32, night battle!
There was not much time left for Chu Ling to defeat the Northern Jin Navy, and Chu Ling was not a person who was hesitant to encounter problems. Therefore, he quickly decided on his strategy to capture the Northern Jin Navy.
For them, the most troublesome thing was the fortresses stationed along the river with the Clan soldiers and the Southern Army, as well as the garrisons in Linjiang City. As for the navy on the river, although the navy on the river could also land and fight, Chu Ling believed that Wang Lixing would not do that. Because if the warships were abandoned, the navy would no longer exist. The Clans could not replace the navy led by the generals of the Tianqi Rebellion, but they did not really have to.
At least before they planned to attack the Apocalypse, the navy was not an indispensable group of troops of the Clan.
Late at night, the Lingcang River was still as quiet as before. The soldiers stationed on the boat were already on the river and did not know that someone was eyeing them at this time.
In a defensive fortress, several Southern Army soldiers were standing upstairs to watch. Four people stood on all sides and could see an enemy attack in four directions. Once there was any movement, as long as another signal was sent, the entire riverside bunker would respond continuously. This was similar to the road pavilion built by the Clans in various places.
The fortress is built less than five feet away from the riverside. Standing upstairs, you can just see the surging river water flowing through your feet.
An unusual ripples suddenly appeared in the flowing river water. After a moment, several black shadows showed a head from the water. They looked at the fortress in front of them vigilantly, looked at each other for a few glances, and the dark shadows climbed onto the shore and ran quickly towards the bottom of the fortress.
This kind of defensive fortress along the river is usually located at an average of five miles per place, with five tribes and more than twenty southern troops stationed in each place. For twelve hours a day, four people must be responsible for guarding and looking around in the four directions upstairs. These people are usually stationed in Linjiang City and rotated every ten days. In other words, if you want to win a fortress without attracting anyone's attention, you must take down nearly thirty people in it at one time.
This is the time when people are sleeping the most. Five men in black quietly approach the fortress. They knocked down the people guarding the door and invaded the room. They settled the people inside without much effort. Then they went upstairs and replaced the people upstairs with their own.
A young man whispered, "It's not very powerful." So, where are they afraid of the Clan people? Another man whispered, "There are only five Clan people, and the rest are all Southern Army. Don't forget, we are all elite soldiers specially trained by the princess, don't be proud."
There are 20,000 or 30,000 soldiers in the Shenyou Army, but there are actually less than 500 elites who can be called the elite by the princess. Even if the Shenyou Army itself is the elite of the imperial guards, they can be regarded as one of them in a thousand. In recent years, they not only worked hard for themselves, but also didn't know how much effort the princess had spent, how many masters they had to teach and practice with them. They also attacked and killed five soldiers of the clan, which was not a commendable achievement.
As for the Southern Army... the Southern Army has low combat effectiveness and is almost a cannon fodder. What can I say?
The young man who was reminded by him nodded and immediately stood in the position of the night. If there were no one who was paying attention to the small fortress throughout the whole process, I would probably not know that this place had been replaced in just a moment.
The same thing happened here in other places. When the people of the Clan didn't know about it, people had already quietly changed in the fortresses of a long section of the Lingcang River.
At this time, on the other side of the Lingcang River, a group of men in black stood silently in the night and looked at the shimmering river in front of them. A young general couldn't help but whisper: "General, do we really want to cross the river?"
"What? Are you scared?" Zhao Boan turned around and looked at him lightly.
The young general shook his head repeatedly and said, "It's not that he is afraid, it's just... isn't we in compliance with the rules? And... is there really no problem with the princess?"
Zhao Bo'an snorted lightly, pulled out a letter from his sleeve and said, "Where is the seal of the Privy Council that is not in line with the rules? Don't talk nonsense, be prepared! When you see the signal, take action immediately!"
"Yes, General!"
I don’t know how long it took, but a lantern slowly rose on the other side. After a moment, two more rose again. There was nothing special. The three simple and unpretentious Kongming lanterns slowly drifted higher and higher, and in such a late night, it was almost impossible to attract anyone’s attention. However, the eyes of the person who had been staring at it became brighter and brighter, and there was an exciting light flashing in his eyes.
Not far away, a figure came hurried and said in a deep voice: "General Zhao, General Lu said that the Shenyou Army would cross the river first, and we would then. After that, their navy will go directly to the dock of the North Jin navy on the north bank to meet Wang Lixing for a while." Zhao Bo'an nodded and said: "I understand, tell General Lu that we are ready."
"yes!"
At this time, in the Northern Jin naval camp, Wang Lixing was sitting on the deck outside the cabin of the warship, leaning against the chair, drinking lazily. Wanfeng took the people to sit opposite him, looking at him and frowned slightly, "General Wang, we have delivered what you want on time. Should General Wang send someone to inspect the goods?" Wang Lixing smiled and said, "It's not the first time I've dealt with Miss Wanfeng, so what else can I trust? I'm sorry to have worked hard on this trip. The girl, please sit down and wait for my subordinates to count the silver to make it easier for the girl to settle the payment for the goods. How about it?" Even though he said that, Wang Lixing still used a color to the person standing not far away. The man nodded understandingly and turned around and walked outside.
Wanfeng saw all this in his eyes, but didn't say much. He just frowned slightly, coughed twice and said, "This season, Jiang Feng is a little cold. Why not go into the cabin and sit in the cabin."
Wang Lixing looked at Wanfeng's beautiful face, and a little regret and unwillingness flashed in his eyes. He really wanted to get this unique woman, even if she was already someone else's favored concubine. But he didn't want to offend the Water Dragon King at the moment. After all, he might have to do business with him in the future. Even if he didn't do business, it would not be a wise move to offend the thief leader on the Zonghengling Cang River. What a pity... Maybe he can discuss with the Water Dragon King in the future and ask the Shuifeng girl to come here.
Facing Wang Lixing's increasingly revealing eyes, Wanfeng's eyes slightly drooped away the murderous intent in his eyes.
"What is that?" Wang Lixing looked up and frowned. Wanfeng looked up and looked at a lantern floating in the sky. He said indifferently: "It seems to be a lantern. I heard that the Apocalypse woman would put lanterns when she made a wish or prayed for the elderly to be healthy. I don't know if it floated from the other side." Wang Lixing frowned slightly and said in confusion: "Don't prayer be used to put river lanterns?" Wanfeng seemed to be careless and said, "Who knows." Wang Lixing stared at the lantern floating slowly in the palace for a while, but after all, he was not very relieved: "Send someone to see where it floated from."
"Yes, general." Someone soon took the order.
Wanfeng lowered his eyes, raised his head and covered the smile on his lips with his sleeve. Now he realized... it was almost too late. Wanfeng stood up and closed his cloak and said, "General Wang, it's a bit cold here, so I'll get off the boat first. As for silver, I'll let you get on the boat after the general's people have calculated it. I can't leave tonight, so I'll go back and rest first."
Wang Lixing smiled and said, "Oh? Miss Wanfeng isn't afraid that I will betray the debt?"
Wanfeng smiled at him and nodded without hesitation, turned around and walked towards the stairs where the warship was going down. When he reached the stairs, he reached out and wiped the hull. It was a pity that the warship that was fighting like this was destroyed.
Wanfeng quickly got off the boat, and a slightly smaller boat stopped beside Wang Lixing's warship. Someone was waiting on the boat. Seeing Wanfeng down, he quickly reached out to help her and took her to his boat.
"girl."
Wanfeng smiled and said, "Drive the boat and stay away from this boat."
"yes."
But Wanfeng's boat had just sailed out not long when he heard a sharp roar suddenly sound. The next moment, a red light broke through the sky and disappeared into the depths of the night. Wanfeng's eyes were slightly sunken and he ordered the people around him, "Let me row the boat quickly!"
At the same time, the navy camp behind them also became in chaos. Wang Lixing, who was drinking, suddenly stood up from his chair.
"General! The signal of the fortress by the river ahead!"
Wang Lixing said in a deep voice: "How far?"
The soldier said: "Twenty miles at most!"
Wang Lixing narrowed his eyes slightly and said in a deep voice: "Send someone to investigate!" His eyes swept to the Wanfeng boat not far away. Wang Lixing said: "Send someone to stop the boat and say... It's not safe on the river now. Please ask Miss Wanfeng to rest on the station boat first."
"Yes, general." The soldiers who received the order immediately got off the boat and drove a boat to chase Wanfeng's ship. After Wanfeng's ship sailed out for a while, I wonder if I knew that someone was chasing them and actually stopped.
When the soldiers chased after him, they found that the whole ship was quiet, and the lights on the ship were still on but there was no sound. After hesitating for a while, the soldiers boarded the ship, but found that the inside and outside of the cabin was empty. Not to mention the evening breeze, even the boating workers didn't know where they ran.
"What's going on? Why is there no one?" The soldier felt that the situation was not right, so he quickly turned around and wanted to report. However, as soon as he turned around, he collided with a man in black. The next moment he felt a pain in his heart and fell to the ground with a thud.
Half an hour passed when Wang Lixing found out that he was inconsistent and drove the warship out of the dock to prepare for support in the place where something happened. Half of this was because Wang Lixing was cautious and half because he did it on purpose.
Although he had the navy, Wang Lixing had no substitute in the eyes of the people of the Clan. He was actually similar to most Southern Army generals. Although the Northern Jin people did not send a regular commander to suppress him in order to show their trust in him, the chief general of the Clan stationed in Linjiang City would still come to the navy camp every few days. Wang Lixing was impatient, but on the surface he still had to flatter people. There was even more unknown how many people in the navy were bribed by the Clan and became the eyeliner for the Clan to monitor him.
Wang Lixing didn't think that something big would happen. It was impossible that the Tianqi people suddenly took the bear heart and leopard's courage and came over, right? In this case, it would be fine to let those people who were above the top suffer a little.
However, what Wang Lixing didn't expect was that the Ancestor really took the courage of the bear heart and leopard, and he really came over.
Therefore, when his warship left the dock, he found that many big and small warships appeared on the river in front of him, blocking his way.
"What's going on!" Wang Lixing stood on the side of the ship and asked sternly.
The general who followed him was also startled and said hesitantly: "General... General, it seems, it seems to be an apocalypse?"
Wang Lixing sneered and said, "Apocalypse? What are you afraid of? Call me!"
Wang Lixing was indeed not very afraid of the Age of Qi people. Most of the Age of Qi Navy surrendered to the Citizens, and a small part of the Age of Qi court was beaten by the Citizens at that time. In order to show that he had no intention of counterattacking the North, he sank most of the warships and had never rebuilt warships in recent years.
Although the Apocalypse still has some naval armies, both the soldiers and ships are actually inferior to those of the Northern Jin Dynasty.
"Yes, General!"
While fighting on the river surface, the riverside was not idle either. When the first defensive fortress discovered that a strange situation was released, most of the Shenyou Army and the 20,000 Apocalypse Imperial Guards had been transported to the north shore. This is fortunate that Lingxiao Trading Company and Wanfeng had helped each other. With the current naval army of Tianqi, it was not easy to transport 40,000 to 50,000 troops to the other shore quietly. After all, the ships were not big enough, not enough. It was Huan Yu and Wanfeng who each mobilized all the merchant cargo ships of Lingxiao Trading Company and the Water Dragon King, so that the land could be completed smoothly.
But even so, it was still discovered. It was not smooth to Chu Ling's perfect idea of quietly completing the sneak attack.
Chu Ling did not force this, after all, she completely silently concealed the enemy, which was just the best idea. She was not a naive person, and the people of the Clan were not blind. Naturally, she would not really think that she would definitely be able to do it. She immediately divided up some of the troops to meet the reinforcements from Linjiang City, waiting for the remaining people to continue crossing the river.
"The last general has seen the princess!" Zhao Bo'an bowed.
"Princess!"
"Princess!"
In the night, Chu Ling glanced at the generals standing in front of him. Zhao Bo'an, Xiao Feng, Yu Wanzhou, and younger Huang Jingxuan and others. Each of them opened their eyes wide and looked at him, as if there was a fire in his eyes. Chu Ling stood in the wind in the river and nodded with a smile: "Thank you all. Now, follow the order."
"Yes, princess!" everyone said in unison.
Chu Ling said in a deep voice: "Yu Wanzhou, you bring ten thousand Shenyou Army and immediately carry it to Guliang County to support the Ge Danfeng tribe of the Jingbei Army." Yu Wanzhou bowed without any ambiguity and said: "Yes, princess!" Chu Ling paused and said: "Cangyun City should also send people to support you. You will set out to join Cangyun Army and go to Guliang County together. Tell them not to worry about this."
Yu Fanzhou didn't have much, so he just nodded and left with a straightforward nod.
"Zhao Bo'an, Xiao Zhu, you two bring 20,000 imperial guards and the Shenyou army. The reinforcements from Linjiang City should not be let go before dawn."
Zhao Bo'an and Xiao Feng looked at each other a little, and both bowed, "Yes, princess!"
"Princess, what are we doing?" Huang Jingxuan and other young people next to him couldn't help but say authentically.
Chu Ling glanced at them and smiled faintly, "You go and take down the defensive fortress along the river and General Lu who supports the navy."
"Yes, princess!" Huang Jingxuan responded happily, waved his hand to his companion behind him and left with great pride.
Chapter completed!