Chapter 1158: Crossing the River (Part II)
On the north bank of the Yellow River, Yanjindu.
At this ferry, a small town was built for the convenience of people, but by this time, the town had been replaced by a military camp of small scale.
Thousands of ghost soldiers have been stationed here, but they don't care about it very carefully on weekdays.
In fact, although the forces south of the Yellow River have been fighting each other for many years, the Central Plains soldiers and horses have never really set foot in Hebei. This made the defenders of Yanjindu more just put on a show, and never really played a role.
Under such habits, the soldiers and horses in this military camp are naturally very lax, especially in such an early morning, almost no one will deliberately observe the situation on the river, and many soldiers and soldiers are still asleep at this time.
Deng Wu appeared outside the barracks at this time, also because he was suffocated by urine, he yawned and went to the reeds near the river, intending to solve it on the spot.
But just as he loosened his trouser belt and was about to open the gate to release the water, his eyes were startled by the large and small boats on the surface of the Yellow River in front of him, and the whole person was suddenly wooden.
It wasn't until his hands were hot that he suddenly came to his senses, and he couldn't care about the burial on his hands, so he immediately shouted loudly with a sharp voice: "Come on...... Come on, there are enemy troops crossing the river......
The scream immediately broke the silence of the camp, and after a burst of exclamation, more disheveled or shirtless generals hurried out of the barracks, and then each looked at the river ahead with some surprise and hesitation, and then there was an even more anxious shout:
"Quick, all the troops are ready, weapons, weapons are out!"
"Where are the bows and crossbows, take them out, and the bed crossbow sent by Jizhou before......
"Light the fire, no, hurry up and light a cigarette and deliver the news to Jizhou City!"
Many officers shouted and gave different orders, and the ordinary soldiers below were turned around by them, making the already chaotic situation in the battalion look even more chaotic.
This is also a matter of course, because this Vietnamese attack is indeed too unexpected for them. Not to mention these generals guarding the ferry, even the Jizhou guards who are hundreds of miles away, and the Ghost Rong Khan who is further away, they can't imagine that the Vietnamese army will choose to cross the river brazenly at this time and launch an attack on the land of Hebei!
And more importantly, the 1,000 soldiers and horses in this battalion are said to be elite, but they are only selected from the original defenders of the northern frontier, and they are not real ghost warriors.
How could the elite cavalry of the real Ghost Rong Three Divisions be wasted on such an inconsequential matter as guarding the ferry? In everyone's opinion, they should be the ones who took the initiative to cross the river and launch an attack on the Han possessions in the south.
Therefore, the soldiers and horses of this battalion quickly became chaotic, and this movement naturally fell into the eyes of the Vietnamese soldiers on the boat who were still moving forward and trying their best to ferry to Yanjin on the north bank.
Many of them, seeing this, also became extremely solemn, and no longer cared about the turbulence of the ship and the danger on the water, all of them half-bowed their bodies, took out their weapons, and were ready to jump off the ship and go ashore at any time to launch a raid.
Sun Ning was already standing on the bow of the boat, holding a knife in his hand, his eyes staring sharply at the waterline on the shore in front of him, constantly calculating the distance between himself and the shore.
The defenders of the ferry were already alarmed, and although they did not know what they would do next, it would not be wrong to get up as fast as they could, kill them, and seize control of the ferry.
Especially when a thick black pillar of smoke billowed towards the sky, he knew better how tight the time was, which made his eyes glow with the cold light on the knife in his hand.
The boats continued to break through the water, and finally came to a position only a hundred paces from the riverbank.
At this time, the enemy army finally changed from chaos to order, and thousands of people had been divided into two teams, one part was foot soldiers with swords and shields in hand, and the other part showed their bows and crossbows, and poured arrows like raindrops towards the approaching Vietnamese fleet.
It was still too early for the Vietnamese ships to cross the river to be discovered by the enemy, and if they had been found by the defenders about a mile from the river bank, they would have landed and entered the enemy camp with great ease in the confusion of the enemy army at that time.
But now
Doubling the distance means doubling the time to cross the river, which gives the enemy a chance to resume maneuvering.
However, everyone knew that now was not the time to care about these things, and immediately some soldiers waved their weapons and knocked down the arrows that kept shooting in front of them. And the soldiers rowing behind him went all out, allowing the boats to approach the north shore at a faster speed.
After resisting three rounds of arrow rain in a row, causing more than 20 people to fall into the water, the first few boats finally officially rushed to the shore.
After the waves rolled up half of their bodies, the boat stopped in a shock, and everyone on board was not affected at all, but they all roared like tigers and leopards on the mountain, charging and killing the defenders who were still retreating dozens of paces away.
These defenders naturally saw that there was a bit of a gap between their own and the Vietnamese army in terms of combat strength and strength, so they naturally did not dare to resist head-on, so they had to enter the barracks first and use the fortifications to do some entanglement.
But this plan was quickly broken by a number of warriors who rushed to the forefront of the Vietnamese army.
Under Sun Ning's leading soldiers, all the soldiers roared, and rushed with red eyes, one of them made a short spear, one made a double halberd, and one made a double sword, and they followed him closely, and pierced into the enemy's retreating formation like an arrow.
As soon as it came to such a hand-to-hand fight, Sun Ning's ruthlessness and ferocity were completely displayed.
Between the ups and downs of the Wind Shattering Knife, almost every blow could slash over an enemy, and Sun Ning's pace of progress was almost unaffected by such a battle, and it was as if he were in a no-man's land.
And those three subordinates were also unmatched, and as he moved forward together, the corpses of the enemy soldiers fell one after another. Especially those crossbowmen who kept firing arrows just now, because the weapons in their hands could not be exchanged for a while, they could only die.
Under the charge of the heads of these four men, the enemy's defense line could not stand up at all, and even the retreat into the camp was frustrated.
At this time, more Vietnamese troops had also abandoned their ships and went ashore, shouting and rushing forward, and soon a more fierce battle broke out with the rear of the enemy army.
It was only half an hour, Sun Ning and the others had already entered the barracks, and the last resistance of the enemy army was also killed and disintegrated, with more than half of the casualties.
The rest of the people, seeing that everything was irretrievable, quickly scattered in a shout and went to all parts of the camp.
This naturally means that the only military camp guarding the ferry here in Yanjindu has been successfully taken by the Vietnamese army.