"I finally understand that these five thousand sailors are Li Jing's abandoned sons. His real purpose is to hold back our army." Wang Yanzhang said with determination.
Apart from this, Wang Yanzhang really can't think of any other reason. After all, both sides of the Yellow River are people from the Qi army. The only space for the Qin army's navy to move is the Yellow River and the edge areas on both sides. Once they land on the bank, they will be immediately attacked by the army.
surrounded, and could not get supplies while being on the water.
Fighting and fighting, but unable to escape and unable to escape, it will only be a matter of time before the entire army is annihilated.
"Abandoning only 5,000 navy troops just to hold our army back for half a month? Is Li Jing out of his mind?" Wang Yantong said with a puzzled look on his face.
A strange look flashed in Zhu Tianpeng's eyes, and he said: "Perhaps Li Jing has other purposes. He is holding back our army just to prevent our army from destroying his plan, so he would rather give up 5,000 naval troops to hold back our army."
"Other purposes? Is it Wang Mang? What Li Jing really wants to deal with is Wang Mang?" Wang Yanzhang said in surprise.
Zhu Tianpeng's eyes flashed, and he sneered: "This is very likely. After all, compared to our Qi army, Wang Mang's army, which was improvised, has weaker combat effectiveness. Only if our army does not intervene, Li Jing can
Maybe defeat Wang Mang."
As soon as these words came out, all the generals immediately became energetic. Wang Yantong said: "My lord, since we have discovered Li Jing's purpose, should we go and help Wang Mang?"
"No, even if Li Jing defeats Wang Mang, both sides will suffer, and our army will just reap the benefits and completely occupy Beihai County and Liangshan County.
The top priority is to eat up this fat piece of meat that Li Jing sent to your door as soon as possible."
Zhu Tianpeng obviously did not want to continue to be entangled in this way, and immediately ordered Xia Luqi on the north bank to continue the encirclement and suppression. At the same time, he personally led 10,000 naval troops to besiege Li Jing personally.
Everything can be one, two, but not three.
Li Jing had already crossed the Yellow River twice, and had the Qi army defeat him twice. How could he not defeat him a third time?
Not long ago, Li Jing divided the waterway and rode three parts to surround Song Jiang. Now he is also faced with the Qi army's pursuit and blockade by two armies on the waterway. However, Li Jing's vigilance is obviously not comparable to Song Jiang's.
As soon as Xia Luqi on the north bank of the Yellow River made a move, and even before the encirclement was laid out, the Qin army and navy operating on the north bank of the Yellow River jumped on the boat and ran away like frightened birds.
The Qi army's third siege ended in failure again.
But this time Zhu Tianpeng also took a chance. Although the army missed and the navy failed to catch up, he still led the navy to continue the pursuit and ordered an ambush on the south bank in advance. As long as the Qin army landed on the south bank,
The only outcome is to be annihilated.
Although the fleets of both sides went smoothly, the Qi army's warships were modified by Zhu Tianpeng and were faster than the Liangshan army's ships that the Qin army had captured. In the end, they barely caught up with the Qin army's fleet, but
The Qin fleet has abandoned its ships and gone ashore.
"Li Jing, you have fallen into a trap. My king has long expected that you will come ashore here. Soldiers, kill and capture Li Jing alive."
Not long after the Qin army came ashore, shouts of killing were heard from all directions. The Qi army that had been ambushing them all came to kill them. The Qi navy in the rear also landed and killed them. This also put the Qin army into a situation where it was completely surrounded by enemies on all sides.
"Haha, unless the Qin army can fly, they won't be able to escape even with the help of Daluo gods." Zhu Tianpeng laughed and then commanded the navy to launch an attack.
Although the Qin army's naval forces were well-trained, they faced an area several times larger than theirs and were besieged from all sides. Such a battle situation could no longer be reversed by manpower. Although they resisted desperately, it was still difficult to reverse the defeat.
This battle only lasted for an hour. No one in the Qin army's navy escaped. Two thousand people died in the battle and 2,500 surrendered. It can be said that the entire army was wiped out, but the total casualties of the Qi army were less than a thousand.
"I thought I could kill the Qin army with a maximum of 500 casualties, but I didn't expect more than 800 casualties in the end. Li Jing is really good at training troops."
Zhu Tianpeng felt that he did not expect that the Qin army could still explode with such high combat effectiveness under siege from all sides.
"By the way, have you caught Li Jing?" Zhu Tianpeng asked.
"I caught it, but I only caught the substitute."
Hearing this, Zhu Tianpeng frowned slightly. Although all this was within his expectation, and it was absolutely impossible for Li Jing to really be waiting to be captured in the army, he still felt inexplicably uneasy in his heart.
"Wait a minute, there's something wrong with the number of people. Didn't it mean that the Qin Army's naval force had five thousand men? Why is there only a total of four thousand five hundred including corpses? Where are the other five hundred people?" Zhu Tianpeng said with a look on his face.
asked solemnly.
"Well...according to the accounts of the prisoners of war, when he first crossed the Yellow River, Li Jing led five hundred sailors to the west."
"To the west? To the west?" Zhu Tianpeng couldn't help but murmured.
The most reasonable explanation for this is that Li Jing gave up the 4,500 sailors and ran away with the other 500 sailors, but Zhu Tianpeng always felt that something was wrong.
"Old Zhang, haven't you noticed that the water level of the Yellow River is much shallower than in previous years?"
"Huh? Don't tell me, it's true. Considering this season, logically it shouldn't be like this?"
The two sailors carrying the body discussed.
The speaker has no intention, but the listener has intention.
Zhu Tianpeng, who happened to hear these words, suddenly felt something in his heart. He glanced at the water level of the Yellow River and found that it was indeed much shallower than in previous years. He then looked at the main force of the 70,000 Qi army gathered on both sides of the Yellow River.
"Um?"
Zhu Tianpeng seemed to understand something at once. His expression instantly changed from shock to horror, and he roared: "Quickly, evacuate both sides of the Yellow River."
Wang Yanzhang couldn't help but be stunned when he saw this, and asked a little confused: "Lord, what did you say?"
"This king said that the infantry should leave the Yellow River immediately, and the naval forces would get on the boats and go directly to the sea. They would also send out flags to tell the other side to evacuate immediately."
Seeing that his lord's expression did not appear to be hypocritical, Wang Yanzhang also realized the seriousness of the problem and hurriedly went to summon him. However, a full 50,000 troops were crowded at this small ferry, and it would obviously take time to evacuate quickly.
Looking at the orderly and thorough Qi army on both sides of the Yellow River, Zhu Tianpeng secretly prayed in his heart: "I hope I am overthinking."
Rumble…
Suddenly, a deafening roaring noise was heard, followed by turbulent waves, overwhelmingly approaching both sides of the Yellow River.
Zhu Tianpeng's eyes widened when he saw this, and he roared unwillingly: "Li Jing, do you still have the heart to dare to attack with water?"
At this time, Zhu Tianpeng could not understand that Li Jing's four crossings of the Yellow River were not to delay the fight against Wang Mang, but to attract the main force of the Qi army to both sides of the Yellow River so that Li Jing could carry out a water attack.