Chapter 104: Fire Attack on Sukou
"This gang of Yuan thieves is so big, seeing me approaching under the banner of Liu Xun, not only is they not vigilant, but they actually dare to take the initiative to open the gate of the village?!"
Gan Ning in the distance, although he knew that he had a high probability of succeeding in this trip.
Because in the past six months, he has become accustomed to Zhuge Fujun's calculations, as long as the Zhuge family asks him to do something, then he will do it without a brain. Even if it sounds bizarre at first, it will definitely win in the end.
But Rao has such a psychological advantage, when he saw the door of the village in front of him take the initiative to open, he was still almost stunned, and he was so shocked that he couldn't speak.
In his expectation, his fleet would be able to approach within hundreds of paces of the enemy's village, and the water village would be defenseless, and he would not try to intercept the boat, and he would not let the crossbowmen release their arrows, which was already the limit of his imagination.
Qiao Ruijun definitely regards Lujiang County as "the safety rear of his own people all around", otherwise he would not have been able to do this kind of operation without ten years of cerebral thrombosis.
And this change also made Gan Ning's heart more and more eager, and his brain began to quickly assess the situation in front of him, thinking about how to maximize the suddenness of the surprise attack.
Although he is not very good at resourcefulness, he still has a very keen sense of smell in command, and everyone has their own brains, which is precisely his strength.
Before Gan Ning came, he had also done sufficient intelligence work, and had roughly explored the terrain and layout around the mouth of the water.
He knew that the port town of Misukou was mainly composed of two parts, one part was a civilian wharf near the Yangtze River, where a large number of merchant ships docked, and it was possible to use it to berth the grain fleet during wartime.
Because the water is much narrower than the Yangtze River, the generals of the navy have always tried to raise a few large ships in peacetime, so that when the battle is unfavorable, the surface of the river can be completely blocked at any time-
"Enemy attack! Enemy attack! Hurry up and release the arrows! ”
"Cut off all the cables of the ship's bolts! How much can the canopy be raised, how much liters! Then dive and retreat! ”
"This ...... How many grain ships were seized? How many warships were burned? Zhuge Jin couldn't help but ask with a little weakness, lest he would not be able to reward Gan Ning.
The sailors on duty on the ship even found that their ship was burning, so they hurriedly came to check, thinking it was an accidental fire.
The Yuan soldier, who didn't jump on the grain boat and wanted to take it back, was invincible with two fists and four hands, and was hacked to death by the sailors of the Jinfan battalion and thrown into the river.
After dawn, Gan Ning successfully returned to Chungu County downstream.
And Gan Ning's rear army, which was left behind to be responsible for the response, was not idle in this short period of half an hour. Under Gan Ning's advance deployment, they divided hundreds of sailors and jumped to the grain ships on the wharf by the Yangtze River outside, and also cut the cables and stones, and then raised the sails and drove the grain ships away.
"Quick, let the warships of the water village come out and chase after them! Don't jump! Jumping on it is also sending you to death! The officers of the Yuan army on the dock finally recognized the situation and stopped the recklessness of their warriors.
When the elite soldiers of the Jinfan battalion on the Han army used flying claws and hooks to climb up the building boat, the guards of the building boat still did not distinguish between the enemy and me, and thought that they were here to fight the fire, or they wanted to drive the boat away to dodge, so they let the Jinfan soldiers climb onto the deck and draw their knives, and the two sides were in a scuffle.
And so it was...... The Jinfan thief is very skilled in his own business, and he is just like that, and he will take it after burning.
Qiao Rui himself used to sleep in the town of Wet Whiskers, and was not on the dock, and he had just seen the fire rush over on his horse.
But he was worried about asking for guilt, and in a hurry, seeing that his ship was about to enter the range of arrow rain, Gan Ningjun's arrows had already sparsely dispersed and began to fall on the river water on the side of the bow boat.
Gan Ning originally didn't dare to think of the idea of fighting the building boat, but now Qiao Ruijun took the initiative to open the door for him and made him willing to gamble.
After Gan Ning did all this, he could still take a good time to look at a small boat next to him that was not yet on fire, and then jumped into the water to board the boat and row back.
The damage of these fireships is not huge, because the Qiao Rui army is not the Cao army after all, and they have not locked the warships in a chain.
With Gan Ning's order, more than a dozen slender ships each cut the cables of the tattered boats towed at the stern, and those small boats continued to rush forward by inertia and paddle sprints, and then the boats ignited a large fire, slamming into their respective targets, igniting the large warships in the water wall.
However, when he saw Gan Ning's results, Zhuge Jin was still shocked.
So a small boat is generally one for one. In extreme cases, enemy ships are berthed relatively close to each other, and it is possible to exchange one for two.
The enemy has driven the grain ships out of the berths, of course, they have to chase them with warships, how can they chase them with the army?
"The big ship can't go out! As soon as the thief came up, he burned down our boats, and cut all the cables that held the hull in place, and the ships were impulsed by the current, and collided with each other, and the channel was completely blocked! The rear army can't catch up! Or chase it with a boat! ”
Gan Ning on the opposite side has already won the whole army and began to retreat in an orderly manner.
Qiao Rui suddenly had a plan, taking advantage of the fact that the soldiers of the same boat were not paying attention, he scooped up an enemy arrow that had drifted close, carefully cleaned and wiped the arrow, and then gritted his teeth and stabbed the side of his left arm, drawing a dripping bloody hole.
He knew that not being able to catch up at this time was a matter of ability, but not chasing was a matter of attitude, and if His Majesty knew about it, he was afraid that he would not know how many punishments he would suffer.
Seeing a dignified and vicious battle, Qiao Rui suddenly found that he really couldn't defeat it at all with the little pursuit force at hand, not just a matter of being sneak attacked.
Gan Ning said proudly: "I took a casual look on the river at that time, there should be seventy or eighty grain ships, burned a dozen of them, and dragged back sixty of them-Qiao Rui is still strange, and all the grain was loaded into the ship in advance."
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Gan Ning personally took the lead in his own soldiers, climbed onto a burning boat, killed three or five stunned Yuan army sailors, and threw the deceased's torch into the cabin, and then personally grabbed a big axe, cut off the thick hemp rope at the mouth of the bowl of the bolt stone, and then led the soldiers to cut off the hemp rope that tied the ship to the berth.
Zhuge Jin has been on standby in Chungu County for the past few days, because Wuhu downstream has not yet been breached, and Tai Shici has already sent it out. Zhuge Jin was preparing that once Tai Shici reported and said that he would take Wuhu, he would immediately move to Wuhu.
It wasn't until the Yangtze River on the outside side that the first few grain ships were directly driven away, and the sentries noticed the abnormality here and hurriedly wanted to chase after them to stop them, but the sailors of the Jinfan Battalion had cut the cables one after another and pushed the boats out of the berth slightly.
These meticulous tasks would have taken a lot of time, but Yuan Jun didn't pay attention to them at first, and the soldiers who had just gotten up rushed to the warship Shuizhai to reinforce and reverse the defeat.
And because it was early in the morning, the enemy was not on guard, many large ships had very few soldiers on duty, the ships were basically empty, and the guards on the fighting ships were only two or three times as many as the boats.
In just a few hundred steps, Gan Ning finally figured out the change of moves, and quickly passed through the heralds who jumped and swam in the water, and passed the orders as much as possible. Because he did not give the order to light the fire for a long time, the captains of the other ships of the Jinfan Battalion did not dare to act rashly, so they drove straight into the water village.
"Ahh I've been shot! ”
Zhuge Jin also expected that Gan Ning would win the battle, after all, this was a thorough and pure sneak attack, and Yuan Shujun didn't know that Zhuge Jun was the enemy, which was almost like stealing Pearl Harbor.
The sailors are not as elite as the enemy, and the troops chasing them out are not enough, and the boats are worse than others, so they can only use boats, and it is simply for nothing to chase again.
I burned all three of the bridge's boats, five of the seven fighting ships, and half of the ships. I didn't think it was as valuable as my fireboat, so I just passed by and threw some torches, and didn't burn them. ”
But Gan Ning was not greedy, he temporarily robbed all the grain parked on the dock of the civilian ships outside, these grain ships sailed slower than the warships, and when Qiao Rui raised a hundred and ten small boats to kill the water village, he could barely get closer to Gan Ning.
"Who is the enemy? Liu Bei's soldiers? ”
A chase farce finally ended like this.
It should be that after Liu Xun arrives, he will take these grain ships to go out with him, all for Liu Xun's army to fight Guangling to eat. I saw that it was a pity that it was all burned, and the sailors had a surplus, so I came back with my hand.
The soldier next to him shifted his attention and was shocked when he saw the general holding his bleeding injured arm and showing pain on his face. There was also a Qu Junhou on the ship, who was Qiao Rui's henchman, and hurriedly shouted and lit fires to make all the other pursuers retreat.
Because of the fire and the hoisting of the sails, the huge building ship just ran into the tide and spread the fire, and also blocked a small part of the narrow waterway.
However, Gan Ning was very entrusted to let the warship behind the palace and protect the grain ship first. Seeing that there were pursuers, he immediately ordered his subordinates to show weakness first, get closer and then fight.
"Light the fire, cut the cable!"
The three building boats on the bridge were originally lined up and docked along the berth on the west bank of the water, but in just two teas, they became staggered back and forth, blocking the waterway of the waterway. Although the navy army behind had already reacted and began to counterattack, it was blocked in the river and could not get out.
After turning from the Yangtze River into the water of the river, it was the well-fortified naval barracks, and the warships were mainly parked at the berths along the river, not by the Yangtze River.
But what Gan Ning used to set fire was all walkers, and at least the ships he replaced were ships, which was still very profitable.
After giving the order, the henchman Qu Junhou also came over to comfort Qiao Rui: "General rest assured, although our army is damaged, but you are wounded in the battle and retreat from the enemy, and you chase and destroy thousands of enemies, General Liu will definitely not ask us to offend, even if it is a big trouble, there will be an explanation." ”
The layout of the water village, which originally played a role in defending against enemy attacks, has now become a burden to block its own people.
Some of the bold Yuan soldiers also jumped abruptly and jumped onto the grain ship that had already gone offshore, but this behavior was obviously not replicable.
Seeing this tragic scene, his face was also pale, his expression was like a mournful woman, and bursts of blood rushed to his brain.
"The general is wounded! Spare those thieves who jumped over the wall in a hurry! Build golden bridges for the flying foe! ”
The fire boat poured tung oil, I was staring at the building boat on the bridge and set it on fire, and then jumped to cut the stone cable, once the building boat burned, go with the flow, the other ships were blocked in the wet water and couldn't get out, and there was no way to fight back! ”
"Hold your breath, light the fire slowly, and all ships listen to my orders! The fireboats rushed directly into the water village for a while, don't care about the civilian boats on the edge of the Yangtze River! Those civilian ships still have a heavy draft in the middle of the night, they must have been fully loaded with military rations, and it is not more cost-effective to try to seize the ship while it is in chaos after setting fire for a while!
Seeing that the bridge was approaching dozens of steps away from the ship behind the Gan Ning Palace, even the Qiao Rui army first sparsely released two showers of arrows, and Gan Ning ordered to shoot back, and personally opened his bow and arrows, and shot several pursuers one after another.
He had no choice but to grit his teeth and forcibly ordered: "You have to chase it even by walking!" Don't let the thieves go! I'll chase it myself! ”
However, the demand from the Yangtze River wharf was finally transmitted back to the water village, but Qiao Rui, who had just arrived at the water village, was helpless.
If you can't win it, it's too rebellious.
Because the department in charge of the warship team also came to report to him, he just told a bad news:
The archery level of the two sides in the bumpy environment on the water is not at all a level, and after several bridges that were chasing too fast were shot by the rain of arrows and suffered heavy casualties, the Gan Ning army even turned the bow of the boat and jumped to kill all the people on the boat, and then dropped the torch and burned the boat.
Maybe one or two Yuan soldiers jumped on a grain boat, but they didn't dare at all, or they couldn't jump that far if they jumped, they fell directly into the Yangtze River.
Let you set fire to the fleet of Qiaorui, and you still bring back so many prisoner grain ships?
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Originally, with the speed of Ganning's Jinfan Battalion, Qiao Rui was categorically unable to catch up.
There was chaos in the water village, and the Gan Ning army was allowed to kill indiscriminately.
"I don't know who is attacking! It's an enemy attack anyway! Ah, the ship is on fire! ”