Autumn of the 17th year of Chongzhen

Chapter 291 Ambush
In summer, the days were extremely hot and the nights were cool. The [-] soldiers who supervised the bidding finally built a pontoon bridge across the Jinshui River overnight.

Such a huge project could not be completed under the scorching sun during the day, but it was driven out in the cool breeze at night.

After Yuan Zongdi got up, he looked at the solid pontoon bridge and felt at ease. He only waited for Wang Yan's troops to arrive, and then the army crossed the river and headed to Jiangxia together.

On the east bank of the Jinshui River, the scouts of the Qing army who had been guarding in the woods all night saw that the pontoon bridge was erected, and hurried back to the hiding place of the Qing army to report the news.

When Luc Dehun heard that Yuan Zongdi had built the pontoon bridge, he felt relieved.

He wanted to attack halfway across the river. Naturally, the Ming army could not be allowed to build multiple pontoon bridges on the river. Otherwise, when the Qing cavalry charged, the Ming army would be able to retreat to the west bank through the pontoon bridges.

Luck Dehun took all the boats away in order to prevent the Ming army from building multiple pontoon bridges and prevent the Han people on the east bank from crossing the river to report. However, this made it more difficult for Yuan Zongdi to build pontoon bridges.

If Yuan Zongdi couldn't build a pontoon bridge, he would be stuck on the west bank for at least one day when Wang Yan's troops arrived and he couldn't cross the river. With Wang Yan's shrewdness, he might find something in this day, and even see through Le Ke Dehun's plan. Therefore, Luck Dehun is very concerned about the pontoon bridge.

Now that the pontoon bridge was built successfully, Luck Dehun was even happier than Yuan Zongdi, so he ordered all the troops to pay attention to rest and wait for Wang Yan to cross the river.

Waiting is a very painful thing, and being late often makes people feel shameful.

Calculated according to the speed at which the Ming army was marching, Wang Yan should have arrived at the west bank of the Jinshui River last night, and should have arrived at noon today at the latest. , Waiting until the sun set to the west, Wang Yan still did not come.

The long wait made Luke Dehun feel anxious, and the Qing army ambushing behind the lake also became slack and restless from the beginning of waiting.

"Lord Baylor, the main force of the Ming army has arrived!"

When the mood of the Qing army was gradually changing, a scout of the Qing army who was in charge of observing ran back with a happy face and knelt down and said.

Le Kede heard the words, and his tense face finally revealed a look of great joy, "Pass on the commander's order, Gejiala, Geniulu, cheer me up, the Ming army is about to cross the river."

"Zha~" Dozens of messengers of the Qing army immediately responded by beating Qian'er.

On the back of Yangmao Lake, in the woods where the Qing soldiers were hiding, the generals of the Qing army got the order and couldn't help but put on their armor one after another.

All the Qing soldiers stood up attentively, straightened their armor, wiped their weapons, and patted their horses. They were about to rush out of the woods, bypass the lake, and drive away all the Ming troops who had crossed the river after Leket gave an order. into the river.

At the end of the day, the sun was burning, and the Qing army had mobilized, but there was no Ming army passing by on the pontoon bridge. Luck Dehun waited for another half an hour, but still no scouts came to report, so he couldn't help but yelled A personal guard came, "Go and see, what happened when you fell to the ground? Why haven't you come back to report."

"Zha~" The guard saluted and left immediately.

A moment later, the guards came back with a scout, and the two knelt down and said, "I want to report to Lord Belle, the Ming army didn't cross the river immediately, but buried pots and cooked food on the west bank."

"What?" Lu Kede couldn't help being stunned when he heard the words, he looked up at the sun in the sky, and suddenly said angrily: "What the hell is Wang Yan doing, it's only been three quarters, what are they eating?"

Seeing this, Jue Luo Langqiu on the side was also puzzled, "Perhaps the Ming army was eager to hurry and didn't eat the imperial food!"

Lu Kede took a quick look at Luo Langqiu and accepted his statement, but if he didn't accept it, he couldn't do anything about it. At this point, he could only continue to wait.

This ambush battle has already deviated from the half-cross attack that Luke Dehun thought in his heart, but the battlefield is like this, and unexpected things will always appear. He forced himself to calm down and told himself that this It was just a small accident, a small episode, Wang Yan always had to cross the river, and the victory belonged to him after all.

"Exploring again~" Lu Kede stabilized his emotions and waved his hands coldly: "From now on, I will report to the commander the situation on the other side every half a quarter of an hour."

"Zha~" The sentinel and the guard hurriedly made a slap, and then left quickly.

The Ming army on the west bank was burying pots to make food, while the Qing army ambushing on the east bank could only gnaw on dry food and continue to wait.

Time passed by every minute and every second, and the sentries of the Qing army kept coming to report, and then left. Finally, when it was close to Shen Shi, a sentry sentry of the Qing army ran to Luke Dehun's side with great joy, and knelt down and said: " Lord Belle, the Ming army has begun to cross the river!"

On the broad Jinshui River, the Ming army lined up in two rows and passed by the pontoon bridge. The Qing army scouts hiding in the woods stared at the Ming army passing the pontoon bridge and recorded their battalion numbers.

"It's not Wang Yan's supervisor, it seems to be Hao Yaoqi's man." The observing Qing soldier suddenly put down his binoculars, and said to the person beside him in doubt.

"Perhaps the superintendent was busy all night. Wang Yan asked them to rest and sent Hao Yaoqi to cross the river first." A Qing soldier heard the words and analyzed, "Where is Wang Yan's big flag?"

The Qing soldier with the binoculars nodded after hearing the words, continued to watch, and then exclaimed: "The big banner is on the pontoon~ wait~ Wang Yan and He Tengjiao are on the pontoon."

"What? Did you read that wrongly, they are going to cross the river so soon?"

"No, absolutely can't be wrong."

"Let me see~"

The Qing soldier took the binoculars and looked on the pontoon. Sure enough, on the pontoon, several generals dressed in mountain patterns and phoenix-winged helmets were surrounded by two big flags on the pontoon. The generals in the red cloak are not Wang Yan and He Tengjiao, who can enjoy such treatment?

Seeing this, the soldier of the Qing Dynasty felt a burst of excitement, quickly threw away the binoculars, and said to the others: "You guys continue to monitor, I will report to Lord Baylor."

When Le Kede got the news, he couldn't help being surprised, "Wang Yan and He Tengjiao actually crossed the river with the forward, they are really looking for death~"

Jue Luo Langqiu also said happily: "At first, I was worried that Wang Yan would stay on the west bank, so even if he defeated the Ming army, it would be difficult to capture him. Now that he crossed the river by himself, he really didn't know what to do. He was looking for death. .”

"It seems that after Wang Yan's victory in Huguang, he has completely ignored this commander." Luckard couldn't help sneering, the little depression before had been swept away, and it was replaced by tricks Cheng's joy, "Hmph~ Wang Yan actually underestimates the enemy so much, and despises me so much, I want to defeat him in one fell swoop this time, and then step on my feet hard, so that he can experience the pain I suffered at the beginning~"

(End of this chapter)