Chapter 541: Overturning
It is not an easy thing to get rid of 20,000 Eight Banners, if it is a regular battle, even if it is a sneak attack, not to mention the more than 40,000 green battalions under Li Guoying, even if it is more than 200,000 green battalion soldiers combined, they may not be the opponents of the Eight Banners, and most of them will be beaten by the Eight Banners.
Not to mention the green battalion soldiers, even the Pingnan Army under Chen Yue was unwilling to give up the city defense camp and fortress and fight head-on with the Eight Banners.
The Eight Banners are invincible, and this is not just a lie. When all the elites of the nine sides of the Ming Dynasty died at the hands of the Eight Banners, and when the last elite Guan Ning Army surrendered under the leadership of Wu Sangui, the Ming Dynasty almost had no army that could compete with the Eight Banners.
At this time, the Eight Banners had just entered the customs and swept the entire north, and it was the peak of the strongest combat power. Of course, in another time and space, after occupying the Huahua World, the Eight Banners quickly corrupted and deteriorated, and their combat power dropped sharply, and later they had to rely on the Green Battalion to conquer the city, which is another matter.
But now, no one looks down on the Eight Banners, and Li Guoying doesn't dare either.
Fortunately, although the Eight Banners are strong, they have a fatal weakness, that is, they are not good at water warfare and are not accustomed to water. Therefore, the water war with the Ming army must rely on the green battalion, and even the boat crossing the river has to rely on Li Guoying. This gave Li Guoying a chance to start.
Taking advantage of the night, Li Guoying ordered his henchmen to pry off a large piece of the ship's plank above the water level of each warship, then apply glue to the pryed down board and then install it, and then trim it until there was no difference from the outside.
When the ship is empty, this board is located on the surface of the river, but when it is filled with soldiers and horses of the Eight Banners, the warship will eat the heavy board and drop below the surface of the river, and the glue will see that the water will dissolve, and it will fall off in less than half an hour, and the water will pour into the cabin when the board falls off. This is the strategy discussed by Fang Mingxia and Li Guoying to trap the Eight Banners.
With the help of Li Guoying, Fang Mingxia sent an envoy to hook up with the generals of the Green Battalion, and reported to these Green Battalion generals before Azig gathered the generals that Azig was going to kill them, which made the entire Green Battalion panic and made Azig embattled, and had to make a hasty decision to retreat to Jiangbei.
All of this is for the present. Li Guoying took his confidants to do this matter, and the thing was done very secretly, and even the green camp sailors who were in charge of operating the boat on the ship at this moment were not heard.
In less than a stick of incense, more than 100 warships leaked one after another, a large amount of river water poured into the cabin, the ships began to tilt, and the soldiers of the Eight Banners on the warship shouted in horror one by one, but they were helpless.
It is said that he was born between the white mountains and black waters and lived by fishing and hunting, and the real ones who lived by fishing and hunting refer to the wild Jurchens who lived in the Heilongjiang River Basin, and most of the Eight Banners on the boat did not know water. Although they are all amazingly powerful, they are useless on the ship.
A large amount of water poured into the cabin, the ship capsized at a speed visible to the naked eye, and Azig's eyes were full of despair when he saw that there were still more than two miles to the opposite bank.
The Eight Bannermen in the cabin were desperately trying to plug the gap, but they had no tools to use.
The guards Goshha were desperately banging on the planks with knives and guns, hoping to pry it off to escape, but they couldn't pry it out in a hurry.
The sailors of the Green Battalion who were in charge of the boat had been killed, and only a few escaped by jumping into the river.
"Look, Lord!" A guard Goshha pointed to the north in horror, and Azig looked up and saw countless sailing ships going upriver from the downstream, and the huge word "Ming" on the mast fluttered in the wind. Before the ship approached, the sound of "bang" artillery had already sounded, but the green battalion on the east bank was silent, and not a single green battalion warship set sail to meet the enemy.
"Conspiracy, it's all conspiracy!" Azig muttered. The fact that the Ming army came so quickly shows that Li Guoying has long had an affair with the Ming army and reported to him.
Fifteen thousand eight banners were buried in the river, and the five thousand and eight banners of Tan Taibu in Li Guoying's camp were definitely difficult to survive. Think of the 40,000 banners in the 100,000 army of Dordor who was destroyed, plus the 20,000 of himself who were about to be destroyed. More than half of the elite Eight Banners of the Qing Dynasty have been lost, not to mention destroying the Ming Dynasty to dominate the world, and it is unknown whether they can hold the north.
And he and Duoduo will be the greatest criminals of the Qing Dynasty!
Thinking of this, a wave of sweetness rushed to Azig's throat, and he couldn't help but open his mouth, and the red blood spurted out wildly!
"Lord Wang!" Goshha, the guard on the side, was shocked, and when he staggered to help him, he was grabbed aside by Azig.
Most of the warships had sunk into the river, and countless Eight Banners had fallen into the water, and the panicked cries in the water were floating and sinking with the river.
Azig stood on the bow of the ship, looked at the approaching river, and then looked at the approaching Ming fleet, and pulled out his waist knife with a "boom" and crossed his neck.
Even if I, Azig, die, I will never let the Ming dog be captured alive and bring shame on the Qing court!
Thinking of this, Azig strangled hard, a stream of blood soared, and the body fell heavily into the river, and disappeared instantly by the river.
Dozens of steps away from the Azig warship, the river was surging, and a head came out of the river, it was Li Guoying who jumped ship and fled.
Looking at the gradually capsizing Azig fleet, Li Guoying smiled coldly, turned over and swam in the direction of his water camp. Li Guoying, who was born in a southern water town since he was a child, is very water-based.
Li Guoying's camp on the east bank of the river, looking at the capsized warships in the center of the river, Tan Tai was shocked beyond measure.
"What the hell is going on?" Tan Tai turned around angrily and shouted, only to find that Li Guoxiong, the deputy general of the Green Battalion who had been staying by his side, had disappeared.
"Everyone line up and kill all these Nanbans!" Tan Tai's angry roar woke up the Eight Banners who were watching the Jiangzhong fleet in shock.
Five Thousand Eight Banners quickly began to sort out the queue, and everyone knew that they had fallen for the trick, and they had reached the moment of life and death.
Countless rockets were fired, landing on the trestle where the Eight Banners were located, and on the wooden planks of the Shuiying camp, and quickly ignited the flames.
The entire water camp including the trestle bridge is made of wood, supplemented by reed mats, etc., all of which are flammable, and judging by the rapid spread of the flames, many places are clearly soaked in fire oil in advance.
The sad thing is that in order to make room for the Eight Banners, Tan Tai ordered the Green Battalion to leave the trestle and go to the river bank to defend.
The power of water and fire is not something that the body can resist, and even if they are as brave and invincible as the Eight Banners when they fall into the trap, they are all panicked at this moment. The capsizing of the fleet in the middle of the river shocked them incomparably, and the last bit of their morale was destroyed by being in the midst of the fire.
Countless Eight Banners soldiers cried and shouted, dodging the burning flames, and many Eight Banners soldiers whose clothes were set on fire by the flames jumped into the river.
Tan Tai roared hoarsely, but found that the originally well-trained Eight Banners soldiers were like headless flies at the moment, and there were not many who were willing to obey his orders.
On the riverbank, under the order of Li Guoxiong, the archers of the Green Battalion opened their bows and arrows, and shot rocket after rocket on the trestle.