At the beginning of June of the fourteenth year of Orthodoxy.

The heavy rain had been falling intermittently for half a month, Liu Juntao stood at the door of the tent and looked at the soil pits on the ground outside that were constantly smashed by raindrops, and said secretly in his heart: "It seems that the time is almost up!" ”

At this time, Liu Zi'an's subordinates rushed back in the rain one after another, bringing Liu Juntao a major news: due to the heavy rain for several days, the water level of the Wanfu River and even the Yellow River has skyrocketed, and the thieves stationed at the Wanfu River ferry have been unable to hold on, and have retreated one after another, and are now stationed on a high ground five or six miles south of the Wanfu River ferry.

Hearing this, Liu Juntao laughed, and Wang Neng finally couldn't hold on and let the Wanfu River ferry out on his own.

"I knew why I had to do it in the first place!"

In Liu Juntao's view, under such weather, there is no point in leading his troops to hold the Wanfu River crossing, as long as a small force of men and horses can block the ferry, there is no need to let the 20,000 troops all nest at the ferry to suffer.

Liu Juntao smiled and said to Zhang Xiaojun, Gao Ran, and Zhou Zongsheng: "It is estimated that the morale of the thieves under Wang Neng is now running out, and it is a good time for us to attack south!" ”

Zhang Xiaojun also said: "Mr. Lian is right! Now the attack is indeed a surprise, and our orthodox nine-year-old bird guns are all flintlock, although fighting in the rain will make the fire guns suffer some impact, but it will not affect the overall situation. ”

So, Liu Juntao ordered the brigade to prepare to attack south.

Two days later, Liu Juntao saw that the rain was getting lighter, so he took this opportunity to lead 8,000 men and horses directly down the mountain and pounced towards the Wanfu River ferry.

At the same time, Wang Neng led 18,000 men and horses to garrison this high ground, and finally had a place to shelter from the rain temporarily, and 20,000 thieves took shelter from the heavy rain in the camp, and they were not willing to come out and plunder the surrounding area again.

For the sake of safety, Wang Neng deliberately left a thousand men and horses at the Wanfu River crossing to monitor the whereabouts of Liu Juntao's army.

However, at this time, Wang Neng himself took 17,000 main forces to shelter from the rain on the high ground and rest comfortably, while the 1,000 thieves were still struggling to support at the Wanfu River ferry, soaking in the heavy rain and water, and the thieves couldn't help but be resentful in their hearts, and the task of monitoring Liu Juntao's men and horses was also very perfunctory, and they didn't patrol and guard at all, and they all nested in tents and struggled to support.

It didn't take long for this thousand thieves to stay in the defense line of the Wanfu River ferry, and suddenly found dozens of boats coming from the north bank of the Wanfu River!

"Yushan Town! The Yushan Town Escort is here! ”

"Hurry up and report to Wang Shuai!"

"Brothers, copy guys!"

Soon, the thieves in the entire Wanfu River ferry defense line were alarmed, and a thousand thieves poured out of their tents one after another, preparing to fight behind the horse wall, and some thieves even rushed to the ferry, wanting to destroy the ferry and delay the speed of the people and horses landing in Yushan Town.

But before these thieves could destroy the ferry, the fleet in the Wanfu River rushed over with the help of heavy rain and strong winds, and it was only less than a hundred steps away from the ferry.

"Bang! Bang! Bang! ”

"Bang! Bang! Bang! ”

Suddenly, rushing to the front of the boats, the young guards began to shoot at will, firing in the direction of the ferry, shooting and clearing the thieves who had not escaped from the ferry, clearing the obstacles for the group to land on the shore!

At this time, Gao Ran was on a boat in the middle of the fleet, and when he looked from afar, he saw that the five ships at the front of the fleet had rushed to the front of the ferry, so he laughed loudly and ordered his subordinates to land immediately!

And those five ships were a group of young men led by Chang Hongdao, and after receiving the landing order from Gao Ran, Chang Hongdao shouted: "Bayonet!" ”

Five ships and more than 200 escort officers drew their bayonets one after another, and there was a sound of golden drums, but the bayonets stood majestically in the rain like a jungle of steel!

At this time, the five ships had already docked on the ferry, and Chang Hongdao shouted: "Brothers! Rush up and take the ferry! ”

"Kill!"

More than 200 young guards roared and rushed to the ferry, and under the leadership of Chang Hongdao, they rushed to the outside of the ferry, and only stopped at a distance of sixty paces from the horse barrier.

"Line up! Lined up! ”

More than 200 escort team members stopped and began to reorganize the queue on the spot, together with the companions who followed up, a total of more than 400 escort team members had already lined up in a large horizontal formation, firmly guarding the ferry, and winning time for the follow-up brigade to land.

And during this period, the 1,000 thieves were all hiding behind the barricade wall, and no one dared to step forward to stop them, allowing Chang Hongdao to lead his troops to occupy the ferry and successfully line up!

Seeing this, Chang Hongdao was even more confident, and shouted loudly: "All of them!" Advance! ”

More than 400 young guards immediately stepped in a neat step and pressed towards the 1,000 thieves behind the barricade wall.

At this time, the thousand thieves have been broken, and the strength of the Yushan Town Guards has already been engraved in the hearts of all the thieves, and from a distance, I saw hundreds of young and strong guards pressing up, and the thousand thieves collapsed in an instant, and they didn't have the courage and ability to stick to the horse wall, and they fled in the rain.

Chang Hongdao was also angry when he saw this, and immediately ordered four rows to fire a salvo, only to hear a deafening roar, more than 400 young guards shot at the same time, and immediately hit the barricade wall into clods of dirt, and the dense lead bullets shrouded the range of dozens of steps in front of the horizontal formation, and shot down more than 100 thieves in an instant!

This salvo even exacerbated the rout of the thieves, and Chang Hongdao immediately ordered all to charge.

And Chang Hongdao took the lead, under the protection of a team of guards and young people, he took the lead in rushing to the thieves, and more than 400 young guards behind him also followed.

In the blink of an eye, Chang Hongdao led more than 400 young guards to catch up with the thieves, and then began a melee in the rain!

Seeing that they could not escape, the hundreds of thieves brandished machetes and short spears and reflexively returned to battle, but then they met countless bright bayonets!

The young and strong guards led by Chang Hongdao were all in the army, and the five young guards cooperated with each other and attacked separately, and a situation of fighting more and less was formed in every part of the battlefield.

Although the number of thieves is much younger and stronger than that of Chang Hongdao's department, they have always been suppressed to death, and they have no power to parry at all, and they have been killed and regressed, killed and wounded.

At this moment, Gao Ran led the main force under his command to kill, and more than a thousand escort troops, along with the long knife hands and iron cavalry, had successfully landed, and rushed towards the remnants of the thieves who were fighting.

Chang Hongdao shouted when he saw this, and led his escort team to rush and beat violently, and more than 400 escort team Qingzhuang was also demoralized, for fear that his follow-up companions would kill him and rob him of his first credit, so he launched wave after wave of fierce assaults.

Where did the remaining hundreds of thieves resist such a fierce attack, they were beaten to the point of losing their armor in a blink of an eye, and were wiped out by the young men of Chang Hongdao, and the young men of Chang Hongdao did not leave a single alive in this battle, and all the 1,000 thieves were killed, and no one escaped!

Two hours later, Liu Juntao led all the men and horses of the Yushan Town Escort Force to cross the Wanfu River, and after a short rest at the Wanfu River crossing, they prepared to continue the southward attack.