Han Zuo Gaomen

Chapter 756
The Huainan army's deep understanding of water warfare is far from comparable to that of the slave army who is still groping, especially when they know that the opponent will rely on the crowd to cross, they try their best to be the most comprehensive in defense.

The slave army wanted to cross the Huai River, even without the interception of the Huainan navy, there were not many places to choose.Now is the time when the Huai River is at its peak, and the current is turbulent and mighty. It is a test for the slaves who don't know anything about water to make the boat sail smoothly and dock smoothly in this turbulent and mighty water.

Moreover, since ancient times, the Bandu Division is the most dangerous moment. The selected landing site must be flat and open, so that the formation can be formed as quickly as possible, and the river will be defended, so as to avoid being driven into the water by the defenders again, causing most rout.

Previously, the slave army frequently invaded Huainan in small groups, and it should also be deliberately spying on the situation of Huainan's army to choose a place to rob.Although the slave army occupied Huainan for more than two years earlier, Huainan at that time was quite different from what Shen Zhezi had entered the town. Especially after the slave army lost in Yingkou, they became more mad and began to face up to the Huainan army. This opponent therefore acted cautiously.

These suitable places for landing are undoubtedly the first choice to transfer from the Huai River to the Fei River, especially when the Huainan navy is away from the town and the control over the waterway is weak, the slave army can even go straight along the Fei River by boat. Under the city of Shouchun, they stormed the heart of Huainan.

Feishui is an important place, even the slave army can see it, how dare the Huainan army ignore it, so Feikou is the most important thing in this defensive battle.

Unlike before, Yingkou defended against enemies on land with backwaters, this time Feikou needs to defend against enemies on the river, so the defense arrangement is also very different.

The Feikou camp itself is a solid floating fort made of wood and stone.Outside the fortress, several water fences are formed. These water fences protrude out of the river for tens of feet, and the outside is connected with a water-driven pole.These poles are different from those carried by boats, and are more similar to giant water reels.

When the water flow hits the water wheel, the water wheel rotates naturally, and the tough noose is tied to the water wheel. The noose is naturally wound and pulled closer, and the other end is guided by the pulley suspended on the wooden frame, so that the tension of the noose can be freely up and down.The other end of the noose is connected to the end of the pole, and the pole is pulled up high.The head end of the thick and long pole arm is pierced with perforated boulders weighing hundreds of kilograms and even harder and thicker iron cones.After the animal's strength is full, the noose is untied from the water wheel and tied to the side, just waiting for the enemy.

At this time, the slave army's front row boats had rushed to the nearby shore, and they could see these arrangements of the Huainan Army through the shining firelight. Even if they couldn't think of the purpose for a while, they could guess that they were definitely not good intentions.But even if he was uneasy, the boat's momentum had already climbed to an extreme speed at this time, and it was difficult to stop immediately, so he could only brandish knives and guns on the deck and roar wildly to build up his momentum.

There were not many Huainan troops on the floating board, and there were no more than two or three people scattered around each noose, wearing thick iron armor. The wind was strong, and the aim of the arrows was so poor that most of them missed. Even if there were occasional hits, they were all knocked away by the armor on their bodies.

They were still visually measuring the distance of the slave army boat, until the slave army boat rushed to a certain distance, they suddenly raised the sledgehammer in their hands and smashed the wooden wedge that fixed the noose.The noose that had already been stretched to the limit suddenly flew up, and the pole connected to the other end suddenly smashed towards the river due to its own gravity, like a giant's long arm and a heavy fist!
boom! boom! boom!
Huge smashing sounds and firecrackers sounded like firecrackers on the river, and some slave boats hit them, and the hull suddenly trembled violently, leaning over the river, and the river water poured into the cracks in the deck, and the whole ship was disintegrated and broken by the impact!As for the slave soldiers who were the first to bear the brunt, their tendons were broken and their bones were broken, and they died in an instant.The spurting blood soon mixed with the river water, and the smell of blood also merged into the river wind of the fishy tide, and was drawn into the night.

Another slave ship was hit at the bow and stern, and the whole ship tilted and plunged into the river like a shuttle. The soldiers on board were caught off guard and fell into the water one after another. The floating object borrowed strength, but many hands and feet were lost, only the river water poured into the stomach, although the death was tragic and unwilling, but the stomach was full at last, it was not a hungry ghost.

Even if the pole falls through the air and directly hits the water surface, it will immediately smash the water surface into a hole several feet deep and cause more than ten feet of spray.Water can carry a boat, and it can also overturn it. When the water waves set off, the slave boats that survived occasionally, because of the lack of response and the panicked soldiers running around, aggravated the sway of the boat, and the whole boat turned over!

This single round of attack has eliminated nearly half of the incoming enemy boats, and the remaining ones have been relatively lightly affected. The boatmen are also desperately rowing and paddling, just trying to escape from this extremely chaotic area.

As for the soldiers of the Huainan Army who were manipulating the shooting poles, they didn't care to take a closer look at the results of the battle.Once the pole fell down, he quickly pulled the noose back to the pulley and continued to wind around the water wheel, so the pole was raised again quickly, and the previous animal power state was restored again.

In this round, the slave army sent nearly forty ships and more than [-] soldiers to attack the two sides of the strait. As a result, they were severely injured without even touching the Huainan army camp, and less than half of them were able to flee back.There are even many boats that fled in a panic, or directly hit the floating barriers on the river, capsized and fell into the water in another posture, and some simply sailed to the center of the Huai River at a desperate speed, which was already very far away from the main formation. .

The boats that actually returned to the formation, but there were only a dozen or so left, and the soldiers were also panicked. Faced with the captain's scolding and questioning, they all said that they had seen a tragic and strange scene.

The situation of the enemy's formation that the soldiers said was quickly passed on to the general's ship for this army's battle.And the slave generals were all frowning when they heard that the Huainan Army's defense line was so strong and difficult to break through.

In this battle of the slave army, Shi Hu did not directly go to the front line to command, and many veterans and veterans were also kept by his side.Therefore, the slave generals participating in the battle this time are also in a similar situation to the Huainan Army, and they are all young generals.The qualifications and positions of these generals are similar, and there is no clear subordinate to each other. Before the war, Shihu did not specify clearly, but only boasted to reward the generals who made great contributions to the rescue.

Therefore, the rush to cross the Huai River this time is also a test for these young generals. Whoever can stand out in this battle will inevitably become the leader of the generals under Shi Hu's command.

These slaves have no subordinates to each other, and they are not willing to be subordinated to others, so each of them is very aggressive.Once they realize that it is difficult to get in, some people are unwilling to continue to attract the crowd to try, trying to rely on the crowd to charge.Some, frightened by the might of the Feikou line of defense, began to avoid this place, preparing to find other places to rush to land.There are also those who plan and act later, and start to think about how to make use of their strengths and avoid weaknesses.

Such a random attack by the slave army caused a lot of trouble for the Huainan army.The navy left the town, and the control of the waterway was already at a disadvantage, and the land force was not sufficient, so they could only focus on defense.But the so-called focus is also the position chosen by the Huainan Army based on its own understanding.But now the slave boats are scattered on the river, trying to land everywhere.

Among the many positions explored by its army, there are many areas that the Huainan Army had previously assessed as unsuitable for rushing and thus neglected to defend.But this is not appropriate, and it is just that compared to other regions, if you want to successfully log in, you have to pay a higher price, not completely impossible to log in.

But now those slave generals are fighting independently, there is no unified command strategy, and it is rare to make the right choice based on the terrain.As a result, for a while, many defensive points on the south bank of the Huai River began to be in urgent need, and almost all of them were more or less attacked by the slave army.

Shen Zhezi was in Feikoushui camp, and soon urgent books flooded into the camp, and rescue was urgently needed in many places.In some places, there were no defenders at all, and only one or two outposts were placed. Although the slave army had difficulty sailing to the shore, they began to land without being hindered by the defenders.

In the past, the predicament of beating the master to death with such random punches was mostly caused by others who were deeply hurt by Shen Zhezi, but now he feels this distress deeply.Although the slave army is not proficient in water warfare, it has a large number of soldiers. Without the Huainan navy's containment and obstruction, they can unscrupulously spread out the soldiers and conduct large-scale trial and error.In this way, it is much more difficult to deal with than the army gathering to attack Feikou.

Shen Zhezi didn't have a better solution to this, so he could only put all of Feikou's reserve troops into the battlefield, in order to plug the loopholes and not create a stable breakthrough for the slave army.

So soon, the battle in the night spread from Feikou to the upper and lower reaches, and the flames of war burned almost everywhere along the Huainan line.

However, this does not mean that the intensity of the battle at Feikou will be weakened. It is difficult for the Huainan army to make an accurate judgment in this chaotic and dark environment.

However, the frontal enemies of Feikou are endless, and the wreckage of the slave boats that were sunk and smashed by the pole in front of the water fence has covered the waters of Feikou, and there are still a large number of slave ships rushing towards it. .After all, Feishui is an excellent breakthrough point in Huainan. This is an accurate judgment that can be made without much experience in water warfare. Not to mention that the water power can be directly borrowed here, and Feishui itself even leads directly to Shouchun!
Finally, with the frequent attacks, there was another cracking sound outside the front water fence.It's just that what was damaged this time was no longer the slave ship, but the poles of the Huainan Army.However, judging from the record, the achievements of these shooting poles are already brilliant. With some simple machinery combined with wood and stone and a small number of soldiers, they blocked the attack of the slave army for a long time, and caused a lot of damage to the slave army. casualties.

However, judging from the current battle situation, the damage to the pole greatly encouraged the slave army. The front line that was supposed to risk their lives to fly across collapsed by itself, which is tantamount to God's help.As a result, all the slave troops cheered and resounded for a while, and the forward attack became even more turbulent.Although there were still sniper attacks such as trebuchets and platoons in the follow-up, they were not enough to dispel the enthusiasm of the slave army to forge ahead.

Once the soldiers go crazy in a water battle, even if the destructive power erupted is even more astonishing.Everyone has a fear of death. Even if the madness is only temporary, when encountering a tragic death threat, the will will be shaken and timid.However, once you fall into madness in a water battle, and the boats rush forward madly, it will be an indomitable situation, and there is no way out at all.

The Huainan Army's follow-up defense line counterattacked still fiercely. Catapults threw a large number of stones, which fell on the enemy ships like hailstones, or caused major or minor damage to the enemy ships. escape.But even if the boat was only a skeleton, it still followed the original momentum and rammed directly towards the Huainan army's defense line. The violent collisions broke down the water fence defense lines one after another.

Of course, in the process, the slave soldiers also suffered great casualties.Although the Huainan army could not go out to clear the slaves who fell into the water during the chaos, the sharp thorns at the front of the row, like a bamboo raft, were hit by a huge force, and they clinged to the water like flying shovels, directly floating and sinking the river. The struggling slave soldiers cut through the waist!
However, this type of gain is still not enough to restore the collapse of the defense line.In the current battle situation, it is not only the soldiers who are decisive for the victory, but also the ships that have gone crazy.

The successive advances in the front brought greater encouragement to the slave soldiers in the rear, and the sound of drums and horns was so loud that even the Huainan Army's water camp was shaken to the point of eardrum pain.After the slave ship really rushed forward, even if the slave soldiers realized the heavy casualties on the front line, they couldn't stop or retreat at this time.Don't say that you can't stop the speed of the boat at all, even if you turn around, you can't avoid the collision of the boat that is also rushing from the back.

Under such circumstances, the slave army's disadvantage of not being good at sailing became an advantage instead. They no longer had room to look around and could only move forward.

Such a haphazard attack lasted for more than an hour. By the time the sky was getting brighter, all the arrangements of the Huainan Army in Feikou had been destroyed, and even most of the water battalion had been severely damaged by the slave soldiers. The wreckage of the ship was piled high.The only thing to rely on is only half of the fortress on land left.Moreover, due to the temptation and rush of the slave army elsewhere, the defenders in the battalion often deployed reinforcements.Right now, there are less than 5000 defenders in the camp, including Shen Zhezi's personal guards.

And what they faced next was a more severe and tragic melee combat.

Of course, the results of this night's hard work were also brilliant.At this time, the field of vision gradually broadened, and the whole picture of the slave army was also presented in front of the Huainan army.Throughout the waters of Feikou, boat wrecks and debris were floating everywhere, as well as the white corpses of a large number of slave soldiers who had been soaked by the river water.Such a disorderly attack, coupled with fighting in waters that the slave army is not good at at all, so far, the price paid by the slave army can be imagined!

By this time, the slave army was no longer rushing desperately without hesitation.They were also terrified by such a tragic scene on the river, they couldn't believe their eyes, they couldn't believe that they were heading towards such an extremely tragic Shura battlefield!Originally, they thought that they should be looking forward to victory after advancing steadily, so they strived for success for fear of falling behind. However, when the facts were in front of them, they were dumbfounded. Fortunately, a life was saved.

"The southerners only have half of the remnants of the battalion, and thousands of exhausted soldiers, which is not enough to keep our army out! This battle is a shame, and a great achievement is in front of us. As long as we defeat the enemy in the front line, Shouchun will be under our hands. Your Majesty There must be great rewards!"

Although the slave generals were also shocked by the tragic casualties, they naturally cheered up again when they saw the Huainan barracks that was close at hand, without a strong fortress and strong defense, and shouted loudly to boost morale.

When the slave soldiers heard this, they all swept away their exhaustion before, and shouted loudly: "Capture and kill Shen Weizhou, the raccoon slave, and bestow the festival and feudal lord!"

In the meager morning light, the Huainan army looked at the group of slave soldiers who had completely poured into Feikou through a slightly damaged fence wall. Hearing their arrogant roars, they were extremely ashamed and annoyed, and they all called for battle outside. .

Some generals also walked up to Shen Zhezi and said in a low voice: "The slave army doesn't care about the life of the soldiers, and they are desperate to fight. Fat mouth is in a hurry. We will stick to this and ask the son-in-law to return to the town to gather people to help."

There are still hundreds of slave ships gathered in Feikou, and many of them are warships that have not fought on the front line before and have remained intact. At this time, they are moving the boats to the front line and emptying the ships. Presumably, they are preparing to hurry up Return to the other side and then send troops south.There are more than [-] slaves in front of them alone, and they are already approaching the shore. Feikou is not only in an emergency, but is about to be lost.

Shen Zhezi also knew that the general's remark was not based on the reinforcements. In fact, if the Huainan Army still had troops who could calmly dispatch them, they would definitely devote themselves to it at such a critical moment.But the slave army is not only attacking Feikou, but also the direction of Xiashi City. Once Xiashi City is broken, even if Feikou is defended, Shouchun will be in danger. Therefore, even if there are still troops left behind, it is impossible to leave the city and join Feikou Come.

In that case, it was just giving him a step to return to the city.But at this moment, how could Shen Zhezi abandon the army? He didn't think about it at all. After hearing the words, he just climbed up to a high place, held a drumstick and shouted loudly: "In the battle in the night, more than ten thousand slaves were killed! All those who fought in Huainan will be killed!" You can be proud of this, and praise your performance! The slaves are so poor that they are at the end of their strength. If you have an inch of iron in your hands, what are the slaves afraid of! The lives of the soldiers are tied here, to protect my Huainan hometown, and to protect my old folks. After all, this is a special service, and I can live without regrets for the rest of my life!"

　Originally, I wanted to finish writing the Navy's return to aid, but I missed more than 1000 words, and it was going to be early in the morning, so I sent it first. . .

　　
　
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