Chapter 98: The Battle of the Minjiang River 2
Hu Long was only shocked for a moment, he had more important things to do at the moment, after Suzaku's vanguard and fifty Wuya warships entered the encirclement, Hu Long ordered his men to launch an artillery attack on Sun Xia's main fleet.
Because the two sides were closer, the Yellow Turban fleet was tragic, and Hu Long's sudden attack caught Sun Xia and others off guard.
Standing on the "Yellow Turban" ship, Sun Xia was hit by one of the shells, and he was heroic on the spot.
Sun Zhong was pushed into the building ship under the protection of his own soldiers, and for a while, the twenty building ships of the main force of the Yellow Turban were under a sea of fire.
Hu Long saw that the time was almost up, and said to the artillerymen around him, "Okay, okay, don't fight, my building boats won't be needed if I fight, and I will order all the sand boats to be pasted on me, and cooperate with Suzaku's brothers to take down the main force of the Yellow Turban." ”
"Yes!"
The sailors who were the first to be arranged by Hu Long on the sand boat near the building ship drew their machetes and spears one after another, and rushed to the deck of the building ship with a roar.
For this group of habitual bandits, climbing the boat and robbing is their housekeeping skill, no matter how much the Yellow Turban Army on the building ship fights, they can't stop the bandits from boarding the boat.
Soon the first bandit managed to climb the boat, but before he could gain a foothold, he was stabbed to death by more than a dozen Yellow Turban soldiers.
But if there is a first, there will be a second, and soon more and more bandits will climb onto the boat and fight the Yellow Turban soldiers on the deck of the ship.
On a five-tooth war ship led by Suzaku, Yuan Qing, the commander of the Donghe Water Division, watched the situation on the battlefield with a solemn face, and after seeing the bandits successfully boarding the boat, he looked back at the general beside him and said, "Pass my order, the first team will speed up and cooperate with the Minjiang water bandits to encircle and suppress the rebels on the Yellow Turban Tower, and the second team will make a detour to the back of the Fengweidang to block the back of the Yellow Turban Water Division's retreat." ”
"Yes!"
While the Vermilion Bird Naval Division was arranging its troops, the battle between the bandits and the Yellow Turban soldiers was still continuing, and Hu Long led hundreds of sand boats to surround the twenty Yellow Turban Lou boats, and kept directing his subordinates to rush to the Lou boats.
At present, eight of the twenty Yellow Turban ships have been taken by the bandits, seven of them are in a bitter battle, and only five of the Yellow Turban Army actually control them.
On one of the well-preserved ships, Sun Zhong killed the last rebellious sailor with one shot, and then sat on the deck weakly, and said to the soldiers around him, "Quick, hurry up and escape, escape back to the camp, I want to report the situation to General Digong." ”
"Yes!"
The sudden rebellion of the water bandits caused heavy losses to the Yellow Turban Naval Division, and dozens of sand ships belonging to the Yellow Turban Army were wiped out under several shelling by the Wuya warships of the Vermilion Bird Naval Division, and 20 main building ships were also lost to the enemy.
The Yellow Turban Water Master, who was originally pinned on by Zhang Bao, disappeared under the cooperation of the water bandits and the Vermilion Bird Water Master.
It is estimated that if Zhang Bao knew that his sailor was beaten so easily, he would vomit three liters of blood.
Just when the battle of Fengweidang was in full swing, Suzaku's Xihe Water Division was not idle, and through the deployment map sent by Hu Long, they attacked the Yellow Turban Water Village in the middle reaches of the Minjiang River one by one.
Some of the stockades defended by the bandits did not resist much at all, and when they saw the Vermilion Bird Sailor coming, they directly opened the gate of the village and surrendered, while the stockade garrisoned by the Yellow Turban Army was razed to the ground under the artillery fire of the Vermilion Bird Sailor.
Without the support of the water division, basically no village could withstand the attack of the Suzaku water division, and soon all the Yellow Turban water villages near the middle reaches of the Min River were cleared.
A large number of Yellow Turban soldiers chose to surrender, and it didn't take long for the Suzaku army to firmly grasp the waters of the middle reaches of the Minjiang River.
Next, Yuan Yang just let the army rest for a while, and then continued to attack the upper reaches of the Min River, the soldiers are very fast, Yuan Yang does not plan to give the Yellow Turban Army time to react.
With the advance of the Vermilion Bird Water Division, Zhang Bao in the big camp also felt that something was wrong, first of all, the main force of the Water Division sent out now has no news coming, and secondly, every day it stands to reason that the guards of each water village should report the situation to him at this time, but except for a few large villages in the upper reaches, no one in the fruit villages in the middle reaches came to report.
This is a little weird, thinking of this, Zhang Bao hurriedly sent the remaining dozens of sand boats in the camp to the middle to see what was going on.
To say that this person is unlucky to drink cold water and stuff his teeth, dozens of yellow turban sand boats have just sailed out of the camp for a while, and they just happened to meet the attacking Vermilion Bird Sailor.
Under the cover of powerful artillery fire, dozens of Yellow Turban sand boats sank to the bottom of the river, and nearly 10,000 Yellow Turban soldiers on board did not survive.
The sound of the fighting artillery also attracted the attention of Zhang Bao in the camp, Zhang Bao heard that the cannon was getting closer and closer, and secretly said in his heart that it was not good, it seemed that the Vermilion Bird Sailor had come to the door.
While gathering troops, Zhang Bao sent a message to the other upstream Yellow Turban Water Villages, asking them to quickly hold on to the Water Village to prevent it from being broken by the Vermilion Bird Water Division.
At first, Zhang Bao also delusionally relied on the huge wall in the water village and dozens of artillery pieces to hold on, waiting for the Yellow Turban Sailor to return after annihilating the enemy.
However, when the warships of the Vermilion Bird Naval Division appeared one by one, Zhang Bao had to think about how to run, and the wooden gate of the water village could not stop the artillery bombardment on the Vermilion Bird Five Tooth Warship.
After several rounds of artillery salvos, the walls of the Yellow Turban Water Village were in ruins, and dozens of artillery pieces on the wall were bombarded into a pile of pieces by the Vermilion Bird artillery without firing a single shot.
More than a dozen Vermilion Bird five-tooth warships charged, using artillery to suppress the counterattack of the Yellow Turban Army, and transporting a steady stream of Vermilion Bird soldiers to the Yellow Turban Water Village.
30,000 soldiers of the regular army of Suzaku arrived at the Yellow Turban Water Village as the first batch of registered troops, and fought with the remnants of the Yellow Turbans.
Although the camp was bombed into wreckage, there were still a lot of Yellow Turban troops in the camp, and Zhang Bao led 300,000 Yellow Turban troops to encircle and suppress the 30,000 Suzaku officers and soldiers who had just landed.
Not to mention, the Yellow Turban Army in the water war was not the opponent of the Suzaku Naval Division, but both sides of the land battle were divided into five or five, and the Yellow Turban Army was numerous, and the Suzaku landing force was defeated and retreated.
The helpless Vermilion Bird Sailor also ignored his own people who had already logged in, so he could only launch another bombardment, and the Yellow Turban Soldier who had been hiding was lured out by the Vermilion Bird Soldier after being lured out, and suddenly had no shelter, and under the fire of the Vermilion Bird Sailor, it became a charred corpse.
The Suzaku landing force also suffered a lot of losses under the shelling, and only a few thousand people remained to take refuge on the shore of the stockade.
The shelling of the Vermilion Bird Naval Division completely subdued the Yellow Turban Army, and no one dared to expose the target easily, so they could only watch as the Vermilion Bird Naval Division transported more and more troops to the water village.