Chapter 180: Catching them by surprise
Not long after Han Meng left, Xie Wenzhong and his third uncle arrived with hundreds of soldiers.
Unfortunately, Han Meng had already left. Wang Wenyu told Xie Wenzhong what Han Meng said, which also made Xie Wenzhong take a breath.
One million coins?
How valuable is this fucking concubine Han Meng?
They just said one or two words, but didn't touch each other. In this way, Han Meng actually costs one million trump cards, not the total trump cards.
It's too dark, it's just a slap in the bamboo strife, not taking the Jiangnan gentry seriously.
There were seven people at that time, and there were four families in Jiankang City, which was four million yuan. Han Meng really dared to speak.
With so much money, he is just for him. Can he be lucky?
"Immediately notify the Yuan family and Gu family, inform Han Meng's arrival and what he said, and let them communicate with the General of the Shui Normal University."
Xie Wenzhong's third uncle said that he was a general in charge of the city defense of Jiankang City, but there were less than 500 soldiers.
In addition, there were only more than one thousand navy personnel. The capital of Jiangnan Road was located in Suzhou and Jiankang City was basically not garrisoned due to historical reasons.
However, some big families, the sky is high and the emperor is far away, and the number of private military groups is quite terrifying. When they are all organized, there are nearly 20,000 people in Jiankang City alone.
This situation is actually very common outside of Chang'an, and it is not surprising.
Usually, they are guarding servants and slaves. Once they have something to do, they will change into armor and a knife bow, which will make them a powerful army.
This is how the Guanlong military group formed at that time.
Wang Wenyu immediately sent someone to the Yuan family and Gu family, and the next step was to discuss.
Of course, it is not about discussing how to give money, but about discussing how to kill Han Meng.
Soon, the Yuan family came, the Gu family came, and the four largest families in Jiankang City began to gather together.
Han Meng also returned to the ship from Jiangong City. Everything was ready and the troops in Jiangong City were ready.
The 500 troops who went with him at the beginning were already experienced in the battle. These people had already developed the experience of the battle and were well trained, and they could become leaders in the future.
As night falls, the breeze is blowing on the riverside pier, it is much cooler.
But Han Meng had already felt a little murderous intent, especially before, in the evening, some navy warships appeared upstream of the dock.
It did not stop at the pier, but it was a thousand meters upstream and was anchored on the dock.
This is very obvious. It seems that the local aristocratic families and the army have long been in a relationship.
However, when Han Meng saw those warships, he was very surprised. He always thought that the shipbuilding in the early Tang Dynasty was not good, but now when he saw the warships, he felt his knowledge limitations.
It is actually even more powerful than the ship he designed. It really underestimates the ancients.
It turns out that the magnificence of the Tang Dynasty is still invincible on the sea.
Well, these warships cannot be destroyed. They must be taken away, carefully studied and learned, and learned successful experiences, and can also create better ships and warships in the future.
Han Meng has already regarded these warships as his spoils.
As the night became darker and darker, the labor service on the pier had left, and the dock area, which had been busy for a day, became completely quiet.
Han Meng also felt a stronger murderous intent, coming from outside the dock area on the shore.
He knew that he was surrounded, so he waited for the navy to move first, forced Han Meng and the others to escape ashore, and then caught them all in one go.
The actions of these aristocratic families are really fast!
Han Meng stood on the deck, looking at the river in the night, and sighed in his heart.
At the same time, he was also waiting. Xue Rengui, Li Daniu, Xi Junmai, Shen Shiping, and Liu Mang'er were fully armed and ready to fight at any time.
"After a while, we will go ashore. The navy will definitely get off the anchor, catch up with the ashore and cut off our retreat, and occupy our ship.
No need to worry about these things, lead them ashore, and after killing them all, you will return to grab their warships.
They didn't know that we would suddenly have so many people, so they caught them off guard while the night was dark."
Han Meng began to arrange that the navy was not large in size, but there were more than a dozen warships. Only by leading their main force ashore and annihilated it in one fell swoop can the warships be easily captured.
Xue Rengui and others had already understood Han Meng's meaning, and their main purpose tonight was to seize the ship.
Time passed quietly, and finally, the navy upstream moved, and more than a dozen warships successively anchored one after another, silently approaching the dock area along the water flow.
In the end, Han Meng and his team surrounded them, and the warships broke down and lighted up. The sound of killing sounds shook the sky.
Han Meng and others pretended to be panicked and ran towards the boat down the dock, abandoning the boat and fleeing.
Their ship was soon occupied by the navy. The navy commander surnamed Fan laughed and immediately took people ashore to cut off the retreat of Han Meng and others.
Thinking of encircling and annihilation of Han Meng and others in one fell swoop.
There were almost no soldiers left on the warship, but the navy rushed ashore and chased out of the dock area.
A torches suddenly lit up in the distance in all directions. It seemed to be as large as thousands of people, and in an instant, Han Meng and the others were sandwiched in the middle.
But just as Chief Fan was happy and thought that this time the matter was easy and he had a lot of money, the rumbling sound of horse hooves suddenly appeared.
Han Meng released five hundred iron cavalry, but did not rush forward, but turned around and rushed towards the navy soldiers.
How did these navy soldiers have seen such a formation? How could they be the opponent of the Han family army with full armor and blades?
Wherever the iron cavalry passed, there was a wailing on the ground, like the autumn wind sweeping the fallen leaves, and was directly wiped out by five hundred iron cavalry. With just one charge, five or six hundred navy troops were gone.
The entire army was wiped out, and Commander Fan was cut off by someone's head.
Until he died, he could not figure out where these cavalrymen came from.
After sweeping out the navy, Xue Rengui and others, they led dozens of people to rush towards the warships. The soldiers who were left behind in panic could not get up at the anchor, and some people even jumped into the river and fled.
He easily captured thirteen warships.
But the battle did not end. After destroying the navy, the Han family army turned their horses and began to rush to the private soldiers surrounding them.
At this time, the private armies of various families and the 500 city defenses led by Xie Wenzhong, only realized that they were facing a strong iron cavalry army.
Instead of Han Meng's troops, who only had five or six people.
Facing such an iron cavalry, there is no courage left, and I am scared to death.
So, there were people running around, even the city defense forces were running away, and the iron-blooded Han family army was simply ignorant.
What's even more stupid is that many people ran away and even held torches.
After a chase, the Han family army killed almost seven or eight hundred, and less than half of them escaped.
At this point, I won a great victory in the battle tonight.
Han Meng asked someone to camp at the wharf, waiting for dawn to enter the city.
Then he went to check the seized warships and was very happy.
He didn't think that these were from the Tang Dynasty navy.
If he seized it, that is his.
It also took a moment to form a navy, which led to the ready-made warships.
I have to say that these warships are more suitable for naval battles and are more mature than his designs, so I have to accept this.
It seems that we must also be wary of the navy of the Tang Dynasty in the future and should not be underestimated.
Chapter completed!