On the night when Liu Hongsheng's troops landed at the head of Jinxian City, Song Xiaoqiao's water plane fleet entered the Baita River from Zhongzhou.

They quickly erected three pontoon bridges at Weizhoudu using the materials they had brought with them, and the temporary 2nd Brigade of the 1st and 2nd Battalions, which had already quietly entered the starting position, began to cross the river in an orderly manner.

Tan Zhongxuan stood on the hillock on the right bank and looked at the endless flow of troops below, touched the beard on his chin and looked in the direction of Meiling, muttering in his heart that Jiao Conghu must arrive at the meeting place on time.

If only his own people faced Yang Xing's 5,000 people, Tan Zhongxuan had never fought such a tough battle with less to more, and he muttered a little in his heart.

Behind them were Zhu Qizhen, who tried Qianhu, and Hu Qing, who came with reinforcements, and then Zhao Chongbi and his Chinese army. Seeing that Song Xiaoqiao's fleet left some people behind, and the rest continued to sail south, Zhao Chongbi, who was dressed in carved leather armor, let out a long sigh: "It is really a miracle to build three pontoon bridges in half an hour!" The water camp is indispensable!"

"They practiced for half a month, and this result is okay. Song Xiaoqiao was born in Huxi, but he is loyal, brave and intelligent, adults can pay more attention to him, this person will be a good general in the future!" Li Danjin said.

"You're not bad, you're very good at teaching such talents. I heard you came up with the idea again?" Zhao Chongbi pointed at the bridge with a horsewhip and asked with a smile.

Generally speaking, most pontoon bridges are made of civilian boats as the bottom, and then wooden planks are laid on them.

The regulations of civilian ships are different in height and height, and the thickness of the wooden planks is uneven, so the effect of building is that people, horses, and vehicles must be careful when walking on them, and the danger is almost less than walking in deep mountains and valleys.

Li Dan frowned when he saw this kind of "pontoon bridge" for the first time, and everyone else thought it didn't matter, isn't this what the pontoon bridge looks like?

But Li Dan firmly believes that this affects the speed of crossing the bridge too much, and this kind of pontoon bridge is not helpful at all for group training with a large number of cars and horses, it is simply a disadvantage!

He used the pontoon bridge left behind outside the south gate for experiments, and as a result, a horse heavy truck crossed the river empty, and when he reached a third of the way, he was stuck by boats of different heights and could not cross.

The second test was replaced by an ordinary carriage loaded with sandbags, and it turned out that the carriage was carried by twelve people for half an hour to successfully cross the bridge.

"We have hundreds of carriages in our army, how long will it take for all the kings to pass over?" Li Dan watched everyone in the staff department gasp one by one, smack his lips and lower his head, and immediately decided to redo the new pontoon!

Li Dan's plan was to use trapezoidal pontoons, one zhang four feet long and eight feet wide, and two zhang two feet long and one zhang and one foot wide, the former for infantry and horses, and the latter for cargo vehicles.

The pontoons are connected by hinges in pairs, and the surface is prefabricated deck.

It is carried by boat, slid into the water, folded in half, and then connected by a few wooden wedges between each pair, and a flat pontoon bridge can be erected in a very short time.

And the bridge can be long or short, when dismantling, the wooden wedge can be separated by knocking on each pair with a tool, and it can be easily lifted to the boat carried by the combination of gantry and pulley hoist, which is convenient for transferring the place or using when building the bridge again.

In the past, it was only the bridge brigade of the water battalion that used this thing to build a bridge over the East River, but this was the first time that a unit stepped on it, and the officers and men were very curious, excitedly whispering to each other, and from time to time bursting out laughter.

"It seems that the brothers liked it!" Li Dan nodded with satisfaction, and after seeing a heavy truck with a horse cross the bridge smoothly, he also breathed a sigh of relief, and bowed to Zhao Chongbi:

"Then I will leave my humble post and go south, and I will ask the governor here! If you have any questions, please discuss with Xianfu (Zhao Jingzi)."

"Go and come back quickly, you can rest assured here, but you are in the tiger's den, it is difficult for everyone!" Zhao Chongbi returned the salute and said, "The emperor is waiting for your news, don't disappoint him!"

Li Dan said goodbye to Zhao Chongbi, took one last look at the endless stream of troops crossing the river, turned his horse's head and headed south. Behind him were the accompanying staff officers and guards.

Everyone who went south knew that it was a big gamble, but as Li Dan said, they volunteered to participate in this operation, and also knew that the compensation for the dead and wounded would be twice as much as usual!

Yujiang is a small city, and the circumference is not

To five miles, according to the weekly system, even the city is not counted, only the city. To build a pontoon bridge, the most suitable place is in Xiajiadu, three pontoon bridges were built, Zhou Tu took the cavalry company and the third company to do a warm-up rehearsal.

As the vanguard of the southern road, they crossed the river and drove straight in, occupying Wuligang and cutting off the retreat of the Yujiang defenders. In fact, only half of the Yujiang defenders were in the city, and the other half were guarding the grain in the water transportation warehouse outside the southern city.

The city found that the river three miles away was suddenly full of boats, and felt that the situation was not right. When they were discussing whether they should go to investigate, Zhou Tu and the others roared past, followed by the smoke and dust, and the second and fourth companies rushed towards the north gate with all their might.

It's just a distance of three miles, and it's in an instant! The leaders of the Jiangshan Army shouted hoarsely, "Close the city gates!"

But the soldier was too frightened to take a step, and Gao Cang took the lead in knocking a leader who was still drawing his sword into the air, and shouted: "Gao Junran (Gao Cang) is here, and those who descend will not be killed!" He rushed all the way to the south gate and went out again.

The south gate heard the shouting of the north gate and didn't know what was going on, and when he saw a group of people entering the city and going out from the south gate, they looked at each other even more.

The people who followed Gao Cang into the city surrounded the county yamen under the root of the north city, and the shouting of killing came from the south gate to know that the big thing was not good.

When they were in a hurry to close the city gate, they turned around and saw a large number of green shirts pouring in, so frightened that they hurriedly opened the city gate again, and those who had no time to escape had to throw away their knives and spears and kneel on the ground and raise their hands.

He immediately took over the county government and sent two hundred men to the south of the city to take over the water transportation warehouse that had been taken by Gao Cang and to count the storage.

When Li Dan heard that Yu Jiang had been taken, he happily surrendered his hand to Yang Shijie and quipped, "Everything is going well, I won't send you, the acting magistrate, to take office, please do everything!"

"I didn't expect it to be so fast, it's only been an hour!" Yang Shijie exclaimed, returned the salute, and then had no more false words, only said:

"Shijie will live up to the trust of the lord, and the southward journey will be hard, and you will take care!" After speaking, he brought a few retinues and selected booksellers, and entered the city under the escort of the three hundred townships.

Li Dan turned to Yang Yi again: "Brother Yi, let's say goodbye. Song Xiaoqiao will send you to the Yao River at most to Xin'an Bridge, and it will depend on you later. The mountains are high and the road is far away, and the enemy of Jinxi can't get news for the time being, you have to hurry!

Just like this time to seize Yujiang, take it quickly while they don't have to do it. You are alone, there is no backup, as long as there is no progress in the first half hour, immediately withdraw from the battle and do not do more entanglement. Save the strength, understand?

"I understand." Yang Yi smiled bitterly: "I didn't expect that one day when you fought with others, you would not be around."

Li Dan patted him on the arm: "Just get used to it." The big husband has all over the world, and he has to have this day!" Then he bowed his hand to Song Xiaoniu, Shi Dajun and the others behind him, "Protect Yang Yingzheng and don't allow Shi to drink too much wine!"

"Won't I become a maid to the two of them?" Song Xiaoniu looked at the two and grinned.

"Could it be that you still want to be a young lady?" Shi Dajun's answer caused a burst of laughter. After everyone saluted, they followed Yang Yi on the horse, joking with each other, and giggling to chase Song Xiaoqiao's fleet.

Yang Yi brought his own battalion, a reinforced reconnaissance platoon, two platoons of archers, some auxiliaries, and 300 people who were transferred, with a total number of more than 1,000. In terms of troops, it is on par with the Jinxi defenders, and how to capture the city depends on the cooperation and strategy of these three.

Looking at their backs, Li Dan smiled and said to the others, "Let's go too, order all companies to assemble in Yingtan, and report to the headquarters of the task force battalion when they arrive at the position!" After saying that, he turned the horse's head.

Lu Rui and Zhao Baogen both changed into the uniforms of the Tsing Yi team and accompanied them as escorts.

If there were two pterosaur guards in this team, it would be too eye-catching, so they were all very conscious, and Li Dan gave them the epaulettes of lieutenant and ensign respectively, but he didn't treat them badly.

Lu Rui's riding skills were good, he and Mao Zai followed closely behind Li Dan, and said half-jokingly, "The lord is so relieved? These teams are from the south city and some are from the north city, and you are not afraid that they will go the wrong way and miss the wrong time?"

Lin Baotong laughed behind him, he was the head of the staff in charge of internal security, one of the few people who knew Lu Rui's identity, and said

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"Captain Lu doesn't have to worry, they all have maps in their hands, if they can't even read the map, then this company commander should go to the teaching team to study!" Look at the book

"What is the Teaching Team?" Zhao Baogen heard of it for the first time.

"Military Academy." Lin Baotong told him: "The lord said that the team is developing too fast, and there are not enough people who can lead the team, so he picked some seedlings to teach the team to learn.

Including how to lead troops, how to organize an attack, how to defend in formation, how to set up an ambush, how to fight an attack, and so on. After graduating after three months, I passed the assessment and returned to the team to lead the team."

"Then, who taught them?"

"Ma Jiuye, an old man who retired from the official army due to a leg injury. I heard that it turned out to be the head of the Eastern Zhejiang Bei Army, and he is also a person with a knighthood!"

"Oh!" Zhao Baogen remembered: "It's him, I've seen it, and it's a fate. I didn't expect him to be really capable!"

"But no, this time Tatehuazi attacked Yu Gan, it was Ma Ye who took five hundred people to fight around in Leijiawan and his pioneer Mao Taigong, killing him so that he hid in the camp and didn't dare to come out......!" Lu Jiu interjected and came in, dancing excitedly.

Ma Jiu is his existence second only to his father and mother in this world, which has nothing to do with steamed buns and Hu cakes, the key is that this noble man gave himself the opportunity to follow Li Sanlang, and this kindness is deeply recreated, so Lu Jiu became energetic as soon as he heard someone talk about Ma Jiuye.

"Okay, okay, eh, Brother Lu, you can tell us about it when you camp at night!"

Lu Jiu shook his head and stretched out his slap and raised it.

"What do you mean?" Zhao Baogen asked Lin Baotong, who was holding back a smile.

"Oh, that means five buns for an hour."

"Ahem, this is easy, then it's decided, Brother Lu!"

Li Dan, who was in front, knew that he was writing to the emperor in order to understand clearly, so he didn't plan to stop it.

He smiled and said in front of him, "Ah Jiu, why don't you let Captain Zhao make ten steamed buns for an hour, you can talk more, and you can start from ...... You left the camp that day, how about it?"

"Yikes! Sir, look at you, you are such a big official, and I am happy to be a big soldier! Five, just five, we are honest people, and we don't change our mouths at a fixed price!" Lu Jiu hurriedly said.

Brother Mao couldn't help laughing out loud anymore, and when he took the lead, the people in the team who knew immediately burst into laughter.

Zhao Baogen didn't know why, Captain Lu touched his beard and suddenly had fun, he guessed that there was a little secret here that Lu Jiu couldn't see.

In the county yamen of Dongxiang, Yan Yan was reporting to Yang Xing on the preparation of the team. After hesitating, Yang Xing still felt the need to take Anren back!

But before that, he thinks that he has to beat down the villager who is good at mixing in Meigang. This task fell to Yan Yan.

The relationship between Yan Yan, one of the Four Heavenly Kings, and Yang Xing is much closer than that of "One Stick of Incense" Lian Daxiang, who is Yang Xing's eldest brother and his child's own uncle!

Yan Yan is also a martial artist, the first place in the martial arts of Yanping Mansion back then, a figure who can write and martial arts, and has a dignified appearance, so he has the reputation of "Little Wenhou" in the army.

With his status and handsome appearance, of course, it is impossible for this eldest brother to take the dwarf dundun and black briquette-like Lian Daxiang in his eyes, and at the same time not to take the generals other than Yang Xing in his eyes.

How could the proud, martial "Little Wenhou" stand with these people?

But now that Lian Daxiang has been sent to Jinxian to drag the official army, Yan Yan suddenly feels that he has more opportunities and possibilities.

So he first proposed to fight Anren, he must first cut down Meigang and cut off one arm (the other arm is Huangxi), Anren's frightened strategy, and actively won the opportunity to show his face.

Yang Xing decided to give him half of his troops, so that he could crush Meigang's resistance with lightning speed and collect more money and food. Yan Yan is here to report to him today that all preparations are in place, and the team can be mobilized. and asked if Yang Xing went to the school for a military parade and so on.

Yang Xing waved his hand: "You go quickly, don't delay for a day." I will hand over all the old pawns to you this time, and I must win with one blow. Then collect the ships at May Harbor, and when I come east to attract the attention of the defenders, you can go directly from May Harbor

Crossing the river and attacking the golden port.

This not only cuts off Yu Gan's assistance to Anren, but also helps me to fight from both sides, so that he can't take care of each other. Naturally, I hope that this first achievement will finally fall on your head without mishap!"

He stopped Yan Yan, who was about to bow down after the great joy, and asked him, "When are you going to leave for Meigang?"

"The younger brother plans to leave early tomorrow morning." Yan Yan said softly.

Who knows that Yang Xing shook his head: "Do you know if there are any other spies in this city who have not been caught?" It would be unpleasant if the news leaked."

Yan Yan was stunned for a moment and asked, "Marshal's opinion?"

"Now that you're ready, leave now, don't hesitate. Falling from the sky before the opponent has figured out the situation is what I want to achieve. So don't engage in any fancy things like military parades and flag sacrifices. Let's go!"

"This ......." Yan Yan was a little embarrassed: "Although I knew that I was going to send troops, no one thought that I would leave today, it was too sudden."

"Don't be afraid, just tell them that there are more rich people in that place than this, and there are countless gold, silver, jewels, and women. I don't think you have to bother, those people will push you out of the camp quickly." Yang Xing sneered.

Yan Yan suddenly realized, immediately quit and ran back to the camp. Yang Xing smiled and put down a chess piece on the east side of the chess title, tilted his head to look at it, gritted his teeth and said, "Dare to take my Anren, so that you will have no return!"

Less than an hour later, someone came to report that General Yan had led his troops out of the north gate. Got it." Yang Xing sat quietly, put down a chess piece later, and muttered:

"The first move does not necessarily win, the turning point is when you are still busy with pride, and see how I turn defeat into victory!"

Yesterday, my father sent someone to spread the word, saying that it was estimated that the time was almost up, and that it had been agreed that there would be generals in the city to surrender, and that when a general attack was launched, they would make a disturbance in the city to respond to the army, and asked him if he could draw one or two thousand men to support.

Yang He's meaning was to attack the surrounding counties immediately after pulling out Fuzhou, and the Third Route Army attacked Ji'an, Fengcheng and Nancheng respectively, taking advantage of the situation to maximize the results of the battle. It is best to take Fuzhou, Jianchang, and Linjiang in your hands before becoming king, and coerce Nanchang.

But this is in conflict with Yang Xing's thinking. In his opinion, once Fuzhou is conquered and King Fu is captured or killed, the Jiangshan army will become the target of public criticism. And Anren and Yugan are not only the barriers of Nanchang Mansion, but also the necessary places for the reinforcements of Nanzhili to go south.

If these two cities are under the control of the Jiangshan army, the officers and troops will have a headache; There is a place that is controlled by the Jiangshan Army, and the officers and soldiers have to spend their strength to eat; But if neither is in the hands of the Jiangshan Army, Dongxiang will become the front line, and there is no point in Fuzhou being the king!

Yu Gan's side of the flower has not heard back, the assassination of the old way has also failed, and now Anren has lost again, the emperor has appointed a governor and a new political envoy, it is clear that the imperial court has been pressed step by step, at this time is not unwise to only think about the king?

Therefore, Yang Xing rejected his father's request, determined to recapture Anren as soon as possible no matter what!