The first thousand three hundred and seventy-three chapters night fire burns the sky
The bright moon is in the sky, and the surrounding stars are not enough to illuminate the land. A few thin clouds are like silver yarn, giving a sense of mystery, making the bright moon look very sexy.
There is a reed field between Dongzhi Port and the camp where the main force of the Song Army is stationed. This place is called Luhongdu. There are many fish and shrimps in the water, and it is a place where the surrounding fishermen depend on for survival.
There is no wind tonight, and the reeds and water appear relatively calm.
Suddenly, a streak of water pushed over.
In the dark night, you can faintly listen to the gentle sound of paddling.
No matter how hard-working the fishermen here are, I believe no one will come here to fish in this dark night, and Li Qi’s army is still on the other side.
After a while, the sound of paddling became denser. At first glance, it seemed that there were at least hundreds of boats.
I heard someone on the boat say in Jiaozhi: "General, twenty miles ahead is Dongzhi Port."
Another person said: "Tell the brothers to be careful. If the enemy discovers it, we will fail."
Another person snorted and said: "This Song army doesn't pay much attention to us. It dares to dock the fleet here with great fanfare and unload food under our eyes. Tonight we are going to let
They look at how powerful they are, as long as we can burn the Song Army fleet and burn all their food, then the Song Army will be unable to stand and retreat, and then it will be time for us to launch a massive counterattack."
They thought that under the cover of night, their actions were unnoticed, but little did they know that night could not conceal people's greed. Han Shizhong had long expected that the Jiaozhi Navy would definitely launch a sneak attack within the next two days.
Because the temptation is too great.
It can be said that this fleet is the key for the Song army to capture Shenglong Mansion. Without this key, Li Qi's army will be in a dilemma.
First of all, Jiaozhi has accumulated hundreds of ships on the south bank and is ready. If it cannot defeat the Jiaozhi navy first, it will be difficult for the Song army to cross the river. Once the fleet is destroyed, the Song army will not be able to advance even half a step.
Secondly, you must know that this fleet also stores the food and grass for the main force of the Song Army. If all these food and grass can be burned, then Li Qi's army will starve to death here without supplies and will not be able to retreat even if they want to.
After all, it takes more than one day to get back to Guangyuan Prefecture from here.
Therefore, as long as Jiaozhi can burn this fleet, not only will Shenglong Mansion be safe, but it can also completely reverse the entire situation of the war and turn defeat into victory.
This is the disadvantage of Li Qi asking Han Shizhong to transport grain and grass. He is walking a tightrope. Although this can help their supply team avoid the miasma, everything has advantages and disadvantages.
Among the lush reeds, I saw many black spots scattered everywhere. These black spots were obviously lower in the reeds, because the long reeds covered the only trace of moonlight, so they looked like a
A black spot.
However, these black spots were just hovercrafts, with only one or two small sailboats without sails.
There were two people standing on one of the sailboats. One of them said with a hint of doubt: "Chief, do you think this enemy will really come for a sneak attack?"
Another person said: "General Han asked us to ambush here, and he will not let us return empty-handed. I also believe that General Han was not wrong in his prediction."
The first person said: "I don't believe that General Han is so powerful. He can predict the future. If it is true, then why didn't he come in person? This contribution is not small."
The latter person said: "You have always been with me. You don't understand the ways of officialdom. We followed General Han all the way, and it was smooth sailing. But because of this, we gained nothing. Like Luo Long, Wei Ping and others, they all made great achievements.
It’s a lot of credit, General Han deliberately asked us to make meritorious service, and since we have made meritorious service, General Han will certainly be credited as well, he doesn’t need to come at all.”
These two people were Qinzhou Ningwu and his follower Yi Sen.
Ningwu ambushed here under Han Shizhong's military order, preparing to intercept Jiaozhi's sneak attack fleet halfway.
Just as Ning Wu said, Han Shizhong asked him to come here just to let him achieve military merit. After all, Ning Wu had not long since joined the Forbidden Army and urgently needed military merit to prove himself. Although this credit is not big, it is what Ning Wu needs most at the moment.
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In fact, Han Shizhong was more cautious. He originally did not plan to let Ning Wu come, but Liang Hongyu persuaded him to let Ning Wu go. Apart from anything else, the Ning family was very famous in Qinzhou, and Qinzhou was adjacent to Fuzhou.
, this Han Shizhong is the number one person in Fuzhou, selling this favor to Ning Wu can be said to be a hundred benefits to Han Shizhong without any harm.
Han Shizhong thought that what his wife said was correct, but he didn't know Ning Wu very well and was afraid that Ning Wu would miss the big event, so he didn't make a decision at that time. Instead, he called all the soldiers and asked them who wanted to go.
Most of the soldiers were willing to lead the troops there, and Ning Wu was one of them.
Han Shizhong also imitated Zhuge Kongming in The Romance of the Three Kingdoms and used it to stimulate his generals. Ning Wu felt that he had no use before and was deeply depressed. Now that there was a great opportunity in front of him, he was unwilling to let it go, so he issued a military order in public.
Han Shizhong then asked Ning Wu to go.
Of course, this also caused Ethan's dissatisfaction.
While the master and servant were talking, suddenly an air-cushion raft swam over, and a person on the raft whispered: "Chief, the enemy has really come to attack us."
Ethan was shocked when he heard this. How could he dare to question Han Shizhong? He thought to himself, General Han really has the ability to predict the unknown!
Ning Wu was overjoyed and said hurriedly: "Tell the soldiers to prepare. When all the enemy troops enter the reed waters, they will immediately release signal arrows."
"As commanded."
After a while, all the Jiaozhi naval forces had entered the reed waters of Luhongdu.
Whoosh!
I saw a flashing red arrow shot out from the reeds, which looked even more dazzling in the dark night.
"Who is setting off fireworks?"
The Cochin soldiers looked at each other in shock.
Whoosh whoosh!
Before the Jiaozhi soldiers could react from the "fireworks", suddenly, countless rockets were shot out from the surrounding reeds, and the sky was full of rockets, weaving a fire net in the air, and in an instant, the Luhongdu was illuminated.
As soon as this light came, the Jiaozhi fleet finally showed its true face. There were not only 200 but 1560 ships, and many of the ships were filled with soldiers, about 2,000 people.
Ning Wu raised his eyes and looked up, feeling even more happy in his heart. This gift is really not a small one!
When the Cochin soldiers saw the rocket, their faces turned green with fright, and they were all stunned.
Hoo ho ho!
Boom boom boom!
But as soon as the rocket touched the ship, flames several feet high immediately burst out, and the entire ship was ablaze.
"Kill!"
Suddenly, there was a loud killing sound in the reed grass.
"No, there's an ambush here."
The Jiaozhi soldiers suddenly woke up, and the accumulated breath was released immediately. Since the enemy had expected it, the sneak attack had been declared a failure in advance.
Not only that, judging from the rockets they fired from the beginning, the Song army not only expected that they would come here for a sneak attack, but also expected that they would attack with fire.
At this time, the Cochin soldiers on the ship were really crying to death. Since they planned to use fire to attack, there must be a lot of hay and fuel oil piled on these ships. This thing is really flammable at a touch, and these were originally meant to be ignited.
, but Song Jun helped them light it in advance.
I saw a whole ship burning.
The flames soared into the sky, filling the sky and the earth.
Thump, thump!
Only the sound of falling water was heard one after another.
The ship was on fire, so they had no choice but to dive into the water. But just as the Cochin soldier fell into the water, before he even breathed out his first breath, he was stabbed into the heart by a skilled man lying in wait in the water.
The blood gradually came to the surface, and under the light of the fire, this bloody red made people's hair stand on end.
At this time, Ning Wu led the soldiers to rush out from the reeds on air cushions. They surrounded the enemy troops and killed them with spears and bows. The arrows were rockets and the spears were also muskets. This was really to kill them all.
The rhythm is great, the flames that are several feet away are sprayed out from the spears, one by one. It is really life-threatening. There are also many people holding spearguns to attack enemies who jump into the water.
I saw burning people dancing wildly and shouting on the Cochin fleet, which made people's hair stand on end.
In a blink of an eye, the entire Cochin fleet was immersed in a sea of fire.
The Song Army defused the Jiaozhi Army's sneak attack at a very small cost.
As Han Shizhong said, not everyone can play with fire. If you don't play well, you may play with fire. I originally planned to use fire attack to deal with the Jiaozhi soldiers of the Song Army, but the enemy was not burned.
But he was so burned that he no longer even recognized his mother.
And this is not on land. If you want to escape, you only need to turn around. This is in the water. The Song Army's air cushion raft is very light, very strong, fast enough, and stable enough. Of course, the Song Army on the raft is also quite ruthless.
Yes, the fire illuminated the Cochin soldiers and they had nowhere to escape. There was a dragnet on the water and under the water, and no one wanted to leave.
Dongzhi Port.
Han Shizhong and his wife and other soldiers arrived at the top of the only giant ship and looked to the west. Although they could not see Luhongdu, they could see the fiery red sky.
Han Shizhong said proudly: "After this lesson, I believe that the children of Jiaozhi will no longer dare to act like a chariot and pretend to be too big. They will stay in front and wait for me to destroy them. Huh, I, Han, have traveled five thousand miles to come here for more than just a few years."
Came here to deliver food."
The firelight shone through the sky, and all the soldiers laughed heartily.
...
On the north bank of Luhong Crossing, there was also a team of people.
In fact, if the Jiaozhi Army ordered people to sneak attack this group of troops, I believe it would be much more predictable than going to Dongzhi Port!
This team is none other than Li Qi, Zhao Jingyan, Yue Fei, Niu Gao and others.
Niu Gao laughed loudly and said: "Okay! Good job! Burn these boys to death. Damn it, you want to sneak attack our Song Dynasty Navy, you are really asking for your own destruction."
Yue Fei looked at the sea of fire in the distance and sighed: "General Han is really a god in using troops. I am not as good as him."
Li Qi smiled and said: "It seems that the people of Jiaozhi understand Buddhism far better than the people of Song Dynasty!"
Zhao Jingyan was curious when she heard this: "Where did you start talking about this?"
Li Qi stood with one palm in front of his chest and said, "Buddhists say, if I don't go to hell, who will?"
Zhao Jingyan smiled and said: "According to this, my Song Dynasty soldiers still don't understand Buddhism!"
Li Qi laughed and said: "Okay, this drama ends here. Niu Gao, tell Yang Zaixing later and ask them to unload the food as soon as possible. Yue Fei, go back immediately to rectify the troops and wait for General Han's ship As soon as the team arrives, we will prepare to cross the river and then go straight to Thang Long Palace."
All the soldiers said in unison: "As ordered" (To be continued, please search Piaotian Literature, the novel is better and updated faster!