At the end of Song Dynasty: I want to be the master of ZTE

Chapter 156 Don't worry

Poyang Lake was called Penglize in ancient times, so its entrance into the river was called Penglikou. The lake water slowed down here, and the sediment sank and gathered to form a sandbar. It was named Baishazhou because of its white color.

It is long and narrow in shape, about three miles long and a hundred steps wide, running across the lake mouth, dividing the river into north and south.

The mouth of the lake is the key to the rivers and lakes, and the Baishazhou is the handle of the lock. Adding the stone Zhongshan at the lock entrance means that no one can enter or leave Poyang Lake, and it can effectively control the river. It is really a key point for military strategists.

Because Hukou fell too quickly, the Shizhongshan Army Village never played a role, and Baishazhou became a lone army.

Although the Yuan army could mobilize troops from Jiangbei to come for reinforcements, the Baishazhou area was limited and could only station more than [-] troops.

At this time, in the commander's tent, Liu Guojie was sitting on the throne, and thousands of households were sitting below.

Even though Liu Guojie was deprived of his position, his relationship with Kublai Khan was put here. He essentially took over the command as soon as he arrived here.

"Xiang Ri underestimated the enemy and was defeated, and the Poyang Lake Navy was destroyed. Now the Song army occupies the mouth of the lake and is watching with eager eyes. The armies must not slack off and are ready for a war at any time."

Liu Guojie looked around and saw that the generals were not dissatisfied. He continued: "In addition to defense, we should send people to find the marshal. Who is willing to go?"

"General, I think the marshal must be fine. The top priority is to resist the Song army." Sanmu said.

"In that case, do you have any good ideas?" Liu Guojie asked.

The son doesn't care about Lao Tzu, let alone him who is vaguely resentful.

"Gongchang has been repaired. The walls are high and the trenches are deep. There are many elite soldiers and generals, complete equipment, and thunder. If it is destroyed in such a situation, there must be something fishy. We should find out the truth and deal with it." Haerha said.

"It's too late." Sanmu said, "For this reason, we just have to fight to the death."

"But there are not many thunders in the sky, I'm afraid I can't defend it." Guan Rude, the former defense envoy of Jiangzhou and now the general manager of the Han army in Jiangzhou, said.

Everyone was silent.

Most of the sky thunders are stored in Gongchang City, and there is also a small part at the mouth of Hukou. However, there are only fifty thunders on Baishazhou, and they are all small thunders thrown by hand, and there are no big thunders.

There were no trebuchets, crossbows and other sharp weapons, and there were insufficient kerosene and rockets. There were only wooden walls around the military stronghold. It was not that the Yuan army did not want to prepare, but it was because they did not expect that Gong Chang would be lost without warning. It was really too late.

"Everyone." Liu Guojie stood up and said, "No matter what, we must persist until the reinforcements from Sichuan and Hubei arrive."

While discussing, some soldiers came in in a panic and reported: "General, the Song army has left the mouth of the lake and is heading for Baishazhou."

"Everyone, follow me to meet the enemy!" Liu Guojie took the knife in his hand and prepared to fight.

As he took a step, his back ached. Li Heng's [-]-stick blow was really heavy, otherwise he wouldn't have come to Baishazhou to recuperate.

When everyone arrived at the tower on the riverside, they saw densely packed boats and huge rafts at the mouth of the lake, all heading towards the white sandbank along the water.

"Everyone, it's time to repay the Great Khan!" Liu Guojie said, and after boarding a stern, he directed the warship to sail upstream.

After successive defeats, the Yuan army currently only has five Huanghu and White Harriers each, and four swans. The rest are all small boats, totaling 120.

The quality is not much ahead, but the quantity is too different, so Liu Guojie led the navy to go upstream, preparing to use the power of the water to rush.

Seeing the movement of the Yuan army, Chen Baitiao ordered: "The platoon continues to seize the beach, and the warships go upstream to meet the enemy."

Thirty harriers, forty fishing boats, six white harriers, and more than 300 small boats gathered upstream one after another.

"Everyone!" Liu Guojie drew his knife and shouted: "Kill with me!"

"Kill!" the Yuan army shouted, turning the ship's bow and charging down the river.

"Kill!" Chen Baitiao raised his javelin and shouted.

Soon, the two sides approached, and the crossbows still fired first. After thirty steps, the Song Army's crossbows fired first.

huh~
A thunder arrow flew over and firmly nailed to the outer wall of Huang Hu's boat. With a loud bang, the wall of the boat opened a big hole.

A small boat was fortunate enough to escape the thunder arrow, but it didn't want the explosion to come from behind, and the whole boat was overturned on the river.

The thunder fighters on both sides output crazily. For a while, the river was full of flames, thunder was rolling, and gunpowder smoke filled the air.In a short while, all the sky thunders of the Yuan army were thrown out. Their sky thunders were not as powerful as those of the Song army, but they still injured two white harriers and sank a lava fishing boat.

However, the Song army had a large number of sky mines. After three consecutive rounds, four of the Yuan army's ships sank, and all the others were injured.

"Kill, kill over~" Chen Baitiao raised the javelin without aiming, and threw it casually, and dropped the one-yuan soldier's flag over the boat.

At this time, the boats from both sides met each other, and after they collided directly, the soldiers fought.

Explosions, shouts, and screams were heard endlessly, and the broken wood corpses drifted slowly downstream with the current.

At this time, the raft was approaching Baishazhou.

The Yuan army originally planned to attack halfway across the river, but a burst of thunder struck them and they immediately knelt down and surrendered.

The Yuan boat crossed the Song boat and rushed forward, only to find that the wooden raft was really huge, and the soldiers on it were like flat ground.

There are crossbows, trebuchets, ballistas, all long-range weapons, and there are even sandbags piled around.

Before the Yuan ship could collide, they were greeted by a hail of arrows, and then trebuchets and ballistae were launched one after another.

Within half an hour, the Yuan army was exhausted.

"General, we can't fight anymore." Haerha, whose face was covered with blood, said in a tearful voice.

A thunderbolt had just landed on the flagship, and his head was hit by broken wood, but he had no time to deal with it.

"Kill, hold on to the end!"

When Liu Guojie roared angrily, a warship approached and shot another sky thunder arrow. The distance was only more than ten steps, and it was impossible to miss.

With a bang, the sky thunder arrow exploded above the waterline, and immediately opened a big mouth. The river water rushed in at a high speed, and the ship immediately tilted.

The Yuan army had broken up, some ran upstream, some slipped downstream, some rushed directly to both sides of the bank and abandoned their ships.

"Let's go!" Liu Guojie gritted his teeth.

The army was defeated like a mountain, Gongchang... No, in fact, the Yuan army lost their morale after the loss of Nanchang City, and the loss of Gongchang was the straw that broke Hukou's back.

The Yuan army scurried around like headless flies, and the Song army pursued them for a while, capturing more than 2000 soldiers in hundreds of boats and turning back to Hukou County.

He suffered more than 600 casualties and lost more than 50 ships, but after absorbing the capture, the number of troops and ships would increase.

Seeing the return of the army, Jiang Wanzai asked Fang Xing to write a memorial to the court, and went to pick up Chen Baitiao himself.

After careful observation, he found that he was not injured. Jiang Wanzai asked, "Maybe we can fight again?"

"The grand master's intention?" Chen Baitiao asked.

Jiang Wanzai looked to the east and said, "Soldiers are precious and fast, and now the morale is high, just going down the river!"

"The Grand Master is impatient." Chen Baitiao said bluntly: "If we advance in a hurry without knowing the enemy's situation, if we are blocked, we will suffer heavy losses. Moreover, the Yuanlu Sichuan and Hubei naval forces are gathering and will arrive soon, so we must be on guard.

With a certain intention, we must rush to build the Baishazhou military stronghold to ensure that we have no worries first, then check the downstream intelligence, agree on a time with Lin'an and Tongzhou, and attack from three sides!
If you don't move, you will be defeated, and if you are in the east, you will be like a thunder, taking down the river in one fell swoop, and guarding across the river. "

"What General Chen said is true, Grand Master, think twice," Fang Xing advised.

Jiang Wanzai fell silent.

Doesn't he understand this?

After fighting for most of my life, how could I not understand?

It's just that as I get older, I always want to calm the world before I die, so I feel impatient.

"Forget it, take it easy and figure it out, just follow what Sanlang said." Jiang Wanzai said.

(End of this chapter)