Chapter 50: The Left Bank

No one responded, and after the last warship on the water sank, the Qin people disappeared. Cheng Kui's shouting became smaller and smaller, and when he was about to lose his voice, a black shadow floated over in the distance, it was a big drum, and there was a person lying on the drum.

"Who?" Cheng Kui asked. He had a longbow in his hand, but alas, the bowstring had long been loose, and he had no arrows.

"I, I'm Yiyang..., who are you, who are you?" The person who came spoke the Chu language, and the Yiyang Brigade was also in this combat series.

"Rest and become a teacher." It's always a good thing to see the robe, and Cheng Kui wiped a handful of tears. "You're the only one?"

"It's all sinking." The man came near, his hair in a messy bun, spread over his head, and only half of his face could be seen in the starlight. Noticing that Cheng Kui knew the water, he said, "You have a strange trick, why don't you swim on the shore?" Outside the master, the boats are all sinking, if your uncle is ......"

"Outside the Yue Shi?" The floating Chengkui didn't see any boats, and was shocked when he heard this. "You mean that the Yue Shi has not sunk?!"

"The Yue Shi chased the Qin people to the north, and naturally they did not sink." The person who came said. Worried that Cheng Kui would not believe it, he said again: "I saw this with my own eyes!" If you and I don't, if we don't swim on the shore to treat each other, I'm afraid, I'm afraid ......"

As he spoke, Yi Yang, who was half-lying on the drum, slipped his hands, and hit the edge of the drum with a bang, and Cheng Kui hurriedly helped him. The movements of the two of them rippled in a series of ripples, and the corpses floating around them swept away, stopping after hitting other corpses.

"I'll send you to the shore," Cheng Kui gasped. "If I swim on the shore, I can't come back here."

"If you and I don't swim on the shore, we will freeze here. When the master returns, you can find your uncle. "Cheng Kui has a strong physique, and he doesn't feel anything unusual when he floats for a few hours. Yi Yang held a drum and did not sink, but soon after falling into the water, he felt that Zeshui was cold, and his lower body was now unconscious. Seeing that Cheng Kui still didn't want to go ashore, he said, "You, do you have no parents and no wife at home......

Yi Yang's hand lying on the drum slipped down again, and Cheng Kui knew that he was not out of strength, but frozen. All familiar people died in battle, turned into corpses and floated on the water. Cheng Kui was reluctant to leave them, but the last words of the visitor woke him up, in addition to his comrades, he also had his parents, grandmother, and nephew. He can't die here, at least not at this time.

When his head hit the edge of the drum for the second time, Yi Yang's pawn sank straight down, and Cheng Kui hurriedly fished him out of the water with a fierce man. After shaking violently, Yi Yangshu choked on a few mouthfuls of water and woke up. He floated weakly on the water, his head tilted, as if looking at the stars in the sky, Cheng Kui was about to speak, and under a faint breath, he shouted an incomparably familiar syllable: "You, you......"

The Chu people call their mother 'you', except for childhood, people only call their mothers when they are about to die. Cheng Kui's nose was sour when he heard this, he pushed away the corpse on the water, and swam to Ze'an with Yiyang in his arms.

When he swam to Ze'an, the fighting on Mandarin Crane Mountain had just stopped, and Meng Tian, who was standing in front of Zhao Zheng, wiped his sweat again.

In order to maintain maximum secrecy, the Warring States Governor's Mansion not only set up a suspicious array, but also strictly limited the number of people who knew about it. As a general of the Qin army, Meng Tian did not know his mission until dawn: to seize the left bank of the mountain on the west side of the Yuanhu Mountain, which was occupied by the Jing people.

In the Battle of Weinan, the Chu army's blockade of Weishui with artillery was recorded in the detailed battle report of the Chu army, although the Qin army did not have such a systematic staff system, but the battle passed only a few years, and many generals still remember it vividly. In addition to the Chu army blocking the waterway, another deadly threat is that the Chu army on Yuanhu Mountain will block the water with witchcraft weapons and intercept the southbound boat division and troop transport boats. For this battle, Wang Jian and Li Xin's elite soldiers quietly assembled and waited along the Weishui coast near Chencang.

The Qin army went south, and at the forefront were seven or eight hundred war boats, which stretched for more than 60 miles, followed by the boats that transported soldiers. Because Shaofu only built war boats, most of these transport boats were official boats and civilian boats that Nanzheng returned to Qinling, and a few were boats secretly collected from all over Guanzhong, with about 1,000 boats, which could only carry 100,000 people at most, and the boat length was more than 60 miles.

The water at the foot of the mountain is straight, and there is a waterway of sufficient length and width in front of it to allow silting, and it is extremely fast to pass through the warboats, and the long march path of sixty or seventy miles has been passed in less than an hour and a half. At this time, the Chu army was still struggling to tow the artillery, and it was still several miles away from the water.

The speed of the troop transport boat was slow, and the two hours were only half passed; And the boat is small, as long as the cannon hits, the boat will sink immediately, and the unsinkable boat is also seriously injured, and the first section must be repaired on the shore. It was nothing to sink one, and if it sank too much, the waterway would be silted, so from the morning the two armies were fighting for the high ground on the shore of the water.

The Qin army wanted to drive the Chu army back to the east of Yuanhu Mountain, and if it was not possible, at least the Chu army should be driven away from the coast of the river; The Chu army held its existing positions and tried its best to prevent the Qin army from moving southโ€”if the seven or eight hundred warships were all useless, they would only pose a threat to friendly forces on the water; On the transport boat were the able-bodied Qin pawns, and these people going south would be a mortal danger to Fuyi and Nanzheng, and it was necessary to stop them.

At the dawn of the Ming Dynasty, the Qin people's boat division went south along the river, and the Chu army and the Qin army engaged troops; Near Yan Shi after the early meal, the Chu army set up artillery on the left bank of the river to shell the boat of the Qin army that was moving south; In the middle of the day, more and more artillery pieces joined the shelling, and the Qin army sank dozens of boats, and the water transportation was completely cut off.

At the time of the small move, the Qin army fell down the rock with rope mountain vines and attacked the three forks, forcing the Chu army stationed at the Yuanhu Mountain Pass to retreat. Later, the Qin army tried to capture the pass west of the three-way pass, connecting the west side of the Yuanju Mountain and the Baochuan Road, in an attempt to cut off the connection between the Chu army and the rear, and isolate and encircle the Chu army along the Weishui coast west of the Yuanhu Mountain.

The two sides were at the fork in the west of the three forks, and later generations called the local bloody battle of Liufeng Pass. It's a pity that the Chu army stationed at this fork is the rest of the Ruo Ao clan, and Meng Tian tried all means to take this place before Zhao Zheng arrived.

"King, the fighting is over." Zhao Zheng sat on the chief of the Yi Ling Mansion, and next to him stood Wei Yu Zhao and others. He came from Yongcheng at noon after getting the information that the boat master had passed through the fish pass, two hundred miles of waterway, and arrived at the old road in the middle of the night when the rooster crowed. Seeing that the water was still blocked by the Chu army, and the war boats transporting the soldiers were all blocked here, Zhao Zheng immediately became angry and was furious with Meng Tian.

"What about the break?" Zhao Zheng's five fingers were stretched wide, his teeth were gritted, and his face was full of angry expressions. "The Jing people cut off my waterway, and the soldiers can only stop here. Even if the Zhou Master defeats the Jing people, he can't pull out the frustrated Nanzheng and can't get the land of Bashu! โ€

"The king is angry." Meng Tian continued to wipe his sweat, and only Wei Yi persuaded him. "There are also a lot of Qin soldiers in our army's boat division, and it may not be possible to capture Nanzheng, but it is also possible to capture Fuyi. If our army is frustrated, it can get Bashu. โ€

"Frustrated?" Zhao Zheng looked at the map with some suspicion. Water warfare is the first step, land warfare is the second step, and attacking Bashu is the third step. Because of the risk of being blocked in water warfare, Zhao Zheng used to focus only on water warfare rather than land warfare later.

"Yes, yes." Wei Yi tried his best to reassure Zhao Zheng. "The danger of this battle depends on whether the boat master can go south to Daze by surprise. If we can, our army will win; No, our army will be defeated. Fortunately, the Jing people were one step behind me, and they did not send heavy troops to guard Yuguan before, and our army was victorious. โ€

"There are only 30,000 or 40,000 people in the Lu Division, how can you overcome frustration if you have a ladder to rush to the car?" Although he has not yet received a report from the front, Zhao Zheng has never doubted the victory of the Battle of Daze. What he wants now is Bashu, occupy Bashu, and only with grain and Qin army can continue to fight.

"Frustration is a small town, and 30,000 or 40,000 people may not be able to pull it out." After Wei Yi finished speaking, he looked at Meng Tian again, and then said: "And tomorrow General Meng will be able to capture the fork, if the Jing people do not retreat, they will be surrounded by our army, and the army food will be exhausted in a few days......"

What the Qin army wanted was for the Lu pawns to move south quickly, and after pulling out the frustrated city, they would enter Bashu in one go. Now that the Chu army is stuck on the left bank of the water, the land division may be able to bypass it from the right bank, but the boat can't get around.

Considering the overall situation, Wei Yi was eager to beat gongs and drums and send the Chu army to retreat, instead of encircling and annihilating them. If we want to encircle and annihilate them, with the combat effectiveness displayed by these divisions and brigades today, even if the army rations are exhausted, they will be able to survive for several days. Time was precious, and a few days was enough time for the Chu army to send a large army from the old Yingfang City to rescue Nanzheng and Fuyi. Once this happens, it will be hopeless to capture Bashu.

"The minister will personally lead the army tomorrow, seize the fork, and force the Jing people back......" Wei Yi said a little distracted, and Meng Tian showed his determination to fight to the death. Wei Yi didn't hear his words at all, judging from the Chu army's rapid mobilization of artillery to blockade the water, the Chu army seemed to fully understand its strategic intentions. Even if Meng Tian seizes the fork tomorrow, the Chu army may not retreat.

He began to worry about the original design. If the Chu army did not climb the Yuanhu Mountain and detour back to the left bank of the water, there would be no way to dredge the sinking boat in the Lingguan Gorge, and the Qin army's boat division would not be able to go south. Now it's okay, the boat division is going south, and the Chu army that reacted immediately called a witch weapon to block the water, and the Qin army is now unable to go up and down, and is stuck here.

What should I do? Could it really be that the boat division going south was wiped out by the Chu reinforcements?

Therefore, in Daoyi, Wei Yi smiled bitterly in his heart, and the military discussion in the military curtain of the Chu army on the left bank of the water had just begun.

In addition to Lu Gao and Lu Xuan, Cheng Si, the general of Xin Cai, Pan Wuming, the general of Xia Cai, Cai Zhi, and the general of Qi Si, as well as the general of Huiji, who was destroyed by the Qin people and had to go ashore, the general of the artillery soldiers, Lu Qianli, the school of the soldiers, plus the Sima, Junzheng, and military plans of each division, there were more than twenty or thirty people sitting in the big curtain.

With the Qin army's offensive today, the fork in the road may be captured by Meng Tian tomorrow. Tomorrow morning, if the left bank of the water is abandoned and retreat south, the whole army may be able to return to Chu safely, if it does not give up the left bank of the water, it will be surrounded by the Qin army. The autumn rain continued, and Nan Zheng and Da Sima Mansion had no news, so what to do, they could only discuss an idea by themselves.