Aspiring to the Ten Kingdoms

Chapter 447 Battleship as a Bridge
It wasn't just Yang Huai'an who was dumbfounded to see the pontoon bridge engulfed in fire.

Even the surrounding Dali soldiers were dumbfounded.

The Sanshibaozhai defense line on the south bank of the Dadu River was carefully arranged by Duan Siping and Gao Fang, the founding emperors of Dali, in order to resist the invasion of the Central Plains.

Although they have a good relationship with Meng Shu, no one can guarantee whether they will transfer their troops to the south when the Northern Expedition is hopeless.

After all, there are lessons learned from the backstab master Sun Shiwan.

As builders, they naturally knew that this line of defense was extremely strong by taking advantage of the special terrain of the Dadu River.

They also knew that the biggest flaw in the line of defense was the pontoon bridge, so they designed a lot of countermeasures for attacking the pontoon bridge, including fire fighting methods.

but……

How to put out this fire?
water?

The fire burns on the water.

Use sand?
It is feasible on land towers, but on the Dadu River?

As soon as you sprinkle the sand, it will sink to the bottom directly.

There is still no way to restrain the fire oil on land, but it is an unsolvable thing on the water.

Yang Huai'an was out of breath, his eyes were bloodshot, and he felt that the world was spinning, and the gap between them was too great.

Bearing the blood feud, Yang Huai'an thought of a showdown with the Central Plains more than once in his mind.

Thinking if Gao Pian would not be so short-lived, thinking how great it would be if there were descendants of the Gao family to change.

I can avenge my grandfather, my father, and my clan.

But it was only after the confrontation that he realized that he was a frog in a well, and he was actually teased into the palm of his hand!
The key point is that Yang Huai'an still doesn't know where he lost?
What's wrong with your own response?
For no reason, for no reason, Yang Huai'an watched the balance of victory tilt towards the opponent little by little.

When the fire was burning the pontoon bridge, Yang Huai'an noticed that the other party's terrifying earthen jars started flying towards Shibaozhai, Shazhou, where they were located.

With the injection of fire arrows, a heat wave broke out in Shibaozhai.

"Damn!"

Yang Huai'an yelled, but he had no time to look at him, and shouted: "Quick, cover it with sand, don't use water."

The fierce fire oil is certainly powerful, but Shibaozhai's defense against the fire attack was in place, and apart from causing turmoil, it did not bring much casualties.

Then at this moment, he heard a huge collision sound in his ears, and cheers on the water surface.

Yang Huai'an looked at the river with some anxiety, but saw that when they were in a hurry to put out the fire, at some point, the fire on the river had weakened and dissipated.

The warships of the Central Plains rushed to the vicinity of the pontoon bridge at this time, and one of them directly hit the pontoon bridge.

The pontoon bridge was roasted in the fire, and it was extremely fragile. After this impact, it was broken in two.

The leader is the fierce general who shouted to attract fire.

After Tian Chongjin broke the pontoon bridge, he ordered his boat to attack Shibaozhai from the rear. Holding a large shield in one hand and a pumpkin hammer in the other, he jumped onto the Shazhou River. , unstoppable, wailing again and again at the starting point, none of his own soldiers is his one-shot enemy.

With Tian Zhongjin taking the lead, all the soldiers who were suffocated because Shibaozhai insulted Luo Youdu stopped at the shore one after another, and followed their generals to fight towards Shibaozhai.

Yang Huai'an was so anxious that his heart was on fire, and all his internal organs were on fire.

Thinking of his pledge to Marquis Yue, relying on the Dadu River Sanzhai defense line, the Central Plains thieves would be kept on the opposite bank.

Now let alone a day, even an hour has not arrived, how can I face Yuehou?
Yang Huai'an roared: "Dali warrior who is not afraid of death, follow me to kill."

No matter how brave Yang Huai'an was, the destruction of the pontoon meant that Hejian Shazhou would not receive support from the two villages on the banks of the Dadu River.

In the case of weak successors, Yang Huai'an faced a steady stream of soldiers from the Central Plains, but it was just a fight between trapped beasts.

On the north bank of the Dadu River.

Gao Huaide heard the sound of killing gradually subsided, and issued a new order: "Send the order to attack the two villages on the river bank immediately, let Chang Sidee lead his troops to attack the Southwest Village, and Zhang Qiong attack the Southeast Village. Jizhong, Jiming, you Seeing the opportunity, while the opponent was dealing with the attack from the left and right armies, he landed directly from the middle of the two villages, and then divided the troops into two groups to assist Chang and Zhang to divide the two villages..."

Yuan Jizhong and Huangfu Jiming, the two rising generals, also had a hint of excitement in their eyes, and they took orders loudly.

Gao Huaide sat on the horse, looking at the opposite camp, quietly facing his handsome man.

The descendant of Changshan White Horse and Silver Spear has a deep family background, learning military affairs under the guidance of his grandfather and father since he was a child.

It is different from the situation that most generals in this era rely on wild roads and purely absorb experience all the way up.

Gao Huaide belongs to the kind of tall, rich and handsome who has undergone systematic training, has experienced many battles, and has full experience in battle.

Both theoretical and good at actual combat, Dali's Sanzhai defense line on the Dadu River is indeed exquisite.

However, once Gao Huaide's theory was combined with actual combat, he discovered the reverse scale of the pontoon bridge at the first time, and all tactics were formulated around the pontoon bridge.

Yang Huai'an has rich combat experience, but he really doesn't like a general like Gao Huaide who wants everything he wants.

The Shibao village in Hejian Shazhou fell, and the left and right villages on the river bank were very embarrassed.

They made Chang Side and Zhang Qiong fight each other, and they could only do their own thing.

The two young generals Yuan Jizhong and Huangfu Jiming were also brave men who were selected from thousands of soldiers.

Facing the martial spirit of the Central Plains, they were excited and unafraid to take on the important task for the first time. They rushed to the forefront fearlessly to assist Chang Side and Zhang Qiong, and won the south bank of the Dadu River.

Seeing that the fighting on the other side had ceased, Gao Huaide waved his hand and said, "Learn all the battleships on the river, use the battleships as a bridge, and cross the river with the whole army!"

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Wunong City, Qiongbu Prefecture, Jianchang Prefecture.

After learning that the Central Plains army had arrived on the north bank of the Dadu River, Gao Fang knew he should come, so he came anyway.

He doesn't want to be an enemy of the Central Plains, but the enemy has already deployed troops on the border, but he can't help but not fight.

Therefore, all the soldiers and horses were assembled and headed north to the Dadu River.

Gao Fang's move had two purposes. One was to show off his military strength to the Central Plains, and the other was to use the defense line of the Dadu River to make the Central Plains retreat.

As long as you don't want to go to war, you know how to be cowardly, and you give more tributes to the old coins, it's not a problem.

It was the Dali Duan family who lost face. What does it have to do with him, the Marquis of Yue?
Gao Fang completely underestimated Luo Youdu's courage, underestimated the strength of the powerful army in the Central Plains, and the black technology developed by the Central Plains.

He didn't expect that the Central Plains army had just arrived on the other side, and they would not rest for a moment, and immediately launched an offensive.

In a hurry, the soldiers and horses headed northward, and they rushed all the way to Wulong City, Qiongbu Prefecture.

This Qiongbu Prefecture was Qiongbu County in the Northern Zhou Dynasty, Sui Dynasty, and Tang Dynasty, and it was the place where Wuman admired and lived now.

Du Muman originally lived in the desolate mountains, a place where poisonous snakes and insects are prevalent, dogs do not shit, and birds do not lay eggs.

Gao Fang moved them to Jianchang Mansion, and the environment has been improved by more than a thousand times.

The moment he settled down in Qiongbu County, Du Muman abandoned his ancestral home completely.

He changed his ethnic group to Qiongbuchuan, happily settled in Qiongbu, and affectionately called the place where he lived as Qiongbu Prefecture.

"Yuehou!"

A middle-aged man with a short stature but extremely strong limbs came to Gao Fang's army with some trepidation.

His face was pale and his voice was trembling.

Gao Fang squinted at the middle-aged man in front of him, and said, "Afu, why are you panicking?"

The middle-aged man is the chief of Qiongbuchuan, and his name is very simple, Afu.

Gao Fang had heard the legend of Afu in his early years, that there lived an obsessive barbarian in the swamp where even wild beasts dared not run rampant.

They are like ghosts and ghosts. In the jungle, all the clansmen have the ability to fight against a hundred.

Gao Fang sent people to contact them and persuade them to move to Jianchang Mansion, thinking that they would help him.

It turned out that this was not the case at all. The chief Afu was timid and afraid of getting into trouble, he would hide when he was in danger, and he would hide when he was in danger. There was no hope at all.

Gao Fang didn't go back on his word because of this, anyway, he moved the locals of Jianchang Mansion to Dali and Kunming. Jianchang Mansion was short of people, and letting them fill the local population would also increase some taxes for Dali.

Really drive the devoted barbarians back to the deep mountains and old forests, they are willing to pay taxes, but they dare not send people to collect them.

After more than ten years in a row, Gao Fang accidentally found that he had underestimated this chief named Afu.

Originally a barbarian tribe with less than a thousand people, in just a few decades, it absorbed refugees from all over the world and developed into a tribe with tens of thousands of people, which expanded dozens of times.

The opponent didn't like to fight, and was still cowardly like an old dog, but the taxation taught by the tribe was not bad, so Gao Fang let it go.

Afu shouted: "Yuehou, it's not good, the people of the Central Plains have already crossed the Dadu River, and the three villages along the Dadu River have already been captured by the Central Plains."

"how is this possible!"

Gao Fang couldn't help but let out a low voice, he got off his horse, pulled Afu to the side, and said, "Don't talk nonsense, how strong are the three villages along the river? Yang Huai'an is my general of Dali Hundred Wars, and he is stationed in the three villages. How could it be easily lost?"

There was a bit of fear in Afu's words, and he said: "I don't know, the people from the Xuhen Department fled to Qiongbu Prefecture, they said. They said that the people in the Central Plains are scary and can use demon magic. Light the fire and burn the pontoon bridge. In just an hour, the Central Plains army took the stone fortress in the center of the river. The two villages by the river did not last long."

Gao Fang's face changed slightly, and what Afu said was confusing.

But Gao Fang still heard key words from it.

Burn the pontoon!
Gao Fang naturally knew that the weak point of Sanzhai was the pontoon bridge, and he thought that the Central Plains soldiers must have used special means to break through the pontoon bridge first, and then took down the Sanzhai on the South Bank.

In this way, it does make sense.

It's just that the army of the Central Plains easily found loopholes in the defense line and had a way to break through.

This strength is indeed somewhat terrifying.

Dong Yun, a counselor, suddenly said: "They won the Three Villages soon, and they must cross the river next. Why don't you just take advantage of them crossing the river and send cavalry to attack them halfway through. They have just won a big victory, so their defenses must be lax."

Gao Fang's eyes lit up, and he was considering whether this method was feasible.

The scouts who explored the way ahead led more than a dozen defeated soldiers to the front of the army, bringing brand new news.

All the soldiers and horses in the Central Plains have crossed the river.

Dong Yun had an incredulous expression on his face: "How could it be so fast?"

The defeated soldier said: "The warships of the Central Plains lined up along the river, and directly erected a battleship bridge on the Dadu River..."

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