Five hundred and seventy-five, firepower against the land
Xiao Gan's heart suddenly became tense and he hurriedly said, "Send the order quickly, the whole army is ready! The whistleblower is ambushed and ready to pull up the iron chain."
"Yes!" The commander of the 18th Battalion bowed his hand, but the scout next to him looked panicked, "You can't pull, you can't pull the iron chain!"
"What nonsense is it in front of the prime minister!" The commander glared at him in dissatisfaction.
The scout was startled and said timidly: "But... the prime minister can't..."
Xiao Gan frowned. The scout was about to fight, saying something like "but" and "can't" that disrupted the morale of the army!
"Bold! You dare to talk nonsense and disrupt the morale of the army. Be careful that labor and capital will chop your dog's head." The commander of the 18th Battalion said angrily, and as he said, he kicked the scout hard. The scout was afraid and dared not speak anymore.
Xiao Gan nodded with satisfaction: "Go and send the order quickly, don't delay, don't expose it!"
"yes!"
......
Soon, the order was conveyed, and the soldiers hurriedly took action and began to ambush according to the previous arrangements.
The reeds in the north of the Hebei region were ambushed by 500 people from the Eighteenth Battalion, and the newly recruited 500 people from the 19th Battalion were ambushed in the woods about a hundred steps away from the river bank. The remaining 17th Battalion of the Liaoxing Army were ambushed in the countertop towers and houses, responsible for pulling up the iron chains of the river when the ship approached and shooting the soldiers of Jingguo on the ship with crossbows.
Once the ship in front was stopped and overturned, the ship behind was blocked and stopped. A total of 18th and 19th battalions were thousands of people, responsible for attacking from the two cases and using prepared ladders to rush up the Jingguo people's ship to kill the enemy.
This is the plan. Xiao Gan is very confident in his arrangements. The people of Jing Guo who were caught off guard will definitely be in chaos and have no intention of fighting.
After everyone was ambushed, although Xiao Gan was not young, he still quietly squatted in the house closest to the shore, staring at the water in the distance from the window. The iron chain was very heavy, and it took a certain amount of time to pull it up and fix it. Therefore, we must grasp the distance, so that the people of Jingguo did not have time to stop the boat, and also allow soldiers to pull up before the boat passed.
He just believes in himself, and the timing must be judged by him.
Fortunately, there was a big river beside less than 300 steps downstream of Yangcun. There was a birch forest on the inside of the bend, blocking the view. It was difficult for the people of Jingguo to see it first, but they only saw the iron chains after they passed the river bend. It was impossible to stop the boat.
So after a long wait, when the bow of the Jingguo fleet appeared on the other side of the river bay, Xiao Gan decisively ordered the soldiers on the first floor of the sentry tower to pull up the iron chain.
Four soldiers on each side are responsible for an iron cable. They pull up the iron cable hidden in the water by turning the winch like a well, and then tie both ends tightly to the wooden stakes by the river. The whole process takes a long time.
Xiao Gan looked at them nervously, until he saw the soldiers pulling up three iron cables and crossing the river, he finally breathed a sigh of relief. He felt someone pulling his sleeve. Xiao Gan turned around and saw the commander in the 18th Battalion with a look of surprise. He followed the direction pointed by the commander in confusion and looked through the window, and his pupils instantly magnified...
In the flowing river water, after turning a big bend, the Jingguo ships, which were not blocked by birch forests, finally revealed their true appearance. The high masts penetrated straight into the sky, and the huge hull almost filled the river. The deck was more than one meter from the water surface, which was even higher than many city walls. The entire behemoth was like a moving water city, with a sense of oppression rushing towards us, making it hard to breathe...
In an instant, Xiao Gan was almost suffocated. Behind the giant, there was a giant. Facing such a big guy, the tactics he formulated were like a joke.
Let it stop, how to stop...
If you want to board a ship and fight, how to board it? It is as difficult to climb to the deck in front of such a giant!
He finally understood why the scout said he could not zip the chains and hurriedly said, "Let the chains go away! Let go!"
But it was too late. The distance between two or three hundred steps was only a short while. The huge creature lined up in a long queue had already rushed to the front of the sentry tower. Xiao Gan hurriedly asked someone to shoot arrows on the boat, but black tubes stretched out on both sides of the first two ships, densely packed.
Then a bolt from the blue covered his voice, a terrifying howling that he had never heard before, kept roaring in his ears. For a moment, his ears buzzed, spinning, and vaguely saw the flesh and blood flying in the reeds, and saw the woods on the other side being torn by unknown forces, then fell down tiltly, and the soil and rocks splashed...
Finally, his hearing slowly recovered, his mind began to move, and his ears were filled with screams and crying.
He walked to the door of the farmhouse in a daze, watching the huge boats, like mouths with dozens of feet long, constantly emitting flames, and blue smoke floated. Then the houses hidden by soldiers on the shore collapsed and shattered like fragile sand cakes.
The chain pulled up touched the front end of the big ship, but it was like a mantis armed on a chariot, pulling up the foundation, and pulling down the whistle tower next to it with a crackling sound. Several crossbowmen on the shore were directly pulled to the ground by iron chains as thick as their arms. They couldn't get up, and they probably couldn't survive.
The two big ships were still roaring. He saw the soldiers on the other side being suddenly torn into pieces in horror. He saw the woods creaking and falling down. The walls of the house were easily penetrated like thin paper. The soldiers who were ambushing the house were buried directly......
Xiao Gan was at a loss. The world seemed to be not the world he knew, and he had no idea what to do.
The commander of the 18th battalion beside him was riding on the horse that was prepared behind the house in a panic and wanted to escape. As a result, the horse under his crotch was split in an instant, and only half of him were left...
In just a moment, the world was like hell. On the subsequent ship, he finally saw the people of Jingguo. They were neatly arranged on both sides of the bow deck, and the strange sticks in their hands were breathing fire.
He was almost crying. He was almost sixty years old and fought in the east and west, and had seen all kinds of worlds. He had devoted himself to the Great Liao Kingdom for decades. This time he was like a young child, at a loss...
Suddenly, a whistling sounded in his ears. With a huge cracking sound, a wall behind him collapsed instantly, and stones splashed, hitting his back. Xiao Gan instinctively threw himself to the ground. When he turned around, the wall on the front of the hut he had just hid had become shattered. The roof slowly tilted behind him and rumbled down.
He rolled and crawled back a few steps, but saw the ground full of blood. He felt something was wrong. He looked sideways and found that his left arm was empty and blood was constantly gushing out. He slowly became frightened until he started to cry. The piercing pain finally slowly surged up, causing him to roll all over the ground.
He still echoed in his ears and screamed. He saw the soldiers of Liao who were fleeing in tears falling one after another. The terrifying sound kept echoing in his ears. The houses, whistle towers, and woods kept falling down. The flesh and blood body was even more vulnerable in the face of the terrifying mysterious power, like the wrath of a god...
It was them who set up an ambush, and everything was perfect... But he didn't understand or know what happened now, but he could feel that life was peeling off from his body.
Slowly, his vision became blurry, his whole body was chilling, and he was lying in the rubble and ruins without the strength to struggle.
Chapter completed!