Chapter 105: The Dark Tide is Silent

Sometimes the accident is the long-planned plan of others.

Li Sicheng was almost overjoyed when he heard the Ming army's big ship enter the Baiteng River.

Without him, this is what Li Sicheng has been planning for a long time.

What Li Sicheng wanted was not a victory to keep the Ming army out of the country, but a big victory.

Only a big victory could make the Ming army suffer, and finally there was a change in the form of diplomacy. In the end, the result of the retreat of the Ming army was achieved.

But how can this be done?

Li Sicheng actually didn't give any orders during this period of time, just let the two sides fight normally.

Because Li Sicheng believes that there is no need for him to do anything, with Beikou's arrogance, they will definitely enter the Baiteng River, and the more he does, the easier it is to go wrong.

Of course, Li Sicheng did not do nothing.

Secretly, I did something.

Not to mention anything else, how did Wang Ying know the details of the water situation of the Baiteng River?

It is true that the Ming Dynasty installed a brocade guard in Annan.

But now the Ming Dynasty has been greatly damaged in Annan's Jinyi system.

This sabotage is not what Annan did to them.

It's war.

Yes, war.

As the pressure of the Ming army on Annam increased, the pressure of the Ming army was also transmitted to every Annan people.

As I said before, the proportion of Ding in many places has reached the point of three draws, so that one thing can be imagined, those outsiders, Han people, and even local Yi people will be pumped away.

The natives of Annam will find a way to avoid military service and let someone else take their place.

After all, everyone knows that there are not too many people who can really come back alive when they go to the battlefield.

The intelligence network of Daming Jinyiwei and Dongchang was only started in the orthodox years, and it was only more than 20 years.

More than 20 years seems like a long time, but I still can't get rid of the label of a foreigner.

This is also a label of an agrarian society, and people living in the countryside know that if you ask the old people in the village, you will know that so-and-so is from another place. Even if the family has been living in this village for three generations.

If you don't marry with this village, or even if you do, you will still be treated as an outsider.

And too many of Jinyiwei's spies were sent from China.

As a result, most of this intensive conscription was conscripted into the army.

Even if there are a few that don't, with the speed of news circulation in this era, it is even more unlikely that the Jinyiwei spy knows about the arrival of the Ming army and provides intelligence support in the army.

On the contrary, on the side of Annan, there are too many ways to send out the dead to mislead the Ming army.

This is where the advantages of homegrown warfare lie.

The news received by the Ming army was not wrong, and around the 15th of each month, the Baiteng River was at its fullest, and it was enough for large ships to sail. But they understand that things are slightly wrong. There are also some misunderstandings about big ships.

In this way, the Ming army marched on foot, and on February 15, it opened up more than half of the entire Baiteng River, and only needed to carry out more than ten miles out of the Baiteng River channel.

Enter the main road of the Red River

When the time comes, it's a different story.

After nightfall, the two sides quit as if they were usual. After all, night battles are not a cost-effective thing for both sides. It's just that the Ming army didn't know that at this moment, the Vietnamese army had all been dispatched.

At this moment, Li Sicheng was sitting on the boat, and countless ships were quietly on the channel.

The generals used by Li Sicheng at the moment, all the generals surnamed Li, are all old members of the Houli royal family. Li Sicheng ordered: "Raise the fire." Sortie. ”

At the sound of the order, all the ships were lit with lights, and if you looked at it from the sky, the river would become a river of lights for a while.

The information obtained by the Ming army is naturally true, only two details are different.

The so-called big ships are a little smaller than the warships of the Ming army in terms of size, and the most important thing is that these ships are river ships, not sea ships.

Riverboats are generally flat. And the sea ships are all pointed bottoms, and the two sides look the same, but the draft is different. This difference may not be able to deceive the Ming army.

After all, most of the generals of the Ming army have not fought in the river, so they naturally know the difference between river boats and sea boats.

I think the Ming army will also check this.

But another problem can kill the Ming army.

Tides are still divided into several types, the full moon tide is naturally caused by the gravitational pull of the moon, also known as the moon tide, but in addition to the moon tide, caused by atmospheric factors, it is called air tide.

The laws of the two sides are not the same.

Although the tide is the greatest around the fifteenth day, it does not mean that the daily quarrel is gone.

It's just not easy to observe.

Without him, it is because of the hydrological characteristics of the Baiteng River, that is, the dark tide is silent.

As for why the dark tide is silent, only geologists can figure it out.

Of course, the people of Annam may not know the tide so clearly, they only need to know the conclusion, that is, even between February 14, February 15, and February 16, the water level of the Baiteng River still has a low tide period, that is, the low tide period of these hours after midnight and before dawn.

This is the time of the day when the water level is at its lowest.

Of course, the information obtained by the Ming army was also correct, even at this time, there were still big ships that could sail in the Baiteng River.

But this is where the waterways come in.

Because to be precise, in the channel of the Baiteng River, it is still possible to sail large ships. But the bottom of the Baiteng River is not a flat land. Not to mention, Li Sicheng has also done some traditional skills of the Annam people in the past few days.

It is to smash a wooden stake at the bottom of the Baiteng River.

Of course, the main channel on the Baiteng River is not greatly affected. It's just a little reluctant, after all, the ships of the Ming army are a little larger than those of Annam.

It's just another problem.

For many Annamite people, even at night, even if there is no light, they can clearly distinguish where the main channel is in the Baiteng River.

But for the Ming army, this was an impossible task.

As a result, the outcome of this battle was decided before it began, and Bai Tengjiang once again played a powerful role in turning the tide for Annan.

At this moment, Wang Ying is only facing a dying struggle.

The first wave of Annam's army was fireships.

When I saw the fire on the river.

The Ming army took action one after another.

All the generals of the Ming army who knew the history of Baiteng River, every one of them could sleep soundly in the Baiteng River, and every one of them slept very lightly.

Therefore, the slightest sound on the river immediately caused a reaction from the Ming army.

In the face of the fireboat, the Ming army was very skillful in firing with artillery, using long wooden poles to resist, and if it didn't work again, then turn to avoid.

It's just that when they turned, they all encountered a situation they never imagined.

I just heard the gurgling sound from the bottom of the boat, and the boat hit the bottom.

This is just the beginning.

Because of the different degrees of ruggedness at the bottom of the Baiteng River, coupled with the different positions of the Ming army's ships, the degree of bottoming out is also severe.

Some of them can still be moved, and some of them are simply stranded.

But these ordinary minor problems, coupled with the near-rupture of the Annam ships, immediately turned into big troubles.

The sound of gunfire and the loss of power of the Ming army's ships, even if the artillery fire is fierce and the personnel fight to the death, they are just a prey. Annan rode large and small ships, mixed with the Ming army ships, and fought hard.

Because every Annan soldier knew that their time was actually very limited, less than four hours, because around dawn, the Baiteng River would rise again.

When the time comes, these immobile ships will once again regain the ability to move freely.

It's just that Li Sicheng has made a lot of calculations, but he still misses one point, that is, the advantage of the Ming ships is too great, even if most of the stranded ships are like batteries, resisting strongly. In addition, even the largest ships in Annam did not have a high degree of superiority in the face of Ming ships.

When it was on the side, it was like a siege.

Thus, in the 27th year of orthodoxy, in the night battle on February 15, although the Annamites had exhausted their organs, they did not occupy too many advantages. The Ming army and the Annam fought boat by boat, and both sides suffered heavy casualties.

Because of the strong resistance of the Ming army, it was forced to be a sandwich meal.