Soldiers come to the world

Ten days passed in a flash, but Jiang Dong still did not reply, and Sun Quan remained silent. Obviously, he did not accept Liu Jing's condition. The condition of acceptance was death. There might be a glimmer of hope for resistance, so why didn't he resist to the end.

Although Sun Quan was silent about Liu Jing's conditions, he secretly informed Wu Junzhu, General Huang Gai, and ordered him to prepare for the battle with all his strength and prepare for a bloody battle to the end. At the same time, he secretly replied to Han Dang not to fight for Jingkou. You can abandon Jingkou, save your strength and withdraw from Piling.

On the 11th day, the river was still calm, and the Han army did not take any action, but at night, under the cover of night, the Han army finally dispatched, and nearly a thousand warships sailed to Jingkou, a hundred miles away.

This time it was no longer Gan Ning who sent troops to Jingkou, but Liu Jing's main force launched an attack on Jingkou.

The Jingkou Wharf was exceptionally quiet. On the fifteen sentry towers less than a hundred steps away from the pier, soldiers were constantly patrolling back and forth, monitoring the dark river. There were originally only three watchtowers on the Jingkou Wharf, but Han Dang thought that the three The sentry tower is extremely easy to be removed by a surprise attack by the Han army.

In order to ensure that the movement of the Han army can be detected at night and not be attacked by the Han army, Han Dang built a watchtower every [-] steps, bringing the number of watchtowers on the pier to fifteen.

At this time, Han Dang was also inspecting one of the sentry towers. He was very nervous. Liu Jing gave him ten days. Yesterday, the deadline was over. Today is the No. 11 day. There is no news of the mobilization of troops from Jianye. , although most people think that the Han army will go west to Wuhu and enter the hinterland of Taihu Lake from Lishui.

But Han Dang has an intuition that the Han army is likely to land from Jingkou, from Jingkou to the south to Piling, or to the west to Jianye. After nightfall, this intuition becomes stronger and stronger. This is his decades of combat experience. Intuition, never misjudgment.

Han Dang trusted his intuition, and he had deployed [-] troops near the pier, preparing to ambush the Han army to land.

On the sentry tower, Han Dang watched the movements on the river. Just now, a patrol reported that dozens of forward sentry ships of the Han army were found. The precursor of the shore.

"General, look!" a soldier pointed to the river and shouted in a low voice.

Han Dang looked in the direction of the soldier's finger, and he saw it too. On the other side, the outlines of more than a dozen thousand-stone warships appeared. Han Dang immediately turned back to look at the ambush of the Jiangdong Army. The soldiers of the Qianjiang East Army hid in a forest. They learned the lesson of the last hasty battle and prepared a large amount of kerosene, preparing to set fire to the Han army warships when ambushing the Han army.

Han Dang turned his head and looked at the river again. After the outlines of a dozen thousand-stone warships appeared just now, no warships appeared again. Just when Han Dang was a little confused, the warships of the Han army appeared again. There are as many ships as they are moored at the pier.

Han Dang's palms were covered with cold sweat, and he told himself that to wait and be patient, he had to attack halfway through the landing of the Han army, but strangely, no Han soldiers landed.

Han Dang had no choice but to continue to wait. The time passed, and nearly half an hour had passed. Hundreds of Han warships were still moored in the river, and there was no sign of landing.

From the experience of the navy, this phenomenon often occurs because the size of the enemy fleet is too large. The vanguard fleet needs to wait for the fleet behind to arrive one after another, but it will not wait long, because the vanguard must first occupy The pier, wipe out the enemy troops on the pier, and create conditions for the soldiers on the warships behind to land.

Han Beware was puzzled, had the Han army found himself?Otherwise, how could he have waited so long in Jiang? At this time, a general couldn't bear it, and ran up to the sentry tower and said to Han, "General, we can't wait any longer. The other party must have discovered us and is taking countermeasures. You can no longer give the other party time to prepare."

Han Dang pondered for a moment, then asked again: "Is there any news from the mouth of the canal?"

The mouth of the canal is about three miles east of the wharf. Han Dang has deployed [-] soldiers at the mouth of the canal, as well as beacons. Once something happens at the mouth of the canal, news will come from the beacons or soldiers.

"General, there is no news from the river mouth!"

Han Dang suddenly felt that something was wrong. Even if there were no Han warships at the mouth of the canal, someone would come to report. How could there be no news? , what happened?"

"Follow the order!"

The general got off the sentry tower, and after a while, he led a group of cavalry and rushed towards the mouth of the canal. Another half an hour passed, and the warship of the Han army was still moored in the river without any movement. Couldn't bear it anymore, he knew that something must happen, but he didn't know where it happened?

Is it

A thought came to his mind, could it be that the hundreds of warships near the pier feinted?Using it to confuse himself, Han Dang turned his head and looked towards the mouth of the river. He began to understand that he had been fooled.

At this moment, there was a rushing sound of horseshoes in the distance, and they were running on the pier, ignoring being spotted by the Han army. It was a cavalry scout. He rushed to the watchtower where Han Dang was, turned over and fell off his horse, and Han Dang rushed off the post. Ta, ran in front of the cavalry, only to find that he had two arrows in his body, blood all over his body, and he was already dead.

Han Dang helped him up and shouted, "What happened?"

The soldier said in a low voice: "General, the warships of the Han army are all at the mouth of the river, and all the brothers are all killed!"

If a basin of cold water was poured head-on, Han Dang would be stunned. He was really fooled. The Han army used hundreds of warships to attract their attention, but the main force entered the canal from the mouth of the river.

Thinking of the word 'main force', Han Dang suddenly realized something was wrong. The Han army had a maximum of [-] warships landing, and there were already [-] warships here. How many warships would there be at the river mouth?

He asked anxiously, "Quickly tell me, how many warships are there at the mouth of the river?"

The "thousands of ships" soldier squeezed out the last sentence, closed his eyes and passed away.

Han Dang stood up slowly, feeling extremely frightened. The Han army attacking Jingkou was not the navy army from last time, but the main force of the Han army. The main force of the Han army really landed from Jingkou.

"General, what should we do?" A dentist asked in a low voice.

Han Dang clenched his fists. He saw the hundreds of warships moored on the river outside the wharf begin to leave. Obviously, the other party also knew that they had seen through it. Whether to fight or not to fight, the opponent was the main force of the Han army, but if they withdrew, the He couldn't stand the disgust.

At this moment, there was a sudden scream in the distance. Han Dang was taken aback, got on his horse, and urged the horse to run towards the place of the scream. escaped in the woods.

"General Han!"

A military marquis shouted: "The Han army raided us from behind, and the brothers suffered heavy casualties!"

Needless to say, this must be the Han army coming from the other side of the canal. Han Dang asked anxiously, "How many sneak attacking enemy troops?"

"I don't know, there are too many people, several times our number!"

As soon as the words fell, countless Han troops rushed out from the woods, chasing and killing the fleeing Jiangdong Army. The leader was a general with a pair of halberds in his hand. It was Gan Ning, the commander of the navy. , killing dozens of people in a row.

Han Dang was furious, and rushed forward with a wave of his spear, "Don't be rampant, gangster Gan, shoot me!"

When the sound came, Han Dang thrust his spear straight at Gan Ning's throat. Gan Ning sneered, rode his horse to dodge the spear, swung his halberd to chop, and the two men fought fiercely together.

After all, Han Dang was over ten years old, and his physical strength was exhausted, while Gan Ning was only in his forties. Fleeing, less than a dozen steps away, Gan Ning's short halberd flew out of his hand, stabbing like lightning, Han Dang couldn't dodge, the halberd tip pierced his back heart, Han Dang yelled, turned over and fell off the horse, and died in Gan Ning's chest. Down the halberd.

The leader of the Jiangdong Army died, and the remaining thousands of soldiers were unintentionally surrounded by the Han army, and they had nowhere to escape. They knelt down and surrendered, begging for the Han army to spare their lives.

In just a moment, the Han army beheaded more than a hundred of Han Dang's soldiers who refused to surrender. The fighting on the battlefield gradually ceased. Thousands of surrendering soldiers threw down their weapons and armor, and were ordered by the Han soldiers to line up at the pier.

At this time, Liu Jing, king of the Han Dynasty, came to the wharf battlefield under the escort of hundreds of cavalry. The fighting had all stopped. Hundreds of Han soldiers were packing up the weapons and armor on the ground. Groups of Jiangdong Army soldiers who surrendered raised their hands and lined up on the wharf. And then, thousands of Jiangdong Army soldiers gathered on the pier, all squatting on the ground.

At this time, Gan Ning clasped his fists and reported to Liu Jing: "His Royal Highness, the enemy's main general has been killed. More than [-] soldiers have been surrendered, and none escaped."

Liu Jing nodded, "General Gan has worked hard."

He urged his horse to arrive in front of Han Dang's corpse, which was wrapped in a mat and placed in front of a big tree. Liu Jing turned to Gan Ning and said, "This man is considered a famous Jiangdong general, and his death in battle was also done by a man. Give him a good coffin and bury him honorably."

"Follow the order!"

Gan Ning arranged for his subordinates to bury Han Dang generously. At this time, Liu Jing came to the prisoners of war and said loudly to thousands of prisoners: "I am Liu Jing, King of Han. I believe many people have seen me!"

Thousands of prisoners of war looked at the King of Han in silence. Liu Jing asked again: "Since you have chosen to surrender, the Han army will treat you well. I want to know how many of them have been in the army for more than a year. Get up and let me see."

After a long while, hundreds of people stood up one after another. Liu Jing waved his hands, let these soldiers sit down, and said to everyone: "There are less than 500 people. It seems that you are all civilians who were forced to join the army this year. Your parents, wives You and your children are looking forward to you at home, they have no food, they are tortured by hunger, and they have even fled their homes and wandered in other places, why don’t you go home to take care of your parents, wives and children, but you want to serve an unkind king who cruelly exploits you?”

Liu Jing's words made many soldiers burst into tears. A dozen soldiers knelt in front of Liu Jing and cried, "We all want to go home and don't want to fight any more. I beg Your Highness to let us go!"

There was a lot of crying on the pier, Liu Jing nodded, and said to everyone: "I treat you with benevolence and righteousness, and I also trust that you will not be enemies with the Han army again. I will let you go home. You go home to farm and take good care of you." Parents, wives and children."

Liu Jing then ordered: "Give each of them a bucket of rice and let them go!"

Crying and cheering on the pier resounded through the night sky. Thousands of people kowtowed to thank Liu Jing. Each took a bag of rice and rushed to his home. Hurry back to your home as quickly as possible to reunite with your parents, wife and children.

Looking at the backs of the Jiangdong soldiers, Gan Ning sighed, "Your Highness is truly benevolent to them!"

Liu Jing smiled slightly and said: "The difficulty in seizing Jiangdong is not the land, but the hearts of the people. The Sun family has managed Jiangdong for three generations, and the hearts of the people are stable. If it weren't for Sun Quan being trapped by the national power and self-destructing his reputation in the past few years, I might not be able to do it. The determination to seize Jiangdong."

"What Your Highness said is very true. I would like to know, should we go west to Jianye or go south to Piling?"

Liu Jing looked to the south, and said calmly, "If you take Piling and Wu Jun, Sun Quan will become a turtle in the urn."

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