Chapter 109: Breaking the Siege

At the end of the day, it was the period of day and night, yin and yang balance, and a thick fog rose in the sky from Fushui to the river, and even if a torch was lit at this moment, it could not shine a foot square.

The sergeants who were patrolling on the pontoon bridge across the river were trying to distinguish the direction of travel under their feet, so as not to deviate, and in such weather, if they fell into the water, their companions could not help them even if they wanted to.

They had just changed shifts, and many of them were still yawning, and it was no wonder that they were suddenly woken up at the time of the day when they slept the most soundly.

It is said that the Song people came to help, and at the beginning they were on guard as if they were facing a great enemy, but they came down all day long, and there will always be a time to relax. For example, now, the night is dark and foggy, and it is very difficult to walk normally, let alone march.

The patrol walked along the pontoon bridge to the center of the river, and in addition to the "thump" sound of boots stepping on the wooden plank, there was only the "thud" of the river flowing by, and a military academy walking at the back still heard some different sounds, "crackling" as if the branches were burning, he stopped in confusion, turned to look in the direction where the sound came from, and there was the upper reaches of the water.

As the sound drew closer, a red light in the darkness moved towards him, and in his astonishment, the red light had already taken shape in front of him, and a small boat rushed down the rushing river, and there was no one on it, except for the raging fire.

With a loud bang, the bow of the ship slammed into the pontoon, and the unfortunate military academy did not have time to call out the word "enemy attack", so it was pushed away with great force and fell into the river along with the planks under its feet.

"The front is successful, send a signal, and rush over with Lao Tzu!" Hearing the successive sounds in front of him, Zhang Wan rubbed excitedly and gave an order.

At his feet is a 500-material warship, which may be considered ordinary on the river, but here it can be called a "giant ship". Hearing his order, the sails were pulled high, and with the help of the wind began to slowly accelerate, a few hurried horns sounded, and one warship after another was ready to go.

"Zhao An, you take the lead, wait for the Tartars to focus on the river, and then make an all-out blow."

On the riverbank, Zhang Jue led the crew to see the fleet disappear into the fog, and began to assign tasks, Tartar connected the two sides of the river with a pontoon bridge, once the pontoon bridge was broken, it would not be able to take care of the end of the head, he was not greedy, as long as he could break any of them, the siege would be solved.

"The last will be ordered, and it will live up to the trust." Zhao An clenched his fists and replied, although the navy army fought the enemy first, only foot soldiers could kill and capture the flag, and he had no dissatisfaction.

With Zhang Jue's order, a group of foot soldiers left the starting place and moved forward along the river bank, although the fog made the enemy's field of vision smaller, but there would be many disadvantages on the side, whether it could achieve the pre-battle plan, no one knows.

As soon as the order was issued, the war had already begun, and it was useless to think about anything, and his Chinese army also began to move, and the Great Song soldiers with swords and guns marched cautiously in the fog, and the speed was not too fast.

When the Privy Council of Mongolia and Dongchuan Xing was called, he had just slept for less than half an hour, and he had to be careful, staring at it for several days, who thought that it should come or come, and it came so suddenly.

In order to prevent a possible sneak attack, they stopped the siege and instead focused all their attention on the upstream direction, and the pontoon bridge was patrolled day and night, but because there were no sailors, such actions could not even be considered vigilance, and could only be better than nothing.

The damn fog obscured a qiē, and when he stood on the shore, he only saw a fire burning on the pontoon, and it was spreading, and the sergeants kept rushing up with wooden barrels, but the fire was still getting bigger and bigger, and it was obvious that the Song people poured oil on the fireboat.

He didn't have to worry about anything on land, as soon as he received the military report, several Han army thousand-man teams faced upstream and listed the defensive formation, he thought of the part on the other side of the river, whether to go over in person, he had not yet made up his mind.

"Be careful!" Suddenly, he was pushed by his own soldiers, and he staggered and almost fell to the ground, and before he could stand still, he saw a feather arrow stuck diagonally on the ground where he had just stood, so dangerous! But where did the arrow come from, he looked puzzled, until a tall warship appeared on the river.

"It's a pity." Zhang Wan secretly clenched his fist, that was the first target he saw from the fog, it was not very clear under the torch, but it was definitely a big official.

On the surface of the river, the pontoon bridges that had been locked across the banks had been burned to pieces, and his boat had passed the first weight without any effort, and the Tartar did not react. The second pontoon bridge in front of him was about half a mile away, and he silently calculated in his heart that slowing down and setting fire to the boat would delay a lot of effort.

"The whole army is on alert, don't stop, continue to accelerate." The thrust of the current and the full sails, Zhang Wan's big boat got faster and faster, and rushed under the nose of the Tartar, and the sergeants behind the female wall each held their bows and arrows, staring nervously at the river bank, and only when they saw the target, they would shoot the arrows in their hands, but the hit rate was not high.

"Bump into Lao Tzu."

When Zhang Wan said this, the big ship was close to the second pontoon, which was densely packed with people, and I didn't know whether to defend here or cross the river from here, with huge kinetic energy, the hull of the ship hit the pontoon bridge like a heavy hammer, and the sergeant who fell into the water let out a terrible scream, and the pontoon bridge pulled by the iron cable stretched forward abruptly, like a big bow that was pulled out.

If there was only one ship, the thick iron ropes fixed to the river bank with huge stones could block its way, but then one after another the warships collided, and the iron cables that had been straightened could no longer withstand this huge force, and the iron nails that had been deep in the earth were pulled into the sky and fell into the water together with the iron cables on the river.

"Mighty!" Shun Lì broke through the second pontoon, and the sergeants on board were very excited and couldn't help but cheer loudly.

Zhang Wan stood on the second deck with the same expression, and there was a pontoon bridge in front of him, but with the current speed of the ship, he was afraid that it would not be as smooth as just now, because he had already vaguely seen the shadow of the bridge.

Sure enough, this impact only caused the ships under the pontoon bridge to be scattered, but the iron cable was not broken, seeing that his warship was about to be blocked, Zhang Wan lifted a sharp axe under his feet and went downstairs in a few steps.

"Bow ~ crossbowman for a certain sweeping formation." Without looking back, he turned over and jumped from the bow of the boat, landing just on a ferry.

"Shoot the arrows and hold them down!" It was not until he began to slash at the chains with his axes that the sergeants on the ship reacted, and his lieutenant shouted to command the archers, and the feathered arrows rained down on the riverbank, where the Tartar archers were already firing at them.

Zhang Wan struggled to chop the chain formed by the iron ring, the thick iron ring was sparked by him, and the arrows kept passing around him, but he didn't realize that the big ship was close to stopping, and once the Tartar reacted and attacked with a trebuchet, it would be very dangerous.

"Pull so-and-so up!" Finally cut off the chain and sank it into two pieces into the river, Zhang Wan clapped his hands and threw away the axe that was already full of gaps, and pulled the rope laid down on the boat and screamed.

The big boat started slowly in the middle of the river, and Zhang Wan, who returned to the boat, urged urgently, and now the entire fleet has slowed down, if it weren't for the fog, this would almost be the way to die.

As soon as the speed was added, a stone fell from the sky and hit the water not far from the boat, and it seemed that the Tartar was also in a hurry, whether he could see it clearly or not, he hit it first.

"It's late." Zhang Wan didn't even look at the shore, the pontoon bridge had been broken, and the flotilla, under the guidance of his boat, rushed forward without hindrance, these arrows and stones were just to see them off.

The further you go, the more open the river becomes, here is the confluence of Fushui and the big river, Chongqing Fucheng is built on the back of the mountains and waters, as the sky gradually brightens, the fog is about to disperse, and the majestic city wall appears in sight.

"Wan Sheng!" The sergeants who successfully broke the siege chanted excitedly, but Zhang Wan knew that this was only the first step, to break the siege of the Tartars, there was still a big battle to be fought.

In the forbidden army camp outside Lin'an City, Liu Yu and Jin Ming sat in the latter's big tent relatively speechlessly, Jiang Ning stood nervously and restlessly.

"What did your father say?" Jin Ming asked in a deep voice, of course he knew what kind of virtue his sister was, so he automatically ignored that part, and he still had to listen to the opinions of his elders for this kind of thing.

"My father has a word, but he is the master of command."

Jiang Ning's answer was unexpected, not that he was irresponsible, but that people knew that they were at a loss, and put on an attitude of letting it be disposed of, Jin Ming nodded and wanted to speak.

"You go out first, and we'll talk about that later."

Liu Yu suddenly said loudly, Jin Ming glanced at him in surprise, but did not raise any objections, Jiang Ning was stunned for a while, and came out with his fists clenched as he said.

"It's about Sister Pheasant's life, let's ask her." Liu Yu has always felt that her love is wrong, and she is afraid that something will happen, Jin Ming and his wife are both careless people, and they may not be able to take care of it.

"She's in the camp, when are you going to go?"

Jin Ming doesn't doubt that he has him, he definitely won't go anyway, since Liu Yu is out, he won't stop him, and he still cares about it in the end.

Under the leadership of his own soldiers, Liu Yu came to the pheasant slave's tent, and the moment he stepped in, he actually didn't think about how to tell her.

It seemed that the furnishings of the tent were no different from the other tents in the army, and the girl would rather sleep here than go back to the city, which shows that she had become accustomed to it.

"To be honest with me, don't you like Brother Ning?"

After thinking about it, Liu Yu still decided to get straight to the point, and when the pheasant slave heard this question, she seemed to have a moment of panic, she nodded hurriedly, and then shook her head.

Liu Yuxin said that this is the case, there is not much love between men and women in her heart now, and even she doesn't know what it feels like, Jiang Ning may be just a comrade-in-arms who can intersect with her.

"Do you know that Brother Ning'er is thousands of miles away, and I believe you know how dangerous the sea is, and he didn't need to be like this."

Since Jiang Ning has this determination, Liu Yu is ready to let him be in the same boat as Zhang Xuan, on the one hand, it is to exercise, and on the other hand, it can also be more assured, they will not have support, they can only rely on themselves, but Liu Yu believes that this is the fastest growth for him.

"Since there is a one-year period, then it is okay, you can also think about it more, what to think about in the end, if you really don't want to, then just let it be."

The pheasant slave kept pursing her lips and didn't speak, Liu Yu had to sigh and say, this kind of thing can't be forced, if she doesn't want to marry, then what if she doesn't marry, it's not that she can't afford to raise it anyway.

What he didn't expect was that the pheasant slave was forgivable for not speaking to his always strict brother, but it was the same for himself, so he was a little depressed, did he want to find a wife? R1058