The Qiantang River is vast and flowing through the entire Hangzhou Prefecture from the southwest to the northeast, giving birth to the softness and prosperity of this Jiangnan water town. It even showed the Qiantang tide, which has been famous for thousands of years and is the world-famous Qiantang tide.

However, water can carry boats, and can also race... and can also overturn the boats. Now this mother river of all people in Hangzhou has become a sharp sword hanging over the heads of all the soldiers and civilians of Wu.

Wenjiayan is located in the upper reaches of Hangzhou City, which is the key to the Qiantang River entering the boundary of Hangzhou. The water here is gentle and the terrain is open, which is the source of a large amount of river water in the upper reaches. But now, the situation here is very different from usual. In front of a small village with only a hundred families, a thousand-man Song army was stationed. Shortly after they arrived here, a much taller embankment was built on this river channel, cut off the Qiantang River water in half and put a small hole to pass through the river.

This scared the people in the village very much, because as the road ahead was blocked, the river water in the upper reaches was slowly accumulated and raised upwards day by day. Now the river water here is far higher than the rooftops in the village, and it seems that a catastrophe will come at any time.

But under the protection of the Song army, the people of this village did not dare to object. Although the soldiers never disturbed the people, they were holding shiny swords and guns in their hands. Who dared to provoke them?

Fortunately, the days of worrying like this were not too long. On October 29th, as a fast horse arrived, the officer named Tao Zongwang took the initiative and completely destroyed the several meters of width and height that had been built over the past few miles.

As soon as the blockade was removed from the front, the river water trapped above suddenly became completely like a trapped beast leaving a cage. The Qiantang River water that had flowed gently in the past actually roared, and rushed downstream along the river channel with the momentum of thousands of horses. In an instant, the mud and stone dam remaining on the river channel was washed away cleanly... If it weren't for the newly built and reinforced dam on both sides of the river, the rushing river water would have swallowed up everything around.

The downstream was originally downs shallow due to the interception above, and only half of the river water left suddenly surged. The river water flow rate increased several times more than before, and it rumbling towards Hangzhou City. On the waterway that was only a few miles away from Hangzhou, dozens of large and small ships had been waiting for a long time. When they heard the increasing sound of water, they could see a water belt behind them approaching quickly. The sailors on the ship suddenly became more energetic, shouting, Zhang Fan, lifting anchors, setting oars, and oriented... All the ships were almost ready to take advantage of the water level this time to rush straight towards Hangzhou City.

"Start! Kill in the Kinmen Gate, it's time!" With the shout of the head general Hun Jianglong Li Jun, all the ships moved almost at the same time. The soldiers all showed excited expressions, staring at the vaguely visible Hangzhou wall in front of them, controlling the ships under their feet, and rushed down as fast as possible.

With the smooth wind, the five or six miles of water arrived in an instant. They could soon see the Wu army flag above the Yongjin Water Gate, and even the soldiers and horses stationed there. They immediately shouted excitedly, raided guns and lifted their bows, and prepared to welcome the battle.

At this time, at Yongkin Gate, looking at the countless ships that were riding the wind and waves, the defenders' hearts rose up. Countless bows and arrows were aiming down, waiting for the commander Yuan Kai here to fire the arrows at the same time.

As the general who is best at water combat in the Wu army, Yuan Kai was extremely calm at this time. Even though the Qiantang River, which was carrying countless ships, looked very loud, it did not change his expression. He just looked back at the reserve reinforcements behind who had been waiting here early, and was very impressed: "It was still Pang Shuai who was wise. He had expected that the Song army would set the main attack target of me Yongkin Gate. Now everything is ready, it depends on how they seek death!"

Just by a moment of thought, the five or six small boats that rushed in the front had entered the range of the archer in the city. Yuan Kai ordered: "Shoot the arrows, rockets, and burn these hawks to death!"

The torches that had been prepared were ignited one by one, and then the arrows wrapped in oil-dipped cloth at the arrow were also ignited one by one, and then shot out by the archers with all their strength. Although some of the rockets fell into the water due to the wind direction and distance, more of them actually hit the ships that were constantly approaching in front of them, and quickly caused a bunch of fire on these small boats.

This scared the Song army on the ship very much. They didn't bother to suppress the defenders in the city with bows and arrows, and quickly used buckets or other things to extinguish the flames on the side of the ship or the bow. However, in this delay, their ship had rushed to the Yongjin Gate, and what was greeted was even more densely filled with arrow rain. Suddenly, everyone on the ship was shot to the east and west, screaming in pain.

As soon as they fought, they formed a complete suppression of the Song army, which made the Wu army in the city flourish. Even if more ships came in a row, they were not afraid at all. They used arrows and defensive weapons such as wood and stone that had been prepared early to block the ships from approaching their own water gates, and they had always steadily gained an advantage.

"The boat avoids the three large ships, drive over the city, and suppress the rain of arrows on the city first!" Seeing the first wave of offensives, Li Jun frowned and immediately changed the tactics of siege. In this way, the previous idea was still a bit too natural, thinking that he could use the flood to rush over the Kinmen, and even if he was not good, he could kill the defenders off guard, but depending on the situation, the enemy was actually prepared.

As the largest of the five major water gates in Hangzhou, Yongkin Gate was originally prepared for the large merchant ships entering and leaving Hangzhou. After all, this was an extremely important and prosperous commercial place in the Song Dynasty, and both water and land were extremely convenient. But now, the wide river waterway here has become a good place for the large ship to move forward and retreat freely, especially when the water surface continues to rise, the unfavorable factors that restrict the extremely deep water-drained warships were gone. Under the action of sails, the three large ships quickly approached in a font shape, and the soldiers on the three decks were not much lower than those on the city guards.

"Show me an arrow!" Li Jun was the one who commanded the battle on the ship in front. With his order, the Song army archers also poured dense rain of arrows on the opposite city, and immediately shot down the Wu army who was not prepared, scaring many people so much that they bent down to hide and hide in the city wall to save their lives.

"Brothers, it's time to kill me!" Zhang Shun, who had already avoided his debut, felt relieved after seeing the embarrassing look of the defenders at the city, and immediately seized the opportunity and ordered another attack. He wanted to take advantage of the opportunity that the defenders at the city were unable to take care of for the time being.

This is where attacking the Water Gate is much more advantageous than attacking the Hanmen. With just a few large ships of ships, they can form a stalemate with the enemies above and create safer access to the city gate for the small boats below, and try to break through the city gate to create good conditions.

But just as Zhang Shun personally drove the boat and rushed towards the city gate with more than ten small boats as if flying, an accident suddenly arose. A wave came from behind, not only did the boats below shaking, but even the three large ships were undulating. It was too sudden. Even though the boats were experienced with water warfare, they were caught off guard. In order to stabilize their bodies, they naturally relaxed the arrows on the top of the city.

It turned out that this was the real release of Qiantang River water after being opened and flowed down the city of Hangzhou. The water flow that had pushed these many ships to quickly pounce on them was just the prelude to the river water that had accumulated for several days. At this time, the subsequent fiercer flood came.

It would be fine if this was the case. The water skills of these sailors would not be affected too much, but the rushing river water was blocked by the high city wall when it arrived in front of Yongkin Gate. Therefore, the river water that could not move forward could only be rolled back after being heavily shot on the solid city wall and was unwilling to reconcile. It was similar to the Qianjiang tide when it entered the sea.

This time, the wave of back-shooting was even more surging than the waves that came from behind before. It immediately rolled the small boats such as Zhang Shun, who was still trying to control the direction of the ship, and also made the three large ships suddenly scatter and cross the line, causing the soldiers on the ship to exclaim, and the people and horses to overturn...

Although these sailors were all good at water warfare, they only fought in the unripe Liangshan River. They had never experienced the baptism of the surging waters in the south of the Yangtze River. They suddenly fell forward and fell into chaos, and they didn't even bother to suppress and attack the enemies on the city.

Compared to the ships under the city being beaten by this wave of great waves, the Wu army on the city is as stable as Mount Tai. The city walls in the Yong Kinmen area are built strong enough. Even if the Qiantang River is extremely fierce this time, it cannot shake the city wall at all.

Yuan Kai was also overjoyed after seeing this scene and hurriedly ordered: "Shoot me arrows and shoot them to death! No need to save any weapons, it is important to defeat the enemy!"

The soldiers woke up as if they were dreaming, and quickly moved quickly, and once again made a dense net with arrows, covering the enemy ships below, especially the three most threatening ships, which became their special targets for attack.

After being hit by such a crazy blow, the Song army was killed and injured. Seeing this, Li Jun had to order the attack to suspend the ship and let the ship retreat and avoid it. Obviously, this first wave of offensive was not achieved after all.
Chapter completed!