The floods on the grassland came and went quickly. The next day, when Yun Zheng, Wen Yanbo and the haggard Wang Anshi stood by the river, the river had returned to its original beauty, but the silt had thickened a bit.
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Under Wen Yanbo's command, the army began to build bridges on the river again, and only Wen Yanbo himself was concerned about bridge construction.
Yun Zheng was paying attention to the messenger on the other side of the river who kept waving flags to report the situation on the other side. The situation on the other side was very bad. The pungent smell after burning phosphorus fire could be smelled even by Yun Zheng standing on the other side of the river. Hai Dongqing was not willing to do so at all.
Drop down and bring back the letter.
The flag language was too simple to explain clearly, so the monkey found an eight-oxen crossbow, wrote Yun Zheng's questions on the silk, stuffed them into a bamboo tube, and finally tied the bamboo tube to the crossbow and fired towards the other side.
Not long after, the other party also sent a reply with a Eight Ox Crossbow. After reading the reply, Yun Zheng's heart gradually settled into his stomach.
Wu Jie was very capable. In the past three days, he not only repelled as many as 23 attacks by the Liao people, but also took the initiative to advance the front line three hundred steps, firmly outside the maximum range of the Liao trebuchets.
Stand firm.
In order to clear out a suitable battlefield, they threw all the bodies of the Liao people in the war zone into the Yang River before yesterday's flood subsided. Now there is no place to accommodate more troops. As long as the bridge is repaired,
It shouldn't be a problem for the army to take advantage of the momentum and take over Tongtou Pass.
Wu Jie did a good job. It's June now. If the corpses are left on the battlefield, if nothing else, just the stench from the corpses can block the Song army's possibility of continuing to attack.
The corpses soaked by the heavy rain have already appeared as giants. Just seeing them will make even the bravest warriors lose a certain amount of offensive power.
Zhao Min was doing the same thing upstream, but in the end he still stood firmly at Duanyun Ridge, leaving a reliable retreat gap for Wu Jie's troops.
Judging from the military reports brought back by Hai Dongqing, the six tribes of Yuanzhai under Qingtang's command are still very reliable. According to Zhao Min, even when the war was at its worst, no one from the six tribes of Yuanzhai fled.
The most tragic thing was Li Dongchu's command, because they were in the lower reaches of the Yanghe River. Whether it was the corpses of the Liao people thrown into the river by Zhao Min or those thrown by Wu Jie, they were all intercepted by the inlet in the lower reaches of the Yanghe River. According to Li Dongchu's letter
Look, there are mountains of corpses in the lower reaches of Yanghe River, which have blocked the river...
All the corpses of the Song soldiers who died in the battle at Wu Jie's place were burned to ashes with kerosene bombs. Now there are nearly two thousand bags of ashes at Wu Jie's place.
Those bags are the dry food bags carried by the soldiers. After the dry food is eaten up and a man dies in battle, that small bag can contain all his body...
Because it was the second time to build a bridge, the speed was very fast. Before dark, a new bridge had appeared on the river.
The first to cross the river were the logistics soldiers of Wu Jie's Sheng Yong Army, who were holding bags of ashes. They walked across the bridge with tears in their eyes, then lined up the bags of ashes and placed them on the open space in front of Yun Zheng.
After Yun Zheng looked at it from left to right, Su Xun and the others came over and traced the vague names of the fallen soldiers on the bag with a brush again, then crossed out their names from the book, and then added them
His name was copied in the military merit book.
"A heavy rain destroyed the lives of 2,433 soldiers of the Song Dynasty!"
"The battle is not over yet, and such sacrifices will continue. Unless we turn around and return to Yanmen Pass now, casualties are inevitable."
"These heroic spirits all have to enter the Martyrs' Shrine."
"Those who entered the Martyrs' Shrine were only names, no one was there. When Han Qi was pulled back from his horse by the family members of the fallen soldiers and asked where his son and husband had gone, was he prepared to die at that time?"
"So Han Qi doesn't go to the battlefield easily now. He knows that he is a good political advisor but not a good general. Being self-aware is also a great wisdom!"
"Your Majesty must not treat their family members poorly."
"Hey, hey, if he dares to treat me poorly, I will lead my troops to Tokyo to question him!"
"This is not the way to be a minister!"
"Do I need to pay attention to these things now? I'm going to be a pirate that is despised by the world. Do pirates need to be honest about their integrity?"
"Marquis Yun, you have lost your composure."
"If I can still maintain a calm heart at this time, I will no longer be a human being. I don't know how those so-called famous generals in the past faced such a scene. As long as I see such a scene, every time I
I always want to kill someone, no matter who I kill!"
Wen Yanbo looked at Yun Zheng, and then at Wang Anshi, who seemed to be very wrong. He didn't understand why the two of them were quarreling on such an occasion. He turned his eyes to Chen Lin, and found that Chen Lin seemed to be a wooden man, standing on the slope.
He closed his eyes and rested his mind, showing no reaction to the quarrel between Yun Zheng and Wang Anshi.
Wen Yanbo thought that Yun Zheng's current signs of madness were understandable. After all, those who died were all his subordinates who were sent to die under his order.
Wang Anshi's inexplicable irritability is very incomprehensible. There must be something happening that he doesn't know about, and it must be a big event, otherwise Wang Anshi, who is as calm as a mountain, would not lose his composure like this.
The furious Yun Zheng left and went back to the commander's tent to write a memorial. He hoped that the emperor and the central government could cash in all the benefits that the fallen soldiers should enjoy now, at least before he left.
A general should not raise troops when he is angry, and at the same time, he should not write a memorial when he is angry, otherwise it is easy to turn a very reasonable memorial into a threatening letter.
It doesn't matter whose life is exterminated. In short, it will have the opposite effect in the court. Wen Yanbo felt that this memorial should be written by himself. He is a civil servant. No matter what is said in the letter, the emperor and the central government will not doubt it.
Do you have any disobedient intentions?
Yun Zheng forced himself to calm down and arranged for Lang Tan to replace Wu Jie's troops. Sheng Yong's army was exhausted to the extreme, and it was time for Lang Tan's victorious army to take action.
In the past, the Liao people did not give Wu Jie any chance to breathe. Now, the Song army did not give the Liao army any chance to breathe.
As soon as Lang Tan's troops crossed the river, there was the roar of artillery, and the tall figure of the siege vehicle was getting taller. It was the craftsmen who had dismantled the siege vehicle into parts and were then assembling them.
Wen Yanbo forcibly obtained the right to write a memorial from Yun Zheng. Before he could finish writing the eloquent memorial, and before he could clearly describe the bravery of the soldiers in battle, he heard deafening cheers coming from outside the tent.
Voice.
He hurriedly put down his pen and went out to check. He saw countless Song troops cheering and running desperately from the bridge to the other side. He set up a pergola and looked carefully across the Yang River. He found that a black tiger flag had been planted in the Tongtouguan Wengcheng.
It's empty.
He wanted to cheer Wang Anshi, who also came out to see the military situation, but saw that Wang Anshi's face was full of bitterness.
"Jiefu, the army has conquered Tongtou Pass, why are you so depressed?"
"Without him, my heart is burdened by Penglai, Abbot, and the three mountains of Yingzhou. I know I should be jumping for joy at this moment, but I am pressed by the mountains and cannot jump up."
"What exactly happened? Jiefu might as well tell us and we can look into the details!"
Wang Anshi sighed: "I can't accuse others of things they haven't done for no reason!"
"What is it that worries you?"
"Don't say it, don't say it. If you say it, the hearts of the people in the world will be confused."
Yun Zheng walked down from the high slope, waved his hand and said to Wen Yanbo: "Mr. Wen, let's go into the city. To receive Tongtou Pass, we need your seal to seize the money, food and weapons in Tongtou Pass."
Wen Yanbo waved his hand towards Wang Anshi and said: "Jiefu, it's time for you to collect the household register. You must be quick. Once those soldiers start massacring the city, they may set fire to destroy the treasure you want."
He decided to take over the city first, then continue to write memorials asking for rewards for the soldiers, and finally asked Wang Anshi what would happen that could upset the hearts of the people of the Song Dynasty!
Several people stepped on the red mud by the river, entered Tongtou Pass under the protection of their personal guards, and ran out in a hurry. They all lay on the horse and vomited in the dark. Among the three, only Yun Zheng looked normal.
, but his face turned a little paler. (To be continued)