Chapter 281: Flooding the Seventh Army
Early the next morning, Wang Aoyong ordered the whole army to set off, and Li Shiyuan surrendered the army as the vanguard. Pen, fun, and www.biquge.info
After having breakfast in a hurry, Li Shiyuan led the team to set off, and more than 1,000 people left Gaomi City with complaints and continued to advance towards Jiaozhou.
"Report! General, the first 1,000 Qing soldiers have left Gaomi and are coming this way. Arrived an hour later. A fine worker crossed the Jiao River Bridge, ran towards the low hill where the Daishan army was hiding, and reported to Ren Siqi.
"Let this group of Qing soldiers go over, pass the order, and when the main force of the Qing soldiers crosses the river, blow up the dam and release water to flood them!" Ren Siqi ordered.
These more than 1,000 Qing soldiers are just the vanguard troops, there is no need to pay attention to them, just let them go.
An hour later, Li Shiyuan led his troops to the Jiaoshui River.
A small river winds its way to the north, and the silver-belt-like water is so clear that you can see the fish swimming at the bottom of the river.
But the river is too shallow, isn't it? Li Shiyuan has traveled back and forth between Qingzhou and Jiaozhou many times, and crossed this river a few months ago, when the river was much deeper than now!
However, Li Shiyuan did not think much about it, but ordered the whole army to cross the river from the bridge.
The bridge, which straddles the banks of the glue, is a wooden bridge made of bluestone with piers laid horizontally with several long logs, the top of which is covered with wooden planks.
The bridge is six feet wide and allows four people to walk side by side, and although it is a wooden bridge, it is quite sturdy and can be passed by large carriages carrying hundreds of pounds.
But today it is extremely strange, Li Shiyuan's soldiers are not more than half, "click", but the crossbar in the middle of the bridge is broken in the center, the bridge deck is broken at once, and more than a dozen soldiers howl and fall into the water. Fortunately, the river was very shallow, and the soldiers struggled to get up, and when they found that the river was only thigh-deep, they climbed straight to the shore.
Perhaps it was because the wooden bridge had fallen into disrepair and happened to pass so many troops that it was broken. Li Shiyuan didn't think much about it at first, since the river was not deep, he simply let everyone wade across the river. But then he frowned, secretly feeling that something was wrong.
The river suddenly became shallow, the wooden bridge broke again, could it all be so coincidental?
Li Shiyuan looked around, but didn't find anything wrong. But why is it so quiet in this neighborhood, and the silence is a little abnormal.
Shandong, the population is quite dense, although after natural disasters and man-made disasters, the Qing soldiers repeatedly entered the customs and robbed, and plundered a large number of people in Shandong, but that happened in Luzhong and Lubei, as for the Jiaodong Qing soldiers have never come so far.
The army passed by, and there were no pedestrians on the road, but why were there no farmers in the fields? It's all so wrong.
A feeling of danger suddenly surged into Li Shiyuan's heart, and when he looked back at his subordinates who were wading through the water, he subconsciously wanted to shout, but he instantly closed his mouth again.
At this time, if you shout loudly, it can only cause panic among your own soldiers and cause the enemy to attack immediately.
Turning his head and looking a mile away, where Wang Aoyong was leading the army to come, Li Shiyuan secretly prayed, praying that the enemy would not look down on his small striker, but would focus on the main force.
Perhaps it was the prayer that moved the heavens, and until all the men waded to the other side, the imaginary attack did not come.
Could it be that he is too sensitive, Li Shiyuan's suspicious gaze swept over the low hill in front of him.
It would take some time for more than 1,000 people to cross the river, and at this time the army led by Wang Aoyong was almost on the opposite bank.
Li Shiyuan shook his head, threw the thought of reminding Wang Aoyong to pay attention to the back of his mind, and ordered his subordinates to move forward quickly, so as to stay away from the river bank as soon as possible. The farther away from the riverbank, the safer it will be.
"Daddy!" Behind a dense grass on the side of the road, Li Ding's eyes were full of tears and he looked at his father Li Shiyuan, who was riding a tall horse on the road.
Joined the Daishan Army for more than two months, Li Ding is now a small banner of the Daishan Army, because he is a native of Shandong, familiar with the terrain of Shandong, he was sent as a sentry detective, dedicated to investigating the movements of the Qing soldiers, behind Li Ding, followed by his five soldiers.
Unexpectedly, his iron-clad father actually descended to the Manchu Dynasty, which made it difficult for Li Ding to accept it. Looking at his father's back immediately, Li Ding's eyes shed sad tears.
"Report, Commander, the wooden bridge in front of you has collapsed, so General Li has just led the team to wade across the river." A Qing soldier ran to Wang Aoyong's horse and reported what was happening ahead.
"Why don't you renovate the wooden bridge?" Wang Aoyong frowned.
"Back to the governor, the river is very shallow, just above the knee, and you can wade through it."
In this way, there is really no need to build a bridge, Wang Aoyong nodded, and ordered the whole army to wade across the river.
The fiery sun hung in the southeast sky, and the Qing soldiers who had walked for more than an hour were already sweating, Wang Aoyong's order had just been given, and the soldiers under him "snorted", and they threw themselves into the river, jumped into the clear water, held the river water in both hands, drank a thief's full, submerged their faces in the water, and trembled comfortably.
Looking at the appearance of his subordinates, Wang Aoyong shook his head, but he didn't interfere too much. One is rigid and one is soft, Fang is the right way to lead the troops, and there is no need to restrain them at all times.
Seeing the clear river water, the Qing soldiers behind also quickened their pace, so that they could rush to the river to cool off.
For a while, the riverbank was crawling with dense human heads, and the river was also full of Qing soldiers, who laughed and laughed, and splashed water on their bodies naked, and the noise spread far away. The strikers passed by peacefully, so that they did not realize the danger at all.
At this moment, a huge rumbling sound suddenly came, overpowering the noise of thousands of Qing soldiers, Wang Aoyong, who had just crossed the river, stopped splashing water on his face, and looked up in amazement, and saw a huge wall of water coming rapidly from the south along the river.
"Enemy attack!" A thought arose in Wang Aoyong's heart, and he hurriedly stood up and ran towards the riverbank.
Before he could climb the riverbank, a wall of water more than a foot high crossed the deck of the wooden bridge and covered him.
"Ah!!h A huge fear rose from his heart, and Wang Aoyong grabbed the reins of the war horse and held it tightly in his hand.
The wall of water came and disappeared quickly, and in a short time it crossed the wooden bridge and tumbled downstream, taking with it countless Qing soldiers who were washing in the river.
Wang Aoyong and the war horse were swept into the river by the wave peak, drank a belly of river water, and finally emerged from the river water, tightened the reins, grabbed the fur of the war horse and barely emerged from the water, looking back, the army he commanded was swept into the river by the huge waves for nearly half of the time, and the other half of the soldiers were standing on the bank in horror, looking at the raging river in a daze.
The shouting of killing was sounding from the east of the river, and a large group of Ming troops with weapons in their hands shouted and killed on the riverbank.
Finished! These two words flashed through Wang Aoyong's mind. (To be continued.) )