Xie Ming

Chapter 433: The Enemy Is Difficult to Cross the Yellow River

August 5th!
After Bahana led the front army to rest in Shell City for a night, it was not until noon that they woke up from their hangover.

Later, he personally led the guards to the beach of the Yellow River to measure the water conditions!
Seeing that the river was flooding and the bank was a swamp of mud, he gave the order to build a temporary pier and force a crossing in the afternoon!

The accompanying adjutant felt that the time limit was short and expressed some doubt in his words, but he was interrupted and scolded!

Afterwards, Bahana, who was determined to do what he wanted, immediately made another promise and drew a huge pie!

"Humph!"

"Dorgon is in Beijing, and he is eagerly waiting for us to make great achievements! Huh?!"

"Hahahaha!"

"Before the Mid-Autumn Festival on August 15, we will capture Jinan!"

"Then our flag is a great achievement!"

"What are you waiting for?!"

"Mountains of gold and silver, high-ranking officials and nobles are waiting for you bastards just across the river!"

"You're a man with a penis, so when the time comes, just charge forward as hard as you can!"

"Hahaha!"

"Hahahaha"

"drive--"

After saying that, Bahana lashed out with the whip in his hand, and the horse under him started to gallop violently, shaking off the mud on all four legs, and galloped out!

Without waiting for the guards behind him to react, he ran away alone and headed back to the Shell City!

But what he didn’t know was!

At this moment, he was riding a horse and looking eastward. On the opposite side of the east bank, three miles before the west gate of Feicheng, among the reeds, two generals Duan Hongcai and Gao Hu were also holding monocular telescopes and observing Bahana's actions on the west bank clearly and carefully!
Right now, the two generals have already ambushed 200 soldiers at the location where they will attack, and installed dozens of field artillery pieces of different calibers, hiding themselves and waiting for the enemy to attack!
You must know that Duan and Gao were assigned by Xiao Jingchuan. After arriving in Changqing on the second day, they deployed scouts on both sides of the northeast!

Later, when Bahana led a large army and rushed towards the southwest with great momentum, the two generals in Changqing had already discovered the enemy's situation!
So the two sides discussed the matter, both believing that the enemy was too strong to be stopped and that they should not force a war!
Therefore, he ordered 500 soldiers to divide up and not to meet the enemy, but to cross the river to the east and hastily evacuate Changqing City on the eve of Bahana's invasion from the southwest!
However, it is wrong to say so!

Then it does exist!

In such a hurry and panic, they accidentally lost many boats and rafts while traveling at night!

And the river crossing equipment that Bahana searched and picked up was also obtained in this way!

The two generals regretted deeply about this!
But now that things have come to this, there is no other way to remedy the situation!
When they reached the east bank, Hongcai and Gao Huxu were still trembling with fear, so they didn't dare to relax for even a moment!
After that, Bahana reoccupied Dong'a, and the two generals also planned to occupy Feicheng!

Not only that, following the commander-in-chief's order, the two of them sent two small teams to go south separately, intending to find the central army Ma Minglu as soon as possible to borrow military supplies and artillery!

But unfortunately!
Minglu was responsible for the logistics and city defense arrangements in the southern corner, but he was not near the city at the moment. He had already rushed to the eastern front in Qingzhou and Linzi!

As a last resort, Gao Hu had to make urgent plans to change his fate and quickly went to Linxian, Taoshan, Pingyin and other places in the southeast of Feicheng to buy some old field artillery!

The large cast-in-place city defense cannon is difficult to move in a short period of time.

It is already quite difficult to piece together the forty-odd cannons we have now and deploy them on the east coast!
The Yellow River flows eastward!

It took a few more hours, and it was probably until the early afternoon (15:).

The Bahana advance team is indeed taking action!
Generals Gao Hu and Hong Cai, who had been enduring the northwest wind on the river bank for most of the day, have received the news and are cheering up!

Behind him, the artillerymen lying in wait also hurriedly fired bullets into their gun chambers, tightly grasping their fire starters in their hands, waiting for the order!

Just over a quarter of an hour later!
The sampans and boats on the west bank were gradually launched into the water!
The first batch of brave soldiers, two teams, more than a hundred people, finally started to rush to the beach and cross the river!

At this moment, Gao Hu crouched down and lay down with his head down!

Fine stains of sweat oozed out of the palms of my hands and I couldn't say a word!

Until the enemy crossed the river and went halfway, they were less than fifty steps away from the east bank!
Come on!

Gao Hufang suddenly attacked, and suddenly there was a roar that shook the mountains. More than forty cannons received the order and fired out at the same time!

At the same time, the crossbowmen behind him also drew their bows and arrows and fired rapidly!

All of a sudden!
Artillery shells exploded in the water and fell on the enemy's ferry boats!

The sky is full of mist rising into the air!
Arrows from the sky also shot down densely!

There were cries of pain and sounds of people falling into the water. It was a mess!
Bahana was standing at the beach on the west bank. He rode his horse and saw the sudden change. He was shocked!
How could he have imagined that at this time, there was such a back-up plan hidden behind the puddle on the east bank? !

In just a few encounters, the vanguard team that was sent into the water had already retreated in panic!

Most of those soldiers were brave warriors of the Manchu army, and most of them were landlubbers!

How could anyone withstand the rapid flow of the Yellow River?

There were countless people who drowned or were shot to death by arrows!
But when the defeated soldiers fled back to the west bank in panic, Bahana saw that something was not right, but he was stubborn and angry, and was unwilling to admit defeat for a while!

Later, he simply sent two more groups of Han troops to try to force a crossing!

But it is always difficult to succeed!
The casualties were numerous, mainly because the number of ships was limited!

If the consumption continues at this rate, all these sampans and boats will probably be sunk into the river. By then, I'm afraid we will be left with nothing but sighs and regrets!

As a last resort, Bahana had to withdraw his troops and end the war.

After returning with regret, he was still upset and refused to calm down, so he sent scouts to patrol the river from the north and south directions!
Deliberately look for a new place and change the route to disembark!
But when they returned to the camp in the evening, they found that there was only one narrow passage in the area of ​​20 to 30 miles, which was suitable for crossing the water by boat!

No way! Nothing can be done!
Bahana sighed, admitted defeat, and decided to wait until midnight before trying to smuggle himself across the river.

Let’s talk about two things!

On this side, Bahana led his troops to cause chaos in the southwest!
And to the northeast, in Jihe City, Xiao Jingchuan's troops did not sit there and wait to die!

Back to the evening of the fourth day of the New Year, Shi Tingzhu quietly withdrew his troops and left in a hurry!

When Xiao Jingchuan woke up the next morning, he seemed to be very perceptive and aware of it!

Immediately, General Xiao Lang sensed that something was wrong and decisively sent troops out to explore the enemy camp's strength.

Later, when Li Huchen took the lead and led the troops to charge out, everything turned out just as expected!
Those Han soldiers who surrendered to the Qing Dynasty and stayed where they were, trying to hide their identities and create confusion, had very limited combat power. Under the long spear of Hu Chen and Hei Si, they were broken at the first poke and scattered at the first charge!

It didn't take much effort before the vassal army fled in all directions!
Outside Jihe City, the siege situation suddenly disappeared!
(End of this chapter)