Chapter 339: Crossing the River

After two days of marching on the other side of Goguryeo, this army preparing to attack Goguryeo walked through a dense forest, and the Yalu River was in front of him, and the king of Goguryeo was right, this is the narrowest place on both sides of the Yalu River, and it is also the easiest place to build bridges, and the water level of the Yalu River has risen a lot due to the typhoon, and the water flow is even more turbulent.

Cheng Chumo and his team are cutting down trees and preparing to build a bridge.

Li Tai looked at the turbulent river, this was the first time he walked out of Guanzhong, and glanced at Gu Qing, who was watching the Yalu River flow, "You seem to have been to many, many places, you know the topography of Goguryeo, you know the silver mines of the Wa Kingdom, and you know the importance of this Yalu River to Goguryeo." ”

Gu Qing smiled and said, "Why do you care about this. ”

Li Tai looked back and continued to look at the river, his face was very confused, Gu Qing seemed to know everything, he had this feeling when he faced Gu Qing many years ago, the feeling was not so strong at the beginning, and when he saw him, Gu Qing's prophetic prescience became stronger and stronger, like a river that wants to know the depth of the water must go down to explore the depth, but Gu Qing doesn't even need to look at the river to know the depth of the river, for Li Tai now, Gu Qing brings him this feeling, more like a hazy unpredictable prophet.

Counting Goguryeo, counting the Wa Kingdom, Li Tai turned his head and looked at Gu Qing who was talking to the people from the Firearms Bureau again, if this Gu Qing has counted everything, how much can he count in the Tang Dynasty.

More than a dozen strong men in the army carried the cut down trees, one after another, more than a dozen trees were tied together with thick hemp rope side by side to make a simple wooden bridge, Gu Qing calculated the distance between the two sides of the river and the elevation of this wooden bridge, and commanded them, "Stand up, a little ahead." ”

More than a dozen strong men used their strength to carry the wooden bridge forward.

"Good! Come on. Gu Qing commanded again, "Slowly put it down." ”

The wooden bridge fell very steadily on both banks, and a few soldiers stepped on it and tried it, and it was quite strong after a few jumps.

"Come on! Let's go make a few more, a little more spacious. Cheng Chumo shouted again.

Su Dingfang tried a few times from the bridge and rode up to the bridge, "His Royal Highness King Wei, His Royal Highness King Wu, the bridge is very strong, let's go over first." ”

Li Ke, the king of Wu, walked across the bridge safely with his horse, followed by Li Tai, who crossed the bridge safely, and Cheng silently shouted that several bridges were built on both sides of the river, and the army crossed the bridge safely, and finally only the Firearms Bureau and Gu Qing remained.

"Hurry up!" Li Tai shouted on the other side.

"Let the grenades and explosives pass first." Gu Qing commanded to the people of the Firearms Bureau.

Pulling a cart of firearms to cross the bridge, Gu Qing's eyes were turbulent rivers, if people fell down, they could still be saved, these firearms fell into the water in vain, and he was relieved to see that these firearms passed safely, and then there were the three most headache artillery, each weighing more than three hundred pounds.

"Will it be demolished?" Gu Qing asked a few people from the Firearms Bureau.

Several mutes who were marching with the army nodded.

"Okay." Gu Qing nodded reassuringly, "Remove the wheels first and reduce the weight as much as possible." ”

A few dumb people did things immediately, Gu Qing looked at the cannon to see if there was anything else that could be removed to reduce weight, "Lift this cannon barrel." ”

Raising the barrel, Gu Qing looked at the underside of the cannon, "Remove the bracket below." ”

Until there was no way to dismantle it, Gu Qing tied up the bodies of these dumb people and pulled them on the other end, "If the bridge is broken, I can hold you, this river is too urgent, no matter what, life is still the most important." ”

A few dumb people carried the parts of the cannon, and Gu Qing said again, "Remember to walk sideways, the cannon body must be placed upside down on the bridge to evenly distribute the pressure." ”

The mutes couldn't hear why.

"Just put it sideways." Gu Qing said again, "Hurry up." ”

The mutes obeyed, they had never been slaves who couldn't speak, but Gu Qing gave them a rope that could save their lives, which made them feel different, they had always lived under other people's orders, their lives were someone else's, and their work was all their life.

The three artillery pieces arrived on the opposite bank in batches, and Gu Qing was nervous for a long time before he sat down tiredly.

"Gu Qing, it's just you!" Cheng Chumo shouted.

Standing up again, Gu Qing walked on the bridge, this kind of tree was still strong, step by step and step carefully, and when he reached the middle of the river, he suddenly heard a broken body from under his feet.

Li Tai also noticed the abnormality, and shouted with regret in his eyes, "Run!" ”

Pulling his legs, Gu Qing ran towards the shore with his whole person, and the whole bridge could no longer support it and broke violently, while there was still a little support, Gu Qing jumped up towards the shore under the ** of survival, his hand was still a millimeter away from the shore, and he did not grasp the river bank.

"Gu Qing!" Cheng Chumo threw himself down, grabbed Gu Qing's hand, and grabbed the shore with the other hand to support him.

Under his feet was the turbulent river, and Gu Qing hung under the bank and looked down to see that the river was still rushing.

Cheng Chumo gritted his teeth and wanted to pull Gu Qing up, but as soon as the other hand slipped and the palm of his hand was about to fall, Xue Rengui was the first to react and hold Cheng Chumo's hand, gritted his teeth and lifted it up, Li Tai immediately shouted when he saw this situation, "What are you still stunned about, save people!" ”

Only then did the soldiers come back to their senses and pull people.

Cheng Chumo gritted his teeth, "Gu Qing, don't let go!" ”

Although there was a tearing pain in his arm, as everyone tried to lift it up little by little, when he reached the shore, Gu Qing sat on the ground for the rest of his life.

"It's okay." Li Tai handed the water bag to Gu Qing, "You kid has a big life, and you will enjoy some blessings in the future." ”

"Yes, then I'll drag you down." Gu Qing poured a mouthful of cold water into his mouth.

The army repaired again for a while, and continued to march out of the dense forest to see a village, and when I walked in again, there was an empty village in front of me, almost uninhabited, and everywhere was messy as if it had been looted.

A number of bodies were also found and it appears that there had been a fight.

The king of Goguryeo dragged one corpse after another to be buried, and Shangguan Yi asked a few soldiers to help.

"They took these unarmed civilians and confiscated them against us." Shangguan Yi whispered, "This Yuangai Suwen captured many people near Goguryeo, these villagers were the villagers who helped me and the King of Goguryeo escape, there was actually a single-plank bridge where we came just now, and they pushed down the single-plank bridge in order to let us escape, and we escaped from Yuangai Suwen's pursuit." ”

Shangguan Yi looked at the corpses, "I never thought that Yuangai Suwen would kill them, although this village is not in the territory of Goguryeo, but it is also loyal to the Goguryeo royal family, and it has a life-saving grace for me." ”