Chapter 1034: Sneaking at the bottom of the river
With Yoo Sung-min's order, thousands of torches were suddenly raised in the Goguryeo camp, and hundreds of soldiers held torches in both hands, jumping and roaring, illuminating the entire river bank and half of the river, and dozens of war drums in the camp also beat "dong dong".
Thousands of bowstrings vibrated almost at the same time, and a large area of blackened arrows, whistling away from the arrowstrings of the Goguryeo archers, flew into the air, crossed a parabola, and flew far away towards the dozens of small boats floating on the surface of the Sui army.
The small boats of the Sui army were originally rushed to the rapids, staggering, where there was a pontoon bridge in front of them, it was okay, the pontoon bridge somewhat blocked the impulse of the river, but after leaving the cross-section of the pontoon bridge, it was difficult to move forward again, and it was always spinning, and the distance of drifting to the side was far more than rushing forward. Seeing a rain of arrows flying in the sky, the soldiers on the ship screamed and fell into the water one after another, giving a few waves a beat, and even the corpses disappeared.
Liu Chengmin laughed: "Yes, this is what you want, you can't let the Sui army get on the shore, continue to shoot me, and shoot all those who build bridges to death!" ”
Herald Song Shangzhi said sharply: "Lord Liuzhai, you can't disobey the military order of the marshal, he said that he wants the enemy army to be wiped out after going ashore." ”
Liu Chengmin pointed to the brightly lit and noisy Sui army villages in the distance, and said with a smile: "Song Team Zheng (Song Shangzhi's military position is a team leader, not high, but because he is Yang Qianshou's cronies, Liu Chengmin doesn't dare to be too rude to him), do you see it, the Sui army is about to cross the river in an all-round way." At that time, Marshal Yang would not be able to send more reinforcements. If we repel the enemy's attack. If you don't let them go ashore, you can in turn support the other camps, and now that I'm the supreme commander here, you can watch carefully. ”
As soon as Liu Chengmin finished speaking, a soldier next to him shouted: "Village master, the Sui army is here again!" ”
Liu Chengmin took a look, and saw that the water ghosts who built the bridge in the Sui army had jumped on the pontoon bridge one after another and fled backwards. The pontoon bridge, which had lost its support in the water, swayed under the impact of the torrent, and looked like it was about to fall apart at any time, and on the opposite shore, the Sui army had dozens of such small boats down the river, rushing towards this place quickly, and behind the five unfinished pontoon bridges, thousands of Sui soldiers had already lined up in a charging formation, constantly beating their weapons, and making loud noises.
Liu Chengmin gritted his teeth and said loudly: "Fifteen hundred archers." Prepare for ten rounds of arrow rain and listen to my orders. Get ready! ”
Xue Shixiong was already a little unable to calm down, he stood up, left the handsome position, and walked to the front of the handsome platform, but his eyes looked at the downstream fifteen miles away, from the perspective of a professional soldier who had fought for many years, he smelled a different atmosphere, and he muttered: "Wang Shichong, are you really going to attack?" ”
The herald just now ran over out of breath, and when he saw Xue Shixiong, he hurriedly gave a military salute and hurriedly said, "Marshal, General Wang has already begun to force the crossing!" ”
Xue Shixiong's eyes widened suddenly, he stepped forward, grabbed the front placket of the herald, almost lifted him from the ground, and said sharply: "What did you say?" How did General Wang force the crossing? Didn't you just build seven or eight sections of pontoons? ”
The herald didn't care to wipe the horizontal flying foam that Xue Shixiong sprayed on his face, and replied: "General Wang, he sent three boats in a row, while building a bridge, and at the same time using these boats to force crossing, now, now that there are thousands of arrows in the stockade of Goguryeo, General Wang is already sending a fourth group of boats." ”
Xue Shixiong shouted: "Oops! He stamped his foot in hatred, his face full of chagrin.
Xue Wanjun was suspicious: "Father, what's wrong with you?" ”
Xue Shixiong gritted his teeth and said: "I forgot about this, this vanguard army Flying Tigers is not Wang Shichong's descendant, it is a wheat iron rod, of course he doesn't feel sorry for the dead, just keep his military order, quickly, pass the order, and the whole army will force it now." Wan Jun, Wan Che, you two personally lead the troops! ”
A hint of joy flashed in the eyes of Xue Wanjun and Xue Wanche, they glanced at each other, and ran out excitedly, and the loud voices of the two people could be heard clearly a hundred steps apart: "Zhongerlang, cross the Liao River with me, take ten thousand gold, and go to the Pillar Country!" ”
The neighboring village of Xue Shixiong's army is the camp of the general Wang Rengong, and Wang Rengong at this time is also the same as Xue Shixiong just now, standing on the handsome platform, and he does not look at the Goguryeo camp opposite, but looks at the Xue Shixiong army next door, his hand holding the scabbard is already sweating, and his big eyes are full of anxiety.
Liu Wuzhou, the Eagle Yang Lang general who was standing beside him, stepped forward and said, "Great Shuai, General Xue seems to have already launched, what are you hesitating about?" ”
Wang Rengong gritted his teeth: "This place is too close to the main camp of the Goguryeo army, if we cross the river now, will we just bump into the cavalry of the Goguryeo army counterattacking Xue Shixiong?" ”
Liu Wuzhou laughed: "The marshal is too worried, the Goguryeo army should have hidden the cavalry behind the village, just like that day when the counter-assault on the wheat iron rod, we are now building a bridge to break through, just so that the Youyun troops surnamed Xue can attract firepower." ”
Wang Rengong's brows soothed suddenly, patted Liu Wuzhou's shoulder, and said with a smile: "Haha, little Liuzi, you are still talented, okay, it's so decided, the vanguard of five thousand people crossing the river, you will lead them, Zhuguo is waiting for you!" ”
Wang Shichong looked at the villages upstream with a smile, they had all begun to build bridges and force crossings, and the shouts and noises of the soldiers, even if they were dozens of miles apart, could be heard clearly, Wei Zheng said excitedly: "Lord, all battalions have really begun to cross the river, so that the pressure on our army has suddenly decreased!" ”
But Wei Zheng saw at a glance that there were more than 100 ferries scattered on the river and there was no one on the river, so he still sighed and said: "It's a pity that none of the four batches of ferries rushed to the opposite side, otherwise more than a thousand sergeants would have gone up." ”
Wang Shichong shook his head with a smile and pointed to the opposite side: "Why didn't you rush to the opposite side?" ”
Wei Zheng's face changed, and he looked fixedly, but he saw that those ferries that were obviously unhelmed, but as if someone was driving, slowly descended down the river, and twenty or thirty of them had already run aground on the opposite shoal, and the rest of the boats were also drifting towards the opposite side.
Wei Zheng was startled at first, but suddenly his eyes lit up, he slapped his thigh, and shouted: "Oh, lord, I understand, this must be those stalkers who were originally under the water, dragging the chain at the bottom of the boat, right?" (To be continued......)