These Mongols soon found the sunken boat by the river.
These boats need to be positioned with their sides facing the river, so they will take in water and sink. They are all small rowing boats, one meter wide and seven or eight meters long, fishing boats. The oars and rudders are tied together, tied with stones, and sunk.
Beside.
The Mongols rowed boats and quickly arrived at Yujiujia Village. In this era, villages and towns were generally located along rivers. Residential areas were generally near water sources. Moreover, they were still semi-fishermen who mainly fished and farmed as a supplement.
There is no one in the village.
The Mongols searched for a long time, but found nothing except some thatched houses with reeds as walls. There was no trace of the poultry and livestock here. Obviously, these unruly people had moved away their families and property.
Tutun's anger had nowhere to vent, and he cursed: "The cattle and sheep have escaped, and the yurts can't escape. Set fire to these broken houses for me."
The Mongols immediately started a fire. After a while, the houses made of wicker sticks, bundled reeds, and adobe bricks burst into flames. These building materials are very flammable. In addition, the wind was strong in spring, and a family caught fire and burned quickly.
Company camp.
The villagers who were busy with housework saw thick smoke billowing in the direction of the village from the reed marshes in the distance. They immediately knew that these dog Tatars had set fire to the village. They were so angry that they gnashed their teeth and cursed.
Although these dilapidated houses are not valuable, they are still a place for the whole family to shelter from wind and rain. Without a house, they have to sleep in the open. Although the materials are all available in the Lake District, some wood is needed to make the beams and columns.
No matter what, you have to spend a few taels of silver.
They were all poor, and building new houses was a big burden. For a while, many women and children began to cry. However, they knew that when these Tatars came, their homes would be destroyed, regardless of whether they attacked the Tatars first.
Son, the result is the same.
They, who live on the water, have always been decisive.
Because the risks on the water are much greater than on land. When encountering unexpected situations, you must make an immediate decision. This is the origin of the word risk. These dangers are unpredictable and will definitely be encountered.
Therefore, they are more ruthless and decisive than farmers.
Old Mr. Chen was sitting on the bow of a larger ship, on a dilapidated imperial chair. He was holding a royal sword in one hand and a dry tobacco bag in the other. He looked at the smoke column in the distance without saying a word.
"Have everyone evacuated? No one has been caught?" Old Chen asked.
"Everyone is out, everyone is safe," Kou Zhande said in a low voice.
"Well, if the house burns down, then burn it down. As long as the people are fine, it will be fine." Old Chen nodded, "Let Xie Tian and the He family brothers lead 60 people, get their bows and arrows, and shoot them to lure them over."
Kou Zhande immediately arranged it.
After a while, Tutun and the Mongols came after him.
Tutun burned the house just to anger these unruly people and draw them out. Sure enough, not long after, thirty or forty people appeared from a distance and started shooting bows and arrows.
However, these people's accuracy was very poor and they caused almost no damage. Only one unlucky guy was hit by an arrow in his foot. This made the Mongols laugh for a while. They did not take the Han people's use of bows and arrows seriously. This was simply a fool's errand.
"Catch up. These people have no fighting ability, let alone bows and arrows." Tutun said with a gloomy face. "Go row after them."
Seeing the Mongolian counterattack, these people boarded the boat and fled to the depths of the lake. Tutun quickly ordered a pursuit.
The Mongols paddled more than a dozen boats and chased forward. These Mongols came from the Nenjiang Plain area of Eastern Mongolia, where rivers crisscrossed them. They would use birch bark boats and canoes made by hollowing out the entire tree trunk. Therefore, they
Rowing a small boat is no problem.
Although their ability to make ships is very primitive, many of them just use chisels to trim logs with a diameter of more than one meter on the outside and hollow out the inside to make canoes with a peach-shaped cross section. However, their rowing skills are still good.
.In addition, they have good physical strength and can row very fast, and they are about to catch up.
But the dozens of small boats in front of them didn't go in a straight line at all. They were really fast when they accelerated around corners. The ones that turned around disappeared and disappeared into the dense reeds.
Tutun looked around and saw that there were reeds everywhere. They chased for a while and found that they were lost. At this time, Tutun regretted and chased into the reed swamp in anger. He instinctively felt the danger.
"Retreat, row back," Tutun ordered. "Look at the sun, that's the east."
Mongolians still have a strong sense of direction. The grassland is endless and lacks landmarks. They look at the sun during the day, the stars at night, and smell the smell with their noses in the dark night without light, so they can accurately find the direction and where they are.
At this time, when they were anxiously looking for the way back, countless short reed pipes emerged from the water.
They swam quietly toward their boat. More than fifty men, who were busy with housework, held reed pipes in their mouths to breathe air. The men swam quietly in the water toward the bottom of the Mongolian boat.
Xie Tian looked up from the water and vaguely saw Tutun standing on the bow of the boat, yelling and cursing, and the Mongolians paddling like headless flies. The reeds here were too high, and they soon got lost again.
Xie Tian made a gesture to indicate that it was time to take action. The people immediately dispersed, and several people tackled a boat. They took out their chisels and knocked a big hole in the bottom of the boat in a few strokes.
These fishing boats are very thin. After all, they are poor people who can afford thick boards.
In addition, after many years of use, the wooden boats were a bit rotten, and they were often repaired and continued to be used. After all, there was a lot of money to be made in building new boats. As soon as they were chiseled, a big hole immediately appeared in the bottom.
The Mongols were suddenly frightened by the water column rising into the sky. They screamed in panic. They had never experienced such a situation and did not know what to use to plug the leak.
Tutun was furious. He saw someone under the water. He raised his spear and stabbed it into the water. He had keen eyesight and excellent arrow skills. He immediately saw the black shadow under the water and pointed at it.
The black shadow is like a spear stabbed down.
It's a pity that he has never studied optics and does not know that light is refracted in water. There will be a big deviation in the aiming point. So the spear was inserted three inches from Xie Tian's left rib. He killed Xie Tian
Startled, he hurriedly spit out the reeds and hid in the bottom of the boat.
"There are people under the reeds, there are people under those short reeds, stab them to death with spears." Tutun shouted. "Don't panic, half of the people took off their coats and blocked the holes, and the other half used spears to plunge into the water.
Stab them, stab them to death. These cowards only dare to sneak up on us."
As he spoke, he stabbed the dark figure below with his spear again.
But this time, he was not so lucky. The spear was caught by the dark shadow under the water. Tutun used brute strength to try to take the spear back. However, the water was not as heavy as the air.
Tutun used both arms hard, and with a loud cry, he pulled the spear out of the water, causing a large splash of water. Even the thin Xie Tian also came out of the water because he was holding the spear shaft.
Xie Tian looked at Tutun who was grinning ferociously, and suddenly squirted out a mouthful of water, right on Tutun's face.
Tutun quickly closed his eyes and tried to wipe away the water with his hands. He was strong enough to lift the spear and Xie Tian holding the spear pole with one arm.
Mainly because it took too much force to get out of the water. Once out of the water, he easily lifted Xie Tian up with one arm. Just when he wiped the water on his face with his hand and tried to open his eyes, he suddenly felt a coldness in his throat.