Eastern Jin Invincible Iron Army

Chapter 322 Liuyuan Ferry

As the weather gets warmer and the ice and snow in the upper reaches melt, the water flow of the Yellow River gradually increases.Violent yellow water rolls in from the upper reaches, forming a vast ocean.The big waves are like hills, and the small ones are like grave mounds, surging and crashing against the banks.At this time, the Yellow River was turbulent, and the embankment was cracked piece by piece by the collision, and the fallen clods disappeared immediately, like a monster's big mouth devouring hungrily.

Liuyuan Ferry is an ancient ferry on the Yellow River.It is about sixty miles away from Chenliu City. At this time, the north bank of Liuyuandu is densely packed with tens of thousands of tents, and the Yan Army's company battalion is tens of miles away.Huang Qingzhen said: "The general trend of the world is not a battle of one place and one moment."Therefore, Murong Jun accepted Huangfu's real advice, and did not heal the head with a headache or treat the foot with a painful foot. Instead, according to the original plan, Taiyuan Wang Murongke was the governor of Pingnan, leading an army of 35 to be responsible for targeting Hebei and Qingzhou. Xia Jun's extermination mission.The Dazai Murong Ping, the deputy governor of Nanping, led 25 troops from Chenliudu to the south of the river to pacify the Xia army in the two prefectures of Yanyu.This time Yan Guo dispatched a total of 60 troops.Falsely claiming millions.In fact, among the real number of 60, civilian husbands and slaves fought for nearly one-third.

Murong Ke and Murong commented on one thing and one thing, and pointed their swords at Henan respectively.The Dazai of Yan State and Murong Ping, the deputy governor of Pingnan, camped in Liuyuan, ordered thousands of soldiers to drive away nearly tens of thousands of peasants, and nervously built a pontoon bridge.With the annihilation of the entire Changshui army, this fatally hindered the plan of Murong Ke and Murong Ping's army to cross the river. The army is still familiar with the task of building pontoon bridges.However, because the entire Changshui army was wiped out, Murong Ping had to use landlubbed Yan generals to build a pontoon bridge.

Building a pontoon bridge is not an easy task, especially for the layman Murong Ping who chose Liuyuandu as the crossing site. This is one of the oldest ferry crossings on the ancient Yellow River. Meng Jindu was more than five hundred years earlier.

Hundreds of rafts and ferries are slowly assembling the pontoon.Those civilian husbands captured by Xianbei, as long as they move a little slowly, there will be Xianbei generals and supervisors waving whips and whipping them. These whips are full of strength. It's unspeakable, it's miserable.

Mohou Kan is a relatively brave general under Murong Ping's command. He is brave and good at fighting. He married Murong Ping's goddaughter. The long scar on his face was left in the Zhongshan Battle.In the second year of Yongxing, Murong Ping followed Murong Ke to attack Ran Wei. In August, Su Lin, the former general of the Ran Wei tribe who escaped from Yecheng, recruited Xiangyong from his hometown in Zhongshan to resist the invasion of the Yan army. Later, Murong Ping attacked Zhongshan. Su Lin didn't know tracked.However, when Mo Houkan attacked Zhongshan City, his face was cut off by Su Lin. Thanks to the sharp edge of Su Lin's steel knife at that time, he only cut to the bone, but did not cut off Mo Houkan's head.This time when attacking Xia, Mo Houkan continued to serve as the forward general.

"Tie it tight, tie it tight!" Seeing two captured slaves slide a slippery piece of wood into the river and disappear in an instant, Mo Hou Kan was furious, stepped forward, and kicked one of the slaves. He turned his back on all fours and cursed: "You dog! You're going to die!"

Immediately, two Xianbei soldiers went up and chased the slave with a whip. With more than a dozen whips, his body was ripped apart, blood was dripping from the corners of his mouth, and he repeatedly begged for mercy.

Mo Hou Kan snorted, waved his hands and said: "Forget it, I made an unintentional mistake, I'm afraid that the construction period will be delayed, and our lives will be lost."

At this moment, I suddenly heard Xianbei soldiers yelling in panic: "Enemy attack, enemy attack, Han dog fleet..."

Mo Hou Kan looked up and saw three large ships spread out on the river surface, these big ships were sailing at high speed against the wind and waves.Hou Kan shouted, "Archers, get ready!"

Immediately, Xianbei soldiers and civilian slaves blew up their nests, running around like headless chickens. On the pontoon bridge that was less than half built just now, many civilian husbands and slaves, and even soldiers from the Xianbei Yan Army fell into the river. Disappear on the water.Looking at the messy scene, Hou Kan drew out his saber, and slashed at the slaves who were running around.

After killing more than a dozen civilian husbands and several soldiers, the chaotic riot finally subsided.Four or five thousand Yan Army bowmen stood on the pontoon bridge, nodding their arrows to strings, and waiting for a serious battle.

Xie Xuan, whose pseudonym was Zhu Yingting, divided the entire navy into twelve fleets. Each fleet from the first to ninth fleets was responsible for rivers ranging from 150 to 230 miles, while the tenth to No.12 and the Chinese fleet served as The mobile support force, the river surface of more than 200 miles from Xingyang to Huangxu, belongs to the defense area of ​​the Fourth Fleet of the Xia Guo Navy.The Fourth Fleet consists of thirteen large and small warships consisting of three eight-slot ships, four square boats and six bird ships.

As the Buqi shipyard became more proficient in refitting warships, the progress of Xia Guo's warship refitting became faster and faster.Almost every day, more than a dozen large and small warships can join the Xia Army Navy.In addition to these thirteen large and small warships in the current Fourth Fleet, more than half of the warships have not yet been refitted.Once all the refits are completed, each fleet will have six high-speed bird boats, 22 square boats, and four to eight eight-slot boats that are not waiting.

In fact, as early as when Murong Ping had just chosen Liuyuandu as the place to cross the river, the Fourth Fleet had actually discovered the actions of the Yan Army. However, the Fourth Fleet was worried that Murong Ping was just making a fool of himself, so they did not immediately dispatch, but conducted secret surveillance on the south bank of the Yellow River. However, when the Fourth Fleet discovered that Yan State did not even make a feint attack, the Fourth Fleet finally launched an attack when Yan State was halfway through the construction of the pontoon bridge.

Although Hou Kan is a landlubber, he is a battle-tested warrior. He rectifies his steps and prepares to use his bow and crossbow to inflict heavy damage on the Xia army's navy.However, the ideal is full, but the reality is too skeletal.

The Fourth Fleet of the Xia Army Navy was [-] steps away from the pontoon bridge, and thirteen large and small warships were anchored across the water. Looking at this scene, Hou Kan was puzzled: "What the hell is Xia Jun doing?"

Dozens of Yan Guoxin's new affiliated troops (traitor troops) with their upper bodies bare and daggers in hand, made a gesture to dive into the water and attack enemy ships from the bottom. This was the basic form of water warfare during the period of jumping gang warfare.However, this so-called water ghost army attacking enemy ships is actually similar to the death squads of later generations carrying explosives to blow up enemy tanks. Although they can occasionally blow up a few enemy tanks with good luck, more often they are sent to death. Especially on the choppy Yellow River.

Hou Kan's answer was naturally revealed soon.

(End of this chapter)