Chapter 90 harassment tactics
Five days after the heavy snow, the wind was cold and the wind was bitter. Every day, people went to the bank of the Yellow River to check. The ice layer was getting thicker and thicker, and it was two feet long. Not to mention pedestrians, they could easily walk through even if they were riding horses.
The barrier to protect Linzhou is gone, and no one dares to neglect it.
Ye Hua spent five days to modify the crossbow arrow. Due to the haste, he could only use a brazier to create a high-temperature environment to accelerate the solidification of the fish gel. Doing so may affect the quality, but he could not care about it.
In fact, every Linzhou people are racing against time.
Women, steam buns, bake big cakes, and make clothes all day and night, and men, count the items they need for traveling. They would take the dry food made by their wives to find military men in exchange for cattle and sheep skins, and keep warm to children and the elderly. Some elderly people would also take out their treasures for their lifetime and buy some meat. Fortunately, the salt in Linzhou is cheap, marinated with green salt, and carry them with them, which is enough to eat along the way.
People are like locusts, sweeping away all useful things, and even the remaining gluten-headed fish meat from boiling glue is swept away.
Every day, thousands of people, holding the elderly and young, driving donkeys, or pushing carts, leaving their hometown.
Before leaving, every man would silently pretend to be a handful of soil, be careful and keep it in close contact. With this handful of soil from his hometown, he would not be afraid of traveling thousands of miles!
Almost all the people in Linzhou left, leaving only more than 3,000 Yang family troops. In addition, less than 2,000 Ye Hua's subordinates, these 5,000 people fought side by side and worked together, and were able to command them like an arm.
Yang Ye, Yang Chongxun, Chen Shi, Fu Zhaoxin, Zhao Kuangyin, Gao Huaide, Liu Yanqin, Wang Tingyi, each of them led 200 cavalrymen, crossed the Yellow River while taking advantage of the night to meet the people.
In Lanzhou, Xianzhou, Shizhou, and even Fenzhou, thousands of people were moved. Some even ran to the entire village, the whole family and the whole family, together rushing towards the bank of the Yellow River.
There are hundreds or thousands of teams, and there are dozens of teams. Although they come from different directions, their goals are the same.
Among all the people, there are two folk songs like this: "If you want to go hungry, Jinyang will stay there, want to eat enough, Tokyo has a stolen pot."
Even the idiotic person knows the meaning of folk songs. Everyone has heard of what Emperor Guo of Kaifeng is doing to the people, but no matter what, he will not be worse than Liu Chong!
Since Liu Chong ascended the throne, nothing has happened.
First, the civil servants were recruited, and then the land tax was increased by three times.
In order to fight, each family is also required to pay a cowhide tax!
The people are so tired that they are so poor that they are so poor that they need human skin, cowhide, no!
If you just levy heavy taxes and endure it, you won’t leave your hometown. But the Khitans are coming again, with a hundred thousand troops, and wherever they pass, there are uneasy!
The autumn harvest was delayed due to war and less than half of the food was recovered. How to support the Khitans? It would be a dead end at that time!
Just when the people were despairing, many people dressed in Taoist priests appeared in various villages. They recited folk songs and told everyone that they could survive by going to Linzhou and Dazhou.
Gradually, folk songs spread and the hearts of the people became active. Instead of waiting for death, it is better to fight!
At this time, more and more businessmen came from Linzhou and invited everyone to cross the river together.
There are also Linzhou soldiers who come from time to time, and all the villages and towns near the Yellow River are empty.
One by one, the news hit the numb people. Even the honest and honest person was beaten by this stick and knew what to choose.
The snowstorm was clear and the Yellow River was frozen, like a signal that rushed from all directions to Linzhou.
The actions of the people cannot escape the eyes of the Northern Han.
In fact, they had long been aware of it, but the continuous defeat made them unable to withdraw much power to suppress it. When they saw that tens of thousands of people were all fleeing, they could no longer pretend to be deaf and dumb.
Liu Chengjun was alarmed. He was furious. Last time he was shot by Yang Ye, and his back was injured. He had not fully recovered and had to go out to fight.
"Yang Family, I'm going to cut you one by one!"
Liu Chengjun was so fierce that he spent a day and night to rush straight to the bank of the Yellow River. No matter where the people came from, they had to cross the Yellow River. As long as they guard the Yellow River, these chaotic people would not want to escape! The Yang family would not succeed!
Ye Hua naturally expected what Liu Chengjun could think of. He was leading 2,000 people waiting for prey to come to the door. In the cold wind, Ye Hua was wrapped in a thick battle robe and looked much more burly.
Although it was not the first time he was on the battlefield, he was still sweating. Sometimes fear was not a bad thing, at least it could make people more cautious.
Ye Hua sent out his men and horses to find out the news carefully. Finally, around noon, the scout reported that the Northern Han people were 20 miles away and were approaching quickly.
"Prepare for war!"
Ye Hua decisively ordered that the soldiers immediately became busy.
It is not as easy as expected to fight with a bed crossbow.
The bed crossbow is also known as the 8-ox crossbow. As the name suggests, it requires the strength of 8 cows to be pulled open. If it is replaced with human power, it will require dozens of people.
Even if Ye Hua and the craftsmen made improvements and increased the winch, it would take 20 people to apply force on both sides to fit the arrows.
For 50 bed crossbows, half of Ye Hua's manpower was used.
Fortunately, there were no need for so many people when it was stimulated. He sent out people to install the winch crossbow. When everything was ready, Ye Hua asked the soldiers to move forward, covered the crossbow with a large shield, and acted like a decisive battle.
The Northern Han cavalry appeared. When they saw the shield formation in front of them, they wanted to laugh out loud, and fought with the Hedong soldiers in a field, overestimating their abilities and purely seeking death! The Northern Han people were divided into two groups and rushed towards Ye Hua.
Ye Hua was also sneering, and entered about 800 steps, immediately waved his flag, and his shield hand instantly ran to both sides, revealing a series of ferocious and terrifying bed crossbows.
The people from the Northern Han Dynasty also saw it. They were frightened. Some people held the war horses and some were still rushing, and a brief chaos occurred!
"Let me go!" Ye Hua ordered decisively.
The crossbowman raised his hammer high and smashed it down violently.
In an instant, 50 arrows shot out and rushed towards the dense cavalry team.
I saw people shouting and neighing at the arrows, wailing in pain, and falling down one after another. Some people broke their arms and legs, their white bones were exposed outside, and some were penetrated by their chests. Through the holes, they could even see their bloody hearts. They opened their mouths, like dead fish, waiting for the arrival of death.
Even the war horse could not resist it, and fell in a pool of blood and twitched and died.
This is the power of the bed crossbow, awesome!
Unfortunately, Ye Hua did not allow his subordinates to watch the results of the battle. After shooting the crossbow arrows, they immediately got on the horse, pulled the crossbow on the bed, and did not retreat.
The other winch crossbows followed behind. When the Northern Han people were chasing each other in a hurry, they stopped and shot a round of arrows to block the pursuers, and then quickly escaped.
Facing the people who were fighting completely by crossbow arrows, Liu Chengjun was also stunned. In the first round of confrontation, more than a hundred cavalry were injured and killed. Wherever the crossbow passed, whether it was a man or a war horse, they were all penetrated. A bunch of blood mist splashed, dyeing the land under his feet red. Some arrows could even penetrate several people in succession, which made people stunned.
Last time, Liu Chengjun had not had time to carefully look at the power of the bed crossbow, but this time he had learned it!
It's really sharp!
Such a good weapon, giving a coward who can run away is a waste of things!
He gritted his teeth and went crazy, chasing him desperately.
But Ye Hua was familiar with the terrain and was particularly fond of his life. When they chased him, he would have disappeared without a trace.
Seeing that there was no hope of chasing, Liu Chengjun remembered the purpose of this trip, and immediately turned around and rushed to the bank of the Yellow River. But shortly after Liu Chengjun turned around, Ye Hua appeared again. This time he climbed up the hill and aimed at the place where the Northern Han army camped, and received a round of crossbow arrows. Suddenly, people were overturned. In a panic, the pot was knocked over and the stove was splattered. The parents of the Northern Han people shouted, and the casualties were heavy.
While they were looking for war horse weapons, Ye Hua ordered another round of shooting and then decisively evacuated. When the Northern Han army caught up, they had disappeared into the night!
Without even touching each other, the Northern Han army lost nearly 300 people. Liu Chengjun was crazy. He probably would have to attack with the other party's shamelessness.
Chapter completed!