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Chapter 351
The paddles of the boat moved quickly, and the hull of the boat floated across the water like a flying shuttle. The Youzhou soldiers on the boat kept taking arrows from leather bags and shooting upwards.

The arrow drew a trail from the air, and when it landed on the Tang army's position, hundreds of civilians ran around in fright.

Wang Mahan showed a slight smile, the Tang army camp on the shore was not large, so there should not be many people.At this time, the beating of gongs could be heard in the Tang army camp, and the armored soldiers of the Tang army dispersed the peasants, and stood on the river beach with bows and crossbows in their hands.

Tang Jun stood in three rows.

Immediately poof!
Arrows came in dense numbers, and the crossbowmen of the Tang army also began to counterattack.

"quick!"

As the boat crossed two-thirds of the way across the river, thousands of Fan soldiers also launched into the water with leather bags, and they followed the boat and swam to the other side.

The boats searched the river bank for half a day, and there were only a dozen of them, so the main force to cross the river was still these Fanjun with leather bags.

Fan Jun crossed the river and swam very fast, but at this moment, there was a rattling sound from the Tang Army's camp.

Wang Mahan's complexion changed, and he lost his voice and said, "Damn it, there is a stone throwing machine."

Inside the Tang army camp, three self-propelled four-wheeled self-propelled single-cannons were brought out. The single-cannons were so well hidden that they had not been discovered.This single cannon was a devastating weapon for the Youzhou army crossing the river.

The Tang army crossed the river and defended the army, and wrapped the arrowheads with cotton cloth, and the arrows they shot pierced the sky like streams of fire.

Under the fire, it was another scene. The stone bullets thrown by the trebuchet smashed down the sky and covered the sky. The Youzhou army on board were all archers and had no armor on their bodies. one slice.

Tang Jun's rockets flew over, and the water surface flickered. Occasionally, a small boat full of Youzhou troops could be seen sinking in the river.The soldiers struggled on the river. Most of the soldiers were from the north and did not know how to swim.

Although there were casualties, the Youzhou Army had the superiority in numbers. Thousands of soldiers of the Fan Army floating in leather bags swam to the opposite bank and quickly crossed the middle of the river.

After reaching the river bank, it seemed that the Tang army had set up iron chains and could not swim across, so the soldiers had to jump into the knee-high river and walk ashore.If the river was crossed half a day later, the enemy would push the iron chain ten feet forward, and the soldiers could only cross the river with water.

The river was piercing, but the soldiers of the Youzhou Army gritted their teeth bloodily, stepped in the water, and rushed towards the river bank.

The Tang army built a layer of camps on the bank of the river, and organized a row of crossbowmen here. Under the volley of arrows, rows of naked Fanjun soldiers fell on the bank of the river, and the river quickly was dyed red.

Yay!

Wang Mahan gritted his teeth and said, "I'm so mad."

The generals also said: "There is no way. Although our army has [-] people, but there are more than a dozen ferry boats, it is not easy to cross the river. This is a battle of filling oil."

Er Tuo on the side said: "General, this casualty is nothing to us. My people are all warriors who are not afraid of death."

As soon as the words fell, those who had already grabbed a piece of land on the beach, the soldiers of Fanjun had already gathered together, and as the boat reached the shore, the soldiers of Youzhou County jumped over the boat one after another, under the night, with soap on their heads The soldiers of the Youzhou Army in the scarf and the soldiers of the Fan Army who were naked began to attack the Tang Army's positions like a black tide.

Tang Jun's arrows were as dense as rain. After the soldiers in front fell to the ground with a plop, the soldiers behind continued to move forward without hesitation, even if they were the first to charge.

Even after being shot to the ground, he still crawled forward.

Forward, forward, break through the river beach.

The Youzhou soldiers approached the Tang army, all of them drew their knives, and rushed into the battle to fight. In the mud of the quagmire, the soldiers of both sides bumped into each other, and the sound of killing and shouting mixed together.

The Youzhou soldiers seemed to have gone crazy, white knives went in and red knives were pulled out. Some soldiers were cut off by Tang Jun, but they still moved forward bravely, blood splattered everywhere.

Immediately, the mud on the river beach turned into plasma, and limbs were everywhere on the beach.

"It's been a long time since I have seen such a tragic battle." The generals couldn't help but be speechless.

Wang Mahan, who was watching from the sidelines, and the generals of the Han army were immediately in awe of the brave performance of the soldiers.

Yan Yelie was also impressed by the bravery of the Youzhou soldiers. He thought that the Han army was only good at crossbows and short at melee combat, but he didn't expect that they were still so good at hand-to-hand combat in the battle of crossing the river.

However, the Tang army on the opposite side was also a tough army. Under the joint attack of the Youzhou army and the Fan army, the front line did not collapse, and they still guarded the front of the catapult.Let your army's catapults throw bombs and bombard the Youzhou army who are crossing the river.

The opponent's backup was not allowed to go ashore comfortably, and the two sides fought each other with flesh and blood. Tang Jun did not give up an inch, like an iron wall standing in front of him.

The unarmored Youzhou Army suffered far more casualties than the Tang Army armed to the teeth.

Even Xue Wanche acted coquettishly at this meeting, saying: "How could this Tang army be so good at fighting? When we attacked Taiyuan and Lishi, the Tang army was defeated in one battle."

Wang Mahan scolded: "Why bother to build up other people's ambitions, our army is not inferior in the slightest."

At this moment, behind the Tang army camp, drums sounded.

The [-] Fan troops who swam across the other side before went around to the Tang army camp and launched an attack. They were attacked from the front and back. At this moment, the Tang army's defense line finally couldn't hold on, and the last trace of resistance also collapsed.
All the Tang troops guarding the camp were surrounded, and the opponent fought fiercely for a while, most of them were killed, and the rest were captured.

Immediately after Wang Mahan gave an order, his subordinates built the pontoon bridge before dawn, and immediately sent someone to tell Li Chongjiu that he could lead the main force of the army to cross the river.

Li Chongjiu rode his horse across the pontoon bridge, with cavalry beside him.

Li Chongjiu looked at the mess on the tidal flats of last night's bloody battle, and immediately turned to Wang Mahan and asked, "How about the casualties last night?"

"There were more than 300 casualties, and [-] Tang troops were wiped out, and there were [-] civilian husbands."

"Well done." Li Chongjiu said in a deep voice.

Hearing Li Chongjiu's award, Wang Mahan and Yan Yelie couldn't help being overjoyed.

Li Chongjiu first praised his subordinates, and then said: "Is the Tang army's resistance very fierce?"

Xue Wanche said in the foreword: "To Lord Gu, we have interrogated the Tang army guarding the stronghold, they are very elite, different from what we have encountered before."

"Oh?" Li Chongjiu pressed his horse and asked, "What's the difference?"

Xue Wanche said: "Please go to Lord Gu and cross the river to find out."

After Li Chongjiu crossed the river, he came to a camp surrounded by curtains, but he saw soldiers standing around with guns.

The general at the side opened the curtain. After entering, Li Chongjiu saw dozens of bloody people sitting on the ground with their hands tied behind their backs.

Seeing Li Chongjiu enter, these people all stared angrily, full of hostility.

When the Youzhou soldiers saw it, they whipped them over and shouted, "I tell you to watch, I tell you to watch."

"Zhiniang thief!" Among the Tang army's prisoners, some who were not afraid of death yelled, and were beaten even worse afterwards.

Li Chongjiu looked at these prisoners, and found that one-third of them had the characteristics of Fan blood, and from the accent of a few words, it could be recognized that it was Guan Zhong's accent.

"A soldier from the Tang army from Guanzhong?" Li Chongjiu asked.

"Exactly."

"I see." Li Chongjiu said thoughtfully.

The soldiers of the Sui Dynasty inherited the system of the Wei and Zhou Dynasties. During the Wei and Zhou Dynasties, the inspection and selection criteria for the army were all people with financial resources and courage to serve as the army, and more Xianbei children who entered the Central Plains.Before the Sui Dynasty, although the proportion of the Han army in the Fubing continued to increase, anyone who joined the Fubing could only have a Hu surname, not a Han surname.

The military system of the Sui Dynasty was based on the policy of maintaining the relationship between China and foreign countries, and emphasizing the top over the feet, that is, Guanzhong was the most important, and other places were less important. The whole country was in a situation where the inside was more important than the outside.Therefore, most of the Yingyang Institutes are located in Guanzhong, controlled by the Guanlong gentry and on behalf of the northern gentry.

After Li Yuan entered Chang'an, he received the support of the Guanlong gentry, and all the most elite troops of the Sui Dynasty belonged to him.

And the Tang army this way is obviously a mansion soldier from Guanzhong.Its combat effectiveness is completely different from that of the defenders in various places where Li Chongjiu fought before. You must know that Li Yuan led the elites of Bingzhou to enter the pass when he raised troops in Jinyang, and those who stayed in Taiyuan and were defeated by Li Chongjiu were second- and third-rate rural soldiers.

Li Chongjiu looked at these brave men who were put on the ground, and couldn't help but think of the elite division of the later generations who destroyed the Turks, Goguryeo, wiped out all the heroes, and looked down on the world.

"Whose subordinates are they?"

"After cross-examination, it is Wang Xingmin, the general of Zuo Tunwei! He just came from Guanzhong, and there are 2000 troops." Xue Wanche said.

"It's a good thing we didn't go to Baibi, Li Shimin led [-] Guanzhong soldiers." Ji Chuan couldn't help but say.

Wang Mahan said from the side: "You don't need to build up other people's ambitions and destroy your own prestige. Our army is not bad at all."

Just at this time, a soldier came in a hurry and said outside the tent: "Report to Duke Shanggu, Taiyuan letter, very urgent!"

Li Chongjiu went out of the account immediately, opened the letter, took a look, and crumpled the letter paper immediately.

"Duke Shanggu, could something serious happen in Taiyuan?" Xue Wanche asked.

Li Chongjiu said: "Zhao Wanhai failed to attack Hengshan County, and the tens of thousands of troops were wiped out. Now Li...Princess Pingyang is leading 2 horses and heading straight for Shangdang County. It is expected to arrive here in the next day."

Li Chongjiu couldn't help sighing, he didn't expect Zhao Wanhai, a grassroots bandit, to wipe out Li Zhiwan's [-] army, but he only hoped that the other party would take advantage of the locals, continue to harass, cut off the road, and trap Li Zhiwan in Hengshan County.Who knows, even so, Zhao Wanhai still failed.

"The women's army under Li Sanniang's command is also Guanzhong government soldiers." Ji Chuan said, when Li Zhiwan recruited [-] troops in Guanzhong, they were also placed as government soldiers.

This time Li Zhiwan left Taiyuan from Guanzhong and led 3 people.

Hengshan bandit Zhao Wanhai's entire army was wiped out, and Li Zhiwan's reinforcements were arriving, two pieces of news came together.

Now Li Chong's [-] army has half crossed the river, and Li Tang's main force has gathered on the other side of the river. If they retreat again, if Yin Kaishan, Wang Xingmin and others lead the army to attack from behind, they will probably be defeated.

But if it is a battle, once Li Zhiwan's [-] troops arrive in the future, will Li Chongjiu be able to fight now?

(End of this chapter)