Yeluxuan, the Meng general who was guarding the pontoon, watched the Qi fleet approaching and was quite confident in his arrangement.
"The thieves cannot go ashore. When they approach, all the troops will immediately bombard me together." Yeluxuan ordered loudly with his hand on the sword.
Frankly speaking, it was an injustice when the Liao Kingdom was destroyed by tens of thousands of Jurchens.
If it weren't for Emperor Tian Zuo's stupidity, the Khitans would not have been easily defeated by the Jurchens.
After the fall of the Liao Kingdom, the Khitan people dispersed throughout the country. Among them, Yelu Dashi established the Western Liao Dynasty. After the Western Liao Dynasty was destroyed by the Mongols, a group of Khitan people fled to the Yinlang Plateau and established the post-Western Liao Dynasty.
The Khitan people are the first northern nation on the northern grasslands to be nomadic and master the advanced production technology of the Han people. Their combat power should not be underestimated.
Ye Luxuan stood in the camp, staring at the Qi army warships rushing over, with his right hand raised high. The gunners in the camp were watching him, waiting for an order to fire their cannons and rocks.
There was a loud "boom", and before the Qi army's warship entered the range of the trebuchet, the artillery on the ship suddenly opened fire.
"It's artillery!" Many soldiers in the Liao camp exclaimed.
Before Ye Luxuan could react, a cannonball roared towards him, tearing open the wooden fence of the camp. The cannonball wrapped up the wood fragments and swept across the area. The soldiers hiding behind were injured by the wood fragments and fell down screaming. land.
"Boom, boom, boom!" On the side of the Qi army's gunboat, each artillery fired in sequence.
As soon as each cannon fired, the cannons retreated violently, and clouds of gunpowder smoke rose from the muzzles.
On the deck, the gunner immediately stepped forward, cleared the barrel of the gun, reloaded it, and pushed the gun back to the gun position. The black muzzle stuck out of the window and sprayed orange-red gun flames again.
The Qi army fleet stopped in the distance and bombarded the Mongolian army camps on both sides of the bank. The cannonballs smashed into the camps one after another, leaving the Khitan army unable to fight back.
"General, our artillery carriages can't reach them!" the Khitan officer reminded sadly.
Ye Luxuan saw the Qi army equipping artillery on the city, but did not expect that the Qi army also had artillery on its warships.
At this time, facing the Qi army's shelling, the Khitan soldiers in the camp could only be beaten passively.
The Qi army's gunboats bombarded them until the gun barrels were red, and then they stopped bombarding.
The moment the bombardment stopped, Qi's soldiers had already rushed to the shore in a small boat, and then jumped out of the boat.
The Qi army's artillery suppressed the Mongolian army and destroyed the Mongolian army's camp, but the damage done by the solid bullets to the Khitan army was actually very limited.
Even in modern times, when heavy artillery is used to clear the ground and no infantry is sent to attack, it is impossible to capture the position and defeat the defenders by relying solely on artillery bombardment.
At this time, Ye Luxuan saw the Qi army's navy landing on the beach and attacking the camp, and quickly called his subordinates to greet him.
"The bombardment has stopped, rush over and drive the Qi thieves down the river!" Yeluxuan roared with his sword.
Hundreds of Khitan soldiers in the camp rushed out with swords and shields. The Qi army's navy who had just landed were lined up in three rows. The first row squatted on the ground, the second row bowed, and the third row stood up straight. Like three steps.
The Khitan soldiers didn't understand what kind of foot formation this was. They only saw three rows of troops. What they held in their hands was not a spear or a sword, but a fire stick. They couldn't help but wonder in their hearts.
Ye Luxuan frowned when he saw this scene, remembering that he was called to participate in a military meeting some time ago. Wanhu seemed to mention at the meeting that in addition to artillery, the Qi army also had an amazingly powerful weapon that could shoot through heavy armor. Burst gun.
"Bang, bang, bang!" Just when the Khitan soldiers were about to rush to the river beach, the Qi troops lined up in three rows and lit their firecrackers.
The Khitan soldier who rushed forward only saw the flashing flames in front of him, like a dazzling galaxy, and then he felt severe pain in his chest. He felt something tearing open his armor and rolling into his body.
Gunshots sounded and smoke filled the air. The Khitan soldiers who rushed towards the riverbank fell to the ground like cutting grass. The soldiers behind were frightened by the horrifying scene in front of them and ran back one after another.
"Kill!" Qi Jun roared, picked up his sword and followed the Khitan soldiers into the camp.
The Khitan soldiers were driven to attack their fellow soldiers in the camp. Thousands of Khitan soldiers were frightened and were driven out of the camp by the Qi army.
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Before Ye Luxuan could figure out what was going on, the camp was captured by the Qi army. He led the defeated troops and ran out of the camp. The Qi army did not pursue them, but just started setting fire to their camp and burned down their camp.
The battle at the pontoon ended in less than an hour.
The Mongolian camps at both ends of the floating bridge were burned down by the Qi army. The floating bridge turned into pieces of driftwood, floating down the river with the corpses of the Khitan people.
The battle was short, with few casualties on both sides. However, facing the Qi army's artillery, the Khitans could only abandon five to six hundred corpses and monitor the Qi army far away from the range of the Qi army's artillery. They did not dare to set up positions near the river. Campsite.
Ye Luxuan looked at the camp and the pontoon being burned down, with Yuji in his heart, "Go and report to the Khan quickly, saying that the Qi navy has broken through our obstruction."
The navy of the Qi army destroyed the pontoon bridge and cut off the iron cables. Lu Wenxin then took fifty small boats loaded with food and went upstream.
The water upstream was shallow, and the Qi army's large ship had a deep draft, so it was easy to run aground, so the small ship could only be allowed to move forward.
At this time, the messenger cavalry sent by Yeluxuan arrived at the Mongolian camp first and reported to Wokuotai that the pontoon bridge was destroyed and that the Qi navy broke through and blocked it.
In fact, there was no need for him to report it. The Meng camp had already discovered the thick smoke rising from the Khitan camp in the east.
After Wokuotai received the report, he immediately arrived at Dong'an City. Not long after, he saw a fleet coming upstream.
When the Qi army abandoned Dong'an, they burned the military supplies in the city and blew up the artillery that could not be moved away. Therefore, the Mongolian army had no artillery to control the river.
Not long after, Lu Wenxin brought the boat to the river north of Dong'an City. Meng Ge's soldiers stood directly in the water and fired arrows at the Qi army fleet.
There were all the soldiers on the boat, holding shields to resist, protecting the rowing soldiers, and braved the rain of arrows from the Mongolian army to break through the Mongolian army's blockade.
At this time, a group of Mongolian troops on the shore saw that the ship was about to rush to the foot of Langshan City, and immediately rushed into the river on horseback, trying to block it by force.
The war horses rushed into the river. The river water covered the horse's back, and the cavalry had no impact. The Qi army on the boat fought back with bows and arrows, while the Mongolian army used scimitars to chop and poke with spears, and they fought fiercely.
"Boom, boom, boom!" At the top of Langshan City, the Qi army watched reinforcements coming from the waterway, and the gunners under the city immediately fired artillery support.
The shells fell into the water and stirred up water jets. After the Mongolian cavalry entered the water, they had no advantage and were frightened by the artillery, so they had to withdraw in a hurry.
At the top of Dong'an City, Wo Kuotai watched the Qi navy break through the obstruction with a small boat and arrived at Langshan City. Hearing the cheers of the Qi army in Langshan City, he just sneered, "Wuxian thought he had received help, but he didn't know. In fact, it has been given up by Zhao Tai!"
"Great Khan, I thought I could spread the news and inform the Qi thieves in the city, letting them know that Zhao Tai was attacked by Mongolia from the north and the south and had abandoned Langshan City, so as to shake the morale of the Qi thieves!" Subotai suggested.
