At the top of Jiangling City, a large banner embroidered with the Chinese characters leaning on the battlements was riddled with holes.
Several Han soldiers walked over the corpses scattered across the city.
One of them put the Han army flag on the city, and the other picked up the banner and threw it to the bottom of the city.
The large banner fell to the bottom of the city and was covered with layers of corpses with missing arms and legs in front of the doorway.
Among the piles of corpses were the corpses of both Han soldiers and Linjiang soldiers, which shows how fierce the battle for the city gate had been.
On the river outside the south gate of Jiangling City, there are countless ships that were sunk and stranded on the adjacent bank.
Most of the Linjiang Kingdom's navy was annihilated by the Han army's Bashu Navy in this battle, but a small part of them fled along the river with the generals a few days ago.
Liu Jia stood at the top of the city, looking at the rolling river, and coldly ordered: "Pursuit with the whole army, we will definitely annihilate the Linjiang army."
"General, don't you send people to garrison this city?"
the general next to Liu Jia asked doubtfully.
"Only two thousand soldiers and twenty ships are left to guard.
Zhou Yin's 50,000 troops are coming from Xiangyang.
The father and son of the Gong family have been operating in Linjiang for many years, and their roots are intertwined.
We can only kill Gong Wei and his pseudo-royal family.
It depends on sending a message to all the counties and counties in Linjiang, otherwise it would be too time-consuming and laborious to conquer one city and station troops in one city."
"But what if someone takes the opportunity to seize the city."
"If there is an enemy coming towards Jiangling, and this enemy can only be Xiang Yu's tribe, then they will collide with us head-on on the river.
Even if they travel hundreds of miles from Yunmengze in a small boat under the scorching sun and wind and rain, Come on, you will also be intercepted by me on the outskirts of Jiangling City.
The ships will deal with these small boats like a knife slicing through a watermelon.
Don't think too much, go and give the order."
"promise" Amidst the sound of drums and trumpets, some Han soldiers began to board the remaining ships in the water battle.
The other part goes downstream along the bank of the Yangtze River.
Almost at the same time that the Han army captured Jiangling, twenty centipede ships, thirty stern ships, twelve tower ships, and hundreds of large troop transport ships also set out from Jiangxia under the leadership of Xiang Yu.
The fleet was newly equipped with three thousand troops from Cangwu County.
The fleet had only sailed more than a hundred miles when they discovered a large number of ships on the river ahead.
Xiang Yu's flagship quickly displayed a semaphore, and the ships quickly formed a battle formation.
When the two fleets got closer, they discovered that they were Captain Gong's fleet.
Soon the two fleets docked together.
Xiang Yu, followed by a large number of personal guards, boarded a large ship in Linjiang Kingdom.
He went to visit the communist captain who was wounded by an arrow.
"Thank you, Your Majesty, for helping me," Lieutenant Gong said weakly on the bed.
"Prince Linjiang, just rest assured and recover from your injuries.
I will seek justice for you."
Xiang Yu said while checking the condition of Gongwei's injuries.
Based on Xiang Yu's experience in several lifetimes, one look at the arrow wounds and knew that according to the current medical conditions, Lieutenant Gong had been sentenced to death.
"The little king regrets that Linjiang did not send troops to Western Chu to help the king."
"Don't mention the past."
Wei Gong suddenly thought of something important and said to Xiang Yu: "Now, there are about 50,000 Bashu and Han troops, advancing by land and water, following me.
They should have arrived at the mouth of Dongting Lake.
I hope your Majesty will make preparations early.
Xiao Wang also brings more than 10,000 remaining soldiers and 200 large and small ships.
The ships are all at the disposal of the Overlord.”
Xiang Yu comforted Gong Wei for a few more words and then left.
He ordered that only 20 centipede ships and 300 walking boats and other small boats be left.
It carried 3,000 shield and sword heavy infantry, 300 system blast archers, 500 colonist crossbowmen, and 200 warriors from Xia Yue.
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The remaining ships and soldiers all retreated to Jiangxia and asked the soldiers to bring a warrant to Xia Yue.
After watching the fleet return to Jiangxia, Xiang Yu ordered with an indifferent expression: "The remaining ships sailed into Yunmengze and headed towards Jiangling due west."
The centipede ship rode the east wind and braved the rain and waves in the Yunmeng Ze.
Xiang Yu looked at the vast swamp with a total area that was about one-third the size of the Bohai Sea, and his heart surged.
Unlike the sea, you can often see large tracts of wild water lilies and duckweeds in the shallow water.
These water lilies act as natural beacons.
The heavy rains for several days saved the soldiers on the small boats from the sun, but they were soaked.
However, it was summer, so being wet was not a big deal except for making people uncomfortable.
Since the previous march along the zigzag line along the river was changed to a direct route from Yunmeng Zezhong to Jiangling, the distance was greatly reduced.
After continuously sailing westward for a day and night, we approached Jiangling City.
The Yunmengze here suddenly deepens, with an average depth of four to five meters.
It is no different from an ordinary lake.
Ships can ride boldly with confidence.
Jiangling City's twenty large ships are divided into two teams, one team is patrolling in the river, and the other team is patrolling in Yunmeng Ze.
In the waters of Yunmengze northwest of Jiangling City, a traveling boat quickly approached a stern flagship.
The soldiers boarded the stern from the stern, and then said to the naval captain on the stern: "Report to your lord, several ships were found five miles to the east.
Ten small boats of unknown camp.”
“Only small boats” "Reporting back to the general, the only ships we found were small boats.
To the west is a large shallow water area that even large ships cannot reach."
"Send the order to take back all the reconnaissance vehicles and prepare for battle."
"promise" Under the command of the flagship flag, ten sterns were lined up in a line with a wide distance between them.
This was a frontal impact formation, specially designed to deal with groups of small boats.
Soon, the little boat appeared on the western horizon.
A smile appeared on the face of the captain of the Han Navy Navy.
This kind of gondola boat is just for delivering people's heads and military honors.
No matter how many they come, they are not afraid.
Through frontal impact and side shooting, you can kill at will.
But soon his expression changed to surprise, because more than twenty strange-shaped boats quickly sprang out from behind these small boats.
Then his surprised expression turned into surprise.
When the twenty strange ships got closer, he realized that they were not small in size, and they suddenly started to accelerate.
The densely packed long oars on both sides of the hull flew up and down neatly, stirring up billowing white waves, and the hull seemed to be flying.
That speed is similar to that of a dragon boat.
"Quickly, order to change the formation and prepare for a boarding battle."
The captain knew that he could not confront the enemy head-on, so he ordered decisively.
Not long after he finished speaking, there was a loud noise, and a Centipede ship had rammed diagonally into the flagship's hull from the side.
The captain suddenly lost his center of gravity and fell heavily on the severely tilted deck.
At this time, one side of the flagship's side had been hit by the Centipede ship's ramming angle, creating a big hole.
Lake water poured into the hull.
The remaining five warships also suffered the same fate.
The other two were shot by armor-piercing crossbows fired by the centipede ship and their sides were broken below the waterline, and they also began to sink slowly.
Seeing that the situation was not good, the remaining two ships had already turned their bows and fled eastward.
But it was quickly overtaken by four centipede ships.
The soldiers on the Centipede ship threw their hooks at the Centipede ship and slowly approached its hull.
A Han soldier tried to cut off the rope, but his head was pierced by a javelin, and his body slid softly to the deck. superior.
A large number of Chu soldiers began to jump onto the opponent's deck and started hand-to-hand combat with the Han army.
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They killed many Han soldiers and quickly captured the two ships
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