Han Zuo Gaomen

Chapter 758
After the Huainan navy arrived at the Feikou battlefield, there was no suspense in the battle.

At this time, there were still hundreds of slave army boats floating on the river, but less than half of them were truly manned and full of soldiers.Although Han Huang's navy cannot crush them in terms of strength, their ability to control boats far exceeds that of the messy slave army.At this time, warships lay across the river, blocking the slave army's way back to the north. Throwing stones and sharp arrows were frequently fired at the slave boats.

In particular, the giant Chang'an warship is well-deserved of the name of shocking the Huaihe River. As soon as it rushed into the battlefield, it directly sank a warship full of soldiers, and all the slave soldiers on board fell into the water and danced and struggled Yu Jiangxin didn't need to pay more attention at all. After a while, they all turned into floating corpses on the river, without any further movement.

The huge pole continued to smash down, and the flexible warships and walkers diverted to encircle and encircle, forcing slave warships away from their original channel.At the same time, the Feikou garrison also completed the encirclement and suppression of the enemy on the shore. Some of the remaining navy boats that had been withdrawn into Feishui were dispatched again, pulling many unmanned boats back to Feikou Wharf, and more The soldiers boarded the ship to fight, and launched a relentless pursuit of the remaining slave ships.

The slave soldiers have finally seen what a real water battle should look like, but in this battle they are an out-and-out negative teaching material. Before that, they were full of joy and wanted to land and attack, but they never fought on the river. In the face of the sudden return of the Huainan navy, it was impossible to issue even a feasible military order, and it was even more difficult to target the Huainan army. What an effective attack to launch.

After being destroyed and sunk several warships by the Huainan army one after another, the slave army finally restored some order, but the good situation is gone.At this time, although the slave army still has the numerical advantage on the river, many of these soldiers are eager to fight across the Huaihe River, and they are not prepared for any water warfare at all. Even the water warfare equipment originally installed on the ship was dismantled. In order to carry more soldiers, there is no way to fight back at this moment. Even if they want to connect or load the ship, they are overloaded and cannot catch up with the speed of the Huainan army warship.

As a result, many slave warships that have not yet been entangled by the Huainan Army quickly headed back to the north bank, from generals and soldiers down to ordinary soldiers, as long as they had spare strength, they all held oars and sculls, exerting their strength desperately, and the speed of the ship was very fast. Actually speed up.They didn't dare to detour around Yingkou again, because the waterway was long and there were more accidents, and the second was that they didn't have the skill to steer the boat to and fro when they were in a hurry.

As a result, more than [-] slave warships successfully escaped from the battle and docked on the shore. Before the ships stopped, seeing that the water bank was approaching, the slave soldiers on the boats abandoned their boats and went to the shore one after another, regardless of the warships. Regardless, just stay out of the waterway.

By noon, there were no traces of large-scale slave troops in this section of water, and even the bones of the drowned and the wreckage of boats were washed downstream by the Huai River.As for the boats abandoned by the slave soldiers, they were all dragged into the Fei water.Many of these boats were intact, but they were captured by the Huainan army because the slave soldiers abandoned the ship, including those who served as soldiers, and fled or simply surrendered.

Although the war here is over, Shen Zhezi has no time to return to the town, and Du He and other Huainan officials who are in charge of political affairs have been transferred here to stand by.

Around Feikou, there are a lot of floating corpses and pieces of wood. The civilian laborers boarded the boats to salvage and clean them up. Before the waters were completely cleaned up, there were already a large number of boats on the river. This time it was the sailors returning from Rukou The soldiers and civilians of Runan were rescued.

It is difficult for Feikou to accommodate the influx of so many boats for a while. In addition, the battle here has just ended, and there is still a lot of chaos.Du He and other government officials are still busy accepting and resettling the refugees, but Shen Zhezi has already boarded the boat in a hurry.

"The last general waits for luck and does not disgrace his life!"

On the deck of the warship, Lu Yong, Xu Mao, who were in charge of supporting them, and Mao Bao, Li Cang, who had been standing guard all along, stepped forward one after another, clasped their fists in salute, and showed generosity in their expressions.

Shen Zhezi greeted the crowd, he laughed after hearing the words, he was in a good mood, pointed to the still dense floating corpses at the fat mouth and said with a smile: "It is also a small matter here, and it is rare for you generals to overcome the invading enemy lightly. Special beauty."

This is naturally a joke, Shen Zhezi does not need to compete with the generals, the generals smile after hearing the words.On the way home before, they were worried, worried that Feikou might not be guarded, and when they saw the floating corpses on the river, they could roughly guess how hard the battle had been here before, and it was by no means a trivial matter.

"Thank you, Maohou!"

After greeting the generals for a while, Shen Zhezi turned his attention to Mao Bao. This strong general was described as haggard and thin, and his armor was also torn. It can be seen that it is not easy to stick to Runan for a while.

"It's a pity that the last general has a great job, and he can't have the best of both worlds..."

Seeing Shen Zhezi looking over, Mao Bao replied with a bit of shame on his face, bowing his head.

Shen Zhezi took a step forward and pulled Mao Bao's arm, waved his hand and said, "Don't be discouraged by this, Marquis Mao. Runan's maintenance has far exceeded expectations. Separating and rejecting slaves is Huainan's way of keeping the cornerstone and living There are many times in my troubles, and Maohou's contribution to the country is by no means limited to the superficial. The slaves have no way, and the power of poverty and evil they rely on is blocked. Today's temporary retreat will be a great advance in the future Fundamentally, there is no need to disturb the gains and losses of common sentiments.”

After speaking, he turned to look at Li Cang who was standing behind Mao Bao, and said with a smile: "General Li, we finally meet. I was busy with everything before, and I was not able to meet with the general. Although I didn't ask him in person, Forced by personnel, but entrusted with a heavy responsibility, I hope the general will not complain. The general's talent is extraordinary. Although he does not confess himself, he has the defeat of the slaves to prove it. Today, protecting the people and returning to the town is enough to praise the colleagues. .”

"The last general, the last general... the concubine's praise, the last general is really ashamed to accept it."

Hearing Shen Zhezi's words, Li Cang seemed a little embarrassed. He hadn't seen Shen Zhezi before, and the reason was not simple.Before helping Mao Baoli to overcome the siege of the Peach Leopard slave army, he also had a lot of self-promise in his heart, and he felt a little bit of self-respect.

But today, after seeing the tragic battlefield here in Feikou, that bit of arrogance has disappeared. As Mao Bao said, many prerequisites are not enough. Facts, and the reason why they were able to retreat successfully was also thanks to the great support from the town.Instead, the town was affected by the slave army's attack. Fortunately, the invading enemy had been defeated.

After such a deep calculation, not only do they not have much merit to boast about, but if they encounter a narrow-minded general, they will be held accountable for the crimes of losing their land and accumulating troubles.Although Li Cang listened to people talking about the talents of the son-in-law, he did not have an intuitive understanding after all. He was very unfamiliar with this young nobleman, so he was feeling uneasy at the moment.

"I'm exhausted from fighting for a long time, so I won't bother you any more. Later, the fat mouth will be dredged, and someone from the town will come to lead the troops back to the town to rest."

After warmly applauding the generals in Runan, Shen Zhezi directly summoned the generals on board to start a discussion.

At this time, the two battles have just ended, so the specific results of the battle have not yet been sorted out, but the general process can still be explained clearly.

Runan's battle was much more calm than Feikou's. Although the general response of the slave army Taobao caused great trouble to the Huainan army, it was also forced to make changes due to the passiveness of the overall battle situation.The only tragic battle between the two sides took place on the Rushui River near the hanging lake. In this battle, the Huainan army used boats as bait to lure the slaves into the water to loot the boats. Overcoming Taobao's blockade and defense against Rushui, he was able to successfully join forces with the army and civilians in Runan.

As for Feikou, Shen Zhezi personally supervised the battle.Although the Huainan army was greatly troubled by the random fighting of the slave army, and even broke through Feikou and other defenses and successfully landed, the battle became extremely critical for a while.But because of this, the slave army paid a price far beyond normal combat, which also planted the seeds of disaster for the subsequent collapse.

If the slave army can calmly dispatch and fight as a whole, it may not be able to break through the Feikou camp defense so quickly, but at least the loss is within a controllable range.When the Ru saliva army returns to help out, it will not collapse at the first touch, causing the situation to completely collapse.

This time the slave army's southward march, the investment is not insignificant, and the failure of this battle can imagine the great damage to their army.In the previous battle of Yingkou, he did not take the opportunity to expand the results because he was worried that he would be counterattacked by the slave soldiers.But in this battle, even if the slave army ships were not completely destroyed, they must have been greatly damaged.Therefore, after a brief discussion among the generals, Shen Zhezi did not intend to give up on this, and even if he mobilized another [-] sailors, hand them over to Han Huang to lead them to attack Yingshang.

As for the newly returned navy, they didn't just sit idle, they immediately sent their warships to Xiashi City, and from there the entire army headed for the vortex downstream of the Huai River.

Shen Zhezi didn't even have time to go out to appease the people in Runan who had been rescued from Huaihe River, and entrusted Du He and others to handle all matters. After arranging military affairs, he hurried back to Shouchun to replace Shen Mu in the city.And Shen Mu led a part of the Shouchun garrison to board the ship on Bagong Mountain, join forces with the water army, and headed straight for the mouth of the vortex.

However, not long after the navy was dispatched, even bad news came back. As expected by Shen Zhezi, Shi Hu led the people of Qiao County to take advantage of the fierce battle between Runan and Feikou and flow down the vortex. Successively conquered important places on the north bank of the Huai River, such as Wokou and Matou.Cao Na, who was in charge of the defense there, had temporarily retreated to Luojian, and the rest of the Xuzhou army also retreated to Xuyi.

Although Shen Zhezi had expected such a result, he was still a little disappointed when it actually became a reality.Weikou is also the key point in Huai. Although the threat to Shouchun is not as deep as that of Yingkou, after falling into the hands of Shihu, both Huainan on the left and Xuzhou on the right will have double the pressure on defense.

However, the fact is that, with the strength of the Huainan army itself, it is absolutely difficult to support the three battles in Runan, Feikou, and Wokou, and there must be a choice.At present, both places have succeeded, and it is not an unacceptable failure to change hands in Wukou.

So on the one hand, Shen Zhezi stepped up to recruit the whole army for the returnees in Runan to expand the army and stabilize the town. On the other hand, he ordered the navy and Cao Na to join and guard Luojian, and prevent the Shihu soldiers from entering Huainan.

　Let’s update one chapter first, and there will be another chapter later, maybe after midnight, sorry, sorry. . .

　　
　
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