Chapter Seventy-Three: The Earth Dragon's Turnover Plan
The scene of 100,000 horses gathering was spectacular, and the sound of horses' hooves passing through the flood was naturally needless to say, and the dust raised alone was like the momentum of a tsunami descending on people's hearts.
Walking in the forefront are the Han people who were driven away by the Turks with leather whips, in rags, with yellow faces and thin muscles, each of them holding some wooden planks, and the young and strong ones also carried bamboo rafts, the number of them was as much as one or two thousand, and it was not a problem to build dozens of pontoon bridges on their hands, thinking that these Han people would be driven by the Turks into the icy Weishui River, the dense cloud lines on Li Er's brows wrinkled even deeper.
"Is there any way to save them?" Li Er couldn't bear to look any further, and returned the telescope to Yang Lin, who was constantly looking at the Turkic enemy soldiers around him.
"No, you can only save as much as you want." The advantage of the Tang army is that there are some ships, but if you want to rely on those boats to transport one or two thousand people, it is impossible to complete it without half a day, the fifteen cannons on the fort can't hit the opposite bank at all, the Weishui River is two or three hundred meters wide, and the Shenwei cannons that have been raised on the pedestal occupy the terrain advantage and can only hit the middle of the river at most, when the military discussion, everyone has long expected that Jieli Khan will be more ferocious than Ashina Tusu, and the people west of the Weishui River may not have escaped his clutches, and 20,000 people were driven to the Weishui River, It is proved that there are definitely more than 20,000 Han people who died under his butcher's knife, and the ministers have discussed for a long time without a safe rescue plan, Li Er asks again now, but he is just used to finding some miracle from Yanglin.
"The officers and men of the Navy are dispatched, and they can save as much as they can save under the cover of the wind and waves." Li Er reluctantly gave an order. All the ships that could be mobilized on the Weishui were mobilized, and there were nearly 100 of them. But as soon as the ships approached the people who were erecting the pontoon bridges, they would be greeted by the bows and arrows of the Turkic cavalry. It is certain that the sailors responsible for the rescue have suffered casualties, but it is impossible to prevent the erection of all pontoon bridges, and the Han people will also take the initiative to erect pontoon bridges in order to escape to the other side.
"Bang, bang, bang"
The cannon fire of the two ships roared incessantly, some Turkic cavalry were killed, and some Han civilians were unfortunately hit, and the chaotic scene unfolded along the mile-long Weishui River. The Turks had more than 30 points covered by bows and arrows, and the two warships and twelve guns could not be taken care of at all.
The large and small ships of the navy approached the pontoon bridge being erected, and the Tang soldiers holding wooden shields endured the bow and arrow attacks of the Turkic cavalry like raindrops, and the Han people who were forced to erect the pontoon bridge desperately pounced as soon as they saw the Tang army's ships approaching, and several small boats not only did not save people, but were overturned by the people, and of course more people were directly killed by the bows and arrows of the Turkic cavalry.
War is cruel, such a scene makes Yang Lin nervous and wants to pee, and there are too many scenes of killing. He was afraid of mental illness, so his telescope didn't dare to look here.
Li Er's big casserole fist clenched, and the long-handled Mo knife was inserted into the loess beside him, and he had no intention of retreating today. Qin Qiong, who was a little ragged, also put on iron armor as he wished, and this veteran who had experienced a hundred battles seemed to be going to the destination of his life today.
"Your Majesty, can Ma Yongquan complete the task?" Qin Qiong was one of the few people who knew about Li Er's plan. The plan, named 'Earth Dragon Turnover', had two people carry out the plan, and one plan is naturally that Ma Yongquanying is hidden among the Turks. Ignite the gunpowder that had already been laid out on the opposite bank. Another plan is for the ironclad men to kill the other side and forcibly ignite the gunpowder that has been arranged. The people who can participate in these two programs are all people who are ready to die, and the first pontoon bridge that has been erected is the bridge of the ironclad anti-conflict Turkic cavalry.
"He will definitely be able to complete the task, I trust him the most, even if he doesn't complete it, it doesn't matter, with our old brothers rushing into battle, it will definitely be no problem to put a cannon fight, if I die with my brothers, you said that when it comes to the underworld, can we also lay down a piece of heaven and earth, and lay down a Datang." Li Er patted Qin Qiong's shoulder and sighed.
"That's natural, Qin Shi Huang also said that he would be a ghost male when he died! Let's go down together, and he'll have to give way. Qin Qiong had a rare fun, Li Er could see that this old brother really didn't take life and death seriously, and with him by his side, his mood could be relaxed and stable.
In the early Tang Dynasty, there were no pure Wenchen at all, and there was no need for people to compose songs and write when the war drums were beating, so those Wenchen had their own specific work, such as Fang Xuanling, Changsun Wuji, etc., all of whom were rescued by batches of Han people rescued by naval ships under the banner of Wei Zheng, many of them were wounded by arrows, and some of them were soaked in cold water, their bodies were shivering from cold, and they urgently needed to be taken care of, 20,000 people could not be saved, three or five thousand were still possible, after paying the price of more than a dozen ships, The navy gradually found a way to save people, Zhang Liang personally commanded the sergeants at the bow of the boat to salvage the people who fell into the water, and at the same time, the pontoon bridge was also erected by these Han people longer and longer.
Attacking and fighting battles are the affairs of the soldiers, as a ruler, as long as the life is not as stumbling as Li Er, he generally will not personally carry a knife into battle, Jieli is now sitting in the wide tent and enjoying the wine and food, the recently captured Han chef is really good, and the roast mutton is stunned to let the aroma waft from the ordinary soldier camp to the king's tent, so the old man of the Han who was enslaved by the Turkic cavalry became Jieli's special cook, Jieli also promised him that as long as he did his best to barbecue meat, he would help him find his children among the robbing Han people.
Ma Yongquan is a rootless person, naturally he has no children, he looks trembling and majestic figure does not look like a person who knows martial arts, the ability to barbecue is he learned from listening to the wall root of the horse master in the palace, Yanglin sent to Li Er and the eldest grandson every other day He also has a taste of the food, all his life just studied how to serve the emperor comfortably, he was okay and began to study the food with Li Tobacco in the imperial dining room, he was used to serving people, and he naturally made Jie very comfortable to use, so, In the Turkic tent, Ma Yongquan's status began to rise, and within a few days, he was already free to enter and exit the sweat tent, and he could freely enter and exit the sweat tent, which was equivalent to being able to freely enter and exit the entire Turkic camp, which was the convenience of his actions.
The gunpowder buried around the Turkic camp on the bank of the river is the output of five hundred inner servants for a few days, up to thousands of catties, Li Er pointed to these gunpowders to turn the table, so there is a very secret and scientific method in the entire arrangement, and it is also a method that Yang Lin can think of to maximize the damage on the premise of surviving the detonator, but unfortunately, the tipping point is now full of Turkic cavalry waiting to charge, and the fuses buried under the soil are all covered with opened bamboo pipes, in case it is trampled and the lead is broken, it is also a troublesome matter, Ma Yongquan, who was carrying the fire fold, wandered in the distance for a long time and did not find a chance to get close to that place, after all, this is a Turkic cavalry battle array, at this time, if there is a Han man who does not ride a horse, you don't need to explain, people will use a knife to cut you.
The battle on the Weishui River began to heat up, even the inner servants on the Wind and Waves had fallen with arrows, the two high-powered warships did not know how many times they had collided with the pontoon bridge, and every time they approached the pontoon bridge, they would usher in a rain of arrows, Li Er divided the ironclad Mo swordsmen into four teams, each team was scattered along the bank of the river a few hundred meters apart, each of them had a fire fold on them, once the pontoon bridge over there reached the shore, they would start to recoil above the pontoon bridge as soon as possible, if they could kill the other side of the river, they would naturally rush to the tipping point as soon as possible, Ignite gunpowder buried in the ground.
"Whew."
The Tang army camp began to sound its horn, and the sailor ships that salvaged the people who had fallen into the water began to sail downstream, and those who were still erecting pontoon bridges or falling into the water were abandoned, and the trumpets sounded three ways, and the fifteen cannons arranged on the shore were fired, and when the sailor ships withdrew, the officers and men were shouting that the people were holding the planks and jumping into the river, and they would be saved if they could hold on to the downstream, but there were still not many people who had the courage to jump into the icy river.
"Bang, bang"
The dense sound of artillery rang out from the shore, and even if Yang Lin was reluctant, he had to give the order to shoot indiscriminately at the half-built pontoon bridge, and at this moment, only those who had the courage to jump into the water, or knew how to water, could survive.
Dense stone shells rained down in the middle of the river, the guns on the fort were different from those on the Riding the Wind and Waves, they were fixed on the fort and could be fired continuously, and they did not need to be like the Riding the Wind and Waves, every three cannons needed to go around in a circle, and it took a long time to turn the bow of the ship, so the lethality of the fifteen Shenwei cannons was more than ten times greater than the twelve on the two battleships, and more than a dozen pontoon bridges within the range of the fort were hit instantly, and the erection progress almost entered a state of stop, and more people fell into the river because they were afraid or were hit, Ropes were thrown from the naval warships a hundred meters downstream, and it was only then that the people who saw their way out began to jump into the river.
"These stupid people, if they don't leave, they have to beat them twice to know how to move the nest." Wang Erniu was scolded by Yanglin stupid and scolded, and finally found an opportunity to scold others, with more and more people diving, the progress of the erection of the pontoon bridge was greatly slowed down, and those Turks mixed in the ranks of the people did not dive, they would also face the blow of stones like raindrops, so after Yanglin began to fire these fixed-point guns, it directly stopped laying many pontoon bridges.
"There are too many pontoon bridges, and they can't be stopped by these few shotguns with such a small range, and the opposite side can't be blasted as planned within five minutes, I'm afraid that my majesty will really lead people to recoil the pontoon bridge." Yanglin's telescope swept over the tipping point from time to time, and Ma Yongquan still did not appear there. (To be continued......)