Volume III Chapter 608
Mu Ke's words scared everyone present.
There are enemy ships, no matter how many or few, even if there is only one, that is enough to kill. If the enemy discovers his fleet and goes back to report the news, what kind of sneak attack is there to talk about?
Lin Haotian reacted very quickly, without thinking about it, and said in a deep voice to the two naval commanders, Sun Bing and Xu Yan: "The horse changed direction to avoid, and at the same time ordered the rear ships to follow the main ship to change direction!"
"Yes, my lord!" Sun Bing and Xu Yan also broke out in a cold sweat, one ran to the cabin, and the other rushed to the stern.
However, now it is too late for the Jin State Navy to change the route of travel, and they did not collide with the oncoming Jiankang Sailors, and the two sides passed by, and the distance between them was only about ten meters.
This narrow road met and met unexpectedly, which made the fleets on both sides explode. Both sides were on the mission of sneak attack, and neither expected to encounter the main force of the other side at the center of the river.
For a while, the ships on both sides shouted and cheered, and the first to attack was the Jin army.
Seeing the Red Army fleet passing through from the side, the Jin soldiers on the deck took off their bows and arrows one after another and shot at the other party, and soon, the return fire of the Red Army's arrow array also roared.
Because the fog is too big, even if it is ten meters, you can't really see it, you can only see the general outline of the opponent's ship, the specific situation of the ship is not clear, and the arrows shot by the soldiers on both sides are also based on feeling.
But even so, there were a lot of casualties on the side of the Jin army, there were too many infantry on the deck of the Jin country's ships, and the arrows flew down, and people couldn't dodge if they wanted to, and they couldn't stop it if they wanted to, and even if many soldiers who were shot by arrows were killed, their bodies were still standing in place.
In this case, the Jin army had no way to fight at all, and Lin Haotian could only urge vigorously. Let your fleet rush over at full speed, do not fight with the enemy, and try to throw the enemy away.
However, with so many people on board the Jin warship, how could it be possible to get rid of the Red warship? But what is interesting is that the Red warship did not want to fight with the Jin army. The commander-in-chief of the Red Army gave the same order as Lin Haotian, to quickly cross the Jin fleet and be sure to throw off the enemy's fleet.
Judging from the current situation, the order of the commander of the Red Army is undoubtedly extremely stupid, if he is willing to fight a tough battle with the Jin army fleet at this time, even if the Jin army wants to run, they will chase and beat their butts, and they can completely annihilate the Jin State Naval Army, with a connection. It can also annihilate General Lin Haotian, the commander of the Iron Lion Army, Chu Chen, and Zhang Bufan/Shao Lin, who are also on the ship, and a large group of major cadres of the Jin Kingdom, but the Jiankang Sailor did not do so.
This cannot be said that the main general of the Jiankang Navy is incompetent or cowardly, but the commander Gao Tong released his words early: "In this battle, the officers and men of our army must go all out, move forward bravely, and when they sneak attack the enemy camp, no matter what accident happens, they can't stop." Rush me to kill me in one go, if there is a disobedience. If there is a natural fear of death and cowering, he will be killed!"
This is Qualcomm's original words, and Qualcomm's style has always been known for its simplicity and decisiveness, and now, how dare the chief general of the Jiankang Navy disobey the military order, in addition. He also had concerns in his heart, there were 100,000 infantry in his fleet, and once the fight started, these 100,000 people would be a big burden, and not only would they not be able to help. It will also become a burden on his own ships, and if any of the ships are sunk, the ship's infantry will also be buried at the bottom of the river, a responsibility he cannot afford.
Of course, if it is daytime now, and there is not so much fog on the river, and the situation of the opponent's fleet can be clearly seen, I am afraid that even if he loses his head, the commander of the Jiankang Navy will not give up the battle. It was under this kind of coincidence and mistake that the fleets of the two sides passed by, and during this period, the two sides only exchanged a few rounds of arrows.
The Jin Guoshui army was ready to fight to the death, but after the two sides staggered, the other party did not turn around and chase after them, which surprised the generals led by Lin Haotian.
Chu Chen was a battle-hardened veteran, and he immediately judged from the performance of the enemy army that the goal of the Jiankang Sailor should not be to intercept his own, but to sneak attack the camp like his own purpose.
Hearing his analysis, everyone nodded in unison, feeling that he made sense, and only in this way could it be explained.
Lin Haotian sighed, as long as the other party didn't fight a water war with him, then everything would be easy to say, he turned back to Shao Lin and said: "Ma warns our army camp, so that Guan He is ready to meet the enemy." β
Now, the Jin army is not afraid of the Red Army stealing the camp, the ships on the riverside are gone, only the empty dock remains, if the Red Army is willing to destroy, then let them go, as for the big camp, there is the Seventh Army and part of the Iron Lion Army guarding the town, even if the Red Army goes to a dozen or two hundred thousand people, it is difficult to break through.
Lin Haotian was secretly glad that Jiankang Shui Shi 'raised his noble hand' and did not fight a water war with his own side.
On the other hand, there is also controversy within the Jiankang Water Division, Qualcomm is not there, the main will be Guan Tong, the veteran of the Jiankang Water Division forty miles away. When the Jin State Water Army was discovered, the generals below asked Guan Tong if he wanted to fight with the Jin State Water Army, Guan Tong's head shook like a rattle, and he opposed it again and again, and asked the whole army to rush over with a bang and go to the camp of the Jin Army and the New Red Alliance Army first.
His order caused the dissatisfaction of many young generals, who had obviously encountered the main force of the Jin State Naval Army, if they didn't take the opportunity to annihilate them in one fell swoop, wouldn't they waste this great opportunity?
Hearing the objections of the generals, Guan Tong was happy, and said meaningfully to everyone: "The general ordered us not to delay no matter what accidents happen, the primary goal is to sneak attack the enemy camp, if we stop and fight with the enemy now, even if we win the battle in the end, but lose the opportunity to steal the camp, and then the general will investigate it, we will also lose our heads for capital crimes." β
Military orders are dead, but people are alive, and those who do not know how to be flexible obey military orders will miss a great opportunity in vain, and this should be punished! The young generals did not agree with Guan Tong's statement, but if he did not give the order to fight his chief general, others could not do anything.
After all, the staggered Jin and Red armies did not fight in Jiankang, and said that on the side of the Jin State Navy, the sailors in the fleet took off their clothes and formed shirtless one by one, using their strength to eat, desperately rowing the oars, for fear that the enemy would chase after them later.
Under the desperate rowing of the sailors, the Jin army fleet crossed the river and gradually approached the Jiankang Naval Division camp on the opposite bank.
"Hey, hey, heyβ"
The fleet of the Jin Army had not yet arrived, but the shouts of the sailors came first, no matter which country's fleet or which country's sailors. The shouting and shouting when exerting force is always the same.
Hearing the low shout, the sentinels of the Jiankang Water Division camp were all monks who were confused, and people stretched their necks one by one and looked blankly at the river, their own fleet had just set off, how could it come back so quickly, even if it arrived at the opposite shore and returned immediately, it couldn't be so fast!
The situation was reported to the 8th and 9th regiment commanders who remained in the camp.
These two red generals. I thought that I could steal leisure in the camp, eat meat, and drink wine, but I never thought that without eating two mouthfuls of meat and drinking a pot of wine, my 'expedition fleet' would come back.
The two sighed secretly, glanced at each other, and both showed a helpless wry smile, and they ordered the soldiers below to put away all the wine and meat. After putting on his armor again, he walked out of the tent and headed for the shore.
When they came to the dock on the shore, they could already faintly see the outline of the fleet, but they did not take a closer look, let alone notice the difference between the ships that came at this time and their own ships.
In fact, no one would have thought that it would be the enemy at this time, after all, their fleet had just set off. If an enemy comes, they will inevitably touch. There will definitely be a fierce water battle in the river, and now everything is so calm, and it will inevitably be your own fleet that will come back.
The two corps commanders were still discussing with each other: "Why did the old man come back with the fleet so quickly, didn't he say that he was going to attack the enemy camp secretly?
"What accident can happen? I think it's just that the old man is greedy for life and afraid of death, so he went to the Jinying and shook around, and came back after making a appearance. The general shouldn't have sent him to attack the Jin camp at all, to put it mildly, it's better to change our brothers!"
"Be quiet, this has to reach the ears of the old man, and we will have to wear small shoes every day in the future. β
"What are you afraid of. What is his background, a bullshit hereditary viscount, what is the background of our brothers, earl, who will press whom in the future is not certain!"
"Will ...... General ......" The red soldiers on the side looked at the fleet that was moving quickly on the river, and their voices involuntarily trembled.
The two of them who were chatting enthusiastically didn't hear the call of the soldiers below at all, and they were still ridiculing you and me one by one.
"General...... The general ...... "At this point, more soldiers screamed loudly.
"What's wrong?" the two red generals finally came to their senses and looked at the red soldiers around them.
"General, that ...... That fleet doesn't seem to be our fleet!" The red soldiers pointed to the ships on the river and said in a trembling voice.
"What nonsense! It's not our army's fleet, is it still the Jin's ......fleet?" As they spoke, the two red generals looked up at Jiang in unison.
At this time, the ship that sailed over was only more than ten meters away from the dock of the Jiankang Water Division, and the shape of the ship was clearly visible.
The two red generals paused in the middle of their words, as if they had been clicked, their eyes widened, and they looked directly at the ship coming from their backs, standing motionless, stunned.
The most striking thing is that the ship is hanging a big flag with a black background and a white face, and the flag clearly has a big 'gold' character clearly written on it.
"This ...... Isn't this a Jin warship?" the commander of the Eighth Corps was the first to come back to his senses and stammered.
"yes, look...... It really looks like a Jin warship......" The commander of the Ninth Corps answered, and then, as if he had been stepped on by someone's tail, he screamed strangely, jumped high, turned around and shouted: "It's not good, it's an enemy attack! The enemy army is sneaking over, and it's not our fleet that is coming back! It's an enemy attack."
His incoherent voice made the Red Army waiting at the dock explode at once, some soldiers picked up their weapons and rushed to the dock, and some soldiers turned around and ran to the camp, and the whole scene was chaotic and chaotic.
The Jin army's fleet came too suddenly, and it was too unbelievable, and the Red Army really had no defense, and the whole camp was in chaos. Not to mention that the soldiers below were like headless flies, and even the two commanders of the Eighth and Ninth Corps were at a loss, but the two of them had a good heart, and they ran to the camp in unison, but what they shouted was to let the whole army and soldiers leave the camp ship and prepare to meet the enemy.
The main general was frightened, and did not dare to take the lead in the front, and as soon as he saw the enemy, he ran backwards, and who of the soldiers below was willing to go out and die? Don't look at the two of them shouting happily, but there are very few people who listen to the order.
While the Red Army was in a hurry, the first ship of the Jin Army docked. The rope ladder was thrown down from the deck, and immediately after, a large number of Jin sergeants began to climb down the rope ladder.
"Whoosh!" several red soldiers guarding the dock took bows and arrows and fired arrows at the Jin sergeants on the boat.
One of the soldiers couldn't dodge, and was hit in the back of the heart by the Red Soldier's arrow, and fell down the rope ladder screaming.
The Red Soldiers also wanted to continue to release arrows. A flash of lightning reflected in the face, and a sound of flutter was heard, and the red soldier standing in the middle was shot by a steel arrow, and by its inertia, his body flew backwards for half a meter and fell heavily to the ground.
Looking at him again, his entire face was shattered and turned into a blur of flesh and blood.
The red soldiers on both sides were so frightened that their faces suddenly changed, and they subconsciously looked up. I saw that there was a golden general standing on the deck of the ship, covered in armor, holding a hard bow, and the bow was also tied to two steel arrows.
"Whoosh-"
The sound of breaking wind came again, and this time two of the Red Army's archers were hit in the face, and before they could scream, they both rolled to the ground. Killed on the spot.
The one who fired the arrows on the ship was the leader of the Jin State spies. Shao Lin.
Now there are not many Red soldiers left at the dock to resist, and there are not a few archers, and under the arrows of Shao Lin alone, more than a dozen people were killed by arrows in the blink of an eye.
Next, the Jin soldiers who landed on the shore held their swords high and shouted to rush towards the Red Army.
The bravery of the Iron Lion Army is not below that of the Plains Army. Although there were only more than 100 people who disembarked first, and there were more than 1,000 people on the Red Army's side, these 1,000 Red soldiers were defeated by more than 100 soldiers who were like wolves. The soldiers in front couldn't resist it at all, and saw their companions being cut to the ground by the other party one after another, and the others had no intention of fighting. Crying and shouting, he ran back.
The commander of the 8th and 9th Corps, who had returned to the camp early, did not care about the lives of the soldiers outside, and the two stood inside the camp and kept screaming: "Close the camp gate!
They could make a cold-blooded decision, but the soldiers below couldn't, and the people turned back and shouted with embarrassment: "General, our brother is still outside!"
"Leave them alone, close the camp gate quickly, if you let the enemy enter the camp, Lao Tzu will open the knife on you first! Close the camp gate quickly!" Under the repeated urging of the two of them, the Red soldiers could only push the camp gate and wanted to close the camp gate.
By this time, many soldiers outside had already run to the front, crying and shouting, "Don't close the door, let us in!
The people shouted and crowded the camp gate, so that the people outside could not enter, and the people inside could not close the camp gate, let alone the latch.
The two of them, who only knew how to be powerful and lucky, but when they reached the critical moment, they became soft-footed shrimps, but the two of them began to exert their might, and the two of them drew their swords, separated their crowds, and when they arrived at the camp gate, the sword in their hands stabbed forward along the crack of the door, and scolded angrily while stabbing back: "Let you squeeze fuck, Lao Tzu let you squeeze!"
In just an instant, there were five or six red soldiers who were stabbed to death and stabbed by the two of them.
At this moment, a series of screams suddenly came from outside the camp gate, and through the crack in the door, people looked out, and the red soldiers who were squeezing the camp gate just now were all turned into fine pieces of meat, stumps, broken arms and flesh all over the ground, and at the same time, the commander of the Ninth Corps also felt a chill on the top of his head.
He subconsciously raised his hand and touched it, okay, the helmet on top of his head was cut off by the air coming in through the crack in the door.
He almost peed his pants on the spot, screamed, turned and ran.
The golden general who came to kill outside the gate of the Red Army Camp was Zhang Bufan, he was holding a big knife, and a whirlwind of knives was released, and the Red soldiers crowded at the door were killed and injured more than 100 people, even so, there was still some air flow through the gap between the camp gates and flew in.
The commander of the Ninth Corps was lucky, and the air flow only cut off half of his helmet, and did not kill him. As soon as he was scared away, the other soldiers followed suit, so that no one closed the camp gates.
Zhang Bufan took three steps into two steps, came to the camp gate, kicked open the camp gate that had just been closed halfway, and finally strode into the meteor.
With a fierce general like him taking the lead, the soldiers of the Iron Lion Army were also very relaxed, and they poured into the camp of the Red Navy, and chased and killed the Red Soldiers.
The eighth and ninth corps commanders of the Red Army as the main general are both hereditary nobles, and their cultivation of the underworld is actually quite good, otherwise Gaotong would not have been able to leave the two of them, but they are not very bold, seeing that there are many enemy troops, and the enemy generals are extremely brave, they have no intention of fighting at all, and they run faster than the other.
These two didn't dare to stay in the camp, so they passed through the camp directly and fled to the side of Linzhuang, wanting to find Gaotong to meet.
The two of them ran faster than rabbits, but they suffered the soldiers below. As the enemy broke through into the camp, the morale of the Red soldiers was dealt a heavy blow, and now even the main general has run away, and the Red soldiers have completely lost their fighting spirit to resist.
The rout of the Red Army can be described as a complete defeat, more than 20,000 Red soldiers, if the large Jiankang Naval Division battalion, did not even hold on for half an hour, it was completely occupied by the Iron Lion Army of more than 30,000 people, and the Red Country Fleet of the entire two corps, more than 40 ships, did not even have a chance to use, and were also taken over by the Jin Army.
In this battle, the Jin army came suddenly, and it was true that the Red Army was caught off guard, but the incompetence of the eighth and ninth corps commanders was also the main reason for the instant loss of the Jiankang Water Division's battalion.
When the eighth and ninth corps commanders fled in the direction of Linzhuang with the remnants of the defeated generals, they happened to meet Gao Tong, who led the cavalry back in a hurry, halfway through. (To be continued......)