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Volume 1: Entry Chapter 97: Battle between the Second Generation of Officials (1)

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    "In the Shouzhou War, no, the Huainan War, which lasted for several months, there were not a few local battles worth recording. Among them, the Haozhou War was particularly conspicuous due to the ups and downs of its progress, especially because the leading generals on both sides were nobles.  , a series of consecutive matches led by two young people, Li Chongjin and Guo Yanwei. On the surface, they were quite satisfactory, but in fact, they showed their personal fighting styles. The results of each game were also highly praised by the senior support groups of both sides.  , became an important factor in the two men's future success. "On October 12, the battle broke out on the Dakukou battlefield, which had a one-day truce as promised. The first one to launch the attack was the Southern Tang Haozhou navy, which was inferior in terms of ships and personnel.  .  Twelve large warships of the Southern Tang Dynasty started first on the north and south sides and slowly attacked upstream. In the middle, two large warships led countless small boats to rush forward like a swarm, using the wide and weak pliers on the left and right.  offensive.  Wei Chang, the commander of the Later Zhou Dynasty, immediately mobilized his troops to fight. Eight large warships were concentrated in the middle, and eight large warships were divided on each side. They advanced in three lines, went down the river, and launched an attack.  At the same time, Wei Chang dispatched thirty-two small warships according to the plan agreed upon by the army yesterday. They sailed to the point where the river enters the Huaihe River under the rain of arrows from the Haozhou Army. Then the two ships lined up and headed southwest.  Enter upstream of the creek.  The Haozhou Army naturally knew that the purpose of these small warships was to build pontoons to transport infantry across the river. Trebuchets and bows and arrows were fired at them without hesitation, and they tried their best to block them. The Haozhou Navy put up large shields on the ships to avoid them.  Arrows rained, while nervously dodging flying rocks in the air.  On the south bank, General Shi Detong of the Later Zhou Dynasty led a group of people to nervously count the location of each trebuchet, marked it on a simple map, and directed his own ships on the spot to avoid these trebuchet points.  After losing six small warships, all twenty-six small warships found relatively safe locations. The two rows of ships merged to form six floating ship channels.  With the sound of drums, these small warships lined up in a row simultaneously removed the roofs on the decks and used the wood and wide planks to connect each other, forming six spacious channels across the river in a very short period of time.  .  Seeing the flag of attack waving, the 9,000 Zhou infantrymen who had been prepared immediately charged towards the six warship pontoons with their shields in hand. Li Chongjin, who was fully armored, carried a large shield as high as a person and dragged his iron gun behind him, taking the lead.  Rushed towards the middle passage.  On the north bank of the river, the soldiers of the Southern Tang Dynasty had already pushed some wooden horse-rejecting formations to fifty meters away from the north bank of the river, corresponding to the six passages. These simple horse-rejecting formations were smashed into the earth with great force, and elite soldiers entered each.  The formation was guarded, and behind the formation was a tall shield formation, standing ready.  When the assault soldiers of the Later Zhou Dynasty rushed to the middle section of the river, a rain of six arrows filled the sky from behind the shield formation of the Haozhou defenders, targeting the soldiers of the Later Zhou Dynasty on the passage.  However, because the attacking soldiers of the Later Zhou Dynasty were all fully armed and protected by large shields, the arrow rain did not achieve much results and could not slow down the offensive of the Later Zhou army.  One side is defending and the other is attacking, but the soldiers on both sides are silent. At this time, on the Xiaohe battlefield, there is only the sound of "swish-swish" of arrows snatching the air, and the muffled "snatching, snatching" of arrows nailing ships and large shields.  Voice.  Li Chongjin rushed through the passage without any danger, rushed through the open space in more than ten steps, and rushed to the front of the Juma formation. He suddenly threw the shield with his left hand and knocked down the two Haozhou soldiers who were blocking the attack. He held the iron gun with both hands and slammed it to the ground.  With a thrust and a wild roar, the iron gun bent in a slight arc and lifted a horse into the air.  Li Chongjin roared and advanced, picked six rejecting horses in a row, cleared a passage from the rejecting horse formation, and then, carrying the body of a Haozhou soldier, he crashed into the shield formation with all his strength.  There was no loud noise as expected, but the shield formation suddenly cracked, and a bright silver gun jumped out silently. It was Guo Tingwei who was waiting here specifically for him.  Li Chongjin kicked out his knee violently, knocking the soldier's body against the head of the gun. He stabilized his body and quickly smashed the big gun in his right hand. The two gun masters fought together again.  The fighting power of these two people was evenly matched, so it was hard to tell the winner for a while. The attack in this passage was also slowed down. The soldiers of the Later Zhou Dynasty in other passages also rushed to the front of the horse-rejecting formation and started fighting in chaos.  While the north bank of the river was in equilibrium and the two sides were fighting in a see-saw manner, the battle on the Huaihe River changed drastically.  On both sides of the battle on the water, the six Southern Tang warships and the eight Houzhou warships kept a stone's throw away, and did not step forward for a boarding battle. The battle lasted for a short while, and then began to retreat step by step.  Zhou Warship looked back and found that no new orders had been issued, so he immediately followed them.  The two large ships leading the Nan Tang center line fleet were quickly surrounded by eight large ships from the Later Zhou Dynasty, and the small Nan Tang ships swarmed up and surrounded them.??Beside these large ships, people began to dive into the water and dig out the ships.  When Wei Chang saw this scene, he immediately sneered and issued orders.  The sound of drums and flags were quickly spread, and three large warships were immediately separated from the water battlefield on both sides of the following week. They turned to the small Southern Tang ship in the middle and rammed it, showing a posture of outflanking from both sides.  The main naval battlefield of both sides is located directly on the north side of the hill. The distance on the river is less than a hundred meters. Such a short distance is naturally reached in an instant. The original eight large ships have also been divided into four large ships, plus the new ones.  The six or ten reinforcement ships began to ram into the small warships of the Southern Tang Dynasty at the same time.  At this time, a rapid drum beat sounded on the top of the hill, and all the soldiers on board the two large ships and countless small boats in the Nan Tang Dynasty immediately ignored the battle at hand and quickly jumped into the water one after another.  "Not good." Wei Chang just shouted two words. When he suddenly stood up, he suddenly discovered that the trebuchet on the top of the hill was in full force, and the target was the warships of the Later Zhou Dynasty gathered on the battlefield in the middle of the river.  This time, at least a dozen trebuchets were launched at the same time, scrambling to throw stones, hitting the large warships that were in panic one after another.  Wei Chang's order to "disperse all ships" was immediately passed on, but it was already too late. At least four large warships were hit in succession. The soldiers on board wailed and jumped into the water, but they were all killed by the soldiers who were already waiting in the water.  The sailors of the Southern Tang Dynasty were besieged, and blood quickly dyed the river red.  "Guo is so cruel, he dares to use so many soldiers as bait." Wei Chang cursed bitterly, and finally saw clearly the layout of the Haozhou navy. Guo Tingwei used the bait on both sides to attract him.  Outflank the middle battlefield, then sacrifice those Southern Tang soldiers and focus on attacking their own large warships through trebuchets.  Before Wei Chang could give the order again, he discovered that more than ten large warships suddenly appeared behind the hill, rushing straight towards his own warships.  While the water battle situation in the Later Zhou Dynasty fell into a passive situation, Shi Detong, the general of the Later Zhou Dynasty who was standing on the south bank of the river and commanding, also received a shocking news from Kuai Ma: At least 6,000 soldiers rushed out of Haozhou City and were attacking outside the south gate of Haozhou.  garrison camp.
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