Emperor Ming Fengyunlu

Volume VIII Troubled Times

Chapter 4 The Strange Soldiers Go North to Fight Hu Cai

Section 2 Forcibly Crossing the Qinghe River (2)

The scorching sun is in the sky, there is no cloudless, there is no cool breeze on both sides of the Qing River, there is just endless heat, and the scorching sun is wantonly steaming the earth, as if it wants to evaporate all the water on the earth, which makes people feel extremely uncomfortable.

At this time, a huge and neat phalanx appeared on the south bank of the Qing River, and a total of more than 60,000 soldiers from the Feiyu Battalion and the Yulin Battalion stood majestically under the scorching sun, as if there were more than 60,000 statues; The bright red armor on the soldiers' bodies shone in the sunlight, reflecting the entire battlefield red, like a fiery ocean, making people feel their blood boiling!

On the north bank of the Qing River, 30,000 Han traitor troops had built a fortification and dug a wide and deep trench along the north bank of the Qing River, and the entire trench stretched for several miles, firmly blocking the road of the Han Wei army to the north; In addition, the traitor army also built a half-man-high earthen wall on the north side of the trench to block the onslaught of the Han army's iron cavalry. After the 30,000 traitor army built a defensive line, under the command of Amin, they divided 5,000 archers to line up in the trench and the Qing River, preparing to block the Han Wei army from crossing the river; The rest of the 25,000 troops were all arranged behind the trenches, ready for a bloody battle with the soldiers of the Hanwei army.

For Amin, these 30,000 traitor army is used to fight with the Hanwei army, to put it bluntly, it is 30,000 cannon fodder, as long as it can kill, injure, and consume the strength of the Hanwei army, Amin's heart doesn't care whether these traitor troops can win, let alone the life or death of the traitor army.

In addition, Amin also placed his 20,000 Mongolian iron cavalry on the plain between the Qinghe defense line and the Gaizhou Acropolis, as the second line of defense of the whole battle, ready to attack the Hanwei soldiers who broke through the first line of defense and went north.

After arranging these two defense lines, Amin drove into the Gaizhou Acropolis with an army of 15,000 with the Zhenglan Banner, preparing to defend the city and resolutely block the northward pace of the soldiers of the Hanwei Army's East Road.

At this time, the news of the battle in Ningyuan had already spread, but Amin was worried that the army's morale would be unstable, so he tightly sealed the news, thinking about finishing the battle. But how can such a big news be hidden? It didn't take long for it to spread among the army of Zhenglan Banner Jiannu, and the morale of Zhenglan Banner Jiannu took a sharp turn in a blink of an eye, and many soldiers were full of fear of the Hanwei army that was about to go north, and some generals even began to ask Amin when the army would withdraw to Shengjing.

Amin stood on the wall of Weinan in Gaizhou, looking at the gray and yellow land in the south, and suddenly felt a sadness in his heart: "Since when did my Dajin warriors lose the courage to fight the Ming army head-on, and they can only defend step by step, and they can't shrink out?" No! I, Dajin Warrior, am not afraid of the Ming army, I just don't want to fight hard with the Hanwei army! ”

Amin argued with himself in vain, unwilling to admit that the Jiannu army had developed a fear of the elite and powerful Hanwei army. However, one thing is certain, that is, the Jiannu army has never bargained in front of the soldiers of the Hanwei army, and even suffered casualties one after another!

Suddenly, Amin faintly heard rolling thunder from the south, but the sky was cloudless at this time, and it didn't look like it was going to rain at all!

"The artillery of the Hanwei Army!"

Amin stared at the south with a blue face, although he couldn't see the situation along the Qinghe River from standing on the wall of Gaizhouwei, but Amin's eyes were still very wide, and the two eyeballs seemed to be about to fly out, which looked very terrifying.

At the same time, the two sides of the Qinghe River were already raging with war, Lu Ying and Huangfu Ming were commanding the artillery battalions under the Feiyu Battalion and the Yulin Battalion to bombard the north bank of the Qing River. The main force of the traitor army that was hiding behind the defense line and covered by an earthen wall was a little better, but the five thousand archers between the defense line and the Qinghe River were very miserable, and they were killed and wounded by the fierce artillery fire, and the originally neat formation collapsed in an instant. The traitor archers scattered and fled on the north bank, and most of them ran towards the northern defense line, but Amin had already removed all the ladders erected on the trench before leading the army to leave, in order to prevent these traitor troops from doing their best, and at this time these traitor archers could only scream in despair on the edge of the trench, and they could not escape at all.

At this moment, the bombardment of the Hanwei army's artillery battalion gradually decreased, and after a while, it completely stopped.

The surviving Han traitor archers hurriedly looked to the south, only to see hundreds of large and small boats lined up on the river, full of heavily armed Hanwei soldiers, who were rapidly rowing towards the north bank.

"Assemble! Come and assemble! Blockade, if the Hanwei army lands, everyone will have to die! ”

A traitor army assistant leader shouted loudly, and the surrounding traitor army archers began to gather when they heard the shout. Seeing that thousands of people had gathered around, the co-leader ordered a salvo of arrows, blocked the river with a dense rain of arrows, and organized the Hanwei soldiers to land on the shore. Seeing this, the archers who had not yet had time to assemble also began to shoot, and for a while, the arrows on the surface of the Qinghe River were like flying locusts, and the officers and soldiers of the Hanwei Army who were crossing the river began to suffer casualties.

Lu Ying and Huang Fuming stood on the shore and watched solemnly, seeing that Jiannu had started to fight back, both of them were a little worried in their hearts.

Huang Fuming looked at it for a while, and then said to Lu Ying: "Zongzhen, should we bombard it with artillery for a while?" ”

Lu Ying shook his head and said, "No need! Now the weather is very dry, and the surface of the Qinghe River has shrunk severely, and it is not very wide. As long as Jiang Wentian led the first batch of soldiers of Battalion A to land, it would open the way out for the follow-up army. We can't waste any more time, after all, Gaizhouwei is also a strong city, and God knows how long it will take us to fight, so we can't stay here for too long. ”

As he spoke, the entire Hanwei army suddenly erupted in cheers, and Lu Ying and Huang Fuming hurriedly looked to the north, only to see that Jiang Wentian had led the first batch of 1,500 soldiers of the A Battalion to successfully land on the shore. As soon as the soldiers came ashore, Jiang Wentian roared loudly and led his soldiers to pounce on the three or four thousand traitor archers not far away, and the two sides immediately started a fierce hand-to-hand combat.

Lu Ying was very happy to see this, and immediately ordered the battalions to speed up the crossing of the river, first transport all the A and C battalions of the Feiyu Battalion over, and firmly establish themselves on the north bank of the Qing River, and then transport the artillery battalion and the rest of the battalions and soldiers over.

Just when the more than 100 boats on the river kept transporting the soldiers of the Hanwei Army, Jiang Wentian had already led his troops and killed the traitor army three times his size. Although these traitor troops have the advantage in strength, they are not on the same level at all compared with the officers and soldiers of the Hanwei army in terms of combat power. Jiang Wentian led 1,500 soldiers to rush in formation, completely overpowering the archers of those traitor army, like a tiger entering a flock. In front of the 25,000 traitor army on the north side of the trench, 1,500 Han Wei troops chased 3 or 4,000 traitor archers and slashed all the way, and the scene was spectacular!

On the bank of the Qing River, the Hanwei Army Brigade was still landing in a steady stream, and those traitor troops had even seen the Hanwei Army soldiers transport more than a dozen artillery pieces, and the morale of the army suddenly collapsed by half, and the entire defense line began to commotion.

After a stick of incense, Jiang Wentian led his troops to annihilate thousands of archers of the traitor army, and not a single one was left alive, and only about 20 of the 1,500 officers and soldiers of the Hanwei army were killed and dozens were wounded.

After another hour or so, Lu Ying and Huang Fuming also came by boat, looked around, and saw that all the artillery and gunners of Feiyu Battalion A and C had successfully landed on the shore and completed the formation, so they discussed preparing to attack the traitor army's defense line first, and test the enemy situation before the army was all assembled.

So, after a brief discussion between the two, it was decided that Lu Ying would command the soldiers of the Flying Feather Battalion, Battalion A, Battalion C, and two artillery battalions that had been assembled to prepare for the attack; And Huang Fuming seized the time to command the main force of the army to cross the river quickly.

Lu Ying observed the traitor army's defense line in the distance, and saw that the trench that was four or five steps wide had no place to pass through at all, and could only be crossed by using a ladder to erect on it. So Lu Ying ordered people to prepare a large number of ladders, and on the other hand, he ordered two artillery battalions to line up in front of the battle, preparing to use heavy artillery to destroy the earthen wall behind the trench first, and kill and injure a large number of traitor troops.

After a while, sixty Great Buddha cannons began to roar again. A huge roar resounded through the battlefield, and cannons rained down on the earthen wall behind the trench, splashing up puffs of smoke and dust, enveloping all the traitor troops hiding behind. What's more, many sections of the earthen wall collapsed directly under the blow of the cannon, crushing all the traitor troops hiding behind and crushing them to death on the spot!

Seeing this, the morale of the soldiers of the A and C battalions of the Feiyu Battalion was greatly boosted, and more than 10,000 soldiers neatly knocked on the ground with the weapons in their hands, roaring in unison, each time it was like knocking on the hearts of the traitor army, and the morale of the traitor army was exhausted little by little!

Lu Ying looked around the entire defense line, and saw that most of the earthen walls behind the trench had collapsed, and the more than 20,000 traitor troops were also moved, so he ordered the artillery battalion to stop the shelling, and ordered the Feiyu battalion garrison Liu Heihu to lead the soldiers of the C battalion to step forward to suppress the enemy, and the Feiyu battalion garrison Jiang Wentian led the soldiers of the A battalion to prepare to set up a cloud ladder to fight over the trench!

I saw Liu Heihu roaring: "Forward!" ”

Seven thousand Bingying bird guns split their hands into three rows of horizontal formations and started forward, the soldiers held the fine bird guns, the pace under their feet was steady, and the sound of "ten thousand victories" was endless, like a divine soldier descending from the sky!

Eighty steps from the trench!

Under Liu Heihu's order, the soldiers of the C Battalion stopped advancing, and more than 2,000 well-trained birds in the first row pointed to the front inquiringly, a killing was about to be staged!