467. Night attack on the mouth of the Han River
The Han River is a famous river on the Goryeo Peninsula. It originates from Mount Wutai, the western slope of the Taibai Mountains. It flows westward through Gangwon Province, Gyeonggi Province and Chungcheongbei Province. It converges with the Beihan River at the middle reaches of the Liangshuili, crosses Seoul, and connects with the Imjin River at the mouth of the river. The Irconic River converges and injects into Ganghwa Bay in the Yellow Sea.
The Han River is the fourth Yangtze River in Goryeo, second only to the Yalu River, Tumen River and Luodong River, but its important position is by no means inferior to other rivers. Because of its important status, the basin covers a wide range and a good sea outlet, it can well support the docking of river transport and sea transport.
Therefore, in history, no matter how the situation within Goryeo changes, the rulings' emphasis on the Han River has never changed. Until the 1960s, another father, who was sentenced to imprisonment of a female president, created a great economic leap and great development, and was also called the "Han River Miracle."
This shows how important the Han River has in Goryeo, supported by the outward-oriented economy.
On the hills near the Han River seven or eight kilometers, I silently looked at the Shibata Katsuya Military Camp, which was connected to the southeast, waiting for the arrival of that moment.
This camp has a long strip, like a long snake entrenched on the banks of the Han River. This way, it is beneficial and disadvantageous.
The advantage is that it is like a long snake, with heads and tails looking at each other, and it is not easy to be attacked by sneak attacks and robbed villages. At the same time, it is adjacent to the river and the terrain is flat, making it easy to obtain water and observe, and is not easy to be attacked by fire.
As for the disadvantages, Shibata Katsuya will soon find out...
The Nine Ghosts Zhengxiao Ce horse followed me, and suddenly pointed at Jiangshui in silence and said, "Sir, look, the water has slowed down significantly!"
I looked down and sure enough! The originally turbulent Han River water was only a shallow stream, just like a faucet that had been freely open and suddenly had half-switched on, and the water flowed from turbulent to splattering.
"Two thousand people are still too few..." I whispered.
Nine Ghosts Masayoshi responded softly and then continued: "But we do not intend to use this as the main means, nor do we aim to annihilate the enemy, so it should be enough."
I nodded and said lightly: "Let's wait for the result!"
At this point, no one in the entire team spoke, and they silently stared at the upper reaches of the Han River Estuary.
In the tranquility, my mind drifted to a very far place - Huamei and Yuan have been there for so long, but they still haven't come back. I don't know what the situation in the capital is now? I don't know how my father-in-law is doing, and are you in better health?
When the war came to an end, I seemed to be able to go back and see him. When the second uncle died of his illness, the Li family was destroyed. Huamei went abroad again, leaving only an old man alone at home, which was really pitiful.
Since Huamei and I are married now, we naturally have to do our best to do our filial piety. Unfortunately, he is unwilling to go to sea with me, otherwise I would have sent him to Nanyang. There are not so many intrigues and these messes, how good is it to enjoy my old age?
My mind was fluttering, and the quiet environment even made me feel a little drowsy. At this moment, I was suddenly awakened by a strange sound!
While Jiugui Zhengxiao shouted "Here I'm here", I also turned my head suddenly and looked upstream of the Han River!
In the darkness, what I saw was a wall! A gray-white wall that was approaching over time!
The wall followed the river and rushed unstoppably downstream - where Shibata Katsuya Village is located!
Sure enough, I came! I turned over and dismounted, grabbed the frightened horse and neighed after being frightened. The earth under my feet was trembling slightly! This is the power of nature!
The natural enemy shows off his might and everything is easy to avoid! In the face of the rising peak, the camp of tens of thousands of people actually seems so insignificant.
Two days ago, we confirmed that Shibata Katsuya's army began to camp in the lower reaches of the Han River, so I made this plan - prepare a large amount of stone waste and stockpile it upstream of the Han River. I also used iron wire and cotton and linen to weave it into a net bag in advance for today's use.
After Ye Sizhong and I separated, he led two thousand cavalry straight to the upper reaches of the Han River. He reached the most water level, spread a net bag, and sent someone to pull over the river from the floating bridge, and opened a flexible fence on the Han River.
At the same time, the stone waste prepared earlier was piled into the Han River water, just like building a dam. The embankment was built higher and higher, and the river water was gathering more and more after the dam!
Water really seems weak, but it is actually strong. When Ye Sizhong built the dam several times, he was almost washed into the river water, and the dam almost couldn't hold on for many times.
Only then did he remember what I said - don't let the dam be tightly tied and leave a few outlets, which can make the dam last longer!
Ye Sizhong thought to himself that he was saying that water can only be loose but not blocked every day, but why did he forget it when he used it today. While he was mocking himself, he ordered people to make a few gaps on the dam, and the water flow suddenly burst out!
Although the materials in the gaps were washed away by the water flow, they could still be repaired and repaired. And indeed, the gap was left. The dam was longer, and the water wall was already two or three meters high, and it had faintly flooded the river embankment on both sides of the shore!
The stranded net made of squeaks and squeaks, and it is obvious that it will not last long; the trees tied to the net on both sides of the river are also dragged and skewed, and are about to be uprooted!
Fortunately, the soldiers pulled the trunk with their horses, otherwise they would have been afraid that these poor trees would die on the spot at this time!
Ye Sizhong knew that the time was coming! If he held it in, he was afraid that if the river water changed its course on its own, it would be unbeautiful. So Ye Sizhong gritted his teeth and gave the order. The soldiers on both sides of the Taiwan Strait immediately pulled out their swords and chopped them a few times on the rope connecting the net!
The "crackling" sounded continuously, and the net carrying the stones lost its constraints and fell into the river tiredly. The dam made of stone waste collapsed almost at the same time, like a high wall falling down, making a loud bang in the sky!
The water behind the stone wall lost its obstacles, like a demon released from the cage, roaring and roaring, rushing downstream!
Ye Sizhong felt the coldness of the shop close up, and the water dripping splashed on his face, but it made him feel a little burning!
At that time, his heart was burning - he knew that if such a flood peak was rushing down, not to mention the fact that even the metal and iron would have to make it three points. What's more, in this deep night, he couldn't help but feel a little pity for Shibata Katsuya who was about to face all this.
But the least emotion that should have appeared at this time was pity! Ye Sizhong thought for a moment and ordered all the members to get on the horse, ready to rush downstream and surround the enemy's retreat.
The lights flashed, and the two thousand elite soldiers quickly completed the assembly, and rushed towards me downstream with a "pola"!
I held the reins tightly with one hand and tightly held the hilt of the boy's cut with the other, and looked at the Shibata Katsuya Military Camp not far below.
It seemed that I felt a faint vibration. Originally, only sentries suddenly boiled in the camp where I was walking back and forth, and torches filled the crowds everywhere!
Most people don’t know what happened yet, and they roared loudly and looked for their weapons, trying to find out the source of the instability.
However, when they saw the flood peak in the darkness that was like a hungry tiger pounced on food, many people felt cold!
At that time, an emotion was composed of incredible, terror and despair. However, no matter what the emotions were, the world was material and was not transferred by human will, so the huge flood peak was still almost unstoppable, and it rushed heavily at the helpless people of Shibata Jun, swallowed them in one bite, and rushed downstream fiercely!
Some smart people, or those who found horses earlier, have escaped from the range of flood peaks when they see that the situation is not good, but more people cannot do this - although the flood may not die in an instant, in the cold winter, even if they are just swept by the flood and then stranded, the coolness that comes immediately afterwards is still a fatal and an unavoidable sharp problem!
Three consecutive waves of flood peaks, one wave higher and one wave higher and one wave higher, and the 100,000 soldiers of Shibata Katsuya were shattered all over the field. After the flood peak, there were crying everywhere on the river bank - these Japanese pirates who had been through war for a long time were completely scared by nature!
They were assembled - in the dark, I saw some people holding torches running back and forth to gather people, but it was obvious that they were not established. In addition, the people were washed away very scattered, so they could only slowly gather water droplets of different sizes like sponges, and gradually gathered them into streams and rivers.
It's time! I turned over the horse, pulled out the boy and cut it, and pointed at the direction where the enemy was gathering!
Then he grabbed the Spurs and rushed towards the enemy first! The two thousand cavalry behind him did not show any weakness, and began to accelerate silently, gradually forming two sharp formations like wings on both sides of me!
Near! Near! Near!
I rode on the horse, and saw the enemy troops gathered on the river bank in the vast ocean, and they seemed to have not noticed us yet - the disaster-like flood had already fooled them. Even if someone approached, they would only think that they were friendly troops who dared to come to rescue, and would not think that the enemy's harvest would be coming!
In this situation, when we approached about 150 steps of the enemy, Yu Guang, the two unextinguished torches on the ground, seemed to see that we were not friendly troops, but the army of the Ming Dynasty! So they shot arrows without hesitation to warn, but it was too late!
In front of me was a Japanese pirate who had gathered about 5,000 people. Although there were a large number of people, most of them were unarmed due to sudden disasters, let alone muskets!
Therefore, our attacking team didn't even have to fire the three-eyed guns, and just stabbed them hard at the helpless enemy army!
The high-speed moving iron cavalry, like a roaring chariot, hit hard on the flesh and blood of the Japanese pirates who were crying, stirring up a blood-red wave!
As the sharp edge of the formation, the boy in my hand turned back and forth, and only screamed in silence. When I heard it clearly, the figure was already far away. And I didn't care about that much, and I had only one purpose in my heart, that is, to quickly drill through the enemy army and then find a new goal!
After more than a dozen breaths, I don’t know how many Japanese pirates were killed. I just felt a sudden lit up before my eyes, and the pressure suddenly relaxed. When I looked up, we had completely penetrated this rushing enemy army and came to the relatively high hill behind them!
We continued to gallop forward until we reached the top of the hills! The east sky has begun to appear a little white in the white of fish, and it is almost dawn!
At this moment, on the north side of the hill, an enemy army of about 20,000 was slowly approaching. Looking at the flags, it should be Shibata Katsue's team!
This top general, known as Kishibata, still had unparalleled commandership even in his later years.
At this time, they were forming a crane wing formation, constantly advancing towards the hill where we were, as if they wanted to surround us and eat us in one fell swoop!
However, how could things develop in his way of thinking? After observation, his 20,000 troops were almost all small, that is, infantry. Among them, there might have been cavalry and iron gunners before, but under the erosion of the flood, they lost the guy who had settled down. At this time, they could only draw swords and guns and become infantrymen.
Chapter completed!