A water bird just caught a river fish in the long-lost tranquility. However, after taking a few more steps, it was so frightened that it abandoned the fish and ran away.
hold head high--
A sudden ox-horn trombone sounded loudly above the huge river.
On the river level, a continuous row of long wall-style warships slowly revealed their outline.
"Lord, there are not three hundred warships. We have fallen into the enemy's siege if we did not retreat!" Next to Tang Wuyuan, a man who looked like a general was extremely shocked.
"The people from the Donglin Alliance have all been maimed——"
"It's Xu Buyi." Tang Wuyuan's face was cold and he stopped his subordinates from making meaningless speculations.
He suddenly understood that when he was in the palace, his master had already warned him. However, he was eager to return to Qingzhou and did not pay much attention to it.
Looking back, Tang Wuyuan looked at the river bank of Cangzhou in the distance, and found that he could not see anything clearly even though he exhausted his eyes.
"how long it has been."
"Lord, it's almost three hours."
Tang Wuyuan raised his head, with a complicated smile on his lips.
The generals nearby didn't know why the fifth master of Qingzhou could still laugh. They all knew that Xu Buyi's vast navy was not far ahead, blocking their way.
"Send an order to have the two hundred warships in the front line form a defensive formation. In this battle, it will be useless for us to attack by force. The best way is to defend first and then attack."
"Take your orders!"
Following Tang Wuyuan's order, the more than two hundred warships at the forefront quickly formed a defensive formation and blocked the front.
"Defensive." Dongfang Jing sat on the bow of the boat, looking at the battle formation in front of him, and said these two words calmly.
"Above the river, Tang Wuyuan used this defensive posture just to delay time until Cangzhou's navy came to rescue. But now, we are almost at the center of the river. My lord can attack quickly and capture the enemy's water before the enemy's reinforcements arrive.
The division's first formation."
Xu Mu nodded. Whether it was soldiers or battle formations, the 40,000 men and horses at this time were far more ferocious than the Qingzhou Army of less than 20,000.
Especially Miao Tong, who was eager to rush over immediately.
"I will give the order to Miao Tong to break the enemy's first line, and I will leave it to him."
Just after he finished speaking, Xu Mu raised his head and moved forward, and suddenly his whole body froze.
"Bo Lie, something is wrong with this..."
Before our own army could kill them, the remaining three hundred or so warships behind the front line quickly turned around and fled to the other side of the river.
"Xia Houfu dared to defend the formation with his own life, but this thing actually left the people behind and escaped first." Xu Mu gritted his teeth.
Under the order, Miao Tong's actions were already very fast, but they still could not stop more than 300 Qingzhou warships from escaping.
Moreover, while escaping, Tang Wuyuan ordered people to light the fire boat again, constantly hindering Xi Shu's water attack.
"Bo Lie, you stay here. I will lead three hundred warships to pursue you."
For some reason, Xu Mu always felt that if Tang Wuyuan was allowed to escape this time, something terrible might happen in the future.
"Ma Yi, give me the order to hunt down the Qingzhou dogs!" Xu Mu put on his armor and said with a cold face. Although the Dongling Alliance is not an old friend, at least in the past, they were almost in the same boat.
However, due to Tang Wuyuan's fire, almost all the people in Dongling were killed or injured.
Upon hearing Xu Mu's order, Ma Yi, a water general in Western Shu, immediately sent an order to mobilize warships. Soon he followed Xu Mu and chased the more than 300 Qingzhou warships that had fled.
Not too far away, Xu Mu could still faintly hear the tragic and heroic fighting sounds of the 20,000 Dongling naval forces behind him.
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"Still chasing." Tang Wuyuan narrowed his eyes, and his face was filled with coldness for a moment.
"My lord, if we had defended the formation earlier and waited until Cangzhou came to rescue—"
"Shut up." Tang Wuyuan clenched his fists, "I have always only believed in my own judgment. Pass on my military orders and keep sailing eastward. Don't go to the Kezhou River bank. It's impossible to say that Kezhou is working with Xishu and laid out the plan early.
If you break the defense line, you will definitely die."
"Lord, the Shu people are getting closer and closer!"
They only heard the military report, and the Xishu Navy, which was pursuing behind them, had already dropped the first wave of long-range arrows densely.
"block--"
On the warship, the Qingzhou troops quickly raised their leather shields. As soon as the sound of falling arrows stopped, the leather shields were already full of broken arrows.
"The position is unfavorable, don't get entangled." Tang Wuyuan frowned and immediately ordered. Even though many people died, even if he was chased like a dog, he did not look back.
"My lord, it's Xu Buyi who is here to chase you!"
Tang Wuyuan, who had just calmed down, felt a solemn look on his face when he heard this sentence. He turned his head and looked at the pursuer's main ship and the high-flying Xu flag, and he felt full in his heart.
It's hate.
"When he left the alliance, I personally gave him a round. Xu Buyi should also have discovered that I, Tang Wuyuan, finally impressed him."
"Then Lord...what are you doing now? Our Qingzhou Army has just won a great victory and its morale is high. Otherwise -"
"Throw away the baggage, light up the grain boats and fire boats, and sail quickly with light boats to get rid of the Western Shu navy first."
The general next to him hesitated and wanted to say more, but Tang Wuyuan glared sideways and did not dare to speak again.
"No matter what happens, I will have my own plan when I return to Qingzhou."
Tang Wuyuan sighed and closed his eyes.
"This time, I obviously had a great advantage, but I, Tang Wuyuan, was like a lost dog. I suddenly understood that making a wedding dress always requires a tailor's hand to be broken."
"Break the formation!" Xu Mu's face turned fierce on the building boat at the back. As far as he was concerned, Tang Wuyuan was like a fly, buzzing around while eating, extremely unhappy.
Under the order, the pursuing Xishu Navy, led by Ma Yi, and with the cover of long-range shots, launched the first round of battleship charge and launched an attack.
The Qingzhou warship that was lagging behind did not even have a chance to lower the lever, and was rushed to pieces. The Qingzhou army's screams came one after another for a while.
"My lord, the Qingzhou Army is not willing to fight. They ordered grain ships and fire boats, changed them to light boats and fast boats, and fled all the way forward." You will report in the future.
Xu Mu sneered, "This Tang Wuyuan is also a talented person. If it were another general, he wouldn't be able to be provoked and would be more or less able to fight, but he would be better off just running forward without looking back."
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"A man can bend and stretch." Ignoring the screams of the Qingzhou Army behind him and the trembling eyes of his subordinates, Tang Wuyuan gritted his teeth and led the Qingzhou Army, which was crippled and crippled, and implemented the escape strategy from beginning to end.
"Xu Buyi, I have told you that one day I will impress you with admiration! If you have time, go back and tell your crippled military advisor that I, Tang Wuyuan, claim the title of No. 6 Conspirator in the World!"
Regardless of whether Xu Mu heard it or not, he just shouted loudly. Tang Wuyuan's originally elegant figure suddenly became excited.
"A fire on the river burned the allied forces for thirty miles. I made a big plan for Tang Wuyuan and was born from then on."