Chapter 45: Crossing the River and Attacking
Seeing the soldiers of the Chinese military tent who came to inform him of the meeting, Zhao Kuangyin, who had been sitting in front of his military tent for most of the night, raised his head to the sky and roared, slammed the ground with both fists, and the person rose into the air, and his fists quickly struck, and hit a wooden stake several times in a row, breaking the wooden stake several times, and then his feet were linked, and he walked with his body, and played a set of long punches that looked unusually stretched and powerful.
Later, only a fast and blurry figure could be seen in the field, and the fist wind was whirring, and the explosion was like a sound. After arriving at the end, Zhao Kuangyin shouted violently, stepped on his right foot, and made a deep footprint on the ground, the person took a long breath, closed his fists and stood still, and the depressed expression on his face had disappeared. A black-faced man waiting next to him stepped forward: "Brother, it's too late for my brother." Last night......"
Zhao Kuangyin stopped Dahan's words, and Zhengse said: "Ziming, it's not too late, it's good to come!" I lost face from this Huai River, and I will definitely pick it up from here again! Wait for me here. ”
The black-faced man is called Zheng En, the character is clear, and he is a brother with a different surname that Zhao Kuangyin met when he was in the rivers and lakes before, so he was naturally accepted into Hu Benwei. A few days ago, on the orders of Zhao Kuangyin, Zheng En took several Hu Benwei to Haozhou to investigate the strange accident of two people who joined the army, and he just arrived this morning.
Zhao Kuangyin bowed slightly to the soldiers who reported the news, and walked towards the big tent.
As soon as he entered the big tent of the Chinese army, Zhao Kuangyin knelt on the ground and said loudly: "Li Shuai, the sin of Zhao Kuangyin thinks of himself too much, he does not know the enemy, he is careless in attacking, he has lost his brother in vain, and he has frustrated the spirit of the army. ”
Li Gu Ha Lu Ha smiled, walked from behind the handsome case and helped up the beloved general of the saint with both hands, and persuaded in a harmonious voice: "There has never been a victorious general in the world!" That Lin Feng's reputation for being good at fighting is all over the world, and his special fighters have been trained for a long time, and the training time between Yuen Long and a group of tigers is still short, how can he judge victory or defeat by the victory or defeat of a battle? Yuen Long, please don't take it personally! ”
With Li Gu's protection, the general Shi Detong, who had intended to ridicule Zhao Kuangyin for a few more words, pouted and sneered.
This time, the military discussion was very short, and the time for the whole army to cross the river from Zhengyang to attack was set as after the arrival of the Wusheng naval army, all the naval troops were gathered, and they strived to cross the river in one fell swoop.
At midnight (one o'clock in the afternoon), under the personal leadership of Hou Zhang, the envoy of Wusheng Jiedu, 15,000 Wusheng infantry troops rushed to the Linhuai Daying River from land and 5,000 sailors in 40 warships, and immediately plunged into intense preparations for war, and the atmosphere of war on both sides of the Huai River suddenly became thicker.
At three o'clock in the afternoon, the adjusted Zhou army launched the first river-crossing attack at Zhengyangdu.
The scale of the attack can be called grand, 5,000 naval troops and 5,000 infantry are divided into 50 large warships and 60 small warships, and the troops are divided into three ways to aim at the left, center and right of the water village on the south bank, and take the two sides as the main attack point, and the center is the auxiliary attack point, putting on a posture of breaking through on both wings and outflanking in the middle.
On the embankment in the middle, a major war command platform was temporarily erected, and Li Gu led Hou Zhang and the 12 generals to all ascend to the stage, commanding on the spot and coordinating the overall situation.
As Li Gu waved the small flag of the commander's hand, a burst of sky-beating drums sounded, and the 30,000 Zhou troops on both sides of the river embankment shouted in unison, "The Great Zhou Xiong Army, every battle will be won", and used a deafening voice to march for the attacking soldiers.
The large warships in the forefront slowly started, and the Great War of the North and South officially began!
To the surprise of all the commanders, generals and soldiers of the Zhou army, the south bank was unusually calm at the moment.
Watching their warships advance unhindered, the cheers of the soldiers watching the Zhou army rose one after another. Seeing that the leading warships had crossed the middle line of the river, but there was still no response, some scattered small boats in the Southern Tang Dynasty retreated to the water village on the south bank, and the cheers of some Zhou soldiers gradually weakened, what was the other party going to do?
The deputy commander of the Wusheng Army, who was located on the command ship of the Chinese army, made Wei Chang extremely excited, and he kept directing the warship to speed up, and then accelerate, seeing that the water village in front of him had entered the range of bows and arrows, he turned his head and ordered all the archers to wind up their arrows.
"General Wei, look at the sky!" One of the sailors suddenly shouted, pointing to the sky in panic.
Wei Chang looked up in surprise to find a dark shadow streaking across the sky in front of them, across their heads, and falling into the middle of the two boats behind, stirring up a burst of water.
The black shadow went up and down sharply, and surfaced, and it turned out to be a lump of mud with weeds.
"Lin Feng is frightened, scare us with mud! Shoot me! Wei Chang pursed his lips disdainfully and continued to shout and rush forward.
At this time, there was finally movement on the south bank, and I saw that a wooden plank with small holes was erected at the same time in the empty space of the three-story water village, which just blocked the arrows flying sporadically. Directly above the water village, several large flags waved rapidly, and a burst of extremely unpleasant squeaks sounded one after another.
Wei Chang froze in disbelief and listened to the sounds. But at this moment, there was a sudden silence in the south, and a continuous arc of black shadows rose from the ground and cut into the air.
In the amazement of all the Zhou soldiers, those black shadows fell one after another in the first half of the Chinese fleet, and immediately the fleet was cut as if it was stopped by a semicircular knife, some ships were smashed by stones and injured soldiers, some were smashed through the sails, and of course, more stones and clods of earth fell into the water.
Wei Chang looked back at the losses of the ships behind him, and found that it was not as big as he imagined, and then looked back at his own command platform, and did not play a new command, he was even more bold, raised his head and roared: "Speed up, rush over!" ”
The advancing war drums on the Chinese command ship sounded, and the Chinese fleet that heard the drums also accelerated its speed to attack. The left and right flank attack flanks were not greatly affected, and the attack also accelerated forward.
At this moment, the second round of trebuchets exerted their strength, and once again smashed into the second half of the Chinese fleet, and the formation that had been in the shape of an arrow attack as a whole had begun to disperse, and the commanders of the ships shouted orders to speed up the rush forward, striving to rush through the danger zone as soon as possible.
Wei Chang smiled and stared at the water village that was getting closer and closer, and shouted wildly: "Rush up, crash into it!" ”
The speed of the ship is getting faster and closer, and the faces of the Southern Tang soldiers can already be clearly seen behind the wooden retaining wall of the water village.
Wrong! Why aren't they scared at all? A trace of doubt flooded Wei Chang's heart, and his whole body couldn't help but get nervous, could it be that the other party was weird?
"Poof!" A sound like wood and gold came from under the water, and the command ship froze suddenly, rushed forward, twisted violently from side to side, and came to a sudden stop.
All the people on the ship who were in a state of inertia were brought down by this huge force, and Wei Chang's body sank suddenly, and his face hit the side of the ship fiercely.
Just as a group of runners suddenly stopped and fell in front of them, the high-speed warships that followed closely on both sides could not stop at all, and one after another followed in the footsteps of the command ships, collided with the obstructions in the water, and stopped; Although the warships in the rear reacted to slow down, they had no time to crash into the warships in front of them one after another.
Just when the Zhou army's warship was in a panic, a voice above the water village exploded like thunder: "Directly in front of the target, add five meters at a time, and shoot three times in a row!" ”
With this shout, all the baffles of the water village fell, and the dense soldiers quickly shot arrows of retaliation in front of them.
After three rounds of arrows, the first two rows of warships basically could no longer see the Zhou soldiers standing.
"Earthquake thunder, sail directly in front of the target, one shot!" The terrifying shout rose again, and more than ten round earth-shattering thunderbolts were thrown in succession, accurately landing on the sail of the ship, which was only thirty or fifty meters away, and after an explosion, the raging fire enveloped the entire sail of the ship by the continuous river wind.
At this time, the ships in the front row of the two flank attack fleets also collided with the underwater barricades, capsized, or stopped, and fell into a panic. And on the shore in front of them, a large shield was also erected as high as a man, and arrows continued to shoot out from the gaps in the big shield, mercilessly taking the lives of one soldier after another.
At this time, the north shore fell into a deathly silence, and no one cheered, and all of them looked at this incredible scene with trembling hearts.