From June to July, the banks of the Yellow River are always hot and rainless, and the heat on the river is steaming, even if there is a slight breeze, it is difficult for people to feel cool, and more is irritating and damp.

In such weather, the sound of drums and trumpets carries a strong anxiety, and so does war.

A small island in the river is not too large, it is full of the banner of Shi Zhao Wei Wang Shi Kan, and there are more than a dozen warships moored around the river, with the large-scale Chang'an ship as the center, and another fighting ship full of soldiers, launching an attack on the river island again and again.

The river island has long been transformed beyond recognition by various fortifications, with tall arrow towers, huge crossbow machines, deep fence walls, and bamboo rows.

Outside the strong stronghold there was a gentle slope made of huge trees and boulders. Behind the camp wall, hundreds of Hebei soldiers used simple tools such as rollers, leather ropes, and hemp ropes to transport huge oval stones. Under the scorching sun, these soldiers were tanned and reddened one by one, sweating profusely, and some of the soldiers simply took off their clothes, their hands were covered with heavy calluses, and they seemed to be unconscious under the rough hemp rope rubbing.

The big boulder was finally pushed onto the high wooden platform, and then pushed down by the joint force, and in the rumbling sound, it rolled down directly along the gentle slope, and the large water waves were stirred up, and the great pressure directly crushed the offensive platform that the Huainan army had spent several hours building outside.

Even two small boats could not retreat, they were swept into the whirlpool of agitation, and the soldiers abandoned the boats and fled, but nearly half of them were still swallowed up by the river!

Seeing this result, the Hebei soldiers on the shore let out a few meaningless howls from their mouths, and then were driven by the commander of the soldiers, spewing rough air from their mouths and going inward, to the quarry in the middle of the river, which was originally a hill stacked with rocks, but with the continuous attack of the Huainan army, the hillocks were bulldozed, and the river overflowed to form a swamp shallow depression.

The offensive of the Huainan army was not disrupted by this twist and turn, and the soldiers were scattered in various rafts and boats, each attacking the shore with strong crossbows and bows. However, including the Chang'an ship, they were all trapped in the terrain, and it was really difficult to get close to Hezhou and launch a large-scale attack.

On the Chang'an ship of the Huainan Army, Li Youzhi shouted loudly, constantly organizing troops to attack Hezhou. This was the first time he had the opportunity to lead the army independently, so he cherished it very much, and after receiving the order, he tried his best to live up to the governor's reuse, and only hoped to complete the military order and take this river island.

This river island, located in the north of the river, closer to Liyang, as long as it can be captured, it can be used as a supply ground for the Huainan Naval Army, so that the Huainan Army can be prevented and controlled in this section of the waterway.

Li Youzhi was a subordinate general under Mao Bao, the Taishou of Runan, and arrived at the Yellow River from the chasm in early July. Their army was also the main force of the Huainan Naval Army, with a total of more than 20,000 naval soldiers, and it can even be said that they were the main force in the Battle of the Yellow River later.

The army on the front road opened up an extremely superior combat environment, especially in Xingyang, as for the section of the waterway of Sujube and Yanjin, which can be said to be completely mastered by the Huainan army. However, from Yanjin to Baimajin, in the vast waterway of the Yellow River, the Huainan Army is still at a disadvantage, or the Huainan Water Army.

Previously, the front of the Huainan Army not only successfully defended the Yanjin ferry, but even went north to capture Hebei Ji County, these achievements were achieved under the absolute disadvantage of the Huainan Army, which can be described as extremely brilliant. But in the follow-up advancement, it encountered stubborn sniping.

The 20,000 troops led by Mao Bao can be said to be the main force of the Huainan Naval Army, with a total of more than 300 boats, including more than 10 ships like the Chang'an Ship alone. However, after this army reached the Yellow River, the results were not outstanding.

After arriving at the Yellow River, there was a Heluo Taobao Division suddenly rushed out of the Yellow River, although limited by the difference in strength between each other, the Heluo enemy army was finally repulsed, but it was delayed for nearly two days.

It's only two days, which is not too long in such a large-scale battle. Because the army ahead laid a good foundation, the next march was also smooth, and there was almost no stopping to arrive at the sour date.

But then, the war turned bad. The Huainan Navy tried several times to reinforce Jijun on the opposite bank, but was repulsed by the enemy. The two armies fought three water battles on the Yellow River, only one of which was victorious, sending less than 5,000 reinforcements to Jijun, and the remaining two were both repulsed by the Hebei enemy.

At present, the Huainan Army has a clear banner and uses troops in Hebei, and it is difficult to reap the effect of a surprise attack. The Huainan Navy is strong, which is a natural advantage, but the enemy in Hebei also broke out with amazing combat effectiveness, and completed powerful sniping on the surface of the Yellow River several times in succession.

This is not because the combat effectiveness of the Huainan naval army is slightly inferior, but because the enemy in Hebei occupies a geographical advantage. Several successive defeats were due to insufficient supplies of the Huainan Army and had to be temporarily retreated.

This section of the Yellow River waterway is gentle and vast, so there are as many as five or six river strongholds on the water. However, because the main force of the Huainan Naval Army was delayed for two days in the Xingyang River section, these rivers and islands were occupied by the enemy and obtained extremely important supply points, so the Huainan Army was completely weak in the later battle.

There is no doubt about the importance of the supply point of Hezhou, and the replenishment of grain, grass, and materials can even increase the enemy's return voyage on the way, but the Huainan army does not have such an advantage, and can only be replenished by returning home.

Therefore, in this section of the water under Yanjin Wang, all the Huainan Army can rely on is a sharp spirit. On a line of hundreds of miles, there were almost no supply points. Even the sour jujube, after losing the winning place of Hezhou, can only provide recuperation, but cannot provide material supplements.

Therefore, in the following battles, the Huainan Navy attacked several times, all in order to obtain the winning place of the waterway, and the main focus was the competition for several river islands.

Due to the previous foreshadowing, the Huainan Army had an advantage at the very beginning, breaking through three river islands one after another, and directly advancing the battle line below Yanjin. But when they arrived here, they were already very close to the base camp of Shikan's army, and the difficulty of the battle increased several times.

For example, the river island that Li Youzhi is attacking right now is located between Baimajin and Liyang. However, it is only a little more than ten miles away from Liyang, and the enemy army can replenish it at any time. However, the Huainan army had the strength of boats and ships, and the supply ground was placed in Yanjin, which was hundreds of miles away.

With such a distance gap, there is too much tactical skill to be done. Li Youzhi led the Huainan general's 3,000 naval army, which had been attacking Hezhou for nearly a day and night, but he could never get close to Hezhou.

In water warfare, the advantage of long-range weapons and boat equipment is the key to victory. For example, Li Youzhi, the Chang'an ship, is an indestructible behemoth in itself, and the bows and arrows he carries are even more massive, but he is completely unable to get close to Hezhou, so he can only rely on the charge of small boats and rafts to cause a threatening attack on Hezhou.

The scale of Hezhou is not large, and the size of the defenders is only more than 2,000 people, but it has been stubbornly resisting for several days, repelling more than a dozen attacks by the Huainan army. This has nothing to do with combat effectiveness, the main thing is that the enemy army completely relies on the advantages of the terrain, rolling stones and sharp arrows, and repeatedly fires.

After this round of attacks was repulsed, a large number of boats and rafts set sail again in Liyang, which was not far from the north, and rushed straight towards Hezhou. Li Youzhi naturally couldn't sit back and watch the enemy get sufficient replenishment, so he drove the boat to the north to intercept it, and the huge slapping rods on the ship frequently hit the river.

However, the river surface that the big ships were able to intercept was only a few dozen feet, and the enemy's boats and boats were scattered on the wide river, and they were extremely flexible, and after a little slackening, they arrived at the river bank. Baskets of arrows and rice were sent to the riverbank, which meant that the Huainan army's previous dozen hours of hard fighting were in vain.

In such a combat environment, large warships are clumsy and slow due to their lack of mobility. The only ones that could hold off the enemy were small boats and rafts that had no advantage in weaponry. But many times, when the Huainan army approached the boats without fear of death and then engaged in broadside battles, they found that these warships were just a group of homeless strong men who had no combat effectiveness at all.

Those were trembling one by one, not to mention armor, and they didn't even have basic swords, guns, and ordnance. Once intercepted by the Huainan army, it was just an instinctive stress reaction, either rushing up, or jumping into the river to escape.

This is completely a scoundrel's style of play, bullying the Huainan army is insufficient, using a group of rabble, plus a batch of low-cost rafts, using human lives to intercept the elite naval army of the Huainan Army west of Liyang, and cannot fully devote itself to the operation of such important areas as slipway platform and Baimajin.

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