Dongting looks west at the Chu River, and the water is exhausted and there are no clouds in the south sky.

This is the scene of the Tang Dynasty great poet Li Bai describing the 800-mile Dongting. However, the Dongting Lake in the Qin period was not as vast and vast as that, and the Dongting water system was only a part of the entire Yunmeng Daze, and compared with the vast river north of the river, the water surface of the Dongting Lake in the south was not open.

Xiangshui and Yuanshui go all the way north from Wuling and Xuefeng Mountains, and after passing Changsha, the water slows down sharply, and then gently and softly injects into the water.

This lack of scouring power of the water obviously cannot create a sharp and deep lake, and the sediment deposition makes the waterway of Dongting Lake extremely difficult, if you are not familiar with the water conditions and hydrology, the ship is very likely to encounter an accident of running aground or even capsizing.

The second prince of Changsha, the general Wu Feng, led the army to ambush here.

Wu Chen, who was a scholar, escaped from Nanjun, allowing Wu Feng and his wings to smoothly grasp the military and political power of Changsha.

The south of the river is known as the land of Chu Barbarian.

Changsha is located in the south of Yunmeng Daze, which is also the place where the Chu State imprisoned criminals and exiled the guilty ministers in the past.

Spring and Autumn Warring States, Central Plains turmoil.

Wars were frequent, people were displaced, and some far-sighted families moved south, some of which came to Changsha. Their arrival made a qualitative leap in the economic development and production of Changsha State, and this leap was further developed during the reign of Wu Rui.

Li Yuan's new Qin army was invincible in the northern land, but all the rebellious liliang, regardless of strength or weakness, regardless of heroes, disintegrated and dissipated, and the old troops attached to these anti-Qin shili also escaped or lived in seclusion in the mountains, and some of them saw that the Central Plains had no place to stand. So he resolutely crossed south and came to Changsha to join Wu Rui.

Among them, there is a famous man Zhang Ao who abandoned Wei from Chu, who is the son of Zhang Er, after the fall of Chu, Zhang Ao was worried that Qin would pursue his lobbying for Chu to attack, so he and the door guest Guan Gao, Zhao Wu smuggled into Yunmengze, came to Changsha to avoid chaos, and soon after, Zhang Ao was appointed by Wu Rui as the prime minister. Guan Gao was a doctor, Zhao Wu was a general, and they coincided with Wu Feng and firmly controlled the military and political power of Changsha State.

This time, in order to deal with the invasion of the Qin army, Wu Feng, Zhang Ao, Guan Gao, and Zhao Wu were also carefully prepared, and under the order of the national mobilization, the Changsha army guarded the capital Changsha with more than 10,000 people, and guarded several county towns within the territory with 1,000 or 100 people, and the remaining more than 12,000 elites. Under the leadership of Wu Feng and Zhao Wu, more than 100 large and small warships went north along the Xiangshui River, preparing for a decisive battle with the Qin army at the intersection of Dongting Lake and Xiangshui and Yuanshui.

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The Changsha army was ambushed around the waterway from Dongting Lake to Xiangshui. Wu Feng ordered Zhao Wu to lead a group to feign resistance and fight and retreat. The main fleet was hidden in the Yuanshui River, and when Feng Xuan's army entered the winding and narrow waterway, he began to kill in one fell swoop, trying to completely annihilate Feng Xuan's Qin army that was "lightly advancing".

Faced with the dilemma of front and back flanking. Feng Xuangu couldn't reprimand Wu Chen for his incompetence, and without informing the enemy in advance, he hurriedly ordered Manqiuchen's troops to land quickly. At the same time, the naval army of his own army, with light ships as the lead and building ships as the main force, reversed the situation of being passively beaten, and rushed towards Zhao Wu's Changsha army in reverse.

The waterways are narrow.

It is not easy for the ship to turn around.

The Qin army was faced with the dilemma of a flanking attack, and if it could not quickly break the incoming enemy from one direction, it could only be besieged and annihilated.

Forward or backward.

chose to fight, but turned around and retreated to Daze.

Feng Xuan made the right choice without hesitation in the face of the decision.

When the narrow road meets, the brave wins.

This is the creed that Li Yuan has always taught, the Qin army's more than 50 large and small warships almost blocked the waterway tightly, if the orders are different, some ships want to turn around, some want to attack, it will inevitably cause self-chaos, and in that way, the Qin army will be defeated first without having to fight the enemy.

"Knock knock!" On the ship, the shirtless Qin soldiers on the deck were beating the war drums desperately.

At the junction of the ships, the soldiers holding halberds with serious expressions are listening to the narration of the leader over and over again, and after a while, they will face to face with the enemy when the ships meet, and the most test of this kind of water engagement is the courage and sacrifice of people.

In the face of the enemy's sharp spear tip, whether you meet the fierce backstabbing or turn around and run away in panic, this momentary choice is not only a test of people's hearts, but also a teamwork.

Feng Xuan's water army was formed three years ago, respectively, by the Ba soldiers from Ba County, Yun Mengze's robbers, and the young men recruited by Nan County, this water army was established at the beginning of a big battle with the British Bu Army, the situation at that time was much more dangerous than now, and many of the soldiers who went through this battle are now generals and colonels at all levels in the army.

"Great Qin, Great Qin!"

On the Qin army's warship, the shouts were louder and louder.

On the riverbank, the Qin army general Manchuchen is leading his foot soldiers to advance in the swampy area, the navy is in danger, if Feng Xuan's fleet is destroyed, Manchuchen's lone army has no way to retreat, there is no food to eat, it will fall into the encirclement laid by the enemy, so, for their own survival, the two Qin armies must fight side by side.

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Xiangshui.

Orange Island Head.

Zhao Wu, the general of the Wu army in Changsha, paced back and forth on the deck with some trepidation. There are no generals in Shu, and he has only become a pioneer, Zhao Wu's military experience, that is, the little experience he gained when following Zhang Er, as for the command of the army with real swords and guns, Zhao Wu really has never been.

According to Zhao Wu's thoughts, this time against Qin, the Changsha army is still based on stability, and camps along the exit of Dongting Lake and Xiangshui, if the Qin army wants to attack the capital of Changsha, it must first occupy the passage of Xiangshui, and as the defending party, it has the advantage of terrain, people and people, and to deal with the Qin army that comes from afar and has insufficient troops, it cannot be said that it has achieved much success, at least if it consumes time, it is completely the Changsha army that has the upper hand.

However, when Wu Feng was about to leave Changsha, he promised a good haode, and as soon as he was free from the shackles, he immediately put on the momentum of the future king of Changsha and criticized Zhao Wu's opinion as worthless.

Fear the enemy like a tiger.

This is still a good word, the most embarrassing, Wu Feng actually decided to divide his troops into two ways, ambush the Qin army, and took away more than 100 of the most elite ships in the Changsha Navy on his own initiative, leaving Zhao Wu with a number of more than 200 small ships.

"General Zhao, this king left you a little more warship, don't you want to lose the king's kindness?" Wu Feng was complacent, and took a big boat to set up an ambush in Dongting Lake, so that Zhao Wu helplessly looked at the old and weak soldiers under his hands helplessly.

The drums of war ahead, getting closer and closer.

made Zhao Wu more and more uneasy.

This expedition, Zhang Ao and Guan Gao sat in Changsha, and the army commanded this drudgery, and it was handed over to Zhao Wu, according to Zhang Ao's meaning, there was Zhao Wu staring, if Wu Feng messed up, he could always remedy it, but with Wu Feng's arrogant and arrogant temper, where could he listen to Zhao Wu's persuasion.

"Hurry up and find out, has Qin Man retreated?" Zhao Wu hesitated for a while, and finally couldn't bear it anymore and ordered.

Before Zhao Wu's words fell, a soldier was heard shouting in panic: "Oh no, Qin Manzi has been killed?" ”

"What, the Qin army is coming towards itself, how is this possible, after hearing that they are surrounded, they should have no fighting spirit, turn the bow and retreat!" Zhao Wu was shocked.

"Hurry, gather the soldiers and prepare for battle!"

After a period of scrambling, the Changsha army finally gathered a team that looked quite large, but this naval army was a little awkward no matter how you looked at it.

Hundreds of boats.

But there are almost no enemies who can beat the Qin army's hazy rush and rush into the warship. Not to mention the tall and thick building boats.

The weapons of the Changsha army sailors are also varied, some soldiers hold the fishing forks of ordinary fishing, although they are used to their hands, but the fishing forks are just ordinary wooden handles and bronze fork heads, and their sharpness cannot be compared with the standard weapons of the Qin army, and with the improvement of the iron-making process of the Qin army, not only the border guards of the northern border, but also the soldiers of these naval forces in the south have begun to change their weapons.

The iron halberd tip and the extremely sharp forging blade, these advantages on the jishu made the Changsha army's already small advantages disappear in close combat.

"Boom!"

In the shouts and shouts of the generals on both sides, the two warships hedged at high speed, and then collided violently in one place, and the soldiers of the Qin army on the misty ship fell backwards under the effect of inertia, however, they were obviously prepared for this level of collision, and in the Qin army of a team of five, there was a rope tied to the waist, and the other end of the rope was tied to the hardwood board on the side of the ship.

"Cut the rope and kill the enemy!" A somewhat pale Qin soldier shouted in a hoarse voice, drew his iron sword and slashed down.

Hearing his shout, the more than 100 Qin soldiers on the Hazy Rush ship reacted quickly one by one, untied one after another, and jumped desperately towards the Changsha Army warship that was close in front of them.

The Qin army was fierce.

The Qin boat hit the horns and was extremely hard.

In the collision between the two ships, the Changsha warship, which did not get up in speed and was not as large as the one, was seriously damaged, the bow part of the ship had cracked, and the river was bubbling in, and in the center of the ship, the poorly prepared Changsha soldiers were still panicking to rescue their injured companions, and they had no intention of coping with the Qin army's jumping attack.

to be prepared for war.

The result of using soldiers trained in systematic water warfare to deal with young men who were only hastily recruited can be imagined.

Zhao Wu, the general of the Changsha Army, looked at the chaotic formation of his own side in a daze, and was speechless for a while, he never thought that after just one round of close combat, the seemingly solid defensive formation of his side would become fragmented. (To be continued......)