Chapter 913: Ambush at Sea
"The Liao army in the city began to converge to the south of the city?" Wu Qimai just finished dealing with his internal contradictions, and he got this news that surprised him a little, which is obviously a sign that the Liao army is going to break through, but if this is placed a few days ago, it is very normal, but in the past few days, the Liao army has repeatedly broken through, and they have been beaten back by themselves, and the Liao army has not dared to break through anymore in the past few days, so the movement of the Liao army today seems to him to be a little abnormal.
"Wu Qimai, what are you waiting for, the Liao army is about to come out of the south of the city, let's hurry up and send troops!" At this time, I saw that the black bone protrusion also shouted loudly, although he was not in favor of forming an alliance with the Wanyan Department before, but now that he has sent troops and besieged the prince of the Liao State in the city, there is no turning back for them, and in his eyes, Yelu Yanxi is an active material warehouse, as long as he can be caught, he can exchange countless materials from the Liao State.
"No, the port in the south of the city has been destroyed by us, and the ships have been burned to ashes, so they have reoccupied the port, and there is no way to evacuate from there, the Liao army has broken through several times before, either from the north or from the west, but it has never broken through from the south!" At this time, Wu Qimai was a little skeptical again, although there was no evidence, but in the dark he had a feeling that this breakthrough of the Liao army seemed to be a little abnormal.
However, as soon as Wu Qimai's words fell, I saw another spy on horseback galloping over, and when he saw Wu Qimai, he immediately threw off his saddle and dismounted and shouted: "General Qiqi, the defenders of Kaizhou City have opened the south gate of the city and started a fight with our brothers who stayed in the port, and there are also many ships on the sea south of the city, which seems to be preparing to meet the evacuation of the Liao army!" ”
"I see, it seems that the Liao army in the city has already received the news and is about to escape from the sea, we must not let them leave!" The black bone protrusion shouted again at this time. His words were also approved by the vast majority of the Jurchens, who shouted that they wanted to capture Yelu Yanxi alive.
Wu Qimai heard that there was a ship on the sea to meet the Liao army, and immediately understood the reason why the Liao army broke through from the south of the city, but he still had a trace of doubt in his heart, and always felt that something was wrong with this matter, but now the military situation was urgent. In the south of the city, he only left an army of 500 people to guard the port, and he had already fought with the Liao army that was several times larger, if he didn't go, I am afraid that he could only watch the 500 people be wiped out by the Liao army, and then calmly got on the boat and fled.
"Troops!" Thinking of the above, Wu Qimai finally issued an order. With his order, the soldiers in the battalion immediately got ready, and their main force of 2,000 men, all stationed in the west of the city. In addition, there are 500 people in the south and north of the city, and the 500 people in the north of the city must not move, and the west side of the city must also leave 500 people to prevent the people in the city from killing, so Wu begged to buy 1,500 people and kill the south of the city.
When Wu Qimai led his troops to the south of the city, he saw that the city gate was wide open, and teams of Liao troops poured out of the city gate, and the five hundred Jurchens stationed on the dock did not show weakness at all, although their troops were insufficient. With their amazing horsemanship, they galloped across the battlefield, although the cavalry of the Liao army tried to entangle them several times. But they were often thrown away by the Jurchens, and for a while, the Liao army had no way to take them, but they were led by the Jurchens.
However, as more and more Liao troops were killed in the city, the space for the Jurchen cavalry to move became smaller and smaller, and if there were no reinforcements, the Jurchen cavalry of 500 people would only fall into a heavy encirclement. In the end, although it may cause a lot of casualties to the Liao army, it will not escape the fate of destruction.
Seeing this situation, Wu Qimai immediately roared and rushed out of the Liao army first, followed by the 1,500 Jurchen cavalry behind him. Like an incomparably sharp sword, it slashed towards the Liao army.
Although the Jurchens are backward in equipment, and even most of them do not even have leather armor on their bodies, and their weapons are not uniform, but their equestrian skills are superb and brave, and their archery skills are even more exquisite, which is their ability to be sharpened by the mountains, and even has become their survival instinct, so they are almost natural warriors, and they can exert amazing strength on the battlefield.
On the other hand, although the Liao army is also a nomadic origin, but after so many years of assimilation, they have long lost the blood and skills left to them by their ancestors, coupled with the chaos of Liao's internal affairs over the years, the army has also been greatly affected, especially after the death of Yeluren, the Liao army's armament is relaxed, and the combat effectiveness is also declining rapidly, so when they faced the fierce Jurchens, they showed their original form almost as soon as they came into contact, and in the blink of an eye, they were killed by Wu Qimai's cavalry, and smoothly joined forces with the Jurchen cavalry left behind.
In the past, the Liao army would have retreated to the city as soon as they saw the arrival of reinforcements from the Jurchens, because although their own side had the advantage in strength, they were no match for the Jurchens at all. However, this time the reaction of the Liao army was a little abnormal, after seeing Wu Qimai's reinforcements, instead of retreating, they accelerated the speed of dispatching troops, and now there are three or four thousand people outside the city, it seems that the Liao army wants to use all its forces on the battlefield in the south of the city.
Wu Qimai commanded his cavalry to strangle the Liao army, but he turned his head to look at the sea, only to see that on the blue sea, sure enough, there was a fleet slowly coming, and now it was only a mile or two away from the port, Wu Qimai could see these tall ships very clearly, although Wu Qimai did not know sea ships, but he could also distinguish that these ships were civilian ships, because he did not see weapons on the ships.
"It seems that these ships were temporarily recruited by the Liao army in order to rescue Yelu Yanxi." Wu Qimai looked at the civilian boats on the sea and said to himself, he was still a little suspicious, but seeing that the Liao army was desperately trying to capture the dock, and the ships behind him were not abnormal, this little doubt in his heart was finally dispelled.
It's just that what Wu Qimai didn't know was that just a few miles behind the civilian ships he was looking at, there was a Great Song fleet armed to the teeth slowly coming, and they had already calculated the direction when they came, and the civilian ships in front of them could just block their warships, so that the Jurchens on the dock could not find them for the time being, and now they are waiting for the Liao army to finish the scene on the dock.
With the passage of time, although more and more Liao troops poured out of the city, the situation on the battlefield was more unfavorable to the Liao army, especially under the command of Wu Qimai, the Jurchen cavalry was like a tiger entering a flock, dividing the Liao army into several sections, and also causing a lot of casualties to the Liao army, in this case, it was almost impossible for the Liao army to recapture the dock.
In this unfavorable situation, the Liao army seems to have finally recognized the situation, with the sound of the collection of troops, the Liao army outside the city finally began to slowly collect troops, taking this opportunity, Wu Qimai once again commanded the army to cover up from behind, and the result once again caused a lot of casualties to the Jurchens, and the battlefield was full of dead bodies of the Liao army.
However, seeing the Liao army ambushing corpses everywhere on the battlefield, Wu Qimai couldn't help but sneer, but he didn't take advantage of the situation to kill into the city, because he also needed to use Yelu Yanxi to attract reinforcements from the Liao State, so that his brother could ambush the other party on the way, so now is not the time to break through Kaizhou City.
As the Liao army retreated to the city, Wu Qimai immediately turned his head to look at the ships on the sea, only to see that the other party was much closer again, only a few hundred steps away from them, it is estimated that the people on these boats also knew that the Jurchens did not have ships, so they could not threaten them at all, so they approached so boldly, but as the Liao army withdrew to the city, these ships were also slowly retreating.
Seeing those slowly retreating ships, Wu Qimai's face once again showed a somewhat smug smile, even if they Jurchens did not have ships, the final decision was the war on land, as long as they did not let Yelu Yanxi kill out of the city, then these ships would be of no use at all.
However, just when the smile on Wu Qimai's face had not disappeared, he suddenly saw that the retreating ships suddenly increased their speed, and the course also changed, some of the ships went to the left, while the other part of the ships went to the right, it seemed like two big hands to the sides, and at the same time, they finally revealed the hideous warships behind them.
"It's not good, there's an ambush, retreat!" Seeing the hideous warships on the sea, Wu Qimai immediately trembled with fright, and immediately ordered the whole army to retreat with a loud roar, and be sure to leave the dock.
It's a pity that it's too late at this time, the reason why the Liao army came out of the south of the city before was to lure them to the dock, and with the defeat of the Liao army, there were many corpses and weapons of the Liao army left on the battlefield, and the armor on these weapons and corpses were rare trophies for the Jurchens, so the Jurchens in the western part of the sea like Wugutu had begun to clean up the battlefield, hoping to find some weapons for themselves.
It is precisely because of this that although Wu Qimai's order was conveyed, the Jurchens did not move as quickly as before, and the Great Song warships on the sea had been prepared for a long time, and they slowly approached the land when the Jurchens were fighting, and now the entire dock was within their range.
"Fire!" With the order of General Zhou on the flagship, the artillery and ballistas on the flagship took the lead in firing, and then other warships also fired, with the roar of "boom boom boom ~", one by one the shells flew to the dock, some shells bounced up again after landing, rushing out of a flesh road in the Jurchens, this must be solid artillery shells, some shells will explode when they land, making the surrounding Jurchens are flesh and blood, these are ballista ballistae, for a time the entire dock was shrouded in terrifying smoke and fire, The screams and the neighing of the horses were all like purgatory on earth. (To be continued.) )