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Chapter 494 Forced to cross the Yellow River (4)

"Go into the water!" As soon as the cannons of the Dashun Army rang out, He Zhaoxiong gave an order, and the soldiers on more than 100 warships, with all their equipment, jumped into the water from the boats, thumping like dumplings, splashing a lot High waves.

Afterwards, shells flew in and exploded one after another. Just like that, more than 200 small warships and more than [-] warriors disappeared on the river in the thick smoke and artillery fire.

There was a lot of artillery fire on the river, and there was an undercurrent under the water.

More than 500 warriors began to dive, and they were divided into two groups. The Iron-armed Canglong He Zhaoxiong led [-] people to the warship model of the Dashun Army.

Li Quan and Liu Chunhong led the remaining 700 people to touch the fort of the Dashun Army.

Because the Ming army's spies had already figured out the deployment of the Dashun army on the shore, they had already estimated these two strategic directions when they started rowing and charging, and they began to split up underwater based on their feelings.

He Zhaoxiong brought these 500 people, in addition to the sharp knives hidden on their bodies, each of them had an extra hammer and chisel in their hands.

More than half an hour later, He Zhaoxiong and the 500 people touched under the warship of the Dashun Army Naval Battalion.

It was broad daylight, and of course they didn't dare to come out of the water with great fanfare to breathe. When they couldn't bear the suffocation underwater, they would just quietly lift their faces out of the water, take a few breaths, and then sink into the water.

When they come out of the water to breathe, they observe the movement around them and their own position, so that they will not lose their way under the deep and fast water. Of course, it takes effort!
At this time, the Dashun generals on the boat and on the shore had their eyes on their heads more than one meter high. They were either standing on the boat, riding on horseback, or lined up on the shore. Their eyes were all more than two meters above the water surface. At this time, his gaze was fixed on the water surface tens of meters, hundreds of meters, or even thousands of meters away.

No one noticed their feet, it was dark under the lamp, even though it was daytime, for the 500 people like He Zhaoxiong who had already touched the bottom of their boat, these Dashun soldiers would be almost blind!

This is what He Zhaoxiong wanted. With 500 people, he occasionally drilled out of the water, took a breath, and then dived under the boat to start operations.

Just like the heroes in the water in Liangshan in the film and television footage, they got under the boat, took chisels and hammers, and began to chisel the boat.

However, the water of the Yellow River is different from that of the rivers and lakes. The current is fast and the amount of sediment is large. They can only work by feeling to keep their bodies steady, which requires the sailors' kung fu.

Fortunately, the iron-armed dragon carried the 500 people to complete this difficult underwater operation, which was more than enough.

However, Li Zicheng's sailors are not all idiots who eat free food, and soon someone noticed that there were people under the boat.

There are many people in the navy who are familiar with water, and two of them jumped down to check the situation, who knows that the pair of two did not come up.

A few more went down, this time only half of them went up.

"My lord, someone is digging a boat under the water..." Because one of them poked his head out and said only this sentence, he sank and turned into a vortex and flew away with the current.

Therefore, this person can only be regarded as half of them at most.

The generals of the Dashun army were shocked. When did the Ming army go underwater?

The commander of the navy did not dare to be negligent when he heard the words. While reporting to Li Zicheng, he immediately formed a death squad of hundreds of people. He took off his armor and went into the water to fight shirtless with a short knife and a sharp sword.

However, these people's ability in the water is not at the same level as He Zhaoxiong's 500 people, and they are below the surface of the Yellow River, where the water is deep and turbulent, and there is a lot of sediment, and the visibility is even lower, so there is no suspense in this fight.

The death squads of the Dashun Army were all turned into meat buns and dogs, never returning, and even blood and corpses could not be found.

Because the water was too muddy, the color of the blood changed after being diluted, and the water was so fast that even the corpses and the changed blood donations disappeared without a trace in the blink of an eye.

By the time the floating corpse came out, it had already gone several miles, ten miles, or even tens of miles.

Therefore, after the Dashun army dispatched death squads, they waited for news on the ship or on the shore, but the news they waited for was that one warship after another was leaking.

The generals of the Dashun Army had no choice but to quickly plug the leak, and some of them took long spears and jabbed underwater along the permeable place, intending to jabbed the underwater shipbuilder to death.

But the effect was not great, and the more the hole was poked, the bigger the hole was, the more the muddy river water drilled into the cabin under the pressure, and soon several warships tilted, and the people on board had to move quickly.

The naval commander had no choice but to send additional manpower underwater.

Li Zicheng, Niu Jinxing and Song Xiance, the senior leaders of the Dashun Army Group, also found it incredible after receiving the report. How can anyone get under such a turbid and rapid river for such a long time without coming up?Could it be that they can't be changed from fish to turtles?

However, there are too many incredible things, which does not mean that they do not exist.Just a few days ago, when they were setting up the moonless formation, a 1000-man soldier from the Ming army descended from the sky. They suddenly emerged from the river and went straight to the back of the big formation. Isn't it also incredible? ?
As the saying goes, three cobblers are worth one Zhuge Liang.Li Zicheng, Niu Jinxing, and Song Xiance, these three heads are worth as many heads as cobblers.

After such a contact, they immediately understood that in Zhu Yousong's camp, there was a team that was good at diving.The more than 1000 people just now should have been sunk and destroyed by them on the surface. In fact, it was only the small boats that were destroyed and sunk by their red cannons, that's all.

It must be those people who chiseled their warships under the water!

"Not good!" Li Zicheng and the others immediately realized the seriousness of the problem.

It's nothing to scuttle a few warships, because their men and horses are all on the shore. At worst, they all abandon the ships and go ashore, and the loss is not big.

The biggest threat to the Ming army in crossing the river is undoubtedly their dozens of red cannons. Since they came to dig the boat, will there be people who have already landed and attacked their artillery barracks?
The ship was destroyed, and the impact on this battle was not critical. If the cannons were destroyed, they would be completely unable to stop the Ming army from crossing the river.

Therefore, after discussing with Li Zicheng, Niu Jinxing, and Song Xiance, they immediately made a decision to send general Liu Fangliang to lead [-] elite soldiers to support the artillery battalion, to ensure that the artillery battalion was safe and sound.

Liu Fangliang promised, hurriedly ordered soldiers and horses, and galloped away.

Then Li Zicheng delivered another decree that all the soldiers and horses on the ship were withdrawn to the shore, and the shore was densely populated with archers, paying close attention to the movement on the water.

Li Zicheng thought this way, they can chisel these boats as they like, I don’t want them anymore, no matter how many boats there are, they can build them later, and Zhu Yousong’s men must not be allowed to cross the river.

In addition, I don't believe in evil, let's see how long you can hold in the water, as soon as you show your head, you will order to shoot arrows, even though you can't kill them all in the water, you must prevent them from landing.

Li Zicheng gave an order, and the Dashun army followed the order one after another.

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