Chapter 111: War horses are more expensive than people
At this time, 800 huge explosive packets buried in the ice of the 40-mile river along the river exploded almost simultaneously, and the shock wave caused by the resonance completely exploded the ice layer up to 30cm thick on the river surface in an instant. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info
Fortunately, in March, the river had already begun to thaw to a certain extent, and if it had been one month earlier, Chen Xin would never have succeeded in blasting through the thick ice.
Originally, the ice was connected as a whole, and there was no problem for the sentinels sent by Hauge to gallop on horseback, but now, with 40 steps as a node, the ice is divided into large blocks of ice on this 40-mile-long section of the river.
Although the large block of ice that has broken into sections can still bear a certain weight, this definitely does not include the current situation of Hauge's army in dense formation.
Therefore, in the shock of most of the officers and soldiers on Chen Xin's side, as well as the panic on Hauge's side, on the river, the Houjin soldiers wearing armor screamed and fell into the water.
The people on the south bank of the Yalu River watched as more than 3,000 enemy troops and 2,000 horses fell into the river.
The Jin army is all in armor.
The one wearing iron armor sank directly to the bottom of the river like a big iron lump.
The cotton armor is more miserable, first floating on the water, and then the cotton that was beaten into a piece began to absorb water, the cold river water slowly eroded the whole body, and when it was powerless to struggle, the cotton armor absorbed water and became heavier, and began to slowly sink with people, and the people wearing cotton armor could only slowly suffocate with despair.
Finally, there are those who are not wearing armor, and some of them are pulled into the water by the armor-piercing people in the struggle.
The other lucky group avoided the group far away, but they were nearly 200 steps from the shore, and after falling into the water in the cold winter, they suddenly lost their temperature rapidly, and they could not swim such a long distance.
Occasionally, a few strong and extremely lucky people tried to swim to the shore, but all that awaited them was Chen Xin's indifferent eyes.
Without an order, no one dared to save these people who had just defected to the enemy army, and under everyone's noses, dozens of people's water-stained clothes slowly froze, and then the whole person was frozen into ice sculptures.
The expressions on the faces of these ice sculptures were full of longing for life, which really scared a group of recruits.
Chen Xin's indifferent eyes swept over the remaining recruits nearby, and the corners of his mouth showed a sneer that he didn't even notice.
An otaku who didn't dare to kill chickens before, he became a ruthless killing god in Jinguo for more than half a year, everything happened naturally, and Chen Xin didn't feel anything abnormal.
In the face of appalling and cruel events, all he could think of was the joy of completing the warning to the recruits, but he did not care about the painful deaths.
Chen Xin was very satisfied with the effect of today's warning, and when he glanced at it, he hurriedly caught a glimpse of several war horses swimming ashore, where they were shivering and neighing in the cold.
"Quick, go and save the horses." Chen Xin rushed over as soon as possible, untied the harness with three strokes and five divisions, and the untied war horse shook its body violently, wanting to shake off the water on its body.
However, in the cold wind, ice slag had formed in many places, and the war horse could not clean its body by shaking its mane by itself.
Chen Xin knew that on such a cold day, if the war horses were not dried as soon as possible, then eighty percent of these war horses would not survive and would be wasted, so he took off his big coat without hesitation and began to wipe the body of the war horse.
The soldiers woke up like a dream and came to the shore one after another to rescue the war horses that washed ashore.
There were also some clever ones who dragged out the small sampans they had recently collected from the woods, took off their armor and jumped on them, and drove into the river to help the horses that had been restrained by the riders and could not escape.
The warriors rode the sampan and slashed the hands of those who were desperately grasping the reins of the war horses, and in the red blood and screams, the war horses were let go.
As long as they are not restrained, the horses swim well and can swim almost 200 paces to shore.
Unfortunately, there were too few sampans, and most of the horses were dragged down by knights in heavy armor and sank together.
In the end, only more than 700 horses were rescued ashore, and all of them suffered from wind and cold, and various complications occurred.
There was no time to expand the stables now, and in order to save the lives of these horses, the soldiers spontaneously led the horses to their tents, and the horses were mixed.
In this era, the soldiers' love for war horses is deep in their bones, and many soldiers would rather not have enough to eat, but also find a way to keep the war horses from losing fat.
Just now, Chen Xin saw the war horse swimming ashore, and he couldn't help but go up to rescue it, and even the big gun sent by Amin did not hesitate to wipe the horse.
Therefore, although it was unhygienic and unsafe, Chen Shin did not forcibly order the soldiers not to do this, but only ordered the North Korean laborers to expand the stables as soon as possible, so that the days of mixed living would be ended.
At this time, Chen Xin looked at the horse-bolting people who stayed on the other bank, and had already begun to untie the reins of the horses one by one, wanting to take away the 1,000 war horses left on the other bank, and couldn't help but feel a little distressed.
complained pitifully, "It's all my fault, I didn't think of ambushing a troop on the other side, otherwise the 1,000 war horses would have been surnamed Chen." ”
Big Cat and Laxin also came to Chen Xin's side, and when they heard this, they turned their heads to look at the other side, and sure enough, the black pressed a herd of war horses, driven by dozens of horse-bolting people, and ran in the direction they came.
The two of them also clutched their hearts in distress, "There must be almost thousands of war horses, just gone." ”
"There are only a few dozen bolted horses, and a platoon of soldiers can easily solve it."
"Oh, that's a pity." Both sighed at the same time.
Chen Xin gently kicked the two of them on the buttocks, "If you have something to say, don't mention this sad thing again." ”
The two of them no longer played treasures, and the big cat's face turned straight and said, "Hauge's body has been found." ”
Chen Xin was stunned, there were more than 3,000 enemies on the Yalu River, and it was such a chaotic environment, how could Haoge's body be found so quickly? I couldn't help but wonder, "What's going on?" Tell me more about it. ”
"My lord, do you remember the last time you were given the young man with the large seal of Zilharang? ”
Chen Xin thought for a moment and said, "I'm very impressed, his name is Zhao Qingyu, right, when he fought, he was the first to play, and in the last blockade battle, he came to send me documents, and he was the only intact soldier in the cavalry company, why, he found Haoge again?" ”
Rakshin was also surprised, "That's right, it's this young man, he has been staring at Hauge since the beginning of the fight, after the ice collapsed, he was the first to rush over on a small sampan, but I didn't expect him to catch a big fish." ”
"Yes, both wise and brave, very promising, where are the people now?"
The big cat immediately said, "He's waiting, as if he has something to say to you." ”
Chen Xin was curious, what would he say? "Let him come."
"Smack" a solemn chest-beating military salute. "Zhao Qingyu of the cavalry company reports to the commander-in-chief."