A huge rolling stone kept rolling in mid-air, and then hit the deck of the warship hard.
Suddenly, debris flew everywhere.
The leaking warship, which had begun to sink, immediately began to tilt and began to sink unstoppably.
Wen Fuzhi raised his gloomy eyes and saw Li Xuan at the gate of the city.
The two people looked at each other, and Wen Fuzhi clearly saw the disdain in Li Xuan's eyes, and for a moment, he burst into anger.
Li Xuan smiled contemptuously and continued to look into the river.
Seeing that all around the sinking warship, other responding boats could not get close at all.
Rolling stones fell from above his head. If he got even slightly closer, he would be hit immediately by the rolling stones.
Knocked over directly.
The sailors on the warship jumped off the ship one after another, and then swam backward from the bottom of the water.
They abandoned ship.
Li Xuan stood on top of the city gate and watched all this with calm eyes. He wanted to scare the monkeys and make them understand that they would not be able to capture Sanhe Pass without paying a considerable price.
Fighting on the battlefield is always the most cruel, and it is also the easiest to shake people's hearts.
Li Xuan's eyes crossed Wen Fuzhi's and fell on the soldiers further behind.
Some people have worried faces and fearful eyes, while others have excited eyes and are naturally bloodthirsty.
Although Yuan Chao has killed a group of people, there are still many devout believers of Tianyin Sect in this fleet.
This war will not end unless all these people are killed.
…
Above the city gate, Yao Zhi stood beside Li Xuan, looking at the completely sunk warship and the floating body, he couldn't help but sigh and said: "It seems that Colonel Zhu has not experienced anything like this for a long time." In the water war, even the most basic things like this have been forgotten.”
Li Xuan kept looking forward and shook his head slightly: "I heard that Lieutenant Zhu once served in the Hangzhou Navy. He may have gone to sea with the Navy to kill pirates, so he was better at sea combat. For this kind of water on the river, War, he needs to be a little stranger."
At this point, Li Xuan paused for a moment, looked at Yao Zhi and said, "Perhaps it is because of this that Zhu Si got acquainted with the Zhoushan pirates... The three Bai brothers are dead, and the traces of the Zhoushan pirates may be traced to him. .”
"Yeah!" Yao Zhi nodded.
The death of the three Bai brothers was something they had not expected, but fortunately, they still had a chance to figure out the whereabouts of the Zhoushan pirates.
At this moment, more boats were put down from the warships in the distance.
These small boats carried many soldiers in black. These soldiers in black suddenly jumped into the water before the boats reached the stone-throwing range.
Those are a group of water ghosts.
As soon as the water ghosts jumped into the water, the catapult immediately became unable to threaten them.
Li Xuan looked at this scene and couldn't help but shake her head and said: "If this happens, Sanhe Gate will not be able to guard it for long."
"The prince also wants to copy the record of Meiling Pass at Sanhe Pass. This is not easy." Yao Zhi couldn't help laughing.
Water warfare is different from land warfare. There are too many factors that are difficult to control.
Li Xuan waved her hand, put her thoughts away, and continued to look into the distance.
A famous water ghost jumped from the boat and dived underwater to find and destroy the wooden piles hidden under the water.
Sanheguan is located where the Wujiang River enters the endless mountains. The water surface in this area has begun to narrow. In addition, after the establishment of Sanheguan, the government began to intentionally control the number of boats, so the boat traffic was even more restricted.
The depth of the river in this area of hundreds of meters is lower than in other places, so it is easier to build wooden piles at the bottom of the river.
Sanhe Pass has received orders to close the pass more than ten days ago.
No matter Li Xuan, Wang Fanglin, or even Yuezhou Sima Yao Zhi, they all ordered to strengthen the river defense more than once, and even inspected it personally.
In this case, who can slack off?
Shen Lin, the guard of Sanhe Gate, knew how powerful this was, so she was fully prepared in all aspects.
The Tianyin Sect's big ship arrived here. Once it encountered the wooden piles hidden under the water, it was immediately unable to move forward.
The draft of the warship itself was deeper than that of other ordinary ships, and they did not know the true location of the hidden pile, so they could only send water ghosts into the water to explore slowly.
"Your Majesty, why didn't they follow the King into the pass and then suddenly rise up? This would make it easier to attack the city. Why did they choose to be exposed early instead?" Yao Zhi suddenly asked a question.
When Li Xuan left before, he left Sanhe Pass carefully under the command of the defenders.
When he returned before, if he wanted to enter the barrier smoothly, he not only needed the soldiers behind the barrier to untie all the iron ropes on the water, but also needed the defenders to lead him through the hidden pile array.
As long as we pass the underwater hidden pile array safely, taking over the entire Sanhe Pass will no longer be a problem.
Li Xuan glanced at Wen Fu in the distance and said softly: "Before, I gathered all the generals above the team level with the intention of bringing these people into Guanzhong. Without these people, the entire navy will be destroyed." No more threats.
Wen Fuzhi also saw this, so he took action in advance and asked these people to return to the ship respectively, and the navy immediately restarted its combat power. "
Li Xuan said, looking directly at the water. Rolling stones on the shore fell from time to time, but it was difficult to hurt the people underwater.
At this moment, a cry of killing suddenly came from the distant mountains. Hundreds of soldiers in blue uniforms suddenly rushed out from behind the mountain. The soldiers who got off the ship and landed were not prepared at all, and were immediately killed. Those who were killed fled in all directions.
Some people even jumped directly into the river.
Wen Fuzhi also saw this scene. He couldn't help but shake his head and said, "I've known for a long time that King Nanchang's calculations were very deep, but I didn't expect that he was so comprehensive!"
Zhu Si shook his head: "The navy has its own way of fighting. Although the King of Nanchang has some strategies, he doesn't know how to fight by water."
Wen Fuzhi looked at the city head again and said, "We'd better take Sanhe Pass first."
…
As the sun sets in the west, the Wujiang River is sparkling.
A heavy wooden pile floated up from the bottom of the river, then flowed down the river, and was quickly hit to another place by the racket pole on the warship.
Wen Fuzhi looked at the river that was gradually being cleaned up, without much excitement on his face.
On the city wall in the distance, Li Xuan and Yao Zhi were still watching all this calmly.
"He is so cautious!" Li Xuan sighed with emotion, and said with a chuckle: "If Fang Fengjin can have such patience, then I will be the unlucky one at Meiling Pass."
A warship moved forward slowly, and many warships behind it were lined up. Except for the chains that had to be broken, the hidden piles could be avoided as much as possible. The power of the trebuchets on the shore was immediately weakened a lot.
Yao Zhi said calmly: "But he also lost time. Although there were not many casualties among the soldiers, their patience was consumed a lot."
"It's time, let half of the remaining catapults start firing twice, and the remaining half should evacuate immediately." Li Xuan ordered decisively.
"Follow the order!" Yao Zhi immediately handed over his hand.
They actually had no intention of defending Sanhe Pass.
For Li Xuan, the terrain of Sanheguan is not suitable for great performance.
Although there are certain terrain advantages here, the warships have greatly offset this advantage.
Li Xuan's most powerful cavalry cannot be used here at all.
There is also fire attack, which is also very unsuitable.
So we had to withdraw.
…
A full moon hung high in the sky, the earth was bright, and Wen Fuzhi finally set foot on Sanheguan.
Zhu Si and his men came up to him immediately, and quickly raised his hands and said: "General Manager, the King of Nanchang has evacuated all those who could be evacuated in advance, leaving us with only an empty city."
"It would be nice to have an empty city. I am really worried that when you enter, the entire city suddenly catches fire, and then all of you will be burned to death." Wenfu sneered subconsciously, and then looked to the northwest Direction: "But it's summer now, and there is little northwest wind. Even if something happens to Sanhe Pass, they will be the ones burned, so the King of Nanchang wants to evacuate."
"What the chief manager said is true." Zhu Si breathed a sigh of relief. Since Wen Fuzhi took charge of the navy, they had reconnected with Muzhou and learned more about the details of the battle at Meiling Pass and the methods of King Nanchang. Learn more.
"The terrain here is not suitable for King Nanchang to perform, but there is always a place suitable for King Nanchang to perform on this Wujiang River. We must be careful." Wen Fuzhi walked towards Sanheguan Neizhong.
Just a few steps after walking in, a team leader in gray came out and reported to Wen Fuzhi and Zhu Si: "General manager, captain, brothers, not long after the meal, many people suffered from diarrhea. Phenomenon, we...we found croton flour in the seized grain from the granary..."
"Badou powder?" Zhu Si punched his fist bitterly and cursed angrily: "Damn King Nanchang, he doesn't use serious methods, he only uses these crooked ways."
"How many people are there? Can we still operate overnight tonight?" Wen Fuzhi quickly asked. He also hoped to reach Lanxi County in the early morning tomorrow.
"Thirty percent of the brothers..." Before the team leader had finished reporting, a burst of footsteps sounded behind him again.
Wen Fuzhi quickly turned around and saw a team leader holding a long knife, running quickly from outside the city.
His breathing was heavy, and there was a large amount of blood on his left cheek. Before he could stand still, he had already handed over his hand and reported: "Report to the captain, report to the general manager, we suddenly encountered three hundred cavalry, and the cavalry charged one by one. By then, we were scattered, and the cavalry withdrew after a killing spree."
"Where are our people now?" Wen Fuzhi asked coldly.
"We have returned to Guancheng." The team leader lowered his head in shame.
"How many of our people have died?" Wen Fuzhi asked again.
"One hundred people died in the battle, and more than two hundred others were injured." The team leader lowered his head.
"Three hundred cavalry can easily defeat our front army. King Nanchang, he doesn't want us to leave Sanheguan easily!" Zhu Si waved his hand and motioned for the team to lead down, and then Zhu Si sent everyone there Drive out.
At this time, he looked at Wen Fuzhi and said: "With these cavalry here, let alone today, even tomorrow, we can't easily leave the vicinity of the river, and we only have two days of food stock... "
"No, there is only one day left. With the fighting in the battle formation, the consumption of military rations has accelerated." Wen Fuzhi looked to the south, took a deep breath, gritted his teeth and said, "Damn it, King Nanchang, he is trying to push us to a dead end!"
"Although the west bank of the Wujiang River is not easy to get to, there are still some common people and hunters on the east bank of the Wujiang River. As long as we find the common people and hunters, we can sell or borrow some food from them," Zhu Si thought quickly. Method.
Wen Fuzhi shook his head, laughed at himself, and said: "Believe it or not, the King of Nanchang may have ordered people to move away temporarily. On the east bank, we can only find some footholds. If we want to really find food, the only place is Lanxi County, maybe this is King Nanchang’s plan.”
Wen Fuzhi had now seen through Li Xuan's thoughts. He just wanted to force them to go to Lanxi County and prevent them from dividing their troops.
There is no doubt that Lanxi County has already made all preparations for war.
"Let us attack the city again. Lanxi County is not a city that is as easy to capture as Sanheguan and Meilingguan." Zhu Si looked embarrassed.
Whether Sanhe Pass or Meiling Pass, they are just small passes after all, but Lanxi County is different.
Even if they have more than twenty ships, it will cost a lot to capture Lanxi County.
And the most important thing is time.
"In this case, let's do the opposite. Leave some of our troops to attack Lanxi, while the other part of our troops will go up the river and reach the foot of Muzhou City. The opportunity will come when the time comes."
Wen Fuzhi's eyes flashed with calculating thoughts, and he narrowed his eyes unconsciously.
However, Wen Fuzhi did not know that there was a place called Yanxi on the waterway from Lanxi to Wujiang.
(End of chapter)
