Chapter 85: The Southern Dilemma (6)
Da Nang is indeed a good harbor that is easy to defend and difficult to attack!
On the evening of September 29, Jia Yuhang, who did not believe his companion's description and sneaked to spy nearby, also came to such a conclusion in his heart, and couldn't help but have the idea of taking this place as his own.
The whole bay is horseshoe-shaped, the harbor is wide and deep, backed by the Marble Mountains, and there is a Son Tra Peninsula in the northeast as a barrier, which can surround large and small ships and avoid wind and rain; Then go outward, the north leads to Zhenrong (Hue) and the south is connected to Nha Trang, which is the key to the north-south passage.
However, when Jia Yuhang took a cronie named Fan Zhisheng and wanted to sneak into the harbor at night to spy carefully, he found that the defense of this "barbarian land" was extremely cautious.
There are small boats patrolling back and forth at the junction of the harbor, and the patrols are so dense that there is no chance to draw their line of sight during the time they patrol and cross!
If you can't go by sea, then go by land. Jia Yuhang and Fan Zhisheng tethered the boat to a reef and climbed the cliff, and there were bright and dark sentinels on the path of the observation road, and there were continuous torches at intervals to illuminate the road very brightly. The "black-skinned dwarfs" who swayed in the light were as energetic as night owls, and they would jump over and inspect when they heard any movement, so that Jia Da Dang tried several times but did not succeed in breaking through the past.
"Alas, it would have been nice to ask Lord Lin for a few special fighters!" Jia Yuhang complained to himself with some annoyance.
"Brother Jia, I really can't imagine that a small part of this Cham country is so tightly defended, should we continue to go south and act in another place?" Fan Zhisheng was also worried in his heart and suggested.
Jia Yuhang suddenly thought of Yi Wuxian who insisted on separating from him, and a wave of hatred appeared in his heart, what is it to go to the wild area in the south to be majestic? No, you have to create a world under Lao Yi's nose!
Jia Yuhang shook his head resolutely and said, "What kind of world do you want to break into if you are afraid of difficulties?" That's it! ”
However, Jia Yuhang is not a reckless man after all, he lay on a big rock at the head of the cliff for two hours, and finally waited for two soldiers who came out to relieve their little hands, and suddenly attacked, knocking down the two people at the same time, and Fan Zhisheng carried them to the small boat one by one, and quietly rowed back to their big boat.
When the two Cham soldiers were awakened, they didn't say a word, just glared at the person in front of them with hatred.
Two Southern Han soldiers who knew a little about Cham were interrogated and tortured for a long time, but the two captives still did not spit out a word like a stone for hundreds of millions of years.
Later, Cao Shang was annoyed, and grabbed the arm of a prisoner with another strong man on the ship, and at the same time forced, he dislocated his two hands with the first blow, and then broke the prisoner's left and right hands, and the pain made the soldier sweat all over, fell to the ground and convulsed, and finally opened his mouth to hum a few words.
"He said that there were 800 guards in the harbor and 12 warships, large and small." The Southern Han soldiers breathed a sigh of relief and translated.
Jia Yuhang was not very relieved, and asked another captive, got the same answer, and immediately began to plan the night attack the next day.
On the evening of September 30, the pirate fleet quietly approached the mouth of the harbor under the cover of night, and was only a stone's throw away from the patrol ship and was about to launch a surprise attack, when the Cham soldier, who had been hanging his arms and his head down, suddenly broke free from the two pirates he was holding with all his strength, and opened his mouth to roar.
Cao Shang, who was nearby, immediately threw out his steel knife and pierced the extremely strong Cham soldier, but he was too late to stop the soldier's mournful alarm, and the gong immediately sounded at the mouth of the bay and the surrounding mountains, and torches were lit.
Jia Yuhang stabbed another Cham captive to death with a sharp sword, and roared: "When the two armies meet, the brave wins, kill!" ”
More than 30 large and small ships rushed forward in unison, smashing the small Cham patrol boats that had rushed sporadically and rushing straight towards the large ships anchored in the bay.
At this time, the Cham ships had roughly formed a crescent-shaped battle formation, slowly approaching the mouth of the bay.
Because of a shout, a raid turned into a scuffle!
However, due to the obvious advantage of Jia Yuhang's ships and numbers, he still surrounded the twelve Cham ships and began to fight on the side.
Jia Yuhang killed six people in a row before he could catch his breath, but he found that his brothers were entangled to death, and those black-skinned dwarves didn't seem to have any thoughts of being afraid of death, screaming in their mouths, and rushed towards Lu regardless of it.
Discovering this made Jia Yuhang's heart slightly cold, but he started more quickly and entered the chaotic war group.
After an hour of fighting, the Datang pirates finally emptied the opponent's ships and began to slowly approach the coast.
At this time, the number of kills and casualties of each ship was reported one after another, and what made Jia Yuhang feel unhappy was that they killed more than 500 enemies in total, and their own side actually killed 200 people and injured more than 100 people.
There were two medium-sized warships that had joined from Quanzhou, and more than half of the people on board were soldiers of the Southern Han Dynasty, because they had just fallen behind the most and had no chance to kill many enemy soldiers, so they were a little anxious, and accelerated out of the fleet and rushed to the shore.
However, just as they reached the shore and were about to build a bridge and rush down the boat, a dense stream of sharp arrows came from the darkness ahead, and they were shot into hedgehogs one by one.
Hearing the screams one after another in front of him, and then hearing the endless sound of swishing arrows breaking through the air, Jia Yuhang slashed the steel knife on the side of the ship with hatred, and the Cham captive still deceived himself under torture! How could there be only 200 men left in such a defensive force? The garrison in the bay will be more than a thousand people!
"Stop moving! Stop moving forward! The boats echoed one after another, and the speed of the ship slowed down, and it was now a stone's throw from the dock.
"Get out of the way, vacate the empty boat, and storm the dock at full speed!" Jia Yuhang's loud order injected impetus into the stopped fleet, and soon many soldiers separated from the fleet, divided into the damaged ships of the enemy and us in the melee just now, turned back and went far away, and then accelerated towards the dock.
Boom-boom--one after another, large and medium-sized warships slammed into the dock, smashed the wooden plank road, and some even washed up on the ground of the dock.
"Drums! Keep banging! Jia Yuhang was ruthless and roared.
Finally, in the desperate rush of the pirates, the Vietnamese defenders on the shore scattered and retreated into the buildings behind them, on the hill next to them.
"Split the way! Not a single one to stay! Jia Yuhang gave the order again, and the person jumped off the ship first, and suddenly threw out the steel knife in his hand, nailing through a recalcitrant Cham soldier.
The soldier roared in pain, and the steel knife in his hand was thrown at the opposing pirate, but because of the weakened force, the pirate flashed in a thrilling way. The pirate was startled, and immediately jumped up and scolded the Cham soldier and cut the Cham soldier to pieces.
Witnessing such a small scene of desperate struggle again, Jia Yuhang's deep anxiety in his heart became even worse, and he immediately turned his head and ordered: "All the personnel attack, be careful not to disperse, do not act privately!" ”
Jia Yuhang's order is very timely and correct!
The troops who disembarked did not divide their forces to clear the battlefield, but pursued all the enemy soldiers, successfully driving the tide of attacks from all directions, which had basically stopped, again, and pulled up the obstacles in front of them with difficulty.
In this way, the battle on the shore continued until the early morning of 1 October, and the armies of all routes reported their victories one after another, and did not forget to add at the end of the sentence: The enemy is very stubborn and fights to the death. One soldier added with trepidation: "We have already stabbed that Cham soldier seven or eight times, and he is still struggling to open his mouth to bite us, it's too evil!" ”
Jia Yuhang's spirit became even more tense, and he immediately arranged personnel to patrol around to clean up the battlefield.
By the time it was dark, more bad news came.