The connection between the Western Xia army and Xingqing Province that invaded the Great Song Xihe River Road was mainly through the Yellow River waterway, and the Yellow River was the most stable section of water for more than 1,000 miles from Lanzhou to Xingqing Province, which was very suitable for surface navigation.

The surface vehicles of the Western Xia were mainly sheepskin rafts, and they also used sheepskin rafts to the extreme, and assembled the sheepskins into super-large water surface vehicles, which could carry thousands of catties or even tens of thousands of catties of goods.

The largest sheepskin raft is like a hill, laden with piles of grain, and if it is against the current, it also needs to be pulled.

Xihe Road is the area of today's Hehuang and Longyou, which belonged to the rich and prosperous area in the Tang Dynasty, due to climate change, by the time of the Song Dynasty, it has become very cold, the crops grow slowly, the population has decreased sharply, Xihe Road has become the smallest population in the Great Song Dynasty, one of the poorest areas.

Although attacking Xihe Road is a century-old national policy of Western Xia, there are not many benefits to be gained from Xihe Road, in addition to the interests of the land, in terms of material and food consumption, it is a negative expenditure, and the 80,000 troops of Xixia in Xihe Road consume all kinds of consumption every day, in addition to grabbing a part from Xihe Road, most of the supplies still have to be obtained from the Xixia mother country.

The Yellow River was the most important supply line for the Xixia army to the Xihe Road, and thousands of super-large rafts continued to pass through the Yellow River, ensuring the morale and military morale of the Xixia army on the Xihe Road.

Li Yanqing sent an elite force of 500 men westward into the Yellow River region after capturing Ta Chai Village, with Zhang Shun as the leader and Ruan Sanxiong as the deputy leader, and their task was to disrupt the waterway communication between the Western Xia and the Xihe Road, and cut off the supply line of the Western Xia to the Xihe Road.

These 500 soldiers were mainly from the old troops of Truong Shun and Nguyen Thiang, all of whom were proficient in water and were good at surface and underwater combat, and were a special water army in the Jing Zhao Army.

After Zhang Shun and Nguyen Thi Sanxiong entered the territory of the Si Shou Bao Thai Military Division in the southwestern part of Western Xia, they lurked and waited patiently for an opportunity to make a move.

In the afternoon of this day, at the west foot of Rouwolf Mountain in the north of Huizhou, the five hundred Song troops were resting in a forest, which was about ten miles away from the Yellow River, and the situation in the Yellow River could be clearly seen by standing on the low hill, and the terrain on both sides was complicated, and it was difficult for the army to walk, so that the five hundred water army was haunted in this area, and it has not been discovered by the Western Xia army so far.

In front of a big rock in the middle of the woods, Zhang Shun pointed to the map and said to the three Nguyen Thi Sanxiong: "We have seen three empty rafts going north, it should be today and tomorrow, the material fleet of Western Xia will go south, this time it should be a large-scale supply, and it is also our meritorious opportunity." ”

The three heroes of the Ruan family all agreed with Zhang Shun's judgment, and Ruan Xiaoer groaned and said: "Recently, the main force of the Western Xia Army is in Lanzhou, will they move the supply logistics battalion from Huizhou to Lanzhou?" ”

"With this possibility, our next step is to move to the territory of Huizhou and keep an eye on every move of the Western Xia army."

The three of them were discussing, when one stepped forward to report, "General Zhang, three General Ruan, the spies we sent have returned!" ”

Zhang Shun was waiting for news from the spies, he was overjoyed when he heard this, and hurriedly said, "Let him come over and report!" ”

After a while, a scout soldier walked over quickly, knelt down on one knee and saluted, "See General Zhang, see the three Ruan generals!" ”

Ruan Xiaoqi stepped forward and lifted the scout up and said with a smile: "We only care about your information, we don't want to hear your narration!" ”

The scout scratched his head and said, "There is good news! ”

"But the enemy fleet is heading south?" Zhang Shun asked anxiously.

"Exactly!"

The scout elaborated: "There are about 800 large rafts loaded with supplies heading south, and they should now be thirty miles away, and they will pass us at any time. ”

Ruan Xiaowuyi slapped the table, "Then what are you waiting for, just act according to the plan!" ”

"Wait!"

Zhang Shun stopped him, "Let's go through the plan again and see if there are any loopholes?" ”

The four of them discussed in a low voice for a while, discussed several possibilities in the plan, and then proceeded according to the original plan.

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The raft team from the south of Xingqing Mansion is going against the current, which needs to be manually pulled, and the Yellow River in this area has Lingbo Mountain in the north and Rouwolf Mountain in the south, hundreds of miles are meandering in the mountains, and the fiber can only be pulled on the west bank of the Yellow River, which makes the raft transport team must sail on the west bank, and after clarifying these details, the five hundred Song army has a clear plan.

The southwest corner of Rouwolf Mountain goes deep into the Yellow River, forming a peninsula half a mile long and seven or eight miles wide, the island is densely covered with towering black pine forests, there are piles of reefs standing on the side of the Yellow River, it is very difficult to enter this peninsula by land, it is necessary to cross Rouwolf Mountain, it takes at least two days to reach here, but it is easy to go ashore by waterway, there are no people in this area for hundreds of miles, and there are a large number of wild beasts and elk living in the deep forest.

At night, the mountain wind swept quickly across the water, the waves crashed against the reef, and the mountain wind immediately rushed into the pine forest, the pine forest undulated, making a strange whistling sound, Zhang Shun and Ruan Xiaowu led three hundred soldiers to lurk in the pine forest, patiently waiting for the raft team to come, they were the main force of the tonight's operation.

In addition, Ruan Xiaoer and Ruan Xiaoqi each led 100 men to deploy 10 miles away from the north and south, and they were responsible for intercepting the transport rafts that had slipped through the net.

The Song army was not anxious, and according to experience, the raft would not sail at night, and should have anchored twenty miles away at this time, and set off at about five o'clock.

Except for a dozen or so sentries who took turns to stand guard, the soldiers on the peninsula were wrapped in thick blankets and slept under the pine trees, and the ground was thick pine needles, which had accumulated for hundreds of years, and were very soft, and the soldiers slept very deeply.

At about four o'clock, a sentry hiding in a pine tree to observe the situation on the river finally spotted the fleet approaching in the distance, which was exceptionally clear in the moonlight, and he immediately jumped down from the tree and woke up Zhang Shun and Ruan Xiaowu, "General, the fleet is coming!" ”

Zhang Shun jumped up and immediately ordered: "Let the soldiers all be united!" ”

The soldiers were woken up, ready to throw away their blankets, each dressed in a black water cushion with a sharp dagger strapped to each leg.

At this time, the fleet was still three miles away, Zhang Shun called everyone forward, and said loudly: "I repeat, we are not here to snatch the materials, but to destroy the materials, let the grain and grass materials fall into the Yellow River, we will complete the task, dealing with the raft is very simple, as long as the raft loses its balance, the raft will overturn, but when the materials fall into the water, everyone must try to stay away from it, to prevent being dragged into the bottom by the water vortex, pay attention to protect yourself, do you understand?" ”

"Understood!" The crowd replied in unison.

At this time, many soldiers took off their water support, their upper bodies were bare, and their lower bodies were only wearing a pair of shorts, they felt more comfortable entering the water naked, and Zhang Shun was not reluctant, and let them act according to their habits.

Everyone crawled on the edge of the pine forest, at this time, the fleet appeared a mile away, below is a huge raft, the goods on the raft are piled up two feet high, mainly grain and grass, weapons, armor, fire oil and firearms and other materials, Zhang Shun waved his hand, the Song soldiers rushed out of the pine forest, hiding behind a pile of reefs.

The Yellow River from Lanzhou to Xingqingfu belongs to the upper reaches, about 30 zhang to 100 zhang wide, the peninsula is slightly narrower, the Yellow River is only more than 40 zhang wide, but the water is very deep, the shallowest part is more than two zhang, the soldiers enter the water directly into the depths of the water.

More than 40 zhang wide is equivalent to about 120 meters, for these soldiers who can cross the Yangtze River, this distance is not a problem at all, and each person can swim more than a dozen round-trips.

The raft fleet consisted of more than 800 oversized rafts, stretching for more than ten miles, and when the rafts sailed five or six miles across the peninsula, the soldiers began to silently start the ground.

There were ten soldiers escorted on each raft, but the Western Xia soldiers never dreamed that there would be Song army ghosts on both sides of the Yellow River in this area, and the soldiers all sat on the rafts and chatted, and the rafts on both sides were higher, so that everyone had a back to lean on, and unless they stood up, everyone could not see the situation in the Yellow River.

At this time, the sky is not yet dawn, the banks of the Yellow River are dark, you can faintly see the shadows of the mountains on the east bank and the pine forests on the bank, and the Gobi Desert on the west bank, thousands of slender men are bent over their waists, pulling the rope with difficulty.

The surface of the river was originally black and black, but it was reflected by the moonlight, making the surface of the river shimmer white.

Zhang Shun was the first to enter the water, he took a deep breath, and a fierce man pierced the largest raft.

When Zhang Shun came up from the bottom of the water, a huge small raft appeared in front of him, this is a super large raft, full of three hundred bags of grain, each bag of grain weighs one stone, so that the whole raft carries tens of thousands of catties.

Zhang Shun has carefully studied the raft, and he knows that the biggest weakness of the raft is at the bottom, this kind of super-large raft, the bottom is sewn with at least a dozen layers of leather, which is very strong, but no matter how strong it is, it can't withstand the sharp dagger cutting.

At this time, the Western Xia soldiers not far away burst out into a frightened shout, Zhang Shun turned around, only to see Ruan Xiaowu triumphantly out of a raft, he had already succeeded, the mountain of grain on the raft behind him suddenly disappeared out of thin air, apparently all fell into the water, causing the water surface to begin to ripple violently.

Zhang Shun dived to the bottom of the water, with a slight stroke of his arms, he appeared at the bottom of the raft like a fish, he pulled out a sharp dagger, stabbed into the raft, and swam forward with all his might, only to hear a sound of pulling and pulling, the bottom of the raft was completely cut by him, and tens of thousands of catties of grain on the raft suddenly broke the bottom of the raft, just like an hourglass, bags of grain began to flutter into the water and sink to the bottom of the river.

At this time, Zhang Shun had already swam away quickly, and swam to the bottom of another raft.......