"Let's cross the river." Li Chengxian spit out three words with difficulty, and then decided to bring people over first.

Each small boat can carry three people and three horses, and seven ships can carry twenty-one people and twenty-one horses at a time, when Li Chengxian and other twenty-one people successfully brought their war horses on the ship, the people present did not have a sense of impassioned and fierce ambition, only an incomparably comical feeling.

"Damn the golden crown ......" Lu Zhijia scolded angrily again, but after thinking about it, his deputy general seems to be usually responsible for supervising the water camp, he doesn't take the water camp very seriously, he hasn't been to see the water camp twice a year, and he doesn't care about the promotion and command and daily maintenance of the water camp at all, to be honest, where the water camp is usually stationed, how many boats there are, how well the training, how the equipment is provided, he seems to be ignorant, I'm afraid that even Ma Shilong doesn't know much, he knows how many water camps are on the books, and he remembered them when he crossed the river, and then with a wave of his hand, he asked for the deployment in place, it seems, his side is not so reasonable?

Even if it is the Sun Pavilion Department, I am afraid that he only knows the general trend, and pays the most attention to the Tuntian and Iron Cavalry Battalions everywhere, followed by the Che Artillery Battalion, and finally the Water Battalion, right?

But now is not the time to reflect, Lu Zhijia frowned and counted the time, transporting twenty-one people and horses at a time, it looks not a lot, but the river surface of the Liuhe River is very wide, and the ferry on the opposite side has long been deserted, and it has to be tossed for half a day when you go ashore, and then the boat rows back, and you can't get on the boat fast here, the war horse is afraid of water, and it is not as adaptable as a person, and after slowly transporting the twenty-one war horses to the boat, then slowly row over......

Lu Zhijia's face darkened.

By the evening of the 23rd, around dark, the last group of men and horses were transported to the opposite bank, and seeing the reeds on the opposite bank lighting a bonfire from it, Lu Zhijia sighed heavily, and he ordered to continue to transport people at dawn, and he would follow the last group across the river tomorrow night.

Today for a whole day, I couldn't transport away two hundred people, it was a failure of failures, and Lu Zhijia felt that his heart was fried in an oil pot, which was a kind of torture.

The next morning, they began to transport people again, this time it was Zhang Wenju and others' soldiers and horses, before that it was Ma Ji and other troops of the Dingwu Battalion, early in the morning people and horses began to line up to get on the boat, many people at the end of the line simply used spears to fix the horse reins, and then people lay on the ground to rest or chat.

Because of the fear of being attacked after crossing the river, everyone was wearing armor, wearing dozens of pounds of heavy armor, and they were tired after standing for a while, and sweat flowed down like rain, so Lu Zhijia did not require the soldiers to be on guard at any time.

To put it another way, even if the ambush troops on the other side of the strait are now out and cut Li Chengxian and them into pieces, they can only watch from here, can the soldiers still fly over?

In the afternoon, a pond horse came on horseback and reported the latest news.

One is that Sun Gebu announced this operation as a military operation to patrol the river, and used his own Shang Fang sword to grant Ma Shilong the right to decide on the spot, which means that this time is the general's holy order of the sentinel to patrol the river, the old Sun Tou's actions are quite obvious to characterize the raid on Yaozhou as an occasional action of crossing the river sentinel, and pay more attention to suddenness and chance, if Yaozhou is successfully defeated, then it is the front soldiers who see the opportunity to win a big victory, and the old Sun Tou will not take the credit, if the war is unfavorable and the whole army retreats back, then it cannot be said defeated, Because it was originally a sentinel patrol operation, there was no question of victory or defeat.

"Lord Cabinet is really well-intentioned." Lu Zhijia said with emotion.

The second is that Ma Zongbing reported the latest news of the water camp, Jin Guan's side still claimed that there was no way to arrive in the short term, and it would take at least ten days or more, Ma Shilong no longer had any hope for the water camp, and Lao Ma decided to use a fishing boat to cross the river, and at the same time he said that he would take the officers and soldiers of the two battalions of Dingwu and Chongwu to the Liuhe ferry on the 26th.

"Do the math," Lu Zhijia thought secretly, "It just so happens that we all crossed the river on the day Ma Shuai arrived, and we will be able to rush outside Yaozhou City on the same day." ”

From the ferry to Yaozhou City is very close, there is a Tianfei Palace in between, the people who crossed the river in advance have rested outside the ferry for two days, and the last day is for the refugees to cross the river, so that they can strengthen their physical strength, and lead the way with the fugitives on the shore, anyway, they don't expect these fugitives to fight, as long as they rush to Yaozhou City with the soldiers of the Iron Cavalry Battalion, the battle is basically over.

"I hope to use the head of the East Captivate to report the good news to Ma Shuai."

It was just past noon, the heat of the sun was still very hot, Lu Zhijia looked at the situation of crossing the river for a while, and felt really drowsy, he was also wearing thick iron scale armor, so he simply found a shady place, half lying down and began to rest.

At dusk, someone woke up the sleeping sweet Lu Zhijia, and everyone gathered around the vice admiral to get on the boat, after Lu Zhijia got on the boat, he was blown by the cold wind on the cool river, and the cold water splashed on his face when the boat slurry was rowing, and he was immediately refreshed.

All around was the sound of paddling, as well as the neighing of horses and the sound of snorts, and the soldiers were also talking in low voices, and those who crossed the river with Lu Zhijia were all his family members, and they were much more relaxed than ordinary battalion soldiers in terms of military discipline.

After a quarter of an hour, everyone saw the boat approaching the shoal and rushing ashore.

A few fisherman-like men rushed over, pulled the rope and pulled the boat up, and then a few Nedin led the horses down first, and someone came to help Lu Zhijia.

"Not necessarily." Lu Zhijia said: "Ben General doesn't need someone to support him yet. ”

At this time, it was getting dark, and now the more than 500 people who crossed the river were all cavalry of the iron cavalry battalion, and hundreds of people were scattered on the bank of the river within a radius of three miles.

Lu Zhijia was quite dissatisfied, but he saw that Li Chengxian had also taken off his armor and sat on the ground resting, so he couldn't say anything for a while.

"Lord Lu has worked hard." Li Chengxian hurriedly served a pot of fish soup, and then whispered: "The adults must be dissatisfied, but this is no way, the more than 500 people who crossed the river this time are all recruits except for a few Neiding, and they can't endure the long-term restraint and hardship, they have already complained, and their morale is low, if the last general forcibly restricts them to fight the whole equipment, or keep the queue, they have to wait until tomorrow and the day after tomorrow to engage in the battle, and the last general is afraid that their physical strength and morale will fall to the bottom, and it will not be good at that time." ”

Lu Zhijia looked left and right, and the recruits who came with him had all run away on their own, and they didn't have the consciousness to wait for orders at all. At this time, he woke up, whether it is Ma Jiqian's two hundred and five, or Zhang Wenju and others' four hundred and five, these soldiers and horses are all recruits, the generals are less than ten people, and the number of thousands of generals and garrisons is only more than 30 people, plus his own and Li Chengxian's family is less than 100 people, tomorrow will continue to have iron cavalry across the river, adding up to 800 soldiers Ninety percent are recruits, with no battlefield experience at all, and the military discipline constraints are not very serious.

In addition, Lu Zhijia remembered that if he wanted to wait for all the fugitive troops to cross the river, he would have to delay for another day, so he sighed and said: "If the remaining cavalry crosses the river tomorrow, that Liu Boqiao's people will come over and some people as guides." ”

"What about Uncle Liu?"

"Of course he wants to come over, there is still a Song Sheng and someone waiting over there, I want them to be the early guide."

"Okay," Li Chengxian said: "Please rest assured, the last general will be the vanguard tomorrow night, and he will definitely break through Yaozhou City in the shortest possible time." ”

"Hmm." Lu Zhijia somehow suddenly felt no confidence, but he didn't know why he was like this, like most generals in Liaozhen, Lu Zhijia could only recognize some simple words, and he hadn't read the book of war at all, as far as the war was concerned, when he was still a young man, he followed Li Rusong to North Korea to fight, and then the Liaozhen soldiers withdrew, and the brothers died and crippled, Lu Zhijia also went from a general to a deputy general, the old man of Liaozhen, Li Rusong and Zu Chengxun and other veterans have long passed away, Lu Zhijia doesn't remember how these old people fought, but deep in his memory, it seems that it is the same as now, the battalion soldiers set up a large formation, put a gun indiscriminately, and the Neiding cavalry charged in armor, and then the enemy crossed in an uproar.

As for how to train and manage the battalion and cavalry on a daily basis, it is also done according to the rules of the past twenty or thirty years, but I heard that when the old chief soldier was in his prime, that is, when Ning Yuanbo Li Chengliang was in his prime, there was strict training for the infantry and cavalry formations, but that was a long time ago, at least forty years ago, and the current generals of Liaozhen did not know what kind of training method was at the beginning, ten years ago, Liaozhen was poor, and the money was only used on Neiding, and now the imperial court has given so much silver, equipped the majestic iron cavalry battalion in front of him, but how to make good use of this iron cavalry, Lu Zhijia was already ignorant and had no clue.

"We're here here now." Liu Boqiao pointed around and said: "To attack Yaozhou City, it is best to cross the reed bridge and attack Yaozhou City, and it is best to set off in the middle of the night and start attacking the city at dawn. ”

Lu Zhijia looked at the student surnamed Song, and saw that no one from the other party or the fugitive objected, and knew that this was the best route.

Along the Liuhe River to Yaozhou are swampy areas of water crisscrossed by rivers, after crossing the reed bridge is Yaozhou City, Lu Zhijia decided to set up a camp at the reed bridge to assault, if the war is not smooth, set up camp on the reed bridge in the swamp area, because tomorrow is the 26th Ma Shilong has arrived, with two battalions of infantry and cavalry main force arrived, even if it is a stalemate, a few days later there will be more than a thousand soldiers across the river, at least to cooperate with Yaozhou to take, and then quickly withdraw, but if the war does not go well, you can directly cover Lu Zhijia They withdrew.

At least judging from Song Sheng's latest information, the Jurchens did not increase their troops to Yaozhou, it seems that the Dongjiang activities have been rampant recently, and a large number of soldiers and horses have gone to the Taizi River and Suzi River valleys, as well as the first line of Liaonan Siwei and Lianshanguan Phoenix, even if the Jurchens here find out, it will take more than five days to report to Liaoyang and then transfer troops from all over Liaoyang, and there is enough time to take Yaozhou.

Now Lu Zhijia's only worry is that after the Jurchens get the fast breath, the entire Niu Lu will give up Yaozhou and run away, but it stands to reason that this possibility is not very likely, the Jurchen military law is quite cruel, this Niu Lu was ordered to defend Yaozhou, and he must stay in Yaozhou before he gets the military order, even if it is really just some old and weak women and children.

"Send troops at night," Lu Zhijia decisively said: "Take Yaozhou City before dawn tomorrow morning." ”