"General!"

The scout came to report: "General Gao Zhen sent someone to report, and the upstream found that the enemy was trying to cross the force, but he had been repelled by General Gao."

Tang Pidian nodded. This section of the river is the most suitable place to cross. Although the waterway upstream is much narrower, the water flow is too fast and there are no gentle slopes on both sides of the river bank, so it is extremely difficult to cross the river.

Gao Zhen sent someone to send him back news that the Tianming Army actually sent people to fire heavy crossbows on the other side of the river with a crossbow chariot, aiming at the trees on the river bank, and tied ropes to the heavy crossbows. After shooting at the big tree, they straightened the ropes on the other side and then sent people to climb the ropes across the river.

This kind of operation is naturally dangerous and does not guarantee that people can climb over smoothly. Seven out of ten will fall and be drowned.

After they sent someone here, they used thinner ropes to pull over the thick rope prepared on the other side, then fixed them, then lay wooden boards on the ropes, and stepped over in the air.

After being discovered by Gao Zhen, he killed the scout of the Tianming Army who had already crossed the river and cut off the rope.

The Tianming Army has huge military strength, and they obviously want to try all the ways to cross the river.

Tang Pi was still a little worried about the upstream, so Pai Gaozhen patrolled the upstream, but seemed to be completely worried about the downstream.

However, just a few dozen miles downstream from the Ning Army's position, there is a relatively suitable place for crossing the river.

The water flow here is larger in width, with many undercurrents, which are extremely difficult to cross, but the Tianming Army obviously has no intention of giving up.

The ships they allocated to travel back and forth again and again, transporting their troops to the north shore.

The commander of the team here was Pei Fanglun, the general under Yang Xuanji and the third-rank general of the former Dachu.

This person was originally the General of the Right Marquis Guard. After being bribed by Yang Xuanji, he originally planned to take the entire Right Marquis Guard to surrender.

However, Prince Wu Yang Jiju noticed that Prince Wu was thunderous and was about to take action immediately.

After receiving the news, Pei Fanglun ran away overnight, with only dozens of personal soldiers accompanying him, and even his wife and children were not enough to take care of him.

His whole family was executed by Prince Wu, and the Right Marquis was transferred to Prince Wu's tent.

So this made Pei Fanglun even more determined. After surrendering to Yang Xuanji, he was very active in the uprising.

When attacking Jingzhou, this man made great contributions and led the team he personally trained to conquer dozens of cities of all sizes in one breath.

Among the cities captured, he killed anyone who could have any connection with Prince Wu, without leaving any one.

Pei Fanglun is only about forty years old, and he knows that with his own ability, it is not impossible to avenge revenge in Daxing City.

Besides, Yang Xuanji has the attitude of being a wise ruler. If this could create a new empire, his identity as the founding Duke would inevitably be indispensable.

That is, before the war began, he strongly advised and asked Yang Xuanji to lead his troops to detour downstream.

It is obvious that it is too late to walk downward for fifty or sixty miles to have a suitable place.

However, Yang Xuanji is not short of major generals. If Pei Fanglun crosses the river smoothly from the downstream, he can double-handedly join the Ning army.

So Yang Xuanji approved his request and asked Pei Fanglun to take about 40,000 elite soldiers of the mansion to take a detour.

In order not to let Ning Jun notice, the short detour distance is useless and will definitely be discovered. The distance of more than fifty miles is almost the limit of Ning Jun’s scout activities.

They didn't even send boats to wait here along the river. For hidden operations, all the boats needed were transported here on land.

At this time, three or five thousand people under Pei Fanglun had already crossed the river and quickly established defense on the north bank.

Forty thousand people, relying on these fishing boats to cross the river, how could it be too fast? Pei Fanglun was also particularly anxious and kept urging his subordinates to step up the crossing of the river.

On the front battlefield.

Yang Xuanji personally went near the river bank. Although he did not get off the boat, the Tianming Army who had arrived ashore could already see his place.

He sent many war drums to transport them, and they were placed on the river boats, and each boat was following the call of the orders.

The war drums sounded together.

At least hundreds of war drums are ringing, and they are indeed extremely powerful.

The sound of war drums is the military order, and teams of spearmen began to advance. They will be responsible for blocking the cavalry of the Ning army for the heavy armored black belt army behind them.

Xun Youjian predicted that Tang Pidian might abandon some of his war horses.

Ning Jun may find ways to urge war horses to rush into the Tianming Army array, or ignite firecrackers on the tail of the war horse, or some other way, in short, they want to squeeze the heavy armor into the river.

Spearmen are the strongest weapon to defend against cavalry charges. When many cavalry come over, they will be killed by falling into the snatch array.

However, the area where their snookers can arrange the array is too narrow, with up to five rows. Yang Xuanji was afraid that the snookers would suffer too much casualties, so he suggested adding two rows of shield soldiers.

In this way, these five rows of slingers are a row of shield soldiers, two rows of slingers, another row of shields, and the last row of slingers.

It was also because of the narrow area and their queues had not yet been fully formed, Ning Jun's crossbow chariot began to show its power.

With the urging of the generals of the Tianming Army, these light infantry began to advance.

At the beginning, the heavy crossbow swept across, and even the giant shield could not be blocked. The crossbow arrow with a thick calf hit the shield, directly shattering the shield, and breaking through the people behind him.

Fortunately, the number of crossbow trucks is limited after all, so the speed of the queue propulsion is not greatly affected.

Moving forward, Ning Jun's archers began to shoot arrows. The overwhelming white feathers were extremely lethal for the spearmen who had no defense.

The Tianming Army has strong military strength and can be replaced as much as it dies, and try its best to ensure the integrity of the gun array.

After the gunmen advanced about thirty feet, the heavy armored black belt army began to line up.

They were wearing extremely heavy armor and holding sharp and domineering Modao. Because they had never lost, everyone had a bit of arrogance on their faces.

At the same time, it is about seventy or eighty miles away from the battlefield.

When Li Chi and his team transporting food and grass arrived here, Li Chi sat up and looked around, with a little confused expression on his face.

He looked at Cao Lie and said, "Do you still remember this place?"

Cao Lie followed his gaze and became confused after a moment.

He frowned and said, "How do I remember when we passed by, there was a big bamboo forest here. It was bare at this time, with few bamboos."

Li Chi said: "It seems that I remember correctly. It turns out that this place is indeed a bamboo forest."

He jumped off the carriage and ran to the side of the official road to inspect it carefully, and found that the green bamboos were cut down not long ago.

These bamboos are tall and straight, and at the bottom they can be as thick as their thighs, and even as thick as their waists. When I was passing by, Li Chi said before that such a large bamboo forest even makes people feel that they have arrived in Jiangnan.

"You prodigal man cut off?"

Cao Lie looked at Li Chi and asked.

Li Chi nodded, thinking to himself who else could he be, but why did Old Tang cut down such a large bamboo forest?

“Speed ​​faster.”

Li Chi returned to the team and shouted loudly.

On the battlefield.

The Tianming Army has advanced fifty feet forward, and this fifty feet distance is obtained by paying the lives of countless soldiers.

The heavy armored black belted army behind began to move forward neatly, looking horizontally, like a copper wall and an iron wall moving forward as a whole.

This kind of scene is extremely shocking.

Being able to become a heavy armored infantry has extremely strict requirements on people. They must be tall enough and strong enough.

In order to build this heavy armor, the money, grain and materials spent by Yang Xuanji were almost equivalent to the sum of his income in Shuzhou for five years.

On the big ship, seeing the heavy armor pushing forward, a hint of joy appeared in Yang Xuanji's eyes.

Until now, I have not seen Tang Pidian sending cavalry, obviously afraid of the gun formation he arranged.

Speaking of which, if the light cavalry attacks the gun array, isn’t it just that they hit the tip of the gun itself?

When Yang Xuanji thought that Tang Pizhe had no choice but to do anything, he felt a little more happy.

But just at that time, black dots appeared in the sky. After Yang Xuanji saw it, his heart suddenly rose to his throat.

Fuck again?!

Xun Youjian's eyes suddenly widened. He speculated that Ning Jun had no more weapons to fire the huge rocks. When he came again, his heart skipped a beat.

However, what fell this time was not a huge rock, but a wooden barrel.

The wooden barrel fell from a high place and slammed onto a heavily armored soldier with a bang, directly knocking the person to the ground, and the wooden barrel shattered immediately.

After seeing this scene, Xun's guilty heart skipped a beat again.

He knew that Ning Jun was good at fire attack and had a kind of tinder oil that could quickly form a sea of ​​fire. If Ning Jun attacked in this way, it would be possible to force the heavy armor to retreat.

But in such a place, fire attack seems unrealistic.

Behind it is the river, and the land under your feet is not dry, and the river banks are mostly wet soil and soft, so the tincture oil is not very meaningful.

"It's water!"

A heavy armored soldier shouted.

"bucket?"

At this moment, Xun Youjian became even more confused.

What is the use of a bucket?

A bucket weighs dozens of kilograms, hitting a heavy armor can kill at most one person at a time, and may even not kill anyone.

In an instant, Xun Youjian realized that Ning Jun's weapons that could throw rocks were limited, and they must be extremely easy to lose. If he shot hundreds of kilograms of heavy rocks, that weapon might not last long.

That's why Tang Pidian asked his people to replace the stone with a bucket, but this kind of blow is indeed not very meaningful.

The buckets were still flying one by one, with about twenty at a time. After they were smashed into the heavy armor team, few people were hit.

"Ha ha ha ha!"

Yang Xuanji laughed loudly on the boat, and he laughed: "Tang Pidian is really helpless, blow the horns and order to accelerate the attack!"

The sound of the horn immediately rang, and the five rows of light infantry in front began to run, running forward in the rain of arrows.

And Ning Jun was still doing something that seemed meaningless, throwing buckets one by one into the array of Tianming Army.

"General!"

The scout came to report and clasped his fists at Zhuang Wudi: "The enemy's heavy armor has already reached fifty feet in front of the central army, and the general has not ordered an attack yet."

Zhuang Wudi's face was anxious, but without the signal of a general, neither he nor Cheng Wujie could act easily.

"Report!"

Another scout came over: "General, the enemy's heavy armor began to line up on both wings!"

Zhuang Wudi looked back at his soldiers, and he admired Tang Pidian in his heart.

Just when General Tang Pidian asked him and Cheng Wujie to set up defenses on the left and right wings, Tang Pidian told them that when the Tianming Army attacked heavily, due to the restriction of the territory, it would extend to the two wings.

Only in this way can we make room for subsequent heavy armor.

So the signal is not that the general sends out fireworks or something, but that is waiting for the enemy to be divided into heavy armor.

"The victory or defeat of this battle is up to us!"

Zhuang Wudi got off the war horse, bent down and grabbed a bamboo pole that was at least three meters long, roared, and rushed towards the enemy.

The reason why they arranged an array at a distance of 100 feet was not just to arrange troops for the Tianming Army in a narrow and long area, but to hide their weapons.

There are no horizontal knives, no bows and arrows, no guns and spears, only bamboo poles a few feet long.

If one person can't pick him up and run, then two of them will run with one.
Chapter completed!