Chapter 449: Retreat Again
The destruction of Unomiya Bin's department also destroyed the hope in Unomiya Terulie's heart, and after realizing that the supply had been cut off unknowingly, Umiya Terulie finally gave up holding on and gave the order to withdraw the army. Pen ~ fun ~ pavilion www.biquge.info and the direction in which Unomiya Terulie wants to retreat is the place where he became famous - Guandu.
Guandu is located in the north of Xuchang, south of the Yellow River, only two hundred miles away from Xuchang, it can be said that it has been very close to the Xuchang nest of Yugong Zhaolie, Yugong Zhaolie set the next stop in Guandu, not only to facilitate the transportation of supplies, but also to occupy a strategic point, annex the south bank of the Yellow River, and resist the elite soldiers of the Yuan Qi with the danger of the Yellow River. At the same time, Guandu is the place where Unomiya Terulie became famous, the battlefield he is most familiar with, and it is also his blessed land, and he wants to use the good luck that Guandu once brought to him to repel a strong enemy again. Fighting in Guandu, not only Ugong Zhaolie, but also every Wei army soldier has the effect of stimulating morale, so Ugong Zhaolie did not hesitate to withdraw his troops to Guandu, and shrink his forces in Guandu, arrange fortifications, and establish a strong defense line.
The members of Qianlong passed the news of Unomiya Terulie's withdrawal to Yuan Qi in the first time. After Yuan Qi got the news, he smiled at Zhuge Liang, and then firmly and confidently issued the order to march: "Order the three armies to immediately rise up from the village and approach Guandu!
At the sound of Yuan Qi's order, 800,000 elite soldiers rushed to the north bank of the Yellow River in one day and one night, and set up a large camp ten miles from the shore, facing the Wei army camp across the river. After the confrontation was formed again, neither Yuan Qi nor Ugong Terulie took the lead in attacking, and the two sides fell silent again.
It's just that this silence didn't last long.
On September 22, the second year of the Kaiyuan Dynasty, the Southern Army led by Pang Tong broke through Runan County in Yuzhou, and the troops approached the hinterland of Yuzhou, burning the fire of war in the south to the Central Plains. Runan County is broken. The Central Plains was shaken, and many people began to flee northward, trying to avoid the troops of the Southern Army, and as these people fled, the fear spread like a plague to the north, causing panic among the inhabitants of the Central Plains.
However, the northward march of the Southern Army was only a prelude to a full-scale war. On September 23, the westernmost county of the Central Plains, Chenliu County, was also lost. Xu Shu, the commander of the Southwest Army, led his troops to occupy Chenliu, dispersed all the Wei soldiers guarding Chenliu, and firmly hammered a nail in the west of the Central Plains.
Two days later, Sun Ce, who returned to the East China Sea, also made a big move, led by Xiao Ru 50,000 sailors to attract the attention of the Kaitai River, and then led by Sun Ce 30,000 elite soldiers to forcibly land, captured Donglai County in Qingzhou, and planted the banner on the boundary of Qingzhou. Donglai County is the closest county in Qingzhou to the East China Sea. The loss of Qingzhou was equivalent to losing the route to the sea to transport supplies, and the Taihe River had no choice but to go south along the coast and return to land from Xuzhou. Rushed to Guandu and Unomiya Terulie to join the division. The retreat of the Tai River completely ceded the sea control of the East China Sea, and Sun Ce completely controlled the East China Sea and became a veritable maritime hegemon.
Reports of defeat in the east, west and south directions are frequent. Finally made Unomiya Terulie unable to sit still. Most of Wei's troops were transferred to Guandu by Ugong Terulie, and were pinned down here by 800,000 elite soldiers led by Yuan Qi, and the defense in other places was relatively weak. If the other three legions are allowed to invade on a large scale, then the Wei State will die out sooner or later, and it is better to give it a go than to sit and wait for death. The situation has developed into such a situation, Ugong Zhaolie has nothing to scruple about, on October 1, the second year of the first year of the calendar, Ugong Zhaolie finally led the army out of the nest, on the south bank of the Yellow River, the three armies of water and land, intending to fight to the death with Yuan Qi!
In the face of Unomiya Teruje's battle of trapped beasts, Yuan Qi did not disappoint Unomiya Terulie, he personally commanded his army to set up a position on the north bank of the Yellow River, stretching for more than ten miles from east to west, and the momentum was amazing and Unomiya Terulie formed a situation of attack.
On the Yellow River, water warfare is naturally the priority. Amid the sound of the general's drums, Gan Jing, the commander of the Jinfan Heavenly Command and the Governor of the Navy, stood on the largest and strongest warship in the world today, and came from the waves of the water village on the shore! This battleship was made by the good craftsmen of Wang Yezi and Ma Jun, who were the supervisors, and it took three years to make according to the model provided by Yuan Qi, and the entire battleship was five zhang high and was divided into four floors, of which three were above the armor and one was below the deck. The entire hull is made of ironwood, which is extremely resistant to water and is as strong as ordinary iron, which not only helps the warship to sail faster on the water, but also greatly enhances the hull's ability to resist attacks.
Beyond the hull and on the deck of the battleship, twenty-four huge and heavy logs stood around the sides of the ship's side and the ends of the bow and stern, twelve of which were fixed to the hull to restrain them, and the other twelve were slightly tilted, and the twenty logs were connected by ropes made of ox tendons, so that a discerning eye could see at a glance that once the tilted logs had lost their restraints, they would fall from the sky and slam violently against the water. These logs, which are also made of ironwood, are the sharp weapons of water warfare that Yuan Qi quoted from later generations-slap sticks.
Under each batter, there is also a red-coated ballista, twenty-four red-coated ballistas are arranged in clockwise order of the bat, forming an oval on the deck, maintaining an excitation angle to the battleship in all directions, no matter what direction the enemy's warship appears, the battleship where Gan Jing is can strike it in all directions. As long as they enter the range of the red-coated ballista, they will be subjected to the fierce fire of the red-coated ballista! And if the enemy is lucky enough not to be penetrated by the strong fire of the red-coated ballista and comes to the range of five zhang of this battleship, then what awaits them will be the slapstick that falls from a high altitude.
If the equipment of the batter and the red-clothed ballista has made the battleship under Gan Jing's feet a sharp weapon in water warfare, then there is another design that makes the opponent fearful on the three-story building ship on the deck. Different from ordinary building ships, there is a flat platform on the building ship of this battleship, and the platform is surrounded by wet cowhide and rattan armor, and the wet cowhide is shrouded in the outside of the rattan armor, which together forms a solid defense, which not only ensures toughness, but also reduces the burden on the entire battleship in terms of weight. In the middle of this layer of defense, a hundred archers can be accommodated to hide in it, and with the help of the defense of wet cowhide and rattan armor, they can accurately cast sharp arrows in all directions. If this platform is placed on land, it will be an offensive and defensive arrow tower.
This battleship can be called the most perfect and advanced warship in the world today, whether in terms of technology, or from the point of view of humanity, whether it is in terms of sailing speed, or in terms of its own solidity. However, there are only two such warships in the whole world, the one where Gan Jing is called "Qilin Battleship" is Gan Jing's command ship, and the other is Yuanqi's "Overlord Battleship", which is quietly moored in the water village at the moment, waiting for Yuanqi's call.
After Gan Jing's Qilin warship, a three-story building ship that can carry more than 300 people at the same time sailed out of the enemy's water village, and Su Fei, the deputy governor of the navy, stood on the lookout of the building ship, and the two-color flag in his hand kept waving, passing on the orders one by one.
With the change of Su Fei's flag, the gate of the water village was opened, and three giant building ships broke through the waves, and Zuo Ci, one of the five tiger generals, stood on a building ship in the center. Around these three ships, there are also fifty warships, each of which carries a hundred elites of the Qilin Navy, and after they sailed out of the water village, they immediately increased their speed and formed a circular battle circle around the periphery of the Qilin warship in Ganjing, together with the four giant ships of Zuo Ci and others. Immediately afterwards, hundreds of clippers that could only carry 30 people quickly sailed out of the water village, interspersed in the gap between the battle circle formed by the warships, and complemented the warships.
When the 10,000 Qilin Naval Army took various types of warships and set up a formation on the water surface of the Yellow River, Gan Jing, who was standing on the Qilin Battleship in the center of the battle circle, waved the Optimus Twin Halberds in his hand, and let out a roar that made the water of the Yellow River flow backwards: "The Qilin Naval Army is unparalleled in the world!"
The 10,000 elite Qilin soldiers on various warships immediately waved the seven-foot-long horse chopping knife in their hands and shouted in unison: "The courage of the Qilin, I am invincible! The Qilin Naval Army is unparalleled in the worldโโ!
On the opposite side of the Qilin Naval Army, there was a warship warship team composed of 20,000 Wei naval troops, and their commander was the Tai River, which had been defeated in the East China Sea. Although Taihe suffered defeat in the contest with Sun Ce, but throughout the entire Wei army camp, no one can be more qualified than him for the position of the governor of the navy, after all, Taihe has lived in Qingzhou for a long time, and is still very familiar with water warfare. Therefore, Unomiya Terulie handed over the entire naval army to the Tae River, hoping that the Tae River could take advantage of being good at water warfare and win the jackpot in the decisive battle with the enemy.
However, Taihe, who met the Qilin Navy for the first time, was extremely frightened by the super fighting spirit of the Qilin elites. Restricted by the topography of the Central Plains, most of the people in the Wei army's navy, to put it bluntly, are just infantry troops standing on warships, and only the tens of thousands of sailors brought back from Qingzhou by the Taihe River can really play the role of water warfare.