The Han River, a famous river on the Goryeo Peninsula, originates in the western slope of the Taebaek Mountains, flows westward through Gangwon-do, Gyeonggi-do, and Chungcheongbuk-do, joins the North Han River at the middle reaches of the two waters, crosses Seoul, and meets the Imjin River and the Gangseong River at the mouth of the river, and flows into Ganghwa Bay in the Yellow Sea.

The Han River is the fourth Yangtze River in Goryeo, second only to the Yalu River, the Tumen River and the Nakdong River, but its important position is not inferior to several other rivers, because of its important position, wide basin coverage, and good access to the sea, which can well support the docking of river transportation and shipping.

Therefore, no matter how the situation in Goryeo has changed throughout history, the importance that the rulers have attached to the Han River has never changed. It was not until the 60s of the 20th century that the father of a female president, the well-known warlord president, created a great economic leap and development, which was also known as the "Han River Miracle." ”

This shows how important the Han River is in Goryeo, which is supported by an export-oriented economy.

On a small hill seven or eight kilometers near the Han River, I silently looked at the Shibata Katsuya military camp in the southeast direction, waiting for that moment to come.

This camp is in the shape of a long bar, like a long snake entrenched on the banks of the Han River. There are advantages and disadvantages to setting up the formation in this way.

The advantage is that it is like a long snake, looking at each other head and tail, and it is not easy to be attacked and robbed. At the same time, it is adjacent to the river, and the terrain is flat, which is convenient for taking water and observation, and is not easy to suffer from fire attacks.

As for the disadvantages, Shibata Katsuya will soon find out......

The Nine Ghosts Zhengxiao rode a horse to follow me, and in silence, he suddenly pointed to Jiang Shui and said, "Sir, look, the water has slowed down significantly!" ”

I looked down, and sure enough! The original turbulent water of the Han River is only shallow at this time, just like a faucet that has been running freely has suddenly been turned on and off halfway, and the water has changed from a tumultuous flow to a gurgling flow.

"Two thousand, that's still too little......" I whispered.

The Nine Ghosts replied softly, and then continued: "However, we do not intend to use this as the main means, nor do we aim to destroy the enemy, so it should be enough. ”

I hummed and said lightly, "Let's wait for the result!" ”

At this point, no one in the entire team spoke, and they silently stared at the upper reaches of the Han River estuary.

In the silence, my mind drifted far away - Hua Mei and Kite have been gone for so long, and they still haven't come back, I don't know what is the situation of Jingshi now? I don't know how the old father-in-law is, is he getting better?

When the war is over here, it seems that I can go back once again and see his old man's house. At the beginning, because of the illness of the second uncle, the Li family was also ruined, and Hua Mei went overseas, leaving an old man alone at home, which was really pitiful.

Now that Hua Mei and I have been married, it is natural to do our filial piety. It's a pity that his old man doesn't want to go to sea with me, otherwise I will send him to Nanyang, where there is not so much deception, there is no such mess, how good is it to enjoy his old age in peace?

My mind wandered, and the quiet environment even made me a little drowsy. At that moment, I was suddenly awakened by a strange sound!

At the same time that the Nine Ghosts Zhengxiao shouted "It's coming", I also turned my head sharply and looked at the upper reaches of the Han River!

In the dark, I saw a wall! A gray-white wall that keeps approaching over time!

The wall was rushing down the river unstoppably downstream, where the Shibata Katsuya camp was located!

Sure enough, it came! I rolled over and dismounted, and grabbed the frightened neighing horse so hard that the ground trembled slightly under my intuition! This is the power of nature!

Natural enemies are majestic, and everything is easy! In front of the constantly approaching Hongfeng, the camp of tens of thousands of people actually seemed so insignificant.

From the moment we decided two days ago that the Shibata Katsuya Army would start camping in the lower reaches of the Han River, I had made this plan - to prepare a large amount of stone waste and stock it up in the upper reaches of the Han River. They also made a net bag densely woven with iron wire and cotton and linen in advance for today's use.

After Ye Sizhong and I separated, he led 2,000 cavalry straight to the upper reaches of the Han River, reached the slowest position of the water, spread his nets, sent people to cross the river from the pontoon bridge, and opened a flexible fence on the Han River.

At the same time, the stone waste prepared earlier was piled up into the water of the Han River, and like a dam was built, the embankment was built higher and higher, and the river water gathered more and more after the dam!

Water really seems to be weak, but it is actually tough, Ye Sizhong was almost washed into the river several times when he built the dam, and the dam was almost unable to support it many times.

That's when he remembered what I had said – don't let the dam fit tightly, leave a few outlets, and make the dam last longer!

Ye Sizhong secretly said in his heart, every day he said that water can only be sparse and not blocked, why did he forget it when he used it today. In the midst of self-deprecation, he ordered someone to dig a few gaps in the dam, and the water suddenly gushed out!

Although a lot of the materials in those gaps were washed away by the current, the tinkering was still able to persevere. And sure enough, the gap was left and the dam was longer, and the water wall was already two or three feet high, and it had faintly submerged to the embankment on both sides!

The twisted nets emitted a "squeaky and quack" scream, and it was obvious that it would not last long; The trees tied to the nets on both sides of the bank were also dragged crookedly, and they were about to be uprooted!

Fortunately, the soldiers dragged the trunks of the trees with their horses, otherwise I was afraid that these poor trees would have died on the spot!

Ye Sizhong knew that the time had come! If you hold it back, I'm afraid that if this river is diverted by itself, it will not be beautiful. So Ye Sizhong gritted his teeth, and with an order, the soldiers on both sides of the strait immediately drew their sabers and slashed at the rope connecting the nets with a few blows!

The sound of "crackling" sounded continuously, and the net carrying the stone lost its restraint and fell towards the river tiredly. And the dam made of stone waste collapsed almost at the same time, like a high wall falling down with a loud bang!

The water behind the stone wall lost its hindrance, like a demon released from its cage, roaring and roaring, rushing downstream!

Ye Sizhong felt the coldness of the shop up close, and the water droplets splashed on his face, but it made him feel a little hot!

At that time, his heart was burning - he knew that such a flood peak rushed down, not to mention the people, even Jin Tie had to be divided into three points. What's more, in this deep night, he couldn't help but feel a trace of pity in his heart for Shibata Katsuie, who was about to face all this.

But the last emotion that should appear at this time is pity! Ye Sizhong thought for a while, and loudly ordered all the staff to get on their horses, preparing to rush downstream and outflank the enemy's rear road.

At this moment, the two thousand elite soldiers quickly completed the assembly, and galloped in the direction of me downstream!

I tugged at the reins with one hand and the handle of the knife cut by the boy with the other, and looked fixedly at the Shibata Katsuya military camp not far below.

It seemed to feel a faint tremor, and the camp, where only sentries were walking back and forth patrolling, suddenly boiled, and torches filled everywhere for a while!

Most of them didn't know what was going on, screaming and searching for their weapons, trying to find the source of the instability.

However, when they saw the flood peak in the darkness like a hungry tiger pounced on food, many people's hearts were cold!

It was a mixture of disbelief, horror and despair. But no matter what the mood is, this world is material and does not depend on human will, so the huge flood is still almost unstoppable, and it pounces heavily on the helpless people of the Shibata army, swallowing them into their stomachs and rushing towards the downstream viciously!

Some of the clever people, or those who found the horses earlier, saw that the situation was not good, and had escaped the range of the flood peak, but many more people could not do this - although the flood may not kill all at once, but in the cold winter, even if it is only swept out of the flood for one or two hundred meters and then stranded, the cooling that follows is still a fatal and unavoidable acute problem!

Three waves of flood peaks in a row, one wave higher than one wave, one wave larger than one wave, washed away the 100,000 soldiers of the Shibata Katsu family. After the flood peak, the river bank was full of cries and shouts - these battle-hardened Dongying Wokou were completely frightened by nature!

They were assembling - in the dark, I saw some people with torches running back and forth to gather the people, but it was obviously not organized, and the people were scattered very much, they could only slowly gather up one droplet after another like a sponge absorbing water, and gradually gather them into streams and rivers.

It's time! I rolled over my horse, pulled out the boy cut, and pointed in the direction of the enemy's convergence!

Then he grabbed a spur and rushed out towards the enemy first! The two thousand cavalry behind did not show weakness, and silently began to accelerate, gradually forming two sharp formations like wings on both sides of me!

It's close! It's close! It's close!

As I rode on my horse, I saw the enemy forces gathered on the banks of the river approaching, and they did not seem to have noticed us yet—the catastrophic flood had blinded them just now, and even if anyone approached, they would only think that they were friendly troops who dared to come to the rescue, and would not have thought that the enemy's harvest was coming.

In this situation, until we approached the enemy's army about 150 paces, through the afterglow of the two torches on the ground that had not yet been extinguished, the sentry post of the Japanese seemed to see that we were not friendly troops, but the army of the Ming Dynasty! So they didn't hesitate to shoot arrows to warn, but it was too late!

In front of me was a force of about 5,000 men, a large number of them, but due to the sudden disaster, most of them were unarmed, not to mention muskets!

Therefore, our shock team didn't even have to fire the three-eyed gunfire, and just stabbed at the helpless enemy like a razor!

The high-speed moving iron horseman, like a roaring chariot, slammed into the flesh and blood of the weeping wolf, stirring up a blood-red wave!

As the tip of the formation, the boy in my hand cut back and forth, only to hear the screams endlessly, and by the time I heard it clearly, the figure was already far away. And I don't care so much, I have only one purpose in mind, and that is to quickly cut through this enemy army and find a new target!

After a dozen breaths, I don't know how many widows I had killed, but I felt a sudden light in front of my eyes, a sudden relaxation of the pressure, and when I looked up, we had completely cut through this panicked enemy army and came to the relatively high hills behind them!

We continued to gallop forward until we reached the top of the hill! The sky in the east has begun to appear a hint of fish belly white, and the sky is about to dawn!

And at this moment, on the north side of the hill, an enemy army with a size of about 20,000 is slowly approaching, looking at the flag, it should be Shibata Katsuya's own team!

This top general, known as Oni Shibata, still has unparalleled command power even in his old age.

At this time, they are forming a crane wing formation, constantly advancing towards the hill where we are, as if they want to surround and eat us in one fell swoop!

But how could things have gone his way? I observed that almost all of his 20,000 soldiers were ashigaru, that is, infantry—among whom there may have been cavalrymen and gunners, but under the flood, they lost their shackles, and at this time they could only draw their swords and spears and serve as infantrymen.

Since you're here, let's fight! I looked around, looked in one direction, and without hesitation, I took two thousand men and horses, and rushed straight away like a tiger descending the mountain!