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These fierce warriors are everywhere, blowing signals whenever they see a pigeon, and when they find something that is not their own, they will go straight to it.

It's okay to simply deliver the message, if it's intercepted, it's intercepted, anyway, put a few more, and there will always be something that can reach the destination. Decision-making letterheads, which must be transported in a safer way.

From Nanban to Jicheng, the road is not only thousands of miles, but also has to go through a lot of difficulties and obstacles, the road to say less has to spend a month, back and forth to transmit news, the time is longer, there is no way to achieve remote command.

"Why did Zhou Yu contact Sun Wentai? Previously, we just guessed that he might beat Sun Wentai's idea, but didn't he expose his purpose by doing this? ”

Bao Zheng muttered to himself, distressed.

Zhan Zhao watched quietly from the side, and did not interject rashly, so as not to disturb the train of thought of this highly intelligent Zuodu Yushi. He believes that Bao Zheng will definitely find a proper way to deal with it, which is not his own judgment, but because of the trust cultivated by years of getting along.

As expected, Bao Zheng quickly calmed down, picked up the teacup, and a smile escaped from the corner of his mouth: "Maybe he wasn't sure, so he used a trick to startle the snake, right?" Zhou Gongjin, sure enough, this scheming is really powerful. However, if you are like a ghost, you will also drink our footwashing water, and I will give you a plan......"

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The torrent is like an arrow, and the sound of water is deafening.

Zhou Yu pressed the sword in his hand, standing on the bank of the water, looking at the rolling waves, rushing and not returning, and a strong tragedy echoed in his chest.

He hadn't gotten any news of the Battle of Mt. Wuliang yet, but there was no doubt that time was running out.

There is no time to continue to deal with the enemy, to probe and to advance or retreat.

retreating, which is not in line with Zhou Yu's character, will make him shameless to see Jiangdong's father; Enter, it is a desperate fight that does not leave a way out!

Jicheng is empty, and the guards are insufficient, but it is located in the triangle between Bashui and Gushui, and is blocked by Ershui, which is also the biggest obstacle for Zhou Yu to attack Jicheng.

The water is so long, Zhou Yu originally thought that it would not be difficult to find a weak point to cross the river. As a result, it was found that the enemy was much more difficult than imagined, and the distance from Yongnu to Jicheng was deployed everywhere, leaving no gaps, which brought great difficulties to crossing the river.

Xu Shu, the secretary of the Tang Dynasty Military Department who presided over the overall situation on the other side of the river, was not a famous general in the usual sense, but this person gave full play to the four words of meticulousness and prudence.

In the past few days of confrontation, Zhou Yu launched a total of more than ten tentative attacks, and tactics such as night battles, surprise attacks, loud attacks from the east and west, and concealment from the sky and the sea were used one after another, but he never tore a gap in the defense line on the opposite bank.

Today, there are fewer and fewer options left for Zhou Yu.

In the end, he was distracted and ready to launch a forcible crossing.

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On the first day of the fourth month of the fourth year of Wude in the Tang Dynasty (209 AD), that is, the establishment of the Southern Barbarian Prefecture of the Tang Dynasty, and the day when Li Yi married the twenty-first imperial concubine Zhu Rong, Zhou Yu, the general of Eastern Wu, personally supervised the division and launched the battle of forcibly crossing the water.

The vanguard was the 10,000 elite of the Eastern Wu led by Chen Wu and Ling Cao, the two generals of the Eastern Wu, Zhou Yu led 15,000 soldiers and horses in the center, thinking that he was the stamina, and Lü Meng led 5,000 men and horses to guard the rear at the same time, but also took on the responsibility of commanding the long-range troops.

Zhu Huan was ordered to build a pontoon bridge for the army. Under his command and persecution, tens of thousands of people jumped into the rushing river with swelling animal urine bubbles tied to their waists, carrying planks, bamboo poles and ropes.

The water is famous for its turbulent currents, and if a person is swept into it, he will be slapped into the bottom of the water and swept away by the turbulence. What's even more terrifying is the underwater undercurrent and the whirlpools on the water, no matter how good the water is, as long as you are swept into it, it is a life of death.

This is not the most terrible, as the pontoon bridge gradually took shape and began to stretch towards the center of the river, the Tang army on the opposite bank could not sit still. They are not Song Xianggong, and they do not know the virtue of allowing the enemy to calmly cross the river and fight in formation.

Thousands of Don troops quickly assembled, rushed to the shore and erected a long wall with wooden shields.

Behind the wooden wall, more than 30 crossbow carts were pushed, and the oxen and horses were driven to twist the bowstrings and put the nine-foot-long crossbow arrows on the crossbow bed.

Not only is the water flowing fast, but the wind on the water is also very strong, and when the distance is long, ordinary bows and arrows cannot cause trouble for the other party at all, and a powerful bed crossbow is naturally the most appropriate choice.

The sound of the gushing water was quickly drowned out by the whistling sound of the crossbow bolts breaking through the air.

The first man fell into the river, and was gently swept by the waves, and a circle of red ripples appeared in the yellow water, which soon disappeared.

Then came the second, and then the third, and the people who were trudging through the water had nowhere to dodge, watching as one thick piece of wood flew after another, passing through the bodies of several people at the same time.

The people were in a mess, trying to escape, but there was nowhere to escape in the turbulent water, and when they left the pontoon, they would only be swept away by the waves. wanted to retreat, but the retreat was blocked by his companions, and at the beginning of the pontoon bridge, hundreds of overseers armed with spears forced up viciously, and retreating was also a dead end.

The cries grew louder.

The people can't understand why a small citizen like himself should bear such a danger?

They originally lived a peaceful life in Jiangdong, but they did not have to worry about food and clothing, but they never thought that a month ago, they were caught on a sea ship by the army led by the general Zhou Yu and came to this thousands of miles to the north, facing war and death.

"Don't mess up, don't mess up, just build the bridge to the middle of the river, and it's finished! Those who work hard are rewarded, and each person pays ten pieces of corn! ”

Zhu Huan and more than a dozen guards risked their lives and ran onto the half-section of the pontoon bridge, shouting with all his might, using the method of grace and power to inspire the courage of the people.

"Don't be afraid, our ballista is also up!"

The "squeak" of crossbow arrows was also heard on the river bank behind him.

The quality of these imitations in the hands of the Eastern Wu Army is inferior to that of the Tang Army, but it is stronger in quantity.

Zhou Yu gave an order, hundreds of bed crossbows and catapults were launched at the same time, and the people who were messing around in the river felt that the light above their heads was dimmed, and the next moment they heard a dull crash and a terrible scream from the other side of the river.

"No retreat, no retreat! Continue to build bridges, and those who retreat will be regarded as deserters, and they will be killed! ”

Zhu Huan's overseers raised their spears and stabbed the people who fled to the shore to death on the shore, and the blood spread along the river, fusing with the blood of the people killed by crossbow arrows, staining half of the river red.

Moving forward is also death, and retreating is also death, and the people who have no choice can only accept their fate, while tying the bamboo poles and wooden stakes used to build the pontoon bridge with ropes, while praying to the gods and goddesses, hoping to survive safely.

The firing continues.

More Tang troops gathered from other places, holding shields and pushing ballistas, and more and more ballistas turned their targets from the people to the Jiangdong crossbowmen on the opposite bank.

Although these people are not the people of the Tang Dynasty, the Tang Army has never had a tradition of slaughtering ordinary people. What's more, as long as the Eastern Wu army is defeated, these people will also become the people of the Tang Dynasty.

"Crossbow!" In front of the crossbow array, a silver-armored military general held a spear high, majestic.

"Crossbow ......," dozens of pro-soldiers shouted in unison.

At the sound of the horn, dozens of soldiers exerted force at the same time, the crossbow arms creaked and protested, and were slowly pulled into a half-arc, and the two strong men shouted loudly to raise a giant crossbow and stuck it on the crossbow groove.

Hundreds of crossbowmen repeated the same movements, and more than fifty iron-clad giant crossbows dazzled and chilled in the sun.

"Put!" The silver spear swung down heavily, sending a gust of wind with it.

"Buzz!" More than fifty spears of death flew into the air with the sound of the wind, swept across the river, and smashed down on the enemy.

The shields raised by the first row of Soochow soldiers were smashed to pieces, and the second row of shields was erected in the midst of a mess.

However, in an instant, the second row of shields also collapsed, and several late-fired giant crossbows passed through the gap between the dead corpses and flew towards the ballista that the Eastern Wu army was spreading.

"Raise your shield, protect the ballista, raise your shield, protect the ballista!" The generals of Eastern Wu who supervised the battle shouted hoarsely.

Bed crossbows and slingers are considered new troops, and because they are fighting far from the front line, the generals are not willing to waste their elite strength here, so most of them are used by auxiliaries.

The courage of the auxiliaries was limited, and they were frightened by this terrible scene, and most of them scattered, and only a few brave men raised their small log shields and formed a semicircular array in front of their ballistas, regardless of life and death.

But the huge crossbow bolts that flew from the sky were not at all able to resist by manpower, and everywhere they passed, only the shields were scattered, people flew upside down, and a rain of blood fell out of thin air above the protected ballista.

The frequency of the launch of the Eastern Wu ballista was instantly disrupted, and although it also fought back desperately, as more and more Tang troops gathered, the replenishment speed of the ballista was also very fast.

Moreover, the combat power of the garrison army of the Tang Dynasty may not be higher than that of the Eastern Wu Army, but they are well-trained, and they can still adjust in the tragic firefight, even if the number of ballistae is relatively small, they will not fall behind in the battle.

In the roar of crossbow arrows, the bed crossbows and catapult arrays of the Eastern Wu army gradually became sparse, and the number gradually equalized with the opposite side, and then fell to the downside.

But their sacrifice was not in vain, having lost the threat of bed crossbows, the progress of the pontoon bridge was accelerated after all.

By the time the long-range attack gradually divided the winners and losers, and the Tang army had an advantage in both quantity and quality, the pontoon bridge had been extended to the center of the water.

Although it is not like the Yellow River and the Yangtze River, the river surface of more than ten miles or even dozens of miles is prohibitive, but it is not comparable to ordinary rivers.

The section of the river that Zhou Yu deliberately chose is about two miles wide, and the extension of the pontoon bridge to the middle of the river can only be said to be a good start. It can be seen that when the pontoon bridge extends to the center of the river, the Dongwu army burst into earth-shattering cheers.