Chapter 43: Pursue the Victory
Always defeated like a mountain of defeat!
Hearing the sound of the withdrawal of the troops, all the Tanzhou ships that were already struggling to support were unwilling to fight, and turned the bow of the ship and evacuated eastward.
When the Tanzhou infantry on the shore saw the fireboat floating towards their side, they felt a little scared. Now that they heard the sound of emergency gongs, they turned around and retreated without the instructions of the superiors. They would not be able to run. If they were a little later, they would be surrounded by the Langzhou navy, Langzhou infantry, and Meizhou defenders who had already rushed out of the city gate from east, west and south!
The infantry commander who commanded the Tanzhou battle formation was helpless and had to urgently order 300 cavalry to suppress the formation in order to block the Langzhou soldiers for a moment.
Seeing the war develop, Lin Feng didn't bother to celebrate, so he grabbed Lin Renzhao and asked anxiously: "Are any brothers injured?"
Before Lin Renzhao could answer, Liu Qi next to him raised his left arm, showed Lin Feng the wound on his shoulder, and said with a sad face: "It seems that I am the only one unlucky guy!"
"Bang!" Lin Renzhao pointed his finger and punched Liu Qi in the head, and scolded with a smile: "The twelve of us broke into the enemy ship and basically completed the task. Only you have injured your shoulder a little, it's worth it no matter how you calculate it!"
Lin Feng stepped forward and moved Liu Qi's arm, and found that he could lift it freely. It was obviously just a skin injury and there was no serious injury, so he felt relieved.
At this time, even Li Congqian, Chen Fei and others who were at the end rushed to the ship and rushed over to meet these heroes who made contributions in the first battle.
Wang Kui came over with several officers, bowed deeply to Lin Feng, shook his head and exclaimed: "Mr. Lin, there are indeed no weak soldiers under his command! This battle is entirely due to these twelve tigers who have successfully attacked!"
Lin Feng looked up at the battle flag that was still floating in the wind, shook his head and replied: "This move is really risky, and success is purely a lucky chance! If it weren't for the sudden change in the wind, the end of the war would be unpredictable!"
What Lin Feng didn't know was that this dramatic change in the battle that affected the overall situation of Chu State due to the sudden change in wind direction was something that happened in history. It was this strange wind that essentially pushed forward the development of the farce of the Chu State's horses fighting for the slaughter.
Wang Kui nodded in agreement, bowed to Lin Feng, and arranged for the pursuit of waterways.
Li Congqian, who was jumping excitedly, Chen Fei and several other children were conscious, and only then did they find that Lin Renzhao and others had an unpleasant smell of blood on their faces. In a blink of an eye, they saw the Tanzhou soldiers scattered on the deck and shouting in pain, as well as the broken limbs and broken arms and blood marks everywhere on the ship. Their face suddenly turned pale. The youngest Duan Rui could not help but turn around and climb on the side of the ship and vomited wildly. Chen Fei and several others followed closely behind. Only Li Congqian's throat moved a few times, and finally resisted the sour smell.
Lin Feng stepped forward and patted the backs of several children for a while. He raised his thumb at Li Congqian, pulled him aside, and whispered a few words in his ear. Li Congqian nodded gently.
At this moment, a voice full of flattering tone sounded behind Lin Feng: "Mr. Lin is extremely powerful! My horse envoy came to greet Lord Lin and presented this command ship in Tanzhou as a special ship for Lord Lin in Chu. The carefully selected boatman will arrive later!"
Lin Feng turned around and saw a decent deputy commander standing in front of him with a decent look on his face, his head almost lowered to his waist.
"Oh, who are you?" Lin Feng asked angrily.
"The villain is Ma Pian, deputy commander of the Langzhou Navy. The horse envoy said that during the time of Lord Lin in Chu, the villain was waiting for the dispatch throughout the journey." The deputy commander raised his head and looked at Lin Feng with a smile on his face, with an extremely respectful expression.
"You are here just in time. I have something to ask for help!" Lin Feng grabbed Ma Pian and whispered a few instructions in his ear.
After saying that, Lin Feng pulled Lin Renzhao and others aside again, lowered his head and gave a few instructions. Lin Renzhao wiped the blood-stained knife on the already dirty military uniform, waved his hand, and turned around and entered the cabin with the remaining special forces soldiers.
After all the orders were given, Lin Feng walked to the stern. Here, there were more than a dozen Tanzhou soldiers and seven boatmen who had no time to escape squatted there, and they were trembling desperately in the competition. They were completely frightened by the ruthlessness of Lin Renzhao and others. Seeing Lin Feng coming, several Langzhou soldiers guarding these people rushed forward to salute.
Lin Feng waved his hand, turned to the soldiers and shipmen squatting on the ground, and asked kindly: "Are you all on this ship?"
All the shipmen and some soldiers nodded immediately, and the remaining soldiers shook their heads first and then nodded quickly.
Lin Feng smiled and was about to continue the question. At this time, Ma Pian rushed over and reported loudly: "Enterprise Lin, my envoy thanks to the invincible warriors of the Tang Dynasty for their full help. He specially gave this ship to the envoy Lin as a trophy. As the envoy, I took a boat in our Chu State. Please accept it with a smile!"
Lin Feng's face darkened and he snorted twice in displeasure.
At this time, Li Congqian came over and reported softly: "Mr. Lin, our Wuchang reinforcements have arrived!"
Lin Feng could no longer help but angry, pointed at Ma Pian and Li Congqian, and shouted loudly: "Do you know what military secrets are?! Get them all back, something without a wink!"
Ma Pian and Li Congqian blushed and quickly retreated.
Lin Feng, who was still angry, turned to the trembling soldiers and said with a cold face: "All the soldiers took off their military uniforms, and then they completely cleaned the boat together!"
Turning around, Lin Feng nodded slightly at Ma Pian, made a secret move to chop his neck, and strode.
Lin Feng's subtle movement fell into the eyes of two Tanzhou soldiers squatting on the side. They jumped, and they quickly lowered their heads and took off their military uniforms in a hurry.
After Lin Feng finished his order, he turned around and got out of the cabin. Not long after, Lin Feng, surrounded by a large group of special forces, got off the big ship and took a small boat ashore.
At this time, the battlefield on the water surface had completely ended. Undamaged Langzhou warships chased eastward. The remaining warships were receiving the damaged and unable to move or surrendered with white flags. Cheers to celebrate victory could be heard everywhere.
Seeing that there was no one around, the two Tanzhou soldiers who had discovered the "mystery" had pretended to be careless and slowly moved to the side of the ship, wiping the blood on them one after another. While the guards were not paying attention, the two threw the rag in their hands, turned over, and quickly jumped into the water.
Several Langzhou guards rushed over quickly, grabbed the bow and arrow and were about to shoot into the water. Ma Pian, who was covered in frost, walked over, glared at them fiercely, and cursed angrily: "A group of waste, even the unarmed people can't bear to see them. What else can you do? Don't waste your time, look at others for me, and run away. I will kill you and apologize to Lord Lin!"
The soldiers put away their bows and arrows in disappointment, turned around and walked towards other Tanzhou soldiers who were doing hard work, and continued to monitor their work.
At this time, Lin Feng had already taken Li Congqian, Chen Fei and the others to find the Langzhou base camp that was moving forward on land.
Ma Xi'e, who was proud and satisfied, rode on a tall horse with white fur, surrounded by a group of civil and military officials, slowly shaking forward.
Seeing Lin Feng coming, Ma Xi'e hurriedly jumped off the horse and ran two steps forward to salute. When Lin Feng came, he not only helped a lot in the war, but even God was looking at him and changed the direction of the wind. It seems that this Envoy Lin is not only a powerful general, but also a lucky general!
With Ma Xi'e leading the way, a group of civil and military officials also rushed over to meet the Tang Dynasty envoy who had just revealed his ferociousness.
Faced with the sea-like flattery, Lin Feng's face was calm, and he directly pushed the credit to God. He praised Ma Xi'e for his sudden change in the wind as an excuse that he was in accordance with the will of heaven. He immediately coaxed Ma Xi'e's face to bloom, and his fat body couldn't help but twisted a few times.
The soldiers of Tanzhou fled quickly, and the soldiers of Langzhou chased each other quickly.
In less than two hours, under the command of the infantry commander Zhu Jinzhong, the land army on Langzhou not only successfully conquered Longyang, a small city where no soldiers were guarding the city, but also chased all the deserters of Tanzhou into Yiyang (now Yiyang, Hunan).
The dense Langzhou warships stopped on the water outside the east gate of Yiyang City, while the north gate and west gate of Yiyang City were heavily besieged by Langzhou infantry, but there was no one outside the south gate. Zhu Jinzhong made this appearance a classic circumference of three quads and one, and deliberately left the south gate to lure the other party to abandon the city and escape.
The Langzhou army, who took advantage of the situation, saw that there was no army in Yiyang to fight and had no intention of surrendering, was no longer polite and launched an attack on Yiyang City from the north and east sides. However, Yiyang City was nearly two meters high, and the attack in one afternoon did not work. Instead, many soldiers' bodies were thrown under the city wall.
Throughout the afternoon, Lin Feng took Li Congqian, Chen Fei and others without saying a word, and watched the entire siege like outsiders.
Later, when Ma Xi'e, who was bored from behind, saw that it was getting late, he ordered to withdraw his troops.
After returning to the "Own Warship" and having a simple supper, Lin Feng took Li Congqian and the others to the Langzhou Camp outside the north gate to participate in the military convention for tomorrow's siege.
Lin Feng just sat down in the tent, and didn't even say hello to the people in the tent. The special forces soldiers were like queues. Lin Renzhao and others came in one after another to report the military information to Lin Feng. The military discussion that was about to begin was interrupted, and everyone listened to the military information coming from these soldiers:
Liu Yingcheng led the remaining more than 60 warships to return to Tanzhou;
The largest official in Yiyang City is Zhang Hui, the commander of the Tanzhou Army’s cavalry army. He led 3,000 horses to Longyang. He heard that the front line was defeated and retreated directly to Yiyang;
There were about 9,000 infantry soldiers in Yiyang City, as well as Tanzhou soldiers who fled back from the front line;
Needless to say, this is exactly the intelligence spy operation arranged by Lin Feng on the Meizhou warship.
Chapter completed!