"Send the order! Board the ship! Chase the Qi army!" Xiong Wuliang waved his hand in high spirits.
The soldiers of the Chu Army, looking away from their previous weak legs, rushed to board the ship one by one, beaming with joy.
Who wouldn’t be willing to fight a smooth battle to gain military exploits?
"Qu Yangjun is indeed a man of great talent and strategy!"
"Little Tian Zhen, is he worthy enough to compete with our Qu Yangjun?"
"I knew that this battle would be another great victory! I have never doubted the strength of the little prince!"
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Zhong Hua happily led Xiong Wuliang and others onto the sampan that he served as his 'flagship', and invited everyone to take a seat.
There are no serious "naval forces" in Quyang County. The fifteen hundred Quyang soldiers came in small sampans like this. A sampan could only carry dozens of people at most.
Fortunately, the tonnage is not enough, so we have to make up the quantity.
Hundreds of sampans docked at the shore, and 10,000 Chu soldiers and 1,500 Shaohu troops boarded the sampans and went down the river to pursue the Qi army.
The Chu soldiers were sitting on the sampan, laughing and laughing all the way.
Some of the soldiers of the Qi army floating on the river had not yet died. The soldiers of the Chu army were not polite. They went up and struck a blow with their swords, letting those Qi soldiers die happily.
Soon, the water surface was dyed red.
The soldiers of the Chu army had no mercy for these Qi people - they had seen how the 30,000 Qi troops under Jiang Yu massacred on the land of Chu. Now that they had the opportunity to take revenge, how could they be soft-hearted?
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Tian Zhen was in a panic at the moment.
In order to reduce the weight, his expensive armor and cloak inlaid with East Sea pearls had been lost somewhere.
Under the desperate protection of four or five soldiers, Tian Zhen saved his life in the wave. He now climbed up a dead tree floating on the water and drifted down the water.
It was only then that he discovered that his calf was injured.
A broken piece of pine wood was inserted into Tian Zhen's calf like a dagger, and the blood had dyed Tian Zhen's lavender underwear into deep purple.
Tian Zhen endured the pain, gritted his teeth, and pulled the piece of pine wood out of his calf.
There was no blood splashing out as expected - the wound had been soaked in the river water and turned white, and all the blood that could flow had long since been drained.
Tian Zhen's legs had no feeling.
The farmer on the dead wood looked around, seeing a vast expanse of ocean as far as he could see. He touched his pockets, but couldn't find any food.
Tian Zhen looked up to the sky and sighed——
The dignified noble son of the Great Qi Kingdom, the serious general of the royal family, when had he ever suffered so much?
Damn Chu State! Damn Xiong Wuliang!
Along the way, there were also soldiers of Qi who were still alive floating on the water. They looked at the floating dead trees and the field beasts above, struggling and twisting to get closer.
"General, save me!"
"General..."
Tian Zhen's heart has sunk to the bottom.
Looking at such a tragic situation, all the 120,000 Qi troops under his command have been lost in the flood-even if there are lucky ones who are lucky enough to find a way out, they have definitely lost the ability to fight again.
In this battle against Chu, Tian Zhen lost 150,000 Qi troops one after another!
Even though Qi is rich and has a strong family background... it can be considered a crippling defeat!
Tian Zhen looked up at the blue sky in despair, trying not to imagine the punishment he would face after returning to Qi.
This battle was so unjustly lost!
Obviously, a surprise force has landed, forming a great victory! What method did Xiong Wuliang use to summon this flood out of thin air?
Logically speaking, it’s not the flood season now!
Tian Zhen was puzzled - couldn't Xiong Wuliang know witchcraft?
Behind him, the excited shouts of the Chu army came from a distance.
Tian Zhen turned his head and looked away.
I saw large and small sampans surging on the water. The soldiers of the Chu army were holding the Chu army flag with red letters on a yellow background. They excitedly waved their swords and made up for every floating body of the Qi army. sword.
Tian Zhen lowered his head and glanced at the wound on his leg.
The wound was pale and bloodless... Tian Zhen knew very well that in such a hot summer, the wound would become pus in less than two days.
Tian Zhen let out a long sigh and bowed in the direction of Qi: "Your Majesty, I am incompetent..."
Then, Tian Zhen sat upright, took out the precious ancient sword from his waist, and put it on his neck. After a moment, a thin line of blood appeared on Tian Zhen's neck.
Tian Zhen gave a last wry smile, rolled down from the dead tree, and let his body sink into the water...
He searched hard with his eyes, and finally found what he was looking for when the water was about to submerge above his head——
On a slightly larger sampan, there was a huge flag - the words "Quyang Junliang" were clearly visible.
Under the flag, Xiong Wuliang sat cross-legged in an inconspicuous manner, chewing something...
It turned out that he was actually a teenager...
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The army under Xiong Wuliang's command covered them all the way, advancing all the way from the battle site [Gaoping], traveling down the river for more than 300 miles in a day and night, and the Qi army that was overtaken along the way was wiped out.
There were also Qi soldiers who tried to resist, but unfortunately they were defeated because the ordinary Qi soldiers had no room for resistance when faced with the Chu soldiers who were busy on the sampan.
Two days later, the flood began to recede - Hu Cong, the magistrate of Ping'a County upstream, reopened the valve of the dam.
The 10,000 Chu troops and Xiong Wuliang's 3,000 troops happily abandoned their worthless sampans and returned to withdraw their troops all the way upstream along the Huaishui River Valley, which was no longer turbulent.
Along the way, trophies were collected and the corpses of the Qi army were collected and counted.
The number of Chu people affected by the disaster was not large - not because the flood was not lethal enough, but because the brutal Qi people had already preceded the flood and massacred these Chu villages and towns.
"All Chu people, listen - you can bring your wives, children, and children to settle in Quyang County, Ping'a County, and Shansang County!"
"I will ensure that you can live and work in peace and contentment!" Xiong Wuliang preached all the way.
On October 2nd, Xiong Wuliang's 13,000 men and horses walked and stopped, cleaning the battlefield all the way, and returned to [Gaoping] where the Qi army had been flooded before.
Zhao Hua came to Xiong Wuliang holding a roll of paper with dense handwriting.
The excitement on his face is unmistakable!
"In the battle of Gaoping, the Qi army was flooded. After covering up the killings along the way, more than 100,000 Qi army corpses were collected..."
Xiong Wuliang nodded with satisfaction.
The invading Qi army numbered 120,000 people, and the corpses counted were more than 100,000.
It is estimated that there should be at least more than 10,000 corpses that have not been found.
Among the rest, some Qi soldiers should have escaped by chance and hid in the mountains and forests, avoiding the Chu army's dragnet search.
However, it's not a big deal.
Most of these 'lucky ones' who lack food and clothing will be swallowed up by the vast mountains and forests.
Only a handful of people can survive and eventually become bandits like the "Shaohu Bandits".
All in all, not enough to worry about.
Zhao Hua: "In this battle, more than 800 Qi army chariots were captured! More than 100,000 sets of swords, halberds and shields, nearly a thousand pieces of armor... countless tents, flags, drums and other items!"
"This is a great victory!"
Xiong Wuliang laughed loudly: "Transport all the loot back to Quyang County!"
"Zhao Hua, prepare a battle report on my behalf and send it to Yingdu and Prince Heng respectively!"
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