Changfeng Thousands of Miles End Han Song

Chapter 75 The Second Fire
When the night covers the earth, the moonlight fills the sky, and meteors streak across the mighty lake of Liangshanpo.On the mountain, under the mountain, the lights are bright.

The Song army is preparing for the attack of Lu Qian's camp. Let's see Lu Qian's brilliant fights these few times. The night battle has taken too much weight; and Lu Qian is also guarding against the night attack of the Song army. Song Jun touched the pass and desperately covered the Tin Woodman in infantry armor to climb the city. It didn't take much, just a dozen or so, and Lu Qian could give up the first pass directly.

Lu Qian stared at Jinshatan with piercing eyes.

Today, he has seen the fighting power of Zhao Song's forbidden army, at least he knows the fighting power of Jingdong's forbidden army.

As he judged, trash!In addition to the super equipment, the will to fight is sincere.It is not a joke to say that they are inferior to local soldiers in this regard.

Of course, these can't obliterate the super lethality of the imperial army lined up in the formation, against teams with no armor or few armor.Regardless of the lack of fighting will of the Jeju Forbidden Army, they have a lot of psychological advantages over the bandits. When confronted head-on, the Forbidden Army's crossbow array can exert a strong lethality.

It's just that Jiang Lei doesn't know how many wooden rafts filled with dead branches and weeds Lu Qian has prepared for him tonight.

Those wooden rafts are now hidden in the surrounding reeds. Some of them have been poured with grease, and some are not. Regardless of whether they are there or not, they will be pushed by manpower, wind, and water waves. Waves approached the berths of the Song Army ships in Jinshatan, Donggang, and Xigang, and then burned.

This is not a sneak attack, but an overt conspiracy.

You Song Jun will definitely take precautions against this point, Jiang Lei will not be ignorant of Huang Anbu's lesson.

But if you blocked the first wave and the second wave, can you continue to block the third, fourth, and fifth waves?Do you know how many wooden rafts Lu Qian has asked the minions to rush to make in the past few days?
Liangshan Po has a large area of ​​reed marshes, and many wooden rafts can be hidden inside.With his back against the reeds and the huge Liangshan, would Lu Qian be short of fuel?
The month is at the zenith.Ruan Xiaoqi was suddenly woken up by someone. He looked up at the moon in the sky, and it was time.

The Ruan brothers targeted one place, and Ruan Xiaoqi couldn't earn more than his elder brother and second brother, so he was pushed to Xigang.There are only twenty people under him.

But when more than 20 wooden rafts suddenly burst into flames and rushed towards the berth of the Song Army ships, the momentum was very spectacular.

None of the three Song armies dared to relax their vigilance at night, especially the East and West ports, which were relatively weak in strength.It is true that they did not find a path up the mountain in half a day today, but who can guarantee that the Liangshan bandits who have lived on the mountain for a long time do not know that there is a direct way to the East and West Ports?
When the night fight came, it was difficult for the main village to rescue.According to the training level of the Song army, it is better to ask them to herd sheep directly if they are required to rush to the East and West Ports for rescue at night.

"Enemy attack, enemy attack..."

Shrill roars and 'booming' gongs rang out from the Donggang Song Army Camp, which was still quiet just a moment ago.Although Lei Heng was resting in the tent tonight, he didn't take off his clothes. Hearing the sound outside, he stood up straight, grabbed the waist knife by the bed and hurried out.

He saw that there were already at least thirty or forty archers shooting arrows at the river.At the same time, large flaming wooden rafts were pouring towards the berths of the ships in the port.

"Dutou,..."

The soldier on duty at night shouted nervously.

"Quickly ask the archers and spearmen to go up the trestle and the wooden wall, and the archers will shoot arrows at the water surface, and the spearmen will quickly push the fire boat away." Lei Heng made a reasonable judgment in the shortest time.At this time, Zhao Xianwei is just a waste.

Compared with Lei Heng's response here, the Xigang Song Army, dominated by Huang An's defeated troops, is now in chaos.

Ruan Xiaoqi against Donggang was only quite satisfactory, but Ruan Xiaowu against Westport was very creative. When he led a group of people to quietly push the wooden raft not far from the Song Army's water village, he first lit the wooden raft, which attracted the bravery of Xigang In a panic, he led people to sneak up close, drilled out of the water, used the sharpened wooden spear as a harpoon, and threw it at the Song army's archers. Even though they only hit six or seven people, they still frightened the archers in Tuyong. .

After that, Ruan Xiaowu found the right way to attack. With reed sticks in their mouths and wooden guns in their hands, the group swam easily to the water village, surfaced, quietly observed the opponent, and saw the opportunity to throw the wooden gun. gun, and dive back into the water.Due to the influence of the flames and gunpowder smoke, the Song army could only let the archers shoot randomly, but the lake is so big, how can they block it?The successive screams and the muffled thud on the lake seemed to be a perfect match.

After such an attack, although Ruan Xiaowu lost three of his subordinates, even he himself was bitten by the arrow. Fortunately, the arrow was soft and pierced his left arm, less than half an inch into the flesh. .

But these brave archers collapsed.Because they lost "quickly" at the same time, the wooden wall and fence around the Song Army's water village were burned down by fire rafts, and several fire rafts broke in through the collapsed gap. Do you have the courage to continue fighting?
To expect them to jump onto the walkway with bows and long spears to continue fighting at this time, hehe, that's just a dream.

Jiang Lei had already understood at this time what Liang Shan's plan was, and he had already seen through it.But he knew it, but how to resist it was another matter.

Lu Qian's night attack was not aimed at killing or injuring the Song soldiers, nor was it aimed at destroying their camps. The only purpose of this night attack was to burn the Song soldiers' moored vehicles.The Song army had only been on Liangshan for half a day, and no matter how many troops there were, it was impossible to build a fully-prepared camp on land and water.

If there was a strong sailor in the Song army, Jiang Lei would directly order someone to tear down the side of the fence of the water village at this time, and let the sailor drive a small boat to hunt the Liangshan bandits on the water.But it is a pity that he does not have such an army in his hands.

In the dark night, let the soldiers Min Zhuang drive the boat and load the soldiers of the Song Army to hunt and kill the Liangshan bandits in the water. Not to mention that Min Zhuang didn't have the courage, even Jiang Lei's officers and soldiers dared not step on the boat.

The Forbidden Army under him is most likely to be landlubbers, because the Forbidden Army changes its defense regularly, so that the troops do not know the generals, and the generals have no specialized troops.Jiang Lei's prestige among his soldiers was very low. Jingdong was a land of peace. Unlike the Western Army, which fought one battle after another, the Imperial Guard soldiers had no close relationship with Jiang Lei.If they were to take a small boat to hunt bandits in the water in the dark night, they would probably be facing Jiang Lei with swords in the next moment.

The military system of the old Zhao family determines that there is no great kindness between generals and soldiers in the army, especially in peacetime.The barracks are made of iron, the soldiers are flowing, and they are rotated every three years. These soldiers will not be willing to die for Jiang Lei.

As for the Xiangbing, to be honest, the Xiangbing in the Northern Song Dynasty were a group of laborers, and they rarely had time to practice martial arts.More are engaged in various kinds of labor, such as building bridges and roads, building cities, digging canals, manufacturing weapons and ships, transporting military supplies, raising horses, transporting officials and their families, brewing wine, etc.For example, Zhou Bin's giant camping, the task is to ensure the smooth flow of the Jishui waterway in the Jeju section, saying that they are soldiers, and they are more laborers.

There are nine generals and nine deputies on the entire Jingdong Road, a total of 5000 imperial troops, according to the official figures.During the Song Shenzong period, the old Zhao family reorganized the army, in addition to clearing the shortfall, and more importantly, shortened the retirement age from 61 to 51, so in theory there is no old, weak, sick and disabled.However, it can only be reorganized according to the 300 soldiers of the first horse battalion and the 400 soldiers of the first infantry battalion, which shows how terrifying the empty space is.In the official history, Li Gang, a famous official in the late Northern Song Dynasty, said: "Ping is long, and one-third of the forehead is missing." Most of them look like this!

This Jingdong is a place of peace for a long time, and Jiang Lei is not as brave as Qin Ming, which is admirable.Therefore, Jiang Lei can only stand and endure now, so as to wait until dawn before making plans.

What's more, the imperial army under him is not thousands of people at all.Apart from the Fourth Army in Tokyo, how can there be any army with full strength?There are only two battalions of banned troops in the entire Jeju Prefecture. There are more than 4 banned troops on the boundary of Jingdong. The focus is on Yingtianfu in Nanjing, Xuzhou, Huaiyang Army, Gaotang, Dengzhou, and Qingzhou. .The two battalions of the imperial army removed the old and the weak, and the number of troops was only five or six hundred soldiers.In this campaign, Jiang Lei has already taken all of them out, and stuffed in four hundred strong local warriors as the hand-to-hand soldiers.

Therefore, Jiang Lei's control over the entire army is very fragile.If this battle was fought smoothly, all crises could be covered up, but now it can't be done, and the contradictions will be exposed.

Jiang Leiming knew what the most correct course of action was, but his subordinate Song Bing refused.

At this moment, Jiang Lei was extremely regretful that when he sent troops, he did not reward the generals and promise wealth.

"Mr. Dujian." Zhou Bin's urgent voice sounded behind Jiang Lei, "These ships are the lifeline of the entire army, and they cannot be allowed to be burned by thieves. Why don't people pull out the walking boat..."

Zhou Bin's words made Jiang Lei's eyes shine.

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