Chapter 655: Attacking Aocang Ferry
Although the Jin army was defeated and retreated in both directions, the losses caused to the enemy were not small, and the arrow towers built by the enemy along the river were smashed to pieces by the Jin army's thunderbolts in many places, and the casualties of the soldiers were similar to those of the Jin army, so the two sides were a draw.
However, the Jin army was much larger than the enemy army on the opposite side, and after the failure of the first round of attacks, it was possible to immediately change a group of men and horses and launch another attack on the north bank of the ferry, so that the method of round battle through guΓ² greatly consumed the strength of the enemy army on the other side, and finally broke through the enemy's defense line and occupied two ferries.
The situation of the attack of the two armies was delivered to Hua'an in the shortest possible time, and Deng Qiang and Zhuge Xiong both swore that it would only take a few days to break through the ferry.
Seeing that his subordinates were full of confidence, Hua'an was naturally very happy, but in order to greatly reduce the losses of his subordinates, Hua'an still tended to launch a surprise attack from Chenggao Ferry.
However, at this moment, on the north bank of the Chenggao Ferry, there are 3,000 soldiers and horses under Cao Fu's command to defend, and although Hua'an has 10,000 elite guards and hundreds of ships, most of them are transport ships with no offensive ability, and the number of warships used for combat is not enough to form a surprise attack effect at all.
"Big brother, what are you worried about?" Seeing Hua An's frowning, Wang San asked softly.
Hua An looked at the map in front of him and said softly: "Our army attacked the ferry from the two ferries of Mengjin and Aocang, even if we can defeat the enemy army, the loss will not be less than 10,000 people, such a big loss, some of the gains outweigh the losses!" It is safer to take the Chenggao ferry to smuggle out. β
"Big brother. At present, there are 3,000 enemy troops defending the north bank of Chenggao Ferry, and our army has only more than 30 warships, which cannot break the enemy on the north bank at all, and I am afraid that we will be powerless. Wang San said softly.
"If the 3,000 enemy troops on the other side of the ferry can be transferred, it will be a different story." Hua An said thoughtfully.
When Wang San heard this, he was greatly surprised, and hurriedly said: "Big brother, how can the enemy army obey the movement of our army. It's impossible. β
Hua An smiled. He said softly: "As long as you are well prepared and mobilize the enemy's troops and horses, it is completely possible to fight this battle." Our army must transfer the 3,000 enemy troops defending the north bank of the Chenggao ferry. In order to alleviate the overall losses of our army. β
"Big brother. How should our army prepare to transfer away the 3,000 enemy troops on the other side? Wang San hurriedly asked curiously.
Hua An thought for a moment, and said, "If you want to transfer the three thousand enemy troops defending on the north bank of Chenggao Ferry, you want to transfer them." It is necessary to put tremendous pressure on the enemy defending the Aocang Ferry, and let the enemy's main general Cao Fu understand that the direction of our army's attack is only the Aocang Ferry, and the Aocang Ferry is determined to win, so that Cao Fu will definitely transfer the 3,000 troops defending the Chenggao Ferry to the Aocang Ferry in order to ensure that the Aocang Ferry will not miss, so that our personal guards can quickly cross the Yellow River and launch a surprise attack on the defenders of the enemy defending the Aocang Ferry, so as to first solve the Cao Fu Corps in the direction of Aocang, and then, wait for Zhuge Xiong to lead the 40,000 troopsAfter going north from the Ao Cang Ferry, it launched an attack in the direction of the Mengjin Ferry, and then quickly occupied the entire Hanoi County. β
When Wang San heard this, he said: "Big brother, if you want to put tremendous pressure on the enemy army at the Aocang Ferry, you must use our army's secret weapons and increase the number of warships and thunderbolts, so that it is possible to force the enemy army to transfer troops according to the needs of our army." β
Hua An nodded, and said softly: "It must be too late to build a temporary warship, transfer all thirty warships near Chenggao Pass to the direction of Aocang, so that you can enhance the combat power of the attacking troops in the direction of Aocang on a certain distance, and at the same time, load all the thunderbolts used to defend Aocang City onto the transport ships, and transform the transport ships into ships that can fire thunderbolts, and incorporate them into the attacking troops, at the same time, the baggage troops continue to build thunderbolts to further enhance the offensive force, of course, a large amount of black powder needs to be used, to completely deter the enemy army. β
"Big brother, the thirty warships near Chenggao are for the purpose of guarding our guards crossing the river, how can they all be transferred to the direction of Aocang, so when our guards cross the river, once they encounter the enemy's warships, won't they all become live targets." Wang San said worriedly.
Hua An waved his hand and said softly: "Don't worry about this, there are not many enemy warships, besides, our army is going all out to attack Aocang Ferry, and a small number of enemy warships will also be used to defend Aocang Ferry, and there will be no energy to take care of Chenggao Ferry, besides, our army can choose to cross the river at night to enhance the suddenness of the sneak attack." β
Wang San nodded, and said: "Big brother, I will go to give an order, thirty warships will set off at this moment, and tomorrow morning, they will arrive at Aocang Ferry, and they can immediately participate in the battle of attacking Aocang Ferry."
Hua An nodded and said: "Okay, you go and give the order immediately, by the way, let the thirty warships be filled with black powder, in addition, take away all the black powder used to defend Chenggao Pass, and transport it to the direction of Aocang by transport ship, and also, send someone to tell SΓΉ Zhuge Xiong, use the secret weapons of our army to teach me a hard lesson The enemy troops defending the Aocang Ferry must give great casualties to the enemy army, so as to cooperate with our army to smuggle into the Chenggao Ferry." β
"Yes, don't worry, big brother." Wang San answered, turned around and went to deliver the order.
Subsequently, Hua An ordered his soldiers to take advantage of the darkness to sail all the transport ships near the Chenggao Ferry into the water, and disperse them to cover them with reeds, so as to confuse the enemy scouts and make the enemy think that there were no large number of ships near the Chenggao Pass, so as to relax their vigilance in this direction.
After some preparations, thirty warships moored near the Chenggao ferry, loaded with soldiers and a large amount of black powder, escorted ten transport ships, and sailed towards the Aocang ferry.
Forty large ships of the Jin army left the Chenggao ferry with torches in a high-profile manner, and the enemy troops defending on the other side naturally saw it clearly, and naturally thought that the Jin army was reinforcing the Aocang ferry, so as to relax their vigilance even more.
Early the next morning, 30 warships reinforced from Chenggao Ferry and 10 transport ships responsible for transporting war materials arrived on the south bank of Chenggao Ferry and joined up with Zhuge Xiong's soldiers and horses to prepare for an attack on the enemy forces on the opposite bank.
"General Zhuge , General Hua urgently sent thirty warships from our department to reinforce him, and he is willing to fight with General Zhuge and teach the enemy troops on the other side a hard lesson." The young general in charge of reinforcements said loudly.
Zhuge Xiong nodded and said happily: "Okay, you came just in time, with your reinforcements, our army's chances of victory are even greater, haha!" β
"General Zhuge , our department also brought enough black powder, General Hua ordered our army to use our army's secret weapons to teach the enemy a hard lesson, and force the enemy to defend the Chenggao Ferry with 3,000 soldiers and horses to reinforce the direction of Aocang, so that General Hua's personal guards can sneak across the river and attack the enemy's flank and rear." The youngster continued.
When Zhuge Xiong heard this, he immediately fully understood Hua'an's intentions, and decided to launch a fierce attack on the enemy troops defending the north bank of the Aocang Ferry in accordance with Hua'an's orders.
After nearly an hour of preparation, Zhuge Xiong personally led more than 100 warships to the north shore of the Aocang Ferry.
"General, the enemy's arrow tower is already within the attack range of our thunderbolts, and it is ready to attack." A subordinate general reminded loudly.
Zhuge Xiong nodded and ordered loudly: "All the warships line up and attack immediately." β
The flag-bearer on the ship immediately conveyed the order to the ships participating in the battle, and soon all the ships were ready to attack at any time.
Just when the Jin warships adjusted their formation and prepared to attack, the enemy troops defending the north bank of the ferry had already taken the lead in attacking, and countless heavy huge stones and burning fireballs smashed violently into the Jin warships, and caused certain losses to the Jin warships.
However, the soldiers on the Jin warships were all well-trained elite soldiers, and when the enemy took the lead in attacking, they did not panic in the slightest, but immediately repaired the damaged warships and extinguished the burned parts, so that the warships could continue to fight.
"Thunderbolt, return fire immediately." Seeing that all the warships had already entered the position, Zhuge Xiong gave the order to attack.
The flagbearer on the main battle ship, immediately conveyed the order to launch a thunderbolt projectile.
The thunderbolts of the main battleship of the "Huhuhu......" were the first to throw the ignited black powder blocks, and then the thunderbolts on more than 100 warships all threw the ignited black powder blocks.
"Boom, boom, boom......" A huge explosion sounded one after another near the enemy's arrow tower.
The soldiers lifted by the impact, the dust raised, the thick black smoke, and the arrow towers falling from the sky are all intertwined, and people can intuitively feel the fierceness of the battle.
The enemy soldiers defending the ferry were stunned by the sudden fierce attack of the Jin army, and retreated one after another, and hid outside the range of the thunderbolt carts on the Jin warships, regrouping their troops and horses, preparing to meet the soldiers who landed on the Jin army.
"General, the enemy army is vulnerable and has retreated on all fronts, and our army can immediately land on the shore and occupy the ferry." A subordinate general said excitedly.
Zhuge Xiong shook his head and said softly: "No, although the enemy army retreated, there were seven or eight thousand men and horses, and our army only had less than two thousand soldiers on hundreds of warships. β
"Yes, General." The general of the ministry took the order and gave the order to retreat.
The enemy soldiers who were panicking, saw that the dominant Jin army began to retreat, and immediately breathed a great sigh of relief, at first, they were also curious about why the Jin army would suddenly retreat, and after thinking about it carefully, they found that the Jin army was only a few hundred warships, and there should not be many soldiers on it. (To be continued......)