The Jin army had to fight this water battle on the Yellow River, and there were reasons why it had to fight!
After Huo Qubing's army penetrated into the Central Plains, although they still rely on their strong maneuverability to this day, their retreat has always been a problem.
The three states of the Central Plains are all flat land. With the help of strong mobility and the full intelligence support of the floating house, Huo Qubing will always have room for change as long as he is not surrounded by the main enemy force.
However, Huo Qubing cannot continue fighting in the Central Plains for a long time, and Zhao She and the others are not vegetarians. Every time they pursue, every time Huo Qubing breaks through the opponent's pursuit and interception, there will inevitably be a certain number of combatants.
To this day, although Huo Qubing has caused huge losses to the enemy, less than half of the original 40,000-strong army is now left. Of the remaining half, some have been annihilated and some have been captured alive.
Every battle Huo Qubing fought in the Central Plains, whether he won or lost, would inevitably be accompanied by attrition. With no reinforcements from outside, the number of people fighting is getting smaller and smaller. This is the biggest problem that Huo Qubing is facing now.
In the future, if Huo Qubing chooses to return, going overland will definitely not work. Whether Huo Qubing wants to return to Sizhou or Jingzhou, he will inevitably encounter a coalition of princes.
Therefore, in addition to land routes, Li Xiang can only focus on water routes.
And Han Shizhong's battle was to help Huo Qubing find a safe escape route.
When the two sides just fought, although Han Shizhong had more troops than Liu Rengui, to be precise, they were not much more powerful. The advantage in this aspect was not obvious, and the war between the two sides fell into a stalemate.
It was on this basis that Jiao Mo, the most powerful general of the Yellow River Navy, volunteered to personally lead the water ghost team to sneak attack the enemy.
When the two sides are fighting in the water, they will basically prevent the other side's water ghost team from coming to cause damage to their side. Therefore, Jiao Mo was discovered by Liu Rengui not long after he entered the water.
Seeing this, Jiao Mo simply stopped doing anything and turned from a sneak attack directly into a strong attack. As one of the top naval warriors in the world today, Jiao Mo can definitely be said to be as at home in the water as he almost dominates the underwater battlefield by himself.
Although the current Liu Bei army can be said to be full of fierce generals, those fierce generals are all in the infantry. The water warfare generals are basically the old batch from the past. That is to say, after the Conquest of Japan, from then on Several Japanese troops were absorbed.
In this world, there may be people who can compete with Jiao Mo in the water, but these people are not among Liu Bei's army.
Jiao Mo single-handedly killed the three major Japanese admirals Murakami Takeyoshi, Kurushima Notsuyasu, and Murakami Yoshimitsu. Then Jiao Mo, who went crazy after killing, seemed to be a little over the top. He held his breath and led his brothers directly Head straight towards Liu Rengui's flagship!
The three generals Murakami Takeyoshi, Kurushima Tomiyasu, and Murakami Yoshimitsu were all generals of the Japanese navy. They were captured alive by Liu Bei's army during the original Japanese conquest. At that time, Liu Rengui thought that these people had good water skills. At that time, Liu Bei was planning to expand the strength of the navy, which happened to be the time to recruit people. Therefore, he spared the lives of these three people and brought them over to fill the navy. .
The Japanese country has been destroyed. Although there are some hard-core people, there are also those who "accept their fate", and these three people happen to belong to that kind. Soon after, they even gave themselves a Han name, hoping to completely integrate into the Han people. among.
However, in this first battle, he fell into Jiao Mo's hands.
Liu Rengui sent several groups of troops to stop Jiao Mo, but Jiao Mo under the water could be said to be unbeatable at the time, and he was forced to rush to Liu Rengui's flagship with his brute force.
Liu Rengui is not afraid of a fierce general coming. After all, Jiao Mo is only as strong as one person. It does not mean that every soldier is so strong. Jiao Mo used his brute force to break into Liu Rengui's flagship, but it does not mean that those soldiers are strong. It can be done. The only ones who rushed up after Jiao Mo were the 20 soldiers closest to Jiao Mo.
Not only was Liu Rengui not afraid of him, but he also wanted to take advantage of the opportunity of being alone to kill the opponent. Therefore, before Jiao Mo found himself and retreated into the crowd of soldiers, Liu Rengui also ordered several people around him at the same time. Several warships surrounded him, and the soldiers from these warships surrounded and killed Jiao Mo together.
However, because Liu Rengui was distracted and spent all his energy on encircling and killing Jiao Mo, Han Shizhong decisively mobilized his troops at this time and opened a gap. The originally stalemate water battle began to take a turn for the better and penetrated in one breath. He captured several warships of Liu Rengui.
As for Jiao Mo, it is naturally impossible for him to withstand the siege of thousands of people, but the place where they are fighting is not on land. Although Jiao Mo is a bit reckless in fighting, he is not that clear-minded. People who know they have to die.
Jiao Mo jumped directly into the water along the warship. As soon as he entered the water, Jiao Mo was sure that even if there were thousands of people on the other side, he would still be able to run out.
It is much more difficult to contain a person in the water than on land.
Although Jiao Mo did not kill Liu Rengui as he wished, he had become the biggest contributor to this battle because he attracted all Liu Rengui's energy to him.
By the time Liu Rengui shifted his attention from Jiao Mo to the battle situation, Han Shizhong had already established enough advantages at that time.
Between two commanders of similar levels, when one side has established a sufficient advantage, it is not an easy task for the other side to reverse this disadvantage!
What's more, after Han Shizhong established his advantage, he still did not relax at all. Relying on the advantage he had established, he worked step by step and continued to intensify his attack on Liu Rengui.
Moreover, Han Shizhong did not just focus on killing the effective forces of Liu Rengui's men, but mainly on destroying the opponent's battlefield.
As a general, Han Shizhong never forgot their goal of this battle, which was to open a retreat for Huo Qubing. If Liu Rengui's warships were dealt a sufficient blow, Liu Rengui would not be qualified to compete with Han Shizhong for water control rights in the Yellow River even though he had troops but no ships.
This is why Han Shizhong only killed Liu Rengui's five thousand troops at the cost of three thousand, but Li Xiang still considered it a great victory.
It was because Han Shizhong dealt a huge blow to Liu Rengui's warships that Liu Rengui lost the ability to fight them head-on again within a certain period of time.
(End of chapter)
