Chapter 80: The Battle of Longwan
So on the second day, Chu Liuyan deliberately revealed what he saw in Zhu Yuanzhang's camp and the layout of Zhu Yuanzhang's big tent to Chen Youliang.
Chen Youliang was overjoyed, thinking that Chu Liuyan had gone to his side wholeheartedly since then and helped him defeat Zhu Yuanzhang.
In the following days, Chu Liuyan deliberately revealed some of Zhu Yuanzhang's military secrets to Chen Youliang, and Chen Youliang sent people to Zhu Yuanzhang's army to spy on them, but they were the same as Chu Liuyan said.
Chen Youliang took a fancy to Chu Liuyan more and more, the Yingtian War was imminent, and the spies who were originally placed in Zhu Yuanzhang's army lost most of them because of the last time they rescued Chu Liuyan, so the news in Zhu Yuanzhang's camp, Chen Youliang knew less and less, but Chen Youliang felt fortunate that Zhu Yuanzhang's original military advisor Chu Liuyan had taken refuge in him, so he began to ask her for her opinion on the war.
Chu Liuyan took the opportunity to speak: "Zhu Yuanzhang's warship regulations are very small, and he is not the opponent of the giant ship in your hand at all, so the King of Han doesn't have to worry about this matter." It's just that Yingtian City is strong and difficult to attack, so it is necessary to take advantage of the time that Zhu Yuanzhang is stationed outside the city to quickly take Longwan, send troops to Yingtian City, and cut off the connection between Yingtian and the big camp outside the city, so that they can't take care of each other, and they can be separated and annihilated. As long as the garrison outside the city is eliminated, then Yingtian City is a lonely city, even if it can't go down at dusk, even if it is besieged but not attacked, within a month, the food and grass in Yingtian City will be cut off, and it can be destroyed without attacking. ”
As soon as he heard Chu Liuyan's strategy, Chen Youliang felt that the head was the way and was greatly appreciative. determined to follow the plan proposed by Chu Liuyan and quickly capture Yingtian.
There are two flowers, one on each branch. At this time, in Zhu Yuanzhang's tent across the river, Zhu Yuanzhang and Liu Bowen were also discussing the war. It turned out that Zhu Yuanzhang saw that many days after Chu Liuyan left, the Han army still showed no signs of advancing into Longwan, and he couldn't help but feel very sad.
Liu Bowen said: "Miss Chu is a person with responsibility, so she rushed to Miss Chu to go to the meeting alone and entered Hanyang City to see Chen Youliang, which shows the strategy in her heart, the marshal does not have to worry, and he will definitely succeed." ”
Zhu Yuanzhang said: "I think the same way, I hope that Chu Liuyan's girl Jiren has her own natural appearance, and Jiaxin will come early." There is one more thing, Ben Shuai is still very worried. ”
Liu Bowen shook the feather fan, smiled slightly and said: "If the guess is right, the marshal must be worried about Chen Youliang's sailors." ”
Zhu Yuanzhang's eyes lit up, and he patted the case and said: "Those who know me are also military advisors." Since the military advisor knows, he must have planned a proper countermeasure in his heart, so he might as well talk to Ben Shuai to relieve his sorrows. ”
Liu Bowen smiled and said: "Chen Youliang is a fisherman, although he is good at marching on the water, but he is ignorant of the art of war on the water. However, our army boat is small, and we can't stop him from coming bravely. At present, if you want to break Chen Youliang's army, the only way is to attack with fire. The ship is heavy and difficult to turn around, once it catches fire, it will not be able to advance or retreat, and the dispatch will fail, so the Han sergeant will inevitably mess up. Our army could take advantage of the opportunity to attack, which was enough to make the Han army frightened and defeated without a fight. ”
Yuan Zhang was overjoyed when he heard this: "I also thought of this plan, there is a battle of burning Chibi in the Three Kingdoms, and I have always known about it. But the military advisor didn't say anything, but I didn't dare to put it into practice. Now that the military advisor has taught me this, I don't have any worries. ”
Zhu Yuanzhang and Liu Bowen then discussed stopping, summoned the generals into the camp tent, and ordered them properly, and the distribution was decided to wait for Chu Liuyan to deliver the news.
A day later, he received a message from Chu Liuyan's flying pigeon, saying that within three days, Chen Youliang would definitely go to Longwan.
After receiving Chu Liuyan's message, Zhu Yuanzhang was overjoyed and shouted to the sky: "God help me." This time it will definitely be possible. ”
After waiting for a day, there was no movement.
Another day passed, and the Han army still did not move at all.
Early in the morning of the third day, Chen Youliang led the army, abandoned the ship, and quietly marched towards Longwan.
The people sent by Zhu Yuanzhang to investigate soon discovered Chen Youliang's traces and came back to report to Zhu Yuanzhang. Zhu Yuanzhang was overjoyed and said: "The smoke girl lives up to me!" ”
According to the previously discussed plan, Zhu Yuanzhang sent Xu Da, Chang Yuchun and others to divide into five routes, ambush them in advance, and only wait for Chen Youliang to enter the urn.
The army was about to cross Longwan, Chen Youliang was proud, only to hear a cannon sound, from the back of the lime mountain, Yingtian South City, Dasheng Pass and other five directions, out of the five roads of men and horses, flanking the Han army. The war drums thundered, and the sound rushed to the sky.
The Han army didn't distinguish things for a while, and the defeat of being killed was almost unbearable. Chen Youliang saw that it was not good, so he led the remnants to flee to the warship, all the way to the wind, Zhu Yuanzhang led the army to cover up and kill behind, so the Han army lost its armor along the way, and suffered countless casualties. Unexpectedly, when it was pushed to the boat, the tide was low, and the ship was too large, and the draft was too deep, so that some large ships ran aground.
Chen Youliang was urging, unexpectedly in spring, Tang He and others drove a small boat, hidden a fire in the boat, and quietly approached the big boat. Chang Yuchun Tang and Juju wore a water backing, held a shield in their hands, and each received dozens of lives, driving a small boat commonly known as "Little Paddle", galloping to the river, and rushing straight into Chen Youliang's naval fleet.
Chen Youliang was shocked, and hurriedly ordered the sergeant on the big ship to insinuate with a strong crossbow, in order to keep the boat from approaching the big ship.
Unexpectedly, the soldiers on the boat were all holding shields, and the arrows could not be injured.
When the sergeant saw that the boat was getting closer and closer, the soldiers on the big ship were very panicked, but Chen Youliang ordered: "You just need to be careful and don't let the enemy soldiers get on the boat, and there will be no problem." ”
Before the words were finished, Chen Youliang suddenly heard a shout, raised his eyes, and saw that on the boat, there was an instant fire, and the fire reflected the sky, relying on the roaring northeast wind, looking at Chen Youliang's big boat burning.
In an instant, the rockets rained down, the wind fueled the fire, and the more it burned, the ship was already burning everywhere, and the soldiers on board were in chaos.
Seeing that the momentum was not good, Chen Youliang hurriedly rushed to the side of the boat, instructed the attendants, put down the escape boat, and immediately fled into the boat to avoid the fire.
In fact, Xu Da and others were also killed, and several people galloped across the country. Chen Youliang's people were frightened, in this situation, where would they still be in the mood to fight? Everyone just dodged the rockets and ran for their lives.
Rockets were fired at each ship, and almost half of the hundreds of large ships were on fire.
In the firelight, the wails, shouts, and shouts resounded throughout Longwan and spread all the way to the city of Nanjing.
The soldiers were all in disarray, and they had no intention of fighting, and the soldiers ran desperately for their lives, and countless people fell into the water and died, or were burned by the fire.
Seeing that the general trend has gone, Chen Youliang still refuses to leave. He used to fight with Zhu Yuanzhang and never failed. Now, Yimo has an advantage over others, and he has been defeated in Longwan, how can he be reconciled?
However, in this situation, the soldiers were in a mess, and no one was willing to listen to his command.
At this moment, a rocket shot over, grazing Chen Youliang's sideburns. The left side of his face was burned and the baby slapped a large chunk, and the pain pierced the heart.
In fact, compared to the injuries on his body, what made Chen Youliang more sad was the fall of the army this time, and he had to accept the tragic defeat.
The soldiers around Chen Youliang who were wholeheartedly protecting him shouted loudly: "King Han, stay in the green mountains, don't be afraid of no firewood!" Some of our Han army is an army, some are men, and this time we have failed, and we can make a comeback. King Han, you must take care of yourself is the best policy! ”
The soldier said sincerely, and Chen Youliang finally let out a long sigh and said, "Okay, I'll listen to you." ”
In desperation, Chen Youliang ordered someone to drive a small boat, with dozens of boats that were not on fire, and rushed all the way before escaping.
After escaping and ascending to heaven, he inspected the people, killed and injured more than 30,000 people, and was burned by Zhu Yuanzhang for 200 large and small warships, which can really be described as a big defeat.
Chen Youliang was furious, only then did he remember that he had fallen for Chu Liuyan's trick, so he hurriedly left the soldiers and rushed back to find Chu Liuyan to settle the account, but Chu Liuyan had already disappeared. Chen Youliang was furious and ordered all the prisoners in the stone prison under the rockery to be executed to vent his anger.
All of a sudden, people's heads fell to the ground, and the cries shook the wilderness, and blood flowed all over the ground.