Eastern Jin Invincible Iron Army

Chapter 327 Iron Locking the Yellow River
As Xia Jun's navy patrolled the Yellow River more and more closely, Yan Guoping, the southern governor, could not find a place where he could cross the river.But Murong Ke was not willing to look at the river and sigh, so he ordered Wang Xia to lead the new attached army with three thousand healthy soldiers who were familiar with water. Rope for armed swimming.

To say that this plan is quite crazy, crossing the Yellow River at night is inherently dangerous, not to mention swimming across the river, this way of crossing the river is simply sending soldiers to death.In Murong Ke's eyes, the lives of Wang Xia and other new attached troops are nothing at all, as long as the new attached army is exhausted, it is a big deal to catch them.Not to mention that Wang Xia and other 30 newly attached troops were all killed in battle, even if it was [-], he would not feel distressed.

He opened the bow without turning back the arrow. Although Wang Xia felt the danger, he had no choice but to obey Murong Ke's order, otherwise as long as he hesitated for a moment, Murong Ke would order to release the arrow without hesitation.

In the dark night, Wang Xia jumped into the icy river with the help of alcohol.

"Cold, so fucking cold!"

As soon as Wang Xia jumped into the water, he felt a biting chill.Although the sun is shining brightly in March, the temperature will drop to seventeen or eight degrees every night, and the rushing water of the Yellow River will quickly take away the heat from the body.Shivering, Wang Xia stammered and shouted: "Hurry up, hurry up the fuck, swim hard if you don't want to die."

One after another, soldiers from the Yan State's new affiliated army jumped into the icy river.In order to swim across the Yellow River with arms, Murong Ke also took corresponding measures. He asked each soldier of the newly attached army to carry two gourds to increase his own buoyancy.At the same time, make a group of ten people to avoid being washed away by the rushing river.

In response to that sentence, the ideal is plump, but the reality is too skinny.

Under the leadership of Wang Xia, more than [-] soldiers of the newly attached army slowly swam to the other side of the Yellow River, but with every step forward, entire groups of them disappeared on the water.

When Gao Jingzong changed the ten Zhonglang generals of the Beifu Army into the current Ninth Division of the Xia Army, each division of the Xia Army became a field corps. When the troops were transferred to fight outside, the defense of the local area was imminent.Gao Jingzong used retired and wounded soldiers as the backbone, and asked local gentry and common people to contribute to the formation of the Village Bravery Camp.In theory, except for Xia Jun's registered soldiers, each household draws a dime to participate in the village brave camp.The organizational system of the township brave battalion remains unchanged, and it is designated as temporary jurisdiction by the county captains of the counties.

The establishment of Xiangyong is not fixed.Shangxian counties have thousands or thousands of soldiers, and there are also tens of thousands of soldiers. Some counties are small or have few people, and township counties have only hundreds or dozens of people.There are exceptions to everything. For example, Sui County has the largest number of people today, but because the Eighth Division is permanently stationed in Sui County, it defends Sui County.Therefore, the establishment of Xiangyong is not necessary.Therefore, the Yongying Camp in Suixian Township has only 58 soldiers.

On the other side of Yanggu County, the Township Yongying Camp in Wuyan County is of the same nature as the Yongying Camps in other townships in the Xia Kingdom, with a full staff of more than [-] people.

Wang Xia led [-] Yan troops to cross the Yellow River at night. After a lot of effort, Wang Xia finally set foot on the land of Wuyan County.At this time, Wang Xia almost didn't even have the strength to lift his fingers.Wang Xia is very sleepy now, but he knows that he must not sleep at this time.Otherwise, once you fall asleep, you will never wake up again.

While stomping his feet lightly, he moved his limbs. After a while, he took off his clothes tremblingly and wrung out the water.Then put on the wet clothes, if you open your eyes at this time, you can see Wang Xia's lips are blue from the cold.

From noon on March 3000th, he began to swim across the Yellow River. When Wang Xia counted the troops at midnight, he found sadly that out of 500 people crossing the river, only less than [-] people made it to the other side safely, which means that nearly half of them disappeared. In the Yellow River.

Although 500 people arrived across the Yellow River safely, in fact, everyone knew that if there was no large army of the Yan army to cross the river, let alone 500 people, even 5000 people, there would be no chance to cause waves in Xia Kingdom.The real purpose of Murong Ke's use of the newly attached army to swim across is not actually to let them raid the cities. When Xia Guo didn't react, they might be able to capture one or several cities by surprise.However, compared to the national war between Yanxia and Xia, the gains and losses of one city and one place will not affect the overall situation at all.

After resting for a long time, I recovered my strength.Wang Xiaming began to connect the string tied around his waist.With the neat force of 500 people, the thin rope was pulled out from the opposite bank bit by bit.

Murong Ke is also an excellent strategist of the Yan State. When he discovered that Gao Jingzong used the Xia Army's navy to block the Yellow River, he began to reflect on how to break through the Xia Army's naval defense and successfully build a pontoon bridge to allow the Yan Army's large forces to break through the Yellow River. Line of defense, advance to the south bank of the Yellow River.Of course, it is too late to build a warship now in terms of time.When Gao Jingzong was in Shengping for three years, he wanted to build a navy.Reluctantly, he discovered that ordinary wood was not enough to build naval warships, and wood that had been dried in the shade for three years had to be used. Later, Gao Jingzong only had to negotiate with the Xin'an Merchant League to requisition their merchant ships to serve as naval warships.Later, with the joining of the Jiangnan Business League, Gao Jingzong had a strong navy in a very short period of time.But even if Gao Jingzong had three or four hundred warships, it seemed that his strength was not weak, but the navy of the Eastern Jin Dynasty was really strong, and their navy warships numbered in the thousands.

Of course, for Murong Ke, even if Yan State puts all of its efforts into building a navy, there is no way to build a naval fleet that can rival Gao Jingzong in a short period of time, unless Yan State can delay the time to go south.Of course, this idea is simply impossible. You must know that Gao Jingzong is ambitious, and it doesn't take three years. Now that he has started to cross the north and conquer the city in Jizhou, the time for Yan is also short.

Just when Murong Ke was at a loss, Murong Kai, Murong Ke's son, said, "Why don't you lock the Yellow River with iron?"

It was only then that Murong Ke suddenly realized that at the end of the Three Kingdoms period, Wu Yan, the prefect of Jianping in the state of Wu, picked up pieces of wood from the river. We should increase troops to defend Jianping, if Jianping cannot be attacked, the Jin army will not dare to go east." Sun Hao refused to listen.In order to prevent the Jin army's navy from going down the river, Wu Yan ordered people to build iron locks across the Yangtze River to prevent the Jin army's navy from going down the river.

But after thinking about it carefully, Murong Ke shook his head again and said: "Kai'er has a good idea, but if it is to be implemented, it is unlikely. Wu Jiangyan locked Hengjiang with iron, and Jin Longxiang General Wang Jun melted the iron lock with fire, and finally destroyed the state of Wu .”

Murong Kekai said: "Dare to ask my father, how much time did Wang Longxiang spend?"

Murong Ke burst into laughter, and only then did he understand what Murong Kai was really referring to.Wang Jun entered Stone City (Jiankang, later Nanjing) on ​​March 279th of the first lunar month in the fifth year of Xianning (280 A.D., [-] A.D., the first year of Taikang), and Wu Yan successfully blocked it regardless of the time recorded. Wang Jun lasted for a hundred days, and now Yan State also lacks time. If the iron lock can stop Xia State's navy, let alone a hundred days, even if it can stop it for ten days, it is enough for Yan State to successfully build a pontoon bridge and leap to Henan.

(End of this chapter)