Traveling through history leaving a name

Chapter 105 Hefei City

Fenghuang River Ferry outside Guangling City.

Countless peasants are carrying bags of grain and grass to the cargo ships.

There are almost a hundred of these ships, and all of these ships will be loaded with food later, which are supplies to support Hefei City.

It took a day, and under the handling of countless civilians, more than 100 ships were filled with grain and grass, which almost emptied all the grain and grass reserves near Guangling and Hailing.

The grain was almost 800 million catties, enough to feed [-] soldiers and [-] civilians in Hefei for two months.

Early the next morning, amidst the uproar, all those who were going to Hefei for support began to board the ship.

The 5000 musketeers had their own boats, and the captured Sun Quan navy boats not only transported food, but also transported more than [-] soldiers of Zang Ba.

This morning, a huge fleet of hundreds of ships sailed up the river. At the beginning of the fleet was a huge, smoking ship, which was the Youzhou.

Behind the Youzhou, there are several gunboats escorting in the middle of the fleet, and behind the fleet, there are also several gunboats.

With such a huge fleet, the Queen Youzhou completely lost its speed advantage.

According to the usual speed of the Youzhou fleet, it would take three to four hours to reach Moling from Guangling.

After taking more than 100 captured Sun Quan navy ships, the fleet set off from Guangling in the morning and arrived at Moling City at three or four in the afternoon.

On the wall of Moling, Sun Quan was speechless for a long time as he watched the huge fleet slowly sailing past.

"My lord, this must be a ship going to support Hefei. Do you want the navy to intercept it?" Someone asked Sun Quan.

"No, our purpose is to contain Cao Cao's army and buy time for Gongsun Kang to attack Youzhou. Our navy only needs to transport food and supplies to Jiangbei, and we cannot fight with the Youzhou fleet."

Sun Quan rejected the proposal of his subordinates, and a Youzhou ship almost disabled one of his sailors. Now that there are so many ships on the other side, wouldn't the navy give the opponent a head if they ran to intercept them?

The Youzhou fleet also didn't take care of Moling City, which was close at hand, because they knew that they still had nothing to do with Moling City.

The Youzhou fleet continued to sail upstream, and two hours later, when it was getting dark, the fleet came to a Jiangxin Island, and then all the ships began to anchor in this water area.

The Youzhou fleet is going to spend the night here and continue sailing tomorrow morning.

In ancient times, sailing on the Yangtze River at night was very dangerous, and people's physical strength was limited. Many people were already very tired after rowing the oar all day, so they had to take a rest.

Nothing bad happened that night.

The next day, the fleet set sail again.

In the next few days, the Youzhou fleet did not encounter the expected interception by Sun Quan's navy.

The fleet entered Yuxi River from the Yangtze River, then entered Chaohu Lake, and then entered Feihe River from Chaohu Lake.

Fortunately, the Youzhou fleet was led by someone familiar with this waterway, so the entire fleet did not get lost.

On the fourth day after the fleet set off from Guangling City, everyone in the fleet finally saw the severe situation of Hefei City.

The fleet went up the Fei River, and the most seen along the way were Sun Quan's soldiers and barracks. Basically, ordinary people and northern soldiers were not seen.

"There is an army on the shore ahead."

Just when the fleet was about to reach the city of Hefei, an army appeared on both sides of the Fei River, almost thousands of people.

"It's Sun Quan's archers. They are lining up by the river. What are they trying to do? Are they trying to attack us?"

"Give me an order to let the Youzhou and the three paddle wheel gunboats go to disperse them." Soon.Fleet commander Lin Yongsheng gave the order.

Following Lin Yongsheng's order, the Youzhou quickly broke away from the fleet with three paddle wheel gunboats, and headed towards Sun Quan's archer phalanx, which had already formed an attacking formation on both sides of the Fei River.

Boom boom boom boom!
Soon, intense shelling sounded.

The four gunboats lined up, their muzzles aimed at the teams of countless archers on both sides of the bank and fired.

Suddenly, countless shotguns poured down on both sides like hail.

After 10 minutes, the sound of artillery stopped.

On both sides of the Fei River, there were only hundreds of corpses and wounded left. The thousands of archers who were originally lined up neatly collapsed immediately after a few rounds of shotgun attacks.

In this situation, it was the first time that the Youzhou fleet encountered the enemy's interception on the way from Guangling to Hefei.

It's just that such an interception, like sending a head to Youzhou gunboat, was easily disintegrated by a few gunboats.

On the city wall of Hefei, many soldiers of Zhang Liao also saw this scene. They cheered excitedly when they saw a few gunboats killing thousands of enemy archers in twos and threes.

Soon, the Youzhou fleet arrived under the city of Hefei, and Zhang Liao, who was stationed in Hefei, even opened the city gate to welcome the arrival of the Youzhou fleet.

"Zhang Liao met Commander Lin and everyone, thank you for coming to the rescue." Zhang Liao said gratefully to Lin Yongsheng and the Youzhou fleet.

Then he turned his gaze to Zang Ba who was at the side. "I also thank Xuan Gao (Zang Ba's word) for coming to the rescue."

"General Tang Kou is polite." Lin Yongsheng said to Zhang Liao: "This time we came to Hefei, we brought a hundred ships of grain and grass, and the general needs someone to unload the goods."

"I will arrange this matter right away, thank you very much." Zhang Liao once again thanked Lin Yongsheng and his group.

"Everyone, please follow me into the city. I'll have someone arrange a banquet to welcome everyone." Zhang Liao invited everyone.

"General Zhang, there's no need to enter the city. We need to guard against the attack of Sun Quan's army. Let's wait until all the food and grass are arranged." Lin Yongsheng said to Zhang Liao.

It's not that he doesn't like going to the city to eat and drink, or that he doesn't understand the world, but that the Youzhou fleet has too much to do with it, and he can't put the fleet in danger because of his negligence.

Although Zhang Liao is Cao Cao's general, he has followed five "lords" before and after. God knows whether he is reliable or not. Lin Yongsheng did not dare to take risks lightly.

When he came, Li Bai told him not to trust anyone, including some officials and generals of the court.

After getting along with Zang Ba for so long, Lin Yongsheng was always on guard against him, let alone Zhang Liao who met him for the first time.

Hearing what Lin Yongsheng said, Zhang Liao saw that Lin Yongsheng was on guard, so he nodded and didn't bring up the matter again.

At this time, in a military camp outside Hefei City, a group of people who looked like generals looked at the unloading of grain and grass from the ship in full swing, and their expressions were not very good.

Hefei city already had enough grain to feed the whole city for a few months, but now there was so much grain and grass that it was enough for Zhang Liao to last for more than half a year.

"General, should we just watch them move food and grass into the city?" Someone couldn't help saying to Gan Ning, the commander in chief of the whole army.

"General, let me lead the troops to attack! You can't watch the enemy transport food and grass into the city." Someone said to Gan Ning.

"How to attack? Have you forgotten the lesson that thousands of archers were defeated in an instant?"

Gan Ning said to everyone: "We just need to surround Hefei City and wait for Cao Cao to send troops. Our purpose is to hold back Cao Cao's army, not to capture Hefei City."

(End of this chapter)