Poor Family Chapter 819

  Chapter 819 A Duck Turns into a Chicken

Of course, Lei De was also in the camp. He heard that the enemy fireboats were coming, so he hurried out of the camp and rode his horse towards the east of the water village. A fire boat came fiercely, broke the fence with a bang, and rushed into the water village. Dozens of sentry boats lined up to intercept it. The ghost stopped him, and it took only a hundred steps to enter the water village.

  The water ghost quickly penetrated the bottom of the ship, and the two fire boats entered the water and sank quickly, leaving only some sparks on the water surface.

When Reid arrived at the easternmost shore, the crisis was resolved. Someone came to report the information to Reid. Reid frowned. This is a typical case of loud thunder and little rain. What does Li Yanqing mean? Test yourself defense?

   When he was puzzled, a soldier sighed: "Fortunately, I killed it from the east. If I killed it from the west, I'm afraid it would have been close to the big ship."

  A thought flashed through Red's mind instantly, and he yelled, "No!"

  He yelled: "Everyone go west, go!"

  He has already realized that this is Li Yanqing's plan to attack the west, and there is a high possibility that something will happen to the west.

At this moment, flames erupted suddenly in the water fortress, and raging fires were ignited at the berths of the large ship in the west and the berths of the two main warships in the middle. The fire spread extremely rapidly, as if the entire water surface was burning. Stunned, he didn't know what to do for a while.

Suddenly there was a shout behind him, and when Reid turned his head, he saw that the camp was also on fire, and the east, west, and south sides were on fire. The fire swept towards the shore with the wind, and the soldiers in the camp scattered and fled. Extremely embarrassed.

   "General, quickly untie the boat and enter the river, or it will all be burned!" A general came rushing and shouted.

  Red sighed. The other party had expected this, so they attacked the camp. Now the camp was in chaos. No matter how to organize soldiers, a dead horse should be treated as a living horse doctor. Reid immediately ordered to beat the marching drum.

  'Boom! Boom! Boom! '

  The marching drums sounded, and all the sailors had to get on board, but in the chaos, only less than a thousand soldiers rushed to the shore.

At this time, the river was raging, and almost all the hundreds of ships in the entire barracks were swallowed up by the barracks. Only the fifty or so 500-stone warships in the east were not affected by the fire for the time being. will burn.

  The soldiers boarded the boat one after another, before even pulling up the sails, they untied the cables, punted the boats and left. More than fifty warships left the water village one after another and headed for the middle of the river.

   At this time, Ruan Sanxiong on the water of the Yangtze River led more than a hundred warships and had been waiting for a long time. Many ships escaped from the water village.

After more than fifty warships had left the water village, Ruan Xiaoer waved his hand, and his brother Ruan Xiaoqi led thirty fast boats to the gate of the water village, cutting off the retreat of the enemy warships, Ruan Xiaoer shouted loudly , "Attack!"

  'Boom! Boom! Boom! ' The drums of the attack sounded on the river, and more than a hundred warships rushed towards the enemy warships from all directions.

It was getting brighter, and more than two thousand soldiers stood on the bank, staring blankly at the river. At this time, the fires in the water village and the dry village had already been extinguished, and the dry village was burned to the ground. Because the water village happened first, many soldiers died. Therefore, when the Hanzhai caught fire, most of the soldiers escaped from the tents, and only lost more than 50 people.

But the loss of the water village was even more severe. Of the hundreds of warships that did not escape from the water village, only more than 30 sentinel ships were not affected. The hull, half in the water and half exposed on the water, was emitting white steam.

  The more than 50 medium-sized warships that escaped from the water village were also surrounded and suppressed by the three heroes of the Ruan family. Out of seven warships were sunk, the rest were all captured and taken to the north bank of the Yangtze River.

This result made all the soldiers feel extremely bitter. Out of their hundreds of warships, only thirty-five sentry ships remained. '.

  Raid was even more ashamed. Without the warship, would the Xiang family still give him his title and his general?

At this time, the coach Xiang Fa rushed to the water army dry village under the **** of dozens of cavalry. Xiang Fa knew that something happened in the water village last night, but he didn't dare to come over, worried that he would be ambushed halfway, so he came in a hurry only after dawn .

The tragic situation in the water village made Xiang furious, and he repeatedly told Reid the afternoon before yesterday to take precautions and not to be attacked by the enemy, but after only one day, he was really attacked by Li Yanqing, and he said Did Red fall on deaf ears?

   "The master is here!"

  Someone shouted, and Reid also saw Xiang Fa, so he had no choice but to bite the bullet and go forward to see, "I'm guilty of a humble job, please be punished by the commander!"

   "You are guilty, and I will never forgive you, but I want to know, how many warships are left now?"

  Reid whispered after a while: "There are thirty-five sentinel ships left."

"What!"

   Xiang Fa's eyes darkened, and he almost fell off his horse. He was furious, pointed at Lei Deling with a whip, and said, "Take it for me, and behead him on the spot!"

  Several soldiers pushed Reid to the ground, and Reid yelled anxiously: "These are my ships, the ships were burned, it is my personal loss, why kill me!"

Sun Li, who joined the army next to him, persuaded in a low voice: "Commander, these sailors are all Lei De's men, killing Lei De will affect morale, and besides, we can't explain to the county king, why not spare his life for the time being and let the county king Come and let it go."

Xiang Fa held back his breath, waved his hand again, the soldiers let go, Red got up and straightened his military uniform, glared at Xiang Fa angrily, Xiang Fa gritted his teeth and said: "You are not recruited by me, so I will not kill you, but I will report to the county King, let the county king send you down!"

   After finishing speaking, Xiang Fa shouted, "Let's go!"

He turned his horse's head and ran out of the barracks. Reid watched them go to the background, spat heavily, and then gritted his teeth: "Xiang Fa, you wait for me, if I don't report today's humiliation, my surname will not be Lei! "

Just when Ruan's Sanxiong led more than a thousand men to bring fifty warships and hundreds of prisoners of war back to Jiangdu County, 10,000 troops from the Huaihe River also arrived in Jiangdu County. There were already 20,000 troops in Jiangdu County. They were all elites of Li Yanqing's Jingzhao Army, led by Liu Kai and Wang Gui each with 10,000 troops, including 3,000 cavalry.

At the same time, 3,000 ships full of people who migrated to the south also arrived in Jiangdu County, and there were hundreds of thousands of people who migrated to the south continuously coming on land. Li Yanqing ordered the army to set up a camp outside Jiangdu City to let the people They are temporarily staying, and he needs to use these 3,000 ships to transport the army across the river.

In the morning of the next day, Li Yanqing led 20,000 troops to the Yangtze River. Thousands of ships were moored in the canal near the Yangtze River, waiting for soldiers to board. Li Yanqing still needs to get information from the other side. According to the agreement, Yanqing should Send a pigeon letter to Jiangdu in the morning.

  At this moment, a cavalryman galloped from the direction of Jiangdu City, and shouted loudly from a distance: "Urgent information!"

  The messenger soldier was holding a red dove letter box, which indicated that there was an emergency military situation, and Li Yanqing was also a little worried. It is very likely that the army of Jiangning Prefecture has started to march towards Runzhou.

  Li Yanqing took out a roll of fine silk, there were only a few short words in it, but it made his complexion turn uneasy.

   "Dutong, did the army from Jiangning Prefecture come to Runzhou?" Liu Kai stepped forward and asked in a low voice.

  Li Yanqing shook his head, "Jiangning Mansion's troops have not moved. Another 30,000 troops from Hangzhou are coming here, and they have now arrived in Suzhou."

   "Why is there still an army?" Liu Kai really couldn't figure it out.

  Li Yanqing pondered for a moment and said: "This should be the army newly recruited by the three foreign relatives, but their target should not be us, but they intend to gather a large army to march towards the capital after annihilating me."

   "Then do we need to wait a little longer?"

   "Don't wait!"

  Li Yanqing said decisively: "There are still at least two days before we come from Suzhou. If the Jiangning Prefecture army stays put, we will kill this army first."

  He then turned around and ordered: "Pass my order, the army will start crossing the river!"

The 20,000 soldiers of the Jingzhao Army, who had already been assembled in the canal, lined up and boarded the ship. Large ships full of soldiers sailed from the canal into the Yangtze River and headed for Dantu County, Runzhou, on the other side of the Yangtze River. The fleet of small boats also set off. On the big river, thousands of sails were like clouds for a while, thousands of boats competed for the current, and countless boats raced across the water to cross the south, which was very spectacular.

Just when the 20,000 Jingzhao troops started to cross south, in the tent of the military camp commander in Jiangning Mansion, the commander Xiang Fa and his deputy Liu Yanqing had a fierce dispute. In Runzhou, Li Yanqing's army was attacked halfway. The two had completely opposite opinions. The generals outside the tent heard their quarrel.

"Vice Marshal Liu, I want to remind you again that our army has 80,000 troops, while the opponent has only 20,000. With reinforcements from the north, we have five times the strength of the opponent. What we have to do now is to release Li Yanqing." Come in, and then we close the door and beat the dog, we will only scare the other party away when we go to Runzhou, this is not our goal."

   "I also want to remind you!"

  Liu Yanqing's voice was like thunder, shaking the generals outside the tent with fear.

"Li Yanqing's army is called the Jingzhao Army, half of which are the elite troops he recruited in Jingzhao Mansion with his own money, and the other half are veterans who followed him in the Southern and Northern Wars, and defeated the Jin soldiers twice in Taiyuan City and Kaifeng Mansion , The combat power far exceeds that of the general imperial army, if you put him in the south of the Yangtze River, you will put a wolf into the sheepfold, and you will definitely regret it."

   "Our army is also an elite that has been trained for a long time. It is not the so-called Forbidden Army that can't even defeat the old and weak troops of the Liao Kingdom. How can we not defeat Li Yanqing in a five-to-one match?"

   "That's your hubris!"

   "Liu Yanqing, how dare you insult the coach, get out!"

  The curtain was lifted, and Liu Yanqing came out angrily. The generals were so frightened that they stepped aside one after another, letting Liu Yanqing, who was full of anger, leave.

  Xiang Fa walked slowly to the door of the tent, looking at Liu Yanqing's back with cold eyes, he never understood why his uncle tried his best to recruit Liu Yanqing, was it because Liu Yanqing had 20,000 recruits?

  Liu Yanqing has a proud personality and has always looked down on him, but his uncle just found this person to add to his troubles. There are so many military orders, how can a general dare to contradict the commander.

  If it weren't for the 20,000 elites in Liu Yanqing's hands, I would have ordered him to be pushed out and beheaded.

  (end of this chapter)

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