The Legend of Shushan Xuanjian

Chapter 785 Entering My Dendrobium
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Meixue contended for the spring and refused to surrender, so Sao Ren Ge wrote a review.

Mei Xu Xunxue is three points white, but Xue loses Mei for a while.

——"Snow Plum" Lu Yue

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Tian Shengong Jinshan was defeated and withdrew to Guazhou.

Just as Liu Zhan took a breath, Fan Zhixin, a general under Bai Fu's command, led 4000 troops to the upper reaches, crossed the river suddenly from Baisha, and attacked Xiashu (now the North Yangtze River Ferry in Jurong City, JS Province), cutting off the retreat of Liu Zhan's army. It was exactly the same as when Liu Zhan dealt with Li Yao.

Liu Zhan suddenly felt bad.

Liu Zhanxing returned to defense at night, trying to replicate the success of the previous capture of Xiashu.

In the previous battle, Liu Zhan fully demonstrated the terrifying strength of his fleet in the attack on Xiashu.He didn't let the soldiers go to attack the city, but just drove the huge ship to the city wall of Xiashu City near the river.The crossbowman at the stern of the giant ship was condescending, suppressing the defenders with firepower.The siege soldiers calmly climbed to the top of the city with short ladders, and wiped out thousands of defenders in Xiashu in one fell swoop.

When Liu Zhan's soldiers jumped off the city wall and entered Xiashu City, many defenders hadn't reacted yet.They couldn't figure it out anyway, with such a high city wall and the natural danger of the Yangtze River, could it be that Liu Zhan's soldiers flew over? !
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Liu Zhan's navy arrived in Xiashu again.

Fan Zhixin and his generals saw the most horrific sight. Huge warships were parked on the river, and the flags fluttered for dozens of miles. The warships were full of knives and guns, shining dazzling light...

Liu Zhan wanted to repeat his success of the day: board the water gate of the city wall directly from the stern and seize the city.

However, Bai Fu had already taken preventive measures against this tactic, and extensively rebuilt the city walls along the river, such as Xiashu, Jiangning, and Jiangdu, such as moving the water gate back to distance it from the river.

The original stern boarding tactic was not effective, so Liu Zhan could only order the sailors to land and use the infantry to attack.

The first target Liu Zhan chose to attack was the north gate of Xiashu City. This gate is open on all sides and is very suitable for infantry attacks.Liu Zhan gave the order to attack the city from here!

At dawn, Liu Zhanjun attacked the north gate.The battle was very fierce, and the guards kept throwing the prepared rolling logs and rocks at the soldiers downstairs.Liu Zhan's soldiers were not well prepared for the siege. They used bamboo shields, which had insufficient resistance and suffered heavy casualties.

The siege battle lasted for three days. The corpses of Liu Zhanjun's soldiers piled up in front of the north gate, but they couldn't move forward.

Liu Zhancheng sighed, couldn't he go down to Shu and attack?

Liu Zhan decided to change the offensive route and launch a general attack from the waterway.

The next day, Liu Zhanqi unexpectedly attacked Shuiguan in Xiashu.

The water pass is open to ships on weekdays and closed during wartime.After the sluice is closed, the bottom of the sluice is like a tunnel under the bridge, which is locked with an iron fence as thick as an arm.

Liu Zhan sent nearly a hundred soldiers with excellent water skills, wearing water tanks and holding iron chisel hacksaws, sneaked into the bottom of the water, trying to saw open the iron fence under the water gate.

However, the Spear Army guarding the city had been waiting here for a long time.

As soon as the rebel frogmen approached the iron fence of the water pass, the guards of the Tang army used special spears to attack them through the iron fence, stabbing and stabbing dozens of frogmen to death.

The tunnel under the bridge is narrow and inconvenient to escape.The remaining frogmen desperately grabbed the thrusting spears with their hands to save their lives, temporarily delaying the attack of the Tang army soldiers.

Seeing that the spear attack was ineffective, the Tang soldiers defending the city stopped attacking and retreated one by one.

The rebel frogmen were overjoyed, thinking that the defenders had escaped, they sneaked back into the tunnel under the bridge, and seized the time to cut and saw the iron fence.

Unexpectedly, after a while, the Shuiguan guards attacked again, and continued to assassinate the rebel frogmen with spears.

The rebel frogman grasped the medicine according to the prescription, and used his hands to grab the spear that came out according to the method just now.

More than a dozen rebel frogmen seized the opportunity and grabbed the spears. They thought they could take the spears away, but they didn't expect an accident.The frogmen uttered a scream at the same time, and dropped their spears.Withdrawing his hand back to take a closer look, the palm of his hand was bloody and severely scalded.

It turned out that the reason why the Shuiguan guards paused for a moment was to roast their spears and iron hooks red on the fire, and then use them to stab the rebel frogmen.

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Both land and water attacks failed.

Liu Zhan was in a panic. He tried all means to attack the city, but Xiashu City was so close that he couldn't get in.

Without attacking Xiashu, Liu Zhan's retreat was cut off, and the cavalry could not retreat southward.If you don't retreat again, you will be encircled by Tang Jun's iron cavalry going south from the left and right, and "make dumplings".

Only then did Liu Zhan feel that the battle of Xiashu was not as simple as he thought.The entire Jianghuai battle situation has quietly changed.

Liu Zhan's younger brother Liu Yin said: "Brother, Zhang Jingchao, the Japanese envoy to the Tang Dynasty, sent a pigeon letter. The Japanese navy has arrived in the Tang Dynasty, and is hidden in the Shengsi Islands and Zhoushan Islands in the southeast of the Yangtze River estuary.

Only our navy sails down the Yangtze River and enters the sea from Jiangyin.Then you can go south along the coastline, hide in Taizhou, the islands of Niutoushan, Dongji Islands, and Jishan Islands off the coast of Wenzhou, and wait for the opportunity to plunder coastal prefectures and counties to supply food, grass and luggage..."

Liu Zhan took it seriously, and was about to withdraw his troops, ordering the navy to go down the Yangtze River.

At this time, Liu Zhan received a military report from the scouts ahead. Jiang Changqun, the prefect of Shengzhou appointed by Liu Zhan, turned against him, killed Liu Zhan's nephew Liu Boying, sacrificed Jiangning, and surrendered to the Tang army.

The five thousand elites under Liu Boying's command were also Songzhou veterans who had followed Liu Zhan for many years. None of them resisted, and they all surrendered without a fight, and they were willing to switch to the Tang army.

Liu Zhan was furious, drew out his sword, and chopped the wooden box containing Liu Boying's head into two pieces...

Regardless of the persuasion of the generals, Liu Zhan ordered his troops to march westward, attacking from all fronts by land and water, and vowed to flatten Jiangning!
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Bai Fu's boat docked on the north bank of the Yangtze River, facing Liu Zhan's naval fleet across the river.

Bai Fu stood on the deck, squinting at the lights on Liu Zhan's giant ship.

A gust of river wind blew by, and the lanterns on these giant ships were crumbling, like the eyes of hibernating snakes, drowsy.

Bai Fu looked at Liu Zhan's majestic flagship, and said with emotion: "Liu Zhan, the moment you killed the head of Heifengzhai, your end was doomed. You seem to be the best of all, but you What you don't know is that you lose far more than you gain.

If a person wants to have the power to criticize Fang Qiu and point the country, it never depends on violence.Those who want to change their fate against the sky and challenge this way of heaven will inevitably be crushed to pieces by the rolling wheels of history.

Throughout the dynasties, nothing beats this.

You don't care about the whispers of the soldiers, and you don't care about the strange eyes of your subordinates, because you hold the military power in your hand, you can call the wind and rain, and take life and death.Whoever disobeys your order, you can cut off his head and destroy his nine clans.

However, do you think that you are the most powerful person when you have authority and great power? !
Big mistake!

People like you will never understand the simplest truth: the most powerful force in this world is not a super weapon, nor an invincible fleet, nor an army of millions, but the human heart.

There is a scale in everyone's heart, and justice is at ease.

No soldier will work for a coach who is duplicity, treachery, lack of propriety, justice and shame, and unworthy morality.

You seem to have a cloud of strategists and a tiger under your command, but in fact they are just a group of shrewd businessmen who follow their influence.

You lead an army of [-] and are surrounded by hundreds of generals. It seems that you can move mountains and fill seas, and throw whips to stop streams.But an army that has no faith and fights only for pay is nothing but a mob, vulnerable to a single blow!
With little help, you will soon reap the consequences.

And I will end you with my own hands! "

(End of this chapter)