In the twelfth lunar month, the sky is full of ice and fire, and Xuanming moves to Zhurong Palace.
On the seventeenth day of the twelfth lunar month, in the afternoon, the small natural harbor behind the old embankment of the Yellow River's old northbound channel, Xiaowutong, had already been reduced to a sea of fire.
There was no desperate counterattack, and there was no secret crossing the river for the traitor merchants to report... In the morning, the Royal Camp water army flowing down the river met up with Li Bao, the commander of the Royal Camp's front army, and then under the leadership of the latter, in a short while
Stop and attack Xiao Wu.
However, when the fleet of ships went down the river and arrived near Xiaowuxi at noon, the Jinjiang outpost on the west side of the old north stream of the Yellow River had actually already noticed such a huge navy in the river, and galloped forward.
Came to report success.
At the beginning, the little guard general Xiao Wu didn't believe it at first... It's normal not to believe it... But when he personally walked up to the old embankment of the Yellow River that served as the port wall and saw with his own eyes the huge fleet of boats appearing vaguely upstream, he didn't.
Without any slightest care or delay, he almost immediately ordered the people who knew how to operate the ship to enter the harbor to operate the ship, and then leave the harbor as soon as possible.
If you can respond to the enemy, respond to the enemy; if you can escape, then escape.
To be fair, this is a very correct military order.
But it is a pity that hundreds of ships are crowded in the port behind the old embankment, or in the water village. Although the Jin Army controlled most of the ships in the entire middle reaches of the Yellow River, they despised the construction of the navy and only
It was used as a reserve for ferry boats, even because the boats were completely defenseless against enemies on the water.
Therefore, how can so many ships escape in an orderly manner at one time?
What's more, the Song Navy's navy was not much slower than the fast horses on the road when they went down the river. Here, they saw the silhouette and received a military order, and the Song Army Navy over there arrived almost in the blink of an eye.
Li Baozi, the former military commander of the imperial camp, led dozens of small boats belonging to the Song army on the south bank as the vanguard, rushing down the current to the old north course of the Yellow River and grabbing the exit of the water village. Immediately, Xiao En, the commander of the imperial navy navy, led hundreds more
A small boat followed, one light, one heavy, one sharp, one dull. They were both used to fighting on the inland rivers. They just pounced head-on, and they cooperated well to defeat hundreds of thousands of Jin troops of all kinds.
The boats were roughly blocked in the water village.
Then, the fleet moved non-stop, using bows and crossbows to suppress, while the boats circled and charged, throwing gunpowder packets and torches into the harbor to carry out fire attacks.
Almost at the same time, dozens of ships, under Zhang Rong's personal pressure, lined up along the main road of the Yellow River across the dilapidated old river embankments, and blindly fired gunpowder packets with fuses into the Jinjun Port.
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Moreover, Zhao Guan's gunpowder bag has never been able to solve the air tightness problem, so even if the formula is more scientific, it cannot separate this promising thing from the category of combustion accelerant... Needless to say, the disadvantages are so great, the advantage is for novices
If something goes wrong, no one will feel afraid or panic.
As for gunpowder, it was developed during the Song Dynasty for almost a hundred years. From fireworks to military gunpowder, who doesn’t know about it?
Therefore, when the malfunction of the small gun carriage caused the firing to be too slow, and four ships were successively ignited by the gunpowder they carried, the sailors calmly jumped into the water and allowed the ships to sink. However, more than a hundred small ships rushed into the old embankment to block the port.
, seventeen or eighteen ships were sunk one after another in a short period of time due to collisions, battles, and misfires.
But it was all worthwhile, even not worth mentioning, because the target of this battle, which was the Jin Army's huge reserve ship group, suffered a devastating blow in a very short period of time.
And this result is strategic.
The ship was outside, the boat was inside, the small counterweighted artillery car fired a volley, and the manpower was approaching and throwing. Under attack from both sides, in just a quarter of an hour, the scale of the fire was already earth-shattering, and the military order issued by the commander before was absolutely correct. The fire was completely out of control... After many ships controlled by Jin Army sailors were ignited, the first reaction was of course to try to get out of the Song Army's projection range, trying to get away from the densely packed berths of wooden ships.
As a result, these flaming ships were like rats with a flaming tail, and became the ones who actually set the ships on fire the most.
But it is a pity that the Zhao Guan family will not reward these people. It is not that the Zhao Guan family is not happy, but that it is too difficult to escape under such a fire.
The fire spread all over the Gaihe River. The rough water fortress built in the past to gather the ships now became the biggest obstacle to the escape of the Jin Army sailors. These people, mostly fishermen from Hebei, were forcibly recruited here to take care of the ships. Logically speaking, it was true. Innocent... But war is always like this. Good guys and bad guys, innocent and guilty, are just insignificant existences in war.
No one cares about them, and no one can care about them.
Even seeing that the fire was unstoppable, the small boats that the Song Army broke into the old Beiliu route began to evacuate in an orderly manner out of the old route and returned to the main road of the Yellow River.
"Zhang Da leader!"
After a three-foot-long boat sailed out from the dilapidated old embankment, it did not form a team, but turned to the ship. The people on the boat only wore leather helmets that were convenient for water combat. They looked like ordinary sailors. From a distance, they also shouted loudly towards the big ship where Zhang Rong was, but it was Li Bao, the former commander of the imperial camp who had been the guide and vanguard.
"Call me Dutong." Because he was far away from the battlefield, and there was a huge fire scene across the bank, Zhang Rong was so hot that he didn't even wear leather armor. He just opened his arms and exposed his dark chest. Li Bao came over and smiled at the huge waterwheel on the side of the ship. "Po Li San, I have been hearing about your reputation in the world for a long time, and today I have seen it. I asked you first... Now I Now that I have arrived at the Yellow River and am the commander of the Imperial Navy Navy, I will be in charge of all the naval forces on the Yellow River... If I ask my son-in-law to write a letter to the officials and ask for you from Taiwei Yue, you will Would you like to come over?"
"The reputation of the commander-in-chief is greater." Li San did not directly agree to the promise. Instead, he imitated the opponent on the stopped boat and put his hands on his hips, then raised his head and smiled. "But let me tell you, although today's battle was enjoyable, it was It only shows my ability as a commander, not enough to show my ability as a commander." At this point, the man pointed directly at a young tall man with a pale face and unable to stand upright next to the gun carriage on the bow of the ship. "I feel that this surprise victory was achieved in two quarters of an hour. Two parts were due to the ingenious idea of the good son-in-law of the Tutong family, two parts were due to the advantages of quick ignition of the gunpowder bag, and three parts were due to the official's decision to directly dig the ditch." , demolishing the bridge, the last three points is what Dutong is capable of fighting today..."
Li San's voice was so loud that it could be heard clearly by several large and small ships around him. However, neither Zhang Rong nor the confidants of leader Zhang Da on the surrounding ships did not refute. It was obvious that they all recognized Li Bao's remarks. .
Even many people are well aware that Li Bao's statement is still loose.
Because the biggest difficulty in this battle is actually how to make Liangshanbo's navy successfully enter the Yellow River. Once Liangshanbo's navy, or the Song Dynasty imperial navy, arrives at the main road of the Yellow River, the rest should really be so enjoyable.
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After all, the most difficult stage of the battle has long been passed in Tokyo.
Back to the front, Zhang Rong has been the boss for many years, what kind of rogue has he not seen? Or maybe he is the ancestor of rogues, and he has long seen that Li Bao wants to cause trouble, so he immediately sneered:
"Li San, if you fart, let it go quickly!"
"Capital!" Li Bao stood on the bow of the boat, put away his aggressive appearance, pointed at the thick smoke and fire across the embankment, and said sternly. "This battle destroyed the Jin army fleet, and we will be allowed to run rampant in the middle section of the Yellow River in the future.
, but when the details of it spread out, those Taiwei couldn't say that they were sour, saying that we could only show off our talents on the water and could not be heroes on land... I just saw it clearly before I went in to light the fire. The Jin Army's water stronghold was huge, not only because there were many boats in the water.
, there should be two to three thousand guard troops and horses on the shore... Therefore, I would like to ask the commander-in-chief if he dares to let the heroes from Liangshanbo come with me, wearing only leather armor and short soldiers, to walk ashore again.
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Zhang Rong thought for a while, but still smiled with his hands on his hips: "Li San, don't try to provoke me. Let me ask you, there is such a big fire in the middle of Hong Kong, where did you go?"
"There!" Li Bao raised his hand and pointed, but he pointed to the river embankment further east.
Yu Yunwen, who had vomited to pieces because of the rapid advance, had just regained a little energy, but unexpectedly the battle was already over, and he was a little dizzy. But at this time, he held on to the artillery cart and managed to raise his head. He knew what Li Bao meant just by looking at it...
… Li San’s intention was to take advantage of the boat and take advantage of the fire in the water to go around to the enemy’s rear embankment and land on the embankment, so as to sneak attack from behind.
This is a good plan. With such a fire ahead, the Jin army in the harbor must have been in chaos, and it is easy to successfully attack from behind. Even though the navy will land and fight hand-to-hand, it will be enough.
When Zhang Rong heard this, he was slightly startled, then became serious, but then slowly shook his head:
"Li San, let me ask you, how close is this place to Puyang? Will the reinforcements come when they see the fire? If we can't fight quickly, what will happen if the reinforcements of the Jin army arrive?"
"Then it's time to make a decision early and send troops early, so that we can win the battle quickly!" Li Bao still held his hands on the boat. "It's the same sentence... I am willing to be a pioneer and lead the heroes of Liangshanbo!"
Yu Yunwen hurriedly came to see his cheap father-in-law, but as soon as he turned around, he saw the big boss grinning on the ship: "Then I will listen to you Li San, and then go ashore and beat him up!"
Li Bao was immediately overjoyed.
ps: Continue to offer the book of sacrifice... "The Remaining Smoke of the Han Cauldron"
I typed the name of the new cute protagonist wrong at the end of the last chapter... He deserves death!
This is the self-awareness of human beings, not the self-awareness of ghosts... well... the crime deserves death.