Zhang He was wearing a straw raincoat and was walking along the floating bridge.

Perhaps being stimulated by the cold water, he suddenly sneezes several times.

In the first year of Chuping, Zhang He followed Han Fu to attack the Yellow Turbans, and accumulated merits and served as the Sima of the Army. Later, he transferred to Yuan Shao's command. Because he had many meritorious achievements in the attack on Gongsun Zan, he was promoted to the General of the Central Army of Ningguo. During the Battle of Guandu, he surrendered to Cao Gong and was appointed as the general of the side. Later, he became the vanguard with Zhang Liao in Liucheng, defeated Wuhuan, and appointed as the General Pingdi.

That year, Zhang He was 33 years old. Among the generals of the Cao camp, regardless of the Xiahou family and the Cao family, his status and achievements were comparable to Yu Jin, Le Jin, Zhang Liao, Xu Huang and others; but in terms of age, he was the youngest one.

However, in the following years, Le Jin, Zhang Liao, Xu Huang and others successively obtained the position of a general who was stationed outside and assumed the safety of one side. However, because of his strict military leadership, Yu Jin was stationed around Xudu and took on an indescribable task. Only Zhang He wasted several years and never got any further opportunities.

This time, Zhang He followed Cao Gong to the south and led his troops as the front line to Xiangyang to join the southern general Cao Ren. When he arrived in Xiangyang, he was furious about the previous failure to form a county. Le Jin tried his best to defend himself and said that he wanted to make meritorious service. Unfortunately, his elite troops suffered a lot under the county town and could not afford to organize enough people to deal with the war.

So Zhang He happily replaced Le Jin's position as pioneer.

He led more than 10,000 elite troops to rush forward, and captured many important military cities between Jiangling and Xiangyang, and headed straight to the city of Xiangyang. He even took a raft to attack at night, capturing off several sandbanks in the middle of Jiangling in one fell swoop, and then used the raft chain as a floating bridge to block the ships on the river.

The activities of the Jingzhou military ships in Jushui, Zixudu and Yangshui are important links that constitute Jiangling’s city defense. Once the river is cut off, the Jingzhou navy will not be able to go to Jushui, and Zixudu and Yangshui will no longer have any defenses, and Jiangling’s city guards are immediately stretched everywhere.

Cao Ren took this opportunity to launch a fierce attack, and in a few days he removed all the strongholds outside Jiangling. The army forced him to the city and launched a fierce siege.

At the same time, Zhang He rushed to operate in Jiangxinzhou.

He is from Hebei and has little experience in surface combat and manipulating ships, but as a contemporary general, he is extraordinary after all. With his advantages in military strength and manpower, he forcibly changed the mode of water boat attack based on continents and pontoon bridges.

He cut down trees on the continent, quickly built the camp where the army was stationed, and continuously strengthened the pontoon bridge. According to the guidance of the guide, he chose to cut wooden piles in the shallow water in the river, and built many floating fortresses connected to the pontoon bridge.

These fortresses are made of rafts as the base and are tied into exterior walls with bamboo. The walls are several meters high. They are divided into two or three layers. The lower level is stationed, and the upper is set up with arrow towers and watchtowers. The fortress is placed down along the water and ends hundreds of steps to the east of the pontoon bridge. Then they are fixed in the river with an iron anchor and communicate with the main bridge behind through a small pontoon bridge.

The Jingzhou navy attacked several times, and was first discovered by the watchtower on the floating fortress. Then Zhang He quickly mobilized his troops with a floating bridge, relied on the fortress to support each other, and repeatedly defeated the Jingzhou military ships that were coming against the current.

In the battle ten days ago, he personally led elite soldiers to fight, captured a Jingzhou ship close to the fortress, and captured 300 Jingzhou navy soldiers alive. After this record was reported to Xiangyang, it was said that Cao Gong was very happy.

Later, the Jingzhou Navy did not dare to come again, and Zhang He thought he could go to Jiangling to fight.

He had heard that the Jingzhou navy retreated from Jiangling and turned to disturb Jiangxia. The Prime Minister decided to take this opportunity to attack Jiangling as soon as possible without hesitation of casualties. Therefore, the generals and schools gathered under the city to attack.

After waiting for several days, I did not see the military article who was dispatched. Instead, I heard that Cao Zhang, Cao Xiu and others had arrived at Jiangling City, and in the past few days they would attack with the troops under Cao Ren.

Zhang He was quite disappointed. It was a subordinate who reminded him that the two, one was the beloved son of Prime Minister Cao, and the other was Qianliju of the Cao clan. Cao Zixiao understood the meaning of this two rising stars in the Cao clan, hoping that these two Cao clans would win the merit of winning the city. What kind of virtue do you dare to compete with them?

Forget it, just watch it on the river, just take a rest.

But for the next few days, Zhang He was so busy on the river that he had no time to rest at all.

Previously, his subordinates were killed and injured, and they needed to recuperate. However, the river has become more and more prosperous recently, and many camps have been soaked in half. The soldiers stationed their troops in the water, and they were immediately unacceptable to the local conditions and could not guard against mosquitoes and flies by the water. Some people have been infected with diseases one after another. Therefore, Zhang He had to survey several continents and select high places to rebuild camps.

What's even more troublesome is that the water level continues to rise, the river is becoming more and more wide. In just a few days, the number of rafts used to form the pontoon bridge is obviously insufficient. Many newly-drawn pile foundations were washed away by water, and several thick ropes connecting the rafts were overwhelmed and almost broken... If it is really broken, who is sure to rebuild the pontoon bridge quickly? This trouble will be more than the sky!

When building the floating bridge, Cao Ren mobilized a large number of civilians to help, but most of these civilians are now drawn outside Jiangling City to build earthen mountains and various siege facilities.

In this case, Zhang He, a northerner who could not do anything, had to lead people to patrol the pontoon bridge for several consecutive days. In order to catch up with the enemy, the brave and warlike soldiers under his command were all carrying thick ropes, nails, and hammers on their backs, and they could strengthen the pontoon bridge at any time.

At this time, he stood on the bridge and felt the raft under his feet undulating, like falling clouds and mist. Looking around, the river water and rain were mixed together, and it was impossible to tell which was the sky and where was the water.

Everyone was soaked by the big waves on the river. It was clearly summer, but the wind on the river was cold, making people tremble. Hundreds of pontoon bridges were hit by the surging river water, and hundreds of feet of floating bridges became huge arcs. Sometimes, a wave came over, and the entire floating bridge almost turned over. Everyone held the stakes nailed to death on the edge of the raft, for fear of falling into the water.

This is not the bathtub of Xuanwu Lake in Yecheng, this is the big river! If you fall down and eat a wave, your body will be gone, and you will definitely drown in it and become food for fish and turtles!

After finally surviving a wave, Zhang He spat out the turbid air and turned to his companions, "Hurry up, let's go back to the continent to rest and drink some wine... My feet are weak."

The entourage wiped the water from his face, his eyes widened like a copper bell, and looked behind Zhang He, but he didn't say anything. Even the people around him looked stupid.

"Are you stupid? Go!" Zhang He cursed angrily.

"General, it's not good!" the entourage said tremblingly.

Several others were even more unbearable. They suddenly screamed and rolled and crawled toward the end of the floating bridge.

This was too dissatisfaction. Zhang He wanted to scold them, but his heart suddenly pounded. He turned around and looked to the west of the floating bridge.

Just now, he had clearly seen it carefully. There was only rain, fog, and endless waves. There was nothing else. There was the upper reaches of the river, and the Jingzhou navy was blocked downstream, so there shouldn't be anything else.

But at this time, in the middle of the rain and fog and endless waves, countless giant boats suddenly appeared and galloped towards the floating bridge!

Previously, Zhang He faced the military ships in Jingzhou on the floating fortress several times. Because the fortress was built on dozens of rafts, it was also very large. He stood on his head, his eyes were level with the deck of the ship, and he felt that it was just that. At this time, he was standing close to the water, and the huge boat in Jingzhou was in front of him...

It felt like the whole city wall came alive! No, no, the tall bow of the ship, the countless flags that swept in the wind, and the sails that covered the sky were getting closer and closer, filling Zhang He's vision. It was like the entire river was lifted out of thin air and pressing down towards Zhang He!

Zhang He made various preparations. There were defenders along the pontoon bridge. The crossbowmen prepared many arrows in advance, and hundreds of strong men were responsible for the huge bamboo poles specially used to open the ship. But where were those things useful when facing such a fiercely rushing ship?

Such power is not done by human power, it is the general trend between heaven and earth and cannot be resisted at all!

Zhang He shouted wildly and ran towards the continent at the end of the floating bridge.

At this moment, the giant ship in front came like a galloping horse and crashed into the floating bridge.

The ship collided with the pontoon bridge, the logs shattered, the pile foundations shaking, and the loud shouts of many people gathered into a loud bang. The entire pontoon bridge trembled violently.

Zhang He suddenly leaned on the bridge deck, his fingers tightened the wood, and after this wave of shaking, he immediately stood up and continued running.

After running two steps, another big ship hit and another loud bang!

Zhang He stepped out of the air and fell on the bridge.

As soon as he fell down, a strange wind sounded from behind his head. It turned out that a rope as thick as an arm was suddenly broken, and half of the rope was thrown across the floating bridge like a crazy python. More than ten entourages screamed and were hit by the rope. Some people flew into the sky with their hands and feet, and then fell into the surging river water several feet away, and they were invisible. Some people were simply interrupted by their laziness, twisting their upper and lower bodies, and blood was gushing in it.

Zhang He immediately stood up.

He continued to run wildly, shouting: "Run! Run!"

The third big ship hit again.

The floating bridge was built by Zhang He himself. The pile foundation was built, the ropes were tied tightly, and it was very strong. However, one Jingzhou military ship after another crashed down with the surging water, and they were all big ships and tower ships. The power was more than ten thousand pounds?

The next moment, dozens of piles that were hit into shallow water were uprooted and a raft in the middle of the pontoon bridge was smashed to pieces. So the entire pontoon bridge was broken!

The two floating bridges were then washed away by the surging river water and threw them downstream. The floating fortresses attached to the floating bridge quickly collided with each other and became tilted and shaken. The Cao soldiers in the fortress were extremely frightened and dived desperately. The Jingzhou navy ships passed by, and arrows shot like rain!
Chapter completed!