The connection between the Xixia army and Xingqing Prefecture that invaded the Xihe Road of the Song Dynasty mainly took the Yellow River waterway. The Yellow River, more than a thousand miles from Lanzhou to Xingqing Prefecture, is the most stable section of water, which is very suitable for surface navigation.

The water surface transportation in Xixia is mainly sheepskin rafts. They also used the sheepskin rafts to the extreme, forming a single blowing sheepskin into an ultra-large surface transportation tool, which can carry thousands or even tens of thousands of kilograms of goods.

The largest sheepskin raft is like a hill, full of piles of grain and slowly walking on the river surface. If it is countercurrent, it also requires fiber pulling.

Xihe Road is a prosperous and prosperous area in the Tang Dynasty. Due to climate change, by the Song Dynasty, it had become very cold, with slow growth of crops and sharp decline in population. Xihe Road has become one of the fewest and most poor areas in the Song Dynasty.

Although the attack on Xihe Road was a century-old national policy for Xihe Road, the benefits of Xihe Road were not many. In addition to the benefits on the land, in terms of material and food consumption, it was negative. The 80,000 troops of Xihe Road in Xihe Road were consumed every day, except for grabbing part from Xihe Road, most of the supplies still had to be obtained from the mother country of Xixia.

The Yellow River is the most important supply line for the troops sent to Xihe Road in Xihe Road. Thousands of super-large rafts continue to pass through the Yellow River, ensuring the morale and morale of the Xihe Road in Xihe Road.

As early as after Li Yanqing captured the Tachou Village, he sent an elite force of 500 people to the west into the Yellow River area. This army was led by Zhang Shun and the three Ruan clans were deputy leaders. Their mission was to destroy the water traffic between Xixia and Xihe Road and cut off the material supply line of Xixia to Xihe Road.

These 500 soldiers were mainly from the old subordinates of Zhang Shun and Ruan's three heroes. They were all proficient in water and were good at fighting on the surface and underwater. They were a special water army in the Jingzhao Army.

After Zhang Shun and the three Ruan Heroes entered the Xishou Baotai Military Division in the southwest of Xixia, they lurked and waited patiently for the opportunity to take action.

That afternoon, on the western foot of Roolang Mountain in the north of Huizhou, the Five Hundred Song Army was resting in a forest. It was about ten miles away from the Yellow River. Standing on the Aigang, you can clearly see the situation in the Yellow River. Moreover, the terrain on both sides was complicated and the army was difficult to move, which made the Five Hundred Navy Army elusive in this area and had not been discovered by the Western Xia Army so far.

In front of a large rock in the middle of the woods, Zhang Shun pointed to the map and said to the Sanxiong of Ruan: "We have seen three empty rafts heading north. It should be today and tomorrow. The Xixia material fleet will head south. This time it should be a large-scale supply and also our opportunity to make contributions."

The three Ruan Heroes agreed with Zhang Shun's judgment. Ruan Xiaoer pondered for a moment: "The main forces of the Western Xia army are in Lanzhou recently. Will they move the supply and logistics camp from Huizhou to Lanzhou?"

"With this possibility, we will move to Huizhou next step and focus on the every move of the Xixia army."

The three of them were discussing, and at this time, one of them came forward to report, "Report to General Zhang, three General Ruan, the spy we sent has returned!"

Zhang Shun was waiting for news from the spy. He was overjoyed when he heard this and hurriedly said, "Let him come and report!"

Soon, a scout soldier walked over quickly and knelt down on one knee to salute, "I'm not here to see General Zhang, and to see General Ruan!"

Ruan Xiaoqi stepped forward and raised the scout and smiled, "We only care about your information and don't want to listen to your remarks!"

The scout scratched his head and said, "There is indeed good news!"

"But the enemy's fleet went south?" Zhang Shun asked anxiously.

“That’s right!”

The scout explained in detail: "About 800 large rafts were heading south with supplies. Now they should have reached thirty miles away and will pass by us at any time."

Ruan Xiaowu slapped the table on one day, "What are you waiting for? Just act according to the plan!"

"Wait a minute!"

Zhang Shun stopped him, "Let's revisit the plan again to see if there are any loopholes?"

The four of them discussed for a while, discussed several possibilities in the plan, and then they followed the original plan to divide the labor.

The raft team heading south from Xingqing Prefecture is moving against the current and requires manual firing. The Yellow River in this area has Lingbo Mountain to the north and Roolang Mountain to the south. Hundreds of miles are winding in the mountains. The firing team can only be located on the west bank of the Yellow River. This makes the raft transportation team necessarily sail on the west bank. After clarifying these details, the 500 Song army had a clear plan.

A corner of the southwest of Roulang Mountain goes deep into the Yellow River, forming a peninsula that is half a mile long and seven or eight miles wide. The island is covered with towering black pine forests, and piles of reefs stand by the Yellow River. It is very difficult to enter this peninsula by land. It takes at least two days to walk to get here. However, it is easy to get ashore by water. There are no people in this area for hundreds of miles, and there are a large number of wild beasts and elks living in the deep forest.

At night, the mountain wind quickly passed the water surface, the waves slapped the reefs, and the mountain wind rushed into the pine forest. The pine forest was undulating and making a whimpering sound. Zhang Shun and Ruan Xiaowu led 300 soldiers to lurk in the pine forest, waiting patiently for the raft team to arrive. They are the main force of the operation tonight.

In addition, Ruan Xiaoer and Ruan Xiaoqi each led 100 people to deploy ten miles away from north to south. They were responsible for intercepting the transport rafts that had escaped the net.

The Song army was not anxious. According to experience, the rafts could not sail at night and should be parked twenty miles away at this time and set off at about five o'clock.

Except for a dozen sentries on the peninsula, the others were sleeping under the pine trees wrapped in thick blankets. There were thick pine needles on the ground. I don’t know that they had accumulated for hundreds of years and were very soft. The soldiers all slept very deeply.

At about four o'clock, a sentry hiding in a pine tree to observe the river surface finally discovered the fleet coming from afar. It was particularly clear under the moonlight. He immediately rushed down the big tree and woke Zhang Shun and Ruan Xiaowu, "General, the fleet is here!"

Zhang Shun jumped up and immediately ordered: "Let the soldiers all rise!"

The soldiers were woken up one after another, and they were ready to throw away the blankets. Each of them was wearing black water, and a sharp dagger was tied to each of their legs.

At this time, the fleet was still three miles away. Zhang Shun summoned everyone forward and whispered: "I will repeat again that we are not here to snatch supplies, but to destroy supplies and let food and supplies fall into the Yellow River. We will complete the task. It is very simple to deal with rafts. As long as the raft is lost, the raft will overturn. However, when the materials fall into the water, everyone must try to stay away from them to prevent being dragged into the bottom of the water. Pay attention to protecting themselves. Do you understand?"

"I understand!" everyone answered in unison.

At this time, many soldiers took off their water, were naked and wore shorts on their lower body. They felt more comfortable getting naked into the water, and Zhang Shun didn't force them to act according to their habits.

Everyone crawled on the edge of the pine forest. At this time, the fleet appeared a mile away. Below was a huge leather raft. The cargo was piled up on the leather raft, mainly food, weapons, armor, tinder oil and firearms and other supplies. Zhang Shun waved his hand, and the Song soldiers rushed out of the pine forest and hid behind piles of reefs.

The Yellow River from Lanzhou to Xingqing Prefecture belongs to the upper reaches, about 30 ft to 100 ft wide. The peninsula is slightly narrow, and the Yellow River is only more than 40 ft wide, but the water is very deep, and the shallowest part is more than 2 ft. When soldiers enter the water, they directly enter the depth of the water.

More than 40 feet wide is equivalent to about 120 meters. For these soldiers who can cross the Yangtze River, this distance is no problem at all. Everyone can swim more than a dozen round trips.

The raft team consisted of more than 800 super-large rafts, stretching for more than ten miles. When the rafts passed through the peninsula for five or six miles, the soldiers began to ground silently.

Ten soldiers were escorted on each raft, but Xixia soldiers never dreamed that Song army water ghosts would appear on both sides of the deserted Yellow River. The soldiers were sitting on the rafts chatting. The rafts on both sides were high, so that everyone had a back leaning on their backs. Unless they stood up, no one could see the situation in the Yellow River.

At this time, it was not dawn, and the banks of the Yellow River were pitch black. You could vaguely see the mountains on the east bank and the pine forests on the shore. On the west bank was the Gobi Desert, thousands of boaters were hunched over and pulling the ropes with difficulty.

The river surface was originally covered with black lacquer water waves, but it was reflected by the moonlight, causing the river surface to be shimmering white light.

Zhang Shun took the lead in getting into the water. He took a deep breath and rushed towards the largest raft.

A fierce thrust out dozens of feet. When Zhang Shun came up from the bottom of the water, a huge raft as small appeared in front of him. It was a super-large raft full of three hundred bags of grain, each bag of grain weighing one stone, making the entire raft carry tens of thousands of kilograms.

Zhang Shun carefully studied the leather rafts and knew that the biggest weakness of the leather raft was at the bottom. This super-large leather raft had at least a dozen layers of leather sewn at the bottom, which was very strong, but no matter how strong it was, it could not withstand the sharp dagger cutting.

At this time, the Xixia soldiers not far away burst into a scream of fear. Zhang Shun turned around and saw Ruan Xiaowu crawling out of a raft with a proud face. He had already succeeded. The food on the raft behind him, like a hill suddenly disappeared out of thin air, and it was obvious that all fell into the water, causing the water surface to begin to ripple violently.

Zhang Shun sneaked into the bottom of the water, and with a light stroke of his arms, he appeared at the bottom of the raft like a fish. He pulled out a sharp dagger, stabbed into the raft with one knife, and swam forward with all his might. He heard a burst of bursts of rafts. The bottom of the raft was completely cut open by him. The tens of thousands of kilograms of grain on the raft suddenly broke through the bottom of the raft, like an hourglass, and bags of grain began to fall into the water and sank to the bottom of the river.
Chapter completed!