Meng Haigong led hundreds of cavalry to run wildly all the way, and did not stop the war horse to rest until noon the next day, the Sui army did not chase anymore, which made him frightened, but at the same time he began to worry in his heart, his son Meng Yi led the army backwards, must have been caught up by the Sui army, so that Meng Haigong's heart rose to his throat, what is the current situation of his son?

At this moment, a soldier pointed to the distance and said, "King, there are cavalry coming, it seems to be our people!" ”

Meng Haigong hurriedly stood up from under the big tree, looked back to the north, and saw a group of cavalry running from the north, about a dozen people, wearing dark red cuirass, it was his army, and in a moment, the cavalry rushed closer, and the person at the head was a general, he also saw Meng Haigong, and waved to him excitedly. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. ｂiquge。 ｉｎfo

Meng Hai recognized this person, named Li Zhang, who was Hong Rentao's general, and he was suddenly disappointed in his heart, and he thought that his son had caught up.

Li Zhang stepped forward and knelt down and saluted, "See the king!" ”

"How's General Hong doing?"

"General Hong wanted to single-handedly pick up Zhang Xuan, but he was cut off by an axe from one of the opposing generals, the army was no match for the Sui army, and the whole army was defeated, the king, the Sui army was very powerful in night fighting, but we didn't have any night combat training, why did you think of retreating at night?"

Meng Haigong's face immediately darkened, he was so annoyed that he wanted to cut the bastard in front of him with a knife, and his tone began to be a little disrespectful to himself, but he was bent on wanting to know his son's whereabouts, so he restrained the dissatisfaction in his heart and asked, "Do you know the whereabouts of the young master?" ”

Li Zhang said: "We met a group of fugitive soldiers early this morning, and they said that the Sui cavalry had crushed our army, and the young master led thousands of people to resist the Sui cavalry, as if the whole army had been wiped out. ”

Meng Haigong's heart ached, could it be that his son had an accident?

Li Zhang felt the pain of the lord, and hurriedly said: "King, this time the Sui army is mainly captured, and does not slaughter surrendered soldiers, if the young master can't escape, nine times out of ten he will also be captured, but the young master has personal guards and should be able to kill a bloody road, maybe take another way, even we can escape, and the young master should be able to escape." ”

Li Zhang's words also made some sense, Meng Haigong felt a little better in his heart, and at this time, Mao Wenshen stepped forward and said: "King, this place is still far from the Qiantang River, we must leave for the south immediately, and we must cross the river as soon as possible." ”

Meng Haigong couldn't take care of his son for the time being, he had to save his life first, so he immediately ordered: "Get on the horse and go!" ”

Meng Haigong led hundreds of cavalry all the way to the south, they kept hearing the news of the Sui cavalry pursuit, so that they were like frightened birds, did not dare to take the official road, specially selected remote trails to go south, all the way to the grass, three days later, they finally arrived in Fuyang County on the north bank of the Qiantang River.

Meng Haigong led his men to hide in a remote forest about ten miles away from Fuyang County, anxiously waiting for the news of the spies, at this time, two of his subordinates rushed from a distance, he ran into the woods and turned over and dismounted, Meng Haigong stepped forward and asked urgently: "How is the situation in Fuyang County?" ”

"The king fortunately didn't go to Fuyang County."

"Has the Sui army already killed Fuyang County?" Meng Haigong asked in surprise.

The spy nodded, "The cavalry of the Sui army has just arrived, half an hour earlier than us, there are a total of 5,000 cavalry, and they dare not enter the city, and they don't know what the situation of the brothers in the city is?" ”

Meng Haigong was like being struck by lightning, and he couldn't say a word for a long time, the Sui army killed first, wouldn't he be able to cross the Qiantang River?

Mao Wenshen said hurriedly: "King, we will go to Wenxing Town now, there is also a place to cross the river over there, the Sui army may not have time to pass, but our time is running out." ”

Meng Haigong was immediately reminded, the three caves of the cunning rabbit, they have set up a total of three river crossing points, Fuyang County is one, Qiantang County is one, in addition, there is also one in Wenxing Town, about fifty miles west of Fuyang County, which is the closest to them, since the Sui army has just arrived in Fuyang County for half an hour, then they still have a chance.

Meng Haigong immediately led the cavalry through the woods and rushed towards Wenxing Town to the west.

Wenxing Town is named because it is close to Wenxing Wharf, due to the impact of the war, the residents of the town have long fled, when Meng Haigong rushed to the wharf, although it can be seen that the Sui army has not yet killed, but there is no ferry boat on the wharf, which makes Meng Haigong very disappointed.

Suddenly, a soldier pointed into the distance and shouted, "My lord, is that a pontoon bridge?" ”

Everyone looked at his soldier's finger, only to see a black line faintly on the water three miles away, everyone looked at each other, if the black line was not a pontoon bridge, then what was it?

"Look at it!"

Meng Haigong turned his horse's head and ran westward, his men followed closely, and after a while, they arrived at the black line, and sure enough, it was a pontoon bridge built on the river, Meng Haigong was immediately ecstatic, this must be his subordinates ordered to build, but according to his plan, the pontoon bridge should have drifted from the opposite side when he arrived on the north bank, why was it built early? And how could there be no soldiers waiting for themselves on the North Shore?

Although he had a trace of doubt, he had no time to delve into it, and he felt that the earth was trembling slightly, which was a cavalry coming from a distance.

"Lord, go quickly!"

The soldiers hurriedly urged, "If you don't leave, it's too late to tear down the bridge." ”

Meng Haigong suddenly woke up, they not only want to cross the Qiantang River, but also to dismantle the pontoon bridge, he immediately urged the horse to run to the pontoon bridge, the pontoon bridge shook violently, Meng Haigong's war horse almost fell down the river, this is typical is not a solid pontoon bridge with wooden stakes, can not ride a horse, can only lead the horse on foot, Meng Haigong scolded secretly, had to turn over and dismount, led the war horse carefully on the pontoon bridge.

The subordinates behind were also very anxious, they dismounted and followed Meng Haigong to slowly lead the horses forward, at this time, the Sui army in the distance had appeared, and there were about a thousand cavalry, which had already killed Wenxing Town, and rushed to the pontoon bridge.

Meng Haigong was afraid that the Sui army would go to the bridge, so he urgently ordered Li Zhang and his men to go at the end and remove part of the pontoon bridge to prevent the Sui army from following the bridge.

The Qiantang River is very wide, it is the second largest river in the south of the Yangtze River after the Yangtze River, the river surface is 300 zhang wide, equivalent to one thousand meters in later generations, at least more than 300 small boats are connected head to tail to build it, because the river is windy, the pontoon bridge is shaking and difficult to walk, it takes at least half an hour to reach the opposite bank.

The cavalry of the Sui army stopped on the shore and did not chase after him on the bridge, Meng Hai Gong breathed a sigh of relief and at the same time also felt an inexplicable uneasiness, the Sui army did not go to the bridge to chase after him, it seemed a little unreasonable, is there something wrong with this pontoon bridge? He thought of the inappropriateness of the absence of soldiers on the north shore, and his heart was even more puzzled.

But even if there are 10,000 doubts, it is useless, they cannot go back, they can only continue to move forward with doubts.

Gradually, the other side got closer and closer, and suddenly, Meng Haigong stopped and looked ahead in a daze.

"Lord, what's going on?"

Mao Wenshen squeezed up, he was also stunned, only to see that there was no road ahead, at least fifty zhang away from the shore, but the pontoon bridge was gone, it turned out that this was an unfinished pontoon bridge.

Everyone thought that Meng Haigong would definitely scold the soldiers who built the pontoon bridge, but Meng Haigong was extremely calm at this time, and turned back to Mao Wenshen and said: "Does the military advisor feel that this is a trap laid by the Sui army?" In order to prevent me from escaping to Xuancheng County, a pontoon bridge was built for me. ”

"Does the king think that the Sui army has arrived a long time ago?"

Meng Haigong nodded, "I was a little strange just now, since the pontoon bridge was not destroyed, why didn't there be any soldiers to answer me, because the chasing soldiers behind were in a hurry, so I didn't think about it, and now it is actually a broken bridge, which proves that my suspicions are not wrong, this must be a trap." ”

Mao Wen thought deeply and said: "If you don't dismantle the boat directly, we will row over, anyway, it is not far from the south shore." ”

This is a good way, Meng Haigong immediately ordered the soldiers to start dismantling the boat, at this moment, a fleet suddenly appeared on the river, there were as many as fifty or sixty ships, each boat was very slender, with a row of oars on each side, like a worm running fast on the water.

Meng Haigong's face became extremely pale, and he saw the black-edged green dragon red flag on the big ship headed by him, this is the Sui army warship, and they are finished.

The leader of the warship is Zhou Meng, the fleet he led had already arrived at the Qiantang River five days ago, they found that the thief army in Qiantang County and Fuyang County had already fled, and there was not a single thief soldier on the south bank, they simply swept all the ships in the river, and set a trap here in Wenxing Town, just waiting for Meng Haigong to fall into the trap, Meng Haigong really fell into the trap.

Zhou Meng shouted loudly at this time: "Speed up, crash the pontoon!" ”

The dozen or so Worm Ships at the front picked up speed and got closer and closer, accompanied by a desperate scream, only to hear 'Boom! Rumble! With a continuous loud bang, the pontoon bridge was smashed into several sections, and Meng Haigong and hundreds of war horses and soldiers fell into the Qiantang River together.

Hundreds of soldiers of the navy jumped down the river, and they scrambled to swim towards Meng Haigong, and grabbed Meng Haigong's official promotion to two levels, with a bounty of 1,000 taels, which had a huge attraction to all soldiers. (To be continued.) )