Luo Youdu walked on a battlefield littered with corpses. In this battle, the Southern Tang Dynasty lost as many as eight thousand soldiers, all of whom were the result of not resisting and fleeing.
Luo Youdu never expected that the Tang army would choose not to fight in the end, but instead try their best to grab the boat and escape.
Once the fighting spirit was lost, the Southern Tang army was slaughtered like piglets.
As the old saying goes, if one general is incompetent, the three armies will be exhausted.
I don’t know if Han Xinquan, knowing better, would lift the coffin board and die again.
However, Luo Youdu felt that Liu Yanzhen should be grateful to herself for her death.
In order to get his boat, I specially gave him the Zhengyang Floating Bridge...
You must know that he died more stupidly in history.
Because there was no interference from history, Guo Rong's personal expedition took place in March of the third year of Xiande, not December of the second year of Xiande.
At that time, the water level of the Huaihe River had risen. When Li Gu was besieging Shouzhou, he learned that Han Xin of the Southern Tang Dynasty had led his navy to Zhengyang Floating Bridge.
Li Gu was obviously frightened by Han Xin's name. He withdrew his troops and gave up the siege of Shouzhou. He planned to retreat to Zhengyang Floating Bridge and join forces with Guo Rong to attack Shouzhou.
Then Liu Yanzhen disappeared. Seeing that Li Gu had withdrawn, he directly led his more than 20,000 naval troops to abandon the boats and go on foot to hunt down Li Gu's retreating troops. You must know that Li Gu led the twelve generals of the Zhou Dynasty and nearly 60,000 troops.
horse.
Guo Rong was angry with Li Gu for retreating rashly and asked Li Chongjin to replace Li Gu.
After Li Chongjin arrived at the front line, he killed Liu Yanzhen in a matter of minutes without saying a word.
Therefore, for a general of this level, Luo Youdu really did not dare to use any sophisticated strategies against him, fearing that he would not understand and would not be fooled.
But there is one thing to say, Liu Yanzhen is also a talent from the side.
Even though he was defeated so stupidly, not many people in the Southern Tang Dynasty scolded him. Instead, they posthumously named him Zhongshu Ling and gave him the posthumous title of "Zhuang".
All I can say is that the money is really a good thing.
"gentlemen!"
Pan Mei strode over with excitement on her face and said: "The statistics are out. This time we captured a total of one five-story ship, ten large hand-to-hand combat ships, fifty-five small hand-to-hand combat ships, and eight assault and ramming ships.
Fifteen ships, one hundred and twenty small patrol boats, and one hundred and fifty transport ships."
When Luo Youdu heard the names of these warships, his eyes lit up and he said with a smile: "The harvest is really quite a lot."
He remembered that the navy in the Southern Tang Dynasty was extremely developed and had various offensive methods.
When the Song Dynasty destroyed the Southern Tang Dynasty, it also suffered greatly from the naval forces of the Southern Tang Dynasty.
But God was against the Song Dynasty. The navy of the Southern Tang Dynasty used iron claws to seize the Song Dynasty's warships, and then used secret weapons to spray the Song army with kerosene.
As a result, the wind direction suddenly changed, and the kerosene was blown towards and ignited the Tang army's own ships, which burned the Southern Tang navy to a great defeat, thus losing the hegemony of the Yangtze River.
From these hand-to-hand combat ships and charge and ramming ships, we can see that the navy of the Southern Tang Dynasty really put a certain amount of effort into the study of water warfare.
Luo Youdu paused and asked, "How much food and weapons are there?"
Pan Meidao said: "This is not much. The ordnance has not been counted yet, but the food on board has been counted, and there are more than 20,000 dan."
"Something's wrong!" Luo Youdu muttered: "This number is wrong. Have you captured the general? Bring it to me and I will interrogate it myself."
Pan Meidao: "I caught three of them, and one tried to escape and was shot dead."
The one who escaped was Wu Yanhui, who was imprisoned by Cao Bin in the Huaihe River.
He heard the loud sounds of killing outside, and relied on his familiarity with water to dive away.
There were many soldiers who had this idea. The main purpose of the soldiers guarding the shore was to prevent them from coming ashore to support the fighting Southern Tang Army. There was no strict requirement for them to escape or not, as long as they did not get close to the shore.
However, they could not remain indifferent, otherwise they would all run away and it would be difficult to communicate with each other, so they used their crossbows to shoot several rounds at the fleeing people.
Unfortunately, Wu Yanhui was shot in the thigh and drowned in panic.
Of those who relied on water diving to escape, only a few actually managed to escape alive. On the contrary, they all stayed still and survived.
After a while, Zhang Yanhan and Cheng Shilang were brought closer.
Both Tang generals were in shock.
Zhang Yanhan saw with his own eyes that Liu Yanzhen was trampled to death by Shi Shouxin's horse. The scene made him freeze on the spot and did not dare to resist.
Cheng Shilang was similar. He led five thousand soldiers to confront Pan Mei, Cao Bin, Zhang Qiong, and Chang Side. The four generals cooperated and killed them until they were unable to fight back.
Finally, he was knocked to the ground by Chang Side with a knife.
Thanks to the inability of his sword to penetrate armor, Cheng Shilang managed to save his life by wearing two layers of armor.
"Tell me, where are the food and equipment hidden?" Luo Youdu crossed his arms over his chest.
Zhang Yanhan and Cheng Shilang's expressions changed.
Luo Youdu said: "You dare to attack my Zhengyang Floating Bridge so arrogantly, you are bullying me because I don't have a naval army in the Zhou Dynasty. My Lord has the intention to create a naval army, and I have tried my best to lure you to the land and annihilate you, just to
Seize your warships and form a navy. Now that we have the warships, we also need a navy commander. I have no shortage of infantry generals and cavalry generals, but only water generals. I will leave one of you two to look after myself.
manage."
Cheng Shilang immediately said: "In the upper reaches of Dongfei River..."
Before he finished speaking, Zhang Yanhan exclaimed in horror: "Liu Yanzhen's attack on the Zhengyang Floating Bridge was to attract the support of the army besieging Shouzhou. He asked Huangfu Hui and Yao Feng to take the opportunity to attack the Zhou soldiers besieging Shouzhou, and they were attacking Chen Cang secretly by building a plank road.
The idea was to transport the grain and weapons placed in the upper reaches of the Dongfei River into Shouzhou via waterways. The person responsible for transporting the grain was called Chen Chengzhao, and he only had 500 soldiers, and the others were recruited boatmen and carriers."
He spoke quickly and urgently, and in a loud voice, which directly suppressed Cheng Shilang.
Cheng Shilang looked at Zhang Yanhan sadly and angrily.
Luo Youdu said with a smile: "Okay, one of you will be in charge and one will be in charge, there is no need to compete."
People around Shi Shouxin, Cao Bin, Pan Mei and others couldn't help laughing.
Luo Youdu's eyes flashed with excitement and he said: "I find it strange that your main purpose is to support Shouzhou, so you brought more than 20,000 stones of military rations, which is not enough to feed your army. There must be other places to store food. It turns out that
That’s the idea…”
As a businessman, Luo Youdu is the best at calculating.
A young and strong man eats two liters of rice and 20,000 shi of grain every day. Using this ratio, an army of 20,000 people can only feed them for thirty days.
There were about 24,000 people in Liu Yanzhen's tribe, and they only carried enough food for more than 20 days. This was not in line with the method of using troops.
No matter how stupid Liu Yanzhen is, she can't even think about eating, drinking, and eating.
After pondering for a while, Luo Youdu immediately ordered: "Zhao Duxiao, you take all the prisoners to our army camp. Zhongxun, you stay and continue to clean the battlefield. Chang Dutou, you lead the imperial camp division to guard the ships, wait
The official family will send troops to take over. Brother Shi, Guohua, please bring all the cavalry immediately, and we will go grab food."