Volume 2 Jiangxia Chapter 1024 Thunder Strikes

Ten days passed in a flash, but Jiangdong still did not reply, Sun Quan still remained silent, obviously, he did not accept Liu Jing's conditions, the acceptance condition was death, and there may be a glimmer of hope for resistance, so why didn't he resist to the end.

Although Sun Quan was silent about Liu Jing's conditions, he secretly informed Huang Gai, the commander of Wu County, and ordered him to prepare for war with all his strength and prepare for a bloody battle to the end, and at the same time secretly replied to Han Dang, don't fight to the death for Jingkou, once the enemy's naval army attacks Jingkou again, you can abandon Jingkou, save your strength and withdraw to Biling.

On the eleventh day, the river was still calm, and the Han army did not take any action, but in the evening, under the cover of night, the Han army finally sorted, and nearly a thousand warships sailed towards Jingkou, a hundred miles away.

This time, it was no longer Gan Ning who sent troops to Jingkou, but Liu Jing's main force launched an attack on Jingkou.

The Jingkou wharf is exceptionally quiet, less than 100 steps away from the wharf, on the fifteen guard towers, soldiers are constantly patrolling back and forth, monitoring the dark river, there were originally only three guard towers on the Jingkou wharf, but Han Dang believes that the three guard towers are very easy to be uprooted by the Han army.

In order to ensure that the movements of the Han army could be detected at night and not attacked by the Han army, Han Dang built a guard tower every 100 steps, so that the number of guard towers on the dock reached fifteen.

At this time, Han Dang was also inspecting one of the guard towers, he was very nervous, Liu Jing gave ten days, yesterday the deadline had passed, today is the eleventh day, there is no news of the mobilization of troops from Jianye, although most people think that the Han army will go west to Wuhu and enter the hinterland of Taihu Lake from Lishui.

But Han Dang had an intuition that the Han army was likely to land from Jingkou, go south from Jingkou to Biling, or go west to Jianye, and after nightfall, this intuition became stronger and stronger, which was his intuition accumulated from decades of combat experience, and he never made a mistake in judgment.

Han Dang trusted his instincts, and he had deployed five thousand troops near the docks, preparing to ambush the Han army to land.

On the sentry tower, Han Dang's eyes were watching the movement on the river, just now there was a patrol report, and dozens of Han army forward sentry ships were found, which made Han Dang very nervous.

"General, look!" A soldier whispered as he pointed to the river.

Han Dang looked in the direction of the soldier's finger, he also saw that on the other side, the outline of more than a dozen thousand-stone warships appeared, Han Dang immediately turned back and looked at the Jiangdong Army ambush, just behind the guard tower, five thousand Jiangdong Army soldiers hid in a forest, they learned the lesson of the last hasty and ineffective battle, prepared a large amount of oil, and prepared to burn the Han army's warships when ambushing the Han army.

Han Dang turned back and looked at the river, after the outline of a dozen thousand stone warships appeared just now, no warships appeared, just when Han Dang was a little puzzled, the warships of the Han army appeared again, there were as many as 100 of them, moored on the dock.

Han Dang's palms were full of cold sweat, and he secretly told himself that to wait and be patient, he had to attack halfway through the landing of the Han army, but strangely, no Han soldiers landed.

Han Dang had no choice but to continue to wait, time passed little by little, nearly half an hour had passed, and hundreds of Han warships were still moored in the river, with no sign of landing.

From the experience of the navy, this phenomenon often occurs because the size of the enemy fleet is too large, and the forward fleet needs to wait for the rear fleet to arrive one after another, but it will not wait long, because the forward must first occupy the pier, clear the enemy troops on the pier, and create conditions for the soldiers on the rear ships to land.

Han Dang wondered in his heart, could it be that the Han army had already discovered himself? Otherwise, how could you wait in the river for such a long time, at this time, a subordinate general really couldn't help it, and ran up to the guard tower and said to Han Dang: "General, we can't wait any longer, the other party must have discovered us and is taking countermeasures, and we can't give the other party time to prepare." ”

Han Dang pondered for a moment and then asked, "Is there any news from the mouth of the canal?" ”

The mouth of the canal is about three miles east of the wharf, and Han Dang deployed five hundred soldiers at the mouth of the canal, and there are also beacons, as soon as something happens at the mouth of the canal, beacons or soldiers will send news.

"General, there's no news from the estuary!"

Han Dang suddenly felt that something was not right, even if there were no Han warships at the mouth of the canal, someone would come to report it, how could there be no news, he immediately turned back to the general and ordered: "Take a scout cavalry to the mouth of the canal to see what happened?" ”

"Obey!"

The general got off the guard tower, and in a moment, he led a team of cavalry to rush away in the direction of the mouth of the canal, and the time gradually passed for half an hour, and the Han warship was still moored in the river, without any movement, Han Dang also couldn't bear it, he knew that something must have happened, but he didn't know where the matter was?

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A thought popped up in his heart, could it be that the hundred or so warships near the dock were a false shot? To confuse himself, Han Danghuo looked back in the direction of the estuary, and he began to understand a little that he had been fooled.

At this moment, there was a sound of hurried horses' hooves in the distance, running on the dock, regardless of being discovered by the Han army, it was a cavalry scout, he ran to the sentry tower where Han Dang was, turned over and fell off the horse, Han Dang hurriedly ran down the sentry tower, ran to the front of the cavalry, only to find that he was hit by two arrows, covered in blood, and the person was no longer good.

Han Dang lifted him up and shouted, "What's wrong?" ”

The soldier's voice was low: "General, the warships of the Han army are all at the mouth of the river, and all the brothers are killed!" ”

If a basin of cold water was poured head-on, Han Dang was stunned, he was really fooled, and the Han army used a hundred warships to attract their attention, but the main force entered the canal from the mouth of the river.

Thinking of the word 'main force', Han Dang suddenly realized that something was wrong, the Han army had a maximum of 300 warships landing, and there were already 100 warships here, so how many warships would there be at the mouth of the river?

He asked anxiously, "Tell me, how many warships are there at the mouth of the river?" ”

"Thousands" soldiers squeezed out the last sentence and closed their eyes.

Han Dang slowly stood up, he was terrified in his heart, the Han army attacking Jingkou was not the last water army, but the main force of the Han army, and the main force of the Han army really landed from Jingkou.

"General, what shall we do?" One of the tooth generals asked in a low voice.

Han Dang clenched his fists, he saw the hundred warships moored on the river outside the dock and began to leave, obviously the other party also knew that they had seen through it, whether to fight or not to fight, the other party was the main force of the Han army, but if he withdrew, he couldn't bear this disgust.

At this moment, there was a sudden scream in the distance, Han Dang was taken aback, turned over on his horse, and urged the horse to run towards the screaming place, at this time, the screams and shouts of killing rang out, and countless Jiangdong soldiers fled from the ambush woods in panic.

"General Han!"

One of the marquis shouted: "The Han army has attacked us from behind, and the brothers have suffered heavy casualties!" ”

Needless to say, this must be the Han army coming from the other side of the canal, Han Dang asked urgently: "How many sneak attack enemy troops?" ”

"I don't know, there are too many people, several times more than us!"

As soon as the words fell, I saw countless Han soldiers rushing out of the woods, chasing and killing the fleeing Jiangdong Army behind, headed by a general, holding a double halberd, it was Gan Ning, the governor of the navy, he was extremely brave, the double halberd danced like flying, and killed dozens of people in a row.

Han Dang was furious, and rushed forward with a wave of his spear, "Gan Thief Hugh is going to be rampant, eat me with a shot!" ”

When the sound arrived, Han Dang stabbed with a spear, and the spear stabbed directly into Gan Ning's throat, Gan Ning sneered, rode his horse to dodge this shot, swung his halberd and slashed, and the two guns went to the halberd and fought fiercely together.

After all, Han Dang is over sixty years old, his body is not supported, and Gan Ning is only more than forty years old, just in the prime of life, the more he fights, the more courageous, after more than a dozen rounds of fierce fighting, Han Dang can't support it, looking for a gap, Han Dang turned the horse and fled, running out of less than a dozen steps, Gan Ning's halberd flew out of his hand, lightning stabbed, Han Dang couldn't dodge, the tip of the halberd pierced his heart, Han Dang screamed, turned over and fell off the horse, and died under Gan Ning's halberd.

The main general of the Jiangdong army was dead, and the remaining thousands of soldiers were unintentional, surrounded by the Han army on all sides, and they had nowhere to flee for their lives, so they knelt down and surrendered, begging the Han army to spare their lives.

In just a moment, the Han army killed more than 100 Han Dang's personal soldiers who refused to surrender, and the soldiers on the battlefield gradually stopped, and thousands of surrendered soldiers threw down their weapons, took off their armor, and were ordered by the Han soldiers to go to the dock to line up.

At this time, Liu Jing, the king of the Han Dynasty, came to the battlefield of the dock under the escort of hundreds of cavalry, the battle had all stopped, hundreds of Han soldiers were packing up the weapons and armor on the ground, and a group of surrendered Jiangdong Army soldiers raised their hands to line up on the wharf, and thousands of Jiangdong Army soldiers had gathered on the wharf, all of them squatted on the ground.

At this time, Gan Ning reported to Liu Jing with a fist: "Your Highness, the main general of the enemy army has been killed, more than 4,000 people have been killed, and no one has escaped. ”

Liu Jing nodded, "General Gan has worked hard. ”

He urged the horse to come to Han Dang's corpse, the corpse was wrapped in a roll of mat and placed in front of a big tree, Liu Jing turned back to Gan Ning and said: "This person is also a famous general in Jiangdong, and the death on the battlefield is also the work of the husband, give him a good coffin, and bury him." ”

"Obey!"

Gan Ning arranged for his subordinates to bury Han Dang, and at this time, Liu Jing came to the prisoners of war and said loudly to thousands of prisoners of war: "I am Liu Jing, the king of Han, I believe many people have seen me!" ”

Thousands of prisoners of war were silent, silently looking at the King of Han, Liu Jing asked again: "Since you have chosen to surrender, the Han army will treat you well, I want to know, how many people have been in the army for more than a year, get up and let me see." ”

After a while, hundreds of people stood up one after another, Liu Jing waved his hand, asked these soldiers to sit down, and said to everyone: "There are less than 500 people, it seems that you are all civilians who have been forcibly conscripted into the army this year, your parents, wives and children are all looking forward to you at home, they have no food, they are tortured by hunger, and they have even fled their homes and lived in other places, why don't you go home to take care of your parents, wives and children, but you want to serve an unkind king who cruelly exploits you?" ”

Liu Jing's words made many soldiers cry bitterly, and more than a dozen soldiers knelt in front of Liu Jing and cried: "We all want to go home, we don't want to fight anymore, I beg Your Highness to let us go!" ”

There was a cry on the dock, Liu Jing nodded, and said to everyone: "I treat you with benevolence and righteousness, and I believe that you will not be enemies of the Han army again, I will let you go home, you go home and farm well, and take care of your parents, wives and children." ”

Liu Jing immediately ordered: "Give each of them a bucket of rice and let them go!" ”

Crying and cheering on the dock resounded in the night sky, thousands of people kowtowed to Liu Jing to thank him, and each received a bag of rice to run to his home.

Gan Ning looked at the backs of the Jiangdong soldiers and sighed: "Your Highness is indeed benevolent to them!" ”

Liu Jing smiled slightly: "The difficulty of seizing Jiangdong is not in the land, but in the hearts of the people, the Sun family has been running Jiangdong for three generations, and the people's hearts are stable, if it were not for Sun Quan being trapped by national strength and destroying his reputation in recent years, I may not have made up my mind to seize Jiangdong." ”

"What His Highness said is extremely true, I want to know, should we go west to Jianye or go south to Piling?"

Liu Jing looked to the south and said lightly: "After seizing Biling and Wu County, Sun Quan will become a turtle in the urn." ”

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