The Qiantang River flows through the entire Hangzhou Prefecture from southwest to northeast, giving birth to the softness and richness of this piece of Jiangnan water town, and even because of the peculiar geographical location of the rear estuary, there is a Qiantang tide that has been famous for thousands of years and is famous all over the world.

However, the water can carry the boat, and it can also race...... It can also capsize the boat, but now this mother river of Hangzhou has become a sharp sword hanging over the heads of all the soldiers and civilians of Wu State.

Wenjiayan, located in the upper reaches of Hangzhou, is the key to the Qiantang River after entering the boundary of Hangzhou. The water is gentle and the terrain is open, and it is the source of a large amount of upstream river water. But now, the situation here is very different from usual, there is a thousand Song troops stationed in front of the small village of only 100 households, and soon after they arrived, they built a much taller embankment on this river than before, cutting off the Qiantang River, and only a small opening was placed to allow the river to pass.

This frightened the people of the village, because as the road was blocked, the water of the river upstream was slowly accumulated, and it was lifted up inch by inch, and now the river was much higher than the rooftops of the village, and it seemed that a catastrophe would strike at any moment.

But under the protection of the Song army, the people of this village did not dare to object. Although those soldiers have never disturbed the people, they all carry bright swords and guns in their hands, who dares to provoke them.

On October 29, as a fast horse galloped in, the officer named Tao Zongwang gave an order, and the officers and soldiers worked together to completely knock down the embankment that had been painstakingly built in the past few days.

As soon as the obstacle in front was gone, the river water that was stranded and hoarded above was suddenly completely sprinkled like a trapped beast out of its cage, and the Qiantang River, which used to flow gently, actually let out a roar, and rushed downstream along the river with the momentum of ten thousand horses galloping, and instantly washed away the remnants of the mud and stone embankment that remained on the river...... If it weren't for the newly built and reinforced dikes on both sides of the river, I am afraid that the surging river would have swallowed up everything around it.

In the lower reaches, the river water that was only half of the usual day suddenly swelled, and the flow rate of the river water increased several times more than before, and it rumbled towards Hangzhou City. On the waterway just a few miles away from Hangzhou, dozens of large and small ships have been waiting for a long time, as soon as they heard the increasing sound of rushing water, they saw that a water belt behind them was rapidly approaching, and a dry sailor on the boat suddenly became full of energy, shouting and shouting, opening sails, lifting anchors, swinging oars, and orienting ...... Almost at the same time, all the ships were ready to take advantage of the water momentum and rush straight to the city of Hangzhou.

"Let's go! It's time to enter the Golden Gate! With the shout of Li Jun, the main general of the naval army, all the ships moved almost at the same time, and the soldiers all showed excited looks, staring at the faintly visible Hangzhou wall in front of them, controlling the ships under their feet, and rushing straight down at the fastest speed.

Under the smooth wind and water, the five or six miles of waterway is coming in an instant, and they will soon be able to see the banner of the Wu army above the Yongjin Water Gate, and even the soldiers and horses stationed there, and they will immediately let out an excited shout, copy their guns and bows, and prepare for battle.

At this time, on the Yongjin Gate, looking at the countless ships that came by the wind and waves, the hearts of the defenders and soldiers were also raised high, and countless bows and arrows suddenly aimed downward, just waiting for the main general Yuan Kai on this side to give an order, and then the arrows were fired together.

As the best general in the Wu army in water warfare, Yuan Kai was extremely calm at this time, even if the Qiantang River that came with countless ships this time looked very powerful, it didn't make his expression change much, but he looked back at the reserve reinforcements who were waiting here in the rear, and admired it in his heart: "It's still Pang Shuai and wise, and I expected that the Song army would set the main attack target this time at Yongjinmen." Now that everything is ready, it's up to them to kill themselves! ”

In the blink of an eye, the five or six small boats that were at the forefront had come within range of the archers in the city. Without any hesitation, Yuan Kai had already ordered: "Release arrows, rockets, and burn these eagle dogs!" ”

The torches that had been prepared were lit one by one, and then the arrows wrapped in oiled cloth were also lit one by one, and then the archers shot them with all their might. Although some of the rockets fell into the water due to the direction of the wind and distance, many more actually hit the approaching ships in front of them, and quickly caused a burst of fire in these small boats.

In this way, the Song army on the ship was frightened, and they did not care about suppressing the defenders of the city with bows and arrows, so they quickly extinguished the flames on the side or bow of the ship with buckets or other things. But in the meantime, their ships had rushed to the foot of the Yongjin Gate, and they were greeted by a more intensive rain of arrows, and in an instant, everyone on board was shot to the ground, screaming again and again.

As soon as the battle began, the Song army was completely suppressed, which made the momentum of the Wu army in the city great, even if more ships came to kill immediately, they did not have the slightest fear, and used arrows and wood and stones to prevent the ships from approaching their own water gate, and they have always held the advantage.

"The small boat avoids, drive the three big ships over, and suppress the rain of arrows at the head of the city first!" Seeing that the first wave of the offensive was frustrated, Li Jun frowned and immediately changed the tactics of the siege. From this point of view, the previous idea was still a little too taken for granted, thinking that it could take advantage of the flood to break the Yongjinmen, and at the worst it would be able to kill the defenders by surprise, but depending on the situation, the enemy had already prepared.

As the largest of the five water gates in Hangzhou, Yongjinmen was originally intended for the big merchant ships entering and leaving Hangzhou - after all, it was an extremely important commercial and prosperous place in the Great Song Dynasty, and it was extremely convenient by land and water. It's just that now, the wide river channel here has become a good place for the big ships to advance and retreat freely, especially when the water surface continues to rise, the unfavorable factors that restrict the warships with a very deep draft are gone, and under the action of the sails, the three big ships quickly approached in a zigzag shape, and the soldiers on the three decks are not even much lower than the defenders at the head of the city.

"Shoot me the arrows!" It was Li Jun who commanded the battle on the front ship, and with his command, the Song archers also poured a dense rain of arrows on the opposite city, and shot down the ill-prepared Wu army on the spot, so frightened that many people bent down and hid, hiding under the fortress to save their lives.

"Brothers, it's time to kill me!" On the side, Zhang Shun, who had already avoided his debut, was relieved after seeing the embarrassed appearance of the defenders at the head of the city, and immediately seized the opportunity to give a loud order to attack again. He wanted to take advantage of the momentary inability of the defenders at the head of the city to rush to the Golden Gate again.

This was where the attack on the Water Gate was far more advantageous than the attack on the Dry Gate, and with only a few large ships they were able to form a stalemate with the enemy above, and create a safer approach to the city gate for the small boats below, and to create good conditions for them to try to break through the city gate.

But just when Zhang Shun personally operated the boat and took more than a dozen small boats to the city gate like flying, the accident happened suddenly. A wave roared from behind, causing not only the small boats below to jolt and shake, but also the three large boats. This came down too suddenly, Rao is boat is experienced veterans of water warfare, and at this time he was also caught off guard, in order to stabilize his body, the suppression of the arrows at the head of the city was naturally relaxed.

It turned out that this was the real release of the Qiantang River water to the city of Hangzhou after it was opened and flowing. The current that had propelled the many boats to rush was only a prelude to the river that had been building up for days, and it was only then that an even more violent flood came to follow.

If only that's it, with the water skills of these sailors, it will not be affected too much, but this turbulent river is blocked by the high city wall when it arrives in front of the Yongjin Gate, so the river that cannot move forward can only be slapped on the solid city wall, and unwillingly rewind back, which is actually similar to the Qianjiang River turning tide when it enters the sea.

The wave of this back-to-back shot was even more turbulent than the previous waves that came from behind, and when they boarded, they swept up Zhang Shun and other small boats that were still trying to control the direction of the boat, and also made the three big ships suddenly hit sideways, so that the soldiers on the boat were shocked for a while, and people turned over on their backs......

Although these sailors were all good at water warfare, they only fought in the water-soaked waters of Liangshan at the beginning, and where they had experienced the baptism of the surging water on the south side of the Yangtze River, they immediately leaned forward and fell into chaos, and they could not care about suppressing and striking the enemy at the head of the city.

Compared with the ships under the city that were beaten by this wave of waves, the Wu army in the city was as stable as Mount Tai, and the city walls around the Golden Gate were built strong enough, even if the Qiantang River was extremely fierce this time, it could not shake the city wall for half a minute.

Yuan Kai was also overjoyed after seeing this scene, and hurriedly ordered: "Quickly release arrows for me and shoot them to death!" You don't need to save all weapons, it's important to break the enemy! ”

The soldiers woke up from a dream, and hurriedly moved quickly, and once again used random arrows to form a dense net, which shrouded the enemy ships below, especially the three most threatening ships, which became their special targets.

On the big ship, which had not yet stabilized its shape, the Song army was killed and wounded when it was hit by such a crazy blow, and Li Jun saw this, so he could only order the attack to be postponed and let the ship retreat to dodge. Obviously, the first wave of this vigorous offensive will not succeed after all.

But at this moment, several small boats suddenly jumped out like arrows from the string, taking advantage of another wave of water to hit them, and killed the Yongjinmen. And because the enemies of the city were all focused on the three large ships, by the time they reacted, the first small boat had already rushed to the high wooden fence-like gate......