Chapter 147: Breaking through the Yaosha River
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Chapter 147 Break through the Yaosha River
The cavalry of the Heavenly Fang Sect saw that the Tang army on the opposite bank had piled up the earth higher and higher, and it was already like a mountain of earth in one day, and it almost doubled in height on the second day, and increased by several feet on the third day. The full-text and ad-free novels are all biquge.info on Aishang Novel Network
But the cavalry of the Heavenly Sect did not feel frightened by this, but laughed because of it. The flow of the Yaosha River is one of the best in 6, and this season is close to the peak of its wet season, most of the rivers in Central Asia are wide and shallow, although shallow is shallow, but it is also relative to the Yangtze River, the Yellow River, etc., after all, this is not a person and a horse can wade through, plus the width of this section of the river reaches more than 20 zhang, if you want to cut off a big river, in this era, relying on human and animal power, it is not impossible, but it is not something that can be done in ten days and a half months.
There were also people on the Tang army's side who disagreed with Guo Wei's actions, but Guo Luo did not interfere with him, but continued to send other troops to attack from other places. Even most of Guo Wei's subordinates were half-grumbling, thinking that General Guo had let Guo Dudu break it.
"It's obviously a thigh, but why is the brain case broken." Of course, this is just a whispering complaint behind the scenes.
Guo Wei ignored the ridicule of both the enemy and us, and still urged 27,000 people to carry soil and prepare to fill the river. By dusk on the third day, there was already a two-story pile of dirt on the north bank, and Guo Wei immediately ordered: "Fill the river"
This is a mound that stretches for miles, and if you throw it into the river with a dustpan or the like, I am afraid that it will have to be thrown for another three days
At dusk on this day, both the Tang Army and the Tiance Army came to watch, Guo Luo did not come, but Ma Jirong came, and even Ista on the other side of the river also ambushed elite soldiers and personally came to the scene to monitor - he had already learned that the other side was Guo Wei, a famous general of the Tang Army who became famous in the First Battle of Beiting, so he did not dare to slack off, and wanted to see how Guo Wei filled the river.
But I saw that Guo Wei organized more than 4,000 people to carry the huge crashing wood used in the project, and forty people carried a large collision log, attacked a hundred teams, and slammed forward
Those dirt hills were piled too high, and they were not tamped, the base was originally unstable, and they were knocked into the wood and rumbled down one by one, and they were all dumped in the Yaosha River in an instant, and the soil was poured all over the banks of the Yaosha River, and sure enough, a large piece of land was filled along the river, and even the water of the Yaosha River was rippling, and the momentum was really amazing
Under the command of Xi Weinan, a hundred crashing trees took turns to slam, boom, boom, rocks and mud kept falling into the water, popping, and thousands of people were busy in full swing, and finally pushed all the dirt mountains piled on the north bank into the river before the sun went down
Under the sunset, but see that the entire Yaosha River is turbid, there is no water pollution in this era, the Yaosha River is confluent by snow water, it was originally very clear, but at this time the river water is mixed with mud, and half of the Yaosha River has become mud
But the mighty is mighty, the momentum is powerful, and the impact is great, but after the sediment poured down, most of it was washed away by the river, and only three or four piles were piled along the river, and 27,000 people spent two and a half days to fill the river, and in the end it was only three feet forward -- this is actually a great achievement, but compared to the wide river, this advance is not enough
The cavalry of the Heavenly Sect on the other side laughed loudly again, and Isha was also relieved, according to the degree of the Tang army, even if they continued to dig and fill the river, it would take at least a month to really cut off the river - and the river was flowing, once the river was blocked, the river had nowhere to vent, and the consequences were unpredictable, and the later it was filled, the more difficult it would be.
The Tang generals on this side of the shore all shook their heads when they saw this effect.
Only Guo Wei seems to have not been hit at all, the commander will continue to dig the mud, preparing for the next river reclamation, the surface sand and gravel that can be moved nearby have been removed in the past three days, Guo Wei ordered to dig on the east bank of the Yaosha River, he recuperated for two days, the scars of the double strands gradually closed, but he has not yet stood up, but lying on the stretcher continues to urge the people, Hu Qi, and Fujun to work, many people think: "This method obviously does not work, General Guo is now a dead horse as a live horse doctor." But under Guo Wei's urging, he didn't dare to slack off.
From the early morning of the fourth day, elite soldiers began to be drawn away, and the number of people who were transferred away was 2,000 -- if the number of soldiers transferred by Guo Luo to Guo Wei reached 10,000, then these 2,000 people would be one out of five. The Tang Army's government soldiers can be regarded as elite troops wherever they are placed in the Western Regions, and these two thousand people are the elite of the elite. Not only were these elites very sophisticated and experienced, but they were all dressed in light iron armor and armed with sharp weapons - some of them were even cavalry archers
However, for this potential change, even few people in the Tang Army themselves could detect it, let alone the cavalry of the Heavenly Sect on the other side. What Ishtar saw across the Yaosha River was just that the Tang army continued to dig, transport, and pile up soil in full swing, counting the days, even if the Tang army succeeded in filling the river, it would be a month later.
"By that time, they will be tired for a long time, so I will cross the river and see how they fight."
After three days of labor, the 2,000 people who had been transferred there were indeed tired, but what made them feel depressed at the moment was not tiredness, but idleness.
Suddenly, they were transferred to this secret barracks, and everyone was ordered not to make noise, not to go out, only to sharpen their weapons and feed their horses, and not to leave the barracks for a single step, and those who violated the order were to be beheaded
Yang Xin and Xu Congshi are the brains of these two thousand people, and they each command the elite of the government soldiers of one thousand people, but they don't know what is about to happen.
It wasn't until the evening of the sixth day that Guo Wei came to the barracks and said: "Rest well today, eat and sleep well, tomorrow is the last day, before tomorrow night, you will cross the river for me, even if you don't get the rank of Istta, at least you have to give me the defeat of the other party's river defense I have informed Guo Dudu, as long as you succeed, the whole army will move immediately."
Yang Xin whistled and said, "But this river has only been filled in four or five zhang, and it is still far from filling the river, how can I fly over it?" I'm just a silver spear general, not a flying general. β
He is Guo Wei's subordinate of the lineage, and he has always been a little incapacitated, and the captains who gathered also knew about their relationship, although they knew that Yang Xin was making fun of Guo Wei, they all laughed along.
Guo Wei said: "Before I started to fill in the river, I had already sent people from the survey battalion to mix in the raft that forcibly crossed the river and stormed it, and explored the depth of the waterway for dozens of miles nearby. Although the banks of this section of the river are narrow, it is precisely because of the narrowness that the water flow is more turbulent, and the center of the river is deeper, and the more the river is filled, the more troublesome it becomes, even if we are given another month, we are afraid that we will not be able to fill it. But it is not this section of the river that you have to rush over, but the section of the river that is more than ten miles to the northwest -- where the river is the widest, but gentle, and the shallowest of the waters, and you are riding on the best horses in the Western Regions, and when the time comes, you will not need a raft, but let the horses go through."
Xu Congshi also thought that Guo Wei must have other plans, and it was not strange to hear this, but said: "Although that section of the river is shallow, it is not something that can be crossed by a horse - I also asked the people in the survey camp, where the water in the center of the river is the shallowest and can also submerge the chest, people and horses fall into the water or swim, the other party has a cat's eye lamp, as soon as we enter the water, it will become the opponent's arrow target." I waited for 2,000 people to be invincible on the ground, and when I got to the water, it would be useless for heroes, and if the river was shallow enough to wade through, I didn't have to wait until now. β
Guo Wei said: "I also know this, so what I am thinking about these days is how to make the river shallow" He waved his hand and ordered everyone to prepare: "All in all, tomorrow, when the sun comes, I will give the order, and you will act immediately." Tonight, when it gets dark, you will all be broken into pieces, and go to the barracks near that stretch of the river to hide and restβI have emptied those barracks."
He looked downstream and said, "Although the three of us are divided between the top and the bottom, in fact, I only treat you as a comrade, please work hard If I make a mistake in my calculation, then I can only take the rank to see Guo Dudu in the early morning of the day after tomorrow." β
His words are simple, not as inflammatory as Zhang Mai, but these two sentences are out of true feelings, and the blood of the generals in the tent is boiling, Yang Xin stepped forward and said: "General rest assured, I will break through tomorrow, if the river is not shallow, we will swim and swim over the original good men in our middle, and we will not let the old guys in Lingxi look down on it."
On this day, both the Tianfang Army and the Tang Army seemed very calm, there was no particularly intense atmosphere, and there was no strange quiet, YiqiΔ seemed to be the same as usual, only some people thought of the "seven-day appointment" between Guo Wei and Guo Luo, and secretly worried and anxious for him.
At dusk, under Guo Wei's order, the wood-smashing team knocked down dozens of dirt mountains, but the effect became less and less - the closer to the center of the river, the greater the momentum of the river, and the sediment was quickly washed downstream.
The cavalry of the Heavenly Fang Sect on the other side laughed loudly when they saw it, and the laughter even floated across the Yaosha River and reached the ears of the Tang Army, and everyone was not angry
Guo Wei said angrily: "The thief dares to insult me" because he ordered: "Start construction overnight, I vow to fill this section of the river before midnight"
Half of the more than 20,000 people responded in unison, although they all knew that it was completely impossible to fill up a quarter of the river before it took seven days to fill it in one night, but if they lost the battle, they couldn't lose the momentum, and they thought it was the last day of the seven-day covenant, everyone was self-motivated, and they also lit torches after nightfall, and worked hard under the command of Guo Wei.
When the cavalry of the Heavenly Fang Sect on the other side saw it, they mocked even more without a mouth
Seeing that it was almost midnight, suddenly, there was a loud bang on the east bank of the Yaosha River, as if something had collapsed, and it was generally followed by tens of thousands of people exclaiming in unison, but the exclamations of the tens of thousands of people were quickly muffled by the extremely loud sound of the water
The sound of the water was like a collapse of the embankment
"Flooding? Big water? β
Everyone was a little frightened.
The Tang army was not chaotic by Guo Luo's subordinates, but the cavalry of the Tianfang Sect on the other side were all guessing what was going on, and the cat's eye lamps converged from all directions, and finally there were particularly keen eyes that vaguely saw the situation on the other side, and shouted: "Tang Kou dug up the soil and filled the river, and dug up the embankment on his side."
With this impression in my heart, the cat's eye lamps gathered around and looked again, and sure enough, the river could not stop tilting to the east and north, so that the collapse of the embankment was the most feared thing by the soldiers, but it was the other party's embankment that collapsed, and that was the most worthy of schadenfreude in the world
The cavalry of the Heavenly Fang Sect were all overjoyed, all of them were happy, everyone stroked their foreheads, and they all shouted: "God bless, God bless this group of Tang Kou wanted to fill the river, but they drowned themselves well, drowning well."
The water of the Yaosha River rushed in from the collapse of the embankment on the east bank and poured into the lowland with an area of tens of square miles, and because this side of the embankment had already been dug into the ground by Guo Wei several feet, the river water poured in even more fiercely
In the darkness, the soldiers of the heavenly side only saw the collapse of the other party's embankment, but who noticed that the embankment collapsed, the river flowed at the same time, and the downstream flow plummeted in an instant, although it was not to stop flowing, but the water level of that section of the gentle water had dropped by more than half in just one meal
"General Guo's wonderful strategy" Guo Luo sighed downstream by the river: "This method cannot be used in the Central Plains." The rivers on our side are often tens of zhang and ten, unlike the Western Regions, which are mostly wide and shallow rivers......"
Hearing a few roars, the barracks, which were very empty during the day, rushed out with two hundred tiger-like soldiers, each of whom rode high-headed horses, and stepped into the Yaosha River, Guo Luo was overjoyed, and hurriedly ordered reinforcements
In the dark night, Yang Xin didn't care about anything, just rushed forward
The riverbed in the Western Regions is not like the south of the Yangtze River, there are more sand and rocks and less mud, 2,000 cavalry stepped into the water, and the water only flooded the horse's knee Although the riverbed was uneven, there were hundreds of cavalry who took the draft because the horses fell, but there were still more than 1,000 people who stepped into the center of the river
The cat's eye lamps were originally focused on the collapse of the river embankment on the east bank, and they were quickly mobilized at this time, but where was the time?
The archers looked at the river and shot, but the flexibility of Yang Xin and the others on horseback and on the raft was different, with the visibility of the night, with the hundreds of archers who hastily attacked on the other side of the river, what were the more than 1,000 cavalry that were moving?
At a distance of more than 30 zhang, the cavalry charge was instantaneous, although it was blocked by the current, but there were more than 800 cavalry rushing to the shore in just one meal
Before the Celestial Army could react, the Tang Army's thousand cavalry had already assembled
When Esta heard the news, he led the elite to come to the Tang army on both sides of the Yaosha River, and the strength of the Tang army was far superior to that of the Tianfang army, but in this part and at this point in time, Ishtar still gathered far more troops than the Tang army that had just crossed the river
But in the face of the Heavenly Sect troops several times larger than himself, Yang Xin just let out a long laugh: "It is this broken ditch that has blocked our iron hooves these days, and now that we have crossed the river, the children of Tianfang, come and die under Grandpa Yang's gun."
Under the bright moonlight, a little silver light flashed like a pear blossom, and the sweaty BMW was also like a dragon under the moonlight, and more than 800 people were like a treasure knife, rising up and slashing at the alien race bravely for many days
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