Chapter 644 The Great Wall (1)
"Cabin, enemy cavalry..." A Jiaozhi soldier shouted loudly.
In fact, at this time, Jiaozhi's language was very similar to Lingnan. Including words, they often used Chinese characters. However, the Li Dynasty also began to invent words, including language, and began to integrate with the languages of various ethnic groups in the southern region. That is, since the Li Dynasty, it was officially "de-Sinicized".
And the effect is good, and the language has changed a lot. Anyway, what I am talking about is not real Chinese, and the text is gradually changing.
It is no secret that Qu Zhen trained with a local cavalry, but in Qinzhou, it is still a bit far away from here. However, many soldiers knew the role of the Song Dynasty cavalry during the Battle of Fuliang River.
They all became anxious and rushed towards dozens of Song soldiers blocking the city gate like crazy.
"Form a formation," one of them shouted.
That is, they leaned against the city wall and formed a square formation to fight the enemy together so that the enemy would not close the city gate.
Some Song soldiers fell down.
However, the cavalry of the Song Dynasty also came to his sight.
Seeing the cavalry approaching quickly, the Jiaozhi soldiers finally couldn't resist their fear, threw down their weapons and fled backwards.
Qu Zhen rushed to the bottom of the slope and saw that the city gate still could not be closed. Hundreds of Jiaozhi soldiers in the village fled and fled.
"Crush." Qu Zhen rushed into Gaoling Village with his horse, glanced at it, and said, "Tao Wudu, thank you for your hard work."
I won’t say anything else… because there is a key place ahead, Pingliangdu.
There are several important rivers in front of Shenglong Mansion, such as Fuliang River, Baiteng River, Qiujiang River, Taiping River (Note, Jiaozhi scholars believe that Fuliang River is Qiujiang River in the upper reaches of Taiping River in Fuliang Mansion, and Chinese scholars believe that Fuliang River is the Honghe River. Otherwise, Jiaozhi will not surrender. Only when it reaches the Honghe River, Jiaozhi will be so nervous. But Jiaozhi believes that they defeated the Song army, so they are Qiujiang River. But then, why do you want to return to the five states with a stern face to the Song Dynasty? Therefore, Fuliang River is the Honghe River. Taiping River flows into the Honghe River near the estuary, but a tributary is sent out near the estuary, and it pours into Halongwan from the northern part of the sea defense into the sea. This tributary is the famous Baiteng River. Qiujiang and Cangjiang meet in Taiping, Vietnam. The downstream of the rendezvous is called Taiping River, and the upstream before the rendezvous is Qiujiang.).
Tiande Prefecture is north of Qiujiang. Wuning Prefecture is south of Qiujiang.
But there is a main tributary of Qiujiang River rolling from Sumaozhou, which happened to become a natural barrier between Liangzhou and Tiande Prefecture.
Pingliang Ferry is an important ferry crossing on this natural trench.
At the end of February of the first year of Yuanfeng, the battle between Song Jiao started again.
First, Qu Zhen led two thousand cavalrymen to sneak into Liangzhou. After nightfall, he used the protection of the night to sneak into a valley on the side of Moaizhai Village. At dawn, Wu Ming, the head of the imperial guards, led more than 90 suicide squadrons, divided into two groups, dressed as merchants, and came to Gaoling Village to block the gate of Gaoling Village.
Then Qu Zhen quickly entered Gaoling Village and rushed towards Pingliangdu.
Jiaozhi was caught off guard and quickly asked Qu Zhen to take down Pingliang Du. Only then did the officials of Jiaozhi Tiande Prefecture receive the news and quickly organized two thousand soldiers to rescue the siege.
The two armies met on a plain river, one was infantry against cavalry, and the other was inferior weapons against excellent weapons. Two thousand Jiaozhi soldiers were defeated in the blink of an eye.
Officials of Tiande Mansion immediately called Shenglong Mansion an emergency and closed the city gate at the same time.
Then Yao Lin and Huang Jinman led the three thousand infantry stationed in Liangzhou and arrived with siege equipment.
But they did not attack the city immediately, and only made a few feints.
Hearing this news, Jiaozhi immediately gathered his army, crossed the Qiujiang River, preparing to cooperate with the soldiers and civilians in Tiande Prefecture, defeating Yao Qu's five thousand horse infantry, and the other route went from the water route to the back, cutting off Pingliangdu, trying not to let the Song army escape back, and annihilate the entire army.
The battle of Tiande Mansion begins...
"Enlightenment of Shaobao, Jiaozhi people began to strictly prepare Dongliang Port and Baiteng River."
Huang Hua sneered on the side. The so-called strict preparatory method is just an old trick. The estuary of the Baiteng River is also wide, but then it becomes relatively narrower. Then, wooden stakes are laid under the water, and the sea boats cannot pass.
Dongliang Port is a port at the entrance of the Fuliang River. Although the Fuliang River is deeper and wider, it cannot lay wooden stakes, and it does not have the ability to lay wooden stakes. How long is it? However, the Fuliang River is surging. If a navy army is stationed on it, it will be difficult for the enemy naval army to conquer Dongliang Port.
However, if the Song Dynasty attacked from the water this time, it would not be the original warship.
But now there is no need to add to the snake, and that good show will take two months to go on.
In fact, it doesn’t matter whether the two rivers of Jiaozhi are strictly prepared or not, and Wang Ju will not use the navy at all.
The scout continued to report: "The enemy kept assembled large troops to cross the river, and at the same time drove a large number of warships to Pingliang Du.
"How many warships are there?"
“There are more than forty ships of all sizes.”
Not too many, one is that Guo Kui beat the Jiaozhi people hard, and the other is that he has no time to dispatch them.
"You go down and rest."
"Thank you for the young insurance."
"Lin Qing, you can go with me."
"Young security guard, you can't go, it's too dangerous."
"There are only forty warships, what are the dangers? And I have to take a look at them to be at ease."
The sky gradually became dark, but before Wang Ju led 3,000 troops and 4,000 civilians arrived, the scout had carefully investigated the terrain of this area. After passing Gaoling Village, he gradually arrived at the plains. The Li Dynasty was able to do so, and it was also important to not only focus on martial arts, but also internal governance. To be precise, China's loss of this fertile land was not just a mistake of the Song Dynasty. In previous dynasties, the entire Lingnan was not valued, and it was considered a place outside the transformation. Let's not talk about Jiaozhi. Therefore, the cohesion was not strong.
But under the leadership of the Li Dynasty, the people also began to develop large-scale development, including this plain, with many rice planted with fields and some rice fields planted with seedlings. However, after the arrival of the Song army, most of the people fled together, and many villages were empty.
This is the best way to avoid being discovered by these people and then going to inform us.
After passing this paddy field area, we entered the rainforest again.
The group had to get off the horse.
The rainforest is so dense that it is unimaginable.
There was still a road to the river, but Jiaozhi people set up an outpost, so they had to take a detour from the side from a distance.
A thorn strip slashed Wang Ju's face. Wang Ju couldn't help but let out a low voice.
"Young Guard. Is it okay?"
"Don't make a fuss." Wang Ju said, enduring the pain.
When the horse arrived here, there was no way to move forward. Everyone tied the horse to the big tree, took off some things from the horse's back, and continued to move forward with bumps and bumps.
"It's here." The group came to the river and said a scout named Wang.
When Qiu Water arrived here, it happened to be a bend. It was relatively narrow. The one I wanted was this narrow. Wang Ju looked at it and found that it was narrow and had more than 200 steps. However, the water system in the south was well developed and the river surface was generally wide, which was not surprising. And because it became narrow, the water flow was very turbulent.
Wang Ju said, "Le Xiaowu, you must be careful."
"Young Bao, don't worry. We grew up by the Zuo River, and the water quality is good." A local soldier said honestly.
Then they each put on the lifebuoy prepared by Wang Ju for them. But if they wanted to swim here, they would not be able to do so even if the water was not good. Moreover, they also swam to the other side with ropes.
A dozen people got into the water, and the rest began to connect iron chains. In order to carry them, the iron chains were divided into segments, but now they had to be connected.
"Young Guardian, why did Mr. Guo not use this strategy?" Wang Zishan asked.
"I don't know much, but it's probably because the Fuliang River is too wide, or maybe Mr. Guo has not prepared this thing, or for other reasons..." Wang Ju said. The main Fuliang River battlefield is in the southwest direction and is still far from here, so Wang Ju couldn't figure out what the reason was.
After he said that, he looked at the Jiaozhi fleet in the northeast with a telescope. There were more than forty ships, the largest of which was fifty or sixty tons, and the only one was more than ten tons. There were also some small boats, which were small boats used by fishermen, who were used by Jiaozhi as patrol boats.
However, at this time, it was almost three o'clock, and all the people on the boat fell asleep. Only the outposts on the shore were hidden in the dense forest, which was unreal. However, although these fleets were moored on the other side, they formed a water camp. Therefore, the Jiaozhi people cannot be underestimated. After being ruled by China for so long, the difference in civilization was not very different.
It was Wang Ju who was used to seeing his own big ships in Quanzhou, and when he looked at these warships, he was a little disliked.
But their functions should not be underestimated.
Because the two major sea estuaries were controlled, with these warships swaying on the river, the Song army was not easy to cross or withdraw.
Wang Zishan slapped the face and said worriedly: "Young Bao, there are mosquitoes."
"You, take a closer look at the stating article I wrote."
In order to make everyone understand malaria, that is, malaria, Wang Ju deliberately wrote a long article to explain that some rivers also have areas of severely affected miasma, but those rivers have huge bends, and the water flows to the bend, forming a whirlpool. So various objects, including corpses, accumulate together, and then produce severely toxic bacteria. Mosquitoes reproduce on it, and then suck blood on people, spreading malaria. So over time, there is a legend about the areas of severely affected miasma.
But the river here is relatively straight, and development has begun on both sides of the river, and basically no source of malaria is present.
If you let a mosquito bite it, it's a risk, that's all?
Le Xiaowu and others had already swam to the other side. Because the water flowed fast and had to rush far away, they had to pull the rope along the river. After walking for a while, they tied the rope to the tree. Then more than a dozen people worked together to pull the ropes, and behind the rope was an iron chain, which was very heavy. They strangled one by one on the opposite tree trunk, and then pulled the thorns down again. Use this cover to bring the rope back to prevent Jiaozhi from discovering it.
Then he swam back.
"Go." Wang Judao.
The group returned, and it was getting dawn. Wang Ju simply summoned the generals and said, "Let's march immediately."
"How many days will the army on the back road arrive?" said the instructor Ping Wei.
"Instructor Ping, you guys, don't wait any longer. Moreover, the spring miasma gradually comes up, so it's not advisable to delay it for a long time."
After saying that, the three armies gathered, including thousands of people escorting the baggage. In fact, after a long preparation for this battle, the baggage was placed in Taiping Village. Then the people gathered in Yongzhou, but unlike Guo Kui, this time it was a paid gathering. Each civilian paid a considerable salary, and at the same time promised that if there were victims, each person would pay his family fifty pieces of colorful silk. Therefore, the speed of going south was extremely fast.
The Song army soon arrived at Pingliangdu.
Wang Ju ordered camping on the spot and then let the military and civilians log together. It was too late to make a boat, but a large raft could be made with wooden rafts.
The Jiaozhi Navy also quickly found out and sent a small boat to the river to watch the situation on the shore, and then asked Wang Ju to order the soldiers to shoot quickly into the middle of the river with their divine arm bow.
Two days later, more than 200 large rafts were successfully built. Wang Ju said: "Pull it to the riverside and prepare to put it down."
This can be seen that the Jiaozhi Navy immediately dispatched various warships from the other side and prepared to launch an attack on the Song army crossing the river.
At this moment, three long trumpets sounded from the Song army. After a while, there were three trombones sounds, and after a while, three trombones sounds were three more.
With the nine sound, bundles of straw floated down from the upstream, and then quickly dispersed as the waves beat. Then a bucket of hot turbulent oil poured into the river again. The river water hit and encountered the floating straw, and wrapped it together on the river surface under the grass. The spring flood also began, and the river water flowed very quickly, and the bundles of straw quickly moved closer to the Jiaozhi battleship.
But Jiaozhi was a little confused because the straw was not too dense, and the river was slapped, and many straw bales were wet. Even if they could burn, they would not cause fire. Besides, their ships were flexible, so where could they burn?
Wang Ju looked at the inexplicable Jiaozhi army with a telescope and said, "Shoot the arrow."
It's not an ordinary arrow, but a rocket.
In short, because these warships were too small, Wang Ju looked down upon, and even thought they were slaughtering chickens with a slaughter... (To be continued...)
Chapter completed!