Chapter Seventy-Five: The First Battle

"Everyone, prepare to meet the enemy!"

Broken Hongchen shouted, and suddenly all the cavalry stopped their men, gathered together, took out the light crossbows specially configured by the cavalry, and stood on the river bank in rows.

On the other side of the river, three boats rowed over, and the soldiers on the boat just wanted to jump down and destroy the boat, only to see a few horsemen rushing not far away, and the enemy soldiers were coming!

It's too late to sink.

Light crossbow ready! Cut the rope!

From the river to the embankment, there was a ramp, and if the cavalry launched a charge, the shipwreck would fail. Some of them were armed with light crossbows and prepared to defend themselves against the cavalry, while others cut the ropes that tied the ships to them, and the boats slowly came out of the water on their own.

The ropes of the ship had been cut off, and the soldiers had retreated to their boats, but the horsemen were still not moving, as if they were hesitating about something.

"Hey, hey, withdraw!" The people who crossed the river were just about to withdraw, but they saw hundreds of archers appearing on the bank, and they poured down the rain of arrows from the sky.

Of the thirty people who crossed the river, only two returned. The rest of the people, buried in the sea with the water of the Yalu River, are as peaceful on the sea as the stars at night.

Fortunately, the enemy will not be able to use the ship on the opposite side. Broken Hongchen turned around and asked everyone to continue preparing the fortifications.

Across the river:

"Okay, okay, I've seized the ferry, I didn't expect the Bohai people on the opposite side to ...... so quickly" Gao Feng breathed a sigh of relief, thinking to himself, this achievement was too easy.

A waiter said with a bitter face: "Second master, this is not counting the ...... of seizing the ferry."

"Why? Is there anyone else at this ferry? ”

"No, no, no, there is no more on this side, the key is that there are still people on the other side, and it is useless to occupy this side......"

Waiter, pawn.

Gao Feng was so angry that he yelled, first slashed his subordinates and covered his face, and then quickly asked his subordinates to cut down trees and build rafts to prepare for forcible crossing.

"I said, how did my eldest brother give me such a good credit, it turned out to be playing with me?" High seal low chatter.

The people next to you looked, you stupid boy, how did you survive until now.

"No, I have to let my mother go to the old man Gao to blow the wind in the ear of the old man, and let the Gao Zen boy give me the position of marshal......" Gao Feng's heart turned out to be like a child.

Most of the people in the army are inclined to Gao Chan, and compared to each of their three brothers, they are also much higher in Gao Chan ability and character. The only regret is that Gao Chan's mother is no longer there.

On the other side of the river, the wind and fire began to prepare for the raft to cross, and Duan Hongchen saw it in his eyes and estimated the number of people on the other side. Based on his experience, he felt that the person on the other side should not be more than 5,000. As long as the five thousand infantry behind him came, he could hold it firmly. It's another time of the race.

The last time he repelled the Xi cavalry, Duan Hongchen saw the big advantage of the crossbow array. That is, the accuracy is high and the range is long, so he stepped up to catch up a lot. It turns out that those inferior products have also replaced a lot. The current Bohai infantry is a strong crossbow in each person's hand.

The effective killing range of the strong crossbow can reach more than 300 steps, and the real range can reach 380 steps. But when you get to that place, it's really the end of the crossbow. Even if it is 300 steps, one step is about 7.5 meters, and 300 steps is more than 200 meters.

How long is the Yalu River?

At the ferry, the water flow is slow, so the water surface is relatively wide, about 600 meters. In other words, the soldiers who cut off the red dust can cover one-third of the area of the river.

It's the same as against cavalry, and it's easier than against cavalry. Because the ship sailed much less fast than the cavalry, it could be covered with crossbow arrows for a longer time.

In addition, Broken Hongchen also has a big killer weapon in his hand - the Ten Door Bed Crossbow.

Strictly speaking, it doesn't count. Bed crossbow. The bed crossbow made by Broken Red Dust is just a bit of an expansion of the strong crossbow used by soldiers.

The two-meter-long crossbow arrows, just this crossbow arrows, loaded with ten carts, Longquan Mansion is still rushing to make them, and they are being transported one after another. This kind of bed crossbow, when operating, requires two people to carry it, two people to get on the crossbow, and one person to aim.

An arrow, four hundred meters away, can shoot through a wall, a ship wall, of course, can also be shot through with an arrow.

Rafts crossing the river, tied together with more than a dozen logs, forced crossing, each raft with dozens of people, each on both sides of the person holding a pulp, the person in front of the person holding a shield, the back of the person holding a knife and gun, barely become an attack, attack and defend the Meng Chong ship. The advantage is that it is fast to make, and it only takes an hour for a raft to go from logging to launching. The speed is fast, and the river can be crossed on a large scale, Gao Feng also looked at Duan Hongchen and the others on the opposite side, and felt that there were only a few hundred people. If you let 5,000 people go into the water, even if the casualties are larger, you can easily take down the opposite side.

Five thousand people worked together, a hundred in an hour. He went into the water for a trial and selected 3,000 stable soldiers who could stand on the raft and prepared to force the crossing.

At this time, in Gao Feng's eyes, the opposite bank of him was still just a few hundred people, and they were crushed with one blow.

Gao Feng raised a smug smile in his mouth: "Gao Chan, Gao Chan, such a small river of water, can it stop me?" ”

After testing the water, give the order to cross the river!

The generals are still relatively sophisticated, and in order to reduce the time spent in the enemy's range, they need to save energy. So I went very slowly at first, and then accelerated when I got close to the other side.

Duan Hongchen looked at the hundreds of rafts surging over on the river, his heart was not very calm, his breathing began to be short, and the corner of his eye glanced behind the embankment on the side. Behind the embankment, there were five thousand infantry who had just arrived in ambush, and they lowered their heads and held their breath.

The crossbow in his hand was already ready to roar.

Only teach them to have a back and forth.

The boat approached, and when it crossed two-thirds of the river, it accelerated sharply, rushing to the shore like a dragon boat race. Breaking Hongchen asked the hundreds of cavalry who arrived first to shoot arrows with strong crossbows. The other party just paused, and found that the number of people on Duan Hongchen's side was no longer increasing, and he rowed more and more vigorously.

Approaching a quarter of the width of the river, five thousand infantry rushed out in unison.

Three rows of arrows!

Five thousand crossbows are like machines, and they spit out murderous arrows in a tireless frenzy.

The Goguryeo people were stunned and watched as arrows rained down. The man in front of the raft was fine, with a shield to block it. But the knife hand in the back suffered.

The river turned red in an instant.

It's too late to retreat, and it's just a sheep into the tiger's mouth.

There were 3,000 people on the Goguryeo raft, and there were only more than 1,000 swordsmen, and the rest of the shield and pulp hands were completely ineffective.

After a round of arrows, most of the swordsmen suffered, and the rest of the people almost collapsed.

Flee, if you want your life, you have to flee. The 5,000 people in front of me who kept spewing arrows were all devils! With this will to escape, all the soldiers sat on rafts, swam, and fled back with a thousand people.

The color of the high cover is cold, the first battle, the red dust wins! Annihilate 2,000 people!

Eat this big loss,

The generals under Gao Feng said that they would not listen to his forcible crossing and would wait for the army to come before going up. Gao Feng had no choice but to order the establishment of the village, the production and mobilization of ships. Up and down the river, although it is not convenient for large-scale ferries, there are still some fishermen. A flat boat is also better than a temporary flat raft.

The battle report reached Gao Chan's hand, he smiled slightly, and said in his heart: This King of Bohai, silently destroyed my 2,000 elite soldiers, and defeated thousands of Xi cavalry without much effort, the ferry is his territory, how can your little wife easily pass?

It's just that what method did this Bohai King use to repel the forced crossing?

Gao Chan didn't believe in his younger brother, but he trusted the fighting power of the Goguryeo soldiers very much. Gao Chan also went to the shore, and when he inquired, he found out that it was the role of the strong crossbow, and he couldn't help frowning.

The Goguryeo men were short of men and could not rush to the other side, because they had no good way to deal with the crossbows.

So they set up camp and thought about it in the long run.

On the side of broken red dust, a water village was also set up. Not only did they arrange fences on the shore, but they also raised the arrow tower and the walled wall to the water, like the stilted buildings of the Miao people. The advantage of this is that it is possible to strengthen the depth of defense and control a larger area of water. The water village is like a fortress, and there is a great painting of the river as the wall, and the posture of ten thousand people is not open.

Duan Hongchen sent rangers to patrol up and down the riverbank, and at night sent additional manpower to closely monitor the area around the water village to prevent the Goguryeo people from taking advantage of the darkness to sabotage the detour and sneak attack. It's a pity that Broken Hongchen can't pull out his hand to attack now.

The river is turbulent, people on both sides, you can't help me, and I can't help you, just hold on to each other.

In Longquan Mansion, Bohai Palace. These days, except for the Xi ambassador who saw Princess Po Qilan once when he came, the rest of the time, even Princess Po Chilan's maid can't be seen.

A few days ago, the ambassador of the Xi nationality wanted to make peace with Bohai, but was later temporarily dismissed by Xu Qing on the grounds that "the prince stayed behind and it was inconvenient to be involved in foreign affairs". After that, there was no sound, and a few days later, the Xi ambassador left with the mission to the satisfaction of the fact that the peace pact between the two countries had been signed. And the next day, Bohai, as a friendly neighbor, also sent a delegation to visit the Xi people.

In this mission, there are Xu Qi, Xu Qing and Huang Shimei, who pretend to be subordinates.

Xu Qing is going to Dahe's family.

It's too dangerous to go to Dahe's family, one can't be sure, it's life and death, Originally, Xu Qing wanted to go alone, but Huang Shimei pinched him and had to accompany him.

At that time, persuasion couldn't be persuaded, Xu Qing was angry, picked up Huang Shimei, put it horizontally on her lap, and scolded with a spank:

"Stinky, don't you listen to what the man says?"

"Brother Xu, if you beat me, I will also go, before leaving, they handed you over to me, I can't let them down."

They, naturally, refer to Xun Xue'er and Xiaoyue.

"No, I can't say anything that will let you go......" Xu Qing turned from anger to warmth: "Shimei, it's too dangerous to go there, you have to be obedient and take Xu Qi ......"

"Oh! Yes, Xu Qi ......" Huang Shimei reluctantly got off Xu Qing's lap and ran out with a smoke. After a while, a delicate. A tender voice came: "Stinky Xu Qing, you dare to leave me!" ”

At this time, Xu Qingxin said: "It's over." Xu Qing never said a "no" under the mouths of two women.

glared at Huang Shimei, saw her smile cutely, walked to Xu Qing's side, and whispered in Xu Qing's ear: "Brother Xu, you have to remember that no matter what danger you encounter, our family must face it together." You are not allowed to play prestige alone......"

"Naughty ......"

"Do you want to fight, come on, come on, come on......"

"Xu Qi is still there......"

"Xu Qi, it's none of your business, go out and ......"