At the same time, one of the two guard warships fixed on the river by anchors upstream of the pontoon suddenly shook, and then the entire ship flowed downstream.
"What's going on? Why did the ship move?"
"The anchor is loose?"
"It's not impossible. The bottom of the river is full of mud and sand. It has been fixed for so long. It is normal for it to loosen!"
"Pull it up quickly and fasten it again!"
"Hurry up and hold on to the boat. Don't let the boat flow down. It will be over if it hits the pontoon!"
There were several exclamations, but it was a pity that a large boat with a length of 10 to 20 meters could not be stabilized with bamboo poles and oars on the Yellow River with a width of 100 to 200 meters.
Although they tried their best to control it, the big ship hit the pontoon, causing the pontoon to shake and several sergeants fell into the river.
Looking at the panicked Sergeant Chahar through his clairvoyance, Zuo Qianhu's face hardened and he said in a deep voice: "Lianlangyan, notify Governor Hong and Commander Hei!"
laugh!
The flint collided, and a few sparks fell on the gunpowder, bursting into flames, and then ignited a firewood tower that was two meters in diameter and half a meter high.
Thick smoke slowly rose into the sky, and although the wind was strong, it did not disperse.
"Sir, are you looking at the smoke over there?"
At the Yellow River ferry, a sergeant suddenly exclaimed, causing Hu Luke Zhaisang, the chief officer in charge of crossing the river, to tremble suddenly, drop the wine bag, and look at it intently.
"It's wolf smoke, that's right!"
Hulu Kezhai Sang looked at it, and a trace of panic flashed in his eyes: "Go and report to the Great Khan quickly, and let the Great Khan cross the river first!"
Wolf smoke is Ming's unique method of transmitting information.
There is no beacon tower on the Great Wall here. If there is smoke, it means that there is an ambush of the Ming army in the place where the smoke is.
Before Lin Danhan could walk out of the temporary tent, two more lines of smoke rose ten miles away on both sides of the place where the smoke rose, extending further into the distance.
When Lin Danhan walked out of the tent, another alert boat also began to hit the pontoon.
This happened to two ships at the same time, and with the smoke, even Lin Danhan and others knew that something was not normal, no matter how slow they were.
But before they could make adjustments, countless black spots appeared in everyone's sight upstream.
In just two breaths, everyone saw clearly that they were small fishing boats, with two people on each boat holding bamboo poles, and they were like arrows flying straight towards the pontoon.
"Quickly send the order, the army should stop crossing the river and untie the big boat!"
"Aim your bow and arrow at the people in the boat, shoot them to death!"
"quick!"
…
Lin Danhan's urgent voice sounded, and the orderly roared loudly to deliver the order.
But no matter how fast he is, he can't go faster than the boat.
I saw the people on the small boat took out the fire sticks, lit the fuse of a thunderbolt wrapped in several layers of oil paper on the boat, and then jumped into the water.
In the desperate eyes of Lin Danhan and others, the boat approached the pontoon with burning thunder.
boom……
boom……
The power of the thunder is so great that there is absolutely no living person within ten feet of the land.
Even if it explodes close to the big ship, the power is extremely amazing.
The thunderbolts exploded one by one, shattering the boat into pieces.
Some small boats got stuck in the gap between the prows of the two large ships. The huge explosion directly shattered the bows and sterns of the large ships.
Some small boats clung to the hull of the big ship. A huge hole was blown out of the big ship, and river water gurgled into the ship.
Countless sawdust mixed with lead bullets were fired towards the surrounding area.
Although Lin Danhan issued an order to stop crossing the river, Sergeant Chahar and the war horses were afraid of water. The pontoon bridge composed of large ships was swaying. The horses were walking slowly, so there were still many sergeants on the pontoon bridge.
With just one attack, two pontoon bridges were shattered.
Countless Chahar sergeants and war horses fell into the water, flopped in the water, and were then loaded into the bottom of the water by broken wood from some large ships and rushed away.
"Khan, what should we do now?"
Looking at the broken floating bridge, Lin Danhan and others turned pale.
I never thought that the Ming army would hide such a trick. With only four or five large boats that were still intact against the shore, it was already hopeless to cross the river.
They were blocked by the Yellow River in the front, and pursued by the Ming Dynasty in the back.
On the left is the defense line of the Ming Dynasty Great Wall. There is only one way to go to the right and go north along the Yellow River.
"Great Khan, let's lead our army north along the Yellow River and find a place upstream before crossing the river!"
"No, there was smoke rising just above, which means there is an ambush. If we go now, wouldn't we be in an ambush by the Ming army?"
"There is no ambush. We... have nearly 30,000 cavalry. Where did the Ming army come from? If the infantry requires 70,000 or 80,000 people, how could we not know that such a large number of troops appeared on the grassland?"
"Even if there is no ambush, there are Yinshan Mountains, Langshan Mountains, Ulanbu and deserts along the way. Whether we can pass through is a question."
"No? Now you have to either commit suicide by jumping into the river, go back and fight the pursuing Ming army cavalry, and then be surrounded and killed by the chasing Ming army infantry? Or go west along the Yellow River, you choose a path!"
"Yes, go west, rush over, and station on the other side of the Daqingshan Mountains, waiting for the opportunity!"
"There is another way, surrender to the Ming Dynasty!"
"Stupid, we have already reached this point. Ming Dynasty can kill us, why should we accept our surrender? There is no other way out except to extend the Yellow River to the west!"
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"Report to the Great Khan, the Ming Dynasty cavalry is less than twenty miles away from Dongsheng City!"
After listening to the scout's report, Muller immediately said: "Great Khan, make a decision early!"
Lin Danhan looked at Dongsheng City behind him, then at the more than ten thousand cavalry on the other side, and said coldly: "Ezhe, take your Fujin and others by boat and cross the river immediately, command the cavalry on the other side, and cross the Ordos grassland diagonally. Enter Xining from Dacaotan.
Mu Le and Badasi Sangzhai, you two cross the river together and assist Ezhe. We will go west along the Yellow River to join you! "
"Father Khan, you..."
"Let's go!"
Lin Danhan gave his son Ezhe a hard look, and Ezhe could only take his mother and other family members onto the ship.
After half a stick of incense and looking at the big ship that had docked, Lin Danhan got on his horse and looked at the troops behind him: "Abandon the baggage, carry only dry food, and immediately move west along the Yellow River. Quick!"
After a while, a mess and all kinds of luggage were left on the ground.
Boom...tap...
The ground was shaking. More than a quarter of an hour after Lin Danhan left, Hei Yunlong arrived with his cavalry.
Looking at the strength of the troops on the other side, and then at the messy horse hoof prints on the ground to the west, Heiyun Longli shouted angrily: "Soldiers, Lin Danhan is right in front, don't let them go, keep chasing them, be ready to attack at any time!"
"rush!"
The army was once again chasing Lin Danhan's army. Ezhe's expression on the other side of the river also changed drastically, but there was nothing he could do and could only lead the army to set off.
Lin Danhan's army had only walked for less than two-quarters of an hour. The ground more than a hundred meters in front of the team was suddenly lifted, and hundreds of people emerged side by side in an instant.
