Ninety thousand Song troops gathered in Qingquan County. The people in Qingquan County had been sent away, and the county seat was turned into a military city.
Chen Qing stood on the top of the tall Nancheng and could vaguely see a section of the official road on Luoshui Road more than 20 miles away. Luoshui Road was continuously repaired on the basis of Qin Zhidao. Although it was built on the mountainside, the road was still very narrow.
It is three feet wide, with mountains on the right, cliffs on the left, and the Luoshui River in the canyon dozens of feet deep, and the water flow is very fast.
Ninety thousand Song troops built a copper wall and iron wall at the north entrance of Luoshui Road. Five mud bag walls alone were built, which could accommodate a thousand crossbowmen and fifty small trebuchets. Five hundred bed crossbows and two trebuchets were deployed on the sides.
Thousand God Arm Crossbowman.
Not only that, a narrow path one mile long was opened on the top of the mountain to their right, which could accommodate two thousand archers and could also throw kerosene balls, gunpowder barrels, etc. downwards.
But these are not the most powerful means. Their most powerful means is to blow up a four-foot-wide official road. They drilled ten holes under a section of the official road, stuffed five hundred kilograms of gunpowder, and instantly blew up the several-foot-wide official road.
If necessary, they can blow up more official roads.
At this time, General Liu Cui hurriedly stepped forward and said: "To inform the prince, there is a message from an eagle in Luoshui Road."
The Song Army also arranged a secret scout team on the Luoshui Road, with about ten people and five trust eagles, to observe the enemy's movements and send the news back to Qingquan County at critical times. The three missing hunters also joined
This scout team, it was the message they conveyed that enabled the Song Army to release water accurately last night.
"What news?" Chen Qing turned around and asked.
"The Jurchen army was divided into two, one part went south, and the other main force went north."
"Going south?"
Chen Qing asked in confusion: "How to go south? Have they solved the problem of building a bridge?"
"They were not riding horses. They were walking along the river. They should prepare to use rafts to go south."
"This is a good idea!"
Chen Qing nodded and added: "Immediately send an eagle letter to inform Yang Zaixing to block the water."
"I have sent an eagle letter from my humble position."
"Let the brothers have a good rest tonight, the show will begin tomorrow."
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The water surface, which is more than ten miles long, is densely covered with sheepskin rafts. These sheepskin rafts are all medium-sized rafts and can accommodate five soldiers.
Each raft is composed of more than fifty sheepskin sacks, which are fully inflated and tightly tied together. Usually, a wooden raft is placed on top to stabilize the sheepskin bag.
But there is no need for the Jurchen army. They can't drag a raft for march, and they won't bundle it temporarily. If that's the case, why not just use a raft to cross the river? Why use a leather raft?
There are net ropes under the Jurchens' leather rafts. A few pieces of cowhide are spread on top of the net ropes, and people sit directly on it.
Fifteen thousand soldiers were all sitting in densely packed sheepskin rafts. Their spears were raised vertically with the tip of the spear pointing upward. This was a lesson learned. If they were placed horizontally, it would be easy to pierce other people's sheepskin rafts.
The Jurchen soldiers didn't even have oars, so they had no choice but to use their spears as pennies to support the bottom of the river to adjust the direction. Fortunately, they were able to go down the river. The river was fast and 3,000 rafts were moving southward.
Driving away, there is a sense of heroism in a hero who never returns.
It was a pity that they encountered the well-prepared Western Army. Yang Zaixing would not wait for them to raft out of the canyon. When they were still thirty miles away from the mouth of the canyon, he deployed 10,000 archers and 2,000 firearms soldiers on the official road.
It was the second watch of the night, and Yelu Mawu wanted to use the cover of night to rush out of the canyon, but the moonlight was very good, and he could see dense black spots on the water of the canyon.
Commander Li Fuxing shouted: "All armies, prepare!"
The archers set their bows and arrows one after another, and the firearms soldiers also moved the gunpowder barrels and kerosene skins to the edge of the cliff.
"Bang! Bang! Bang!"
The sound of bangs suddenly sounded, and thousands of arrows from the official road were fired at the rafts in the canyon. The Jurchen soldiers in the rafts raised their shields to resist. Although no one was hurt, the rafts were afraid of the sharp arrows, and the sheepskin
The sac was shot through big holes, began to deflate, and even exploded with a 'bang!'
The unbalanced sheepskin raft broke and overturned, knocking the soldiers into the water. The soldiers could only hold on to the sheepskin raft and drift in the water, but the heavy armor dragged them down. The soldiers had to take off their armor desperately, but once the armor was taken off, their bodies would be destroyed.
Unable to stop the rain of arrows, the soldiers kept screaming when they were hit by arrows. Once hit by an arrow, a person's strength would quickly disappear and he would eventually sink into the water and drown.
At this time, gunpowder barrels exploded above the soldiers' heads, and dense poisonous spikes flew in all directions. They were simply the natural enemies of the sheepskin rafts. All the sheepskin rafts within a dozen feet of the explosion were destroyed, and no one was spared.
But the real killer weapon of the Song Army was kerosene. Bags of kerosene were dumped into the river, and dozens of torches were thrown down. The water suddenly turned into a sea of fire, with fierce flames and thick smoke billowing. The kerosene,
Gunpowder barrels and raindrops of arrows fell, turning the more than ten miles long river valley into a hell...
Luoshui River flows out of the canyon, and the terrain suddenly becomes open. This is still a river valley, but the valley is twenty or thirty miles wide. Another large river, Huachi Water, joins Luoshui River here to form an alluvial plain. Central County is located here.
This is the largest county in Fangzhou, surrounded by vast fertile fields and lush forests everywhere, with a population of more than 100,000.
Thirty thousand Song troops were deployed on both sides of the canyon exit. Tens of thousands of crossbow arrows were aimed at the river. All the sheepskin bags floating on the water would be shot through by one arrow, but no one struggled to escape from the water. The river looked like death.
Silence, filled with corpses.
An intercepting pontoon bridge has been laid on the river. The soldiers stood on the pontoon bridge to fish out the corpses of the Jurchen Army one after another and transport them to the shore. After a while, corpses and various items piled up on the east bank.
Yang Zaixing rode to the shore and looked at the piles of trophy corpses fished out of the water. The trophies were basically armor peeled off the Jurchens. Wanyan Nianhan's Jurchen army was extremely well-equipped, almost all of them were generals of the Song Army.
Equipped with mountain armor.
"How many bodies have been recovered in total?" Yang Zaixing asked.
"Reporting to the general, there are already more than 8,000 corpses, and there are no corpses visible on the water now."
"I'm coming!"
Someone shouted on the shore. Yang Zaixing looked towards the water and saw a boat sailing out. On the boat was the commander Sun Jian and three Song soldiers.
These are called mark boats. They are launched upstream of the Jurchen army. If the mark boats appear, it means that all the enemy's rafts have been taken out.
Sun Jian jumped off the tender boat and knelt down on one knee to report, "To report to the capital, there are no enemy rafts on the river, and many corpses have sunk to the bottom."
"Are there any enemies hidden on the rock walls on both sides?"
Sun Jian hesitated and said: "The light is relatively dark, so I can't see clearly the conditions of the rock walls on both sides."
Yang Zaixing nodded and said to Sun Jian: "After daybreak, we will organize dozens of boats to carry out a careful search. We can capture the fish that slip through the net without killing them. We will try to fish out as many corpses and soldiers as possible in the river."
"I humbly obey orders!"
Yang Zaixing immediately ordered: "Send an eagle message to Qingquan County after dawn, telling the county king that the enemy forces in the south have been completely wiped out in the Luoshui Gorge."
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After dawn, the Song army ships searched the canyon, and sure enough they found a large number of Jurchen soldiers still alive on the edge of the stone walls on both sides. They climbed the stone walls, escaped the ruthless killings of gunpowder, kerosene and arrows, and soaked in the cold river water.
One night, every soldier was almost numb from the cold and lost their combat effectiveness. The Song soldiers pulled them onto the boat and tied them up behind their backs. They arrested a total of 1,347 people, many of whom still suffered from arrow wounds.
, became a prisoner of war of the Song Army.
Yang Zaixing could only add one more copy of the Eagle's Letter, which contained just one sentence, wiping out all the enemy troops and capturing more than 1,300 people.
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[Rong Laogao adjusted for two days, restored his body functions, and then coded three chapters] (To be continued)
