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Chapter 2300 Yangtze River Water War (Part 2)

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    Since ancient times, the Navy has been a highly technical branch of the military.  It definitely can't turn an ordinary army into an elite division just by relying on the commander's talent and bravery.

    Ten years of army, a hundred years of navy, just a navy's necessary sailors, it will be difficult to cultivate them in more than ten years.

    The reason why Huang Mingyuan has a powerful navy is that, on the one hand, he directly absorbed the essence of the Sui Dynasty navy; on the other hand, Huang Mingyuan made plans more than ten years in advance, established a navy in the name of the ocean fleet, and conquered the South China Sea.  During the Northern War and the suppression of bandits and trade, a group of qualified sailors were cultivated.

    It is obvious that Xu Shao has the ability, but he has no experience in commanding a large-scale navy. He cannot make timely and effective commands when the battle is not going well or even when the three armies are in chaos.

    Seeing that the Tang navy was about to collapse, Xu Shao also knew that he could not fight like this. Compared to the Sui army, the Tang navy was as infantile and could not defeat it at all.  So Xu Shao decided to retreat.

    But at this moment, a fire broke out in the northwest direction of Jiangxinzhou. The fire lit up the entire sky. Xu Shao looked at the red sky in the northwest and was a little stunned.

    Seeing that the rear was being attacked, Xu Shao, whose attack was already failing, did not dare to delay any longer and immediately ordered the entire army to retreat and return to Bailizhou.

    Xu Shao has been running Bailizhou for a long time, and Bailizhou has countless supplies and equipment, as well as some of the former Liangjun navy's family documents as hostages. These are things that the Tang Dynasty navy cannot lose.

    At this time, Xu Shao¡¯s deputy general Liu Daju had different opinions.

    Seeing that Xu Shao was about to retreat, Liu Daju said: "Dong An, the three armies on the river are not as easy to turn around as on land. Once they return to Bailizhou, they will be easily attacked by the Northern Sui army when they turn around. And Bailizhou is easy to turn around."  Lizhou has been attacked, and even if we return, we may not be able to save Bailizhou. How about taking advantage of the current and rushing forward to Jiangling."

    "Hutu!"

    Xu Shao was a little unhappy when he heard Liu Daju's objection.

    It's not that Xu Shao couldn't hear the advice, but that Liu Daju was from the withered Liu family, nor was he a navy general. He had never even seen Dajiang before. He was a group of people temporarily selected by Li Shimin and stuffed into the navy.  The general is to prevent the entire Jiangling Navy from being dominated by Xu Shao.

    Xu Shao certainly didn¡¯t like Liu Daju, a group of laymen.

    ?????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????: Xu Shao, the leader of the Jingxiang Navy, would never give up the leadership to outsiders represented by Liu Daju.

    "Our army is rushing to Jiangling, but the Northern Sui Army can't do it? Look at the river, which is full of Northern Sui Army's fleets. If we can't break through the Northern Sui Army's blockage and get involved with it, our army will have all the power.  The danger of annihilation."

    After saying that, Xu Shao ignored Liu Daju¡¯s expression and directly ordered the flagship to turn around and return to Bailizhou without any mistakes.

    ??????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????? But things are not as simple as Xu Shao imagined.

    Chen Kedi was well prepared when he chose Mayangzhou as the battlefield.  Because this place is at a corner, the water channel is narrow and the water flow is quite fast.  After passing the corner, the waterway suddenly opened up again and the water flow slowed down.

    The retreat of the Tang Army's navy was to move from a place with a wide waterway to a place with a narrow waterway.

    This time 75z w.c om Zhang Si.  On the river, it is not difficult for a ship to turn around, but for multiple ships to turn around together, it is almost as difficult as climbing to the sky.  This U-turn didn't matter, and soon the ships of the Tang Navy's navy were in chaos.  Some ships even collided with each other, which was a strange thing.

    The navy of the Sui army, which was originally fighting with the Tang army, immediately rushed forward upon seeing this.

    The Sui navy was heading west and was not affected.  Although they were sailing against the current, the Tang Army's navy quickly rushed into the Tang Army's navy because it turned around slower.

    During this process, a large number of Tang army warships were surrounded and then destroyed by the Sui army.

    The Sui army's five-toothed ship was originally slow and could not catch up with the fast boat.  But at this time, the five-toothed ship actually followed.

    The ships of the Tang Army were almost like toys in front of the five-toothed warship. With a slight drop of the racket, a warship was shattered into pieces.

    Xu Shao was dumbfounded. He didn't expect that it was just an order to retreat, but it would have such serious consequences.  It was really heartbreaking to see the little possessions he had worked so hard to accumulate so easily destroyed.

    But Xu Shao is a veteran after all, and he knows very well that now that the order has been issued, it is impossible to adjust.  The more indecisive you are, the worse the final result will be.

    So Xu Shao ordered the original rear army to speed up the advance. As for the central army and the front army, they withdrew as much as they could.

    Xu Shao himself also moved from his ship to a light and agile boat.

     This is about to escape.

    Seeing that Xu Shao escaped from the battle, the other generals followed suit and moved to the boats to escape. However, no one cared about the fate of the entire navy.

    Liu Daju, the deputy general of the Tang Army's navy, was not good at water warfare. When he was transferred to the navy, he was in a hurry. He was extremely afraid of water. He would even get sick in a boat when there were storms.  Therefore, when he was escaping, his command of the ship was unfavorable. He actually went in the wrong direction and plunged directly into the encirclement of the Sui army.

    Liu Daju was also a ruthless man. Seeing that he could not escape, he surrendered directly to the Sui army.

    By noon, more than half of the ships of the Tang Navy were either dead or surrendered.  As for the remaining troops, they were completely defeated.

    Xu Shao led the remnants of his troops and rushed westward desperately. The various departments of the navy were completely in chaos. The soldiers did not know the generals, the generals did not know the soldiers, and they could not find any subordinates to each other.

    This group of defeated troops reluctantly retreated to Bailizhou. They saw beacon smoke rising from all directions on the island, and there were shouts of killing.

    Xu Shao hurriedly ordered a group of soldiers to land ashore and seize Bailizhou with the Sui army who stormed the city.

    Xu Shao originally thought it was a small force of the Sui Army making a surprise attack, but he never thought that it was the entire main force of the Sui Army. Not to mention a group of remnants, even the entire Tang Army navy might not be able to withstand them.

    The soldiers of the Tang Army who landed were beaten and retreated steadily.  At this time, the rear army's scouts reported again that the Sui navy was gradually approaching Bailizhou.

    Xu Shao's heart was in a mess. He failed to rescue Bailizhou and the pursuers came again.  At this time, being attacked from the front and back by the Sui army, there was no way to go to heaven and no way to enter the earth.

    Xu Shao's son-in-law Zhang Xuanjing suggested that they continue to retreat westward to Yiling.

    After all, Yiling is their home base.

    Xu Shao hesitated.  After losing consecutive battles and retreating directly to Yiling without orders, he really had no way to explain to Li Shimin.

    However, Zhang Xuanjing immediately saw Xu Shao's hesitation and said directly: "Father-in-law, it is fundamental to protect the navy at the moment. If the navy is destroyed again, not to mention the Duke of Qin, even the King of Tang will not be able to explain it.  "

    Control the big one and control the owl.  These days, for everyone, the number of troops directly represents the right to speak.  It's not scary to run away from the battle, but the scary thing is that you don't have the army in your hands.

    When Xu Shao heard that this made sense, he ordered to retreat again

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