Chapter 970 : The Defeated General
There was a sound of shouting, Chen Youliang was shocked and hurriedly called Han Shixun. Liu Tao and the other two led thousands of troops to fight against Xiao Yun and Guo Xing, but there was a huge fire on Poyang Lake. Xiao Yun and Guo Xing besieged the fire. The fire rose with the wind. In addition, the fishing boats were flexible. The Han army lost the barrier of the dragon boat. Where was the enemy of Xiao Yun, Guo Xing and others. After fighting in the smoke of fire, they finally lost their opponents. They threw away their armor and fled. Zhu army took advantage of the situation to launch an attack. When the dragon boats around caught fire, arrows, muskets, and strong crossbows were like rain. Rock spears shot at the dragon boats one after another. The Han army was shot to death, burned to death, and many were killed by rocks. Han Shixun killed for a while. Seeing that the fire was too big, he hurriedly retreated and turned his head and screamed at Chen Youliang: "Your Majesty...?"
Most of the dragon boats were burned by the fire, reflecting the sea of fire in Poyang Lake. There was no one standing on the dragon boat. The Han army, who knew the water, had to jump off the dragon boat and flee in Poyang Lake. Zhu Yuanzhang personally led the army in Zhu army camp, Xiao Yun on the left and Guo Xing on the right. In addition, he saw the flames rushing towards Chang Yuchun, Liao Yongzhong, Yu Haitong and others. Hundreds of thousands of troops relied on the flexibility of the fishing boats and attacked the panicked Han. The fire in the sky had already made the Han army dizzy, so how could they resist? The Zhu army wiped out tens of thousands of Han troops without any effort.
Most of the Han soldiers were on the dragon boat, and many people could not even water. When the dragon boat was in a fire, they could not escape. This was Zhu Yuanzhang's final attack. Otherwise, he could kill all the Han army in one fell swoop with hundreds of thousands of elite soldiers. This battle could determine the world. This is naturally a later story.
On the dragon boat, Chen Youliang, under the escort of the guards, cut off the iron chain of the dragon boat and temporarily fled from the sea of fire. Looking at the fire in the sky, and then burned it, Chen Youliang knew what this meant, looked for a while, gritted his teeth and said, "Come on, have you given me these dragon boats?"
"Ah...?" Han Shixun was shocked when he heard this, "Your Majesty must not be able to do so? When the dragon boat burned, wouldn't it really be the trick of Zhu Thief?"
Chen Youliang shouted: "The ship is still under construction after it is burned. As long as I escape this disaster, I will definitely let Zhu Yuanzhang pay his blood debt! Burn!"
"Yes!" Han Shixun turned around and looked at the four dragon boats beside him, feeling sad. Seeing the victory of his hand, he lost Jingzhou because of this carelessness. Now he had to burn the dragon boat to avoid the fire of Zhu Zhe. This situation made the veteran who was wholeheartedly looking forward to Chen Youliang moving into Jinling City feel extremely disappointed. He gritted his teeth and threw the gunpowder in his hand into the dragon boat.
"boom"
The fire quickly rose with the wind. The dragon ships anchored in Poyang Lake left more than a dozen dragon ships, and the rest were burned by the hands of Zhu and Han troops. The fires all over the sky reflected the Poyang Lake in blood.
It was dusk, and the setting sun in the sky was like blood. On weekdays, the wild grasses and reeds were lush on Poyang Lake; the peaks and ridges on the lake were stretched, the sandy mountains were undulating, and the fertile fields were thousands of miles away, migratory birds flew, cattle and sheep wandered, but at this moment, Poyang Lake was shouting and killing, fire light reflected in the sky, and blood flowed everywhere, like a purgatory on earth.
Chen Youliang gritted his teeth and lit the remaining dragon boat. The cut dragon boat was burned out. The fire quickly blocked it. A small half of the dragon boat was saved by luck. Chen Youliang immediately ordered that the undead Han army defended the dragon boat to death and used the remaining dragon boats to launch hand-to-hand combat with the Zhu army on Poyang Lake.
Without the dragon boat and the fire, the whistling east wind became silent at some point, and the rolling waves had already stopped. The army on the lake fought each other. This was a bloody battle without any barriers, and it was also a real bloody battle. There was no hatred between the two sides. They fought and fought continuously, screams and the sound of weapons converging, sensation over Poyang Lake.
The fire burned hundreds of thousands of Han army, and the soldiers who could fight on the dragon boat, were only hundreds of thousands of men, women, young and old. Although Zhu soldiers fought hard, without the help of Dongfeng and Dahuo, the entire Zhu army was not the enemy of the Han army. They kept retreating, and many soldiers were killed by the killing Han army.
Xiao Yun led a large army to attack Han Shixun's dragon ship on the left, but the Han army was extremely cunning. He used the size of the dragon ship and only ordered the soldiers to rush around. Without strong crossbows, muskets, feather arrows and other long-range shooting weapons, the Zhu army could not get close to the dragon ship for a while. The soldiers who had finally approached were forced to be forced to be the Han army guarding the dragon ship and greeted him desperately. At this moment, the Zhu army could not take off the ship for a long time.
Zhu Yuanzhang stood in the central army and commanded the entire army to fight. He saw that dozens of warships that Chen Youliang had in Poyang were burned down, and the fire was still burning on the wreckage. From time to time, screams of burned and killed soldiers were heard. Zhu Yuanzhang breathed. He knew that this battle, with the east wind and a fire, he achieved Zhou Yu's Red Cliff record. Chen Youliang was no longer the invincible Chen Youliang who had an army of 600,000 and ten thousand dragon ships, but a defeated general who was trying to escape. At this moment, Chen Youliang was so vulnerable in his eyes. After hearing that his soldiers captured the dragon ship again, Zhu Yuanzhang was completely relieved. If he continued to fight like this, he would definitely be able to capture Chen Youliang's dragon ship before dark.
But Chen Youliang did not give Zhu Yuanzhang this opportunity. When he heard that the two dragon boats had fallen into Zhu Jun's hands, he saw fires rising from the sky on the lake. The Han army suffered too much casualties, so he gave up on resisting and ordered the three armies to directly discard the wreckage of the dragon boat. Even several intact dragon boats were thrown to Zhu Jun. The guards concentrated their firepower to cover the evacuation of the remaining dozen dragon boats!
Although the Han army was defeated, its strength cannot be underestimated. Moreover, the Zhu army fought for one day, and many casualties were killed and injured, and the soldiers were trapped and exhausted. They had long lost their fighting spirit. Seeing the Han army fleeing under the cover of the Han emperor, the dragon boats fled one after another, and no one dared to chase after him. He watched the Han army complete little by little. In a moment, he could no longer see half of the Han army. Broken boat boards, rotten sails, corpses and balls of unburned flames were floating everywhere, and rolling smoke rose everywhere. The tragic situation was self-evident. After a while, Zhu army saw it, he heard the commander-in-chief Zhu Yuanzhang shouting with great enthusiasm: "Go back to the military camp!"
The front team of the 100,000 troops became the back team, and the back team was transferred into the front team, and drove to Kangshan Camp in an orderly manner.
Chapter completed!