Every day, Tuo Lei had to go to the river to personally supervise his subordinates to build all kinds of wooden rafts, bamboo rafts and other things, and often looked at the opposite bank to check the situation of the Song army on the other side. Pen ~ fun ~ Pavilion www.biquge.info Song army's strength exceeded his original expectations, within a few days, the Song army increased its troops again, the number has basically exceeded the number of soldiers and horses he led, and according to the scout report with good eyes, a big banner with high characters was raised in the other party's camp, he wanted to know that this time his opponent was not the Gao Huaiyuan who had led the troops to defeat him in Lizhou three years ago.

For this reason, he sent people to smuggle to the south bank many times in a wooden raft at night to investigate the situation of the Song army on the other side, but unfortunately, the Song army on the other side was very well guarded, and the scouts he sent out were all meat buns and dogs to fight without returning, and as a result, he did not dare to send scouts to cross the river again in the past two days, just waiting for a suitable opportunity to smuggle Jingshui according to the original plan, and then take advantage of the chaos to force the Jingshui to fight a decisive battle with the Song army...

This situation made Tuo Lei very uncomfortable, because this time they had to use their own shortcomings to attack the enemy's strengths, they did not know the nature of the water, but they had to cross the river to fight, and the cavalry tactics they were good at could not be brought into play in such a situation, which made him feel very uneasy.

On September 28, the third year of Shaoding and the second year of the Ögedai Khanate, Tuo Lei finally received news from the direction of the downstream, and the commander of the thousand commanders, Altan, reported that he had led his army to make a sufficient number of wooden rafts to cross the river, and was only ready to set off.

After walking back and forth in the big tent for a few laps, Tuo Lei made up his mind and waved his hand and ordered: "Order Altan to start crossing the river in the second half of the night tonight, rush to the Song army camp before dawn, sneak attack the Song army camp, and prepare for our army's forced crossing!" ”

In fact, he also knew that Altan's crossing of the river this time was very dangerous, and he and the 1,500 people under his command could basically be said to be death squads. But in addition to this method, he can't think of a better way to deal with the Song army, if he can fly, it would be fine, but unfortunately they are just a nation on horseback, and the gods did not give them a pair of wings, so he only hopes that Altan can cross the river this time, and he can sacrifice as much as possible to buy more time for his main force to cross the river, he believes that as long as the main force under his command crosses the river, even if there are more Song soldiers, he can successfully defeat the Song army in front of him.

As soon as Altan received the order to tow the mine, he ordered his generals to lie down and rest on the spot to recuperate for the evening's operation, while he walked to the edge of the forest, brushed aside the grass, and looked towards the opposite bank...

The other side is still quiet, only occasionally there will be a team of Song soldiers walking by the river, and did not find anything abnormal, these days he led the army here to secretly cut down trees and tie up wooden platoons, has been observing the situation on the other side, and found no trace of the Song army's brigade of soldiers and horses, which also reassured him a lot, and the Song army patrols the river section, after the evening, he will not come here to inspect again, he thinks that he has mastered the law of the Song army inspecting the river section.

For the sake of secrecy, after he found this place, he ordered the rangers to move around, and killed all the common people found in the nearby mountains, leaving only a small number of young men to help them work, and some young women, and returned to the camp for his and his soldiers to amuse...

He also knew that after smuggling across the river this time, he and his soldiers were in great danger, so after he led these people here, in addition to urging them to work harder, he indulged his subordinates to make fun of these young women, for this reason some women in the camp could not stand their such beastly hair, and they had already killed dozens of them, but Altan didn't care about this kind of thing, even he himself killed the two young women who were captured, because it was impossible for them to keep these women, and sooner or later they were all killed. After the sky gradually darkened, Altan was also woken up from his sleep by his own soldiers, after asking the time, ordered the soldiers under his command to get up, began to eat and drink, and so on until the time had passed the middle of the night, with his order, the soldiers under his command got up and began to assemble, he waved his hand coldly, and a team of men and women in the camp pulled out the men and women who were captured, and after they were gathered together, he gave another order, and several teams of subordinates immediately pounced, swords and guns were raised, and a ** was launched against these unarmed people The slaughter ...

After a while, these innocent people all fell in a pool of blood, but Altan didn't even frown, he also sniffed the ** smell in the air very comfortably, and suddenly drew the knife, and cut off the head of the very beautiful young Han woman left in his tent with a knife, and licked the human blood on the blade with his tongue, and under the light of the lampball torch, his face looked very hideous.

"Let's go!" He ordered again.

Fifteen hundred Mongol soldiers carried the wooden rafts and bamboo rafts they had tied in advance from the mountain cols, and some of the people they left behind to be boatmen for them, walked out of their hiding places, and quickly ran to the river, pushing these wooden rafts and bamboo rafts into the river.

Such bamboo and wooden rafts are not large, and each row can carry about ten people, and they cannot bring their favorite horses to the other side with them, so they can only load a small number of war horses to supply the commanders and centurions in the army to ride. The common people who had been forced to work as boatmen for them were tied to their ankles with ropes, and the other end was tied to the raft so that they could not escape by jumping into the water in the middle of the river crossing.

Zhou Hao lay in the tent in the forest, from time to time gently waved his hand to drive away swarms of mosquitoes, he has been lurking here for two days, every day he will quietly climb the hillside, with a telescope to observe the situation of the Mongolian army in the col opposite, after seeing that the piles of rafts have been made by the Mongolian army, he believes that in the past two days, the Mongolian Tartars will smuggle across the river...

Therefore, he did not dare to slack off, and arranged a lot of secret sentries in the grass near the river bank and the edge of the forest, and kept a good watch on the other side.

In order to prevent the Tartars on the other side from discovering their whereabouts, after Zhou Hao led the troops here, he strictly ordered his officers and soldiers not to make any noise, not even to speak loudly, and not even to raise the fire when they ate.

Now is the hottest time, there are many mosquitoes in the forest to die, but they also have to endure here, many officers and soldiers have their faces swollen by mosquito bites, scratched all over the face of blood, no one complains, long-term and strict training has improved the quality of the Song army a lot, the current Song army officers and men are very able to endure hardships, this point at any time, can not be compared with the current officers and soldiers...

However, what was given to the officers and men was a sufficient amount of food and salary, so that they could get the money they should receive and eat good food, which was also not enjoyed by the officers and men in many places in the past.

Especially in the past few years, the officers of the Song Army have also put away their arrogant and extravagant style, and they can bear hardships and stand hard work as soldiers, even if they are hard, the officers and soldiers have also recognized it, because what they want is not absolute equality, just a little balance is enough.

After nightfall, Zhou Hao did not sleep steadily, under his order, the officers and soldiers under his command did not remove their armor, and the clothes were slept, and the weapons were also placed at hand, they could be picked up at any time and put into battle, the weather was hot, and the cool river was not too far below, but without Zhou Hao's order, these officers and soldiers endured the scorching heat in the forest, but they could not go to the river to wash, and even the water they drank was picked up by the firehead soldiers from afar, waiting for the Mongolian soldiers on the opposite side to collide over...

When the middle of the night came, Zhou Hao suddenly faintly heard a slight scream coming from the mountains on the opposite bank, and soon a personal soldier walked outside his tent and whispered: "General Zhou! There's a movement on the Tartar side! ”

Zhou Hao turned over and stood up, raised his hand and slapped a few mosquitoes on his face that were about to die, grabbed a big knife and walked out of the tent.

"Give the order to go down and get up and get ready! Let Xie Quan push out the fire gun and the Shenwei cannon as well, and prepare! The movements are all light, no loud noises, no ignition! Zhou Hao whispered to go down...

The barracks in the otherwise silent glade immediately came to life, and the officers and men who had been woken up immediately got up and began to assemble in the predetermined positions.

And Xie Quan was also sent to Zhou Hao by Gao Huaiyuan this time, and gave him twenty light Shenwei cannons, and gave him forty firearms, after Xie Quan was woken up, he got up and immediately gave an order to his artillery battalion.

In the place opposite the river bank, a hidden gun position has long been constructed, and these artillerymen immediately pushed a light Shenwei cannon to their position, and soon with the help of the moonlight in the sky, aimed at the predetermined position of the river beach, and those guns were also concentrated in one position, and the guns were set up with brackets, these guns were enough to have a caliber of more than 20 millimeters, just like a small cannon, but this is also a way to do things, after all, the power of black powder in this era is limited, and the guns are smoothbore, The accuracy can not reach a very high level, if you want to be powerful, you can only rely on this method to improve the firepower, so the caliber of the fire gun created is also very large, but the power has been tested, it is still quite good, within fifty steps, even if you wear iron armor, you can still penetrate it, and the cow can also be put down with a gun, so Gao Huaiyuan only increased the casting amount of the fire gun during this time, but the equipment of the army is still limited.

A large number of crossbowmen also quietly walked to their reserved positions, and the crossbowmen stepped forward to pull the crossbow strings with all their might, and placed the iron crossbow arrows on the crossbow arms.

The archer silently climbed the bow body with his legs, hung the bowstring on the bow arm with force, stretched out his hand and tested the strength of the bowstring with his fingers, and then pulled out the arrows from the quiver one by one, inserted them in the grass in front of them, and directly pulled them out and used them, and the arrows of these bows and crossbow arrows were soaked in gold juice (that is, fecal water), and there was no morality to deal with the Tartar soldiers who liked to use poison on the arrows.

In order to prevent the moonlight from shining on the swords, so that the Mongol soldiers crossing the river would find them, everyone's long knives were smoked in advance on the fire, and the black light would not reflect at all.

Even the bright trap armor that they maintained on weekdays, each officer and soldier also smeared some yellow mud on it to make it not reflective, everything was orderly on the south bank, and a pair of cold eyes fell on the wide and gentle river in front of them.

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