Chapter 33 Fire and Water

"General Liu! General Liu! ”

Liu Heng rode his horse and raised his gun, led the most elite soldiers under his command, and rushed straight to the pontoon bridge, and the surrounding sergeants gave way, and even the soldiers on the pontoon bridge turned sideways to let him go first. The Qin army, which was fighting the south bank, also shouted in unison: "General Liu! ”

Qin Xufei was born brave and heroic, but his temperament was as fierce as fire, but Liu Heng was patient and meticulous, and he was gentle. Qin Xufei is the god of war in the army, the object of the soldiers' admiration, but everyone has questions to ask, something to say, and something to inquire, it must be Liu Heng who is looking for it, not Qin Xufei.

He is Qin Xufei's best friend, the most trusted subordinate, and the second only person in the entire army. Now, he led his troops and rode to the front of the battlefield!

Morale is high!

Since the Great Qin army counterattacked the Chu State, every battle is like this, every time they rush to kill, there is always the highest-ranking general who rushes to the front, whether it is Qin Xufei, Liu Heng, or others, they will always bear the most difficult battle situation with their shoulders, and they always face more dangers than the most humble soldiers!

Therefore, this Qin army can always be cohesive, even if it is in a foreign country, there is no way to return to the country, and everyone abandons it, it has never given up, destroyed itself, or collapsed!

You can rest assured that your back will be handed over to your companions, and your lord will also be with you. They are enemies of the world, but they depend on each other!

Shall you say that you have no clothes, and are with your son......

Second only to the Chinese army under the command of Qin Xufei, the most elite left army led by Liu Heng has rushed onto the pontoon bridge, and with Liu Heng's heroic posture of riding to the south bank, they will list the most impregnable camp on the south bank! For the Qin army, which has fought for many years and repeatedly defeated strong enemies, no matter how difficult the predicament is, it has been faced. Back then, even in the face of Fang Qingchen's all-out attack. They also have the ability not to hold on, retreat but not disperse, as long as they cross the river, this rabble of the Shuntian army is not yet captured!

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On the pontoon bridge, the Qin army passed through quickly.

On the side of the pontoon bridge, it is the upper reaches of the Huai River, where a big bend is turned. Because most of the Qin people are not good at water, when choosing the place to build the bridge, they chose the place where the water is the most gentle.

Now. At the turn, more than a dozen small boats floated on the surface of the Huai River.

The boat was small, inconspicuous, and completely obscured by the vegetation on the shore before turning the corner.

The people on the north bank saw those small dots on the river relatively early. But there are more doubts than vigilances.

The boat comes and goes down the water. Ragged. Old people and women who are tormented by hunger to the point of being tormented to the point of collapse. And they are all ropes and ropes, and they can't move.

"Help!"

"We are not the Suncheon Army!"

"Help!"

The Qin army was all dumbfounded, and even Qin Xufei was stunned at the Hundred Battles Sand Field. What's going on? If it's a siege. I've heard of the moats that drove the civilians out of the current team. These small boats don't have enough momentum to destroy the pontoon bridge, why should the people be sent to death?

After a little hesitation, more than a dozen small boats hit the first pontoon bridge one after another!

A bang! It shook the hearts of 100,000 people in Jiangbei and Jiangnan!

Flames! The water column soars to the sky! The pontoon bridge broke from it! Soldiers on the bridge, fall into the river!

The soldiers in the shallow water can still struggle to get ashore, and the light armored soldiers in the deep water are mostly swept away by the river, and those soldiers in heavy armor, no matter how good the water is, will sink forever under the water.

The collapsed bridges, the hull of the ship that blew up the ground, the broken wood and poles, splashed everywhere, hit the light armored soldiers who struggled to get ashore, and how many people broke their bones and bones and fell into the water.

Compared with them, the old and weak women on the ship were even more pitiful. Some of the ships were blown apart and shattered. In some small boats, there was a fire, and these people were bound by ropes, and they were burned alive screaming, and they couldn't even jump into the river and beg to drown.

Flames and smoke, flesh and blood flying.

In the water, fire and hell, there are countless small boats upstream, with countless cries, rushing down the river.

The Shuntian army laughed loudly, and the Qin army on the north shore was so heartbroken and shocked that they couldn't even drink angrily for a while.

Shameless! Shameless!

Qin Xufei's face was pale, and he rushed forward on his horse, but he was stopped by the generals around him!

"Marshal! Your Highness! ”

Qin Xufei stared at the extremely sad and indignant faces of the generals around him, then looked up, gritted his teeth and looked at the soldiers struggling to survive in the river, and looked at the other side of the river, leaving too far, he couldn't see clearly, and he couldn't find the person in the place.

In the eyes of the tiger, tears finally fell.

Ah Heng, is this what you have been telling me? This is the way of kings?!

Thunderbolt is small, flexible, and powerful, but it is difficult to make, troublesome to detonate, and extremely prone to accidental explosions, so it has lost the value of further promotion on the battlefield. He personally spent a lot of money, turned his body to fellowship, humbled and courtesy, coerced and enticed, and only then did he get the secret thunderbolt from the Lei family, a firearms family!

The thunderbolt that the Qin State Ordnance Division was proud of appeared on the battlefield of the Chu State. The male son of the Qin State died under the firearms of the Qin people themselves.

Liu Heng! Is this the way of kings that I don't understand! The way of the king is for himself, can he sacrifice everyone and kill everyone!

The Suncheon Army is well aware of this. They have too many people in their hands, all of whom are not well fed or warmly clothed, and are hovering on the verge of life and death day and night. Tell them that if they don't do it, they will kill the whole family, and they will do it.

Our sons and daughters have food to eat and can live. For the sake of the amiability of their children, those old people who already feel that their days are numbered, can they have a second choice?

There is no need for everyone to be obedient, and on a few ships, only one such poor dead man needs to be arranged, with a precious thunderbolt. All the hulls were poured with oil, and as soon as one ship blew up and the others floated by, it would immediately catch fire. And no matter where the thunderbolts in those ships are hidden, as long as they are burned, they will continue to explode and spread. Used to deal with pontoons, the lethality is indeed incomparable.

Shameless! Shameless!

He counted the ships on the north shore, how to deal with water battles, land battles. But he didn't count the royal road of the Shuntian army. It was not counted in the land of Qin...... Kingcraft!

So, now, he can only watch his horse stand on the north shore and watch his subordinates die.

Liu Heng, I was wrong.

"Shameless!"

"It's not a man!"

Beside him, looking at the flames rising in the air on the river, countless soldiers finally screamed and cursed, and many people burst into tears. Before, they could still deceive themselves, and they could still have hope, now. The firearms from the Qin State were smiling at them there.

Morale is low.

The first pontoon bridge has collapsed, and there are fewer and fewer people still struggling on the river. The rapidly burning ship was rushing towards the second pontoon bridge downstream.

The archers shot their arrows desperately, but they knocked down the people on the ship. I can't stop the boat coming down the water. Those sappers who have worked hard for a long time and have long been exhausted. Those who had not yet withdrawn to the north shore all stopped, jumped into the water, and floated on the surface of the water with the gourd that had not yet untied their leather bags from their waists. Desperately pounce on all the fireships! By virtue of flesh and blood. Do your best to capsize the fireboat! They know that as long as the thunderbolt is stained with water, it will no longer be lethal!

The skin is burned. Their eyebrows burned, they screamed in pain, and every time they succeeded in intercepting a ship, several of the temporary sappers who were responsible for building the bridge and the poor old woman on the ship were buried in the fire and water.

The fireships were all overturned, but no one was happy. Looking up, at the bend of the upstream waterway, there are dense and countless boats, floating down the river.

"Your Highness!"

"Your Highness!"

Qin Xufei closed his eyes, gritted his teeth and waved his hand.

Trebuchets and ballistae, which were placed along the river and were not pushed onto the pontoons, were operated again.

Huge rocks can easily sink small ships, and powerful giant crossbows pass directly through the hull.

On the surface of the river, the sound of screams was loud. Countless old men and women tried their best to huddle up on the ship with their tied bodies, desperately trying to avoid the killing.

"Spare your life!"

"Don't kill us!"

"You Qin dogs, you animals......"

"Even if I die, I won't let you go!"

A river is miserable, and a river is miserable.

At the place where the flag was waving on the north bank, the Qin soldiers who had not yet crossed the ground had not yet turned around and retreated. However, every bridge was crowded with people, and between advancing and retreating, many people turned over and fell into the water.

There are still countless archers, stubbornly guarding the remaining four bridges, shooting arrows with their bows.

There are still countless sappers in the river, with their flesh and blood, to overturn the boats that drift down from the gaps of the boulder crossbows, delaying the flames of death.

On the shore, on the bridge, everyone was shouting.

"Don't stop! Get ashore! Escaped one is one! ”

But they didn't listen! With their own flesh and blood, they continued this doomed interception!

If they can delay a little longer, there will be as many brothers who have come from the blood rain and sword light with them to set foot on the shore.

Qin Xufei couldn't hear anything.

Everything seems to be silent.

In his life, he can't forget the change on the river that will be twilight, and he will remember until he dies that the bloody sunset in the distant sky in the evening.

The Suncheon army shouted wildly, their morale was shaken, and they began to press the whole army towards the shore. The Qin army, which was fighting on the south bank, retreated involuntarily, and his mind was almost completely absent from the battlefield.

And on the north shore, tens of thousands of Qin troops watched all this powerlessly.

They could not retreat in the face of Fang Qingchen's iron-clad army, but they could not help their comrades out of suffering in such a predicament.

At the head of the bridge, the flow of people was rapidly retreating, but the speed of retreat was still not comparable to the speed of the small boat.

Everyone was trapped in a nightmare that they would never wake up from, watching as the sappers on the river became fewer and fewer, watching the pontoon bridge break again, watching the archers who remained behind, along with the soldiers on the bridge who had not yet finished retreating, fall into the river and fall into flames.

Two, three, four, five......

The five bridges were broken, and the rivers were ruthless, sweeping away the elite soldiers of a hundred battles, and also swept away those helpless people. Swept away the wreckage of the pontoon bridge, and also swept away the fireboats.

The surface of the river is clean and calm, as if nothing has happened.

Qin Xufei stood on the north shore, standing quietly with tens of thousands of soldiers.

Only with the eyes can fly over the surging river, and reach the brothers who barely got to the south bank, and then fell into a heavy siege, fighting hard in the midst of the killing.