Chapter 394: The Battle of Crossing the River (4)

Although Yang Duanhe landed safely, there were still at least more than 300 boats of various kinds fighting for survival in the Yellow River, and most of them had some flames on them, bringing smoke and choking people on the Yellow River.

At this time, after the coalition fleet launched three groups of fireboat attacks, it finally entered the stage of warship attack, with ten large ships as the mainstay, arranged in two rows of columns, sailing along the current to the battlefield.

These ten large ships are based on the transformation of large ships that can accommodate 100 people, the whole hull is made of a fully enclosed structure, the outer layer is also covered with raw cowhide, which can cover the arrows, and the side side of the ship is made into a regular trapezoidal shape that is wide at the bottom and narrow at the top, this inward tilting structure is a common structure of early ancient warships, which can make the ship move more stable, and the disadvantage is that it reduces the speed and flexibility of the ship, and it is also easy to get on the Lang. When the two ships are on the side, because the side side is tilted, it is difficult for the enemy to jump the side, and an iron vertebrae is also installed in the bow, which can be used for collision operations.

The ship is divided into two floors, the lower level is the storage and rowing cabin, a total of 12 pairs of long oars, if the full force of the oars is started, the speed of the ship can be greatly increased. The upper deck is a combat compartment, which can hold fifty soldiers, and the weapons used are mainly bows and crossbows. And it was also equipped with three bed crossbows, one on the front, one on the left and one on the left and one on the right side, and fourteen porthole archery windows on the left and right sides, and after entering the battlefield, the left and right portholes were opened to shoot at the enemy.

In addition, before going to war, all the ships were poured with water from the Yellow River, so that they had a certain ability to prevent fire, and they were not afraid of the enemy's fire attack tactics.

Although in the eyes of the plateau, such a ship was very simple to improve, but in this era it was the first warship to be used exclusively for water warfare, making the warship completely the main weapon of water warfare, and not just a carrier for carrying soldiers.

Therefore, after these ten professional warships joined the battlefield, the remaining Qin warships were immediately hit by new blows after being burned, and arrows were continuously shot from the arrow holes, and the bed crossbows were also replaced with small crossbow guns, which could fire three crossbow guns at a time, and the Qin soldiers on the remaining ships were hit by arrows one after another, and they continued to fall into the Yellow River, and the blood began to stain the river red.

Although some Qin troops also launched counterattacks against the warships, the warships of the coalition forces were completely enclosed, and the bows and arrows were not fired at all, while the arrows and crossbows fired from the warships could harvest the lives of the Qin soldiers without any scruples.

Behind these two large ships, there were also twenty medium-sized warships, these warships basically did not make much modifications, and the weapons used by the soldiers also had their own merits, including bows and arrows, spears, and short arrows, and the targets of the attack were mainly Qin soldiers who fell into the water, and sometimes they would follow the big ships to attack the ships of the Qin army.

Although there were still more than 300 Qin ships in the Yellow River at this time, they had no power to fight back in the face of the attack of the coalition warships, and the vast majority of the ships were still on fire.

The battle lasted from about 10 a.m. to 4 p.m., with only 60 or so ships of the Qin army escaping back to the north bank of the Yellow River, and another 20 or so reaching the south bank of the Yellow River, with a total of only 100 escaped. The rest of the ships were all sunk in the Yellow River, and of the 25,000 Qin troops who crossed the river, only 3,000 fled back to the north bank of the Yellow River, and the rest were all buried in the Yellow River, most of them drowned, and only a few were killed by the soldiers of the coalition forces.

The entire battlefield stretched for more than ten miles, and the entire river was full of blackened wreckage ships, broken ship boards, broken masts, and floating corpses.

The troops dispatched by the coalition army, together with the shipwrights, were only more than 3,000 people, and the ships dispatched were only more than 100, and the casualties of the coalition army were only four people killed, and more than a dozen soldiers were wounded. At the same time, after this battle, the coalition forces completely controlled the waterway of the Yellow River, and most of the ships of the Qin army were destroyed, and even the remaining ships did not dare to cross the river, so from a strategic point of view, the coalition forces also completely blocked the Qin army north of the Yellow River and achieved a complete victory.

The battle on the surface of the water was over, but there were still 5,000 Qin troops who had come ashore in advance on the south bank of the Yellow River, and hundreds of Qin troops who had escaped ashore also joined the Qin army's array.

Moreover, the cavalry of the era army finally appeared on the bank of the Yellow River, and the Qin army immediately tightened its weapons and prepared for battle. Just now, these Qin troops watched from the shore as their follow-up fleet was defeated by the allied warships, their own ships were burned, and their comrades fell into the river and drowned, and were wantonly slashed and killed by the enemy, but they could not do anything. But now it is on the shore, so every Qin soldier has enough strength in his heart, grasps his weapons, and prepares to fight the enemy army to avenge his comrades who died in the Yellow River.

There were a total of 2,000 cavalry troops who rushed to the shore, all of them were cavalry of the Fan Yong Army, led by Ah Ran Shi Qimo, because today's Qin army's attack on Xingkou was very fierce, Jiang Huanwu wanted to stay in Xingkou, ready to attack at any time, and assist the defenders to fight.

However, after this cavalry army arrived at the bank of the Yellow River, it did not immediately launch an attack like the Qin army, but stopped at a distance of about 200 or so from the Qin army's array, and at the same time divided a thousand cavalry troops and circled to the east of the Qin army.

The Qin army has also been in battle for a long time, and when they saw the division of the Fan Yong army, they knew that the other party was planning to attack them front and rear, so they also quickly adjusted the speed formation and formed a circle formation to deal with the front and rear flanking attacks of the Fan Yong army.

The circle formation is the most evenly balanced formation, so it is best suited for this kind of battlefield with front and rear attacks. The Qin army is well-trained, and the formation changes very quickly, just after the cavalry of the Fan Yong army is in place, the Qin army has also set up a circle formation, the outermost side is composed of shield bearers and pikemen, each spear is slightly raised upward, pointing obliquely forward, and the archers and crossbowmen are behind them, the arrows are on the bowstring, and the crossbow has been opened, just waiting for the cavalry of the Fan Yong army to rush up and will launch a merciless blow to the cavalry.

But the result was unexpected by the Qin army, and after the Fan Yong army was in place on the east and west sides, it did not rush to attack the Qin army, but stopped and confronted the Qin army.

If the Fan Yong army does not attack, the Qin army naturally does not dare to move, because the Qin army relies on the array to resist the enemy, and once the array is chaotic, it will give the enemy an opportunity to take advantage of.

This Qin army crossed the river in the early morning, and the Fan Yong army held on until the afternoon, the Qin soldiers had been lined up on the bank of the river for three or four hours, and they couldn't help but be tired and hungry, but fortunately, this Qin army still carried a small amount of food, because they took turns to retreat from the array to eat something, and finally avoided being forced to eat.

The Qin army didn't dare to move, but the Fan Yongjun didn't care, the armies on the left and right sides could take turns to retreat for a distance, and then dismount to rest, eat and drink, and untie the reins of the war horse, let the war horse gnaw grass on the bank of the river, and the soldiers sat or lay down, so that it was very relaxed, which also made the Qin army envious.

In the confrontation between the two sides, time gradually passed, the battle on the river was basically over, and the remaining Qin troops were no longer able to cross the river again, that is to say, the five thousand Qin troops on the south bank of the Yellow River had become a lone army, and it was impossible to get any more support.

The Qin army finally understood that the enemy army would not take the initiative to attack them at all, but planned to consume themselves on the bank of the river. After understanding this, the Qin army was naturally unwilling to be killed like this, so it also sent five hundred troops to kill the array, and tentatively launched an attack on the Fan Yong Army to see how the Fan Yong Army responded.

Seeing that the Qin army had slaughtered out of the array, the Fan Yongjun was not polite, and immediately sent three hundred-man teams to kill from three directions, and a round of rushing killing, which immediately killed the Qin army in chaos, and the result was less than ten minutes, and the battle was over, and the five hundred Qin troops, less than a hundred people fled back to the Qin army array.

And seeing that the other party's cavalry was so powerful, Qin Jun was also shocked, and then he knew that once he lost the cover of the array, the two sides started fighting, and he was not the opponent of the other party at all, so he knew that it would be a dead end to go on like this, but he still didn't dare to take the initiative to attack the other party again. Of course, Qin Jun also felt that if it took a little more time, maybe there would be a turnaround, and after dark, he might be able to think of a way to get rid of the Dai army while it was dark.

But the result was a big disappointment for the Qin army, because at night, the Fan Yongjun lit more than a dozen fires around it, although it was not said that it was as bright as day, but it was impossible for the Qin army to dare to get rid of the Dai army by touching the dark.

In the end, the two sides spent a night, the Dai army could take turns to rest and sleep, while the Qin army could only stay up late, although the Qin army could also rotate to rest, but the number of people who formed the circle accounted for more than seventy percent, and there were very few soldiers who could rotate. Moreover, the dry food carried was all eaten, so by dawn, the Qin army was tired, hungry and sleepy, and was already vulnerable.

At this time, the army sent a person to shout to the Qin army, demanding that the Qin army surrender, but the Qin army ignored it. Later, every other hour, the Dai army sent people to shout to the Qin army, demanding that the Qin army surrender. Three times in a row, by noon, the Qin army finally couldn't resist anymore, so they had to lay down their arms and surrender to the Dai army. As a result, the Dai army captured all the more than 5,000 Qin troops without spending a single soldier.

And on this day, the Qin army attacked Xingkou for a day, killing more than 7,000 Qin soldiers, but did not achieve much success, and in the evening, Wang Jian learned that Yang Duan and after the defeat of crossing the river, the death of more than 20,000 people, and couldn't help but be surprised, I didn't think that the river crossing could not be completed, and the defeat was so miserable, the next day naturally did not dare to attack Xingkou again, so I had to retreat to the camp, and Xingkou to fight.

At this time of the battle, the Qin army had lost a total of more than 60,000 people, and Xingkou and Daliang were still impregnable, which made the Qin army feel invulnerable.