Chapter Twenty-Nine: Crossing the River in One Blow, Shenche Bravely Broke Through the Enemy's Defense Line
After crushing the sneak attack of the Eastern Wu army, the morale of the Wei army was greatly boosted, so Zhang He hurriedly sent a letter to Cao Cao and Cao Ren to deliver the good news of the victory of the anti-sneak attack, and waited for Cao Ren's order when to cross the Yangtze River.
At this time, the sky was already bright, Li Yong said to Zhang He: "General, the enemy's sneak attack failed last night, and there will be chaos, in my opinion, while the enemy is frightened and chaotic, I will fight across the Yangtze River now, cut off Sun Quan's escape to the west, and crush his intention to join forces with Liu Bei to resist." ”
Zhang He said: "What you say is reasonable, but the brigade led by General Cao Ren is still more than 100 miles away from here, and I have not received General Cao's order to fight the Yangtze River first. ”
Li Yong said: "The ancients said: 'Generals are outside, and military orders are not subject to them', and to fight a war, you must grasp the fighter plane. When the enemy is in a panic, it is a good opportunity for me to cross the Yangtze River. We used our vehicles to rush to the other side of the Yangtze River, break through the enemy's defensive line, disrupt their positions, seize their beachhead and wait for the general's reinforcements. ”
Then he added: "Now the general has repaired the masts of the five captured Soochow warships, and then sailed to the opposite shore with a full load of soldiers to respond to my actions. According to my estimates, each large ship could carry more than 200 men, so that the five boats could transport 1,000 men to the opposite shore at a time, and then return again, and so on until the afternoon they could transport all of them to the other shore. ”
Zhang He said with a smile: "This strategy is very good, I will immediately send people to repair the warship, prepare to attack the south bank of the Yangtze River, and then report this plan to General Cao Ren." Li Yong said: "Just do what the general said, we must not miss the opportunity, we should hurry up and take action, and strive to cross the Yangtze River as soon as possible." ”
After breakfast, Li Yong accompanied Zhang He to inspect the army's camp and logistics baggage. Hearing that the Eastern Wu army on the other side of the Yangtze River was about to attack, the morale of the Wei army was very high, and they checked their weapons and clothing one after another, and some people even sharpened their knives and guns, and the whole military camp was extremely excited and nervous.
There were already people rushing to repair the captured Soochow warships. The main mast of these damaged warships was broken, and the top priority was to repair these broken masts, but fortunately, the masts of the five ships that were blown up were not damaged, and they were washed into the river fork on the north bank by the current of the Yangtze River, so some people carried these intact masts back to prepare to replace the masts of the damaged five ships.
Just when everyone was nervously replacing the damaged mast, someone suddenly shouted: "Our warship is coming!" The shouts. Everyone looked eastward, and a column of more than 20 large ships was sailing against the current from far and near, and the flags of the characters "Wei" and "Zhang" were hoisted high on the boats. On the bow of the ship, officers and soldiers wearing Wei military uniforms and armor were faintly visible, waving flags and weapons in their hands and shouting loudly.
After seeing his ship coming, the entire Zhang He's barracks was boiling, and everyone rushed to the embankment to wave to the incoming ship to celebrate this moving moment.
It turned out that after Cao Cao received Zhang Liao's report, he immediately sent someone to ask him to transport part of the ship to Zhang He upstream to help them cross the river. In charge of escorting the fleet is Zhang Liao's nephew named Zhang Jiang, this person is wise and brave and steady, once in Luzhou and his uncle Zhang Liao defeated Sun Quan personally led the Eastern Wu army to attack, and almost captured Sun Quan, so he won Zhang Liao's trust, and the current official was promoted to captain.
After receiving the order that morning, Zhang Jiang immediately set out from Tong'an County (present-day Anqing, Anhui), and they traveled through the stars and nights, and finally safely delivered the fleet to Zhang He's military camp in Qiyuecheng (present-day Hanyang) the next morning.
"This is a charcoal in the snow! God help me! Zhang He said excitedly. Li Yong also said happily; "I'll set off now, and the general will then lead the army to follow up and strive to defeat Soochow as soon as possible."
Zhang He said happily and loudly: "You and the others are only attacking Dongwu, you are in danger, you must be safe, and you must not be careless!" Brother Wei then personally led a large team of men and horses to respond, and the Dongwu forces were determined to be wiped out as soon as possible. He laughed.
Li Yong looked at the time, it was exactly ten o'clock in the morning, and the fog on the river had already dissipated, and at this moment, Wang Yan also assisted in handling the wounded and returned to the car, and now there were four more people in the car. After carefully inspecting the weapons, ammunition, and vehicles, they drove into the Yangtze River and rushed to the other side with everyone's expectations and trust.
It is still the dry season of the Yangtze River, the water level is not high, and the water flow is not turbulent; Today is a cloudy and cloudy day, and the wind is not small, and the river surface is blowing from time to time.
Li Yong cautiously drove the vehicle to the upstream diagonally opposite, although the speed of walking was not fast, but the waves still beat the body from time to time. The "Crossing Ship" is like a lonely boat floating on the surface of the river, moving forward slowly, dragging two rolling waves behind it and scattering outward.
Li Yong asked Weihong to turn on the on-board computer and check the satellite images of the Soochow defensive front on the other side of the river, but because the clouds were too thick and they could not see the ground clearly, Li Yong and the others could only drive forward.
After crossing the middle line of the Yangtze River, Li Yong turned the head of the car and drove to the opposite side of the downstream, and walked a big "Z", just when they were still about 100 meters away from the opposite bank, they heard the sound of the order in the distance on the opposite bank, and then saw the direction of the sky on the opposite bank, "Whoosh!" Sou! Dozens of huge stones flew and landed around the "Crossing Ship", accompanied by "Boom! Rumble! The loud sound splashed up the water column thrown high.
"Enemy catapult, dodge!" Chen Tao said loudly behind the machine-gun battle position on the roof of the car, so Li Yong accelerated downstream to avoid the boulder falling from the sky.
Because the embankment was high, blocking the view, Li Yong and his men could not see the position of the enemy's stone thrower, and could only see a few Dongwu officers and soldiers lying on the embankment, holding the order flag in their hands and raising it from time to time, presumably the enemy's observer soldiers were indicating the direction of attack to the stone thrower. Chen Tao picked up the sniper rifle, "Horn! Trumpet! "After a few shots, they were killed, but someone else took their place and continued to point out the target.
Those boulders also chased their vehicles down, and a few boulders almost hit their cars, once they were hit, the consequences were unimaginable, so Li Yong did not dare to slack off, and continued to drive downstream quickly.
Li Yong said loudly to Wei Hong: "Hurry up and release the drone to check the situation!" So Wang Weihong hurriedly flew the drone and flew towards the opponent's position.
According to the images sent back by the drone, a large number of stone throwers are arranged in a row on the south bank of the Yangtze River about 50 meters behind the embankment, and dozens of people are pulling ropes behind each stone throwing machine, and a large number of special stones for throwing and incendiary bombs wrapped in oil are piled up next to them, ready to be thrown and fired.
Each of these trebuchs is a firing position, each 100 meters apart, a total of about 20 firing positions, stretching for three to four kilometers along the river embankment.
Behind the embankment, a deep trench was dug in which a lot of firewood and grass were piled up; Behind the trench were many soldiers with torches and rockets, apparently ready to ignite the firewood and grass in the trench at any time.
"It's dangerous!" Wang Yan said loudly. Yes, if we rush forward without knowing the situation, we are likely to be injured by the enemy's "fire trench array". Although the armor of our vehicles is very strong, once the vehicle is caught in the trench, and the enemy ignites the firewood and grass injected into the ditch, the consequences are unimaginable.
"We must bypass the enemy's fortified positions and go ashore from undefended positions downstream!" Li Yong said as he drove the vehicle downstream, and did not go ashore until he was far away from the enemy's position.
"The turtle cart of the future man has come ashore from downstream!" In the distance, there were also officers and soldiers of Eastern Wu who were observing from the shore shouting, but they all knew that the weapons of the future people were powerful, so they didn't dare to step forward to stop them, and only dared to shout from afar.
After driving the vehicle ashore and crossing the river embankment, Li Yong quickly turned right to the enemy's catapult position upstream. Chen Tao used a vehicle-mounted machine gun to hit the first enemy's catapult position in the car, knocking down a large number of people at once, and frightened the people in that position to cry and cry for their mothers.
After seeing the enemy troops in the first catapult position fleeing one after another, Li Yong and they were very proud, ready to break into the position and drive to the second catapult position, but when there were still dozens of meters away from the position, suddenly the car fell down, as if the front of the car fell into the trench covered with soil, and the rear of the car was thrown high on the edge of the ditch, Li Yong, who was sitting in the car, was thrown away from the seat by the strong impact force, and all of them were hit in front of them and piled up together.
"Oh no, we've fallen into a trap dug by the enemy, open the back door and rush out with weapons!" Li Yong didn't care about his head being broken, and shouted loudly with blood on his face. So everyone quickly picked up their weapons and climbed to the rear of the car, opened the back door of the car with difficulty, and climbed out in turn.
At the same time, I heard a cannon sound, and a big black flag was raised in the distance, with a big "Lu" character on it, and below the flag, I saw a general wearing armor, riding a tall horse, and holding two huge hammers in both hands, leading a large group of cavalry to rush towards their vehicle with a shout.
The officers and soldiers of the Eastern Wu who had fled from the position before saw that the future people's car was planted in a ditch and could not move, they also picked up their weapons and besieged them again.
The situation is critical! "Hurry up and aim and shoot at the front!" Li Yong shouted loudly, so they took advantage of the terrain to quickly set up their guns and shoot at the rushing enemy. For a moment, I heard "Bang Bang Bang!" "Da Da Da!" The guns rang out, and the officers and soldiers of the Eastern Wu who rushed in front were knocked down a large number, but the people behind continued to rush forward, but they seemed to have learned to be tricky now, not riding horses but crawling forward on the ground, and from time to time they also fired bows and arrows at them, but because the distance was too far, the sharp arrows shot could only fall dozens of meters in front of them.
"Let's aim and fight again, save bullets!" Li Yong commanded. So everyone began to shoot accurately, almost killing one person with one shot, and in a short time there were corpses all over the field in front of them, and it seemed that hundreds of people had been killed and wounded.
At this time, the attacking officers and soldiers of Dongwu were finally afraid, although the supervisors behind were still shouting, but the attacking officers and soldiers of Dongwu still turned around and fled, and the crazy counterattack of the officers and soldiers of Dongwu finally failed.
Just when everyone was relieved, suddenly a batch of flame-burning incendiary bombs flew from the direction of the enemy's second stone throwing machine's position, and landed around them with a "whirring" sound, and the splashing flames quickly dispersed and caused a raging fire.
"Everyone, disperse and quickly hit the second trebuchet position with machine guns!" Li Yong shouted loudly. Before the words fell, I saw a huge fireball tumbling and falling more than ten meters in front of Wang Yan, and the incendiary bomb exploded and bounced apart after it landed, rushing towards Wang Yan with the flames.
"Danger!" Li Yong screamed and jumped up and pounced on Wang Yan, protecting her with his own body, and at the same time, a piece of debris burst from the incendiary bomb caught the flames and hit Li Yong's buttocks, which immediately burned on his body due to the oil sticking to it. Li Yong immediately rolled over, and Chen Tao and Weihong next to him also hurriedly ran over to help him extinguish the flames on his body.
At this moment, Wang Yan's mind lying on the ground was also blank. She clearly remembered the moment the incendiary bomb flew towards her, she only felt the flash of fire in front of her, and found countless fragments flying towards her with flames, she didn't have time to react and quickly closed her eyes, thinking "It's over!" Unexpectedly, a figure pounced on her, pushed her, and then pressed on top of her. She didn't see who it was, but she felt that it was the strong body of the opposite sex, and it was like an electric current flashing in her body, indescribable; And while rolling, the man's face also touched his own face, and the hard stubble was a little itchy and hot on his face. She was a little out of breath and felt a little weak in her body.
I don't know how long it took (in fact, it was only a while) before Wang Yan opened her eyes and found that Li Yong was also lying on the ground, and the combat uniform on his body was blackened. At this moment, she realized that Li Yong had saved her by pounced on her just now, if he hadn't pushed himself and protected her head with his body, he might have been hit in the head, and he would definitely be seriously injured. Thinking of this, she felt deeply grateful to him in her heart, and when she thought of this, she jumped up and quickly helped Li Yong who was lying on the ground.
Li Yong stood up with difficulty, and then Wang Yan checked his injuries again, fortunately, their combat suits were very protective, and did not cause serious injuries to him, but only injured his hip soft tissues, which temporarily affected his walking function, and it would be fine in a few days, but if it hit the head, it would be dangerous.
At this time, several incendiary bombs fired by the catapult landed on their perimeter, causing a raging fire. No, we have to get rid of their stone throwers. Li Yong carefully observed and found that these incendiary bombs were thrown from the enemy's second catapult position 100 meters away, so he ordered Chen Tao to strafe the enemy's second catapult position with a machine gun. Chen Tao immediately opened fire, and after a while, he knocked down a large number of enemy troops in that position, and the rest fled from the position one after another.
Li Yong picked up the binoculars and looked at the other trebuchets behind the enemy, and found that the enemy had turned the heavy catapults around and were ready to throw stones and incendiary bombs at their side, but they had not yet launched them due to the distance.
Li Yong said to Chen Tao and the three of them: "Go to the car and bring the 82 mortar, and bring a few more shells, we will knock out their catapult position." So Chen Tao and the three of them quickly went to the car to carry mortars and shells.
After a while, they set up the gun, Li Yong picked up the laser rangefinder and tested the distance, adjusted the direction and angle of the muzzle, picked up a shell and put it down from the muzzle, and heard "Bang!" With a flash, the muzzle of the cannon flashed, and the shell flew to the enemy's third position with a whistle, accurately hitting the stone thrower in the middle, and then "Boom!" The explosion sounded, and the catapult and the people behind it were blown up into the sky, frightening the catapult position at a loss, and they stood there stupidly, until the second shell fell and blew up another catapult, causing more casualties, and then they fled from the launch position.
The 87-type 82 mortar in service in our army is one of the best mortars in the world today because of its small caliber but very powerful, and the firing distance is also very long (up to 5,700 meters) and very easy to operate.
After seeing the enemy troops in the third trebuchet position, Li Yong aimed at the fifth enemy trebuching position and fired a cannonball, and after accurately blowing up a catapult and its operators, the personnel of the other two positions on the left and right of the trebuchet position also fled from the position after seeing this terrifying scene. As they ran, they shouted at the people in the other positions to get out of their positions.
Far away, the people in the positions behind did not know what was happening in front of them, but they only saw the defeated soldiers shouting and shouting, so they all looked this way. At this moment, a shell accurately hit the penultimate catapult position, killing many people at once, and all the people on the catapult positions along the embankment were frightened, and everyone fled from the position and gave up resistance in tears.
Li Yong and the others stood up and were very happy to see the "spectacular" scene when the enemy fled from his position, so he picked up the binoculars and looked in the direction of the enemy's rout, and found that the fleeing enemy was being driven back again, and it seemed that some high-ranking enemy general was directing the battle.
Li Yong picked up the binoculars and observed carefully, and sure enough, he found that about two thousand meters away, at a high place, there was a tall wooden tower with a person holding a command flag; There is a group of people shouting at the bottom of the wooden tower, it seems that this is the enemy's headquarters.
Li Yong quickly turned the muzzle of the cannon, measured it with a laser rangefinder, carefully adjusted the shooting angle, and then a cannonball accurately hit the bottom of the wooden tower, and after the shell exploded, the people under the wooden tower were killed and injured, and the person who commanded on the top of the wooden tower also fell to the ground with the collapsed wooden tower.
After the officers and men of the Eastern Wu who were charging this way heard the sound of an explosion behind them, everyone looked back and found that the command tower had been blown away, and they were all frightened, so they turned around and fled and withdrew from the battle.
The thrilling battle ended in less than thirty minutes, and just as Li Yong was worried about the "Crossing" vehicle that had fallen into the trench, Zhang He led a large number of Wei troops across the Yangtze River by boat to Li Yong and them. So Li Yong asked Zhang He to send some people to clean up the battlefield, and then send some people to help dig up the ditch and soil layer behind the "Crossing" vehicle to form a slope, and then use the rope behind the treult to tie it to the rear of the "Crossing", and hundreds of people worked together to drag the vehicle out.
After they checked the "Crossing Ship" and found that the vehicle was undamaged, Li Yong said to Zhang He: "We will go to pursue the fleeing soldiers of Eastern Wu, and the general will then lead the army to follow up. ”
Zhang He nodded and replied: "Okay, this wave has crossed the river with nearly 2,000 soldiers and horses (although there are many boats, but they also have to transport horses), and now the ship has returned to the other side to transport troops again. ”
Li Yong treated the wound briefly, and walked towards the vehicle with a limp pace, and then they checked the weapons, ammunition and vehicles, and everyone did not bother to rest and recuperate, and continued to chase in the direction of the escape of the officers and soldiers of Eastern Wu.
This is exactly what happened: Zhang Liao sent the ship to rain in time, seized the fighter plane and crossed the river alone
After a thrilling break through the enemy's formation, the affection is long when it is in danger