'm afraid it will be unfavorable! ”

Zuo Xianyou smiled and said: "What's not to worry about this, although the Yangtze River is dangerous." But since ancient times, I have never heard of losing Huaisi and still being able to defend Jiangnan. Just Jingkou, see my army break it, take Jingkou, and take Danyang as easily. ”

Speaking of this, Zuo Xianyou waved his sleeves and ordered: "Drumming!" ”

Zuo Xianyou gave such an order, and the war drums on the Zhao army's warship beat! Thirty Zhao warships on the north shore turned their sails and were pressed by the wind to the south shore.

Seeing that Zuo Xianyou was like this, Baekje General Yunzhong of course also ordered the drum to beat and led the Baekje fleet to support. On the side, Jin Chunqiu said: "General Zhao is too reckless, after all, this is the capital of a country, and the enemy soldiers and horses on the other side of the strait don't know the reality yet, so they attack rashly, what if they are ambushed?" ”

Yuan Xiao said: "But Your Highness, if we don't follow up, then General Zhao will inevitably blame." ”

Jin Chunqiu said: "Master Yuan, you lead ten warships forward, and I lead the rest of the warships to watch the battle, what do you think?" ”

Yuan Xiao nodded.

But it is said that on the river, the boat walks like flying, and the white sails are like snow.

Stay close to the Jianghuai military water camp in Beijing. But outside the water camp, a barrage iron cable was sealed, and after the iron cable, there was a two-mile-long floating river wooden city. The wooden city floats on the water, is more than two zhang high, and is also repaired with battlements like a city wall, a lookout hole, and a water gate in the middle, which is closed with a sluice.

The soldiers of the Jianghuai Army's water battalion also went up to the city wall after hearing the drums. The flags on the city wall are scattered, and it seems that there are not many Jianghuai soldiers and horses.

Zuo Xian Youqi said: "What about the Jianghuai Army water boat? ”

The general on the side said: "It must be inside the water gate!" ”

Zuo Xianyou sneered: "It must be that the Jianghuai army saw my army attacking and lost its momentum, so don't pay attention to so much and bring the battleship closer." ”

Zuo Xianyou's warship rushed forward, and after approaching Shuicheng, the warship in front of it crossed, and the small stone throwers and bed crossbows on the ship all rushed to shoot towards the floating river wooden city. Throwing stones, crossbow arrows all hit the water city, causing the water to splash. And the Jianghuai army also ignited the fire at the front end of the bow and arrow, and shot at the Zhao army battleship with a backhand.

The two armies fought in a water battle, and the bows and crossbows and rockets were fired back and forth.

Seeing this scene, Zuo Xianyou decisively said to his subordinates: "The banner is given to Baekje, the Silla people, just say that our army is feinting in the front to contain them, and they will climb 6 from the shallows next to Suseong, after outflanking Suseong. ”

After Yun Zhong got the banner of Zuo Xianyou, he immediately led the fleet to sail to the shallows on the right side of the water city. Thousands of Baekje sailors jumped onto the firewood boats behind the battleship, rowed their boats and boarded on the beach on the south bank6, and detoured behind the water fortress.

Zuo Xianyou, who was on the boat, saw this scene and clapped his hands excitedly and said, "It's done!" ”

As soon as Zuo Xianyou's voice fell, on the hill next to the shallows, a gong suddenly sounded.

On the hill, hundreds of Jianghuai soldiers showed their heads and fired arrows at the shoal, but when they saw the arrows raining down, the Baekje soldiers on the shoal were suddenly so pressed that they couldn't raise their heads and could only hide behind the reef. The Baekje battleship had a shallow draft and could not get close to reinforcements, so it immediately asked Zuo Xianyou for help.

Zuo Xianyou was shocked and angry when he saw Zhongji, and wanted to urge the battleship to go to the riverside to support. At this time, on the hill by the river, several hidden stone throwers showed their heads and smashed towards the Zhao warship below the mountain.

But seeing the boulder coming down from the mountain, he smashed a battleship of the Zhao army, Hengjiang, into two pieces, and another boulder smashed several zhang on the side of Zuo Xianyou's flagship. Stirred up water and sprinkled all over the deck. Zuo Xianyou was suddenly shocked into a cold sweat, and hurriedly ordered the fleet to go backwards, otherwise it would be damaged on this shoal.

However, the house leak happened to rain overnight, and Zuo Xianyou's fleet had just retreated, and at this time the sound of bangzi sounded, but after seeing the sandbar in the middle of the river, dozens of Jianghuai army boats rowed out and attacked from behind the Baekje fleet. It turned out that the boats in the water camp had long been ambushed here, not inside the water gate.

Such small boats, although not large, are as fast as galloping horses on the river.

Each boat carried more than 20 Jianghuai soldiers, and when their small boats approached the Baekje battleship, they all picked up hooks and put them on the back of the ship. These Jianghuai sergeants climbed up the ship along the hook.

The Jianghuai army is very good at water warfare, just like the Hu people riding horses, and the Jiangdong naval army can be called the first in the world. Today, they taught a very vivid lesson to the foreign Baekje army, they flexibly avoided the arrows fired by the Baekje people's ships, and climbed onto the bow of the ship like apes, and some soldiers jumped directly onto the side of the ship without even hooking and engaging in broadside battles.

The main force of the Baekje army is on the shore, and there is no way to retreat, now these ships are not enough troops, under the fight of the Jianghuai army, which is good at water warfare, the Baekje battleship lost several ships in a row, and the soldiers were killed together with the sailors, and the corpses were thrown directly into the Yangtze River, and the river was dyed red.

Zuo Xianyou, who was in shock on the side, couldn't help but tremble when he looked at this scene again. These Jianghuai soldiers were simply barbarians and more like barbarians.

When the Baekje army suffered heavy casualties, Jin Chunqiu laughed when he saw it, and he said to Yuan Xiao: "I just said, this is where the Jianghuai military capital is located, and it is not so easy to attack, this Zhao general actually rebelled from the Jianghuai army, and he didn't even know the layout of this place, he was really stupid and stupid." ”

Yuan Xiao said: "Your Highness, do we still want to watch from the wall again?" ”

"Of course not," Jin Chunqiu said at this point, "Now that Zhao Jun and the people of Baekje have suffered, it is time for us to form a new Luo Erlang table." ”

As he spoke, dozens of Silla warships moved in unison, and they approached Suseong from the other side, and the Jianghuai army on the shore saw that the Silla soldiers jumped into the water from the side of the ship, and they were actually swimming.

The Jianghuai army thought that these Silla people would go to the rescue of the Baekje fleet that was in a bitter battle, but they didn't know that for the Silla people who hated Baekje, they would not go to the rescue of the Baekje fleet, but chose to attack the water gate.

But the Silla soldiers who saw the swimming crossing actually broke the barrage in front of the water gate. The warships of the Silla people came through the gap and went straight to the bottom of the water gate.

"Not good!"

"Don't!"

The Jianghuai sergeant on the wooden city screamed in alarm, but saw two ships wrapped around the Silla battleship with a collision horn, with full sails, and rushed straight to the water gate with a very fast degree along the rapids.

The Jianghuai soldiers on the city wall, seeing that the Silla battleship was so imposing, all jumped into the water one after another.

At that moment, the two Silla warships crashed into the wooden castle of Ukie one after the other. At this time, there was an earth-shattering loud noise, sawdust flew sideways, and a gap was knocked out of the floating river wooden city, breaking through the city wall. The other Silla warship was wedged directly into the city walls.

At this moment, everyone, including Zhao Jun, was shocked by the Silla people's savage and rushing style of play.

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