Fenghou

Chapter 757 Trapped Beast

Ninety thousand Song troops gathered in Qingquan County, the people of Qingquan County have been sent away, and the county has become a military city.

Standing on the high head of Nancheng, Chen Qing could vaguely see a section of official road on Luoshui Road more than [-] miles away. Luoshui Road was constantly repaired on the basis of Qin Zhidao. It is as wide as three feet wide, with mountains on the right and cliffs on the left. In the canyon tens of feet deep is Luoshui, and the water flow is very fast.

The [-] Song Army built a copper wall and an iron wall at the north entrance of Luoshui Road. Five mudbag walls were built, which can accommodate [-] crossbowmen and [-] small trebuchets. Thousand god arm crossbowman.

Not only that, but a one-mile-long narrow path was opened on the top of the mountain on their right, which can accommodate two thousand archers, and can also throw kerosene balls, gunpowder barrels, etc. downward.

But these are not the most powerful methods. Their most powerful method is to blow up a section of the four-foot-wide official road. The official road has been blown up, and if necessary, they can blow up more official roads.

At this time, the general Liu Cui hurried forward and said: "Qijun Wang, there is a message from the eagle in the Luoshui Road."

The Song army also arranged a secret scout team on the Luoshui Road, about ten people, carrying five letter eagles, to observe the movement of the enemy, and will send the news back to Qingquan County at a critical time, and the three missing hunters also joined This scout team, it was the news they passed on 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 puzzledly: "How to go to the south, have they solved the way to build a bridge?"

"They didn't ride war horses, they walked along the river, and they should be preparing to go south on rafts."

"This is a good idea!"

Chen Qing nodded, and said again: "Immediately send an eagle letter to inform Yang Zaixing to seal off the water surface."

"The humble job has already sent an eagle letter."

"Let the brethren rest well tonight, the good show will start tomorrow."

The surface of the water that was more than ten kilometers long was densely covered with sheepskin rafts. These sheepskin rafts were medium-sized rafts that could seat five soldiers.

Each raft is composed of more than fifty sheepskins, which are fully inflated and tightly bound together. Generally, a wooden raft is placed on top to stabilize the sheepskin bag.
But it’s not necessary for the Jurchen army, they can’t drag a row of rafts to march, and they won’t tie them up temporarily. If that’s the case, why not just use rafts to cross the river, and why use skin rafts?
There are net ropes under the Jurchens' leather rafts, and a few pieces of cowhide are spread on the net ropes, and people sit directly on them.

Fifteen thousand soldiers were sitting in densely packed leather rafts, their spears were raised vertically, with the spear points pointing up.

The Jurchen soldiers didn't even have oars. In desperation, they could only use their spears as pennies to adjust their direction by propping on the bottom of the river. Fortunately, they were going down the river. Driving away, there is a kind of heroism of a strong man who never returns.

It's a pity that what they encountered was the Western Army that had been prepared for a long time. Yang Zaixing would not wait for them to raft out of the canyon. Thirty miles away from the canyon mouth, he deployed [-] archers and [-] firearms soldiers on the official road.

It was the second watch of the night, and Yelv 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 surface of the canyon.

Commander Li Fuxing shouted: "Every army is ready!"

The archers raised their bows and arrows one after another, and the firearms soldiers also moved the powder kegs and kerosene skins to the edge of the cliff.

"Bang! Bang! Bang!"

The sound of clappers suddenly sounded, and thousands of arrows were fired on the official road, shooting at the leather raft in the canyon. The Jurchen soldiers in the leather raft raised their shields to resist. The sac was shot through with big holes and started to deflate, even 'bang! ' burst with a bang.

The sheepskin raft lost its balance and overturned, throwing the soldiers into the water. These soldiers could only hold on to the sheepskin raft and drift in the water, but the heavy armor dragged them down, and the soldiers had to take off the armor desperately. Unable to stop the rain of arrows, the soldiers kept screaming and hit the arrows. Once the arrows were hit, the human strength would quickly disappear, and eventually they would sink into the water and drown.

At this moment, gunpowder barrels exploded above the soldiers' heads, and dense poisonous nails flew in all directions. They were the natural enemies of the sheepskin rafts.

But the Song Army’s real killer was kerosene. Bags of kerosene were poured into the river, and dozens of torches were thrown down. The surface of the water suddenly turned into a sea of ​​flames. Barrels and raindrops of arrows fell, turning the river valley more than ten miles long into hell
Luoshui 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 big river, Huachi, joins Luoshui 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 [-] people.

Thirty thousand Song troops were deployed on both sides of the canyon exit, and tens of thousands of crossbow arrows were aimed at the river surface. All the sheepskin bags floating on the water surface would be shot by one arrow, but no one struggled to escape from the water surface. The river surface seemed to be dead. Silent, full of dead bodies.

An intercepting pontoon bridge had been laid on the river. Soldiers stood on the pontoon bridge to pick up the corpses of the Jurchen soldiers and carried them to the bank. After a while, the corpses and various items on the east bank were piled up like a mountain.

Yang Zaixing came to the shore on horseback, looking at the piles of corpses that had been scooped up from the water as trophies. The trophies were basically armor stripped from the Jurchens. Equipped with mountain pattern armor.

"How many corpses were recovered in total?" Yang Zaixing asked.

"Reporting to the general, there are already more than [-] corpses, and the corpses are no longer visible on the water."

"I'm coming!"

Someone shouted from the bank, Yang Zaixing looked towards the surface of the water, and saw a boat sailing out, with the commander Sun Jian leading three soldiers of the Song army on board.

These are called marking boats, and they are launched upstream of the Jurchen army. If the marking boats appear, it means that the enemy's leather rafts have all been exhausted.

Sun Jian jumped off the boat, stepped forward and knelt down on one knee to report, "I want to report to Du Tong, there are no enemy rafts on the river, and many corpses have sunk to the bottom."

"Are there hidden enemy troops on the rock walls on both sides?"

Sun Jian hesitated for a moment and said, "The light is relatively dark, so I can't see the rock walls on both sides clearly."

Yang Zaixing nodded, and said to Sun Jian: "After daybreak, organize dozens of boats to go through it carefully. The fish that slipped through the net can be caught but not killed, and the corpses and soldiers in the river should be picked up as much as possible."

"Humble post obeys orders!"

Yang Zaixing immediately ordered: "After dawn, send an eagle letter to Qingquan County, telling the county king that the enemy troops in the south have been wiped out in Luoshui Canyon."

After dawn, the ships of the Song army searched the canyon, and they found a large number of Jurchen soldiers still alive on the edge of the stone walls on both sides. Overnight, every soldier was almost numb from the cold and lost his combat effectiveness. The soldiers of the Song Army pulled them onto the boat and tied them behind their backs. They arrested a total of [-] people, many of whom were wounded by arrows. , Become a prisoner of war of the Song army.

Yang Zaixing could only add an eagle letter, only a short sentence, wiped out the enemy army and captured more than [-] people.

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[Rong Lao Gao adjusts for two days, recovers his physical functions, and codes another three chapters]

(End of this chapter)