Chapter 943: Banjiang
Qiao Jing was surrounded by the deputy general's personal soldiers and retreated in embarrassment.
This time down the water, Qiao Jing pressed almost all the sailors in Shudi, personally drilled and led the troops, just to kill a gap from the waterway.
Shu Di can't be surrounded and beaten by the imperial court like Nanling.
Sun Bi and Dong Zhiwang have no enterprising heart, but Qiao Jing is different, his eyes are never a corner of the southwest, he wants the whole world.
However, several encounters, the north was stuck in the throat of Xiaguan by Su Ningbo, and the naval army suffered two defeats in Yiling, if it could not rush through Yiling and drag the two lakes into the battlefield, the situation of Shu was no different from Nanling at that time.
Only by killing it can the forces of the imperial court be involved.
Qiao Jing thought that the resumption of war this time should be foolproof, and the gap between the number of troops and the number of warships was here, and there was no way to prevent it.
Not to mention that he didn't give Su Ningbo the opportunity to dispatch troops and arrange responses, but he did, under the crushing of combat power, their Shu army could also be overwhelmed.
Overnight, the warships rushed into the two lakes, and the entire defense of Yiling was rushed back by them, Qiao Jing was full of confidence, and decided that they could continue to go down like this, rushing through Jingzhou and rushing to Yuezhou......
But he didn't expect that outside this Zhijiang County, he was stopped by the warships of the Jiangnan Navy Division.
With the blessing of water potential and wind, the Shu warship pressed forward, rushing and scolding to make the sailors of the imperial court retreat, and this kind of advance and retreat, morale is self-defeating, it stands to reason that the soldiers of the imperial court will only fight more and more panicked, more panicked and more defeated.
But the battlefield is not simply reasoning, if it is really that simple, words on paper can determine all victories and defeats.
The real battlefield has its variables.
At the corner of this section of the river outside the Zhijiang River, the Shu warships can no longer easily rely on the power of water and wind to oppress the other party, Qiao Jing knows in his heart, and he is determined to pass this section quickly, who knows that the other party is actually refusing.
The hull of the ship was sideways, and the four-clawed iron anchor sank into the water, blocking several times from front to back, fighting to prevent Qiao Jing from leading the troops to take another step forward.
The stability brought by the iron anchor into the water made Qiao Jing's several forward rushes in vain, and the two compartments collided, breaking the ship's board, and the hull quickly entered the water, and it looked like it was about to sink soon.
But even so, the war continued.
In hand-to-hand combat, the torches fell on the deck and burned violently, and the more they fought, the more chaotic and urgent they became.
Qiao Jing's eyes were red, this is no longer a matter that can be solved by sinking the opponent's warship, the river is so wide, it is so deep, sink one, two, and you can go around from the side, it sinks a lot, the wreckage falls at the bottom of the river, and the Shu warship is impassable at all.
And the soldiers of the other side will not retreat at all until all the warships are sunk!
The follow-up warships of the Shu army also poured up, and they were blocked in this section, and the water could not be drained.
Qiao Jing was in a dilemma, and after holding on for a while, he could only grit his silver teeth and retreat.
It is not easy to retreat from the army, the last batch of warships will have to turn around a little bit, and then go as much as they can, and these ships that meet the two armies at the front will not want to leave at all.
Qiao Jing scolded and retreated: "Qu Fu is still in Yiling, who is the soldier on the other side?" ”
"Jiang Muyuan, I heard it's Jiang Muyuan!" The pro-soldier shouted.
Qiao Jing raised his foot and kicked heavily on the mast.
Of course, he had heard Jiang Muyuan's name and knew that this man had made military exploits at a young age, but Qiao Jing had never faced it, in his opinion, Jiang Muyuan was too young, and he didn't eat as much salt as he ate.
Wang Lang hated Jiang Muyuan to death, but it was a personal grudge, Qiao Jing was too lazy to care, Wang Lang was willing to do things for Shudi.
As long as Wang Lang contributes, Qiao Jing can reward the other party with Jiang Muyuan's head.
But at this moment, Qiao Jing wants Jiang Muyuan's life more than Wang Lang, a hundred, a thousand times!
If he wants to kill the other party's sacrificial flag, Qiao Jing can only retreat first at this time, kill one Jiang Muyuan, the court still has Su Ningbo, and several generals start a war with Shudi, but if he Qiao Jing folds here, there will be nothing.
Qiao Jing finally retreated to the end, and the warship turned its bow and went upstream with all its might.
Jiang Muyuan discovered the enemy's movements, but he couldn't stop them, and there were countless warships and soldiers of the two armies between them, and they couldn't cross it at all.
He saw Gu Yunqi among the soldiers fighting in front of him.
Gu Yunqi obviously also noticed Qiao Jing's escape, and was so anxious that he wanted to rush forward.
Jiang Muyuan walked into his side and said, "Don't worry about him, you can't take care of it!" ”
Gu Yunqi was unwilling in his heart, but he also knew that Jiang Muyuan was right, so he only gritted his teeth and killed the enemy in front of him.
What they can do now is to kill as many enemies as possible and as quickly as possible, leaving more Shu warships and troops here, and not letting them retreat.
Then, hoping that the soldiers who were still in Yiling would deal a fatal blow to the retreating enemy troops.
On both sides of Yiling, there is still a fire in the sky.
Almost all the warships were "washed" downstream to block Qiao Jing, and all that Yiling could use at this time was a few sampans.
Qu Fu got on one, his heart beat fast, he received the military report, knowing that the enemy army was blocked outside the Zhijiang River, and naturally calculated that Qiao Jing must retreat in a hurry, he was waiting here, when the Shu warship appeared in his sight, Qu Fu waved his hand, and let the soldiers drive the sampan straight up.
The sampan looked very small in the light of the huge warship.
Qu Fu hooked the side of the ship with a rope, looked at the strong body and was extremely flexible, quickly climbed to the enemy ship, raised his long knife and slashed over.
There are few of them, but no matter how few they are, they don't make these defeated troops feel good!
For a while, the already low morale of the Shu army was in chaos, some warships were still retreating upstream, and some could no longer keep up.
Qu Fu saw Huo Ji's figure during the battle, he didn't say a word, he killed Huo Ji, and there was a knife in front of him.
Huo Ji, as the deputy general under Qiao Jing, is not an unknown person, even if the army is defeated tonight, he will wholeheartedly protect Qiao Jing's return to Shu.
Duan Baoqi also got on the warship, he saw the two of them fighting together, saw Huo's long knife slashing at Qu Fu's left arm, and also saw Qu Fu split Huo's head, and the next moment, a person appeared behind Qu Fu, stabbing forward with a sword......
Duan Baoqi roared, strode over and knocked Qu Fu away, the long sword grazed his back, and he slashed the man under the sword with his backhand.
At this time, Qu Fu had already reacted, the place where they were fighting was too close to the side of the ship, and he saw Duan Baoqi lose his balance and fall out, and in the sound of fighting, the sound of falling into the water was almost inaudible.
Qu Fu's breath paused.
He knew that Duan Baoqi had an average water nature, and he could swim in the river for a while in peacetime, but he could only be washed away if he was injured in the water during the war.
Looking at the warship carrying Qiao Jing that had already traveled farther and farther, Qu Fu's heart was crossed, and he threw himself on the water regardless of his injuries.
Duan Baoqi was dragged ashore by Qu Fu.
He choked on the water and couldn't speak at all, but his eyes kept looking at Qu Fu's left shoulder.
Qu Fu was drenched, and the blood on his face and body was not washed away by the water, he gasped, while bandaging it simply, he grinned: "Just one arm, I beheaded Huo Ji and buried so many warships of Qiao Jing here!"
It's equivalent to scrapping Qiao Jing's two arms!
This is a good deal, I didn't embarrass the old Qu family and the old Cheng family! ”
After speaking, Qu Fu nodded at Duan Baoqi again: "You kid didn't embarrass your old Duan family!" ”
Qu Fu breathed a sigh of relief and supported himself to get up, he couldn't rest yet, the fire in Yiling City had not been extinguished, and the endgame in the river had to be cleaned up.
"Don't say it," Qu Fu looked at the situation in front of him and said, "This kind of big war scene can't be seen a few times in my life, I actually don't want to see it once, but I really see it, and my heart trembles." ”
Magnificent and poignant.
Duan Baoqi also stood up, looked at the vast river, and listened to his heartbeat.
The scenery is different from what Bai Juyi saw, but in his eyes, the Yangtze River this night is also half a river and half a red river.
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