Volume 3 Mending the Crack in the Sky Chapter 124 Killing Throat (14)

When the first ship appeared on this section of the river that was more than ten miles long and densely packed, the battle broke out immediately!

The first Jurchen army horses were the first part of the tribal army, and the chiefs who were dressed in heavy, damp leather armor that emitted a foul smell roared loudly. Regardless of the fact that his hands were already cold while waiting, his subordinates opened the bowstring, put on the feather arrows, and according to the distance that had been marked in advance, the bow body was raised at a certain angle, and suddenly a rain of arrows spilled out.

After waiting in the rain for so long, the bow body absorbed water, the bowstring was soft, and the arrow feathers became heavier than usual because of the dampness. This round of arrow rain spilled, but it did not hit the Song Junzhou boats in the middle of the river, and fell into the water one after another, and they heard a dense sound of breaking water, and the ripples in a circle were densely rippling.

And the oarsman of Li Jun's boat struggled to pull the oars, and the white waves from the bow of the boat were agitated. The speed is up as soon as it starts! And Li Jun turned around and roared at the shooters on both sides: "Arrow! Fuck it! ”

The vanguard boat that Li Jun took was the most common towing boat on the Yellow River, with a small draft, a sharp bow and a wide stern. Each boat could be lined with four small beds, and when they heard Li Jun's order, the archers who were standing on the side of these small bed crossbows that had already been twisted with iron strings and loaded with short spears that also looked like tailless iron arrows immediately smashed their teeth with their mallets!

On both sides of the towing ship, a violent sound of breaking the air suddenly sounded, and eight iron arrows shot out outboard in two directions!

The tribal army stood densely packed, eager to cover the banks of the river in the array, and suddenly aroused the sound of screams. These long iron arrows shot into such a dense infantry array, and the damage brought was extremely tragic!

An iron arrow shattered the Tartar's skull, exploding like a rotten watermelon. Red, white, and gray things splash around. An iron arrow pierced through a Tartar and castration continued. Then shoot through the rear Tartars. The most castrated iron arrow pierced through three Tartars in one fell swoop! The first Tartar shot a transparent hole in his body, but the last two were nailed together, with mouthfuls of dirty blood sprayed in their mouths, and they reached out to pull out the iron arrows that still had rust marks, but they lost their strength in an instant, and the two were nailed together and fell.

After the eight iron arrows swept in the Tartar infantry array, they saw Li Jun sitting on the boat. In the cracks of the cooked cowhides, a handful of crossbow machines stretched out, and in the soft sound of teeth and hair, the strings were as dense as rain, and the tailless wooden arrows flew like locusts, and they saw rows of Tartars fall at the front of the array!

Although the rainy weather also had an impact on the strength of the crossbow machine, the crossbow machine, which was much more laborious than the bow and arrow, even though the strength was weakened, shot at the Tartar infantry on the river bank only thirty or forty paces away. It's still enough to bring them a terrible kill!

The archers who stood on both sides of the ship and fired crossbows were all Kansai men who did not have access to water, although they fought by boat. For them, they don't know the bottom of their hearts. But who is not an expert in playing crossbows from the Western Army? There were more than ten archers on each side, each of whom was equipped with three well-wound crossbow machines, and almost in the blink of an eye, the tailless wooden arrows on the three crossbow machines were all shot out!

Miya finished. The archers flashed behind the hanging cooked cowhides, and sat down to kick their crossbows with their heads down.

The Tartar infantry on the shore had already been killed and wounded, and most of the Tartars in the first row were lying in the water, the water waves were rolling, and these corpses were heavy and floating. And the wounded were wailing and struggling in the mud, and what the Tartar infantry was stepping on was already mud stained red with blood!

As soon as they saw their faces, they were beaten into such birds, and the chiefs of these tribal armies also had red eyes, roared loudly and brandished their long knives and swords to drive their sons forward. I'd love to get them all out of the water, as long as I could get closer to this damn southerner boat!

Amid their shouts, the Tartar sergeants rushed forward, so dense that there was almost no queue. Then the bows were filled with great effort, and another rain of arrows poured out!

This time the feathered arrows were on target, but the birds had finished shooting and hid behind the cooked cowhides hanging high on the sides of the ship's side. The cowhide is soaked in water, which is both strong and tough, not to mention that it is hung in three layers, and there is a layer of fine net behind! After the rain of arrows poured over, I saw that the two sides of the Nanren's boat suddenly turned into hedgehogs. But the screams of the southerners could not be heard, and the speed of the ship did not slow down even the slightest. Still breaking the waves on the river, like an angry dragon!

As long as the sergeant is slightly able to fight, the commander is a little firm. But how can the Hu people in the north be the opponent of the Han army? In time and space without Xiao Yan, a few years later, Huang Tiandang and Han Shizhong broke Yan Zongbi. In the next few decades, King Hailing raised millions of troops to immediately attack the first peak in the south of the Yangtze River, but was defeated by Yu Yunwen's lone army across the river, and finally King Hailing was killed and the army was defeated. Even when the Mongols rose and swept the entire civilized world, the Southern Song Dynasty still relied on Xiangyang and used the river as a logistical route to resist the Mongol army for decades!

Before the chiefs could feel a sense of weakness in their hearts, a second boat appeared in front of them around the bend of the river, and met with a burst of crossbow arrows from the bed, and then a barrage of headless wooden arrows!

After the second boat skimmed, the third boat reappeared in the Tartar's sight, and the same process was repeated. Don't wait for the next boat to arrive. The Tartar tribal army array along the coast made a loud uproar, and desperately retreated, just wanting to get away from these southerners!

I don't know how many Tartar tribesmen pushed each other's horses, trampled on each other, dropped their bows and arrows, and people were pushed into the water, and the wounded and dead were all trampled into the mud. Even the chieftain who commanded them lost his sword and turned around and ran. On both sides of the riverbank, there are Tartar military horses running with call signs!

Li Jun stood proudly on the bow of the boat, not looking at the Tartar military horses that were shot alive, his eyes were only in the distance, in the direction of Yi County behind the rain curtain!

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After stretching the fence on the shore, on top of a watchtower, Pu Luhun, a general under Wanyan Zongbi, was wearing heavy armor and trying his best to look in the direction of the southerners' fleet.

When the first boat appeared. Proudhun clenched his fists. Just wait to watch under the rain of arrows on both sides. The southerners screamed on the boat, and the blood flowed like a river.

But almost in an instant, the southerners' boats rushed over one by one, and the tribal military horses in the river were crushed by the rain of arrows spewed out from the boats!

As soon as the southerners arrived, the originally well-organized arrays on both sides of the river began to stir, and after receiving rounds of blows, they saw those tribal soldiers and horses retreating from the river bank one after another. Rushing to the rear, some of them retreated under the fence along the river, and the hedgehogs gathered together. One after another flags fell down in the formation, which meant that a group of military horses had lost their command and control.

Pu Lu couldn't help but look back and look in the direction of Zong Bi Da Zhen behind, where Zong Bi was seated, closer to Yi County. Zong Bi's arrangement is still mainly to prevent the defenders of Yixian County from prominently responding. And the reinforcements from the Nanren Fuhe, according to the military information that the outpost could not help but transmit, were only forty or fifty boats and a thousand people. Such a bird is narrow and easy to water, and the arrows on both sides of the strait can reach each other. There were seven or eight thousand archers piled up, plus barrage wooden platoons. Bohai strong crossbowmen, the military horses who are ready to rush up to fight hand-to-hand with small boats and wooden rows, are you afraid that you won't be able to clean it up?

Zong Bi thought so, and Pu Luhun, who had no concept of water warfare, naturally thought so too. When the army horses guarding the river came out to line up and waited, seeing the magnificent military appearance on both sides of the river for more than ten miles, Proudhun was full of confidence. But who knew that as soon as they fought, this seemingly strict military formation collapsed layer by layer!

Proudhun's fist was so clenched that the joints seemed to be broken, but he was at a loss, and he didn't know what to do for a while.

If it is placed on land in the field battle, no matter how strong the opponent is, Pu Luhun can always find a way to deal with it when he is in battle, even if he personally leads the guards to fight and rush into battle, he will not blink his eyes. But at this moment, facing the churning water, those southerners who broke the waves and came forward, Proudhun was blank in his heart!

In the direction where Zong Bi was located, a rapid sound of horns suddenly sounded, and the sound of the drum was also heavily beaten, and in the rain curtain, the drum sound seemed a little dull, but Pu Luhun could clearly understand the anger of Zong Bi contained in the sound of the drum and horn!

Not to mention Zong Wang and the others who were watching behind Zong Bi!

Pu Luhun gritted his teeth and shouted loudly and ordered: "Let the people of the Yang family immediately rush forward and shoot at the boats of the southerners!" ”

The Jurchen guards beside him immediately received the order, waved the banner and passed the order.

Not far from Puruhun, behind the fence gathered a group of military horses, about a thousand people. They all wore pointed fur hats with pheasant feathers stuck in their caps. Everyone was dressed in sleeveless leather armor. What they were holding was not the horned bow and feather arrows used by the Jurchen army and the tribal army, but the crossbow machine of the same shape as that used by the Song army. In the queue, there were more than a dozen bed crossbows, all of which were carried on the ox carts.

This military horse is the strong crossbowman of the Bohai Sea. Since the rise of the Jurchens, the remnants of the Bohai Sea who were destroyed by the Liao have also taken refuge the fastest, especially the Yang family of the Bohai clan. And the Yang family was the first to advise Yan Agu to set up grammar and establish the Jurchen national name.

The place where this army of horses stood was the closest to the barrage city. It was to prepare that after the southerners' fleet was blocked by the barrage water city, they would shoot close and cover those small boats and wooden platoons to go forward and fight hand-to-hand to seize the boat. But now, in a panic, Putun is going to mobilize this team to stabilize the collapsed front front!

The horn sounded, and the herald flag was waved over and over again. But the sound of the drums and horns for the order did not sound, just as Proudn was so angry that he was ready to give the order himself, and whipped the general of the team fiercely. Footsteps were heard, and a general dressed in Liao-shaped iron scale armor hurried up.

This general is none other than Yang Zhong, the commander of this Bohai strong crossbowmen, who is in his thirties, with small eyes and a flat nose and a sparse beard. As soon as he went up to the watchtower, he said loudly: "Your nobleman, you can't do it!" As long as the barrage city is stopped, the southerners will eventually collide! It is here to fight with the Nanren boats, and the last general dares to defeat the Nanren naval army in one fell swoop! ”

Pu Luhun's cold gaze stared at Yang Zhong, and the halberd pointed to the collapsed queue in the distance: "How many more people will die?" Zong Bi handed over these horses to me, after this battle, how many people can I return to Zong Bi? Rushing close to the barrage water city, it is only more than three miles away from Yi County, and the southern army in the city is out to respond, and the battle is even more difficult to fight! Hurry up and stop these southerners! Don't think that Sosuke's wife is your sister-in-law, so I won't dare to kill you! ”

Although the Bohai people are higher than other ethnic groups under the Jurchen ruling system, they are still like dogs and horses in front of the true Jurchen relatives and nobles. Seeing that Pu Luhun was really anxious, Yang finally didn't have anything to say, so he turned around and went back to lead the men and horses to meet him.

Seeing that the Bohai crossbowmen finally moved, Pu Luhun roared angrily at the guards around him: "Take our Jurchen sons and daughters forward, who dares to retreat again, slash and kill layer by layer!" Even if you fill it with human lives, you have to stop these southerners' boats! I don't believe it, these southerners are made of iron! (To be continued......)