More than 20 days later, on the river surface of Pukou Town on the opposite bank of Jiankang City, the sky was full of white fog, and it was impossible to see anything clearly from a distance of more than ten meters.

Wang Huaqiang looked coldly at the fire dragons opposite, and then looked up at the Sui army flag hanging in the camp behind him, which was being blown to the south bank by the northwest wind, and couldn't help but "hum", and said to Wang Xuan beside him: "The southerners are really killing themselves, so they clearly show the location of their warship."

Now that the north wind is so strong, if our army uses fire attack at this time and 10,000 rockets are fired at once, no matter how powerful the Wanjun Divine Crossbow on their warship is, it will be impossible to resist it. ”

Wang Xuan nodded: "It seems that Xiao Maha is really as the virtuous brother said, he is just a brave man, presumably General He will definitely use this to make a fuss when he is forced to cross." But now our task is not to force crossings, but to smuggle them. The fog has been rising for two days, and tonight is the best time for us to cross the river. ”

On the first day of the fog, that is, early yesterday morning, Mai Tiezhu swam across the river, he had crossed the river dozens of times, he had never been on a business trip, and this time would certainly not be an exception.

Even after coming to this new pavilion, Mai Tiezhu crossed the river four or five times at night, and found out the patrol rules of the soldiers patrolling the river stationed on the bank of the Chen Jun River on the opposite shore.

Of course, Wang Xuan and Wang Huaqiang also made emergency plans; today is 31 December, the night of Chinese New Year's Eve, Southern Chen Junchen in Jiangnan did not perceive the danger, still thinking that this time was just a bluff of the Sui army, and there was singing and dancing inside and outside Jiankang City, and Chen Shubao even ordered the two princes who led the Jiang Waterproof Army to return to the city for Chinese New Year's Eve dinner, and even the Chen Dynasty water army on the river was much smaller these days.

After He Ruobi and others came to Xinting, he seemed to have taken a reassuring pill, and the military order that he must cross the river within ten days was no longer mentioned, and even took the initiative to send hundreds of pigs, cattle and labor troops, and told Wang Xuan and others to listen to Wang Shiji's general order.

Wang Shiji also privately revealed some words to Wang Xuan and Wang Huaqiang, and Yang Su's army released all the Chen army prisoners after overwhelmingly crushing the troops of Chen general Qi Xin in the Yichang area.

Next, there were thousands of warships of Yang Su's army, connected by dozens of miles, down the east of the river, sitting on the bow of the ship, majestic, so that the Chen Dynasty people on the south bank sighed in awe after seeing it: "Qinghe Gongzhen is the god of the river!"

Coupled with the thousands of captives released, the strength of the Sui army and Yang Su's benevolence were blown into the sky, and along the way, Yang Su never encountered strong resistance.

In December, Yang Su went all the way down to Jiangling, united with Liu Renen, the head of the march in the Jiangling area of the Eighth Route Army, and advanced by land and water, and met General Chen at the Modaojian in the Jingmen area, and Nankang Neishi (the Southern Dynasty generally used the vassal king to lead the assassination of various states and counties, and the local military and political practice was in charge of Neishi) Lü Zhongsu.

This Lu Zhongsu is a rare good general of the Chen Dynasty, before the expedition scattered all the wealth, all over the army, by the army everyone is grateful, willing to serve the death for it, he pulled three iron locks on the river, firmly blocked the river, and he led tens of thousands of soldiers to defend in the dangerous place on the land.

Yang Su's fleet could not get through to Guò here, so it could only land and join forces with Liu Renen to attack Lü Zhongsu's camp. The two sides have been back and forth, seesawing for many days, due to the fierce combat effectiveness of Lu Zhongsu's troops and the occupation of favorable terrain, the Sui army has killed more than 5,000 people in the past few days, but it cannot move forward, and the fierce offensive of Yang Su's department is a block.

On the other side of Qizhou, Yang Jun, the king of Qin, joined Wang Shiji's soldiers and horses left in the local area, and the troops went out of Jiujiang, but they were blocked by Zhou Luohu, one of the generals of the Chen Dynasty.

What reassured He Ruobi the most was that Han Baohu didn't have any intention of attacking, as if he was waiting for He Ruobi to make the first move, lure away the Chen army's warship, cause the air defense of the river opposite him to be weak, and then take the opportunity to cross the river.

So the two have formed a delicate balance now, and they are both waiting for the other party to make the first move, attract Chen Jun, and create a chance for themselves to go straight to Jiankang.

Wang Shiji was steady and steady, not in a hurry, 10,000 iron horsemen stationed in the mountains 20 miles offshore, while 500 ferries from the land were stored in the camp five miles offshore, everything was ready, only the fog was owed, until the fog rose the day before yesterday, he officially issued the order to Wang to cross the river today.

Wang Huaqiang got up this morning, his left eyelid jumped straight, he had learned some divination and hexagram techniques with the rivers and lakes when he was a teenager, and he was also convinced of the saying that the left eye jumped disaster and the right eye jumped wealth, and he always felt that something was wrong.

He Ruobi has been overly enthusiastic about himself recently, and Wang Shiji is even better like his own brother, which makes him smell a hint of danger, in the previous life he had this beastly intuition, even in this life on the Silk Road, this intuition once saved his life.

Wang Huaqiang wanted to open his mouth to persuade Wang Xuan. But the thought of using such a reason to stop the dispatch of troops was so ridiculous that he could only swallow the words back into his stomach.

Wang Xuan took one last look at the four or five Chen Dynasty warships on the river, turned around and walked back, and about a mile behind the two of them, more than six hundred subordinates were already wearing leather armor and were doing the final inspection and maintenance of their weapons and dry food.

Many people have grease on their knives, and the weather is cold, and there are often cases where the knife cannot be drawn out of the sheath, and in this fog where no one is seen, the cold and shining blade is enough to brighten the eyes.

For today's night attack, everyone was dressed in black, covered with black leather armor, and their faces were also painted with black oil paint, and almost only a pair of eyes and lips were not black.

Each of them brought a single sword, and long weapons such as spears and lances were completely abandoned, and more than a hundred archers only brought a longbow and fifty arrows with wolf teeth.

In addition to weapons, each person carried three flatbreads in their arms, in case of the most difficult situation, even Wang Shiji could not cross the river, everyone would break through in the direction of Dangtu in the southwest according to the original plan, and the dry food for these three days would depend on these flatbreads.

Wang Shiji is also wearing a general's robe and big armor today, his helmet is bright and red, and his whole body is full of murderous aura, which is completely different from the deliberate easy-going and relaxed in front of Wang Huaqiang and others a while ago, and he is sitting on a handsome case temporarily set up by the river at this moment.

More than a dozen generals and colonels led by the red-faced and black bear-like strong man Huangfu Xiaohuan were all fully armed, carrying swords and swords, standing on both sides of the handsome case.

Wang Shiji glanced at Wang Xuan, and said in a deep voice: "Shangyi and Wang Xuan, come forward to listen to the order." ”

Wang Xuan's expedition, because he had no military position, was specially awarded a middle-level military attache rank of Shangyitong, plus the authority to open the government, he was allowed to recruit non-commissioned staff on his own, and directly belonged to Yang Guangjiedu, the king of Jin.

Wang Yu stepped forward and gave a military salute, and said in a deep voice: "The last general." ”

Wang Shiji took out an arrow from the arrow in front of the handsome case, and said with a stern expression: "Order you to lead 600 strong men in your department tonight and cross the river on fifteen ferries."

Remember, your task is to carve out a landing ground five miles long and three miles wide on the bank of the Xinting River, and once the situation is controlled, there must be no mistake in lighting three fires in the place where you are!"

Wang Yu stepped forward, received the order with both hands, but did not twitch for a moment, only to see that the arrow was firmly held in Wang Shiji's hand, and when he looked up, he saw Wang Shiji's cold eyes: "General Wang, listen up, no matter what happens, you must hold on until the army lands, and you must not escape from the battle, otherwise military law will be engaged!"

When he said this, Wang Shiji's eyes were murderous, even in this thick fog, it stabbed Wang Huaqiang's heart, and that sense of foreboding came to his heart again.

Wang Xu's black face twitched, and he said loudly: "The last general will obey the general's order!" After saying that, he ordered the arrow to retreat and stood at the end of the team with Wang Huaqiang.

Next, Wang Shiji dispatched troops for a while, and everyone present had errands, crossing the river in batches, each receiving his own order, and the first batch to cross the river was Wang Shiji himself and the Yitong named Huangfu Xiaoxiao.