Chapter 220: Advance and retreat (3) [Supplement 18/40]
In late May, in the Wuyan area of Dongjun, Chu general Xiang Mo and Qi general Tian Dan had made preparations for a joint attack on Wuyan County.
Waiting for Wei Wu's army to defeat Wei General Shaohu and capture Wuyan, Xiang Mo and Tian Dan immediately led their troops to Changyi to participate in Chu Shuijun's "Changyi Alliance" and formally command the Wei Kingdom.
But unfortunately, the Wei army stationed in Wuyan is the elite "Wei Wujun" of the first echelon of the Wei state. It is not comparable to the patchwork Wei army in Changyi City. Even though Xiang Mo and Tian Dan relied on their many
An army of more than 200,000 people surrounded Wuyan City, but it was not possible to conquer the city in a short period of time.
However, Xiang Mo and Tian Dan were not in a hurry. After all, the Wei army had fallen into their siege and had their food routes cut off. In a month or two at most, the Wei army in the city would be in a dilemma of running out of food and grass.
, they can annihilate this Wei elite without any effort.
However, something unexpected happened.
On this day, when Tian Dan and Xiang Mo were patrolling the camp, suddenly a general of a hundred soldiers from the Chu army came in a hurry and reported: "General Xiang, General Tian, there is a woman dressed as a witch outside the camp, saying that she is a witch.
I have been sent by Lord Chu Shui to report something important to the two generals."
"Chu Shuijun?"
Xiang Mo and Tian Dan looked at each other, both a little surprised.
During this period, Xiang Mo guessed: "Could it be that you are urging us to lead the army to Changyi immediately?"
After that, he said to the hundred-man general: "Bring that woman to the commander's tent."
"yes!"
After a while, Xiang Mo and Tian Dan returned to the military commander's tent. Not long after, they saw the hundred-man general leading a witch into the tent.
After meeting Xiang Mo and Tian Dan, the witch asked expressionlessly: "Are General Xiang Mo and General Tian Dan of Qi State here?"
Seeing this, Xiang Mo introduced him: "This is Xiang Mo, and this is General Tian Dan, the famous general of Qi. May I ask...you were sent by Lord Chu Shui."
"Yes!" The witch turned a blind eye to Xiang Mo and Tian Dan's looking up and down, and said expressionlessly: "Chu Shuijun ordered me to tell the two generals that Wei's Huling navy also left Dingtao ten days ago.
Go downstream along the Jishui River..."
"What?!"
Before the witch finished speaking, Tian Dan's face changed drastically and she asked sternly: "Is this serious?!"
The witch glared at Tian Dan and said coldly: "How could Lord Chu Shui make such a joke with the general!"
Although the witch choked, Tian Dan ignored his annoyance, clenched his fists and gritted his teeth, murmuring: "I see, that's it... Wei Guo deliberately showed weakness just to seduce me.
Da Qi's army goes out to fight." At this point, he gritted his teeth and said a name: "Zhao Run!"
"King Zhao Run of Wei?" Xiang Mo didn't respond for a moment.
Seeing this, Tian Dan gritted his teeth and said: "Showing the enemy's weakness, diverting the tiger away from the mountain, and attacking from the east to the west. Aren't these tricks Zhao Run is best at!... I was in Ningyang back then, but he was fooling me around."
Tian Dan will never forget that when he was in Ningyang, he was fully prepared to compete with Wei Gongzi Run who swept across the Central Plains, but the latter, after delaying him for several months, he
The mother slapped her butt and went to Korea, completely ignoring Tian Tan's mood at the time.
bad!
It’s simply extremely bad!
Seeing Tian Dan's furious look, Xiang Mo, the Chu general standing next to him, stretched out his hand to scratch his face, feeling a little embarrassed. After all, after that Wei Gongzi Run patted his butt and left, he was the one who took over the war with Tian Dan.
Shaking his head, Xiang Mo said sincerely: "Never mind the past, this time, that Wei Jun really fooled us all..."
Tian Dan remained silent with a sullen face.
In fact, not only Chu Shuijun, but also many generals thought that the Wei State gave up half of Song County in order to shrink the defense line and gather troops. Unexpectedly, there was a deeper conspiracy behind this matter: to draw out Qi State's army!
No matter whether it was Chu Shuijun, Xiang Mo, Tian Dan, Xiang Juan, or Tian Wu, no general could have guessed this matter. Think about it, who would have thought that when Wei State had a serious shortage of defensive troops in Song County,
He actually dared to kill someone with a carbine.
After thinking for a moment, Tian Dan said in a deep voice: "General Xiang, I am sorry that Tian must return to Linzi to aid."
Xiang Mo nodded to express understanding.
After all, they both generally knew the strength of the Wei State's Huling Navy. Xiang Mo did it because he had fought against the Huling Navy, while Tian Dan considered another aspect - the Wei State had trained in Weishan Lake for several years.
How can we despise the navy?!
On that day, General Tian Dan left all his baggage at the Chu army camp at the end of Xiang Dynasty. He led the Langya Army, Jimo Army and other armies to return to Linzi day and night to support Linzi.
But unfortunately, he was still too late, because at this time, Wei's Huling navy had already flowed down the Jishui River, passed the city "Lixia" along the river, and brought several people from the Lixia County area.
The fishermen in Linhe Fishing Village were frightened.
It was still dark at that time, and there was still some thick fog. In the fishing villages along the river, men carried fishing nets or fishing rods to the Jishui river beach, preparing to snare some fresh fish and bring them to the county town for sale.
While they were busy, they vaguely saw what seemed to be a huge object floating down the upper reaches of Jishui River.
"What is that?"
Several fishermen holding torches approached the river bank and took a closer look.
At this moment, a huge warship broke through the thick fog and passed in front of the fishermen.
Immediately, the second and third ships, these huge warships, seemed to rush out of the thick fog in a steady stream and flow down the river.
With a startled glance, the fishermen were shocked to see that all the warships were flying flags with the word "Wei".
"Wei, Wei Jun!"
"The Kingdom of Wei is coming!"
"The Kingdom of Wei is coming!"
Shouting in panic, the fishermen didn't even bother to pack up their nets, rods, and fishing baskets, and ran away crawling away.
"What's going on?"
At this time, Li Huo, the general of the Huling Navy, was standing on the bow of the boat, frowning and looking at the thick fog on the river in front. Suddenly, he heard an exclamation nearby and walked over immediately.
In the cabin walkway, a Wei soldier explained: "It seems that he was seen by nearby fishermen... General, do you want to stop the ship and send someone to silence him?"
Li Huo frowned and glanced at the thick fog, shook his head and said: "No need, our army can go down the river directly to "Boxing". Even if the Qi people saw it, they would not have time to warn Linzi. Send the order, go at full speed.
go ahead!"
"yes!"
In fact, Qi State also deployed some water forts on the Jishui river to station some naval forces and warships. These naval forces were also included in the establishment of the "Julu Navy", but these naval forces did not exist at all.
It was expected that the Huling navy of Wei State would attack Qi State along the Jishui River. Unprepared, the Huling navy easily broke through the defensive area.
Even though some water forts responded quickly, even if they sailed their warships out of the water forts in an attempt to resist the Huling navy, they could not stop the Huling navy's Tiger warships.
The Tiger warship, which has iron sheets wrapped around key parts of its hull, is definitely the strongest warship in the world and is not afraid of collisions between ships at all.
On May 27th, the Huling navy arrived at the city along the river where the branches of Jishui and Zishui converged, "Boxing".
Boxing is one of the hub ports of Qi State's water transportation, and it is also the waterway gateway to Linzi, the capital of Qi King. Although it is not as prosperous as Bolangsha, Luoyang, Daliang, Linzi, Handan and other contemporary big cities, it can also be called a large county.
, is also one of the largest river ports in Qi State.
Due to its strategic location, there are many Qi warships stationed at the port of Boxing County, but the number is not large. There are only about seven or eight large ships and a dozen sterns. Apart from that, almost all of them are warships.
Merchant ships used for transportation, and fishing boats used by fishermen to catch fish.
On the evening of the 27th, the Huling navy of Wei State arrived in Boxing.
With almost no defense in Boxing County, the Huling navy landed at the port and occupied the river port almost effortlessly.
After occupying Boxing Port, the Huling naval forces were divided into three groups: Li Ji took charge of the river port and blocked Jishui; Cai Qinhu attacked Boxing County depending on the situation; and Li Huo and Chen Si led their respective troops.
The fleet broke into the Zi River branch and headed for Linzi, the capital of Qi State.
At this time, it was not difficult to see the true strength of the Huling Navy. We saw the Jishui River downstream to Boxing, Boxing and then to Linzi. The river was full of warships of the Huling Navy.
The next day, at dawn, Li Huo and Chen Si led their warships along the branch of Zi River and broke into the main stream of Zi River.
At this time, the outline of Linzi, the capital of the King of Qi, can be seen - Linzi is on the west side of the Zi River and Anping is on the east side.
"I'm new here. Say hello to the owner here."
On the flagship, Wei General Li Huo looked at the still quiet Linzi City in the distance and said with a smile.
Under his order, more than a dozen Tiger warships under his command were lined up in several rows on the Zishui River, and anchors were lowered to fix the hulls.
Immediately, the trebuchets on the dozen Tiger warships unanimously aimed at the east gate tower of Linzi City.
"put!"
Following Li Huo's order, the trebuchets on more than a dozen Tiger warships were launched simultaneously, and more than a dozen stone bullets the size of millstones were seen roaring towards the east gate tower of Linzi City.
Among these dozen stone bullets, several failed to hit the target and only made a few craters on the flat ground outside the city. Three more flew over the city wall. I don’t know what they hit. Only three stone bullets.
The east wall of Linzi City caused varying degrees of damage to the wall.
What excited the Wei soldiers the most was the stone bullet that hit the east city gate tower.
At that time, there was only a crash, and most of the tower at the east gate of Linzi City collapsed in an instant, causing the defenders on the city to shout in horror.
"Hey!"
Looking at the city that suddenly changed from quiet to noisy, Li Huo licked his lips with excitement.