Thousands of miles to the east of Wu Pavilion, I sang songs to travel in the past.
There are no traces of horses in the Moss Temple, and there are many restaurants beside the Green Water Bridge.
Most of the people in the Southern Dynasties were broad-minded, but unfortunately the Eastern Jin Dynasty was the most romantic.
In the bright moon, I miss Huan Yi even more, and when I hear the sound of the flute, I feel sad.
——"Runzhou" Du Mu (Tang Dynasty)
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On the eve of the decisive battle between the Tang army and the rebel navy in Guazhou, the Japanese navy sailed upstream along the Yangtze River waterway and secretly anchored in the waterway downstream of Runzhou (now Zhenjiang, Jiangsu). It was only a few hours away from Guazhou.
Procedure.
Yamamoto Takano's strategy was very clear. It was a snipe and a clam fighting for the fishermen's profit. When the Tang army was devoting all its main force to fight the rebels, he would break out from behind the Tang army's navy and, together with Liu Zhan, attack Bai Fu front and back.
Early the next morning, at dawn, news came that the main force of the Tang Army had all left camp. All signs showed that the Tang Army's navy would launch a decisive battle this morning.
Yamamoto Takano was overjoyed and ordered the entire army to weigh anchor, go up the river, and attack the Tang Army's naval camp at full speed.
Just as the order was issued, the messenger stumbled into Yamamoto Takano's cabin and said: "General, it's bad, most of our warships have been stranded!"
The Japanese navy watched helplessly as the Tang army assembled huge trebuchets on both sides of the river, but was unable to stop them. This invisible pressure made the army collapse before the battle.
"General, if we don't retreat, it will be too late!"
What are you afraid of, what will come.
These huge trebuchets were created by master craftsmen such as Ma Daifeng, Li Jin, Han Zhi and Yang Suo, who combined the original flying trebuchets with the help of documents such as "The Divine Mechanism to Enemy Taibai Yin Jing", "Wuhou Shence" and the Khwarizmi Parchment Scrolls.
Improved stone cart.
Seeing that most of the Japanese soldiers threw their boats into the water and escaped, Ruan Zhouxing, the naval general of the Tang Army, gave an order to stop the trebuchet attack and instead used crossbow arrows to kill the Japanese soldiers who escaped on the sampan.
Yamamoto Takano looked pale. Unfortunately, Ono Ichiro warned him about the danger of going deep alone this time.
General Wang Zhongsi told Bai Fu that an excellent general must learn to use the terrain. A killing place is worth a hundred thousand soldiers.
After the first wave of boulders rained down, in the second wave of the offensive, what the trebuchet threw was an earthen jar filled with kerosene. After the earthen jar shattered, the kerosene splashed out and flowed to every deck. Then came
The rockets ignited the kerosene, and several warships were ignited. They were the first to catch fire and could not be extinguished. They were quickly engulfed in flames and turned into a huge pile of ashes.
At this time, the heavy fog on the river had just dissipated, and countless sandbars appeared looming on the surrounding river.
This design saves manpower, is easy to use, and has great power. When fired, the sound of the cannon shook the sky and the earth, and it penetrated seven feet into the ground, destroying everything it hit.
Yamamoto Takano's cockpit was located on the highest floor of the ship building, and was directly penetrated by a stone bullet the size of a millstone. The stone bullet penetrated the floor of the cockpit and smashed the tables, chairs and benches in the cabin into powder.
"I have to fight the fight I want at the time I choose, at the place I choose."
"Therefore, the task of being a soldier is to follow the enemy's wishes, to follow the enemy's consistent direction, and to kill generals from thousands of miles away. This is called a skillful person who can achieve success."
As the saying goes, if you are invited to enter the urn, you will be killed by your neck.
Under the leadership of the local people, Bai Fu inspected this place many times and finally decided to hunt the Japanese navy here.
The river where the Japanese naval warships ran aground was narrow, and almost all the warships were within the range of the trebuchets. In addition, the warships were stranded and unable to escape, which was the time for the trebuchets to show their talents.
The upper reaches of this sandbar - Sanjiang Yingkou, Jiangdu, Yangzhou, is where the Huaihe River flows into the Yangtze River. Due to the strong flow of the river, the amount of sediment increased dramatically, causing the sediment to move downwards, the Yangtze River bed rapidly silted up, and new sandbars suddenly rose, accelerating the Yangzhongzhou landmass.
The process of land formation.
Yamamoto Takano hurriedly ran out of the cabin and came to the deck to look out.
With the sound of cannon, the Tang army took the lead in launching an attack.
It is said that those who are good at using military force in ancient times can make the enemy's front and rear become inseparable, the numbers and numbers cannot rely on each other, the high and low cannot help each other, the superior and the inferior cannot cooperate with each other, the soldiers are separated but not gathered together, and the troops are united but not unified."
Thousands of Tang troops poured out from the woods on both sides of the Yangtze River, and huge trebuchets were quickly set up.
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If it hadn't been for two soldiers pushing Yamamoto Takano out of the cabin at the last moment, Yamamoto Takano would have turned into a ball of flesh at this moment.
"Bang bang bang", sawdust flew everywhere where the boulder hit. The deck was directly penetrated and smashed into the cabin. The Japanese man's bones were broken and his flesh and blood were blurred.
The reason why Bai Fu delayed launching a general attack on the rebels was because he was waiting for the Japanese navy to enter this sandbank.
This is the chess game played by Bai Fubu. He is not in a hurry to capture the pieces, but guides the opponent's pawns step by step into the middle. The "big dragon" seems to be in full control of the game.
Bai Fu finished at the critical point of life and death, and his opponent couldn't survive even a glance.
"Boom, boom, boom", hundreds of huge stones were thrown out by the trebuchet, spinning continuously in mid-air. When they reached the top of the Japanese warship, they swooped down and hit the deck and side of the ship like raindrops.
Bai Fu has the conch presented by the "Three Gorges Fish Monster" and the "Water Demon" Jiang Shark, who can launch fire attacks without the southeast wind.
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The soldiers forced Yamamoto Takano, who was struggling desperately, onto a small sampan. At this moment, only this small sampan, which could carry five or six people, could paddle in the shallow water between sandbars.
At this time, Yamamoto Takano could no longer care about the fight between snipe and clam. He only hoped that Liu Zhan could contain the main force of the Tang army in Guazhou so that he could escape.
In the waters where the Japanese warship dropped anchor, only a few small sandbars emerged from the water last night. Overnight, the river receded over a large area, revealing a large beach. After the tide receded, these small sandbars turned out to be a large long sandbar.
, trapping the warships of the Japanese navy among them.
The reason why Bai Fu delayed launching a fire attack was not waiting for the southeast wind, but waiting for the river to ebb.
Most of the Japanese warships sank on the sandbank, like beached whales. No matter how hard they struggled, they could not escape and return to the sea.
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Different from the single-shooting, double-shooting, whirlwind, tiger squatting, five-shooting, and seven-shooting cannons commonly deployed by the Tang Army, this kind of stone cannon does not require people to pull the gun rope. Instead, a huge stone is tied to the tip and mounted on the gun frame.
An iron hook is installed on the gun barrel to hook the gun rod. When the gun is fired, as long as the hook is opened, the stone will fall immediately, pressing the gun tip down, and at the same time, the stone bullet weighing 100 kilograms will be suddenly thrown out.
"The method of using troops includes loose ground, light ground, contentious ground, intersection ground, thoroughfare ground, heavy ground, ruined ground, encircled ground, and dead ground. Those who do not know the shape of mountains and forests, dangers, and swamps,
It is impossible to march; those who do not use rural leaders cannot benefit from the terrain.
However, Yamamoto Takano didn't know that all of this was planned by the Tang army from beginning to end.
This sandbank is usually submerged under the water, but during the dry season in mid-winter, it will surface at a certain moment and connect into a piece.
This sandbank is called Yangzhong Island. Because there are a large number of pufferfish, it is also called pufferfish island by local fishermen.
We must let the Japanese navy enter this "death sandbank" before the river recedes. It cannot be early or late.
Just when Yamamoto Takano was praying that the Tang army was restrained by Liu Zhan, the Tang army ambushed here jumped out and launched a general attack.
All of this requires Tang Jun's precise planning and careful arrangements.
Yamamoto Takano ordered the entire ship to be on alert and wait until the high tide in the evening to evacuate the waters.
Ruan Zhouxing told his brother Ruan Jiangliu: "The general said that Liu Zhan's warships are all obsolete Japanese ships, so I don't feel bad if they are destroyed by the fire attack. The warships stranded in front of us are the most sophisticated warships of the Japanese state.
, it’s expensive, we have to preserve it as much as possible.”
Ruan Jiangliu said with a smile: "I'm just telling you, why doesn't the trebuchet fire at full power, and why is it not allowed to use more kerosene? The ship is left behind, what should we do with the Japanese soldiers?"
Ruan Zhouxing sneered and said: "The general has an order. Not a single Japanese pirate will be spared. No surrender will be accepted. All of them will be annihilated."
Ruan Jiang Liuxin understood the idea and left after receiving the order.