Chapter 321 Dorgon Crossing the River (Part 2)
The first group of Jurchen soldiers crossing the river were all dead soldiers wearing heavy armor. Although the water battles and heavy armors would lead to death after falling into the water, and the thick armor would increase the weight of the raft and reduce the number of people carrying, these white-armored soldiers of the Jin Kingdom who landed in the rain of arrows were still wearing thick armor. Otherwise, they would be shot to death by the Mongols on the raft halfway. Whether they fell into the water would be less important.
Kak Duli stood on the shore, with heartache hidden in his eyes. These people were the most elite warriors of the two white flags. It would be difficult for him to come back alive after he got ashore, but he had no choice. The ferry was occupied by the Mongols, and 30,000 troops were short of food. If it was just a river, the 30,000 troops either entered Shaanxi to eat Guanyin soil or wanted to eat people on the grassland.
The rafts on the Jin soldiers approached to the north shore, and groups of Mongolian cavalry dismounted and shot arrows on the river near the shore.
The horns were roaring and arrows were like rain. The white-armored soldiers on the raft were shot into hedgehogs one after another, but the thick armor on their bodies saved their lives. The Mongolians' bows and arrows could not penetrate their three layers of thick armor. The Jurchen soldiers pulled their bows and fought back to the Mongolians on the shore one round after another, and in a blink of an eye, they shot the Mongolians' bodies all over the river.
Kakduli suddenly heard a terrible roar on the river beach on the other side. Fires burst out, white smoke filled with rainstorms, and countless small columns of water rose. The projectiles hit the raft, and blood splashed on the raft loaded with white-armored soldiers. Those fierce white-armored soldiers were like living targets exposed to the river surface, and were beaten into the water one by one by the Ming army. Even if they were not dead, the white-armored soldiers wearing three layers of thick armor fell into the river and could not float to the surface. They were swallowed by the surging river water in a blink of an eye, and the rolling waves rolled up a blood red.
"Mingdog firearm!" Kake Duli was shocked.
The white-armored soldiers wearing thick armor were not afraid of the weak bows of the Mongolians, but the thick armor on them could not stop the Ming army's firearms.
"Call the Ming Dog to death!" someone shouted.
However, the Ming munitions were hiding behind the big shield, and the Jurchens could not shoot the arrows of the Jurchens, and there were countless Mongolians beside them. Although the Mongols' weak bows could not penetrate the thick armor of the white armored soldiers, they could harass the Jurchens, affect their attention, and disrupt their vision. If they were accidentally shot into the door and planted into the water from the raft, they were taken into the bottom of the water by the thick armor on their bodies.
The Ming army used twelve pounds of howitzers to fire shotguns on the river surface. Two artillery sprayed out flames, and the shotguns were scattered on the river surface like rain, and dense columns of water were raised. The Later Jin soldiers on the rafts in front were swept away.
Although the Junzijin Ferry was a feint attack, the Jurchens fought very bravely. A group of Jurchen soldiers were killed in the river, and another group of Jurchen soldiers rushed over on rafts.
Li Guodong was commanding the battle, but he didn't receive a report at night: "General, Jiannu has also begun to cross the river a hundred miles upstream! The Mongols have passed."
"We're going there too! All the cavalry will follow me! Just relying on the Mongols, I can't stop Jiannu!" Li Guodong stood up.
Camel firearms and a thousand heavy cavalry were left at the Junzijin Ferry, and they cooperated with the Mongols of Chechen Khan to block the enemy. Li Guodong personally led a thousand heavy cavalry to rush upstream.
The Ming army's heavy cavalry rushed to the upper reaches a hundred miles away. The first batch of Later Jin and White Armored soldiers had already crossed the Yellow River. The Mongols' weak bows could not stop the White Armored soldiers from coming ashore. In fact, the first batch of crossing the river were 500 ordinary Jurchen soldiers and 150 white Armored soldiers. Most of the 500 Jurchen soldiers died halfway through the way, and after they got ashore, they were killed, leaving only 150 white Armored soldiers alive.
"Why did Jiannu get ashore?" Li Guodong asked.
A Mongolian soldier replied: "The Jurchens' armor is too thick, we can't shoot through them at all!"
Although the number of white-armored soldiers who came ashore was not large, only more than 150, and they were all fighting on foot, they were extremely fierce. Among them, fifty white-armored soldiers were holding bows and arrows, and the hundred white-armored soldiers in front were holding tiger guns, long-handled and large axes and other long weapons, shouting and rushing towards the Mongolian cavalry.
The white-armored soldiers waved their tiger spears and kept pulling the Mongolians upwards off their horses; the white-armored soldiers holding long-handed axes rushed into the Mongolian crowd, lifting the axe in their hands, and the Mongolian cavalry and horses broke. The white-armored soldiers behind pulled out their long bows and shot the Mongolian cavalry archers who were circling around them one by one.
The Later Jin and White Armored Soldiers of this era are definitely the best all-rounders. When they are on horseback, they are the best heavy cavalry, and when they are hiking, they are the best archers when they are holding bows and arrows. Just one hundred and fifty white Armored Soldiers actually opened a gap on the river beach controlled by the Mongols, and firmly controlled this stronghold to protect the Jurchen soldiers behind them from landing.
The Mongols did not bother with the White Armored Soldiers. They knew that as long as they met the White Armored Soldiers, they would die as soon as they met.
"Avoid the white-armored soldiers and hand over the white-armored soldiers to the Ming army! Let's shoot the raft behind the Jurchens!" Zasaktu Khansuba shouted when he saw the Ming army's heavy cavalry coming.
The Mongolian soldiers hiking and shooting arrows all got on their horses, avoided the Jurchen white-armored soldiers, rushed to the river beach, quickly turned over and dismounted, pulled the bowstring, and shot round after round of arrow rain at the raft nearing the river.
The second batch of Jurchen soldiers crossing the river were all ordinary Alihachaoha camp cavalry. In order to reduce the load, they did not wear armor and only wore thin clothes to board the raft. At this time, the Jurchen soldiers' raft was less than fifty steps away from the shore. The Mongols shot round after round of light arrows, and the raft was immediately full of arrows. The Jurchen soldiers without armor screamed and fell into the Yellow River.
Seeing this, the white-armored soldier who was on the shore immediately picked up his tiger spear, a long-handled big axe, and rushed towards the Mongolian archer.
"Kill the slave!" Li Guodong, who arrived in time, took the lead, pointed the horse spear in his hand forward, and the thousand heavy cavalry of Ming army behind him galloped and rushed towards the Jurchen soldiers.
A white-armored soldier in front of Li Guodong waved his tiger spear and stabbed him fiercely. Li Guodong slightly stopped his war horse and stabbed him hard. The 18-foot-long horse spear was facing the 8-foot-long tiger spear. He grew a whole 1 zhang and stabbed him with the advantage of length. Before the white-armored soldier's tiger spear was stabbed by the sling, he was stabbed by the sling and flew several feet away.
Another white-armored soldier rushed up with a long-handled axe. Li Guodong shook his horse spear and hit the axe pole. The two weapons collided. At this time, Li Guodong's martial arts and strength grew a lot compared to five years ago. The spear rod bounced on the axe pole of the white-armored soldier, which was so shocked that the Jurchen soldiers could hardly hold the axe. Then Li Guodong stabbed out with a spear and pierced the white-armored soldier's throat.
The Ming cavalry following behind fired three-eyed guns, and the sound of guns roared and white smoke filled the air. The white-armored soldiers were knocked down like local chickens and tiled dogs. When the Ming cavalry devoured the white-armored soldiers, there were no one of the 150 white-armored soldiers standing there.
Chapter completed!