Rockets rained down like a rain of fire into the middle of the river, and the floating oil and straw quickly burned.

However, because of the rolling of the waves, part of the straw was wet, and part of the fire rolled under the wave and was extinguished, and the fire was not very large.

I am afraid that this is also the reason why Guo Kui did not launch a fire attack on the Fuliang River with fierce fire oil, after all, the Fuliang River is wider than this river. But it's hard to say, and it also depends on whether the terrain has an effect, that time is a dry season, whether the width has decreased, and the speed of the water.

However, Wang Ju still thinks that most Guo Kui didn't think of bringing fierce fire oil at all, although the ordnance supervisor has a large amount of refined fierce fire oil.

Because of the whole battle, Guo Kui fought in a daze, if it wasn't for Yanda and the army to assist Guo Kui, maybe Guo Kui would have been defeated in this battle.

Wang Ju thought for a moment, then stared at the river.

If you attack in the Fuliang River at this time, it will definitely not work, and how much fierce fire oil will be required.

But on this river, it can barely be used, the fire is not too big, and it can barely be connected into a sea of fire, but it is enough to deal with these warships.

Why did it burn up?

The people of Cochin also wondered, not only did they burn together, but even the fire broke out on the surface of the river, could the water burn?

Without distinguishing the muddy oil on the surface of the river, he turned around and sailed downstream. However, the dozen or so chains were already tightened, and the forty battleships were blocked by the chains together, and even the slightly larger patrol boats were stuck and could not move forward. On the contrary, three or four small flat boats slipped out of the sky before the chains were tightened.

Therefore, Wang Ju deliberately asked the soldiers and civilians to put down the big raft, which was to attract the Jiaozhi battleship out, otherwise it would be burned. Cochin soldiers can also escape. Again. These rafts will be needed in a moment.

The river came down with a sea of fire. The Cochin soldiers screamed, and one by one they jumped from the battleship into the river, ready to swim to the shore. Those who can't swim this way are also looking for death.

So they swam desperately to the other side, but this delay, the sea of fire also drifted over, just in the iron chain to block these burning straw and oil slicks. Just block in front of these chains and don't leave, of course, also block the Jiaozhi soldiers to burn.

Many of the people brought by Wang Ju lay on the ground and cried.

The Jiaozhi invasion, only from Taipingzhai to Yongzhou Zuojiang, as well as Qinzhou Lianzhou two prefectures, killed 100,000 people, but also abducted more than 100,000 people, although these three areas are considered to be the densely populated places of Guangnan West Road, but after all, Guangnan West Road, how many people will be dense. It can be said that less than 30 percent of the people in this area can escape by luck!

This hatred is great and goes to the sea.

There are some native soldiers recruited from the Zuojiang area of Yongzhou. He also held the knife in his hand, trembling slightly.

"Zhao Ji and Wang Anshi are both problematic in employing people." Wang Ju thought in his heart.

Don't mention yourself, don't mention Wang Shao, at least Zhang Kai also played. Why do you use Guo Kui, is it because Guo Kui has deep qualifications? If you employ people based on qualifications, is there still Huo Qu's disease?

"Lin Qing, let's put the raft." Wang Ju said to the commander Lin Qing that this person was originally a guard he invited from Shaanxi, because of his outstanding martial arts and superb riding skills, so when Qu Zhen trained the earth cavalry, Wang Ju recommended him to serve as a deputy general.

As for how to arrange it after Wang Ju left Guangnan, Wang Ju didn't think about it, it was still early, and there was a series of battles below.

Lin Qing put down the raft, but only put down a dozen rafts, and carried some soldiers over first.

Two hundred soldiers reached the opposite bank, and the fire gradually went out.

Wang Ju was relieved, and the generals immediately sent soldiers downstream, dragging the chains along the river to the ferry.

The rainforest was too dense to walk from the shore, so all the soldiers had to wade along the river.

Finally pulled to the ferry and re-tightened, Wang Ju sent soldiers to put down all the rafts, leaning on the iron chain, just twisted into a pontoon bridge. Although unstable, the raft was large enough and therefore wide enough to support the soldiers to pass through the guò, and even allow the people to push the baggage cart to cross, but for fear of accidents, the baggage cart was approved.

When he arrived on the other side, Wang Ju did not march immediately, but set up camp on the spot, and at the same time ordered everyone to cut down the surrounding trees together to make enough space. It has nothing to do with fire attacks, although the jungle here is dense enough, it is verdant and vigorous, and it is not easy to burn, so this is just to prevent the Jiaozhi people from taking advantage of the dense forest to attack the camp from both wings.

At the same time, Qu Zhen and Yao Lin also "turtle shrink", it is really a turtle shrinkage, it turned out that Xingshi made a siege of the city, just when Jiaozhi was about to cross the Qiu River, Qu Yao and the two began to build a camp on a large scale, leaning on the soil mountain outside the west gate of Tiande Mansion, built a solid camp fence, there is water, such a big river, not afraid of Jiaozhi blockage, not afraid of Jiaozhi poisoning, there is a high trend, although it is a small earth mountain, but it is not a mountain on this plain? There is also wood for cooking, anyway, there are many trees on the mountain, cut it down and dry it for a day, it is good firewood.

Then a ditch was built on the periphery, and the water of the river was poured into it, which became a moat, and behind the moat was a strong fence. Then, before the Jiaozhi army had crossed, he immediately plundered everywhere, and carried the plundered grain and grass to the camp on war horses.

Li Changjie arrived with more than 20,000 troops, ready to come to a meeting with the soldiers and civilians in the city, but when he saw it, he was dumbfounded. What is Song Jun going to do? At this moment, news of the Battle of Pingrato came out.

Li Changjie was shocked and hurriedly sent scouts to investigate.

These so-called prefectures and prefectures in Jiaozhi are really small, half of them are not as large as the area of a county in the Song Dynasty, just like this Tiande Mansion, the actual area is really not large. These armies were separated from each other, and they were all within the range of a rapid march, that is, a three-way army.

But you can't fool around like Cham, a big country with only a small population.

Later, Vietnam had more than 300,000 square kilometers, and now there is definitely none, there is still Champa in the south, and there is Zhenla in the south of Champong, and the northern states are now controlled by the Song Dynasty. To be precise, it is similar to Fujian Road, the population is not as dense as Fujian Road, and it is about the same as Guangnan East Road, especially on both sides of the Fuliang River, including this Tiande Mansion, how many people there are, the scouts did not inquire about it. Including the cochin himself, I don't know much. Because there are many areas that are also fettered areas. But Wang Ju estimates that there are about four or five hundred thousand households in Jiaozhi. That is, it is about the same as the actual number of people on Guangnan West Road.

Li Changjie pondered for a while, first transferred the army to the middle of the two Song armies, cut off the two divisions, and then asked the rear to continue to gather troops. He knows it well, after all, the Song army is too strong.

Maybe this equipment is nothing to the northern nomads, but the people's war horses are the biggest equipment.

Now that they dismounted, their bodies were almost the same, and the role of the equipment was immediately revealed.

And there were cavalry. In the first battle of Fuliangjiang, the cavalry combat effectiveness of the Song army made him remember it vividly.

But the strength of the Song army is relatively small, at least it can eat the Song army in the west of Tiandefu, even if it costs a little price, it will force the Song Dynasty to bow its head in the future.

The rear continued to masse troops.

Theoretically, Jiaozhi can gather hundreds of thousands of troops to participate in the war, but that is just a theory, and he really didn't care about everyone's production and gathered Ding Zhuang together. Like the last time he took advantage of the slack time, he gathered 80,000 troops to invade Yongzhou, which was almost the limit of Jiaozhi's troops.

However, the stalemate lasted only four days. Li Changjie heard the news, and many Song troops were killed from Langzhou.

"How many soldiers and horses are there. Quickly find out. ”

"Whoa." The scout left the camp again and continued to sneak into Langzhou.

Li Changjie sat down and thought about it, and then ordered that a part of the boats should be immediately dispatched with equipment to find a way to destroy the pontoon bridge built by Wang Ju.

Don't look at this eunuch is very arrogant, but he is indeed very calm and rational.

If you sit back and watch the Song army reinforcements continue to pour in, and because the Song army came in a hurry, the army assembled in the rear is limited, and it is likely to face another defeat. Some of the warships left, Li Changjie continued to think, not thinking about malaria, this time the army led by Wang Ju was the soldiers of the Guangnan West Road, there was no problem of not adapting to the water and soil, and the immunity was stronger than that of the northern soldiers, and various defensive measures were taken. Don't even be afraid to waste food, as long as the leftovers are left overnight, throw them away immediately. After Wang Ju arrived in Lingnan, he forced some soldiers to take a bath, even their clothes, and sometimes forced them to boil them in salt water and then wash them. Originally, these soldiers could still find lice and fleas, but now they are almost invisible. So thousands of troops, not even a single diarrheal, where is malaria?

And in order to prevent mosquitoes, Wang Ju has been researching in Quanzhou for a long time, how mosquito water and mosquito coils are made, he can't remember, and maybe there are no materials now.

However, it has been researched, but not to deal with cochin, but to reduce the suffering of mosquitoes and insects of immigrants, and also to reduce malaria patients, but unintentionally, a mixed oil extracted from the stems and leaves of lotus and camphor resin is quite similar to the effect of cooling oil.

It was only researched last year, and it cost a lot of money.

It has not yet been released, but a batch has been concocted, but the cost is a bit expensive, but Wang Ju was not stingy and distributed it to the army together.

Although it does not completely prevent mosquito bites, it has a little effect.

There are other measures.

Basically, this expedition, it can be said that Wang Ju has done the ultimate in preventing malaria infection.

Li Changjie in the back didn't pay much attention, only noticed that the front was a southern soldier, and he would not be infected with malaria on a large scale like Guo Kui did that time.

He was wondering where Wang Ju had trained these soldiers.

According to the information inquired, it was said that Wang Ju had recruited many soldiers, and then loaded them on the East Guangnan Road by river boat, but then there was no inquiry.

Undoubtedly, these Song Dynasty reinforcements were those training armies that disappeared, otherwise the Song Dynasty would not have been able to draw so many troops in Guangnan. He thought about it, and thought of the group of Kunlun slaves, but he didn't dare to think about it, he didn't know about the other side of the sea, besides, the sea was risky, it was just training, as for using sea ships to load so many troops away and load them overseas for training?

The disappeared training army came out, and he didn't know how many troops the Song Dynasty had raised and what the results of the training were, which made him feel very irritable.

So he had to sit back and wait for news from the scouts and the battleship fleet.

More than two dozen warships went up the river.

Before he arrived, he was seen by the Song military telescope on the watchtower from a distance.

The scout immediately came down to report to Wang Ju.

Wang Ju laughed and said, "It's just right." ”

Then Wang Ju gave an order.

For a while, more than two dozen battleships approached the pontoon.

The Song army on the pontoon bridge and the Song army on both sides of the river were waiting.

Seeing that they were about to rush to the front, dozens of tiger cannons began to throw some small jars, some fell into the river, some smashed into the boat, and the clay pots immediately burst apart, and the fierce fire oil inside also splashed on the deck.

And then the rockets came again.

More than two dozen battleships immediately burst into flames, and a few of them escaped by chance, and when they saw that the situation was not good, they immediately turned their bows and fled downstream.

The rest of the soldiers on the ship kept using buckets to carry water to extinguish the fire, of course, if there was any big pump to absorb water, this fire could still be extinguished, what was the use of these barrels, but instead of being doused, the more they were poured out, the bigger they burned.

Some of the soldiers saw that the whole boat was on fire and began to jump into the river.

"Release the boat." Wang Ju said.

It was too late to build a big boat, but in this camp, Wang Ju asked the people to build some small boats.

Some sergeants or civilians who were good at water and could handle boats got on the boat, and while they were boating, they used their knives to cut the Jiaozhi soldiers who played in the river.

As a result, Li Changjie did not succeed in sending troops this time, but instead lost the lives of more than 1,000 soldiers.

When Li Changjie heard the news, his face finally became cautious.

It turned out to be a tiger, not a sick cat.

The next day, there was a very bad news, saying that there were tens of thousands, and tens of thousands of scouts had not been found, about 30,000 to 40,000, so many Song troops had approached Gaoling Village, that is to say, there was still a day to go, and they could join the Song army in Pingliangdu.

"So fast?"

Of course, in this attack, Wang Ju didn't let the three armies bring much grain at all, and if he wanted food, Tiande Mansion and Yong'an Prefecture had grain and grass......

Therefore, the three armies only carried a little baggage and advanced lightly, and the speed was bound to be faster.

Li Changjie thought for a while and said, "Order the three armies, tomorrow tomorrow, to withdraw their troops immediately and withdraw to the city of Tiandefu." ”

Once tens of thousands of Song troops rushed over, and he was sandwiched between them with 20,000 troops, it would be embarrassing and even a fiasco.

Only by relying on the city of Fucheng can we act according to the situation.

The night passed, and at dawn Li Changjie led the three armies to set off for camp, and just walked out of the road for more than 20 miles, the sound of horses' hooves sounded behind him. (To be continued......)