Blood from Daming

Chapter 432 Burning the Ship
Xue Polu led Lu Yaojin and others onto the turtle boat, and looked at the other side of the river through the window of the turtle boat. Sure enough, there were steep rock walls and slopes at the harbor where Jianlu stopped the boat. The fishing port is a very good safe haven. Xue Polu's eyes were on the dozens of wooden boats in the harbor.

Xue Polu withdrew his gaze and said: "If you want to be rich, you just took over the navy today. The water affairs should be a blank slate. Did you come up with this idea?"

Tao Yaofu smiled and said, "General, this was proposed by Vice Commander Wen."

Xue Polu looked at Wen Lao Er and said, "Yes, it seems that the general did not choose the wrong person."

Wen Laoer smiled embarrassedly, and Xue Polu then asked Lu Yaojin, "If you want gold, can the gunpowder collected from Bitong City and Changcheng be used as explosive kits?"

Lu Yaojin said: "Second Uncle, the quality of North Korea's gunpowder is much worse than our Ming's gunpowder, but there is still no problem in making explosives, but the power will drop a lot."

Xue Polu said: "These North Korean gunpowder can be made into explosive bags. If you want gold, you can get a batch of such explosive bags. In addition, you can use clay pots to hold kerosene, and you can also get a few hundred cans, and then let the officers and soldiers cut some long ones. The moso bamboo can be used."

Lu Yaojin's eyes lit up and asked, "Second Uncle, are you going to have a "burning Chibi"?"

Xue Polu laughed and said, "This general is ready for everything, and I only owe you the wind."

Lu Yao Jin Daxi said, "Second Uncle, I also participated in the action tonight."

Xue Polu smiled and said, "Yes, but the things I need must be delivered to the boat before the third watch. Be careful not to be discovered by Jianlu on the other side."

Lu Yaojin got the task and left happily. Then Xue Polu recruited Zuo Ming and Wang Ping to board the ship and ordered them to select a group of firearms soldiers and archers to serve on the ship.

Zuo Ming and Wang Ping also challenged Xue Polu to fight. Xue Polu agreed to Zuo Ming's request after pondering for a while and said: "Zuo Ming, you go to cooperate with Yaojin's work, and then board the ship with Yaojin."

Wang Ping looked at Xue Polu broadly, and Xue Polu said: "Wang Ping, your team has just been adjusted today, and the chief general should not leave lightly. Li Gui, who is guarding the capital of Ningbyon in North Korea, has to be on guard. Zhang Sanzhu and Yu Dahui also have to guard against you. You have to be more careful, do you understand that your responsibility is very heavy?"

Wang Ping nodded excitedly and said: "This subordinate understands, and this subordinate will definitely live up to the general's high expectations."

Xue Polu said: "You have to keep in touch with Rao Guoying, Yan Laoyao, and the others, so as not to let anything unfavorable to Xue's army happen."

Zuo Ming and Wang Ping bid farewell to Xue Polu and went to the boat. Xue Polu told Tao Yaofu and Wen Laoer about the action plan for the night, and asked Tao Yaofu and Wen Laoer to secretly send people to monitor the movement on the other side of the river. , and arranged for the boatmen, officers and soldiers on board to take turns to rest, and he himself simply rested on the turtle boat.

In the middle of the night, Lu Yaojin and Zuo Ming boarded the ship with explosive packs, kerosene tanks, moso bamboo, firearms soldiers, and archers. This time they were preparing to attack a Korean turtle ship, five large military ships, and a dozen A medium-sized military ship with more than [-] people, and the remaining [-] to [-] small boats are cruising on the east bank of the Yalu River and waiting for orders. ,
Xue Polu looked up at the sky, the moon in mid-June was still very round, and the stars were shining, shining the entire Yalu River water, which made people feel very happy. Xue Polu thought that there would be wars here soon. up.

Lu Yaojin, who was beside Xue Polu, said, "Second Uncle, in such a clear night sky today, it may be difficult to sneak attack on the Jianlu fishing boat on the other side."

Xue Polu said: "Yes, such weather is indeed not a good time for a sneak attack, and money is needed, but the art of war is to attack by surprise, and attack when the enemy thinks it is impossible, maybe it will be able to receive miraculous results."

Lu Yaojin said: "Second uncle is right, now our Xue family army is ready to attack."

Zuo Ming said: "Second Uncle, my nephew sees that the water in the river is only more than a hundred feet long. If our fleet is dispatched together, Jianlu may not be able to react at all."

Xue Polu said: "Xiao Mingzi's words are very suitable for me."

At this time, the second son Wen was hesitant to speak, and Tao Yaofu was so anxious that he pulled the second son Lawen and said, "General, Vice Commander Wen has something to report."

Xue Polu said: "Oh, Commander Wen, you have something to say, but it's okay to say it."

Wen Lao Er gasped and said, "General, this subordinate wants to say that the river is about to fog up."

Xue Polu immediately came to his senses and asked: "Commander Wen, how can you be sure that there will be fog in the morning?"

Wen Laoer spoke a lot more fluently and said: "General, the weather is sunny and hot during the day, and there is no wind and no cloud tonight. The next day is a sign of heavy fog. I asked some of the soldiers who served in the Xue family army for many years. The North Korean boatmen on the Yalu River are sure that there will be a lot of thick fog in the morning.

Xue Polu was overjoyed when he heard this, and said, "Today's sneak attack on the Jianlu fleet, Commander Wen made the first contribution."

Second Wen quickly thanked him, and Xue Polu said: "Okay, everyone, take a good rest, and prepare to fight on the fourth watch after the thick fog rises."

Sure enough, as Wen Laoer said, after the third watch, the river began to fog up, and it became thicker and thicker. At the fourth watch, there was a faint shadow of the big ship more than ten feet away. A North Korean turtle ship and five large warships crossed the river and surrendered to Jianlu Ship Harbor, and the remaining dozen or so medium-sized warships with a capacity of more than [-] people met east of the center of the Yalu River.

Four days later on the east bank of the Yalu River, Xue Polu quietly slid to the west bank of the Yalu River with a North Korean turtle ship and five large military ships. Although the speed of the navy of the Xue family army was very slow, the distance between the two banks was only more than a hundred feet. The navy warship soon crossed the center of the Yalu River.

On the west bank of the Yalu River is the army of Abatai, Jianlu Zhenglan Banner. Abate was blown up by the Xue family army on the side of the Yalu River once, killing and injuring more than 300 people in vain. He was completely humiliated in front of these people, and Abate couldn't bear the anger, so he took the Zhenglan Banner of his temporary commander and chased him down the river.

Along the way, Abatai ordered his flag soldiers to collect ships along the river, and within two days they had accumulated fifty or sixty fishing boats. During the daytime, these temporarily organized fleets, with the cooperation of Zhenglan flag soldiers Together with those Liao people and Koreans who were loyal to the Jian captives or were forced to row, they rowed on the Yalu River many times to provoke the navy of the Xue family army on the east bank.

Abatai had also ordered the crews of the Zhenglan Banner to carefully protect the newly established fleet, but after three o'clock, there was no movement on the river. The prisoner and the boatmen also thought that nothing happened, and they all fell asleep in the early morning when everyone was most tired.

When the navy of the Xue family army approached the Jianlu ship port on the west bank of the Yalu River, due to the cover of heavy fog, Jianlu's patrols on the water and on the shore did not find it, so Xue Polu ordered the navy to do it, and Zuo Ming's firearms, which were in charge of throwing the kerosene tank, were not found. Bing, Tao Yaofu, and Wen Lao Er's navy soldiers threw the kerosene tanks from the six ships one after another, and the wooden boats outside the ship harbor were all doused with kerosene.

At this time, the flag soldiers and boatmen on the Jianlu boat woke up like a dream, so they shouted "enemy attack" and began to take up their bows and arrows to release arrows, but they were shot by Xue's army with random arrows, and immediately shot these Jianlu down. over and over again.

Then Xue Jiajun stretched the ignited explosives from the boat to the Jianlu wooden boat with moso bamboo three or four feet long, and then the explosives exploded on the boat. The Jianlu wounded a lot, and the best thing was that Jianlu's wooden boat was ignited.

At this time, the ox horn on the shore sounded once again, and after Xue Polu ordered the officers and men on board to continue throwing down a batch of fire oil tanks and explosive packs, he saw that the archers had also released four or five rounds of feathered arrows, and the wooden boat in Jianlu's port was burning. When the fire was complete, he ordered his subordinates to ring the gong to retreat to the east bank of the Yalu River.

By the time Abatai ran to the shore, the ship port had already been burned into a sea of ​​flames. The blazing fire made it impossible for anyone tens of feet away to approach. There were fifty or sixty wooden boats, two cattle The recorded flag soldiers and hundreds of boatmen, except for a dozen Liao people and Koreans who saw the opportunity to swim and escaped, were all buried in a fire.

(End of this chapter)