Fenghou

Chapter 609 Water Killing
"not good!"

Wanyan and Lisa yelled, and he immediately realized that someone in front must be building a dam to hold back the water. There are cliffs on both sides of this place, and it is so narrow. Once the flood came, they would have no way to escape.

"Quick retreat!"

Wanyan and Lisa yelled loudly, but many soldiers didn't react, and the ignorant rear team changed to the front team.

At this moment, there was a muffled thunder-like sound from behind, and the Jurchen cavalry turned their heads to look back, only to see the white waves to the north, and the raging flood, like a runaway horse, sweeping towards them.

The faces of the Jurchen cavalry were so frightened that they beat their horses and ran away desperately, but the Jurchen cavalry in front didn't know what was going on and didn't run away. The river was narrow, and the cavalry bumped into each other back and forth, screaming and huddled together.

The flood surged and engulfed the last hundreds of cavalry in an instant. Only when the cavalry in front knew what had happened, they ran away in panic, but there was no way to escape from the steep river section of more than [-] miles. After a while, the roaring river was raging. He rushed over and engulfed all the [-] Jurchen cavalry.

This is a typical case of Chen Qingshan using terrain to wipe out the enemy. He actually used it once when he attacked Jinsuo Pass last year and found it very useful. Today he repeated the same trick again.

Of course, the terrain on both sides of Jinsuo Pass is high, this strategy will not work, and it must be in the middle of the cliff canyon to exert its greatest power.

From this, Chen Qing dug a nest, exited the Luoshui Road, and let Wanyan Yinkeshu discover this loophole. Wanyan Yinkeshu never thought that this terrain could use water attack, and he finally couldn't resist the temptation to enter the pass. , swallowed the bait, and eventually caused [-] troops to die in the flood.

The main general who carried out this dam-building operation was Commander Li Muqing. He led an army of [-] to ambush to the south of the Shenchuan Gorge. Their first plan was to block the enemy's troops in the Shenchuan Gorge, which is more than ten miles long, but Wan Yanhe Lisa did not take Tongguan Road, but Tongzhou Road.

Then use the second plan, build a dam and submerge the enemy army with floods. The location has already been selected. It took only more than two hours for [-] troops to build the dam. In spring, the water is abundant, and it is full overnight Hundreds of thousands of square meters of water, just waiting for the Jurchen cavalry to arrive.

The river had run out, Li Muqing ordered [-] Song Army cavalry to kill along the canyon, and all the Jurchen cavalry who were not drowned could not escape the second round of Song Army's fierce follow-up killing.

Water and fire are ruthless, this round of surprise attack, the Marshal Wanyan and Lisa may be in danger.

It's not that Wanyan Yinkeshu doesn't know that it's too dangerous to keep only [-] people guarding the logistics and supply areas. What he's thinking about is Han Chang's army. When the second batch of food arrives, Han Chang's [-] troops will also arrive together. Han Chang commanded [-] troops to guard the logistics camp and retreat.

Wanyan Yinkeshu had a good idea, but it is always impossible for things to be so perfectly integrated, there is a time difference, and this time difference is not big, only two days difference, but it happened that the opportunity of these two days was seized by Song Jun .

The task of Liu Qiong and Tang Qian was to capture Yichuan County and cut off the retreat route of Wuren Road. It was not difficult to capture Yichuan County, but it was not an ordinary difficulty to cut off the retreat route and prevent the enemy's reinforcements.

Liu Qiong led the army to transfer the food out of the city, hiding it in a ravine, and transferred the people in the city to the mountainous area, leaving an empty city. Liu Qiong then led the army into Wuren Road.

At noon, they arrived in front of the cliff. Liu Qiong looked at the cliff and asked Tang Qian, "Where is the trail you found?"

Tang Qian pointed to the rather steep hill next to him and said, "It's just behind the hill!"

"Is it possible to get by from here?"

Tang Qian observed for a moment and said: "The slope is too steep, you have to use ropes, soft ladders and the like to go up. When you reach the ridge, it is much easier to go down from the other side."

"Then send [-] soldiers up and lay an ambush on the mountain. Then we tore down the bridge and ambushed the enemy to send the food army."

Tang Qian asked in puzzlement, "But we don't know when the enemy army will arrive?"

Liu Qiong smiled slightly and said: "I captured a few prisoners of war and asked for some information. The second batch of food teams has already set off from Wurenkou and will arrive later today. It is noon now, and I guess it will arrive in the afternoon." arrival."

Tang Qian immediately made a decision. He sent dozens of scouts with high martial arts skills to climb up the ridge, pulled dozens of long rope ladders up, and put them on the boulders and trees on the top of the mountain. Crossbows and weapons began to climb upwards.

At the same time, Liu Qiong ordered the removal of the wooden bridge on the cliff, and ordered [-] people to withdraw from Wuren Road with their horses. He led other soldiers to climb up the hillside on the other side of the cliff, and [-] soldiers had already ambushed. ready.

They waited until dusk, when the mighty second batch of grain transportation team finally arrived on Wuren Road. This time the team was much longer, stretching for more than ten miles. In addition to [-] cavalry, there were [-] mules and donkeys and two One hundred thousand sheep.

After the arrival of this batch of military rations, the Jurchen army can last for more than a month, and there is no need to transport food for the time being. Wanyan Yinkeshu hopes to open up the Luoshui Channel and enter Guanzhong within a month.

Han Chang was a day later than originally planned. He should have arrived in Yichuan County last night because raising sheep was delayed by a day.

Things in the world are so wrong, if Han Chang came one day earlier, Liu Qiong would have no chance to seize Yichuan County.

The thousands of animals walking in front stopped in front of the cliff, and soon affected the entire team behind, and the team had to stop. Han Chang shouted loudly: "Go and see what's going on?"

A cavalryman galloped away, and came back shortly to report, "Marshal Qi, the bridge in front of the cliff has been demolished, and the team can't get through."

Han Chang was startled, and instinctively looked around. The road was only more than one foot wide, and it was built on the mountainside. On the left was a relatively steep mountain, which was twenty or thirty feet long. The lower part was also a hillside, but not as steep as the upper mountain. Overgrown with bushes and thorns.

"When you came last time, how was the condition of the bridge?" Han Chang asked one of his men again.

"Reporting to the Marshal, the bridge was in good condition when I came last time, very strong!"

"not good!"

Han Chang immediately realized the danger and shouted: "Back! Back!"

At this moment, there was a sound of clappers on the top of the mountain, and five thousand crossbow arrows were shot at the same time. The soldiers were all using god-armed crossbows and aimed at the Jurchen cavalry. Very quickly, they all raised their shields to protect them.

Although the soldiers were also shot to death, Han Chang saved his life. At least hundreds of crossbow arrows were shot at him. The big shield was full of arrows, and his horse was shot through the head by seven or eight crossbow arrows. , fell dead, knocked him to the ground.

He scrambled and rushed down the hillside, stood close to the hillside, held up a shield, surrounded by more than a dozen personal soldiers, and ran eastward close to the hillside.

The arrows on the top of the mountain were still falling like raindrops, and many cavalry were hiding under the horse's belly, but this was a narrow road, not a galloping battlefield. The horses couldn't move, and were shot by arrows one after another. With a violent scream, he rushed down the hillside, rolling down with both the man and the horse.

In the chaos, many war horses crowded and collided with each other, so that the cavalry on the edge were knocked down the hillside one after another, rolled down, and did not know whether they were alive or dead.

Hundreds of gunpowder barrels rolled down from above and exploded continuously on the mountain road. The Jurchen cavalry was blown to pieces and wailed all over the field. The cavalry behind were terrified and ran for their lives. .

Han Chang escaped from the arrow area, grabbed more than a dozen war horses and galloped to the east, followed by the cavalry behind him, gradually disappearing.

At this time, three thousand soldiers of the Song Dynasty descended from the sky holding the ropes. They killed all the wounded and surviving soldiers, and built more than a dozen long wooden boards on the cliff to drive the flock of sheep, mules and donkeys. They were carried together, and the mules and donkeys that were shot could not be lifted, so they took down the grain.

Tang Qian ran eastward with [-] soldiers carrying gunpowder boxes on their backs. A box of gunpowder weighed forty catties, and the explosive power was astonishing.

After running for seven or eight miles, the road turned into a narrow path, but there were still no defeated soldiers, and it was estimated that they had fled far away. The Song army began to blast with powder boxes one by one, completely destroying the mountain road.

"Boom!" With a loud noise, a large area of ​​loess collapsed, the mountain was sunken by the blast, and the mountain road completely disappeared.

Unless a plank road is built, but there are very few trees here, it is all loess and bushes. How can it be so easy to build a plank road?

Han Chang was shot by an arrow in his left arm. He led the defeated soldiers and escaped for nearly [-] miles in one breath. After walking a long narrow path, he came to an open place and sat on a big rock to bandage the wound.

At this time, a commander stepped forward to report, "Marshal Qi, the inventory has been completed, and there are still [-] cavalry."

Han Chang nodded, losing [-]% of his troops, as he expected.

Several commanders also said one after another: "Marshal, we can use bows and arrows to fight back and rebuild the simple bridge."

Of course Han Chang knew the importance of Wu Rendao, and he was also thinking about how to restore Wu Rendao, but at this moment, a series of violent explosions came from the west, everyone looked at each other in blank dismay, and was stunned for a while.

(End of this chapter)