Lord of the House

The tribes camped outside Hengshan City to rest. At dusk, surrounded by generals such as She Feixiong and Shi Hejin, they rode their horses to the shore of the cliff and looked at the Xinjiang River to the north.

In addition to the direct washout of the river embankment on the north bank of the Shanxi River estuary, both sides of the Xinjiang River were also completely unrecognizable by the size of the sudden overflow. There are also a large number of drowning corpses washed up on the river beach.

Those with broken halberds and broken armor and corpses that were swollen and white in the river water were shocking.

Although the back road was washed away by the flood, it could not delay the Huaidong Army for a few days, and She Feixiong was unable to collect the corpses of these drowning generals, and only said to Shi and Jin and other generals: "You have worshipped with me before. , for now, that's all it takes..."

Shi Hejin's heart was bleeding. Although She Feixiong didn't punish him, the two thousand elite sailors drowned under the flood were almost the last of his Shi family's money.

Shi Hejin was originally the defender of Nantai Island and was the main general of the East Fujian Navy. The characteristics of cohesion of combat power with clan as the core.

Huaidong's strategy of harassing and attacking in the early years completely suppressed the ability of the Mindong navy to go to sea in the later period, and Shi Hejin was under great pressure, bleeding intermittently.

Before the war in Mindong, hundreds of Shi family's children died in the war. Until the relocation of Fujian to the east and the west was abandoned and Shi and Jin's troops abandoned the water and landed, there were less than 4,000 soldiers and horses left.

After the luxury family occupied the whole territory of Jiangxi, they set up naval armies in Jiangzhou and Yuzhang. Jiangzhou navy, with Yang Xiong and Su Tingzhan as generals, has the responsibility of guarding the gate of Poyang Lake. Therefore, the navy has more than 25,000 troops, which is the largest navy controlled by the She family after retreating into Jiangxi.

Yuzhang is located in the inner line of Jiangxi, and the water army mainly controls the Ganjiang, Xinjiang and other water systems, and there is no chance to fight the enemy.

Shewenzhuang's arrangement is also to give Shi Hejin, who was born in Bamin, more opportunities to rest and recuperate - who would have thought that the Huaidong Army would use floodwater to swallow nearly half of the Yuzhang Navy's troops? Almost 70% of the troops in Shangrao's water army.

She Feixiong was also very heartbroken by the loss of the navy, but he did not expect that the Huaidong Army would release water in two waves upstream. She Feixiong will not hold Shi Hejin responsible for the collapse of Shangrao's water army.

The non-Zhejiang and Fujian troops are weak, but the Donghai fox is too cunning!

"The roads on the north bank have also been washed away. The Huaidong Army cannot turn around from the jaws and Litang to attack Shangrao for a short time. Can we leave a force to temporarily guard Hengshan?" Shi Hejin asked.

Hengshan City is located west of Shanxi and south of Xinjiang. We were worried that it would be surrounded by the Huaidong Army in the south. At the same time, the Huaidong Army could bypass Hengshan and attack Shangrao from the north bank of Xinjiang. Therefore, in the original plan, Hengshan City was to give up immediately.

Now the road to the south of Hengshan has been destroyed, and the road on the north bank of the Xinjiang River has also been destroyed. At this time, there are soldiers and horses left in Hengshan, and I do not expect to be able to intercept the Huaidong Army's pursuit, but the soldiers pointed by the front can also delay Huaihe. The time when the Eastern Army opened up these channels.

The soldiers and horses who stayed behind in Hengshan only had to withdraw before the large group of Huaidong Army came to encircle them.

"How many supplies can be transferred from Shangrao?" She Feixiong asked.

At this time, She Feixiong considered guarding Hengshan City for the time being, and there was another important factor.

The terrain on the north bank of the Xinjiang River is open, the mountains on the south bank force the river, and the roads are narrow. If you want to go west quickly, you can only cross the river north and take the road on the north bank. In that case, the Xinjiang waterway can also be used to block the Huaidong Army chasing from the Guanxi Ridge.

However, with the destruction of a large number of warships, including the flooding of large beaches along the river on the north bank, it is no longer suitable to cross the river directly from the north of Hengshan City to the other bank.

Fewer ferries and longer routes across the river made it slow to cross the river, requiring Deng Yu and Wang Hui to collect more fishing boats from the lower reaches of the Xinjiang River.

Maybe it will drag on for ten days or eight days, and then Hengshan City needs to be divided into troops.

There was no plan to guard Hengshan before, so She Feixiong left three or five hundred soldiers to guard the city in Hengshan, and the food and grass left behind were only enough for crossing the road. If he wanted to split up and stay in Hengshan for a longer period of time, She Feixiong would need to transfer food and grass from Shangrao.

Deng Yu and Wang Hui retreated all the way to the west, and Shangrao was almost an empty city, with less than a thousand defenders. However, in the plan, She Feixiong will lead his troops to fill in Shangrao's temporary guard, so Shangrao's food reserves are still sufficient.

Shangrao City is only twenty miles west of Hengshan, on the north bank of the Xinjiang River.

The remnants of Shi and Jin also had more than a dozen warships converted from fishing boats in the north of Hengshan City. Each time they crossed the river, they could only carry more than a thousand people. However, when they brought grain and grass from Shangrao, they could transport two or three thousand stones at a time, enough for two or three thousand. Guards use for a month.

After thinking for a moment, She Feixiong decided that he would lead his troops to Shangrao first, and divide two or three thousand elites for Shi Hejin to stay in Hengshan temporarily. However, all these arrangements will have to wait until dawn tomorrow, and now send people to chase Deng Yu and Wang Hui in a light boat.

It was very different from what was expected. The current situation had changed. The Huaidong Army had not expected to release water from the source of the Shanxi River and rushed to the shore. Therefore, some adjustments had to be made to the previous retreat plan.

She Feixiong returned to the barracks to discuss with generals Shi and Jin for a long time, always worried about what went wrong. In the middle of the night, She Feixiong dragged her exhausted body and insisted on visiting the wounded camp, hoping to boost her morale when She's family was in difficulty. When it was about to dawn, she returned to the tent and slept on the grass.

She Feixiong slept very lightly, and woke up with the slightest footsteps outside the tent.

At this time, the sky was already bright, and the candles in the tent had not stopped. She Feixiong habitually touched the knife by the pillow and asked, "Who is outside?"

"Young Commander, is it me?" Shi He Jin didn't wait for She Feixiong to agree, and then he hurriedly lifted the curtain and entered, the look in his eyes was full of horror!

Shi and Jin were not so panicked, disturbed, and fearful when most of the navy was flooding the Huaidong Army. At this moment, the chill in She Feixiong's heart ran from the tailbone to the top of his head, and he felt like a He got up and asked, "Where did the attacking enemy come from?"

"Shanxi!" Shi and Jin couldn't recover from the shock, spit out two words, and their tongues were a little knotted, and there was no way to report everything clearly at once.

"When Shanxi comes to the enemy, why should you be surprised? Even if the Huaidong Army is cutting wood and building ships upstream, how many people will they be able to chase after him?" She Feixiong sneered, thinking that Shi and Jin might be scared.

Before that, it was not that She Feixiong had not considered the possibility of shipbuilding after the Huaidong Army controlled the upper reaches of Shanxi, but shipbuilding could not be facilitated overnight. The Huaidong Army would naturally not lack shipbuilding craftsmen, but the giant trees needed for large warships needed to be felled from deep mountains and old forests.

There is no sign of the Huaidong Army cutting down giant trees in the deep mountains and old forests in the upper reaches of Shanxi River. Even if they build boats in the upper reaches of Shanxi River, they will only build some small wooden boats for upstream ferries or for building pontoon bridges.

She Feixiong had also seen the small wooden boats built by the Huaidong Army upstream, so she didn't take it as a surprise. These small wooden boats are used by the Huaidong Army to build pontoon bridges or to carry a dozen or twenty people on the ferry.

The Xinjiang River flows rapidly and the beach is dangerous, and it is difficult for the boat to cross.

In water warfare, warships can exert their advantages to the greatest extent. The defeat of the East China Sea is not because the luxury family can't build a large warship that can compete with Huaidong?

Although the navy of the Zhejiang-Fujian Army in Shangrao suffered a severe setback, with 70% of its troops being lost, there were still 1,000 elite navy troops parked in the north of Hengshan City, and there were as many as 12 warships above 400 stone. . Even if the Huaidong Army were to chase after them with a large number of small wooden boats carrying three to five thousand elite soldiers, they would take the advantage of the warships, and the water battle would not necessarily be at a disadvantage.

In fact, since the confrontation between the two sides around the Jiahe River, the Huaidong Army has been doing everything possible to block the river. She Feixiong also recognized the Huaidong Army’s second digging of the lake to release water, which was a miracle against the Zhejiang-Fujian Army. She Feixiong believed that the Huaidong Army’s naval forces in the upper reaches of Shanxi were extremely weak, so it took a lot of time to block it. River, and tried every means to use strategies to weaken the water forces of the Zhejiang and Fujian Army in Shangrao before chasing.

Of course, She Feixiong did not think that Huaidong might send a small group of elites to take a boat to the shore to steal the camp at night, so when they were camping, they also strengthened the monitoring of the river bank-the sky was already bright, and they were afraid Can Huaidong send a small group of elites to steal the camp?

Shi Hejin was anxious, seeing She Feixiong standing there motionless, anxious in his heart. Shi Hejin was also dazed at this time, and without thinking about She Feixiong's face, he grabbed his arm and said, "Young Commander, go out with the commander to take a look..."

She Feixiong frowned slightly, but he didn't have a seizure, so he went out with Shi and Jin lifting the curtain.

When he saw the shadow of the sail and boat at the estuary, She Feixiong's heart suddenly became cold, as if he had poured a basin of ice water on his head, and it was cool from the top of his head to the soles of his feet, and he also instantly understood why Shi Hejin was so panicked.

Shi and Jin's reaction was correct, no matter who thought of the Huaidong Army's large-scale water-battalion fleet descending from the Shanxi River, they were full of panic and could not struggle.

She Feixiong was battle-hardened and calm, and when he pointed his finger at the Huaidong warship in the heart of the river, he couldn't help trembling. He murmured to himself, "How is this possible, how is this possible?"

Yeah, how is this possible?

How could the Jiyun-class battleship of Huaidong Water Camp appear upstream of Shanxi? How could there be so many warships in the upper reaches of Shanxi?

The new copper cladding on the bow and sides of the ship, the battle armor on the armored soldiers, the spear heads made of fine iron, the swords and the giant crossbows filled with arrow slots on the poop, all flickered in the sunshine. With the luster of metal, it is about to stab people's eyes.

Six Jiyun-class warships are the front wings, and there are dozens of inland warships, such as squatters and fighting boats, which are good at fighting in narrow waters, guarding the front wings.

The estuary where Shanxi flows into the Xinjiang River is extremely wide. At this time, when spring, late summer, and early summer are in full swing, the water level at the estuary is three times wider than that in autumn and winter. miles away.

When the water opened up, warships rushed forward from the flanks, led by two Jiyun-class warships, and formed a team with six wing clippers to strengthen the defense of the entire fleet's front and two wings.

In the middle and rear sections of the entire fleet, there are more than fifty large-bellied wing ships. This kind of ship is shaped like a warehouse ship, with a bulging and wide belly, and a high hull. It can have multiple layers of cabins inside. At a rough look, its size is two or three times larger than that of the Jiyun-class thousand-stone warship. This is exactly the warship used by the Huaidong Water Camp to transport troops on the inland river. Although there are only thirty or forty soldiers standing on the deck, but it must be hidden in the bed cabin that is about to bulge out. The main force of Huaidong's surprise attack this time!

Looking at the navy soldiers of the Huaidong Fleet, there were only about 3,000 soldiers. Most of them stood on the deck to prevent them. The key was how many troops were hidden in the belly of the fleet of more than 50 troop carriers. , called She Feixiong, Shi Hejin can not accurately judge, in short, no less than seven or eight thousand people.

"Oh my God!" Seeing such a huge fleet of Huaidong Army suddenly appear at the mouth of the river, the generals of the Zhejiang-Fujian Army after the breakup of troops and horses let out a cry of despair in their hearts.

After the Zhejiang-Fujian Army was cut off, the soldiers and horses were stationed outside Hengshan City, and there were also soldiers along the river. At this time, they quickly gathered and shot arrows at the Huaidong warships in the river. However, the generals were in a hurry, the arrows rained in disorder, and there were few arrows that could reach the boats in the river, and the Huaidong fleet traveling in the middle of the river suffered little damage.

The command ships where Chen Zhu and Su Pinxiao were located were located in the middle of the river, so far from the west bank that they could not shoot even with a crossbow.

Su Pinxiao commanded the entire fleet to enter the Xinjiang waterway and continue down the river. Their mission was not to land on the shore and bite the broken soldiers led by She Feixiong. This would not satisfy Lin Bie's appetite. They had to go further. Interspersed to the west, in order to intercept more Zhejiang and Fujian troops in the upper reaches of the Xinjiang River and unable to retreat westward, so that the main force behind them can catch up and encircle and destroy it.

The Zhejiang-Fujian Army was above the Xinjiang River, and it was not completely without water power. Several small warships of the Zhejiang-Fujian Army hurriedly retreated westward. There were two warships that were converted from fishing boats, and desperately launched a suicidal impact on the Huaidong Front Wing fleet.

In the rain of arrows, the two enemy ships violently hit the side front ribs of the Jiyun-class warship in front~www.wuxiaspot.com~ That was the weak point of the warship, but the Huaidong warships Corner iron plates are clad on the front wings to enhance the impact capability in water combat. Under the collision, the ridges of the two enemy ships were broken, and it was difficult to damage the Huaidong Jiyun-class warships. In the raging fire, it only made the front wing ship formation a little messed up.

Su Pinxiao calmly assigned the warships to pursue the enemy ships fleeing west, and at the same time ordered the left-wing ships to form an array not to entangle with the Zhejiang and Fujian troops on the south bank, so as not to waste arrows, and urged the fleet to continue to go west.

The Zhejiang-Fujian army on the south bank has not yet started to leave the camp, and they have gathered together and have not dispersed. At this time, it is easy to attack the shore and attack, but it is easy for the enemy troops on the shore to gather to counterattack. However, as they continued to chase westward, the Zhejiang-Fujian Army had less than 1,000 defenders in Shangrao City, and the enemy generals such as Deng Yu and Wang Hui should also start their camp after dawn.

Deng Yu, Wang Hui and other enemy generals would not have thought that the Huaidong Army would pursue them from the waterway. In order to facilitate the march, their team would be stretched very long. Once attacked, they would not be able to quickly gather and form a counterattack. The surprise attack's effect will be doubled if you accidentally kill them on their side.

Chen Zui couldn't bear the loneliness, and taught the surrounding guards: "You all shout to Lao Tzu towards the shore: Slow down, Fei Xiong, your Lao Tzu, Chen Zui, take a step first, and see you in Shangrao!"

The captains of the boat shouted together: "Flying bear, walk slowly, your old man Chen Zhe takes a step first, and we will meet again in Shangrao!"

Chen Zhe laughed, and She Feixiong heard a dark scene on the shore: There are less than a thousand defenders in Shangrao City, how can they survive the raid of this Huaidong Army? At this time, it would be too late to send people flying horses to report the letter, not to mention that they were separated on the south bank, and Shangrao City, Deng Yu, Wang Hui and other ministries were all on the north bank of Xinjiang! My QT room is open! More vulgar official QT room number [9167] Click to enter