Volume 1 Mu Xuanzhou Chapter 59 Destruction (1)
Jia Heyu personally supervised the battle, and made people dig under the base, the battle until the afternoon, the first ditch has been unrecognizable, Wu Yuejun also dug out three offensive channels with a width of more than ten steps, and also grabbed some corpses down, recovering a lot of morale.
On the other beach, the Taihu Kou kept the battalion in the shallows with a constant short counterattack, and Jia and Yu suspected that they would not be able to stand on the beach if it were not for the support of the bed crossbows on the sea-going boats. However, at least it restrained nearly 100 Taihu Kou. This group of people couldn't do their work, Jia Heshu was annoyed, and it was inconvenient to attack at this time, so he asked Wang Chi to take a boat to command. Three hundred people, can always contain two hundred Taihu Kou, can it be justified, and how many Taihu Kou can there be in total?
With Wang Chi leading his own troops to sweep the formation, Wu Yuejun could only cheer up, and soon gained a foothold on another beachhead. There was no ditch dug by the Taihu Kou over there, and at this time they were only occupying a favorable position on the slope of the mountain and resisting stubbornly.
And the soldiers of the Taihu Lake villages above the ditch were almost exhausted, and the casualties were heavy. The villages of Taihu Lake, when the incident was full of 1,200 strong, after several losses, there were less than 1,000, at this time there were 400 people on the boat, and there were less than 600 people left behind. And Li Congyi arranged a battalion and strengthened a company, with a total of 400 people on the island, at this time, except for some archers participating in the battle, the rest were recuperating. At this time, there were nearly 100 people killed in the battle in Taihu Zhuzhai, nearly 100 people who were injured and could not fight, and half of the remaining 400 people were injured.
After Wu Yuejun opened a second battlefield on another beachhead, Yu Fengping, the second leader, was sent over, and in a counterattack, he was hit by the bed crossbow on the warship and hit the broken stone formed by the stones, and he was unknown on the spot. Shi Deping had to go over and take over. And Han Shi was also covered in blood.
Battalion commander Zhao Kai and Wu Feixing said: "Regiment commander, the Taihu Zhuzhai lacks a battle formation, and even more lacks cooperation, all relying on blood and bravery, it is difficult to sustain at this time, I think our department will replace them." ”
Zhao Kai was the smuggling salt dealer in Hengwu Village, Guangde County that day, and after Zhao Kai was exposed, he couldn't stay in Hengwu Village anymore, so he went to Dongmendu to become a soldier after Li Congyi's message. Zhao Kai can build a Hengwu village like a fortress, and can closely unite the entire village around himself, of course, he is a very leading talent. He was born as a smuggler of salt, and he has a common language with Wu Feixing and others, and now he is the commander of a battalion.
Seeing that the Taihu Lake villages suffered such heavy casualties, Zhao Kai also felt compassion.
Unexpectedly, it was Han Shi who said: "No, my Taihu Lake villages have not yet reached the end of the mountains and rivers." At this time, if we give up and let the Mingzhou sailors escape, the blood of our Taihu Lake villages will be in vain. ”
Jia Heyu sneered, and while mobilizing troops non-stop, preparing to attack the two beachheads at the same time, and then strive to break the first ditch in one fell swoop, break into the second ditch, and then see how long Taihu Kou can last.
At this time, a clipper ship is speeding up, and a herald brings emergency military information. The sentinel ships in the west set off fireworks, and enemy ships are attacking in the west! Jia Heyu looked to the west, but the port was a small bay, blocked by mountains, and there was hardly wolf smoke to be seen.
Jia Heyu weighed a few breaths, and decided to return to the ship first. However, Jia Heyu sat in a small boat, and as soon as he sailed out of the bay, he saw the sailor raise its main sail, slowly turn around, and actually want to attack westward.
What's going on? Jia Heyu was confused, and saw another small boat coming, and the news brought by the herald made Jia Heyu stunned. It turned out that Cao Pengyan, the capital supervisor, personally led the main warship to meet the main force of the Taihu Kou Water Army, so please Jia Heyu not be distracted, and be sure to take down the Taihu Kou Lair as soon as possible.
At this point, Jia Heyu was also helpless, so he could only return to the shore and organize an offensive again.
At this time, on Butterfly Island, a sentry also came to report: "There is wolf smoke rising in the western sea!" "After a while, I saw the Mingzhou sailors raise their sails and turn around and go west.
Jiang Guogong's army is in the northeast, so naturally it will not come from the west, and those who come from the west will come to annihilate the third-party forces of the Mingzhou Navy.
Wu Feixing immediately ordered: "Replace the soldiers of Taihu Village with Zhao Kai's department, so as to make the Mingzhou army frightened with one blow." ”
He also ordered the sentinel, "When the enemy engages with the Mingzhou Naval Division, light up the wolf smoke!" ”
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Jia Heyu couldn't wait, and quickly organized his troops, and this time he invested three teams at once, wanting to crush Taihu Kou in one fell swoop.
Wu Yuebing took a hundred steps before the first ditch, only to see a piercing sound of crossbow arrows breaking through the air in the air, and then blood splashed in the array, and some people screamed and fell.
After Zhao Kai's department strengthened a company, there were 400 people, and at this time 150 crossbows were concentrated, and 50 crossbows were carried out in a round to carry out a three-stage attack, covering the dense formation of Wu Yue's array. When he walked to the first ditch, if it weren't for the battalion commander to personally suppress the formation, Wu Yue's army would have almost collapsed.
When Wu Yue's army approached the first ditch, the Xuanzhou soldiers at the second ditch walked out in line. Three rows of 100 pikemen, armed with three-meter long spears, with blades one meter long and barrels of two meters, were raised high like a forest of guns.
At this time, Jia and Yu knew that the situation was not right, and urgently ordered the second group of two teams to prepare for a counterattack.
At this time, the crossbowmen and archers on both sides fired at each other, but under the crossbow arrows of the Xuanzhou soldiers, Wu Yue's archers were quickly defeated. Only a few gunners in the spear array shot arrows, and the people in the back row quickly replenished them, and the entire gun array spread out between the second and first ditch barriers, colliding head-on with Wu Yuejun's array.
Wu Yuejun poured in from the three gaps in the first ditch and faced the guns of the Xuanzhou soldiers.
I saw the Xuanzhou soldiers with the sound of drums, suddenly one of them stood still, and then turned right collectively, when the Wu Yue soldiers were stunned, they listened to the shout of "kill" together, the first row of spears of the Xuanzhou soldiers stabbed to the left, the spear stabbed extremely fiercely, the wooden shield could not be blocked at all, often a big shield was pierced by two or three guns, and a scream sounded behind the big shield. Some of them used their knives to pull the blades of their spears, but those who lacked strength could not stop the thrust, and they were killed instantly; Some of them fired a gun, but two shots stabbed from the left and right sides, and they couldn't resist it, but they died on the spot.
Then the second row of Xuanzhou soldiers walked out of the gap in the human wall formed after the first row turned right, and then turned right again and then stabbed left. The three spurs, the shield soldiers in the front row of Wu Yue's army, were empty. The crossbowmen behind the gun array continued one after another, shooting the crossbow arrows and arrows directly from the left and right sides of the spearmen.
Wu Yuejun collapsed on the spot, and the three teams lost their formation and ran down the slope for their lives.
Zhao Kai ordered a company dominated by two sword and shield men to rush forward, bite the rout, and then disperse the two teams of Jia and Yu who were preparing to counterattack. The beach was narrow, and Jia and Yu ordered to retreat to the sides to make room for the rout. At the same time, he was desperately thinking about how to resist the pikemen who suddenly appeared in Taihu Kou.
Unexpectedly, when he saw that Taihu Kou suddenly called in to withdraw his troops, they were all about to rush to the beach, and Jia Heyu was also ready to flee back to the small boat on the bay when the situation was not right, Taihu Kou retreated. Only the corpses of Wu Yuejun were left on the hillside.
Jia and Yu were in the middle of their minds, when they saw a small boat coming quickly, and a messenger brought a message that made Jia and Yu petrify again. It turned out that Cao Peng, the capital supervisor, led the army to the west for a long time, and was about to have an ambitious battle with the Taihu Kou, but found that the warships in the west were menacing, and the first fleet was beaten, and the number of big ships was more than that of Party B!
Cao Peng was stunned in an instant. So he ordered the fleet to retreat to the east, returned to the waters of Butterfly Island, and sent a herald to pick up Jia and return to the flagship to command the naval battle.
Jia Heyu just wanted to vomit blood.
At this time, at the highest peak of Butterfly Island, the situation of the two fleets can already be seen.
The main force of the Mingzhou Navy Division is in the east and is coming to Butterfly Island. The two or three hundred stone boats of the Mingzhou Navy Division were reloaded on the shore, but depending on the posture, the time may be too late.
The fleet on the west side had nearly ten thousand-stone or eight-hundred-stone ships, and more than ten five- or six-hundred-stone ships, which were divided into two columns at this time, and were heading east at full speed.
At this time, Jia Heyu was rushing to the flagship on a small boat. When I looked back, I saw wolf smoke rising from Butterfly Island. Jia Hefu was puzzled, at this time, the main force of the Taihu Koushui Army was about to arrive at the battlefield, what was the use of wolf smoke again?
By the time Jia and Yu returned to the flagship, the enemy ships were already approaching, and the small boats of the Mingzhou Navy Division had not yet completed the formation in the bay. Jia Heyi ordered the unboarded ships to remain on guard on the shore, and all the ships immediately sailed out of the bay to participate in the naval battle.
Jia Heyu forgot the impact of a fiasco on the morale of the army, and at this time there was still a full battalion of soldiers who had not been able to board the ship, and they heard that they should continue to stay on the beach to guard against the Taihu Kou. The soldiers exploded at once. How terrible the pikes of Taihu Kou were just now, all of them were stabbed a few times and then all of them were gone. Now that the others have withdrawn, they have left themselves on the shore, and this is not waiting for death. So the soldiers scrambled to grab the boat, and when a ship was the most close to the shore, dozens of people rushed up to grab the side of the ship, and actually capsized the ship. The other boats were in disarray and wanted to withdraw from the shore. Finally, some soldiers couldn't help but grab the boat, and suddenly a fierce battle broke out in the bay, which shocked the Taihu Lake villages and Xuanzhou soldiers on the island.
Except for the first batch of small boats loaded with soldiers rushing out of the bay, when the first batch of warships of the Mingzhou Navy Division rushed out of the bay, they were scattered in formation, morale was broken, and the ships rushed out in a hurry, and then they didn't even have a direction where to go.
While Jia Heyu was in a hurry, he ordered the capital ship to go west, and at the same time to the south to the direction of the bay, and ordered the small boat to follow as soon as possible, looking for an opportunity to cooperate with the capital ship to fight.
At this time, on the flagship opposite, Tian Haomiao, the deputy commander of the Mingzhou Naval Division, showed a cruel smile: "Call the signal, don't entangle with the big ships first, rush over first, and send those small boats to the bottom of the sea!" ”
The two fleets got closer and closer, but Tian's fleet still did not slow down and rushed straight over. As soon as they got closer, the crossbows of both sides shot at each other. The place where Tian's fleet cut into was between the thousand-stone ship and the six-hundred-stone ship that the capital supervisor Cao Peng was riding, cutting the main ship of the Mingzhou Navy Division into two. Every time a ship rushed by, a batch of bed crossbows were poured on Cao Peng's boat. If you hit the sail, the sail will break; If you hit the ship, the sawdust will be scattered; If you hit someone, the flesh will be broken and the bones will be broken.
Cao Peng saw a soldier on the side of the ship, unfortunately scraped his leg by a bed crossbow, and the leg was missing at that time, and the soldier screamed on the deck, and Cao Peng felt weak and collapsed to the ground vomiting.