Chapter 43: Draining

Wen Tingyu and Qin Zitan defeated the Huaidong Army in a surprise attack during Yongjia, although there were quite a lot of accidents in that battle, and the torrential rain during the surprise attack was the first key factor.

At that time, if there was no complete chaos caused by the heavy rain, it was definitely not easy for the Huaidong Army to completely defeat more than ten times the soldiers of the Zhejiang and Fujian Army.

Although Wen Tingyu Yongjia's defeat in the final battle was a lot of accidents, the luxury family also attached great importance to the ability of the Huaidong army to infiltrate on a small scale after the end - the layout of the Huaidong army in Fuliang City was actually aimed at the small group of Huaidong soldiers and horses who were likely to disperse and infiltrate into eastern Jiangxi through Yishan.

The Jiahe River is just the pass of the Shanxi River Valley to the north, but the luxury flying bear attaches great importance to the blockade and monitoring of the mountains on both wings, because he is afraid that the East China Sea Fox will do it again.

Once Huaidong is called to disperse the elite soldiers and horses to lurk in first, and ambush an elite army on the south bank of Hengshan or Xinjiang River, even if there are only more than a thousand people, it can make the luxury flying bear suffer a lot at a critical time - in the later stage, not to mention that Huaidong sent dozens or hundreds of people to infiltrate, it was a small detachment of three or five people, and it was extremely difficult to get close to Hengshan City.

Although he did not think that the Huaidong Army could find a way between the mountains at the northern foot of Wuyi Mountain on the south bank of the Xinjiang River and send an elite army to intervene, he was still cautious and asked his generals to gather and hold the high ground to temporarily rest and wait for the flood to cross.

You can almost see the sparkling water waves under the moonlight, the sound of the waves hitting the shore, as if thousands of horses are galloping, sandwiched with countless rolling thunder, and you can feel the slight water foam carried by the wind.

Although it is estimated that Huaidong has not been able to store enough water potential in the upper reaches, and the fact is that the water potential at the foot of the slope has not risen again, it still feels the shocking momentum of the flood transit.

The fire set by the Jiahe Fortress burned all night, and it had not been completely extinguished by this time, but it was not extinguished, so that Luxury Fei Xiong knew that the Jiahe Fortress might have a city wall that collapsed by the flood, but the whole did not collapse - Luxury Flying Bear had no regrets, he knew that they were lucky.

If before this, a heavy rain fell in Hengshan, causing the Huaidong Army to store enough water in the upper reaches, and they would be a catastrophe if they did not withdraw in time.

It's just that after they withdrew from the Jiahe River and successfully got rid of the entanglement of the Huaidong Army, the East China Sea Fox still released water from the lake, which made the Luxury Fei Bear a little puzzled, and he couldn't see through what the East China Sea Fox wanted to do next!

It was not yet dawn, but the flood was crossing, and although more water flowed into the Xinjiang River, the water level would only continue to drop.

As far as the river valley is concerned, the entire Shanxi River valley is a low gourd mouth terrain from south to north, but the water potential of the downstream impact from the excavation of the hanging lake should also gradually weaken, so the situation of the road to the south of them should be more serious.

The judgment of the extravagant bear was not wrong.

After Shanxi comes out of the peach blossom pass, the river is more than 30 miles, and the flow is rapid. By daybreak, the flood that had overflowed the banks of the river gradually retreated into the river and merged into the Xinjiang River to the north, revealing the wreckage of the banks that had been destroyed by the water.

From the Jiajiang River to prevent congestion, almost all the roads along the river were destroyed by the flood that crossed the border, and even a large depression was formed in the Chenjiaao in the north of Chenjialing, which completely cut off the passage on the west bank of Shanxi. Of course, although they can almost see Yokoyama Castle from a high place, the road between them and Yokoyama Castle has almost been destroyed.

Extravagant Fei Xiong was considering whether to ask the generals to trek through the muddy land washed by the water, or to ask the naval warships to enter Shanxi directly.

Previously, Huaidong built a dam in the upper reaches to intercept the river, Shanxi was cut off, and the warships of the Zhejiang-Fujian Navy were forced to withdraw from Shanxi and retreat into the Xinjiang River to stand by - at this time, Huaidong dug the lake and released water, Shanxi restored the navigation conditions, and the water potential also stabilized, and the warships of the Zhejiang-Fujian Navy could naturally directly enter Shanxi to pick them up and retreat.

They walked back to the shore of Shanxi, and they only needed to walk seven or eight hundred steps and build a temporary wharf. Maybe take a warship against the water to sneak attack the Huaidong Army's camp south of the Jiamian Defense Wall? Thinking of this, Extravagant Fei Xiong couldn't help but get excited, and after thinking about it, he felt that it was not good, the East China Sea Fox was a ghost plotter, and there was Gao Zongting as a strategist by his side, so he would not be unprepared to let them counterattack.

As soon as he sent more scouts into the mountains and forests, he couldn't figure out the action of digging a lake and releasing water from Huaidong, so he always had a heart hanging and thumping.

When the sun was about to fall, more than 30 warships came from the north and joined this side, and the warships stopped on the shore. Surrounded by more than a dozen soldiers, Shi Hejin walked through the muddy ground by the river that was washed away by the water, and came to see the extravagant flying bear.

"When the water crosses, what is the loss of the naval warship?" Extravagant Bear asked.

"Fortunately, the eldest prince sent a horse to report in time," said Shi Hejin, "and only two of the eight ships stationed at the mouth of the river at that time had no time to avoid them, and they were overturned by the great water that rushed out of the estuary, and lost 100 people. ”

The water rushed downstream along the river, like a galloping horse, and eight boats were facing the mouth of the river, and it was already considered luck that six boats could escape.

"The soldiers and horses of Huaidong did not catch up closely, but dug the lake and hung the water, which is really incomprehensible!" Shi Hejin also expressed his doubts, and asked, "Did the young marshal ask the last general to lead a few ships upstream to take a look?" With such a large water potential, Huaidong's blockade measures in the south of the Jiahe River should have been completely destroyed! He also meant to lead an elite team up the mountain stream to find fighters.

As long as Huaidong could not immediately block the Shanxi waterway, it would take more than ten miles from the front base of the Huaidong army to the Taohua Pass it built, and there would be nearly 20 miles to the south before entering the mountains and forests. With such a long coastline, it is impossible for the Huaidong Army to hold it impregnable. Besides, even if you can't find an opportunity, it will not be difficult to withdraw from the river that is more than 300 paces wide.

Extravagant Feixiong nodded, although he felt that it was impossible for the Huaidong Army to be unprepared, but it was not necessarily that there would be no chance, and said: "You choose a few ships, and then ask Wen Tingfan to lead the troops to go with you......"

Wen Tingfan is the younger brother of Wen Tingyu, who accompanied the Flying Tiger in the Battle of Yongjia, and has been appointed by the subordinates of Flying Bear, that is, he ordered 2,000 soldiers and horses from his department, walked through the muddy road, and prepared to board the ship on the shore.

Extravagant Feixiong was planning to send someone to contact Deng Yu, who was retreating westward first, thinking that since it was impossible for the Huaidong Army to chase out of the Shanxi River Valley in a short period of time, Deng Yu, Wang Hui and other troops would not retreat westward like lost dogs.

Luxury Fei Xiong did not go to the shore to watch Wen Tingfan lead his troops to board the ship, but stood in the temporary camp on the waist of the slope and talked to Shi Hejin about the war, at this time there was a strange sound from the south - this voice was so familiar, so familiar that the face of the luxury Fei Bear collapsed, and the East China Sea Fox released the lake and discharged water upstream.

There was no need for the extravagant bear to order, Wen Tingfan, who was preparing to board the boat on the shore, heard a strange noise, and immediately spread his feet and ran to this slope. Last night, when I ran away from the sound of the water, the road on the riverbank was also complete, from the riverbank to the foot of the slope, it was dry land, and at this time, the riverbank to the foot of the slope became water, and it was just muddy.

Compared with Wen Tingfan's department, which had not yet fully boarded the warship, Shi Hejin's face was pale with horror, and the more than 30 warships temporarily stationed on the shore had no way to avoid the rushing water, and it was still in the right place.

Shi Hejin's face was pale, and the extravagant flying bear was also crying blood in his heart, the East China Sea Fox, the East China Sea Fox: He tried every possible way to guess why the Huaidong Army would dig the lake and drain the water, but he never expected that the Huaidong Army would be able to drain the accumulated lake water twice - the first discharge was just to lure their warships into the Shanxi waterway.

The Zhejiang-Fujian naval army was almost disabled in Zhejiang-Fujian and Jindong, and only some of the naval soldiers moved to Jiangxi together, until Dongting Lake Kou Yangxiong surrendered, and the Zhejiang-Fujian army once again had a large-scale naval combat power. However, the warships of the Zhejiang-Fujian army and the navy mainly came from fishing boats or merchant ships, and the main combat mission was still in the Jiangzhou area, mainly to defend the mouth of the lake, and the mouth of the lake could not be taken by Yue Lengqiu or the forbidden naval army further down the Yangtze River.

In addition to Jiangzhou, because of the use of naval ships in Shangrao, the Zhejiang-Fujian naval army in Shangrao is relatively strong, but there are only forty or fifty warships, and the number of warships brought into the Shanxi River by Shi Hejin is already more than half.

When the flood crossed last night, it was so dark that I could only hear its momentum, but I couldn't see its shape clearly—because the obstacles in the river had been washed away by the first discharge last night, and the second discharge, the march was even more rapid and imposing.

The waves are like snow, standing up to a height of two feet, forming a tidal head to the north, and the river beach is not enough to hold such a large amount of water, so it can only overflow to both banks, but from the traces of receding water, it can be seen that the threat formed by the first discharge is greater than the second.

Although the water potential was small for a long time, it was fatal to the warships of the Zhejiang and Fujian naval forces stationed on the shore and had no time to withdraw. Even the sailors, shipwrights, sailors, and the guards who boarded the ship could not retreat at this time.

Watching the warship swallowed up by the water, watching the soldiers and shipwrights on the warship rush down and roll into the water, there was almost no ability to struggle, so they rolled the water downstream.

"East Sea Fox!" Extravagant Fei Xiong almost wanted to crush the handle of the knife and knead it into powder, and most of the naval forces in Shangrao were almost overwhelmed by the Huaidong army's tricks in the blink of an eye.

Wen Tingfan was also unsettled, his hands and feet were weak, he led his two thousand soldiers to board the boat, and when he realized that there was still a big water rushing, four or five hundred people from his department had already boarded the boat, and this time they were also involved in the big water together, and they would feed the fish and shrimp.

Wen Tingfan was crying and mourning, and Huaidong used a conspiracy to kill at least 3,000 of them, and at least 30 warships were destroyed. At this time, he still couldn't understand how Huaidong could control the opening of the gate twice and the discharge of water?

Extravagant Fei Xiong wants to cry without tears, Huaidong is good at construction, especially good at managing the embankment, but he didn't think that there was such a possibility at all.