Chapter 533
One after another, the fires on the river gradually burned all over the river, and the fire slowly flowed down the river.
As the fire drew nearer, it was gradually clear that it was a myriad of ships, piled with firewood, sulfur and saltpeter, and the flames were coming along with dozens of ships all over the river, and the whole river was full of fire and smoke.
Dozens of ships took advantage of the momentum of the river, coupled with the inertia of the previous increase, and one after another, like fire dragons, unstoppable, rushed forward.
Rumble!
A fireboat rushed into the water village, and the raging flames quickly ignited the water village, and then one after another fire ships slammed in, and the flames continued to rise.
The river wind hunts, the fire borrows the wind, the wind helps the fire, the flames continue to rise, spreading in the water village, and in the fire light of the sky, countless Yuan soldiers panicked and fled in all directions.
At first, there were some generals shouting for firefighting, but later they saw that the fire was so big that they couldn't stop it at all, so they ran away.
"Quickly retreat to the shore, and leave the water village alone!"
Yuan Shao, who heard the news, saw that the water village he had painstakingly built was destroyed, although he was distressed in his heart, he did not panic, and while ordering the soldiers to withdraw, he commanded the soldiers under his command to go and rectify the chaotic army.
In Yuan Shao's opinion, although Haobai's fire plan is wonderful, at most it will lose ten miles of water village and burn a very small part of the oversleeping Hebei army, such a big fire, the opponent's army will not be able to attack by boat.
And as long as the army is put in order on the shore, even if Haobai attacks by boat, he will not be able to go ashore and wield the terrifying power of the cavalry, so although he is anxious, he is not panicked.
......
Upstream of the river, a thick black shadow stretched across the river, stretching out to the opposite bank.
If you look closely, it turned out to be a pontoon bridge, a pontoon bridge with three ships running side by side, and then extending across the river!
The river wind hunted, the night wind blew Haobai's clothes fluttering, Haobai stood at the end of the pontoon bridge, commanding a cadre of soldiers to be busy.
Whoa~
Three ships fell from the void and landed on the water, impartially, just at the front of the pontoon, dozens of soldiers jumped down on the ships, skillfully threw the iron anchors in the boat into the water to fix, and then put big iron nails on the boat.
The iron nails were firmly nailed to the boat, and the soldiers behind them followed closely behind, connecting the bow and stern with thick ropes, so that the pontoon was extended one step forward.
Immediately after that, the three ships side by side were connected together, and then more than a dozen soldiers held a solid wooden plank and set it on the deck, so that the two ships connected to the tail were connected without any gap, and became a thoroughfare.
In this way, the ships continued to fall from the sky, and then they were fixed by the soldiers, and then continued to stretch forward......
As the fire in the lower reaches of the Yellow River grew, the pontoon bridge was built faster and faster, and finally the pontoon bridge reached the shallow water on the north bank.
The pontoon is complete!
"Quick, cross the river!"
Thundered~
With the sound of horses' hooves on the pontoon bridge and the shaking of wooden boats, the horses and cavalry crossed the pontoon bridge and assembled on the shore.
In less than half an hour, all 30,000 cavalry had assembled on the north bank of the Yellow River and reorganized the queue.
Haobai waved the spear in his hand and shouted loudly: "Kill!"
Kill!
Kill!
The Iron Riders roared in unison and rolled downstream.
In the blazing firelight, countless soldiers of the Yuan army were gathering in chaos, and many people had not yet reacted, and they didn't know what was going on.
The entire river bank was in chaos, and Yuan Shao's army was in a hurry, where could they quickly reorganize the queue in such chaos!
Thundered~
At this moment, the sound of horses' hooves suddenly thundered in the upstream direction, and the shouts of killing shook the sky, making the chaotic Yuan army even more confused.
Under the moonlight, the banners were rolling, and more than 30,000 cavalry were rolling like iron streams, unstoppable.
"Form a formation, meet the enemy!" Yuan Shao in the chaotic army looked shocked.
At this moment, he felt a deep panic.
"Meet the enemy, meet the enemy, there are many of us, I don't believe that we can't defeat the white thief!" Yuan Shao roared.
However, Yuan Jun, seeing the heavily armored iron cavalry galloping at the front, the group of monsters covered in steel, looked so hideous and gloomy in the moonlight, and the huge fear in his heart made this group of chaotic troops have no fighting spirit at all, and many people ran away.
......
Under the banner of the word "Yuan" in the chaotic army, Yuan Shao saw the vast white cavalry rampaging in his crowd-like troop, invincible, and he only gritted his teeth with hatred, and his face was red.
Defeated, he defeated, it was his first major defeat, but he was defeated so completely, how willing he was!
"Quick, line up, spears against you, crossbowmen...... Crossbowmen, gather all the crossbowmen......" Yuan Shao roared hoarsely, trying to regain his decline.
The generals beside Yuan Shao saw that they couldn't do anything, and dissuaded: "Lord, things can't be done, why bother about temporary gains and losses, even if you lose today, it doesn't matter, it's better to regroup, it's better to withdraw the troops for the time being." ”
Yuan Shao looked around with a sad and angry face, and had to sigh: "Withdraw!"
Woo woo woo~
The horn sounded, the banner of the Chinese army moved, and the Yuan army retreated to the north like a tide.
At this time, the sky was already slightly bright, and seeing the enemy army retreating in chaos, Zhao Yun led the crowd to Haobai's side, and asked urgently: "Lord, do you want to chase it!"
Haobai squinted his eyes at the enemy troops fleeing in the morning mist, and smiled: "Chase, beat the water dogs." ”
With an order, the cavalry rolled north like wolves and tigers, chasing and killing the Yuan army who was still fleeing.
Yuan Shao didn't know what his retreat meant, but Haobai knew that Yuan Shao's retreat, Haobai had a great possibility of conquering the entire north in one fell swoop.
Like Yuan Shao's army, which numbered more than hundreds of thousands, it was like a huge monster that was bloated and difficult to command its limbs, not to mention a hundred steps back, any step back would involve hundreds of thousands of people, and its chaos could be imagined.
Of course, Yuan Shao would not think so, he would think that Haobai would wait for them to rearrange their formation before crossing the river for a decisive battle, after all, it was only a vanguard of 30,000 people now.
However, Haobai's 30,000 cavalry was able to defeat 300,000 rebellious troops at lightning speed.
Haobai's pursuit made the retreating Yuan army confused, some turned around to fight, and some continued to retreat, you hit me, I blocked you, and the situation was chaotic.
Yuan Shao and the generals saw that the other party came so quickly, and they also knew that it was wrong, so they hurriedly turned their horses' heads and ordered the soldiers around them to turn around and counterattack, but unfortunately they were not in formation, and the team was not in formation, forming a greater chaos, and there were more than 300,000 troops, but they could not exert the power they should have.
Yuan Shao, who was at the forefront, saw that the situation was not good, and shouted: "Fight!"
......
The battle finally came to an end, and the battle on the north bank of the Yellow River ended in a crushing defeat for Yuan's army.