Chapter 38: The Naval Army
The Huai army entered the city and immediately began to blockade the city, and at the same time sent a part of the army to Miyagi. On the other hand, let the people who have taken refuge in Huai State persuade them to surrender.
"Send men to make rounds, and kill those who resist in the corner, kill those who commit adultery and plunder, kill those who rob property, and kill those who commit adultery with women!" Let the people of the city go home and take refuge. Wei Ping ordered.
"Whoa!" A detachment of soldiers immediately rushed to give the order.
"Send people to control the four city gates and all the transportation arteries, and send people to bring grain over, and when the city is controlled, open a warehouse and release grain."
After several orders were issued, Wei Ping entered the city with a large army, and Huai Guo, who had been ambushed in the city for a long time, also came to report the news.
The riots that can occur in this city are not only partly caused by the deep grievances of the nobles of the Han State, but also by the Huai State.
With these meticulous works that are familiar with the Han State, and the help of the people, the Han State was quickly controlled, but the king of the Han State ran away in advance with some people.
Next, Wei Ping ordered people to open the treasury of Han and distribute the grain inside to the people in the city. The monarch of Han and many nobles all kinds of goods looted by Huai Guo fell into the hands of Huai State, these people tried their best to squeeze the income of the people, and before they had time to enjoy it, they made a wedding dress for Huai State, and Huai State only distributed some food, and immediately won the support of the people of Han State.
The nobles of Han had suffered heavy casualties in the previous rebellion, and Wei Ping had the people return the plundered fields and houses to the people. As for the property of these nobles, all of them were sealed into the treasury.
Greed made these Han nobles oppress the people, but in the end, they even lost their lives.
Under Wei Ping's rule, in just three days, the Han State calmed down and all order was restored.
On the other side, Han Hou escaped from the secret passage, only having time to take his wife and son, as well as dozens of guards. After leaving the secret road, everyone did not dare to stop, ran all the way to the bank of the Yangtze River, wanted to cross the river to Wu State, and asked Wu Hou to send troops to help him restore the country.
The group came to the bank of the Yangtze River, which was still in the hands of Han Guo at this time, and immediately ordered the naval army to cross the river.
Three thousand sailors escorted the Marquis of Han to the south bank of the Yangtze River, leaving only an empty water village, and at this time, the Marquis of Han was relieved.
The fleet of naval forces was fast, and dozens of boats sailed on the river in a patchwork manner. At this time, some black spots suddenly appeared on the river surface in the distance, and these black spots expanded rapidly, and soon everyone saw that they were ships.
"It's not good, it's Huai's navy!"
"Hurry up and get ready to fight!"
Seeing the Huai army's fleet, the Hanguo Navy immediately gave the order to go down.
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"General, this time the Hanguo Navy has poured out!" A soldier next to him said after quickly counting the ships of the Han Kingdom.
Xu Lie nodded: "The whole army of the navy is dispatched, it seems that this Han country is going to be desperate, I think that the ship should be the nobles of the Han country!" β
"Order the whole army, the whole army to go out, not a single boat can be let go!"
"Whoa!"
The Huai State Navy immediately divided into two teams, one left and one right, and attacked from both sides, and at the same time, dozens of small boats were also put down. These small boats were long and narrow, with ramming angles at the bow and many things that ignited fires. It is extremely fast, and once it hits a big ship, the impact angle will pierce into the hull, which is extremely difficult to get rid of, and the ignition in it can quickly ignite the big ship.
The Huaiguo fleet attacked left and right, and there were a large number of people in the middle, and the Han navy was not an opponent at all. Only part of the Han navy is wearing armor, and most of it is leather armor, while the Huai navy is all wearing rattan armor woven by the old rattan in the mountains.
This rattan armor sword is difficult to hurt, and it is very light, and after falling into the water, it can even rely on the rattan armor to surface, which is a sharp weapon for water warfare.
The 3,000 Han navy was besieged left and right, the river was undulating, and the ships were swaying up and down, but the Huai navy was still able to firmly stabilize its body, and at the same time stabilize its body and shoot bows and arrows.
The Huaiguo Navy is all elite, and they have been training for five years, even on the undulating boat, they are still superb in archery. As soon as the two armies came into contact, the soldiers of the Han State were shot down, while the soldiers of the Huai State were almost unscathed.
Hanguo's arrows were shot at the Huai State Naval Army, and they were bounced off by the rattan armor one after another. The ships crashed into each other, and the Huai State sailors, who had been prepared for a long time, jumped directly onto the Han State ship.
The Huaiguo soldiers displayed extremely exquisite martial arts one by one, tossing and turning as if walking on the ground, and the sharp swords in their hands were like poisonous snakes spitting letters, mercilessly harvesting the lives of the Hanguo soldiers.
Coupled with the rattan armor on the Huai soldiers, even if they were besieged by several people, they would not fall behind, but would kill the enemies one by one.
The navy army of Hanguo is not a professional army, and only some of them are full-time soldiers, while the 3,000 sailors of Huaiguo are completely full-time professional soldiers, plus the gap in equipment. However, after only a short period of contact, the Han Navy was killed and wounded heavily, and its morale had completely collapsed.
Many Han soldiers dropped their weapons and surrendered, and some ran around like headless flies, and then were killed by the Huai soldiers who marched in formation.
Blood was constantly dripping from the bronze sword, and the rattan armor was also stained red with blood, and the blood on the board of the ship flowed sideways, almost dyeing all the board red, and for a while it was impossible to distinguish the original color of the board.
Although the numbers of the two sides were basically the same, the speed of the defeat of the Han naval army was surprising. In addition to these soldiers who jumped to the gang, the archers of Huai were also constantly shooting arrows, and the soldiers of Han who had no armor were shot down in large numbers.
The ships on both wings were constantly occupied by the Huai State naval army, and the ships that were guarded in the middle did not dare to stop at all, wanting to break out of the encirclement.
But Xu Lie had already made sufficient preparations, and those walkers crashed into each other. The sharp ramming angle slammed into the side of the ship, and then the fire rose, and soon the big ship was set on fire.
Originally, the Han Navy wanted to rely on the height of the ship to be strong and strong, and wanted to directly crash into those walkers, but they were ignited by the walkers. The flames rose, the arrows rained down, the Huaiguo soldiers were covered in blood, the blood on the swords was constantly neat, the rattan armor was full of sword marks, and the murderous faces were all the nightmare of the surviving Han soldiers.
The Han soldiers have been completely killed, the resistance is becoming more and more weak, one ship after another quickly fell, and even some ships were ignited by the fire, and a large number of Han soldiers jumped into the water to escape. It's a pity that he is in the middle of the river at this time, and even if the water is good, he will die for a lifetime.
The Huai navy was surrounded by the left and right, and the Han navy was completely defeated, and all the ships were either captured, burned or sunk into the river.
The 3,000 sailors suffered heavy casualties, the surrounding rivers were stained red with blood, and a large number of corpses floated on the water.
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The speed of the collapse of the Han Kingdom is amazing, as if overnight, the Han State was destroyed, which is also extremely rare in the thousands of years of Chinese history. The consequences of human greed are extremely serious, and history has taught us an unforgettable lesson, but the only lesson that humanity has learned from history is that mankind never learns its lesson. ββThe Cambridge History of China: The History of the Western Zhou Dynasty