Chapter 304: Fire and Sinking (I)
Mengjin Port
Huerbo's face was pale, he looked at the port in the distance, and ordered him to rest on the spot, and at the same time, he took the dry food and water bladders handed over by his subordinates, and Huerbo silently ate a few mouthfuls and drank some water.
My heart was heavy, my body was very tired and hungry, and I still couldn't eat.
You don't have to look left and right, Khurbo knows that the left and right show that kind of panic, and he runs for days, but the back road is intercepted, which is a blow to everyone.
"Report!"
"Your Highness, the camp gate of Mengjin Port is closed at this time, there are traces of battle, the flag of our army has been cut down, and the port has been occupied by the army!" Pegasus arrived in front of Huerbo, turned over and dismounted, fell to his knees, and said quickly.
"How many people are there?" asked Hurbo, holding back his uneasiness.
"Your Highness, there are not many people, it is estimated that there are only a thousand people at most!" the man said, paused for a moment, and then said, "It's just that there are only a dozen ships in the port, and it is suspected that they are sabotage or sailing." ”
Hu Erbo's heart was bored, and he suddenly felt that there was sweetness in his throat, but he was about to vomit a mouthful of blood, but of course it was impossible to do so at this time, so he gritted his teeth and swallowed it.
"Investigate again!" said Hurbo, with a calm face, as if he was not worried.
The ranger agreed, and went to investigate again, and saw that he had circled the harbor a few times, and it didn't take long for him to get more definite information.
It turned out that the port had indeed fallen, and the hundred ships in the port had disappeared, only a dozen remained, and there were not many defenders, it seemed that it was a thousand people, and they had taken the port and suffered some losses, and now there were about six or seven hundred people.
Hurbo stood for a moment and said, "Ensen!"
A middle-aged Hu man knelt down and said, "Here!"
"How many of our troops are there now?"
Ensen knocked down heavily, got up and said: "It is raining heavily on the road, and it is night again, and there are many people who have dispersed, and now that they have been counted, there are only 8,000 people......"
Kuerbo stared at it, his cold gaze made people tremble, and said: "Give me to immediately reorganize according to a thousand households, and make up a team of eight thousand people." ”
Ensen replied loudly: "Yes!"
I have to say that the Great Khan's military law is indeed rigorous, and at this time, half an hour later, eight thousand people were reorganized, one by one neatly arranged, and the eight-layer array was listed.
Hurbo was silent, rode his horse in front of the team to inspect it, and after a while, he reached the middle again, and everyone saw that Hurbo's face was not bloody, only iron.
Kuerbo was silent for a moment, and suddenly raised his voice and said: "I am incompetent, my father Khan gave me 30,000, and now there are only 30% left!"
As soon as these words came out, the entire military formation shook.
But he heard Khurbo say: "At this point, if I can go back alive, I will ask my father Khan for guilt, but now the way of life is in front of me, and I must take this port before I can return north safely." ”
Speaking of this, Hu Erbo raised his voice violently: "I swear a blood oath that there will be pursuers, I will resist in the back, even if there is only one boat, it will be my last boat, if I violate this oath, I will sink in the river!"
As soon as these words came out, the hearts of the eight thousand Hu people, who were numb by defeat and wind and rain, were also shaken, and after being stunned for a moment, someone shouted: "Wan Sheng!"
"Wan Sheng, Wan Sheng!" someone shouted, and the eight thousand people gradually responded, converging into a single wave.
Hu Erbo stared at the big array, turned his face for a while, and pulled out his long knife towards the port: "Prairie warriors, there is no advance or retreat, kill, kill a way out." ”
Eight thousand people drew their swords violently and shouted: "Kill!"
"Charge!" A hoarse roar made Ensen roar, and the cavalry of a thousand men immediately rushed forward.
According to the art of war in the steppe, the horses were slow at first, and then faster and faster, and in the churning dust, the sound of horses' hooves shook like thunder, and swept over like a hurricane, faster and faster.
At this time, someone in the port shouted: "Ready!"
The hundred-fire miller knelt neatly and raised the muzzle of the gun to aim.
"Shoot!"
"Bang Bang Bang!" With the continuous sound, Zi Jian fired a volley, and Ensen's ears were filled with the muffled sound that penetrated his skin, the neighing of the war horse, and the uncontrollable screams of the person who was shot.
The breath of death "groaned" in my ears.
But no one retreated, and continued to rush forward, and then, a stream of blood splashed on Ensen's face, but it was a cavalryman in front of him, who was shot through the head by a bullet, and threw the blood and brains at Ensen's body.
Amid the sound of screams and fire, the Hu men continued to charge, their hooves kicking up the mud that had become slippery from the rain, shaking the ground.
Although people kept falling, they were close to the city wall in the blink of an eye.
"Shoot!" Ensen finally roared and gave the order, at which point the Hu man, who rushed to the wall, showed his ultimate skill, bending his bow and shooting arrows as he charged.
The sound of "poof" was endless, perhaps it was the last charge that aroused the last potential, only to see the bow and arrow shooted, ruthless and poisonous, and suddenly the city screamed, and in just an instant, twenty fire commanders were shot.
The fire team was showing up, only to feel the evil wind coming, subconsciously retracted his head, and a sharp arrow flew towards him, flying past his ears, and he was so frightened that he hurriedly retreated.
"Shoot!"
"Papa!" There was another row of continuous sounds, and Zi Jian fired a volley, but Hu Ren didn't dodge, even if he was shot left and right, he still bent his bow and shot arrows.
"Hu people are crazy. The team was roaring angrily, just a moment, the number of people killed in the city had exceeded fifty, such an exchange was not worth it.
The Hu people hurriedly gave the order, and when they saw a group of Hu people turn over and dismount, they killed the horses that had killed their masters.
The horses were piled up under the city, and in a moment they were piled up.
Zhang Xian personally aimed at a pile of Hu people, and when he pulled the trigger, he saw this person's face, which was actually very young, with a clear expression, even including an indifferent and numb face.
A shot passed, and the head burst into a bloody hole, spraying flesh and brains to everyone in the left and right ranges, but then, another bearded man pounced.
"Hu people are crazy!" This kind of performance made all the people creepy, and it was not until suddenly Ming Jin remembered Wu Xingzong's orders.
There was civil unrest in the port, and the Dacheng army retreated one after another, heading towards the ships.
"Take the port, take the ship, even if it's just one," he shouted. ”
As long as there is one, it can cross the river to ventilate and report the news, and in such a state of affairs, although it is difficult to organize a group of boats to come over in a short period of time, it is not impossible to complete it, but it is not impossible to complete without a single boat.
Hearing the order, the Hu people became even more crazy, and with the help of horses and even corpses, they desperately attacked it.
A group of Hu men climbed over the wall and immediately opened the door, and in an instant, the cavalry marched in and pounced on the ships at the docks.
The Hu people were so crazy that they almost turned a fake defeat into a real defeat, and when the rope was cut and the boat left the dock and sailed for the Yellow River, everyone breathed a sigh of relief.
The boat moored at the pier began to catch fire, sending out a large amount of fire and smoke, and the Hu people went desperately, and began to sprinkle water to put out the fire, and for a while, they were extremely busy.
Under the light of the fire, thousands of Hu people poured in, and Khurbo himself rode his horse and saw the burning fire.
"Be sure to put out the fire. Seeing that there were still three or four boats on the dock, and the fire was not big, Huerbo suddenly breathed a sigh of relief, looking at the figures and the firelight, and a deep feeling of helplessness appeared in his heart.
Three or four boats, even if they are crammed together, each with no more than 200 horses, when will 8,000 men be transported?
However, as soon as the first group crossed the river, a large number of boats descended from the second group.
The so-called guarding the port only needs to be guarded for one day.
At this time, looking at these, Hurbo suddenly had a strong sense of foreboding, and he was gritting his teeth and thinking about it, when suddenly, more than a dozen boats sailed in the distance.
"Is it the ship of the army, and reinforcements are coming?" Huerbo thought that a strong sense of foreboding was this, and just as he was thinking, there was a faint "boom", and a fireball slashed, broke through the sky, and fell towards the port.
Between the lightning and the tongue of fire, a fierce aura struck by Huerbo, and his face suddenly turned pale, and he shouted: "It's not good!"
"Boom", the fireball fell on the port, the spark splashed, and with the spark, a fierce fire sprung up, just a moment, and the fire stretched out like a fire dragon.
Especially at the city wall, a fire dragon blocked the way, and the harbor was filled with thick smoke.
When a fire burns, the most terrible thing is not the fire, but the smoke, which can make people and horses unconscious in a few minutes, so it is very terrible.
The flames and smoke quickly faded away, and even though they were miles away, they could be clearly seen, and even the chaos in the harbor could be heard.
Shouts, firefights, one after another.
Almost half of the sky was lit up by the blazing firelight.
It can be seen that this fire is very large, and Wu Xingzong can see it clearly, and he knows that this fire plan has been successful, and he immediately shouted loudly: "The time has come for meritorious service, and I will kill him with this general!"
Wu Xingzong did not think about it, and immediately ordered, and with an order, more than two dozen ships rushed straight to the port.
Miles of waterway were just around the corner, but at this moment, the entire harbor was surrounded by firelight, and the flames spread rapidly, making it impossible to put out the fire.
The horses lost control of the fire and smoke, neighing and running, and this behavior only died faster, and there were constantly fiery figures and horses, rushing in and out of the fire, falling to the ground and screaming and rolling.
In the face of the billowing flames and smoke, the faces of countless battle-hardened warriors turned pale.
A forty-year-old middle-aged Hu man, suddenly, knelt on the ground in front of the flames and cried: "Immortal heaven, why did you condemn us like this?"
This Hu man, a steppe centurion, resolute and decisive, participated in the war at the age of fifteen, and now there are twenty-five years, and he has seen a lot between life and death, and the defeat at the beginning did not frighten this man, but in the face of the burning sea of fire in front of him, this man collapsed.
With the help of oil, the fire quickly engulfed the harbor, which was mostly wooden and had been rained, and the smoke had obscured a small half of the sky.
"The fire is too big, pass down the order, a thousand cavalry shore, patrol the surroundings, there are people who rush out of the port, they will be killed, and there are people on the boat, monitoring the dock, and those who rush out by boat, kill!" Wu Xingzong saw this and shouted. To be continued [the word is provided by the Sailing Update Group Fengyan] with sister beans. If you like this work, you are welcome to come to the starting point to vote for recommendation and monthly passes, and your support is my biggest motivation.