The plum blossoms and snow are fighting for the spring but are not willing to fall, so Sao Renge spends money to comment on it.
The plum blossoms are three cents whiter than the snow, but the snow is less fragrant than the plum blossoms.
——"Snow Plum" Lu Yue
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Tian Shengong was defeated at Jinshan and retreated to Guazhou.
As soon as Liu Zhan took a breath, Bai Fu's general Fan Zhixin led 4,000 troops to the upper reaches, suddenly crossed the river from Baisha, and attacked Shu (now the northern Yangtze River ferry in Jurong City, JS Province), cutting off the retreat of Liu Zhan's army.
The method used was exactly the same as when Liu Zhan dealt with Li Hong.
Liu Zhan suddenly felt bad.
Liu Zhan returned to the defense at night, trying to replicate the success of his previous capture of Xia Shu.
In the previous battle, Liu Zhan fully demonstrated the terrifying strength of his fleet when he attacked Xia Shu. He did not let his soldiers attack the city, but just drove the giant ship to the wall of Xia Shu City near the river. The bow at the stern of the giant ship
The crossbowmen were condescending and used firepower to suppress the defenders. The siege soldiers used short ladders to calmly climb to the top of the city and annihilated thousands of Xia Shu defenders in one fell swoop.
Seeing that the spear thrusts were ineffective, the Tang army soldiers defending the city stopped attacking and evacuated one by one.
Liu Zhan was in a desperate situation. He tried every means to attack the city, but the city of Xia Shu was right in front of him and he couldn't attack it.
Liu Zhanshen thought so and was preparing to withdraw his troops, ordering the navy to move down the Yangtze River.
As long as our navy goes down the Yangtze River and enters the sea from Jiangyin, we can go south along the coastline, hide in Taizhou, Niutoushan off the coast of Wenzhou, the Dongji Islands, and the Lushan Islands, and wait for opportunities to plunder coastal states and counties.
, supply food, grass and baggage..."
You don't care about the whispers of the soldiers, nor do you care about the strange looks in your subordinates' eyes, because you hold the military power and can call the wind and rain, life and death. Whoever disobeys your orders, you can chop off his head and annihilate his nine tribes.
The rebel frogmen were overjoyed, thinking that the defenders had escaped, so they sneaked back into the tunnel under the bridge and took the time to cut and saw the iron fence.
A dozen rebel frogmen saw the opening and grabbed the spears. They thought they could take the spears away, but unexpectedly an accident happened. The frogmen let out a scream at the same time and dropped the spears in their hands. They pulled back and took a closer look at the palms of their hands.
His flesh and blood were blurred and he was severely burned.
As soon as the rebel frogmen approached the iron fence of Shuiguan, the soldiers of the Tang Army who defended the city used special spears to pass through the iron fence to attack them, stabbing to death and injuring dozens of frogmen.
Liu Zhan's brother Liu Yin said: "Brother, the Japanese envoy Zhang Jingchao sent to the Tang Dynasty sent a pigeon message. The Japanese navy has arrived in the Tang Dynasty and is hidden in the Shengsi Islands and Zhoushan Islands southeast of the Yangtze River estuary.
Only then did Liu Zhan feel that the battle of Xia Shu was not as simple as he thought. The entire Jianghuai battle situation had quietly changed.
Among the five thousand elites under Liu Boying, who were also veterans of Songzhou who had followed Liu Zhan for many years, no one resisted, and they all surrendered without a fight, willingly switching to the Tang army.
The rebel frogmen grabbed the medicine according to the prescription, and used their hands to grab the spear that was stuck out according to the method just now.
When Liu Zhan's soldiers jumped from the city wall and invaded the city of Xia Shu, many defenders had not yet reacted. They could not figure out whether Liu Zhan's soldiers were flying over with such a high city wall and the natural danger of the Yangtze River.
of?!
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People like you will never understand the simplest truth: the most powerful force in the world is not super weapons, an invincible fleet, or an army of millions, but the human heart.
However, do you think that with authority and power in hand, you are the most powerful person?!
Big mistake!
However, Bai Fu had already taken preventive measures against this tactic and extensively rebuilt the city walls along the river in Xia Shu, Jiangning, Jiangdu, etc., such as moving the water gate back to distance it from the river.
Liu looked forward to the city and sighed, couldn't he conquer Shu?
If a person wants to have the power to rebuke Fang Qiu and guide the country, he never relies on violence. Anyone who wants to change his destiny against heaven and challenge this will inevitably be crushed to pieces by the rolling wheels of history.
The siege lasted for three days. The corpses of Liu Zhanjun's soldiers piled up in front of the north gate, but they were unable to move forward.
Liu Zhan decided to change the offensive route and launch a general attack from the waterway.
It turned out that the reason why the Shuiguan guards paused for a moment was to roast the spears and iron hooks on the fire until they were red, and then used them to stab the rebel frogmen.
Liu Zhan was furious, drew his sword, and chopped the wooden box containing Liu Boying's head into two pieces with one strike...
The next day, Liu Zhan unexpectedly attacked Shuiguan in Xia Shu.
Liu Zhan sent nearly a hundred soldiers with excellent water skills, wearing water jackets and holding iron chisels and hacksaws, to sneak into the water and try to saw through the iron fence under the water barrier.
Liu Zhan wanted to repeat his success that day: board the water gate of the city wall directly from the stern of the ship and seize the city.
There is a scale in everyone's heart, and justice is in the heart.
Liu Zhan's first choice of attack target was the north gate of Xia Shu City. This gate is open on all sides and is very suitable for infantry attacks. Liu Zhan ordered that the city be attacked from here!
Shuiguan is open to ships on weekdays but is closed during wartime. After the sluice is closed, the bottom of Shuiguan looks like a tunnel under a bridge, locked with an iron fence as thick as an arm.
Bai Fu stood on the deck, squinting at the lights on Liu Zhan's giant ship.
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Liu Zhan's navy army arrived in Xia Shu again.
It has always been like this in all dynasties.
Unexpectedly, after a while, the Shuiguan guards launched another attack and continued to stab the rebel frogmen with spears.
However, the spear troops guarding the city had been waiting here for a long time.
Both land and water attacks failed.
At dawn, Liu Zhan's army attacked the north gate. The battle was very fierce. The soldiers who defended the city kept throwing prepared rolling logs and rocks at the soldiers below the city tower. Liu Zhan's soldiers were not well prepared for the siege and used bamboo shields to resist the attack.
Not enough, resulting in heavy casualties.
Fan Zhixin and his generals saw the most terrifying sight. The river was filled with huge warships, with flying flags stretching for dozens of miles. The warships were lined with swords and guns, shining with dazzling light...
Bai Fu's ship was docked on the north bank of the Yangtze River, facing Liu Zhan's naval fleet across the river.
Unable to capture Xia Shu, Liu Zhan's retreat was cut off, and the infantry and cavalry were unable to retreat southward. If he did not retreat, he would be surrounded by iron cavalry on the left and right sides of the Tang army, encircling him in a pincer formation, and "making dumplings."
A gust of river wind blew by, and the lanterns on these giant ships were swaying, like the eyes of hibernating snakes and pythons, drowsy.
The original stern boarding tactic was not effective, so Liu Zhan could only order the navy officers to land and use infantry to attack by force.
Bai Fu looked at Liu Zhan's majestic flagship and said with emotion: "Liu Zhan, the moment you killed the head of Heifeng Village, your fate was doomed. You seemed to be the best among men, but you
What you don't know is that you lose far more than you gain.
At this time, Liu Zhan received a military report from the scouts ahead. Jiang Changqun, the governor of Shengzhou appointed by Liu Zhan, defected in front of the formation, killed Liu Zhan's nephew Liu Boying, sacrificed Jiangning, and surrendered to the Tang army.
The tunnel under the bridge was narrow and difficult to avoid. The remaining frogmen desperately grabbed the spears thrust out with their hands to save their lives, temporarily delaying the attack of the Tang army soldiers.
Liu Zhan ignored the advice of his generals and ordered his troops to march westward, attacking on both land and water, vowing to conquer Jiangning!
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No soldier will sacrifice his life for a coach who is duplicitous, treacherous, devoid of propriety, justice and shame, and whose moral integrity is unworthy of his duties.
Your subordinates appear to be like clouds of counselors and fierce generals like tigers, but in fact they are just a group of shrewd businessmen who follow the trend.
You lead an army of 100,000 and are surrounded by thousands of generals. It seems that you can move mountains, fill seas and cut off rivers with a whip. But an army that has no faith and only fights for pay is just a ragtag group and is vulnerable to a attack!
Without help, you will soon suffer the consequences.