Chapter 1656: Night Crossing
The three soldiers of the Jiangdong Army who came to investigate were solved by the Han army who crossed the river, and because the time passed not long, the Jiangdong Army did not find any abnormalities.
On the riverside, the soldiers of the Han army and the barbarian army wearing rattan armor were carefully carrying rafts and gently pushing them into the water.
The rafts that were propelled into the water were connected one after the other, and the soldiers tied them together first with hemp rope and then with thin cowhides.
When the raft is tied, someone will push it hard a few times to see if it can be pushed away.
Make sure that the raft is strong, and the Han army and the barbarian army on the river will then tie up a piece of raft.
It didn't take long for a pontoon bridge made of rafts to be built.
But the soldiers on the river did not stop there.
They still pushed the rafts into the water, and they expanded the width next to the newly built pontoon bridge.
Time passed little by little, and a Jiangdong officer of the Han Army, who was watching the sword sharpening on the other side of the river, stood up, looked at the dark river, and muttered to himself: "Strange thing, how can the soldiers and horses of the imperial court sharpen their swords in the middle of the night?" ”
The Jiangdong soldiers on the side heard the officer's whispering, and they didn't expect anything, but they were also puzzled.
The soldiers of the Han army sharpened their swords in the middle of the night, which really violated the laws of the battlefield.
Although the number of Han and barbarian troops participating in the sharpening of swords was not very large, the Jiangdong army on the other side of the river bank could clearly hear the sound of swords rubbing against stones.
One by one, the Jiangdong army stood up and looked at the river in the night, because the place where the Han army chose to lay the pontoon bridge was too far away from them, they could not see the abnormality on the river surface at all.
The pontoon bridge became wider and wider, and gradually, it was enough for dozens of people to rush side by side.
The wide pontoon bridge was built, and the soldiers of the Han army on the river breathed a sigh of relief, but they still did not stop and were still building the pontoon bridge.
The wider the pontoon bridge, the more Han troops could successfully cross the river, and the difficulty of capturing the east bank of the Yu River would be much less.
Zhuge Jun's order was only to widen the pontoon bridge as much as possible, and did not say how wide the pontoon bridge should be built.
More and more rafts were spliced onto the pontoon bridge, and the movements of the soldiers of the Han army were getting bigger and bigger.
Because the pontoon bridge was wide enough, the Han soldiers who were originally immersed in the water jumped on the pontoon bridge one after another, and on the bridge deck, pulled the raft handed down by a fast companion on the shore to the pontoon bridge, and tied it with ropes.
Perhaps worried that the ropes were not too strong, some Han soldiers in rattan armor ran around the bridge deck, reinforcing the bridge deck they had already paved.
The movements of the Han army became bigger and bigger, and the Jiangdong army on the shore finally discovered the abnormality on the water.
"Shoot rockets over there and see if there's anyone on the river!" Raising his hand and pointing at the place where the Han army had set up a pontoon bridge, the officer gave an order to one of the archers behind him.
Receiving the order, the archer set up an arrow on the bowstring and fired a rocket in the direction where the Han army was building a pontoon bridge.
The stars lit up like a meteor and flew towards the Han army who were setting up a pontoon bridge.
The firelight pierced the dark night, reflecting the pontoon bridge on the river, and the moment they saw the pontoon bridge, the Jiangdong troops on the riverside were all stunned.
Although it was some time after dark, the speed of the Han army was too fast, and the Jiangdong army did not even notice it, so the Han army laid a wide pontoon bridge on the river.
Stunned for a moment, the Jiangdong officer hurriedly shouted to the soldiers on the side: "Blow the horn, the Han army has laid a pontoon bridge!" ”
Before his shout fell, the Jiangdong army immediately blew a whining horn.
Zhuge Jin, who had already rested and did not expect that the Han army would lay a pontoon bridge overnight, heard the horn coming from the riverside, sat up suddenly, and shouted outside the tent: "What's wrong with the riverside? ”
One of the soldiers guarding outside the tent stepped in, bowed down with his fists and said to him: "General Qiqi, there is chaos by the river, I don't know what happened!" ”
"General, it's not good!" Before the soldiers returned, Zhuge Jin was about to get up, when a shout from the Jiangdong Army came from outside: "The Han army took advantage of my unpreparedness and laid a pontoon bridge on the river!" ”
Zhuge Jin, who just got up and was about to go out to take a look, was taken aback when he heard the shouts of the Jiangdong Army outside, and hurriedly shouted to the soldiers in the tent: "Immediately give an order to seize the enemy's pontoon bridge!" ”
The soldiers answered, turned around and ran out of the tent.
At the same time that the Jiangdong army left the barracks and rushed towards the river, the Han army stationed on the west bank of the river also moved.
Countless torches lit up, and the Han army and barbarian army poured like a tide to the river.
Hundreds of thousands of troops lit torches, and the flames lit up almost half of the sky.
Zhuge Jun, who had not rested, stood outside the tent, with his hands on his waist, looking at the direction of the riverbank.
The Han army and the barbarian infantry advanced almost on all fronts, and the strong crossbowmen also set up feather arrows on the machine springs and aimed at the Jiangdong army on the opposite side of the riverbank.
The Yu River is not very wide, and the strong crossbows of the Han army can shoot to the opposite bank, while the Jiangdong army on the opposite bank, because they use longbows, it is difficult to say whether the arrows can reach the Han army on the shore.
Countless Han troops rushed to the river, and the Jiangdong army on the other side had also killed the Han army that landed first.
To the west of the riverbank, the Jiangdong Army, which woke up, also killed the Han army that had previously landed on the riverbank.
Two thousand Han troops who landed on the shore, armed with shields and swords, lined up not far from the pontoon bridge.
A pair of eyes stared at the Jiangdong Army that was rushing towards them, and the soldiers of the Han Army had green tendons bulging on their foreheads, and some of them even trembled slightly with excited hands.
There has been no battle for a long time, and many Han troops have long been uncomfortable.
Many of them don't even wonder if they can become farmers in the future when there is no war.
Jiangdong was the last prince to be conquered by the Han court.
To be able to fight with the Jiangdong Army before the imperial court dominates the world, the mood of the very handsome soldiers is indescribable, as for the Jiangdong Army outnumbering them, the Han army that has landed on the shore does not have so many concerns!
The Han army laid a wide pontoon bridge on the river, and if the pontoon bridge could not be captured in time, the Han army could attack the river bank.
The number of people is far more than the Jiangdong army, and the Han army soldiers are superior to the Jiangdong army in terms of equipment and training.
The Jiangdong army, which flocked to the riverbank, let out a roar that shook the sky, and crashed into the two thousand Han troops wearing rattan armor.
Holding the rattan card, at the moment when the Jiangdong Army collided with it, the two thousand Han soldiers also let out a roar in unison and killed the Jiangdong Army.
The number of people was far greater than that of the Han army, and the Jiangdong army's collision force was naturally much stronger than that of the Han army.
The two sides collided in one place, and the 2,000 Han troops were instantly scattered and divided into small groups, brandishing swords, fighting with the Jiangdong army.
Thinking that with the advantage of numbers, it could give the Han army a deterrent, the Jiangdong army knocked many Han troops to the ground under a rush, but the Han army that was knocked to the ground got up with a bone, and roared at them again, so that the Jiangdong army immediately understood that they were not facing the Jingzhou army that had fought with them in the past, but an army that did not know the fear of death.
The Han army wearing rattan armor has a thick armor on its body, and the blade pokes on it, but it only makes a sizzling sound, and it is difficult to pierce the rattan armor.
Holding the rattan card, with the protection of the rattan armor on their bodies, the soldiers of the Han army waved the war knives in their hands, and constantly greeted the Jiangdong army who came up to them.
One by one, the Jiangdong army was cut to the ground, but they knew in their hearts that once the main force of the Han army crossed the river, they could only face the defeated Jiangdong army, but they still pounced on the Han army like a tide.
After all, rattan armor is not a steel plate, and the soldiers of the Han army wearing rattan armor also fell one by one under the impact of the Jiangdong army.
Among them, there was a Han army, and the Pu knife in his hand slashed at a Jiangdong army, and the Jiangdong army was slashed in the shoulder by the Pu knife, and the sharp blade was embedded in the flesh.
He was not killed by a knife, threw away the blade in his hand, grabbed the Han army's Pu knife with both hands, and let out a desperate roar.
Another Jiangdong army, seeing that his companion grabbed the Han army's Pu knife, poked the short spear in his hand fiercely at the Han army.
Before his short spear could hit the Han army, another Han soldier on the side brandished his sword and slashed at his neck.
Pu Dao drew a silver arc of light and slashed at the neck of the Jiangdong army.
As a human head rolled off, the headless body stood straight, and blood gushed from its neck like a fountain.
Pushed by the people who rushed up from behind, the body fell, and was soon obliterated by countless feet that changed their positions back and forth.
The Jiangdong army pushed towards the bank of the river, and the Han army struggled to resist, but their numbers were too small, and under the push of the Jiangdong army, they gradually retreated towards the pontoon bridge.
On the west bank of the river, the soldiers of the Han army had already rushed to the shore, and many Han soldiers jumped on the pontoon bridge and rushed up towards the east bank.
The Jiangdong Army, which arrived on the shore one step ahead of the Han army, some fought with the 2,000 rattan armor soldiers, while others bypassed the rattan armor soldiers and rushed onto the pontoon bridge.
They originally planned to cut the rope on the side of the pontoon bridge, but the rope was protected by the rattan armor soldiers, so they could not start, and they could only choose to rush onto the pontoon bridge to prevent the Han army from landing on the riverbank.
The Jiangdong army, which got on the pontoon bridge, ran to the middle of the bridge and collided with the Han army rushing up.
Although the pontoon bridge is wide, crowds of people can push and fight on it, but the weight it bears is beyond its load-bearing capacity.
On the pontoon bridge where the two sides fought, the soldiers' feet were soaked in water, and the bridge deck of the pontoon bridge was also suspended in the river.
The two soldiers who collided with each other, waving the blades in their hands, kept slashing at each other, and pieces of people fell, and more soldiers immediately rushed up behind them.