In the fishing village on the south bank of the Baigou River that had been transformed into a bridgehead, on a watchtower, Niu Gao, the commander of the Fifth Army of the Song Dynasty Army, was staring dumbfounded at the "Shuigou Fleet" that suddenly came out.
You will know Baigou River just by its name. Can it really be called "Baigou" if it is a big river? Will the Yangtze River be called Changgou? Will the Yellow River be called Huanggou?
On such a "ditch" that sounded similar to a "gutter", a fleet of gold thief navy ships actually appeared!
I have to say that this "ditch fleet" really caught everyone by surprise! Not to mention that Niu Gao didn't expect it, even Yue Fei and Yue Wudi across the Baigou River didn't expect that the golden thief actually built a decent ditch fleet!
So neither Niu Gao nor Yue Fei expected that there would be so many gold thieves warships coming from the Baigou River... No one could imagine that there would be a Shuigou fleet! At most, they thought that some fire boats would come down from the upper reaches to burn a pontoon or something, or that there would be dozens or hundreds of dead gold thieves driving small boats to die.
Therefore, Niu Gao arranged the defense in this way. He asked the engineers to smear the pontoon bridge with mud, and arranged seven small wooden boats also smeared with mud upstream of the pontoon bridge. The engineers in charge of driving the boats also prepared boats with iron hooks on the heads. A long pole that can hook fire boats.
In addition, Niu Gao also ordered his engineers to be prepared to put out the fire and repair the pontoon bridge.
But he never expected that the gold thief directly sent a ditch fleet over. There were seventy or eighty ships, and there must be no more than 10,000 people on board? Seven small boats smeared with mud couldn't resist them, so when they appeared, the engineers didn't rush out to die.
There are embankments on both sides of the Baigou River (due to the northward flow of the Yellow River, there have always been floods here in the past few decades). The embankments are not high, but the top is very wide and flat, allowing vehicles to park. So the baggage soldiers of the Song Army pulled up the grain carts. Although these baggage soldiers had divine arm bows, they were not equipped with fire arrows (the baggage soldiers were most afraid of catching fire), and ordinary wooden feather arrows were useless against the gold thieves' ditch fleet. There's no threat.
The Golden Thief Shuigou Fleet, which encountered no obstruction, quickly rushed to the water surface more than a hundred meters away from the pontoon bridge. They did not continue forward, but lowered the anchor and turned around on the water, facing the back of Yue Fei's army. At the same time, a frying pot boat equipped with a large frying pot was also released. The fried pot boats were helmed by Bohai people or dead soldiers of Liaodong Han people, and rushed along the current to the pontoon bridge.
When the bombing boat approached the pontoon, the dead men on the ship clicked on the fuse of the bombing pot and jumped overboard to escape.
At this time, a group of grain trucks was passing by on the pontoon. The people driving the trucks were all civilians. They were all frightened when they saw so many big boats on the water. They no longer wanted horse-drawn carriages or mule-drawn carriages, and those who shouted loudly fled to both sides of the bank. The small number of Song Army troops escorting the carriage had no choice but to run to the pontoon bridge near the north bank, pull up a few carriages and mule carts and leave... Let's recover some losses!
As soon as these horse-drawn carriages and mule carts ran off the pontoon, several bomb boats suddenly hit the pontoon!
The bows of these bomb boats were equipped with sharp iron spear points. With the power of the water flow, they were suddenly inserted into the wood of the pontoon. Then there were several loud "boom-boom-boom" noises, and several pot boats all turned into fireballs, and then quickly turned into a ball of black smoke. The huge vibrations and shock waves generated by the explosion first shattered the bombing boat, and then were transmitted to the pontoon. The pontoon was not shattered, but the ropes connecting the bridge deck and the boat were shattered and broken!
As soon as the rope was broken, the pontoon bridge immediately fell apart and was divided into several sections and flowed down the river. Some of the mules, horses and carts on the bridge fell directly into the water, while others floated away with the fragmented pontoon bridge sections. .
"Wan Sheng! Wan Sheng..."
Seeing this scene, the golden thieves on the Shuigou Fleet immediately cheered!
The pontoon is broken!
The connection between the Song armies on both sides of the Baigou River has been severed!
Moreover, the Song army on the north bank of the Baigou River has been surrounded by their Shuigou fleet and Wanyan Xiebao's army.
The explosion of the pot boat and the cheers of the sailors of the Shuigou Fleet also reached the battlefield on the north bank of the Baigou River, and were heard by the Jin soldiers of Wanyan Xiebao Division who were being bombarded by the Song army - this was really unexpected What a reversal!
The golden soldiers who were still being bombarded also cheered crazily. Since yesterday, they have been suppressed and beaten by the Song army, which has only half their number and only one-third of their artillery!
It's so frustrating... They are clearly outnumbered, with many cannons, hotpots, and small cannons, but they are so restrained by their opponents that they can't even mount a decent counterattack. Woolen cloth?
If this continues, we may suffer a huge defeat! If it fails miserably here in Baigouhe, can Nanjing Road be saved? Can Daxing City still be defended? Most of their family members are in Daxing City!
Now the Song Army's Shuigou Fleet suddenly appeared behind the Song Army, catching the Song Army off guard. Why not let these Jin soldiers burst into cheers?
Standing on a lookout car three or four hundred paces behind the Jin soldiers' defense line, Wanyan Xiebao, who climbed up to observe the formation, could not help but let out his loudest voice at the risk of being hit by a 10-pound artillery shell flying from a distance. loud cheers.
Although he has the problem of "crow's mouth", he has also been a soldier in these years and has long grown into a veteran of many battles. Moreover, he also has considerable experience in the use of gunpowder weapons. How could he not know the skills of the Song people? The big tube is much more powerful than the big tube in my hand!
This tube...it turns out that bigger is not better!
It has to be fast and accurate, and it has to be able to move, just like that little cannon.
Those big barrels of mine are so heavy that they can't be moved at all, and their rate of fire is very slow. It took me a long time to fire one round, but the accuracy is still very poor, and they can't hit far... If you take them to the Western Regions, you can dominate them. , but in front of Song Jun's new large barrel, it is simply not enough to see.
So before the Suigou Fleet of the Great Jin Kingdom succeeded in the sneak attack, Wanyan Xiebao actually knew that he was going to lose... The reason why he still persisted was that he still had illusions about the Shuigou Fleet. If they could succeed in a sneak attack, they might be able to turn the tide.
But there was a voice deep in his heart telling him that the ditch fleet could not be counted on!
Just when Wanyan Xiebao was worried about himself, the Shuigou Fleet, and the fate of the Great Jin Kingdom, the Shuigou Fleet actually succeeded in a sneak attack!
As if to prove to Wanyan Xiebao that the Song army was about to be defeated, the Song army's artillery that had been firing fiercely just now suddenly stopped. The only sound left on the battlefield was the sound of more than 200 Jin Army's large barrels and hot pot cannons firing - there were a lot of cannons, but the sound of the cannons was very sparse, and the accuracy of the cannonballs was even more worrying... ..
Wanyan Xiebao knew that this was an opportunity to launch a counterattack. He gritted his teeth and shouted an order: "Let the front line prepare for the attack and order the artillery team to concentrate in the middle! Move the tubes and hot pots forward 30 steps!"
The Jurchen guards around him immediately took orders, waved their flags and issued orders.
The Jin soldiers who were still being bombarded just now came out from behind the low wall where they were hiding and began to form a formation under the command of the officer.
The dozens of cannons that Xie Bao had on hand also began to concentrate on the middle of the Jin army's front line. The Jin Army's artillery also stopped firing and began to move forward slowly - the Jin Army's infantry jumped out from behind the low wall and formed a team in front of the low wall, naturally blocking their own cannons, so the cannons had to move forward. Move. As for the hot pot cannons, their accuracy was too poor, so Xie Bao also wanted them to move forward.
In Baigou Hebei, a bloody battle is about to begin!
At the same time, on the south bank of the Baigou River, Niu Gao had already climbed onto the embankment of the Baigou River, and with him on the top of the embankment were 12 5-pound long-barreled cannons.
These 12 5-pound long-barreled guns were not arranged separately, but were concentrated on the river embankment near the rear of the ditch fleet. In the bridgehead on the south bank, eight 5-pound long-barreled cannons and eight 10-pound long-barreled cannons were pushed into firing positions - these 16 cannons blocked the passage of the ditch fleet down the river.
That's right, Niu Gao is preparing to bombard the Jin's ditch fleet with his 28 cannons!
Although Niugao was caught off guard by the Jin's ditch fleet, even the pontoon was blown up. But he didn't have nothing to do with these dozens of ditch battleships, because the ditch of Baigou River was really not very wide. After pushing the long-barreled gun up the Baigou River embankment, you can use shotgun to wash the deck!
So Niu Gao immediately ordered the artillery to push the cannons up the embankment and the gun emplacements in the bridgehead. At the same time, he also ordered people to ask the two armies that were also deployed on the south bank of the Baigou River and were preparing to cross the river to send artillery to block the waterway downstream of the Baigou River.
We can't let the gold thief's ditch boat get away... because the gold thief just blew up the pontoon with the explosive pot boat, and he must pay compensation!
Those dozens of ditch boats look good, why not just hand them over!
Seeing that his cannons had been deployed, Niu Gao, who was standing behind a wooden pillar, did not need help from others to shout, so he opened his throat and shouted.
"The gold thieves on the other side have heard that you have been surrounded. Immediately hand over all the warships and surrender to our Song Dynasty soldiers. You can spare your life...or you will all be shot to death!"
The battlefields on both sides of the Baigou River are relatively quiet now. Niu Gao was born with a loud voice, and his roar could of course be heard on the ditch boat twenty or thirty steps away. The warship on which Puluhun was riding happened to be not far from Niugao. But he didn’t understand Chinese very well, so he turned around and asked a Bohai man next to him, “What are the people from the South shouting?”
"Wanhu... Then, the southerners asked us to hand over the boat!"
Puluhun was startled, "What? Is he crazy?"
Yes, the ships of the Army and the Navy...and these ships are not moored at the dock. This does not sound like what a normal person would say.
"He, he doesn't seem to be crazy!" The Bohai man's voice trembled again, "He has laid a big canister on the river embankment. If we don't surrender, he will use the canister to hit us! Wanhu, what are we doing? what to do?"
