Eight thousand thieves ran all the way and ran for five or six miles. They saw the shadow of the big ship faintly in front of them. The thieves became even more excited and ran to the fleet desperately. After a while, they ran in front of the big ship, but Yang Jing was surprised.
He found that there were only four large ships, not the fifty large ships that the king told him before.
Yang Jing was stunned, and another doubt came to his mind. Where were the thousand Song troops guarding the fleet? Could it be that there was a mistake, it was not this place?
Just then, the soldier shouted, "General, these are all fake ships!"
Yang Jing rushed forward and saw several so-called big ships. The outer shell of the ship was nailed with broken wooden boards, and the inside was supported by wooden frames.
"be cheated!"
Just as a thought flashed across his mind, suddenly dense arrows were shot out from the dark woods to the west. There were thousands of arrows. There was a scream on the shore. Countless thieves were shot down by arrows. Yang Jing was killed by several arrows.
Arrows hit him in the back, and one of them penetrated his neck. Yang Jing fell down.
There was a chaos among the rebel soldiers. The rebel soldiers ran back desperately. The sound of war horses suddenly sounded. Two thousand cavalry came out of the woods and rushed into the enemy group. They slashed with swords and spears, killing the chaotic rebel soldiers mercilessly.
, there are rolling heads everywhere, plasma spurts from the headless neck cavity, and the air is filled with the pungent smell of blood.
The thieves were so frightened that they almost went crazy. Thousands of them jumped into the river and swam to the other side. On the other side was the wilderness. This was the beginning of the tragedy. Three thousand cavalry were ambushing here waiting for them!
In the darkness, three thousand cavalrymen surrounded and killed thousands of thieves. The thieves ran desperately in the wilderness, but they could not outrun the horses. The cavalry quickly caught up with them. The slightly smarter thieves knelt on the ground and kowtowed desperately to beg for mercy.
Ask for a life.
But the other part of the bandit soldiers had no intention of surrender and wanted to escape back to the warship. They ran away desperately, and the cavalry showed no mercy. The gleaming swords were raised high behind them, like the grim smile of death...
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At the same time, the fleet ten miles away was also attacked by thousands of Song troops. Zheng Ping and Niu Gao each led 3,000 soldiers to surround the 2,000 thieves guarding the ship. Niu Gao shouted: "Those who surrender will not be killed!"
Hundreds of people in the northwest corner tried to resist, but the angry Zheng Ping ordered them to be killed. The screams not far away frightened other soldiers and they knelt down to surrender.
Niu Gao shouted: "Take off the weapons and take them away!"
The reason why those who surrendered were not killed was of course Chen Qing's promise to Li Gang, but there was another important reason. They captured many vehicles and ships, and the Song army needed surrendered soldiers to pedal the vehicles and ships below the cabins.
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At the fourth watch, there was still no news about the 10,000 troops who went to Balingshui to attack the Song army. Yang Yao felt a little uneasy, and he felt something was wrong.
Just then, a soldier shouted: "Your Majesty, they are back!"
I saw a rumble in the distance, a sound unique to vehicles and ships, which everyone is familiar with. After a while, the shadow of a ship with black eyes appeared on the river.
Yang Yao stared closely at the shadow of the ship and saw the ship getting closer and closer, but he did not see the signal he gave to Yang Jing, nor did he see the five lanterns hanging from the mast.
"not good!"
Yang Yao shouted, "Send the order to retreat quickly!"
Three signal torches waved, and the eighteen warships began to turn around and speed towards the mouth of the lake...
At the mouth of the lake, fifty large ships and more than a hundred small ships were moored quietly, cutting off the retreat of Yang Yao's navy. Chen Qing stood on the bow of the five thousand stone warship, looking at the river in the darkness, he faintly
I heard the rumbling sound of water flowing in the distance, it must be Yang Yao coming over.
Chen Qing stared at the river. Not long after, the figures of more than a dozen warships appeared several miles away. The other side did not notice the warships in front, but Chen Qing knew in his heart that his visual advantage would not last long, and the other side would soon
If he found them, he immediately ordered: "Ship out and attack!"
A rocket rose on the river. This was an order to attack, and more than a hundred small boats sailed forward.
At the same time, the soldiers on the other side discovered the rockets in front of them and shouted. Yang Yao also saw the rockets on the river. He was shocked, how could there be rockets on the water?
Yang Yao hesitated. There were pursuers behind him. He had to move forward if he wanted to go home. But a rocket appeared in front of him. He couldn't tell whether it was a small sampan or a huge fleet. Both could shoot rockets.
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"Your Majesty, it's the fleet!"
The lookout soldiers on the bow finally saw the figures of large ships on the river, and there were dozens of them.
Yang Yao no longer hesitated and immediately shouted: "Retreat to the west!"
With pursuers behind and interceptors in front, they could only evacuate westward along the Yangtze River.
But by this time it was too late to evacuate. Dozens of small boats rushed to the west first and blocked their way from the west.
In a moment, more than a hundred small boats swarmed up from all directions like wolves, throwing fishing nets at the impellers of the vehicles and ships, and the vehicles and ships were trapped on the river.
The two-thousand-stone chariot and ship Yang Yao was riding rushed left and right, and unexpectedly broke out of the siege. The chariot and ship were traveling at high speed. At this time, a large ship suddenly passed by on the side, only a few dozen steps away. A powerful shower of arrows was shot from the ship.
Thirty crossbows were fired at the same time, shooting out one hundred and fifty jackdaw iron arrows. A series of clicks sounded, an impeller was shot to pieces, and the iron arrows even penetrated the hull of the ship. Dozens of people stepped on the impeller inside.
Many sailors fell down with arrows.
The big ship did not stop, and passed by the cars and ships. I saw a giant whip nearly eight feet long whipping down from the air, and the huge hammer smashed through the deck, and even broke the keel of the big ship into two pieces.
Yang Yao knew that the ship was doomed. He rushed to the stern of the ship, grabbed a pontoon, jumped into the Yangtze River, and swam westward, swimming two miles away in one breath.
After taking a few deep breaths, he looked back and saw that the other party's ship was whipped hard again. His ship was broken into two pieces. The sailors on the ship jumped into the water to escape, but it was too late. They were killed by the Song army on the ship.
The soldiers raised their crossbows and shot them, and most of the soldiers died in the Yangtze River.
Yang Yao felt a scream in his heart, turned around, hugged the pontoon, and swam to the shore ten miles away.
'Bang! Bang!' Several kerosene balls soared into the air and hit another car and ship that broke out. It might as well have been entangled in fishing nets and trapped on the river. The car and ship ignited a fire, and was soon caught.
Engulfed in fire.
Cars and ships came from behind and surrounded the remaining sixteen cars and ships.
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Dingkoudang in Changde Prefecture is a small lake on the edge of Dongting Lake. It is actually surrounded by two peninsulas and is connected to Dongting Lake by an opening dozens of feet wide.
The lake surface of Dingkoudang is about several thousand acres, and the far west is Dingkoudang Water Village where Yang Yao established it. It occupies almost half of the lake surface and is surrounded by deep wooden stakes.
Hundreds of large and small warships were moored quietly in the water village. The other half of the water village was naturally on the shore. It covered a large area and was surrounded by fences. There were thousands of large tents and tens of thousands of people stationed inside.
The bandits were distributed in various large tents.
Liu Cui led a small team of dozens of people to the shore of the southern island. It was two o'clock at this time, and it was dark in Dingkou Dang. It was quite difficult for the soldiers to carry two bags of kerosene each.
There was originally a fishing village on the peninsula, but it has been moved away, leaving only a lonely forest and desolate. However, there are two watchtowers at the end of the peninsula to monitor the ships entering and exiting the peninsula.
"General, over there!" a soldier pointed to the front and whispered.
Liu Cui also saw three small boats moored in an inlet. This is the advantage of having an internal response!
There is a soldier on the boat who is Liu Heng's confidant. He is stretching his neck uneasily to look here.
"Excuse me, do you have any tokens?" the soldier asked timidly.
Liu Cui took out a token and handed it to him. The soldier nodded, "Everyone, get on the boat! Tonight's patrol command is a pot of sake."
Thirty soldiers of the Song Army boarded the boat one after another and took off their kerosene bags. They were all wearing the military uniforms of the rebel army. There was basically nothing unusual about them. They looked like patrol ships on the outside.
"How to enter the water village?" Liu Cui asked.
The water village is blocked by wooden piles and planks, and you must go around to the water village gate in front.
The soldier shook his head and said, "There is an opening to get in!"
The three boats came to a small gap. The soldiers looked at both sides and began to pull apart the planks. Everyone helped, and more than a dozen planks were pulled open one after another. The small hole that was originally only two feet became seven feet.
A wide hole.
Three small boats full of Song soldiers sailed into the water village silently...