A water bird just caught a river fish in the long-lost tranquility. But after taking a few more steps, he was so frightened that he abandoned the fish and ran away.
hold head high--
A sudden ox-horn trombone sounded loudly above the huge river.
On the river level, a series of long wall-shaped warships slowly revealed their outline.
"Lord, there are not three hundred warships. If we didn't retreat before, we have already fallen into the enemy's siege!" Next to Tang Wuyuan, a man who looked like a general was extremely shocked.
"The people from the Donglin Alliance have all been maimed——"
"It's Xu Buyi." Tang Wuyuan's face was cold and he stopped his subordinates from making meaningless speculations.
He suddenly understood that when he was in the palace, his master was already waking him up. However, he was eager to return to Qingzhou and did not pay much attention to it.
Looking back, Tang Wuyuan looked at the river bank of Cangzhou in the distance, and found that he could not see anything clearly despite all his eyes.
"how long it has been."
"Lord, it's almost three hours."
Tang Wuyuan raised his head, with a complicated smile on his lips.
The generals nearby didn't know why the fifth master of Qingzhou could still laugh. Everyone knew that Xu Buyi's vast navy was not far ahead, blocking their way.
"Send an order to have the two hundred warships in the front line form a defensive formation. In this battle, it is useless for us to attack by force. The best way is to defend first and then attack."
"Take orders!"
Following Tang Wuyuan's order, the more than two hundred warships at the forefront quickly formed a defensive formation and blocked the front.
"Defensive." Dongfang Jing sat on the bow of the ship, looking at the formation in front of him, and said these two words calmly.
"Above the river, Tang Wuyuan used this defensive posture just to delay time until Cangzhou's navy came to rescue. But now, we are almost at the center of the river. My lord can attack quickly and capture the enemy's water before the enemy's reinforcements arrive. The division's first formation."
Xu Mu nodded. Whether it was soldiers or battle formations, the 40,000 men and horses at this time were far more ferocious than the Qingzhou Army of less than 20,000.
Especially Miao Tong, who was eager to rush over immediately.
"Send the order to Miao Tong and I will leave it to him to break the enemy's first line."
Just after he finished speaking, Xu Mu raised his head and moved forward, and suddenly his whole body froze.
"Bo Lie, something is wrong with this..."
Before our own army could kill them, the remaining three hundred or so warships behind the front line had quickly turned around and fled to the other side of the river.
"Xia Houfu dared to defend the formation with his own life, but this thing actually left the people behind and escaped first." Xu Mu gritted his teeth.
Under the order, Miao Tong's movements were already very fast, but they still could not stop more than 300 Qingzhou warships from escaping.
Moreover, while escaping, Tang Wuyuan ordered people to light the fire boat again, constantly hindering Xi Shu's water attack.
"Bo Lie, you stay here. I will lead three hundred warships to pursue you."
For some reason, Xu Mu always felt that letting Tang Wuyuan escape this time might cause some nonsense in the future.
"Ma Yi, give me the order to hunt down the Qingzhou dogs!" Xu Mu said with a cold face as he put on his armor. Although the Donglin Alliance is not considered old friends, at least in the past, they were almost in the same boat.
However, due to Tang Wuyuan's fire, almost all the people in Dongling were killed or injured.
Upon hearing Xu Mu's order, Ma Yi, a water general in Western Shu, immediately sent an order to mobilize warships. Soon he followed Xu Mu and chased the more than 300 Qingzhou warships that had fled.
Not too far away, Xu Mu could still faintly hear the tragic and heroic fighting sounds of the 20,000 Dongling naval forces behind him.
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"Still pursuing you." Tang Wuyuan narrowed his eyes, and his face was filled with coldness for a moment.
"Lord, if we had defended the formation earlier and waited until Cangzhou came to rescue—"
"Shut up." Tang Wuyuan clenched his fists, "I have always only believed in my own judgment. Pass on my military orders and keep sailing eastward. Do not go to the Kezhou Riverbank. It is impossible to say that Kezhou is working with Xishu and laid out the plan early. If you break the defense line, you will definitely die."
"My lord, the Shu people are getting closer and closer!"
I only heard the military report. The Xishu Navy, which was pursuing behind, had already dropped the first wave of long-range arrows densely.
"block--"
On the warship, the Qingzhou troops quickly raised their leather shields. As soon as the sound of falling arrows stopped, the shield was covered with broken arrows.
"The position is not good, don't get entangled." Tang Wuyuan frowned and immediately ordered. Even though many people died, even though he was chased like a dog, he never looked back.
"My lord, it's Xu Buyi who is here to chase you!"
Tang Wuyuan, who had just calmed down, felt solemn on his face when he heard this sentence. He turned his head and looked at the pursuer's main ship and the Xu flag flying high, feeling full of hatred in his heart.
"When he left the alliance, I personally gave him a round. Xu Buyi should also have discovered that I, Tang Wuyuan, finally impressed him."
"Then Lord...what are you doing now? Our Qingzhou Army has just won a great victory and its morale is high. Otherwise -"
"Throw away the baggage, light up the grain boats and fire boats, and sail quickly with light boats to get rid of the Western Shu navy first."
The general next to him hesitated and wanted to say more, but Tang Wuyuan glared sideways and did not dare to speak again.
"No matter what happens, I will have my own plans when I return to Qingzhou."
Tang Wuyuan sighed and closed his eyes.
"This time, I obviously had a great advantage, but I, Tang Wuyuan, was like a lost dog. I suddenly understood that making a wedding dress always requires a tailor's hand to be broken."
"Break the formation!" Xu Mu's face turned fierce on the building ship behind. As far as he was concerned, Tang Wuyuan was like a fly, buzzing while eating, extremely unhappy.
Under the order, the pursuing Xishu Navy, led by Ma Yi, with the cover of long-range shots, the first round of battleship charge, has begun to attack.
The Qingzhou warship that was lagging behind did not even have a chance to lower the lever, and was rushed to pieces. The Qingzhou army's screams came one after another for a while.
"Lord, the Qingzhou Army is not willing to fight. They also ordered grain ships and fire boats, changed them to light boats and fast boats, and fled all the way forward." Youli will report.
Xu Mu sneered, "This Tang Wuyuan is also a talented person. If it were another general, he wouldn't be able to be provoked and would be more or less capable of fighting. It would be better for him to just run forward without looking back."
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"A man can bend and stretch." Ignoring the screams of the Qingzhou Army behind him and the trembling eyes of his subordinates, Tang Wuyuan gritted his teeth and led the Qingzhou Army, which was crippled and crippled, and implemented the escape strategy from beginning to end.
"Xu Buyi, I told you that one day I will impress you with admiration! If you have time, go back and tell your crippled military advisor that I, Tang Wuyuan, claim the title of No. 6 Conspirator in the World!"
Regardless of whether Xu Mu heard it or not, he just shouted loudly. Tang Wuyuan's originally elegant figure suddenly became excited.
"A fire on the river burned the allied forces for thirty miles. I made a big plan for Tang Wuyuan and was born from then on."
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