Qinglong Three Kingdoms

Chapter 265 Victory Without Fighting

Chapter 265 Victory Without Fighting

Faced with this sudden war, everyone in the water village in Qichun County was unprepared.

Although this water village in Qichun County was the first sentinel early-warning line of defense against the Huangzu River, the soldiers in the water village were originally required to fight to the death to buy time for the water village in E County later.

But now they are really desperately resisting, and they don't have the heart to fight to the death.

Hearing the shouts from outside, Zhang Shuo couldn't help looking at the four leading soldiers standing beside him. Zhang Shuo could feel the change in their expressions, and feel that they were also terrified inside.

"Everyone, now that the young master is not here, how should we deal with it? Could it be that we can only fight to the death to repay the master!"

Faced with the current situation, Zhang Shuo didn't say anything else, nor did he directly express his intentions, but first tentatively asked the four military lords here.

After all, the four of them control the actual military power in the water village, and if there is a war, they need to contribute.

"But..., but now we only have two thousand, and Zhu Wei outside has at least tens of thousands of troops. If there is a deadly battle, I'm afraid, I'm afraid they won't be able to stop it!"

A military marquis in his forties saw the size of Zhu Wei's army outside, but he already had the intention of surrendering, and said words of weakness in his mouth with some hesitation.

"That's right, now that Zhu Wei came suddenly, we were unprepared, this..., how can we defend this! In my opinion, it's better to feign surrender, and then find an opportunity to report to the lord and young master!"

Another military marquis in his thirties said, but even though he said he wanted to feign surrender, he just deliberately found an excuse for everyone to surrender reasonably.

"Wait..., how can you say that, if we surrender, how can we be worthy of the lord and son! We should have fought to the death here!"

There was a forty-year-old military marquis who looked like a loyal man, he couldn't help looking at the two military marquises who wanted to surrender, and asked questions in his mouth.

In addition, there was another military lord who also just glanced at the three talking military lords, but didn't say anything, but he looked at Zhu Wei's army outside, also with a bit of timidity.

Hearing what they said, Zhang Shuo couldn't help but tighten his hand holding the Huan Shou Dao. Suddenly he pulled out the Huan Shou Dao and stabbed it horizontally, directly stabbing into the heart of the seemingly loyal Junhou.

"Hmph, what is there to talk about at this time, surrender if you want to live, and fight if you want to die! This is Zhu Wei's first battle against Jiangxia. If we don't surrender, it will definitely become a benchmark for his prestige. I still want to live ! This person is a member of the Huang clan, so naturally he is not on the same road as us!"

Zhang Shuo finally understood the thoughts of the four military lords here. He himself wanted to survive, so he made a decision at this moment to directly kill people to establish his prestige, so as to strengthen the other three military lords.

However, Zhang Shuo deliberately played a trick. The seemingly loyal military officer just now was actually a member of the Jiangxia Huang clan, and he and the other three military princes did not have the surname Huang. Hou Nong was in a queue. They were not members of the Huang clan, so there was no need to die for the Huang clan.

Seeing that Zhang Shuo stabbed to death a fellow Junhou, the expressions of the other three Junhou also changed.

Just hearing Zhang Shuo's words, they also felt that it was very reasonable. After all, Ling Cao's proclamation also meant not to keep any prisoners. In their thinking, this meant to kill them all.

They didn't know that although Zhu Wei didn't necessarily kill people, he would cut off their right thumbs, eliminating the possibility of them serving as soldiers and saving a certain amount of population resources.

But how did Zhang Shuo and the others know this, besides cutting off the thumb of the right hand would not work.

Anyway, thinking that Zhu Wei might have slaughtered them all at this time, they didn't dare to take chances. The only military marquis who was still loyal to Huang Zu and Huang She was dead, so no one had any objections.

At that moment, they had unified their opinions, and soon the gate of the water village in Qichun County opened, and Zhang Shuo surrendered with more than 2000 soldiers inside.

In this way, Zhu Wei's first battle against Jiang Xia was won without a fight.

So Ling Cao escorted all the soldiers in this water stronghold to the ships behind, and escorted Zhang Shuo and the other three military lords to Zhu Wei for questioning.

This time, in the water village of Qichun County, they also captured a light warship from Huang Zu's side, [-] large river boats, and [-] small boats.

Those ordinary ships are nothing more than ordinary ships, but this warship light warship is different from ordinary ships, and it belongs to the well-protected offensive warships of this era.

The so-called 艨艟 refers to a water warship with a narrow and long hull, strong maneuverability, and easy to collide with enemy ships. The entire cabin and ship boards are covered with raw cowhide, which can be used for fire prevention.

There are several oar holes on both sides of this kind of warship for oars to be inserted for rowing. Even without sails, the warship can move forward quickly.

There are three layers of cabins above the deck, which are also covered with rawhide to prevent enemy fire attacks. There are crossbow windows and spear holes on all sides of each cabin, which can be used to attack enemies from all directions.

In this year's warships, there is a saying that "the enemy cannot enter, and arrows and stones cannot be defeated". Usually, there are collision pillars at the bow of the warships, which allow the warships to rush directly to destroy enemy ships.

To be honest, building a warship is not cheap. Zhu Wei is reluctant to spend money and materials to build a warship. He can only use ordinary galleons as warships, and then he can only rely on crossbows, which are cross-era weapons. The guns came to fight against the warships of Huang Zu and Cai Mao's navy in Jingzhou.

But now that one has been seized for nothing, even though it is only a light warship, it can be regarded as a profit.

However, Zhu Wei did not use this light warship as his main ship, but continued to allocate it to Ling Cao, who was acting as the forward, because Zhu Wei basically would not charge forward in the battle, and the battleship Naturally, it must be used in combat to be effective, and if it is just for show, its function will be completely wasted.

However, after Qichunshui was taken, Pang Yan, who was originally in the position between Zhu Weizhong's army and Ling Cao's forward, commanded the front Xiongba battalion. Hearing that Ling Cao had captured a battleship, he also took a small boat to the front. I also want to act as a pioneer with Ling Cao.

It is also extremely boring for him to stay behind to command the fleet of the Xiongba Battalion. Anyway, everything is under Zhu Wei's direct management now, and he has nothing to command.

In addition, Pang Yan was not a forward, so he failed to win the battle in the first place, but he was a little impatient. At this moment, he wanted to grab Ling Cao's vanguard position, so that he could go up and charge.

As for Zhu Wei, he went with him for the time being. Anyway, there is really no need for Pang Yan to command the fleet at the front, so let him do as he pleases.

In this way, Zhu Wei's army barely stayed on Huang Zu's first water defense line in Qichun County, and then quickly sailed towards Huang Zu's second river defense line in E County, Guishexia Water Camp...

(End of this chapter)