In Hejian Prefecture, a fleet of hundreds of tugboats was slowly moving south along the Yongji Canal. Since it was going downstream, it did not require a boatman. However, there were 1,000 soldiers on both sides of the Taiwan Strait to protect it. This was the third round of transportation of food and supplies by the Hebei Army.

Two miles away from the west bank, a team of ten people in the Song Dynasty scouts were monitoring the fleet southward. At this time, night had quietly come, but the fleet showed no sign of resting on the dock and was still sailing in the river. This was also because the Jin soldiers marched south in large numbers, but they didn't carry much food and grass. Gao Qingyi had to prepare enough food and grass as soon as possible to prevent the Jin soldiers from lacking food and grass. In the end, Wanyan Xie also blamed himself.

Seeing that the fleet had not rested, the team Song army scout immediately accelerated and ran south.

The Song army has been staring at this fleet for five days. Li Zhen led 500 elite scouts and has been looking for opportunities to start.

Li Zhen finally placed the ambush at Dalong Town, the southmost part of Hejian Mansion. Dalong Town was once a big town. It flourished due to the business opportunities brought by the canal. It has now been abandoned. The entire town originally had more than 200 households, but now there are only a few households left. Most of the houses are empty and the yard is full of weeds.

Li Zhen liked this place for two reasons. One is that there are many abandoned houses in the town and it is easy to ambush. Secondly, the roads by the river are very narrow, only one foot wide, and people must walk sideways. Therefore, when soldiers pass by the town, they cannot walk along the river, but must bypass the town. This section is about 500 steps long, which is very suitable for the layout of the Song army.

More than twenty water ghosts were lurking in the river with tinder bags on their backs, waiting patiently for the arrival of the fleet. At around the hour of the 19th, the fleet finally arrived in a mighty manner. The soldiers escorted the town also knew the characteristics of the town and walked around the town and temporarily left the escort of the fleet.

The water ghosts acted quickly. They swam towards the fleet silently with tinder bags on their backs. There were only a dozen boatmen in the fleet, responsible for controlling the direction. The tugboats behind them were all 500 stone flat-bottomed boats, tied together with iron chains, and generally there was no need for boatmen. The boat was piled with high grain and grass, and it was covered with oil cloth. Although the thousand soldiers on the east coast could see the ship, they could not see the other side of the ship.

The water ghosts were very quick to move. Instead of climbing onto the boat, they climbed onto the side of the boat, used a sharp dagger to cut the oil cloth, poured some turmeric oil in, then slid into the water, and attacked another boat, dealing with about a hundred ships.

At this time, a scream suddenly came from the periphery of Dalong Town. The scout cavalry ambushed in the town attacked a thousand guards. They shot down more than 200 enemy troops with horn crossbows and then killed them. Five hundred elite cavalry fought against more than 700 ordinary Hebei soldiers, and the balance of the war completely turned towards the Song army.

The guards on the east coast were immediately panicked, and the commander sounded the horn, and the soldiers began to gather quickly.

War is a signal. The water ghosts began to ignite on the ship. One ship after another was ignited by torches. The fire took advantage of the wind and the tinder oil helped ignite. The fire burned extremely quickly. Several water ghosts bent over the ship with the torches and ran on the ship, igniting the oil cloth directly, especially the ship carrying the forage, were quickly ignited.

"Dang! Dock quickly!" the soldier on the east coast shouted.

The dense arrows shot at the water ghosts on the ship. Several water ghosts were shot one after another and screamed and fell into the water. At this time, the ship began to slowly approach the east coast.

Seeing that the situation was not good, and nearly half of the ships were still not lit, he shouted, "Come with me!"

Several subordinates followed him into the water. Suddenly, the head general rushed to the bow of the boat and slashed the boatman who was lying on the boat with a fierce knife. The other boatman was so scared that he dived and swam towards the shore.

The general snatched the bamboo pole and tried hard to support the boat in the opposite direction, preventing the fleet from moving closer to the east coast. Everyone worked hard to support the boat, and the ship began to lean on the west coast.

At this time, the soldiers on the east coast were furious and shot arrows at several boat-mounted water ghosts on the bow of the ship. One of the water ghosts screamed and was shot in the back of the back by an arrow and fell to the bow of the ship.

"Let's go down!"

The general heard a sudden voice, and he and several soldiers lay down one after another, but his hands kept on, and continued to prop up the boat toward the west coast.

There were more and more burning ships, and 70% of them had been ignited, but more than fifty ships had not been ignited yet. At this time, dozens of soldiers rushed from the shore to assist in the battle. They threw the turbulent barrels onto the unburned ships, and then the rockets were shot out, and the fire immediately started to burn.

The effect of the turtle oil barrel was immediately effective. In just a moment, more than fifty large ships were ignited, and fires surged into the sky on the entire river surface, forming a long fire dragon. The soldiers on the other side shouted and scolded, but had no choice but to do anything.

But considering the serious consequences of the fleet being burned, many soldiers began to flee.

When it was almost dawn, hundreds of ships were burned and there were only some dark wreckage left on the river. The soldiers on the east shore were gone. I don’t know if they were deserters overnight or went to Daming Mansion to report the crime, but the generals in charge abandoned their troops in the middle of the night and fled. Hundreds of ships were destroyed. As the main general, he would definitely die, so he simply ran away overnight.

At the fifth hour, when the last ship sank into the river, the entire Song army evacuated, but they still had a task, which was to monitor the main force of the Jin army. Five hundred cavalry sailed south at lightning and disappeared at the end of the plain.

The sky above Daming Mansion was covered with dark clouds, and a heavy rain seemed to be coming at any time. In the Jin army camp, the fierce drum sound was still ringing "dong!dong!", and 15,000 Jin soldiers rushed towards Daming City like a crazily. This was the third time that Wanyan Xie had siege in two days.

During the first day of the tentative attack, the Jin soldiers failed to break through the dense rain of arrows of the Song army, and nearly a thousand people were killed or injured and retreated. On the second attack, Wanyan Xi also forced Gao Qingyi's 30,000 troops to attack.

As a result, Gao Qingyi's army was blown up by the Song army's thunder and suffered heavy casualties, with more than 5,000 casualties, and the army was withdrawn with hatred.

After two tests, Wanyan Xie also understood the defense routines of the Song army, using the divine arm crossbow and the bed crossbow from the distance, and using the city bow and the sky-shaking thunder defense.

At this time, Wanyan Xie finally got the news that the 20,000 Jin soldiers in Xuzhou had been completely destroyed. This news made him heartbroken, but he could do nothing.

He is now more worried about the situation of the 30,000 Jin soldiers led by Wanyan Zonggan. Among the 30,000 people, there were 20,000 Jurchens, and there were also nobles like Wanyan Zonggan. If all the troops were wiped out, he really couldn't explain to the wolf master.

Wanyan Xie has no other choice now. He can only contact Lin'an's intelligence point if he takes down Daming Mansion as soon as possible.

But at the same time, Wanyan Xie also sent a few spies to use small rafts to smuggle across the Yellow River to see if they could contact the Jin soldiers in Yunzhou.

Amid the rumbling drums of the attack, the 15,000 Jin soldiers were divided into three square formations, and they advanced to the Daming Mansion wall together. The number of people was dense. From a high place, the black Jin soldiers were densely packed, like an ant colony, covering the earth outside the Daming City.

"Advance!" Amid the drums, the deputy commander of the Jin soldiers, Wanyan Zongfu, who was commanding this battle, shouted loudly,

"Be the first to kill the city and reward tens of thousands of sheep!"

Under the heavy reward, the Jin soldiers were particularly energetic and murderous.

"go ahead!"

Amid the thunder-like shouts, the Jin army advanced towards Daming City like a sea of ​​thunder. This time, the Jin soldiers used not many siege weapons, and the most important one was to strait ladders.

This is a simple siege ladder, that is, several big trees are nailed together with giant nails. These big trees are all poplar trees cut from nearby forests. They are straight and long. Each big tree grows four or five feet long, only retaining its main trunk. After nailing them together, they become temporary siege ladders.

It not only allows the Jin soldiers to rush across the moat, but also can get on the top of the city. A hundred Jin soldiers run on a row of ladders, and it can also resist the Song army's bows and arrows and bed crossbows.

On the top of the city, the Song army was ready. Sixty heavy fires on the north city were creakingly opened, and a giant thunder weighing 80 kilograms was placed in the launch trough.

In addition to fire, the Song army also cleared hundreds of bed crossbows from the warehouse, and after repairing it, it started to fight. This bed crossbow arrow was four feet long, with a range of five hundred steps, and a killing range of three hundred steps. It can shoot the Jin soldiers' war horses through, which is very powerful.

The Jin army was getting closer and closer and had entered the four hundred step line. General Song, who was in charge of commanding the crossbow, was the commander Zhang Damu. This was also a practical general who had taken the position of general step by step from a soldier. He was originally a general of Hua Rong, a crossbow camp, and had a sharp archery technique. This time he was selected to join Yan Qing's army.

Zhang Damu watched the Jin soldiers' attack wave approaching the city step by step. The front vanguard had reached three hundred steps. He shouted loudly, "Shoot!"

The Song army's bed crossbows were shot out together, and five hundred four-foot-long arrows were shot out in large numbers, and they shot at the Jin army. A group of people and horses fell over among the Jin soldiers. Nearly two hundred Jin cavalry led by the leader were shot down, and the powerful bed crossbows shot through their bodies. Some of the bed crossbows and arrows also shot two people to death at the same time.

The strong attack tempted Wanyan Zongfu. He disappeared from the casualties of the soldiers in front of him. A huge horn was in his hands. This was the order to withdraw.
Chapter completed!