Chapter Seven Hundred and Seventieth Turning the Boat for the Emperor
When Yuan Shu stood up again, he noticed that a dozen enemy boats had quickly entered the lake within a stone's throw and began to fire arrows at them.
Yuan Shu knew that the Yangzhou navy on the opposite side was different from his subordinates. Although it was also composed of soldiers from the Yangzhou navy and land army when Chen Wen was alive. However, Cao Zhi had already absorbed many water thieves, bandits and regular navy from Yangzhou.
It has formed a professional naval force, and has fought against invading naval forces from all sides in the Yangtze River, Chaohu and other waters many times, and has accumulated rich combat experience. The ships and sailors formed an offensive formation.
Attacking on the water has become a common thing. After Yuan Shu lost Sun Ce and Wu Jing, the strength of the navy was greatly frustrated, so now this group of enemies quickly caught up with them.
At Yuan Shu's order, his guards mobilized one after another. One ran and the other chased on the lake. Arrows flew everywhere, and murderous intentions frequently emerged.
Soon, more and more Yuan Jun soldiers were hit by arrows and fell into the water. The remaining guards on the boat were unable to fight back and could only paddle wildly to escape.
Yuan Shu's ship was bigger, not only less agile than the enemy's small ship, but also not as fast as the opponent's ship. Yuan Shu hurriedly took a look at the enemy ship chasing behind him, and found that the distance was closer than before, and he couldn't help but become anxious.
When Yuan Shu ordered to speed up the rowing, he circled around the side of the ship and immediately came up with a plan. He ran out of the cabin at the risk of being hit by arrows and faced the guards on the dozen or so small boats following the big ship.
He ordered loudly: "You will turn around and stop the enemy. After I go ashore to mobilize reinforcements, I will come back to reinforce you. You just need to hold on until I land!"
After Yuan Shu shouted at the top of his lungs, the guards around him who were desperately running for their lives were stunned when they heard it, but they quickly accepted Yuan Shu's arrangement. After all, their duty was to protect the emperor Yuan Shu.
Soon, an officer in charge of a group of guards turned around and rushed to the front of the other end of the boat where he was, shouting: "Boys, turn the bow of the boat, aim at the enemy, prepare to shoot, charge for the emperor..."
"Brothers, the time has come to make contributions. As long as you hold on for half an hour, you will become the corps commander, fire commander, captain, and even captain or school captain. Countless beauties and rewards are waving to us.
,What are you waiting for? Come rush with me!"
Another lieutenant immediately woke up and shouted loudly. The generals' agitation methods were naked and effective. Most of the Yuan Jun officers and soldiers on the more than ten small boats were in their early teens and were in their prime of life.
I can stand such teasing.
All the Yuan Jun guards immediately understood their fate, and suddenly burst into a shocking roar. Dozens of small boats turned around and charged in the opposite direction, facing Cao Jun who was ten times more numerous than them.
Cao Jun's boat behind them didn't know what was going on in front of them, but when they saw the enemy's boat turning around and rushing towards them, they cheered, waved their halberds and forks, and charged forward with their spears.
Zu Lang, who had already learned how to use Han Chinese arrows, halberds, swords and other long and short weapons, had also learned tactics and the ability to grasp the battle situation under the influence of many outstanding civil servants and generals around Cao Zhi over the years.
"Brothers, please help me see if there are any women on that big ship?" Zu Lang suddenly ordered to the sailors and generals beside him.
In fact, many people who were with Zu Lang also noticed this big ship and knew that there must be an enemy general on board. However, after staring for a while, they all shook their heads and said: "There seems to be no woman, Captain Zu."
, what do you want to do with a woman?"
Before Zu Lang had time to answer, he heard a slutty water thief leader who had followed Jiang Qin and defected to Cao Zhi a few years ago, and was now an officer in Cao's army. The thief smiled and held up a steel fork and laughed:
"Nonsense, what can you do with a woman, of course she can be your wife, haha..."
Zu Lang, who had already secretly suspected the people on the big ship, was assessing who might be on the big ship, and he seemed to have seen the figure of a woman on the ship. In this era of war and chaos, there was still leisurely leisurely taking the female family members to travel around the lake, and
It must be unusual to have so many guards.
Just when Zu Lang was hesitating whether he should wait for an opportunity, he gave up the oncoming small boats and Yuan soldiers, and instead divided his forces to pursue the big ship to see who was on board. Is it worth these soldiers sacrificing their lives to stop the enemy, so that the big ship could go first?
Withdraw. But Zu Lang, who was teased by the famous general Zuo Yi, felt that he could not save his face. In order to show his position, Zu Lang gave up the idea of dividing his troops and pursued them. Instead, he decided to be fierce and send the group in front of him to the door first.
Yuan Bing will eat the ones who come, and Jiujiang will not let his subordinates think that he is a person who is greedy for beauty.
I saw Zulang's face turned cold with fear, and he waved his big hand and shouted: "My sons, prepare your swords and guns, kill..." The officers and soldiers of Cao's army all stared at the lake nervously amidst Zulang's shouts.
Oncoming Yuan Jun.
One side had no way out and had to fight with all its strength to find a way out. One side had a large number of people and was prepared to attack in order to build its first strength, so the morale of both sides was extremely high for a while.
In the blink of an eye, he destroyed a dozen boats of Yuan's army and quickly approached Cao's army. Zulang had experienced hundreds of battles and had already formed a boat formation with his soldiers to wait and see. Seeing the opportunity for the enemy to charge, he decisively shouted: "Fire the arrow!"
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Cao Jun's arrows were like flying locusts, shooting at everyone on Yuan Jun's ship that was approaching first. Immediately, Yuan Jun's soldiers were hit and fell into the water. They screamed and screamed.
After five rounds of arrow rain, the Yuan Army sergeant who took the lead suffered heavy casualties, and the small boats still in the lake continued to rush forward. This time they learned their lesson, and the remaining dozens of boats scattered and attacked from all directions, obviously
To disperse Cao's army's firepower.
At this time, Yuan's army had nearly 60% casualties. Dozens of Cao's troops were killed in the opponent's counterattack, but the remaining number was still much more than that of Yuan's troops. At the same time, their attacks became more frenzied and fierce, and their movement speed increased.
While the arrows from both sides were hardly effective, Cao Jun and Yuan Jun entered a state of close combat. At the critical moment, the advantages and disadvantages were revealed. Soldiers like Cao Jun, who had received hard training in ordinary times, sparsely followed the usual training ground.
The formation adjusts the speed of the boat.
With the collision of more than a hundred weapons, dozens of Yuan Jun soldiers immediately fell into the water. Under these rounds of attacks, Yuan Shu's ships had already lost all the escorting ships around them before they even landed.
Cao's army was also attacked wildly by Yuan's army and suffered hundreds of losses. However, Cao's soldiers were so enthusiastic about killing that they wished they could land immediately and fight more enemy troops.
At this time, taking advantage of the opportunity left by Zu Lang and others to prevent his men from killing his men, the guards on Yuan Shu's ship finally rowed his boat ashore. Yuan Shu supported Feng, who was about to collapse from fright, just waiting to land. When he looked back, he saw only the distance in the distance.
The shadow of a boat with human heads was covered in black, and it rushed straight to the shore.
Yuan Shu understood that the rescue he promised was no longer needed!
"Father-in-law, where did these enemies come from? There are so many people?" Huang Yi asked anxiously.
When Yuan Shu got off the shore, he saw his son-in-law Huang Yi, who was hurriedly carrying more than a dozen wooden boats from Shouchun City. Huang Yi was so panicked that he even forgot to call Yuan Shu Emperor. Ever since Yuan Shu proclaimed himself emperor, he was afraid of others.
Forget that he is the Zhong Emperor. Everyone likes to be called the Emperor.
Yuan Shu suddenly turned pale and cursed: "You idiot, could these people just jump out of the cracks in the rocks? How did you become the Forest Supervisor? If I and the guards hadn't stopped the enemies today, I'd be afraid.
I won’t even know if I get poked by someone.”
When Huang Yi heard Yuan Shu's angry scolding, he hurriedly threw the boat in his hand, "Bah!" and led more than a hundred guards behind him to kneel down and plead guilty to Yuan Shu: "The emperor was frightened. I waited for the rescue to arrive too late. I deserve all the blame."
Death, sin deserves death..."
"Okay, the guard battalion should immediately form a formation to stop the enemy!"
Yuan Shu looked at the more than a thousand men and horses he had gathered on the beach here. Most of them were young soldiers, with a bit of childishness on their faces. Although they were in a strict formation, he couldn't help but have a trace of fear in his eyes.
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Anyway, after seeing the men and horses in his guard camp, Yuan Shu immediately became convinced and asked fifty guards to escort Feng back to the city first. He was going to personally supervise the battle here to see which of Cao's soldiers dared to come to disturb his capital.
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Huang Yi, who had come back to his senses at this time, stood up quickly, grabbed the canoe he had just thrown on the ground, and ran towards the water bank.
When Yuan Shu saw it, he had to curse again: "You idiot, what's the use of moving these boats now? Get all the guards to join the formation and prepare to welcome the enemy ashore!"
Yuan Shu could only shake his head at this son-in-law. For the sake of his daughter, he gave him a group of young and middle-aged soldiers to lead. He also hoped to achieve great results. However, Huang Yi, who usually practiced well, did not show up today.
When it came to a real war, he was in a panic. Yuan Shu could only lament that his daughter was married with an embroidered pillow. At the same time, he personally directed the two to three hundred guards who were moving the boats to join the defensive formation assembled on the 30-meter embankment on the beach.
After doing all this, I heard the loud sound of hoofbeats in the direction of Shouchun City behind me. Apparently the reinforcements in the city knew that Yuan Shu was in danger and were moving reinforcements to rescue him.
At this moment, Yuan Shu became more determined, and his sense of Huang Yi also changed. He thought to himself: "It seems that my son-in-law is not useless. Not only did he go back to get the boat to rescue him, but he also found reinforcements."
Just when Yuan Shu was pacing to determine that there were reinforcements behind him, as the sky had darkened, he could not see the approach of a fleet on the lake further away. The reflection of the lake water raised by the oars only flashed and disappeared into the darkness on one side.
There was no sign of it. It was a larger battle fleet consisting of more than a hundred ships. Moreover, these battleships were much larger than the hundreds of small boats Yuan Shu saw under the setting sun. If Yuan Shu knew that Cao Jun was like this
If a large naval force was approaching his Shouchun City, he would not be so confident and dare to stand outside the city to meet the enemy.