Chapter 358 Tell the golden thief: Deliver the ship without killing!
In the fishing village on the south bank of Baigou River that had been transformed into a bridgehead, Niu Gao, the commander of the Fifth Army of the Song Dynasty, was staring at the "Gully Fleet" that suddenly came out in a daze.
You will know when you hear its name. If it were a big river, could it be called "Baigou"? Will the Yangtze River be called Changgou? Will the Yellow River be called Huanggou?
A fleet of Jin Thief Navy warships appeared on a "ditch" that sounded similar to a "gutter"!
I have to say that this "ditch fleet" really did unexpectedly! Not to mention that Niu Gao did not expect, even Yue Feiyue Wudi, opposite Baigou River, did not expect that the Jin Thief actually built a decent ditch fleet!
So Niu Gao and Yue Fei did not expect that so many golden thief warships would come from the Baigou River... No one could have thought that there would be a ditch fleet! At most, they thought that some fire boats would come down from the upstream to burn a floating bridge or something, or that dozens or hundreds of golden thief death warriors would be driving a small boat to die.
Therefore, Niu Gao arranged the guards in this way. He asked the engineers to apply mud to the floating bridge, and arranged seven small wooden boats with mud upstream of the floating bridge. The engineers responsible for driving also prepared long poles with iron hooks on their heads to hook fire boats.
In addition, Niu Gao also ordered his engineers to prepare for fire extinguishing and repairing the floating bridge.
But unexpectedly, the Jin thieves sent a ditch fleet directly over, with seventy or eighty boats, no 10,000 people on it? Seven small boats with mud were unable to resist, so when they appeared, the engineers did not rush out to die.
There are river embankments on both sides of the Baigou River (because the Yellow River flows north, there has always been heavy water here in the past few decades). The embankments are not high, but the top is very wide and flat, and can be parked by vehicles. So the Song army's baggage soldiers pulled up the grain carts. Although these baggage soldiers had divine arm bows, they were not equipped with fire arrows (the baggage soldiers were most afraid of catching fire), and ordinary wooden feather arrows did not pose any threat to the Jin thieves' ditch fleet.
The Jinzi Ditch Fleet, which was not blocked, soon rushed to the water surface more than a hundred parts away from the floating bridge. Instead of continuing to move forward, they lowered the iron anchor and turned toward the water surface, facing the back of Yue Fei's army. At the same time, they also released a large-scale explosive boat. The explosive boat was helmed by the Bohai people or the dead soldiers of the Liaodong Han people, and rushed towards the floating bridge along the current.
When the pot-fried boat approached the pontoon bridge, the dead men on the boat clicked the lead for the pot-fried boat and jumped into the ship to escape.
At this time, a team of grain trucks were passing by on the pontoon bridge. The people who drove the trucks were all civilians. They were frightened when they saw so many big ships on the water. They didn't want carriages or mule carriages, and they ran to the two sides of the straits with shouting. The Song army's baggage soldiers who were carrying a small number of carriages had no choice but to run to the bridge deck near the north shore of the pontoon bridge, pull up a few carriages, and then leave... and recover some of the losses!
As soon as these carriages and mule carriages ran off the pontoon bridge, several pot-fried boats suddenly hit the pontoon bridge!
The bows of these pot-fried boats were equipped with sharp iron spear tips. With the power of the water flow, they suddenly inserted into the wood of the pontoon bridge. Then there were a few loud "boom boom" sounds, and the several pot-fried boats all turned into fireballs, and then quickly turned into a ball of black smoke. The huge vibration and shock waves generated by the explosion first shattered the pot-fried boats, and then transmitted to the pontoon bridge. They did not shatter the pontoon bridge, but they shattered the rope connecting the bridge deck and the boat body and were broken!
As soon as the rope broke, the pontoon bridge suddenly dispersed and divided into several sections and went downstream. Some of the mules, horses and carts on the bridge fell directly into the water, while others drifted away with the pontoon bridge section that had dispersed.
"Thousand Victories! Thousand Victories..."
Seeing this scene, the golden thieves on the ditch fleet immediately cheered!
The pontoon bridge is broken!
The connection between the Song army on both sides of the Baigou River has been cut off!
Moreover, the Song army on the north bank of the Baigou River was surrounded by their ditch fleet and Wanyan Xiebao's army.
The explosion of the pot-fighting ship and the cheers of the sailors of the ditch fleet also reached the battlefield on the north bank of the Baigou River, allowing the Jin soldiers of Wanyan Xiebao's troops who were being bombarded by the Song army to hear it - this was a really unexpected reversal!
These Jin soldiers who were still being bombarded also cheered wildly. Since yesterday, the Song army, with only half of their number of artillery, were suppressed and attacked by the Song army, who were only one-third of their number of artillery!
It's so frustrating... They are obviously crowded, have many tubes, have many hot pots, and have small cannons. Why are they so restrained by their opponents so that they can't even fight a decent counterattack?
If this continues, you may lose a big loss! If you lose a crushing defeat in Baigou River, can you still be saved on Nanjing Road? Can Daxing City still be defended? Most of the families of these people are in Daxing City!
Now the Dajin ditch fleet suddenly broke out behind Song Jun, and caught Song Jun off guard. Why didn't these Jin soldiers burst into cheers?
Three or four hundred steps behind the Jin soldiers' defense line, standing in a lookout car, risking being hit by a 10-pound shell flying from afar, Wanyan Xibao, who was climbing up to watch the formation, couldn't help but cheer with the loudest voice.
Although he has the problem of "crow's mouth", he has been a soldier in recent years and has long grown into a long-standing general who has been in battle formations. Moreover, he has a lot of experience in the use of gunpowder weapons. How could he not know that the Song people's big tubes are much more powerful than the big tubes in his hand!
This tube...it turns out that the bigger the better!
You have to fight quickly and accurately, and you have to be able to move, just like that small cannon.
My big tubes were so heavy that they couldn't move at all. The speed of fire was very slow. I tinkered for a long time before I hit it. The accuracy was still very poor, and I was not far away... I could be the king when I took it to the Western Regions, but it was not enough to see it in front of the Song army's new big tubes.
So before the Great Jin Kingdom's Gate Fleet succeeded in a sneak attack, Wanyan Xiebao actually knew that he would lose... The reason why he was still persisting was that he still had fantasies about the Gate Fleet. If they could successfully attack, they might be able to turn the world around.
But deep down he had a voice telling him that the Ditch Fleet could not count on!
Just when Wanyan Xiebao was worried about himself, the Gully Fleet, and the fate of the Great Jin Kingdom, the Gully Fleet actually successfully attacked!
It seemed to be to ensure that the Song army in the Ming Dynasty was defeated. The Song army cannons, which were still firing cannons, suddenly stopped. On the battlefield, there were only more than 200 large Jin army tubes and hotpot cannons, and the sound of bombardment was left. There were many cannons, but the sound of cannons was sparse, and the accuracy of the shells was even more anxious...
Wanyan Xiebao knew that this was an opportunity to launch a counterattack. He gritted his teeth and shouted loudly: "Let the front line prepare for attack and order the artillery team to concentrate in the middle! The tubes and hot pot are all moving forward 30 steps!"
The Jurchen guards beside him immediately took the order and waved the banner to pass the order.
The Jin soldiers who were still under shelling just now came out from behind the hiding low walls and began to line up under the command of the officers.
The dozens of stylus guns at Xibao also began to concentrate on the middle of the Jin army's front line. The Jin army's cannons also stopped firing and began to move forward slowly - the Jin army's infantry flipped out from behind the low wall, and the whole team was blocking its own tube, so the tube had to move forward. As for the hot pot guns, it was because the accuracy of the target was too poor, Xibao also wanted them to move forward.
In Baigou Hebei, a bloody battle is about to begin!
At the same time, on the south bank of Baigou River, Niu Gao had already climbed the bank of Baigou River, and 12 5-jin long cannons were also on the top of the dam.
These 12 5-jin long cannons were not arranged separately, but were concentrated on the river bank near the tail of the ditch fleet. In the bridgehead of the south bank, there were 8 5-jin long cannons and 8 10-jin long cannons that were pushed into the firing position - these 16 cannons stuck the passage of the ditch fleet downstream.
That's right, Niu Gao was about to bombard the Jin people's ditch fleet with his 28 cannons!
Although Niu Gao was caught off guard by the Jin people's ditch fleet and even the floating bridge was blown up, he didn't have any choice with these dozens of ditch battleships, because the ditch of Baigou River is not very wide. After pushing the long cannon onto the Baigou River embankment, he can wash the deck with shotguns!
So Niu Gao immediately ordered the artillery to push the cannons to the levee and the bridgehead, and at the same time ordered people to be deployed on the south bank of Baigou River. The two troops who were preparing to cross the river sent artillery to block the waterways in the lower reaches of Baigou River.
You can't let the Jin Thief's ditch ship run away... Because the Jin Thief just used a pot-fried boat to blow up the pontoon bridge, you must compensate!
Those dozens of ditch boats look good, so why not hand them over!
Seeing that his cannon had been arranged, Niu Gao, who was standing behind a wooden squid, didn't need anyone to help him shout, he opened his throat and shouted.
"When the Jin thief on the opposite side heard that you have been surrounded. You will immediately hand over all the warships and surrender to our great Song heavenly soldiers. You can spare me... Otherwise, you will be killed!"
The battlefields on both sides of the Baigou River are quieter now. Niu Gao was born with a loud voice. He roared 20 or thirty steps away and could certainly hear it on the ditch ship. The warship Pu Luhun was riding was not far from Niu Gao. However, he didn't know much about Chinese, so he turned around and asked a Bohai man beside him, "What are the Southern people shouting?"
"Wanhu... Then, the southern people asked us to hand over the ship!"
Pu Luhun was stunned, "What? He is crazy?"
Yes, the Army's ships were ships... and these ships were not moored on the docks, so this doesn't sound like what normal people say.
"He, he doesn't seem crazy!" The Bohai people's voice trembled again, "He has already laid a large tube on the river bank. If we don't surrender, he will hit us with the tube! Wanhu, what should we do?"
Chapter completed!