Yang Lingdao was panicked at this time, and it was not ordinary panic. Otherwise, according to his past chatting and laughing, he would never give such orders according to his previous understanding of military books.
The river channel of the Taihe River is indeed wide because of heavy rain, which is enough for the fleet to pass by. However, the Taihe River is a small tributary divided by Pingjiang. When facing the current situation, the fleet is in chaos, especially on the small hill ahead, the only hundreds of crossbowmen can use the height of the hill to slap the bow and arrow, and the fleet is completely in chaos.
The boats in front ran back urgently, and when they were crowded with each other, some ships squeezed to the side inevitably ran aground. So a boat stopped, and it was inevitable that the ships next to them would scratch and hit. So for more than a moment, the fleet was congested in front of them.
The congestion in the front, the rear became even more scared and ran faster. Seeing this, Chen Tie immediately asked the people hiding on both sides to appear and wade from the shore to shoot arrows.
If it is normal, just walk along the center of the river, the water is too strong now, and the boats cannot be shot by the river at all. Even if they are shot, they have no strength and cannot cause much damage. But now every boat is running back, and the ships on the side naturally become living targets, so the fleet becomes more chaotic and the situation is developing in the direction of collapse.
Chen Tie, who was watching the battle from a distance, felt incredible when he saw this scene. The battle situation was changed to his own command and found that the front was blocked. As long as he was not panicked, whether it was retreating in an orderly manner or simply using a large ship as a fortress, he could send people to clear both sides of the river, because the falling rocks actually blocked half of the river. Although the river became narrower, the big ship could barely pass by, but he needed to be more careful. Forced ferry would cause losses. However, Yang Lingdao actually tried Fangcun like this. Che Ying said that he was timid and had never seen such a timid and panic.
Of course, the Chu State's naval army was powerful after all. After panic, they left some stranded ships, and only lost one-third of them. However, when they were about to reach the Hukou River section, they suddenly saw a large amount of driftwood floating in front of them, so many driftwoods, and when they saw that someone deliberately cut the broken mouth, everyone realized that the enemy was ambushing here.
I hadn't recovered from the panic yet, but now I'm like a frightened bird. As a ship that was already damaged was broken by driftwood, it began to sink, and the fleet was in chaos again.
Compared with the past, the two sides of the river are smooth and different. On one side is a mudflat and on the other side are several connected hills. What makes Yang Lingdao even more deadly is that the originally wide area of ​​Hukou was blocked directly horizontally by a row of ships, and each boat is connected by iron chains, which is to completely cut off the retreat route.
Zhou Guangyi, who was guarding here at this time, had already received a report from the front. If it hadn't been for the heavy rain now that it turned into light rain, the rain had not stopped, otherwise he would have gone down the river with a fire boat. But even now, as he blocked the front, when the Chu fleet arrived, he would immediately beat the drums, and the crossbowmen on the mountain could shoot arrows, and there were constant shouts of killing around him.
If it is normal, he just needs to send a assault boat, rush directly to the blocking ship, cut off the iron chains that fix these ships, and the fleet can return to Anyang Lake safely. Unfortunately, when he saw the Yue Kingdom fleet coming and blocking the lake entrance with his own ship, he had no courage at all. He just thought that the Yue Kingdom naval army was going to fight with him. Seeing the wide open mudflats, he subconsciously felt that it was inappropriate, but he still ordered to land.
When Zhou Guangyi saw Yang Lingdao commanding the army like this, he was stunned. He asked the navy to come over to block the river, which was a risky idea. He had received twenty sticks before, and he felt a little angry, so even if the losses were greater, he had to win a glance at the other party. But he didn't expect that the navy of Chu actually gave up the ship and went ashore. Isn't this seeking death?
Although the mudflat is vast and accessible, it is muddy and difficult to walk in the heavy rain. Because of this, I gave up letting the soldiers ambush on the mudflat, but only sent 3,000 people to ambush in the woods outside the mudflat, just in case.
Seeing the dense and difficult-to-walking Chu naval army gradually appearing on the mudflats, he immediately sent an order down, and the soldiers lying in the woods around the mudflats rushed out immediately. Just a wave of flag-shaking and rounds of arrow-raining rain, the Chu naval army turned around and ran away in fright.
But in this muddy mudflat, they could not run. After a while, they lost their strength and were completely trapped in the muddy mudflat.
When Yang Lingdao saw this scene, he was about to get off the boat. He was so scared that he immediately ordered the soldiers who were still on the boat not to go down and rush downstream again.
I have to say that this order is the most accurate at this time, but the blind command before made the entire army collapse. Not to mention passing the order, even the ship could not turn around at this time.
Zhou Guangyi saw that the Chu army had completely lost its fighting spirit, so he immediately ordered some people hiding downstream to come, block the Chu army's escape route, and ordered that the ship stop and surrender not be killed.
There was no courage to fight, and with the order, the Chu army surrendered one after another. Many of Zhou Guangyi's subordinates rowed small boats or even sampans to seize control of the large ships. After seizing some large ships, they directly locked the river.
When I went ashore, I was seeking death, and I was blocked from advancing and retreating. In less than an hour of this battle, the Chu State had 60,000 or 70,000 troops left, and directly surrendered.
Zhou Guangyi actually had only 30,000 people in his hands. Unexpectedly, he won by one against two, which made him really happy.
When it was almost dark, the people who were trapped on the mudflats were dragged out and became prisoners. Almost everyone was in charge of the three thousand ambushed people, almost every one of them had to take care of their captives ten times more than their captives.
The Chu soldiers on the ship also knelt on the deck one by one, waiting for the soldiers to come up and take over.
Zhou Guangyi even took up the flagship of Chu State. Yang Lingdao, the Chu State water marshal, was kneeling on the deck like everyone else.
Zhou Guangyi looked at the marshal who was in his early thirties and suddenly understood why this so-called famous general was defeated so miserably. In terms of age, this person was at least ten years older than his appearance, which was comparable to him. In front of him was a white-faced husband. As the commander of the army, he actually looked pampered and elegant. He clearly did not really go deep into the army, but just an empty talker who used military tactics to discuss the truth.
Before Zhou Guangyi saw him, he thought that after Chen Tie came, he would lead the other party to show off his power, but at this moment he lost interest. If he won such a guy, it was not worth showing off in front of Chen Tie.
Chapter completed!