Chapter 831: The Opening of the Yellow River Water Battle
On the Yellow River, I don't know when a group of water thieves appeared, hijacking merchants from the south to the north, but they did not commit any crimes against the tourists. The key is that this group of thieves went north at every turn, and the deepest one was directly killed around Yecheng.
At that time, if it wasn't for Yuan Shao attacking Gongsun Zhan, the main force was not here, but I was afraid that he would have been chasing and killing for thousands of miles. But because of this, this group of thieves naturally also entered her line of sight, and investigated a little: You dream of a bad heart, and you actually disguised the water army as a water thief to harass my territory!
It's a pity that there is no evidence, these guys come and go in a hurry, it is difficult to catch them, and it is useless to scold without evidence.
Gan Ning is also powerful, usually wearing armor, and the soldiers below are also in the posture of elite soldiers of the Han Dynasty, how serious and serious they are. But once he becomes a water thief, he immediately takes off his regular armor and puts on tattered leather armor, the key is all kinds of non-mainstream decorations, and his temperament and personality have become the same as that of a rogue with a splashy skin, and it is difficult for people to think that the two are actually the same person.
Let's just say that Gan Ning, when the water thief was dressed up, she looked like a non-mainstream female hooligan, her face was coated with thick lead powder, her eyelashes were long and thick, and the lipstick was also applied as thick as she could. With the headscarf and colorful chicken feathers on her head, the exposed left shoulder and the fox on it, she is a female hooligan at all.
After removing the makeup, he put on his armor, and the whole person was delicate and dignified, serious and upright, and it was completely like two people.
The key is also vigilant, Yuan Shao sent people to follow him several times, and in the end, these people did not come back. For so long, Yuan Shao had no evidence to prove that the Han Navy and the Jinfan Thieves were a gang.
But this did not prevent her from training the navy on the Bohai Sea, with the purpose of going south to contain or even defeat this group of sailors when necessary. She does not have suitable naval talents under her command, but there are many talents, and there are many who can build ships.
Finally, Lu Xiang was appointed as the main general, supplemented by Jiang Yiqu and Mao Kai, to lead the naval army. After two years of preparation, there were hundreds of large and small ships and 5,000 sailors. A lot of money was spent on this, and it also delayed the expansion of her regular army to some extent.
There is no way to build a naval army, you must cross the river when you go south, and you must also prevent Cao's army from crossing the river. Even if you go to Hanoi, or even enter the east of the river, you have to cross the river if you want to get to the Central Plains!
"General, we are about to enter the Yellow River!" From the Bohai Sea, along the coast to the south, finally to the mouth of the Yellow River near the mouth of the sea, the following soldiers came to report.
'It's good, put it in formation. Tell the boats to stay in formation and not to be greedy. The other party is an experienced water thief, and we are a new water army that has just been formed. The ships are interspersed with each other, or the skills of water battles are not as good as each other! But we have enough armament, and we have more sturdy and huge ships, push them straight over, and I'll see where the other side can escape! Lu Xiang immediately announced that this time their target was the water village of the Han Water Army.
As long as you hit here, then the other party is a lost dog, even if you can swing around on the Yellow River, you will either give up the boat branch in the end, or fight with them, there is no third way to go.
In this way, they controlled the line of the Yellow River, and Yuan Shaojun could go south at any time, but it would be extremely difficult for Cao's army to cross the river!
One day after entering the Yellow River, they had already entered the territory of Qingzhou, which was under the rule of Yuan Tan and could be regarded as Yuan Shao's territory. Not long after I first came here, a troop came over, and after a while, a soldier came out, waved a flag, and signaled the person who came to indicate his identity.
Seeing this, Lu Xiang immediately ordered to reveal his identity, and hoped to rest here for a day before continuing to sail west.
After the flag was played, the Qingzhou sergeants on the shore breathed a sigh of relief. The Han naval army not only attacked and harassed to the north, but also attacked and harassed along the coast of Qingzhou from time to time. Most of the eastern part of Qingzhou is a mountain range and a wooded area, and most of the habitable areas are plains near the sea in the west.
By the sea, then naturally within the scope of the naval army, in the past two years, many families along the coast have had to reluctantly move away from the seaside. Those thieves specially approached the big families to attack, and then distributed what they couldn't take away to the local people.
Many people are afraid of being affected by the disaster and dare not accept it, and many people grit their teeth to join the thieves after accepting it, but in the past three years, at least thousands of people in Qingzhou and Jizhou were taken to Yanzhou by Gan Ning, and then sent to other places to settle down.
During this period, a group of good quality was also selected and added to the navy, so that the Han navy was also expanded to 5,000. It's just that on the bright side, there are only three thousand. More ships and soldiers were placed in the water village secretly opened in Qingzhou, and supplies were regularly transported from the water village in Dongjun. And the only people who know about this matter are Cao Cao, Sangong and Liu Xie.
"Water thieves are so rampant?" When he went ashore, Lu Xiang had to contact the generals in Qingzhou before he knew that the other party was so arrogant.
"The problem is that if they have a problem, they will get on the boat and leave, and Benzhou has formed a naval army several times, and finally formed a formation and was destroyed by the other party once, and in the end it can only be passively defended like this." Qingzhou general, Cen Bi, the general under Yuan Tan, replied helplessly.
"It's okay, we're already here, they can't continue to run rampant!" Lu Xiang replied.
"Thank you!" Cen Bi also hoped so, the key was that he saw this fleet, the warship was bigger than the thief, and at the same time there were more people, he didn't understand how to fight in water, but it was nothing more than to fight fast and slow, win more and less, and use big ships to crush small boats.
Let's just say that a large ship of this size really wants to crash over, ordinary small boats basically capsize directly, and ordinary warships have to crack and enter the water when they hit the wood. Combined with the rocket, and even the stone throwing vehicle above, it is more powerful.
The large army rested for the night, mainly to replenish some food and water, and then began to continue westward. Three days later, when Cao Cao began to enter the Yanzhou Chenliu range, there was still less than 200 miles away from the water village of the Han naval army.
"Head...... General, the Hebei Navy has been 'caught'! "At the same time, the small boat that went out to investigate on the side of the Han Navy will soon come back to report.
"Very good, come with me!" Gan Ning nodded, she was serious at the moment, and her cold expression gave people a sense of alienation. It's just that for her old subordinates, this is actually a disguise, who she is, everyone knows in their hearts, if she really fights, she is a crazy woman.
"Get on board and fight!" Gan Ning ordered, and the entire water village immediately began to prepare. She just went back to the barracks, wrote a battle report on the situation here, and then sent someone to Cao Cao. A similar battle report, she had already sent a copy earlier.
As the saying goes, 'the general is outside, and the king's order is not subject to it', since she served as a general general of the navy, the court promised to give her only a general policy, and it was up to her to decide how to act. At most, it is the appointment of personnel, as well as the supply of warships, etc., which can only be supplemented with the approval of the imperial court.
The imperial court can give certain autonomy to the navy, but it cannot be independent of the imperial court's management.
"It's really troublesome, you have to write so many war reports to fight a war...... "Gan Ning finished explaining, and seeing that the war report was sent out, she had to complain, but fortunately, after two years, she was also used to this. The initial complaints were more than that.
"Let me see, how capable this Hebei Navy is!" Gan Ning licked her lips with a playful expression.
Immediately boarded the warship, and seeing that the soldiers' ships were ready, he immediately ordered: "Follow me into battle!" ”
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