Chapter 458: A Strong Enemy in the Air
It was Liu Cheng who established a powerful naval army for the Yuan army, which put the Yuan army in an advantageous position to attack Xiangfan.
The naval army of Zhang Hongfan, which had just been annihilated by Sun Hui and Ye Chuchu, was only part of the naval army of the Yuan army established by Liu Quan, and was mainly responsible for cooperating with the attack on Fancheng, and what Sun Hui saw now was the main force of the Yuan army.
Since it is the main force, Liu Quan, the initiator who commanded it, should also appear.
Sun Hui knew that if Liu Quan could be killed, the Yuan army would inevitably be in turmoil, and Kublai Khan might even give up the plan to attack the Song Dynasty, so that not only the siege of Xiangfan could be solved, but the overall strategic situation of the Song Dynasty would also be greatly improved.
But it's a pity that although he is familiar with history, he doesn't know what Liu Cheng looks like, even Zhang Hongfan, he only knew his appearance after the other party captured Gao Hu's subordinate Song Jun.
"What a surprise! Hurry up! Ye Chuchu's voice came, Sun Hui turned his head to look, and saw Ye Chuchu standing on top of the iron ship, passing through the wreckage of the Yuan army's warship that was on fire, heading towards him.
Sun Hui jumped onto the iron boat and returned to the form of a normal person, Ye Chuchu watched the flames disappear from his body, and then carefully walked to his side.
"Your 'incendiary bomb' battle plan won't work." Ye Chuchu looked at the Yuan army warship that fled backwards, and said to Sun Hui with a smile, "Ran away so much. ”
"I thought you could say the 'Human Cannon' battle plan." Sun Hui laughed, "But this time I really didn't get it right, we should seal their retreat first." ”
"It's too late to kill the past." Ye Chuchu looked at the retreating Yuan army fleet and said, "But there are too many behind, there are almost more than a thousand ships, there are too many, I'm afraid it won't work on the two of us alone." And ......," she looked up at the sky, "it seems like we have a new opponent, and a strong opponent." ”
Sun Hui made her stunned for a moment, looked up at the sky, and saw that in the billowing black smoke, there seemed to be two huge bird shadows flying by.
"In the cabin, don't be a 'humanoid incendiary bomb' yet." Ye Chuchu said, opening the deck of the iron ship, and letting the two of them fall directly into the cabin, instead of using the previous "lift" method.
Sun Hui was caught off guard and almost fell, "What's wrong?" He asked her in surprise.
"Linlin, I'm afraid they're in danger." Ye Chuchu said, turned the bow of the boat, and sailed back at full speed, when she encountered the wreckage of the Yuan army's warship, she did not avoid it, but directly hit it, the wreckage was smashed one after another, and the iron ship passed through the flying wood chips and the flames of the river.
Sun Hui saw her anxious look, remembered that the direction of the two bird shadows she had just seen was exactly the direction of the pontoon bridge, and when she understood what was going on, her heart couldn't help but hang.
On the pontoon bridge across the river, Wang Linlin was sitting leisurely on the bridge railing, surrounded by a large group of Song soldiers, who were completely stunned by the pontoon bridge connected by thick vines that "grew" from the boat.
"Immortal Gu, please move to this shield array." Fan Tianshun, the commander of the Song army, stepped forward and shook his fist at Wang Linlin, saying, "If there are warships from the north to attack the bridge, Xiangu is afraid that it will be in danger." ”
His voice of "fairy girl" can be said to be sincere and full of gratitude.
After the destruction of the pontoon bridge on the river, Fancheng completely lost contact with Xiangyang, the Yuan army attacked day after day, the city wall of Fancheng was broken in many places, the defenders were already overwhelmed, Fan Tianshun and the other two guards Niu Fu and Wang Fu had already written a suicide note, ready to be martyred, but did not expect a sudden turnaround, a pontoon bridge appeared on the river overnight, and the reinforcements sent by Lu Wenhuan carried a large number of materials through the pontoon bridge into Fancheng, so that the defenders were able to turn the corner of the danger.
And this pontoon bridge was built by this young "Wang Xiangu" with a face like a beautiful girl (who originally was).
Even now, vines have grown from time to time to reinforce the bridge.
"I've told you a few times, General Fan, don't call me Immortal Gu, am I that old?" Wang Linlin got up with a smile and jumped off the railing, "Okay, okay, listen to you, safety first." As she spoke, she walked towards the shield array, and when the soldiers of the Song army saw her coming, they all got up to make way, and some of the soldiers actually knelt down and saluted her, with a face of piety, which made her a little embarrassed.
Fan Tianshun followed Wang Linlin into the shield array, he looked at the fire and billowing smoke on the river in the distance, he couldn't know what the battle situation was, and he couldn't help but feel a little anxious in his heart.
At this time, there were many people behind him who were carrying a large amount of grain to Fancheng through the pontoon bridge, and he was most worried that there were Yuan warships rushing through the interception of the Song army fleet and attacking the pontoon bridge.
At this moment, a small boat was rowed by several Song army sailors, and quickly headed towards the pontoon bridge.
Fan Tianshun recognized that it was a scout he sent to observe the enemy's situation, and after a while, the boat approached the pontoon bridge, and several Song soldiers quickly climbed onto the pontoon bridge, and came to Fan Tianshun under the guidance of the guards.
"How's the battle going?" Fan Tianshun couldn't wait to ask.
"Our army has won a great victory! Checkmate! The scout reported with a happy face, "Sun Xianren and Ye Xiangu cast spells to help our army succeed, destroying and sinking nearly 700 Northern Captive warships, and the captives burned and drowned countless people!" The captive chieftain Zhang Hongfan has been captured by the high commander! ”
Hearing the scout's report, Fan Tianshun was pleasantly surprised.
This should be regarded as the most brilliant victory since Xiangfan was besieged.
At this moment, someone pointed to the river and discussed, Fan Tianshun looked at the river and saw Ye Chuchu's iron boat speeding over.
"It's Ye Xiangu's ironclad ship." General Chen Xin said.
Fan Tianshun noticed that Ye Chuchu's iron boat was moving extremely fast, as if he had discovered some emergency, and rushed back to defend it, he was secretly surprised in his heart, and immediately ordered loudly: "Everyone carefully observe the surroundings!" Watch out for enemies! ”
Hearing the order of the commander, the soldiers of the Song army were immediately alert, and for a time the swords were unsheathed, the arrows were bowed, and the spears were raised horizontally, and they were ready for battle.
The iron boat quickly sailed to the edge of the pontoon, and then a hole appeared in the deck, and Sun Hui jumped up from it and jumped straight to the bridge deck.
"Linlin, be careful of the sky!" Sun Hui was in the air, so he shouted.
Wang Linlin was taken aback, looked up into the sky, and saw two winged figures flying out of the clouds and swooping down.
A cold light flashed, and Sun Hui's figure in mid-air suddenly stopped, and his whole person seemed to have been hit by something and fell into the river.
"Fairy Gu be careful!" Fan Tianshun roared, raised a bronze tiger-faced wooden round shield, and hurriedly blocked in front of Wang Linlin.
Wang Linlin heard a shrill whistling sound in the air, didn't think about it, and stretched out her hand and pressed it on the shield in Fan Tianshun's hand.