Chapter 433 Song and Tang Coalition Army
The Song army and the navy were all commanded so that Jin Guobao didn't expect these water thieves to be so powerful, seeing that the Southern Tang navy retreated, he only had 3,000 people, and the number of opponents was comparable, and the weapons were excellent, and the kung fu was skilled, less than half an hour, the Great Song Navy suffered heavy casualties, and only less than half of the men and horses remained, and they were tightly shrunk together. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info
Several generals rushed in front of Jin Guobao, everyone was drenched in blood, and one shouted: "Commander, these people are not like ordinary water thieves, but like the Jiangnan army." ”
Jin Guobao shook his head and said: "No, if it is the Jiangnan army, why did the Jiangzhou Navy fight with them just now?" Another general shouted: "Brothers, we can't stand it, a few of us will fight a bloody way to protect the adults and rush out." ”
Jin Guobao said angrily: "How can I be afraid of these miscellaneous pieces?" followed his finger and shouted: "All the staff rush to kill and kill them all." "Then he took the lead in rushing forward with a spear, and his generals did not dare to slack off, and followed the charge forward.
The morale of the Song army was greatly boosted, and they shouted in unison to kill, and they were strangled with the people in Tsing Yi. All of a sudden, the sword and sword shadows on the warship, flesh and blood flew sideways, and the stumps and broken arms flew all over the sky, accompanied by terrible screams and blood splattered everywhere, turning the river into a hell on earth.
It's a pity that the Tsing Yi people are too strong, although they caused many casualties under the desperate rush of the Song army, they still suppressed the Song army in one place, and several merchant ships quickly broke through, divided and surrounded the Great Song naval army, and then encroached and annexed.
More than 100 Tsing Yi people broke through the heavy Song Navy Army and rushed straight to the flagship of the Song Army. These people were all tall, their eyes were fierce, and they were invincible, cutting down all the Song troops who blocked the way down the river and went straight to Jin Guobao.
Jin Guobao was guarded by dozens of personal soldiers, and when he saw that the situation was not good, he took swords and swords to meet the battle. Jin Guobao's eyes were blood-red, and he slashed down a man in Tsing Yi with a knife, and shouted, "Who are you?"
A man in Tsing Yi said coldly: "Uncle Yama Gang, come and take your life." With a flick of his wrist, he slashed a personal soldier to the ground, and followed the spear flip to stab the Jin National Treasure.
The two sides fought on the deck in the dark, and Jin Guobao's personal soldiers were quickly cut down, and dozens of Tsing Yi people surrounded Jin Guobao. A masked man in green clothes said coldly: "Put down your weapon and spare your life." ”
Jin Guobao's face was hideous, and he held the spear in his hand and said: "I am not against you water thieves, I only die, and I want to lay down my weapons and daydream." ”
The man in Tsing Yi looked at him like a dead man, and began to slowly press in. At this time, the war gradually extinguished, the Great Song Dynasty Navy was annihilated, and the dead bodies were floating all over the river, and the scene was extremely terrifying. The people in Tsing Yi methodically began to clean up the battlefield and clean up supplies. The remnants of the wounded Great Song Navy were all killed by the mending knife, leaving no living mouth at all.
Jin Guobao's eyes were bloodshot, and he knew that he was not lucky tonight, and the three thousand water army were all wiped out, even if he went back to the imperial court, he couldn't let himself go. Seeing that the people in Tsing Yi were gradually approaching, with playful and playful eyes in their eyes, Jin Guobao's heart was like a knife, and he slowly closed his eyes.
At this moment, I suddenly heard a strong wind in the distance, followed by the sound of golden drums, and countless high-rise ships suddenly appeared on the river, and the overwhelming bows and arrows shot straight at the river.
The people in Tsing Yi shouted, and no one cared about Jin Guobao, and someone shouted: "It's the Jiangnan Navy here, run away." The Tsing Yi people turned and fled back to the merchant ship. Jin Guobao stood on the deck in a daze, seeing the chaotic arrows like locusts, and hurriedly rushed back to the cabin with his head in his hands.
Xue Ping, the young master of the Yama Gang, shouted loudly: "Withdraw quickly." "Dozens of merchant ships flew westward, with their sails furled. The Jiangnan Tang warship slowly approached, and a warlord shouted at the bow of the ship: "Are there any Song Army brothers alive?" followed dozens of Jiangnan Navy soldiers to jump onto the Great Song Navy Warship to check, and reported loudly: "There is no one inside." ”
The general looked at the corpse of Man Jiang and sighed: "These water thieves are so hateful, since there are no living people, continue to chase." The Jiangnan Navy agreed in unison and slowly headed west.
Jin Guobao shrank under a board in the cabin, and heard the Jiangnan Navy outside, and when he got out, he came out and shouted: "Help." The general was slightly stunned, and glanced at the colonel beside him, who jumped on the warship with more than a dozen sailors and escorted Jin Guobao over for a while.
The general looked at him coldly, raised his head arrogantly and asked, "Who are you? Why didn't the water thieves kill you?" Jin Guobao was like a bloody man, experiencing life and death at this time, he felt his whole body collapsed, his whole body was weak, and he said weakly: "This general is the commander of the Great Song Qizhou Naval Army, Jin Guobao, thank you for the rescue, please send me back to the north bank, there will be a good reward." ”
The general put away his arrogance, immediately became respectful, and clasped his fists at him and said: "It turned out that General Jin personally suppressed the thieves, and he was disrespectful and disrespectful. Then he said: "These water thieves are being chased and killed by our Jiangnan army, cornered, there is information that they want to flee to Dashu, our lord is kind-hearted, how can he do such a beggar-thy-neighbor thing? Therefore, I ordered us to chase and kill them with all our might, and never let them escape." ”
Jin Guobao said with palpitations: "I see, these water thieves have some means, and there are many of them, not less than five thousand, the general has to be careful." ”
At this time, there were hundreds of ships in Jiangnanlou, and each warship was full of soldiers from the Southern Tang Dynasty, with strict appearance and bright armor, and chased straight to the west under the leadership of several generals.
Jiangbei followed the bright lights, and hundreds of small boats rushed to the center of the river, but it turned out that Zhuo Yanfu, the guard general of Qizhou, got the news and gathered all kinds of small boats to bring troops to rescue.
The warships of the two sides soon converged in the heart of the river, and Zhuo Yanfu saw Jin Guobao on the Tang Army's warship at a glance, and said with great joy: "Brother Jin is fine, what about the water thieves?"
When Jin Guobao saw the Song army coming, he was relieved, and turned around and said: "The water thief was driven away by the Jiangnan water army, and his brother was incompetent. ”
Zhuo Yanfu glanced at the corpses floating on the river, sighed, and then thanked Sun Lezhi. After some discussion between the two sides, Jin Guobao jumped back on Zhuo Yanfu's boat, and then the Song and Tang Dynasty joined forces and went straight to the Yama Gang.
Because most of the Jin Guobao warships were damaged, Zhuo Yanfu was mostly driving small boats and walking slowly, Sun Lezhi deliberately slowed down in order to take care of them, and chased after them all night, and he didn't see the shadow of the Yama Gang at all.
Sun Lezhi told the two that these water thieves are extremely cunning and treacherous, maybe they have abandoned the ship and landed on the shore, they will be ordered to chase and kill, in front of them is the border between Huangzhou and Ezhou, it is better to ask them to go back first, the Jiangnan Navy will definitely avenge the two of them, as long as they chase and kill the Yama Gang, they must tell the two in writing.
The two discussed it and knew that with the current military horses, they were no match for the water thieves, and it would be in vain to chase them any longer, so they followed the advice to go back.
Huangzhou and Ezhou naval forces have their own scouts, and at dawn they got the news that a team of Jiangnan water thieves had destroyed the Qizhou naval army and were now fleeing westward.
The Huangzhou garrison sent troops to intercept first, blocking the river with more than 4,000 heavy troops, and at the same time sent people to call for the assistance of the Jiangnan naval army on the opposite side. The Jiangnan Navy sent a general with more than 1,000 people to join forces with the Great Song Dynasty and blockaded the face like an iron bucket.
As soon as the two sides had completed their formation, they saw dozens of merchant ships rushing towards them. The bow of the ship was full of masked men in green clothes, numbering thousands, and each ship had a huge trebuchet, apparently prepared.
The Huangzhou guard general named Ning Pingnan, seeing that the other party had already prepared, immediately ordered the Song army to be on guard, and the archers immediately bent their bows and arrows to aim, and the shining and cold arrows rushed straight at the merchant ships, and when they entered the range, ten thousand arrows were fired.
The Jiangnan Navy followed the formation, and the two sides guarded one side, but the bow of the Jiangnan Navy all turned to the south, and the formation was quite strange.
Seeing that the water thieves were about to enter the firing range, Ning Pingnan was just about to give an order, when he saw the water thief merchant ship suddenly stop, followed by dozens of ships slowly lined up in several rows, and dozens of black things suddenly flew out of the trebuchet, and rushed straight towards the Song army's warship.
These things came rushing in the sparks, like meteors in the sky, Song Jun had never seen this thing, looking up one by one, seeing the things falling, he immediately dodged in all directions.
The black thing then smashed to the deck, and the bones rolled around, and Song Jun saw that what fell was just a round iron ball with a long tail on it, which was simmering on fire.
A Song soldier looked forward strangely, first stabbed it with a gun, nothing happened, immediately became bold, picked up the iron ball and said with a smile: "These water thieves are really strange, what's the use of making these things?"
Ning Pingnan felt that something was wrong, and said loudly: "Put it down." Before he could finish speaking, he heard a "bang", and the iron ball suddenly exploded, and the soldier screamed miserably, his hands were blown away, his eyes were blinded by the spray of debris, and he struggled to the ground.
The Song army was in chaos, and Ning Pingnan shouted, "Get them off the boat." Before he finished speaking, he heard dozens of "bang-bang" sounds, and the iron balls exploded one after another. The Song army had already taken precautions, and no one was injured, the terrible thing was that after the iron ball exploded, the deck was set on fire, and several fire points were connected at the time of the boarding, so panicked that Ning Pingnan shouted for fire.
Song Jun immediately rushed out dozens of people to carry water to extinguish the fire, how could the Yama Gang give them a chance, the second and third rounds of iron balls were sent out one after another, learning from the experience of the first round, the lead was cut short, and many iron balls were detonated as soon as they landed, and Song Jun retreated one after another, exclamations one after another.
The Song warship caught fire, and the main ship of Ningping South was also burned, but fortunately it was extinguished by his own soldiers. Seeing that something was wrong, the Jiangnan Navy immediately fled far south, so angry that Song Jun scolded him for not being righteous.
The Yama Gang took advantage of the chaos to attack and quickly approached the Song warship, and those Tsing Yi people immediately bent their bows and arrows after a whistle, and the arrows flew towards the Song army like raindrops. It was also mixed with rockets, and suddenly set the sails of the Song army on fire, and the fire rose into the sky, and the Song army shouted to save the fire, but was shot by the Yama Gang, and couldn't raise his head at all.
Ning Pingnan saw that it was not good, and shouted: "Quickly retreat." Then he shouted to the south: "The lips are dead and the teeth are cold, when will the Jiangnan Navy brothers stay if they don't do it again?"
A deputy general of the Jiangnan Navy stood at the bow of the boat and said to Ning Pingnan: "These bandits were suppressed by my Jiangnan conquest and cornered and gathered together, their combat power is extraordinary. Then he waved his hand and said, "Withdraw." The Jiangnan Navy raised its sails and quickly retreated south, ignoring Jiang Xin's Song Army jumping and scolding.