The first emperor of Tang Dynasty

Chapter 423 Li Chengqian's New Method

In the next two days, Li Chengqian took Xu Liang along and began to look for a suitable location along the Liaohe River.

Goguryeo's coach Pu Budao is not an ordinary person.The 20 troops were stationed in several places, and the entire Liao River bank was guarded like an iron bucket.

Any flat terrain suitable for bridging has already been garrisoned.Not even a single boat can be seen along the entire Liaohe River.

Moreover, Pu Budao also built a high platform on the opposite bank, and on the high platform is a hard crossbow for attacking.And there are fire starters, in order to guard against the Tang army building bridges, or building warships to strengthen the Liaohe River.

So walking around, Li Chengqian couldn't find a suitable place.He could only say to Xu Liang with a helpless expression: "It seems that this Pu Budao is not an idler."

"Your Highness is right. Judging from the current situation, it is really not an easy task to find a suitable place to build a bridge." Xu Liang nodded and said.

"It's not an option for the two of us to wander around like this. It's better to go to Zhang Shigui's camp. Let's see how he plans to deal with it." After Li Chengqian finished speaking, he mobilized his horse and headed for Zhang Shigui's camp.

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Originally, Zhang Shigui and Su Dingfang stationed a total of 20 troops on the banks of the Liao River.Later, Li Chengqian transferred Su Dingfang away, and at the same time transferred 5 horses.

So now Zhang Shigui still has 15 horses under his account.The daily expenses of these 15 people are not small. Seeing the reduction of military rations every day, Zhang Shigui felt anxious.

In order to break the deadlock as soon as possible, Zhang Shigui transferred a large number of boatmen from Youzhou.Now they are rushing to build warships, and there is a great opportunity to fight Pu Budao to the death.

Now Zhang Shigui was in the tent of the Chinese army when he suddenly heard someone report that Li Chengqian had come.

Hearing that Li Chengqian was here, Zhang Shigui was overjoyed.Without further ado, he hurried out to meet him, he was really afraid that Li Chengqian would run away if he went too late.

After seeing Li Chengqian, he hurriedly saluted and said, "My lord, you are here. The hair on my head, Zhang Shigui, is about to fall out."

"Why does General Zhang do this? Isn't it just a small Liaohe River? Can it stop my Tang cavalry?" Li Chengqian said to Zhang Shigui with a smile.

"Your Highness, don't you know that Pu Budao on the other side of the Liao River is no one to be idle. I have sent people to attack several times, but in the end, I lost my soldiers and generals."

"Not even one of the warships that were originally prepared is left. Now I am really sighing looking at the Liaohe River." Zhang Shigui said after sighing.

"My lord sees that the water flow in the section of the river before Daying is relatively stable, but a pontoon bridge can be erected. I wonder if General Zhang has tried it?" Li Chengqian pointed to the Liaohe River in front of him and said.

"I've really thought about this method of erecting a pontoon bridge, but before the pontoon bridge was erected halfway, it was completely burned by the other side with kerosene." Zhang Shigui said helplessly.

"That was before, when this king didn't come. Now that this king is here, everything will be different. From tomorrow onwards, you will be preparing to build a pontoon bridge. Remember, the bigger the momentum, the better."

"And the pontoon bridge to be erected this time is not an ordinary pontoon bridge. It is a pontoon bridge about ten feet wide." Li Chengqian said to Zhang Shigui.

Hearing Li Chengqian's words almost scared Zhang Shigui to the ground. The ten-foot-wide pontoon bridge is no joke.If it is really possible to build it, the Liaohe River is not as flat as it is.

So he said to Li Chengqian with a look of embarrassment: "Your Highness, it's not that I, Zhang Shigui, don't want to obey His Highness's orders. It's that this ten-foot-wide pontoon bridge really can't be built."

"My king asked you to build a pontoon bridge ten feet wide. And I also asked you to make it bigger. But I didn't say that you had to build it?" Li Chengqian said to Zhang Shigui with a smile.

"I said, Your Highness, if you have something to say, you can just say it. My head has been surrounded by you." Zhang Shigui said helplessly.

"The meaning of this king is very simple, that is, to let you bluff, so that this king can sneak into Chen Cang." Li Chengqian said with a smile.

Then Li Chengqian told Zhang Shigui in detail how he built the pontoon bridge.Although Zhang Shigui knew that this was impossible, he still patiently listened to Li Chengqian's explanation.

After listening to it, Zhang Shigui said: "Then I will follow His Highness's arrangement, and whether you can succeed in keeping secrets will become the key to the key."

"Don't worry. The pontoon bridges you built will come in handy when the time comes." Li Chengqian said with a smile.

Although Zhang Shigui didn't understand what Li Chengqian was going to do.However, he still chose to trust Li Chengqian.After all, there was nothing he could do right now.

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"Your Highness, although your way of building a pontoon bridge is feasible. But isn't what you let Zhang Shigui do a bit too exaggerated?" asked Li Chengqian as he walked towards Xu Liang.

"I just want to exaggerate a little bit, otherwise how can my 15 troops cross the Yalu River smoothly in the future." Li Chengqian said with a smile on his face.

"After working for a long time, Your Highness asked Zhang Shigui to prepare the materials for crossing the Yalu River? But now there is nothing to do with the Liaohe River. Isn't it too early to think about the Yalu River?" Xu Liang said.

"Don't worry, we will be able to cross the Liaohe River in three days. At that time, we will give him a siege to save Zhao." Li Chengqian said with a smile on his face.

At this time Xu Liang was also confused by Li Chengqian, but Xu Liang knew Li Chengqian very well.Knowing that His Highness has a lot of ghost ideas, there is no need to think about those things anymore.

What he has to do now is to perfect the follow-up plan and fully utilize the strategy of besieging Wei and saving Zhao to the extreme.Only in this way can Zhang Shigui take the opportunity to cross the Liaohe River.

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"Are you ready? This trip is extremely dangerous and you must be more careful. If things can't be done, you would rather return without success than lose your life to this king." Li Chengqian looked at the twelve people in front of him and said.

These twelve people are none other than the most elite Huya team led by the Four Elephant Guards.I saw them all wearing only a pair of shorts.

Even so, it does not affect their heroic appearance.Captain Huya said to Li Chengqian, "Don't worry, Your Highness, just wait for the good news from the Huya team."

After finishing speaking, he waved to the members of the Huya team behind him.Then he jumped into the Liao River first.

The rest of the Huya members did not show any weakness, and jumped into the Liao River one after another following the captain.It quickly disappeared from everyone's sight.

"Success or failure depends on you. I hope you can make me continue to be proud of you." Li Chengqian sighed as he watched the Huya team disappear in front of him.

(End of this chapter)