On the south bank of the Dadu River, Luo Yang, accompanied by several personal guards, faced the surging turbid river, pondering and meditating, because of the infectious danger of malaria, all the Taiping soldiers who died of illness were deeply buried, and there were some wounded and sick who did not die, because they wanted to break through, they threw themselves into the water to commit suicide, and finally, Shi Dakai confirmed that Ma Ergu was critically ill, and begged Pan Wenxiu and other female soldiers to help her throw herself into the river.

The boiling river water is much smaller than when the torrential rain pours in, but in the deep river valley, under the constraints of the blue-gray rocks, the terrifying scene of roaring like thunder and rolling white waves has always appeared in front of Luo Yang.

One day of husband and wife, Luo Yang couldn't help but shed tears of sadness.

Not only that, by the Dadu River, far from Luoyang alone, because of the redemption of the war, everyone suffered for the rest of their lives, and they all missed the comrades-in-arms and relatives who died in the war and threw themselves into the water. Many people wailed and wept silently at the river.

In the big tent of the Taiping Army, all the generals were there, discussing the next move. Shi Dakai just attended, did not speak much, the person in charge of presiding over was Zeng Shihe, the meeting was quite dull, many people lowered their heads, playing with military boots, or spied on Shi Dakai's face.

The opinion of the majority of the people was that they should immediately return to the south and return to the territory of Yunnan Province or Guangxi, where the land was barren and the people were scarce, but the strength of the Qing army was quite weak, and there was a certain room for maneuver, which was the worst result, and it could also gather in the mountains and forests and save its life.

"After this great battle, our army has suffered heavy losses and can no longer fight." On the premise of affirming the combat effectiveness of the Luoyang Army, Zeng Shihe calmly analyzed the comparison of the strength of the enemy and our armies, and was worried that once the main force of the Qing army returned, the entire Taiping army would face a catastrophe.

The leading generals agreed with this attitude. Shi Dakai kept looking at Luo Yang, as if he was looking forward to it.

It was Luo Yang's turn, he hesitated for a long time, and told a story: "Yiwang, seniors, brothers, during the Three Kingdoms, Dong Zhuo was killed, and the rest of the remnants fled back to Xiliang's hometown, and sent people to the court to say that as long as the court did not pursue it, they would be obedient to the people, but Situ Wang Yun advocated severe punishment, so Dong Zhuo's several generals met to raise troops and counterattack Chang'an. defeated Lu Bu, the first hero of the Three Kingdoms, captured Chang'an, and killed Wang Yun! ”、

Luo Yang said this, don't say more, who is not familiar with "Romance of the Three Kingdoms"? Do you need to talk more?

However, Luo Yang didn't expect that this sentence actually made all the officers ponder, and soon, everyone was talking, especially several senior generals, who stood up one after another: "Luo Zaifu is right, we must not withdraw our troops, nor can we flee to Yunnan and Guangxi, we must fight the Qing Demon to the end!" "Yes, even if we hide and turn our soldiers into people, the demons will never let us go." "Instead of being captured by the Qing demons one by one, it is better to attack them in groups!"

Shi Dakai nodded frequently, but his face was not good-looking, and finally, at the invitation of Zeng Shihe, he simply said a few words: "Luo Zaifu's words have a deep meaning. Our army must not retreat or flee to the deep mountains and ravines, even if there is still one person in our army, we should fight the Qing Demon to the end! The Qing demon was cruel and abnormal, and most of the captured soldiers of our Taiping Army were brutally slaughtered by it, and even tortured. Normally, ordinary officers above two Sima were dismembered by him, and generals and above would be executed by Ling Chi! ”

"Oh!"

After a discussion, the direction of Luoyang's march was determined, and he continued to cross the river and take Chengdu directly.

"So, is our army continuing to recuperate here? Wait for the water of the Dadu River to recede, and then cross the river? "Shi Dakai's voice is not high, and he is not very majestic, and even has a lot of sadness." However, in this way, the return of the elite troops of the Qing Demon Southern Front will form an encirclement of our army again. I can't afford to wait. ”

Shi Dakai's words resonated with all the generals, and everyone nodded one after another. If you want to go north, you must quickly go north and cross the big river, otherwise, there will be a greater crisis. Everyone knows that even if Luoyang is powerful and the flying thunder cannon is majestic, once the main force of the Qing army returns, it will be countered with many Western flowering cannons, and the enemy will have a big advantage in terms of range.

"Well, no, our army can quickly cross the river in three or two days," Luo Yang said with clenched fists.

"Huh?" Everyone looked at each other.

Shi Dakai was especially puzzled, "Luo Zaifu, in your opinion, what method should our army use to cross the river?" ”

All the generals were inexplicable, because Shi Dakai used various methods such as rafts, oblique chain boats, stilts, swimming, sneak attacks, etc., except for causing the sacrifice of the elite who forgot about the remnants, there was no progress at all, and Luo Yang was so sure?

"The general will naturally have a way, and it is guaranteed to succeed. And, start developing river crossing equipment now! "Luo Yang is confident.

"That's good," Shi Dakai became excited: "Brothers, everyone listens to Luo Zaifu, what Luo Zaifu tells us to do, we will do it, everyone works together to quickly cross the river, and then, the army will go straight to Chengdu and capture the old thief Luo!" ”

"Yes!"

In this battle, Shi Dakai once again handed over the full command to Luo Yang, and announced that all people in the Taiping army must listen to his command anytime and anywhere, and there must be no mistakes.

After a while, in front of Luo Yang, all the skilled craftsmen in the army were gathered, but unfortunately, because of illness and self-harm, there was not much left, and only some soldiers were used to fill the number. Luo Yang briefly explained a few words to everyone, and began to use materials to start making the legendary river crossing artifact.

Shi Dakai and other generals came to see, everyone was full of curiosity, especially Shi Dakai, he was a rather conceited person, and he felt that he had exhausted all his schemes, and Luo Yang could really regenerate the method?

"What is this for?" Everyone watched and shook their heads.

I saw that in the middle of the crowd, Luo Yang was weaving something like a big kite with some ropes, but the skeleton of the kite was quite solid, and the most flexible bamboo knots were used. The skin is the tent of the captured Qing army. It took twenty minutes for Luo Yang to make one, and then explain it to everyone, ordering it to be concocted in the same way.

"How does this work?"

Luo Yang was silent, for the sake of protecting military secrets, he didn't answer a word, but urged everyone to act immediately.

"Huh? How can this be? Shi Dakai suddenly struck with both palms and praised repeatedly!