At the same time as the fire ships were attacking, the Shu people who were chasing the defeated Han army on the east bank also realized something was wrong. When they were frightened by the mighty fire on the river, they looked at the Han army in a blink of an eye and found that the Han army was crumbling to the north.
During the army's march, a circular formation of soldiers was revealed at some point. The Han cavalry who had been there before were evacuated from both sides. As the number of defeated troops decreased, the Han army's circular formation gradually spread out in a straight line, completely overwhelming the Shu people.
Being shielded from the defeated troops, even if they could not see the movements behind the phalanx, it was not difficult for the Shu people to guess that the defeated troops were reorganizing their formation.
At this time, Gan Ning was at the forefront. Seeing the raging fire on the river, he knew that today's battle had been lost. However, he knew that people were in panic at this time, and retreating might cause a large-scale rout, so he said to his subordinates: "
At this time, the enemy's position is not stable. If we can take advantage of the situation to counterattack and defeat it in one fell swoop, the overall situation can still be saved, but if we just retreat, we will not survive!"
After saying that, Gan Ning led dozens of Jinfan thieves to continue the attack and rushed straight into the Han army's formation. He held two long swords and waved them back and forth, as if his energy was inexhaustible. The Han soldiers around him were holding swords with him.
Under the stabbing, the spear poles collided slightly, and everyone was beaten until the tiger's mouth became numb and their hands trembled. In the second round of the fight, Gan Ning easily took their lives. In addition, Gan Ning has always been generous with his wealth, and all of them were given to his troops.
Everyone, the generals were all charging forward at this time, and the rest of the Jinfan thieves also exerted their strength, and for a while they actually beat the Han army back steadily.
However, as the Shu navy was caught in the fire, the offensive and defensive initiative had been completely reversed. Just as Gan Ning led his troops to charge, the Shu soldiers who had not yet followed up suddenly discovered that there were more than a hundred ships approaching from the west bank.
Although they were small boats that could only carry twenty people, the river upstream was only one mile wide. They rowed and beat the waves and moved very quickly. In just a quarter of an hour, three thousand soldiers were transported to the west bank. When the Han soldiers came ashore, they lost their first three rounds and shot down the Shu soldiers who were not well formed on the shore. Then they rushed eastward with their swords. The elite of the Shu army were in front and could not withstand the flanks.
, they were quickly killed and their horses were turned upside down. Seeing this, the Shu troops in the rear began to retreat one after another, regardless of the fact that Gan Ning was still fighting in the front.
At this time, the generals of the Han army began to cross the river by boat to direct the offensive. They saw hundreds of ships of the Shu army being ignited by fires blown by the north wind, eventually forming a dazzling sea of fire in the river. Black smoke rose into the sky.
As it rose, it was always connected with low and thick clouds, and the clouds were gradually shrouded in black smoke, as if the clouds in the sky had been blackened.
The river water also reflected a dazzling red light under the reflection of the flames. The river surface, which was originally darkened by the big ship, suddenly became bright. The hot smell of the flames and the smell of snuff from the burning ships,
Even the Han soldiers upstream can clearly feel it.
In this case, the Han army could be said to have won a complete victory. Gan Ning himself wanted to change the situation of the battle with one or two charges, but it was actually impossible. Through the black smoke on the river, Shu could be vaguely seen
The people are in full retreat, and the imposing sight of the rows of boats and oars before the battle has long ceased. The remaining ships of the Shu people are raising their sails, hoping to use this north wind to escape from the battlefield as soon as possible.
The victory was decided, and Chen Chong, who was on the watchtower, felt relieved. He went down to the watchtower and was about to survey the general offensive situation on the beach, but was blown cold by a gust of autumn wind. Only then did he realize that he was breaking out in a cold sweat.
His whole body was soaked, and his entourage quickly helped him sit down and rest. Chen Chong waved his hand, summoned Yin Feng and asked, "Have Meng Qi and the others crossed the river?"
Yin Feng cupped his hands and replied: "Prime Minister, as soon as the fire ship sets off, Ma Junhou will lead his troops across the river first."
Liu Fan, who was defeated in the fire attack, now saw that the war in the north was in a desperate situation and knew that he had no hope. No matter how depressed he felt, he could only leave the burning Shu navy behind.
He changed the boat, pulled up the sail and fled straight to the Shu camp. There were countless boats and boats following him. In order to make the boat lighter, the Shu people abandoned their weapons and even rice and grain into the river, letting it drift with the waves.
Fortunately, the north wind was very strong at this time, and the wind was smooth. Within half an hour, the Shu army camp several miles away could be seen in the distance.
Previously, the Shu army had marched out from the camp, but there were still some guards left to watch the camp. But the silent atmosphere made Liu Fan feel strange. Just as he parked by the Nishui River and led his troops ashore, he
Suddenly he felt something was wrong in the forest, so he ordered everyone to wait where they were and sent scouts to the camp to inquire about the news. However, the scouts did not return for a long time. He suddenly knew that something was wrong. He was afraid that the Han army had divided its forces and attacked the camp by surprise! So he hurriedly
He took everyone back to the boat, and then continued eastward along the river.
Just as they were setting sail, there were indeed bursts of noise in the forest on the east bank, and then Han troops ran from it to the edge of the forest. Among them, there was a knight in silver armor who stood out, it was Ma Chao. Ma Chao knew how to chase him.
It was not enough, but it was done, so he ordered his subordinates to shout loudly to the people on the boat: "Where are the lost dogs?" and then waved their swords to demonstrate.
When the Shu people on the boat heard the ridicule from the shore, they couldn't help but feel ashamed and angry, but they were more confused about their future. They couldn't help but look at Liu Fan and found that Liu Fan was also bowing his head in thought. After a while, etc.
Liu Fan realized that there was silence around him. He raised his eyebrows and said leisurely: "Victory and defeat are normal things. Why should you be so depressed? Why not go back to Jiangyang first and gather the defeated soldiers."
So the Shu people's fleet separated from head to tail. On the morning of the third day, they passed the river outside Jiangyang in a sparse manner for more than ten miles. At this time, Jiangyang was still guarding Liu Fan, and there was no formation of Shu ships in the city.
Zhang Fan walked eastward one after another, knowing that the upstream must have failed.
Rumors began to spread in the garrison. Some people said that Liu Fan was dead. Tens of thousands of Shu troops had been captured since Huang Quan. The situation was very bad. The imperial court was coming soon. All this and so on. As the guard general, Jiang
The Yang order could not prohibit it. The army became more and more noisy, and finally launched a mutiny in the evening. The sergeants rushed into the county house and killed the county magistrate. The temporary city lord was released from the city, and he asked people to write a letter of surrender and arranged for a fast ship to go to Nan'an overnight.
Chen Chong surrendered.
The next day, Liu Fan, Huang Quan and others walked alone through Jiangyang. After seeing the city wall of Jiangyang in the distance, the followers planned to go in and rest directly. However, after the attack on the Shu camp, Liu Fan did not act rashly.
, but anchored on the river near the shore, raised the red flag, and then boarded the lookout to carefully observe the direction of Jiangyang.
After a long time, he went down to the deck and ordered to weigh the anchor and continue eastward. No one on the ship knew why. They were tired from the journey these days. They just wanted to go ashore to rest and continue eastward. Who knows if they can come back?
Liu Fan was afraid that people would be unstable, so he told everyone: "The shore has been occupied by the imperial court. If you and I go ashore, we will be tied up and given to Chen Chong!"
It turned out that he and the guard had made an agreement long ago. When a red flag was raised in the river, a yellow flag would be raised in the city as a signal to report safety. Now that there is no signal in the city, how could he dare to go ashore knowing that the situation in the city has changed.
Since Liu Fan could not go to Jiangyang, he had to continue eastward and head straight to Jiangzhou. In this way, the fate of the entire Shu Dynasty was decided.
Although Liu Fan and other navy troops returned to Jiangzhou in a small boat in embarrassment, after all, the river road was smooth and there were no obstacles. Everyone finally returned to Jiangzhou one after another. Because the remnants of the Shu army navy gathered in Jiangzhou, Chen Chong also
Instead of continuing to expand the offensive down the river, he continued to sit in Nan'an, gathering the Shu troops who had no time to escape on land one by one, and sent a message to the counties of Jianwei, Zangke, Yongchang, and Yizhou in the south of the Yangtze River, almost with a wave of his hand.<
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Most of the remaining Shu troops, except for Gan Ning and Zhang Liao, also surrendered to Chen Chong.
Because as the vanguard of the Shu army, Gan Ning was surrounded by several times the enemy and still fought hard. He led thousands of Jinfan thieves to fight to the north several times and was ultimately outnumbered. Gan Ning fought until the end, stripping off his shirt and fighting.
When Goli fought, his tendons and scars were exposed. Others looked like a ghost. When he died in the battle, others did not dare to move forward. But when they saw him standing in the formation, his body was like a rock. Although he was bleeding profusely, he remained standing. In the end,
He bleeds to death from exhaustion.
Zhang Liao, on the other hand, acted as a flanker at first and did not go deep into the battlefield. When the front army was defeated, he led his army back to the camp, but was ambushed by Ma Chao and his troops in the forest. The two could not decide the victory quickly, but as the Shu army collapsed
Gradually rushing back, Ma Chao gradually faltered, and finally Zhang Liao found a gap in the battle line, led his troops to escape, and headed for Jiangzhou to join Liu Fan.
After receiving the news that Zhang Liao was out of trouble, Chen Chong felt quite regretful. He said to the generals in the government: "Wen Yuan has no shame in seeing me. He will follow Liu Fan on a dead end." However, the glorious result of the Nan'an battle was Mu Yong's.
In doubt, the Han army beheaded nearly 20,000 people and captured 40,000 Shu troops, including Dong He, Yan Yan, Fei He, Zhang Su, Liu Min and other famous Bashu generals.
During the inventory of supplies afterwards, another 400,000 Jinxiu horses were found in the Shu camp, more than 200 boxes of gold goods, and even the three elephants that had caused the Han army great suffering were found. After Ma Chao presented the captured elephants to Chen Chong, Chen Chong
All the brocades were distributed to the soldiers, and the gold goods were turned over to the court. As for the remaining giant beasts, after careful consideration, he had them raised in Nan'an for the viewing of the soldiers and common people as a memorial to the battle.
At this point, Chen Chong's war against Shu has come to an end. It can be said that except for Badong, all the remaining counties in Shu have no power to resist. By November, the officials sent by Chen Chong will also benefit.
All the counties in the prefecture were taken over. A total of 710,000 households and 3,238,046 small households were acquired. When the statistics were reported to Nan'an, all the staff in the government were dumbfounded and privately discussed that since Yanxing's army,
, although we have won many battles, this is the first time we have been able to win such a huge empire in one battle.
However, Chen Chong didn't feel much about this. The war was over and winter had arrived. The trees were shaken down and the wind was blowing. This reminded him of the wild geese flying north, so he began to pack up and salute, and began to return to Guanzhong.