Ahead, more than a dozen bamboo rafts had rushed into the Beijiang River from a tributary, and crashed directly into the leader of the small wing, like a wolf pounced on a buffalo. Dozens of Yue people climbed up on their hands and feet, holding weapons in their mouths.
Da Yi, fought hand to hand with the Qin soldiers above.
Han Xin, who was on the second ship, only saw that after his commander kicked a Yue into the water, he was outnumbered and killed by two other enemies. The Yue warrior with exaggerated patterns on his body skillfully cut off the village.
He raised his long head high and shouted this way in demonstration!
"This is an ambush."
Jun Zhengcheng quickly understood the seriousness of the matter. He looked towards the left and right sides of the river. There were hundreds of Yue people rushing out of the forest. They were carrying simple rafts and after throwing them into the water, seven or eight people
They squeezed together, supported themselves on bamboo poles, and rowed towards the fleet...
They may have noticed that the Qin army's grain ships passed by here every day, and hid in the forest for a long time, waiting for their prey to take the bait.
There are more than ten ships in the entire fleet, but only three are small-winged warships. The rest are flat-bottomed and wide-barreled grain ships. Except for the twenty corvees rowing the boats, each ship has only one troop of soldiers.
Under Han Xin's call, the crossbowmen on the ship quickly shot at the Vietnamese bamboo rafts rowing from the side. However, even if they were lucky enough to shoot down one or two people, it was still to no avail. Seeing that the rafts were getting closer and closer, there were neither wooden walls nor wooden walls.
The grain ship that collided with the corner had no power to fight back...
Xiao Lu hurriedly walked out of the cabin at this time, when a Yue man on the bamboo raft on the side raised his bamboo spear and threw it towards the boat, thrusting it into his side, which shocked Xiao Lu.
Looking at the scene in front of him, he turned pale and blurted out:
"Quickly let the corvee row the boat and rush over!"
"no!"
Han Xin interrupted Xiao Lu's words: "There are many bamboo rafts among the Yue people. Even if Xiaoyi can rush through them, the grain ships behind them are carrying a lot of cargo and are slow, so I'm afraid they won't be able to escape."
"What should we do?"
Xiao Lu was a little confused. The attack happened too suddenly. The Qin ships stretched into a long queue, and the Yue people rushed from the left bank on stilts. This meant that the five Qin soldiers on each ship had to deal with enemies several times their own...
"I have an idea."
Han Xin pointed to the right bank where there were fewer people, where the gentle river sand accumulated.
"Send the flag to the ship behind me and follow me to the shore!"
"You're crazy!"
Xiao Lu was shocked: "Do you know how many Yue people there are around here? Once the ships run aground, they will easily be unable to launch, and Yue people are coming from everywhere. We can't wait..."
Han Xin said in a hurried tone: "The Yue people are good at boats, but our ships are fighting independently. They use short attacks to attack the long ones. We are outnumbered and outnumbered. We are unprepared and our enemies are well prepared. We will definitely be defeated."
“But it’s different on shore!”
Han Xin pointed to the river beach that could accommodate hundreds of people, and his eyes flashed with the light of finding a fighter plane: "When we get to the shore, even if we are rowing corvee, we can leave the boat and join the battle formation. Once the formation is formed, our army will have free time to prepare for the battle.
No matter how many people there are, we can still be one against ten!"
"Crazy, crazy." Xiao Lu was in a dilemma, but he couldn't think of a better idea, so he still said with luck:
"It's better to rush over. How will you know if you don't try..."
"Xiao Cangpu!"
Han Xin changed his color: "Even if our little ship can escape, the more than ten grain ships behind it, which can feed ten thousand soldiers and more than ten thousand stones of grain for a month, will be lost!"
He looked at Qu Ji: "Jun Zhengcheng, is this a serious crime?"
"Sin deserves death!"
Quji gritted his teeth: "With more than a hundred people, if there is a battle, go north, defend and surrender, leave the ground and flee, the order is called 'military bandit', and you will die and your family will be disabled!"
Han Xin nodded: "That's right. Now that things have happened, if we don't want to be executed by the king for being a bandit, we have no choice but to fight to the death!"
At this point, he no longer cared about Xiao Lu's opinion, and before the Yue bamboo raft came up, he asked the pawn at the stern to wave the flag to the boat behind, with the tip of the flag pointed directly at the right bank!
"dash forward!"
"promise!"
The sailor turned the rudder, and the servants in the cabin also speeded up the rowing, and the bow of the ship gradually deflected.
Xiao Lu closed his eyes in despair. He didn't understand why Han Xin, who had always been timid and knew how to get into people's crotches, was so crazy today.
Qu Ji also quickly hugged the mast to avoid being thrown out during the impact. At this time, he found that Han Xin was shaking.
"Is Han Xin actually very scared?" Qu Ji thought.
As everyone knows, Han Xin is a little scared, but more importantly, he is uncontrollably excited!
He knew that today, he would face his real first battle!
The Art of War says: I am one, and the enemy is divided into ten, so I attack one of them with ten. If we are outnumbered and the enemy is outnumbered, if we can attack the outnumbered with numbers, then we will have an agreement with the warrior. This means, no matter what
In any situation, we must avoid using a small number to defeat a large number. Even if the total strength of our army is small, we must be dedicated as one.
Han Xin understands this principle, but he doesn't know how it will actually be used.
"Zhu Zongman learned how to slay dragons in Zhiliyi, and lost his daughter's family. He completed the skill in three years, but failed to use his skills, so he was laughed at by everyone."
Han Xin's trembling became more and more violent, and he had to pinch the tiger's mouth to calm himself down.
"But if a sword that has been sharpened for ten years cannot kill a snake, then slaying a dragon is just wishful thinking!"
"If that's the case, it's better to just leave it here!"
The next moment, accompanied by the shouts of the people on the boat, Xiaoyi rushed to the river beach with thick white sand at an extremely fast speed!
…
"How careless."
After receiving the news from the pavilions and obstacles along the way, An Pu, the "Captain of the Three Passes", immediately led his people by land and rushed to the place where the fleet was attacked twenty miles upstream. Along the way, he couldn't help but secretly regret in his heart.
I thought that Beijiang Road would be safe enough after the large army cleared it by land and water, wiping out the Yue tribes along the way. However, I didn't expect that the Yue people were so bold. They got back so quickly and even launched an attack on the grain ship.
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If that batch of grain was lost, it would be a huge loss. You must know that every grain of grain was transported from the Jianghuai counties to Wuchang, where it was piled up in Changsha, and then carried by cattle, horses, mules and donkeys to Chenxian County, where it was transported by countless grains.
The civilian husbands of the Qing Dynasty carried it on their backs across the Five Ridges to Huangxiguan, and then loaded it on ships and set off.
Coupled with the loss of so much human and financial resources, the price per stone of grain is equivalent to ten times that of the Central Plains!
If these dozen ships and ten thousand stones of grain fell into the hands of the Yue people, even the Marquis of Changnan would feel distressed...
In comparison, five hundred people died, but it was nothing.
But when Anpu, who had given up hope of the fleet's survival, arrived at the fork of the river, he saw a shocking scene:
A dozen boats were lined up in a row, lying quietly on the river beach. The Vietnamese had long since disappeared, leaving only corpses and blood on the ground, as well as abandoned rafts by the river, proving that a tragic event had taken place here.
fighting.
Seeing the friendly troops coming, Jun Zhengcheng came over with a smile on his face and held his hand towards Anpu: "Captain An, I never thought that our last team who was guarding the grain could also get a small victory!"
"Xiao Jie?"
Quji pointed at the soldiers and corvees who had chopped off their heads and piled them up by the river: "We were able to defeat thousands of people and behead two hundred, but the casualties of the soldiers and civilians were less than fifty. Isn't it a victory? When these ships are launched again, there will be nothing but food.
, I’m afraid we have to dedicate a ship to hold the heads!”
After saying that, Quji asked Han Xin to come over and introduced:
"Leaving the boat to land, forming a formation and fighting, this is all the result of Han Baichang."
An Pu looked at the tall but young centurion in front of him and couldn't help but be surprised: "You relied on less than a hundred people to block the attack of thousands of Yue people? And you beheaded two hundred people!"
Han Xin cupped his hands and said, "There are more than a hundred people. Including the rowing corvee, there are also five or six hundred people."
He pointed to the stranded fleet and explained the previous battle process to Anpu: "After rushing ashore, everyone united into one, with those holding crossbows standing on the boat, and the rest formed a circular formation for protection, standing in the water or on the shore, with shields
If you use your spear and halberd to block the Yue people, you will have the advantage."
"As for the corvees who rowed the boats, although they did not have bows, crossbows, spears or halberds, they did have machetes for chopping wood. They heard that the South Vietnamese were cannibals, and out of fear, they were able to fight to the death to defend my position. Even if they crossed
The people were brave and numerous, but extremely scattered. They were divided into ten groups and took turns to attack. They were still like moths rushing to the flames. They were repulsed several times when they pounced on them. After suffering heavy casualties, they all retreated..."
Han Xin only did not say that while supervising the felling of these civilians in Wuchang Camp, he also used them as guinea pigs, divided his troops, and practiced military formations. Although some people secretly scolded him as a "coward."
.However, with the example of the corps commander whose head was beheaded by Han Xin, no one dared to disrespect the explicit orders. Therefore, although it was not as good as the regular army, it was still somewhat orderly.
I never thought about it, but it came in handy today.
After Anpu heard this, he was secretly surprised and asked Han Xin: "What is your name?"
"Han Xin..." The young man lowered his head and whispered.
An Pu was a little displeased: "Why do you speak so softly, a dignified man of eight feet? How did you give the command just now?"
He didn't know that Han Xin was shouting at the top of his lungs when he was giving the command...
But I don’t know when, maybe as far away as the streets of Huaiyin, or maybe in the Qin camp, when Han Xin announced his name, he always lowered his voice unconsciously.
Because Han Xin knew that this name has always been associated with "the people under the crotch are poor and have nothing to do", which attracted others to laugh...
Although Han Xin once said that it was okay for others to know about this matter, he still cared about it in his heart.
But today, the eyes of everyone around him were no longer contempt and contempt, but respect. Because of him, Han Baichang fought a good battle, using his own decision-making to save the lives of five or six hundred people in the midst of lightning and flint.
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Quji, who knew Han Xin's past, came over and encouraged him: "After today, the generals in the army will know your name, and your deeds will even reach the ears of the Marquis of Changnan. When the time comes, the Marquis of Changnan will ask you, you must learn from it."
, report it loudly."
That's right, after today's battle, this name was accompanied by more than just humiliation.
