Chapter 566 Recapture Dongting Lake
The officers and soldiers, Chen Chang, did not notice the abnormality, but thought that this was the result of their proper strategy and their morale, and rushed into the water camp excitedly.
Looking at the broken wooden houses and boats inside, Chen Chang smiled proudly and said, "You group of water bandits, I thought you still have some iron walls in it. It turned out that they were just these dilapidated things. You dare to fight against the heavenly soldiers with these things. It's simply a desperate situation. It's too late to regret it now, hahaha."
Zhong Xiang was already injured several times at this time, and the blood dyed several clothes on his body red, but he still did not look panic and fearful. He looked at Chen Chang and sneered: "Dog official, I have been traversing Dongting Lake for 30 or 40 years. Even if I have the loss today, it is God's will. It's not that you are so great - you are just relying on the large number of people and powers. Humph, I don't take you seriously at all. If you have the courage, would you dare to come into the house and fight with me? Even if I am injured, I will be more than enough to kill you."
Chen Chang was furious and pointed at Zhong Xiang and scolded: "The old man who doesn't know how to die is still dare to speak wildly until he dies. I just disdain to fight with you bandits. Do you really think I'm afraid of you? Come here, take my weapons and see how I abuse this old dog!"
The officers and soldiers were in a relaxed mood at this moment, knowing that the general was coming to "pick peaches" now. Everyone made great contributions after this big victory, especially Chen Chang must have made the most of his achievements. Finally, he "fighted dozens of rounds and slashed the enemy with one knife". How powerful would it be to write on the credit book?
Everyone was not worried about his safety. Chen Chang was originally very skilled in martial arts and was full of energy. The opposite Zhong Xiang was not only old, but also fought hard for half a day, and there were several injuries on his body. From any angle, it was impossible for the general to be the general's opponent. The personal soldiers hurriedly lifted Chen Chang's sword and prepared protective preparations on both sides. Just in case, Chen Chang then jumped onto the floor of the wooden house where Zhong Xiang was located with pride.
He pointed at the clock and shouted, "Old man, don't panic. I'm here to see how I'll kill your dog's head!"
A mysterious smile suddenly appeared on Zhong Xiang's face: "Haha, I didn't expect you to be so easy to fool, and you would be fooled with a slight arousal. It would be a barely enough for me to pull you as a cushion this time."
Chen Chang felt something was wrong. When he looked carefully, he suddenly found that the people in the room behind Zhong Xiang had already started to set fire. Then a pungent smell of gunpowder came over. Chen Chang knew that it was not good, and the cold sweat on his head suddenly came down. At this time, he no longer cared about scolding Zhong Xiang and the others. He ran back and shouted: "I've been trapped. All the staff will follow my orders and retreat quickly."
The officers and soldiers were also panicked, and they hurriedly rode the boat back and dived and were busy in a mess. At this time, they heard the "rumbling" explosions one after another. The entire water village instantly shot into the sky, and all the people were rolled in.
At this time, the gunpowder was already quite powerful, but it could not be perfectly added to long-range weapons. However, the destructive power of this fixed-point blast was still extremely great. After a shocking explosion, most of the wooden houses, broken walls, fences, warehouses, and large and small ships in the entire water village were destroyed, and the rest were burned with flames.
Not to mention the fact that the things were like this, not to mention that Zhong Xiang and his team were all killed in the center of the explosion. The officers and soldiers were slightly better because they were farther away, but more than half of them were casualties, including Chen Chang, who was hit by Zhong Xiang's aggressive general. He ran too close. Although it was too late to escape in danger, it was too late. Now there was no chance to "fight dozens of rounds, and chop over the enemy with one knife". I guess the last document reported would become "fighting fiercely with the enemy for dozens of rounds, and when he was about to capture the opponent, he accidentally fell into a trick and died with the enemy."
The officers and soldiers who escaped by luck and the outside were panicked like frightened birds and fish that escaped the net, and fled desperately. After hearing the explosion, Yang Yao and the heroes of Dongting Lake knew in their hearts that Zhong Xiang and the left-behind brothers had already got the plan, but it was impossible for anyone to be happy at this time. With Du Jia's order, they all rushed out with red eyes and red. Du Jia was afraid that they would make mistakes, so he asked the Ruan brothers and Zhang brothers to protect the two wings with more than a thousand people from Liangshan, and he and Hua Rong were in the middle to command and dispatch.
There were about 7,800 officers and soldiers participating this time, and about 7,800 casualties were killed and 800 during the daytime siege. Then, Zhong Xiang and his men died in the previous sacrificial blow, and more than 3,000 casualties were killed and half of the remaining ones were not even there. The morale was low. Most of the senior officers, who were also Chen Chang, died, just like a headless fly, half running around. Although Yang Yao and the others only had more than 2,000 people, their morale and physical strength were all at the peak, and they were all angry. Seeing that the officers and soldiers were gritting their teeth, the combat power of both sides was obvious.
Therefore, when the officers and soldiers encountered the Dongting Lake team, they were washed out with countless casualties, and then they were swept away by the teams on both wings of Liangshan, which followed, and they were even more embarrassed. They only persevered for less than half an hour before they collapsed. Because Yang Yao and the others were all angry, the casualty rate of the officers and soldiers was surprisingly high this time. Except for less than a thousand people fled and less than a thousand surrendered, the rest were all wiped out.
Originally, many heroes in Dongting Lake did not even intend to let go of prisoners, but were stopped by Du Jia. He has always followed the principle of "killing and surrendering". Moreover, since these people have put down their weapons, they still have to kill these people who have no power to fight back, which is not the purpose of heroes. They have a wrongdoing and a debt. The target of revenge is the people above, and they have finally persuaded everyone.
Then they returned to the previous water camp, packed up the wreckage of the brothers who died in Zhong Xiang, and then put them on a large boat to light a fire, let the boat drift and burn, and finally all turned into ashes and sank into the water. This is also the tradition of Dongting Lake. It was born on the water, opened on the water, and finally died on the water, and everything returned to Dongting Lake for the rest of your life.
Then Du Jia and Yang Yao and others followed the formation map to attack dozens of water camps left by the remaining officers and soldiers. These water camps were originally just to guard against small groups of water thieves from Dongting Lake to escape quietly. Each place was only three or five hundred people. When the Liangshan and Dongting Lake coalition forces were rushing, they immediately collapsed like a splash of snow. They all dispersed in less than ten days. Dongting Lake, which had been besieged for nearly a year, finally returned to the hands of the heroes of Dongting Lake.
Compassion for your heart
Chapter completed!