At this time, after Li Shentong received a report from spies that the Far Eastern Army was building a pontoon bridge, he summoned his generals to discuss the matter.
When the generals heard that the Far Eastern Army had actually built a pontoon bridge on the Fen River, they laughed for a while and then cursed Huang Shixiong, the general who was facing the river.
At this time, a general named Li Fengnian rolled his eyes, thinking that this was an opportunity to make a mark, so he took the lead and clasped his fists at Li Shentong and said: "Commander, Wang Junlin's attempt to build the pontoon bridge before our attack is purely delusional.
You must know that there is a pontoon bridge on the Fenhe River near Taiyuan City, but it was built during the Sui Dynasty when the local government spent more than half a year, requisitioned tens of thousands of people, and built many foundations in the river during the dry season. Now the Far East Army
It is simply a fantasy to build a pontoon bridge on the Fen River in just one hour. Wang Junlin has always been treacherous and cunning, so the general thought that the Far East Army must be deceitful, and the general boldly guessed that it was the Far East Army that laid the pontoon bridge.
The cunning plan is to use the so-called pontoon bridge to divert our navy away, while the Far Eastern Army has an ambush."
After hearing the words, everyone thought for a moment and felt that what Li Fengnian said was reasonable, so they all nodded in agreement.
After Li Shentong pondered for a while, he also believed that it was indeed impossible to build a pontoon bridge on the Fen River for more than an hour. So after much deliberation, he also believed that his general's words were reasonable, and finally said: "In this case, give me the order, Navy Commander
Be prepared to go to war at any time, and hold your troops on hold for the time being."
The commander of the water general immediately bowed and said yes.
Li Shentong glanced at the generals under his command, and finally fixed his gaze on the general Li Fengnian who had just spoken, and said: "Huang Shixiong, the governor of Linhe County, has rebelled, and there are 4,000 troops in Linhe City. Li Fengnian, you will lead the 10,000 troops there.
Attack Linhe County. In addition, although the pontoon bridge cannot be built in an hour, we still have to kill everyone who is laying the pontoon bridge for the Far Eastern Army on the docks on the shore."
Li Fengnian was overjoyed, clasped his fists and said yes, turned around and strode out of the tent, his heart full of expectations and confidence to make his first achievement.
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Huang Shixiong only left one confidant in Linhe City to lead a thousand men and horses to defend the city, while he led 3,000 men and horses under his command to protect the 1,000 engineers and supplies soldiers who came in twos and threes these days to build pontoon bridges.
When Li Fengnian led 10,000 troops to Linhe, he saw three to four thousand troops on the pier where the pontoon bridge was laid. He was ready to fight to the death. He also saw that there were only 1,000 defenders in Linhe City. He couldn't help but be overjoyed and shouted in front of the army.
'God helps me'.
He simply does not believe that the pontoon bridge can be successfully erected in a short period of time. In his opinion, his first task when coming to the river is to take back Linhe City and take the lead in this battle. As for the three or four thousand people at the dock, as long as he
Linhe City was captured, and the pontoon bridge could not be successfully erected. These three to four thousand people were isolated on the south bank, and he could easily kill them all.
Li Fengnian thought of this and without hesitation chose to attack Linhe City first with only a thousand guards.
Huang Shixiong's thousand men and horses were just the county soldiers of Li's army, and their combat strength was indeed sparse. Therefore, after half an hour, Li Fengnian suffered more than a thousand casualties and captured Linhe City.
At almost the same time, the pontoon bridge on the Fen River was about to be successfully erected.
The successful construction of a pontoon bridge in such a short period of time is a miracle in itself to people these days.
But in fact, the erection of the pontoon bridge itself was the work of the Far East Army engineers.
One of the usual training subjects in the supply camp.
Even the relevant training regulations of the Far Eastern Army have complete process plans, what materials are used, where everyone is, what they are doing, and how many ropes are all required by precise planning.
In fact, this pontoon bridge is made up of hundreds of small warships from the 3,000 navy temporarily formed by the Far Eastern Army, connected with long wooden and bamboo trees.
The Far Eastern Army on the west bank of the Fen River, leading their war horses and carrying their baggage, walked across the Fen River, which Li Shentong relied on, as if walking on flat ground, with high morale and laughter.
After Li Fengnian learned about this, he was frightened and hurriedly led his army to attack the dock, hoping to destroy the pontoon before the Far Eastern Army arrived.
Unfortunately, he only had more than 8,000 troops under his command at this time. They had just attacked Linhe City for more than an hour and were really exhausted. Therefore, even though his troop strength was nearly three times that of Huang Shixiong's 3,000 troops, and Huang Shixiong's troops were
The combat strength was two or three times weaker than that of the army led by Li Fengnian, but with the assistance of more than a dozen trebuchets set up by a thousand engineering and engineering supplies battalions that had built pontoon bridges, Li Fengnian could not capture the dock for a while.
At the same time, Li Shentong learned that the Far Eastern Army had actually erected most of the pontoon bridge within an hour. He was shocked and suddenly remembered that the Far Eastern Army could even produce artifacts such as gunpowder packets and grenades. When he thought about it carefully,
It is not impossible to build a pontoon bridge on the Fen River within an hour.
Li Shentong was so frightened that he naturally regretted it. Half an hour before Li Fengnian, he had decisively sent the navy to come from the waterway to destroy the erection of the pontoon bridge.
However, the Far Eastern Army, which had been well prepared, had prepared an extremely strong two-hundred-foot-long thick steel wire rope to directly block the Fen River. Li Shentong used all his means to cut people down, burn them, hit them with boats, etc., and finally managed to block the Fen River.
The thick steel wire rope could not be broken by sliding.
In this way, Wang Junlin used a wire rope to block the Li Jiajun navy.
On January 5, Li Shentong saw that it was difficult to stop the Far Eastern Army from crossing the Fen River, so he personally led the remaining 90,000 army troops to support Li Fengnian, preparing to attack the Far Eastern Army head-on on the bank.
When Li Shentong led 90,000 troops to the shore outside Linhe City, the 50,000 cavalrymen of the Far Eastern Army's Tornado Battalion had already crossed the Fen River on a pontoon bridge and met up with Huang Shixiong's troops and 1,000 engineers and soldiers from the heavy engineering battalion at the Fen River.
We began to form formations, preparing for the battle.
At the same time, seeing all the people from the Whirlwind Camp crossing the Fen River, Wang Junlin gave an order to burn the pontoon bridge. As for the food and grass, they could naturally grab it from the Li family's soldiers.
That's right, Wang Junlin is determined to fight to the bitter end.
The Far East Army's combat power was originally stronger than that of the Li Family Army, but now that it is fighting against the odds, its combat power will naturally be stronger than usual. This will allow the Far East Army to make up for the shortcomings of having half the strength of the Li Family Army to a greater extent.
The 100,000 troops under Li Shentong are currently the only army in Taiyuan that can truly compete with the Far Eastern Army in a frontal field battle. Li Shentong has no way to retreat.
There were not many twists and turns between the two sides. Wang Junlin and Luo Shixin led the Tornado Battalion of 50,000 troops. As soon as they crossed the Fen River, Li Shentong led the army to rush forward.
The two armies, with a total of more than 150,000 people, have collided with each other in the most violent manner, setting off a wave of blood...
Linhe Waidajiang
On the shore, the fierce fighting has been going on for more than an hour.
The sky has turned dark, but the flames are burning and blood lines are spreading. The water on the banks of the Fen River outside Linhe County is dyed red, and flaming arrows are streaking across the sky.
As the light and darkness faded by the Fen River, corpses stretched out. Soldiers holding swords stood up unsteadily from the pool of blood. Looking around, the cavalry team of the Tornado Battalion was like another group running parallel to the Fen River.
The torrent roared and killed.
If someone could stand at a high altitude and look down, they would find countless criss-crossing fights on the banks of the Fen River outside Linhe City. The fire burned the woods, whistling in the wind, and the teams of soldiers holding torches spread out like long dragons.
The low mountains give people an indescribable intimidation, and the huge flags are still fluttering in the wind in the darkness.
Although the Far East Army was powerful, they crossed the river in a hurry this time with no defense to rely on and did not bring many powerful ordnance. Li Shentong knew that there was no way out and promised too many bounties and rewards before the war.
Various means were used to improve the morale and willingness of the soldiers to fight. In addition, their strength was twice that of the Far Eastern Army, so in a short period of time both sides were evenly matched.
Noisy sounds surrounded the surroundings. On the mountain ridge, Li Shentong was wearing a big cloak and riding his horse. He looked at the situation on the entire battlefield. He occasionally issued an order to send out reserve teams or form military formations.
Mobilize and respond to changes on the battlefield.
In later generations, two thousand people could fill an entire playground, and the number of people increased more than fifty times. There were densely packed people in the mountains and beside the riverbed.
Of course, a truly famous general can clearly see the shape of the entire battlefield in such chaos, identify the affiliation of each army, and even predict how the battlefield will evolve beyond the mountains and fields beyond his field of vision.
If he hadn't encountered perverted monsters like Wang Junlin, Li Shentong would have been a well-deserved famous general in the world, and would have left his mark even in history.
From the beginning of the battle, Li Shentong had mobilized the power of his army to the extreme. The front lines of both sides spread out, and there were front lines that were several miles long. In the battle that lasted for more than an hour, the battle line stretched out.
, By this time, the distance between the two sides was more than ten miles, and more than ten thousand people had left their blood and lives on both sides of the river bed.
However, I don't know since when, their Li Jiajun began to be at a slight disadvantage.
In the gap that others could not detect, Li Shentong's whole body was trembling slightly. He knew very well what the final outcome of the war he was commanding meant. To a certain extent, this war directly determined the outcome.
Can the Li family defend Taiyuan Mansion?
Because except for the army under his command, the Li family army in Taiyuan Prefecture has no soldiers capable of fighting.
Li Shentong knew that if he lost this battle, although he could still rely on the tallness and solidity of Taiyuan City to hold on for a while, with the powerful siege methods of the Far Eastern Army, apart from natural dangers like Longguan, even Taiyuan City would not be able to survive at all.
Can't keep it.
Therefore, if they lose, it basically means that the Li Jiajun has given up on Taiyuan Prefecture.
At this moment, Li Shentong's entire life seemed to be burning.
He wanted to defeat the Far Eastern Army in this battle and preserve the foundation of the Li family - Taiyuan Mansion.