Volume 3 Mending the Crack in the Sky Chapter 128 (18)
Li Jun strode into the air and landed heavily on the sloping wooden raft. The fresh wood, which had been soaked in the river for several days, soaked up the water and was as slippery as if it had been soaked in oil. Even though Li Jun grew up on a fishing boat since he was a child, chasing the storm like walking on the ground, and the bast shoes under his feet were tied with ropes to increase friction, he still stumbled and fell heavily, and then rolled straight down, hitting the chest wall with a bang.
However, within this range, there was not a single Tartar sergeant who could still stand firmly behind the breastwork, and he had already fallen into the water under the violent impact, and was screaming and churning in the water at the moment!
Li Jun grabbed the wooden stake of the chest wall and got up, in fact, until this time, Li Jun was still dizzy, all the joints all over his body hurt, the blood from the wound on the top of his head was still dripping downward, and he only felt wet in the pig urine bubble hood, and he didn't know how much blood was still in it.
But at this moment, Li Jun couldn't care about anything, gritted his teeth and pressed the inclined chest wall that was half a person high, and tossed over!
The huge wooden raft on this side was half inclined into the water, and the breastwork was clean behind it, and not a single Tartar could be seen, only dozens of Tartars were struggling and fluttering in the water, and the waves kept coming, and some people did not stop entering the water. Especially those Jurchen armor soldiers under the command of Hesa Wu, everyone is wearing iron armor, this fall into the water, just like a weighing stone, really sinking to the bottom, and now they are barely floating on the surface of the water to survive, but those who are only wearing leather armor are the cangtou bullet pressers!
The sloping wooden raft has broken free from the wooden raft connected on both sides. Li Jun stood diagonally and swept his eyes, and saw that although the wooden rafts on both sides had not been tilted, on top of the huge impact, the Tartar sergeant behind the chest wall had fallen into a large gourd. At this time, only a few people struggled to get up. Some of the Tartars did not fall to the ground, although they clung to the stakes of the breastwork. At this time, I still have my eyes closed and I don't know what I am praying for, above this water, these Hulu, who have always been fierce enemies, are not much stronger than the cannon fodder of the tribal army?
Li Jun gritted his teeth and hurried towards the wooden raft to the north. Jumping gang water battles are no better than fighting on land. It is more dependent on personal skills and martial arts. Li Jun didn't care if someone was following behind him, and at this time, he only had to take the lead and kill in front!
With a soft sound, Li Jun had already jumped on the wooden platoon in the north, and the two Tartar sergeants got up, and one was slashed on the neck by Li Jun's sword. One more kick of the flight, and another Tartar screamed and was kicked into the water!
The Tartar defenders on the wooden platoon finally found that Li Jun, who was dressed in soft clothes, had rushed to kill like a fierce god, and these dazed Tartars let out all kinds of wild screams, and finally remembered to resist, more than a dozen swords, swarming up, looking like they were going to poke Li Jun out of a dozen transparent holes. But with the undulating wooden rafts under their feet, they didn't have any roots when they weren't used to water warfare, and the spears that poked out first were just trembling. On the contrary, Li Jun grabbed a step forward with one hand, and stood firmly towards the area in his arms. Several Tartars screamed in surprise and fell towards Li Jun, bringing down all the Tartar soldiers around them. A dozen Tartars scratched and scratched like gourds on the wooden rafts, where did they have the appearance of a selected strong warrior?
And behind these dozen Tartars, there was a row of Tartar sergeants who finally opened their horned bows in their hands, and were ready to shoot. At such a close distance, there was no way to avoid it, and Li Jun didn't even bring a rattan card when he rushed over. Seeing these dozen arrows coming over, if you don't die, you will be seriously injured!
Jumping gangs to fight, the combat range is within a small space. Dividing life and death is a matter of moments. The cruelty is no worse than the two armies of heavily armored men lining up to stab each other for life! At this time, if Li Jun jumped sideways into the water, with his ability to dive a hundred and ten steps underwater, it would be a joke that these tartars could hurt him. But the fleet behind him was counting on the hand-to-hand fighters led by Li Jun to kill a way, thousands of military horses, and how many heavy ordnance, and they were counting on the fight of these brave men on the water led by Li Jun! Not to mention the thousands of brothers in Yixian County are also waiting for reinforcements to arrive!
At this time, there is no advance or retreat, nothing more than death!
Li Jun lowered his head and covered the door with his arms, and he was about to rush over regardless of it. Even if you die, you have to rush two more steps and fall into the water with a Tartar!
At this time, the strong wind on Li Jun's side was howling, and three or four short spears shot out, and immediately several Tartar archers were pierced by the whistling short spears. The rest of the Tartars shook their hands and released the strings, and the feathered arrows were crooked, and they didn't know where they flew!
You don't have to look back, you know that your brother has finally followed, and he is also indomitable, just rushing towards the Tartars!
Above the wooden drainage city, the shouts of killing sounded earth-shatteringly. A broken boat fell deep into the water city, and more than a dozen soldiers of the Song army, covered in blood, rushed to kill at both ends. There were hundreds of Tartar sergeants on the wooden platoon, but they retreated step by step, exclaiming loudly, how many people fell into the water and struggled desperately, under the desperate impact of the Song army's boats, the Tartar elites who were not accustomed to water warfare were unexpectedly unable to resist!
Li Jun wielded a short sword, just desperately slashing through the crowd of Tartars, and several sergeants firmly protected him. As long as two or three more sons and daughters on the boat come up, they can kill the Tartars of the Wooden Drainage City and pour the fierce fire oil on the damn ones! This passage will be opened, and these more than 1,000 reinforcements will be able to enter the Tartars and turn Yixian County into an iron-clad city!
Erlang next to him grabbed the long blade, rushed past Li Jun, and stabbed the Tartar sergeant gathered on the wooden platoon to squeak and scream. Li Jun retreated half a step back to catch his breath, and at the same time looked behind him to see if the follow-up boats had followed.
As far as the eye could see, in the river behind him, two follow-up boats had flashed out, spitting arrows to the river bank, while separating the left and right, and slowly hitting the hull of the boat, reversing the oars to slow down and prepare to close to the barrage water city. And from the crack in the cover of the bow of the ship, what flashed out was the cold light of various blades!
With just two or three more boats, you can take this barrage city!
Li Jun only let out a long breath at this time, his gaze retracted, and he was ready to step forward to fight again. But his eyes swept over the riverbank, and Li Jun's eyes widened again!
A dozen bed crossbows mounted on the cart were already in place, the strings were twisted, and the huge iron spears were mounted on the chutes. How many Bohai crossbowmen with pointed leather caps surround the bed crossbows. Holding his breath, he waited intently for the moment when Song Junzhou's boat slowed down. More crossbowmen were spilling down the riverbank. Try your best to get closer to the Song army's boat. These Bohai crossbowmen didn't even care about the auxiliary army rushing to the front to set up the side cards, and they had already flattened their means, just waiting for the general to give the order to launch!
And there is also a large group of Jurchen iron horsemen, who are desperately relaxing along the riverbank. These Jurchen iron horsemen didn't even care about being far away from the Song army boats that rushed one after another, and from time to time some soldiers were injured by stray arrows, and their heads and feet fell off their horses. But no one took a look at the armor riders around him, but he just kept beating the horses and galloping!
And after this brigade of Jurchen iron horses. It was more scattered Bohai crossbowmen with pointed fur hats who rushed down desperately to this place, also suffering heavy casualties under the blows of the Song army's boats, but no one stopped either!
A military general wearing a peaked leather hat, with a Haidong Qingyu Ling on the hat, and a Liao iron scale armor on his body, squinted his eyes and estimated the timing, and in the midst of Li Jun's gaze, he slashed his hand down!
The air suddenly resounded with the violent vibration of strings and the roar of huge arrows breaking through the air, and more than a dozen long, thick iron spears shot out, and immediately seven or eight of them hit the boat that came next on the far north side!
The three-layer cooked cowhide hung under the tremendous force of the iron spear. There was a thrilling tearing sound, and it was even ripped off. The oarsmen and archers on the side of the ship were exposed. And two or three more iron guns castrated low and hit the hull. The hull of the ship made of thick plates suddenly seemed to explode from the point where the iron gun hit, and sawdust flew wildly. The bed crossbow fires iron arrows that can be shot into the city walls as a ladder to climb the city, and the iron-clad city gates can often be shot through. Not to mention shooting on the board of the ship at such a close distance!
And hundreds of hand crossbows, at this time, also issued tooth hair, swept through the gap opened by the bed crossbow, and the Song Army archers and oarsmen on the ship fell to the ground one after another in the rain of arrows. And the bed crossbow was in the hole in the plank, and the icy water poured in. This Song military boat suddenly tilted its hull, and the whole thing turned sideways, pushed by the turbulent current, and seemed to be about to go backwards, and it would never be able to hit the barrage water city again!
Above the water city, the Tartar soldiers who were killed so that they had no ability to resist also saw the scene in front of them, and suddenly, these Tartars let out a beast-like cheer and roar, even if they still didn't have much strength to fight back, they still had a hard time moving on the wooden platoon, but they didn't retreat, and even some Jurchen armorers were already desperately tearing off the iron armor on their bodies, ready to step forward with red eyes and exchange their lives for their lives!
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In the direction of Yixian Shuiguan, on the side of the surging Yishui, the sound of various golden drums and horns on the Song army and the Jurchen side was noisy, countless flags were flying, and the two military horses that were ready were ready to fight a tough battle on land!
The three defenders of the Song army guarding the Shuiguan Zhaizhai in the east came out first, all of them were archers in sleeveless iron armor. Previously, the defenders here were stuffed by Liu Baozhong overnight, and there were as many as two commanders at this time, and after it was expanded, it formed a rather long array. The two command flags were connected and first lined up in front of the wall. The archers were all armed with crossbows and waited silently in the rain.
Not long after, the Song cavalry also came out from both flanks, covering the array of the two commanding archers. There were only a few dozen cavalry troops along the riverbank. On the other wing, there were as many as four or five hundred horsemen, and the formation was relatively loose, covering a considerable area.
The Jurchen infantry army has been silently watching the movements of the Song army, watching the Song army cavalry open its wings, and the Jurchen iron cavalry also came out from the two wings. The scale was even greater, with as many as seven or eight hundred horsemen.
However, such muddy and rainy weather, coupled with the fact that the scope of the battlefield is not large, is not a good time for the cavalry to be the main force in battle. Both sides are just holding their positions and preventing the other from clashing.
The main force of the real collision between the two sides still depends on the infantry army!
In the Song army's formation, a heavy drum sounded, and the military flag on the watchtower leaned forward, from the command to the capital, they responded to the flag one after another. In the Kansai cavity, Yandi cavity, and Hedong cavity that dragged out the sound. The two Song army archers under command marched in unison and slowly moved forward.
In the Jurchen army array, the general of the charge array is Zong Bi's subordinate to pull out the speed. Compared with Proudhun, who commanded the barrage battle, he was handy with such a battle, and he did not have the slightest nervous look.
He waved his hand fiercely, and the guards around him blew their horns. In the long and mournful sound of the horn, the Jurchen infantry of the brigade that was originally sitting in the mud got up at the same time. But they did not step forward, but took out the horned bow that they carried behind their backs and covered with a layer of leather clothing, and the sack that was also protected also came out, drew out one feather arrow after another, and stuck it in the mud in front of them. Ten of them are arranged, seven of which are light arrows with armor-piercing cones for horizontal armor-piercing, and three are heavy arrows for projectile shooting.
An ordinary man with an ordinary figure and an ordinary ang bow seemed to be using an ordinary bow to take a step forward, and with a whoosh, he shot a light arrow, which tore through the rain in the air and flew out seventy or eighty paces away. Because of the rain, the feathers of the arrows became heavier and the strength of the bow became softer, and they already fell diagonally and plunged into the mud.
The tail of this feathered arrow is red, which is particularly eye-catching in this pale gray weather.
Countless people's eyes were focused on this bright red tail feather, which was where the killing range of the Jurchen infantry array was. And the Great Song Archer, still silently and firmly, stepped through the mud, and got closer and closer to this bright red tail feather! (To be continued......)