Horse on the World

Chapter 921

After the two thick steel cables were fixed, the thick iron chains dismantled from the Dingzhou navy ship were also dragged over one by one, and a suspension bridge was pulled between the two peaks. The first batch of more than a thousand special soldiers were sent over.The first battalion of Fengli Division led by Wang Zhen also rushed to the isolated peak at this time.

All the soldiers not only carried a large amount of ordnance, but also a large number of soldiers carried cut planks and various rivets on their backs.Seeing the huge suspension bridge spanning between the two peaks, not only the soldiers, but even Wang Zhen himself was stunned.This is the first time on this continent that there is a cable bridge completely pulled by steel cables and iron chains.

"Hurry up, hurry up, lay out the wooden planks and fix them, all soldiers, prepare to cross the bridge." Wang Zhen was shocked, but he did not forget his mission. The sky was about to light up. The bridge spans between the two peaks, and anyone who is not blind can find it. It is conceivable that Niujiao Village must launch a counterattack with all its strength, but at this time, on the other side of the bridge, there are only more than a thousand special soldiers climbing by. , Once they can't hold the other end of the bridge, everything will be in vain.

The soldiers carrying the wooden planks rushed up quickly, placed the wooden planks on the thick iron chains, and drove in the rivets to fix them. The wooden planks at the back were also sent to the front one by one immediately. The entire bridge deck was about one meter wide. There can only be two soldiers manipulating it at a time, and of course the speed cannot be increased. Wang Zhen anxiously walked around on the mountain peak, looking at the gradually emerging sky from time to time. The dawn was completely blocked.

Zhong Ziqi hardly fell asleep all night. The unusual actions of the Dingzhou Army made him puzzled. He thought about the previous battles of the Dingzhou Army. They rarely fought the kind of battles that could only be won if they had to pay a heavy price. , but they will take a different route and try every means to reduce the casualties of the soldiers, but in Niujiao Village, they put on a tough attack posture. Tian Feng and Guo Quan of the Dingzhou Army are not idiots. They couldn't fail to see the huge terrain advantages of Niujiao Village. Even if they were willing to pay a heavy price, the possibility of taking Niujiao Village head-on was extremely small.

What does the Dingzhou Army want to do?The special geographical conditions of Shiwan Dashan did not allow them to intersperse or encircle them in a roundabout way. There was no other way but to attack directly.
Zhong Ziqi, who was thinking about it, stayed up all night. As soon as the sky outside brightened, he got up and prepared to go to the battlefield to have a look. Will the Dingzhou army really launch a strong attack from the front?
Before he could step out, the door was pushed open with a bang, and Zhou Yu rushed in with a pale face.

"It's not good!" Zhou Yu said loudly, looking at Zhong Ziqi with a pale face.
Zhong Ziqi's heart sank suddenly, Zhou Yu had seen so many big scenes, and he had never seen him so panic-stricken, something must have happened.

"What's going on?" He asked as he walked out.
"The bridge, the Dingzhou army built a bridge!" Zhou Yu's hands were trembling.

"Bridge, what kind of bridge? Where is there a bridge? Where are they building a bridge?" Zhong Ziqi stood still.

"They, they built a suspension bridge on the isolated peak opposite the left curved beam, leading to the middle of the left curved beam, and cut off the connection between the left curved beam and the main village."
Zhong Ziqi's brain buzzed, and he lost his voice: "How is it possible? The lone front is more than a mile away from the left curved beam, and the depth is hundreds of meters. What kind of rope can pull it so far? Impossible, no matter how thick the rope is." It is impossible to withstand such a large pulling force."

"It's not ropes, it's iron chains. They used iron to cast long cables across Lixu. Now, Dingzhou soldiers are laying planks on the bridge. Once the planks are laid, most of their troops can pass through the bridge." They rushed over continuously, directly attacking the main stronghold of Niujiao."
Before Zhou Yu could finish speaking, Zhong Ziqi started to run, taking three steps at a time. Zhong Ziqi rushed to the height of Niujiao Village and stood on a boulder. He could clearly see that several steel cables The iron chain spans the two peaks and connects the two places. The scene is spectacular. On the bridge deck, soldiers of the Dingzhou Army are working on it. You can see that they are laying planks. Now, they have completed One third.
"Destroy this bridge!" Zhong Ziqi shouted hoarsely, "Destroy him, otherwise Niujiao Village will not be able to hold on."
"Ma Hong has sent his son, Ma Du, with three thousand elite Qiang soldiers, all of whom are the absolute main force of Niujiao Village. Ma Hong also knows that if the Dingzhou army is allowed to stand on the left curved beam, it will be overthrown." disaster."

"Zhou Yu, you go too, and take another thousand soldiers from the Southern Army up. No matter what the cost, you must destroy this bridge. The two peaks span such a distance. There must not be many soldiers that Dingzhou soldiers can send over. Destroy them." , destroy the bridge!"

"Lord Zhong, I must protect you!" Zhou Yu said.
"Go, if Niujiaozhai falls, the Hundred Thousand Mountains will no longer be an obstacle to the Dingzhou Army. The Qiang soldiers in the mountains will have different ideas, and there will be Malan flowers making waves in the mountains. At that time, we will not even have a place to stay. What else do I need to protect, go, go right away." Zhong Ziqi grabbed the clothes on his chest, felt difficult to breathe, and his face turned blue.
"My lord!" Zhou Yu screamed and supported him.
"It doesn't matter to me, I'm short of breath, you, hurry up, Zhou Yu, those who have the ability to come here must be the martial arts masters in Dingzhou, you go in person, and you must destroy the bridge."

"Yes, my lord, go back to the main village. It's safe there. I'll take people there right away!" Seeing Zhong Ziqi's condition, Zhou Yu realized that the situation might be worse than he expected. A chain reaction was caused in the [-] mountains.

Seeing Zhou Yu leaving in a hurry, Zhong Ziqi's legs were a little weak, and he slowly sat down on the stone, looking at the suspension bridge across the air in the distance, with a smile and tears on his face, he knew that Dingzhou was making iron, Metallurgy and ordnance lead the whole continent, but no one can imagine that their iron training skills have reached this point. Zhong Ziqi knows all about these, and knows that it is necessary to make such a long steel cable. How difficult it is, at least Luoyang can't make it now, let alone his south.

It was precisely because of the unexpectedness that it was impossible to guess what the Dingzhou army wanted to do. Once the bridge could not be destroyed and the Dingzhou army continued to pour in, Niujiaozhai would definitely be destroyed.

Ma Hong never thought that there is such a method of fighting Niujiao Village. For thousands of years, as the first barrier of the Hundred Thousand Mountains, this natural barrier has never been conquered. After getting the report in the morning, Ma Hong saw that The suspension bridge across Tianzhu almost stopped beating. After staying for a while, he realized that something was wrong. Dang even sent his son Ma Du to lead his [-] most elite Qiang soldiers to destroy the bridge.

Ma Hong also reacted the same as Ma Tu, the guard on the left curved beam. He also sent a thousand defenders to the central beam. connect.

However, as soon as his troops were dispatched, hundreds of catapults of the Dingzhou Army at the foot of the mountain began to roar, and stone bullets weighing two or three catties came up from the foot of the mountain like hailstones. Under the command of Ji Tong, the second battalion of the division began to attack the left curved beam to restrain the enemy troops above the left beam from attacking the suspension bridge on a large scale.
After pulling the suspension bridge, the more than a thousand special forces who crossed the bridge in the early stage began to frantically build defensive positions. Everyone knew the fierce battle after dawn.It will be a life-and-death battle, no one will back down, and these special forces will have no way to retreat.Only stick to it until the reinforcements from the opposite side come.

Han Yong divided more than a thousand special forces into three layers of defensive circles, the core circle surrounding the fixed point of the suspension bridge. Han Yong sat behind a boulder and thrust armor-piercing arrows in front of him, densely Several rows.On the other side, Xia Xue and Qiuping are doing the same thing.
A sharp warning whistle sounded, several people poked their heads out from the position, and densely packed Qiang soldiers poured out from the direction of Niujiao Village, rushing towards this side frantically.

"Good guy, there are thousands of people." Han Yong stuck out his tongue.
Before he had time to react to Han Yong's words, a warning sound sounded from the other side.
"Front and back, we have become sandwich buns!" Xia Xue laughed.

"Let them see how powerful we are!" Qiuping lifted a first-grade bow, took out an armor-piercing arrow, and put it on the string. She pulled the bow away, squinted her eyes for a while, and then let it go again. It is very dense, and the arrows will be hindered when they go out, it seems that we have to put them closer to release the arrows."

"That's right, each of us doesn't have many arrows with us, and it seems that it will only take an hour or two for the other side to lay the bridge to this end. In an hour or two, there will still be a fight in this battle!"
On the opposite lonely peak, Wang Zhen repeatedly urged the heavy soldiers to speed up the laying of the boards. The soldiers were in groups of two, the front was responsible for laying the boards, and the ones behind were fastening the boards, all of them were sweating profusely.
"Come on, set up all the eight-ox crossbows for me. When the enemy is attacking later, we can also form a certain support for the comrades on the opposite side." Wang Zhen ordered.At their distance, only the Eight-Cow Crossbow can still pose a threat to the opponent. Although the lethality is limited because too many trees block it, it is a threat after all, so that they dare not expose their figure at will.

At the foot of the mountain, Tian Feng, Guo Quan, Qing Feng and others stood outside the barracks, looking at the bridge, they were all amazed, especially Liang Yi, Zhou Shuwen and others who did not know enough about the capabilities of the Dingzhou Army in this area, Even more stupefied.

"General Liang Yi!" Tian Feng shouted.
"Oh, ah, what orders does General Tian have?" After a while, Liang Yi finally realized.
"You lead your troops to set off immediately. Once Wang Zhen crosses the bridge and inserts it, your troops quickly follow up. Wang Zhen will directly attack Niujiao Village, and you will reverse the defense of the left curved beam first. If it is broken, the right beam will collapse."

"The last general obeys the order!" After giving a military salute with a snap, Liang Yi left in a hurry.

(End of this chapter)