In the early morning of the sixth day of February, when the sky was getting a little brighter, mist and rain began to appear on the water in the Hecaikou area. This was a mixture of light rain and morning fog, which shrouded the water near Hecaikou in a hazy state, making it difficult to see clearly from a little further away.
Such weather and visibility are simply tailor-made for a sneak attack... If Captain Gao doesn't take advantage of this opportunity to launch a sneak attack, is he still worthy of being the old enemy of the Kingdom of Jin?
So Wanyan Yanmu, Wanyan Alubu and Yelu Mawu all got out of their warm beds early in the morning to "work the early morning shift". The three of them also assigned a defense area. Wanyan Mu was responsible for the defense of the north bank of Hecai Kou and Hecai Town. Wanyan Alubu took his own soldiers to the wooden platoon and personally supervised a group of Alixi soldiers to defend. Yelü Mawu took his Khitan soldiers to the south bank of Hecaikou to set up defenses. Almost one and a half thousand households (Ma Wu only brought half of his troops) and nearly 30,000 Jurchen and Khitan warriors launched defenses at Hecaikou in the early morning of the sixth day of the lunar month and were ready.
If Zhao Kai did not get the help of the "good people of Liangshan" and was forced to break through the encirclement by land, these 30,000 Jurchen and Khitan warriors would definitely defeat his more than 10,000 cavalry and annihilate him... Zhao Kai this time Most likely he will die.
But this time it was a water fight!
These Jurchen and Khitan warriors are fierce again on land, but on the water they are no match for the "good people of Liangshan".
Of course, the Jurchens were fishermen and hunters, and they could also sail boats and play in the water, and they could also fight in the water. Historically, Wanyan Wushu once crossed rivers and seas to search mountains and seas to capture Zhao Gou!
Even these "good guys" in Liangshanbo may not be able to beat the Jurchens if they compete with real water fighting skills.
But... Wanyan Yanmu, Wanyan Alupu and Yelu Mawu don't have many usable ships in their hands!
When Wanyan Yan Mu occupied Hecai Town, it was not the busy season for water transportation. There were not many large boats on the dock of Hecai Town, and they all ran away and were not captured by the Jin people. Jia Mu's soldiers only captured some fishing boats, and not many of them. If they relied on just a few fishing boats to fight in the water with 72 large boats worth 500 yuan, it would be a loss of lives.
Therefore, Wanyan Yanmu, Wanyan Arubu and Yelv Mawu could only fight a water battle where they could not get into the water... They relied on wooden rafts to block the waterway, and then deployed them on both sides of Hecai Port. The cannons threw stones, and at the same time a volley of thousands of arrows fired, turning Gao Qiu into a "hedgehog Qiu"!
In addition to ordinary arrowheads, Wanyan Mu also asked her subordinates to prepare as many rockets as possible in the past few days, and now they have been distributed. Each Jurchen and Khitan warrior has received twenty or thirty rockets.
Under the supervision of Wanyan Jian Mu, Wanyan Alupu and Yelu Mawu, 30,000 Jurchen and Khitan warriors got up early in the morning to "work the early shift". They all put on armor, brought bows and arrows, and set up Shields were set up and cannons were set up, and teams were deployed on both sides of Hecai Kou and on the wooden raft pontoon bridge.
The braziers used to light the rockets were also lit one by one. Looking from a distance, the two sides of Hecai Kou were dotted with flickering lights. There are also dozens of flickering fire flowers on the canal in Hecaikou.
Under the light of these fires, there are densely packed heads. Everyone is holding a bow and an arrow, and they are trying their best to look eastward.
On the water surface of Liangshan in the east, lights flickered faintly at this time. First there were a few bright spots, and soon there were dozens or hundreds of bright lights. As we moved forward slowly in the thick fog, we were getting closer and closer to Hecaikou. .
The Jurchens and Khitans guarding Hecaikou all knew that those lights must have come from the warships of the Southern Navy led by Gao Qiu! These warriors from the North couldn't help but hold the bows and arrows in their hands... Now they couldn't ride their horses to charge or fight hand-to-hand with their swords. All they could rely on was a horn bow and more than a hundred feather arrows!
If these arrowheads can't stop Gao Qiu and Gao Taiwei's navy, then it's hard to say whether they can break into Tokyo City and live happily...
"Dong dong dong dong..."
As a low drum beat sounded, the atmosphere at the front of Hecaikou suddenly became tense!
Everyone held their breath, tightened the horn bows in their hands, opened their eyes wide, and watched the enemy getting closer and closer in the rain and fog.
Suddenly, there was a "click" sound from the water surface as the metal machinery hit each other! Then there was a violent sound of breaking through the sky... This was dozens of short spears shooting out from the bows of those "Liangshan warships" on the water!
All these short spears were fired at the wooden rafts lying across the Wuzhang River in the mouth of Hecai. The Alixi soldiers and the Jurchen soldiers on the wooden rafts were so densely packed that they wanted to fill all the places they could stand. Although large wooden pillars were set up in front of their array, these wooden pillars were not necessarily able to protect against the short spears fired by the bed crossbows - some of the wooden pillars were not made of solid enough materials and were directly penetrated by the short spears! Some short spears penetrated between the wooden posts! There were also some short spears flying over the wooden posts!
The penetrating power of these short spears shot by Fangzi Crossbow is not comparable to ordinary arrowheads. When shot into a dense infantry array, the damage caused will naturally be extremely tragic!
Some short spears directly smashed the heads of Jurchen soldiers or Ali Xi soldiers wearing helmets. The good heads exploded like rotten watermelons, and the pink and tender brains flew everywhere. Some short spears, after piercing the chest of a Jurchen soldier or Alixi soldier, did not finish the castration, and then shot through the Jurchen soldiers in the back row! The two Tartars, who were quite stout and heavily armored, were nailed together with short spears. They were not fully dead yet, with large mouthfuls of blood spurting out from their mouths. They opened their mouths and wanted to call for help, but all they heard was death. screams!
Dozens of brutal short spears immediately caused a bloody storm among the array of golden soldiers on the raft, causing screams and exclamations, and also frightened Wanyan Alu who was sitting on the raft. He was so choked... a short spear just flew past his ear!
Flying past my ears!
He could feel the strong wind brought by the short spear... If he was just a little bit off, his head would be penetrated by the short spear!
Almost died! It’s just that little bit missing!
Wanyan Arubu was still in shock when another "click" sound came from the water!
Then dozens of short spears shot out... and swept across the raft again!
Wanyan Alubu was so scared that he almost peed!
Although his life was still quite high this time and he was not hit by a short spear...but the Song Army warships in the rain and fog had obviously stopped moving forward. They lowered iron anchors on the water and aimed at the slow-moving crossbows. Slow cumshot.
These waves are coming, no matter how strong my life is, I can't bear it, and I'm scared to death even if I can't shoot it to death!
Thinking of this, Wanyan A'lu gritted his teeth and shouted loudly: "Gao Qiu is here... Shoot the arrows quickly! Shoot the rockets!"
One of his soldiers, Mou Ke, heard his roar and quickly reminded: "The southern warship is still far away, fifty or sixty steps from the pontoon bridge!"
Fifty or sixty steps... This is really an awkward distance. I can barely shoot, but I can't shoot hard enough. The warriors on the Song warships only needed to put on armor and raise their shields to cover themselves, and they would be fine.
But the short spear fired by the Song Dynasty's bed crossbow can penetrate even a large frame at this distance! Anyone who gets hit by it is basically doomed!
"Shoot the arrows!" Wanyan Alubu didn't listen at all and just said loudly, "Set the arrows quickly... We can't just get beaten without fighting back!"
If you just take a beating and don't fight back, your morale will drop too quickly!
The short spears fired by the Song Army could kill at most twenty people in one round (most of them were high), but the panic caused could quickly make the 2,000 people on the pontoon collapse... They were about to collapse, The Song people could easily solve the pontoon bridge, then rush into the Wuzhang River and return to Kaifeng Mansion in victory.
Alubu's order was quickly implemented. All he saw was countless dots of firelight appearing in the haze, all coming through the air and flying towards the dozens of Song warships forming a dense formation on the water.
At the same time that the Jin soldiers on the wooden rafts began to fire arrows, some of the Jin soldiers on both sides of Hecai Kou also started to fire arrows-those who were closer to the Song army's warships started to fire arrows, and those who were farther away had nothing to do.
Standing on the top of the cabin of the "imperial boat" behind the Song fleet, Zhao Kai saw countless small flames rising from both sides of Hecai Port and the pontoon blocking the entrance to Hecai Port, and then streaking across the damp and cold water. The air fell on the fleet in front!
Seeing this scene, Zhao Kai smiled proudly... The straw boat borrowed arrows, no, it should be the clay boat borrowing arrows, and the deal was almost completed!
These arrows are not cheap!
According to the quotation from the Song Dynasty, an ordinary feather arrow costs almost 10 cents!
Moreover, this thing doesn't weigh much when held in one hand, but it is quite heavy when held in bundles.
Therefore, it is impossible for the golden soldiers who traveled a long distance to carry too many feathered arrows. A hundred arrows per soldier would be enough.
If they run out of shots and can't replenish them, they will have to go back home... So if this mud boat cheating arrow thing is going to happen, it will be really high.
When he was feeling proud, he suddenly saw two dazzling fires rising from the golden army formation on the north bank of Hecai Kou, then drawing a parabola in the air, and finally falling suddenly on the water near the Song Army fleet!
"This is......"
"It's a cannon!" Guo Tiannv, who was standing next to Zhao Kai, was a little nervous. "Your Majesty, the golden thief has fired a cannon... We have to be careful!"
Zhao Kai looked indifferent and just muttered in a low voice: "I don't know whether it is equipped with a heavy tip cannon or a cable-type tip cannon?"
"Everyone, what is a configuration-type cannon?" Guo Tiannu was a little confused by Zhao Kai's words, "Aren't these cannons pulled by ropes?"
Zhao Kai said thoughtfully: "That's the cable-type cannon..." He then smiled and said: "Goddess, you don't have to worry. Those cannons that can't hit accurately can only be shot by our soldiers." Just move the boat from time to time.”
