Chapter 850: Contribution to the camp

Chapter 850: Contribution to the camp

To the south of Dongting Lake, the huge roar was deafening, and the sounds of fighting spread all over the fields, one after another.

On the open lake, the battle was extremely fierce. The huge ship was like a beast with teeth and claws. The thick shooting pole kept falling down, and everyone and the boat were broken everywhere it touched!

The big ship is the king of water battles. It is invincible with its huge hull and powerful potential. Although the opponents are also brave soldiers, no matter how brave the warriors are, they are only flesh and blood. Without the same With the support of powerful warships, it was completely difficult to withstand the offensive of the large ships. After being destroyed by this war machine, there were only a few survivors.

In order to convey his orders to the participating ships in a timely manner, Xu Wensheng was also aboard one of the warships. His sharp eyes were like an eagle's vision, keenly capturing the changes in various situations on the battlefield and adjusting the ship array in time. This method gradually compresses the enemy's activity space to a corner of the water surface, and drives them towards the Xiangshui River.

At the beginning of the battle between the armies of the two sides in Dongting Lake, Wang Lin's army was completely at a disadvantage because the size of each other's boat fleets was not at the same level.

The current situation is no longer a time when Wang Lin and his men can control the large ships and block the Wei army from leaving the camp. The Western Wei army knew its shame and became brave. It built many ships at the Danjiangkou Dockyard in Xingzhou. Numerous ships were captured in places such as Yingzhou and Jiangling. The number of single-boat ships was already second to none in the world. I am afraid that only Wang Sengbian's army in the lower reaches of the Yangtze River could match it.

Wang Lin's men and horses were urgently withdrawn from Lingnan. Although there was a spiritual canal connecting the two places and a continuous waterway, this waterway was not enough to sail large ships. As for Xiangzhou, the Liang Emperor Xiao Yi was wary of it, and it was even more impossible to place large-scale ships in Dongting Lake.

Therefore, Wang Lin's current naval force is exactly the opposite of that of the Western Wei Dynasty. After returning to Xiangzhou, most of what he can mobilize are fast boats or small boats. As for the big ships that can really affect and determine the situation of water battles, There is not even a single ship.

Originally, Wang Lin planned to appease or attack Xu Shipu and Ren Yue's troops stationed on the south bank, and obtain their ships to enhance her water warfare strength. However, before this idea could be implemented, Xu Shipu killed Ren Yue first. And descended to Jiangling.

Now there is a huge disparity in strength between them. When Xu Wensheng, a veteran general of the Southern Dynasties, led the Western Wei Dynasty boat division to massacre, Wang Lin's navy stationed on the south side of Dongting Lake was quickly killed and routed, and even the main camp was destroyed. Lost together.

The fierce battle lasted throughout the day, with a large number of shipwrecks and corpses of soldiers floating on the surface of Dongting Lake.

With the ship's combat power completely lagging behind, although Wang Lin's troops resisted vigorously, they were inevitably defeated in the end. The surviving boat divisions and ships retreated south along the Xiang River. Due to the tightening of the waterway, it was not conducive to As the big ships advanced and retreated, the Western Wei Dynasty boat division did not continue to pursue them one after another, and the situation was temporarily stabilized.

However, as this battle progressed, the Wei army also paid a heavy price. Several large ships were damaged to varying degrees. One of them was even burned by the enemy's almost suicidal approach of using light boats to carry fire. And was completely destroyed.

But overall, the results of this battle were quite brilliant. During the battle between the two sides, there were almost no close battles. Therefore, the casualties on Wei Jun's side were minimal, but on Wang Lin's side, the casualties were much more tragic. There were thousands of corpses floating on the lake alone. It looked like It's shocking.

After a battle is victorious, the next step is to reward the soldiers. After Ming Jin withdrew his troops, the army entered the water camp of Liang Jun that had just been captured. After simple repairs and arrangements, smoke began to rise in the camp.

As night fell, the soldiers also enjoyed hot meals. When the meal was over, except for those who stayed on duty for the night, the other soldiers dragged their tired bodies into the tent to rest.

Soon the time came to midnight, and suddenly there was a loud sound of drums in the Xiangshui River. Many light boats and speedboats broke through the night like arrows and rushed towards the camp fence.

The soldiers in charge of the night watch in the camp lowered the iron cables and water platoons to intercept the enemy ships launching night attacks, and blew the horns to warn the camp.

Taking advantage of the night camp has always been a tried and tested tactic when southerners and northerners are fighting. Xu Wensheng has experienced both the north and the south and is rich in experience. Naturally, he is not slack on this. He has already arranged emergency response personnel. When he sees the enemy, he takes advantage of it. When night came, the soldiers in the camp put on their armor to fight.

From the south of the camp, there were constant sounds of boats hitting the camp's water rows, but the main force was the enemy's feint attacks with empty boats. The incoming ships often only had a small number of boat-controlling soldiers on board, but there were very few real soldiers.

Such feints to confuse the enemy are also common tricks in battles. Although the Wei army officers and soldiers in the camp were very angry, they did not dare to relax. The assembled soldiers rested on the ground and did not dare to disperse. They always maintained the basic alert.

This kind of harassment continued until the latter half of the night. The enemy seemed to be tireless. Even the soldiers on night duty in the camp had been replaced, and similar harassment continued.

But when dawn was approaching and the night was deepest, the sound of water flowing from the river became louder, as if there were hundreds of boats vying for the flow. The water barrier that had been harassed for a long time suddenly broke apart at this moment, and could no longer be seen. Hardly a hindrance.

"Enemy attack, enemy attack, fight quickly!"

The sentry outside the camp heard obviously different movements, and suddenly woke up with a start, and hurriedly beat the gongs and drums again to send out warning signals.

The battalion soldiers who had been waiting for a long time were inevitably a little slack now. After hearing the warning sound, they hurried to their respective garrison positions. Before they could get into position, the enemy ships had already poured into the dock, and the enemy soldiers at the front roared and rushed towards them.

"Kill! Kill all these Qiang prisoners!"

The enemy soldiers shouted fierce slogans, and the swords and guns in their hands stabbed the soldiers in the camp mercilessly.

The soldiers of Wei who hurriedly fought were caught off guard and suffered a lot of casualties, but they soon realized that the situation was a bit strange. The attacking enemy soldiers seemed to be fierce, but in fact they seemed to be more panicked than they were. They rarely used bows, crossbows, etc. Long-range weapons were mostly used by short-term soldiers. They were blocked in front and behind due to the scramble for landing, making the situation chaotic.

Except for some enemy soldiers who were at the forefront and rushed into the camp, the situation behind them became chaotic. The continuity of the attack could not be guaranteed at all. It was as if a group of new soldiers who had never been on the battlefield were forced to fight.

The subsequent performance of these enemy soldiers was more consistent with this conjecture. When the Wei army soldiers regained their organization after the initial chaos, took their respective positions, and launched a counterattack, these enemy soldiers suddenly became more and more clumsy in dealing with it, and no longer dared to They fought in front of them, and even began to board the boat with weapons and equipment to escape. The nature of their fierce appearance and inner lust was fully exposed.

"These southern thieves are really ridiculous. They have been harassing the camp for a long time, but they are actually such things!"

Seeing the enemy's poor performance, the Wei army officers and soldiers were dumbfounded and cursed one after another.

When they saw these enemies beginning to scramble to retreat and flee, the soldiers laughed louder and louder, and shouted: "Don't let these thieves escape! Kill all the invading soldiers and see if they dare to cause trouble again." !”

Seeing that the enemy was fleeing along the way, the soldiers were eager to kill the enemy. They all forgot their commander's instructions and chased them out one after another. They boarded boats and continued to pursue southward along the Xiang River.

But when they broke out of a layer of river fog, they saw dozens of warships lined up on the river. The battleships were lined with armored soldiers who seemed to have been waiting for a long time. When they spotted each other, the warships suddenly sounded with drums and horns, and whirled. Even if the arrows are like a rain of locusts, they will hit you.

"Enter the camp! Retake the camp!"

After harassing them in the middle of the night, they drove the scattered soldiers forward to lure the enemy, and finally lured the enemy out of the camp. Of course, these Liang Army soldiers who had been lying in wait for a long time did not want to miss this opportunity. They first fired with their bows and crossbows, and then controlled The warship rushed towards the camp, which had already opened its door.

This new batch of enemies was no longer as scattered and clumsy as before. They were all brave and experienced veterans. After entering the camp, they landed one after another, and immediately rushed towards different areas of the camp in clear formations. Soon the defenses in the camp Most of them were destroyed.

Xu Wensheng woke up from his sleep and learned that the enemy troops had actually entered the camp. He was panicked in his heart, but he quickly ordered: "Don't fight in the camp, and retreat to the ship quickly!"

As daylight broke, the chaos in the camp continued unabated. There were people running around everywhere, making it difficult to distinguish ourselves from the enemy. Fortunately, Xu Wensheng urgently led more than 2,000 tribesmen to retreat to the boat parking place, where they held on and repelled the enemy several times. Attack to avoid greater losses.

In the early morning, when Liang Shiyan, who was stationed in Xiangyin, led his troops to come for reinforcements, the camp was already in a mess. The corpses of both the enemy and ours were covered in the camp. Of course, more of the Wei soldiers were dead and injured. Yesterday, after a water battle, the Wei army killed and wounded many Liang soldiers. After the enemy's night attack, the Wei army suffered even greater casualties.

After Liang Shiyan won the first battle, he originally despised Wang Lin's troops, but when he entered the camp and saw such a miserable scene, he felt a little heavy for a while. When Xu Wensheng returned to the camp again, he also said with a look of shame: "Although I was on guard, However, he was still not cautious enough and was still taken advantage of by the enemy. Wang Lin's men are aggressive and desperate, so this attack on Xiangzhou must be a difficult battle! "

While the Wei army was still cleaning up the dilapidated camp, Liang's soldiers who had gone out to cut the camp in the morning returned to a military city on the upper reaches of the Xiang River.

Wang Lin was greeting the victorious people in front of the city gate. After seeing the people landing, she strode forward to meet a burly general, and laughed and said, "I know Han Erlang will definitely succeed in this battle. A feast has been prepared in the city, Erlang and I will come together to congratulate you!"