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Chapter 719 Battle of the Yellow River
The waves on the Yellow River were rolling, and in the early morning mist, Zhao Jun's warships broke through the huge waves like a dragon, cutting through the water and advancing against the current.

Among the many warships of the Zhao army, the flagship five-toothed warship stands out. The five-story high warship, the towering stone catapult on the deck, and the ferocious bed crossbow occupy half of the river like a giant beast.

General Qi, the Clippers urgently reported that the prairie cavalry of Yinghefu's army was repelled by General Chai Shao of the Tang Army in the north of Huojia.His Majesty issued an imperial decree that Wang Junkuo of Ruoshui Prefecture's Protectorate should be the governor of Hedong Road, and control all the troops in Hedong and Hanoi. '

"Now the governor Wang Junkuo has led [-] cavalry and is about to rush to Hanoi to join forces with Yinghefu.In addition, His Majesty also ordered Xu Shiji to be the governor of Henan Province to control the soldiers and horses in Henan. '
Cheng Mingzhen nodded and said: "Henan and Hebei soldiers and horses are under the control of two generals, and it is indeed a good idea to deal with the Tang army's northern and southern armies respectively.But where should our navy belong? '

His Majesty said that General Cheng should act cheaply. 'The general smiled.

Cheng Mingzhen smiled and said: "Your Majesty wants me to do things cheaply, but in my opinion, it is to cut off the floating bridge of the Yellow River and prevent the Tang army from crossing the river." '

The general also smiled and said: "It is true that General Cheng understands what His Majesty is thinking, but General Cheng doesn't know. In order to cooperate with General Cheng in the war, His Majesty specially sent He Chou, the minister of the Ministry of Industry, to help the general." '

Cheng Mingzhen was overjoyed when he heard the words and said, "It's great to have Minister He here." '

Speaking of this, Cheng Mingzhen looked at the mist ahead, and the heavy mountains on the north bank of the Yellow River loomed.After turning the mountain ridge, it is the Heyang camp of the Tang Army's North Route Army.

On the southern city of Heyang, Su Dingfang looked at the Tang Jun floating bridge in the distance.

This time Tang Jun built three pontoon bridges on the Yellow River.The Tang army stationed [-] soldiers in Zhongtan City and the sandbar in the river, and then built five floating cities on the river with giant trees around the pontoon bridge to prevent surprise attacks by the Zhao army on the upper and lower reaches.

The floating city is densely covered with trebuchets, bed crossbows, arrow towers and city walls have also been repaired.At the same time, the Tang army also scuttled several grain ships as barriers to protect the pontoon bridge.

All of this is as solid as gold, which shows that Tang Jun has taken sufficient precautions against Zhao Jun's burning of the pontoon bridge.This time it will be impossible for Zhao Jun to burn down the pontoon bridge again.

Su Dingfang looked at the pontoon bridge. In the past ten days, he had exhausted all kinds of means and methods, and he had tried his best, but he was powerless to prevent Tang Jun from crossing the Yellow River.

Although Xu Shiji had already ordered Su Dingfang to lead the remnants to retreat to Luoyang.But Su Dingfang was not reconciled. He had his persistence. To give up the Heyang City that had been defended for nearly a month, and just let the Tang army cross the river, it was impossible for him to say a word.

Now the morning has come, and the Tang army can be faintly seen on the other side of the river, and it seems that they are about to cross the river in a big way.

'General! '

Su Dingfang looked back, but saw that all the soldiers in the city behind him had gathered on the city wall.

Su Dingfang said: "Someone has decided to live and die together in this city. Although it can't change the situation of the battle, it can at least delay the Tang army for another day."Everyone will die in this battle, if you are the only child in the family, you can retreat. '

Hearing what Su Dingfang said, all the soldiers of the three armies replied: "General, I am willing to live and die with you." '

When Su Dingfang saw him, tears welled up in his eyes, he cupped his fists and said, "Thank you, brothers." '

At present, the [-] soldiers in the city went to the top of the city, and the [-] reinforcements sent from Luoyang, feeling that Su Ding and Fang Zhongyi also refused to return to Luoyang, decided to defend the city to the death.

At this time, the Tang army was already in a steady stream, crossing the Yellow River from the pontoon bridge.Tang Jun, who was wearing a yellow battle jacket, came with weapons in hand, stepping on the wooden boards on the pontoon bridge.The footsteps shook the pontoon bridge.On the north bank, there is also a large group of Tang troops gathered there in darkness, waiting to cross the river, which seems endless.

Zhao Jun on the south city of Heyang looked so serious, but his eyes were full of determination.

After passing the pontoon bridge, the soldiers of the Tang Army jumped to the river beach aside, and attacked Heyang South City from all sides on the river beach.

All of a sudden, the gongs and drums in Heyang City were loud, and the sound waves became louder and louder.

This time the siege battle lasted only an hour, but it had already entered a semi-heated phase.Arrows are raining down on the top of the city, and there is already a river of blood below the city.Both the Tang Jun and Zhao Jun generals and soldiers were astonished. They had fought in a lifetime of war, and they had never seen such a stormy offensive, nor had they seen such a rock-solid defense.

But the Tang army had endless support, while the Zhao army used up one arrow and one less, and one less soldier was killed.

On the southern city of Heyang, from Su Dingfang to every soldier in the city, they knew this from the moment they started fighting, but they were still fighting desperately.

The sun has gradually jumped into the sky, and the battle lasted for half a day.

Su Dingfang's battle robe was covered in blood, and many familiar robes had fallen on the city wall forever, never waking up again.Although the Zhao army fought very bravely, more than [-] Tang troops under the city of Heyang had already crossed the pontoon bridge and arrived at the beach to besiege the city.At the same time, Tang Jun continued to cross the river on the pontoon bridge.

At this moment, Su Dingfang suddenly felt Tang Jun's offensive stopped.Just when he felt strange, he saw in the lower reaches of the Yellow River, countless warships were heading straight against the current, pressing towards the Tang army on the pontoon bridge.

The soldiers fighting fiercely on the top of the city saw the retreat of the Tang army below the city, and also saw this scene.

Where did this fleet come from, and which family did it belong to?Just when the soldiers were asking this question in their hearts.Gradually as the battleship approached, they saw the fiery red Zhao flag flying in front of the battleship!
'This is our ship! '

'Our reinforcements have finally arrived! '

"Long live the Great Marine Master Zhao!"

"Long live! Long live!"

Seeing this scene, the soldiers of Zhao Jun who had been fighting bloody battles on the city for a whole morning raised their arms and cheered.

The cheers came from afar, reaching the ears of every soldier on Zhao Jun's battleship, but Cheng Mingzhen's gaze on Zhao Jun's flagship was serious.He already knew the situation of the bloody battle in Heyang City.But right now, he deliberately chose this moment to lead the battleship directly before the pontoon bridge, in order to cut off the Tang army on both sides of the north and south.

And Tang Jun was obviously not unprepared, they also seemed to have received news from the downstream in advance, and learned of the movement of Zhao Jun's warship.The attack on the southern city of Heyang stopped suddenly, and the 3000 troops of the Tang army on the south bank turned from offensive to defensive and began to build positions.

As soon as the Zhao army's warship appeared two or three miles downstream of the pontoon bridge, hundreds of Tang army's warships anchored on the north bank of the Yellow River.

The battleship was fully loaded with soldiers of the Tang army and greeted the Zhao army's warship.

It's just that the soldiers of the Tang army went up and down. What they didn't expect was that the Zhao army's warship was so big. Not to mention the huge five-toothed warship, even the general three-story warship was far larger than the Tang army's small boat.There is no way, these small boats are either temporarily refitted grain carriers, or small boats and small boats. Not to mention that the equivalent is incomparable with Zhao Jun's huge inland river fleet. The weapons on Zhao Jun's warships cannot be compared.
When the warships of the two armies approached, the Zhao army's warships used the big ships to bully the small ships.

On Zhao Jun's warship, which was more than one story higher than Tang Jun's warship, bows and crossbows fired salvos, and the ballista on board fired huge arrows as thick as arms.The approaching [-] warships of the Tang army were knocked down almost instantly, smashed to pieces, and turned into a pile of sawdust.

The Tang army fleet in the rear saw this scene and immediately turned around.The Tang fleet retreated to the side of the floating city.

The torrent of the Yellow River is swift, but Tang Jun's floating city is like a hill, attached to the sandbar and standing in the heart of the river.Each of the five floating cities is the size of Zhao Jun's five-tooth warship, and Tang Jun's battleship is attached to the floating city.

Among the floating cities, there is also Zhongtan City on the sandbar, standing there like a mainstay, forming the core force of defense.As for the pontoon bridge, soldiers of the Tang Army were also densely distributed on it.All the soldiers picked up their bows and crossbows and pointed them at the river.

The soldiers of the Tang army on the north bank also shouted together. Although they knew that it was impossible to reach the Zhao army warship, all kinds of twelve stone bed crossbows and giant trebuchets shot arrows at the Zhao army warship in the middle of the river from time to time.

The boulder shot from the bank fell on the Yellow River, and immediately stirred up waves that soared into the sky, and the sound was extremely terrifying.

(End of this chapter)