Wanyan Zongbi also discovered that something was wrong. The big barrel on the other side roared very fast and densely. Moreover, it was not a dry roar, but it kept spraying the balls to the north bank of Baigou River, causing dust to fly. A group of cavalrymen on cavalry who were patrolling on the embankment on the other side of the fishing village hurriedly retreated, walking a little slower, and even let a ball hit several cavalrymen. They fell off the horse and stopped moving. I don't know what happened. Didn't he lose his life?
Seeing this scene from a distance, Wanyan Zongbi also whispered: "Amitabha!"
It was really a blessing from the Bodhisattva. He was observing the terrain opposite the fishing village just now!
Zong Bi murmured in a low voice: "I wonder how many bobbins there are? Even our twenty bobbins can't make out this movement!"
The large barrels of the Jin Army were all fired with ten-pound bullets, and in order to reduce the risk of exploding the barrel, the craftsmen of the Jin Army cast the barrel walls very thickly. A large bobbin plus the total weight of the bobbin cart would weigh several thousand kilograms, and it would be very difficult for eight horses to pull it! Therefore, it is very difficult to set up, and it is also very laborious to aim and reset after starting shooting.
Moreover, the Jin Army's large barrel did not have a fixed powder bag, and there was no granular gunpowder to use. The gunpowder had to be prepared on site, which was particularly troublesome.
In addition, the artillery soldiers of the Jin Army did not train as hard as the artillerymen of the Northern Song Dynasty, and there were no special artillery schools to cultivate and train artillery officers.
Therefore, the firing speed of the Jin Army's ten-pound cannon is much slower than that of the Song Army's five-pound cannon. The ten-pound cannon fires one ball, while the five-pound cannon can complete at least four to five shots!
Wanyan Xiebao added: "The soldiers who crossed the river last night and returned from the sneak attack all said that there were not many Song troops on the other side, and there were no big tubes... The people who are handing out meatballs at the moment should be the tubes that have just arrived. It was set up so quickly!
Uncle King, it’s not safe to let all the people of Song Dynasty cross the river, so it’s better to attack them halfway across the river! "
Wanyan Zongbi frowned and said, "It's not enough to attack halfway across the river. We also have to send crooked horses across the river to cut off the Song army's food route! The Song people came in such a hurry and they must not have much food with them. As long as we can cut off their food Dao, after ten days and a half, they will have no choice but to retreat after running out of food!"
"My uncle is still smarter!" Wanyan Xiebao said, "Leave it to my nephew to hold off the enemy on the north bank of the Baigou River. My nephew's Zi Qingshao artillery is quite capable. You can ask the Song Dynasty people to try our best." The power of Jin’s fried pot!”
It turned out that Wanyan Zongbi had just been appointed by Wanyan Zongqian as the marshal Zuo Jianjun, and was ordered to command all the Jin troops on the front line of Qigou Pass. Wanyan Xiebao served as Marshal Zuo Dujian and served under Wanyan Zongbi.
In addition, Wanyan Zongqian's other younger brother Wanyan Zongmin, Prince of Yongji County, served as the right supervisor of the marshal, and Wanyan Huonv, the son of Wanyan Lou's family, served as the right supervisor of the marshal, both of whom were controlled by Zongbi.
Wanyan Zongbi was very happy when he saw that Xie Bao, the crow's mouth, took the initiative to take on the most difficult task of blocking the enemy. He nodded with a smile and said, "Okay! With Xie Bao's wise nephew taking action, everything will be safe!"
Wanyan Xiebao was not as optimistic as Zongbi. He frowned and was about to speak again. Zongbi quickly got ahead of him and said: "I will send you both the Tong Army and the Guo Army of the Shuaifu...and then give them to you." You six thousand households, plus your Ziqing soldiers, no matter what, you can stop Zhao Kai for ten days! Is that okay or not?"
"Okay!" Wanyan Xiabao finally said nothing more and just nodded happily.
Sixty thousand households plus the soldiers sent from Ziqing Town, there are already 80,000 people! The Tongzi Army and Hot Pot Army directly under the Marshal's Mansion are also very powerful, with a total of hundreds of tubes and more than 200 large and small hot pots... In addition, there are also camel tip artillery carefully trained by Wanyan Xiebao, which can Mobile cannon deployed on the battlefield!
With such a strong strength, it may not be possible to resist Zhao Kai's entire army who has crossed the river, but if they are only halfway across the river, are they afraid that they will not be able to withstand ten days?
Besides, Wanyan Zongbi still has the navy of the Marshal's Mansion! In less than two days, they can come along the Baigou River!
Although this naval force cannot go out of the sea or enter the river, and will capsize if it encounters strong winds and waves, but in the Baigou River... they are the tyrants of the ditch!
Wanyan Xiebao laughed and raised his eyes to the south bank of Baigou River: "Zhao Kai, Zhao Kai... Baigou River is the place where you will die!"
After hearing this, Wanyan Zongbi finally breathed a sigh of relief... It's hard to say whether Zhao Kai will die in the ditch of Baigou River, but the chances of Dajin Bing's victory are still quite high!
At this moment, the sound of the shelling suddenly stopped, followed by a burst of sounds like drums.
The infantry of the Song Army began to cross the Baigou River in small wooden boats!
Wanyan Zongbi and Wanyan Xiebao both stopped talking and stretched their necks to look towards Baigou River. They saw twenty or thirty wooden boats launching from the south bank of Baigou River at the same time. In addition to sailors, each boat was carrying at least Twenty Song soldiers with rolled armor and shields were killed.
Because the previous artillery bombardment by the Song Army had completely cleared out the Jin soldiers on the north bank of the Baigou River, these Song soldiers crossing the river encountered no resistance at all and settled comfortably on the beach on the north bank.
Wanyan Zongbi turned to Xiebao and said: "Song people can cross a few hundred people at a time, but by night they may be able to cross ten thousand people... The pontoon bridge will probably be repaired tomorrow, and by then you will definitely have to bring soldiers with you." Press them up...press them on the edge of the river beach, don't give them too much territory to display their troops, so that once our navy arrives, we can eat Zhao Kai's 20,000 to 30,000 people!"
His heart is quite peaceful, and he will be satisfied if he eats 20,000 to 30,000 yuan...
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On the Juma River (the upper reaches of the Baigou River), a fleet of boats is going down the river.
The ships used by this fleet were all forcibly collected from Hebei Road and Nanjing Road. They were gathered near Yuhe County (on the banks of the Sangqian River) in Daxing Prefecture, and were carried out by craftsmen sent from Ziqing Town and Liaoyang Town. Reinforce and transform it to enable it to be used in water battles.
The soldiers who operate the boats are all experts who are proficient in water and good at boat handling drawn from the armies under the jurisdiction of the Du Marshal's Mansion! Some are Jurchens, some are from Bohai, and some are Han'er from Liaodong - don't think that these out-and-out northerners can only ride horses and not sail boats. The Jurchens are originally a people of fishing and hunting, how could they not know how to drive a boat? As for the Bohai people in Liaodong, because under the rule of the Khitans they had to bear the corvee of transporting grain from Liao to Yanjing, some of them were good at building and sailing ships. Among the Han children in Liaodong, there are also many people who can drive ships to trade between Liaodong and Yanjing.
Therefore, among today's soldiers of the Dajin Nation, there is no shortage of warriors who can maneuver boats and water.
Of course, you can't let them go to sea to fight the Southern Song Dynasty Navy with strong ships and barrels. However, it is enough to dominate the "water ditches" such as Sanggan River and Baigou River.
These warships armed by the Dajin navy also vary in size, and the small boats among them are about 200 pieces of material. The sides of the ship are hung with cooked cowhide and fine netting, and wooden rafters are supported. A large crossbow and spear also protruded from the gaps between the wooden posts. Each boat has at least sixteen oars, separated on the left and right, to move the river water, push the warship, and divide the waves forward.
Following these small boats are gunboats with more than 500 materials! These gunboats were also reinforced with cowhide, fine mesh, and wooden rafters. They were also equipped with crossbows and were driven by long oars. But unlike the small boats, these gunboats have a single cannon installed on the stern deck!
This single-shot cannon has as many as 20 gun ropes, which requires 40 people to pull and release together. It can throw a 12-pound bomb 80 steps away... It is simply a "ditch battleship". !
Behind each "ditch battleship" are towed two small wooden boats covered with oilcloth - these are not lifeboats, but "thunder boats", which are explosion boats with an extra-large explosive pot installed on the boat. !
When fighting the enemy, you can smoothly release the explosive ships and let them rush towards the enemy's fleet or pontoon!
It is precisely because of such "water ditch weapons" that the "Wanyan Kings" of the Jin Kingdom, such as Wanyan Zongqian, Wanyan Zongbi, Wanyan Zongmin, Wanyan Xiebao, and Wanyan Huonv, were obsessed with these "Qigou-Baigou" Fight with confidence.
These "water ditch warships" are all affiliated to the navy of the Marshal's Mansion. There are a total of seventy or eighty of them, excluding "explosion ships". There are about ten thousand sailors, which is almost an establishment of ten thousand households. Yesterday morning, they all set out and left the Yuhe Water Camp. They first went south from the Sangqian River, then entered the Zhuoshui River, then headed west, and finally entered the Juma River. The Juma River and the Baigou River are actually the same river, but the Juma River is located in the upper reaches and runs north-south, so this section is called the Juma River, and after turning eastward, it is called the Baigou River.
Now this "Shuigou Fleet" has not yet entered the waters of Baigou River, but the rumbling sound of artillery coming from the battlefield on the north bank of Baigou River can already be heard!
Obviously, the fighting on the north bank of Baigou River was fierce! Our "Shuigou Fleet" came at the right time... As long as we can blow up the Song Army's pontoon bridge on the Baigou River, we can place the gunboat behind the Song Army, and use the cannon on the ship to fire explosive pots. The Song Army's butt, this battle of Baigou River is even won!
When the officers and soldiers on each warship heard this intensive and unusual cannon fire, everyone had a grim look on their faces, and no one dared to say anything random.
On a "ditch battleship" in the middle of the fleet, a strong man wearing shorts and a helmet on his head, whose muscles could be felt through his clothes, stood on the bow of the ship, frowning and saying something. Not sent.
This general's surname is Wuyan and his given name is Puluhun. He is from Hunshan, the ancient enemy of Wugu on Haolan Road. He is hereditary Meng'an and is also a Jurchen general. In his early years, he and his brother Hu Shahu followed Wanyan's mother in the east and west expeditions. From Huanglong The government has been fighting all the way to Kaifeng Mansion, which can be said to be a great success!
And because Haelan Road is right on the beach of Whale Sea, this Puluhun can be regarded as a child who grew up by the sea. Not only is he proficient in water skills, but he can also sail a boat out to sea. He is an amphibious general!
Later, when Wanyan Zongqian formed the "Shuigou Fleet", he thought of Puluhun. He assigned him to be in charge of ten thousand households in the navy, ordered him to select more than ten thousand warriors from the commander's direct army, and also asked him to supervise the construction of eight warships. Ten, this is the only "ditch fleet" in the world.
