Chastity Layman 2

Chapter 840 Meat Grinder

The barbarians were discharged from the upper reaches of the river, full of soldiers.

On the emerald green river, on the flagship of the Beiyang Zhenyuan, the Admiral Cheng Chumo had just returned. On the high mast, the sailors on the watch waved small flags to convey the military situation below.

The enemy came fiercely, and countless wooden rafts flowed down the river.

Although the river surged after the rain, the river was only sixty or seventy feet wide. Cheng Chumo immediately commanded the fleet to disperse, forming several small battle groups, and ordered the transport ships to retreat to the downstream corner.

Zhenyuan puts down the anchor, raises the sails, and advances against the wind in the waves. This big battleship is majestic. There are two walking guards on the left and one on the right. Wait for the dinghy.

Like a ferocious pack of wolves, facing the overwhelming wooden rafts coming down the river, they just rushed up.

After more than a year of training and combat, the fleet of the Beiyang Fleet is no longer what it was when it was first formed. They have experienced the battles of Long Island and Beisha, the Battle of Liuqiu, and Guangzhou Suppressing the Eagle's Nest at sea can now be said to be well versed in the essence of water warfare.

Several battle group ships seemed to be close together, but kept a certain safe distance.

The rumbling drums sounded on the Zhenyuan, and other major ships followed suit, one after another, especially excited in the waves.

The marines fully loaded in the cabin were all fighting on the shore at this time, and Cheng Chumo mobilized some sailors to fight on the deck.

These Jianghuai sailors stood there with crossbows, despite the high wind and rough waves, but their legs were nailed to the ship like roots and swayed with the ship.

Although half of the sailors were dispatched to fight on deck, Cheng Chumo and other fleet commanders were not worried. This is a fleet that can go deep into the ocean. The sailors are already well-equipped and experienced. However, on an inland river with a width of sixty to seventy feet, in fact, less than one-third of the sailors are needed to maintain the stability of the ship.

In fact, many captains thought that Wei Gong was too stable in fighting, and did not reuse them at all.Many captains think radically that they have great potential and can advance both land and water.

The Marine Corps landed and fought over there, and the navy here could go upstream.

"Beware of the enemy's fire attack!" Cheng Chumo was not careless. The task Qin Lang gave him was not to seek meritorious service, but to seek no faults, as long as he guarded the river and protected the flanks of the three thousand soldiers on the bank.

Many of those crude wooden rafts didn't even have oars, and one or two people at the head of the row supported a pole to grasp the direction, and then they went down the river by the current.

The savages on the boat squatted or sat, all screaming like ghosts.

The narrow river surface is not a good situation for Beiyang, which has large ships. They have to avoid being hit by these wooden rafts going down the river, and they have to make sure to leave room to avoid maneuvering.

The barbarians were very brave, facing the tall battleship group, they still charged forward.

The whining horn sounded passionately, and the war drum was even more excited.

The flags on the masts of all the big ships were waved, and the battle began.

Sea falcons, sea sharks and other yachts and speedboats rushed out one after another. The sailors on the boats were struggling to use their oars, and the crossbowmen started shooting with their crossbows.

The savages sat on rafts, except for some guys in front who had shields in their hands, most of them didn't even have shields, and most of them didn't even have armor.

The barbarians lack armor, and the wooden raft has a low load capacity. If you wear shields and armor, you can only take fewer people, and not all barbarians can swim. Most of the barbarians who live in the mountains They don't know how to use water. For them, if they accidentally fall, the armor on their bodies will kill them.

The crossbowmen on the speedboats of the Beiyang Navy relied on their own crossbows to shoot far, and the yachts were flexible, swimming in the wind and waves.

The barbarians on the raft also began to fight back with bows and arrows.

But obviously they didn't have many archers, and the arrows that responded were sparse, and they were far less than the range and accuracy here, most of the arrows fell into the water.

The two sides continued to approach.

The Jianghuai crossbowmen shot faster, and many barbarians on the wooden rafts screamed and fell down from the arrows, and even fell into the river.

A nearby raft burst into flames.

Sure enough, the barbarians prepared a fire attack. They piled flammable objects on the wooden raft, trying to use fire attack to deal with Tang's large ships.

However, it is too naive to use these rafts without rudders to burn Beiyang warships.

The two soldiers and horses collided together.

Bows and crossbows flew back and forth.

The barbarians used wooden rafts to land on the beach behind the Tang army's position. Those simple wooden rafts could not confront the navy fleet head-on.

After the two sides approached, the barbarians could only look up at the side of the navy's ship, but Tang Jun was able to stand on the high deck and shoot them condescendingly.

It is impossible for them to jump to the side and fight close, they can't go up.

We can only hope to hit it, or break through the gap in the fleet.

But the navy is not all large ships, they have ships of various sizes, forming a tight net, mercilessly harvesting these barbarians who are like going to death.

Almost one-sided massacre.

More than a dozen wooden rafts that caught fire did not play a role and were easily let go by the navy.

But those wooden platoons full of barbarians encountered heavy interceptions, and all bows and crossbows were fired.

On the battleship Zhenyuan and two walkers and four warships, they even set up three bows and crossbows to shoot.

massacre.

It was like a group of ignorant sheep breaking into a pack of vicious wolves, and the result was a merciless massacre.

The surface of the Zuoxi River was dyed red.

Numerous wooden rafts shattered and scattered, drifting down the river, many drowned savages were still struggling for help, and more savages sank directly to the bottom of the river.

The sound of war drums was already blurred, as if they were connected together.

When no more rafts came down from the upper reaches, the water battle finally came to an end.

The drums of war stopped.

The flag bearer on the mast gave the signal of safety.

Cheng Chumo ordered all ships to report casualties and losses, which were quickly summarized.

The results were very good. There were no casualties on the big ship, only some sailors were injured or injured, and an unlucky Seafalcon was blocked and hit by several wooden rafts at the same time, causing the ship to break and leak, and finally had to run aground on the shore.

"About three thousand barbarians were defeated by us. Great victory."

A soldier shouted to Cheng Chumo excitedly.

Two thousand sailors against three thousand barbarians, annihilating each other in an hour is indeed something to be happy about.

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Qin Lang climbed up to the watchtower, and he could see the battlefield as far as he could see.

It's been more than an hour of fighting.

Tang Jun's two-wing positions are still impregnable.

The horse-rejecting wall has long been submerged by the corpses of the barbarians, and a high mountain of corpses has been piled up between the river and the pond.

The more the barbarians attacked, the more desperate they became.

When they tried to use wooden rafts and other surprise soldiers to raid and failed, the sound of Mingjin finally sounded.

On Mount Tuomi, Nong Sanniang, Fu San and the others were all silent.

The terrifying Tang army's position, like two huge meat grinders, not only swallowed all their thousands of Qingqi, but also swallowed at least 5000 of them in more than an hour.

If you count the three thousand who died on Zuoxi.

The barbarians died at least eight thousand.

This is a silent casualty figure.

a long time.

Fu San said with a dark face, "This shouldn't be."

Mrs. Nong San also lost her composure, yes, she shouldn't.

Those damned Tang soldiers seemed to have some kind of magical power, always tempting them, it seemed that as long as they persisted, they could break through the damned position, kill them, and drive all three thousand Tang soldiers into the river to feed the fish.

But why were they the ones who failed to hold on in the end?
Why did they die over 5000 people there.

There are two huge mountains of corpses, each pile contains more than 2000 corpses, and they can be seen clearly from the Tuomi Mountain two miles away.

These two huge mountains of corpses are piled there, and now they have no chance.

"The people of Tang must be at the end of their battle, why don't we organize our troops and go through the pond in the middle?"

The pond in the middle is about a hundred feet wide, and the water is not very deep, but it is not possible to wade directly, at least you need a wooden raft.

But the problem is that although the pond is not that wide, it is surrounded by a swamp, and the wooden raft can only walk on the water surface. The swamp is full of traps, and the Tang people can kill them all as long as they arrange a random group of archers. Shoot dead in that swamp.

Mrs. Nong San squatted down.

She was motionless, as if petrified.

On the battlefield, the barbarian army was slowly retreating, and no one wanted to charge any more, not even approaching the two huge mountains of corpses.

That was daunting.

Many chiefs of the Juding tribe and the Dongzhus of the Zuoxi Man were rushing to Mount Tuomi. They were desperate and confused, not knowing what to do next.

"We fought the most stupid battle! As soon as Qin landed, we should have thought that it was a trap, and we shouldn't have stepped in."

Fu San thought to himself, what's the use of talking about it now, when everyone was lamenting that they couldn't ambush Qin Lang, seeing that he dared to come back to provoke, they all excitedly thought it was a chance to capture Qin Lang alive, who would miss it.

Although he chose a terrain that was good for defense, everyone thought that with ten times his strength and being in the wild, he could easily be stacked to death.

"That Qin man is a devil!" Nong Sanniang sighed, "He obviously has stronger strength, but he hides it deliberately, luring us to send troops up again and again, and before we know it, we lost more than 5000 people. Plus For the three thousand on the river, we lost more than 8000 people at once."

Fu San didn't want to hear this, and he even began to regret that he should have compromised with Nong Sanniang.

"Get out."

Nong Tiangui was furious, "Withdraw now? Just like this? More than 8000 of us died in vain?"

"Then what are you going to do? Confront Qin Lang here? Have you thought about the consequences? Qin Lang might have sent someone to call for reinforcements yesterday. In two days, reinforcements will definitely arrive. By then we Are you going to be surrounded here?"

"Go back to Tanzhou right away, we can't stay here anymore."

Nong Sanniang was confused, "And then?"

She originally thought that after persuading Fusan to take down Zuoximan without bloodshed, she would come in an ambush to capture and behead Qin Lang, and then take advantage of the situation to go down to Cage Prefecture and capture Yongzhou.

Fusan didn't know how to answer, "Let's take one step at a time!"

(End of this chapter)