On May 30, Lintao Jun Wei Ji and his lieutenant general Gong Yuan drove 20 escort ships to Ji County, and arrived at Suxukou on the first day of June. Pen | fun | pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 ｉｎｆｏ

At that time, Han General Julu Shouyan Crepe still led twenty or thirty warships under his command to block the river in the area of Suxukou, and when he saw twenty boats flying the "Wei" flag in the upper reaches of the river, Yan Crepe knew that the comer was not good.

Because in Yan Xuan's opinion, the Wei transport ships in this area have generally known about his Yan Crepe driving boats to block the river, so naturally they will not bump into them stupidly again.

And those Wei ships on the opposite side were coming head-on, without the slightest intention of evasion, so there was only one explanation: it was not the Wei transport ship responsible for transporting materials, but the Wei warship that came specially for him!

Immediately, Yan Crepe used the flag language to tell the warships in the fleet: Prepare for battle!

I have to say that commanding soldiers and horses to fight on flat ground, Lintao Jun Wei Ji is really a rare handsome talent, but let him lead the warship to fight a water battle with the Korean navy, which will make this the only two commanders of the Wei clan in Longxi suffer.

Fortunately, the escort ships he brought this time all have war weapons that can defeat the enemy - repeaters.

I have to say that the Wei State repeater built by the Daliang Smelting Bureau is even more powerful in water warfare than on land.

Because on the surface of the river, the movement of the ships was relatively slow, so for the Wei repeater, the Yan Xuan army was undoubtedly a live target.

At that time, seeing the Wei warships on the opposite side lined up, Yan Xuan was still laughing secretly in his heart: which mediocre Wei ship on the opposite side was actually arranged in a horizontal formation, didn't it be in vain for him to let the crossbowmen under his command shoot.

But just as Yan Xuan was about to give the order to call the crossbowmen in the fleet to greet the opposite fleet with fire arrows, he heard two bangs, and his flagship shook violently.

After a closer look, Yan Xuan was shocked to find that the bow of the boat he was in had been destroyed by something, causing the river to pour into the hull of the boat.

"What the hell is that?!"

Yan Xuan's heart was horrified, and he immediately ordered to abandon the ship, and took the soldiers on the ship to transfer to the rest of the warships.

And while he was moving, another warship was pierced through the hull and was about to sink.

This time, Yan Crepe looked carefully, and it turned out that what pierced the hull of his fleet was a few iron crossbow bolts as thick as fingers.

"Wei State Repeater?!"

Yan Xuan's heart suddenly woke up, because he had gone to Wu'an to participate in the "Beiyuan Ten Heroes Meeting", and at that time, from the mouths of Storm Kite, Feng Ting, Jin Huang and others, he had learned that Wei had a terrible war weapon-'Wei State Three-Shot Mechanism Crossbow'.

At that time, Yan Xuan didn't care very much, and didn't think that South Korea's crossbow could be compared to the crossbow of the Qi army, but he didn't expect that after experiencing the power of the Wei crossbow today, he suddenly woke up: The power of the Wei crossbow is not inferior to the crossbow of the Qi State.

"The Lu State taught their tricks to the Wei people?"

Yan Crepe was a little unbelievable, and couldn't figure out that the Wei State, whose craftsmanship was not as good as his South Korea in the past, had already imitated the Wei State crossbow that was not inferior to the crossbow of the Lu State - even if Lu Wei established diplomatic relations, the Lu State taught the Wei people the mechanism technique, and the Wei people would not have developed it so quickly, right? And it's as powerful as that!

Puzzled, Yan Xuan tried to drive his warships to approach the Wei ships, trying to start a close-range white-handed battle with the Wei ships.

Unexpectedly, before the fleet he led approached the Wei ship, it was sunk by a volley of crossbows from the Wei ship on the opposite side.

Even the crossbowmen on the opposite Wei ship also began to shoot with bows and crossbows, although the accuracy was not accurate, but still caused some casualties to the Yan Xuan army.

In desperation, Yan Crepe could only order a retreat.

There is no way, the crossbowmen under his command can't instantly sink the Wei ship on the opposite side, but the Wei ship on the opposite side has a repeating crossbow that can destroy the Korean ship in an instant, and the difference in power between the two ships is really too big.

Yan Xuan didn't know that when he ordered the retreat, in fact, on the Wei ship opposite, Wei Ji, the Lintao Jun who was in charge of commanding the fleet, and Gong Yuan, the deputy general, also wiped a cold sweat.

It is no wonder that after all, whether it is Lintao Jun Wei Ji or Gong Yuan, the deputy general of the Junshui Army, they are both experienced commanders and generals in land warfare, but they actually don't know anything about water warfare.

What's even worse is that the personnel on the ship, except for the sailors who were borrowed from the household department, the rest of the soldiers were all crossbowmen of the Junshui Army, and they were not used to fighting on rickety warships at all.

It is precisely for this reason that the Wei army's twenty escort ships, hundreds of repeating crossbows, and two waves of salvo consumed more than 300 iron crossbow arrows, but they only sank four or five warships of the Yan Xuan army, which can really be said to be a loss.

If Zhao Hongrun, the king of Su, found out, he would probably vomit blood in anger - because theoretically, a single crossbow bolt would be enough to sink a warship.

Of course, the theory is just a theory, and when the Shangshui army used a crossbow to deal with the warships of the Chu State, it would take about ten crossbow arrows to sink a warship of the Chu State.

But in any case, although the consumption of crossbow arrows was extremely high, the task of these twenty Wei escort ships was successfully accomplished, and they successfully drove away Yan Xuan's fleet.

Seeing this, Lintao Jun Wei Ji decided to take advantage of the victory to pursue, after all, in his opinion, keeping the Yan Crepe Army, the Korean army fleet, would have endless troubles. Because the latter would definitely try to disrupt the Wei state's waterway transportation from Daliang to Handan, so as to resist the strategic intentions of Zhao Hongrun, the king of Su.

I have to say that on the way to pursue the Yan Crepe Army, Lintao Jun Wei Ji inevitably exposed his inexperience in commanding the naval army, obviously each other went down the river, and the Wei State ship adopted the design structure of the Chu State warship, which could not be inferior to the Korean warship, but even so, Lintao Jun Wei Ji still couldn't catch up with the Yan Crepe Army.

The two fleets of warships fled one after the other and went down the river.

After chasing and escaping for about half a day, Han Jiang Yan Xuan saw that the Wei ships chasing his fleet were large ships, so he deliberately led them to Julu Ze.

When entering Juluze, Han Jiangyan picked a river with a deep draft, and deliberately introduced the Wei boat behind him to Juluze.

Then, after wandering around the giant deer Ze, Yan Xuanjun took advantage of the small and light hull of his own boats to return to the big river from a river with a shallower draft.

At this time, the fleet led by Lintao Jun Wei Ji was embarrassed, stranded in that small river, and could only watch the Yan Xuanjun army march away.

By the time Lintao Jun Wei Ji's fleet returned to the river along the river from which it came, the Yan Xuan army had long since disappeared.

And after Lintaojun Wei Ji drove the fleet back to the Suxukou area, well, Yan Xuanjun actually returned here.

For two or three days, Lintao Jun Wei Ji and Han General Julu Shou Yan Crepe launched a chase battle in the nearby waters, although Lin Taojun Wei Ji and Deputy General Gong Yuan were eager to catch up with Yan Xuan's army, and the Han general Yan Xuan, who had been playing with them repeatedly in the past two days, was cut by a thousand knives, but unfortunately, in terms of water war experience and understanding of the waters of Julu's area, both of them were far inferior to Yan Xuan, so that they wasted a few days of effort and did not catch up with Yan Xuan's army.

In desperation, Lintao Jun Wei Ji changed his strategy, and after forcing the Yan Crepe Army to the lower reaches of the river, he stopped chasing after forcing the Yan Crepe Army to the lower reaches of the river, and stopped in place to block the river - anyway, as long as the Yan Crepe Army could not harass the Wei army's waterway transportation lines, the task of Lintao Jun Wei Ji and the deputy general Gong Yuan would be completed.

And now, Han Jiang Yan Crepe felt a headache.

Let's fight, I really can't beat these Wei ships loaded with Wei repeaters, and often before his ships can get close to the other party, the opponent's repeaters will sink his ships; If you don't fight, don't think about breaking through the blockade of these Wei ships and harassing the Wei army's waterway transportation lines again.

The two fleets faced each other far away on the big river for most of the day, and Yan Crepe didn't come up with anything.

After hearing about this, Zhao Hongrun was surprised and overjoyed, after all, this time the smelting bureau was in response to the changes on the frontline battlefield without his order, and he remodeled the warship by himself and invited Lintao Jun Wei Ji out.

At this time, the Shanyang Army led by Zhao Hongjiang, the king of Yan, had rebuilt the port of Linzhang River and resumed transportation.

At the same time, Zhao Hongrun also learned a battlefield news: the Han army that retreated to Wu'an, after the Shanggu reinforcements of Shanggu Shoumahao, ushered in two more support armies, one was the Yuyang Army of "Yuyang Shou Qinkai", and the other was the Taiyuan Army of "Taiyuan Shou Lian Barge".

Compared with "Yuyang Shou Qin Kai", Zhao Hongrun still remembers the title and name of "Taiyuan Shou Lian Jie", because this Beiyuan Ten Heroes defeated the Northern Third Army in Jinyang County, Taiyuan County, and severely damaged his Wei general Jiang Contempt's Korean fierce general.

This alone is enough to make Zhao Hongrun cautious and cautious, careful and cautious.

On the sixth day of the sixth month of June, Sun Shuke, a general of the Yanling army who had built a high wall in the northwest of Handan City, came to report that the scouts he had sent out to find out that the Han army had garrisoned the "Tiaoling" on a north-south ridge about six or seven miles west of the high wall, and cut down the trees on the mountain to build a camp stronghold.

At that time, Zhao Hongrun realized that the Wu'an Han army seemed to be about to send troops to attack his Handan City.

Therefore, on the one hand, he sent the black crows to spy on the strength of the Han army in Wu'an, and on the other hand, he sent a letter to Zhao Hongjiang, the king of Yan, Zhao Hongxuan, the king of Huan, and Wei Mu, the general of Southern Yan—the general Shaohu did not need it, after all, Shaohu was in Handan at the moment, and had already ordered the transfer of the Wei Wu army stationed in Zhongmu to Handan City.

The reason why he asked for help from the three armies was not that Zhao Hongrun was cowardly and afraid of the Korean army after receiving reinforcements, but he was just seeking stability. Moreover, such a large-scale legion war is undoubtedly an excellent opportunity to gain military merits and prestige, so the summoning of the Shanyang Army, the Northern First Army, and the Southern Yan Army can stabilize the advantages of the Wei army on the one hand, and on the other hand, it can also bring Zhao Hongjiang, Zhao Hongxuan, Wei Mu and others closer.

Zhao Hongjiang, Zhao Hongxuan and Wei Mu could see this intention, so after receiving Zhao Hongrun's letter asking for help, these three military lords gladly took over, and after leaving some soldiers and horses to guard their respective ports, they went straight to Handan with a large army.

For this reason, Zhao Hongjiang, the king of Yan, and Zhao Hongjiang, the king of Huan, could not even care about the two places of "Feixiang" and "Fanyang" to continue to attack.

By the time of June 11, the armies of Wei and Han had been put in place, the Wei army was encamped in Handan and the high wall, and the Han army was camped in Tiaoling, and the atmosphere between them became more and more tense at this moment, as if a little spark would ignite the flames of war.