Chapter 31 Wuyue Army's Great Victory at Langshan
As Qian Chuanguan expected, after Peng Yanzhang discovered the naval army of Wu Yue, he couldn't wait to lead the warships to ride the wind and launch a fierce attack. The naval army of Wu Yue began to implement Qian Chuanguan's first combat plan, and all showed weakness and gave in, allowing the Wu Kingdom warships to go upstream. The Wu Kingdom warships quietly went upstream along the river bank and successfully circled behind the Wu Kingdom warships.
In this way, the warships of Wu Yue and Wu both became sailing smoothly, but the order changed a little. The warships of Wu Yue were behind the Wu Kingdom. This was definitely a catastrophic scene for the Wu army, so they could only quickly turn the bow and face the Wu Yue navy.
However, any military action by Peng Yanzhang was under the control of Qian Chuan. Because the problem arose, the weakness of the large volume tonnage of the Wu Kingdom warship began to be exposed. Due to the huge volume tonnage, it was very difficult for the Wu Kingdom warship to turn around. It was not easy to change from riding the wind to facing the wind and facing the wind. In a panic, the Wu Kingdom naval army began to lose its footing.
A good opportunity to break the enemy appeared, Qian Chuanguan quickly ordered the entire army to speed up and approach the Wu Navy. When the warships of the two countries intersected and looked at them, Qian Chuanguan finally used the killer gift he had prepared for Peng Yanzhang! The lime and soybeans that Qian Chuanguan had asked everyone to prepare before finally began to play their special role.
The soldiers of Wu Yue army took the wind to drift lime at the Wu army warships. The limes floated everywhere along the wind to the Wu army warships and spread everywhere. The entire Wu army warship was shrouded in a white mist, and of course it also floated into the eyes of the Wu army soldiers. The soldiers of Wu army could not open their eyes and were in great pain!
The lime tactic worked, and the soldiers of the Wu Yue army began the second round of attack. The weapon was soybeans. Everyone scattered the soybeans to the Wu army warships. Suddenly, the entire Wu army warship's deck was covered with Wu Yue army's soybeans. In addition to being cooked and eaten, soybeans also have other functions. The surface of the soybeans is very smooth, so people can easily fall when they step on the soybeans. Therefore, the Wu army soldiers frequently fell on the soybean floor, feeling embarrassed.
He couldn't open his eyes and fell frequently. Wu Jun was already in pain and cruel. But Qian Chuan felt that all this seemed not cruel enough to Wu Jun, so he decided to make the scene more cruel! The tactics of lime and soybeans were quite effective, and the next one should be ruthless attacks and killings. In order to make attacks and killings easier, Qian Chuan decided to use the third weapon, black oil and fierce turbulent oil.
Thanks to the developed foreign navigation trade of Wu Yue, Wu Yue purchased the extremely rare turbulent oil from the Dashi Kingdom. In addition to some of these turbulent oils sold to the Khitan for a high price, the other part was left to Wu Yue Kingdom for use. At the critical moment, Qian Chuanguan certainly had to give full play to the special role of these turbulent oils. In order to give full play to the role of these turbulent oils, the soldiers of Wu Yue Kingdom were also ingenious and invented a weapon to launch turbulent oils, an iron silver tube.
The iron silver tube is actually an ordinary iron tube, but it is filled with strong tincture oil, and the mouth of the tube is covered with silver ornaments. When the Wu Yue soldiers threw these iron silver tubes onto the Wu army's ship, the Wu army soldiers picked them up one after another and picked the silver cap of the tube away. Then the natural fierce tincture oil in the tube was left alone and flowed everywhere on the deck. As long as the slightest spark of fire is stained, the fire will become more fierce, and there is no effective way to fight.
The soldiers of the Wu Yue army easily ignited the fierce tinder flowing on the deck of the Wu army warship. The fire spread rapidly and turned into a sea of fire. The entire Wu army fleet floated on the river surface near Langshan like piles of flames. They could not open their eyes, fell frequently, and the sea of fire attacked. Peng Yanzhang and his Wu army warship had lost their basic resistance. Then the next moment was Qian Chuanguan's performance!
Qian Chuan, led 500 warships to attack and kill the Wu army fleet like a storm. The Wu army was defeated and defeated. Whether it was attacked by lime, soybeans or fierce tinder oil, Peng Yanzhang never chose to give up and resisted desperately. He used all his weapons and resisted with wood. He was injured dozens of people all over his body and continued to fight.
As Peng Yanzhang's assistant, the general Chen Fen chose to wait and see and ignore at the critical moment. Perhaps it was the powerful combat power of the Wu Yue army that shocked Chen Fen, and perhaps it was the conflict with Peng Yanzhang that made Chen Fen lose his mind. Chen Fen decided to take the approach of not saving his life and let money Chuanguan burn the Wu army's warships. Peng Yanzhang finally chose to give up. His way of giving up was also very tragic, and he declared the end of his life by committing suicide. The death of the main general made the Wu army lose its head, and the morale of the army was increasingly disintegrated, and it completely went to the final destruction.
In the Battle of Langshan, the Wu Yue naval army won a great victory, forcing Peng Yanzhang, the chief general of the Wu army to death, captured more than 70 Wu army generals and more than 7,000 soldiers, seized more than 400 Wu army warships, and burned countless Wu army warships. From Langshan to the bank of the Yangtze River, the bodies of the Wu army soldiers who were killed or drowned were floating everywhere, and the river surface hundreds of miles was dyed red with blood.
The disastrous defeat of Langshan completely angered Xu Wen. Xu Wen was not polite to Chen Fen, who was unsuccessful and immediately beheaded and showed his public. Xu Wen naturally gave him a great reward to Peng Yanzhang, who was loyal and loyal, and just gave all Chen Fen's property to Peng Yanzhang's family. The war between the Wu and Wu Yue lasted for nearly thirty years. During these thirty years, although the war between the two sides had their own victory or defeat, the difference between the victory or defeat seemed not very large, and there was no real victory or defeat.
The Battle of Langshan created the latest record of the difference in the victory or defeat between the two sides. Wu Yue won a mess, while Wu lost a mess. It was definitely an extremely heavy blow to Wu, which dominated Huainan, Jiangxi and determined to unify Jiangnan.
Xu Wen was naturally unwilling to suffer such a great humiliation. He organized a naval warship again and defeated the navy of Wu Yue in a small-scale battle in the Shashan area, which was also considered to have saved some face for the disastrous defeat of Langshan! But the small defeat of Shashan could not eliminate the high enthusiasm for war between Qian Liu and Qian Chuan and his son. After all, the huge victory of Langshan is rare in a century. Perhaps the victory of the Battle of Langshan has already defeated the military strength of Wu. Perhaps now is an excellent opportunity to attack Wu and expand its territory. So what should we wait for?
In July of the fifth year of Zhenming, Qian Liu ordered Qian Chuan to lead 30,000 Wuyue troops to launch a large-scale attack on Changzhou. Among the five vassal states of the Five Dynasties, Wuyue was just a country with relatively weak military forces. The country's troops were only more than 100,000, and the 30,000 troops were almost one-third of the country's troops. Qian Liu worked hard to occupy the two states of Chang and Run in western Zhejiang as existing.
The disastrous defeat of Langshan did indeed cause the Wu Kingdom to be greatly damaged. At least in terms of the navy, the Wu Kingdom's strength suffered a fatal blow.
What hurts the most in Wu State was not the damage to military strength, but the trauma suffered by morale and psychological.
Xu Wen was a relatively mature leader. The reality of Langshan's defeat told Xu Wen that Wu Yue and Qian Liu were by no means as weak as they imagined, and they must pay enough attention to the neighbor of Wu Yue. Faced with Qian Chuan's attack on Changzhou, Xu Wen decided to take charge of the battle himself and lead the elite generals of Wu to Changzhou to fight against Qian Chuan.
In the Battle of Langshan, the navy of Wu State suffered heavy damage, and it was unlikely that Wu State would launch another water attack. This seems to be the unanimous idea of Wu Yue. It should be said that this idea is basically correct, but the severe damage of Wu State does not mean that it cannot fight. Xu Wen gathered tens of thousands of navy troops again at an astonishing speed, led by Chen Zhang, the Right Xiongwu Consolidation Army, and sent troops to the Yangtze River from Haimen. The goal was to surround Qian Chuanguan's retreat.
In July Renshen, the army of Wu and Wu Yue met in Wuxi, and a war broke out again! Compared with the situation in Langshan three months ago, this time the situation was beneficial to the Wu Yue side, because the commander of the Wu army, Xu Wen, was sick, had a cold and had a high fever, was unconscious, and could not command the army at all.
Of course, this confidential news cannot be known to Wu Yue. So when Qian Chuanguan led his army to launch a dense rain-like arrow attack on the Wu army camp, the Wu army camp began to panic! At the critical moment, Chen Yanqian, the judge of the Zhenhai Army's Jiedushi, came up with a trick to deal with it. He chose a buddy among the Wu army with a similar appearance to Xu Wen, and then asked him to pretend to be Xu Wen, sit in the central army camp, and pretend to command.
"Xu Wen" appeared in front of the Wu Yue army in a lively manner. Due to distance, Wu Yue naturally could not recognize the fake Xu Wen, so the psychological advantages were gone. Relying on the help of the fake Xu Wen, the real Xu Wen survived the dangerous period of serious illness, withdrew from the high fever, recovered from awakening, and began to personally command the war.
Although Qian Chuan's military talent is already excellent enough, compared with Xu Wen, the number one powerful minister of Wu, Qian Chuan is a little immature! Because Xu Wen quickly found the weak link of the Wu Yue army: the Wu Yue military camp was stationed near the dry branches of weeds, and the climate has been so dry recently, and the wind direction seems to blow towards the Wu Yue military camp.
The conclusion drawn by the above conditions is that a fire attack strategy can be used. With Xu Wen's IQ, this strategy can naturally be thought of. The Wu army secretly lurked near the Wuyue military camp and ignited those seemingly inconspicuous weeds. The flames became a prairie fire among the weeds, and gradually attacked and eroded the Wuyue military camp in the wind. The entire Wuyue military camp was instantly shrouded in a sea of fire!
Qian Chuan seemed to have completely overdrawn all the good luck on the battlefield for decades in the Battle of Langshan. This time the battlefield was finally far away from Qian Chuan. He did not see through the fake Xu Wen's scam, and he did not think of the Wu army's fire attack plan during the stalemate of the war. Qian Chuan and 30,000 Wu Yue army were in chaos and were defeated, allowing the Wu army to slaughter and kill.
In July of the fifth year of Zhenming, the Wuxi battle between Wu Yue and Wu Kingdom was in exchange for positions compared with the previous Langshan River Battle. The Wu army used fire attack strategy to defeat the Wu Yue army and killed the Wu Yue army commander He Feng, Wu Jian, and more than 10,000 Wu Yue army soldiers. However, the nightmare between Qian Chuan and Wu Yue army was not over. When Qian Chuan led the remnants of defeated generals to flee Wuxi and came to Suzhou, he encountered Chen Zhang, the vanguard of Wu Kingdom.
Chapter completed!