"Yes!" Zhang Shouzhong's face immediately lit up, he stood up straight and responded loudly.
He was originally a marginal figure in the Dengzhou Navy, and was coerced into joining Yang Xingyan's rebel team. Thanks to Han Qinghui's eye-catching eyes, he was able to escape his identity as a rebel and board the ship again to command operations.
This time Han Qing disguised himself and went north to spy on the enemy, and made an appointment with him to meet him at Mijiadu. However, he arrived late and almost lost Han Qing at the hands of Xiao Dalin. How could he not feel anxious after what happened?
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However, when Han Qing heard that the enemy was blocking the way, he still asked him to give it a try. In an instant, he understood that Han Qing still trusted him!
A scholar dies for his confidant. Zhang Shouzhong did not read many books, but he knew the warmth and warmth of human nature.
Today's delay, if it were under Yang Xingyan's command, even if he would not be pushed out and beheaded, he would at least be deprived of the right to command the warship and be permanently relegated to another book.
Han Qing, on the other hand, completely believed his explanation and did not even check with his subordinates to verify it.
"Brothers, show your true skills, Ti Xing is watching us!" Zhang Shouzhong shouted at the top of his lungs as he turned around and strode towards the bow of the ship.
He knew clearly that the tone of his voice had changed, but he didn't try to hide it at all.
"That's your order!" the sailors on the ship responded in unison, cheering up and running towards the racket pole, ballista, winch, shooting tower and other facilities with smooth movements.
Neither Yang Xu nor Ye Qinglian had seen the water battle. After saying hello to Han Qing, they also walked to the bow one after another. Dou Rong happened to be worried about Han Qing's safety and walked out of the cabin with a shield, and the four of them simply got together.
Together, we stood in front of the cabin facing the bow of the ship and watched the battle.
With the smooth wind and the current, the big ship moved very fast. In the blink of an eye, it sailed more than 800 steps forward. On the river in front, a large-scale fleet gradually became clear from blur.
At the front, there are a total of forty or fifty fishing boats, and there are also many improvised sampans, bamboo rafts and other things that can be used for temporary water navigation in the middle. They are tied to each other with ropes and chains, and they look like
A floating city.
Behind the floating city, there were dozens of flags waving, which was obviously another hidden killing move.
The autumn floods have arrived, and the current of the Xiaoqing River is very fast. The sampans and bamboo rafts are swaying due to the river water, and they rely on ropes and chains to prevent them from overturning.
On the fishing boat, there were soldiers constantly stepping on the wooden planks placed between each other, throwing bundles of dry firewood towards the sampan and bamboo rafts.
"No, the enemy is going to set fire to block the road!" Even though he was an amateur, Yang Xu also saw the enemy general's purpose, widened his eyes and shouted a warning.
Zhang Shouzhong quickly turned around and saw that Han Qing did not make any sound or hint. He smiled and cupped his hands to Yang Xu, then continued to turn his face to the front and remained still.
"Although their warships are small, if they create a wall of fire on the river at all costs, our ship will not be able to dodge and will hit it along the current..." Yang Xu pulled off Han Qing's sleeve and quickly lowered it.
I asked for advice.
"I don't understand either." Han Qing smiled and admitted honestly, "But Zhang Shouzhong said that when they came, they were intercepted here. It was against the wind and current, and the enemy army couldn't stop him.
It's going smoothly now, and the enemy must be helpless against him."
"You are brave." Yang Xu glanced at him dissatisfied and scolded him in a low voice. However, he knew that there was nothing wrong with Han Qing's choice.
As the head coach, Han Qing's task is not to charge into battle personally. It is to know people well and assign them well, arrange each general under his command into the most suitable position, and give them the opportunity to give full play to their strengths.
"Connecting the boat and the sampan together makes it more stable, but it loses flexibility. The river here is seventy or eighty feet wide. Our boat can go far as long as it goes around along the river bank.
Leave him behind!" Ye Qinglian was also anxious, frowning and guessing in a low voice.
As soon as she finished speaking, she heard a low horn sound suddenly coming from the river in front of her, "Woo woo woo——"
Immediately afterwards, flames rose into the sky. In the center of the river, flames rose into the sky accompanied by thick smoke. In the blink of an eye, they connected with each other to form a wall of flames three hundred steps wide.
Relatively separated. No matter which side of the fire wall Zhang Shouzhong chooses to sail his boat around, he will inevitably enter the range of the ballista!
"It's bad, the enemy has been prepared for a long time!" Ye Qinglian and Yang Xu became more and more nervous, and both looked at Zhang Shouzhong.
I saw this man, calmly raising a command flag, swinging it vigorously, "Put on armor!"
"Put on armor!" "Put on armor!" One by one, the sailors passed the order to the ears of all the brothers in the blink of an eye.
A dozen shirtless strong men worked together to push the rolled straw mats near the bow and sides of the ship, and cut off the straw ropes tied to the outermost edges of the mats with their swords.
The straw mats were unfolded one by one, and soon, the bow and sides of the ship were tightly wrapped, leaving only a collision angle made of fine iron, pointing darkly forward.
Before Yang Xu and Ye Qinglian could figure out how to make armor out of straw mats, more than twenty brothers rushed to the bow and sides of the ship with buckets, and poured buckets of river water onto the mats.
The mat quickly got soaked and shone in the sun. At first glance, it looked like the ship was covered with a layer of golden armor.
But the sailors did not stop. They continued to pour bucket after bucket of fire-fighting sand against the surface of the straw mat. In the blink of an eye, another thick layer was added to the ship's armor.
However, two fleets of about twenty ships circled behind the wall of fire, one on the left and one on the right, and launched an outflank attack on the large ship where everyone was.
Those ships are all about 2 or 3 materials, which is about one-tenth of the size of the big ship. If the two sides collide, there is no need to guess the outcome.
Therefore, the leading Liao general did not dare to let the fleet get too close to the big ship. He ordered his soldiers to fire their bows and arrows from a long distance away.
In an instant, arrows fell like rain.
However, affected by the river wind, most of the arrows were at least twenty or thirty steps away from the big boat at Zhang Shouzhong's feet, before they deviated from their direction and fluttered toward the water.
A few scattered ones barely reached the vicinity of the big ship, but their strength was no longer enough. They were blocked by the mat draped on the big ship, and hung on the surface of the mat with a "pop", shaking like bells.
Zhang Shouzhong, however, turned a blind eye to the enemy fleets that were outflanking him from both sides. He suddenly grabbed a red flag and raised it high above his head, "All ballistae, aim at the wall of fire directly in front, prepare -"
"Let go!" He suddenly waved his arm down, holding his breath and looking straight at the wall of fire that was less than fifty steps away from the ship at his feet.
Four crossbow guns roared off the deck and plunged into the wall of fire. Immediately, a loud thunderous noise broke out, "Rumble..."
Looking again at the blazing wall of fire, it was torn in half from the center in an instant. At the break, the fishing boat and the sampan lost their bonds and drifted rapidly downstream along the current. In an instant, a gap opened in front of everyone's eyes.
