A thousand soldiers of the Western Army marched day and night. Two days later, the team arrived at the west side of Liangshan. Ruan De led the soldiers to rest in the forest ten miles away, while Huang Dong led several scouts to explore the enemy's situation.
In the afternoon, Huang Dong and his men came back.
In a temporary marching tent, Ruan De and another deputy commander, Zhang Xi and Huang Dong, were discussing the battle plan at the table.
"The enemy's water stronghold is still the same as last time. There are basically no changes. When I went there, they were training formations on the water. I could see more clearly. There were sixty-three thousand-stone warships, and the rest were hundred-stone sentry ships.
, about two hundred and forty ships, judging from their training, they should be practicing intercepting the logistics fleet."
Ruan De thought for a while and asked: "There are two sides of the water village. Should we sneak in from the east or the west?"
"It's better to go from the west. The westernmost side is full of rocks. Ships can't see clearly at night and can easily hit the rocks. I don't think their patrol boats will come to the west."
"What about the sentry tower?"
Ruan De asked again: "There is a sentry tower to the west. As long as we kill the sentry, the sentry tower next to the gate will not be able to see us. It is too far away."
The important information has been understood, and a complete strategy has been formed in Ruan De's mind.
"General Huang, what is the material of the enemy's camp tent?" Zhang Xi, the deputy commander next to him, asked.
"It's a tent, I'm afraid of fire!"
Ruan De nodded and said: "Our main task is to burn the warships, and to annihilate the enemy is second. If conditions permit, we can also light a fire to the enemy's tent."
Huang Dong smiled and said: "I think it's easy to burn the enemy's camp. Their camp is close to Liangshan. You can take a detour up the mountain and fire rockets at the camp below. A few soldiers are enough!"
Ruan De pondered for a moment and said: "We have enough troops and can be divided into three groups. General Huang and I will lead a hundred people to burn the boats, and then send a small team up the mountain to set off rockets. General Zhang will lead more than a thousand soldiers to use crossbows outside the enemy camp.
Shoot the escaping enemy soldiers."
Zhang Xi bowed and said: "I humbly obey my orders!"
Huang Dong secretly admired Ruan De for his clear mind. Logically, he was the general and should lead the main army, but he let his deputy lead the main force and burned the ships himself. This showed that he had a clear mind and that burning the ships was the most important task.
Night gradually fell, and the navy warships returned to the water village after training for a day. The soldiers returned to the land camp to eat and rest. The water surface became quiet. There were only a few sentry boats patrolling the water village. There was a lookout on both sides of the village gate.
On the platform, two sentries watched the movement outside the water village.
Then there are one sentry tower and four sentry towers on the easternmost and westernmost sides. The sentry's field of vision covers the mile-long Shuizhai barracks.
After two hours of hustle and bustle, the camp gradually became quiet and the soldiers fell asleep.
It was already one o'clock, and a team of ten people, led by a captain, arrived at the halfway point of Liangshan Mountain, just above the head of the camp. They waited patiently for any movement on the water. According to the agreement, boats on the water must be
They can only take action after a fire breaks out, otherwise they will alert the enemy.
Ruan De and Huang Dong led more than a hundred water ghosts to appear a few hundred steps outside the water fence. This is the westernmost side of the water fence, with a cliff above it. It is about three hundred steps away from the sentry tower at the gate and about 300 steps away from the western sentinel.
The tower is about one hundred and fifty steps away.
They first need to kill the soldiers on the west guard tower. The guard tower at the gate cannot see the situation here, especially at night.
Huang Dong had thought of this plan last time. As long as they killed the westernmost sentry tower, they could sneak into the water village calmly.
Two Western Army scouts were climbing on the sentry tower with crossbows on their backs. They were climbing on the west side. They could not be seen from the sentry tower in the distance to the east. After a while, they jumped in and the sentry fell.
He quickly stood up again and continued to look out with his spear.
The westernmost sentry was killed, and Huang Dong sneaked in again with a dozen scouts. After a while, they used saws to cut a large hole one foot wide at the bottom of the camp fence.
Ruan De was overjoyed when he got the news. With a wave of his hand, more than a hundred sailors dived in one after another. There were only sheepskin bags on the water, filled with kerosene, and wrapped in an air bag, weighing twenty
A pound can float on the water.
After entering the water village, the Western soldiers dived along the west cliff. This area was full of rocks. Several patrol boats in the water village could easily hit the rocks. The patrol boats were cruising in the central and eastern areas, making the westernmost
It has become a defensive vulnerability.
Jin Bing believed that it was extremely unlikely that the Western Army knew that they had a water force. Even if they knew, it would be difficult to find the hiding place of the water stronghold. Even if the Western Army accidentally found the water stronghold, the possibility of discovering the water stronghold's loopholes was even slimmer.
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But it was this lucky mentality that ultimately cost Jin Bing a heavy price.
Ruan De led the navy to completely sneak into the water stronghold. They were divided into twenty teams and burned the ships separately. The first was the Qianshi warship, which was the greatest threat to the logistics fleet.
Ruan De led two of his men to the middle of the two large ships. They did not get on the ship, but directly sprayed fire oil on the ship.
At this moment, I suddenly heard someone shouting: "There is an enemy situation, someone is burning the boat!"
There were soldiers on duty on the ship. They were discovered. Ruan De said decisively: "Light the fire!"
His men lit two torches and threw them onto the ship. The ship burst into flames. At the same time, dozens of ships were set on fire, and the inlet was a sea of fire.
At this time, the soldiers on the mountainside finally waited for the signal. They lit their rockets one after another and fired towards the camp at the foot of the mountain.
The big tents at the foot of the mountain are all cloth tents. This is also because the navy soldiers are all signed to the army and are not qualified to live in leather tents that keep warm and are not easy to burn. A dozen cloth tents in the east were set on fire, and the night wind on the water was strong.
, the wind on the mountain side was stronger, and the fire took advantage of the wind and spread rapidly.
The soldiers in the big tent woke up one after another. They didn't even have time to put on their shoes and ran out of the big tent barefoot. The raging fire in the big camp was already connected. Not only the big camp, but also the water was a sea of fire. I don't know how many ships were burned.
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Although the alarm bells in the inlet were ringing fiercely, which was a signal for help, the soldiers on the shore were too busy to take care of themselves. They rushed to the outside of the camp. Most of the soldiers had no shoes and were barefoot. They had no time to put on their armor and only wore a thin coat.
Thin underwear.
"Run away! The fire is coming."
The soldiers shouted in fear and rushed out of the camp, but they only heard a bang, followed by a volley of arrows, raindrops of arrows hitting the Jin soldiers who escaped from the camp, and there was a shout in front of the camp gate.
Wailing and screaming, soldiers fell down one by one.
There were heavy casualties in front of the Xiying Gate. The soldiers were scared to death. In panic, someone shouted, "You can go north!"
The soldiers fled toward the small door to the north in chaos, but what awaited them were hundreds of cold crossbow arrows.
All the more than 300 warships in the water bay were set alight, and even the barracks were set on fire when the Western soldiers evacuated. Only three Jinbing sentry ships escaped from the water fort and fled deep into the night-shrouded Liang Shanbo.
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At noon the next day, when 10,000 gold soldiers arrived at Liangshan Water Village, there were only corpses on the ground outside the water village camp. The camp was burned to a mess, and there were countless charred corpses inside. Nearly 3,000 people had been killed.
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But what shocked Jin Bing even more was the bay. One warship after another was burned to coke, leaving only a piece of wreckage in the entire bay.
Wanyan Wushu spent a lot of hard work to build up the naval force, but in the end only three sentry ships were left.
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[I have guests at home today, so I can only write two chapters, I’m sorry!]