Chapter 209 Water Wheel
Li Bao's raid was exceptionally successful.
This time, Zhang Rong brought more than one hundred small boats, thirty ships, plus Li Bao's own small force, totaling no less than five thousand sailors and seamen. However, he allocated less than half of the men, or two thousand people, to Li Bao to land from the back. After the landing, two thousand sailors with wet sackcloth tied on their faces rushed into the water stronghold from the land side. The part of the Jin army on the shore in the stronghold immediately lost control and was immediately slaughtered.
Ultimately, it was the power of the fire. Although the fire mainly burned on the densely packed ships in the river, the spread to the shore was not that strong...especially since the Jin army used the Yellow River dike as a natural wall for the water fort and port, which was not afraid of burning...but the dike was not afraid of burning, but the Jin army on the shore was stunned by the burning.
There's no way, it's too scary.
You must know that in matters of war, the power of heaven and earth is paramount. Unless a country is at the peak of its power, with a harmonious government, a harmonious people, brave generals, strong soldiers, and every man as powerful as a dragon, then you can grit your teeth and do your best, then you may look up and say that man can conquer nature.
Otherwise, not to mention plagues, floods, landslides and tsunamis, even a cold wave, a heat wave, or even an ordinary meteor or plum rain could easily be as powerful as an army of hundreds of thousands.
Even if we take a step back, even if there is a mountain or a river standing there, doing nothing can be enough to play a huge role in the military.
And beneath the danger of heaven and earth is the merciless water and fire.
This water must not be a natural disaster on the level of a flood or tsunami. It only needs a dam or a dike. Once released, it will be enough to cause thousands of elite troops to fall into defeat. By the same token, once a fire breaks out, no matter how elite the soldiers, how fierce the warriors, or how experienced the warriors are, they will be useless.
Even if the Imperial Guards, who had recently suffered nearly 20% casualties in Dongping and were able to hold their ground, and were highly recognized by Emperor Zhao, came directly over, it would be useless. Even if Wanyan Loushi's personal army came over, it would still be useless!
In fact, when the ships over there were lined up in a row and the gunpowder bags with a range of three or four hundred steps flew over their heads, the Jin army defender Da? was already at a loss and was then dragged off the old dike by several of his trusted soldiers.
After reaching the shore, he looked back and saw fire on both sides of the harbor and smoke everywhere. This man, who used to be a commander of the Jin army and was now a general directly under the name of Daming Prefecture, had already lost his mind. Although he tried his best to issue several military orders and asked people to fight the fire, how could he stop such a fire?
Not only that, seeing the fire start, the water part of the water fort was burned into a sea of fire, Da? was completely panicked and almost wanted to flee. When the shouts of killing started again on the dike in the southeast behind him, with fire in front of him and soldiers behind him, he simply gave up fighting, abandoned the water fort and turned around to escape from the northeast entrance... To be fair, it was not his fault, because the current scene of water and fire made this Bohai noble feel fear and panic compared to the tens of thousands of people under the Changsha City that day.
If you were unwilling to fight in the past, why should you hold on today?
The big man fled in a panic, taking away some of his elite soldiers. This caused the water stronghold to be in a state of panic both on land and in water, and allowed Li Bao to charge in calmly and run rampant.
Not to mention how Li San fought bravely in the fire, just say that this side was so big? They escaped without even having time to take horses with them. Only three or five hundred defeated soldiers rushed out of the northeast corner of the water stronghold, headed east, and came to Puyang.
However, after walking only three or five miles, he came to his senses and looked back at the water stronghold, only to see thick smoke billowing up into the sky with the aura of clouds and water, almost covering the sky. No beacon tower could compare to it, and he began to fear again... However, after leaving the battlefield, what he feared most was not the fire, but the word "military law".
It is said that Da? was originally a defeated general. Before the Battle of Yanling-Changshe, he was a nobleman of Bohai and a leader of ten thousand households. After the war, he was demoted to be a garrison commander in Daming Prefecture for his crime of defeat. Although he lost his real field military power, his title remained.
However, wasn't it that later on this person refused to accept the punishment and often relied on the fact that he was a noble from Bohai to talk nonsense all day long in Daming Prefecture, and when he drank with others, he would point out Liu Yu's affairs and Talan's punishment and talk nonsense about them?
It was fine when those words reached the families of Wuzhu and Talai, but when they were later passed to the Prime Minister Wanyan Nianhan who was gradually gaining power in the country, it angered this powerful official who could not tolerate any grain of sand in his eyes.
So, a military order came from the Marshal's Office, and this guy was directly sent here to work as a boatman.
You know what, he has become much more honest since then.
Back to the present, although this year is a so-called warm winter, the warmth here means that the rivers are not completely frozen. In the morning, the well water in the villages on both sides of the Yellow River is still frozen, and frozen pork can still be stored in the cellars.
Therefore, Da? was roasted until his face was red, his beard and hair were all singed, and he looked completely miserable. But when he was halfway through his escape, he looked back and felt the winter cold, and began to shiver for a moment... If he left like this, I'm afraid Nianhan would be able to kill him with a military order!
However, with such a fierce fire and the Song army's divine troops descending from the sky, it was hard to understand how the Song army could have created such a large-scale navy. He was so discouraged that he dared not look back.
So, in broad daylight, this great general who once led thousands of troops was standing like an idiot with hundreds of defeated soldiers in the wilderness between Puyang City and Xiaowusha, staring at the fire in a daze, unable to move forward or backward.
However, this scene did not last long, because as Zhang Rong had thought, such a successful fire attack had alarmed the Puyang defenders twenty miles away at the moment of its success.
The Puyang defenders were of course also stunned. They also could not have imagined that the Song army would dare to cross the river and attack.
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