Wang Huaqiang stopped, holding his knees, his nostrils sprayed heavy white gas, he was also very tired when he ran down this way, this night was like a long year, let him taste the ups and downs of the world, only when he ran here, he finally had time to stop and sort out his mood, adjust his breathing, and now he couldn't even go to collect the body of his eldest brother, his tears couldn't help but gush out.

Suddenly, there was an exclamation from the front: "Not good, there are enemy warships on the river!" ”

When Wang Huaqiang heard this, he was shocked, and quickly straightened up, put his hand on the canopy, and looked at the river.

I saw that on the river two or three miles away, hundreds of fire dragons were going up the river, half of them were the double-decker golden-winged warships that I usually saw, and some were Qinglong warships as high as three or four floors, which were rowing from south to north from the south to the quarrying area towards the water village in the south towards the new pavilion.

Wang Huaqiang hurriedly said: "Go down with the order, everyone will find the grass on the side of the road to hide, silence, and those who make loud noises will be killed!" ”

Wang Huaqiang's order was quickly spread by this small team from back to front, and everyone quickly ran to the nearest grass to hide in the air, and they didn't dare to breathe through the atmosphere.

Wang Huaqiang happened to be squatting with Mai Tiezhu, and his heart was quickly calculating: It seems that the Nanchen Water Army in the quarry water village has also received the news of the landing of the Sui army.

But now the question is, where did they learn about the landing of the Sui army? In terms of time, even if Wang Huawei let go of the prisoners of the Chen army, and the army of the Chen Dynasty sent someone to notify the quarrying sailors, and then all the warships of the sailors were dispatched, it would be too late.

The more Wang Huaqiang thought about it, the more panicked he became, could it be that during the scuffle, Chen Jun's soldiers escaped and ran to the quarry? There are 3,000 troops with Liu Yi, and there should be five or six deputy generals, and there should be more than two or three people who can ride horses. Yes, there must be a certain general of the Chen army, who saw the defeat and took advantage of the chaos to rush directly to the south and report to the quarrying sailors, so that there would be a counterattack by these hundreds of warships.

Gradually, the warships of the Chen army holding torches disappeared from everyone's field of vision, and because they were going down the river to the east, the speed of the warships was very fast, and they did not pay attention to the grass on the bank of the river at all.

Wang Huaqiang was thinking about it, only to hear a heavy and powerful footsteps in the distance, "click, click", coming from a mile to the south, and even this sound was accompanied by a few horse neighings. His heart sank: even the marines guarding the quarrying camp seemed to be in urgent order, and there were at least two thousand people coming from the footsteps.

The infantry of the Chen army soon appeared in everyone's field of vision, because the sky had begun to light slightly, through the thin morning fog, Wang Huaqiang could even see the general of the Chen army riding a horse at the head, in his early forties, with a leopard's head and eyes, two hooked whiskers on his lips, wearing a full set of chain mail, holding a big knife in his right hand, running and stopping, constantly urging the foot soldiers behind to follow.

Wang Huaqiang's heart rose to his throat, and the position where everyone was now was on a small high slope on the side of the road, where there were no trees, but an open field, overgrown with waist-high weeds, and now they were all hiding in the grass, only twenty or thirty steps away from the avenue where the soldiers of the Chen army marched.

Since everyone is dressed in black, it is naturally the best protective color in the dark night, but now that the sky is getting brighter, it will become very conspicuous, if Chen Jun is not in such a hurry to rush to the river, but carefully pay attention to the roads on both sides, he is afraid that his own people will be exposed.

Looking at the queue of Chen Jun, it was still a standard marching column, and the person in the lead looked like the main general, with an anxious face, wishing that his subordinates could grow two more legs, so that he could rush to the riverbank where Wang Huaqiang had landed earlier, so that he could make meritorious contributions.

At this time, I only heard a shout from afar: "General Xu, slow down!" ”

The one called General Xu, with an impatient face, he reluctantly stopped, and shouted to his subordinates: "Hurry, hurry up, there is a delay, military law is involved!" ”

After training his subordinates, General Xu turned his head to look behind, only to hear the sound of horses' hooves, and one person arrived quickly, Wang Huaqiang was so shocked that he couldn't close his mouth when he saw this person, but it was Liu Yitong, the main general of the new pavilion base? !

I saw Liu Yitong sweating profusely, his neck was wrapped in several thick bandages, and the armor on his body was also covered with blood, the armor was crooked, and the cloak he was wearing when he saw him last time was gone.

Wang Huaqiang understood, it turned out to be this Liu Yitong, when he was shooting an arrow on Wang Shiji's warship on the river, he was hit by an arrow and fell off his horse, but his injuries did not lead to death. Later, he saw that his party's defeat was decided, so he didn't dare to return to Jiankang, but took advantage of the Wanjun Divine Crossbow to shoot indiscriminately at the depth of the riverbank, snatched his horse, and fled south to the quarrying water camp to move the rescuers, hoping to redeem the credit.

Wang Huaqiang has been deaf and clear since he was a child, and his hearing and vision are far better than ordinary people, and after more than 20 steps, he can still vaguely hear the conversation between the two floating along the river breeze.

I only heard General Xu say dissatisfiedly: "The military situation is like fire, why does General Liu always delay the dispatch of the general?" ”

Liu Yitong was accompanied by a smiling face, he had already lost all his gambling books at this time, and these subordinates of General Xu were his last straw, how dare he excuse himself again? I only heard him say: "General Xu, the thieves are cunning, I just rushed too quickly, so I fell into their way, and now that the naval division has been dispatched anyway, our army doesn't have to go in such a hurry, it's good to fight steadily." ”

General Xu snorted disdainfully: "General Liu, have you been bitten by a snake once, and you have been afraid of the well rope for ten years." As you yourself said, the enemy's warships have been fired indiscriminately, and most of the troops they have landed have lost. If it's too late, and the army from Jiankang City cleans up the Sui dogs, then won't I be busy in vain? ”

Liu Yitong said patiently: "Don't underestimate the enemy, you have to anticipate the enemy's leniency, when I go, there are really not many enemies, but these thieves are ruthless and very cunning, first set up an ambush in the forest, and then beheaded our army, and will wear our army's clothes to lead our army to kill each other, and finally the navy shoots indiscriminately I am afraid that I want to clear the landing field as much as possible, so as to facilitate their army to go ashore."

Now two or three hours have passed since I came to report the news, and I am afraid that the Sui army has already come up with more than 20,000 people, and even the army of Jiankang City may not be able to help them, so I said that as long as the naval warships go out and intercept the enemy's backup, as long as their supplies and backups are cut off, the troops ashore will not be able to hold out for a few days. ”

General Xu replied coldly: "General Liu, this is not your new pavilion, the so-called general of the defeated army, you can't be brave, I, Xu Zijian, have also followed Wu Dashuai and General Xiao on several northern expeditions, and I have experienced a hundred battles, and I don't need others to teach me how to fight." Now that the enemy is not able to set up a firm camp on the river bank within two or three hours, our warships will first block the river, and then the army will take advantage of the fog to attack, and will certainly be able to win a great victory. ”

Liu Yitong was so anxious that he slapped his thigh: "General Xu, even if you want to grab the merit, at least learn my lesson and send some scouts, you want to take advantage of the fog to surprise the enemy, but the enemy army can also ambush us in the fog, my old Liu has already suffered this loss, why don't you have a long memory?" ”

Xu Zijian laughed, with a bit of sarcasm in his tone: "General Liu, so you don't understand military aircraft at all." It's no wonder that Shi Fujiao will only find an incompetent person like you to lead the army, if I had replaced Lao Xu, I would have driven the Sui army down the river long ago.

The Sui army is expected to be your psychology, so they will ambush you, because that Li Dudu is running towards you, and the fastest to rush over must be only your troops, so they preset the battlefield and set up ambushes in the small highlands and woods by the river.

But now the Sui army can't care about doing these things at all, their army has to rush to the shore in time, otherwise why would they shoot indiscriminately regardless of the enemy and me, and even disregard the lives of their own people. And even if people defend, they must be guarding against the army in Jiankang, how would they have expected that my quarrying troops would dare to take the initiative?

More than 2,000 people took advantage of the fog and had the help of the bows and arrows of the Jiangshang naval army, which was enough to cause trouble in the rear of the Sui army, which had not gained a firm foothold, so that the army on the front could have a chance to inform them in one fell swoop, do you understand? ”

Liu Yitong said unconvinced: "You are so sure, the Sui army will not divide a small force here to fight an ambush again?" ”

Xu Zijian shook his finger contemptuously: "They have warships, if they want to ambush, they must have ambushed our naval army on the river a long time ago." But our naval army is unhindered all the way, and there is no possibility of an enemy on the land, General Liu, I have already wasted too much time on you, I am not with you! As he spoke, he patted the horse's buttocks and made a gesture to leave.

Wang Huaqiang breathed a sigh of relief in his heart, and at this time, he only heard Wang Xuan's loud roar: "Where is Wang Huaqiang, call him out!" ”