On the platform of the Sui army, Lai Hu'er sat on the bed with a heavy face, and all the generals behind him, including the heralds, were cheering, shouting and cheering for the rounds of stone-throwing attacks, but there was no trace of joy on his face, sitting in the same place, looking at the big flag that was blown straight to the opposite bank by the wind, thoughtful.

Xue Rengui, who was standing with a flag on the side, had been familiar with military books since he was a child, and he quickly guessed Laihu'er's thoughts, so he came up in three steps and two steps, and said excitedly: "Commander, give the order to attack!" If it had been a little bit late, the wind might have changed! ”

Hearing this, Laihu'er's brows were locked tighter, the muscles on his face were shaking gently, and the military fan he was holding in his hand was tightly pinched in his hand, and the bone joints "crackled", like setting off firecrackers, he wanted to lift the military fan several times, but every time he lifted it halfway, he would put it down again, and finally he still stopped and sat back on the bed.

Xue Rengui hurriedly said: "Dashuai, the Wei army is holding wooden platoons to block, and their camps are also made of wood, we are going to attack with fire at this time, we will definitely be able to burn the company camp, as long as there is a mess on the opposite side, we can rush over without a pontoon bridge!" ”

Seeing this, Shi Fengdeyi, the head of the marshal's mansion, said coldly: "Xue Rengui, the marshal is not in a hurry, what are you anxious about?" Have you ever grasped the direction of the wind on the Yongji Canal very well these days? ”

Hearing this, the corners of Xue Rengui's mouth hooked, and said: "This, the wind direction on this Yongji Canal has been different every day recently, like yesterday, there was no wind at all." It's not easy to generalize! ”

The corners of Feng Deyi's mouth rose slightly, and he said: "That's it, the marshal can't make up his mind now, and it is precisely because of this, don't look at the west wind blowing now, blowing directly on the other side, but if the wind direction changes after a while, it changes to the east wind, won't it burn our army's troops crossing the river?" Young people, don't be impetuous, learn something! ”

Xue Rengui choked Feng Deyi so much that he had nothing to say, the light in the tiger's eyes flashed, and the green tendons on his face twitched slightly with the muscles on his face, but he couldn't say anything to refute.

Feng Deyi looked at Lai Hu'er and said: "Marshal, if you attack by fire now, you will also knock out your last card, if the battle is stalemate for a while, when the two armies take over, it will be impossible to attack with fire." ”

He paused, looked at the Wei army camp opposite, and said, "What's more, these camps of theirs are even coated with wet mud on the wooden fences. Obviously, for the sake of fire prevention, these wooden rafts are also smeared with black mud, which can not only remove the impact of the stones, but also prevent fire, so our army is now attacking even if it is fire. The effect will not be the best either. However, the two armies are fighting, and when there is no protection, this trick may be taken by surprise. ”

Lai Hu'er gritted his teeth and said in a deep voice: "Pass my order, after the five rounds of stone attacks, start to build a pontoon bridge, and Mai Mengcai's department will take the lead in attacking!" ”

Seeing this, Xue Rengui walked to the high platform and quickly passed the military order to protect the child in flags. Soon, as the last five rounds of stones were launched, the attacking phalanx of the Xiaoguo army also happened to cross the more than 100 catapults fifty paces offshore, and the dense shields in the front row suddenly overshadowed the shirtless strong men who were busy just now, and pressed firmly and forcefully towards the river bank with the most standard shield lance phalanx.

Seeing the Xiaoguo Army dispatched, Xu Shiji breathed a sigh of relief and muttered, "It's finally about to start." ”

Before the words fell, the huge phalanx of the Xiaoguo Army, the shield array about two or three miles wide in the front row, suddenly scattered from the middle, about a few hundred heavily armored soldiers, in a column of four, carrying a pontoon bridge about twenty paces long that consisted of dozens of boats, tied together side-by-side, with wooden planks nailed to them, rushed to the river as fast as possible, shouted in unison, and then threw the pontoon bridge on their shoulders into the water.

More than 100 shirtless warriors of the Sui army, who were coated with thick lard ointment to protect themselves from the cold, wore black tight-fitting water backings and carried wooden materials one by one, rushed into the water, marched in the water or ran to both sides of the pontoon bridge, and stood on both sides of the pontoon bridge with a strong man's waist, a person as tall as one person, and at least thirty or forty pounds of huge logs, pointed downwards, and inlaid with iron sheets.

Dozens of big men armed with sledgehammers, dressed in leather armor, with broad shoulders and wide arms, who were obviously known for their strength, carried thick wooden sledgehammers weighing forty or fifty pounds, ran onto the pontoon bridge, shouted trumpets, rounded the hammers, and smashed them down fiercely towards the wooden stakes held by the shirtless strong men in the water.

The big head of the wooden hammer and the iron log made a "crackling" sound when it came into contact with the iron log, and the tip of the wooden stake was against the silt at the bottom of the river, and with these few vigorous hammer blows, the pointed head drilled into the silt fiercely, and soon, without help, these wooden stakes were also fixed, and the pontoon bridge that had just become shaky with the impact of the flowing water of the Yongji Canal was also much more stable at once.

In just a moment's effort, the first section of the three pontoon bridges was so well fixed in the Liao River, the soldiers of the Sui army broke out into a burst of cheers, and hundreds of fresh troops continued to carry the three sections of the second pontoon bridge, shouting the trumpet, taking neat steps, trotting all the way, rushing towards the bridge deck where the hammer wrestlers had just evacuated, running to the end of the first pontoon, and then sliding the second section of the pontoon bridge from their shoulders into the water.

Laihu'er calmly watched the sergeants of the Xiaoguo Army pull back the second pontoon bridge floating in the water with the rope in their hands, and connect it with the break of the first pontoon, and then quickly nailed the joint between the two pontoons with wooden planks, and the shirtless warriors in the water touched the side of the boat and swam to both sides of the second pontoon, and the sergeants on the bridge were like busy ants, throwing some pointed logs that were longer than the first time into the water, and these shirtless men stuck logs into the riverbed beside them. Holding the edge of the boat with one hand, stepping on the water to maintain the balance of his body, while holding the log, keeping his head pointed down and maintaining his posture, creating conditions for the hammer hammer hands.

Landing on the other side, the temptation of rewarding the meritorious will stimulate these warriors, the belief in returning home is supporting these warriors, the bitter cold of the river makes them unable to speak, the thick lard cannot completely maintain their body temperature, many people's lips have been frozen purple, but none of them flinch, they have only one belief in their hearts: build a bridge! Forced crossing! Offensive! Official! Go home!