Ji Han Grand Commander

Chapter 121 115. Battle of Dongting Lake (IX)
Let’s go back a little bit in time to when the two sides just started fighting.

"General, there is a fire on the river."

Bao Feng put his hands on his brows, like a canopy, and looked out over the river.

This was the time when the Han army began to use homemade grenades and Molotov cocktails. The sparks of fire were particularly conspicuous on the originally dark lake. The light reflected through the lake surface so that the movements on the lake could be seen within a radius of more than ten miles.

"It seems that Wen Jin has already had a quarrel with the Wu army. Bao Yi, go and tell General Wu Ban to make a detour to the river to prevent the enemy from abandoning Luzhai and retreating to Jiangxia. Then you will stay under General Wu Ban's command for the time being. If there is a fierce battle between the Wu generals, you can make your own decision."

Feng Xi thought for a moment and asked Bao Yi to take a message to Wu Ban and to protect him. Although Wu Ban was quite strong, he was probably not strong enough to fight against Ding Feng and Xu Sheng. Bao Yi was quite strong, so even if Zhou Tai and Ling Tong attacked together, it would take dozens of rounds to defeat him.

Besides, even if Bao Yi couldn't win, if he wanted to leave, no one in the Wu army could stop him.

"Here!"

Bao Yi bowed, picked up his painted halberd, and rode back to look for Wu Ban.

Feng Xi had no intention of being a spectator in the Battle of Dongting Lake. Zhao Lei and Zhang Nan were in charge of the water, so how could he be absent from the land battle?
Feng Xi reorganized his troops after dusk and quietly came to the outside of the Wu army camp along the north shore of Dongting Lake. Not long after he arrived, a fighting broke out on the lake.

However, the Wu army must be paying close attention to the river at this time, so it is a great opportunity for him to take advantage of the situation. Although Feng Xi allocated a large amount of resources to the navy to ensure that the Han army's navy could defeat the Eastern Wu navy, it does not mean that the army itself has no way to deal with it.

"crunch..."

As the sound of wooden wheels came, more than a dozen improved versions of the siege rams that Feng Xi had made appeared.

One good thing about siege rams is that they don't require a lot of other resources. In theory, wood and ropes are basically enough.

Moreover, this time Feng Xi also asked the craftsmen to make some improvements, adding an arrow-releasing baffle on the top of the battering ram, so that the soldiers operating the battering ram would not be at risk of being shot by arrows above their heads.

Although theoretically this battering ram is most afraid of falling rocks and boiling oil, unfortunately, those things may still be available in a big city like Jiangling, but it would be difficult for the Wu army's large camp to gather them.

"All troops, move forward! Spread out the battering rams. Don't just attack their gates, attack their walls directly. The demolition men follow the battering rams."

Feng Xi's troops were soon discovered by the Wu army's sentinels and reported to the Wu army's main camp. Ding Feng hurried to the watchtower and saw that the Han army had already reached the outside of the main camp under the cover of night. The densely packed Han army was like ants, rushing towards their main camp.

"Shoot arrows to defend!"

Ding Fengxian gave the order to shoot arrows, but the Han soldiers charged only to cover the battering rams and demolition workers, and actually had no intention of approaching the wooden walls and trenches of the Dazhai.

"KuSassafras"

With a loud bang, the wheels of a battering ram sank into the pit dug by the Wu army, but the Han soldiers left the ram without any reluctance and retreated cautiously under the cover of their comrades.

Finally, nearly ten battering rams approached the wall of Wu's camp. Several soldiers worked together to push the sharpened giant wood backwards, causing it to violently crash into the wall using the kinetic energy converted from gravitational potential energy.

"Golden juice!"

As a general who left his name in history, Ding Feng would not be unprepared. Although he had no kerosene, they had boiling gold juice. The soldiers blocked their noses with something and lifted the jar of boiling gold juice onto the wooden wall.

"Hehe, Shu army bastards! Here comes the shit... uh..." Unfortunately, a soldier was shot dead by a crossbow arrow before he could even pour the boiling gold juice on himself.

Feng Xi's personal army, the Shenjiying, was not there to do nothing. Originally, they were responsible for suppressing the archers on the wall, so when they saw a soldier showing up, they would naturally not let him go.

"Splash... poof!"

Even so, many Han soldiers were burned by the boiling gold juice and were dragged behind by their comrades.

The siege ram was destroyed but Feng Xi's expression did not change much, because the demolition workers also came back with the soldiers who operated the siege ram. They carried a jar when they went, but came back empty-handed.

"Boom!"

As expected, with several loud bangs, the outer wall of Wu Jun's camp was suddenly overturned by several violent explosions. Several large holes were blown out of the several-meter-wide wooden wall, and the earth wall inside was also seriously damaged.

Wu Jun, who was standing on the wall, was naturally blown away by the violent explosion and fell heavily on the ruins. If he was unlucky, he would be killed by the broken walls and ruins.

"Heaven... thunder! The Han army knows magic!"

Similar to the situation on the river, the Wu army in Luzhai had naturally never seen the advanced "city gate blasting" technology. When they heard the thunder-like noise, the confused Wu army and their comrades in the navy reacted similarly - they all thought it was the magic of the Han army.

"What is this! Why did the village wall disappear in an instant?!"

Ding Feng on the watchtower also felt scared. As the saying goes, the unknown is the most terrifying. Facing the unknown means of the Han army, Ding Feng didn't know what caused the explosion, how the Han army did it, let alone how to defend against it.

Ding Feng's hesitation was even more disastrous. The Wu army below had completely collapsed. In addition, Feng Xi would not be like those kind-hearted people in the Spring and Autumn Period, waiting for the Wu army to come to their senses before deploying their troops. Instead, he took advantage of the aftermath of the explosion and pointed his spear, shouting loudly:

"The Wu army camp was destroyed by the thunderbolt I triggered! The whole army is charging!"

Not to mention ordinary soldiers, even many blasting soldiers who personally placed the gunpowder cans could not figure out the principle of the explosion, so Feng Xi also chose to explain science with superstition. He simply said that it was caused by his own magic and that was it. Believe it or not, that's it.

Unexpectedly, the morale of the Han army was greatly boosted, and they rushed towards the Wu army camp with a roar, thinking that they really had some magical help.

When the Wu army heard the movements of the Han army, they believed it more and more. In addition, land battles are different from naval battles, so most of the Wu army soldiers knelt without any burden.

"Don't panic! That's a trick of the Han army! Get up and fight! Don't let yourself be killed!"

Quan Cong rode his horse and kept shouting in the camp, but most of the soldiers had lost their fighting spirit, and his words had little effect.

"The enemy general must leave!"

As soon as Quan Cong rode his horse like this, he was immediately targeted. When Quan Cong looked over, he saw a big man riding a horse, whose muscles were barely covered by armor and who was holding a strange weapon with three forks like a fork, rushing towards him.

Quan Cong had no choice but to raise his spear and mount his horse, ready to fight the Han general.

(End of this chapter)