Da Ming Tai Shi

Chapter 376 The Battle of Crossing the River - Beach Landing Battle

April is the day when spring and summer alternate. The rain in the late spring and early summer is crackling from the sky, and it is really uncomfortable to hit people.

It's just that Chang Mao, who is standing by the Yalu River at the moment, doesn't hate the rain at all, and even likes it a little.

Although he couldn't see clearly the situation of Li Fangyuan's army on the other side of the river due to the cover of the rain curtain, he expected that under such a heavy rain, the enemy army in the Wubao would be very uncomfortable.

What really makes Chang Mao happy is that he can clearly feel the wind around him when he closes his eyes.

The north wind is gradually coming from the north of Liaoning.

Even though it was the beginning of summer, it was still so bitingly cold.

Turning his eyes, what Chang Mao saw were countless athletes guarding the barracks and waiting for the battle, and the boats in front of him that had not yet hoisted their masts across the river.

The left and right hulls of these boats had iron rings and were connected together with iron cables.

In the direction of the bow of the ship, there are huge iron-covered scull shields.

Chang Mao stretched out his hand, feeling the coolness of the cold raindrops hitting the palm of his hand.

He raised his head and watched the continuous rain gradually thinning.

Chang Sheng beside him spoke excitedly.

"Big brother!"

"Let's beat the drums."

The pounding drums were not so clear and deafening in the rain, but they were so loud in the ears of the soldiers of the Ming army who had been waiting.

This is the signal to rally.

Countless athletes rushed out of the barracks, like dark streams rushing towards the Yalu River, and boarded their respective boats in an orderly manner.

In the end, when the last drop of rain fell from the sky to the ground, Chang Sheng put on a pocket mask, clasped his fists at Chang Mao, and stepped onto the boat with strides.

In this battle of crossing the river, Chang Sheng shouldered the responsibility of commanding the front line. Similarly, he was also the pioneer of the Chang family to open up their own foundation.

The loud bugle sound resounded through the world at this moment.

The north wind suddenly blows!

"Sail and cross the river!"

Hundreds of boats raised their sails at the same time, and they swelled up under the howling north wind without the boys struggling to drag them, heading towards the south bank.

And these warships connected by iron cables are like a moving continent on the sea, with a suffocating sense of oppression like the overturning of mountains, slowly but powerfully approaching the south bank.

On the other side of the river, Li Fangyuan, who also heard the sound, rushed out of the barracks immediately, his eyes wide open.

"My lord, the Ming army has crossed the river."

There is no need for the lieutenant general to remind him, Li Fangyuan's eyesight is very good, even if his eyesight is not good, he can still see clearly the slowly moving sea continent!
"A general of the Ming army dares to use a serial ship."

Li Fangyuan has been familiar with the history of the Central Plains Art of War since he was a child, and of course he knows about serial ships. He can't figure out how dare Chang Mao do it.

Isn't he afraid that he will burn the Ming army and wipe it out?

But when he turned his head, Li Fangyuan looked at the fluttering Chinese flag and understood it instantly.

At present, it is the north wind!

In other words, even if I want to send warriors to die and set fire to the boat, no matter whether it succeeds or not, there is no way to set fire to the three armies.

Li Fangyuan didn't feel bad if the fire attack strategy was not feasible, he didn't expect God to give him a Zhuge Liang, if so, he would actively prepare for some kind of battle.

"Repeaters and trebuchets are ready!"

Even if the weather is not on his side, Li Fangyuan is not worried, he is very confident in his pre-war deployment.

In front of hundreds of ballistas and catapults, the Ming army was just a living target.

Following Li Fangyuan's order, hundreds of boulders and countless crossbow arrows as thick as a baby's arms whizzed out, pouring into the Yalu River, which is hundreds of feet wide.

Its continuous and mighty momentum is not weaker than the previous rain curtain.

Under the rain curtain composed of boulders and crossbow arrows, the Ming army inevitably suffered casualties, but the sea continent composed of hundreds of warships was not hindered at all, and it was still approaching the south bank.

Eighty feet, sixty feet, thirty feet.

It's getting closer, it's getting closer!

Chang Sheng took out the binoculars he borrowed from Chang Mao, and he could already clearly see the enemy troops on the other side of the river, as well as the North Korean Central Military Camp with the Li character banner hanging in the distance.

At this moment, Chang Sheng held his breath and raised his hand.

"Go first!"

Ascend first, the Ming army needs to ascend first, and needs to open a bridgehead.

On the other side of the river, Li Fangyuan also held his breath.

"The cavalry on both wings charge into battle, don't allow the Ming army to gain a foothold."

Daming needs a bridgehead, and Li Fangyuan will not let the Ming army do what it wants.

When there were still two or three feet away from the south bank, countless Ming army athletes jumped off this moving sea continent, wading and diving towards the river bank.

"Scull shield hand, form an array!"

Yu Anqiang, the commandant of the Dandong Guard, yelled for orders. Under his orders, thousands of warriors in the army rushed to the front with oar shields as tall as a man. Behind them were groups of crossbowmen and spears. soldier.

The scull shield, covered with iron sheets, is in the shape of an arc as a whole, with two half-moon-shaped gaps on the left and right sides.

The wrestlers formed a circle, inserted the shields on the ground, and put them together to form a circle.

Inside this circle are spearmen and crossbowmen.

In just an instant, the Ming army formed a dozen or so circular formations of this size by the south bank of the river.

In the art of war, this kind of formation is called a circular formation, but it also has another name.

Hedgehog array!
When the half-crescent notch of the scull shield is in a circle, it will form a complete round hole with the other side of the scull shield next to it. The function of this round hole is.

The spearmen stabbed thick, long and sharp spears out along the upper and lower round holes.

The upper ones are used to poke people, and the lower ones are used to poke horses.

"Hedgehog Formation?"

The North Korean general Li Chengzuo, who was in charge of attacking the Ming army's formation, looked at him with a smile. He has been on the battlefield for a long time, and naturally he has encountered this kind of formation specially created for cavalry to charge the formation, so he is not worried.

"Do you think that I, Joseon Erlang, don't know how to ride and shoot?"

With a wave of Li Chengzuo's flag, the cavalry under his command who had been charging forward immediately hung their horses, put down the long swords in their hands, and then took out the long-term workers who were carrying them behind them, took out the mace clusters from the quiver, and drew their bows. Arrows shot at the Ming army formations that looked like hedgehogs.

The Central Plains Dynasty invented the hedgehog formation to deal with the northern nomads, and the northern nomads practiced hard riding and shooting to deal with the Central Plains Dynasty.

War is a process in which both sides are working hard to study and deal with the enemy.

Countless war weapons are constantly improving in such a process.

If you fall behind, you will be beaten.

Facing the cavalry and shooting tactics, Yu Anqiang also sneered with disdain.

He joined the army in the 12th year of Hongwu, and it has been 20 years so far. He has fought against the Mongols for so many years, and he already has a way to deal with it.

When it comes to riding and shooting, the people of Mengyuan say that they are second, and no one in the whole world dares to say that they are number one.

Even Meng Yuan can drive away, why is Daming afraid of riding and shooting?
There was no need for Yu Anqiang's order, and the thousand household officials in each circle responded by themselves.

The crossbowmen put down the crossbows in their hands, took out the small iron shields that were about one foot square, and raised them above their heads.

In this way, whether it is an attack from the outside or an attack from above, the Ming army camp has fully protected it.

Riding and shooting, in the end, returned without success.

Li Chengzuo really can't help it now.

This is Iron King Eight.

Seeing that the Ming army is still landing continuously, but I can't move the dozens of thorny Ming army bridgeheads in front of me. Forcibly interspersed with attacking the landing Ming army, there is a risk of being dumped instead.

Li Chengzuo understood this truth, so he ordered his subordinates to shoot around and shoot a few more rounds of arrows, and when he saw that there was really no beneficial result, he ordered to retreat.

Their real support is not on the offensive, but on the dozens of strong docks.

The war stance of both sides is to often attack Li Shou.

Li Fangyuan himself did not hope that the Ming army would be severely defeated in this beach-grabbing and landing battle.

This is Daming who fought for 30 years in the 30th year after the founding of the People's Republic of China. How could he be stopped by a small Yalu River?

"I can't chew your hedgehog formation. Now, it depends on how you can chew the dock formation I created."

Li Fangyuan sneered and ordered to call gold.

It is true that Daming crossed the Yalu River, but this battle of crossing the river has only just begun.

(End of this chapter)