"In the Battle of Shouzhou, which lasted for several months, no, in the Huainan War, there were not a few local battles worth described, among which the Battle of Haozhou was particularly conspicuous because of the ups and downs of the progress, especially the special status of the leading generals on both sides were nobles. Li Chongjin and Guo Yanwei were led by two young people in a series of consecutive matchups, which were decent on the surface, but in essence, they all played the personal fighting styles of the two, and the results of each victory were also deeply praised by the senior support groups of both sides, which became an important factor for the two to soar in the future. ”

On the morning of 12 October, the curtain of the battle on the Dalukou battlefield was opened, and the first to attack was the Southern Tang Haozhou naval army, which was inferior in ships and personnel.

Twelve large warships of the Southern Tang Dynasty took the lead on the north and south sides, slowly attacking the upper reaches of the river, while in the middle, two large warships led countless small ships to rush forward like swarms, offering a wide and weak pincer attack on the left and right.

Later Zhou Zhandi commanded Wei Chang to immediately arrange troops to fight, eight large warships were concentrated in the middle of the road, and eight large warships were divided into two sides on each side, advancing in three lines, going down the river and launching an attack.

At the same time, Wei Chang, in accordance with the plan agreed upon in the army yesterday, sent 32 small warships to the place where the small river entered the Huai River under the rain of arrows of the Haozhou army, and then the two ships were combined in a row and marched upstream of the small river in the southwest direction.

The Haozhou army naturally knew that the purpose of these small warships was to build pontoon bridges to transport infantry across the river, and trebuchets and bows and arrows were shot without hesitation and blocked with all their might. The Haozhou Navy erected a large shield on the ship to avoid the rain of arrows, and nervously dodged the flying stones in the air.

On the south shore, Hou Zhou Zheng led a group of people to nervously count the location of each trebuchet, mark it on a simple map, and command his own ships on the spot to try to avoid these catapult points.

After the loss of six small ships, all twenty-six small ships found a relatively safe spot, and the two ships merged to form six pontoon passages.

With the sound of drums, the small ships lined up in a row at the same time removed the roofs on the decks and connected them with the wooden and wide planks, forming in a very short time six wide passages across the river.

Seeing the banner of the attack wavering, the nine thousand Great Zhou infantry, who had long been ready, immediately rushed to the six warship pontoon bridges. Li Chongjin, who was fully armored, carried a large shield as tall as a person, and dragged an iron spear behind him, and rushed to the middle passage first.

On the north bank of the river, the soldiers of the Southern Tang Dynasty had already pushed some wood to resist the horse formation fifty meters away from the north bank of the river, corresponding to the location of the six passages. These simple horse-rejecting formations were vigorously smashed into the earth, and each elite soldier entered the formation to guard it, and behind the rejecting formation was a high shield array, waiting for the battle.

When the Houzhou assault soldiers rushed to the middle of the river, six arrows rained out from behind the Haozhou defenders' shield array, aiming at the Houzhou soldiers on the passage.

However, because the Hou Zhou soldiers who attacked were all fully armed and protected by large shields, the rain of arrows did not achieve much success, and it could not slow down the offensive of the Hou Zhou army.

One side defended, the other side attacked, but the soldiers on both sides were silent. At this time, on the battlefield of Xiaohe, there was only the sound of "whoosh-whoosh" arrows snatching the air and the muffled sound of "grabbing, grabbing" of arrows nailed to ships and big shields.

Li Chongjin rushed through the passage without any danger, rushed through the open space in more than ten steps, rushed to the front of the horse rejection array, threw the shield in his left hand suddenly, knocked down the two Haozhou soldiers who blocked the attack, held the iron gun with both hands, slammed it to the ground, roared wildly, and the iron gun bent a slight arc, and flew a horse high.

Li Chongjin roared and advanced, picked six rejection horses in a row, and cleared a passage for the rejection array. Then, carrying the corpse of a Haozhou soldier, he crashed into the shield array with all his might.

There was no loud noise as imagined, but the shield array suddenly cracked, and a bright silver spear burst out silently, which was Guo Tingyu, who was waiting for him here.

Li Chongjin slammed into the knee and slammed the soldier's body into the head of the gun, and the man stabilized his body and smashed the large gun in his right hand at a rapid pace. The two spear masters fought together again.

The combat strength of these two people was originally half a catty and eight taels, so it was naturally difficult to distinguish the victory or defeat for a while, and the attack on this passage was also blocked, and the Houzhou soldiers of the other passages also rushed to the front of the horse rejection formation, fighting and fighting.

While the north bank of the Xiaohe River was in equilibrium, and the two sides were fighting in a tug-of-war, the battle on the Huai River changed drastically.

On both sides of the water battle, the six Southern Tang warships and the eight Houzhou warships kept a distance of one arrow, and did not step forward to engage in broadside battles, and the battle lasted for a short while, and began to retreat step by step. Hou Zhou's warships looked back to the rear and found that no new orders had been issued, so they immediately followed suit.

The two big ships led by the middle line of the Southern Tang Dynasty were quickly surrounded by eight Houzhou big boats, and those small boats of the Southern Tang Dynasty rushed up, surrounded these big ships, and began to dive into the water to scuttle the boats.

When Wei Chang saw this scene, he immediately sneered and gave orders.

The drums and flags quickly spread, and the water battlefields on both sides of the Houzhou Dynasty immediately divided into three large warships, turned to the small ships of the Southern Tang Dynasty in the middle and collided with them, showing a situation of outflanking on both sides.

The main battlefield of the naval armies of the two sides is directly north of the hill, and the distance between the river is only less than 100 meters, so such a short distance is naturally instantaneous. The original eight large ships were also divided into four large ships, plus the six new reinforcements, and ten ships began to ram those small warships of the Southern Tang Dynasty at the same time.

At this time, a rapid drum sounded on the top of the hill, and all the soldiers on the two large ships and countless small boats of the Southern Tang Dynasty who were surrounded immediately ignored the battle in front of them, and quickly jumped into the water one after another.

"Not good!" As soon as Wei Chang shouted two words, he suddenly got up and gradually found that the trebuchet on the top of the hill was powerful, and the target was the Hou Zhou warship gathered in the middle of the river.

This time, at least a dozen trebuchets were launched at the same time, scrambling to throw the stones, one after another on the large warships that were in a panic.

Wei Chang's order to "disperse all the ships" was passed down immediately, but it was too late, at least four large warships were hit in succession, and the soldiers on them jumped into the water with wailing, but they were all besieged by the Southern Tang sailors who were already waiting in the water, and the blood quickly stained this part of the river.

"The surname Guo is so ruthless, dare to use so many soldiers as bait!" Wei Chang scolded hatefully, and finally saw the layout of the Haozhou naval army, Guo Tingwei was through the lure attack on both sides to attract himself to outflank the middle battlefield, and then desperately sacrificed those Southern Tang soldiers to attack his large warship through trebuchets.

Before Wei Chang could give another order, he found that more than ten large warships suddenly appeared behind the side of the hill, rushing straight towards his own warship!

At the same time that the water battle situation in the Later Zhou Dynasty fell into passivity, Shi Detong, the general of the Later Zhou Zheng who was standing on the south bank of the Xiaohe River, also received a shocking news from the fast horse: at least 6,000 soldiers rushed out of Haozhou City and were attacking the garrison camp outside the south gate of Haozhou.