The Legend of Shushan Xuanjian

Chapter 799
Thousands of miles to the east of Wuting, singing songs used to travel in the past.

There are no traces of horses in the Moss Temple, and there are many restaurants beside the Green Water Bridge.

Most of the Southern Dynasties were open-minded, but the poor Eastern Jin Dynasty was the most romantic.

Yueming wanted Huan Yi to be there even more, and he blew out his sorrow when he heard the flute.

——"Runzhou" Du Mu (Tang Dynasty)
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On the eve of the decisive battle between the Tang army and the rebel navy in Guazhou, the Japanese navy sailed upstream along the Yangtze River and secretly anchored in the waterway downstream of Runzhou (now Zhenjiang, Jiangsu), only a few hours away from Guazhou. Procedure.

Yamamoto Takano's strategy is very clear, the snipe and the clam compete for the fisherman's benefit.He wanted to attack Bai Fu back and forth with Liu Zhan from behind the Tang Army's navy at the moment when the Tang Army dispatched its main force to fight the rebels.

In the early morning of the next day, it was just dawn, and news came that all the main forces of the Tang army had left the camp. All signs showed that the Tang army's navy would launch a decisive battle this morning.

Takano Yamamoto was overjoyed and ordered the whole army to anchor, go up the river, and attack the naval camp of the Tang Army at full speed.

As soon as the order was issued, the messenger stumbled into Takano Yamamoto's cabin and said, "General, it's bad, most of our warships are stranded!"

Yamamoto Takano hurried out of the cabin and came to the deck to look out.

At this time, the heavy fog on the river had just dissipated, and countless sandbars loomed on the surrounding river.

In the waters where the Japanese warships anchored, there were only a few small sandbars above the water last night.Overnight, the river water receded in a large area, exposing a large river beach.After the tide ebbed, these small sandbars were connected into a large long sandbar, enclosing the warships of the Japanese navy.

Most of the Japanese warships sank on the sandbars, like stranded whales, no matter how hard they struggled, they could not escape and return to the sea.

Yamamoto Takano's face was pale, and the danger of going deep alone this time was unfortunately caught by Ichiro Ono.

Yamamoto Takano ordered the whole ship to be on alert, and to withdraw from the waters when the tide rose in the evening.

At this time, Yamamoto Takano could no longer care about the fight between snipe and clam, and only hoped that Liu Zhan could restrain the main force of the Tang army in Guazhou, so that he could escape.

However, Yamamoto Takano didn't know that all of this was planned by Tang Jun from beginning to end.

The reason why Bai Fu did not launch a general attack on the rebels was that he was waiting for the Japanese navy to enter this sandbar.

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"In the way of employing troops, there are scattered ground, light ground, contested ground, intersecting ground, intersecting ground, heavy ground, ruined ground, encircled ground, and deadly ground. Those who don't know the shape of mountains, forests, dangers, and frustrations, You can't march; you can't get the land if you don't use the township leaders.

The so-called good use of soldiers in ancient times can cause the enemy to be out of touch with each other, the widows will not rely on each other, the high and the low will not rescue each other, the superior and the inferior will not accept each other, the soldiers will not gather together when they are separated, and the soldiers will not be united. "

General Wang Zhongsi told Bai Fu that an excellent general must learn to use the terrain.A place of lore is better than a hundred thousand soldiers.

"So the thing about being a soldier is to follow the enemy's intentions, join forces with the enemy all the way, and kill generals from thousands of miles away. This is called skillful success."

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This sandbar is called Yangzhong Island. Because there are a large number of puffer fish, it is also called Puffer Island by local fishermen.

The upper reaches of this sandbar - Yangzhou Jiangdu Sanjiang Yingkou is the end of the Huaihe River entering the Yangtze River.Due to the strong flow of the river, the amount of sediment increased sharply, causing the sediment to move down, the riverbed of the Yangtze River to deposit rapidly, and the new sandbar to rise suddenly, which accelerated the land-forming process of Yangzhong Continent.

This sandbar is usually hidden under the water, but in the dry season of mid-winter, it will surface at some point and connect into pieces.

Under the leadership of the local people, Bai Fu inspected this place many times, and finally chose to hunt and kill the Japanese navy here.

Bai Fu has conch shells and river sharks presented by the "Three Gorges Fish Monster", which can launch fire attacks without the need for southeast wind.

The reason why Bai Fu did not launch the fire attack was not waiting for the southeast wind, but waiting for the time when the river ebbed.

It is necessary to let the Japanese navy enter this "death sandbar" before the river ebbs.Neither early nor late.

All of this requires Tang Jun's precise planning and careful arrangements.

"To fight the battle I want, when I choose, where I choose."

This is the chess game played by Bai Fubu, he is not in a hurry to capture the pieces, but guides the opponent's pawns into the middle step by step. The "big dragon" seems to show its teeth and claws, and is in full control. It can make a living with its eyes everywhere, and even make a piece of chess. But as long as Bai Fu makes a final move at the entrance of life and death, the opponent will not be able to survive with a single glance.

As the saying goes, please enter the urn, and you will be killed if you stretch your neck.

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What to be afraid of, what to come.

When Takano Yamamoto was praying that the Tang army would be restrained by Liu Zhan, the Tang army who was ambushing here jumped out and launched a general attack.

Thousands of Tang troops poured out from the woods on both sides of the Yangtze River, and huge catapults were quickly erected.

These huge catapults are made by craftsmen such as Ma Daifeng, Li Jin, Han Zhi and Yang Suo, combining the "Shen Mechanism Against Taibai Yin Jing", "Wuhou Shence" and Hualazimi sheepskin scrolls, etc. Stone carts were improved.

Different from the single-shoot, double-shoot, whirlwind, tiger squatting, five-shoot, and seven-shoot guns commonly installed by the Tang army, this kind of stone gun does not need to be pulled by people, but a huge stone is tied to the tip and placed on the gun mount. An iron hook is installed on the top to hook the barrel of the gun. When the gun is fired, as long as the hook is pulled away, the stone will immediately fall down, pressing down the tip of the gun, and at the same time a stone bullet weighing [-] kilograms will be thrown out suddenly.

This design saves manpower, is easy to use, and has great power.When the cannon was fired, the sound shook the world, and it penetrated seven feet into the ground, destroying everything hit.

The river where the warships of the Japanese navy were stranded was narrow, and almost all warships were within the range of the trebuchet.Coupled with the fact that the warship ran aground and could not be avoided, it was time for the trebuchet to show its talents.

The Japanese navy watched helplessly as the Tang army assembled gigantic trebuchets on both sides of the river, but was powerless to stop them. This invisible pressure broke the army's morale before fighting.

With the sound of a cannon, Tang Jun took the lead in attacking.

"Boom boom boom", hundreds of huge stones were thrown out by the trebuchet, spinning continuously in mid-air, and when they reached the top of the Japanese warship, they swooped down and hit the deck and side of the ship like raindrops.

"Bang bang bang", wherever the boulder went, sawdust flew.The deck was pierced directly and smashed into the cabin, causing the bones and tendons of the husband of the Japanese country to be broken and bloody.

Yamamoto Takano's cockpit is located on the highest floor of the ship building, and is directly penetrated by a stone bullet the size of a millstone.The stone bullets smashed through the floor above the cockpit, smashing the tables, chairs and benches in the cabin into powder.

If it weren't for the last moment when two soldiers pushed Yamamoto Takano forcefully out of the cabin, Yamamoto Takano would have been turned into a ball of meat at this moment.

After the first wave of boulder rain, in the second wave of offensive, what the trebuchet threw were earthen jars filled with kerosene.After the crock shattered, kerosene splashed out and flowed to every deck.The rockets that followed immediately ignited the kerosene, and several warships were ignited. They were the first to catch fire and could not be extinguished. They were quickly engulfed by flames and turned into a huge mass of ashes.

"General, if you don't withdraw, it will be too late!"

The soldiers forced Yamamoto Takano, who was struggling desperately, onto the small sampan.At this moment, only this kind of small sampan that can carry five or six people can paddle in the shallow water between the sandbars.

Seeing that most of the soldiers of the Japanese kingdom threw their boats into the water, Ruan Zhouxing, the naval general of the Tang army, gave an order to stop the attack by the catapults and use crossbow arrows to shoot and kill the soldiers of the Japanese kingdom who fled in sampans.

Ruan Zhouxing said to his younger brother Ruan Jiangliu: "The general said that Liu Zhan's warships are all warships eliminated by the Japanese kingdom, so I don't feel sorry for them being destroyed by the fire attack. The warships stranded in front of us are all the best warships of the Japanese kingdom. , the cost is expensive, we have to try to save as much as possible."

Ruan Jiangliu laughed and said, "Let me just say, why didn't the trebuchet fire with all its strength, and didn't allow more kerosene to be used. The boat was left behind, so what should we do with the Japanese soldiers?"

Ruan Zhouxing sneered, and said: "The general has an order that none of the Japanese pirates will be left behind, and all Japanese pirates will be wiped out."

Ruan Jiangliu understood and took the order to leave.

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(End of this chapter)