Chapter 1368: The Han Flag World (58) Crossing the River
Yingchuan County, which was considered foolproof by Tan Feng, did not hold on for even a day.
In the early hours of the morning, a team of soldiers rushed out of the barracks, the sound of neat footsteps, the neighing of horses, and the shouting of the commander resounded throughout the city in an instant, countless merchants and people were awakened, and opened the windows or door panels in disbelief, but what they saw was countless heavily armed soldiers who were hurrying to the river bank, and more carriages full of military baggage were also gathering in the direction of where. The loud sound of the military horn was not only heard clearly in Yingshui City, but even the Qin army on the other side could hear it.
Countless torches suddenly lit up on both sides of Yingshui.
"Back to the king, the 88th Division of the 19th Army is ready for battle, please give the king an order." The young division commander Ye Feng stood in front of Gao Yuan in full armor and reported excitedly and loudly.
"Today you are the main general, and all the battles are commanded by you personally, I'm just a spectator." Takato smiled. "But your commander, Commander Chen, is on his way, and he must hope that you have successfully taken the county seat of Yingchuan before he arrives."
"Don't worry, your majesty!" Ye Feng grinned, "I've been preparing for so long, and I've deduced countless times, this process is already familiar in my heart, and I will definitely complete the task on time." ”
"Okay, you've got a reward for this thing." Gao Yuan laughed and took out something from his arms and threw it to Ye Feng.
"What's this?" Ye Feng stretched out his hand to catch it, the thing in his hand was a tube, and it was still moving, and when he pulled it, there was a small tube in the big tube.
"It's called a telescope!" Gao Yuan reached out and took it, pulled the sleeve apart, and leaned in front of him to look into the distance, it was still dark. But the dotted torches on the other side are very clear. "This is something that Mingbo has just developed, and it can pull things far away in front of your eyes."
"Is there such a good thing?" Ye Feng took the telescope back, leaned in front of him, turned around and looked at it, the more he looked at it, the more happy he became, "Brother-in-law, I will immediately order dozens of them from Mingbo Company, and give one to each of my subordinate officers above the battalion level." ”
"What a big breath!" Gao Yuan laughed, "This thing is expensive." This lens is now all polished manually, and the failure rate remains high, now there is only one master who can polish this lens in Mingbo Company, you want to order dozens, ha! This root alone, if it is worth at least tens of thousands of yuan, Ye Feng, you have made a fortune. So rich? But money alone can't buy it! ”
Ye Feng's tongue stretched out, "So expensive?" It's still so hard work, so forget it. I'll just have one of these. Thank you, brother-in-law! Honestly and unceremoniously closed this far-sighted realm, took it into his arms, turned around and ran away.
"This kid. It was meant to be for you. Gao Yuan laughed.
"Your Majesty, won't you go and take a look?" He Weiyuan, who was on the side, asked cautiously, because Gao Yuan had no intention of going out.
Gao Yuan, who had already stepped into the threshold with one foot, turned his head and said with a smile: "Such a small scene." Is it still worth my visit to the front line? I didn't sleep well after a quarrel in the middle of the night yesterday, and now I'm going to make up for a night's sleep. ”
The door slammed shut in front of He Weiyuan. He Weiyuan wandered in front of the door for a while, but finally couldn't hold it back, and stretched out his hand to summon a few personal soldiers, "You stay here, I'll go ahead and take a look, and if the king has something to call later, quickly notify me." ”
"Yes, Commander!"
He Weiyuan laughed hesitantly, tightened the shackles around his waist, and ran out as if flying, such a lively scene, the king disdains to see it, and he can't miss it.
Ye Feng stood on the embankment, beside him, ten batteries at a time, the cannon that had been hidden in the warehouse at this time had been dragged out and installed on the fort, and the cannon that had taken off its felt coat stood on one side in black and swarthy, touching the body of the cannon with metallic luster, Ye Feng was very excited in his heart, a large-scale artillery battle, and it was heavy artillery, this was the first time in the Han army, I heard that the cannon was also used when the First Military Region attacked the Lubin Fortress area, but it was a small cannon rationed to the army, and it was a heavy artillery, Neither the range nor the power are comparable to those small cannons.
Under the embankment to the river, the soldiers of the 88th Division had already been ready for all the attacks, looking at all this, Ye Feng was very proud in his heart, this was the result of his training for several years, just in the middle of the night, he made all the preparations before the attack, the combat battalion, the engineer battalion, the boat bridge battalion, and the heavy artillery battalion, according to the previous plan, completed the task meticulously. Even the most elite Young Guards of the Great Han are no more than that.
In one day, the army commander Chen Bin's large army rushed over from the rear, and it only took one day, so there was only one day left for him to attack Yingchuan County.
On the other side, Yingchuan County, Gongsun Zhi, who got the news, stepped on the city tower, looking at the formation on the other side, the corners of his eyes shrank slightly, the Han army was going to attack Yingchuan County, but they were only more than 10,000 people, and there was Yingshui Separation, thinking that the general would lead the main force to leave and there would be a gap, that was a wrong idea. Yingchuan now has 20,000 soldiers and horses, not only on the city walls, on the river embankment, but also all over the defensive positions, where densely arranged bed crossbows and stone cannons are enough to sink anything that wants to float in the Yingshui River.
"Sun Haifeng, you take someone to the river embankment to supervise the battle." Gongsun Zhi turned his head and said to his lieutenant Sun Haifeng. "Give me a hard beating, smash whatever they cross the river to the bottom of the river."
"Understand, General Gongsun, just look at it! These damn Han Chinese, I made them not even touch the banks of the river, and they all sank into the river to feed the fish. Sun Haifeng, who was full of meat, said with a cruel smile.
On the embankment, the Yingchuan soldiers have already been in battle, and the Yingshui River on the opposite bank has been in trouble for most of the night, so they can only accompany the guard for most of the night, but seeing that the sky is about to dawn, the opposite bank seems to be thundering loudly and raining lightly, and they have not yet launched an attack. Sun Haifeng, who went to the embankment, was also a little impatient, could it be that the opponent didn't want to attack at night? With the night as cover, they may sneak in, and when the day comes, there will be no loopholes to exploit.
It's still a little doll with nothing more to do! Sun Haifeng sneered, the son-in-law who climbed up by nepotism, would he really know how to fight? He looked up at the sky, and there was already a hint of fish belly white on the horizon, and at this time, it was early in the morning.
The torches on both sides of the river were bright, and he could see the heavily armed soldiers between the river and the embankment opposite, but there were no boats or rafts in the river that allowed the river to cross the river, did they want to swim over?
Sun Haifeng frowned slightly, something abnormal is a demon. But where the hell is this demon, he can't figure it out, which makes him very uncomfortable. As a general, what he is most afraid of is that this kind of situation that he does not understand, and he can't guess the thoughts of both sides, which means that he is passive in the next confrontation.
When Sun Haifeng raised his eyes to look at the sky, Ye Feng on the other side was also looking up at the sky.
"Ready!" His voice was not loud, but it was extremely powerful.
Ten heavy guns, the soldiers of the ten artillery groups were busy in an instant, filling the gunpowder, tamping, one by one solid shells were loaded into the barrel, the fire rope hung out from the tail of the cannon, except for the gun commander, everyone squatted down.
"Master Ye, please get out of here!" The commander of the artillery battalion said loudly to his division commander.
"Well, the position here is yours, mine is below!" Ye Feng smiled: "Brother Guo, you have to be accurate." ”
"Don't worry, division commander, our artillery battalion has been pondering this shooting Zhuyuan for a long time, and every gunner is extremely proficient, and it is absolutely accurate to shoot one shot."
"Bastards on the other side, you're about to open meat." Ye Feng laughed and walked off the fort. "Boat Bridge Battalion, action!"
The formation of the Zhouqiao battalion, looking at the entire Han army, is only equipped with the 88th Division of the 19th Army, hearing the order of the division commander, the Zhouqiao battalion, which has already been prepared, immediately took action, and the rectangular objects like water tanks that had been placed on the beach were quickly pierced with steel rods, and a group of more than a dozen soldiers rushed to the river with these water tanks, and put the water tanks into the river, one soldier jumped up, and several other soldiers held down the water tank to prevent him from drifting with the water. An iron rod was pierced through a ring in one corner of the tank, and with a swing of the sledgehammer, the tank was fixed in the river.
Then the second, and then the third, the iron rods that held the tank in place grew longer and longer, and the bridge deck formed by this tank extended farther and farther into the river. In less than a pillar of incense, more than a dozen such pontoon bridges have been rapidly extended to the middle of the river.
On the other side, Tan Haifeng's eyes widened, they were building a pontoon bridge, but why was the speed so fast? More than ten bridges, in the blink of an eye, extended to the center of the river, and at this speed, it didn't take them a short time to get straight to this side.
"Stone artillery, fire, sink them for me!" Sun Haifeng jumped up all of a sudden, and roared loudly, only then did he understand that the other party didn't need a boat, and they didn't plan to use a boat at all, they wanted to build a bridge.
The calm on both sides of the river was broken by the whistling sound of stone cannons, one after another stone bullets fell from the sky, stirring up one wave after another in the river, from time to time a water tank was hit and sunk, and the soldiers of the Zhouqiao Battalion of the Han Army who were busy on it turned over and fell into the water, but immediately, someone would make up for it.
"Fire!" The small red flag in the hands of the commander of the artillery battalion fell heavily.
The torch lit the ignition rope, the burning fuse rope in the ears of these artillerymen, is the most beautiful music in the world, one after another loud noise, the smoke of gunpowder is filled, the artillery position is instantly filled with smoke, ten red, weighing more than ten catties of iron balls in the air with a sharp whistling sound fell to the opposite Yingchuan army position. (To be continued.) )