Chapter 400 Battle for Island

The three guards of Xuzhou, who guarded the south bank of the Yellow River, joined Song Nan two days ago. The three guards fought with Liu Liu in Feiyundu for more than ten days, and finally successfully dragged them to the arrival of the imperial army with the advantage of the Yellow River.

After Liu Liu withdrew from the army, the three guards received a military order from Song Nan, crossed the north of the Yellow River, and carried more than 300 ferries of Feiyundu with the army according to Song Nan's requirements. What Song Nan urgently needed was not the assistance of the three guards, but the 300 ferries.

In the six days when the thieves landed on the island, the officers and soldiers' reconnaissance of Weishan Island never stopped. More than a dozen small boats surrounded the periphery of Weishan Island, and everything on the island naturally fell into the eyes of the officers and soldiers. The thief soldiers built fortifications along the south and west of the island and made a beautiful sound. If time, the thief soldiers really let them get a city. The wall is not a good thing, so when 300 ferries were in place, Song Nan immediately began to arrange the attack on Weishan Island.

The time choice of attack is very exquisite. According to the situation learned by reconnaissance, the thief soldiers are very vigilant at night. There are hundreds of border posts around the island, hundreds of bonfires are lit along the shore of the lake, and rockets are fired from time to time to illuminate the lake, so the night raid may not play a role in the role of raid. On the contrary, it will be landed by officers and soldiers. The island brings a lot of inconvenience.

Song Nan rejected the plan to land on the island at night, but the attack during the day is inappropriate. When officers and soldiers cross the shallows, they will be completely exposed to the fire of the thief soldiers. When they land in the shallows several miles away, the officers and soldiers will become living targets. Although it may not necessarily fail, this is not in line with Song Nan's consistent purpose of giving the lives to soldiers.

After observation, Song Nan chose this time in the early morning, because he found that there would be water vapor and fog on the lake in the morning, and the visibility would be extremely low within an hour; this would make the soldiers who were wading closer to Weishan Island, making it easier to attack the island.

And there are additional benefits to attack in the morning. The thief sentry posts that stay up late at dawn will be more tired, and it is easy to relax their vigilance because of dawn, and it is easier to sneak attack. Song Nan is still very clear about this. With a foothold, the soldiers and horses behind can not be sourced. Broken landing on the island.

At the site of landing on the island, Song Nan had already aimed at the southeast corner. To the north is the mountain wall, which is impossible to land on the island. The south and west are the flat areas that are the easiest to land on the island, but the thief soldiers will also defend heavily. The southeast corner is the transition of the slowed mountains and gentle slopes to the east of the island. The terrain here is a little complex, and the gentle beach area that can climb the island is not spacious, and more than 100 archers can hold it. But although this is a disadvantage, it is not necessarily a good thing.

In order to ensure that he could break through the island at one time, Song Nan asked to take a few generals to deal with those fortifications that had begun to scale, and the manpower might not be able to shake these bunkers. General Zankou was present and opened these thin earth and stone fortifications with only one shot to facilitate the soldiers' assault.

The clever cannonmen quickly found a way. They used dozens of round wood to make a solid several layers of buoyancy fort, put General Zhankou on top, and dragged it behind the boat with ropes.

In response to the inconvenience caused by the dense withered spines and reed roots on the beach, soldiers can only use their intelligence and tie a large amount of dead grass to their legs and waist, hoping to reduce damage. But in fact, Song Nan knew that this move would not work, and it was foreseeable that these dead grass would become heavy after being soaked in the water, dragging down the pace of the sprint; but since this move made the soldiers feel at ease, Song Nan would not force them not to do so.

The cannon in the southwest corner made a continuous roar, and the lake was filled with smoke. More than 300 ferries and hundreds of small fishing boats arrived at the shallows in the southeast of the island. This trip could only transport more than 3,000 people, but under the unexpected blow, hundreds of officers and soldiers had landed. And climbed up the fragmented thief fortifications that were bombarded. The soldiers and horses behind are constantly climbing to Weishan Island.

Song Nan ordered all the ships to return immediately to transport the officers and soldiers on the south bank. At the same time, she jumped off the waist-deep lake and rushed to the island. Wang Yong followed him with his own guards. After a while, the cold crowd rushed to the shore.

Song Nan's legs were bloody and painful. These thorny stems were not a joke. They were dense like a wire mesh. All the soldiers who came ashore suffered from these hardships, and some people were even entangled.

"Occupy the high hillside on the left, defend this place, and do not fight head-on with the thief soldiers for the time being." Song Nan grinned and ordered loudly.

The officers and soldiers acted quickly and formed a defensive formation around the slope to defend the beach. At the same time, a large number of thieves had rushed from the south and west. Half an hour later, 5,000 thieves from the south of the thief's head island came under the leadership of Liu Hui.

Liu Hui knows very well that these successful officers and soldiers must be annihilated before the next batch of officers and soldiers land, otherwise there will be more and more officers and soldiers. Every batch of officers and soldiers who land on the island will be one step closer to failure.

Without any * and hesitation, 5,000 thief soldiers rushed to the formation of the officers and soldiers crazily. Outside, there were explosive waves in the charging group of thieves, and the turf and stones on the overturned hillside flew into the air. They fell like flowers, and the plasma, earth and gravel fell on the crowd, causing a huge panic.

That is the terrible consequence caused by the general who has been pushed ashore behind the officers and soldiers. After each round of bombardment, dozens of people will be killed in the thief camp outside the inside and soldiers, and the deep pits are as big as the table.

Although the thief soldiers were panicked, there were Liu Hui and the governor's army shouting loudly behind them. If they were afraid, they would be stabbed behind them, so their charging momentum did not slow down. Within a hundred steps, the officers and soldiers began to shoot arrows, but with little effect. The overwhelming thieves only reached 50 steps away in an instant.

Xu Tai stood on the hillside with a big gun, and the thief soldiers were fierce and suddenly aroused fierceness. He had even seen the sprint of the Tartar cavalry. Now he saw that these ragged thief soldiers dared to be so arrogant, and his heart was naturally in peace. He turned his gun across and roared, "Go to me, over this group of rebels, officers and soldiers I dared to be so arrogant before."

More than a thousand officers and soldiers roared and drew their knives and rushed up. The two sides carried out a comprehensive hand-to-hand struggle in the open space on the slope and down the slope, in the woods and on the shallows. Under the sun, the rise and fall of the blades brought dazzling lights, and the breath of death enveloped the whole battlefield in an instant.

Song Nan stood high and frowned to watch the battle. Hundreds of guards around him had held out Mrs. Song's fiery in her hand and waited for Song Nan's words. The number of officers and soldiers is so poor that they are far from the opponents of the thief soldiers. If it hadn't been for the low-spirited and irregular soldiers, there would have been no hand-to-hand combat skills at all.

The officers and soldiers adopt the tactics of joint defense of several people. More than a dozen people form a circle to deal with the attack of dozens of peripheral thieves, which can offset the advantage of the number of thieves due to the narrow surface of the enemy. Many thieves can't enter the circle at all and can only shout outside; if they are single soldiers against the enemy. If you are surrounded by at least four or five thieves, the great ability of that day will not be tenable.

Song Nan nodded secretly. These officers and soldiers were taken by Xu Tai from Xuanfu to suppress bandits. The battle array was so skillful and obviously went through Xu Tai's intentions**. Xu Tai stayed in the border town for more than ten years. Naturally, there was something unique about military research and immersion**. The battle array used to deal with the Tartarsars was used to deal with the weak thief soldiers. Naturally, it was Double the effect.

Looking at Xu Tai, a big gun flipped up and down the thief soldiers. The blockers were invincible. There were more than a dozen thieves who died under his gun, so that where he rushed, the thief soldiers avoided and dared not fight with them one after another. Xu Tai had to chase the thief soldiers and shouted angrily.

The battlefield was stale, and the officers and soldiers prevailed in force, and the thief soldiers prevailed in many people. However, soon after, as more and more thieves came from the rear, this balance was quickly broken, and the officers and soldiers were also forced to retreat on the slope. The 300 soldiers who protected the general's cannon were exposed to the thief soldiers and roared cannons and horses. When hatred was pulled up, a large number of thieves poured into the fort.

"Your Excellency, the thief soldiers are going to grab the general's cannon, and let's take people to save him." Wang Yong said anxiously.

Song Nan nodded and said, "Take 50 guards, don't be stingy with ammunition."

Wang Yong got the order and rushed down the hillside with a bang. He shot in the oblique thorn and immediately knocked down two or three hundred thieves. It was the first time that these thieves saw the power of the fire shotgun. They saw that the fallen people's faces were full of holes. The death was very miserable. They were timid and shouted to retreat. Wang Yong did not Pursuit, only with people guarding the cannon to prevent the thief soldiers from approaching.

On the front battlefield, the officers and soldiers were constantly compressed and retreating to the slope. Song Nan had to lead the remaining 50 fire soldiers to take action. The dense formation of the thief soldiers on the narrow ramp was conducive to the performance of the fire. After several rounds of bombardment, hundreds of thieves fell to the ground dead and injured, and the rest exclaimed and retreated.

Song Nan ordered not to pursue. The first priority is to keep the slope and keep the beach on the back to delay the time. Nearly an hour has passed. In half an hour, the second group of officers and soldiers will arrive. At that time, the war situation will be much better.