Chapter 63: The Battle of Shijiu Lake Part 1 Chapter 3 is over!
Qin Shan didn't take Yan Baihu's ridicule seriously, and he didn't have time to care about it. Although he was still a master now, he was no different from a prisoner. He turned his face away, shook the fat on his body, danced his hands, and said to the side
He ordered: "I order all brothers not to act rashly and to be on guard to see what tricks this Kaohsiung is playing."
Water warfare emphasizes formations and skills. Kaohsiung went in the opposite direction. The scattered and chaotic ship formations naturally aroused Qin Shan's suspicion. What he did was right. His own troops and ships had the upper hand, and he could cope with all changes by remaining unchanged.
, making no mistakes on his own side, and dealing with it step by step, Gaojiazhai is definitely no match. In fact, all the battles in history in which the weak defeated the strong were actually caused by internal problems on the stronger side, resulting in confusion or mistakes in the formation.
, will be defeated. Otherwise, if we fight steadily and fight hard, there is no possibility of losing.
For example, in history, when Yuan Shao sent millions of troops to the Central Plains, even if he chose the worst strategy and did not follow the best strategy, he divided his troops to surprise Xuchang. If there were no civil servants and generals who all sought their own interests and attacked the opponent, how could Cao Cao attack Wuchao at night? It would be impossible to defeat Yuan Shao.
Night story.
Qin Shan's doubts were soon solved, but when he saw the bows of the Gaojia Lou ships rushing over were ablaze, he could tell from his many years of water battle experience that this was a common suicide.
In the traditional ship-burning attack, most people usually use walking boats, and more often they use fighting ships and mengchong. He has never seen anyone use tower ships to attack. Because tower ships were difficult and expensive to make in the Han Dynasty, ordinary tower ships
After the boat is built, it may not be able to be launched into the water.
In ancient times, there was a saying that new ships are not as good as old ships. People may not dare to ride on a purely new ship. Therefore, every ship built must be drafted for at least half a year before its quality can be truly determined.
Although the Qin and Gao families had secret shipyards for shipbuilding, in fact they usually built small and medium-sized ships such as battleships. The manufacture of large-scale ships was already considered high-tech in the Han Dynasty. There were not many craftsmen in this area, and it was not easy to make it among the people.
Each tower boat costs at least a thousand taels of gold.
Therefore, most of the building ships are repaired. After all, both sides are just water bandits. It is meaningless to build the building ships desperately, and there are not so many manpower to control them. Qinshan's thirty building ships are elites passed down from three generations since his grandfather.
Building boats have gone through many storms. Kaohsiung also acquired the manufacturing technology of building boats because of Ma Jun's participation. Within nine years, the Kaohsiung water bandits were able to roam the waters of the Yangtze River and Huaihe River.
Seeing that all the buildings and boats in Kaohsiung were on fire and they were fighting with him, Qin Shan couldn't help but shook his head and sighed: "Kaohsiung is so tough, I can't do it as well."
It can be said that the two families know their roots well. Gaojiazhai has many elite soldiers and Qinjiazhai has many boats and men, so they are evenly matched. In the past five years, no one has been able to do anything to the other. Originally, Yan Baihu's Baihuzhai bandits should not be on the water of the Yangtze River.
Gaojiazhai's opponents. Facts have proved that defeating the opponent from within is the best strategy. In order to plot against the water bandits on the Yangtze River, Yan Baihu secretly built a ten-story giant building ship early on. On that day, it contained a thousand people.
The elite White Tiger thief suddenly came to Qinjiazhai's lair, and the two sides started to confront each other. Unexpectedly, Yan Baihu had buried a traitor beside Qinshan a long time ago. With Yan Baihu's support, he actually climbed to Qinjiazhai as a deacon in three years.
The leader position controls one-third of the sailors and ships in Qinjiazhai.
The traitor Yingwaihe was caught off guard. Qinshan couldn't bear the massacre of the villagers, so he surrendered the village. Afterwards, Yan Baihu made him the head of the waterway. In fact, it was because he valued the Qin family's fleet and he knew about water battles, otherwise Qinshan would have been there long ago.
It has no use value. To be honest, Qin Shan has always regretted it in his heart. He failed to grasp the thoughts of the people under his command, which led to the loss of his foundation. However, it was just a personal grudge against Yan Baihu. He could not risk his own building being burned at the moment.
To avenge Yan Baihu at the price, otherwise it would be meaningless for him to surrender that day. Therefore, he naturally had to do his best to attack Gaojiazhai...
Although fire attack is a powerful weapon in water warfare, it is not impossible to defeat. As long as you catch the opportunity early and arrange the formation properly, you can still defend it.
"Send the order, the archers come forward, and the swordsmen and axe-hands draw water and prepare things to extinguish the fire."
Before the fight was over, a thumping sound was heard from the bottoms of the Qin family's boats. Those who were familiar with it knew that someone was digging a boat under the water, and Qin Shan reacted immediately.
"Sure enough, I have already prepared for the ambush."
As soon as Kaohsiung received the warning from Gan Ning, knowing that a war was inevitable, it sent sailors into the water early to ambush, and sure enough, it caught its opponent off guard.
Let's look at the thousand elite bandits from Baihu Village. When they heard that the enemy was digging a boat underneath, they were all shocked and shot into the water. Unfortunately, after the arrows only entered the water, their buoyancy was blocked and their strength was lost. Only a few
The arrow only hurt the target and brought out some blood.
Qin Shan was so angry that he vomited blood and shouted to stop, not allowing those people to shoot arrows. Unfortunately, the elite White Tiger only obeyed Yan Baihu. Naturally, he followed Qin Shan's orders in both positive and negative ways, and still killed his own. The scene was chaotic. He even betrayed him.
The former Qin family water bandits were no longer easy to deal with, and only a few of his absolute confidants were willing to obey orders. Qin Shan had no choice but to order these people to go into the water with axes and fight.
Although the sailors in Gaojiazhai were more well-trained, they could not handle the large number of people. Under the attack of the Qinjiazhai bandits both above and below the water, the Gao brothers who came to the surface to take a breath were shot to death one by one, while those under the water
Everyone below was also hacked to death by swordsmen and axemen. The sound of ship-cutting gradually stopped, and the corpses of Gaojia water bandits floated up. At the same time, they were also mixed with some Qin family sailors. Although the death squads of these Gaojiazhai soldiers were all
They were sunk, but it was not without gain. A total of three buildings had holes smashed into them, and a large amount of lake water poured in. "It's flooded."
Especially the fifteen-foot-long ultra-high-rise ship received a lot of attention. The breach could not be blocked no matter how hard it was, forcing Qin Shan and Yan Baihu to change to a high-rise ship. But the most important thing is that this
The Gao family's suicide squad brothers finally disrupted the opponent's ship formation. Once the formation was broken, the flaw naturally appeared.
After changing the ship, the large-scale building ship left to him by Qinshan's own grandfather sank. The man was so distraught that he stood on the edge of the ship and screamed and cried: "No!" But soon a close friend pulled him and comforted him.
Only then did Qin Shan regain his composure. In the current battle between the two sides, the first priority was to recover the disadvantage, otherwise everything would be over. He led all the ships to retreat first, temporarily avoiding the edge to stabilize the ship formation, and pulled the brothers in the water up to calm the brakes.
After Kaohsiung set all the ships on fire, he did not charge quickly, but slowly approached. He was waiting for the fire on the bow to become stronger, and then after the two ships met, it would be easier to light the opponent's ship. However,
Something happened that made Qin Shan bleed. Zhou Lin, one of the elders of Baihu Village and Yan Baihu's brother-in-law, had long held a grudge against Qin Shan for taking away his position as head of the waterway.
Being scuttled, Yan Baihu lost face greatly, so he took the opportunity to slander Yan Baihu and said that Qinshan was forced to land. He was unwilling to do so, so he did not pay attention to the command. He was afraid of having second thoughts, so he needed to be strictly guarded against his retread.
Along the way, Yan Baihu was also disgusted with Qin Shan's cold face. He thought he was proficient in water warfare and might be helpful to Baihu Village. Now it seems that keeping him is a disaster. The Qin family still surrenders the bandits.
A lot of thoughts were with him. After thinking about it slowly, Yan Baihu gradually believed Zhou Lin's words, and he was also afraid that Qinshan would not use Gaojiazhai to take revenge on him if he did not command well. However, killing generals in front of the battle could easily be misunderstood as internal strife, so he
He cursed loudly, took back his command and went into battle himself to show his majesty.
In fact, Qinshan's response to the attack on Kaohsiung was correct. You built the ship and I launched the water to block it. You burned the ship and I prepared the water to avoid the sharp edge, trying to kill the opponent's viable troops.
Being deprived of command, Qin Shan cursed angrily in his heart: "If you, the people from Baihu Village, hadn't interfered and prevented me from commanding, my grandfather's fifteen-foot-long building ship would not have been scuttled."…
He repeatedly explained that he hoped to be able to make meritorious deeds, but unfortunately Yan Baihu no longer believed in him. Although Qin Shan was extremely angry, he could not do it. He only hoped that Yan Baihu could really win and avoid the destruction of the Qin family village.
After taking over, Yan Baihu began to display his tiger-out-of-cage combat style, waving the flag of the order to order a general attack. His own ships and troops were far more powerful than the opponent's. When the two ships connected, it would be good to dedicate some of his people to put out the fire. In this way, maybe there would be more fire after the war.
We can seize a large number of high-rise boats in Gaojiazhai. "No, the boss, my father once said before his death that water battles should be slow rather than hasty. This is the experience passed down from my grandfather and father in a lifetime of water battles. Now the Gao family's boats are like a ball of fire."
, if you rush over, you will perish."
"Humph, don't lie to me, Qinshan, and pretend that I know nothing. Now the wind is in our favor. Kaohsiung is burning his own ship. He is just trying to scare me into retreating by pretending that we will both perish."
Yan Baihu, who was born in the south, has more or less knowledge about water warfare.
The warning was ineffective. Qin Shan could only sigh. There was something unsaid in his heart. Why should he be afraid of fire in a battle with water? Fire can make people feel confused and make the battle situation difficult to control. Besides, even if the wind direction is wrong, it does not mean that he will not be burned.
, because, with a fire source, people can manually start the fire and burn you." However, the old advice was unpopular, so Qin Shan had to do the next best thing and ask to be put down on the building and go on the boat to gather the brothers in the water. After all, those who entered the water were all his confidants in the Qin family village.
Land battles are more about skills, water battles are more about skills. Not to mention Yan Baihu's rush to kill, the buildings and boats of both sides were entangled in each other. As soon as Qin Shan pulled some men and horses into the water, a confidant shouted: "The boss is coming from behind.
The ambush soldiers of the Gao family rushed over on their walking boats and held torches."
This confidant was loyal and only recognized Qin Shan as the master.
Qin Shan looked back and forth, with a bitter look on his face. He expected that the small boat at the rear was also going to launch a suicide fire attack, and his own morale would be in chaos. If the ambush was allowed to get close to the building ship, a pincer attack would take place, and all the ships of the two families would be destroyed.
Shijiu Lake.
"No, I can't let these go away. The inheritance passed down by my grandfather cannot be broken in my hands." Qin Shan said cruelly in his heart. Although he was unwilling to work for Yan Baihu, he had to think about the Qin family village.
The war broke out. After the collision between the building and the ship, the wind direction was indeed more favorable to Yan Baihu. The flames on the bows of the Gaojiazhai building and the fighting ship did not have a very good effect. However, Ma Jun had already expected this and suggested that Kaohsiung
The cabin was dismantled and chopped into firewood, and the brothers below were asked to throw torches at each other as soon as they got close to each other, trying not to engage in combat with the enemy, and not to kill or injure the enemy, but to set fire to them.
The building ship is tall and large, and can carry a large number of troops. The soldiers can fire volleys from the upper deck. The copper-covered bow can be rammed. If the sail is in the wind, it can knock over the opponent's ship with a single sprint. Only the building ship is invincible.
But there are no absolutes. The time and place are favorable to Yan Baihu for today's battle, but he and Qin Shan are at odds with each other. He doesn't understand water warfare and acts casually, so he insists on colliding with Gaojiazhai. The ships are close to each other, allowing the fire attack to start smoothly.
Fighting ships have sharp iron teeth on their bows. After an impact, there is a chance that they can pierce the opponent's hull and leak water. Gaojiazhai has fewer tower ships than the other party, but it has fighting ships that can nail the opponent's tower ships. There are usually three fighting ships.
The two ships set fire to one of the opponent's ships together.
The Gao family's water bandits were extremely slippery, and Yan Baihu was so angry that he yelled and cursed. Regardless of the danger of getting too close to the fire ship, he forced all the soldiers to jump onto the other side's ship to kill them. Both sides were good at water, and only a few or five were seen at that time.
Seven Qin family water bandits chased one Gao family water bandit, running back and forth from the bow and stern of the ship, or jumping off the ship and then climbing up. They were chasing and playing like monkeys in the forest, and there were still many Gao family members among them.
The men and horses were chased and hacked to death.
Soon Yan Baihu saw the building where Kaohsiung was, and quickly called a group of people to follow him up and behead him.