Blood from Daming

Chapter 419
Mao Yuanyi, Yu Anxing, Xue Polu, Man Gui, and Zhao led them down to the riverside surrounded by their own soldiers. Ferries and sheepskin rafts were increasing their transportation to the Liaodong Army, but the pontoon bridge was not connected. Cars could not cross the river, and the speed of the Liaodong Army's crossing the river was greatly restricted. As night came, it became more difficult for the Liaodong Army to transport personnel on the river.

Mao Yuanyi and Yu Anxing looked at the Liao people who were anxiously waiting to cross the river, and consciously avoided their eager eyes. Mao Yuanyi said fiercely: "After crossing the river this time, please ask the king of North Korea to severely punish Bitong. city ​​officials."

Fortunately, at this time, officers and soldiers patrolling the river reported that there were a large number of ships coming from the downstream direction on the other side of the river.

Mao Yuanyi, who was not far from Xue Polu, finally smiled and said, "Thank God, a boat has finally arrived, and now there is no problem crossing the river."

Man Gui muttered dissatisfiedly: "Whether there is a problem or not depends on how quickly the Tartars come."

Mao Yuanyi blushed and turned to Xue Polu and asked, "Polu, there should be no problem."

Xue Polu said: "Mr. Mao, the delay is too much. If the pontoon bridge is built before dark, there is still a chance to take all the soldiers and civilians across the Yalu River."

Soon the downstream boats docked. There were five large boats that could hold a hundred people, twenty or thirty small boats that could hold three to fifty people, and the small wooden boats behind these boats. There were six large and small boats in total. Seventy boats made a long stretch along the Yalu River.

The soldiers of the Ming army on the riverside immediately dragged small wooden boats to build a pontoon bridge, and more than 30 large wooden boats began to load people. Xue Polu ordered the five large boats that could carry more than a hundred people to cross the river first, and twenty or thirty large wooden boats could carry people across the river. A small boat with 50 people and a mix of military and civilian loads should be transported a few times while the sky is still bright.

After Xue Polu gave the order, he carefully listened to the military report of Yan Laoyao who came across the river. It turned out that Yan Laoyao took more than 30 soldiers of the Xue family army towards the shore of Bitong City downstream, but he did not see a fishing boat along the way. The youngest Yan had no choice but to continue downstream along the river bank.

Yan Laoyao came to the harbor diagonally opposite Bitong City. There were more than 100 large and small wooden boats parked inside, and there were even two Korean military ships. When Yan Laoyao led his soldiers excitedly towards the water port, suddenly Hundreds of North Korean officers and soldiers poured out of the grass on the side of the road, blocking Yan Lao Yao and his way.

The leading sentinel of the North Korean soldiers asked in Chinese: "What are you doing, put down your weapons quickly."

Seeing that it was a group of North Korean soldiers, Yan Laoyao became angry, so he said furiously: "Boy, don't pretend to be confused. If you ask me in Chinese, don't you know who the uncle is?"

The North Korean sentry officer was a little embarrassed and said, "How would I know who you are?"

The youngest Yan stared at the North Korean sentry officer and said, "You are blind, can't you recognize the Ming army uniform on the uncle, get out of the way quickly, or you can't blame the uncle for not recognizing people with swords and guns."

The North Korean sentry officer said embarrassingly: "It turns out that you are officers and soldiers of the Great Army of the Shang Dynasty. I don't know why you crossed the river."

Yan Lao Yao said angrily: "Get out of the way quickly, I'm going to the fishing port."

The North Korean sentry officer said: "This lord of the Chinese army, that side is an important place for our navy, and ordinary people are not allowed to enter."

Just as Yan Laoyao and the North Korean sentry officer were talking, the second batch of soldiers from the Xue family army rushed up. Now the strength of the Xue family army of the Ming army is half that of the North Korean soldiers, and the face of the North Korean sentry officer suddenly became a little ugly. Seeing that there are now 50 of his subordinates and boatmen, Yan Laoyao is more confident for a while.

Yan Laoyao waited for a while for the soldiers of the Xue family army and said: "Stop talking nonsense, let's get out of the way, brothers and sisters are ready to fight."

The Korean sentry officer was startled when he saw the officers and soldiers of the Ming army with their knives out of their sheaths, holding a black guy in their hands. Tianlei, this guy will be incomplete if it falls on a human body. Now that I have almost procrastinated, I believe the county guard and the county shepherd will not blame myself too much.

The North Korean sentry officer turned his head and waved to the soldiers behind him, and made way for Yan Laoyao. Yan Laoyao gave the North Korean sentry officer a hard look, and walked over with his soldiers keeping a high degree of vigilance, waiting to leave After the North Korean sentinel had a certain distance, he let go and led his soldiers to the fishing port in front.

But when Yan Laoyao arrived at the fishing port, he found that many fishing boats began to leave the fishing port, and even the two warships of the Korean National Navy also left the dock. Greet the North Korean fishing boats not to leave the port, and express their willingness to pay a lot of money to buy or rent these North Korean fishing boats.

Yan Laoyao's soldiers yelled for a while, offering North Korean fishermen and boat owners five times more than the boat price to buy boats, or paying one month's salary for a day of service for the Ming army. Such high prices made many fishermen and boat owners After hesitating, he was no longer in a hurry to drive the boat out of the fishing port.

Although the North Korean officers and soldiers by the fishing port did not step forward to stop Yan Laoyao and the Ming army, some large ships still left one after another, and almost all the boats left in the fishing port were small boats. At this moment, a ship next to Yan Laoyao Medium-sized boats that can accommodate about 50 people also began to unmoor and prepare to leave the fishing port.

This made Yan Laoyao anxious, so he pulled the grenade and threw it on the medium-sized wooden boat. There was a loud "boom", and five of the eight boatmen on the medium-sized wooden boat were caught by the grenade. When it was blown down, the medium-sized wooden boat was crying and wailing for a while, and there was a puff of smoke. It is estimated that some inflammables on the boat caught fire.

This reminded the other soldiers of the Xue family army, yelling that the wooden boats would dock immediately, but they didn't know whether they did it on purpose or because they were afraid of the Ming army's ferociousness. Instead, the fishing boats speeded up and immediately docked. The captain's method, one after another, threw grenades onto the wooden boats that were already leaving the dock.

"Boom" "Boom" "Boom" "Boom" "Boom"

In Bitong Fishing Port, those wooden boats that were close to the wharf and were about to leave the fishing port were killed and wounded in the boats by Xue Jiajun's grenades. Those boats are those fishermen who are reluctant to part with fishing boats, and the owners hide in their own boats and resign themselves to fate.

At this time, the third batch of [-] soldiers and boatmen from the Xue family army arrived, which made the North Korean soldiers who were about to move around the fishing port finally die down. Under the threat of silver bullets and force, the vast majority of North Korean fishermen and boat owners are willing to serve the Ming Army.

Then soldiers and boatmen from the Ming army came continuously, and the Ming army almost completely controlled the Bitong fishing port. Yan Laoyao assigned soldiers to the various boats to monitor the fishermen and boat owners, and the Ming army's own boatmen went to man the uninhabited empty boats. For the dozen or so fishing boats that were really unwilling to serve the Ming army, Yan Laoyao had no time to take care of them for the time being, so he took the sixty or seventy boats that he could control to the upper reaches of the west bank.

Xue Polu said to Yan Laojiao: "Go and tell Zuo Ming, tell me what I said, take out a batch of gold, and pay some advance payments to those fishermen and boat owners, so that the hearts of those North Koreans can be reassured."

The youngest Yan agreed, and happily went to find Zuo Ming. As soon as Mao Yuanyi, Yu Anxing, and Man Gui's [-] soldiers from the East Road arrived, they ate the dinner that Zhao Ledjiao ordered the cook camp and the Liao people to prepare. It is impossible for all the Liaodong East Route Army and Liao people to fall asleep tonight.

When the torches were lit at night, all the pontoon bridges on the Yalu River had been set up, and the entire pontoon bridge was filled with torches, like a long fire dragon. The officers and soldiers led by Zhao led their horses and walked from the pontoon bridge with a small amount of supplies. However, [-] wooden boats have been transporting Liao people and property without interruption.

Because the Eastern Route Army adopted the Liao people’s main boat, the officers and soldiers of the Liaodong Army escorted flat vans and horses to the pontoon bridge. In the middle of the night, two small wooden boats were in danger. Fortunately, no casualties were caused. Xue Po The prisoner had no choice but to stop the night voyage of the small boat with a capacity of less than 50 people.

By the time of the fourth watch, all the Liao civilians from all battalions including Xue Jiajun had crossed the Yalu River. The guards and civilian husbands of the Liaodong Army also took some supplies across the river as much as possible, and took away all the flat vans and a set of goods. A small number of half-empty carts left Yu Anxing, Xue Polu and Man Gui's troops on the west bank.

Mao Yuanyi, who is very rich, encouraged Yu Anxing to take away all the belongings there. Yu Anxing was also reluctant to part with the carts that still contained some supplies, so he asked the officers and soldiers crossing the river to pull up the carts and walk slowly towards the east bank of the Yalu River. Going, Xue Polu was very anxious, worried that Jianlu would come to the river ahead of time, and while letting Mangui's troops cross the river, he began to shrink Xue's soldiers and horses to gather by the river.

(End of this chapter)