Chapter Seventy-Five: The Second Fire

When the night covers the earth, the moonlight fills the sky, and the meteors cross the mighty lake of Liangshanbo. Up the hill, down the hill, the lights are on.

The Song army was preparing for Lu Qian's attack on the camp, trying to see Lu Qian's brilliant fights, and the night battle occupied too much weight in it; And Lu Qian is also preparing for the night attack of the Song army, if dozens of Song troops touch the pass and desperately cover the iron men wearing foot armor to enter the city, it doesn't take much, as long as there are a dozen, Lu Qian can directly give up this first pass.

Lu Qian looked at the head of the golden sand beach with blazing eyes.

Today, he has seen the combat effectiveness of the Zhao and Song Forbidden Army, at least he knows the combat effectiveness of the forbidden army in Jingdong.

As he judged, rubbish! In addition to being super well equipped, the will to fight is really average. It's not a joke to say that they are inferior to the local native soldiers in this regard.

Of course, these can't erase the super lethality of the forbidden army behind the array, which has no armor or less armor. Don't look at the Jeju Forbidden Army's will to fight, but they have a lot of psychological advantages over the bandits, and they can exert a strong lethality in the bow and crossbow array of the forbidden army in a head-on battle.

It's just that Jiang Lei won't know how many wooden rafts filled with dead branches and weeds Lu Qian prepared for him tonight.

Those wooden rafts are now hidden in the reeds around them, some of them have been poured with grease, some are not, and whether there is or not, they will be driven by manpower, wind, and water waves, and they will approach the moorings of the Song army ships in Jinsha, Donggang, and Xigang in waves, and then burn.

This is not a sneak attack, but a kind of conspiracy.

You, Song Jun, will definitely take precautions against this, and Jiang Lei will not know the lesson of Huang Anbu.

But if you block the first wave, you block the second wave, can you continue to block the third, fourth, and fifth waves? Do you know how many wooden chops Lu Qian has asked his minions to make in the past few days?

Liangshanbo has a large area of reeds, which can hide more than N wooden rafts. And with his back against the reeds and the huge Liangshan, will Lu Qian be short of fuel?

Midsky in the month. Ruan Xiaoqi was suddenly woken up, looked up at the moon in the sky, and it was time.

The Ruan brothers were targeted at one place, and Ruan Xiaoqi had never earned his eldest brother and second brother, so he was squeezed to Xigang. There were only about twenty men under his command.

But when more than 20 wooden rafts suddenly burst into flames and poured towards the docking place of the Song army's ships, the momentum was very spectacular.

None of the Song troops in the three places dared to relax their vigilance at night, especially the two ports in the east and west, where the troops were relatively weak. Today, it is true that they have not found a path up the mountain, but who dares to guarantee that the Liangshan thieves who have lived in the mountain for a long time do not know that there is a road to the East and West Ports?

This night fight is coming, and it is difficult to rescue the main village. According to the training level of the Song army, if they want to rush to the Dongxigang rescue at night, it is better to ask them to herd sheep directly.

"Enemy attack, enemy attack ......"

The shrill roar and the sound of the gong sounded in the Donggang Song military camp, which had been quiet a moment ago. Although Lei Heng was lying in the tent tonight to rest, he didn't take off his clothes, and when he heard the sound outside, he picked it up, grabbed the knife at the head of the bed and hurried out.

I saw that there were already at least thirty or forty archers, facing the river without stopping their arrows. At the same time, large flaming wooden rafts were pouring towards the docks of ships in the harbor.

"Dutou ,......"

The head of the soldier on duty shouted nervously.

"Call the archers up the trestle and the wooden walls, and the archers will fire their arrows at the water, and the spearmen will push the fireboats away." Lei Heng made a decent judgment in the shortest possible time. That Lieutenant Zhao is just a waste at this time.

Compared with Lei Heng's response here, the Xigang Song army, which was dominated by Huang An's defeated troops, was already chaotic at the moment.

Ruan Xiaoqi for Donggang is just decent, but Ruan Xiaowu is very creative to deal with Xigang, he took a group of people to quietly push the wooden raft to not far from the Song Army's water village, first ignited the wooden raft, causing a panic in Xigang Tuyong, and then led people to quietly lurk nearby, drilled out of the water, sharpened the tip of the wooden gun as a harpoon, and threw it at the Song Army archers, even if only six or seven people were hit, but it was also frightened by the archers in Tuyong.

After that, Ruan Xiaowu found the appropriate way to attack, and with a reed pole in his mouth and a wooden gun in his hand, he easily swam to the vicinity of the water village, surfaced, quietly observed the opponent, saw the opportunity to throw the wooden gun, and then dived back into the water. Due to the influence of the flames and smoke, the Song army could only let the archers shoot indiscriminately, but the lake was so big, how could they block it? The successive screams and the muffled sound of the lake seemed to be a perfect match.

After such an attack, although Ruan Xiaowu's subordinates broke three, he himself was bitten by an arrow, but fortunately, the arrow was soft and pierced into his left arm, and it was less than half an inch into the flesh.

But these brave archers collapsed. Because at the same time as their 'rapid' losses, the wooden wall fence on the periphery of the Song army's water village was burned down by the fire rafts, and several fire rafts broke into the collapsed gap, so how could Tu Yong on the trestle and wooden fence still have the courage to continue fighting?

Expecting them to jump on the boat with a curved bow and spear in hand at this time to continue the battle, hehe, that's a fool's dream.

Jiang Lei had already understood at this time, what kind of calculation Liang Shan was making, he had already seen through it. But he knows that he knows, and how to resist it is another matter.

Lu Qian's night attack was not to kill or injure the Song soldiers, nor to destroy their camp, the only purpose of this night attack was to burn the Song army's anchored boats. The Song army had only been on Liangshan for half a day, and no matter how many troops there were, it was impossible to build a well-equipped camp on land and water.

If there is a strong sailor in the Song army, Jiang Lei will directly order someone to tear down the side of the fence of the water village and let the sailors drive a small boat to hunt the Liangshan bandits on the water. But alas, he doesn't have such an army in his hands.

In the dark night, let the soldiers and Minzhuang drive the boat, loading the soldiers of the Song Army to hunt the Liangshan bandits in the water, not to mention that Minzhuang did not have the courage, even the officers and soldiers under Jiang Lei did not dare to get on the boat.

Seven or eight out of ten of the forbidden troops under him are landlubbers, because the forbidden army changes guards regularly, so that the soldiers do not know the generals, and there will be no special soldiers. Jiang Lei's prestige among his soldiers is very low, Jingdong is a peaceful territory, unlike the Western Army, which fought one battle after another, and the forbidden soldiers had no lifelong friendship with Jiang Lei. If they want to take a small boat to hunt the thieves in the dark night at this time, they are afraid that they will be able to face him Jiang Lei with swords in the next moment.

The military system of the old Zhao family determines that the generals and non-commissioned officers in the army do not have great kindness, especially in the peaceful years. The iron-beaten battalion, the flowing soldiers, every three years, these soldiers will not be willing to die for Jiang Lei.

And the box soldiers, to be honest, the box soldiers of the Northern Song Dynasty are a group of laborers, and they rarely have time to practice martial arts. More often than not, they were engaged in various types of labor, such as building bridges and roads, building cities, digging canals, manufacturing weapons and ships, transporting military goods, raising horses, transporting officials and their families, and making wine. For example, Zhou Bin's giant camp, the task is to ensure the smooth flow of the Jeju section of the waterway, saying that they are soldiers, they are more laborers.

Nine generals and nine deputies on the entire Jingdong Road, a total of 45,000 forbidden troops, the number on the official face. During the Song Dynasty, the old Zhao family rectified the army, in addition to clearing the vacancies, and more importantly, shortened the retirement age, from 61 years old to 51 years old, so theoretically there is no old, weak, sick and disabled. However, it can only be reorganized according to the 300 soldiers of the first battalion of horses and the 400 soldiers of the first battalion of the first infantry battalion, which shows how terrifying the vacancy is. In the official history, Li Gang, a famous minister in the late Northern Song Dynasty, said: "The peace has been for a long time, and one-third of the quota is lost." "Most of them look like this!

This Jingdong is the place where Chengping has been peaceful for a long time, and Jiang Lei is not as brave as Qin Ming, which is admirable. Therefore, Jiang Lei can only wait next to each other now, endure it, so as to wait until dawn to make plans.

What's more, the forbidden army under his command is not thousands at all. Nowadays, in addition to the upper four armies in the city of Tokyo, how can there be an army with a full number of troops? There are two battalions of forbidden troops in the entire Jeju Prefecture, and more than 40,000 forbidden troops on the written boundary of Jingdong Prefecture, which are mainly stationed in Nanjing Yingtianfu, Xuzhou, Huaiyang Army, Gaotang, Dengzhou, and Qingzhou, which Jeju Mansion is absolutely not in it. The two battalions of the forbidden army removed the old and weak, and the number of soldiers was only five or six hundred soldiers. In this expedition, Jiang Lei has already brought out all of them, and also stuffed in 400 strong Tuyong as hand-to-hand soldiers.

Therefore, Jiang Lei's control over the entire army is very fragile. If this battle had been fought smoothly, then all crises would have been covered, but now it can't, and the contradictions will be exposed.

Jiang Lei knew what the most correct thing to do, but the Song soldiers under him just refused.

At this moment, Jiang Lei was extremely regretful, he did not give a heavy reward to the soldiers when he sent out the army, promising wealth and wealth.

"All the prisons are in charge." Zhou Bin's hurried voice sounded behind Jiang Lei, "These ships are tied to the lifeline of the whole army, and they can't be burned by thieves." Why don't you pull the boat out of the boat......"

Zhou Bin's words made Jiang Lei's eyes light up.