Chapter 969 : Poyang Fire
Chen Youliang did not expect Zhu Jun to return, and even more so, Zhu Yuanzhang came up with this method after a while, and was shocked and worried. Seeing Zhu Yuanzhang's fishing boat fire taking advantage of the wind, the wind helped the fire power, he rushed to his camp at all costs. Although his warship was strong, he was afraid of the fire burning. Once Zhu Yuanzhang's dense fishing boat rushed in, it would burn Poyang Lake. The raging fire was not allowed to be slaughtered by him, so he was so anxious. At this moment, he really wanted to let the ten thousand dragon boats fly out of thin air with wings.
Chen Youliang's dragon boat naturally had no wings, so he could not fly out of Poyang Lake. Because the dragon boat was tied up by iron cables, the Han army, who desperately wanted to escape, became slower and slower. Zhu's army took advantage of the wind and greeted the fleets of both sides, once again encountered the autumn water of Poyang Lake, with the same color as the sky.
The setting sun and the lone wild goose fly together, and the autumn water grows together. During the Jian'an period of the Eastern Han Dynasty, the General Zhou Yu of the Eastern Wu trained the navy here, and then led his troops to the west to defeat Cao at the Red Cliff; during the Eastern Jin Dynasty, Huan Yuan usurped the army, and the generals Liu Yu, He Wuji and others set up an army to attack, chased Huan Yuan to Jiangzhou (Jiujiang), and defeated his general He Danzhi at Sangluozhou (now the water surface of Balijiang River in Hukou, Poyang); the Sui Dynasty unified the south of the Yangtze River and fought with the Southern Army in Pengli; in 974 AD (the seventh year of Kaibao in the Song Dynasty), the Song general Wang Ming led his army
The Southern Tang army fought against the Poyang Lake, and the Song army won a great victory. In the first year of Shaoxing, Emperor Gaozong of the Southern Song Dynasty, Li Cheng rebelled and occupied Jianghuai and captured Jiangzhou (Jiujiang). Three months later, the Southern Song army defeated Li Cheng at Poyang Lake. In 1275 AD, Yuan general Boyan led his army to Poyang Lake, praying to the god of Dagu Mountain, Fengxi Bridge was formed, and the army all crossed, and Jiangnan became the Yuan Dynasty. To this day, Zhu Yuanzhang and Chen Youliang, the two contemporary heroes, gathered here. The ancient wars are vivid in my mind. Who can decide the world in one fell swoop in this battle?
Seeing Zhu Yuanzhang approaching quickly with a fired fishing boat, the Han army's dragon boat was unable to escape because of the iron chain connecting the river. He could only hold the warship with a spear and put it on the lake to wait for the Zhu army.
The wind on the lake was strong and the bows were roaring. The general hunted Weicheng. The dense fishing boats rushed into the Han army's camp with the whistling east wind. The Han army's dragon boats were several meters high. The ships of Zhu Yuanzhang and others who rushed into the camp with the wind were originally mother-child boats transformed by fishing boats. The so-called mother-child boats were actually a small boat connected by iron rings on the fishing boats. Now the Zhu army's mother-child boats are loaded with gunpowder, fireballs, and flammable forage. On the boat, the Zhu army's dead soldiers untied the iron chains. Everyone held a fire gun in their hands and waited on the side. Once they hit the enemy ship, the dead soldiers on the boat behind them shot out the rockets in their hands, ignited various flammable forages, and then drove away quickly, leaving the mother ship to ignite the enemy ship.
The mother ship rushed into the Han army camp one by one in the predetermined direction, and there was no need for dead soldiers to send them to him in the middle. The whistling east wind blew and the mother ship leaned on Chen Youliang's dragon boat, and the front, left, and right quickly leaned on.
Chen Youliang naturally knew that this kind of fire was amazing. Chen Youliang, who was just about to order to start first, saw the fire, his only idea was to unravel the chain, but the iron chain was as strong as steel. How could he solve it in a flash? The fire was blown by the east wind, and the fire used the wind to make a "beep" sound. As all kinds of gunpowder on the ship began to burn, the fire became more and more intense. The Han army's dragon ship would not catch fire. For a moment, the Han army was in chaos and fires were everywhere on the lake. The Poyang Lake was as bright as daytime.
At this moment, the sound of horns in the Zhu army camp continued, and the war drums were waving. Zhu Yuanzhang on the boat waved his big sword, turned his head and shouted at Chang Yuchun's army who was chasing behind him, "Kill me!"
With a shout, tens of thousands of Zhu soldiers rushed over, and for a moment, in the water and fire, there was no time to shout on the dragon boat. The Zhu army in the Han army fought fiercely, and there was no way to tell who was who!
The whistling east wind blew the fire harder and the fire quickly destroyed the dragon boat, and also burned all the feather arrows, crossbows, muskets, cannons and other weapons on the dragon boat. Without the dragon boat, the Han army had long lost the previous momentum. They panicked and frightened beasts, they jumped off the dragon boat and rushed into Poyang Lake. The Zhu army only had to wait for the rabbit to chase and kill them all the way, leading the fire boats step by step to continue burning the Han army's dragon boats step by step. Most of the dragon boats connected by ropes were burned, and many of them were extended to the battalions on the shore. In an instant, the Han army's horses were burned, and countless people were drowned, and they were not fired by Zhu Yuanzhang.
Although the burning dragon ship could fight the Zhu army with the fierce firepower on the dragon ship, the huge fire on the lake and the soldiers who kept screaming were spared, their morale could not be greatly reduced. Moreover, without the mutual care of other dragon ships, it was difficult to deal with the fierce offensive of Zhu army. Besides, it was almost three hours to fight. It was already dusk. The setting sun in the sky was like blood, and the blood on the ground was flowing into a river. The blood of the killed soldiers dyed the lake red, and the magnificent Poyang Lake turned into a blood lake. The scarlet blood was enough to make them frightened, so how could they have the heart to resist the attack of Zhu army?
Zhu Yuanzhang's three suicide squads led fireboats to attack from the left, middle and right sides, and took the opportunity to burn the left and right wings of the Han army, leaving the Han army in the middle. Chen Youliang on the dragon boat ordered the soldiers to cut off the iron chain with sharp weapons, but at this moment, these soldiers were already scared and dared not have the courage to cut off the iron chain. Several Han soldiers who were not afraid of death rushed with the fire, swung their swords several times, and finally cut off the iron chain. The fire "boomed" attacked.
Come, several dead soldiers screamed and were burned by fire and fell into Poyang Lake. No one dared to step forward again. Chen Youliang hurriedly ordered the soldiers to use iron shields to hold back the fire and form a line of defense. Han Shi tried his best to cut off the iron chains against the fire blown by the wind to prevent the fire from being attracted. Do all this, the fire had burned many dragon boats. At this moment, there were constant screams on both sides. It turned out that Xiao Yun and Guo Xing led the dead soldiers rushed into the enemy camp and began to launch an offensive.
Chapter completed!