Jiang Zhao hurriedly climbed to a high place to look, and his expression suddenly changed greatly.
There are at least hundreds of boats, although they are all small boats, and the largest is only the size of ordinary merchant ships, but many boats are piled up with firewood, if in the Yangtze River, Jiang Zhao is naturally not afraid, with superb boat handling skills, it is enough to dodge the fireboats going downstream, but the Yellow River is different.
The modern Jinan section of the Yellow River, the width of the river is 500 meters, which is not as good as the Huai River, even if the ancient Yellow River is slightly wider, it is only about one thousand meters, and the water army cannot be used at all.
On the other hand, the Yellow River is a sand-bottomed river, and the bottom of the river is gently descending, which seems to be far from the shore, but the actual water depth is not much, which further restricts the fleet's room to dodge and move.
Throughout the history of China, there has never been a fleet across the Yellow River, not because people at that time were not aware of the importance of blockading the Yellow River with a strong naval army, but because the Yellow River was indeed not suitable for a large fleet.
Shi Le just didn't expect the Eastern Navy fleet to dare to go north to the Yellow River, so he was defenseless, and was instantly cut off from the north and south of the river.
"How's it going?"
Jiang Yan asked by pulling his neck below.
Jiang Zhao said loudly: "There are hundreds of boats coming upstream, and there are fireboats, retreat, retreat, quickly leave the Yellow River" Fortunately, the boat was already heading downstream, and when it was ordered, it was not in a hurry, and the oarsman paddled hard, stirring up the turbid waves of the road, and in a narrow channel, quickly sailed downstream.
"Chase, chase" On the one hand, small boats are susceptible to wind and waves, floating left and right, which will offset part of the power brought by the oars, while the large boats have a deep draft and are more stable.
On the other hand, although the big boat is large and starts slowly, there are more people paddling, and the large tonnage brings greater inertia.
This is also thanks to the ship to go all the way to measure all the way, otherwise under the unknown water conditions, such a crazy boat, I am afraid it will not be long before it will run aground.
"Chase, chase" "The king has set up a barrage downstream to see where they run" Listening to the sound of the wind, everyone's hearts sank.
Jiang Zhao waved his hand and said: "It's not difficult to break the barrage cable, if you want to move it in a hurry, it's better to get rid of the boat behind first." “ Jiang Yan looked back and frowned: "Ah Weng, it will take time to break the iron cable, and the boat is in pursuit, according to Er's opinion, it is better to scuttle the two ships at the end and block the channel to stop the pursuers." “ "Let's go fast" Jiang Zhao nodded.
The oarsmen are desperately rowing the big oars, and the back is chasing desperately, but the boating skills of the people are really not good, and the rowing is too fierce, it is easy to lose control, and although the water surface of the Yellow River is not wide, the wind and waves are not small, some boats are in the turbulence, suddenly a wave hits, and it turns over in an instant, and the people on the boat fall into the water like dumplings, splashing and calling for help.
"Uh, uh" "Help, help, pull me up" "Damn, there's so much sand in the water You must know that the Yellow River has a large sediment content, and drinking a sip of Yellow River water is worth filling 100 mouthfuls of Yangtze River water, the Yangtze River at that time was turquoise, because the upstream ecology has not been damaged, the sediment content is very small, just carry the river water up, a little precipitation, you can drink directly.
Bai Juju once had a poem: Jiangnan is good, the scenery is old, the sunrise river flowers are red, and the river is as green as blue in spring, so you can not remember Jiangnan This poem vividly interprets the grand occasion of the Yangtze River surging eastward at that time.
The turbidity of the Yellow River is monstrous, as long as a few mouthfuls of turbid yellow water are filled, the mouth and esophagus are full of sand, and even choked by the water, the trachea and lungs are filled with sand, coughing non-stop, the more coughing the more choking, not to mention how uncomfortable it is.
Although there were not many overturned boats, the narrow waterway had some effect, and when it was almost dark, the fleet finally threw the pursuers upstream for dozens of miles, and then slowly stopped, and Jiang Zhao immediately ordered the sergeants on the last two ships to abandon the ship.
Under the control of the old boatman, the two boats gradually overlapped together, across the middle of the river, and a group of soldiers boarded the boat in an orderly manner, transferred to other ships, leaving the last few water ghosts, scuttled the boat, and then fled quickly.
In the waves, the two ships slowly sank, and gradually whirlpooled, and suddenly there was a loud uproar, and a turbid wave surged.
The Yellow River is not deep, a few characters below, generally not more than three zhang, there are modern hydrological data records, the shallowest part of the Yellow River is only half a meter deep, even in previous years, the Yellow River is often broken.
Although the two boats sank, the masts were still on the water.
"Be careful, don't hit the rope at night."
Jiang Zhao waved his hand.
There were two boats sinking in the center of the river, it was very difficult to move away, in the Yellow River, no one could use their fists and feet, the fleet was not worried about being caught up again in a short time, and moved forward slowly, not long after, there was a rumbling sound for ten miles behind, and everyone looked at each other and smiled.
Unconsciously, the night passed, and when the sky was just dawning, hundreds of feet ahead, in the turbid yellow water, a thick black iron chain vaguely appeared.
In that era, to build a barrage of iron cable must be to pour the power of the country for it, although the Yellow River is narrower, but with the productivity level of Zhao, to create a is still relatively reluctant, Jiang Yan looked at it, then he sneered: "Ah Weng, this iron cable is not difficult to break, there are only more than 1,000 soldiers at the base of the south bank to defend, and I am willing to lead a sharp pawn to break it."
Good" Jiang Zhao didn't talk nonsense.
Jiang Yan immediately got into the flat-bottomed boat, commanded more than a dozen, and rowed towards the riverbank.
Just like the modern bridge, if you want to hang an iron cable on the river surface, you must first have support, such a long iron cable, at least dozens of tons of weight, the general support is not suspended, on both sides of the river, there is a big stone each, the iron cable is coiled on it, so as to support the weight, not far from the river surface, about 30 zhang.
"Put" The crossbowmen were already ready, and with an order, rows of short arrows shot over, and the keel battleship in the center of the river also shot out three-foot giant arrows simultaneously, which was undoubtedly a catastrophe for the defenders, and the horses, shields, and nothing worked, because the enemy was on the water, and in an instant, hundreds of people were killed.
"Little General, the boat behind is here again" At this time, the hopeful soldiers on the keel battleship shouted loudly.
Jiang Yan looked back, there were many shadows, about ten miles away, and he would be able to arrive soon.
"Docking" Jiang Yan was in a hurry and immediately ordered.
His boat left the brigade and headed for the riverbank.
Jiang Zhao's heart sank, but he didn't say anything, but his eyes shot a fierce look.
In an instant, the arrows became more violent, pouring away as if they didn't want money, and everyone knew that every breath of time was extremely precious.
The shore is also shouting: "Hold, hold, our ship is coming, as long as we hold the base, it will be difficult for the East China Sea Army to fly" Even if most of them were damaged in the rain of arrows, the rest did not flee, but shouted fiercely.
"Boom".
There was a sharp shock to the bottom of the ship, and many soldiers were caught off guard and scattered and fell away.
It is clear that it ran aground.
Jiang Yan held on to the boat gang and shouted: "Jump down" After speaking, he ripped off the iron armor and jumped into the river.
The turbid yellow water dyed Jiang Yan into a clay figure in an instant, but all the soldiers on the ship were not afraid, they took off their armor one after another, and jumped into the river.
The river was not deep, but only to the chest, and everyone walked to the shore step by step as if they had been fished out of the mud, carrying only shields, spears, and knives, and a limited number of axes.
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"Shoot the Arrow" "Shoot the Arrow" The defenders leaned against the boulders for cover, and arrows were fired.
There were more than 100 sailors who disembarked from the boat, all of them were unarmoured, and a few of them were hit by arrows on the spot, but no one was afraid, but ran faster and faster with their shields.
The ship was also crazy with arrows, suppressing firepower, especially the three-foot giant arrows, which were shot in clusters, as long as they were shot, the corpses flew sideways, and even many war horses suffered unjustified disasters.
"Damn, kill" A Qiang general was visibly ruthless.
"Those who dare not rush on the horse will die at this moment" The man turned on his horse, raised his spear and looked at the people, and his eyes were full of ferocity, and at this moment a huge arrow was fired, and this man shouted loudly, and waved his spear to block it.
There was a loud bang of "dang".
The huge arrow was actually knocked away, and the huge force made him kneel on his horse's legs, overturning him off the horse, and a wisp of blood gushed out from the corner of his mouth, but it was nothing more, and then he got on another horse nimbly.
The others had to bite the bullet and rush to kill them.
"This man must be shot" Jiang Zhao said coldly
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