A flag signal came from the Dongyang. Enemy ships had gathered on the Shiliang River. Without much time to react, Lin Fu could only force everyone in the Lin family to evacuate from the mansion to the ship.
Lin Tingxun took a breath and just used good ginseng medicine to hang on to his life, but Lin Fu couldn't leave him in the Lin family's mansion and ignore him. At this time, he couldn't bear the crime of abandoning the family head. If Lin Tingli handled it properly, he would soon be
It is possible that he could fill the vacancy of Dongyang Magistrate, and there is also the eldest son Lin Xuwen who is a doctor in the Ministry of Industry in Yanjing. Lin Fu must rescue Lin Tingxun even if he snatches a corpse at this time. In the Lin family mansion, ordinary servants and maids are all
They were sent away to escape, but the third lady, fourth lady, fifth lady, sixth lady, young master and others, as well as their personal maids and retinues, had to be taken on board and rescued. In addition, there were many families living in Xiangyong.
Nearby, their family members could be rescued this time, so Lin Fu certainly couldn't just sit back and do nothing. In a short period of time, nearly two hundred people gathered in the Lin family mansion to rescue the Dongyang.
This is because most people living in Shanglin simply regarded last night's attack as a robbery by rogue bandits and did not ask to take refuge on the Dongyang. They thought that they could drive away the bandits as long as they closed their doors tightly and persisted until the officers and soldiers came to rescue them, so they were reluctant to leave Nuo behind.
Everyone's business was ruined by rogue bandits, and they could not foresee that the tragedy of this war disaster would be far beyond ordinary people's imagination.
Today was originally the day for Zhao Hu and his wife to return to the Guo family in Xia Linli, but the plan could not keep up with the change, and it was not even enough time to evacuate the Guo family to Shanglinli in time. Zhao Hu's new wife Guo Hongying was crying, but there were also differences here.
Without manpower to pick them up, we can only ask someone to send a message to the Guo family, asking the Guo family to flee in the direction of Jiangning. It is really not optimistic that they will be able to escape the war in time.
It was not easy for Liu An'er, Wu Shiyi and other water village leaders to gather a crowd to start the rebellion this time. Although they were given a very limited time to secretly prepare, they were also given the opportunity to kill all the elite members of the Qin family. After a short rest, they gathered together and headed south.
, it is very likely that they saw Shanglinli as an important water and land link connecting the north and the south. They probably relied on Shanglinli to mobilize the hundreds of thousands of refugees stranded on both sides of the Shiliang River to stage an uprising together.
Liu An'er, Wu Shiyi and others cannot simply be regarded as ordinary bandit leaders. Once they really intend to unite and mobilize the refugees on both sides of the Shiliang River, it will be a very strategic and far-sighted move, and the military disaster they cause is likely to happen in the future.
In a short period of time, it swept the Jianghuai land.
Besides leading the crowd to flee back to Jiangning, what else could Lin Fu do? He didn’t know whether Lin Tingli could arrive in Shiliang County in time, or what decision Lin Tingli would make in response to the current situation. Lin Fu just sent people to ride fast horses.
He broke out from the direction of Shiliang County and informed Lin Tingli of the latest situation, asking him to take care of himself.
Lin Fu stood in the alleyway and frowned at the open area of more than two hundred steps from the shop street to the dock. This area was usually used as a stockyard and open-air grass market, but it was very deadly at this time. Liu Miaozhen led
The cavalry were coveting the area a little further away, and the open space provided enough space for Liu Miaozhen's cavalry to charge.
Lin Fu, Cao Zi'ang, Zhou Pu, Ge Cunxin, Sun Jingtang, Zhao Hu, Lin Jiyuan, Chen Shouyan and others squatted on the ground to discuss how to ensure that the Lin family could evacuate to the Dongyang smoothly and avoid being stranded in Shanglin by Lin Miaozhen's cavalry.
The main force of the water village that arrived was fighting hard, so they had to immediately organize a defensive formation at the west end of the yard and evacuate people aboard the Dongyang.
There is a section of the Shiliang River south of Shanglinli that is only more than forty feet wide. In that narrow river channel, the Dongyang and several fast-propelled boats are sure to block the warships of the water village forces.
If Liu An'er and other leaders of the water village are smart enough, as long as they show a strong will to fight, they will avoid chewing hard bones. In the water battle at dawn, although the entire Qin family fleet was surrounded and annihilated, only a few people were rescued by the Dongyang.
, the victory cannot be said to be glorious, but the main casualties of the water village were no less than seven or eight hundred people. Naturally, they would not spend such a high price to keep Lin Fu and the others, but it was not in line with the strategic interests of the water village forces.
The key is to block Liu Miaozhen's offensive. This woman is very fierce, has high tactical literacy, and has nearly two hundred cavalry under her command. They are also very powerful and difficult to deal with.
The equipment of Xiangyong is relatively simple. There are only a few people wearing armor, and they carry mostly short weapons. The skinned wooden shields are also small waist shields. There are not many bows and arrows, and most of them are soft bows such as hunting bows. This kind of equipment is not suitable for
Street fighting, ships and small-scale bandit warfare are quite advantageous, but fighting cavalry in open areas, especially cavalry with a strong fighting spirit, will suffer too much. Once the cavalry kills them, there will be unarmed old women and children behind them.
, the consequences are unimaginable.
Lin Fu sent Sun Jingtang to lead the Xihe congregation to assist or drive them away, coercing the old, weak, women and children to evacuate onto the boat. The faster they moved, the less pressure there was. The Lin family was only allowed to carry a small amount of their belongings and retreat at once.
After that, Lin Fu had someone tell him that he would never wait for anyone who delayed.
Lin Fu had people tear down the gates of various courtyards, and asked three or four Xiangyong to carry a solid wooden door at the same time. He also sent a small number of Xiangyong with spears and spears, a total of more than 60 people, led by Chen Shouyan to form the first line of defense.
Facing the cavalry attack head-on, Lin Jiyuan led two teams of Xiangyong armed with bows, arrows, daggers, and wooden signs to form a formation behind them. Zhao Hu was quite familiar with Xiangyong, and Lin Fu kept him by his side to help him restrain one of the reserve teams.
Xiang Yong increased the depth of the defensive formation. He also ordered Zhou Pu and Ge Cunxin to lead more than 40 armored soldiers on the two wings to prepare for an attack on Liu Miaozhen's troops, and also to prevent Liu Miaozhen's troops from outflanking them from both wings. No matter what formation they used,
Physically speaking, the two wings are always relatively fragile. Lin Fu also asked Cao Ziang and Lin Mengde to send two fast paddle boats on the Dongyang to the upper reaches of Shanglin River to provide support.
After everything was arranged, Lin Fu first asked people to drive twenty or thirty mules and horses from Lin's house to the entrance of the alley, tied oil-soaked cloth strips to their tails, and drove them in to Liu Miaozhen's tribe. Taking advantage of Liu Miaozhen's tribe's temporary confusion, another
The envoy dragged more than a dozen large vehicles to the west end of the yard to form a simple roadblock, and then personally led the Xiangyong and armored soldiers to file away, forming a defensive formation behind the simple roadblock to block Liu Miaozhen to the west of the ferry.
Liu Miaozhen drove away the frightened horses and saw that Lin Fu's side was heavily defended. However, she did not hesitate to divide Zhao Neng's remaining troops into two teams and send them out to attack the two wings of Xiangyong's formation. She then led more than fifty elite cavalrymen under her command.
The latter ones directly hit the front of Xiangyong's defensive formation - she saw that the defensive formation formed by Lin Fu was actually one with strong wings and a weak center.
The Shuizhai forces were mostly good at water warfare, but they also secretly trained some cavalry and infantry, but they were never of a large scale. The imperial court was defeated by Chentangyi. Liu An'er fled from Jibei, and more than 300 fugitive officers and soldiers followed him back to Hongzepu.
, and then the cavalry was officially formed. Liu An'er fought bravely and wisely when he was in Jibei, and he was soon promoted to an officer. He was very prestigious in the army. Before the Battle of Chentangyi broke out, he had already accumulated merit.
The more than 300 fleeing officers and soldiers were mostly Liu An'er's subordinates, and a small number were deserters from Haozhou, Huai'an and Dongyang gathered along the way. It was thousands of miles away from Jibei to Hongzepu, and Liu An'er restrained them.
It was not an easy task for more than 300 people to sneak back to Hongzepu, thousands of miles away, with complete armor and even hundreds of war horses. Liu An'er led the crowd to escape back to Hongzepu, where she joined her uncle Yang Quan and her sister Liu Miaozhen.
Once there, the Liu family's power immediately increased, and the water villages of Hongzepu became the core, and they quickly united in the fishermen's anti-donation movement.
Although the number of the more than fifty cavalry under Liu Miaozhen's command is limited, they are fully equipped with armor. Except for a few children of the Liu family, most of them are Liu An'er's loyal and brave subordinates. Their combat effectiveness is much stronger than that of Zhao Neng's remnants. These more than fifty cavalry are led by Liu Miaozhen.
At a distance of three to four hundred steps, it formed a shuttle shape and directly impacted the middle section of Uego Isamu's defensive formation. The cavalrymen on horseback waved their sabers to block the thrusting spears, and the momentum of the horses did not decrease. The horses' hoofs stepped on
It was like a heavy hammer. Three or four village warriors pushed the wooden door with their backs and were hit by Liu Miaozhen's cavalry, which weighed nearly five hundred kilograms.
He was vomiting blood, and there were two spears behind the door panel to repair the stabbing. The spearheads penetrated from the bottom of the horse's neck, and the spear handles were pressed against the ground. They stabbed the horse's neck bone, and the spear handles snapped into an arc and broke. The horse fell down wailing.
Down, there was a lot of flying dust, and the cavalryman on horseback rolled down and dismounted. He was about to throw away his long soldier and drew his sword to resist. Xiang Yong was not slow in his actions. He had already been attacked with spears and short knives, but he rolled to the ground to dodge.
Then the colleagues who rushed forward trampled their bones and flesh to pieces. Three or four people on Xiangyong's side also carried a large wooden gate to stop the enemy cavalry's attack. They could only delay the enemy cavalry, and the second line of maneuvers
Only local warriors with hunting bows, short weapons, and waist cards can rush forward and make a difference.
Lin Fu was sweating. If he couldn't slow down the enemy cavalry's attack at the front, even if he still had two teams of reserve combat forces, it would be difficult to guarantee that three or five enemy cavalry would not rush through and directly attack the family members.
, it is very likely that the entire formation will collapse by then.
Liu Miaozhen saw that she could not break through Xiangyong's defense. When she got off her mount and was about to hit the door panel, she pulled up the reins and the war horse turned sideways against the spearhead thrust from the middle. Her hind hooves kicked the wooden door panel like a hammer.
Liu Miaozhen slashed with her backhand, cutting off the two spears and her hands. The two cavalry behind her even rushed into the gap created by Liu Miaozhen's side attack and killed two Xiangyong, and then defended against the Xiangyong.
Sweeping in front of the formation, Liu Miaozhen put away her sword and took her bow. She turned around on horseback and fired arrows with a "whoosh". Two people were shot by her immediately. Xiang Yong shot back with arrows, but she was not afraid of ordinary hunting bows because she was wearing laminated leather armor.
She stepped off the war horse, which was fat and muscular, and had a few arrows hanging on its sides, but it did not affect the speed of its galloping hooves. In the blink of an eye, Liu Miaozhen's men were swept past.
The remnants of Zhao Neng could only follow Liu Miaozhen after Zhao Neng's death, but it was impossible for Liu Miaozhen to completely integrate them in such a short period of time. They had the idea of sitting on the wall and watching, and had no determination to fight to the death. The armored soldiers on both sides of Xiangyong's defense formation were very strong.
Biaoyong, the arrows shot were fast and heavy. These horse thieves' cavalrymen saw that the swords held by the armored soldiers were as high as the necks of war horses. The cold light shone. The cavalrymen who were the first to rush to the front of the formation on the north wing were struck by the necks of their horses.
Zhou Pu cut off the horse from the side, and the flesh and blood of the horse and its body were instantly separated. The severed horse's neck bones were also visible in white. The knight on the horse couldn't control his momentum and flew out, hitting two people behind Zhou Pu in mid-air.
One person used the Mo Dao to pierce the armor and kill him. Naturally, the others were too scared to attack the array of armored soldiers, so they stepped up to the front and hid behind them.
The cavalry on both wings dodged, and Zhou Pu and Ge Cunxin immediately led the soldiers to flank Liu Miaozhen's troops from both wings. At this time, Lin Fu and them both understood that the more than 50 elite cavalry led by Liu Miaozhen himself were the biggest threat. The country warriors did not have enough hunting bows.
In order to pose a threat to Liu Miaozhen's troops, the walking bows Lin Fu equipped for the men on the Dongyang were all powerful bows with a power of more than eight Dou. Although there were only a dozen bows, they could shoot through the skin within a range of forty or fifty steps.
A, Liu Miaozhen's troops swept back from the front of the formation to a safe distance. Although it only took a few breaths, it was enough for Zhou Pu and the others to shoot two rounds of arrows, so that the last five or six riders of Liu Miaozhen's troops returned with their backs and shoulders filled with arrows.
This time, Lin Fu led Xiang Yong to have an initial head-on confrontation with the water village cavalry and infantry on the shore. Although the time was short, Xiang Yong died four people and injured **. Liu Miaozhen also suffered ** casualties. In total, Xiang Yong still had **.
The infantry was slightly better than the cavalry. Lin Fu immediately asked the people to carry the bodies of the dead and the wounded onto the boat, and continued to prepare for the battle. He saw that Liu Miaozhen, who was wearing a red coat, had just performed like a fierce woman.
General, Liu An'er's ability to become the leader of the water village forces is inseparable from the support of his uncle and sister. Although Liu Miaozhen gathered his men in the distance and had no intention of charging anymore, Lin Fu did not dare to be careless until everyone in the Lin family evacuated on the boat.
Finally, he slowly withdrew his troops and boarded the fast oar boat.