Chapter 1103 Crossing the River (2)(1/2)
Logically speaking, the best solution for crossing the river in Longmen Du, Pubanjin and Fengling Du, these three places is of course Pubanjin, because the water flows there smoothly.
Unlike Fenglingdu, you still have to face the dilapidation of Tongguan after the past.
As for Longmendu, there is a Yellow River Canyon with mountains and roads in the north, and a fragile plain in the south. The river water drop is extremely different, which is where Dayu controlled the flood.
According to locals, there is no wind here and there are three feet of waves, and the water flow is much faster than Pubanjin.
So it is not unreasonable that Xian Yufu personally led the main force to defend Pubanjin after seeing through Feng Zhe's tricks.
Especially after this autumn rain, even Pubanjin has increased a lot of water, let alone Longmendu?
More importantly, due to the restrictions of the times, whoever has more information on both sides can gain greater initiative.
General Guan started from Yanmen County and swept across the south, causing great chaos in the entire Bingzhou and Sizhou-related areas.
Not to mention the military situation in various places, even Luoyang is confused about what the situation is in the Hedong area.
Jiang Ji had a keen sense of smell and retreated to the gate, avoiding the fate of being hit by the governor Feng.
But in the same way, he also lost the opportunity to find out the news in Hedong.
Jiang Ji knew that Governor Feng or General Guan would be very likely to be waiting for him somewhere.
But he knew nothing about where and how many people were.
As for Xian Yufu, who guarded across the river, it is even more impossible to know how many people Feng Thief on the other side brought.
Even if you succeed in making the detailed work to Hedong?
As one of the largest military farm counties, Hedong is now full of wars. Just the military farmer who rises up everywhere, I don’t know how many tens of thousands of military farmer people are known for.
(Shi Bao: Hedong’s big dog family, I, Shi Zhongrong, are back again!)
Those so-called righteous soldiers and rebels may not have the courage to go into battle to face the Wei army.
But in the name of the Han army, I still had the courage to borrow some money and food from the Wuzhai of the Haoyou family, but I also had great courage.
Xian Yufu even led the troops southwards one after another, or whether the two led the troops south together.
In such a chaotic situation, do you still want to investigate how many available soldiers Feng Zhe has at hand?
Luoyang cannot send useful information, and can't find reliable information in detail. The troops at hand are not strong enough to protect the entire river surface from airtight.
What can Xian Yufu do when facing the famous Feng Thief?
Naturally, it is a priority to defend places that are easy to cross the river.
The prediction of the three-layer cake of governor Feng, coupled with the Yi army led by Liu Hun, and the Hu people gathered along the way, made a huge noise on the east coast.
It even made Xian Yufu believe his judgment: Feng Thief's intention is most likely Pu Banjin.
Based on this judgment, General Guan once again used his "raid" characteristic and chose a time when it was the most unlikely to force it.
The river water rushing down from the mountain canyon stirs up a lot of waves, causing the raft to shake.
The soldiers on the raft had to lower their center of gravity as much as possible to prevent their feet from becoming unstable and falling into the river.
After crossing the center of the river, the Wei army on the other side began to shoot arrows at the river after panic.
Some surging waves caused considerable difficulties for the Han army to cross the river, but also caused obstacles for the Wei army.
With the cover of waves, the people and horses swimming in the river were rarely injured by the Wei army's arrow feathers.
On the contrary, the soldiers on the raft were targeted by the Wei army's crossbows.
Although a huge wooden slab was erected in front of the raft, under the shooting of the opponent's archers, soldiers were still shot by arrow feathers thrown from the air.
A village chief stood up from behind Dali, braved the rain of arrows from the Wei army, wanting to see how far it would be to reach the other side.
Unexpectedly, he could not die. An arrow feather shot like lightning. The Tunchang couldn't dodge and was immediately shot on the shoulder.
He could only hear a scream, and he subconsciously wanted to avoid arrow feathers just now, and his body was shaking too hard. He couldn't stand firmly and turned into the river.
The waves in the river are already bigger than before, and the movements of more than a dozen rafts have caused waves of all sizes.
The tunchang fell into the river, and a wave came over and immediately swallowed him.
According to common sense, the village chief basically needs to sink to the bottom of the water to feed the fish.
But what is unexpected is that after the waves, a head actually emerged from the water again. Who is it that the head of the village?
The raft that followed behind tentatively reached out a bamboo pole, and with the last bit of strength, he grabbed the bamboo pole tightly.
"Although still alive!"
Someone was shouting on the raft.
“Pull it up!”
The raft kept paddling to the other side, without any intention of stopping to save people, just by taking the time to rush to the other side is the main business.
The governor subconsciously grabbed the bamboo pole and let the people on the raft continuously recycle the bamboo pole.
He knew that once he let go of his hands, he would not be so lucky next time.
"I'm hit by an arrow!"
The person on the raft finally pulled the gate chief back and saw the half-folded arrow feathers on his shoulders, and exclaimed again.
“Wow!”
The head of the Tun spit out a large mouthful of yellow soup and said intermittently:
"No muscles and bones were damaged..."
Before he finished speaking, he fell into a coma.
Someone took a dagger to open the clothes around the wound in the Tunchang. Seeing the silk lining being brought into the flesh by an arrow, he couldn't help but grin:
"You're so lucky!"
The fate is indeed great.
If someone else was replaced, he would have been killed after being shot into the river.
Who knew that this guy was just slightly injured?
There are two things that saved his life.
First, silk lining is a treatment that only elite troops in the army who have made contributions can achieve.
Second, the vine armor he wore.
The vine armor on Tunchang is a specialty of Nanzhong.
Take the old vines on the mountain, soak them in water for half a month to a month, then take them out and expose them to the sun, and then soak them in tung oil for a year.
After knitting it into a nail coat, you should also use tung oil to maintain it in daily life to avoid losing oiliness.
Although this kind of vine armor has a protective ability that is not as good as iron armor, it is extremely tough and is already a rare armor.
More importantly, it is very light and not afraid of water. When wearing this kind of vine armor, even if it falls into the water, it can even help the soldiers float on the water.
It can be called a water battlefield armor with life jacket function.
But it also has its shortcomings.
First, it consumes extremely time-consuming production, but also manpower and material resources.
Second, I am afraid of fire.
Needless to say, I am afraid of fire, but this thing has never appeared on the battlefields of both sides of the Han and Wei dynasties on a large scale.
Wei State had never seen such vine armor before, so how could it be possible to know what its weakness was?
And now Wei’s impression of Han is that the rich are rich!
Not to mention the iron armored ghost rider summoned by the Ghost King from the underworld.
The Han army's elite armored soldiers not only approached the Wei army in quantity, but even surpassed the Wei army's quality. They have extremely thick armor and are well-trained.
So the Wei State never thought that the Han army would be equipped with such rusty things. At first glance, it was a vine armor that only poor people could wear?
Not to mention that this kind of vine armor is not easy to make, and most of the materials are produced in Nanzhong.
In other words, the Han Dynasty was rich and powerful, which led to the production of rattan armor forming an industrial chain.
That’s right, it’s the industrial chain.
Three pillar industries in Nanzhong: sugarcane, tung oil, and tea.
Those with flat land should plant grain, those with rugged roots should plant sugarcane, those with mountains should plant tea, or tung oil.
Some villages specially weave this kind of vine armor to pay taxes from the government, or exchange grain from Xinghanhui.
The production of rattan armor is a subdivided industrial chain in the tung oil industry.
The oil-soaked vine armor in Nanzhong and the sheepskin airbags in Liangzhou played an extremely important role at this critical moment.
Because they gave up the soldiers who crossed the river, they greatly reduced the fear of falling into the water and even increased a lot of courage.
“Wow!”
The first raft finally hit the West Coast.
To be continued...