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Chapter 702
Li Jiancheng looked at Liu Lan, the minister's foreigner, who seemed modest on the outside, but there was a sense of confidence in his speech.

Li Jiancheng asked rhetorically: "There are so many generals here who have no plans, Ru'an dare to speak out here."

Before Liu Lan opened his mouth, Li Yuanji said, "His Royal Highness, this Liu Wenyu is a resourceful man, you might as well listen to him."

Li Jiancheng looked skeptical, but since Li Yuanji recommended it so much, he had to give him face, nodded and said, "Let's just say it."

Liu Landao: "The trouble of Beizhong City lies in the reinforcements on the Henan pontoon bridge. If His Royal Highness wants to isolate Beizhong City, he must destroy the pontoon bridge. My minister has a plan to build hundreds of wooden ships on the upper reaches of the pontoon bridge, carrying firewood and going straight down the river. Wouldn't it be nice to set fire to the pontoon bridge?" .”

Li Jiancheng and Li Yuanji looked at each other, showing that this plan was feasible.

Li Jiancheng smiled and said to Liu Lan: "This is Wang Jun's strategy to defeat Wu. It is really a clever plan. It is worthy of the King Qi's appreciation of you."

Liu Lanqian said: "This minister also came up with this strategy by coincidence, and dare not take credit for His Highness the Crown Prince."

Seeing Liu Lan's advances and retreats so clearly, Li Jiancheng laughed heartily, adding a bit of appreciation.

In the early morning of the next day, the sky was cloudy, and the turbid waves on the Yellow River were rolling and the current was turbulent.

In the mist hundreds of rafts were coming downriver from upstream.The rafts are full of straw people, and each raft is connected to each other with long chains, making it one piece. The front end of the raft is equipped with hook nails to hook and pull the pontoon bridge.

Under the turbulent Yellow River turbulence, the river rose and floated, and the raft went down the upstream at a very fast speed.

But soon Zhao Jun discovered Tang Jun's raft from the beacon tower along the upper reaches of the river.

Why is there a beacon tower on the south bank?It turned out that Su Dingfang was worried that the Tang army would sneak across the Yellow River and attack behind him like Er Zhurong did to Chen Qingzhi, so he set up a beacon tower in Heyin on the south bank of the upper reaches as an early warning.When Beacon Tower discovered that Tang Jun had set up a raft, he immediately reported to Su Dingfang.

Su Dingfang was standing on the top of Zhongtan City at the moment, looking at the Tang army's raft on the Yellow River, he couldn't help but smiled slightly and said to the left and right: "I knew that someone from Li Tang would come up with this plan to destroy our army's pontoon bridge."

The Tang army's raft was less than two miles away from the Heyang floating bridge, and the soldiers of the Tang army on the raft all set fire to the straw man.Fire oil had already been doused on the straw man, and when the soldiers of the Tang army clicked, the grass man immediately burst into flames.

As soon as the fire spread, hundreds of rafts on the floating river caught fire at the same time, and the rafts were connected by iron chains. There was a sea of ​​fire on the river, and the rafts rushed towards the floating bridge with the rapids of the Yellow River.After setting fire to the ship, the soldiers of the Tang army fled directly from the small boat behind the ship.

Seeing this scene, Su Dingfang gave an order from the top of the city, and hundreds of small boats from the vicinity of Zhongtan City in the pontoon bridge came out together, but saw that on each of Zhao Jun's small boats, soldiers were holding long poles tied with iron forks.But seeing the fire boat of the Tang army approaching, the soldiers on the Zhao army boat held up the iron fork to reject the boat.

Su Dingfang's method had a miraculous effect, and he broke through the Tang army's fire attack in one fell swoop. Li Jiancheng, Li Yuanji and other generals on the shore were all dumbfounded when they saw it.

Li Jiancheng saw that Liu Lan's advice to him was useless, so he replaced Liu Dewei angrily, and ordered Qu Tutong to personally lead the [-] elite left guards to attack the city.

This time the Tang army rebuilt the siege weapons, there are more than a dozen nest vehicles alone, there are also crashes, and there are countless ladders.This time the attacking Li Tang army was overwhelming, and Beizhong City was attacked by the Tang army like a storm.

The soldiers of the Tang army under the city charged at the city gate no less than six times. Under the attack of Zhao Jun, although the casualties were very heavy, they piled up a weir bridge road under the city with their flesh and blood, leading to the city. on the city.

On Yuliang Avenue, Tang Jun and Zhao Jun fought desperately, and the soldiers of the two armies were dead.

The battle on the city wall was even more fierce. In a charge in the afternoon, Tang Jun even almost broke through Heyang City.It was Tang Jun who was responsible for excavating soldiers, and finally dug through a city wall in the east corner of the city.

When Zhao Jun discovered it, it was too late to stop it. Tang Jun took advantage of this gap to rush into the city wall. At this time, Su Dingfang just rushed to Beizhong City, and personally led his own soldiers to fill the gap. Driven out of the city walls.

Finally, the Xingnu Wall was moved to temporarily fill this vacancy in the city wall.

But in any case, Zhao Jun defended Beizhong City at the cost of thousands of casualties that day.Although the Tang army also suffered more than [-] casualties, the Tang army has almost endless reserves.

After Liu Dewei and Qu Tutong failed to conquer Heyang City, Li Jiancheng simply withdrew both troops and ordered General Chai Shao to attack the third wave tomorrow, so as to conquer Beizhong City in one fell swoop.

After dawn the next day, Tang Jun agreed that Beizhong City was within easy reach.After yesterday's building, the number of nest cars increased to more than 20, and Tang Jun's craftsmen even built stone throwing cars.

Chai Shao ordered the 300 men and horses under his command to be the first dead soldiers, and anyone who was the first to kill the top of the wall, regardless of officers or soldiers, would be rewarded three times on the spot.After this reward, the soldiers of the Tang army were all gearing up, took out their knives and sharpened them in the night, waiting to fight tomorrow.

When it was still dark the next day, Chai Shao ordered three hundred dead men to attack Heyang City at night.

Soldiers of the Tang army sneaked into Heyang City very smoothly, and opened the city gate. When they waited outside to meet the cavalry rushing into Heyang City, they found that there was no one in the city.It turned out that Zhao Jun's soldiers had already withdrawn from Beizhong City.

It seemed that he punched with all his strength but missed it. He thought he would be able to take Su Dingfang's head in the next moment, but this punch made Li Jiancheng very angry.

After the fall of Beizhong City, on the south bank of the Yellow River, Su Dingfang looked at the pontoon bridge hanging on the river, and Zhao soldiers held torches and set fire to it section by section from the north bank to the south bank.

The river was in flames and black smoke billowed straight up. After Beizhong City fell, the pontoon bridge obviously had no intention of defending it. Su Dingfang even gave up Zhongtan City in the river and retreated directly to the south bank.

The general at the side asked Su Dingfang: "General, our army has even burned the pontoon bridge now, and the Tang army has no warships to build a pontoon bridge. I think it will be very inconvenient for them to cross the river."

Su Dingfang shook his head and said: "This is the 10,000+ Tang army on the opposite side that you underestimate. It may be difficult for others to build a pontoon bridge on the Yellow River, but for 10,000+ people, it only takes a while, not two or three." The Tiantang army will build another pontoon bridge on the Yellow River."

"General, what about us?"

Su Dingfang said: "Our army has less than 2000 troops, and it is very difficult to defend the southern city. It is difficult to do anything else. The only hope right now is whether Yinghefu on the north bank can seize the opportunity. How can I tell Su Dingfang He fought for seven or eight days, which is enough for him to show the strength of the prairie horse."

(End of this chapter)