Chapter 80 The soldiers are here to block the water
Three days later, Dian Wei and Zhang Liao occupied the important place on the eastern side, and the western river was completely cut off by the solemn couple who were marching rapidly. Yue Feng then pretended to fight a large-scale battle to force the Yellow River for two days, and then the army also started a wave.
Five days later, Yue Feng arrived at the seaside, and Ma Chao and his wife had already built a five-zhang high platform several meters long. But most of Zhou Yu's navy seems to be here, with the advantage of the ship, launched a fierce attack, Ma Chao is also very good, with the range of the catapult and Zhou Yu to play the tug-of-war, anyway, the current catapult is extremely flexible, not slower than the ship movement, only the range is less than twenty zhang. But when the Wuzhang platform was built, Zhou Yu's offensive was slow.
Yue Feng arrived at the coast, and several of the latest information arrived in hand, one is that Zhou Yu's 100,000 sailors are in this section, and there are 40,000 in the east and 60,000 in front, which basically cuts off the possibility of Pang Tong entering the river. In addition, with the 10,000 sailors each that were cut off, the middle and 20,000 infantry could only defend against it. As long as you don't cross the river, you ignore it. Xiang Yu directly began to cast a high platform on the spot, and Xiang Yu was not a piece, but a piece, and soon accumulated more than ten zhang, but each high platform did not throw more cars, Xiang Yu built a bridge with stones, each pier is tens of thousands of catties, the other party came to destroy, just throw stones, and continue to build without destruction, at this rate, it is estimated that it will be built in ten years, and the other party's ship is also dead.
The case of the Yue Feng attack applauded. But Zhou Yu's ruthlessness is definitely beyond Yue Feng's imagination, he actually calculated his own strategy, and looking at this way, the 100,000 water army is consumed to death with himself.
In the afternoon, the sergeants symbolically piled up a high platform to show their military strength. In the evening, Guo Jia said that in this case, as long as the soldiers of Wuzhou were left with 20,000 or 30,000, and the rest went to Baiqi, and then with more than 100,000 troops, they forcibly crossed the river from the east and west sides of Zhuangyan, and after surrounding Zhuangyan, they could directly hit the surrounding counties, ambush Xiang Yu's rescue soldiers, attack the state capital, and so on. Yue Feng immediately made a decision and ordered 60,000 soldiers to rush back to the solemn place immediately. In this way, the strength of the whole line is very balanced, although he has 20,000 infantry, but there are 20,000 carts, 20,000 cavalry, and can retreat to the coast, even if the Wu army 150,000 cross the river, it may not be impossible to fight, and Zhang Liaodianwei, there are still 50,000 troops, and they will be able to support. Yue Feng first transferred 5,000 siege troops back to Binhai to defend them, just in case.
In this way, the 60,000 people who crossed the wind showed for a day, and then went back under the leadership of a large number of lieutenants. Thanks to the fact that it was not a rush march, it was okay.
A day later, after Yue Feng and Zhou Yu finished inking, Tutai became more and more tired, but Zhou Yu was still happy to keep harassing. Yue Feng also got the latest battle report, and the Wuzhou army did move west three days ago, and it is estimated that it will arrive at the same time as his own army of 60,000. Yue Feng had already described the possibilities in detail when the lieutenants left, and Yue Feng felt that they would do a good job.
But even so, Yue Feng is also haggard, because the river is too important. You can only know the approximate enemy yourself, and there is a delay. The enemy's intelligence on itself is much faster. And even if he blocked the Yangtze River, he didn't think about breaking through at all, but accumulated superior forces and attacked his own defensive fortress, and he had no way to cross the line of the other party. After thinking about it, Yue Feng decided to let Zhang Liao lead his 20,000 cavalry to attack to help Zhuang Yan, anyway, the cavalry could arrive in five hundred miles and two days, Yue Feng directly let the cavalry sneak away in the middle of the night, and Zhang Liao also took 5,000 cavalry to join these and rush to the solemn place.
Five days later, the battle report came, Bai Qi, Wu Zixu with 120,000 troops, all from the solemn west to cross the river, the deputy general's 60,000 soldiers actually directly bypassed the solemn and rushed to the west side of Bai Qi's soldiers, Zhang Liao's 25,000 cavalry surrounded the north side, solemn also led 20,000 steps, and the army of 5,000 cavalry also attacked with all their might.
After several battles, taking advantage of the encirclement, the three armies drove Bai Qi to the Yangtze River, and in the last count, it was the deputy generals who killed a lot of enemies. Bai Qi did not lose, and after losing 20,000 people, under the cover of 10,000 sailors, he slowly returned to Jiangbei.
Those lieutenant generals also worked together, because before setting off, Yue Feng randomly assigned a commander, as long as Yue Feng did not order, he decided the coming and going of the 60,000. This was less than 60,000 people, and 30,000 returned to the Yuefeng troops. The rest is left in the solemn one. Zhang Liao returned to Dianwena with less than 25,000 horsemen.
In this way, from west to east, the solemn army is 65,000, Xiang Yu is 70,000, Dian Wei is 85,000, and Yue Feng is 65,000. Among them, Dian Wei's 80,000 5 included 20,000 Liao cavalry.
The original plan became a stalemate, Bai Qi lost 20,000 soldiers, although Wuzhou in the east was unhindered, but it was still not safe, if the Qin navy took the risk of crossing the sea, transporting troops, and directly attacking Wuzhou Mansion, it would be dangerous. Therefore, Bai Qi still transferred back 30,000 troops to Wuzhou. The two sides are fighting and stopping, you come and go. A month has passed in the blink of an eye. King Yue Feng of Qin finally completely blocked the mouth of the river in the south of Binhai. But the other party actually blocked the mouth of the river during this period, and the other party was even more exaggerated, it was simply a mountain, and on the soil slope thirty or forty zhang high, all kinds of giant crossbow throwing carts were lined up. Zhou Yu divided the navy into four on the left and eight on the right, which made Yue Feng lose his temper completely.
In the west of the border wasteland, there are lakes in the north and south, and the boats on both sides are made and fought, but because it is the place where Wu and Shu meet, there are also a small number of military ships in Shu, at first Wu chased Qin, and later Qin lost more and won less. Qinzhou relied on the land and resources, and when one was destroyed, two ships came, but unfortunately there were no big ships, and Wu Shu played guerrilla warfare. To the east of the border wasteland, the two sides today the Qin army Lei Tu transferred troops, tomorrow the Wu State crossed the river to assault, and the battle was almost once a day. The forces of both sides were greatly reduced, but the warships of Wu were never few. The Qin army suffered 50,000 or 60,000 casualties, while the Wu army only suffered 30,000 or 20,000 casualties, but the three blockhouse-like strongholds completely divided the Yangtze River into four sections, and the Wu army ships also lost several hundred.
In a month, winter will begin. Although the Yangtze River does not freeze, it is also a different kind of severe cold. After these two months of fighting, the Qin army accumulated a lot of experience in water warfare, and the Qin army's national strength to build ships to replenish its forces also allowed Pang Tong's navy to accumulate 70,000. Yue Feng decided to start training the navy, even if the whole army was annihilated, he would completely lose Zhou Yu's 80,000 water army, so that he could rely on his military advantage and strong national strength to surpass Wu's water army within three years, plus his own several pillboxes, like copper walls and iron walls, reached the extreme of fortifications, so as long as he sent troops to defend, it was only a matter of time before he destroyed Wu. After discussing with Guo Jia, Yue Feng ordered Pang Tong to enter the river from the sea, join him, and marry the coast of Yue Feng before he arrived, and Zhou Yu fought with him.
It is also Yuefeng who has been preparing for many years, and the navy is not useless, plus iron-clad ships, siege vehicles on board, and various escort suicide ships, Pang Tong actually has 10,000 sailors left to enter the control of Yuefeng Fortress, and Zhou Yu lost 50,000 troops, only 30,000 remaining, respectively in the defense of the Haihe estuary and the defense of the Yangtze River in the east.
At this point, Yue Feng made a decisive order: within three years, between Yue Feng and Dian Wei, establish a steel defense line, build a bunker catapult step by step, every five miles of a pillbox, send troops from the north of Tongzhou to garrison, and all the catapults produced every year enter this line of defense.
When Yue Feng and Dian Wei started, Zhou Yu was also quite resolute, he knew that if this continued, the 40,000 sailors and 800 warships between them would be completely eaten. Zhou Yu directly moved all the ships between this section of water from the Yangtze River, and 40,000 sailors were stationed on the southern line first, and then made carrying vehicles with a large number of civilian forces, preparing where they needed to be transported. When Yue Feng finished controlling this section, he garrisoned it with a large number of troops, and also built a fortress wall, so that Yue Feng had no ships to use.
Yue Feng heard the information and knew that Zhou Yu actually built a fortress, played with Lei Tu, and transported the ship away. Knowing that this Yangtze River is really unbearable. Where you can go down the river, the opponent's navy has the advantage, and even if you release the boat, Zhou Yu will also release it, and there are many more people than you. You banned this section of the Yangtze River, Zhou Yu also banned, and none of us should go over.
Yue Feng knew that if he continued like this, as long as he vigorously developed the navy and the lake army, sooner or later he would win the government to the death, but it would really take ten or eight years. After all, the other party will develop a navy, and he must have an army to defend Sichuan and Shu.
Yue Feng finished reading the assassin's report that made him depressed: "Guo Jia, how long will it take to directly occupy a section of the Yangtze River by car and ship?"
Guo Jia thought about it and said: "Maybe three years, maybe a year, it mainly depends on what Zhou Yu does, if he always lets the 40,000 sailors in the car, we must gather 80,000 sailors and succeed in one fell swoop." If vigorously developed, a year may be. But as far as my judgment of Wu is concerned, this matter can't be hidden, and the other party may also play this with us, playing with cars and boats, it will really take ten or eight years!"
Yue Feng knew that Guo Jia's judgment was good. And once Wu Zhen is at a big disadvantage, just ask Shu for help directly. Although the Shu army only has a short section of the Yangtze River for a few hundred miles, it is still very dangerous, but as long as Wu ruthlessly cuts out half of Huzhou and goes north with Shu, it is really dangerous if he only develops a naval army.
Yue Feng said: "Maintain the realm of Wu! They have very few troops, and we still have more than 200,000 troops, so I think we need to transfer 50,000 back to Beijing and then rotate them." In this way, Wu has no advantage, and he will not jump off the wall in a hurry. If we vigorously develop our national strength, enrich the people and strengthen the army, recuperate for three years, and build ships and accumulate troops for five years, I believe that at that time, the entire Yangtze River will be our forbidden area, and the Yangtze River will completely become a dead river. We will directly defeat Wu with a naval battle and a battle!"
Guo Jia thought about it and said: "Shu may not be honest, if it is extended for another two years, it will be 247 years at that time, and you will only be thirty-five." In another three years, it will be enough to conquer Shu!"
After Yue Feng and Guo Jia discussed, they decided to leave Dian Wei, Zhang Liao, Zhuang Diao Chan, and Xiang Yu Yu Ji, so that there are not only two spy managers, but also four generals to lead the army, and a large number of young generals are emerging from the scene, and Cheng Xian is helping them in Tongzhou. It would be enough to leave another 150,000 troops for them. And Ma Chaochengyue still has a heavy task, so he followed Yue Feng, Guo Jia and the 50,000 army back to Beijing. As for Pang Tong, he left 10,000 navy to the deputy commander in chief and went back to train the new navy with a group of talents.