Chapter 43: Pursuing Victory
Defeat is like a mountain!
Hearing the sound of the gong for the withdrawal of the troops, the Tanzhou ships that were still struggling to support all had no intention of fighting, and turned their bows and evacuated eastward.
The Tanzhou infantry on the shore felt a little furious when they saw the fireboat drifting to their side, and now when they heard the urgent gong, they turned around and ran away without the orders of the commanders. If you don't run, you can't do it, if it's a little later, they will be surrounded by the Langzhou naval army and Langzhou infantry on the water, as well as the Meizhou defenders who have rushed out of the city gate from the east, west, and south!
The commander of the infantry army commanding the Tanzhou battle array was very helpless, so he had to urgently order 300 cavalry to suppress the formation, in order to stop the Langzhou soldiers for a moment.
Seeing the development of the war, Lin Feng didn't care about celebrating, grabbed Lin Renzhao, and asked urgently, "Are any brothers injured?" ”
Before Lin Renzhao could answer, Liu Qi next to him raised his left arm, showed Lin Feng the wound on his shoulder, and said with a sad face: "It seems that I am an unlucky egg!" ”
"Boom!" Lin Renzhao used his finger fist to knock Liu Qi's head, and scolded with a smile in his mouth: "The twelve of us broke into the enemy ship and basically completed the task, only you hurt your shoulder a little, how can it be counted!" ”
Lin Feng stepped forward and moved Liu Qi's arm, and found that he could still lift it freely, obviously it was just a skin injury, and there was no major problem, so he put his mind at ease.
At this time, even Li Congqian, Chen Fei and others, who were at the least, rushed to the ship, vying to meet these heroes who had made meritorious contributions in the first battle.
Wang Kui walked over with a few officers, gave Lin Feng a deep look, shook his head and exclaimed: "Lord Lin, sure enough, there are no weak soldiers under the strong general!" The victory in this battle depends on the success of these twelve tiger ben sneak attacks! ”
Lin Feng looked up at the battle flag that was still fluttering wildly in the wind, shook his head and replied, "This move is really risky, and the success is pure luck!" If it weren't for this sudden change in wind direction, the outcome of the war would still be unpredictable! ”
What Lin Feng didn't know was that the dramatic changes that occurred in this matchup that affected the overall situation of Chu State due to the sudden change in wind direction were real in history. It was this strange wind that actually pushed forward the development of the farce of the horses fighting for the groove in the Chu State.
Wang Kui nodded in agreement, said goodbye to Lin Feng, and arranged for the waterway pursuit.
Just now, Li Congqian, Chen Fei and a few other children who were jumping excitedly were very nervous, only to find that Lin Renzhao and the others had an unpleasant smell of blood on their faces, and in a blink of an eye, they saw the Tanzhou soldiers scattered on the deck and screaming in pain, as well as the stumps and broken arms and blood traces everywhere on the ship, and their faces suddenly turned pale, the youngest Duan Rui was the first to not hold back, turned around and climbed on the side of the boat and vomited, Chen Fei and several others also followed, only Li Congqian's throat moved a few times, and finally held back the sour taste.
Lin Feng stepped forward and patted the backs of several children for a while, gave Li Congqian a thumbs up, pulled him aside, and whispered a few words in his ear, Li Congqian nodded lightly.
At this moment, a voice full of flattery sounded behind Lin Feng: "Lord Lin is incomparably mighty!" My horse envoy made a special trip to greet Lord He Lin with the villain, and at the same time presented the command ship of Tanzhou as Lord Lin's special ship in the Chu State, and the carefully selected boatmen arrived immediately! ”
Lin Feng turned around and saw a deputy commander with respectful eyebrows and eyes standing in front of him, his head almost down to his waist.
"Oh, may I ask who you are?" Lin Feng asked kindly.
"The villain is Ma Xiao, the deputy commander of the Langzhou Navy Army. The envoy said that during Lord Lin's stay in Chu, the villain was dispatched throughout the whole process. The deputy commander raised his head and looked at Lin Feng with a smile on his face, his expression extremely respectful.
"You're just in time, I need your help!" Lin Feng grabbed Ma Xiao and whispered a few words in his ear.
After speaking, Lin Feng once again pulled Lin Renzhao and the others aside, bowed his head and commanded a few words, Lin Renzhao wiped the blood-stained knife on the already tattered and dirty military uniform, waved his hand, and turned around and entered the cabin with the remaining special soldiers.
After everything was ordered, Lin Feng walked to the stern. Here, the dozen or so Tanzhou soldiers and seven soldiers who didn't have time to escape squatted there, trembling together desperately, they had been completely frightened by the ferocity and ruthlessness of Lin Renzhao and the others. Seeing Lin Feng coming, several Langzhou soldiers guarding these people hurriedly stepped forward to salute.
Lin Feng waved his hand, turned to the soldiers and captains who were squatting on the ground, and asked kindly, "Are you all on this ship?" ”
All the captains and some of the soldiers nodded immediately, and the rest of the soldiers shook their heads at first, and then quickly nodded.
Lin Feng smiled and was about to continue the question, when Ma Xiao hurried over after a few steps, and said loudly: "Special Envoy Lin, my family envoy is grateful to the invincible warriors of the Tang Dynasty for their help, and I hereby give this ship to Special Envoy Lin as a trophy, as a special envoy's boat in my Chu country, please make the envoy smile!" ”
Lin Feng's face sank, and he snorted coldly twice in displeasure.
At this time, Li Congqian walked over and whispered, "Lord Lin, our Wuchang reinforcements have arrived!" ”
Lin Feng couldn't hold back his anger anymore, pointed at Ma Yu and Li Congqian, and said loudly: "Do you know what Lu Dao is called a military secret?!" Give me all the back of the way, something that has no eyes! ”
Ma Yu and Li Congqian blushed and hurriedly retreated.
Lin Feng, who was still angry, turned to these trembling soldiers and said with a cold face: "All the soldiers took off their military uniforms, and then cleaned up the boat for me completely!" ”
Turning around, Lin Feng nodded slightly at Ma Xiao, made a covert movement to cut his neck, and strode away.
Lin Feng's subtle action fell into the eyes of the two Tanzhou soldiers who were squatting on the side, their eyes jumped, they quickly lowered their heads, and hurriedly took off their military uniforms.
After Lin Feng finished his order, he also turned around and got out of the cabin. Not long after, Lin Feng, surrounded by a large group of special soldiers, got off the big boat with great pride, and went ashore in a small boat.
At this time, the battlefield on the surface of the water has completely ended, the undamaged Langzhou warships have chased eastward, and the remaining warships are receiving those damaged Tanzhou warships that cannot move or surrender with white flags one by one, and the cheers of celebrating victory can be heard everywhere.
Seeing that there was no one else around, the two Tanzhou soldiers who had discovered the "mystery" pretended to be inadvertently and slowly moved to the side of the ship, wiping the blood on it for a while. Taking advantage of the fact that none of the guards were paying attention, the two people threw the rag in their hands, turned over, and quickly jumped into the water.
Several Langzhou guards rushed over, grabbed their bows and arrows and were about to shoot them into the water, when Ma Xiao, who was covered with frost, walked over, glared at them fiercely, and scolded angrily: "A group of waste, even unarmed people can't look at it, what else can you do?" Don't bother with Lang, let me see the others go, run another one, I'll kill you and apologize to Lord Lin! ”
The soldiers put away their bows and arrows stupidly, turned around and walked towards the other Tanzhou soldiers who were doing hard labor, and continued to monitor their work.
At this time, Lin Feng had already taken Li Congqian and Chen Fei to find the Langzhou base camp that was advancing on land.
The smug Ma Xixu rode on a tall horse with white coat, surrounded by a group of civil and military officials, and slowly swayed forward.
Seeing Lin Feng coming, Ma Xixu hurriedly jumped off the horse and ran two steps forward to salute. As soon as this Lin Feng came, he not only helped a lot in the battle, but even God changed the direction of the wind, it seems that this Lin envoy is not only a fierce general, but also a lucky general!
As soon as Ma Xicao took the lead, a group of civil and military officials also hurried over to see the hideous envoy of the Tang Dynasty.
In the face of the flattery and flattery like the sea, Lin Feng's face was calm, and he directly gave the credit to God, and on the grounds of the sudden change in the direction of the wind, he praised Ma Xicao's actions this time was really in accordance with the will of heaven, and immediately coaxed Ma Xicao's face full of peach blossoms, and his fat body couldn't help but twist a few times.
The Tanzhou soldiers fled quickly, and the Langzhou soldiers chased quickly.
In less than two hours, the Langzhou land army, under the command of the infantry commander Zhu Jinzhong, not only successfully subdued the small city of Longyang, which no longer had a single soldier to defend the city, but also pursued all the Tanzhou deserters into Yiyang (now Yiyang, Hunan).
The dense Langzhou warships stopped on the water outside the east gate of Yiyang City, while the north and west gates of Yiyang City were besieged by the Langzhou infantry, except for the south gate. Zhu Jinzhong put this out of the classic siege of three queyi, deliberately leaving the south gate to lure the other party to abandon the city and flee.
The Langzhou army, which took advantage of the situation, saw that there was no army in Yiyang and had no intention of surrendering, so they were no longer polite and launched an attack on Yiyang City directly from the north, east and west. However, Yiyang City was nearly two feet high, and the attack in the afternoon did not work, but many soldiers were thrown under the city walls.
Throughout the afternoon, Lin Feng took Li Congqian, Chen Fei and others without saying a word, and watched the entire siege process like outsiders.
Later, Ma Xixu, who was bored watching in the back, saw that it was getting late, and ordered the troops to be withdrawn.
After returning to "his own warship" for a simple dinner, Lin Feng took Li Congqian and them to the Langzhou camp outside the north gate to participate in the military meeting of tomorrow's siege.
Lin Feng just sat down in the tent, and he didn't even have time to say hello to the people in the tent, the special soldiers were like a queue, Lin Renzhao and they came in one after another to report the military situation to Lin Feng, and the military discussion that was about to start was interrupted like this, and everyone listened attentively to the military information from these soldiers:
Liu Yingyu led the remnants of more than 60 warships to return to Tanzhou;
Now the biggest official in Yiyang City is Zhang Hui, the commander of the Tanzhou Army and the Horse Army, who led the 3,000 horse army to Longyang, and when he heard that the front line was defeated, he retreated directly to Yiyang;
The original defenders in Yiyang City, plus the Tanzhou soldiers who fled back from the front line, still had about 9,000 infantry;
Needless to say, this was exactly the intelligence spy operation that Lin Feng had arranged on the Meizhou warship.
All the special soldiers wore the robbed Tanzhou military uniforms, caught up from the side and mixed in with the retreating Tanzhou army, and went to Yiyang City to act separately, spying on various military information, and then secretly descended the city wall one by one while the night was dark, and rushed to report to Lin Feng.