Not only within the sprawling Yingpan city walls on the river bank, earth-shattering shouts of fighting suddenly erupted from ships of all sizes on the Yellow River.
On the various warships listed in front of the river, the three Ruan brothers and the navy commander Yongjian commanded by Li Bao, who was newly transferred to Shuibo Liangshan, heard the leaders of their troops shouting orders and should go ahead.
The bow of the ship was divided into several rows, and the soldiers in the front row had already raised their crossbows. The tips of thousands of crossbow arrows gathered into a sheet with a frightening cold light, and they were densely packed towards the Jin soldiers who were encamping on the city wall opposite.
Ma Jian will pass.
At the same time that the rapid drums of war suddenly beat, the navy commander who was in charge of the sergeants on each ship on the north bank of the Yellow River was getting closer and closer. The leader of the navy shouted in a hiss almost at the same time, and in an instant, he mechanically triggered the company.
The sound pierced through one piece, and countless crossbow strings bounced back quickly and trembled fiercely, and immediately shot out a shower of powerful and terrifying arrows!
In cloudy and rainy weather, although it is inconvenient to use firearms from large warships to carry out long-distance bombardment strikes against enemy troops on the shore, and most of the warships in the rear are carrying righteous troops and horse infantry who are ready to land on the beach, it is also inconvenient to use large and small ships to launch weapons.
Equipped with tall and heavy sling artillery, however, the power of the powerful crossbows now equipped by various naval forces of the Xiao Tang Dynasty suddenly shot out with flat fire as they quickly approached the other shore. The power was also fully displayed. On the leading warships, there were hundreds of them.
The crossbow arrows whizzed and hit several military walls on the shore that were within striking range. Although they could rely on the two-foot-high city walls to hide and defend themselves, the slightly scattered formations of Jurchens and Zahu on the city walls were immediately bloody.
The light splashed, and a series of sounds of sharp weapons entering flesh and screams and screams were mixed together and sounded immediately.
After the first round of crossbow bolts were fired on many ships speeding on the river, sailors from behind soon came forward to hand over the powerful crossbows that had already been cocked and loaded. The crossbowmen in the front row took them over with ease and fired them again.
The brush was lifted flat, and only for a moment later, as the commanders of the troops on each ship also shouted orders, the dense crossbow arrows that were as powerful as the wind and the rain suddenly gathered together and fired at them, and so on and so on.
There are the third round, the fourth round... each crossbowman, the hand crossbow in the hand of the sailor is cocked step by step, loaded, shot, passed, and cocked again... until it successfully touches the shore.
At the entrance, the enemy troops stationed within the shooting range should be roughly cleared away, and until a large number of horse and infantry troops in the rear can land and rush to kill, they will continue to attack in the lead.
It was not until the third round of crossbow strikes that several temporary city walls made of rammed earth located on the north bank of the Yellow River, "Boom, boom, boom, boom, boom..." were so exciting that Zhizhi people's eardrums broke out.
The painful sound of the golden iron nails digging into the stone soil finally stopped, but many crossbow bolts were already inserted. The Jin army soldiers and horses, who used the city wall as cover, suffered several rounds of crossbow bolts. Although they fell to death.
The piles of corpses above the city walls or piled up on the city walls are not considered to be piled up in layers. However, under such dense and violent blows, more Jurchens who missed their vital points and wounded soldiers fell to the ground and covered their wounds.
The howling and struggling was enough to cause chaos inside the Jinjun camp's city wall.
However, the reason why the Jin army on the river bank had extended and set up city wall barriers in advance was within the range of the rebel crossbows. Tens of thousands of infantry archers were also deployed along the stretching formation.
They withstood the powerful crossbow strikes from the rebel ships on the Yellow River and immediately prepared to use them. Several slingshots at the rear, which were not very well-made, were also being fired by dozens of soldiers under the angrily orders of several generals.
The Han pushed the generals forward. The Jin Army archers on the city walls in various places also showed their heads, and they also pulled their bow strings and looked at the ships on the opposite side.
These Jin armies, which are mainly archers, not only include the brave men from various tribes in the North who can shoot hard bows, but also mixed with the mature Jurchens who are good at archery. On both sides of the water and land, they are about the same distance from each other.
There is a distance of more than a hundred steps. The elite soldiers selected from the Jurchen archers who used to hunt with bows and arrows in the deep mountains and forests are enough to defeat the opposing rebels within such a long range.
A naval boatman emerging from a warship.
It's just that the Jin Army's main equipment is to attack by force. It's rainy at this time, the bow strings are soaked in water, and the arrow feathers are also wet. The power of the arrow rain can't help but be somewhat compromised. On the other hand, the Rebel Army
On the ship heading to the north bank of the Yellow River, there were only as many soldiers in the water squad with crossbows and short soldiers as there were three Ruan brothers. Water warfare requires lightness, and they have to be able to hold on to the deck with both feet on the bumpy warship.
, since they couldn't wear heavy armor, many soldiers wore at best short-fitting paper armor, and many simply went bare-chested and bare-footed, exposing their strong and strong muscles. However, there were many soldiers on large and small warships.
Zhang was hung with cooked cowhide and shields, and some Yongjian of the water squad were equipped with shields to block the arrow clusters. When they fired at each other, Zhemo's rebel navy, who was in the lead, was able to gain the upper hand in terms of killing efficiency and coverage and shock.
Just like the crossbows and arrows of locusts, it was inevitable that some water squadron soldiers would be killed by arrows on the ships of the rebel army. On the sea loach ship where Ruan Xiaoer was, a young leader saw it with his own eyes.
A cluster of arrows shot out from nowhere and penetrated the head of an uncle next to him who was also familiar with him. The young leader immediately became furious and his eyes seemed to be spitting out fire.
, while shouting and cursing in his mouth, he skillfully cocked the short crossbow in his hand and straightened the mechanism, and then stuck his head out as if he didn't care, even if the sight in front of him was not clear, he had to immediately cock the crossbow on the short crossbow.
If you shoot out the arrows, you will kill a few more Tatars anyway!
And this young leader of the Chenglang Army, commanded by Ruan Xiaoer, was none other than Ruan Liang, his own son from Lidi Taisui.
As early as when Xiao Tang ordered Yan Qing and Zhang Shun to go to Shijie Village, Yuncheng County, Jezhou to recruit the three sons of the Ruan family, Ruan Xiaoer already had an heir, and he was already a child at that time (according to the original text of Water Margin, No.
In Chapter 14, Wu Xuejun said that three Ruans collided with each other. Gongsun Shengying said in the Seven Stars Gathering: It turns out that there are three Ruan brothers, and only Ruan Xiaoer has an elder and a younger one. Ruan Xiaowu and Ruan Xiaoqi have never been married. Four people
They all sat down on the water pavilion behind Ruan Xiaoer's house. Ruan Xiaoqi slaughtered the chicken and asked his sister-in-law to arrange the little monkey in the kitchen...) How many years have passed, to this day?
, Ruan Liang can be regarded as one of the relatively older children among the many leaders of Liangshan who have descendants. Just like Ruan Xiaoqi often laughed and scolded Zhang Rong, who always followed him for fun, like a little hozen.
Ruan Xiaoer can also call his son Little Monkey.
Compared with the proficiency in drinking water when he was half a teenager, he often followed Ruan Xiaoqi, Zhang Shun and other brothers at an early age, and there was also the little white dragon Zhang Rong who Xiao Tang had intended to train and train. At that time, what happened
Ruan Liang, who is still young, has always been under the care of his mother. He and the mothers of the three Ruan brothers and his grandmother first settled in Erlong Village in Qingzhou, and then returned to Shuishui, which is considered to be of the same sect as his own home.
Living in Boliang Mountain, in addition to his father, there are naturally two uncles, Ruan Xiaowu and Ruan Xiaoqi, Zhang Shun and other uncles who are good water class players, as well as Zhang Rong, Meng Wei, Zheng Zhe and other water troupe players.
His elder brother, who was born in the villages around Boliang Mountain, taught him about the underwater skills on the boat. After all, Ruan Liang was the only child of the next generation of the three Ruan clans. After years of hard work, he not only learned how to jump over waves and swim underwater.
Since the heroes of the Liangshan Mountains in Shuibo announced their appointment, Ruan Xiaoer saw that his son was already in his prime and needed to develop water warfare skills, so he also intended to teach him to be a member of the Wave Riding Army under his command.
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Now that we are encountering such an important war, Ruan Liang is full of enthusiasm and thinks that he can finally be put to great use. He has long wanted to be the first to make contributions, and he also wants to teach the Ruan family that his father and two uncles can look good.
.And the battle with real swords and guns was so brutal that not only did Ruan Liang feel his blood boiling, he was still a young man at heart, but he also felt the blood surge in his head. It was just that he stuck his head out and fought for the crossbow to kill first.
When he was in Tatar, little did he know that a pair of insidious eyes a hundred steps away were looking at him clearly!
